Patrick Bet-David sits down with Nick Shirley - who just returned from Cuba after nearly being taken hostage - for a raw, unfiltered conversation about what life under communism really looks like on the ground.

Nick reveals how Cuban intelligence followed him from the moment he landed, how a two-star general was waiting in the hotel lobby when he tried to flee at 3 a.m., and why the Cuban president himself knew he was there.

Then: the latest on the Quality Learning Center fraud explosion in Minnesota, Ilhan Omar blocking a subpoena and submitting zero evidence in the $250M COVID fraud probe, the "Stop Nick Shirley Act" being pushed by California lawmakers to make investigative journalism illegal, fraud-riddled daycares and hospices across LA, and what Nick found on the streets of Skid Row - including a 12-year-old living among fentanyl dealers and prostitutes.

Plus: Candace Owens coming after him, his falling out with Andrew Callahan, the five-year plan he wrote at age 20 in Chile with $0 in his pocket - and how almost every line of it has already come true.

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Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Brandon Aceto and Jeff Snider break down California gas prices hitting $6.06 a gallon, Trump's sudden pause of Project Freedom, Nvidia's pitch to put personal AI data centers in your home, Ken Griffin firing back at NYC Mayor Mamdani's wealth tax targeting his $238M penthouse, and the Anthropic CEO warning that AI disruption to white-collar jobs is coming faster than anyone is prepared for.

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Maryland Governor Wes Moore sits down with Patrick Bet-David for one of the most unfiltered political conversations of 2026. A Bronze Star Army combat vet. The first Black governor in Maryland's history.

A man who was polling at 1% - and won anyway.

But is he the Democrat who could shake up 2028? PBD makes the case.

In this episode, Governor Moore doesn't hold back. He calls Trump's Venezuela operation "a ridiculous military operation." He praises Trump's Baby Bonds while calling out what he says are illegal federal overreaches. He admits he was personally disinvited from the White House governors dinner — and to this day has no idea why. He reveals what Trump said to his face the first time they met. And when pushed on transgender kids, puberty blockers, and whether he'd support his own son through a transition — he gives an answer that will have people talking.

Plus - the story nobody knows: how a young Wes Moore turned down college basketball scholarships, played against Kobe Bryant in high school, and chose the 82nd Airborne instead.

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Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down Donald Trump’s Project Freedom rollout and Cuba takeover remarks, Tucker Carlson’s New York Times interview backlash, Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ohio gubernatorial race concerns, and major economic shifts including Daily Wire layoffs, Spirit Airlines’ shutdown, and tech founders fleeing Washington.

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Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down James Comey indictment and surrender, the Supreme Court redistricting ruling, Fauci associate charged in COVID fraud, California housing affordability crisis, JPMorgan executive sex trafficking allegations, rising U.S. gas prices, and Candace Owens backlash.

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Patrick Bet-David, Jeff Snider, and Brandon Aceto are joined by the Hoover Institute's John Cochrane as they cover the UAE exiting OPEC and global oil implications, Trump’s currency swap hint with the UAE and meeting with King Charles III, debate over the U.S. leaving NATO, Trump rejecting an Iran peace deal, Elon Musk on AI and robots fixing the U.S. deficit and his clash with Sam Altman in the OpenAI lawsuit, and California’s billionaire tax ballot measure.

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Susan Kokinda of Prometheian Action joins Patrick Bet-David to expose what nobody is saying - Trump's war with Iran is actually a 200-year war against the British Empire.

Susan was on the RFK campaign when he was assassinated in 1968 and at GW Hospital when Reagan was shot in 1981, and she's spent decades tracking the hidden imperial system behind it all.

In this interview she breaks down how the City of London has been charging Americans a hidden terror tax on every gallon of gas, why Trump's Iran blockade is really about destroying Britain's 300-year oil monopoly, how British Intelligence engineered the MAGA civil war through Tucker Carlson and Qatar's billions, why Mueller prosecuted LaRouche for the same reason the Deep State came after Trump, and why Putin is now blaming Britain - not China, not America - for every war being fought today.

This is the conversation that connects every dot from the JFK assassination to the Iran deal to the globalist takedown of America.

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Armenian UFC contender Arman Tsarukyan explains how he built a global brand through fighting and content, his mindset on discipline and money, and why he would take a title fight for free. He shares insights on UFC politics, fame, and his goal to become Armenia’s first champion.

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Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down the attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, where 31-year-old California teacher Cole Allen stormed the Washington Hilton armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives — sending a 1,052-word "Friendly Federal Assassin" manifesto to his family just 10 minutes before the attack ranking Trump officials as targets — while Obama claimed the motive was "unknown" despite the raving anti-Trump manifesto; and the eerie, now-unavoidable question surrounding Jimmy Kimmel, who just days before the shooting called Melania Trump an "expectant widow" on national television.

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Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, Ilan Srulovicz and Vincent Oshana break down Trump's explosive "Shoot & Kill" order directing the U.S. Navy to open fire — without hesitation — on Iranian boats laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which carries 20% of the world's oil supply. Then, the mystery deepening around at least 11 dead or missing American scientists tied to NASA, Los Alamos, nuclear weapons, and classified defense programs — Trump himself said "it's pretty serious stuff" after being briefed by the FBI. And the story nobody saw coming: a Special Forces soldier who helped plan and execute Operation Absolute Resolve — the raid that captured Maduro — was just indicted for allegedly betting $400K on Polymarket that it would succeed.

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