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We've got a great show for you tonight.
So let's get into the headlines. Let's kick things off with a big problem facing New York City right now. Mister Mett started in only fans. I had no ideas balls had balls. But there's another issue that's even more of a crisis for New York the influx of migrants.
Okay, every week, thousands are arriving in the.
City, and now Mayor Eric Adams is taking a break from the club to figure out what to do with them.
Mayor Eric Adams is now looking for new shelter locations, including outdoor spaces, in tents and other temporary shelters. Now, the mayor says the city is just out of room. City officials say they are trying to re ticket and encourage migrants to go elsewhere. The mayor says he wants to convene a roundtable discussion with city officials, the public, and even the media. At this point, he says if anyone has any better ideas of what they can do, he says he wants to hear them.
If you have some good ideas for us on how to manage the situation, I am begging for your ideas. No, no, all ideas. That's not how this works, okay. Our idea was to elect you to handle this, all right. Imagine a doctor asking, hmm, what do you think your kidneys need?
Now?
I get crowdsaucing for fun stuff like who should be on a new stamp or you know what should the state flower be? But you're asking random people from Staten Island and the Bronx, okay, for ideas on how to handle immigrants. That's not gonna end well. Eric Adams has New York is all wrong. New Yorkers give you opinions, not ideas. It's always q asshole, okay, it's never signal before you turn next time, asshole?
All right?
And what buz me is? Eric Adams was very progressive on immigration when it wasn't a problem in New York, Okay, when it was only Texas dealing with it.
He was like, we need to.
Open our hearts to the migrants now that they're coming to New York.
He's like, build a wall. Okay.
What it all comes down to is a lot of people are progressive in theory and tell them and get tested. Half the people who want to boalace the police the moment they get up, they call it nine one one, like send me your most racist cop. All right, well, let's move on to a different challenge. Faith in America. Artificial intelligence, okays, the reason it's so much easier to do your kids homework these days. But now Joe Biden is trying to put us out to that.
President Biden has issued a first an executive order setting standards on artificial intelligence. The sweeping order includes a number of requirements homeland security. We'll look at the risk AI poses to critical infrastructure, including chemical and nuclear risks, and the threat to the privacy of Americans.
AI devices are being used to deceive people, deep fakes, use AI generated audio on video to smear reputations, speak for spreads fake news, and commit frauds with AI FRAUDSS can take three seconds, and you all know this three second recording of your voice. I've watched one of me on a couple of times.
I said when that, Hell did I say.
To be fair? To be fair, Joe Biden says that about real videos of himself. Okay, I feel sorry for Biden. He's too old to have to learn about AI. Some poor intern had to explain all this to him. Biden was like, so you're telling me one day this thing's going to take over the whole world. And the intern was like, no, sir, that's a printer. And I'll tell you, guys what I think. I'm against AI. There's just too
much risk with it, all right. The lines between truth and lives are already blurred, and now AI is going to obliterate in reality totally. Right now, anyone can make a video with world leaders saying anything.
You know how, I know because we did.
It, Joe.
If you happen to see any of this AI, this shit is all over the internet. I saw one the other day. I was like, oh, me, when did I say that? Through my mind? Hell, maybe AI should take over the planet. He can't do a worse job than me or Trump. Have you seen him recently? Dude is falling apart. He's catching up with me. But shit, at least I'm not a fascist boy.
And finally, let's move on from a president to someone who's never going to be a president, Ron Desantish. Since he started campaigning, people started noticing that he's got something weird going on with his boots, and now he's being called out for.
I'm sure your marketing team points out how they're trying to troll you in the marketplace. I've seen you walk with these boots. Go and play this clip. This on TikTok went viral. This thing's got one point two million likes and and some people are wondering, how do they I don't even know that what there's They have not shown this to you, Okay. What they're trying to say with this is that in your boots you have heels.
No, no, that's what those are, just standard off the rack.
Luke CAZy, How tall are you?
How tall are you? Governor?
How to eleven five to eleven? Okay?
Why don't you wear tennis shoes and dress shoes?
I do wear ten the shoes when I work out.
