Brian McWilliams, John Odermatt and Lou Perez kick off with some banter about Freedom Fest and explosive diarrhea. Then dive into the Democrat Socialists of America's newly unveiled 2026 platform, mocking its promises to eliminate bills, abolish ICE, and scrap the Senate and Supreme Court. They dig into NYC Mayor Mamdani's push to ban evictions and credit checks, debating property rights versus tenant protections and why socialism keeps failing in practice. The episode wraps with a lighter look at Greta Thunberg's burlesque-dancer sister, a Canadian tourist deported for assaulting a teen, and a defense attorney's tone-deaf celebration of a reduced murder sentence.

Chapters:

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Kenny Cody joins Brian Nichols to break down how woke culture took over corporations, the media, and COVID - and why he called its collapse five years before it happened. This is the very first episode The Brian Nichols Show ever put on YouTube, back in early 2021, and Kenny looked into the camera and warned that government was becoming a religion and social media the temple. Now watch it age.
Back then it sounded dramatic. Coca-Cola getting called "Woka-Cola." Dr. Seuss canceled. Corporations pulling out of Georgia. And Kenny tying all of it - cancel culture, corporate America, and COVID hysteria - into one machine. But here's the part nobody was saying out loud in 2021... that the same people demonizing you online were just handing the federal government more power to do it.
So we did something different with this one. We went back, five years later, and graded the tape. What did Kenny nail? What did he completely whiff on? Because we don't just take victory laps around here... we call the misses too. And one of his biggest predictions aged in a way you won't see coming.
Inside you'll hear why Kenny says conservatives literally cannot be fascists, the "government is a religion" breakdown that predicted the last four years, and the three issues he swears the left loses on every single time. Then stick around for the 2026 scorecard - where Kenny is now, and the full-circle endorsement you genuinely could not script.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
2:00 - How Woke Culture Took Over Everything
12:00 - When The Mob Came For Him
16:00 - When Government Becomes Your Religion
24:00 - The Only Way Out Is Individualism
28:00 - The 3 Issues The Left Always Loses
32:00 - 5 Years Later: What We Got Right
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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, eleven state governments, led by the industry-killing idiots of CA, sue to stop the Paramount / Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Also: Mamdani's rent freeze skyrockets NYC rents to new highs, Lindsey Graham is dead and his sister gets the seat, and a female head writer ruins the Little House on the Prairie reboot instantly.

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For 30 years, Clarence Carter worked inside America's public assistance system under two presidents, four governors, and a mayor. In this episode, he joins John Odermatt to explain why the safety net designed to lift people out of poverty often keeps them trapped instead, and what a better system could look like.

Carter draws on his three decades of experience — including transforming Washington DC's homeless services program and leading welfare reform in Virginia — to argue that the problem isn't a lack of funding, but a lack of clear purpose. He walks through the 114 federal programs that make up the safety net, why they measure compliance instead of outcomes, and what it would take to build a system focused on growing people beyond dependency rather than managing it. Along the way, he shares personal stories, from handing out apartment keys to former shelter residents to a welfare recipient's tearful first paycheck, that illustrate what real freedom from the system looks like, and makes the case for a whole-of-society approach involving government, business, faith communities, and everyday citizens.

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Chapters:

0:00 – Introduction

0:58 – Sponsor message & guest introduction

3:18 – Why Clarence stayed 30 years in public service

4:11 – Transforming DC's homeless program

10:48 – The core problem: a system with no clear objective

15:37 – Can government solve this alone?

