The Brian Nichols Show

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 202...

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 Gall...

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 nati...

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 b...

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 Jo...

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 i...

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 hum...

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 a...

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 d...

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 f...

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" -...

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 surveil...

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 union...

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. Bac...

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-cust...

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...

Michael Murphy is a systems administrator from Chicago's Austin neighborhood running for Cook County Board President - and he's taking on a Democratic machine where the current president has held power for 16 years and several races run completely unopposed. So what happens when an IT guy looks at the second-largest county in America and decides the whole thing just needs a reboot? In this episode...

Keith Erwood, business continuity and disaster recovery expert, joins Brian Nichols to reveal how a guy with a box of donuts walked into a company and stole the keys to their entire network - and why 40% of small businesses never reopen after a major disaster. No firewall stopped him. No alarm went off. He just smiled, handed over donuts, and photographed the passwords taped to people's monitors....

Stefan Gleason, President and CEO of Money Metals Exchange, joins Brian Nichols to reveal what's really inside Fort Knox - and why central banks just bought 244 tons of gold in 90 days while your dollar quietly dies in your pocket. Here's the part nobody wants audited... the US gold reserves haven't had a legitimate audit in DECADES, 83% of it isn't even pure gold, and the experts say it would tak...

Ramon Perez, Executive Director of the Digital Democracy Project, joins Brian Nichols to reveal how mobile voting software is putting Congress directly into voters' pockets - and why Governor Ron DeSantis line-item vetoed the Florida bill that would have made it official state policy. Inside, Ramon breaks down the verified voter scorecards that have lawmakers running scared, the blockchain technol...

Did Daily Wire really torch $100 million on Bentkey? Marcus Pittman, CEO of LOOR TV, called the collapse of conservative streaming years before it happened - and he is back on the show to explain exactly why conservative entertainment keeps losing. Four years ago Marcus came on with a contrarian pitch that made VCs laugh in his face - Netflix meets Kickstarter, where subscribers decide what gets m...

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

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...

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...

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......