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Peace Board UPROAR, CNN ATTACKS Trump, Davos FIRESTORM + Greenland Framework Deal Done? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 724
23 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point?
The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here.
You are a one-on-one? My son's right there.
I don't think I've ever said this before.
all right episode 724 i didn't even know what the number was you realize we are 276 away from a thousand episodes okay and today's a special podcast why because during christmas we did a special thing that if you go out there and you know make a certain purchase we were going to choose somebody to come and be on a podcast when we did the names that we were pulling the name that came up was efrin bariga
everybody that came to us from la we've never met we've never spoken except that one time when i facetimed you to surprise you thought it was ai talking to you but now he is in the flesh we took him out to dinner last night we had a great time and he's going to be on the podcast we have no connection you never worked for me you never worked for the insurance company zero nothing at all and he's got some beautiful shoes on uh if you want to show it that he's got right nice right
And yesterday we got a chance to know, for the people that don't know, he's from Michoacan. A lot of people that are Mexican, a lot of pride in Michoacan. I know the Aguilar brothers, Ricardo Alejandro, five kids, family guy, wants more kids, worked at SpaceX for eight years, and he's got a bunch of ideas on some stories he wants to talk about. So let's get right into it.
This Davos thing is still going on. Jamie Dimon gave his speech. Carney from Canada came up talking a little bit of smack. The president just tweeted something a few minutes ago, I believe, and said, look, I appreciate your attention to this matter, but we have decided to remove you from the Board of Peace. You're no longer participating in it. We wish you all the best. They're out.
Then when the president was in Davos on his flight back, he's like, look, When we were having issues on our border, did NATO come and support us? Maybe we need NATO to come and what is it? Article 5. Article 5. We need your help. Come on down. And NATO's like, wait a minute. Their position at first was leave Greenland alone. We can defend ourselves. And then all of a sudden it's like, no.
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Chapter 2: What happened at Davos involving Jamie Dimon and Mark Carney?
We can defend ourselves without U.S. And things changed very, very quickly. Trump says prosecutions are coming over rigged 2020 election and stunning off-script moment at Davos. Gavin Newsom was humiliated the night at first to give his talk, and then was interviewed, and then he was selling knee pads to people at $100 with Trump's signature on it. Yeah.
Then we got the Greenland deal we'll talk about. Then we have the, you know, Iran. Something's happened with Iran. Marina Karina Machado was seen in a picture with Reza Pahlavi. I got some thoughts on that. I got some messages yesterday from people in media asking and saying, hey, what do you think about this? What does this really mean? Is this a good move? Is this not a good move?
I'll give my thoughts. While the president was speaking, Newsom was C-SPAN focused on Newsom's face to see his reaction. Rob just pulled that. I will talk about that as well. And then aside from that, a judge denies, declines to sign off on charges against CNN anchor Don Lemon and A.G.
Pambandi, two community leaders arrested over disruption of ICE pastors' church services that took place, which a lot of people are celebrating the fact that that finally happened. And then we got a couple other things. Sinners makes history. You know the movie Sinners? that was one of the worst movies I've seen in my life, makes history, setting Oscar nomination record.
How many was it, 16 or 17? How many times is Sinners being nominated? Was it 16 or 17, Rob? Some ridiculous amount of times. And we're curious whether you liked it or not. We'll give our thoughts on it, because did we go watch it with Tico? Was it me, you, and Tico?
20 minutes in we looked at each other and we got mad at tico because we're like why he's like i didn't think he's like i thought it was gonna be like a good horror movie it was the worst top five worst movies i've ever seen in my life yeah it was it was pretty bad and then musk wants to take spacex public to get funding for space data centers for ai i know ephra's got thoughts on that rob did you see the clip of musk being interviewed by larry fink
And then Fink asks a question, can we extend aging? Did you hear Musk's response? Did you see this? No. Have you guys seen this or no? Oh, that's great that you haven't seen it. You have to see his answer. He says, yeah, you know, if we wanted to be able to extend life, it's actually not that hard to do so. Probably in our lifetime we'll be able to do it.
He says, you know, death is not a bad thing. Like... We need to die. And then Larry's like, well, I hope that happens in our lifetime. You have to see this. A very, very interesting.
