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Former U.S. Congressman Bob Inglis joins Brian Nichols to make the "conservative" case for a carbon tax and why most Republican voters keep rejecting his free-market climate proposal. Inside, we dig into the Raise Wages Cut Carbon Act, the Milton Friedman defense of pricing pollution, and the border adjustment mechanism Inglis says could force China to follow America's lead on emissions.

We expose the structural cracks in the "revenue-neutral" carbon tax pitch... why the social cost of carbon swings from $42 to $190 depending on who's running Washington... and the uncomfortable fact that every country that's tried this policy has either repealed it, rioted over it, or rejected it at the ballot box.

Is this really the free-market answer to climate change... or just a federal Trojan horse dressed in Milton Friedman quotes? What happens when "revenue-neutral" becomes a moving target? And why are libertarians the ones cutting emissions while bureaucrats are still chasing the perfect tax rate?

Stick around for the 13:54 mark when I ask Bob to name ONE federal tax in American history that stayed revenue-neutral... the 25:00 moment when we lay out why this policy has failed everywhere it's been tried... and the 40:32 stretch where we expose the fact that US emissions dropped 20% in 15 years - without a carbon tax.

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Dr. Marissa Heisel joins Brian Nichols to break down why WebMD is making women sicker, not healthier... and why the self-diagnosing epidemic is exploding right now. After 27 years as a holistic chiropractor and midwifery-trained practitioner, Dr. Heisel has watched women trade their inner knowing for a search bar. The result? More anxiety, worse outcomes, and a generation of women who can't trust the one doctor who actually lives inside them.

Inside this episode, we expose the uncomfortable truth nobody on cable news will touch... how the Rockefeller medicine system buried homeopathy, why Canadian chiropractors got a letter in March 2020 ordering them to stop discussing the immune system, and the specific phrase Dr. Heisel says is being used like a spell on women's health right now.

So what happens when you keep outsourcing your body to people who don't live in it? Your kids inherit the same fear. The next generation grows up unable to discern truth from narrative. And when "Lockdowns 2.0" rolls in dressed up as a fuel shortage or a food shortage... most people will comply because they've never learned to trust the one source that can't be censored. Their own gut.

Stick around for the 1913 reveal that explains why your doctor never asks about your stress (11:42), the moment Dr. Heisel breaks down what's coming next from the International Energy Agency (27:23), and her final prescription that costs zero dollars and works in any season (32:31).

Smash subscribe and share this with the woman in your life who's tired of being gaslit by the expert class. Connect with Dr. Marissa at elementalhealingarts.life. And as always... we're sponsored by Cardio Miracle - hit the QR code on screen for the best heart health supplement in the world. Brian Nichols, signing off.

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Energy analyst Isaac Orr joins Brian Nichols to reveal the real reason your electric bill is exploding and why monopoly utility companies (not AI or data centers) are jacking up your rates right now. Indiana electricity rates are climbing almost twice as fast as the national average. Coal plants are getting prematurely shut down. Wind, solar, and battery storage are getting bolted onto the grid... and YOU pay for it through something called the cost-of-service formula.

Inside, Isaac exposes the regulatory scam buried inside every state utility commission - the formula that lets monopoly utilities charge you whatever they spend, plus a guaranteed 10% profit on top. We break down why blue states own the highest electricity rates in America. We expose why the map of expensive power looks identical to the electoral map. And we get into the playbook nobody wants to talk about because it's "boring"... which is exactly how regulators want it.

So what happens when ideology collides with the physics of how the grid actually works? You pay. $1.4 trillion in new power plant infrastructure is coming in the next 5 years. Residential ratepayers will be on the hook for roughly 20% of it. New York's own energy agency, NYSERDA, just admitted that the state's 2019 climate law will cost households $4,000 a year. ..

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Is the housing market about to crash? I asked Nic DeAngelo - President of Saint Investment Group and the guy managing over $200M in real estate assets - and his answer might blow your mind.

In this episode, Nic breaks down why the S&P 500 is really the S&P 7... why the Federal Reserve is failing its own dual mandate... and why 54% of Americans refuse to sell their homes right now.

We dig into the numbers the mainstream media won't touch. 80% of every US dollar ever printed in just the last 5 years. $1 from 1913 now worth about a penny. A 4 to 6 million home supply shortage. And the coming $80 TRILLION wealth transfer from Baby Boomers to Millennials.

