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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 SPONSORS This episode is sponsored by Oasis of Hope Hospital. Free consultation with their medical team - use code TBNS: https://www.oasisofhope.com Hear Emma Victoria Johnson's story: https://www.briannicholsshow.com/breast-cancer-under-50-apple-cider-vinegar-mexicos-medical-tourism-boom-a-275000-mistake-t/ Cardio Miracle - 15% off with code TBNS: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS BRIAN NICHOLS Website: https://www.briannicholsshow.com X: https://x.com/BNicholsLiberty Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? SPONSORS This episode is sponsored by Oasis of Hope Hospital. Free consultation with their medical team - use code TBNS: https://www.oasisofhope.com Cardio Miracle - 15% off with code TBNS: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS CONNECT WITH BRIAN Website: https://briannicholsshow.com X: https://twitter.com/BNicholsLiberty Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BNicholsLiberty Email: [email protected] New episodes every Thursday. Recorded at Cardio Miracle Studios in eastern Indiana. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 BRIAN NICHOLS Website: https://www.briannicholsshow.com X: https://x.com/BNicholsLiberty Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BNicholsLiberty Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bnicholsliberty Email: [email protected] New episodes every Thursday. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 FOLLOW EMMA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_victoriaj/ THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY OASIS OF HOPE HOSPITAL Free consultation: https://www.oasisofhope.com WATCH DR. FRANCISCO CONTRERAS ON TBNS https://www.briannicholsshow.com/why-natural-cancer-therapies-never-get-fda-approved-doctor-explains-tbns-1097/ SUPPORT THE SHOW Cardio Miracle - 15% off with code TBNS: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS CONNECT WITH BRIAN Website: https://www.briannicholsshow.com X: https://x.com/BNicholsLiberty Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BNicholsLiberty Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bnicholsliberty/ Email: [email protected] Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. SUPPORT DR. THOMAS LAEHN Campaign site and donations: https://laehn4iowa.org Meet Thomas: https://laehn4iowa.org/about Libertarian Party profile: https://lp.org/candidate/thomas-laehn/ THE BRIAN NICHOLS SHOW Website: https://briannicholsshow.com Email: [email protected] X: https://x.com/BNicholsLiberty Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BNicholsLiberty Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bnicholsliberty SPONSOR Cardio Miracle: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS Use code TBNS for 15% off Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Cardio Miracle - 15% off with code TBNS: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS Website: https://briannicholsshow.com Email: [email protected] X / Facebook / Instagram: @BNicholsLiberty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Support the show and your heart at cardiomiracle.com/TBNS with code TBNS for 15% off. 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 SUPPORT THE SHOW Cardio Miracle - the best heart health supplement in the world: cardiomiracle.com/TBNS (code TBNS for 15% off) CONNECT Website: briannicholsshow.com Email: [email protected] X: x.com/BNicholsLiberty Facebook: facebook.com/BNicholsLiberty Instagram: instagram.com/BNicholsLiberty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW Cardio Miracle - https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS - use code TBNS for 15% off CONNECT WITH BRIAN https://www.briannicholsshow.com [email protected] X, Facebook, Instagram: @BNicholsLiberty Recorded at Cardio Miracle Studios in eastern Indiana. New episodes Thursdays. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three brands. Three cups. So why do they all taste the same? Black Sheep Coffee co-founder and co-CEO Eirik Holth joins The Brian Nichols Show to break down how the coffee industry consolidated itself into a single flavor... and what it actually took to build 140+ shops going the other direction. Because that's the thing nobody says out loud. Starbucks, Dunkin', Tim Hortons, Scooter's, pick your favorite. The menu changes a little. The cup changes a little. The experience doesn't change at all. You get your coffee and you go. And somewhere along the way, the most human thing in the world - sitting down and having a cup of coffee with somebody - turned into a transaction. In 2013, Eirik and his college roommate Gabriel Shohet put a fixed date on the calendar, quit their corporate finance jobs, and moved to London with about $15,000 each and no business plan. They ripped apart pallets to build the first bar. Pulled materials out of junkyards. That wasn't a phase... it's the store design now. And the bet was robusta - the bean the specialty world had written off as commodity filler. Higher caffeine. Lower acidity. Full-bodied enough to punch through the milk. Nobody was championing it, so they did. Eirik breaks down why they turned down venture capital and private equity, how they raised from customers who shared a fifteen-year view instead, and why keeping board control is the only