Episode 352: How To Recreate Your Identity

Nick Shirley reveals the personal cost of exposing fraud, including threats, doxxing, and harassment targeting his family. He explains how accusations of racism are used to silence accountability, why his generation rejects that fear, and what keeps him pushing forward.

9 Tammi 9min

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?

9 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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 Tammi 11min

Nick Shirley explains how his viral investigation sparked door-to-door government inspections, political backlash, and demands for accountability. As arrests lag and officials deflect, the question becomes whether anyone will face consequences or if nothing happens at all.

9 Tammi 18min

Patrick Bet-David reacts to Michael Burry warning that markets are missing a major shift. From Venezuela to China, oil collateral, and Taiwan, Pat explains why this is not about one raid, but a Cold War level move that Wall Street is badly underpricing.

8 Tammi 15min