24:45 – Reimagining the safety net from scratch

34:14 – Building bipartisan support

38:13 – What keeps Clarence going after 30+ years

43:45 – The Wizard of Oz story & closing thoughts

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Eduardo "Ted" Alexander joins Brian Nichols to reveal how to get paid in Bitcoin for what you already know - and why the banks, Big Tech, and inflation are quietly draining your value right now. Ted's a former venture capitalist who ran a half-billion-dollar fund, then walked away to build FeeMe, an app where you set a price on your knowledge and get paid in Bitcoin and Litecoin through a non-custodial wallet only you control. No bank. No middleman. No gatekeeper deciding whether you're allowed to earn.
Inside, Ted breaks down the playbook nobody in Silicon Valley wants you to hear. How a bounty works - you post a question, put Bitcoin on it, and experts around the world compete to give you the best answer while you reward the top three. Why he flat-out refuses to touch dollars, PayPal, or Cash App. And how a non-custodial wallet - twelve words on a piece of paper - hands you money no bank can freeze, seize, or manipulate.
Here's the uncomfortable part. As long as the government controls the money, they control you. Every dollar they print quietly steals from the one already in your pocket. And the same gatekeepers who flagged this very show as "harmful content" for asking questions during COVID are the ones deciding which voices get seen and which get buried. So what happens when you route around all of them?
At 8:55, Brian gets raw about why The Brian Nichols Show is STILL labeled harmful content on YouTube - and why that's the whole point. At 11:40, Ted pulls out his phone and walks through a live bounty, Tinder-style, right on camera. And at 15:46, he explains the regulatory trap that would turn him into a bank overnight if he ever accepted a single dollar.
If this one hit home, subscribe and share it with someone who still thinks Bitcoin is monopoly money. Download FeeMe using the links below, grab the show wherever you listen, and tag Brian @BNicholsLiberty on X, Facebook, and Instagram. And a big thanks to Cardio Miracle for powering the show - support healthy blood flow and energy with the stuff Brian takes every day at cardiomiracle.com/TBNS, code TBNS for 15% off. Educated. Enlightened. Informed.
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
2:56 - Why He Left California For Freedom
6:02 - The Problem With "Trust The Experts"
8:55 - Flagged "Harmful" For Asking Questions
11:40 - Put Bitcoin On A Question, Watch Experts Compete
15:46 - Why He Refuses To Take Dollars
23:26 - The 12 Words That Put You In Control
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In a fascinating and hilarious special ep of Mean Age Daydream, Brian welcomes in Brody Martinez, one of the founding members of 90s boy band C-Note, who performed across the country alongside artists including the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Cher, Brandy, and LFO. During his music career, he worked with acclaimed producers and songwriters such as Diane Warren, Full Force, Vassal Benford, Dakari, and Sturken & Rogers. His years in the music industry shaped a lifelong appreciation for hard work, collaboration, and the lasting impact of music. Brian is also joined by longtime friend and producer Remso Martinez, Brody's nephew.

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Germania Rodriguez Poleo — journalist, writer, and Venezuelan exile — escaped her country at age 11 after the Chavez regime accused her mother of terrorism, tortured their bodyguard to death, shot at their car, and raided their home. She arrived in Miami as a refugee. Then she went to NYU and voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary.

Her Reason magazine article "My Family Fled Socialism. Then I Voted for Bernie Sanders." tells the story of how that happened — and how she found her way back out.

She's also the narrator of the documentary Escaping Venezuela.

We covered: her mother's escape on a boat to Curacao and what Interpol red notices actually do to dissidents; the Pinochet whataboutism that follows every conversation about left-wing atrocities; what NYU taught (and didn't teach) about communism, socialism, and US foreign policy; why the pipeline from wealth and privilege to socialism is real and why it matters who makes the culture; the DSA's old platform calling for nationalization of media — and what that looks like in practice in Venezuela; the 32 Cuban soldiers killed protecting Maduro when the US captured him; the 2024 Venezuelan election that was stolen in plain sight; the recent earthquake with 40,000 missing while the dictatorship reports 3,000 dead; why she believes the US should be the policeman of the world; and the tragedy of exile — what it means to have your entire family legacy erased.

Follow Germania on social media → @iamGermania

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 — Intro — who is Germania Rodriguez Poleo?

0:31 — The Reason article: "My Family Fled Socialism. Then I Voted for Bernie Sanders"

1:43 — Her mom: the #1 journalist exposing Chavez — accused of terrorism

3:30 — House raids, shot at their car, bodyguard tortured to death

4:59 — How democracy is lost — and why people allow it

6:07 — Her mom escapes on a boat to Curacao, then flies to Miami

7:07 — Born in Miami — how that gave her some protection

7:26 — Interpol red notices — how dictators use them against dissidents

8:47 — Her grandfather arrested in Rome on Interpol orders

9:13 — The UN Security Council problem

10:06 — The Pinochet whataboutism — and why the left always pivots there

12:05 — NYU, Karl Marx, and an incomplete education

13:26 — No readings on the Soviet Union, Mao, or Cuba — only US horrors

15:03 — The 2002 Venezuela coup — US engineered or not? Her mom was in the room.

16:41 — "Whatever the US does is bad, everyone opposed to it is good"

17:21 — NYU's Karl Marx birthday dance party

18:39 — Why aren't we winning the argument against communism?

19:04 — The pipeline from privilege to socialism — and who makes the culture

20:08 — The documentary Escaping Venezuela — and why it matters

21:06 — DSA, Bernie Sanders, and the Norway vs. Cuba confusion

22:08 — Che Guevara shirts — racism, homophobia, concentration camps

24:08 — DSA's platform: nationalizing media — the Venezuela playbook

26:21 — How authoritarianism starts: shutting down speech in the name of morality

29:04 — Race, identity, and the boxes put on Latinos at NYU

31:06 — NYC Mayor Mamdani — victimhood politics and who's actually brown

32:22 — If the US is so racist, why do people lie about being minorities?

