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We can review Ben Ferguson with you and here are some of the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this past week. First up , Elon Musk becomes enemy number one by the Democrats. Why? Because he's successful and becomes the first trillionaire in the world's history. So what do they want to do? Well, they want to steal all his money and we break that down for you. Also, a big election night result in Georgia. And what does it mean looking ahead to the midterms? We break it down for you. And finally, a bill that is actually moving through Congress that is now quite possibly going to save college sports forever . It's the weekend review and it starts right now By the way, that the Liberals are all they're going to hear from the show. I want to be very clear twenty minutes in is you said that Elon Musk should be carved in Mount Rushmore. That will be the headline. I just want to predict that right now, but keep going. It may well be. Although what I said is if the leftists believed what they said, they should carve it . They should be doing it there is literally no human being who has existed in the history of humanity who has done more for electric vehicles than Elon Musk. But you know what ? They hate him now. You know how he could change that? Do you know whose wealth they're not calling to confiscate? George ? Oh, of course not. No, if you're a glanna, just if you pay, he's a massive billionaire. By the way, he made his money on arbit raging currency, on essentially betting and bankrupting lots of people. He made his money in a very, very cynical way , shorting the British pound and causing enormous devastation. That's quite different from how Elon made his money building companies that employ thousands of thousands of people innovating and transform ing the world. But you know what? The left loves George Soros because he funds their Marxist ideology. Look at Platner, who we've talked about. Platiner's biggest donors are four different multibillionaires . This and they'll sit up there saying the oligarch, no oligarchs is on their side and those signs are literally being paid for by billionaires . That's like hypocrisy one hundred and one . And by the way, Bernie Sanders and AOC's no oligarch gark tour, they flew in private jets from stop to stop to stop. So you get off your private jet and say, oligarchs are ter rible . Yeah. And I don't know if you saw it. It was very funny, but Bernie was doing an interview and asked, well, well, Bernie, how did you become a millionaire? And he said, Oh by writing anti capitalist books . Yeah , which he was capitalism caused him to become a millionaire, which he was writing books against. Look, there's a principle here that I think is really important for folks listening to verdict to understand . The beauty of free enterprise is the way you succeed is by making others succeed. Let's take Tesla as an example . If Elon made crappy cars , they didn't work, they were ugly , if they were slow, they broke down a lot . Nobody would buy them. And you know what? If nobody buys his cars, he doesn't make any money, he goes broke. Like free enterprises is ruthlessly efficient. If you can't solve a problem and improve people's lives, not only do you not make money, you out of business. How do you make a ton of money? You make a product people like that is better than the alternatives in the market that people are willing to pay for and they're happy for. If you look at whether it is SpaceX, whether it is XAI, whether it is Starlink, whether it is Tesla, whether it is the Boring Company, and the Boring Company is just getting started, but the ability to build tunnels, I think that's another one that he's filling a need that doesn't exist in the market. And I think for those who, in terms of connecting , say a busy downtown where there's a ton of traffic, the ability to tunnel down and suddenly double your usable space , that is a transformational technology. Now Ben, do you remember why he creat ed the Boring Company? Why was that? Because Elon has a unifying theme with all of his companies , and it is going to Mars he's filling a need that doesn't exist in the market. And I think for those who in terms of connecting , say a busy downtown where there's a ton of traffic, the ability to tunnel down and suddenly double your usable space , that is a transformational technology. Now Ben, do you remember why he created the Boring Company? Why was that? Because Elon has a unifying theme with all of his companies . And it is going to Mars . And he is when we interviewed him, we talked about this, him saying getting a person to Mars was like a life dream goal of his . Look, not just getting a person to Mars , building a civilization on Mars unlike the Marxists who have all of these apocalypseic language about how climate change is going to destro y us. Mind you, their solution is so put us in charge of your life. Let us be dictators because of climate change. Elon's solution is okay . Elon's solution is okay if the Earth is going to be destroy ed, I don't know if it is or not, but if it's going to be, let's go build a new civilization. And that's what he's working to do. In each of his companies , look, SpaceX, Starship is designed to actually get us to Mars, not just get humans to Mars, but get enough equipment, get enough materials that we could build a civilization. Tesla electric vehicles are designed to power transport on Mars. The Boring Company is designed because to build a civilization, to build a city on Mars , you need to dig tunnels. And so there wasn't nobody was