Yeah you do that? Okay, yo, you know your campaign is going terribly wrong when people only want to talk about your shoes.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We'll get to Israel and Palestine in the second. First, what the up with those boots? Bruh? Look coming at this as a short person, I can't relate to this type of insecurity. Okay, it's actually the opposite for me. I hate tall for no reason. Ask people like, why are you six Satan not in the NBA? Like what a waste? We need a short president anyway. Okay, people always talk about Napoleon complexes. Well, that guy ruled the entire continent. Abraham Lincoln was tall, and he got shot
in the head. So you tell me, you tell me who's more successful. Okay, But at least now I know why Desantus is in that huge fight with Disney. It's not because of wokeness. It's because you got.
To be this tall to rod the magic teacups. So the question is doesn't.
Matter if a presidential candidate is tall or not. To debate the issue, let's go outlive the Ronnie Chang and Troyana. My guy, Ronnie, what's your take.
On ron DeSantis using lifts?
I think it's pathetic Charlamagne. All right, Ron de Santa does needs to stop trying to pretend that he's one of us naturally tall guys.
Ronnie, what the hell are you doing?
Man? You wanna steal to something?
No, I've always been this tall. People just think I'm short because I'm sweet and soft spoken by naturally six ' eight. Hey, don't take my one four. You can measure me any time, but not now.
All right, man? Whatever, Troy, do you agree that Rond Santis is being pathetic?
No?
I actually think it's great. Ron DeSantis is finally accepting gender affirming care because Ron doesn't feel like his outside matches his inside. He sees himself as a big, strong boy, even though he's a little munchkin with itty bitty legs like a wiener Dune.
Yo, it's not great, Troy.
Okay, he doesn't have the mental strength to be president if he's so insecure that he fakes being tall in such an obvious way.
All right, but I understand.
Now everyone can be as naturally tall as me.
Ronnie, please knocke it off. I saw you yesterday. He grew like a foot saints.
Then, man, come on, I got a good night's sleep.
Okay, it's called growth spurt.
It's normal, you.
Know, Actually, Charlemagne, there's a long list of presidents who've done similar things to hide that they were shorties. Lincoln wore a big hat, Fdr put that blanket over his little legs. And Jimmy Carter is short, but that doesn't matter because he's hung as.
Charlamagne.
Charlamagne, I'm also hung as, but I I don't actually care because I'm already confident because I'm six ' nine.
See see you said you were six eight Ronnie?
No, No, I mean, yeah, yeah I did, but I grew a little during this report.
It's natural.
You know.
What the real tragedy is here is if DeSantis had been a bit nicer to drag queens, they could have helped him pull off those heels and he could have ended up serving some serious you know, not just that. They could have contoured his nose or found him a barber that isn't out for revenge.
Yeah, oh, they could have help him fate being tall better.
Ronnie, are you sitting on somebody's shoulders?
No?
No, my coat has COVID?
All right, someone get Ronnie off that guy. Please come on, Ronnie and Troy. Everybody, when we come back, We'll find out a way to raise your home value.
So I'll go anywhere. Welcome back to the Daily. So tonight is Halloween.
So we had Michael Costa investigate one of the scariest places in America to real estate market. Check it out.
After record highs during the COVID era, US housing sales have reached their lowest point since the two thousand and eight recession. Rising interest rates and low inventory are forcing realtors like Santa Fe Suzanne Taylor to represent properties that are less than desirable.
There's very little inventory here. You get a lot of homes that have been completely porn apart, you know, animal feces in the living room, just nasty type of you know, properties that have just been left to rot in.
Some of these Santa Fe homes also present another unique challenge.
So basically, people do believe in ghosts in Santa Fe. There's just a certain energy, a certain vibe that people get.
You're saying Santa Fe has more ghosts than other cities.
Yeah, it does. I can observe it, especially like on an open house.
Unsurprisingly, an open house maxing desperate vulnerable buyers and malevolent spirits can spell trouble.
When they walk into a living room or the bedroom. Someone walks into a bedroom and they start going likeageography, and they don't get like crazy like that, okay, but what they do or they'll just like a lot more subtle.
Okay, it's something more like.
Like they walk in and they walk right past the room.
They don't want to.
Even spend any time in it.
So these distressed feces and ghost infested properties could be a tough sell. But luckily Suzanne has a solution.
So I get it as physically cleaned up as I possibly can, and then when everybody is out of the house, then I call Jane.
That Jane is this Jane paranormal investigator and psychic medium Jane Phillips.
I used to be a mortgage lender and that launched but I do now, which is paranormal energy clearings for primarily the real estate industry terrifying.
Yep, it is.
I've never been scratched or bitten or any of those movie things.
But talking about mortgage lending or ghostbusting.
Ghostbusting, because I've bitten and.
