The Breakdown · Episode 817 · November 3, 2026 · 2h 26m

AI, Bitcoin, Gold, Midnight, & NY Politics on Election Day

David Gokhshtein opens discussing AI's transformative power, highlighting its role in innovation and problem-solving across various sectors, from finance to healthcare. He expresses a bullish outlook on AI, believing it will lead to a better, more abundant future. The conversation then shifts to the nature of greed, contrasting gold as a preservation asset with Bitcoin's speculative frenzy, while criticizing fiat currency's inflationary nature. Gokhshtein champions Bitcoin as a superior, inflation-proof form of money. The episode introduces Midnight, a privacy-focused blockchain, emphasizing its potential to enhance Bitcoin's utility and address privacy concerns in the crypto space. Gokhshtein then transitions to US election day, focusing heavily on New York politics. He criticizes New York's Democratic leadership for high taxes and utility bills, attributing the state's decline to socialist policies and voters' anti-Trump sentiment. He urges listeners to vote Republican, emphasizing "America First" and supporting candidates who align with American values, particularly in the crypto space.

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Key points

  • AI is a transformative technology that will lead to a better, more abundant future by solving complex problems.
  • Gold is primarily a preservation asset, not driven by greed, unlike the speculative frenzy often seen in Bitcoin.
  • Bitcoin is presented as the best form of money due to its inflation-proof nature and decentralized control.
  • Midnight blockchain aims to enhance Bitcoin's utility by providing privacy and security features.
  • New York's Democratic leadership is criticized for high taxes, utility bills, and socialist policies leading to the state's decline.
  • Gokhshtein advocates for voting Republican, emphasizing "America First" and supporting pro-crypto candidates.
  • The host believes the 2022 midterm election is the most important of our lifetime, urging voters to prioritize the country over party affiliation.
  • He argues that voting based solely on dislike for Donald Trump has led to detrimental policies in New York.

In their words

“I couldn't have done any of it without AI. If if we had not had AI, we would be $8 billion less.” 0:03:00
“You're going to need a thousand people with PhDs to solve that. Well, guess what? Now every 16-year-old has a thousand PhDs at their fingertips.” 0:42:00
“Not really. I mean, people who buy gold are trying to preserve. That's not the greedy part. That's the preservation part.” 1:07:30
“The greed is in the speculative frenzy that accompanies Bitcoin. They tell me that I'm the reason they own Bitcoin.” 1:54:40
“I'm the one that got them. Plus, there's a lot of utility technology in Midnight that's going to make the use of Cardano safer.” 2:09:40

Chapters

  1. 0:00:00The Power of AI
  2. 1:04:00Gold vs. Bitcoin & Greed
  3. 1:50:00Bitcoin as Superior Money
  4. 2:10:00Midnight & Bitcoin Utility
  5. 2:27:00Bitcoin Users Want Privacy
  6. 2:49:00Bitcoin, Cardano, & Midnight Integration
  7. 3:11:00The Bitcoin Yield Circle
  8. 3:31:00Bitcoin's Inflation-Proof Nature
  9. 3:44:00Money as a Store of Value
  10. 4:17:00Real Estate vs. Bitcoin
  11. 4:55:00Privacy in Crypto
  12. 5:09:00]

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Transcript

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[Part 1 of 6] [David] [00:00] FTRC, it was two and a half billion dollars. I couldn't have done any of it without AI. If if we had not had AI, we would be $8 billion less. We five IPOs, none of them would have happened because I used AI to design the securities and solve all the tax problems and all the securities law issues. You know, so I look, I'm a big believer in using AI to design new things. And look, I'm just I I focus upon digital credit and security, but there's someone there thinking about how to make the car drive and cure cancer and like, like aren't there like 100 million problems the human race has to solve that we that you're like, well, you're going to need a thousand people with PhDs to solve that. Well, guess what? Now every 16-year-old has a thousand PhDs at their fingertips. And so I'm I'm very bullish. The world's going to be a much better place and and we're going to see an age of empowerment and and abundance because of digital technology. [Guest: Name] [01:04] People are greedy when they also try to acquire gold. Not really. I mean, people who buy gold are trying to preserve. We have centuries, we have centuries of people being greedy to go ahead and acquire gold. Well, no, well, you're talking about to acquire wealth. Yes, people are greedy in that they want they want more things and there's nothing wrong with that. But when they're converting what they've earned into gold, that's not the greed part. That's the preservation part. I I I've earned all this money because I was greedy. Now I don't want to lose it. I want to store it so I can use it later. I don't want to blow it all right now. I want to hold on to it. And, you know, gold is a way to do that. You can't really do that in a fiat currency that's just being printed, you know, into oblivion. So, uh, but but but, you know, the the greed is in the speculative frenzy that accompanies Bitcoin. [Guest: Name] [01:57] They tell me that I'm the reason they own Bitcoin because they listened to me years ago about economics, about sound money and and and the Fed and inflation. And I'm the one that got them. Plus, there's a lot of utility technology in Midnight that's going to make the use of Cardano safer. Like Midnight Passport will be the fastest, safest and easiest way to use Cardano. So, we gain all the usability and enhance the privacy. Plus, I'd argue Midnight is an essential component for Bitcoin. The Bitcoin D5. When you look at that side of it, you're like, okay, Bitcoin users, they want privacy. So, Cardano could do a lot of the heavy lifting on the programming side, but where does the private coordination layer sit? It's all that. So, we're actually working on with Hogan, our Bitcoin D5 setup, what we call it the the circle. So, you start with Bitcoin and Taproot. I'm going to put 50 Bitcoin of my own money into this. This really works. So, you start with Taproot and uh Bitcoin. You lend it to stable coins. So, that'll occur on Cardano through a specialized transaction through the bridge. And then that stable coin can then be deployed into a yield bearing instrument. And then as you make yield, the yield is converted to Bitcoin. And then it's sent to your Taproot. And then Midnight coordinates all of it with privacy. So, you have like all three networks working together, and you have this circle. And then for the Bitcoin users perspective, you just give them a button. Make money. Click the button. And then it locks their Bitcoin. They just start generating a yield. The security actually enters the Taproot on the Bitcoin network. So, it's moved by three rules that I have for Bitcoin D5. One, there's only Bitcoin. No other token. [Guest: Name] [03:31] Bitcoin, Litecoin is better money than than fiat, obviously. Also better money than gold, right? I think it's I believe it's the best form of money that um humans have ever come across. Right? Money being a good being that is um it's inflation proof, right? No one, no single person, company or or government can print more money, right? Can print money and inflate away the money you're holding, uh, you're storing, right? That's kind of one of the key things about money. If you work hard to make money, you don't want that money to kind of disappear over time, not from your own doing. Right? So that's that's key in Bitcoin and Litecoin and uh most cryptocurrencies, um, is able to to do that. [Guest: Name] [04:17] I could have the argument that real estate's better than Bitcoin. For a number of reasons, by the way, depending on who you are. Um, your audience would probably disagree because they're probably a bunch of, you know, Bitcoin maximalists. [Guest: Name] [04:31] That don't have as much Bitcoin as the real estate guy. [Guest: Name] [04:34] By the way. No, I I'll tell you right now. Hold on one second. See, that's the funny thing, dude. That me and my brother were talking about this yesterday. You know, the guys that know the most seem to have the least. [Guest: Name] [04:46] That 100%, that that I can probably agree with you on. It should be a bigger issue within the crypto system and the ecosystem. What do you think? [Guest: Name] [04:55] I think it will be. I think privacy is going to be the the new if you want to in my view, and this is what I'm tasking the investment professionals at Mailstrom to sort of figure out. I think that the stand out shitcoin or, you know, few shitcoins of 2026 to 2028 will be related in some way, shape or form to privacy. We already saw the, you know, amazing move of Zcash over the last few months. Yes, it's down 50% from the 780 high, but I think again, my goal is, you know, my mental model is 10 to 20% of value to that Zcash um comes up. So much higher than where it is today. But, you know, taking away Zcash, what is the token project or protocol that's going to utilize some privacy technology, probably something related to ZK or knowledge proofs to do something. [Guest: Name] [05:50] What first got you excited about blockchains? Think about it. Oh wait. I bet it wasn't multi-million dollar hacks, exposed data, or finding somewhere safe to store your seed phrase. Was it? Maybe it was the idea of decentralizing a broken financial system. Maybe it was imagining a world where people own their own data and get to sharing the value it creates. Or maybe it was the promise of a fundamentally better way of connecting, communicating and transacting. The next phase of the internet that empowers us instead of exploiting us. So, why hasn't it happened yet? Where we're still living with the same broken system that blockchains promised to fix. It's because blockchains can't keep a secret. Enabling open, transparent systems was only the first half of the challenge. For blockchains to really change the world, they also have to be able to protect our sensitive data when it matters. And that's why we built Midnight, to bring down the final barrier to mass adoption and unlock the full potential of the decentralized web. Let's build the internet we deserve. Together. [Guest: Name] [07:09] Ladies and gentlemen, we all know this in crypto, ownership matters. That's why Cake Wallet. Cake Wallet gives you full control of your digital assets, all in one easy to use application. You can store Bitcoin, Litecoin, Zcash, Monero, and many more with just one secure backup. Swap between coins in seconds. No copying addresses, no complicated steps, and even includes Bitcoin Lightning for faster payments. And with Cake Wallet built in, you can use crypto in real life through debit cards or gift cards. Simple, secure, self-custody. Download Cake Wallet and take control of your crypto. [Guest: Name] [07:53] This is Houston. T minus one minute until full data blackout. All eyes are on you. [Guest: Name] [08:07] Breaking news. There's an astronaut conducting an emergency repair on a global communication satellite that could go dark at any moment. We have a second angle on this. [Guest: Name] [08:18] Is that guy on FOMO? [Guest: Name] [08:19] Oh, yeah. Let me for real. Crazy trade. [Guest: Name] [08:22] Yeah, let's get back to it everybody. [Guest: Name] [08:37] Breaking news. There's an astronaut conducting an emergency repair on a global communication satellite that could go dark at any moment. [Guest: Name] [08:45] Opportunity cost is simply this. Every position you take is a position you choose over something else. [Guest: Name] [08:59] This just in. According to the astronaut's FOMO account, highest in the room, the satellite has been restored. [Guest: Name] [09:07] Yes. [Guest: Name] [09:10] For now, the crisis appears to be over. [Guest: Name] [09:24] Satellite's up and running. Positions looking good too. [David] [09:39] What's going on? Welcome to the breakdown. We are going to be live. And I know you're expecting the entrance. But it's not it's not happening because I'm trying to I'm trying to make sure that we stay on TikTok, okay? I'm trying to make sure that we stay on TikTok. Okay. Welcome to the breakdown. Episode. It is episode 817. Am I right, right? 817. Am I on am I right on that? 817, right? Episode 817. 817, that is. It is 817. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, you can go ahead. You can download the application, okay? You can download the application. Polymarket, okay? We're going we we got we got another team at the America House. You got Rob Nelson who's at the America House, broken vertebrae, I don't know. He broke his back, okay? He broke his back. He's out there in Washington. They're going to be reporting live throughout the day, 12 hours. We're going to be here from 7:00 to 12:00, okay? I'm going to be here from 7:00. We're going to be tracking everything. I believe a red wave is coming. I do believe a red wave is coming, ladies and gentlemen. You can download the app. When you download the app, put in the code breakdown, okay? Tell your friends and family. Now, if you go we're going to look at this entire chart here today. We're going to look at this chart. This is what we're looking at right now. Provided by Polymarket. Polymarket is the official prediction market sponsor of the breakdown. This is what we're looking at. This is the map of the United States of America. These are the seats up for grabs. You know where I stand. I believe that the Republican Party, people who are Republicans, do not poll. Democrats can't wait to go ahead and talk to somebody to complain about Donald Trump, but the Republican Party just does not poll, okay? They don't go out there talking to anybody. They don't want to talk to anybody. They don't want to talk to a single person. We're going to be looking at this all day long, okay? We're going to look at this all day long throughout the show. We're going to look at New York. Right now, obviously, nothing here. 97 97% chance that New York will go to Hogel, who has done a terrible job, by the way. Okay, who has done an absolute terrible job. You know, New York, you know, everybody complains about the Republican Party. Everybody complains about Donald Trump. Yet New York has been hostage, held hostage by the Democratic Party, and nothing nothing has happened. Like in terms of New York has gotten worse and worse and worse. So, who are you going to blame? You're going to keep on blaming Trump? You want to go ahead and push it towards the federal government? Last time I checked, the state keeps on hiking up taxes, utility bills. All that stuff is coming from the state. It's not coming from Donald Trump. It's coming from the state, ladies and gentlemen. That's where it's coming from. That is where it's coming from. Let me go ahead and stop sharing here, but again, you can go to the breakdown. You use the code breakdown when you download Polymarket, the application, or when you go on to polymarket.us, again, put in the code breakdown. