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October 24 Right to Repair, Open-Source Wheelchairs, Human Respect, & Who Gets to Fix Your Wheelchair? | TBNS 1104
Hannah Henriksen joins Brian Nichols to reveal who actually gets to fix your wheelchair, why right to repair stops at the one device some people can't live without, and how a new Respect America film is pushing open-source power chairs into the mainstream.

You own your car. Take it to any mechanic in town. You own your phone... and more and more, you can fix it yourself.

But a power wheelchair? Too often only one company is allowed to touch it. So you wait. Weeks. Months. Sometimes longer.

Hannah is the President of Respect America, the group behind the Jonny McCoy film seen by over 2 million people. Their new film follows friend of the show Thomas Quiter, who has osteogenesis imperfecta and more than 1,000 broken bones, and who is now building open-source power wheelchairs with high school and college shop classes through the Mobility Independence Foundation.

Chairs that cost $80,000 to $100,000. Chairs you can't modify. Chairs only one company can repair. So if it's your property and your body... why isn't the repair your decision?

Then we get into the philosophy of human respect, the rules we all learned on the playground, "trust the experts," and why the liberty movement keeps writing white papers when people want stories.

Watch it, then tell me in the comments: who should get to fix your wheelchair?

CHAPTERS
0:00 You Own Your Car. Not Your Wheelchair.
2:12 Who Is Hannah Henriksen?
3:52 A Twist of Fate Into the Liberty Movement
6:17 The Rules We Learned on the Playground
8:37 "Trust the Experts"
11:51 Why Stories Move People When Stats Don't
13:28 It Could Happen to You
14:30 Thomas Quiter's 1,000 Broken Bones
16:00 The $100,000 Wheelchair Only One Company Can Fix
17:34 Open-Source Chairs Built in Shop Class
19:52 "He Runs Better Than the Government"
20:28 Lobbyists vs. Right to Repair
22:07 A Message That Lands With Everyone
23:47 People Want Stories, Not White Papers
24:42 Fear and Love
25:25 The Beach Boys Professor Story
28:32 How to Keep People in the Long Game
31:00 Finding What Unites Us
32:35 The Michael Scott Win-Win-Win
33:06 Where to Find Respect America
35:01 Hannah's Final Word

HANNAH HENRIKSEN & RESPECT AMERICA
Respect America: https://respectamerica.org
Share your story: https://respectamerica.org/share-your-story
Mobility Independence Foundation (Thomas Quiter): https://themif.org

BRIAN NICHOLS
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36 min
October 16 Vance vs. Rubio 2028, Starlink’s Telco Takeover, $40 Trillion Debt, & the VP Pick Nobody Votes On | 1103
Mike ter Maat joins Brian Nichols to reveal the VP pick nobody votes on, Vance vs. Rubio 2028, and the $40 trillion debt, and why the Republican Party's biggest fight is happening right now. Plus Starlink's telco takeover... and whether it takes an outsider to fix a broken system.

Mike was the Libertarian Party's 2024 VP nominee. Now he's seeking the Republican nomination for Vice President in 2028. Not president. VP. Nobody has ever run a campaign for that job... so why is he doing it? And what does he want delegates in Houston to do that they've never done before?

Then we get into Thomas Massie. The most expensive House primary in American history. Was the liberty message rejected... or is the market just not buying yet?

And then it gets heated. JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Starlink's 800 MHz play, and $40 trillion in debt. Mike says my math is wrong, not my principle. Is he right? You be the judge.