Nic's take? He's terrified of the stock market... but he's buying mortgages behind single family homes. Here's why he thinks US real estate is the most investable asset class for the next decade - and why he'd bet on America 1,000 times out of 1,000.

If you've been wondering whether to buy, sell, or sit tight... this is the episode you need.

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Nic DeAngelo is the President of Saint Investment Group, a real estate fund managing over $200M in assets across 30+ states with 500+ loans. Known in the industry as the "Fixed Income GOAT," Nic leads with two foundational beliefs: Wall Street is broken, and economics tells the future. His new book Economics Over Politics strips the emotional noise out of the news cycle and delivers the cold, hard math of today's economy.

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Natalie Nicole, founder of Dulsa Life, joins Brian Nichols to reveal why Big Sugar wanted to keep him at 385 pounds and how the alternative sweetener industry is quietly destroying America's metabolic health. Natalie breaks down why roughly 70% of Americans are now battling chronic metabolic illness, how high fructose corn syrup hits your cells like a fire hose compared to the "garden hose" of real sugar, and why every pink, blue, yellow, and green sweetener packet at the grocery store is laced with maltodextrin, dextrose, or sugar alcohols that wreck your gut. They get into the Ozempic shortcut trap, the 10-year slow-poisoning timeline that precedes a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, and why SNAP benefits and Big Soda subsidies are making the problem exponentially worse for working class Americans.

We expose the uncomfortable truth about why "zero calorie" sweeteners are one of the most successful marketing scams in food history... and why the same playbook Big Tobacco ran in the 60s is now running Big Sugar. Natalie shares the blueprint behind Dulsa - a functional sweetener built with organic monk fruit, allulose, prebiotic yacon root, and shelf-stable probiotics - and walks through how she's hijacking your body's natural GLP-1 production without the black box warnings. If you've ever flipped over a "healthy" nutrition label, shrugged, and told yourself "it's probably fine"... you need to hear this.

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Joe Lombardi of Iron Hawk Financial joins Brian Nichols to reveal why he moved $20 million out of gold and silver positions this year - and why the people still holding are about to get crushed. Lombardi breaks down the geopolitical chess game behind the crash: nations liquidating gold and crypto reserves to buy US dollars as America secures 40% of the world's oil supply through conflicts in Iran and Venezuela. With credit card debt past a trillion dollars and interest rates hitting their highest since August 2023, this isn't a tweet - it's a coordinated global strategy most people can't see.

You need to hear this blueprint for building wealth outside Wall Street and government-controlled retirement accounts. We expose the reality of 401(k) fees silently eating 45% of your retirement... the insurance-based strategies billionaires and banks actually use to earn tax-free double-digit returns with zero market downside... and why your accountant's advice to "save money this year" is costing you ten dollars for every one you defer. Plus - the personal transformation story you didn't expect from a financial advisor who found Jesus, lost the weight, and rebuilt everything from the inside out.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

0:47 - Joe's Health Transformation and Finding Jesus

2:50 - Why Gold, Silver, and Crypto Are Crashing (It's Not a Tweet)

7:15 - The Conservative Podcast Gold Scam Nobody Talks About

11:39 - The Insurance Strategy Billionaires Use Instead of Banks

15:41 - Why Every Dollar You "Save" in a 401(k) Costs You Ten

22:45 - Copy the Millionaires: Joe's Wall Street Mentor Story

30:00 - The 100-Year Tax Bracket Chart They Don't Teach You

31:13 - Your Financial Health Is Your Spiritual Health

32:55 - Iron Hawk Financial and How to Get Started

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Brian Nichols exposes how Gen Z's dating recession created a loneliness epidemic now radicalizing young men AND women into political extremism. 44% of Gen Z men have zero relationship experience. 73% of Gen Z report chronic loneliness. 6 in 10 talk to AI more than coworkers. The skills that dating and sales teach you - rejection, negotiation, reading people, handling conflict - are the same skills a functioning democracy requires. And an entire generation never learned them. Brian breaks down the data from the Surgeon General's loneliness advisory, the largest incel study ever conducted, Cambridge's TikTok radicalization research, and Gallup's 15-point gender political divide to show why this isn't a "soft skills" problem. It's a civilizational one.

