Elon Musk's Secret Weapon: How Twitter Philanthropy is Blowing Up I Bill Pulte DSH #512

It's cool to see you because you kind of went all in on Twitter.

That was like your main thing, which very rarely that happens with people on social media.

Why did you decide to go all in on Twitter?

You know, I had seen what Mr.

Beast had done on YouTube, and I said, wow, if we could do something like what Mr.

Beast has done on YouTube, but on Twitter, that would be amazing.

And next thing you know, the President of the United States retweeted me.

The thing blew up out of nowhere.

We started giving away millions of dollars of my own money on Twitter.

Wow.

And the thing just went completely viral.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the man, the myth, the legend, Bill Pulte here today, coming off a hot interview with Vivek.

Two million views.

Big one.

Yeah, I think we're at 2.4 million views in 48 hours.

Man, and that's just on Twitter.

That's just on Twitter.

Wow.

So Twitter's really pushing long form now.

They really are.

And I think it's something with the algorithms where, you know, if you post videos on Twitter and you keep, you know, getting at it, it just seems, you you know, in the olden days, it was mostly like retweets would be the big algorithm thing.

These days it seems to be videos.

And it's cool to see you because you kind of went all in on Twitter.

That was like your main thing, which very rarely that happens with people on social media.

Why did you decide to go all in on Twitter?

You know, I had seen what Mr.

Beast had done on YouTube, and I said, wow, if we could do something like what Mr.

Beast has done on YouTube, but on Twitter, which at the time was not called X, that would be amazing.

And next thing you know, the President of the United States retweeted me.

The thing blew up out of nowhere.

We started giving away millions of dollars of my own money on Twitter.

Wow.

And the thing just went completely viral.

I gave away $10,000 in my first tweet, and I got like 5,000 likes, which was a ton, still a ton of likes.

But I was like, wow, we're really onto something.

That's what birthed Twitter philanthropy.

Interesting.

Which president retweeted you?

Trump.

Oh, nice.

What was the tweet?

It was, if at real Donald Trump will retweet this, I will give a veteran a free car.

Interesting.

And so he replied back and he said, thank you, Bill.

I love our veterans or something like that.

I wonder if it was him or like his PR girl.

Yeah, it was a crazy story.

So I was sitting in northern Michigan, believe it or not.

I was having a, I think it was a chorus light or a Bud Light.

And I was sitting there and I said, you know, I'm just going to pump out this tweet.

I have no idea if he'll see it.

Long story short, I understood that his social media guy saw it and obviously the president saw it.

And I think he himself was the one who I said, you know, do it because it was totally unconventional.

I mean, why would a president ever retweet something like that and but leave it to Trump to do it?

And he did it and that, you know, that really helped propel me big time.

I mean, I went from 10,000 followers to 30,000 and now we're at 3.1 million.

Damn.

And you thought Elon retweet some of your stuff too, right?

I've had him like a a bunch of stuff.

I know that he's familiar with it.

And hopefully we'll do more.

I mean, we're a great thing for the platform.

There's so much negativity on X, so much negativity on Twitter that at least when we give away money or when we raise money for cancer patients or when we raise money for all kinds of these other things we're doing in a viral way, it's very good for the platform.

I'm glad you said that because in my opinion, Twitter is the most negative platform, actually.

Absolutely.

And it feeds, but I'll tell you this, Mr.

Beast, I think, really figured something out with YouTube where, you know, positivity, people like positivity.

And so we try to bring positivity to Twitter.

And yeah.

Yeah, because you've given away millions.

I mean, no one with your financial status usually just does that randomly.

You know?

Yeah, I've given away millions of dollars.

And people thought initially it was a scam.

And now it's like the hot thing to give away money on Twitter.

Now everybody's doing it these days.

Well, most of them are scams, aren't they?

Most of them are scams.

Yeah.

And you got to be very careful.

But yeah, it's kind of blown up.

So that Vivek interview, did that change any of your opinions on him?

I really respected Vivek.

I think, you know, meeting him in person, I was really struck by him.

You know, when you meet Trump or you meet some of these other guys, I always take one thing away from him.

And the the one thing that I learned from him was he was just so dynamic.