doing that. And so he built a whole company to do that. XAI, the AI will be needed to build the Mars civilization. We asked him in the interview said, What do you want to be remembered for? And he said, And he said, Getting mankind to Mars. And I asked him, I said, Do you want to die on Mars? And he said, Yes. And there was a long pause, by the way, which was really funny. He said on Mars not getting to Mars, right? There was a one to distinguish that very clearly if I remember right. Well, what he said what he said is yes, hopefully not on impact. Yes. There you go , which I thought was quite good . And that look, that's how you innovate with capitalism. You create a solution and what is the reaction of the left? It is envy and we've heard Bernie Sanders, we've heard Elizabeth War and I want you to listen to Jimmy Kimmel to really embody the leftist envy and contempt. Give a listen. First ever trillionaire in the history of the world. This man, our first trillionaire, the richest man in the world, is also one of the weirdest people we've ever seen on this planet. This obscenely wealthy weirdo has the ability and means to blow up the moon if he chooses and also to put a lot of other people's money in his pockets . You listen to that, just the disdain there. It is a coordinated effort, which goes back to my final question, Center, and I'll make a prediction here. I believe that the Democratic Party, if they gain power again in the House, Senate, certainly the White House , they will go after Elon Musk, yes , and every one of his companies and every one of his government contracts because of what he did with Doge and the fact that he was an ally of President Trump, even though they've had their own little fights , they will move to destroy and make sure that there's no part of our U. S. government that uses anything that he touches ? You are absolutely right and understand these are not the Marxist of the like sit in a faculty lounge and muse abstract theories. These are the Marxists of the Stalinist kind , of the kind that go and crush their enemies , if the left takes over, if AOC or Gavin Newsom or some other leftist becomes president , you will see every single federal government agency weaponized and targeting Elon Musk. You will see them denying him licenses to launch satellites, denying him canceling his contracts, the EPA shutting down his launches Tesla being investigated by OSHA by the IRS, Elon personally, they will make it their mission. This cannot stand is what Bernie said They want to destroy him for daring to demonstr ate that free enterprise works. And I want you to think back again to what Jimmy Kimmel said , which is he makes obscene amount amounts of money by getting other people 's money. And let me just ask a very simple question, Jimmy , how does he get other people's money? And he does it one of two ways . One, he does it by running a business's, very it profitable. So he builds a car people really like and they decide I like this car better than all the other cars and it's really good and it's fast and it's super environmentally clean and it looks cool and it's self driving , so I want to buy it. So he produces a product people really like and want , which by the way, is also much, much better for the environment which you hypocrites claim to care about. But there's a second way. How did he make so much money this week ? Well, he sold five hundred fifty million shares of stock and you know what unified every single person who bought that stock ? They all wanted to make money. They did so volunt arily. Nobody forced them . five hundred fifty million decisions of people who said I would like to purchase at least a share of SpaceX. I want to buy that. And by the way , it's not just gazillionaires, it's lots of moms and pops, lots of ordinary people. And you know what ? You and I, we probably don't know this, but you and I are both probably and most of our listeners are probably SpaceX stockholders too , because many of the purchasers were pension funds, four hundred and one K. So if you're in a widely diversified mutual fund, which most of my retirement savings are in mutual funds . of Many them bought SpaceX as part of their portfolio. So the people who purchased he is literally making Americans rich all across the country. And if you're really good at that, you make a bunch of money too . Leftists hate that. They want to destroy you and they also want to take the money. They want government in charge of it. And they want the only way you can make money is for government to give you a check every month. So you got to go vote to reelect the Marxist s and keep them in power. I want to say to Elon Musk, Gwen Shotwell, to everyone at SpaceX, congratulations. This was an historic week God bless capitalism. God bless liberty. 