Valuetainment

Steve Hilton tells PBD the real answer to “Who runs California?” Unions. From a Democrat lawmaker admitting “the unions run this place” to teachers unions blocking housing and wrecking schools, Hilton lays out how government unions hijacked policy and crushed opportunity.

PBD and Steve Hilton explain how California’s government unions “bought a lot of politicians,” doubled the state budget in 10 years, and still left workers paying high taxes, gas, and school costs — and why Hilton thinks he can flip unions and blue‑collar voters anyway.

Steve Hilton tells PBD how Newsom’s climate agenda is actually boosting global emissions, importing dirty oil from the Amazon and Russia, shutting down California refineries, driving up gas and power bills — and even “funding Putin’s war machine” in the name of going green.

Steve Hilton tells PBD how UK bureaucrats saw it as their “patriotic duty” to block elected leaders’ promises on immigration and red‑tape cuts, and warns that the same deep‑state mentality is alive in California unless a governor slashes bloated agencies and budgets head‑on.

Steve Hilton tells PBD what he’d do on day one as California governor, from firing up oil and gas permits to fixing water policy, and explains why Newsom’s “4th biggest economy” brag hides sky‑high poverty, unemployment and a UK‑style bureaucratic death spiral.

PBD presses Steve Hilton on his plan to scrap state income taxes for Californians making under $100k and replace Newsom’s doubled budget by cutting “fraud, waste and abuse,” exposing a $425 billion scam, $928 million to nonprofits, and gas tax money not fixing roads.

PBD presses Steve Hilton on Chad Bianco’s campaign and asks whether Bianco should drop out to avoid a “no chance for change” scenario where two Democrats make California’s top‑two ballot, while Hilton explains why Trump’s endorsement and the polls make this primary so tight

PBD and Steve Hilton react to Jeff Bezos dismantling Zohran Mamdani’s “tax the rich” agenda, argue that California already proved soaking billionaires doesn’t fix schools or rents, and make the case for zero state income tax under $100k instead of squeezing nurses and workers.

Steve Hilton tells PBD why Xavier Becerra could still be indicted over a $10,000‑a‑month campaign cash scheme, breaks down Katie Porter and Antonio Villaraigosa’s attacks, and explains how a late‑breaking scandal could blow up California Democrats’ 2026 governor plans.

PBD and Steve Hilton react to Gavin Newsom’s “break the glass” comment, decode his hinted “secret plan” to keep Republicans out of California’s top‑two ballot, and lay out why a GOP governor in 2026 would be Newsom’s worst nightmare heading into his own presidential run.

Steve Hilton walks PBD through California’s high‑speed rail “bridge to nowhere,” how Newsom’s project ballooned from $30 billion to $231 billion, still has no track, and is now funded by hidden cap‑and‑trade taxes — all while Californians pay more for gas, energy and fantasy trains.

Dr Paul Saladino says modern anxiety is supercharged by doom scrolling, porn, gaming and constant comparison on social media, which keep people mentally stuck in an imagined future instead of reality. His first two prescriptions are simple but non negotiable: fix diet to stabilize biochemistry and get into real nature regularly so the brain can reset by seeing mountains, oceans and stars instead o...

Dr Paul Saladino shares how he plans to talk about faith with his future kids by taking them into nature rather than starting with labels or arguments. He explains that the simple experience of feeling beauty in an ocean, mountain range or forest, and the biological reality that living things resist entropy and decay while dead matter falls apart, are what convince him there is some kind of animat...

Patrick Bet-David and Dr Paul Saladino react to Charles Barkley’s claim that he dropped about 85 pounds on a GLP‑1 drug similar to Mounjaro, going from the mid 350s down to the 260s in his early 60s. They acknowledge that for someone who will not change diet or lifestyle, getting 80 pounds off with a GLP‑1 is almost certainly safer than staying morbidly obese, but warn that these drugs were never...

Dr Paul Saladino reacts to new comments from Jordan Peterson’s wife describing him as living in “another realm of pain” from benzodiazepine injury years after first being prescribed the drug for severe anxiety and autoimmune‑driven insomnia. He explains how benzos like Xanax, clonazepam and Valium act on GABA receptors in ways similar to alcohol, why withdrawal can be medically dangerous, and how...

Dr Paul Saladino breaks down the rise of looksmaxxing, from jaw surgery to face smashing and mega TRT cycles promoted by influencers like Clavicular, who reportedly has run 300 to 400 milligrams of testosterone a week since his mid teens.

The Senate just sent a big message to Trump on Iran. After seven failed tries, a War Powers resolution finally advanced 50–47, with GOP Senator Bill Cassidy flipping after his primary loss. The crew breaks down this “F‑you” to Trump, sore‑loser politics, and 2028 war‑vs‑peace stakes.

Thomas Massie went from safe favorite to shocking loss in a $32–34M primary as Donald Trump’s endorsement power goes 37–0. The panel breaks down money vs. media vs. MAGA base, age gaps in the vote, and what this upset says about 2026–2028 GOP politics.

Patrick Bet-David and Dr Paul Saladino walk through the timeline of modern “quick fix” breakthroughs, from the birth control pill and breast implants to Viagra, GLP‑1 weight loss drugs and the explosion of Botox. Saladino argues the real frontier now is peptides, including GLP‑1s and growth‑related compounds, which can deliver dramatic short term changes but come with poorly understood long term t...

Meta tells staff to “work from home” on layoff day as 8,000 jobs vanish and 7,000 more are reassigned to AI. This breakdown exposes the hidden bloat, sovereign-wealth money flooding Big AI, and why entrepreneurs—not corporate lifers—may be the real winners of the AI takeover

OpenAI just lost one of its biggest brains to Anthropic, and the shockwave could hit 26 million jobs. Andrej Karpathy’s stunning move, AI safety fears, white-collar job losses, and the future of small business all collide in this urgent breakdown of the AI war.

Paul Saladino reacts to the growing trend of cosmetic leg lengthening surgery, where doctors deliberately break both legs, insert internal rods and lengthen bone about 1 millimeter per day so patients can gain up to 6 inches in height over several painful months. He points out that in the United States the procedure can cost well over 100,000 dollars, often leaves people unable to run or play impa...

Paul Saladino breaks down the viral post where biohacker Brian Johnson claimed his girlfriend’s vagina tested in the “top 1 percent,” complete with a chart that looks like a stock graph. He explains that the metric being bragged about is her vaginal microbiome, the community of bacteria that live in the vagina, and that a “good” score usually means more protective lactobacillus species, less dysbi...

Dr Paul Saladino explains why so many men in their 30s and 40s are dealing with erectile dysfunction and low libido, pointing to a documented generational decline in testosterone that has seen average levels drop roughly 20 to 30 percent over the last few decades. He argues that men a century ago commonly had total testosterone in the high 600s or more, while many modern men sit near 300 or 400, a...

Dr Paul Saladino links low testosterone and erectile dysfunction to constant exposure to plastics in cans, bottles, paper cups and food containers that leach micro and nanoplastics into everything people drink. He cites Columbia University research showing an average liter of bottled water can contain around 240,000 plastic fragments and notes that some estimates for acidic soft drinks go as high...