When you heard him, you could just hear in his voice that he truly is excited about what he's doing.

And people are so sick, I think, of just these boring, old, lazy senators who are 60, 70 years old.

And he just brings youth.

So I'm incredibly bullish on our country, thanks to guys like that.

Yeah, he got me pretty pumped.

I was not really into politics before him, to be honest, and he got me kind of interested in it.

Yeah, he was very cool.

You know, he's like, you know, he text messages, he DMs, he tweets.

These are things that a lot of people of his stature don't really do.

I mean, I'm sure Trump DMs and texts and stuff, but he's really taken advantage of the whole influencer circle and kind of, in my opinion, hijacked it and done it in a beautiful way that I don't think any candidate's ever done.

I mean, he's got all these influencers out there doing his bidding all the time.

Brilliant marketing strategy.

When he dropped out, I was actually surprised.

Yeah, me too.

But I think at the same time, he knew he was going to get clobbered, right?

So,

you know, better to be friendly with Trump if you're going to be on that side of the aisle.

Yeah.

But what he did for his budget was super impressive.

Very impressive.

Yeah.

Would you consider...

Very bright.

Yeah.

Would you consider interviewing people on the left, say if Biden wanted to come on your show?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I've reached out to the Biden people, let them know that I talked to him.

I talked to Trump.

I was actually going to talk to Trump before the last election.

And who knows, maybe I'll do him and we'll see.

I don't know if I doubt Biden will do it, but we'll see.

He went on Jay Shetties, I think.

Oh, he did.

Yeah, Biden did.

No, Kamala didn't.

But yeah, he's been having on a lot of left people.

They should do it.

I mean, I think Vivek's brilliant for going on my thing.

I mean, he accessed 2.4 million people.

Half of them are probably Democrats and he never would have reached otherwise.

And, you know, that's the future.

So I think that's...

Oh, is your audience half Democrat?

I think so.

Oh, interesting.

I thought you were all right.

No.

No.

That is interesting because most people either have one kind of leaning towards.

No, we're really focused on philanthropy.

So we're helping people literally who are dying of cancer every day.

We're helping people with insulin pumps who have diabetes, all these type of things.

It's non-denominational from a party standpoint.

And people love, you know, helping other people.

I I think it's just hard baked into our humanity to want to help other people.

Right.

In regards to the diabetes, I've seen this on social media.

I don't know if it's true, but did they jack up the price of

insulin?

Oh, yeah, all kinds of crap.

Yeah.

And Mark Heumann, I think, has done a pretty good job with this cost-plus thing and whatnot.

But look, we're not a solution, but if we can get people to do micro-donations instead of giving these heavily funded, heavily, you know,

overheaded organizations, we can help a lot more people.

Have you always been this giving even when you didn't have all this money and success?

Not really.

I mean, I always was told by my grandfather who happened to be a billionaire, and I was trained in business with him and learned a lot of what I knew in business from him.

That, you know, to give was to receive and that through giving, you actually do yourself a really great service.

And I always thought, oh, that sounds kind of tacky.

You know, okay.

You know, yeah, you hear a billionaire say that.

But then once I started giving away my own money, especially on Twitter, and it really went viral in a certain way

to the point where I was able to attract people who were literally in real time dying of cancer and having diabetes.

I mean, we saved an infant's life.

I don't know if you saw this, but we tweeted at an insurance company.

There was this infant that was dying from a rare disease, and she needed a medicine that the insurance company wasn't giving her.

And we flooded the calls.

We hired an attorney for her.

We got the medicine for her.

This is all because of Twitter philanthropy.

Incredible.

So, you know, that was an incredibly rewarding thing.

And, you know, she credits her mom credits.

She's not old enough yet, but her mom credits me and my teammates, as I call them on Twitter, saving this girl's life.

It wouldn't have happened without Twitter philanthropy.

Amazing.

So

I do it selfishly to help myself, but it just happens to help other people, too.

Wow, that's cool.

I was going through your your Twitter.

You've been tweeting out this guy, Ryan Marshall.

Yes.

What is going on there?

He's a problem.

You know, he's a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, our family's company, a family's legacy company, and he's gotten in there.