Mike is also the editor of the new book BROKEN: How American Politics Is Driving Civil Unrest, Financial Collapse & War. If this one doesn't leave you educated, enlightened, and informed, I'll eat my microphone.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The Resume That Makes No Sense
2:02 Why Run for VP, Not President?
6:24 Every VP Becomes a "Mini-Me"
10:49 Did the GOP Just Reject the Massie Wing?
15:21 It Took $30 Million to Beat Thomas Massie
18:06 The Real Fight After Trump Leaves
21:29 Are VPs Picked Just for Their Name?
23:14 "Do Not Abdicate Responsibility"
26:49 Vance, Rubio, Cruz... Who Does Mike Want?
31:33 Should an Outsider Ever Be on the Ticket?
36:05 Was the Bug There From Day One?
38:41 Starlink's 800 MHz Play & the Outsider Argument
41:31 "You Cannot Save Trillions by Firing People"
42:04 "Your Math Is Wrong, Not Your Principle"
50:17 What Young Voters Actually Want
51:46 The 10-Year Clock on the Federal Government
53:15 Where to Find Mike ter Maat

MIKE TER MAAT
Campaign: https://miketermaat.com/
Donate: https://miketermaat.com/donate
Get Involved: https://miketermaat.com/get-involved
BROKEN (the book): https://miketermaat.com/broken
Liberty Lens Podcast: https://miketermaat.com/liberty-lens-podcast/
Substack: https://substack.com/@miketermaatthefuture
X: https://x.com/miketermaat_
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8-rRseTINKUPYes8QUFZw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miketermaatthefuture/
Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/Mike_ter_Maat_The_Future

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57 min
October 09 Matt Walsh vs. Boomers on Social Security, Microsoft’s H-1B Ban, & the Talarico Texas Senate Shock | TBNS 1102
Matt Walsh floated a Social Security deal for boomers this week... you get back what you paid in, but no more. Brian Nichols breaks down why it started the biggest fight of the week, plus Microsoft's H-1B ban and the Talarico Texas Senate shock.

So who's actually paying the bill? Brian digs into the Cato and YouGov Social Security poll everyone shared this week, what it really asked, and what Gallup says about how the generation footing the bill is doing compared to the one cashing the checks.

Then it's who gets to be here. A federal case out of Minnesota has everyone asking who gets to be a citizen. And JD Vance just suspended Microsoft from the Labor Department's PERM green card program... with the H-1B fight landing right here in Indiana at IU.

Plus, two out of three Americans say they want Medicare for All. So what happens to that number once you add a price tag? And with the Kansas Senate race tied, a Libertarian sitting at 3%, and new New York Times and Siena polls out of Texas, Ohio, Alaska and Iowa... are red states getting too comfortable?

It all ends on one question. Would you take the deal? Drop a yes or no in the comments.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Boomers Get the Checks, You Get the Bill
1:14 Matt Walsh's Social Security Deal
3:32 Entitled Boomers vs. Everyone Else
6:56 Who Gets to Be a Citizen?
8:59 Microsoft Banned From Green Cards
10:46 Medicare for All's Price Tag
11:50 Kansas Tied & the Texas Senate Shock
13:21 Nobody Trusts Anything Anymore
14:42 Would You Take the Deal?

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16 min
October 02 America's 250th, H-1B Visas, the General Welfare Clause, & Can a Dictionary Save the Constitution? | TBNS 1101
Stephen Ferry joins Brian Nichols to reveal what the general welfare clause actually meant in 1787, and why America's 250th birthday finds us $40 trillion in debt and arguing over a Constitution most people can't explain.

Kids can recite the Preamble. 52 words. One sentence. Six purposes sitting right there in the text...

But ask a civics teacher to name all six? Good luck.

Stephen is the new national spokesperson for Citizens Academy U.S., and their guide walks the Preamble word by word using Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary. So why does a 200-year-old dictionary get to be the referee?

And Brian pushes back. Hard. Words change. Kleenex. Xerox. Google. And with H-1B visas, a shifting culture, and a federal government bigger than any in history... does defining the words even matter anymore?

So... can a dictionary save the Constitution? Or are we too far gone?

