Truth Hurts Show

What if the very people paying to kill wild animals are also helping keep those species alive? Trophy hunting is one of the most controversial industries in the world. But according to Rob Kern of Hunting Consortium, there's a side of the story most people have never heard. In this episode, we sit down with Rob to challenge everything we thought we knew about hunting, conservation, poaching, and t...

100,000 subscribers. We did it. When we started the Truth Hurts Show, the goal was simple: create a place where we could have real conversations, ask the questions other people avoid, and sit down with guests who have stories worth hearing. What started as an idea turned into something much bigger than we expected. We’ve had conversations about health, business, politics, relationships, corruption...

Dr. Topeka Sam went from facing more than a decade in federal prison to becoming one of the country’s prominent advocates for women impacted by incarceration and eventually receiving a full presidential pardon. Topeka was sentenced in 2012 after pleading guilty to a federal drug conspiracy charge. In this episode, she takes Brian and Makan inside the moment everything collapsed, what she encounter...

Rafael Petardi has spent more than 30 years acting, and after working alongside some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, he has stories about what these people are really like when the cameras stop rolling. Eventually, that persistence put him on some massive sets. Rafael appeared in Netflix’s Red Notice alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. He describes The Rock as extremely...

Your phone knows where you sleep, where you work, who you spend time with, what you search for, what you buy, where you worship and potentially even what political events you attend. And according to Joe Weil and Matt Green of Unplugged, most people have no idea how much of that information is being collected, sold and stored. Joe and Matt join the Truth Hurts Show for a deep dive into the surveil...

Kim Rogers is known online as the “Worm Queen,” and she believes parasites are a much bigger problem than most people realize. In this episode, she breaks down the symptoms she associates with parasites, where she believes people are picking them up, and the personal experience that turned her obsession with worms into a business that she says has now shipped more than 300,000 kits worldwide. Kim...

Jonathan Shaw grew up inside Hollywood’s elite, became close with Johnny Depp before he was famous, battled heroin addiction, tattooed cultural icons, traveled the world with almost nothing and said what he witnessed behind Hollywood’s curtain took decades to fully understand. He recalls being around figures including Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Marlon Brando as a child. But undern...

After brain tumor scares, cancer, autoimmune issues, neurological problems and three invasive lipedema surgeries, Mariam Hakopyan reached a point where she stopped waiting for someone else to fix her health. Her own experience eventually led her to build Empower Wellness Spa in Encino, where she focuses heavily on lymphatic health, red light therapy, vibration therapy, ozone sauna and noninvasive...

Sean Stone’s journey into Freemasonry led him into a world of occult rituals, strange encounters, and unsettling questions. In this episode of the Truth Hurts Show, he takes us inside his experiences with Freemasonry, secret societies, occult traditions, unexplained encounters, UFOs, AI, Epstein, adrenochrome and the hidden structures he believes influence the world around us. Sean opens up about...

What if the technology that feels futuristic today was already being developed decades ago? Dr. Gerard Gibbons spent decades telling stories for some of the most advanced organizations in government, defense, medicine, and technology. His career eventually brought him into the world of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he was tasked with taking complex technologies and tu...

After helping a close friend navigate cancer and later receiving his own cancer diagnosis, Jay Moon began questioning everything he believed about medicine, nutrition, parasites, inflammation, and metabolic health. In this episode, Jay explains why he believes gut health is the foundation of the immune system, how parasites may influence fatigue, brain fog, skin problems, and sugar cravings, and w...

Dating apps were supposed to make finding love easier. Instead, they've made it harder than ever. Professional matchmakers Dana Strokovsky and Nicole Catino from Tawkify, America's largest matchmaking company, join the Truth Hurts Show to expose what's really happening behind modern dating. From unrealistic expectations and dating app fatigue to first date mistakes, attraction psychology, body lan...

Can you dramatically improve your health, slow aging, and accelerate healing using technologies most people have never heard of? Dr. Har Hari Khalsa joins the Truth Hurts Show for an eye-opening conversation on cutting-edge longevity, regenerative medicine, and holistic healing. From PEMF therapy, hyperbaric oxygen chambers, red light therapy, peptides, and gut health to meditation, cold exposure,...