And unfortunately, we had to remove his old boss.

Who knows what we're going to have to do with this guy?

But basically, Ryan Marshall's right-hand guy was running all these.

This is a big CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

Yeah.

Was running all these Twitter bots to come after me because, yeah, he's afraid that basically they're afraid, in my opinion, that I'm going to come back into the company.

It's a $20 billion company.

I was on the board of it and very

influential in it essentially by Marshall.

And what's funny about it is that I was kind of willing to go on my way.

My grandfather had passed away.

It was our family legacy business.

I was minding my own business.

And all of a sudden, I see these Twitter bot accounts coming up out of nowhere with this old guy tweeting at me about stuff that only one would know if they were on the board of the company

or this like young Asian lady who was tweeting stuff that you would only know if you were a board member of this Fortune 500 company.

I said, this stuff doesn't make sense.

So I hired a bunch of forensic guys and we found out that it was the right-hand guy, Ryan Marshall.

He was was running a whole op

against me.

So it's, I'm telling you,

this whole corporate world is about to go undergo, in my opinion, a completely overhaul because of technology.

And you'd be amazed what some of these executives are getting away with.

And I'm very big, as you know, into retail stocks and stuff like that, the GameStop community and all these things.

I'm very involved in that.

And I think that we're going to cover more waste, you know, and abuse and corporate fraud.

And that's why I was so interested in Vivek is because, you know, in our own family company, you see what the managerial class can do.

Why should a CEO who's essentially not doing anything other than maybe supporting this guy who's doing these bots making $16 million a year?

It's absolutely insane.

$50,000 a day.

That's nuts.

And a lot of these top CEOs are making salaries like that, right?

Oh, yeah.

They're making money and they just sit there and they collect coupons.

They don't give a if the company goes up or down.

They just, all they want to do is put money in their pocket.

And then they use the shareholder funds to try to get, you know, to protect themselves.

It's, in my opinion, it's a scam.

Yeah.

I had James O'Keeffe on actually

who exposes these companies and that was super interesting.

I had no idea all that stuff was going on, man.

Yeah, yeah.

I met James.

He's pretty influential and pretty impressive, too, with what he can do.

Did you see his recent thing?

Oh, the gay guy.

Yeah, he pretended to be a gay guy at a gay date or something like that.

I mean, that guy's running our security.

That's a joke.

Yeah.

That's actually disturbing.

Exactly.

I mean, we've got to expose this stuff.

So, yeah.

Yeah, there's a movement, I think, for the truth.

You know what I mean?

I think Elon kind of started it and Trump kind of were the forefront of it.

And now more and more people are speaking up.

I agree.

Yeah.

I mean, like Elon, you know, obviously he's going after Disney too with some of the stuff.

I don't know if you've seen recently.

He's funding lawsuits and stuff.

And obviously we're having to deal with some of these executives at our family's old company.

So it seems to be kind of that time where technology is really going to start to take over.

And I think it's great for the progress of the world.

Yeah.

Disney just bought Fortnite.

I was actually really upset when I saw that.

Why?

I play Fortnite and I just feel like there's a lot of, I don't know how to explain it, but they have this programming almost.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Especially their newer movies, man.

I don't watch them anymore.

Yeah, it's crazy.

I mean, I was destroying these companies.

Yeah, I wouldn't let my kids watch them either.

Yeah, but Baba Iger, he doesn't really give a shit, right?

I mean, I don't know him, but he probably just wants to fly in his jet somewhere and pocket money and, you know, that he's the best thing in the world and pretend to run for president.

I mean, these guys, they really, when they're these executives, they delude themselves into this, you know, this vision of themselves that is fake.

Yeah.

There's so much corruption and it all comes down to money.

And it's just like, wow, how much importance are these guys really placing on just being a little richer?

It's like a drug.

It's like a drug, and fame's a drug, and money's a drug.

That's partially why I give away a lot of my money is because it can really make you sick in the head.

If you have too much.

Yeah.

And if you don't, yeah, it can actually make you sick in the head.

Now, people would say, well, that's a good problem to have.

It is a good problem to have.

You can have the right doctors.

