PBD Podcast
California Wildfires, Gulf of America, Zuckerberg Kills Meta Fact-Checking | PBD Podcast | Ep. 530
Thu, 09 Jan 2025
Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick cover Donald Trump's plan to re-name the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, Mark Zuckerberg ends Meta's fact-checking, LA county is on fire as California wildfires rage, and Joe Biden has BIG news!👕2025 INAUGURAL MERCH: https://bit.ly/4fSrX6W🧢 NEW BOGO VT HATS: https://bit.ly/3Yyc3ZS👕 GET THE LATEST VT MERCH: https://bit.ly/3BZbD6l📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": https://bit.ly/41rtEV4📰 VTNEWS.AI: https://bit.ly/3OExClZ🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/4g57zR2🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Chapter 1: What is the impact of California wildfires?
As of this morning, it's still five dead, 2,000 buildings destroyed.
Five dead, 2,000 buildings destroyed. Malibu looks like a movie. It doesn't even make any sense when you watch these videos.
And zero containment in Malibu.
And zero containment. And water was apparently down for God knows how many hours based on what a lot of people are talking about. But we'll get to that. A few stories to go through. Obviously, we'll address the fire. We will talk about the Greenland conversation with...
what the president's doing, his son going over there to Greenland with Charlie Kirk, and then what Fetterman said about Greenland, comparing it to Louisiana, which was very interesting. And then President Trump came out and called the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. And the president of Mexico responded. You have to hear what she said.
And then we can obviously have a good conversation about it. Trump warns Hamas all hell will break out if it doesn't release hostages. before he takes office. So he's letting them know directly for them to respond or else. Tattoo artist sparks outrage for inking a nine-year-old girl who asked for a portrait of Trump but got an American flag instead. A nine-year-old girl got a tattoo.
I don't know how you feel about it. I want your thoughts. I want us to talk about this. We will hear it, obviously. Harris announced ruling removing billions in medical debt from credit reports. That's very important. Tom said something about this yesterday. That is a very, very good point. We'll address that here in a minute.
Meta ends fact-checking program as Zuck vows to restore free expression on Facebook, Instagram. Vinny's got some thoughts on that. Kevin O'Leary says he's nearing a deal to buy TikTok as banned looms. And here's what we know. That's from Forbes. We'll talk about that. Sonny Hostin has had a rough last couple months. He's had to read legal letters, apologies.
I mean, she just... And she looks so polished, lawyer, all this stuff. However... Sonny Austin's husband accused of committing federal insurance fraud in lawsuit. So we'll address that. Sean Diddy's a little bit pissed off, folks. It's very important you know about this.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on the Gulf of America proposal?
So that's this. That's this that's taking place. Now, meanwhile, the governor of the state is a guy named Governor Newsom. We speak about him a lot, right, because of the state of California. Trump just tweeted out, I think, nine hours ago, ten hours ago on Truth Social, asking him to step down. Okay?
Good.
Asking him to step down. I believe if you just go up on Twitter and you type, you should see it. There's a tweet all over the place saying that he may be needing to step down. Is that the one? Yeah, there you go. One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States and America is burning down to the ground. It's ashes. And Gavin Newsom should resign. This is all his fault. Resign.
By the way, then you have Zach Levi. the actor from Shazam, who was the actor playing Kirk Warner, he's been in a lot of different movies, phenomenal actor, he goes out there and he says, do we not do an investigation on this? Don't we find out and see what's going on with this here? I mean, some people have responsibilities on what's going on here. What happened here? How do you get here?
Then there's a clip of Trump from 2018, standing right next to Newsom, telling him of how this in Denmark, they're able to prevent this from happening. Rob, if you can play this clip, go for it.
It's cleaned out and protected. You've got to take care of the floors. You know, the floors of the forest, very important. You look at other countries where they do it differently, and it's a whole different story. I was with the president of Finland, and he said we have... and much different. We're a forest nation. He called it a forest nation.
And they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don't have any problem. And when it is, it's a very small problem. So I know everybody's looking at that to that end, and it's going to work out.
So that's how many years ago, Rob? That's, I think, from 2018, if I'm not mistaken. Okay, then bring the clip from yesterday, Newsom in tears. I retweeted it. If you have it, great. It's easier. Did he actually cry, Pat? Oh, you should see this here. This is the clip on Anderson Cooper, Rob. Yep. Okay, go ahead and play this clip.