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the show. Welcome. I'm ready. I got my water. Let me drink that water. New York is, you can't complain whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you can't complain about what is happening in New York. You have allowed the Democrats to hold New York hostage forever now. Governor, Democrat. Mayors, straight up Democrat socialists. Before Mandani. Think about when New York was great. Pataki was the Republican governor, okay? And then you also had Rudolph Giuliani, and then you also had a Republican who turned independent, Bloomberg. Think about when New York was great. Then all of a sudden, you decided to go socialist. Well, here you go. And now you want to blame, you want to blame Donald Trump for all this? No, no, no, no, no, no. Blame yourselves. Those higher rates that you have on your utility bills, that's because you have Hogel in. Every month when you open up your bill and it's 70, 80% higher, that's because you wanted socialism. You like communism. You thought everything was going to be free. Uh-oh, Hogel's sending you a $150 check. Right in time for today's election, so I guess you're going to vote for her. A one-time $150 check that will not even pay for 20% of your utility bill. This is this is where we're at. Okay? And this is all because you hate Donald Trump. You hate Donald Trump so bad that you're rather go ahead and pay higher utility bills, higher taxes, the highest taxes in the goddamn country here in New York State. It's either us or or or California. It's either or. Anyway, today's the day. Republicans, listen, there's no excuses. Republicans, if you show out today, Republican anybody who's a registered Republican, if you show up today, if that red wave shows up. Remember, you're voting not listen, Donald Trump is not on the ballot, but he really is. You're voting for Trump. So, if you still believe in Trump and you think that Trump needs more time and that he's done a good job so far and it's two years in office, you vote for Donald Trump. If you at this point, if you don't like America, you'll vote for the Democrat communist. That's it. And that that's the bottom line. That's the bottom line. That's what you'll do today. So, vote red. Vote red all down the ballot. Vote red. That I I am absolutely, you know, I talked to somebody yesterday about this very subject. And I'm an American first. If if I could if there was a box that I can check where it says America first, that's what I would check. It wouldn't be a Republican, it wouldn't be a Democrat, it wouldn't be an independent. It would be America first. America comes first for me. Bottom line. That's it. America comes first. When you have candidates that are linking up with people who hate America, who said we deserved 9/11, I'm sorry. I can't I'm not voting for that. You want me to vote for John Fetterman? I'll do that. But you're going to tell me to go ahead and vote for somebody who hates America and everything that it stands for, I'm not I'm not voting for any of these people. I'm sorry. Anyway, welcome to the breakdown. Glad to see everybody here. True flag. I'm glad to see everybody here. We are here. We're live. It's 12:20 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. We have guests coming on. We have guests coming on to the show. So, at 12:45. Uh, what was uh Landy I think Landy is doing something. So, Landy was supposed to come on, but I think Landy is doing something today. Uh, let's hold on. Let me see who's coming on. What do we have for the schedule here? What do we have? We have at 12:45, we have somebody coming on. Ben Ron is coming on from Magic AI. Um, who else is coming on? At 1:15. We have 1:15. We have 1:45, 1:15. Uh, obviously, I'm going to take a short time. I'm just going to let you know how it's going to go down today. Show is going to go from 12:00 to 2:00. I have business meetings after the show from from 2:00 to 4:00. And then at 7:00 p.m., I'll be back here with Akil Patterson and we are going to be breaking down everything that is happening. Also, you can tune in to America's House with Rob Nelson where he'll be checking out what is happening. He's in Washington D.C. He's going to be checking out the vibes there. So, that'll be cool. So, you can tune in to the Gokhshtein News Network and stay tapped in to what's happening here in the country. I really hope I really hope that it comes down to the Republican Party coming out. If the Republicans come out, we win. I'm telling you that right now. If the Republican Party or registered Republicans come out to vote, we win. And then if we have some Democrats that look at the situation and say, you know what? I am a Democrat, but what I'm seeing right now is candidates who hate America. So, it's going to be my first time voting for a Republican. Landslide. That's what I'm hoping for. And then and then the independence, y'all got to show up. Listen, at the end of the day, we we are Americans and we care about America and we might not agree with everything we not we might really not agree with everything. We I don't agree with everything. But what we do agree on is that America is beautiful. The concept of of of capitalism defeats anything that people spew about communism. Like we we we are a Christian nation. We need to keep it that way and I've been very vocal about that. And I don't care who gets offended. Listen, I had three or four drop-offs. I'll talk about that later in the month because of me being vocal. If I'm not allowed to say what's on my mind, then what is the point? What is the point of freedom of speech if I'm not allowed to say what I want to say? Nothing that I say is racist. I'm not a bigot. I grew up in New York City. Jesus Christ, New York City. We are diverse as it comes. But we got to call it for what it is, ladies and gentlemen. This is craziness. They asked people yesterday in line waiting to vote in line about why are they voting Democrat and they're like, because I'm I'm just I'm a Democrat. So I'm what are the policies? I don't know. I just don't like Trump. What are we doing? Because you don't like Trump, you want to usher in, you know, usher in communism? What are we what are we doing? Anyway, welcome to the breakdown. Think about think about what is happening here, man. Think just think about think about what you're doing. Like when you go vote today, if you decide to get your lazy ass off of your couch and go vote, think about think about what's at stake. Honestly. I'm not trying to be dramatic when I say all these things. I'm just being honest about it. Think about everything that's on the line. Okay? I get it. Like some of you guys don't like Trump. We've already we established that. You don't like Trump. Okay. The country, though, comes first. Trump will always be held in check by the Republican Party as well. You've seen it. The Republicans have ran office. They've held control of the House and Senate. They have not passed everything that Trump wanted to have passed. Voter ID wasn't passed. Okay? The Republicans could have done it. Filibustered it. They didn't do it. There are balances and checks. Trump, by the way, will continue to be your president after today. And he will still continue to do things that Congress can't hold back on or hold him back on. So, if you're going to vote to send that message, it's really not going to do much. They're not passing the Clarity Act anyway. This is about in my personal and humble opinion, this is about us looking at the situation right now, the current situation and the environment and saying, do we want do we want to see America thrive? Or do we want to usher in this new virus, not such a new virus, but new to America. Do we want to bring communism here? Do we want to open up the borders again? Do we really want to go that route? Come on. I said, I get and I understand you might not like Trump. You might not like the policies. You might not like Republican policies. But there's one thing that you can't go ahead and deny is that Republicans do love America. Old school Democrats love America. The old school Democrats love America, but they're being voiced out by this new school. I won't even call them Democrats. They're just crazy lefties. They're not even liberals. They are woke left. Like I I don't even what is the perfect name for these people? And they hate America. And they're aligning themselves with people that said it was a good thing that 9/11 happened to America. Hassan Piker said this. Hassan Piker said this and Abdul Asaid is standing with him. You guys say, you know what's crazy? You guys have said numerous times, you support women. The Democratic Party is all about women's rights. You guys were up in rage saying that Trump is taking away the rights of all women, which he has not. In his first term, he's never taken away any rights from women. In his current term, he hasn't. Yet, think about this. Haley Stevens, who is a proud Democrat, continues to be a proud Democrat. She tried to work with Abdul, even in her loss, which was she almost won. She lost by a half a percent. She tried to work with him. She just told him like, hey, man, like listen, the party the party can't go in this direction. You can't just go ahead and treat African-Americans and Jews the way that you do. What happened? Have you seen the way he's talked to Haley?

[Part 2 of 6] [00:00] I don't need you. That's what he said. And the Democrats come after her for being pushed out. [00:12] No, you know what Haley Stevens did? She is a she is a true patriot, okay? You know what Haley Stevens did? She said, no matter what you guys want to say, oh, she's paid off by Israel, which nobody wants to hear anymore. That is your campaign slogan. That's their campaign slogan to get you to go ahead and vote for these people who are crazy, who are telling you that Israel shouldn't exist, okay? This is what these people are about. [00:38] After they get voted if they got for big get voted in, they will show you. By the way, Donald Trump has come out and stated there will be no more foreign aid to Israel. [00:52] Because it benefits both countries by us not sending them aid. And both countries have agreed to that and people will say, oh, well, oh my God, it's it's because it's the day of the election. You can't say that. You have asked for this and Trump has come out and stated it. You can't you can't move the goal post. Every single time Trump does what you want, you can't move him. [01:17] You just can't keep moving the thing. [01:28] Like I said, what happens when the Jew, what happens when they're done with the Jews and they're done with Israel? Who's next? Who's next? [01:37] If you think the Christians and Catholics are next, I'm telling you you will see. [01:43] You will see. But at the end of the day, this does this comes down to Haley Stevens, she took a stand. She said, I'm forget my party affiliation, I'm a proud Democrat. I'm putting that to the side. It's country first. [01:57] Country first. And by the way, at first, I wasn't really a big fan of Rogers. I just want to let you guys know, I'm not I wasn't a big fan. But you know what? He's done everything possible to go everywhere in Michigan to say, hey, man, like I am going to help make Michigan great. He's touched with he's touched base with the Jews, with the African-American community, and he's done it honestly. [02:31] And the craziest part is and also like John Fetterman, I got to give him a shout out also. John Fetterman and Haley Stevens should be leading the Democrat Party. [02:43] Bring it back to sanity. [02:47] What's happening now, like the Democratic Party is insane. Democrats used to be sane. They've went to the deep left because of Trump. It is crazy. [03:09] And crypto heads, any 70 million people in the United States of America hold crypto. Donald Trump has done everything possible, everything possible to make crypto great in America. You can say what you want to debate whether or not he should have launched a token, we can debate that. [03:30] But at the end of the day, pro crypto, SEC, pro crypto, CFTC, rules and regulations that people understand. Pro crypto, pro Bitcoin. [03:45] How can you as a crypto head vote against the Republican Party, which is trying to get rid of regulations so we and and bring in clarity so we understand what the hell we're doing here. [04:03] It's crazy. [04:08] It is absolutely crazy. [04:15] Welcome to the breakdown episode 817. Sponsored by Midnight. Midnight. If if you missed out on Zcash, you missed out on Monero, which I still don't believe you missed out on either, then you got Midnight looking at you right now. [04:34] Look at Midnight, look what Midnight is doing. I get it that they're sponsored, but I've been talking like this way before the sponsorship. Look at Midnight and everything Midnight is doing for privacy. If you missed out on those two that I just talked about, Monero and Zcash, look at Midnight. Also, Polymarket is the official prediction market sponsor of the breakdown. They will provide us with live data of what is happening, what the people think is happening today on election day. [05:05] Today is election day, ladies and gentlemen, one of the most important days in the United States of America. Hopefully Americans who are registered, who are born here, are voting and not people who have came into this country illegally and that are going to the ballot boxes and not being asked for ID and putting in a vote for the blue. [05:35] Cake Wallet, they could go either way also. It can I don't want I don't want any illegal voting for the Republicans or Democratic Party. Bottom line. Cake Wallet, Cake Wallet is the most secure wallet in crypto. If you want to hold if you want to secure your Bitcoin, Litecoin, Zcash, or Monero on a secure wallet, go download Cake Wallet, go to cakewallet.com, go to the App Store, go to the Google Play, you'll find that there today. That rhyme, I hit them bars just now. Also go to cakewallet.com, if you have a phone laying around that you don't use, factory reset it, okay? Factory reset it, download cupcake. And if you need help with that, there are so many people standing by to help you out. Okay? Especially the team with Cake Wallet. Fomo.family, you want to see who's trading, trading what, trading who, why, read the thesis. You want to see what I'm going to I'm about to go on a generational run and I'm going to do it on Fomo. If you want to see what I'm doing, go ahead and give me a follow on Fomo.family. [06:47] Ladies and gentlemen, this is an important day. I cannot stress how important this day is today. [06:58] Okay? Cannot stress how important today is for the United States of America. [07:08] David, why are you so political? Because like my background is not only in digital assets, I've always been into politics. [07:17] I grew up a Democrat. [07:21] I'm in I grew up in New York City. I grew up a Democrat. [07:25] I keep saying the Democrats were sane back then. [07:30] The Democrats are kind of like what the Republican Party is now. [07:35] Like the like if you knew about the Democrats, if you grew up in New York City, I promise you, you were a Democrat and the Democrats were cool. [07:52] I don't know if the switch came when Obama became president. If that was where we switched. [08:02] I don't know. [08:04] But this is not your father's or your grandfather's Democratic Party. It's not. [08:11] And the Democrats, like Chuck Schumer, who came out and called Haley Stevens a traitor. I'm being polite with that. [08:25] He's going to be outed by this new group of Democrats who are more like communists. [08:40] You'll see. You will see. [08:45] Did I get a warning again? Hold on, let me see. TikTok TikTok was on a roll just now. Let's see if I got a [08:53] I'm looking. [08:59] Let me see. [09:02] Not today. Not today, TikTok. Not today. [09:07] First of all, I don't understand how TikTok, you know, when when the Chinese were running TikTok, everything was normal. Now all of a sudden it's not. Like what is happening here, man? [09:24] What is happening? [09:32] You know what I find I'm like I'm reading comments on TikTok before I go back to everything we have a guest coming on also. Uh David provides no value to crypto. So why are you in my chat? [09:45] If I provide no value to crypto, why are you watching me right now? [09:51] I I always find it funny. Like I don't like to address the haters because I love the haters. But like if I provide no value to crypto, why are you watching me? [10:02] Why do you come in here and and make a comment? Like why don't you go find the value? There are people that think I provide value and then there are people that think that I suck. And that's totally