You can have the right nurses.

You can have the right access to medical treatment.

So you like to be rich.

But at the same time, you start to condition yourself with these things that are really nice.

You know, you start to, you know, if you fly in a private jet, then when you have to go wait in the TSA line, you start finding yourself complaining that you're traveling somewhere commercial or this kind of.

Right.

And, you know, it can just slowly but surely make you kind of crazy.

Absolutely.

I think that's what happens with a lot of these people.

Yeah.

You see the trust fund babies, they end up like drug addicts and stuff, you know what I mean?

Because their life doesn't have that fulfillment aspect.

Absolutely.

How old are you?

I'm 26.

Nice.

Very good for you.

Yeah.

No, I noticed it because I've had a couple partners and I would never work with a trust fund baby again, personally.

Yeah, I work very hard to make sure I'm not.

Yeah, I was going to ask you actually because you said your grandfather was a billionaire.

He was, yeah.

I made a hundred million bucks, though, before I inherited a nickel from him.

And I only inherited 15 million from him, which I was very grateful to get 15 million.

Who wouldn't be?

But I made 100 million bucks by the time I was, you know, 30, frankly.

Okay.

Made 73 million bucks by the time I was 27.

Damn.

On your own family investment?

No, I mean, I had an initial investment, 500 grand in my first company, but I turned a half million bucks into over 100 million myself.

Wow.

When I say done myself, it was obviously my team and whatnot, but we've had a lot of success with my firm.

It's called Pulte Capital.

And so we invest in all types of companies, mainly in the housing sector, which is what my family knows.

That's impressive, man, because a lot of people, you know, they grow up in families with money.

They don't have that drive, but it sounds like that didn't happen with you.

Yeah.

A lot of people say, you know, what are you doing?

You You could be on a beach somewhere or whatever.

And other people call me a maniac, and that's fine.

But I like being a maniac because, you know what, we're not really a maniac.

We're just trying to make the world a better place and enjoy ourselves.

And I'd go crazy if I sat on a beach somewhere.

So it's better just to give away my money on Twitter.

That's what I find.

They've done studies on retirement, how your brain ages way faster when you retire and you actually die quicker.

Yes.

You know, Trump's dad used to tell him, I think, to retire is to expire.

And I believe that.

Yeah, his dad lived to what, 100?

93, I think.

Yeah, something crazy.

So, you know, I look at it and I say, okay, well, okay, I got this money.

I made a bunch of money as a young kid.

And, and obviously, my family had done well.

It's like, what am I going to do?

Just sit around and not do anything, give away this money on Twitter.

And, you know, we've raised millions of dollars.

We raised two and a half million dollars for these Uvaldes school shooting victims.

And obviously, saw that 48 hours just on Twitter.

So that stuff keeps you going.

Yeah.

48 hours, man.

There's not many people that have that poll.

No.

Yeah.

We put out a campaign, boom, funded right away.

That's so cool.

You know, we had a girl who got mauled by a dog in Detroit, seven-year-old.

She was riding her bike.

A dog came up, bit her, killed her.

We raised money.

We raised like $27,000 in like two hours for a funeral and stuff like that.

So it's just, we just do these campaigns, one-off, all, all day, every day.

And, yeah.

But technology should be used for, not all this other.

That's beautiful, man, because there's so many charities that I've donated to where it doesn't feel good at all.

I don't know where the money's going to.

They send me in the mail every week to donate more.

Yeah, it's a scam.

Yeah, it's like

probably goes to payroll for the people at the charity.

Absolutely.

And then these payrolled charity people, sometimes they can turn into these fat cat executives as well.

And then you get corruption in the whole nine yards.

So who knows what goes on?

I think we're about to uncover this massive golden age of fraud in these companies.

I think so.

I'd love to see it, man.

I'd rather donate to people like you, to like James, where I could see the actual result where the money's going to.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, well, don't even donate to me.

You know, we put up the campaigns.

Boom, the money goes right to the people.

Oh, wow.

It doesn't go to you?

No.

I don't.

I don't need the money.

Interesting.

It just goes right to the people.

It's all direct giving.

That's the way giving should be.