We've had that discussion on the podcast.
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Chapter 3: How does the podcast address CNN's coverage of Trump?
Favorite part of the meal? The Bison Burger, man. That's PB&E's record. Well, me and my wife haven't had, there used to be one in Orange County in Anaheim Hills, or actually Yorba Linda, and it shut down after COVID. But we used to have the Bison Burger there. I haven't had that in over two years. So when you mentioned it, I was like, oh, yes, I'll take that.
Yeah, well, the Bison, I've had the Bison Burger as well. It's delicious. But these guys do a really good job at it. At Casa D'Angelo. Adam asked a question. I think it's a good, fair question to ask you. Go ahead. You were asking a question about Mexicans. What did you ask him off camera? Because I think that's actually a good question. And he had a good answer for you.
Oh, I said, who are the Mexicans competitors? Who do you got beef with? And my response was themselves. So it's just growing up and being in that environment, it's always we hated on each other for some odd reason. Really? Yeah. Meaning, like, you don't want to see each other thrive and have success? It's like, hey, I'm learning this new skill set.
I don't want to teach it to you because you're going to take my job. It's always in that. That competitiveness? Yes. Crabs in a bucket mentality? It was. Well, listen, just so you know, That's only in the Mexican community. That never happens in the Middle Eastern. That never happens to Syrians, Armenians. Never happens to anybody else.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I have beef with one Mexican. His name is Ricardo Aguilar. He knows what to find me. Yeah. Okay. All right. Let's get right into it.
We had a civil war.
Let's get right into it. Let's get right into it. First story. Rob, if we want to go straight into what was it we said we're going to make our first story? Did we say Davos, Rob? Let's go Davos. Let's go Davos. Let's go Davos. And I want to see which one to go here with. All right, let's go with Gavin Newsom since we're here with California.
Gavin Newsom humiliated after he denied entry to Trump's Davos clubhouse for mocking, boring speech as White House sends him X-rated message. If you have the clip on this, if you have the clip on this, Rob,
of uh him finding out i don't know if you have that one where he finds out he's not going to be on do you know which one i'm talking about yeah this is an actual this is the screen grab of the shot that apparently the white house took at gavin newsom that's uh referenced in that so let's see that so the failing governor of california rampant with fraud watches from the corner what is that
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's Greenland framework deal?
If you can go to, yeah, zoom in, but go to CBS's tweet, not mine. Go to the bottom to show the number.
35 million people saw this tweet look what it says murders plummeted more than 20 from the year before the single largest one-year drop on record and 2025 might be the lowest murder rate in the u.s since 1900 a new study found 125 years that's 125 years and so by the way here's what you got to realize my opinion the complete opposite of trump
If you want to know that not the synonym, the antonym of Trump is Newsom. Okay, very simple. You got Trump making America safer, borders getting safer. You know, GDP is growing at a faster rate than inflation. You got California, the guys losing businesses. They're leaving the best of the best are choosing to leave to go live at a different place.
They're putting the wealth tax, homelessness, waste of money. You know, what's going on with the fraud that took place there? Some are saying a quarter of a trillion dollars. Some are saying a half a trillion dollars of what's going on over there. It's the complete opposite. opposite person.
So the people who hate Trump are going to choose to vote for Newsom, but they're going to get the complete difference in economy and safety and everything that's taking place. Efren, you live in California. You were born and raised in Huntington Park. Not Huntington Beach, Huntington Park. I'm familiar with the difference. You've got a family of five. You're a business owner.
You've done your thing with your family and you used to work at SpaceX. How do you feel as a resident of California with what Newsom is saying and doing? As disrespectful as, if you're in politics, I understand that you go back and forth, right? And one of the things for Gavin Newsom, if you're here in our country, yeah, that's going to happen.
But when you leave our country and you go somewhere else and you still continue the same banter, it doesn't look good for the U.S. So you're saying going to a different country, in a different country, making fun of ourselves in front of them, that's not something you should be doing? No, you're in front of other world leaders.
Now they're seeing if you want to attack the U.S., you see the weakest point, which is California and Gavin Newsom. You know who agrees with you? Can you play that Stephen A. Smith clip when he was talking about this? Stephen A. just went off. I don't know if you guys saw this or not. He went off on Newsom. Watch this clip here, folks. Gavin Newsom.
