Trump DECLARES Hormuz OPEN + Israel & Lebanon CEASEFIRE | PBD #779 artwork

Trump DECLARES Hormuz OPEN + Israel & Lebanon CEASEFIRE | PBD #779

PBD Podcast

April 17, 2026

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down Trump declaring the Strait of Hormuz open, the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, California’s Stop Nick Shirley Act, Secret Service response to Erika Kirk threat claims, and new Russia collusion evidence involving Barack Obama.
Speakers: Patrick Bet-David, Vincent Oshana, Rob Aramayo, Adam Sosnick
**Patrick Bet-David** (0:31)
Here I am, here I am.

**Vincent Oshana** (0:32)
Here I am, here I am.

**Rob Aramayo** (0:33)
It's my fault.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:33)
It's my fault. Blame me. I'm the reason why we're late today. Lock me up. Yeah.

**Adam Sosnick** (0:38)
You're way the key. Guys, welcome.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:40)
As usual, Adam is late, but great to be with you guys on the podcast.
Some weird things happened yesterday. Yesterday, I was at an offsite from 7.3 in the morning, not at the Ritz, but at the Four Seasons. From 7.3 in the morning till 7 at night, and then afterwards, we had the sickest one-year anniversary at the Boardroom Cigar Lounge. If you were there, it was amazing. Michele, the girls, the team, everybody that runs the shop, that's such a phenomenal job. We had a great time being with those guys. And then all day, I'm getting texted. Did you know Tucker Carlson called you out?
He said, you said bad things about Catholics. How dare you slander Catholics, is what he said. So maybe we'll show the clip, but I'm gonna react to that separately because I don't want to be a lot of noise when I react to it. I will properly react to Tucker's call out and address it. And then apparently there was a Turning Point USA event that took place. With the Turning Point USA event, if I'm not mistaken, Erika Kirk couldn't show up because there was a threat, but JD did show up, but not a lot of people showed up. Is that kind of, am I saying it correctly? Or something like that. And so Vinny's got some thoughts on it, so do I. We'll talk about that. And then California voters, Tom just revealed it right now. There's two things that California voters are voting for their governor, and Tom's going to reveal what those two things are. And he's got the stats behind it. You know how Tom rolls. He doesn't fool around. Tom's a serious guy, guy. And he's going to share with you guys what's going on over there. And then there's the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel.
They're even agreeing to meet together at, I don't know, Islamabad. I don't know where they're willing to meet to have the negotiation. And Trump said if the deal gets done, he's willing to go to get the ceasefire done, not the ceasefire, the negotiation done. By the way, this blockade is working so effectively. They're saying it's more powerful than what they're doing with their weapons because there was apparently a Chinese vessel, a vessel from China, Tom, if I'm not mistaken, that's coming through and you actually have to see how the military tells them to other ships. I don't know if this was a specific one. Hey, I'll try to paraphrase it in a little bit more diplomatic way, but this is what they said. Turn your ass around and go the other way. We're going to blow your ass up. That's kind of like how they said military language. They're younger. They talk like that, but it was a lot more diplomatic on the way they did it. Can you imagine? These are 1920-year-old kids, young men that are protecting the world, handling these ships. 1920 years old, Vinny, they're out there doing the work. Unbelievable. God bless them. Absolutely. Thank you for your service. We have the freedom to do what we're doing because these young men that are serving out there. So that's that part. And then what else we have with some stories? There's a video that's just such a disturbing video. I don't even want to play it, but we have to play it with this, you know, a gay couple who are apparently in Hollywood. They're the award-winning type of couple. And they're holding this boy that I think they just adopted. And the boy is asking for mom. And he starts crying. It's a very, very difficult video to watch, but we'll watch it. I've always had a problem with this. I've talked about it openly. It's cost me some relationships that I just, I just think when it comes on to adopting kids, you have to adopt into certain families. You gotta be a little bit more careful. It wasn't too long ago that we were not okay with what we're doing today, but it is what it is. I've literally had issues with this and I've openly talked about it. And some people don't like my position on it, but it is what it is. You can call me old school, whatever you wanna call me. I'm not changing that position for myself. Aside from that, a few other things that's going on that we gotta get into with Iran using Chinese satellite to target US bases before attack that took out Air Force planes. And Trump found out about this. Like, hey, what are we doing here? What is this all about?

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