CHAPTERS
0:00 The 2 Phrases Washington Spends $40 Trillion On
1:51 Who Is Stephen Ferry?
2:47 Is the Constitution Dead in 2026?
3:45 Are We Too Far Gone?
4:32 The 1690 Warning Nobody Listened To
9:42 Civics Teachers Can't Name the 6 Purposes
10:29 The Guy Who Only Showed Up Because His Wife Made Him
12:56 Why People Check Out of the Constitution
15:59 What "Welfare" Means in 2026
19:17 What "Welfare" Meant in 1787
22:37 The Culture Question Nobody Wants to Touch
27:26 Who Actually Gets Taught What America Is?
30:26 Does the Constitution Need Fresh Eyes?
33:10 Political Enemies Walked In, Allies Walked Out
35:50 How to Do the Guide Yourself
39:09 The Free November 8 Constitution Talk

GUEST LINKS
Citizens Academy U.S.: https://citizensacademy.us
The Guide to Complete Understanding of the Preamble: https://citizensacademy.us/about-the-guide
Free E-Book: https://citizensacademy.us/the-preamble-e-book
Free Live Constitution Talk, Sunday, Nov 8, 2026: https://citizensacademy.us/understand-the-constitution

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41 min
September 26 Breast Cancer Under 50, Apple Cider Vinegar, Mexico's Medical Tourism Boom, & a $275,000 Mistake | TBNS 1100
Emma Victoria Johnson joins Brian Nichols to reveal the $275,000 mistake she made after a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis at 43... and why Mexico's medical tourism boom is catching so many patients off guard right now.

Breast cancer is climbing fastest in women under 50. And Netflix's Apple Cider Vinegar has everybody online asking who's real and who's faking it.

Emma got caught in the middle of both... people called her "fake cancer girl" because she looked too healthy.

So she did what a lot of scared patients do. She picked the clinic with the best marketing... pools, saunas, a $10,000 watch... and got on a plane.

$275,000 later? She's got the red flags every patient and every family member needs to see before signing anything. Plus what her sisters said when she told them she was going to Mexico, the Steve Jobs story everybody brings up, and the one question Emma says every clinic should be able to answer. Brian and Emma are not doctors - this is one patient's story, not medical advice.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
2:35 Stage 4 at 43
3:43 3 Months to Live
7:26 The Clinic That Looked Perfect Online
8:41 The $275,000 Bill
9:41 Taken Advantage of at Rock Bottom
17:43 "I'm Going to Tijuana"
19:04 The Steve Jobs Warning
20:19 The Question Every Clinic Must Answer
21:30 The Mike Holmes Test
22:50 The Red Flags She Missed
29:19 Her Mom's Fight vs. "Fake Cancer Girl"
33:34 Where to Follow Emma
36:39 Emma's Final Word

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38 min
September 18 Data Centers, H-1B Visas, Citizens United, & the Iowa Senate Race in the Middle of It | TBNS 1099
Dr. Thomas Laehn joins Brian Nichols to reveal how Iowa's data center fight, eminent domain, and Citizens United money all run through the 2026 Senate race - and why voters keep getting handed two bad options.

Laehn is the Greene County Attorney and the first Libertarian in Iowa history to win a partisan election. Then he won it again. Now he's on the November 3 ballot against Ashley Hinson and Josh Turek for Joni Ernst's open seat.

He wrote a bill that passed the House and passed the Senate. It never became law. What happened to it is the part nobody in Des Moines wants repeated.

Brian pushes back hard - on young men and H-1B hiring, on the cultural fight libertarians keep dodging, on whether one party is objectively worse than the other. Laehn's answer isn't the one you're expecting.

And then a former professor of constitutional law says something about the word "republic" that we had to sit with for a second.

Give it a listen.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The Third Party Line Iowa Just Broke
2:01 Preacher's Kid, Professor, Prosecutor
2:48 He Won as a Libertarian. Then Won Again.
4:23 Why Iowa and Not Your State
5:12 The Majority Nobody Bothers to Count
7:17 Brian Pushes Back: Isn't One Party Just Worse?
9:38 88% Want Term Limits. Neither Party Will Move.
12:10 The COVID Test Both Parties Failed
14:16 The Flag Burning Order and the Prison Threat
18:24 The Cultural Fight Libertarians Keep Dodging
21:26 Federalism Is the Answer. Here's Why.
22:45 "We May Already Have a Monarchy"
24:32 Young Men, H-1B, and the Hopelessness Problem
26:56 The $200K Veto: Bruce Rastetter's Pipeline
30:13 Data Centers, the 40-Acre Rule, and Groundwater
30:58 The Lindsay Clancy Question
32:18 Israel, Iran, and the Blank Check
33:13 Overturn Citizens United
34:33 Hinson vs Turek vs Laehn
35:29 Why Vote for Him on November 3
37:20 Educated. Enlightened. Informed.

