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929: The Dangerous Rise of Celebrating Violence for Political Gain | Week in Review

Today's episode exposes how long-held cultural narratives are crumbling in 2024 as high-profile figures finally speak truth to power, revealing the real cost of political correctness in modern America.

Why are we seeing high-profile figures suddenly backtracking on long-held narratives? From the Duke lacrosse case to Caitlin Clark's controversial statements, what's driving this cultural shift in 2024?

 

 

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In this explosive episode, we dive deep into three major stories that highlight the changing landscape of truth vs narrative in America. First, we examine Crystal Mangum's shocking admission about the Duke lacrosse case 18 years later, exploring what this revelation means for justice and accountability in the modern era.

 

Next, we tackle the controversial situation surrounding basketball star Caitlin Clark and her recent statements about her white privilege in the WNBA. This segment raises important questions about merit versus identity politics in professional sports, and whether appeasing certain ideological demands ever truly works.

 

The conversation then shifts to a disturbing development involving former Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz and her controversial remarks about the tragic murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This segment examines the dangerous normalization of celebrating violence for political purposes.

 

Throughout this thought-provoking episode, hosts Brian Nichols and Remso Martinez cut through the noise to examine how social media and changing cultural dynamics are forcing a reckoning with long-held narratives. Whether you're interested in politics, culture, or social commentary, this episode offers valuable insights into where America is headed in 2024.

 

 

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Transcript

Brian Nichols  0:06  
This week on our AMP America Week in Review, a seismic shift in America's future leadership as Trump's transition cabinet starts to take place with some historic making of appointments, challenging the status quo, the youngest ever press secretary of former Soros, billionaire investor at the Treasury, and Florida's first female AG, now heading to DC for the same role. But what do these picks really tell us about Trump's vision for his second term, plus the unexpected withdrawal that changed everything you don't want to miss it. Welcome to the Brian Nichols show. Instead of focusing on winning arguments, we're teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to win in the world of politics, teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. Welcome to the Brian Nichols show. Well, good morning and happy Saturday. Welcome to our AMP America week and review. I am one of your hosts, Brian Nichols, from the Brian Nichols show, joining you on this lovely Saturday morning. We are joining you here live on x. Today is November 23 thank you for joining us. And today, yes, we're talking all things Trump transition. There's been some good there's been some and then there's been some question marks, and we have to discuss all that and more. I can't do it myself, so joining me here on amp America and our Week in Review. Remzo w Martinez, welcome back to the show, buddy. How you been?

Remso Martinez  1:31  
You know, it's snowing here. Immediately, I was just like, I don't even know if I even want to leave my apartment. I don't even know if I want to put pants on today.

Brian Nichols  1:42  
You know, remzo, there are many days I question whether or not pants are a necessity. Usually I end up saying, oh, gym shorts will make it work, because I usually work remote and people only see the top half anyway. So I empathize.

Remso Martinez  1:55  
It's I'm looking out the window right now, and it's like this has been a warm winter in the four years I've been living here, we have not had snow this late into the season. But, I mean, it hit hard. Daylight Savings wasn't that drastic, but now it just gets it gets dark, and now it's snowy, and everyone here forgets how to drive. And it's funny too, because Wisconsinites never leave. So it's like, you know, they live here. They live here their entire life to have, like, the memory of a goldfish and drive into embankments all the time, sounds

Brian Nichols  2:29  
about right? I lived in Philadelphia, New Jersey area for quite a while, and whenever the seasons would switch, even though I'm like, You all live in the northeast, you know what to expect every year with the winter weather, right? Nope, no, they all just turn into a bunch of goofballs driving on the road as though they've never driven in snow or inclement weather before. Always a blast. Rem, so for today's conversation, I got some good news. Trump won, and we're putting some really good folks into positions of power in his cabinet. Some not so great news. Some of those folks have already started to withdraw. And one of those folks was somebody you and I, I think we're very excited about, and that is one attorney general nominee, Matt gates. And Matt gates ended up saying, Never mind. He pulled himself out of consideration after there was a ethics complaint that had been filed back when he was in Congress. It was going through the motions there over the past few years, and of course, now that he was being officially nominated to Attorney General, the report comes out or, well, it doesn't really come out. It's leaked out. And the report is Matt gates apparently, allegedly paid 17 year old, 18 year old women to engage in some questionable acts of maybe sexual proclivity in nature, but then with that, pulling himself out of consideration. And now it appears that Pam Bondi, it's Florida's first female attorney general. Now she's going to DC, possibly remzo to take on the same role. But I know there's a lot of question marks that you know, folks in the conservative world. Folks in the libertarian world have here with Pam Bondi remzo, tell us, the good, the bad, the ugly and all that in between.

