John Odermatt, Lou Perez, and Brian McWilliams kick off the episode with a viral story about a YouTube couple who publicly live-streamed learning their unborn child tested positive for Down syndrome — and subsequently aborted the pregnancy. The hosts debate the ethics of turning deeply personal medical decisions into content, the accuracy of prenatal testing, and what they see as hypocrisy in progressive attitudes toward human life.

The conversation transitions into the LA mayoral race, with mail-in ballot counting dragging on and potentially shifting results. The episode closes with a look at Bernie Sanders' proposed American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a 50% tax on AI company stock and redistribute proceeds to citizens, and the hosts compare it to what Marc Andreessen allegedly described as the Biden administration's attempt to limit and control the AI industry.

Chapters

0:00 – Intro & Cold Open

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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian has no pity for the fired Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes fame, one of the most overrated shows ever in its modern incarnation. Also: Spencer Pratt advances into a finale vs. Karen Bass in Los Angeles, and the IPCC is exposed as charlatans.

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Rambo Van Halen is a pseudonym. He's a Hollywood producer — the real kind, the below-the-line kind, the guy making sure the steel gets to the factory — who worked in the industry for decades, walked away in 2019, and wrote a book about it.The book is called Hollywood Samizdat: Notes from Below the Line. It's published by Passage Press. Lou read it. He dog-eared it. They talked for an hour.

Topics include: what a producer actually does (mostly administration, definitely not what people think); what happens to actors when nobody says no to them for 20 years; the feminization of Hollywood and why straight guys stopped being able to do their jobs; military veterans vs. film school graduates on set (no contest); Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, and the Amazon river; the unwritten casting rule about who can and can't be the butt of the joke; MeToo — the careers it should have ended, the ones it shouldn't have, and the Joe Gatt story that will make your jaw drop; and why Rambo Van Halen is not his real name and probably never will be. Get the book → https://passage.press/products/hollywood-samizdat?srsltid=AfmBOorHefB5b7WS0T_hiObEIcPzGEWLHKXoL-4gInHttqmha-D5SLuiRambo on Substack → https://substack.com/@rambovanhalenTIMESTAMPS:0:00 — Intro — who is Rambo Van Halen?1:40 — What a producer actually does (it's mostly administration)3:50 — Building a bubble around the creatives — and what it does to them6:20 — Film is a business, not a public service — and film school gets this wrong7:25 — Jim Carrey, Michael Jackson, and what happens when nobody says no10:55 — Plastic surgery, masculinity, and actors who should leave their faces alone12:46 — Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and the men who used to be on screen16:25 — How Hollywood got feminized — and why straight guys couldn't do their jobs anymore19:06 — Military guys on film sets — why they beat film school graduates every time21:32 — Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog, and Klaus Kinski's on-set meltdown25:04 — Why he made his lateral move out of LA in 201927:30 — White male shit libs coming at him on Facebook30:56 — Comedy as a masculine art form — why wokeness couldn't kill it35:00 — George Floyd, Memorial Day, and saying what you actually think37:25 — The unwritten rule: the black guy can't be the butt of the joke43:28 — Roy Price, MeToo, and the careers that got destroyed45:01 — John Lasseter, Aziz Ansari, and Joe Gatt — three very different MeToo stories50:37 — The sushi bar incident — actress hits on producer, ignores her date54:24 — Bikini casting, auditions, and what actresses will do for a role58:12 — Who is Rambo Van Halen — and why the pseudonym?1:01:16 — Why he wrote Hollywood Samizdat as a journaling exercise1:03:08 — On publicist spam, bad podcast guests, and only booking people worth talking to1:04:01 — Outro — where to find Rambo Van HalenWatch full episodes on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJListen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r TheLouPerez.com |  [email protected] Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez#Hollywood #FilmIndustry #RamboVanHalen #HollywoodSamizdat #MeToo #LouPerezPodcast #LionsOfLiberty #BehindTheCamera #FilmProducer #ComedyPodcast

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Jon Benson — the inventor of the video sales letter and a copywriter responsible for over $1 billion in revenue — joins the show to explore what happens to human creativity as AI takes on more of the work. Jon shares how he accidentally stumbled into copywriting, why ethical persuasion rooted in personal values outperforms manipulation, and how he's built a system of AI "clones" that handle everything from sales pages to email sequences. He explains the frustrating reality of training AI to write like a human (hint: it hates commas), why knowledge remains the ultimate competitive advantage, and how the window to get ahead of the AI wave is closing fast. If you're an entrepreneur wondering where to start, this episode will show you exactly what's possible — and what's at stake if you wait.

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0:53 — Intro & Sponsor: Good to Go Body 90-Day Program

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Did Daily Wire really torch $100 million on Bentkey? Marcus Pittman, CEO of LOOR TV, called the collapse of conservative streaming years before it happened - and he is back on the show to explain exactly why conservative entertainment keeps losing.

