Wide Awake at 3AM

Danny Aguilera joins host Cole Smithson in the virtual studio for the inaugural video podcast. This is also his second appearance on Wide Awake and first in many years. More Danny definitely to come. Video coming soon to Youtube near you. Danny and Cole talk about stories from their friendship in their hometown of Wilmington, Delaware as well as some of the funnier stories in the news. Everybody&a...

Happy Fourth of July to everyone this celebrating this week. Weird to have it right in the middle of the week, but here we are. Host Cole Smithson talks about his favorite news stories and topics from the week before discussing manifesting and visualizing the life he desires. Let me know what you think. Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk-smith. Follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawak...

Host Cole Smithson shares his thoughts on his struggle to put more effort into the podcast and where he sees himself and the podcast going forward. Let me know what you think. Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk-smith. Follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscribe, rate the show 5 stars and share with your friends. Twitter @awake_smyth 

Solo pod this week! Host Cole Smithson talks about what's going on in his life before diving into the tricks of capitalism and the fight we are facing on the left. Let me know what you think. Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk-smith. Follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscribe, rate the show 5 stars and share with your friends. Twitter @awake_smyth 

Are the Mormons the only correct religion or are they a death cult? Maybe it's both. This week we have recovering Mormon Taylor Record on to discuss growing up Mormon in Utah, the 32 billion dollars the Church was hiding and all things LDS. Let me know what you think. Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk-smith. Follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Check out X...

My oldest friend Xavier Bradley stop by the virtual studio this week to talk about everything from AI not being a threat to Dancing with Lil Nas X as a runner for a production team in LA. Xavier also talks about how he stays motivated by the goals he has set for himself and the boys get deep on the fear of death. Let me know what you think. Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk-smith. Follow the show @widea...

Host Cole Smithson goes on a solo mission this week to delve into the nature of reality. Does reality exist? Can we ever understand it? Listen to find out. Everything you need is inside of you. Let me know what you think. Tell your friends! Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk_smith. Please follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscribe, rate the show 5 stars, joi...

Nihilist, Leftist freedom fighter Jacob Burkhart comes on the podcast to discuss if anything actually matters. Here's a hint. It does not, but that's the fun part. We also have a spirited discussion about the Chinese balloon in this week's Scream into the Abyss. Ya'll won't want to miss out on this one. Everything you need is inside of you. Let me know what you think. Tell...

What are we progressing towards? This week the smartest 25-year-old alive Tim Rickert joins us to discuss what it means to be a progressive in today's America. Solutions to a lot of the issues we face are hard to come by, but Tim handles them with a nuance and brevity that we need right now. Everything you need is inside of you. Let me know what you think. Tell your friends! Follow me on Tik...

Friend of the show Nate Vath comes on to talk about his experience with mental health and how he has tried to help others with theirs. Everything you need is inside of you. Let me know what you think. Tell your friends! Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk_smith. Please follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscribe, rate the show 5 stars, join in on the conversat...

It's our first return guest and one of my favorite people on the podcast this week, Phoenix Ridings. She comes back on the podcast to discuss manifestation and how to create the life that you seek. Everything you need is inside of you. Let me know what you think. Tell your friends! Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk_smith. Please follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on...

A little late this week, but we should be back on schedule for Wide Awake Wednesday's next week. First podcast of many in 2023. We're all on this mission together and let's go kick the shit out of this life. Let me know what you think. Tell your friends! Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk_smith. Please follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscrib...

This episode is deeply personal, but it may help others trying to make a large change in their lives.  Let me know what you think. Tell your friends! Please follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscribe, rate the show 5 stars, join in on the conversation and tell your friends! Twitter @awake_smyth 

This one isn't for the math nerds. I have the hottest take of 2022 and I'm ready to share it with y'all. I also bring back everyone's favorite segment, Scream Into the Abyss. Let me know what you think. Tell your friends! Please follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscribe, rate the show 5 stars, join in on the conversation and tell...

It's Wide Awake Wednesday and this week we have ladies' night on the podcast. I discuss the rise of internet "meninist" culture including Andrew Tate. Something tells me the women are going to love this one. Let me know what you think. Tell your friends! Please follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscribe, rate the show 5 stars, join...

Wide Awake Wednesday is BACK. It's the last day of Men's Mental Health Awareness Month and this episode dives into the mental health of one man in particular. I hope y'all like this one. A little look at how I've been doing before we get into the main topic. This week I'm diving into the concept of losing yourself. Are you allowing yourself to exist? Tell your friends! Ple...

Mariel Markl is a woman in the medical field and who better to have on and discuss the destructive and regressive decision that's coming from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Listen to these two best friends give their takes on where the country is going following this decision. Check it out and spread the word. Please follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatt...

Today we're introducing my new series on the show "Don't sleep." In these segments we're going to quickly break down a topic that's important not to sleep on. These are going to be shorter likely than my usual episodes, but we're hopeful they are well received. Please let us know what you think about them. Your feedback is very important. On the first episode of...

Wake up Wednesday is BACK! This week's guest on Wide Awake is an old friend of Cole Smithson's parents, Lisa Anderson. Lisa is the director of global omni-channel marketing for AstraZeneca and is also an energy healer. First we go through Lisa's background before she describes her awakening following being laid off for the third time. Lisa describes realizing people are all one love...

We’re back! After a 2 month plus hiatus Wide Awake at 3 AM returns with a very special episode for y'all. Artist Adam Maxwell joins me in the basement this week to discuss how our perceptions of ourselves and the world influence our decisions and how we take in information. We start off discussing Adam's latest art installment (3:35). Adam and Cole take a trip down to the abyss to see wh...

Wide Awake is back this week with a very different episode for y'all. Mark Kaplan and Walker Bristow from the RNsquared news team in Columbia, South Carolina join me in the basement for the second straight zoom podcast. RNsquared is a comedic news show, so this one is full of laughs. We start off talking about covering the local news in Columbia, SC (3:00) and the dangers of corporate funded...

We're back in the basement this week with another very special guest. Dorell Reynolds, RELLIKISS, comedian and viral video maker from Wilmington, Delaware joins Cole in the basement via zoom this week. This one is all over the place, but is sure to have content for everyone to enjoy. We start off discussing censorship and shadow banning RELLIKISS has experienced on his social media accounts (...

Wide Awake is back after almost a month hiatus. It's still Wednesday and we're still wide awake with another guest! Danny Aguilera straps on his tin foil hat and joins an old friend in the basement. We discuss being a twitter troll and the latest Chrissy Tiegen twitter scandal (5:35) and getting to vote between two alleged rapists in his first presidential election as an adult (21:00). T...

It's Wednesday and we're wide awake with another distinguished guest! Maya Queenan straps on her tin foil hat and joins an old college friend in the basement. We discuss growing up in South Carolina as black woman (10:05) before Maya throws Candace Owens into the abyss (24:05). For the main bit tonight we get into Maya’s experience as a black woman. Maya speaks on becoming numb to police...

It's Wednesday and we're wide awake with our first of many distinguished guests. Phoenix Ridings straps on her tin foil hat and joins us in the basement this week to talk art, ethnobotany, and the Great Awakening. We recorded this episode on August 19th the night of the new moon and discuss Phoenix's moon ceremony and Wicca faith (5:10) before discussing eastern spirituality and our...