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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. Welcome to a special

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Speaker 1: conversation with the principles of seventeen eighty nine Capital, the

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Speaker 1: politically connected venture firm with the focus on companies that

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Speaker 1: are carving out space and a parallel economy that caters

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Speaker 1: directly to conservative values. It's more notable investments include Xai,

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Speaker 1: prescription drug provider blink Rx, and defense tech companies andrel

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Speaker 1: and Firehawk. Omi Mallick co founded the firm in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, and Donald Trump Junior joined as a partner

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Speaker 1: last year. They both joined me now along with Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Surveillance co anchor A Marie Horter, and here in Studio

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Speaker 1: two in New York.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Remaine, and thank you gentlemen for

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Speaker 2: joining us here in New York at Bloomberg TV. Tomorrow morning,

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Speaker 2: you gonna be downtown at the Nicey nine point thirty

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Speaker 2: ringing the opening vell omit. I just learned it's your

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Speaker 2: fourth time doing so. This fact is for an online

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Speaker 2: gun reel retailer, Grab a Gun. But there's been a

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Speaker 2: tremendous amount of demand for this. What do you think

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Speaker 2: is driving that?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: I think it's an extension of our thesis that Don

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Speaker 3: and I start and what now five years ago, which

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Speaker 3: was using various mechanisms in finance to try to push

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Speaker 3: back against overreach we saw in the private sector, mostly

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Speaker 3: at the behest of ESG and DEI mandates. What's happened

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Speaker 3: is through those mandates, private companies that control a lot

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Speaker 3: of the economy have starved certain industries of financing. You

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Speaker 3: guys obviously know that that's happened in fossil fuels with

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Speaker 3: some of the mandates we've seen with public companies, but

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Speaker 3: it has also negatively impacted guns and ammunition.

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Speaker 4: So we used a SPAC to take.

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Speaker 3: A company called grabagun public in furtherance of the Second Amendment,

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Speaker 3: and the people have overwhelmingly supported it. This is now,

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Speaker 3: having just closed a few minutes ago, one of the

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Speaker 3: most successful SPAC transactions in history. We received zero redemptions

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Speaker 3: from trust, meaning the company will receive from our team tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: We ring the bell over one hundred and seventy million

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Speaker 3: in proceeds.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: When this was first introduced, I read it was actually

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Speaker 2: only just at one hundred million. Obviously, this is politically controversial.

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Speaker 2: You're talking about an online gun company being really direct

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Speaker 2: access to the consumer.

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Speaker 4: Are there safety concerns in this? Don no.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's the big misnomer. They say, you're not

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Speaker 5: getting a gun to your doorstep. You're still going through

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Speaker 5: Federal firearms licensed dealers, but we're all physically pick it

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Speaker 5: out to go, physically pick it up. That's where you

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Speaker 5: run your background checks again. And they like to pretend

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Speaker 5: there's not such a thing, but it actually is very

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Speaker 5: real and it's very regulated. But this is the way

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Speaker 5: that regular people are buying throughout the crime of the

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Speaker 5: last few years that you've seen women are now entering

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Speaker 5: the gun market. The experience of going to your local

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Speaker 5: gun shop. It may be fine for me when I

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Speaker 5: walk in, it's hey, don how's it going. If you're

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Speaker 5: a first time gun buyer, if you're a female, if

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Speaker 5: So Grab a Gun allows you to do that the

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Speaker 5: way you buy everything else, like you would on Amazon,

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Speaker 5: if you're buying home decor or other goods. And so

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Speaker 5: we're bringing the experience that they're shopping with everything else

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Speaker 5: to the regular consumer and it's been incredible. And so

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Speaker 5: it's a company with real revenue. They're doing one hundred

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Speaker 5: million dollars a year real profit, and you know, pretty

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Speaker 5: cool to take a gun company public on the New

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Speaker 5: York Stock Exchange. That's not something I imagine money people

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Speaker 5: that big pushback from a big portion of the country

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Speaker 5: that says, we weren't able to do these things. We

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Speaker 5: were debanked, we were de insured, we were de everything

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Speaker 5: for so long. So our whole thesis was to give

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Speaker 5: a big portion of the country what they've been looking

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Speaker 5: for and to free up and really democratize the capital markets.

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Speaker 1: And you've given them a slice of that. Of course,

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Speaker 1: there's still going to get a lot of big institutions

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Speaker 1: that will say, Okay, we don't want to actually invest

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Speaker 1: know that the whole thesis behind seventeen eighty nine and

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Speaker 1: some of the other projects you two have been working

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Speaker 1: those areas outside of just firearms. What else are you

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Speaker 5: Don Well, we've obviously mentioned some of the companies that

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Speaker 5: called Public Square, to get an online retailer for people

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Speaker 5: to buy American made goods and to support the counties

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Speaker 5: the way, there's no more money in your bank account.

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Speaker 5: We have a cashiers check in the mail. We just

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Speaker 5: don't want to do business with you. Not because we

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Speaker 5: the mandates of whatever it was of politically correct, you know,

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Speaker 4: That's a solid business to be in.

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Speaker 1: Another company and industry that kind of falls into that

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Speaker 1: category is what we were seeing with Polymarket and some

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Speaker 1: of these prediction market firms, and of course they just

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Speaker 1: want to reprieve today a couple of investigations that have

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Speaker 1: now formally been dropped. You're an investor in that, obviously

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Speaker 1: you have a connection to the Trump administration. I am

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Speaker 1: curious as to whether you think we're going to see

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Speaker 1: more progress in the diction space, not only with poly market,

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Speaker 1: both cauching and some of these other things to operate

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Speaker 1: more freely in the way that those founders have articulated.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, let me answer that in kind of a

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Speaker 3: way to also summarize our rural investment thesis. So he

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Speaker 3: That's what we've been using our spacks for seventy United

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Speaker 3: Mandate is even broader than that. It will include some

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Speaker 3: of that. We have, for example, investment in Substack, which

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Speaker 3: is a free speech platform protecting the First Amendment. But

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Speaker 3: we also go into several other areas. One is areas

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Speaker 3: then finally where you're starting to pick on one with polymarket,

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Speaker 3: Polymarket falls into that and that people lost faith with

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Speaker 3: polsters they were constantly just paid off in hired mercenaries.

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Speaker 3: And what poly market has shown is that you can

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Speaker 3: behind what they really think. It's the same thing you

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Speaker 3: You can do that now with polling around politics and

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Speaker 4: So the last thing.

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Speaker 3: I'd say about poly Market is it also announced that

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Speaker 4: Well, they've been accurate, they've been right.

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Speaker 5: I've been in politics, at least the game peripherally now

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Speaker 5: don't think that's going to actually happen. They were able

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Speaker 5: and they've gone against it. They've proven to be right,

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Speaker 5: and that's a solid investment.

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Speaker 1: Well on that point, don And we certainly saw that

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Speaker 1: I am curious as to what you think of not

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Speaker 5: It is if you're a making, if you're a made

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Speaker 5: we're clear, I get it. It's a little bit different,

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Speaker 5: that hasn't changed anything. We've seen this promises before. It

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Speaker 5: hasn't worked. It didn't work when they promised communism in Europe,

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Speaker 5: anywhere else that has been tried in the world. It's

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Speaker 5: created more poverty than any institution imaginable. And it's sad

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Speaker 5: to see literally the home of the free market, the

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Speaker 5: a little troubling watching Andrew Cuomo now try to come

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Speaker 5: so we're clear, like you know, we probably didn't get

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Speaker 5: But you're this is going to split up at the New.

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Speaker 3: Why isn't there a fund out there like ours who's

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