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And in the governor's race , you had a guy named Rick Jackson , who's a very successful businessman who was running against Burt Jones, who's the Lieutenant Governor. And early on, President Trump had endorsed Burt Jones . And just a few days ago I endorsed Rick Jackson . And that caused the press to like the tongues to wag and be like, oh there's a big conflict . I will say look , my approach on endorsements is number one , I endorse the most conservative candidate who can win . Yeah . And so I want to see proven evidence that you're conservative, but I also want to see that you can win that you got a path to victory, not just in the primary, but in the general . Number two, I tend to get involved in races late. That's my philosophical approach is that I try to get involved right before election day , hopefully at a time when the election is close and my involvement can make a difference. It can move someone into victory. And so I jumped in this race just a few days ago . Yesterday, the day before the election, I flew down to Georgia to Atlanta, did it did a big rally with Rick. Yeah. And I got to say, so Rick's story, let me tell you a little bit about the guy and I did not know him until the last few days, but I looked at his record, I examined it, I talked to people and knew him, and I made the decision to endorse it. So his story , he grew up in a broken home in the projects in Atlant a poverty, dysfunction . As a young boy, he ran away from home . He ended up going into the foster home system . As a child , he had five foster families. So that's what he came out of. He then went on to college, spent, I think, a little over a year in college, dropped out of college, did not succeed in college . And he went and got a job. This is a cool story . So he went and interviewed to work for a company that was engaged in healthcare sales . He did the interview. He did pretty well. And then the guy interview ing him said, I'm sorry, look, we only hire people who have college degrees. You dropped out of college, we're not going to hire you. And Rick said, Okay, that's fine. He said, Can I ask you just out of curiosity ? What did the job pay? And the guy said, well , it paid fifteen hundred dollars a month plus thirty three percent of all the sales you make . And Rick came back, he said, it I'll tell you what , how about if you don't pay me the fifteen hundred dollars a month? Don't pay me anything , but just give me the thirty three percent of the sales . And the guy kind of laughed. He said, Well, that sounds like a good deal. I don't have anything to lose on that, do I? So he hired him, even though he didn't have a college degree , he came in and was a monster salesman . Ended up making so much money that within two years he, bought the company that had hired him . Wow . And he ends up building this company into a massive multi billion dollar healthcare company in Georgia. He's one of the biggest employers in the state of Georgia, incredibly success businessman, self built from nothing . Yeah . He now has been an incredibly generous philanthrop ist. He's decided, look, I don't want to take, he's worth several billion dollars. He's very successful . And he said, I don't want to take this money with me. So I'm going to give it away and make a difference to the world around me. So for example, on foster care , he is given millions to help foster kids in Georgia . So kids that are in foster care, he'll come in and say, you know what? I'm going to pay for you to college. I'm going to pay for your expenses. I'm going to help you get started because he's been there. Look, so many foster kids they've been subject to horrible conditions. They've often been subject to abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse . They're the kids that it seems sometimes society gives up on . Yeah . And he understands firsthand, look, you can be in that circumstance and you can make something of your life and make a real difference. And so he's invested in these kids that have every disadvantage. I'm going to help them achieve their dreams. He's also funded Christian ministries all over the world. For example , he's funded a Christian orphanage in China that my understanding is that it's the lone orphanage that's able to teach Christianity in China. So he's putting, look, you and I are both Christians It's one thing to have empty words. It's one thing to say you have faith. It's another thing to put your faith to action, to invest and make a difference . And Rick decided, okay, I'm going to run for governor because I think I can make a difference. And I looked at his record and I said , this guy has an incredible, I mean an inspirational life story and I think he can win . And so I endorsed him . I went down, we did a big rally in Georgia, and I'm going to give you some fun behind the scenes story . So as we're coming in, I fly down there on Monday, we're going to the rally . And Trump had endorsed his opponent, this guy named Bert Jones. I don't know Bert Jones. I'm sure he's a perfectly decent and fine man. He's the Lieutenant. He endorsed early, right? Like so people understand he endorsed early before Rick was in the race. And so I understand look, that's a key point. Yeah. He went for who he thought at the time. The other guy wasn't in yet. Yeah, Jones was lieutenant governor. He was running and so Trump endorsed early. Rick wasn't in the race . So so Rick was actually at the White House at a big fundraiser this weekend. And you know, Trump was saying, Hey, this guy's great. He's awesome . He's incredibly successful. I didn't know him, but he was like praising him vocally at this fundraiser this weekend . As I'm flying in , I'm headed to the event and we get the news that Donald Trump Jr. is going to endorse Rick Jackson. Now that's a big deal because the main argument against him, what everyone was pounding him is that Trump Trump the dad had endorsed his opponent, you know, tons of campaign ads saying Trump picked the other guy . And we get the news that Don Jr. was going to endorse Rick. And it was actually fun as I'm headed to the event, the campaign said, Hey , do you want to announce Don Jr.'s endorsement? And listen, Don Jr. is a buddy of mine. I know him very well. And I was like, yeah, sure. And I said, look , I just want to help your campaign. So if it's helpful for me to announce it, I'm happy to, if it's not, like, it's