Remso Martinez  4:06  
The ugly is that somebody was playing some 40 chess right there. So gates wins re election sounded Lee to Florida's fifth, Fifth Congressional seat. Then he goes ahead and gets nominated for attorney general. In doing so he has to resign his seat. So unlike a Senate seat, which is statewide, they've got to do a special election, and now he withdraws. So now he is no longer going to be part of the upcoming Congress, and he's also not going to be attorney general.

Brian Nichols  4:39  
So now what we have really quick pause to that. I've heard conflicting reports on he can't be on the new Congress. Is that? Is that officially true, that

Remso Martinez  4:46  
that's what I'm seeing right now? It could be incorrect, but it very much looks like, you know, it was a resignation, because, for all intents and purposes, he did not think that this would be the outcome for the 118 is right? The

Brian Nichols  4:57  
confusion is, you. Because I think it was they, they said that he resigned officially for the 100 and 18th Congress. The Congress coming in is the 100 and 19th Congress. So I think that's where the question mark is. Right now for Matt Gaetz is in his actual seat because his wife

Remso Martinez  5:13  
has been putting out like these really cryptic messages and stuff. And like these, these photos of Ashi or jokingly calling him unemployed. So it very much looks like he is out for the upcoming Congress. And interesting. I mean, at that point, it's like, why even stay? Why even stay? Because, you know, with Republicans like these, who needs Democrats, no one is surprised that every Republican nominee, and I know gates is controversial for whatever reasons. But it's like, you know, all these nominees are going to be put to the Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence, Thomas type of, you know, standard, which is just attack them incessantly. You know, with Linda McMahon, they're going to go ahead and go after her husband. They're going to go ahead and bring out all the WWE, you know, sexual assault cases and everything else, and they're going to want her to, you know, say she believes all women and all this type of shit. And it's just not going to be good. But the fact that gates is, you know, for all intents and purposes, like Out, out, it doesn't, it doesn't seem like this is what I thought we would be dealing with not even three weeks after this sweeping victory. And I think it's so funny when it's like these, these fucking loser, I'm sorry, you know, I start that way this morning. These, these fucking loser Republicans, Graham McConnell Murkowski, and the other one from Maine. It's like they're the ones who are trying to tell Trump how to lead a government. It's like you understand the reason why Republicans had a sweeping majority is because Trump was on the ballot. When Trump is on the ballot, Republicans win overwhelmingly when Trump is not on the ballot. That's a problem, and there are going to be some people who bring up 2020, 2020, was a fluke because of, like, we could talk about that another day, but you know, for the most part, it's like McConnell's out the door. These others know that they're going to be primaried the shit out of at this point for what they're doing. It is a, is a case of, okay, like it's not good enough to beat the Democrats, but now we have to beat the Republicans. And I say this in a way which is very much, you know, we've said it over the past five, six months. This is not your granddad's Republican Party. You know, notice who was not at the RNC in July. You didn't have Paul Ryan. Have met Romney. You didn't have, you know, the usual folks, you didn't have bush or whatever. And now they hadn't been at the last couple but, like, it was, it was made clear again that they're still not there because they're not welcome. And for these Republicans, like Graham, for you know, Graham, for example, who's like, telling him, like, oh, publicly, oh, you're making this mistake. And then when he picks somebody that he likes, like, Wow, you did such a great job. It's like, Who are you to tell him what, what he should and should not do? And if anything, I think it was Tommy turville from Alabama, the Alabama Senator, who is basically like, why are we treating ourselves like this when Biden, when Biden was appointing his 22 primary cabinet positions, he faced zero Democrat opposition. Why is it that and and keep in mind, Republicans also voted for a couple of Biden's people too. Lindsey Graham has always given the president, regardless of who the president is, what they want. He was one of the key Republican votes for Soto mayor, and he said that he would have voted for Merrick Garland. Should Obama have had, you know, appointed him to the scotusi as he was trying to pressure people to do as Obama was leaving after Scalia died. So this is just, this is so unnecessary. This is so unnecessary. And the truth is, is that gates would have been the nominee, if not for four Republicans. It was four Republicans that did this. They kept saying that, you know, no one was going to end up voting for him. No, all it took was four. It took four because we got 53 Republican majority, and they knew they could screw it over, and it's those swing votes, and that is one of those situations where it's like, Come on, give him who he wants. If he's not good, he's not good, he'll get replaced. None of these people right now, like, let's not get twisted. None of these cabinet appointees are going to be around in two years. The lifespan just doesn't happen for a lot of these positions, which is why I'm also, you know, I haven't said anything online about hegseth. I don't know how I feel about Pete. Hegseth is sec def. I spoke with some folks that used to work directly with him, and. They're like, you know, it's an optics thing. It's try and get the nerds in the room to try and actually cut the Pentagon budget while hegseth deals with the slings and arrows. But you know, it's also like, I'm not gonna save shit publicly, because it's like, if Trump wants him, let him have him, because he's probably gonna be one of three Secretary of defenses we have over the next four years. So let's just see how it works out. He wouldn't be the worst. I was a soldier when, when Panetta was, what was SEC death, when I forget that one Republican now, Obama, like, kept for like, three months. I think his name was Hagel, Chuck Hagel. Hagel was the token Republican who was SEC deaf, and he was like, you know, maybe we shouldn't be all woke with the soldiers, and the bomb was like, You're fired. And then I had Ash Carter, who was like, you know, let's go ahead and pay for trans surgeries funded by Justin Amash. That's another thing. But it's, it's just, it's, it's just, it's so unnecessary, it's so freaking unnecessary that this is even an issue we have to deal with right now. Give Trump who he wants.

