Episode 472: Don't Leave It To Chance

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?

28 Dec 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.

28 Dec 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.

28 Dec 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.

28 Dec 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.

28 Dec 11min

The DOJ just released the Epstein files, but almost everything is redacted except for hot tub photos of Bill Clinton. While the media focuses on Clinton, countless other alleged pedophiles remain protected and unpunished. This file dump exposes the shocking hypocrisy, secrecy, and lack of accountability at the highest levels.

28 Dec 25min

In this explosive episode, Imam Mohammad Tawhidi breaks down why Iran is not a true republic, democracy, or traditional theocracy. He explains how the country is ruled under the Guardianship of the Jurist, giving the Supreme Leader absolute power under the claim of divine authority.Drawing from his firsthand experience studying inside Iran’s clerical institutions, Imam Tawhidi exposes how elections are a façade, how clerics operate as a ruling cult rather than a government, and how Islam is weaponized into Islamism to control populations both in Iran and abroad. He dives into seminaries, IRGC influence, ideological indoctrination, and the export of revolutionary Islam to the West.

27 Dec 20min

Pastor Martin Cedra reacts to the Bondi Beach terror attack, explaining what life is really like in Australia right now. He breaks down the attack, government responses, hate speech laws, rising fear among Christians and Jews, and why many Australians believe the country is at a tipping point.

26 Dec 11min