33:56 — Paid propagandists for left-wing dictatorships

36:13 — The US captures Maduro — and the 32 Cuban soldiers protecting him

37:39 — Should the US be the policeman of the world? Her answer: yes.

39:23 — Venezuela is not Libya — why intervention wouldn't cause a civil war

40:09 — The 2024 election Maduro stole

41:14 — The recent earthquake — 40,000 missing, dictatorship says 3,000

42:30 — That's socialism in practice — from richest country to this

42:54 — Cuba: communists vs. thugs — and the cancer it spread

46:04 — "I want to go to Cuba before Starbucks gets there"

48:23 — Her mom: still fighting, now critical of Trump, 200K YouTube views

50:16 — Does she want to go back? The tragedy of exile.

52:20 — Exile is different from immigration — what was taken from her family

54:39 — Trying to revive her grandfather's newspaper

56:05 — Outro

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Independent analyst and Gold, Goats, and Guns host Tom Luongo joins the show to explain why he's left orthodox libertarianism behind and adopted a framework built around the City of London, the Federal Reserve, and Donald Trump's geopolitical strategy. The conversation ranges from Jerome Powell's rate hikes to Iran's nuclear ambitions, the Strait of Hormuz, Bitcoin's murky origins, and why Tom thinks most libertarian commentary misses the real centers of power entirely.

Tom traces his intellectual break from the Ron Paul/Mises Institute wing of libertarianism back to the post-COVID Fed tightening cycle, arguing that the "coup" against Trump and Powell in 2020–21 mirrors a much older pattern of financial power rooted in London rather than Washington. He recounts a heated confrontation at the Mises Institute where he was cut off mid-speech for suggesting the movement update its models, and uses that story to argue libertarians are prone to the same "purity spiraling" as Bitcoin maximalists or gold bugs. From there, the discussion turns to Trump's Iran policy — framing it as less about Israel and more about dismantling chokepoints, energy dominance, and the offshore dollar system tied to the British Empire's financial remnants. Tom also lays out a theory connecting Bitcoin's DARPA origins to a broader strategy of building a new economic order outside the old London-centered system, and closes by tying Trump's moves in Venezuela and the Middle East to a long-term plan to leave the world harder to drag back into the old status quo.

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Tom Norton joins Brian Nichols to reveal why Trump won Michigan by a BIGGER margin in 2024 than 2016 - and how Republicans are quietly converting blue dog Democrats to turn a supposed blue state red. This is an Afghan War veteran and Michigan State Senate candidate breaking down the demographic shift nobody in the national media wants to admit: gun-owning, pro-union Democrats who are done with the far-left agenda and flipping right. According to Tom, Michigan isn't drifting blue... it's trending red, and it's becoming more conservative than it's been in decades.

We expose the reality behind the "Michigan is a blue state" narrative... and the ground game that's actually moving the needle. Tom knocked roughly 8,000 doors in a single week - and he's selling voters on a platform that should make every bureaucrat in Lansing sweat. Gutting CPS. A Michigan version of DOGE. Full school choice. This is the playbook that's converting Democrats one door at a time.

But here's the question that should keep both parties up at night... if a former blue wall state is flipping red, what does that do to the map in 2028? Get this shift wrong and you misread the entire country.
Inside, you'll hear Tom explain why Michigan Democrats are "blue dog" Democrats who like their guns (17:19)... how the Michigan GOP went from Romney-Rockefeller liberal to genuinely conservative (17:19)... plus the CPS due-process nightmare costing veterans their kids (6:16) and the lottery-style audit he wants running the entire state budget, Ron Paul "audit the Fed" style (7:53).

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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro

2:54 - He Scared The Feds... Now He's Coming For CPS

6:16 - Why 62% Of CPS Kids Turn Violent

7:53 - Michigan's Version Of DOGE

10:32 - Where Your School Taxes Really Go

17:19 - Did Trump Turn Michigan Red?

21:40 - Where To Cast Your Vote
Links:
Tom Norton for State Senate (campaign + donate) - ⁠https://www.thomasjnorton.com/⁠Donate direct - ⁠https://secure.anedot.com/friends-of-thomas-norton/donate⁠Tom Norton on X - ⁠https://x.com/ForNorton⁠
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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian theorizes Europe's ban on AC is by design to implement a Canada MAID style culling of the older population. Also: Supergirl predictably bombs, SCOTUS rules on birthright citizenship, Dem Socialists rack up wins, and John C. Reily makes an ass out of himself about "Empathy."

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