Scratched my mortgage lender. Yes, with these interest rates.
Yep, and Jane's energy clearing services can address almost any inexplicable issue.
You might feel like the hair on the back of your neck go up when you walk in the house and you go, I don't know what's here. You might have something called a poltergeist. You might find an energetic connection from an alien group. So there are all these emotional energies that get dumped into place. Maybe there was a drug person in it, or there was a death in the property.
What are you picking up with me? How's my ghost energy?
While I had to do a little clearing.
You cleared me already, correct, Okay, don't you need my consent to do that?
And that's a question I get all the time. Yeah, and the answer is no, because I wanted us to have a good interaction.
That's not creepy at all.
No, it isn't.
And with my last bit of skepticism exercise, I was ready to join Jane and a house clearing session.
Well, generally, when I started the house, I start right at the entrance wayed, so I will just check is there anything in this closet? And there is something, But there's something in this closet. It's kind of like an elf energy sitting with his legs over the end and elf. Yeah, so we're removing the energy obviously. Yeah, we've cleared the closet, all right.
No, he's bitch.
I'm just going to go. Oh, I hate this hallway. Can I turn the light on?
Why doesn't the light turn on?
There's a lot of energy that's coming through this way, right?
Does that mean someone was murdered in one of these rooms?
Has nothing to do with murder. It just feels like I'm being prevented from going in. I have to go in anyway, even though I feel like I'm being prevented. So I'm walking in, all right, and I am okay.
So I don't necessarily feel the same.
So I'm just gonna go.
No, I don't love this.
It's it's it's thick in here. There's a little boy in here. He wants his mommy. He's saying, and Rosette, is that a ghost? That's a toilet? Don't be growling at me?
Mm hmm.
And this energy does not want to go to the light. It doesn't live there. It lives in the dark. Okay. If I had to guests, I would say murder. Nope, Okay, Oh, geez, I haven't done that one before. I used to be really embarrassed doing this in front of people.
Why would you be.
Embarrassed doing this?
Well, this house is done, yeah, and does it look like it was right?
But in the end, there's only one thing that matters, the results.
It always helps. I have seen Jane's work where a house was just sitting there and nobody will wanted to have anything to do with it when they walked in the door. I have her coming into a clearing and then I'd get a contract within a week.
She's fantastic.
Jane's methods for getting home sold may be unorthodox watch out for the Wall, James, But given the frightening insanity of the American housing market, involving the supernatural, isn't that unreasonable and may even give us a little bit of hope.
A lot of Americans are worried they can never afford their own house.
But what you're saying is that once we're dead, we'll all be homeowners. I'm gonna haunt a condo.
In Miami Beach. That's not really how it works.
Well, we don't really.
Know anything, thank you, Michael. When we come back the old recall we'll be joining me on the show. Don't You Go Anywhere? Welcome back to the Daily Show.
My guest tonight is the CEO and founder of Clutch Sports Group, which represents some of the biggest athletes and professional sports. He's here to talk about his New York Times bestseller Luck You Meet, a memoir of Changing the odds.
Please welcome CEO Rich Paul.
How you doing, my brother, I'm great, big CEO energy always. You're gonna have that.
Yeah, man, let me let me read some of these stats.
Man, Clutch negotiated nine hundred million dollars worth of contracts this summer. You've got four billion dollars in contracts total. You've got to perform in sportswear brand and partnership with New Balance and look at me as now New York Times bestseller. Man, amazing.
But when you're gonna learn how to spell clutch?
That is how you spell clutch K l U T H yes, knowledge, longevity, understanding, trust, communication and honesty.
Okay, that's that's good. How'd you come up with that?
You know, when I was thinking about the company and the name for the company. What you need to be in sports? You need to be you need to have to clutch ge and be clutch. But then I also flipped it and said you actually needed to be in life. You need to be clutch now with my partnership with New Balance, it's a little twist to it because the
new athlete is all of you guys are athletes. You're an athlete, your wife's an athlete, and so from that perspective, it's aiming across the humanity of the athlete and also just the regular person who happens to cover the field every day and what they do in their life every day.
What do you mean when you say we're athletes?
You cover the ground, you you work, You did the breakfast club this morning on the Daily Show, et cetera. You know your wife covers the ground when she's at home making sure things.
What needs to put you about my wife?
Rich I hear you, because I hear you talk about it all the time.