Respectfully, what are you doing? You're the governor of the state of California in the United States of America.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's unpredictability in international relations?
It's gone down. It's settled down. And by the way, that is before September 26th. September 1st, 2026, which is eight months from now, seven months from now. Then it goes July 1st, all this other stuff. So momentum of that has been gone. Keep this in mind. We could be getting closer and closer and closer, and then all of a sudden Trump does an attack, and the world is like, well, he backed that.
Chapter 6: How does the discussion shift to Iran's nuclear ambitions?
He didn't do anything. The man is unpredictable and fluid, and they'll make the decisions. If there's one thing we've noticed with a pattern— They've known since August they were going to be attacking Venezuela and the way they were going to be doing it. Delta's been planning it since August. It's not a... new thing that they weren't doing.
So all the other stuff, and I even had somebody that was on the military side told me the other day that, you know, Maduro could have even agreed to a deal for this to happen as long as he doesn't look like he escaped. Hey, just come and get me safely. I'm going to do this, do this, do that.
Chapter 7: What are the potential outcomes of the lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase?
And you guys can come at this time and I'm going to be able to leave. There's many different speculations of what happened there. But going back to the conversation with Iran getting nuclear weapon, question for you. If you had the power... to decide this. Would you be okay with Iran getting nuclear weapon, the government, as long as its citizen can have firearms and they have Second Amendment?
Or are those two different separate issues? Iran gets nuclear weapon, but their people can have M16s, M4, guns. They have their own, be able to protect themselves. So if the government regime, the Hezbollahs want to come in and destroy their lives, they can't do because now they're armed. Would you entertain that idea? If the leadership is who?
Chapter 8: How does the conversation conclude regarding the future of American leadership?
Staying as Khomeini? No. Don't forget about the leadership. No, because I don't think the decision to launch and go there would have anything to do with Second Amendment because what are they going to do? If the government right now, our government, wanted to go all out attack, I worked at a nuclear missile base, you can't get to them. They're in a secure bunker.
Even the missile leaders are hidden away. Underneath, you're not going to get to them. So I don't think it's two separate things. No correlation. No correlation because you're not going to stop the people that are actually pushing the buttons to launch. Period. Tom. I wouldn't make that trade. Would I like to see the citizens of Iran armed? Would I think that the protests would change overnight?
Yeah, I do. But I wouldn't trade both because the regime is crazy. You know, the regime is just, their mission, their instability. I have a hard time. I like to know what you think. I didn't grow up there. I just look at it from the outside and I'm like, I just don't trust the crazy man with the weapon. I think you guys are right and I think I'm with you because one is out. So even if the U.S.
government wanted to attack whoever else, who cares if we have guns? They can go attack anybody if they wanted to. uh, um, But would I love Iranian people to have Second Amendment? For sure. It would be interesting. Keep this in mind as well. Just because an idea works in America doesn't mean that idea is going to work in a different place. You know what I'm saying?
Sometimes we always think like it's, because culturally when you're raised in a certain way and you're more emotional, you know, yesterday we're having dinner and I talked to you guys about a certain statistics study we've been doing with our team. The world population of Christians is 32%. the world population of Muslims is 24.9%. Follow these numbers here.
32% U.S., the world Christian population, 24.9% is Muslim, let's say 25%. Jews are 0.2% of the population. I want to say Hindus are 15% of the population, and you got Buddhists that are a percentage of the population. So 32, 25. Of the world's billionaire population, U.S. Christians are 33%. Muslims are 7%. The world's population of millionaires, Christians, 56%. Muslims, 6%.
Jews, 0.2% of the world population. 19% of billionaires, okay? And they're like, another 2% of millionaires is what they got, right? What does that tell you? What does a Christian nation do? It typically gets people to become rich and own and have equity. And what happens when you own things? What happens when you own a house? You care more. What happens when you own a business?
What happens when you have equity? What happens when you're vested? What is the word vested? Like, you know, when they say, I am fully vested with my shares. But what does fully vested mean? Forget about business. It means you're what?
You're fully committed. I'm all in.
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