We're in the public safety phase. I hate to even ask this question, but the president-elect chose to attack you, blame you for this. One can't even respond to it. I mean, it's... People are literally fleeing. People have lost their lives. Why, though? Kids lost their schools. Families completely torn asunder. Churches burned down. This guy wanted to politicize it.
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Chapter 3: What changes has Zuckerberg made to Meta's fact-checking?
She's been for years lecturing America about morality, inequality, systemic failures, and look at her track record. How many times has she had to go on in the past two months and look at the camera and do a legal apology for all the stuff that she said on the show? And then she also, on Trump's win, calling the loss because of uneducated white women that Trump won. We have to know that.
This is accused. All accused. Yeah, all accused. But he's in the RICO. This is a big RICO case that her husband's in. Tom, what are your thoughts on this?
Let me give you a different perspective. Well, I think date night with Sonny and her husband are being a little interested. How'd it go today? Oh, it was terrible. I had to read this legal statement into a camera, and I'd do what they told me. And her husband's like, so did I. I had the same day. Yeah.
Now, he's just accused, and this accused in a lawsuit after some time of investigation could ultimately become a federal indictment. That's the apparent path this is on. We'll wait and see. But it does not look well when your name ends up with 200 people in a RICO investigation. This is the biggest investigation since Giuliani. Yeah. Shook the tree and a bunch of mobsters fell out.
Right.
This is this is big stuff. And so and thank you for bringing that video. It sure is ironic that she's up there. So but. If she didn't really know what was going on, right, which is what she's probably going to say later, oh, I had no idea what my husband and his associates were doing. We'll wait and see what that is. But I think it's pretty freaking ironic.
I have a totally different perspective on this. I don't really know what happened with this. The facts will come out. What I have a problem with is the core of who this woman is. Unlike you, I don't watch The View, bro. All I do is see clips.
Twice a day.
Here's all I hear from her. America's violent. America's racist. America's bad. OK, I challenge you, Sonny. And this is Constantine Kissin actually was saying something about this. Find me a country that's not racist. Find me a country anywhere in the world that wasn't founded on violence. Find me a country that is perfect. Find me a country that doesn't have any issues.
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Chapter 4: How is the Biden administration responding to the wildfires?
Chapter 5: What are the consequences of insurance companies in California?
But the fact that Trump's pushing this, do you know when this debate also happened years ago with the Shah of Iran about the Persian Gulf, where Mike Wallace asks him the question? I don't know if you've seen this or not, Rob, if you want to pull it up. Mike Wallace, Pahlavi, let's see, Persian Gulf. It's a very similar, is this the one? I think this is the one.
See if that's the one right there where they're debating the Persian Gulf. Is that what it says up there? Discussing?
No, this is discussing Israel. Let me see if I can find it.
No, there is one where he's discussing the Persian Gulf while he's looking for that. Tom, what are your thoughts on this story?
I think she felt she had to run to the microphone and say something. But I think she's a little tone deaf because the guy that's on the other side has got a whole set of programs and levers that he's going to pull levers and initiate programs. And she needs to be playing nice with him. I think she knows exactly what Trump was saying.
He was drawing a parallel to what Biden had been giving up assets and doing things. And he's talking about strengthening America and makes a comment about renaming the Gulf of Mexico. That is not something I think she should run to the microphone and be talking about. I think it's.
I think it's really a misguided reaction on her part because you're about to sit at the negotiating table with this guy.
Oh, such a royally dumb mistake when you sit across the table from him. And that's the game you want to—Rob, is that the one? Did you listen to it? I'm going to listen to it right now. You know, when she does something like that, do you notice? That's exactly the one because I know it's body language. That's the one. Go back a little bit and play it. So guess what?
Yeah, they can call it the Gulf of America. However, you know, if you noticed her body language of her speaking...
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Chapter 6: What is the reaction to Trump’s renaming of the Gulf?
Yeah, the last funeral of Bush Sr. with an envelope. Trump showed up? Trump, of course he was there. Trump was there? Yes, Adam. You might want to fact check that. I don't know. Adam, I'm 100% sure. To see Obama.
And Trump, sitting together, honestly, just like this.
Hey, what's up?
Listen, you know how many people have been sitting in the Oval Office? Technically 47 people, but some people have done it twice. It's a very rare club. And they're at the funeral for a 100-year-old who died apparently six months ago, according to Vinny, but he died again now.
Jimmy Carter. And I think this is really good for the country.
You think so?
If Obama and Trump can sit next to each other... Voting for Kamala might have killed him, though, if you think about it.
You're saying this is a bad thing?
No. Here's my thing.
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