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39 min
September 12 9/11 & Mamdani's NYC, Trump's $5,000 Bribe, Aaron Rodgers Vindicated, & Tesla's Cybercab Takeover | TBNS 1098
9/11 25th anniversary, Zohran Mamdani's New York City, Trump's $5,000 GOP dividend, Aaron Rodgers vindicated on COVID, and Elon Musk's Tesla Cybercab takeover. Brian Nichols breaks down the 2026 GOP midterm convention and what it signals, then hands the mic to the PoliTicks crew.
Twenty-five years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, New York City is run by a Democratic Socialist. The GOP is holding midterm conventions for the first time since the 1980s and promising $5,000 checks. Aaron Rodgers is out talking about fake vaccine cards in the NFL locker room. And Tesla just dropped a $30,000 driverless Cybercab in Austin that might end Uber and big taxi for good.
In this episode Brian covers:
The 2026 Republican midterm convention and why the GOP is panicking without Trump on the ballot
Trump's $5,000 dividend promise, Thomas Massie's lone objection, and the inflation lesson nobody learned
Why the GOP's boomer-first, Israel-first posture is bleeding young voters ahead of 2028 and JD Vance
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the 9/11 anniversary, and 25 years of demographic change in New York City
Tesla Cybercab vs Waymo, LIDAR vs full self-driving, and the fleet-ownership passive income play
Optimus, robotaxi networks, and what the Tesla economy does to small business
Then stick around for the full PoliTicks episode with Brian McWilliams, John Odermatt, Lou Perez, and Brian Nichols covering the 9/11 Islamophobia narrative, Saudi Arabia's role, boomers vs Gen Z, Mike Flynn's young men take, Aaron Rodgers and NFL fake vaccine cards, Flock surveillance cameras, the murder of Andrew Wimsatt in Round Rock, the Lindsay Clancy jury, Ross Ulbricht, and Sweet Baby Inc coming for Wolverine.
Heads up, the PoliTicks segment is R-rated. Earmuffs if the kids are in the car!

CHAPTERS
00:00 - What's Coming Up Today
00:40 - Welcome To The Show
01:15 - The GOP Midterm Convention: First Since The 1980s
01:55 - Trump's $5,000 Dividend Promise
02:20 - Thomas Massie And The Trump Bucks Lesson
02:45 - Socialist-Lite: Why The GOP Won't Touch Entitlements
03:10 - The Israel Lobby Problem And Young Voters
03:55 - Trump Won 2024 On Young Men. Now What?
04:35 - Good Luck In 2028, JD Vance
05:00 - Zohran Mamdani Is The Mayor Of New York City
05:35 - 25 Years After 9/11, The City That Was Attacked
06:05 - Boomers Won't Cede Control And Won't Let Us Fix It
06:45 - When Young Men Have Nowhere To Put Their Ambition
07:15 - Cybercabs Are Here
07:40 - Waymo vs Tesla: LIDAR vs Cameras
08:10 - The Car Drives Itself. There's No Steering Wheel.
08:40 - $30,000 vs $150,000 And The Fleet Ownership Play
09:00 - Optimus Is Next
09:40 - Why Tesla Built FSD For Human Roads
10:15 - Full Self-Driving V15 And The Next Four Years
11:00 - Go Test Drive One. Seriously.
11:20 - Subscribe To PoliTicks
12:15 - Where To Find The Show
13:00 - PoliTicks Begins / The Wheel Of Fortune Announcer Got Caught
16:30 - Can AI Take Over Content Moderation?
19:00 - 25 Years Since 9/11
22:00 - Remembering It vs Being Propagandized By It
24:30 - The Islamophobia Reframe Nobody Asked For
27:00 - Kids Aren't Being Taught 9/11 At All
29:30 - Planes Hit The Towers. That Happened.
31:00 - Why Nobody Talks About Saudi Arabia
33:00 - A Third Of Americans Weren't Alive For It
35:00 - Boomers, Gen Z, And "It Can't Happen Here"
38:00 - Mike Flynn's "Young Men Are Lazy" Take
41:00 - 98% Of New Jobs Went To Women
43:30 - The AOC Clip At The Memorial Reading
46:00 - The 9/11 Drone Tribute
48:00 - Aaron Rodgers Was Right
50:30 - NFL Fake Vaccine Cards And The Immunized Loophole
53:00 - Flock Cameras And What 2020 Would've Looked Like
56:00 - Trump's $5,000 Checks, Round Two
58:00 - The Murder Of Andrew Wimsatt
1:01:00 - Three Priors, Three Dismissals
1:03:30 - Cameras Everywhere And Still No Accountability
1:06:00 - The Insanity Plea Problem
1:09:00 - The Lindsay Clancy Jury
1:13:00 - The Holdout Juror
1:16:00 - The 19th Amendment Discourse
1:19:00 - Sweet Baby Inc Comes For Wolverine
1:22:00 - Woke Isn't Dead, It's Just Defunded
1:24:00 - Ross Ulbricht Is Free
1:25:30 - Wrap Up
LINKSThe Brian Nichols Show - https://briannicholsshow.comBrian on X - https://x.com/BNicholsLibertyLions of Liberty Network - https://www.lionsofliberty.comPoliTicks Podcast (standalone feed) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politicks/id1819072410Lions of Liberty Network on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network/id706061933

