The BBN Podcast

What if your brain can change what your body actually feels? Episode 38 has Kyle and Nick back in the Podcast Bunker after another ridiculously busy week, and tonight's rabbit hole gets deep enough that we accidentally turn it into a two-parter. But first, we crack open the raging dumpster fire known as the Global Trash Can Report. We start with Iran and reports surrounding negotiations over r...

Don't say it. Don't think it. And whatever you do... DON'T JINX IT. Episode 37 has Kyle and Nick back in the Podcast Bunker, and after the heavy subjects we've covered lately, we needed something a little more fun. But first, we crack open the raging dumpster fire known as the Global Trash Can Report. We start overseas with drones filling the skies around Moscow and discuss how mod...

Two events. Twenty-four years apart. Drastically different circumstances, but both witnessed by millions of people almost in real time. Episode 36 is different. No Global Trash Can Report. No warm-up. Kyle and Nick spend two hours in the Podcast Bunker examining 9/11 and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, two events that left America with grief, anger, unanswered questions, and endless debate. We...

Don is back in the Podcast Bunker! Every time he's back in town, we know we're in for a good one, and Episode 35 takes us from global conflicts and space telescopes to synthetic DNA, surveillance, money, martial arts and somehow... the chemical composition of air. Basically, a normal night at BBN. We open the Global Trash Can Report with the conflicts that have forced both Don and Kyle to...

Sorry, this one is a little late guys, Kyles computer went down, and deleayed the edit session, but we wont leave you without your weekly dose of the BBN! Episode 34 starts with Kyle and Nick discovering that apparently we're not as young as we used to be after a LONG round of disc golf. Shoutout to the pros competing at the World Championships in Milford, Michigan this week, you guys make tho...

Episode 33 has Kyle and Nick back in the Podcast Bunker, and this week we're talking about something most of us never notice, until it stops working. But first, we open the lid on the Global Trash Can Report. Nearly 200 earthquakes around the Pacific Ring of Fire in seven days gets us wondering just how much the planet moves beneath our feet while everyday life carries on above it. Naturally,...

Episode 32 lands on Kyle’s 33rd birthday and somehow both BBN hosts had their birthdays fall on Sunday, the exact day we chose to record this show. What are the odds? Before the birthday nostalgia begins, we crack open the Global Trash Can Report. Ukraine is deep-striking Russian infrastructure, Gaza is devastated, and the Iran conflict remains trapped in another apparent stalemate. We question ru...

Episode 31 starts with another trip through the Global Trash Can Report before Nick takes us somewhere completely different, the bizarre world our brains create every night while we sleep. First, Congress is back in the headlines with Anthony Fauci, contempt proceedings, and more unanswered questions surrounding the COVID era. Public trust took a beating, and people are tired of the political cage...

Dirty Thirty! We honestly can't believe what started as an idea between two friends has turned into 30 straight weeks of recording, editing, and hanging out in the Podcast Bunker. To everyone listening across 30 countries, thank you. Seriously. Drop a comment and let us know where you're tuning in from! We kick off Episode 30 with another look at the week's headlines, including congres...

Episode 29 starts with another scorching Michigan summer, Nick's trip Up North, and Kyle giving him grief for leaving him behind. We reminisce about summers in Northern Michigan before shifting into another week of world events that leave us asking more questions than answers. Six months into the conflict with Iran, it feels like nothing has changed. The Houthis are attacking ships in the Red...

Episode 28 kicks off with Canada’s wildfires choking Michigan in smoke for what feels like the fifth summer in a row. For several days, our local air quality ranked among the worst in the world, a brutal reminder that Mother Nature does not care about borders. Then it’s back to the conflict in Iran, ceasefires that don’t seem to stop anything, and questions about how long military operations can c...

Episode 27 is absolute chaos! in the best possible way. Don is back in the Podcast Bunker while visiting from Colombia, and what starts as a quick catch up quickly derails into nearly three hours of philosophy, world events, travel stories, history, conspiracy theories, and some of the biggest unanswered questions humanity has ever asked. We kick things off with CERN , its latest upgrades, antimat...