Positive. I don't know. I'm just telling you, but but the new but that person is Kindness, never hurts, lovers never wasted. Unity starts with you. Trust makes it possible. Community is a mentality and honestly keeps it real.
Damn Yeah, when you just start making acronyms.
Man, I'm a writer on the loan.
Okay.
Yeah, Now you say you hold your deal making instincts about winning dice games as a kid. You know, if you read look you me a great read. You should you'll know that. But have you changed since then? Are you still a gambler? You know with a better credit line?
It's you know, it's a different type of gamble. I mean, I think growing up, I did what I had to do right, and there was a sport it was. It was actually my sport. Gambling was today not so much as it pertains to in those environments and situations like that. But I think every day getting up taking risks today, they're calculated risks that I take, Uh, come from a place of strategy and a lot of preparation. But yeah, I still take the same risks.
What's the last big gamble you took?
You think the last big gamble I took? I would probably say I bet on myself to start Clutch. It was a big gamble.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
You know you've been You've been vocal about You've been vocal about no black agents helping you when you enter the industry. You said they went to families and talked bad about you.
Did you get fla I got, you know, I didn't really get flack. I got some people a little you know, said about the because the thing is it is what I meant by that is we have to have a better understanding of our positioning and our work practice right. And there's a way to do things right. And it's all in competition. It's all. I love to compete, but then when you do it from a place of malice,
then that changes the landscape of things. And I just don't think that has to be the case, but it's been the case prior to And I wasn't shining a light on whether black or white agents because I can honestly say no agents regardless of what color they were. But for me, when you read the book, I don't come from that. The gang was given. And even in competition,
I learned by losing when I was gambling. I became a great gambler because I lost my way to being a great gambler, not because of anything more than that, right, And so I understand how to take there's wins and losses at times, but it was a little bit different in terms of the integrity and based upon their intent. It was just something that I have a tremendous lack of respect for because where I come from, those consequences
was a little different for us. Oh and we don't get those second and third chances, especially being young and black in America.
So in the book, you know you had to deal with like real killers in the streets.
So oh absolutely so on an every day basis.
Who's more cut through these agents?
Yeah, you can't see him coming, you know, they'll smile your face and then they have a conversation with parents. But I've elevated above that. Today. I wake up every day looking for companies to buy, so I'm not even in competition with them per se. And I still recruit when, when and how I want to. And I built a business to where we recruit across the board. But I just think it needs to be I have a platform where I can actually shine a light on it. Yeah,
and again, like I'll give you a prime example. I had a call a gentleman called me. It was in a situation now prior to him calling me, his representation basically try I had to poach one of my players, smile in my face, see me at games et cetera. I can't. Okay, fine, nothing happened, But when the shoes on the other foot, I didn't do the same to them. I even said to him, I said, look, I'm not
trying to overstep my boundaries. I'm willing to help you and help your representation help you because that's who I am as a person. So just bring it a different integrity to the space. Because just because something used to be a certain way and it's a certain way today, that doesn't mean it has to remain that way.
Why give him that courtesy if he wasn't gonna give you that.
That's just how I was raised. My mom and dad never raised me to you know.
That'slutely.
I want to ask you about somebody man, Dwayne Martin. You know Dwayne Martin, great friend, confer I do know dwe Martin, Yeah, great friend, confidante Will and Jada. He had a lot of success as an agent. He's a big really hoop too. He can really hope above. Durham was not just a movie no, you know, and he's a big advocate of yours. He told me he gave you advice to leave CIA immediately because you are your father and your father had his own story. Any truth to that?
I mean, he wouldn't say it if it wasn't some truth to it. I mean was there was a ton of people that when I ran across the idea of what I was going to do, told me, yeah, you should definitely do that based upon them knowing me. So I can't sit here and say it's not any truth to that. I don't. He didn't give me the idea to leave, that's for sure, but he but through our conversations he's always been supportive of me, and I appreciate that.
Now you're wanted a few sports, just that people know by name, right, does that level of fame enable or hindle your ability to do your job?
Like?
Who gets a better table you at Drew rosen House when y'all out?
I don't think I eat at the restaurants. God, damn, rich you're too rich es No, it's he lives in Miami. There's a different taste. But then, but does it.
Help you hurt you that you're you know, a notable figure?
I think, oh, the notable figure perspective probably helped. What helped me even more is how I treat people while being a notable figure. I think that helps even more.
Okay, what does a sports agent actually do?
