Dangerous Intellectuals: The Podcast

Jim Torma; a slam poet, award-winning folk dancer, and activist who led an artist revolt in Toronto — a fight over live-work lofts that shook the real estate industry and rattled City Hall. On this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, the founder of ShimJelly TV and Fear.Academy explains how activism, art, creativity, and love became weapons against Canadian government overreach, and why he founded a political party to defend the underdog and the bond of man and woman.

Torma is putting that rebellion on the air. If you search for Canadian freedom, artist activism, Toronto politics, sovereignty, or how creators push back on state control, download this conversation now. Truth. Love. Rebellion.

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Duration 1:08:39

Recorded on location at the Storm Summit as part of the Dangerous Intellectuals Season Two kickoff, this full conversation features veteran trial lawyer Peter Ticktin — founder of The Ticktin Law Group, and a classmate of President Trump — on why he came to Las Vegas to get the word out. Ticktin and host Blaine Holt take on the national anxiety rising toward the 2026 midterms and much more.

This is a field-report interview about lawfare, the ballot box, and a sovereigntist-versus-globalist fight Ticktin says is no longer only American. If you are searching for insights into what the next moves from the Oval Office will be, listen now.

Duration 54:59

The global macroeconomic bubble is colliding with physical reality — Treasury market stress, de-dollarization, BRICS settlement systems, and a widening gap between paper gold and the metal you can hold. In this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, Andy Schectman, Founder and CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, breaks down gold and silver supply and demand, COMEX activity, and central bank accumulation — and what a bursting credit-and-currency bubble means for American savings, wages, and purchasing power.

Schectman has spent decades translating complex markets into plain language for investors who want more than the official story. To make sense of it all, download this conversation now.

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Duration 1:09:33

Dangerous Intellectuals opens Season Two on location at the Storm Summit, September 10–13, 2026, at the Ahern Hotel in Las Vegas. This special video episode takes you inside a gathering of speakers and attendees from around the world confronting the real conflict of our time: sovereigntists versus globalists in a fifth-generation warfare environment of narrative control, election integrity fights, and institutional capture.

Host Blaine Holt, a keynote speaker at the summit, sits down with voices on the ground to move past slogans and talk about the big issues — and the bigger solutions required to reclaim freedom. If you search for Storm Summit Las Vegas, 5GW, election integrity, or how sovereigntists can win, start here. Download the Season Two Premiere now.

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Duration 2:28:16

Child trafficking, child exploitation, and missing children are not distant headlines. They are an industrial-scale assault hiding behind words like “runaway” and “awareness.” In this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, former CIA Special Operations officer, Marine, and Association for the Recovery of Children founder Bazzel Baz names the size of the human trafficking fight — and why slogans do not bring abducted kids home.

Baz built ARC to recover missing, exploited, and trafficked American children at home and overseas, at no cost to families. This conversation covers what official systems still fail to do, what real child recovery requires, and how citizens should think about protecting kids without panic. Download now if you want the truth about child trafficking from a man who has spent three decades going after it.

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Duration 1:15:10

Social media addiction was not an accident. Infinite scroll, autoplay, and the attention economy were built to capture your focus, spike anxiety, and keep you scrolling. In this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, former federal agent and author Cara Chace breaks down The Social Media Burnout Cure — and why screen time, echo chambers, and algorithm burnout are a civil-society problem, not just a personal one.

Chace shows how constant scrolling damages mental health and presence, then offers a real path to unplug, digital detox, and take your attention back without disappearing. Download now if you want out of social media burnout.

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Duration 1:08:20

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Ireland is rapidly becoming the clearest example of how globalist economic power is being used to crush national sovereignty and silence dissent. Through housing policy, migration, energy, regulation, and financial pressure, a coordinated set of forces is reshaping the country in real time — turning what was once a fiercely independent nation into a testing ground for control. On this episode, economist and Irish commentator Melissa Ciummei breaks down the economic battlegrounds that matter most and explains why Ireland may be ground zero for the wider war on freedom.

Ciummei delivers a clear-eyed assessment of how these pressures operate, what they reveal about the globalist playbook, and what the rest of the free world should learn from Ireland’s experience before it’s too late. If you want to understand how economics is being weaponized against sovereignty and dissent, download now.

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Duration 1:07:27 (Now on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@DangerousIntellectuals)

America is under psychological assault. A series of manufactured crises — from COVID and climate hysteria to cancel culture and endless proxy wars — have been deliberately spread like mind viruses, eroding critical thinking and producing a toxic culture of fear, compliance, and controlled outrage. In this powerful episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, John Leake, author of Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions and member of the McCullough Foundation, exposes how these campaigns were engineered and why they have proven so effective at reshaping the American mind.

Leake traces the historical roots of this manipulation and confronts the harder question: how do free people break free from this deadly cycle before the damage becomes irreversible? If you want a clear-eyed diagnosis of the war being waged on independent thought — and a path out of it — download this episode now

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Duration: 1:21:00

For more than four decades, a powerful medical-political complex shaped American public health from the AIDS crisis through COVID, silencing dissent and punishing those who challenged the official narrative. At the center of that system stood Anthony Fauci. Investigative journalist Celia Farber, author of Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS, spent her career documenting the corruption and paid a steep price for her courage.

In this powerful episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, Farber connects the AIDS years to COVID, examines the machinery of medical authoritarianism, and assesses whether Fauci’s recent congressional testimony offers any real chance of accountability. Download now for a clear-eyed conversation about power, suppression, and the long fight for scientific truth.

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Duration: 1:31:36

The most important battlefield is no longer just in Washington or on the world stage — it is inside the local school board meeting. Across the country, democratically elected school boards, the last remaining layer of genuine local control over education, are under systematic assault. In their place, a sophisticated network of public-private partnerships, corporate interests, and globalist institutions is being installed to reshape curriculum, governance, and the very purpose of schooling, transferring power from parents and voters to unaccountable outside forces.

In this powerful episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, John Klyczek, lays out exactly how this takeover is being engineered and why overthrowing local democratic control of education is a primary objective of the globalist project. He exposes the mechanisms, the key players, and the long-term consequences for parental rights, intellectual freedom, and national sovereignty.

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Duration: 1:16:53