It's just like to mock, like when you were like 2,000 years ago or whatever, you know, somebody in your tribe needed something or whatever, boom, you give them resources.

And then we've, as society's gotten bigger, we've created all these different things to try to make it so complicated.

No, just give the people the damn money.

And that's what we're doing.

We're just giving people the damn money.

And we're doing it on Cash App.

We're doing it boom right on Twitter instantly.

Love that.

And how do you choose the people that receive money?

You probably get hundreds of requests.

We get thousands.

We get, you know, I get sometimes I get 20,000 DMs a day.

It's insane.

But what we do is we try to focus on people who really need it.

And it's very hard for people, believe it or not, to fake cancer.

It just is.

And if they are, they're going to probably get prosecuted.

So we really just try to focus on helping people in acute need or crisis.

And then, you know, the occasional kind of fluke things.

Like we had a lady.

You can't even make these stories up.

I'm going to go on for days.

But, you know, a couple of years ago, there was a lady who lost her, she was a handicapped lady, lost her van in a tornado.

in Kentucky or Kansas or something like this.

And boom, we put up a campaign and we replaced the handicapped lady's van and stuff like that.

So it's very hard for a lady, right, who's handicapped to pretend that her tornado blew away her van.

I mean, maybe, but then you got the picture of the van over and then you got this tornado.

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Yeah, that'd be hard to fake.

It's very hard to fake this kind of or the girl who gets mauled by a dog in Detroit, you know, and the Detroit news reports on it.

So we rely on the media a lot.

I mean, I think that's the best function of the local media is this stuff that we're using them for.

Love that.

And the reporters love what we're doing because this is actually, it's not just them reporting about it, but then we're able to take action and help some of these people.

Yeah.

Are you big into crypto?

I saw you talk about Bitcoin a lot.

I love Bitcoin.

Yeah.

I think Bitcoin is math and I think math is God.

Bitcoin is math.

What do you mean?

You know, I think that it caps it at 21 million.

It's crypt, you know, it's basically impenetrable as far as I can tell.

Nobody's been able to figure out how to hack it.

You know, if you own a Bitcoin, you own a Bitcoin.

If you own a piece of a Bitcoin, you own a piece of a Bitcoin.

It's all derived from math.

And I believe math is God.

So I think Bitcoin is incredibly powerful.

I don't think anybody can shut it down.

And I think the U.S.

government, you know, has made a big mistake to the extent that they wanted to shut it down.

Their time has probably already passed, in my opinion.

Well, now with the ETF, right?

They're going to be buying it.

Yeah.

Who knows what that's about.

But I think the U.S.

Treasury, I told this to Vivek on the side, too.

I said, hey, if you get into Treasury, if you do anything like that, you buy, I hope you buy 25% of the float of Bitcoin on the on the treasury balance sheet.

Wow.

I mean, that would be great.

That'd be smart.

I mean, sure.

So he said to me that he wants to peg it.

I can't remember.

He said this on-air or off-air with me, but he said that, you know, his whole thing about pegging it to commodities and stuff, he said he wants to peg it to other commodities, not just to Bitcoin.

So we'll see.

What do you think about the banking system and how they take your money and they loan it out 10x?

I think that, you know, obviously that there needs to be caps and stuff like that, but I think a lot of what crypto could do, especially Bitcoin, is if it's all there mathematically laid out i think the problem is when you don't have transparency that's my big issue my big issue with naked short selling short selling all these other things is there's no transparency in my opinion and the transparency only benefits the rich and the famous but if you're not transparent you're some young guy and you want to you know go long something or whatever it's like you know they want to know everything that you've ever traded you don't even know anything about these big hedge funds until they blow up right yeah they don't show you their track record no so i think there needs to be a major overhaul and i think guys like vivek if we get some people in there who are young and hungry, they can, I think, expose this.

Yeah.

And now I'm seeing these big hedge funds are buying up all the real estate and manipulating the housing prices.

I think that's true.

I think the other issue is that you have colluding with them is the governments.

The governments are shutting down housing supply.

And they're doing so to basically, you know, appease a lot of the environmentalists and stuff like that.

And it's driving up prices of homes.