fine. [10:16] But why come here to tell everybody, hey, like you provide great. [10:21] To each his own. [10:25] To each his own. Anyway. Man. [10:30] And I was going to get a haircut and I even But you know what? I was like, you know what? I look I look fresh to death, man. I still look good. I'll fine. I don't have my signature haircut. I don't have my signature Italian styled beard. Okay, no problem. [10:44] No problem. Maybe, maybe, I don't know, maybe with that two-hour break before we get back onto the onto this show, before we get back onto this show at 7:00 p.m., maybe I'll run in quick, get that get that fresh cut. Even though I feel like I look fresh anyway. [11:09] You know, I know I'm joking. I I know I'm cracking jokes here, but what's happening now isn't a joke. Okay? It's not a joke. [11:19] It isn't a joke. Our [11:25] Everything really is on the line right now. [11:29] It really is on the line right now. [11:35] Our country. [11:38] Our beautiful country. [11:42] Our beautiful country, which we all love. We got to put our country first. Not the party, not our party, the country. [11:54] The United States of America has to come first today. [11:58] This is the most important election of our lifetime. [12:04] And I'm not just saying that. I truly believe that. This is the most important election of our lifetime. [12:13] If you vote if if I I really do believe this will happen. Because I don't think there's a way to stop it. [12:21] If the Democrats win, if the Democrats do win, both the House and the Senate, [12:34] You will see. We will see, because I'm not I don't plan on leaving the United States of America. We will see the same type of atmosphere that France, Italy, and other countries, Spain, are experiencing. That's where we're going to that is where we're going to head. [12:57] With a bunch of candidates that do not believe in America, who have sided with people who believe that we deserved 9/11. [13:08] These are the people that you're voting for. If I need to replay the tapes for you guys, I'll be more than happy to do so. [13:18] You've seen the tapes though. [13:22] So your decision today what's playing out, your decision is whether or not I vote for the country, I vote for the United States of America, I put the country first, forget about Democrat, Republican. I vote for the country first. I vote for sanity. Or I make a vote because I hate Trump. [13:47] Let me let you in on a secret though. It's crazy. I don't know if anybody's told you this. Donald Trump will still be your president after today. And for the next two years and two months, Donald Trump will still continue to be your president. And Donald Trump will still continue to control the United States of America. So you voting in a bunch of communist bastards, okay? [14:14] Because you hate Trump. By the way, just because you vote in, I just want to let you guys know on this little little little secret here. Just because you vote in Democrats, due to the gas prices and grocery prices, which is all just a short-term kind of thing until we get this whole situation solved with Iran. Voting in Democrats will not lower gas prices nor grocery prices. Bottom line. Those things will lower when Trump is finished with Iran. [14:54] So you're not sending a message. What will happen is taxpayer dollars will go towards Democrats stoling out everything in Congress, shutting down government, trying to impeach Trump or anybody in the Trump administration. That is what the Trump that is what the Democratic establishment will be doing with your taxpayer, my taxpayer, your taxpayer dollars. That's it. [15:22] For the next two years and two months, that is all they'll do. [15:27] So if that is the basis on which you are voting for the Democratic Party because you think that the gas prices are going to go are going to go down, electric bills are going to go No. [15:39] That won't happen. By the way, as I stated earlier in this program, New York, New York, New York. Love New York. Proud New Yorker. Guess what? Hogel continues to raise everything here. You can't blame the Republicans. The Republicans have not had control of New York in forever. The New York City mayor has been a socialist, besides the current one, socialist, communist, whatever you want to call it. [16:15] Forever. [16:18] It's been blue forever. The last governor was George Pataki. [16:29] George Pataki was the last real Republican governor. [16:41] The rest have been Democrats. Everybody else has been a Democrat. So who who are you going to blame? You want to blame the Democrat you want to blame the Republican Party for what's going on in New York and New York City? No. [16:54] No, that stems with the Democrats. But mainstream media will tell you, hey, you got to blame Trump. Well, why aren't we because you got to blame him. [17:15] Our country, our country. Our country. [17:24] Remember, our country is on the line today. [17:35] I don't do clickbait. I just want to make it very, very clear for anybody who's tuning in who's new, who's finding the channel because I see it on TikTok. If you if you're just finding me, I don't do rage baiting. I don't do clickbaiting. I just speak my mind. So if that makes you feel some sort of way, I don't apologize. [18:00] If you can go ahead and have an opinion and you can try to offend me, I can have an opinion, but I'm not really trying to offend you. But if it if if hey, listen, if it offends you, good. [18:14] I don't care. [18:16] Freedom of speech goes both ways. [18:21] Freedom of speech goes both ways. [18:26] Let's look at the map. Let's look at what's happening. We'll use Polymarket to look at what is happening right now. [18:35] We'll go real quick right now. Again, this is 2026 coverage. Okay? This is going to be New York here. New York right here. [18:48] 96% chance that Hogel will win and get reelected as the governor of New York. [18:58] House seats. The House seat in New York, it always goes blue. [19:04] That this is why I say like you guys have no excuse. There is absolutely no excuses when it comes to why New York is in the current condition it's in. I love New York. [19:18] But the current condition that New York is in is due to Democrats and not Republicans. Let's call for what it is. Stop blaming Trump. Trump got nothing to do with anything when it comes to New York. [19:32] This will be this will be the state that everybody's going to be looking at. Right now, they have 77%. Polymarket has 77% for Al-Saied winning the Senate seat, 23% Rogers. But again, my thing is Republicans do not talk to pollsters, they don't do prediction markets, they don't talk to anybody. Whereas Democrats, Democrats can't wait to go ahead and give their opinions and thoughts on Donald Trump. It's the truth. [20:11] They can't wait. They can't wait to go ahead and give their thoughts on how bad Donald Trump is and how Donald Trump has ruined their lives. [20:21] It is the truth. [20:24] It's the truth. [20:27] You know it, I know it. [20:34] You know it, I know it. Anyway, welcome to the breakdown. Sponsored by Midnight. Polymarket is the official prediction market sponsor of the breakdown. [20:46] Okay? Of the breakdown, official prediction market sponsor. Cake Wallet, shout out to Cake Wallet, one of the most secure wallets that we have in this industry. Fomo.family, you can follow me if I decide to trade on there on my front-facing wallet. [21:01] You guys have been destroying me on that. You guys have been absolutely ruthless when it comes to destroying me. [21:12] You'll destroy me. Anyway, let's bring our next guest in. Let's bring our next guest in. We'll talk about AI, which I've been telling you guys, my focus has been AI. Big time. [21:26] Focus has been on AI. [21:30] Ben Run, what's going on? How's it going? [21:32] Hey, David, good to see you, buddy. [21:35] I love that energy. Good to see you. How's it how's everything going on your side of the world right now? [21:43] It's good. It's good. Um, you know, a lot of growth, a lot of excitement, a lot of energy around AI. Um, mostly because of all the awesome stuff coming out of the US. So, uh, you know, we we're just honored to be building something in the space. [22:00] Ben Run, you're coming to America on election day. You said the US will be the uh will be most of your business by next year, if I'm correct. What does Magic AI Mirror cost here and where do people actually buy one? [22:16] [Guest: Ben Run] So, typically on our website, uh, us.magic.fit, that's where uh you can just buy it, we'll we'll ship it within a week, it'll arrive in your home. Um, and then we're we're expanding into more and more retail over the next uh few few months as well. And, I mean, the US, Americans are loving the product. They're going wild for it. Uh, we only launched in the US beginning of this year. It's already a third of our business. It will be over half next year. Um, it's really exciting. [22:44] You posted that people think Peloton should buy you. And your answer was not for sale. Peloton, um, and Mirror both struggled after the pandemic. Why doesn't AI Mirror work in the US now when they didn't? [23:01] [Guest: Ben Run] You know, um, you look, I actually think some of those products are fantastic and I actually tell our uh team to make sure they they get a Peloton ride in for inspiration because I I I honor the company they've built. But look, we're so far ahead of the trend. I mean, no one else has developed an AI focused uh mirror product that actually tracks your form, gives you live feedback, corrects you when you're doing it. You know, this is the Tesla self-driving car of connected fitness. And we're basically the first to market. We don't have a direct competitor. Um, I think there's a lot of growth ahead of us. Um, you know, that's why I said we're not for sale. And I I'm just so excited to see how how more and more customers end up changing their lives using what what is AI for human good, which is what we essentially do. [23:45] Why haven't why hasn't anybody attempted to do what you're trying to do? [23:50] [Guest: Ben Run] I mean, it's hard, David. Uh, hardware is hard, which is the classic uh phrase. But also it's it's, you know, you've got to pair it with building all of the underlying algorithms that track you, that monitor you, that understand, you know, where your arms and legs are, your shoulders are. It's uh incredibly difficult to get this right. And then pairing that with world-leading engaging content and packaging it up in a proprietary piece of hardware. It's it's it's like three businesses in one, right? And um, I think I think it's I'm not surprised people haven't tried to copy it. But look, that's where our differentiability is, you know, nowadays using AI, you can literally copy someone's app or or website overnight. You can't copy hardware. It it takes uh atoms, not bits. And um, you've got logistics, supply chain, fulfillment, delivery, warehousing. It it goes on and on and on. So, um, you know, this is why uh, you know, I've I've been losing my hair over here, um, with all of the stress over the last few years, but it's been worth it, you know. [24:44] It's worth losing hair over a product that you believe will change the world, correct? Uh, but what what do you think is it money? Does it come down to money that people just stay away from it and say, you know what, if somebody does develop something like this like you have with Magic AI, we'll go ahead and try to buy it. [25:06] [Guest: Ben Run] Yeah, I mean, I mean, we've raised like $20 million to do this, which actually isn't a huge amount by by, you know, the competitor standards. But it would take a huge amount of investment to get to not just the product, but also the scale we have, right? Our community is 30,000 people just in the last two years. I think it'll be over 100,000 by the end of next year and you can't copy community, right? So, um, I think it'll be interesting uh to see who who's interested in that. Um, because I'm I I I imagine there'll be a few people lining up. [25:34] How accurate is the AI that you have embedded into the product? [25:39] [Guest: Ben Run] Yeah, you know, when we first started, like four years ago, it wasn't it was a little buggy, you know, it wasn't quite getting the the arm right, the shoulder, the knee. And just over time, we've been able to iterate, improve on it. Um, some of the, you know, Claude and GPT has helped us accelerate the pace at which we're building. So, you know, we're only a team of 10 engineers here and we're actually doing the work of 100 here here in the office just using AI agents. So we've managed to make it super smart, super intelligent, very intuitive. It even now scans your body to give you a reading into your body fat, your muscle mass, your rate of metabolic aging, um,

[Part 3 of 6] [00:00] and that's all just through a camera. So, we've gone in very, very intelligent with it. Um but look, there's there's a lot more growth growth ahead of us. Um but uh but so far so good. [00:08] What industry do you see picking this up? obviously, besides people who work out, I work out myself two a days every day. Um but who do you see who do you see picking this up? Do you see like sports teams picking up Magic AI and using it for their? [00:23] Yeah, I mean about 10% of our business has been into other businesses. So, we have seen sports teams putting in their rehab and physio centers because it helps them, you know, strengthen an area of their body and the tracking technology helps them know if they're, you know, moving correctly and and their form quality is on point. Uh we're seeing hotels and leisure groups buying it, hospitality, uh property development centers trying to put it in there. Um so, we're seeing more and more of that. But yeah, I mean we've had a couple of sports teams who want to do a partnership and um yeah, stay tuned. It's uh it's going to be an exciting year ahead. [00:54] Do you think AI is that sophisticated now? where it can and give it to me and and I'll ask you this question. How accurate is it when it like Magic AI, let's talk about your company. How accurate is or are the readings when, you know, it goes ahead and looks at exactly what you're doing. [01:17] Yeah, so so I would say it's within around a 10% you know, margin of error. So, but what's what's important to know is, you know, the vast majority of people who use this are, you know, your everyday exercises, right? They're not Olympic athletes or training for, you know, an ultra marathon. They're they're very much people who are just trying to get from A to B in their health, you know, lose a pound here, a pound there, you know, get in shape for summer. So, for them, it's it's more important that they understand the trajectory and the line of travel with their health and that's what the product gives them. If it's, you know, within a 10% margin of error, most of our users are pretty forgiving. But luckily, I think we're pretty accurate now. [01:22] Okay. [01:54] All right, let's ask you this. Uh Apple just beat on earnings and still warned on margins because memory chips cost more. You sell hardware with a camera and AI inside, are chip costs hitting your price or your margins? [02:09] Yeah, good question. I mean, luckily we've we've secured uh like a like a cost of goods uh and a bill of materials that's uh defensible over the next two years. So, we've managed to get the get the underlying hardware to a point where we're not that reliant on um you know, very high performance chips. A lot of the processing actually happens in the cloud. It happens through the AI computer vision algorithms we've built. So, we've deliberately built in that defensibility where we're not relying on uh you know, the GPU to do all of the work. Um and actually that was the case before, you know, when we started out. Um so, I think we're I think we'll be all right. [02:45] There you go. He said, uh we'll be all right. Uh there's a camera watching people work out in their homes. Uh where does that video go and and who can see it? [02:55] Yeah, so we don't record uh any video ourselves. Um you can see a live feed, um but we don't like record that or store it or anything. Um so, so all we're all we're giving them is just the body coordinates. So, like, you know, 12 12 different points across your head down to your down to your feet. And um what what we what we might do in the future is enable people to get do a video replay, uh a bit like, you know, when you used to use the dance map back in the day and you could see, you know, a video of yourself doing the and actually a lot of our users have asked us for that because they want to see, you know, themselves and how they actually did the exercise and did they do it right or wrong. And and nowadays, you know, everyone loves sharing their uh gym content on uh too many people are sharing their gym content on Instagram. So, um so uh I I I we haven't seen a problem with that. [03:39] I'd probably share mine. Uh I'm just I'm just lazy to record myself. Uh 342% annual growth and fourth on FT's fastest growing uh list. But you haven't said how many mirrors are in homes. Give us a number. [03:54] We're up to about 30,000 now. Um but it's important to note. [03:56] 30,000. [03:57] About 30,000, but it's important to note like we we most of that growth actually just happened in the last 18 months. So, we're expecting that to multiply from here. [04:05] What what do you think? 