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1 hr 12 min
September 04 Why Natural Cancer Therapies Never Get FDA Approved (DOCTOR EXPLAINS) | TBNS 1097
Dr. Francisco Contreras joins Brian Nichols to reveal why natural cancer therapies never get FDA approved and why the answer has nothing to do with a conspiracy. It's a $1 billion price tag and a missing patent... and the surgical oncologist who runs Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana lays out the math.

Here's the argument. Getting anything through the FDA means proving it safe and effective in human trials - roughly a billion dollars. Do that with a new drug and you get a patent to earn it back. Do it with something natural and you get nothing... because the day it's approved, anyone can make it. So nobody runs the trial. Not because it failed. Because nobody can afford to find out.

Contreras has spent 45 years at the hospital his father founded in 1963 - the same hospital that got called every name in the book. And he doesn't dodge it. He talks about what chemo does well, where he says it doesn't, and why patients end up in Mexico for therapies he says were developed in American labs in the first place.

Is he right? That's for you to decide. Brian pushes on the third-party approval question, the "nobody gets fired for buying Cisco" problem in medicine, and what a family actually does when they've been told there's nothing left to try. Contreras' answer... make an informed decision, and talk to your doctor. His book is free on his site so you can read both sides.

Educated. Enlightened. Informed. New episodes every Thursday.

Chapters:
0:00 - A cancer hospital in Tijuana... you know the reputation
1:31 - Cancer rates keep climbing. So where's the cure?
2:20 - His father's 1950s bet: treat the patient, not the tumor
4:25 - Does Oasis of Hope reject chemo? Not even close
5:01 - The $1 billion problem: why no patent means no trial
7:44 - Is there a third-party alternative to the FDA?
8:15 - How his father lost the money the day Mexico said yes
10:39 - Did the research stop? He says it never did
14:36 - What's actually stopping doctors?
16:35 - The Family Guy stem cell problem
19:29 - Nobody gets fired for buying Cisco... or prescribing FDA-approved
20:06 - "Do you eat bananas?"
21:32 - To the families out there: what do you actually do?
25:45 - Final thoughts

Dr. Francisco Contreras / Oasis of Hope
Website + free book download: https://oasisofhope.com
Book: The Art & Science of Undermining Cancer (co-authored with Daniel E. Kennedy)

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29 min
August 28 2028 Poll Shocker, Lindsay Clancy Backlash, AI Job Panic | TBNS 1096
A new 2028 poll just dropped, the Lindsay Clancy backlash has TikTok picking the wrong hero, and the AI job panic keeps getting rescheduled. Brian Nichols breaks down all three... and pulls zero punches.