Episode 26 kicks off with Independence Day as America celebrates its 250th birthday . We hope everyone had a safe Fourth of July and made it to July 5th with all their fingers and toes! From there, we turn to Venezuela, where devastating earthquakes have left communities rebuilding. Our thoughts are with everyone affected as we discuss the response, recovery efforts, and why ordinary citizens ofte...

Episode 25 kicks off with Michigan in full summer chaos mode. A brutal heat wave, Nestlé draining Michigan water, and the wild stories coming out of Electric Forest all start the conversation. Kyle looks back on the festival scene from 2010–2015, before social media became the main event and people actually lived in the moment instead of filming it. That leads into bigger questions about money, li...

Happy Father’s Day from the Belligerent Broadcast Network. Episode 24 starts with Kyle and Nick back in the Podcast Bunker reflecting on fatherhood, leadership, responsibility, and the lessons that shape the people we become. What starts as a conversation about dads quickly turns into a bigger discussion about leadership itself and why so many institutions seem to be struggling with it today. From...

Episode 23 is a milestone for the Belligerent Broadcast Network...our first guest joins us in the bunker! Nick's longtime friend Don is visiting from Colombia, and what starts as a conversation between old friends turns into our longest episode yet. We kick things off talking about how Don and Nick met while working in the corporate cannabis industry. That leads into a discussion about commerc...

Episode 22 kicks off with Michigan summer arriving in full force. One minute we're wearing hoodies, the next it's 90 degrees and we're questioning our life choices. Then it's time for another edition of the Global Trash Can Report. And yes... we're back in Iran. Everyone is talking about peace while preparing for more conflict. Ceasefires come and go, but the fighting never rea...

Episode 21 kicks off with another round of global headlines, and honestly, it feels like we've been reading the same news story for months. Iran. Ukraine. Ceasefires that don't seem to stop anything. New developments, same conflicts. At this point, we're genuinely asking: what is the political definition of a ceasefire? Because from where we're sitting, the fighting never really se...

Episode 20 kicks off on a Friday night because Kyle’s schedule has officially turned into organized chaos. Before diving into the madness, we ask the audience a real question, would you guys actually join us if BBN started going live? Because Nick is fully ready to unleash chaos in real time. We start by reminiscing about the early internet days, when everything online felt like the Wild West. Not...

Episode 19 kicks off with another edition of the Global Trash Can Report , because the world somehow keeps getting more chaotic by the week. Back to the Middle East we go, drone strikes near power plants, ceasefires collapsing, and oil markets doing absolute parkour. When energy prices spike overseas, it doesn’t stay overseas. Fuel costs climb, supply chains tighten, and suddenly everybody at home...

Episode 18 kicks off with another edition of the weekly “Trash Can Report,” because somehow the news keeps getting stranger every single week. The Iran ceasefire is supposedly in effect… yet the shells are still flying. So naturally, nobody really knows what “ceasefire” even means anymore. Then the next thing rolls in... Hantavirus. Because apparently one global health scare wasn’t enough. We brea...

Episode 17 opens close to home: Michigan weather doing what it does best. Cold when it shouldn’t be, dragging winter out just long enough to be annoying. That turns into talk about spring, gardens, and growing up actually producing your own food… before the squirrels apparently started working for Big Grocery and wiped everything out. Then we zoom out, and like clockwork, it’s back to Iran. Ceasef...

Episode 16 starts where it feels like every episode has lately... back on Iran. At this point, it’s not even shocking anymore. The same headlines, the same tension, just recycled over and over again. Wars that feel less like events and more like cycles. Every decade, like clockwork. The only thing that really stands out anymore is how normalized it’s all become. But one thing still manages to impr...

Episode 15 starts where it usually does: same cycle, same headlines, different week. One story actually cuts through the noise though. Questions around leadership, accountability, and how power gets used behind closed doors. It’s the kind of thing that makes you stop and ask who’s really in control… and who isn’t. Before we go any further, shoutout to the BBN community. We’re now reaching listener...

We kick off Episode 14 back in space, Artemis, the moon, and the bigger question of why now. What are we really going back for, and what aren’t they saying out loud? Then it’s right back to Earth… and right back to Iran. Ceasefire talks, blockades, tension building in all the wrong places. It feels like the only thing in the news anymore. And the longer it drags on, the more it raises the question...