What if chronic pain, opioid addiction, and even brain degeneration could be treated without surgery or lifelong medication? Regenerative medicine expert Marcos Sedghi joins the Truth Hurts Show to explain the groundbreaking technologies reshaping modern healthcare, from vagus nerve stimulation and bioelectronic medicine to stem cells, exosomes, and the future of anti-aging. Marcos breaks down how...

Three days before Afghanistan collapsed, Mariam Solaimankhil received a chilling phone call: "You have 72 hours to leave or you're going to disappear." Former Afghan Member of Parliament Mariam Solaimankhil joins the Truth Hurts Show to share her firsthand account of the final days before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan and why she believes the world still doesn't understand what really...

Los Angeles has a crisis most people never see. In this episode, Nathan Kehn, known online as Nathan The CatLady, exposes the brutal reality of animal rescue in Los Angeles, Skid Row, Spain, Nicaragua, and beyond. What started as funny cat videos turned into a full scale rescue mission. Nathan breaks down how animals are being abused, bred, neglected, abandoned, and even used in horrifying conditi...

The medical system gave her surgeries. It never gave her answers. After years of chronic pain, severe endometriosis, multiple surgeries, and a condition so rare that doctors didn't know how to treat it, Sierra Meade was forced to start searching for solutions on her own. What began as a personal health crisis turned into a mission to help others understand how the body actually works. In this epis...

In this episode of the Truth Hurts Show, former FBI hostage negotiator and Never Split The Difference author Chris Voss breaks down the real psychology behind negotiation, interrogation, business deals, relationships, sales, and human behavior. Chris explains why FBI negotiation is built on applied emotional intelligence, why empathy is not sympathy, how to make people feel understood, and why the...

Most people think they’re thinking for themselves. They’re not. In this episode, Mike Piscitelli and Jay Carson break down the psychological systems controlling modern society through media, social validation, fear, consumerism, and manipulation. From social media algorithms to identity programming, they expose how people are conditioned to chase distractions while slowly losing discipline, awaren...

She was making thousands of dollars a week as a high end escort while secretly living a second life in the streets of Los Angeles. Meth addiction. Pimps. Gang members. Smuggling illegal immigrants across the border. Federal prison. Skid Row. This episode with Glynis Franz exposes a world most people never see, a dark underground economy fueled by drugs, manipulation, desperation, and survival. Gly...

She walked away from a normal life and spent nearly two decades traveling through India, Thailand, monasteries, and spiritual retreats searching for answers most people never stop to ask. In this episode of the Truth Hurts Show, Liana Moon breaks down the hidden connection between pain, karma, destiny, meditation, breathwork, and human consciousness. From studying Buddhism in Thailand to living in...

California is collapsing and Sheriff Chad Bianco says it’s not an accident. In this episode of the Truth Hurts Show, Sheriff Bianco breaks down how corruption, political influence, failed policies, and unchecked power turned one of America’s greatest states into what he calls a “third world country.” From skyrocketing crime and homelessness to insane gas prices, overregulation, mass business exodu...

Everyone wants a summer body. Almost nobody understands what it actually takes. In this episode, Bella Trost breaks down the brutal truth behind fitness, fat loss, and bodybuilding that social media refuses to show. From starving diets and obsessive calorie tracking to hormone damage and mental burnout, this isn’t the highlight reel, it’s the reality. This conversation exposes why cardio won’t fix...

The public thinks cops are highly trained. They’re not and that should worry you. In this episode, former officer and 221B Tactical founder Suresh Madhavan exposes a hard truth: police are thrown into life-or-death situations with minimal real training, far beyond just guns or driving. From domestic violence to death notifications, they’re expected to handle chaos with little preparation. He also...

He was a high-performing student, a law school standout, and a career criminal moving serious weight. Then everything collapsed. In this episode, Ryan Gobble of Rebuild with Ryan tells the full story. After his father died, he poured his grief into a large-scale drug operation that exploded into a million-dollar lifestyle. At the height of it, he says anything under 100 pounds a week felt slow. Th...