Massie's Primary Loss + AI Wars Heat Up | PBD #802
5/20/20262 hr 7 min
Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Richard Werner and Luke Gromen break down Thomas Massie’s Kentucky primary loss, the escalating OpenAI vs. Anthropic AI war, Meta’s 8,000 employee layoffs, Trump shutting down Xi-Russia claims, and the Fed’s inflation-driven interest rate warning.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:01
[singing] Did you ever think you would make it? I still don't sometimes, but I taste sweet victory. I know this life's meant for me Adam, what's your point?
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:11
[singing] The future looks bright.
Speaker 30:13
[singing] My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here.
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:17
[singing] You are a one-of-one.
Tom Ellsworth· Host0:19
My son's right there.
Speaker 50:20
[singing] I don't think I've ever said this before.
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:22
[singing] [laughing] Okay, sounds good. Gang, we have to change it up today because my son, oldest son graduated eighth grade, so I had to go in there and sneak out to come here be with you guys. We have a special guest today. You know, when, when they were on last time, it was a great conversation. Uh, we sh- we should, we should almost create a show, the Luke and Richard Show. We, we... I don't know if it's the last name that y- or it should be the first name, we'll figure it out. But we have brilliant minds in the house, including Tom. A lot happened last night. Uh, uh, you know, I don't know what direction to go with you. One is the big race with Thomas Massie with Gal Raine, which was massive. People were t- it's the biggest primary race we've had with the money being spent, $32 to $34 million. Trump, the biggest data that you see, which was shocking to everybody who thought Trump's endorsement no longer meant anything, the guy went 39 and 0 in the middle of a war. How do you do that? Everyone was upset, the guy that went 39 and 0. You can say any, yo, yo, economy, affordability, Iran, oil, gas prices, and he went 39 and 0 with his endorsement. It is such a c-