reason the concept ever got to become a concept. Plus the franchise model that became the growth engine, and why owner-operators going rogue is a feature and not a bug. And Brian ties the whole thing back to the customer experience fight he's having in the day job every single week. The Maker's Mark wax dip. The hand-painted graffiti on every wall. Why AI can regurgitate empathy but will never actually feel it. And why the copy-and-paste coffee joint keeps losing to the place that bothered to make a choice. CHAPTERS 00:00 - What Does the American Dream Look Like? 01:46 - Two Finance Guys, One Fixed Date, No Plan 03:13 - Dubai, Texas, Florida 03:35 - When "Someday" Never Actually Comes 04:38 - The Copy-and-Paste Coffee Problem 06:06 - The Bean Everybody Wrote Off 08:10 - Too Corporate On One Side, Too Hipster On The Other 09:08 - Customer Experience Isn't Just The Phone Call 09:55 - Junkyard Pallets, Graffiti Walls, Curated Playlists 11:37 - The Maker's Mark Wax Dip and Why AI Can't Fake It 14:44 - One Headline Metric: Customer Satisfaction 15:47 - What Breaks When You Double The Store Count? 16:50 - Founder Vision vs. The Guy Who Came From Chipotle 18:35 - Why They Said No To Private Equity 21:40 - Inside The Franchise Model 22:28 - Turnkey, Owner-Operators, And Going Rogue 24:29 - Where To Find Black Sheep In The US 25:57 - Blank Canvas: Picking Your Own Territory 27:23 - Find The Problem, Bring The Solution 28:56 - Eirik's Final Thoughts 29:45 - Brian's Close and Call To Action LINKS Black Sheep Coffee (US): https://blacksheepcoffee.us US Franchising: https://blacksheepcoffee.us/pages/franchising-us US Locations: https://blacksheepcoffee.us/blogs/locations/tagged/country-usa Black Sheep Coffee (UK): https://blacksheepcoffee.co.uk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/black_sheep_coffee/ Cardio Miracle: https://cardiomiracle.com/tbns Brian on X: https://x.com/BNicholsLiberty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fauci diaries are public - 1,141 pages of them. He pled the Fifth 111 times. RFK Jr. torched CNN's pandemic narrative to Dana Bash's face. And they still want a pandemic amnesty... so today, we open the vault. Because I didn't start covering this last week. I have four years of tape. Inside the diaries: the fatality rate he kept private while telling Congress 3%. "I didn't close the schools" - under oath - while claiming credit behind the scenes. Six months of entries... just gone. And the lab leak call HE convened, then cited at the White House podium like he'd never seen it. Then the receipts. 2021: Trent Ortner and I said Rand Paul was right about Wuhan funding while the media called it conspiracy. 2022: Jeffrey Tucker (Brownstone Institute) and I did the autopsy the day Fauci announced his resignation. And my full answer to Emily Oster's "pandemic amnesty" pitch in The Atlantic. We said it then. The data said it then. They lied. And now they want amnesty. No. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Conspiracy Theorist 3:33 - The Day I Became A Threat 5:30 - Inside The Fauci Diaries 6:40 - The Death Rate He Kept Private ⚠ 8:20 - "I Didn't Close The Schools" 10:10 - The Claim That Built The Mandates 11:45 - Six Months Of Diary... Gone 12:05 - The Lab Leak Cover Story 16:10 - 111 Times He Took The Fifth 19:20 - RFK Torches Dana Bash 25:05 - 2021: The Campus Mandate Tape (Ep 316) 46:50 - Rand Paul Was Right 54:30 - The Resignation Autopsy w/ Jeffrey Tucker (Ep 567) 1:12:50 - The Pandemic Amnesty Read (Ep 614) 1:34:15 - The Verdict: No. 1:36:00 - What Happens To Fauci Now Studio Sponsor - Cardio Miracle: Get 15% off your order at Cardiomiracle.com/tbns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lanny Davis joins Brian Nichols to reveal why he agrees with libertarians on government surveillance and why America's privacy crisis is happening right now. This isn't a gotcha. Davis was Special Counsel to President Clinton, legal advisor to Michael Cohen, and the only Democrat George W. Bush put on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - the panel that watched the government's surveillance programs from the inside. The invitation came from Karl Rove himself. So what makes a lifelong Democrat go straight to George Orwell's 1984? Flock cameras. License plate readers. Every car in America logged and shared between departments. Davis looked at all of it and said the quiet part out loud... "the bigger government is, the more I feel shared wisdom with libertarians." His new book, Finding the Third Way, tackles the civility crisis head-on. He and Joe Lieberman once asked 535 members of Congress and 50 governors to sign a civility pledge - three signed. Davis names his own party's labeling problem, pulls a Harry Truman warning from 1948, and makes the case that Democrats and libertarians agree on more than either side admits. And then Brian does the thing we do... the scorecard. Three things Lanny got right. Three where he lost me. One of them pointed straight at our own side. One standard. CHAPTERS: 0:00 The Guest Nobody Expected 0:06 "Who Are You, Zelig?" 