Brian Nichols  11:11  
So I I'm kind of, I don't want to say I'm splitting the baby here. I think I am more so I'm just playing politics, because when you look at the ideal versus the the realistic outcome, right? And we talked about this back before the election happened, not talking about strategic voting theory, right? Yeah, it's not that you're going to get a 10 out of 10 in terms of outcomes. And by the way, this is just a a note to all the small l, Big L libertarians, the small c conservatives who are freaking out over a specific appointment saying, Well, see, you didn't get everything you wanted, no shit. That's not how it works, right? That's not what we expected. When I see folks like Jay Bhattacharya or I see folks like Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy or Ron Paul starting to have more and more of a seat at the table, that's more of the win for me than just getting every single person I could possibly want into these different positions. And I just, I think there has to be kind of a recalibration of what winning looks like for a lot of these more principled and then, by the way, this is not to say that being principled is not important. Being principled is absolutely important. That's supposed to be your guiding star, but it has to be a guiding star that you then take out of your ideal and apply it to the real world, right? And looking at those four senators that you very rightly outlined remzo as being really the folks standing in the way of giving us someone like a matt gates, that's politics, right? We have to kind of acknowledge that that was an inevitable feature. It's not a bug, it's a feature of the system. You're going to have people both on the the opposing side, but also on your own side, who are going to give you pushback. As a matter of fact, you look back to the Libertarians in the again, small l libertarians that were in Congress back in 2016 through 2020, and then 2020 through 2020, or rather, 20, yeah, 2016 through 2020 a lot of those voices, like a Thomas Massey, for example, or like a Rand Paul, were not necessarily thorns in the side of the Republican majority, but definitely voices of dissent and leaning back towards those guiding principles. Now that's not to say that. Well, who are they? They need to jump, jump in and lock step agree with every proposal. No, but it is important to understand that it's a game of politics, right, and we're not going to get everything we want. And we were talking about this before the election happened, right? If you have a coalition of folks like an RFK JR and a Tulsi Gabbard and a Nicole Shanahan, right with folks like a JD Vance or a Josh Hawley or a Tom cotton or a Tucker Carlson, or folks like a Rand Paul, a Thomas Massie, a Ron Paul of a vague Ramaswamy, or folks like an Elon Musk or a JD diamond or name or your Theo keywords

Remso Martinez  13:53  
in this one,

Brian Nichols  13:54  
what was that? Oh, I got you, yeah, but, like, think about it right, when we look at that coalition of folks from a principled standpoint, right? Like first principles, they are vastly different, but when it comes to the coalition of understanding the moment we are in as a country, and understanding that we have to be able to work together to accomplish the bigger goals, right? And we talk about this like in strategic voting, is winning 80% of what you're looking to accomplish better than winning 0% without a doubt, right? So instead of saying, Well, what about that 20% and just being a big bitch about it, and, you know, constantly complaining and looking at this saying you're not getting everything you thought, guess you guys got fooled, it's like, no, that's called real life. That's called reality, where I get out of a Facebook group and I apply my principles to the real world, in the real world of politics, right? Not where I'm going to get every single thing I want. And this is the part where, again, libertarians, I know I've been picking on libertarians a lot, but there is this just incessant. Um, focus on being right versus being effective. And you look at these libertarians in these, these Facebook groups and and in these online bubbles, they they are preaching to the choir, right? They're telling you how it should be. That's great. I love your vision of how things should be for the most cases, but definitely areas I disagree. But with that being said, Okay, great. Now take what you you are telling me is the best option, the best outcomes, and sell it. Oh, you can't and, oh, there is no magic wand to implement your ideas 100% because if there was, we all know what that that's called. And starts the D and ends with ater dictator ship. And that is not at all in line with libertarian ideals, unless, again, we go back to well, what would be the best way to get libertarian ideas in? You have a benevolent dictator like a Ron Paul right, who puts libertarianism into policy or into practice. That's not real life, and we have to get out of the what real life is, and what we want it to be. And understand that the vision we have as small libertarians, as right as you may be, and as wonderful the outcome may be, you have to make it fit into a real world.

Remso Martinez  16:13  
Yeah. I mean, let's just talk Ron Paul for like, two seconds. You know, Ron Paul was never against, you know, pork spending was a big topic in 2012 and it was Santorum and a couple others who are going after Paul because he was not against eliminating, you know, certain he was not, he was not against, he was not for the limitation of earmark spending by the House of Representatives. And what that means is the amount of stuff that you could put into bills that are not exactly aligned, like, you know, if it's a save the whale bill, and you're trying to, like, you know, like bomb Yemen, those things could be in there, right? Save

Brian Nichols  16:54  
the puppy's bill. Wait This, save the puppy's bill. Has bombs going over to Ukraine. What? Yeah, but

Remso Martinez  16:59  
what? What Ron Paul would do because, you know, he also had to get reelected and make his district happy in Texas, is he would go ahead and put in the necessary funds that he wanted to take out of the federal government and bring back to his district, and then he would still vote no on the bill he did. So, so that way, you know, if, in most cases, he knew he wasn't going to win, but he could take a principled stance. He could sit on the floor and talk about how he wanted, you know, to, you know, Ban, you know, get get rid of some stupid ban. Or he was against this type of spending all the right things. It wasn't the show, but His thing was, like, listen, it was going to pass anyway. I might as well bring some money that would otherwise just disappear in the federal government and bring it back to my district. He was very upfront about that, yeah, and it's one of those things where it's like, okay, he knows that this bill is going to pass. He doesn't want to say he wants to support this bill, because it goes against the ideas of liberty and it's unconstitutional, and all the things a good doctor would say. But he knows that he also has to deliver stuff to his district, and if it doesn't go his district, it's probably gonna build like a 15 million gas station in Iraq. Yep. So he was like, I might as well see what I could do with it. And very much like this, but in this situation, it's like, you know, the Republicans like the Halley's of the world, and thank god she's not anywhere near the Trump cabinet. But you know, you still got those folks out there who are saying shit about RFK, who are saying shit about Tulsi Gabbard. It's like understand, the only reason why you can sit in your freaking passenger Princess seat right now and talk all this shit is because those people helped us win in the swing states. It was at two to 3% RFK bump that delivered Trump victory and delivered victory for a lot of Republicans. The Mark, the dip, the we only won Pennsylvania by 2% keep that in mind, if RFK had been on the ballot, RFK is not looking at half a million votes. He's looking at coming in third place, ahead of Jill Stein. We're looking at probably 1.5 to 3 million. So I mean, these people, I just there are no words. We've got to primary them. It never ends. We just got to go after them. We've gotta, we've gotta salt the Earth. We have to burn the boats. And we need to get to the point where it's like, you can't do this shit. You can't do this shit. This is not the same. This is not the same.

Brian Nichols  19:33  
So let's look at another appointee that's getting

Remso Martinez  19:36  
I know, like, go ahead, two months ago, on Austin Pearson show, I made fun of bald people, and they made fun of my hairline. And I also got a really short haircut that day. So I've been wearing hats on podcasts. And people were like, oh, it's because he's really self conscious. Now. It's like, take a look at the bed head. My hair. I've been putting stuff in it. My hair, my hairline, is stronger and thicker. I've got a lion's mane going on. I'm thinking about getting them all. It. I just cold. I just want to wear a hat. So as I'm looking at myself wearing the hat, and I'm thinking of, you know how the no like, they're, they're, they're the balds who went bald at like 20. It's like, God hates them. So, oh, I'm sorry, Brian me, but you like, like you look like you look like Vin Diesel in Fast Five.

Brian Nichols  20:20  
Oh, and not even the bad ones. It's Fast Five, the

Remso Martinez  20:24  
Brazil one. Yeah, I'm talking about the other balds. I didn't know I listen. I I'm a lover, not a fighter, but, but the angry balds decide to just pick on me, and I know that they've been following me, and especially since we're on X streaming live and I'm wearing a hat, I just have to go ahead. Scott just got nipping on the bud now, so I'm sorry ran over. No, you're

Brian Nichols  20:45  
good. Rim. So Martinez and Brian Nichols here live on X today. Thank you for joining us on this Saturday morning as we're recording November 23 and if you are joining us live here, feel free to jump into the chats. Let us know what your thoughts are on Trump's cabinet picks. Also, if you are joining us here on X, make sure you hit that little notification bell, because while remzo and I do try to do this every Saturday morning, we don't know when we're gonna actually sit down. I have a young little kid, so she sometimes is finishing breakfast. You know, by 930 10 o'clock, sometimes by 830 I never really know. So make sure you hit that subscribe button soon as a single time we go live. We are live here on x and next REM so we're going to talk about another controversial pick. Well, I've been told it's really, really, really controversial because do the new nominee for the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, remzo, all I've heard, I've seen it on social media. You guys, God played this guy was a Soros plant. Oh my gosh, look at you guys. Now you're supporting Maga and Trump, and now you're letting Soros plants get into the administration. Remzo. Is that the in fact correct narrative, or is there a lot of smoke here and maybe some proverbial mirrors?

Remso Martinez  21:57  
I've been asked, I've been just wondering. It's like, okay, can you show me the evidence? And people are just like, yeah. And I'm just like, okay, like, I'm I don't care enough about this random guy to start searching about him. But if you can't tell me when he did all these things or where he went, Part Part of me wonders the the validity. So Brian, you know a little bit about this more than I do. You treat me like I'm stupid. So

Brian Nichols  22:22  
there, okay, yes, so this is one thing I've actually done some homework on because I was really curious.

Unknown Speaker  22:26  
Treat me like I'm stupid. I had

Brian Nichols  22:29  
trouble treating you like you're stupid. Rem so you're a smart egg. No, let's look at this guy right here, right Scott Besson. So I was concerned. I was absolutely concerned. I said, a Soros dude. I gotta look into this. Remzo. He worked for George Soros. Are you ready for this? How recent it was, the 90s, 2008 the 90s, the 90s. Rem So back when you and I were but we little ones, right? So we're going 30 plus years ago and and then, what did he do for George Soros? He did. He did penny stock trading based on I think it was speculation on the Japanese yen.