6, 8, uh give me 6, 12 months out. That 30,000 number goes to what? [04:13] Yeah, uh in the next year, we'll be well over 60, 70,000, I think. [04:18] That's not bad. That is not bad. GLP-1 drugs are changing how people lose weight. You've talked about your own weight loss story. Do those drugs help you or replace you? [04:30] No, so whenever anyone goes on a GLP-1, um, you know, the doctor should be uh telling you that you have to pair it with a course of strength training. And the reason for that is because if you're just taking the jabs all day, uh you're just going to wither away and and and it's, you know, muscle and fat that you're burning through. So, you have to do strength training alongside it to make sure you're maintaining your, you know, your muscle mass, your bone density. Um and I think a lot of doctors do give a a plan that you should follow. So, what we're finding is a lot of our our community are taking GLP-1s alongside and the mirror is the is the personal training component which they're which they're doing. And honestly, you see some of the stories, the transformations um that people are going through losing like 60 pounds in in two months. It's it's unbelievable. [05:15] When you get that kind of feedback, you must be jumping up and you know, you're changing somebody's life. That that must be absolutely, you know, look, I know you're trying to build a product, but I I would feel some sort of way. I I'd feel electric about changing somebody's life. I talk about on the show all the time. People need to whether I don't support anorexia and I don't support people being obese. I think people need to get up and be healthy and and, you know, go work out. Don't just get a gym pass on New Year's uh because of your New Year's resolution and then forget about it three days later. Uh what can reflect AI see that a human trainer misses and what does it still get wrong? [05:55] Yeah, so what's interesting is, um, so look, here's the things that it does that a human does. It it it follows your form. It gives you a a feedback, live form feedback. If your, you know, bum is not low enough, your knee is not high enough, your arms aren't in the right place. It will tell you, you know, keep it tighter, keep it lower, go higher. Here's what it doesn't here's what it does that humans don't do. It actually gives you a form quality score out of 100 as to how well you're doing every single rep. So, if you didn't quite go high enough, it will tell you, you know, that was a 66% score. And if you think about it, even human trainers who are watching you can't give you a quantifiable score as to how well you're doing. Um it also gives you, of course, like calorie information, how well you're burning through calories just like um other exercise equipment, which of course, humans uh can't typically do. Counts your reps. Uh humans do that, but of course, we do it with a computer level of accuracy. Um and it won't count it if you don't go high enough. So, it it's able to, you know, really watch intelligently where you're where you're up to. Um so, um yeah, there's some of course, I mentioned it now scans your body to give you a reading into your body fat, your muscle mass, your rate of aging. And look, humans aren't even aren't doing that yet. So, I think there's a number of things we can do. Um and look, there are some things we can't do. We don't spot you, you know, if you're struggling, but like at the end of the day, um, you know, when you look at the product and the people buying it, they're people who probably wouldn't have gone to a gym, wouldn't have used a personal trainer anyway, and this is giving them that accessibility uh which enables them to just just do something rather than nothing and and people seem to love it. [07:24] I I agree with you on the part. Listen, I have a great personal trainer. Uh I can train on my own also, but I agree with you on the nobody can give you a number. Uh, you know, kind of thing. Uh, here's my last question to you. Hardware companies live and die on cash. We've seen that uh recently with all the earnings reports coming out. If uh Magic AI ran out of money tomorrow, does your mirror still work and if Peloton called with a real number, would you really say no? [07:54] I think, um, frankly, I think all companies live or die on on their cash and um I think too many startups have not been conservative enough. And we we do about a million dollars revenue per employee. We've we've been that way since we started. So, we've always been very, very efficient as to how and that's a metric we track very closely. So, we've always been very, very close. Um the mirror does still work even if it, you know, were to one day uh, you know, we we'd be easy to, you know, you can access the app um on on the mirror easily. If Peloton made the made the right price, um, I'm going to go with maybe. Maybe. [08:28] That's not a bad thing. There's nothing wrong. You build companies to eventually maybe just maybe sell them. Not not you build a company to you build a company based on selling it, but that doesn't mean you you should sell it. But you you build it toward selling it. Um, [08:43] I'm going to say maybe, but they probably need us more than we need them right now. [08:49] You you say you have 10 engineers, right? That work for your company? [08:53] Yeah. I know I said it was the last conversation, but you said you have 10. Uh besides the 10, how many AI agents and AI bots are you using uh along with you and the other nine people that are obviously focused on building Magic AI? [09:08] Yeah, so so in the company, we're only 25 in total, uh 10 of which are engineers. I think the agents are are replicating the work of around 90. So, it's taking the engineering team to like 100 people, uh and we're still able to feed the company with five pizzas. So, it's a good it's a good value exchange. [09:25] Has that allowed you because like speaking from my side, I I also have about, I don't know, 50 to 70 agents running, whether it's AI bots or AI agents in general. Uh has your has it allowed you to have more runway in terms of building by not having having to hire people and then teach them and then like, you know, you know how it goes, four to five hours of having conversations, you're losing time, which you can't lose time and you're burning money. Has it allowed you to have more money and more runway? [09:57] It's it's enabled us to uh have more runway, but also it's made enabled us to move 10 times faster than we could ever. I mean, we've pushed out a mobile app this year. We've pushed out five new modalities. We've launched boxer size and step and Pilates and uh and this previously would might have taken us two or three years and we're doing it in like two or three months. It's um it's wild. [10:20] That's awesome. I listen, I'm going to I'm going to say that I I really do hope Magic AI works out. I think there is a place for that. And and you know what? People need motivation and I think it does motivate people when they do have the stats. Like for me, when I see metabolic age and it it and it's not giving me the the answer that I want, you're going to work harder in in terms of training to make sure that you can lower that age count. So, I'm just giving my sample here. Like I'll look at some things that come through that are scanned while I'm working out. I'm like, no, no, no, I got to stay I I I got to change up things. So, I like the I like where you guys are going. Magic AI. Uh where can people uh check it out? Magic AI what? What what's the [11:02] Uh uh so the URL is us.magic.fit. That's it. [11:07] There you go. All right, there you go. I appreciate you coming on. Hopefully I can get you back on in a in a few months and we can go ahead and chat and see where you guys are going. Maybe at that maybe it won't be 12 months. Maybe in in, you know, less than 12 months, you'll have 60,000 plus units. You'll go from 30 to 60. God bless. I hope you do. [11:27] Thanks so much, David. Great to see you. [11:30] Thank you so much. Appreciate you. Magic AI's founder of Magic AI. I mean, I I'm all about fitness. You guys know I'm all about fitness. I hope it works out because you know what, people need people, a lot of you guys need motivation and I think motivation sucks. You guys already know how I feel about motivation. It only lasts for two to three days. You need to be determined and obsessed with your goals. But something like Magic AI would help a lot of people. Like it would literally help a lot of people. And AI will this is what we talk about AI extending people's lives. The extension of lives. Remember I I mentioned that yesterday. It will allow you to be a lot a lot more healthier. A lot more healthier. You get printouts, reports, all this stuff. He he he spoke about people want video. Yeah, I know people want video. They want to see themselves. And you should look at, you know, you should be looking at yourself as you work out. Because you will you're able to fix your mechanics. I'm talk hey, listen, I train two a days. You already got you guys know. When you look into the mirror, your mechanics get better. You got a personal trainer, he'll make sure, he or she will make sure that your mechanics are, you know, good too. But if you have this mirror where you can look into it and it can give you a read, it's amazing. It really is. Again, I have no affiliation with the company. I'm just saying in general. That that's something that like I would look into into getting. I don't know how much it costs. I didn't even ask I didn't even ask him how much it cost. Guys can go to the website though. You can check it out. By the way, welcome to the breakdown. Episode today's election. Or election day, excuse me. Which we'll be heading into election night. I'll be breaking down all stories. Okay, we'll be breaking everything down for you. Break everything down. I told you this is this is This is an election we can't get wrong. We can't get wrong. We can't go wrong with it. Just can't. I've been uh bringing on guests this entire last month, this month, next month. We're going to have like top tier guests from major from major AI companies. Coming on here. We'll have major conversations. You have I'm sure you've tuned into the show in the past few months and you have seen how I have absolutely been crazy about AI and what AI can go ahead and do. We have not even touched the surface. We have not even touched the surface on AI. And look how many people are trying to do things with AI. I'm telling you, first to market. He even said it. He's first and that's it. You could be first to market. By the way, you can go ahead and get the book, The Million Dollar AI Playbook. You can get that on Amazon. I wrote a beginner's guide for you guys on prompting and everything you need to get in from the ground floor. Next book is will be a little bit will go away from the beginner stuff. We'll go into some really cool things that can help you, I don't know, like you I'm telling you, there're going to be more millionaires in the next three to five years produced in the AI industry than any other industry. Even more so than the internet itself, which has been around for 25 years. There will be more millionaires in the next three to five years. Mark that down. Replay this. We'll have a guest in the back. We'll be bringing him on at 1:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. We are sponsored by Midnight. Midnight, go check out Midnight City. Go check out Midnight City. It is great. I know you got to wait. Some people will have to wait, but definitely check out Midnight City. Let's go real quickly. I want to look at I want to I wanted to finish my thought here on I wanted to finish my thought here on Michigan. This is the big one here. This and let's go ahead and step out for a second. We got Texas. Texas It is crazy if Texas goes blue. It is absolutely crazy. So, you the governor most likely will be Abbott. But here you and the Senate seats 26 to 12. Polymarket's reporting this and Polymarket is a prediction market sponsor of is the official prediction market sponsor of the breakdown. But here's here's the Senate race. Again, Paxton he might not be the greatest. But at the end of the day, he is better than this guy who is out here. Guys, read. Just just take a look at some of the videos. Take a today he came out with a comment that he if he wins, he is willing to work with Donald Trump on seeing through some of his campaign promises. All crap. It's all politics. It is all politics. I've seen this movie. See, somebody just said, can you help me write a prompt that will make me a millionaire? That's the problem with AI right now. Everybody wants to go on to Chat GBT or to Anthropic's Claude and type in make me a millionaire and allow me to only work an hour. While you work for me, that that is the problem that we're having. Anyway, again, we will be covering Thank you, Polymarket. We will be covering the election tonight. And also, we have America House, uh Rob uh Nelson with the Rob Nelson Live show that airs on this network. He will be at the America House. They'll be talking out there in DC. They they're going to be trying to figure out what the pulse is there. We'll see what happens tonight. Right now, everybody thinks that the Democrats are going to win. I'm having the same feeling 2000 16, 2024. Like I'm I'm having these flashbacks. I really am having flashbacks. Let's bring in um we'll bring in our next guest. We'll bring in our next guest to go ahead and also continue the subject of agentic AI platforms. We'll continue to have these conversations. I love these conversations. I love everything about AI. How's it going? [09:06] Hey, David, how are you doing? [09:07] I'm good. How how are you? How's everything on your side? [09:10] I'm doing all well. Thank you. [09:12] They forced you to come on my show? Did they force you to come on my show? [09:16] No, they did not. [09:19] Uh, I wanted to ask you, you you sold the last company you sold was PayPal? Is that is that right? [09:27] I sold to PayPal. The company was called Simility. [09:31] Okay. Tell me a little bit about that before we get into rapid. [09:36] Yeah, this was I would say um the precursor of what we call AI today, uh more traditional machine learning. And at the time financial institutions, they had these large operational teams that review for fraud. And it's very rule-based review, right? So, um if a check is more than $5,000 and this person has never uh cashed a $5,000 