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Is This Anything?

Hammer + Nigel Show Podcast

June 19, 2026

Should we have trillionaires, plus Travis Kelce's hilarious Buffett story. Is this anything?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Speakers: Hammer, Nigel Brian Alvey, Allison, Travis Kelce
**SPEAKER_2** (0:06)
It depends upon what the meaning of the word is. Yes.
Is this anything?

**Hammer** (0:13)
All right, let's rock and roll.

**Nigel Brian Alvey** (0:14)
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My name is Nigel Brian Alvey, filling in for Jason Hammer right over there. Now that Elon Musk is worth over a trillion dollars, there was a poll that asked, should there be a limit on how much personal wealth one person can accumulate? 30% said yes, there should be a limit. 51% said no, which is encouraging, I think. 20% aren't sure. What do you think, Mr. Brian Alvey, should there be a limit on how much Elon Musk earns now that he's a trillionaire?

**Hammer** (1:12)
No, pretty dumb. So all you're going to do is tell him to quit creating jobs and opportunities to build revenue. That's all it is. He's just going to all he's going to do is scale back his operations, which scales back to your opportunity to make your money. It's just it's just as the kids would say, it's player hate.

**Nigel Brian Alvey** (1:33)
I'm only allowed to make 800 billion dollars a year. Oh, OK. Well, I better I better pull back then. I better take away some of these jobs. I better I better do less.
No, he is providing like I have I bought a Tesla. I did. Finally, I got rid of the man ban. But it's just an ingenious thing that he did. And that's just I don't even know that he has anything to do with Tesla anymore. It's more SpaceX than anything.

**Hammer** (2:04)
I want to start calling him Skywalker.

**Nigel Brian Alvey** (2:06)
Is that right?

**Hammer** (2:07)
Yeah, I mean, because apparently he's planned on taking off, taking on Palpatine, the evil empire. You know, is he not Skywalker? I don't know.
It's about using your your your your powers for good, not evil. Yeah. What?

**Nigel Brian Alvey** (2:23)
How can you put a limit on what people can earn as long as you're providing a service like AOC had this thing a couple of weeks ago, AOC said, well, you didn't earn that. It's impossible for you to earn a trillion dollars. Well, no.

**Hammer** (2:38)
Well, did you expect her to be able to math the math?

**Nigel Brian Alvey** (2:44)
Math the math.

**Hammer** (2:46)
Spelling is enough of an issue with her. I mean, I don't think she could spell cat if you spotted her to the C and the T. So she's not going to do the math.
It's ridiculous. How do you put a cap on on on success? That means that the psychological aspect of putting a cap on somebody's ability to work hard, strive and succeed is amazing. It's coming, shockingly enough, I'm being 100% facetious there from the same people that want the, you know, the guaranteed income, the base salary for everybody that exists. It's like, you know, just tell me you don't want to work for your existence without telling me you don't want to work for your existence.

**Nigel Brian Alvey** (3:26)
You know what the other thing is? We have no clue what guys like Elon Musk, Bezos, any of these just just ultra rich guys do, how much they give away for charity, how much what they do. We have no idea.

**Hammer** (3:44)
I would love to see the math behind how much the outrageous amount we're taxing this country, the amount of taxes that he generates and produces, not just through him, not just through him, but through all his employees, the property taxes on all his facilities, the sales tax, every bit of the tax that that man by himself, that you want to put a cap on, generates anyway. It's probably 10% of our total economy.
Round number.

**Nigel Brian Alvey** (4:20)
Let's move on here. Travis Kelce, who was a Super Bowl winner for the Kansas City Chiefs, dates Taylor Swift, I believe. Is that her name, Allison?

**Allison** (4:31)
Is that her name? You're so annoying.

**Hammer** (4:34)
You got annoyed like you are a car carrying member of the Swifty organization right there. He was like, is that her name?

**Nigel Brian Alvey** (4:41)
Travis Kelce once met Jimmy Buffett at a music festival, but mistook him for another much richer. As long as we're talking about rich and wealth. Travis Kelce mistook Jimmy Buffett for a much richer Buffett.

**Travis Kelce** (4:58)
A guy comes up and says, dude, Buffett's here. He wants to meet you. I'm like, that's big money. I'm like, I am way too hammered to say hello to this guy.

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