You know, they're afraid of building.

Yeah, they're afraid of moving a turtle or a bird or whatever.

You know, it's like, what do you care?

Do you care more about where people are living or do you care more about a turtle or a bird?

And I love turtles and and birds.

I mean,

who doesn't love turtles and birds?

I do love them.

But yeah, that global warming thing was a big debate the last election, right, when Trump was honoring, right?

Yeah, you got to make sure that you can house people.

If you can't house people, if you can't provide shelter, can't provide food, can't provide water, can't provide medicine, what the hell are we doing?

Average family can't afford a house anymore.

I agree.

I mean, it's not even close.

It's going to get worse.

Yeah, now we're becoming a renter's nation.

You know, one of the things people don't talk about with this immigration stuff is, and we see it because we own a lot of the housing stock too ourselves as a family and myself personally, is that this immigration thing I think is going to continue to cause even more problems for real estate prices.

Okay.

Yeah.

People don't even talk about it because you let all these people and you're literally going, you know, like I own a lot of mobile home parks that we're renovating and we're making them in nice communities and stuff like that.

And a lot of the Mexicans, a lot of the immigrants are coming into these communities and they're driving up, they're buying a lot of this housing stock and they're not even residents, but they're able to buy it with cash.

So what happens then is that then you force, you know, the people who are in this country up and they have to kind of force themselves either to buy at other mobile home parks or otherwise.

And it creates more demand than there is supply.

And so I think that's the untold story of what's about to happen in real estate, especially if immigration is allowed to continue.

Yeah, no, that makes complete sense because there's hundreds of thousands coming in, right?

Millions, yeah.

Millions?

I think so.

Damn.

I think there's five plus million people coming in.

So this upcoming election is super important, right?

Because that decides if it's open or not.

Yeah.

And who knows?

Can they even shut it down?

I mean, do people even have the intestinal fortitude to shut it down?

I don't know.

Right.

Well, it's pretty under control when Trump was in, right?

Or Or was it not?

I think on a relative basis, sure.

But I think that, you know, what happens if you don't have the intestinal fortitude to shut it down?

I mean,

hopefully there can be borders and boundaries and stuff like that.

But this thing with housing, I think, is going to be a problem for a long time.

Yeah, because we won't be able to build quick enough.

No, especially because these governments are afraid of the turtles and everything.

We've got these guys coming in and they're running into the country and they're going to buy the housing stock.

They're buying the housing stock.

Mark my words, they're buying the housing stock with cash because they're laborers too.

So they can work very hard.

People don't talk about this, but the laborers, they work very hard.

They have the money to be able to afford this kind of stuff.

Yeah, just to get a permit to modify your house in Cali takes like a year, I heard.

Yeah, but these guys don't even do it because they're illegal and they go and they buy the stuff with cash and then they do it themselves.

They renovate the homes themselves.

And then the people in America don't have a lot of the homes.

And I love immigrants, love Mexicans, but you know, that's the truth.

Yeah, that is a major issue, man.

What do you choose what to invest in with the fund?

How much AUM do you have under?

So I have about $130 million.

It's all my own money for the most part.

You know, I do have a couple very, very small partners, and, you know, that number can fluctuate by the day depending on the price of the securities, but it's all my own money.

And,

you know, we're invested in anything from, I said, mobile home parks to single-family rentals, like you said, because these are good investments, but we're trying to do it in a way that, you know, and we're looking at some rent-to-own things where we can give people who can't afford maybe a mortgage necessarily.

So we're doing that.

But I made most of my money to answer your question in air conditioning, believe it or not.

Yeah, air conditioning is where where I've made most of my money.

How?

I made over 80 million bucks just in air conditioning alone.

Just like installing them in people's homes?

Buying companies, growing them and selling them in air conditioning.

Wow.

Okay.

So the margins must be good on those units.

They are good, but what we really specialize in is growing the businesses.

So we go into like a market.

We just bought a business here in Vegas and we just bought the business, bought into the business, and now it's up, you know, it's up like 600% since we got involved.

Yeah, in a year?

In a couple of years.

So, you know, yeah, it's our playbook, right?

So we get in there, we go, we grow the hell out of it.