check, do a review, right? Very kind of understandable rules. And the world was moving to machine learning, which is more statistical models doing this evaluation. Uh but the individuals in the operations team still were used to this rule-based thinking that's how humans think. Right? And our job at Simility was to take these statistical models and simplify them so that you as a reviewer of this fraud still see the rule, but in the back end uh the models are interpreting statistical uh models, right? And so that's what our company did, make it um make sort of machine learning accessible to traditional operational teams. Got on like wildfire because it was very popular and then PayPal was one of our largest customers, ended up acquiring the company because um it was hard for them to do what we did. And so they had to get that get that technology and the approach. [11:07] All right, I want to ask you we'll go let's jump into AI, okay? [11:11] Yeah. [11:14] The markets are asking where are the AI returns? Apple warned on margins. Palantir fell 6% after beating and raising and Nasdaq 100 is in correction. You say get AI into production. Where's the payoff actually showing up? [11:32] Yeah, so let me I I have this analogy, right? Like we've built the highways and the toll booths. You've spent three years building that, right? We're just pouring concrete and building and now we need the cars to pay the toll. So, where are the applications that will generate the returns that pay for all this investment? And as you can imagine, the investment is massive. It's unprecedented levels of investment, whether it's data centers or hyperscalers or chip companies and software and so on and so forth. I do think we have to understand that this everything in life where you have big big investments is a two-step process. You have to invest with the faith that it will pay off long term. So, that investment stage is now over three years, right? Uh now is the returns phase is are you seeing that ROI on that investment? And this is in the first two, three years, uh investors, boards were asking their CEOs, what are you doing about AI? And everybody's like, oh, here's my investment thesis, here's my road map, here's my plan. We did some pilots, they worked, so the ideas work. And now the boards are coming back and saying, you told me all these things, show me the numbers, right? How the business is different? Are you making more money? Are you saving more money? And I think that's the phase we're in. The markets are reacting to the fact that hey, we can't have this three-year phase continue forever. We need to start seeing returns coming back. And um and I think it's fair, it's a fair uh fair expectation, right? You need to see money coming back now that you've invested quite a bit in it. [13:16] Or the board like Elon came out and he made a statement before I move on to the next question, but Elon came out and make a he made a statement about lenders are going to stop lending to AI applications or companies that can't turn a revenue. Uh and that's going to start, you know, sooner than later. How do you view that? Because, you know, right now you talk about the highways are built, the tolls are there, you need the cars. Well, I think in my personal opinion, I'll I'll take up here for the AI companies. I think they need a little bit more time to finish the runways and and finish the highways, but they're being told, well, you know what, the banks are not going to go ahead and loan out money or lend out money to them. So, what what's going to happen here? [13:58] Yeah, so I think I uh you have to separate the um how you can benefit from AI and build a business into two buckets, right? One is the folks who have to build a massive infrastructure, data centers, servers, hyperscalers. That is very capital intensive. You need to borrow money, you need to invest years ahead to see the returns. But that entire infrastructure is enabling one person to build a company. You can literally build an app that you don't know how to write code. You've never written code before, but an app could be used by millions of people and, you know, to your point, you could become a millionaire building that app. So, it now has these two separate groups of folks, one that have to borrow a ton of money to make something meaningful happen. And other who have to do nothing and they can build something quickly and that's valuable. So, I think this second group of people now have to make take advantage of this infrastructure spend. Now, the people who are spending on the infrastructure, they have a lot of money, they can borrow a lot of money, people can. So, I don't worry about that part. I'm I'm in this group, right? The group that has to build the applications that actually provide value to people, which they will pay for and then I pay these other companies that have built this infrastructure to use that infrastructure. But there is promise in this group where it's a generational um opportunity like two friends can build a company that's a billion dollars. Never before was that possible, right? That's the opportunity we need to focus on. Ignore the the the, you know, the lending and, you know, people who need to build massive infrastructure projects and all of that. That's that's not of concern to me. Uh right, I stay focused on on the application and the value generation. [15:56] that that just uh something hit me as you're talking, you know, uh all these AI platforms, they need it's funny. The people that are going to create multi-million dollar businesses, one man multi-million dollar businesses with not much

[Part 4 of 6] [David] [00:00] uh with not much um overhead or or real human employees, they're they're benefiting. Uh but if they win out, then the actual AI platforms will benefit from them winning. So, so they're betting on a bunch of people willing to go ahead and go to work and build something, be first to market, so then they can go ahead and charge. That that's a good point. Uh, Anthropic's S1 uh showed about $895 billion in commitments, almost all compute. Somebody has to pay that back and it's enterprises like customers, your customers. Uh, are they seeing enough value to justify the bill? [Guest: Unknown] [00:44] Um, let me give you an analogy, right? Um, so, 1882, um, Edison put the first power plant. Um, and somewhere in the 1920s was the first time a factory could show ROI from electricity, right? That's a 40-year gap between the between the innovation and, um, the, uh, the benefit, the ROI from that. Why is that the case? The first things people did when they saw, okay, I can I can use electricity in the factories is they swap a steam engine for an electric motor. You're not going to see ROI because you were paying for one, you're paying for the other. It's kind of marginal. When you redesign the entire factory to use electricity to its best most beneficial way is when you start seeing the ROI. Right now, enterprises we are seeing, um, the first phase where you're using AI because you're it's it's a 101 AI. Oh, everybody in the company gets a, uh, Anthropic license or a chat GPT license, see what you can do. Okay, maybe one person gets 20% more productive. But that's not game-changing, right? That's just people getting familiar, getting their hands on this technology, learning how to use it. I think the truly game-changing is if you have redesigned your whole business in a way that how do AI and humans work together, that's when you see the ROI. And that takes a little bit of time. It's not going to take 40 years, but we are seeing that happen in like a year, right? We have large customers who are they're taking their entire invoice reconciliation, for example, workflow. Um, and they are making it 90% uh, less manual and more automated. So, we are seeing that, it takes less than a year, but you need to redesign the way you approach a business process. And until that happens, you're not going to see major game-changing returns. You're going to see marginal returns, and I would say most companies are in that marginal returns phase right now. Get familiar, get comfortable, get hands-on, learn what you can do with it. But I do think we need to move fast to to redesigning, reimagining how business can work with AI to actually see the game-changing returns. [David] [03:11] You stated that your previous business, you sold it to PayPal for $120 million and ran risk uh there. Right now, exchanges like uh Bitcoin are getting drained from hot wallets. What would a fraud guy build to stop that? [Guest: Unknown] [03:27] Wow, that's uh that's a tricky question. I, you know, I'm not [David] [03:32] You can plead the fifth. [Guest: Unknown] [03:33] I'll plead the fifth on that. I'm not I'm not a crypto ecosystem guy. I I I [David] [03:39] Right now. But right now, you know what it is? Crypto is suffering from a lot of crypto did suffer digital assets, you know, have suffered attacks, protocols have suffered attacks before. Uh, but now with AI, super intelligence, let me say super intelligence because Trump doesn't like it when you don't say super intelligence. So let me just say that when when people have SI in their hands now, um, obviously it makes these hackers a lot more powerful. We actually obviously Binance had $6.3 billion drained from its platform. Uh, social engineered, but 6.3 billion, which half of it has been frozen and uh, the other half they're still trying to recoup. Uh, but AI has played a big part because now, you know, there are just besides Binance, there've been more attacks onto crypto platforms. So, it's kind of like people like how how do we being being that you stopped fraud, you know, how would you go ahead and go stop everything that's happened within in this space? [Guest: Unknown] [04:41] I mean, to your point about super intelligence, one thing to know is like you when you fight fraud, you're always assuming the adversary is human. And you're modeling behavior and you're counter countering that model. Now, when the adversary could be not human, right? It's creates a little bit of a challenge because you don't know how to model that behavior or even if it is human plus but, um, artificial intelligence combined, which could the behavior could look very different. Um, that does post challenges, right? Again, um, how that manifests in the crypto world, like I I use the Warren Buffett, like if I stay in my circle of competence, right? And that is not that is outside my circle of competence. And, um, but I would say that it is harder and harder to model for scenarios that, uh, uh, where you don't know what the adversary is. And this is one of those we are we are getting there. [David] [05:39] I like that. Because things are being trained for a human, but that might I like that. I like that. You put real engineers inside your computers. You just sat on a panel about the rise of AI consulting. Isn't this consulting with a nicer name? [Guest: Unknown] [05:56] I mean, it depends on, um, our philosophy is that at the end of the day, we are solving problems for humans. And so the designing the right solution, understanding the problem statement, and and training, um, people to use it has to be a human exercise. The way it's different from traditional consulting is if you try to do what we do today with one engineer in 12 weeks, two years ago, it would have taken you like 20 engineers or 10 engineers and one and a half year. The difference is the scale, right? AI lets you scale, it doesn't take the human out of the equation. [David] [06:38] 8X ARR growth over six quarters is a big number. What was the starting point roughly? [Guest: Unknown] [06:45] I would say low single digit millions. [David] [06:48] Wow. Uh, um, you wrote that AI governance isn't new, it's just delegating authority. Open AI wants them uh wants mandatory speed limits after the midterms. Does Washington need new rules or should companies use the ones that are already that they already have? [Guest: Unknown] [07:09] Yeah, I I feel this technology is moving so fast. Um, the vendors and the companies have to find a way to self-regulate. Like regulations are always going to be a step behind because the moment you put a framework in place, it's already outdated. So what are you going to do? I think everybody knows what the right thing to do is, everybody knows what you guard rails look like, everybody knows what safety looks like. Uh, I think it's it's time we act like adults, right? With with governance and, um, uh, you know, data privacy and security and all of that, right? So, um, I believe that we we as the industry should be doing that ourselves and and you know, we we take pride in in enabling our customers to control that, uh, when they have solutions with us. [David] [08:04] Why buy entity and why the in uh industrial aftermarket of all places? [Guest: Unknown] [08:10] Oh, you mean Entitle? [David] [08:11] Entitle, excuse me. [Guest: Unknown] [08:13] Yeah. So we have a we have a very capable platform and an approach of how to solve interesting problems with with AI solutions. Um, and what helps us is that if somebody has figured out an interesting problem and how to solve it, we would love that to be a part of our company. So so what what problem does Entitle solve, right? You have a you are an industrial company, you you sell pumps. You have sold like hundreds of thousands of pumps over the last 10, 15 years. Now, you can make a lot more money selling spare parts and warranty subscriptions on those pumps. You just don't know who bought them, where they are, what is the contact information. You just wait till somebody comes and says, hey, I need to replace a part. What Entitle does is they mine all the information about when the when a pump was sold, what model was sold, when the parts typically come up for replacement, and you're proactively sending a notification, right? An email. Hey, I think your your pump has been there for 10 years, typically this is the kind of servicing you need. These are the kind of parts you need. And as you can imagine, that's very lends itself very AI favorable, right? In terms of, uh, uh, mining the information and suggesting, um, uh, you know, approaches on how to maintain and service the aftermarket equipment. So that was very attractive for us and, you know, we we we acquired the company. [David] [09:43] That is a I want to ask you this. You wrote that uh well, I already asked you that, but you uh told a mainstream media outlet that a Series C could come by late next year. Uh if this AI correction keeps going, are you raising into a storm? And who wins uh tonight matters for the lame duck AI rules. Does that change your uh plans? [Guest: Unknown] [10:10] Um, I don't think, you know, what happens tonight changes our plans one year out. There might be, you know, you know, the next two, three months of whatever is the, uh, when we go into a steady state of where this all ends up. But I just think it is such an important technology, such an important moment that irrespective of what country you are, what party you are, this is one thing you can all get behind and this is that, uh, we have people might have different approaches of how to get there. Uh, but, uh, we have to keep moving forward on the on the on the AI initiatives and, uh, from our perspective, we are the ones generating the ROI. And if you don't generate the ROI, everybody else who's, you know, in the toll booth trying to collect those tolls, they don't make money either. So, [David] [11:02] But but are you waiting for are you waiting for Open AI and Anthropic to see where where the market is going before you decide on a Series C? [Guest: Unknown] [11:13] No, it's just organic. It's our own growth, our own customer base, our own approach that will decide that. [David] [11:21] I appreciate you coming on. You you're you're a Chad. You came on here, you answered questions, you listened to me, you know, yap about everything that's happening here in America with the elections and I appreciate that. Uh, hopefully I can get you back on in the next three to four months with whatever happens tonight. Uh, so we can go ahead and talk more about AI, Agentech AI and everything that's happening, even your clientele and your business. [Guest: Unknown] [11:48] Glad to be here, David, and glad to come back. [David] [11:51] Thank you so much. I appreciate you for coming on. That's the CEO of Rapid Canvas. Uh, good guy, man. Good guy, breaks it down. Sold a company to PayPal. Sold a company to PayPal, man. These are the type of people that we will be bringing on, people that dabble in that world. That dabbled in that world. Welcome to the breakdown. Got a hell of a lot more people coming on. It is huge. I'm doing the Trump today. It is huge. Hopefully hopefully the AI stuff will resonate with you guys. Hopefully the AI stuff will resonate with you guys. TikTok, start sharing this. I want I want TikTok to start sharing. TikTok, do me a favor. Let's let's break the algorithm. Okay? Let's break the algorithm. I need you to start sharing this with everybody you know. If you are watching me on TikTok right now, I need you to share this with I need you to share this live with every single person. We'll beat the hell. We'll beat the hell out of the algorithm. Enough is enough. All these Democrats, they consistently come into my chat and they start reporting and they report and they report. I no longer want to blame the algorithm. I am now blaming a bunch of crazy ass woke left individuals who come into my chat and consistently report, report, report. Like this is crazy. I don't know how many conversations I need to have with TikTok in order to get this stuff situated. TikTok has absolutely been awful. It is absolutely been awful. Absolutely. This is crazy. It can't be this bad. It could not be this bad. I have purposely not played one commercial, which is my own personal commercial, to make sure that there is nothing that you guys can say that is not original. We were we were at 200 concurrent viewers and all of a sudden somebody reported. This is crazy. Absolutely crazy. Anyway, welcome to the breakdown. It is 1:35 1:35 PM on the East Coast. That's right. 