This episode is the wake-up call nobody in media is delivering. Brian exposes how the same 3N radicalization model - Needs, Networks, Narratives - is pulling lonely young men into incel pipelines AND lonely young women into ideological extremism simultaneously. He reveals why TikTok's algorithm can shift misogynistic attitudes 50% in just 90 days, why 94% of Gen Z workers now use AI to handle workplace conflict instead of talking to a human, and the one communication philosophy that might be civilization's only way out. If you've ever wondered why nobody can talk to each other anymore... this is the episode.

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1:00 - The Gen Z Dating Recession Is Real (And the Data Is Brutal)

3:00 - Gen Z Can't Even Have a Conversation at Work

5:00 - The Surgeon General Says Loneliness Kills Like Cigarettes

7:00 - Inside the Incel Radicalization Pipeline10:00 - Women Are Radicalizing Too (And Nobody Will Say It)

12:00 - The Powder Keg: Why Democracy Needs Dating Skills

14:00 - Meet People Where They're At (The Only Way Out)

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What if the word "midterm" is literally costing Republicans elections?James Dixon thinks so.

James is a podcaster, husband, Christian, and one of the most compelling voices on making politics LOCAL again — especially heading into 2026 in Michigan.

And look… the state has been run into the ground.

But here's the thing: James isn't doom-and-glooming it. He's tilting the playing field.

In today's episode, we dig into:→ Why "midterm" is the language of losing (and what to call it instead)→ How to bring national issues INTO local races without losing the plot→ The "continue watching conservative" problem… and how to fix it→ Why your vote in a local race weighs MORE than your presidential vote→ The 10x Votes service that makes getting people to the polls actually simple→ James as a black conservative in the Republican Party — and why he sees zero contradictionI'll be honest with you, folks.I pushed back on James a little.

I'm watching the demographic data. I'm watching the GOP coalition fracture. The MAHA moms are upset. The libertarians are upset about Iran. And history says the president's party gets smoked in these elections.

James's answer?

"That's true if we accept the current world at face value."

…Fair point, James.

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0:49 - Meet James Dixon & Make Politics Local Again

1:45 - Why "Midterm" Is the Language of Losing

3:10 - Reframing the Argument (The Sales Parallel)

5:15 - Bridging National Issues to Local Races

7:25 - The Coattail Effect & GOP Coalition Fractures

10:13 - Tilting the Playing Field: Michigan's Hidden Advantage

12:55 - The Path of Least Resistance Problem

15:17 - Making It EASY: Permanent Absentee Ballots & 10x Votes

17:10 - Why Local Elections Matter MORE Than Presidential Ones

19:44 - Being Black & Conservative in the Republican Party

21:47 - Politics Is Downstream From Culture

23:31 - Politics Is For POWER (The Probate Judge Story)

26:33 - Final Thoughts: Brian's Demographic Concerns

29:33 - Final Thoughts: James's Case for Michigan Optimism

32:28 - Vote in Self-Defense

35:12 - James's Call to Action & Where to Find Him

35:46 - Brian's Wrap + Cardio Miracle

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We're diving into the recent Axios piece where Democratic strategists, including those from the Barack Obama campaign, admit uncertainty about the party's future identity post-Donald Trump.

Both the Democrat and Republican parties are facing the same identity crisis in 2026. Democrats admit they have no platform post-Trump. The GOP coalition is fracturing over glyphosate and Iran. And nobody is connecting these two crises until now.
Democrats' own strategists went on the record this week admitting the party runs almost entirely on anti-Trump energy with no actual product to sell. Meanwhile the MAHA movement erupted after Trump signed a glyphosate executive order that handed immunity to the exact chemical RFK Jr. once won a $289 million verdict against. Libertarians and non-interventionists are in open revolt over the Iran war. Trump's approval has cratered to historic lows.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - The Story Nobody Is Connecting

1:18 - The Democrats' Confession

4:39 - The GOP's Mirror Image

7:00 - The Non-Interventionist Revolt

9:40 - The Sales Diagnosis

12:29 - What This Actually Means for You

14:45 - The Prescription

17:14 - The Fix Starts With You

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Andrew Clark from Yes Every Kid joins Brian Nichols to discuss the future of education, exploring new federal programs like tax credits for private school scholarships and expanded 529 accounts for K-12 tuition. This conversation highlights critical aspects of public policy, including the staggering per-student costs in public education and the need to rethink learning in the age of AI. It's a must-listen for anyone interested in the intersection of education and campaign strategies.

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