your call, but I'm more than happy to. And they ended up deciding that Don Jr. the actual endorsement statement was not going to use the word endorse, but was going to praise him as like he's a great patriot. I know him well and he's fantastic and he's Americ a first . And the timing ended up working out. I said, sure, I'm happy to announce it , but then they didn't end up approving the statement for another two hours. And it just look, it takes some time. you When're right before an election and you're trying to decide going through a political operation, it takes some time to approve it. So I said, I'm happy to announce it. It wasn't finalized. So I did not in fact announce it from the stage . But right after I left , Don Jr. tweeted out the support and tonight Rick ended up winning . The margin as of tonight, ninety nine percent is in is fifty two point six percent to forty seven point four percent . It's a great victory and I think so one of the cases I made to the voters we had a big rally in Georgia. And I said, listen, Rick's life story is incredible. He's campaigning on a promise number one , to immediately freeze property taxes in Georgia. That's big . Number two, on income taxes to cut the Georgia income tax in half and ultimately to work to abolish it altogether. And what Rick has said is he said if he doesn't succeed in freezing the property taxes and cutting the income tax in half , he will not run for reelection. He will serve one term. If he fails in that, he's not running for reelection. And I made a point to everyone. I said, listen, I've got a crazy secret here. Rick ? Is rich? Like everyone laughs. I'm like, yeah, look, this is an incredibly successful dude. He could play golf every day. He could sit on the beach and drink daiquiris and live a life of leisure. And I said, listen, to run for office , you got to be nuts. You gotta be certified. Yeah. You get attacked constantly. There's so much and Rick is doing this, the case I made. I said Rick, is doing this because he believes in Georgia. He believes in the country. He believes he could make a difference. And listen, Georgia used to be bright red . The unfortunate reality is it's purple now . And the Democrats, right now, the Democrats are leading in the polling for the governor's race. I think Rick will win. I think Rick will keep Georgia red. And I also made the case. I said, listen, by y'all coming out and voting for Rick , we're going to help John Osoff get a job in the private sector . John Osoff is the very liberal Democrat who represents Georgia. He may be the senator who is most out of step with the values of his state because he's a very liberal Democrat. Georgia is not a very liberal state . But he's got a ton of money and he's right now leading in the polls a lot. And I said, listen, if you want to win the Senate seat here in Georgia , the best way to do it is have a gubernatorial candidate who's running an incredible campaign who's mobilizing voters across the state who, by the way, I mean , Rick has put massive millions of millions of dollars in the campaign. So he's going to he's funding it himself . And if you end up with a guinatorial candidate at the top of the race who's turning out a ton of voters . That's how you have a chance to win the Senate race also . And I got to say I'm gratified the voters of Georgia agreed and we had a big, big win in Georgia tonight. As before, if you want to he ar the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing . Your faith runs deep, deeper than the words on the page and somewhere in the back of your heart you've always known there was a place where it would all make sense in a way nothing else ever could . That place is Israel where the Bible isn't history. It's the ground beneath your feet where the sea of Galilee still shimmers at dawn and the streets of Jerusalem still echo with a story that changed the world. Believers who go come home , more grounded, more certain , more alive in their faith than they have ever been. That's what Israel does. I am Israel . 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This is the most like jock bro I've ever seen you since I've known you and it's really been fun for me because usually you're geeking out over like supreme court stuff. I feel like our friendship has moved to another level because now we've got to talk sports and NIL so much and the college sports bill, it is now reality. Let's walk us through how this was done and what it means for sports fans and saving many sports that were getting canceled around the country that were non money making sports . So this week was a very, very big week for college sports the Senate Commerce Committee, which I chair passed my legislation to protect college sports and it passed with a big bipartisan vote. The vote was nineteen to nine. So we got a bunch of Republicans , a bunch of Democrats. We got more than two thirds of the committee voted for it. That's really important. It has momentum now going to the Senate floor. I think it's going to pass on the Senate with a big bipartisan vote, and it's going to go to the House and President Trump is eager to sign it. Now what's going on in college sports? Listen, college sports is in crisis right now . Every week you see another story about a program being canceled, women's sports being canceled, track and field being canceled, Olympic sports being canceled, non revenue sports, tennis being canceled. Yeah . And what is happening is you've got total chaos with the transfer portal. You've got athletes transfer ring two, three, four, five times . You have essentially no rules on eligibility