Four years ago Marcus came on with a contrarian pitch that made VCs laugh in his face - Netflix meets Kickstarter, where subscribers decide what gets made. Today he has funded nearly 40 pieces of content for under a million bucks, the same number the venture guys swore would cost over $100 million. He bet against the room and the room was wrong.

Here is the mistake that keeps sinking the right. Conservatives build content for the parent and forget the parent is not the consumer - the kid is. McDonald's figured this out with the Happy Meal in the 70s. Chuck E Cheese figured it out. Bentkey never did, ad the bill came due to the tune of nine figures.

Then we get into the part nobody on our side wants to hear. Rumble keeps screaming "free speech platform" while quietly admitting they have no Mr. Beast. Microsoft lit $100 million on fire chasing Ninja over to Mixer. The pattern is always the same - buy the big name, wait for the audience to follow, watch it crash. Marcus lays out the open letter he wrote Chris Pavlovsky and the playbook that actually builds an audience from zero.

We close on where this is all going - why Gen Z does not care about celebrities, why the next great Christian film might be a Ryan Gosling space movie, and why the human connection that AI can never fake is the whole ballgame. If you build, fund, or just consume content, this one will recalibrate how you think about the entire game.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - The $100M Question Hollywood Won't Answer

01:23 - The Guy Who Called Every Conservative Streaming Flop

03:41 - The Consumer vs. The Purchaser Mistake

05:36 - What the Happy Meal Teaches About Kids' Content

08:03 - How Daily Wire Torched $100 Million on Bentkey

09:52 - VeggieTales Did It Right (A Hammer In Search of a Nail)

11:28 - Build What People Actually Want

12:39 - The Cable TV Playbook Nobody Runs Anymore

15:23 - Is "Project Hail Mary" the Christian Film We've Been Waiting For?

17:46 - The Blind Spot: Nobody Builds For Young Men

18:14 - "There's No Market" Is a Lie (Tesla, Uber, the Wright Brothers)

21:37 - Rumble's Real Problem - Where's Their Mr. Beast?

24:26 - The Open Letter to Chris Pavlovsky

27:40 - The $100M Mixer Disaster

29:45 - Why Gen Z Doesn't Care About Celebrities Anymore

33:23 - The Human Connection AI Can't Fake

36:40 - Where to Find LOOR TV + Final Thoughts

Today's Guest - Marcus Pittman / LOOR TV:

LOOR.tv (join, or hit the Creator / Investor tabs before logging in): https://www.loor.tv

Marcus on X: https://x.com/ImKingGinger

LOOR on X: https://x.com/WatchLOOR

Marcus's Substack ("Poorly Written"): https://substack.com/@marcuspittman

Marcus's Federalist piece, "Project Hail Mary Is The Masculine Christian Film You've Been Waiting For": https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/07/project-hail-mary-is-the-masculine-christian-film-youve-been-waiting-for/

Marcus's first time on the show (Ep. 437, Feb 2022): https://www.briannicholsshow.com/437-fighting-the-culture-with-great-storytelling-with-loortv-ceo-marcus-pittman/

The Brian Nichols Show:

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More from Brian - CX Without the BS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cx-without-the-bs/id1747979147

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Brian is back from the National Convention, where some major motions were made, and later is joined by Mary Hebert and Josh Castro of the California Convention of the States. Is the time right for a COS, and is this the only way we'll finally reign in government abuses of power?

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Kira Shishkin is the CEO and founder of Informed.now — a news-by-SMS service that sends you one text per day covering what actually changed the world in the last 24 hours. No ads. No bias. No storytelling. Just primary sources, direct quotes, and a link so you can read the original yourself.

Kira grew up in Ukraine, came of age in Israel, and built this company after watching both countries get torn apart by information warfare. He knows what happens when people can't trust what they're reading — and he built something to fix it.

We got into: why American news is designed to exhaust and trigger you; how Informed.now sources directly from government agencies; why they link to the actual PDF instead of a story about the PDF; what today's top stories were (OPEC output increases, China blocking US sanctions on Iran oil traders, Vietnam getting flagged for IP theft); how real humans — not bots — answer your follow-up texts; and why the only way to keep news unbiased is to make the reader the client, not the advertiser.

Try it → informed.now

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 — Intro — who is Kira Shishkin and what is Informed.now?

