SAVE Act FAILS + LA's CROOKED Election? | PBD #813 artwork

SAVE Act FAILS + LA's CROOKED Election? | PBD #813

PBD Podcast

June 5, 2026

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down the controversy surrounding mail-in voting in the Los Angeles mayoral race, New York’s proposed gender-neutral language changes, Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin strategy, Anthropic’s warning about the future of artificial...
Speakers: Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Vincent Oshana, Tom Ellsworth
**SPEAKER_2** (0:13)
My handshake is better than anything I ever saw.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:26)
Who was sick on Monday?

**Adam Sosnick** (0:27)
Not me.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:28)
You were not sick on Monday?

**Adam Sosnick** (0:29)
No, sick in the head, maybe.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:30)
Different story.

**Adam Sosnick** (0:31)
But today's all love. I'm wishing Tom health and wellness.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:33)
Guys, you missed it. Brooklyn Woods here in the house, my four-year-old this year, running around making sure we're scored away. We got a lot of stories to cover with you. And Vinny's got a surprise. Let me take these glasses off. I'm looking 62 years old.

**Adam Sosnick** (0:44)
I like those glasses on you, Pat.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:47)
I'm sure I'm gonna hear from Mayor Ron saying, wear better glasses. But lots happening. Lots happening. Folks, what do you think the chances are of let's just say you live in a city, where math maybe is not that popular and they need additional time to count. You know what I'm saying, Tom? Like some cities, they need a lot of time to count to 20,000, 20,400, whatever it is. And then imagine there's like these two guys that one of them could possibly pass up the other person, but he's got a massive lead and the other one is way behind them. But out of the 20,000 plus votes that they're counting, only seven or so went to this guy named Spencer Pratt in LA. Now, of course, it would never happen, but Tom has some ideas of what he thinks is going to be taking place.
There is now a Kalshi, there's a little bit of audio, so somebody's thing is on. There's a little bit of a Kalshi that is saying, what did Kalshi say, Rob? I think his chances, Spencer Pratt's chances of advancing, according to Kalshi, dropped to 8%.
I don't know if it was Kalshi. I think it was Kalshi. Dropped to 8% suddenly out of nowhere. Yes, 6.8%. Look at that. Look at that. Now they're saying Nithya Ramon is gonna pass up and go into it and the volume on this is $62 million.
So what the hell happened the last 24, 48 hours? We will talk about that. The SAVE Act, maybe one of the biggest things that happened. I don't know the exact numbers, but I thought it was 50 to 48, which is a good thing for the people that want to be able to not have people have an ID to vote. Cause I don't know if you know or not, there's many states that you can vote without an ID. And the SAVE Act, which by the way, Humberto sent a very good chart this morning that 83, 84% of Americans, so Humberto, can you verify that? 83, 84% of Americans want voter ID to vote. So it's only 16, 17% that don't want it. 84% want voter ID, but the SAVE Act will talk about that. Then there's this guy that for 18 years wore a tattoo of a concentration camp, what was it?

**Vincent Oshana** (2:46)
Concentration Camp Guards.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:48)
Concentration Camp Guards.

**Adam Sosnick** (2:49)
Yeah, Stodonkov Tattoo.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:50)
And then they removed it. And it's so bad that people are just saying, you know, Chuck Schumer, there's videos, apparently a story came out with New York Times with three different girls, one of them being a Republican, saying the fact that the guy's a crazy guy, drinking all this other stuff. And there's a video of him performing at a bar, Rob, I don't know if you have that video or not, of him running around performing at a bar. And Batia, Batia had such a great thing to say about it. She's phenomenal, honestly, she's so talented. And then Sonny Hostin said something, she says, I'm from Maine, you just sometimes have to close your eyes, close your nose and vote for it. And then Professor Galloway said some stuff. Yeah, I mean, he's a performer right there. And those are not Speedos, but they're probably small Haynes underwear that he's going around doing his thing. So at least he's a performer. But I don't know about being a senator.
Then Carmelo Anthony, not the basketball player, but the other Carmelo Anthony that is in court right now, that was protesting outside, this guy Jake Lang was outside. Just a lot of ruckus going on. And again, our goal is to lower the temperature, not increase it, but some people are doing that. Anthropic comes out and says, we have to be careful with AI. Maybe it's a good idea to put a pause on, what do you call it, on AI.
And they're saying it right after, a few days after they quietly wanted to file forgo an IPO time. Am I correct on that one? That quietly they want an IPO, but then he's coming up saying, we gotta put a pause on AI, which is kind of weird. We'll talk about that. And then a story that Vinny brought up, a very, very heartbreaking story of YouTuber, is it Jesse Ridgeway? Am I saying that correctly? And his wife made difficult decision to terminate pregnancy after finding out Down syndrome diagnosis, gut punch. And we'll talk about that to see what the position is. Of course, there's different positions people have, but we'll definitely, Vinny, you got a lot of thoughts on this, and I have a story to tell about this if we get into it.

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