1:35 PM on the East Coast. Man, daylight savings time, man. That it is the worst thing in the world, man. Tell you that right now. Ain't no nobody cares about daylight savings time. Nobody. Not a I don't I don't care. I don't care about daylight savings time. Absolutely do not care about daylight savings time. I don't care. Let's see if I can bring on Let's see. Um, The election is here and if you've tuned in earlier today, this is not about you voting. If you're going out to vote, this is all I'll say. For those who are watching all across our platforms where we stream, this is not about going out. It shouldn't be about you going out and voting against Donald Trump. It should be you voting based on what you want to see down the line in the United States of America. Do you want to see Hasan Piker tell you that he can care less about the Constitution, he can wipe his ass with the Constitution? Do you want that? Do you want these individuals representing you in the United States of America? Or do you want real Americans representing America's best interest? Whether we like some of the policies or not, it has to come down to who do you want representing the people of the United States of America? Do we want to see France? Do you want to see France come about in the next 10 years here? Do you want that or do you really when you look at it and sit back, do you do you want something better? Look, we are the greatest country in the world, regardless of who's in office. And I say that, let me make sure that that's very clear. The Americans that love America, who are currently in this in their Democratic Republican, the normal Democrats and Republicans that are currently in office, they love America. They have different ways and and their policies are different in terms of how we get about going about building America and taking it to the next level and allowing it to thrive. The policies are just different. That doesn't mean that we can't come together and make something or create something that can level up this beautiful country. But by bringing in individuals that hate America, they hate America. Why? In just to spite Trump? Because you're not spiting him, you're spiting yourselves. My whole I sat back and I thought about this. I thought about this yesterday. I'm like, most people don't understand like, okay, you're voting for a Democrat, that doesn't mean that your gas prices are going to go down. It doesn't mean that the cost of living is going to go down. It doesn't mean that the cost of goods are going to go down. Because you voted for a Democrat because you think that bringing in a Democrat is going to change it's not going to change anything. We end the war with Iran, that changes everything. And and Trump has stated we're close to that. Look, Trump would not I I don't and I've said this multiple times. I don't believe Trump would have stayed in Iran and put the Republicans and the country in this position where you have these crazy woke left individuals running on communism. I don't think he would have stayed in Iran if it wasn't a threat. I keep saying that. I don't believe Trump would have stayed in Iran if it really wasn't a threat, if they really didn't have information that they were close to a nuclear bomb. Now, as just a human being, forget about an American, nobody on this planet, I I don't believe anybody who's sane wants to see Iran with a nuclear weapon. That is crazy. Iran with a nuclear weapon would be devastating to the entire world. Forget about America. It would be devastating to the entire world. They fund terrorist organizations. They've killed Americans, they've killed others within their region. They don't care about life. They've killed their own people, 50,000 plus. It's documented. These aren't lies, these are facts. Could you imagine them with a military with a nuclear weapon? What kind of disaster that would have been? And they were close. They've literally told you they were close. And they and like I get it. Like no new wars. I didn't want to go to war. I didn't want our military going to war. War is the last resort. I keep saying this all the time. War for me is last resort, man. Like it is absolutely last resort. And I do not believe and all the crap that you hear, oh, Israel, it was BB who pulled in the pulled in Trump into this war that Trump Trump has been talking about Iran being held accountable for 47 years. If I need to pull up the tapes, I will. Trump has been talking about how Iran needs to be taken care of for 40 years. 40 years he's been talking about it. BB didn't do nothing. You guys are wild and insane when you say these things like Israel forced the Israel didn't force shit. Trump walks up by his own beat. On his own beat, on his own street. He don't give a shit about what anybody says. He'll listen to his people, but ultimately he's going to make his own decision. When people say Israel forced the hand, I I laugh. It is absolutely comical. Now, has BB come out consistently stated for decades that Iran is close to a nuclear weapon? Yes. Do I believe him? Listen, when the man says that that a nuclear weapon is coming out every single week for the last 40 fucking years, at some point it's boy cry wolf. That's my biggest beef. But there is no way that Trump would have went in to Iran due to BB. And that is the psyop that they're playing. The psyop is, let's blame Israel and the Jews for everything. You keep your focus on these Jews and Israel, okay? Keep your focus there. While we go ahead and we take over the goddamn world and America. That's the game plan. That's always been the plan. And you know what? If you think that I'm full of shit, why don't you just look at every European country now? Go for it. Take a look. Take a look. And then you can go ahead and tell me. Then you can go ahead and tell me something. Then you can go tell me. Live coverage today of the elections. I mean, at this point, we'll be right back because there's nothing I can do with TikTok. You know, TikTok, I got to say, man, I have made every single effort. You know, we've had at times a thousand concurring people watching this show because this show's good. We've had people come in here and watch this show religiously and you have done everything possible, TikTok. And I know it's the liberals because you got a liberal staff that has done everything possible. So, you know what? It's funny, on TikTok, you can see the assassination of Charlie Kirk, okay? You can see the left wing, the radical left, they can go ahead and talk about the most disgusting things on TikTok, but me saying what I got to say, which does not go ahead and cross any boundaries or any line. You go ahead and restrict me every single time. It is wild, it is crazy. It is absolutely crazy, especially that apparently the Jews are running TikTok now. This is why I'm telling you, you guys think, oh my God, David's Jewish, so he got No, I don't got no tribe. Anyway, we'll be back right after this commercial break because I'm going to play the commercials. [Commercial] [04:04] What first got you excited about blockchains? Think about it. Oh, wait. I bet it wasn't multi-million dollar hacks, exposed data, or finding somewhere safe to store your seed phrase. Was it? 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[Part 5 of 6] [00:00] All eyes are on you. Breaking news. There is an astronaut conducting an emergency repair on a global communication satellite that could go dark at any moment. We have a second angle on this. Is that guy on FOMO? Oh, he just like me for real. Crazy, crazy. Yeah, let's get back to it everybody. Breaking news. There is an astronaut conducting an emergency repair on a global communication satellite that could go dark at any moment. We have a second angle on this. Opportunity cost is simply this. Every position you take is a position you choose over something else. This just in. According to the astronaut's photo account, quiet in the room. The satellite has been restored. Yes. For now, the crisis appears to be over. Satellite's up and running. Positions look good too. [01:37] There we go. United States of America representing. Socialism does not work. Digital assets. Is it better to move money at the speed of light? People are greedy when they also try to acquire gold. I'm here providing electricity and that energy that is necessary. I'm the modern day Tony Stark. [02:07] There we go. United States of America representing. [02:15] We've issued $8 billion worth of digital credit this year. And the most successful IPO of the year was stretch, it's STRC. It was two and a half billion dollars. I couldn't have done any of it without AI. If if we had not had AI, we would be $8 billion less. Five IPOs, none of them would have happened because I used AI to design the securities and solve all the tax problems and all the securities law issues. You know, so I like I'm a big believer in using AI to design new things. And I look, I'm just I I focus upon digital credit and security, but there's someone there thinking about how to make the car drive and cure cancer and like aren't there like 100 million problems the human race has to solve that we that you're like, well, you're going to need a thousand people with PhDs to solve that. Well, guess what? Now every 16-year-old has a thousand PhDs at their fingertips and so I'm very bullish. The world's going to be a much better place and and we're going to see an age of empowerment and abundance because of digital technology. [03:27] People are greedy when they also try to acquire gold. [03:30] Not really. I mean, people who buy gold are trying to preserve. [03:33] greedy centuries. We have centuries of people being greedy to go ahead and acquire gold. [03:38] Well, no, well, you're talking about to acquire wealth. Yes, people are greedy in that they want they want more things and there's nothing wrong with that. But when they're converting what they've earned into gold, that's not the greed part. That's the preservation part. I I I I've earned all this money because I was greedy. Now I don't want to lose it. I want to store it so I can use it later. I don't want to blow it all right now. I want to hold on to it. And, you know, gold is a way to do that. You can't really do that in a fiat currency that's just being printed, you know, into oblivion. So, uh, but but but, you know, the the greed is in the speculative frenzy that accompanies Bitcoin. [04:20] They tell me that I'm the reason they own Bitcoin because they listen to me years ago about economics, about sound money and and the Fed and inflation. And I'm the one that got them. [04:34] Plus, there's a lot of new technology in Midnight that's going to make the use of Cardano safer. Like Midnight Passport will be the fastest, safest and easiest way to use Cardano. So, we gain all the usability enhancements. And so, plus, I'd argue Midnight is an essential component for Bitcoin. The Bitcoin DeFi stack. When you look at that side of it, you're like, okay, Bitcoin users, they want privacy. So, Cardano could do a lot of the heavy lifting on the programming side, but what if the private coordination layer is just all that? So, we're actually working on with Hogan, our Bitcoin DeFi stack. We call it the the circle. So, you start with Bitcoin and Taproot. I'm going to put 50 Bitcoins of bio money into this free Bitcoin stack. It works. But you start with Taproot and Bitcoin. You lend it to a stable coin. So, that'll occur on Cardano through a specialized transaction through the token bridge. And then that stable coin would then be deployed into a yield bearing instrument. And then as you make yield, the yield is converted to Bitcoin and then it's sent to your Taproot. And then Midnight coordinates all of it. So, you have like all three networks working together, and you have this circle. And then for the Bitcoin user's perspective, you just give them a button. Make money. Click the button. And then it locks their Bitcoin, and you start generating a yield. The security actually is entered the Taproot on the Bitcoin network. So, it meets my three rules that I have for Bitcoin DeFi. One, there's only Bitcoin. No other token. [05:54] Bitcoin, Litecoin is better money than than fiat, obviously. Also better money than gold. I believe it's the best form of money that um humans have ever come across. Right? Money being good means that it's um it's inflation proof, right? No one, no single person, company or or government can print more money, right? Can't print money and inflate away the money you're holding, uh, you're storing, right? That's kind of one of the key things about money is if you work hard and you make money, you don't want that money to kind of disappear over time, not from your own doing. Right? So that's that's key in Bitcoin and Litecoin and uh most cryptocurrencies, um, is able to to do that. [06:40] I could have the argument that real estate's better than Bitcoin. [06:44] For a number of reasons, by the way, depending on who you are. [06:47] Um, your audience can probably disagree because they're probably a bunch of, you know, Bitcoin maximalists. [06:54] They don't have as much Bitcoin as the real estate guy, by the way. [06:58] No, I I'll tell you right now. Hold on one second. See, that's the funny thing, dude. That me and my brother were talking about this yesterday. You know, the guys that know the most seem to have the least. [07:09] 100%. That that I can probably agree with you on. [07:14] I think it should be a bigger issue within the crypto system and the ecosystem. What do you think? [07:19] I think it will be. I think privacy is going to be the the new if you want to in my view, and this is what I'm tasking the investment professionals at Mailstrom to sort of figure out. I think that the