And then, you know, assuming that it's a good, safe, sound business, we take it to market and sell it.

And we've had a lot of success doing that.

Nice.

And that's an air conditioning business as well.

That's an air conditioning, yeah.

And I'd like to, you know, I'd like to be worth, you know, a lot more money.

And if I can be worth a lot more money, I can help a lot more people on Twitter and X and stuff like that.

I'm very bullish on Twitter.

I put 3 million bucks into Twitter.

I don't think I've released that before, but I put 3 million into it just to support Elon and kind of what he was doing.

And I think Elon, I think he's going to make it.

I think it already is the most powerful platform in the world, but I think that it's going to be, I think it's going to be huge in 20 or 30 years, assuming Elon doesn't get killed.

Yeah, that's a possibility.

It's where the truth is, right?

You can speak your mind there.

It won't get banned.

I get a post every day.

It gets shadow banned or deleted off Instagram, off YouTube, off whatever.

Yeah, they're committing slow motion to YouTube and Instagram on these things.

I just got a strike for talking about

autism.

That's crazy.

One of the brilliant doctor came on and talked about it.

I got a strike.

Yeah, it's crazy.

I mean, it's disturbing.

I can't even speak about it.

Yep.

It's corruption.

I mean, Twitter's the only one, I feel like.

I can't even maybe kick and rumble, but that's about it.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just, I just DM'd with the CEO Rumble the other day.

I'm looking forward to it.

I'm going to interview him on Twitter.

So that'll be interesting.

But yeah, we need more CEOs like that who are committed to free speech and the truth.

And why are these people so afraid of the truth?

I don't understand it.

They're part of it, right?

Dana White talks about it.

Yeah, he exposed the Peloton company.

Did you see that?

No, I didn't see that off the channel.

Yeah, so Peloton, I guess someone reached out to Dana because they were a sponsor of the UFC and they said, I saw your post about you're voting for Trump.

Oh, yeah, don't see it.

Go F yourself.

Yeah, yeah.

So just ask that whole deal.

I mean,

that's scary.

If you have a podcast and your sponsors are telling you what to say, that's weird.

Yeah, well, I got this Fortune 500 CEO trying to get a gag order on me,

left waiting ways to Sundays.

Yeah, I mean, they're trying to shut me down however they can and going and threatening news organizations.

So you probably haven't seen me tweet that, but that'll be a big story that'll come out at some point.

These executives, they want to shut you down.

Why does he hate you so much, though?

I think he's threatened, and I don't know why he's threatened.

I should be his best partner.

I should be his best ally.

I think it was the dumbest thing he ever did was kick me off, kick me out of there.

Oh, this is the Ryan Marshall guy.

The Ryan Marshall guy.

And, you know, these bots that his right-hand guy was running.

You can't make this stuff up.

I mean, this stuff's right out of a sitcom.

Yeah.

Wow.

Do people even believe the bot posts or it's obvious that it's a bot?

I think that it was very credible.

I mean, you know, he even took my grandfather's, we just found out he was behind the account that was, you know, fooling people that he was my grandfather.

My grandfather's been dead.

Yeah.

So

he had like six or seven different identities that we've been able to identify so far.

One of them was he stole my grandfather's obituary photo, went, used my grandfather's name and everything, and then had my grandfather's birthday the whole nine yards and was going in and telling people that his grandson, meaning me, was full of and all kinds of stuff.

So this is what, in my opinion, probably goes on in a lot of these high-powered executives to cover themselves.

They try to engage in this dark, covert behavior.

And then when they get busted, they try to cry wolf.

Yeah, because they're in there with the media outlets.

So they could just say, cancel that guy,

pay you 20,000 or whatever.

Absolutely.

The whole thing all over again.

Yeah.

That's why I don't even believe so many articles I read these days.

I mean, it's like, what's the real agenda here?

Absolutely.

Even all these studies they're doing, who's funding it?

Exactly.

I mean, you really got to do your due diligence these days.

Most people just read the headlines.

Mark my words.

The next thing that's also going to be coming up is legal stuff around some of these corporations.

