PBD Podcast #839 highlights doxxing

Patrick Bet-David’s PBD Podcast put “Mamdani’s Doxxing Campaign” in the title of episode #839, which YouTube shows as published on Aug. 3, 2026. The episode description said Bet-David and the “Home Team” would discuss Scott Galloway’s accusation that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani turned a property database into a “wanted poster.” New York City’s Department of Finance says it published a supplemental market value roll on July 24, 2026, tied to the city’s new non-primary residence property surcharge, often called a pied-à-terre tax. The city says the roll “includes, but is not limited to,” properties that may be subject to the surcharge, and directs users to its property-assessments pages to inspect it. Because no transcript was available in the surfaced materials for episode #839, the clearest verifiable point is the framing: the podcast elevated the dispute over whether publishing an aggregated, searchable list of owners and addresses amounts to transparency, tax administration, or doxxing. (youtube.com) That framing tracks a broader backlash that has centered on the city’s rollout of the surcharge database and on Galloway’s public criticism. (nyc.gov) ### What, exactly, did the podcast say it was covering? The YouTube listing for episode #839 names three lead topics: “Mamdani’s Doxxing Campaign,” the Idaho In-N-Out shooting, and “Sophie Cunningham vs WNBA.” The description adds a more specific line on the Mamdani segment, saying the hosts react to Galloway “accusing Zohran Mamdani of turning a property database into a ‘wanted poster.’” PBD Podcast’s channel description says the show covers business, politics, sports and current events, and airs live multiple times a week from Valuetainment’s Fort Lauderdale studio. (youtube.com) That mixed-topic format helps explain why a city tax-database dispute appeared alongside unrelated crime, markets and sports items in the same episode listing. ### Where did the Mamdani database come from? Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s office said on July 23, 2026, that the city had begun notifying owners who “may be subject” to the new pied-à-terre tax. (youtube.com) The mayor’s office said the tax was proposed with Governor Kathy Hochul and applies to certain one- to three-family homes, condominiums and co-ops when owners have a separate primary residence. (youtube.com) The Department of Finance says the supplemental market value roll was published on July 24, 2026, and that receiving a notice does not necessarily mean a property owner owes the surcharge. NYC311 says the surcharge may apply in tax years 2026–27 and 2027–28 to one-, two- and three-family homes with a market value above $5 million and to condominium and cooperative units with a market value of $1 million or more, subject to exemptions for primary residences. (nyc.gov) ### Why are critics calling it doxxing? Scott Galloway said in comments reported by New York magazine’s Intelligencer and RealClearPolitics that he considered the publication of names and addresses on the list to be doxxing. The PBD episode description echoed that criticism by saying Galloway accused Mamdani of turning the database into a “wanted poster.” (nyc.gov) The city’s position, as reflected on its official pages, is that the roll is part of administering the surcharge and that the published list includes properties that may be subject to the tax, not a final liability determination. That leaves the dispute centered less on whether property records exist and more on whether aggregating them into an easy-to-search public tool changes the privacy and safety risk. (realclearpolitics.com) ### How big is the underlying tax issue? New York City Comptroller Mark Levine’s office said on April 30, 2026, that Governor Hochul had announced a revenue estimate of $500 million from 13,000 second homes valued at at least $5 million. Levine’s office also said details of the tax had been limited and released a fiscal note examining possible revenues and design uncertainties. (nyc.gov) Those figures matter because critics have argued the public-facing database swept more broadly than the narrow political pitch of a tax on ultra-wealthy second homes. The official city pages do not describe the roll as a list only of final taxpayers; they describe it as a supplemental roll that includes properties that may be subject to the surcharge. ### What can readers verify next? (comptroller.nyc.gov) The city’s next concrete reference point is its non-primary residence surcharge page, where the Department of Finance says owners can review eligibility guidance, exemptions and filing instructions. The property-assessments pages and surcharge information portal are the primary public sources for the roll discussed in the podcast segment. (nyc.gov)