stand out shitcoin or, you know, few shitcoins of 2026 to 2028 will be related some way shape or form to privacy. We already saw the, you know, amazing move of Zcash over the last few months. Yes, it's down 50% from the 780 high, but I think again, my goal is, you know, my mental model is 10 to 20% the value of Bitcoin. That's what Zcash. Um, and so, so much higher than where it is today. But, you know, you know, taking away Zcash, what is the token project or protocol that's going to utilize some privacy technology, I'll be something related to ZK or knowledge proofs to do something whether that's quantum resistant, you know, the overlord can't deanonymize our data or, you know, see what we're doing. Whatever it is, right? These are the things that we're latently afraid of of of what bad things that could happen with this proliferation of big tech, big government and [08:28] Trump getting elected, another thing that we share friends in the White House. [08:34] We're back. I'm back. I had to take a little break, obviously. We're going until 12:00 at night or in the morning, I guess. Uh, we'll have I'll be joined by Akil Patterson. I'll I'll probably be joined by Rob Nelson also. We'll be touching on everything that is happening, obviously with this election. We'll be using Polymarket. Shout out to Polymarket. We'll be using Polymarket to go ahead and see what is happening. And right now, um, right now, as we speak, 72% chance, again, 72% chance, let's go back to it. 72% chance that the Democrats take the Senate in Texas, which would be mind-blowing if it happens. Be absolutely mind-blowing if it happens. Republicans need to show up. The Republican Party, anybody who's a registered Republican in Texas needs to show up. Stop saying that your vote doesn't count. Show up. Show up and vote. Okay? Show up and vote. That's what you need to do. That's what you need to focus. It's it's only going to take a few minutes, okay? So it'll take a few minutes to go ahead and do. So all you got to do. It's all you got to do. Let's go ahead and look at some other let's let's look at them. Florida is a given, going red, obviously. This is a given. I mean, it's absolutely a given, obviously. Donald's, he's going to win. Uh, Senate is going to go to the Republicans. And the house, you know, seats there, 21 seats go to to Florida. Who knows, maybe more. You can see where it is, though. You can look at look at the map. Look at this map. It's crazy. Let's look at uh, let's look at Maine. Collins, 33%. Collins has never pulled well, though. So the this, you know, Jackson being in the lead, let's let's see what happens. Let's see what happens in Maine. Collins has been there forever. But let's see what's happened. She's gone against Trump, too. The funny part is, Collins has gone against Trump. So we shall see what happens in Maine, obviously. Let's look at uh, what should we look at? Let's go ahead and look at Michigan again. 77% again. El-Saied is up 77%. Rogers at 23%. I don't know why, but I believe this red that the red wave is coming, man. The red wave is coming. By the way, polls close at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. That's right. 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Polls will close and that's 7 hours away from now. We will see polls closing. Okay? There you go. Um, let's go ahead and look at some other things. Illinois. What do we have in Illinois? Oh, we know. Illinois is definitely blue. So let's let's get out of here. We know there's no chance. Let's look at South Carolina. That's a close race right now. Senate 71% to the Republicans is leaning right. It's leaning right. Governor also leaning right. Let's hope that uh, let's hope it stays that way. Let's hope it stays that way. Let's hope. [01:55] Also, let's go ahead and look at uh, Iowa. 51 to 52. What a tight race here, man. What a tight race. Again, you know what? I love Polymarket. I I I really do love Polymarket. Polymarket is the official prediction market sponsor of the breakdown. But I'm when I'm looking at all this stuff, when I'm looking at everything here, I'm like, the polls and the prediction markets could be wrong here because Republicans do not do prediction markets. They do not do polls, okay? Democrats do polls. They want to know they I'm telling you, Democrats want everybody to know how much they hate Trump. Republicans don't care about going on the news, speaking to a pollster. They don't care about that stuff. They really do not care about talking to anybody. They will go out to the ballot box, they'll submit their vote in and they're gone. That that's how they go about business. But but we, you know, Republicans got to show up. Republicans, there is no excuse. Do not regret not showing up. I'm telling you right now, do not regret not going to go vote. Okay? You have a chance right now. America's on the line. America is on the line. You have a chance right now to go vote. 10 years down the line, if the if if the woke left take over, the woke left take over. It it is they're going to bring in what you're seeing in France. You're going to have open borders and everything. I'm telling you. You'll have all that stuff. And you'll have a lot of regrets and even Democrats will have a lot of regrets for voting the way they voted. Because this has become nothing but I don't like Trump, so I'm going to vote this way. It's crazy, man. It's crazy. We shall see though. Again, I'm we're looking at numbers, but I haven't even looked at what people are talking about right now. What other I want to see what CNN is saying. I want to see what MSNBC, whatever their goddamn name is. I want to see what they're saying. I want to see what Fox is saying, what they have in terms of what they're hearing on the streets. I put on the AC. I'm freezing. In my own office, I'm freezing. Absolutely freezing. It's freezing. And I'm still trooping it. It's 2:02 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If Rob Nelson can't figure out how to get on here for 15 minutes to discuss what is happening, then I will shut down the show. Okay? I will shut down the show and I will see you back here at 7:00 p.m. for obviously election night coverage with Goxstein Media. Me and Akil Patterson will be on here along with Rob Nelson, who will be in and out here, reporting from the from America's House in DC. We will go and provide you with the latest data. Also using Polymarket. Shout out to Polymarket. Polymarket is the official prediction market sponsor of the breakdown. Also, shout out to Midnight. Privacy matters. If X, you know, if you love Monero, if you love Zcash, you're going to love Midnight. You're absolutely going to love Midnight. You're going to love Midnight. I promise you. You will love Midnight. Let's see one more time, man. One more time, let's see if this man can make it on. If he can't, I'm going to give you the audios, guys, because I need to conserve my energy, especially if I'm pulling this all nighter, man. You might see me extremely happy that the people have come out in the United States of America and have voted in favor of keeping America great again. And I'm not talking about Republicans, Democrats. I'm talking about Americans voting for America. Or you might be might see me here extremely disappointed. You might see me here extremely disappointed. And questioning the sanity of people and where our country is heading. Those are the two versions you'll see tonight. Either extremely happy that people showed up and said, you know what? I'm going to put the gas prices and the price of goods to the side because I care about America. That's short-term. Long-term, we need to make sure that America is safe. America is represented by individuals that are love America and not represented by individuals that want to bring in a culture that does not fit America. That that is you will see me happy tonight if that happens. If Americans come out tonight and say, you know what? I know the gas prices are high, but it's not worth me giving my vote to a Democrat because they can't do nothing anyway. Even if I, you know what I I I could understand people voting for Democrats and they win and all of a sudden gas prices are down. That's not going to happen until the war in Iran comes to a conclusion, which it is. It will come to a conclusion. But we can't have Iran with a nuclear weapon. I don't care what anybody says. You can give me the Israel argument all day long, but I I could care less. Trump would not sit in Iran and cost hypothetically put the midterms in this type of position if there wasn't nuclear weapons there. He wants to go out as the greatest president of all time. The one who fixed the economy, the one who fixed America, who brought back common sense. Trump would not sacrifice that if there wasn't something real there. Anyway, welcome to the breakdown. Or should I say thank you for joining the breakdown. We'll be back later tonight. 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Join me and Akil Patterson. It's going to be heated. I hope it's not, but it will be heated. We'll be looking at the entire map from Polymarket. Okay? We're going to be We're going to try Oh, here he goes. Rob Nelson, who has broke unfortunately, I don't even want to make a joke out of it, but is trooping it out. Broke a few bones in his back, but he's trooping. Thank God, didn't paralyze himself. He's trooping it out. We'll bring him on right now so we can talk about this very subject. 7:00 p.m. again. I just want to inform you guys. 7:00 p.m. we will be live until 12:00 p.m. or 12:00 a.m. in the morning covering the election. Rob Nelson will be at the America House covering the election in DC. They'll be streaming as well. We'll figure out ways how we can go ahead and bring each other on to see what is happening. What is the pulse on the street? What are the people saying? You've already heard my take today, man. You heard my take. Let me bring in Rob. We'll go ahead and have a discussion. Rob, what's going on? How's it going? How are you feeling? [19:50] I'm feeling good. I got my patriotic uh, you know, I'm upping your flag. You put a flag behind you. I I put a flag on me. [19:57] Love to see love to see people embracing the American flag. It's a beautiful thing. [20:03] Yeah. [20:05] Rob, what are we looking at? [20:06] I want to ask you a question. It's it's it's 2:00 p.m. right now. Um, I'm sure you've been up since the morning. What what are you what are you hearing in DC? Like what are you hearing in the house? What are you hearing in DC? What's the conversation? [20:20] I mean, to be honest, I'll be honest. What you hear in DC is sort of irrelevant, right? What you hear in DC is a lot of noise, right? What you hear in DC is the polls underestimate it. Republicans are, you know, Republicans are going to easily take, you know, keep the house and the Senate. Democrats, it's the opposite. It's going to be a landslide, you know, the polls don't the polls underrepresented. It's going to be a it's going to be a blue wave. I mean, I hate to say it. Everybody says the polls aren't accurate. The people winning say the polls aren't accurate, you know. Um, they either say the polls aren't accurate because they're not as far ahead as they they think they really are or because they don't want people to think they're so far ahead they don't have to go vote. So it's like, no, no, don't don't misread the polling that we're winning as any excuse that we don't need every vote. I think what I'm sensing though is that, um, I think there is a pretty inevitable I think it's a Look, I've never seen, I've never seen a football team pro or college. I've never seen a coach come out at halftime and say, we're going to lose this game. Never. I'll just say that. So I don't expect Republicans to come out and say we're we're probably not going to win. They're not going to win the house. [21:38] Okay. How bad they go down in the Senate is a big question. I'd say, you know, I think you know this. There's eight by seven, eight states that are really in play that matter. [21:50] Well, let's look at that from Polymarket. Polymarket has a the map here that we can go ahead and look at from from their side. And look, this is the first I've been talking about this all day. I don't know how seriously I I can not that I don't take Polymarket seriously. Not that I'm not I I don't want to say I I'm just saying Republicans don't do polls and they don't do prediction markets. They just aren't that type of base, especially Maga. And I know you want to disagree with me on that and that's totally fine. But I I kind of I don't do polls, okay? I'm a Republican. I get these text messages. I won't pick up a phone call. I won't pick I won't text them back and tell them how I'm feeling. I I just don't do these things. I I don't. [22:35] But even if you don't do them, Polymarket doesn't require Republicans to do it. It's just what people think who are betting. [22:41] Correct. I I I totally understand, but how who's betting from where is my question, right? It's not [22:46] But betting betting's just right, but betting's just what you think, right? People interested in politics are betting. Let's go through them. I would say 5151. [22:52] So this is this is Iowa. It's a flip. I I think obviously I think [22:57] I would say that. [23:00] I I think it goes to the Republican Party. Who who do you think it goes to? [23:04] I don't think I don't think I'm not going to take a guess. I think it's genuinely a flip. I think it depends a lot on who shows up for the polls today. [23:13] Okay, so we got Iowa there. That's a flip. It's 50/50. Let's go to Michigan. Now, last time in the primaries, when they were running in the primaries, him versus Stevens, they had him ahead by like 11 to almost 14 points ahead. And he only won by a half a percent. Those were all the polls. This is what I mean about the polls. So you had he had a 14% lead on Stevens. She came within I mean, she lost by a half a percent. So now he's ahead 77% here from Polymarket over Rogers. I mean, what what's your take here? [23:56] I I mean again, you know, you and I look at this real different. I want to be clear. This isn't a poll, this is a betting market. Um, polls you can dismiss. Betting markets you can't dismiss. It's just what people think. It's not right or wrong. who win, you know, it's it's what people think. It's what people are willing to put money on, right? There's a difference. I I don't think betting markets are always right by any means. That's why there's upsets. If Mike Rogers wins this race, it's an upset. [24:28] But what do you think his [24:29] Right now. [24:29] But what is his what are the chances of Rogers winning, especially with Haley with Haley Stevens coming on board and there have been multiple people saying that, you know what? They're voting for Rogers because they were vote they wanted to vote for Stevens, but they're going to vote for Rogers. Like, do you think he really is there a real chance here for Rogers to take Michigan? [24:51] Yeah, there's a chance, but it'll be an upset. There's a chance, but it'll be an upset. And look, you know, as the day goes on, we'll start seeing this, right? I mean, we'll start seeing as the election results come in. You know, and I want to figure out, you know, you and I talked about this. I want to figure out, we figure out how to put, you know, our stream from America House on your, you know, on GNN for part of it earlier, you know, earlier on before you stream, right? Um, but I think, you know, what I really think is, it's what we're what we're doing here, David, at America House really is a part of this is, it almost to me doesn't matter anymore which of the two colors wins because nothing has changed in my mind. I've been doing this off and on since 1988, the first presidential election I was involved in. Nothing has changed. Fundamentally, the things go up, they go down, they go left, they go right. The same problems we had 25 years ago, we still have today. The same fundamental problems. Overspending, lack of accountability, no transparency, messed up criminal justice system, you know, immigration issues, um, you know, environments in trouble, education, public education, K through 12 sucks in most of America. Too many people living paycheck to paycheck, people can't afford housing, people can't