1:45 — Why reading the news in America has become exhausting

3:10 — How it works: one SMS per day, primary sources only

5:20 — Why they link directly to the source — and why no one else does

7:30 — The UN, the White House, and healthy skepticism of primary sources

10:15 — Facts vs. storytelling — why Informed.now doesn't tell you what to think

13:40 — How they decide what makes the cut: the significance filter

16:55 — Today's top stories live: OPEC output, China-Iran oil, Vietnam IP

20:10 — The two-way SMS — real humans, not chatbots

24:30 — Lou suggests FOIA requests — Kira puts it on the roadmap

27:15 — What to do when there are no primary sources (war reporting)

30:40 — Growing up in Ukraine and Israel — information warfare up close

34:20 — AI-generated war images, radicalization, and the social media echo chamber

37:50 — Kira's background: think tanks, TurboTax, private equity, crypto

41:10 — The business model: reader-funded, no ads, no investors, profitable

44:00 — Outro and where to find Informed.now

Watch full episodes on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ

Listen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081

Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU

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Author, financial analyst, and former Green Beret E.M. Burlingame joins John Odermatt to expose a 400-year-old predatory financial system — what he calls the "Financialist Kill Chain" — and argues that the same seven-step playbook used to hollow out empires throughout history is now being run on the United States. Burlingame traces the system's origins from the Praetorians of Rome through Venice, Amsterdam, and finally to the City of London, which he describes as a separate financial power occupying the Anglosphere since 1688. The conversation covers how debt, asset seizure, economic destabilization, and elite coercion have been used as weapons against civilizational peoples — and why Burlingame believes the U.S. is currently in the final phase of collapse and abandonment. He also examines why Russia and China have so far resisted the kill chain, what Trump's constraints are, and what ordinary Americans can actually do to push back. Burlingame's unique background — spanning investment analysis, algorithmic trading, Special Forces targeting, and computational engineering — gives him a rare lens to see patterns most analysts miss.

Chapters

0:00 – Introduction & episode preview

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2:10 – Guest intro: Who is E.M. Burlingame?

4:27 – Burlingame's background: finance, Special Forces & pattern recognition

19:51 – The Financialist Kill Chain explained: 400 years of predatory finance

20:05 – Walking through all 7 steps of the kill chain

20:35 – Where is the U.S. in the kill chain right now?

25:52 – Israel, scapegoating, and the real power behind the curtain

30:41 – Are Russia and China also targets?

39:14 – Why Trump can't simply stop Ukraine funding

45:35 – The upside-down flag signal: What it meant when King Charles visited the White House

53:05 – What you can do: Community, local knowledge, and fighting indifferent malevolence

1:02:08 – Where to find E.M. Burlingame's work

Links & Resources

E.M. Burlingame on Substack: EMBurlingame.substack.com

E.M. Burlingame on X: @EMBurlingame

E.M. Burlingame's website & books: https://www.emburlingame.com/

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Rich Does Politics (YouTube): Crypto Rich's channel

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Dr. Tamara Patzer joins Brian Nichols to reveal AI suggestibility and why most experts are completely invisible to AI right now. The blue links are gone. Clickability has dropped over 50%. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity are now the new gatekeepers deciding who gets recommended... and most business owners, consultants, and authority figures have no canonical source of truth telling AI who they actually are.

Inside, you'll hear the uncensored breakdown of how AI suggestibility actually works... why AI can only suggest and never recommend... and the exact source of truth framework Dr. Tammy uses to lock down expert identity on the blockchain. This is the playbook nobody is talking about... and it's the difference between being the expert AI surfaces or the one it skips entirely.

Identity collision is real. AI is already mismatching real experts with strangers, fake credentials, and bad actors gaming the system. If you're not building your AI identity right now, somebody else is building it for you. And you're not going to like what they build.

Dr. Tammy breaks down why AI suggests but never recommends... the post-quantum computing timeline Google just slashed from 2035 to 2029... and the brutal truth about why cold email is dead and snail mail is making a comeback in outbound sales. Plus, Brian gets into AI video generation, how to spot AI-written emails in seconds, and why putting your head in the sand isn't an option anymore.

Chapters

0:00 - Why AI Has No Idea Who You Are

2:00 - The Term That's Killing Old-School SEO

6:37 - AI As Your Mirror (The Reflective Tool Trick)

11:35 - When Bad Actors Game The AI System

14:01 - The Canonical Source Of Truth Nobody's Building

18:40 - Quantum Computing Just Got Slashed To 2029

27:28 - Why Snail Mail Is Beating Cold Email

Dr. Tamara Patzer:

AI Suggestibility - https://aisuggestability.com

Public Record Registry - https://publicrecordregistry.org

Beyond the Quantum Leap (book by Dr. Tamara Patzer)

Tools & Concepts Referenced:

ChatGPT - https://chatgpt.com

Claude - https://claude.ai

Google Gemini - https://gemini.google.com

Grok - https://grok.com

Perplexity - https://perplexity.ai

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Join Brian McWilliams, John Odermatt, Lou Perez and Brian Nichols every other week for the newest show on the Lions of Liberty Network, the Politicks Podcast!

This week, the Polipricks look at Trump's crusade against Thomas Massie, backed by AIPAC and Israel. Is he dead to libertarians and true conservatives?

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