A number of things exists, right, but but what they are Ninety percent of the businesses you're in client services, that's ninety percent of the business. But it's layered, you know, for everything from negotiating contracts, developing players both on and off the floor, working with their families, marketing you know,
shoe deals and things like that. Really, I like to lead from a place of education, So how do I better educate the player and the family because I don't know how long this person is going to play the game, right, So you can't You can't count your eggs before they hatch, and you can only look at them as as a talent. So I kind of go about it a little bit
different way. But I also have the capabilities and the ability to do so because I don't really have nobody beating down my back in terms of I have to do something and you have to reach this quota, et cetera. So I say that off fairness because everyone might not have the same I would say flexibility as I have.
Do you help with marketing and promotional ideas for your athletes? Like do you look at something and say oh, this would be good for a deal, this would be good for braun.
Yeah, okay, all the time. I mean, you know, I'm a creative at heart, so I like to come up with things. And also, what is marketing like? So if you talk to me about market and most families don't know this, When you talk to me about marketing, you'll say, oh, that's I see a company get a deal done. That's marketing. It's not marketing, that's an endorsement. Marketing in most cases is storytelling. So what narrative you want out there? What
picture you're trying to paint. The best marketers in the world, they never show you a price or anything. I said this before. They tell you a story. Then you go out and buy that product. Right, different than when you're looking to buy a card commercial. They show you the card, they show you the price depending on which one you get, the L or the SC etc. It's a difference between the two. So the issue we have right now, NIL is everyone's looking at it as a cash grab and
we're gonna get to watch tomorrow. No, it's not because when you really think about it, n I L. It's it's necessary, but it's important for it to be managed and controlled and the most important, the number one steps should be education. There's a lot of kids getting NIL deals in our paying taxis, so look up. Yeah, I mean they don't understand that.
Aspect, have no student loans there, but they're gonna be in dis.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So when you when you look at it from that perspective, and they and they're coming into it, and the family is coming into it saying how much money are we gonna make a lot of those numbers are are very falsified numbers. And if you just it's just common sense. If you're going to spend six months at the university and you have a partnership from ni L, what's the actual ROI from that company in six months?
It's not much. So I tell my guys, if you're pro while you folk NIL, when you go into a place that can pay you more money than any brand ever, damn not even possible.
So you against NIO deal.
I'm not against it because I create I expedited NIL. The deal I did with Darius Basic for due balance and being out an internship was ni L before ni L I did that. But I'm just for the right positioning for NIL where it doesn't have kids jumping around from school to school and making decisions based upon the money. It's it's it's a bad habit to build when you start moving based upon finance, that's a very bad habit to build.
Now, I saw you recently on Club It's fun use on in line. Who's a bigger liar? You and Lebron.
Here's the thing, here's the thing. First of all, I'm not lying as a friend of mine, Charlotte Manne. You shouldn't say that on national TV because I'm not.
I have no proof to backup you.
That's why you should not say I'm lying. Here's the point. Here's the point I'm trying to make. Okay, he asked a specific question. I gave a specific answer, and the key word. If this is a word problem, Shannon would have felt he would have got it wrong. Shooting. I didn't say playing. I didn't say accolades. I said shooting. So the point I'm trying to make is, if you want to shoot jump shots with me, you have to be a pro.
So a game of horse.
No meaning we've put five spots from on the court. From each spot in order to beat me, you have to be eight out of ten from each spot to beat me to pretty much tie me in I from shooting it.
Really well, what if you done to prove this ch where's the tape? There's got to got some tape from something.
Do you want some names you can call? I don't Who called Kevin Hart? Okay, I can call No, No, call Drake.
I can't call Drake.
Oh you go, don't call Drake. You the last person to call drinks. Call Kevin Durant.
That's the first athlete you named, by the way.
But I'm not But wait a minute, I'm not done. Okay, call Lebron. You can call him.
He's gonna lie for you.
He won't lie for me. He'll lie with me if I was lying.
But I'm not lying.
If I was lying, but I'm not lying. We're not in that position. We don't have to lie.
Laugh at the memes of Lebron.
I laugh at Lebron. No, we had a group chat. That's hilarious. But no, seriously, But the point I'm trying to make is you it's very difficult for a civilian, non professional athlete to shoot.
You just called all of us athletes. Now, now we.
That's non professional athlete. I'm serious, and so Shannon's. He don't understand it, but we gotta have a little. He had to pay to see it. I don't do stuff for free like that.
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