And I think Elon, I mean, I'm not in the forefront in my opinion of it with this situation dealing with this executive, But look at what Elon's doing with Disney.

I think this is going to be the next battlefield.

It used to be the media.

Now it's going to be lawyers.

Yeah, I'm ruining for Elon on that one, man.

Yeah, me too.

I mean, because Disney has the potential to influence all your kids' perceptions and what they put in their movies or whatever, it really messes with some people.

Yeah.

I mean, it's scary, dude.

It's programming.

Yeah.

I realize I was programmed, honestly, growing up in Jersey.

heavy Democrat, thought Republicans were evil, going to public school, getting influence there.

It's pretty awful.

Yeah.

Where'd you grow up at?

Grew up in Florida.

Family's from Michigan.

And yeah,

it's a scary thing.

These algorithms are scary.

People don't even know that they're being programmed and they are.

Everyone, dude.

If you watch the news, you definitely are.

Yeah.

I mean, it's terrible.

It took me years to get out of it.

And I don't think I'll ever send my kids to public school.

And they're not going to go down without a fight.

That's why I'm big into the retail investor thing because they tried to shut down the stock market with the GameStop thing and all that other stuff.

I got wrecked on that because Robin Hood stopped trading.

Yeah, it's yeah, I would have

all be in jail.

I mean, that was messed up.

Did he even get arrested or anything?

No, of course not.

I just got my Celsius money today, at least.

Oh, good for you.

Yeah,

I had a lot on there, but that guy, I can't believe he got away with that.

Crazy.

Celsius, FTX.

I mean, you're a good host.

You're very laid-back, very good, very conversational.

Thanks.

Appreciate it.

Coming from you, that means a lot.

I think you'll go places.

I hope so, man.

It's great.

I got to get on Twitter, though.

I'm going to start posting my shows on Twitter.

Let me know.

Why don't you post this on here and I'll retweet it?

Cool.

I will.

Doesn't it take a while to upload there?

Yeah, but Elon's getting better every day.

I mean, he's, there's nobody who can move faster than him, and he's moving that thing.

Yeah.

Do you do a lot of lives there too?

I do.

I used to do a lot more.

They used to have a thing called Periscope.

I used to have, sometimes I used to have 20,000 concurrent viewers, which is a lot, right?

But they shut down Periscope, the dumbest thing they ever did.

This is before Elon.

And now I'm lucky if I get 5,000 or 6,000 concurrent viewers.

That's still a good amount for live.

It's still a lot of people.

Still big numbers, but it's not 20,000.

Yeah.

What are you working on this year or next year?

Anything exciting?

I think we're going to try try to blow up X Philanthropy.

We got some good things in the pipeline.

You know, we did a partnership with Mr.

Beast.

We did a couple of partnerships with Mr.

Beast, you know, giving away money.

We also did something with Jeffree Star.

We did something with Dream, you know, Minecraft, the big YouTuber.

So I think we'll do some more partnerships, but I think most importantly, we're just trying to get into, you know, it's like Elon with the rockets.

You know, Elon's just like, boom, boom, boom, get these things in the air.

With regard to philanthropy campaigns, people dying of cancer, it's just like every day we want to be pumping out campaigns, helping people.

Because then you wake up, it's like like things in isolation.

If you help two, three, four, five, 10, 20 people dying of cancer a day, it's not a lot.

But when you help them every day over a year, over two years, five years, we've helped over 4,000 people in just, you know, the last couple of years.

And this is all viral.

This is just people donating a dollar, $2, et cetera.

So imagine if we could, you know, step that up even more.

Incredible.

So you're saving thousands of lives, man.

I don't know a lot, but.

A lot indirectly too, because if you save that person and they have a family, you know.

Oh, yeah.

We get, I mean, people say every day, you know, we save their life and all this other kind of stuff, but the human spirit is very resilient, and people will figure it out.

We're just trying to ease people's pain at their worst moment of crisis.

Absolutely.

Bill, it's been fun, man.

Where can people find you and reach out to you?

At Pulte on Twitter.

We'll link it in the video.

Thanks so much for coming on, man.

Thanks, buddy.

Yeah.

Thanks for watching, guys.

See ya.

See you next time.