[Part 6 of 6] [00:00] affordable insurance. These are all problems we've had for 25 years with various parties in power, with various, sometimes the Dems held everything, sometimes the Republicans held everything, sometimes they split it. They all make excuses, nothing changes. What do I really think is, I think the reason Talarico and and and Al-Saied are doing so well is they are something so radically different the same way Trump was. They're so radically different from anything the Democrat Party has ever offered up before. The way Trump was so different than anything the Republican Party had. And it's that they are so different is what their appeal is. I'm not saying it's going to work. It's just like, it's like the new girlfriend. It's just so different than the old girlfriend that you give it a shot. Because you had five old girlfriends that were all similar. So you go for a totally different one. Like they're totally different. [00:49] Well, in Texas, we have obviously, you know, Paxton is at 29% uh obviously this is from Polymarket. Uh, you'll have the [00:59] You know, you have Abbott holding uh and winning, it's leaning right for governor. Uh, leaning left for Senate, which is it's mindboggling. Because if you're leaning right for governor [01:11] That's not. He's just, I don't know. I think it's mindboggling. But when you have you know, 38, 38 seats for the house, 26 are going to the Republicans. You got the governor who's going to get reelected and then like you you have this the the Senate part. [01:12] Why? Why? Why? [01:30] Which is the weird part. [01:31] Senate part. So, I don't [01:32] He doesn't represent Texas. Like, come on. What are we talking about here? [01:35] I don't I don't think it's weird at all. Again, why I emphasize this is a prediction market, a betting market, not a poll, right? [01:41] Well, listen, you know what? But I I understand that [01:44] It makes total sense to me. [01:45] But hold on. [01:45] If I'm an oddsmaker, it makes total sense. [01:48] For me, when I'm when I'm looking at Polymarket, they've the prediction markets have nailed a lot of these races. You know, they have nailed them. [01:55] I know they have. [01:57] I just said it's not a poll. [01:59] For me, the only my my only and I love Polymarket, the only thing when I sit here and I look at all this stuff is Republicans don't do this shit. They really don't. Most of the Republican base, they show up on the same day when it's time to go ahead and go to the ballot box, November 3rd, that's when they show up. They're not they're not speaking to anybody. They're not giving anything away. They're not even talking. You probably have some Democrats that are going to vote Republican for the first time. They're not telling anybody. They're ashamed to tell anybody. [02:35] Yeah, you're making the same argument that's been I'm sorry, man. I I I love you, but this is such a this is a 2015-year-old argument. I've been hearing it for 15 years. Polls don't accurately reflect Republicans, except when Republicans are winning and then polls accurately reflect them. I've heard this argument since before you were doing politics. I heard it in 1992. That's 30 years ago. I heard people say 30 96, 30 years ago, people saying, polls don't accurately reflect Republicans. It's bullshit. Polls don't accurately reflect Trump voters. That's true. Because they didn't want to come out. [03:11] They don't. [03:12] No, Trump voters, because they didn't want to come out. [03:14] I said they don't. The the Maga base Trump voters, not all Republicans. [03:15] No, no. [03:19] So let me ask you, hold on. Hold on. Let me ask you a question. Let me let me take this off for a second. [03:22] You Trump. [03:25] Can you let me say it differently? Hold on, let me say let me frame it differently before you ask. Polls don't accurately reflect what Back back up from the camera for a second. Don't let me say what I'm saying. They don't accurately reflect. I have a broken back, that's why. They don't accurately reflect views on Trump. [03:31] What? [03:33] We're all in my face. [03:38] Okay, but Rob, Maga, have okay, let me ask you a question. Iowa was supposed Iowa was supposed to go to Kamala Harris, correct? By 14 points. [03:43] At one point. [03:57] No, no, it was like a few days before the election. [04:00] Well, it moved a lot. Iowa kept moving in the polls. Iowa also had some weird polling going on and some weird pollsters and it got called out. Some of those polls. [04:03] But do you not think, hold on. Do you not Not every real politics did not have Iowa going 14% to Kamala Harris. That's not accurate. [04:11] Not every. [04:18] But the New York Times came out and which they did yesterday, they came out with the with the Democrats absolutely sweeping everything. By a large margin. Why let me ask you this question, Rob, why are they doing this? Is it to go ahead and make sure that the Republican Party does not come out or the Maga the Maga party doesn't come out and vote? Because that's the only way that I see it. You oh shit, it's 14 14 points ahead. Oh, I'm not what am I going to do? I'm going to go out and vote. It's not going to do nothing. I think that's I think that's why. [04:30] I don't think I I don't I don't think it's a one size fits all answer to be honest and I feel like you want it to be, but it just isn't. I think there's a couple reasons. One is what you said. I think the media definitely wants to for the most part pretend to be neutral and work on behalf of the side it likes. So they are already they have their own systemic bias. It's like it's like what's that called when you reaffirm your own point, you know? You say something and it just it just proves your own logic to yourself. It's like I think there's that bias already built in. [05:20] Well, you know who they're voting for? [05:30] No, but I think that bias, you're right. It makes people it makes them go, we want this side to win and we think that they're going to win and we don't want people to we do definitely want to not have people feel like, you know, they should we want Republicans to feel like they should stay home. That kind of backfired. So now they're not doing that as much. Now they're more kind of saying it's these are close. But I don't think that um that the that polls are consistent across the board. Um, questions around Trump particularly poll really oddly because people don't want to say what they think. Trump, Maga, that kind of stuff. Questions around traditional Dems and Republicans, not so much. I think I think but Ken Paxton is in real trouble. I think he probably pulls it off, but it won't surprise me if he loses by, you know, by it won't surprise me if he loses at all. [06:21] Uh, I want to get to the news. [06:22] And the governor will be the governor will be Republican. This is my point. The Republican Democrat thing is so odd, it's so broken. But the the governor and the state house will be Republican and it's a good chance the, you know, look, I knew the last Democratic governor of Texas. It was Ann Richards in the 1990s. That's the last time a Democrat was governor of Texas. [06:42] Last question, um, before I let you go and before I go, then I'll be back at 7:00 p.m. I might uh obviously jump on to your coverage out there in DC as well from the America House. Um, what did you feel about uh today's announcement from Trump that uh he will be cutting off for the, you know, the money that we send over to Israel. The the foreign aid. [07:09] I I'm a little caught off guard by the whole thing. I mean, [07:14] Apparently he said they they both spoke about it, him and BB and BB doesn't want it either and that it's a talking point for the Democrats consistently. And then now there's a report that's come out that it's caught Israel off guard. So what how are you feeling about, you know, Trump coming out and making that statement? [07:30] I don't know what to feel. I'm not sure what really got said, right? I mean, I don't think [07:35] That's what he said. He said he's not sending any more there's no more foreign aid going to Israel. They can buy supplies, military supplies, but there's no foreign aid going there. [07:46] Well, I mean, so he would have to veto a foreign aid package. Right? He doesn't decide that. That's a budget question. Congress decides. [07:55] But he he has the power of the pen for the next two years and two months. [07:59] If he wants to veto aid to Israel, he could. I think there's enough votes in Congress to overturn a veto on that. There's enormous support in Congress for Israel. But but are you sure that that's really accurate? That's my point. That's what I can't. [08:12] Absolutely, I can pull it up. You want me to pull it up for you? [08:17] Yeah, I'm just I'm not, you know, [08:22] President Trump says that the US is cutting off $4 billion in aid to Israel at the end of the year because they don't need it. Is exactly what he said today when he went on to Fox News and he stated that uh he stated this. He said because they don't need it because they, you know, they him and BB have been talking about it for a long time now. I mean, I could put this you want me to put this on, right? I'll put this on. [08:29] No, no. [08:45] No, no, I'm just I know a lot of people ask. I saw it on CNN actually this morning. But um, [08:51] Of course you saw it on CNN. [08:54] Well, it wasn't on Fox News. [08:56] Well, it was it was an exclusive on Fox. [08:59] Oh, you know what? I'll go to the Fox News app right now and see if I see it there. [09:04] But I mean, to me, I'm fine with it. If both sides agree, I am absolutely fine with it. [09:07] I'm looking at the CNN right now. I'm five, six, seven stories in. Not a mention of it. [09:10] It's on Fox News. [09:15] I'm already. Oh, I finally got to it. Democrat accuses Trump of ending Israel funding to save Republicans in midterms. Um, here's what I think. I do here's what I think about that. And I'll ask you ask the question. I don't understand the value if that was the reason on the day of the election to come out and say, we're ending aid to Israel so that people will vote for Republicans because they're anti-Israel. Like if you were going to do that, do it on election day? [09:16] Well, I think [09:54] This seems really stupid. Like it's going to shift that many votes on election day. If you'd done it two weeks ago and made a whole campaign out of it, maybe. I don't think, you know, last minute I'm going to cut aid to Israel is going to swing a whole lot of voters today. [09:56] Well, Trump has pulled out everything. $5,000 if the Republicans get reelected or they hold, you know, obviously they hold the House and Senate. Uh, you'll have Israel here, uh, $4 billion being cut off by the end of the year. It might push people to say, you know what? Trump is Trump is changing. In their eyes, even though he's [10:08] And I don't think [10:28] What? [10:30] They're not voting for Trump. They're not voting for Trump. [10:32] No, Maga is. I'm my whole here here's the thing. I've been watching all these pollsters. The ones that have been right, whether it's Democrat or Republican. It's there's this one guy. I think his name is Frank uh starts with an L. His last name starts with an L. He he's he's in the middle. He's neither or. He's like do not count out the Republican, do not count out Maga because they do not and he's really good at what he does. He's like, they do not disclose, they do not talk to any pollsters, nobody about what they're going to do. And they will rally around Trump. No matter what, they will rally around Trump. I I think I think they hold the Senate. The house is the house is going to be up for grabs. The Democrats are not for grabs. [10:42] The house is not up for grabs. The house is not up for grabs. The house the house is gone. The house is gone. The question is how let me just say my prediction. The question is how far gone. Do they take a little or do they take a lot in the house? That's that's one. Two, I agree with you. They might the Republicans might hold the Senate by a seat, but I think it's equally probable. I think Republicans lose I think they're going to lose Maine. I think they're they're going to lose Ohio. I think they're going to lose Michigan. I do think they'll hold on to Texas, but that's an iffy one. I I think there's a they'll hold on by a thread and it won't surprise me if if the Dems take the Senate by a seat. [11:24] We don't know. We just don't know. [11:32] I I think the biggest thing for me is that the Republicans need to hold, they really do need to hold the Senate more than the house. So [12:08] That a flashlight you got there? [12:18] Yeah, just in case anything happens tonight, I have a flashlight. Okay. Flashlight. [12:20] To guide America through. [12:26] Yes, absolutely. [12:28] Okay, I hope you come on our stream here out of the house because I want to talk about America. You know, we don't need to do election analysis. We need to talk about something you and I've talked about before, which is why do people hate America so much? Like I don't care what your party is. You should love this country. I'm wearing the I'm you've got a flag behind you. I got a a jacket that's made to look like a flag. Like, you know, you should represent if you're here. I don't care what your politics are. [12:32] America and we've talked about this. America to me comes first over party. Uh, Rob Nelson, Rob Nelson live. You can catch him on Mondays and Wednesdays. He's at the America House today. They'll be reporting on everything when it comes to elections. [12:53] David, come on our come on our stream before 7:00 before you show. [13:10] Uh, 100% will. 7:00 p.m. though, we have our coverage. Hopefully you'll come on for a few minutes and we can take it from there. [13:14] I will. I will come on. I will come on. [13:20] We'll have a Kill Patterson on here. We'll we'll have a show. We will have a crazy ass show. [13:21] I will definitely come on. [13:27] Thank you, Rob. I appreciate you. I hope you're feeling better, man. [13:29] Thanks, man. [13:33] That's Rob Nelson, everybody. Rob Nelson. You can catch Rob Nelson live. He's at he's in Washington D.C. He's at the America House. You can go ahead and tap into their stream right now. They're streaming. Uh, they're talking. They're having conversations. Every like this is a big day. This is a big day. When you grow up, this is a big day. These are big choices and especially this is a big ass choice for the United States of America. Americans right now. Americans. Look, I don't I'm not in love with every Republican policy. But if you're going to tell me you want me to choose these new radical left candidates who are being backed by Hassan Piker and a bunch of these people that hate America, it's not going to happen. Talking about they're going to wipe their asses with the Constitution. That's not who I'm going to vote for. I'm not. Anyway, it is 2:27 p.m. on the East Coast. I want to thank all my sponsors. We will be back election night. We will be back tonight. Hopefully you guys tune in, okay? We're going to see what happens. I I I hope I hope the red wave comes and it shocks everybody. I hope it really shocks everybody. Every single outlet that is saying that the that the Democrats are sweeping this, I hope I hope that it is going to shock the shit out of everybody when the Republicans, the Americans turn out and vote and vote red, okay? Thank you so much. Appreciate you guys. I'll see you at 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. till 12:00 a.m. We will be talking politics. On that note, I'm out. [13:37]