The Newsweek/McLaughlin 2028 numbers put JD Vance on top at 32%. But Don Jr. sits second at 19% without even running, Marco Rubio lands third at 12%, and Kamala Harris leads the Democratic field at 29%. Brian explains why fourth-place AOC is the name the establishment should actually fear, and what the DSA winning real races means for 2028 and 2032.

Then the Lindsay Clancy backlash. 164,000 TikToks. Pink shirts outside the courthouse. A GoFundMe closing in on one million dollars from 31,000 donors. Brian draws a hard line between supporting postpartum mental health and justifying the unjustifiable... and explains why he has zero empathy left to give.

And the AI job panic? They said the jobs were gone. Unemployment is still 4.2%, college grad joblessness is 2.7%, CEOs expecting big AI headcount cuts dropped from 46% to 20%, and the Stanford numbers show no gap at all between AI-exposed and least-exposed work. So the doomers moved the date. Again.

New episodes every Thursday. Educated. Enlightened. Informed.

CHAPTERS
0:00 - Three Stories That Broke My Brain
0:58 - The TikTok Army Nobody Asked For
6:28 - Where I Draw The Line
9:21 - The 2028 Poll Numbers Just Dropped
11:58 - JD Vance's Balancing Act
14:07 - The Don Jr. Wildcard
16:00 - Kamala, Newsom & The Old Guard
18:46 - Why AOC Is The One To Watch
20:26 - The 2032 Warning
23:40 - The AI Job Panic Got Rescheduled

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30 min
August 21 Is Your Power Bill Higher Because of Data Centers & AI? | TBNS 1095
Adam Butcher joins Brian Nichols to reveal what's actually driving your electricity bill higher and why blaming data centers and AI misses the real story about America's energy supply.

Everybody's pointing at the data centers. Adam isn't.

He's the President and Managing Partner of Basin Ventures. He's managed over $1.25 billion in oil and gas projects for more than 50 players in the industry and deployed over $500 million into minerals and royalties. He's a land guy - leases, title, ownership - which means he sees the part of this story nobody on cable news covers.

And he came on with a number that stopped me cold. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983. Roughly 35 days of cover. Draining every single week. Adam's take? Cheap oil is a mirage... and we've been hiding that with artificial levers instead of taking our medicine.

So I brought him the stat sheet. Retail electricity up 7% in 2025. Up roughly 40% since 2021. Utilities requested $31 billion in rate hikes in 2025 versus $15 billion the year before. Another $9.4 billion in Q1 of 2026 alone. Virginia has 663 data centers, Texas has 405, together over a quarter of every data center in the country.

And Adam looked at all of it and called data centers the new boogeyman.

We get into Venezuela and why 2028 is the real timeline. We get into why he says he's always made more money under Democrats than Republicans. We get into the LNG export shutdown, ERCOT's grid math, Zuckerberg's city-sized facility outside Shreveport, and why he moved his fund to 50/50 oil and gas betting on a 2027 boom.

Meet people where they're at. Most folks don't care about megawatts... they care about the number at the bottom of the envelope. So that's where we started.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Somebody's Paying For The Wires
02:26 Billy Bob Made Us Famous
03:35 The $60 Call He Made In June
04:05 Cheap Oil Is A Mirage
08:03 Venezuela Won't Save Us Until 2028
11:48 I Make More Money Under Democrats
13:23 The LNG Shutdown Nobody Talks About
15:24 The Snake Problem
18:27 What Oil Should Actually Cost
22:11 We Have To Take Our Medicine
22:46 Your Bill Went Up 40 Percent
25:05 Data Centers Are The New Boogeyman
29:15 Texas Needs 5X Its Power
31:06 Final Thoughts

CONNECT WITH ADAM BUTCHER
Basin Ventures: https://www.basinventures.com
Adam's bio: https://www.basinventures.com/team/adam-butcher
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwbutcher

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36 min

About The Brian Nichols Show

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Instead of focusing on winning arguments, we’re teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to WIN in both the worlds of business and politics; teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about.