1:53 The Resignation That Wasn't 2:34 The Karl Rove Phone Call 5:31 Inside the Spy Room 7:21 The Guardrails Are Slipping 8:16 The Empty Oversight Board 10:00 Cameras on Every Corner 11:26 "Big Brother Is Watching You" 12:24 Only 3 Out of 585 Said Yes 15:32 The Socialist Label Trap 17:49 Truman's Warning to Democrats 20:38 Why Voters Snapped 24:14 "The Heck With Your Civility" 26:02 The Empathy Problem 29:52 Lanny's Curveball Close 33:11 The Scorecard GUEST LINKS Get the book: https://lannyjdavis.com Purple Nation column: https://www.realclearpolitics.com SUPPORT THE SHOW Cardio Miracle - 15% off: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS (code TBNS) Website: https://briannicholsshow.com Email: [email protected] Socials: @BNicholsLiberty New episodes every Thursday. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Osborne joins Brian Nichols to reveal how public sector unions trap members into paying union dues long after they quit - and why leaving your union is nearly impossible right now. Osborne is the former CEO of Americans for Fair Treatment and helped start the Fairness Center, a public interest law firm representing teachers, firefighters, police, and municipal workers against their own unions. This is a throwback to Episode 233, April 2021, with a five-year scorecard on what he got right and what he missed. Inside, you'll hear the uncensored breakdown of the union resignation window, the restrictive membership forms nobody reads at orientation, and the clause that makes public employees pay dues regardless of membership status. This is the playbook nobody hands you when you take a government job. And here's the part that should bother you... the union never had to win. They just had to make leaving expensive enough that you stopped trying. What happens to your paycheck when the organization that's supposed to protect you is the one you need protection from? At 6:00, the Pennsylvania teacher whose own union blocked where her money could go - even after they agreed she'd never pay them a dime. At 10:17, the gym membership analogy that explains the whole trap in sixty seconds. And at 25:30, the specific request David made to the Supreme Court in April 2021 - and the answer he got eight weeks later. Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday. This episode is powered by Cardio Miracle - lower your resting heart rate, lower your blood pressure, improve your pump. Head to cardiomiracle.com/TBNS and use code TBNS for 15% off. Full episode library at briannicholsshow.com. Reach out at [email protected] or @BNicholsLiberty on X, Facebook, and Instagram. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Chapters: 0:00 The Gym You Can't Quit 2:30 Who Your Union Actually Fails 6:00 The Teacher They Wouldn't Let Give 10:17 Quit The Union. Keep Paying Dues. 18:00 One Person Against The Machine 21:00 The Free Way Out Nobody Mentions 24:00 The Scorecard 25:30 The Ask The Court Ignored LINKS DAVID OSBORNE Commonwealth Foundation (current role) - https://commonwealthfoundation.org/staff/david-osborne/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-r-osborne-59505668/ Americans for Fair Treatment (Special Counsel) - https://americansforfairtreatment.org/author/david-osborne/ Goldstein Law Partners - https://goldsteinlp.com/attorney/david-osborne/ Writing at Reason - https://reason.com/people/david-osborne2/ Writing at Law & Liberty - https://lawliberty.org/author/david-osborne/ MENTIONED / REFERENCED Americans for Fair Treatment - https://americansforfairtreatment.org The Fairness Center - https://www.fairnesscenter.org Ladley v. PSEA - https://www.fairnesscenter.org/cases/ladley-v-psea/ Misja v. PSEA - https://www.fairnesscenter.org/cases/misja-v-psea/ The Battle for Worker Freedom (50-state grades) - https://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/research/state-public-sector-labor-laws/ How Government Unions Fund Politics - https://commonwealthfoundation.org/research/government-unions-fund-politics/ Original Episode 233 (April 2021) - https://www.briannicholsshow.com/videos/233-david-osborne-ceo-of-americans-for-fair-treatment/ TBNS https://briannicholsshow.com [email protected] @BNicholsLiberty on X, Facebook, Instagram Cardio Miracle - https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS (code TBNS, 15% off) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. If you want common-sense politics that actually holds up over time, hit subscribe and ring the bell. Every episode lives at briannicholsshow.com. And today's show is powered by Cardio Miracle - the heart-health supplement I take right here at the Cardio Miracle Studios in eastern Indiana. Lower your resting heart rate, drop your blood pressure, get a better pump. Head to cardiomiracle.com/tbns for 15% off. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. 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 Links: Kenny Cody: X → https://x.com/KDCodyTN Campaign → https://votekennycody.com Human Events (Opinion Editor) → https://humanevents.com The Brian Nichols Show: https://briannicholsshow.com [email protected] @BNicholsLiberty Cardio Miracle → https://cardiomiracle.com/tbns (15% off) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 LINKS Guest / FeeMe Download FeeMe (iPhone): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feeme/id6741012486 Download FeeMe (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feeme.application FeeMe website: https://www.feeme.com The Brian Nichols Show Follow Brian on X, Facebook & Instagram: @BNicholsLiberty Listen/watch: YouTube, Rumble, Spotify, Apple Podcasts Sponsor Cardio Miracle - 15% off with code TBNS: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices