Episode 199: 32 Difficult Personalities to Work With

Dan Peña joins the PBD Podcast to break down the affordability crisis crushing young Americans. With Trump's Gen Z support crashing 56 points, the panel debates whether it's laziness, policy failure, or bad messaging. Housing, gas, and jobs are all on the table. Who's really to blame?

26 Tammi 24min

Rick Alan Ross explains how modern cults are built online through social media, isolation, and coercive influence. He breaks down the traits of destructive cults, why leaders seek power and exploitation, and how followers are drawn into dangerous belief systems that can escalate to real harm.

26 Tammi 24min

Rick Alan Ross explains how Scientology operates through hierarchy, celebrity recruitment, SeaOrg control, disconnection practices, and controversial teachings. He shares cases of interventions, debates over doctrine, internal pressure, and clarifies the long speculated whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige.

26 Tammi 15min

Rick Alan Ross breaks down how Nexium disguised itself as a self help program while Keith Raniere manipulated followers through isolation, coercive training, and copied techniques from Scientology and MLMs. Ross details the branding of women, lawsuits, surveillance, wealthy backers, and Raniere’s downfall.

26 Tammi 22min

Rick Alan Ross explains how modern cults are built online through social media, isolation, and coercive influence. He breaks down the traits of destructive cults, why leaders seek power and exploitation, and how followers are drawn into dangerous belief systems that can escalate to real harm.

26 Tammi 11min

Videos circulating online capture the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and American citizen, by a Border Patrol agent during a protest in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. Verified footage shows Pretti holding up his phone as officers pursued a separate suspect, moments before the confrontation turned deadly.

26 Tammi 26min

Elon Musk stuns Davos by saying aging is a solvable problem. Joined by Larry Fink, the panel debates reverse aging, AI-driven breakthroughs, living past 100, faith, purpose, and whether humans should extend life or accept its natural limits.

25 Tammi 17min

Trump unveils a framework for a Greenland deal, sparking debate over NATO, Arctic defense, Russia, and missile deterrence. The panel breaks down why Greenland is strategically vital, how Davos shifted the narrative, and why this move signals long-term American power projection.

25 Tammi 11min