Remso Martinez  23:05  
He was doing penny stocks. If he's doing that 30 years ago, let's really think about that. If he's doing that 30 years ago, and he's dealing with penny stocks on a foreign exchange, I'm guessing he's not a firm president. I'm guessing he's not a partner. I'm guessing he's not a management I'm guessing he's a floor level day trader. And

Brian Nichols  23:26  
what he did, by the way, once he made money as a floor level day trader, he started his own firm, and that firm he started was entirely focused on big picture economic policies, specifically reducing regulation, lowering taxes. Like, this is a dude who, again, do I know everything about Scott uh, Besant here? No, however, based on my pretty deep digging over the past 24 hours into this guy, um, he's a dude who worked at a company that we don't like, and He then left that company and started his own company based on things we do, like, um, I've worked at companies that I didn't like. I'll be very real for a second. I don't know why he's turning to Trump here in my arms, I work for a nonprofit. Let me explain here. I worked for a nonprofit back in 2015 I was one of their fundraising directors for the Mid Atlantic and the organization itself. What like their mission was almost antithetical to libertarianism, small l libertarianism, in the mindset that they were trying to help put policy in place to help prevent lung disease, right? So very, very much focused on smoking cessation, eliminating smoking in teens, you know, talking about the dangers of smoking and vape, but also trying to enact legislation. I was there for about seven months, namely because I got burnt the F out, because I was, like, one of the only fundraising guys in the area. But also I looked at the mission and I wasn't really on board with. So does that make me a, you know, a nonprofit leftist plant, because I worked for an organization in 2015 for seven months, I guess so, based on this logic here. And again, I'm not, I'm not excusing away any real bad things that Scott besset may have supported, or currently does support, but it is important for us to at least take the narrative. And by the way, this is where I get so frustrated with so many of our friends in the libertarian camps, right because they are so confident in how much they know based on the bullshit headlines that they will quickly read. I read Scott Besson, former Soros man, hedge fund manager, joining Trump administration as Treasury secretary. What narrative is being presented there. Look at that. You idiots. You guys got fooled. You're getting a George Soros guy. You read the articles and you find out, Oh, he's just a dude who worked for a company for a little bit, left that company decades ago, started his own company and has been promoting policies and stuff that we've been, you know, promoting on our end for the past 1015, years. Yeah, this

Remso Martinez  26:00  
is not the same as like, If Trump were to the point, you know, CNN Van Jones,

Brian Nichols  26:06  
if he, if he endorsed Alex Soros, George Soros, his son, that's a different conversation to have.

Remso Martinez  26:13  
Yeah, this is just some six degrees separation stuff, bingo. It's they. They want to find something to complain about, and that's very little. And here's where I'm gonna give Trump. You know, I was on lines. This was actually, no, I'm not gonna say this was a controversial episode, but I remember I got shit about this in like 2017 I was on felony Fridays, on lines of liberty, of John oder. Man, John oder man, my boy, yeah, and John and I were talking about the the appointment of Jeff Sessions. And I lived in Alabama. I don't like Jeff Sessions, but you know, for of all the people that could have been appointed to that seat, I act, you know, that that that position as Attorney General, I actually thought that Jeff Sessions was not the worst. Was he my first choice? No, but do I think he was going to be a net negative? I didn't actually think so. And what I told John at the time was, you know, I was wrong about Trump on a lot of things, and I'm wrong about a lot of things all the time. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to watch Jeff Sessions, who I actually, you know, having lived in Alabama, have kind of seen things a little bit more up close compared to some people. If he's good, he's good, if he's not good, then hopefully he'll get replaced. And what ended up happening, Jeff Sessions actually turned out to be a really shitty Attorney General, by Trump's own admission. And what did he do? He kicked out Jeff Sessions, and he brought in that other dude that kind of looks like a walrus, like you know that that guy was, it wasn't Pompeo. No, it wasn't Pompeo because Pompeo was, what was, was CIA, and then he was SEC def,

Brian Nichols  28:06  
keep going, Yeah, Bob Barr, that's right. Bar Yep. Like,

Remso Martinez  28:11  
I forget his first name, but he brings him bar who bar was, Bill, Bill Barr. Bill Barr was an improvement. Bill Barr was an improvement over over sessions. But it's one of the situations where it's like, you know what? Give him the opportunity. I remember the cabinet that was really around Trump in 2020 like that was at the point where it's like, his 2020 cabinet was pretty freaking good. Douglas

Brian Nichols  28:39  
MacArthur gets put in place for was it? It was something high in in national security, like, the last, what, three days?

Remso Martinez  28:47  
Yeah, I mean that that would have been nice. I was hoping he'd come back, but, but what I'm saying is, like, you gotta give these people some, some options to, like, figure things out. And you know, where Trump showed some hubris, was on the Joe Rogan podcast a week before the election, and he said that he made mistakes because he listened to too many people, because he didn't know how to form a government like we have to accept that this is not just, you know, this is not Trump day one. This is not Trump day two. This is Trump who, by all technicality, should have walked in for a second term in 2020. Has had four years to really gestate this shit, and now he has a better idea of what he wants. I might not understand it, but we should at least give him a chance, especially seeing how he came and delivered, and how we actually have a chance to figure things out. So my thing is, and I go back to hegseth, I do not believe that. You know, in my in my remzo fantasy world, Pete hegseth is not even the name I consider. But if Donald Trump thinks that Pete hegseth will make a good SEC def, let him try. Because what's the worst that'll happen? Oh, he might not be good, and he gets replaced. All these people. None of these people were. Talking about right now are going to be here by 2026 at least three quarters of them will be gone.

Brian Nichols  30:08  
All right, ramzo, we're gonna quickly transition here, because, again, it is 2024 we can do what we want. We're gonna transition over to one more appointee for the Trump cabinet. Before we do that, though, we need to compare and contrast, because I think where we are today, right? We're on the 23rd of November, as we're recording today. The fifth of November was just a few short weeks ago. I already am seeing folks specifically on the right side of the aisle, squishy middle of the aisle, starting to not remember why the Democrats lost so badly and why there was such a push for folks like a Donald Trump and some more common sense across the board. But before we do that, we're going to take a quick break and give a shout out to our phenomenal studio sponsor who will help you get the best heart health you ever had in your life, lower blood pressure, lower heart rate, better pump at the gym remzo, better pump other places as well, gentlemen. Hint, hint, hint, let's listen to cardio miracle. Take a listen. Hey, folks. I want to take a moment to talk about something that has truly changed my life, and that is cardio miracle, our incredible studio sponsor. Now I'll be honest, when I first heard about cardio miracle and their claims about improving heart health, I was skeptical, but after using it for just about two months, I was absolutely blown away by the results. First, my blood pressure went from being consistently around 140 over 90 to a much more healthier and manageable 120, over 80, and my resting heart rate dropped from the low 70s to the high 50s. And I couldn't believe it, but the benefits didn't stop there. I started sleeping better, and I felt more energized at the gym, and my heart felt the best it's felt in years. And it's not just me, hundreds of you, our amazing listeners, have reached out to share your own incredible experiences with cardio miracle. So what is cardio miracle and how does it work? It's a carefully crafted supplement that harnesses the power of nitric oxide to support optimal heart function. So by increasing nitric oxide levels in your blood, cardio miracle helps relax your blood vessels, improve circulation, and it protects your heart from damage. It's like giving your heart the support it needs to function at its best. And here's the best part, we've got an exclusive offer just for you our loyal listeners here at the Brian Nichols show, when you head over to cardiomyocol.com and use code TBN s at checkout, you'll get an extra 15% discount on your order, plus, with their 100% money back guarantee, you got nothing to lose and everything to gain. So if you're ready to take control of your heart health and experience the life changing benefits of cardio miracle for yourself, just click the link in the show notes or video description. Trust me, your heart will thank you and don't wait another day to prioritize your health. Join the 10s of 1000s of folks who have already discovered the cardio miracle difference. Head to cardiomyrgal.com now and use code TBN s for 15% off your order. Your journey to a happier and healthier heart starts today, and now let's get back to the show. Well, I thank you, Brian. Appreciate that transition. Um,

Unknown Speaker  33:26  
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Brian Nichols  33:29  
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Remso Martinez  33:35  
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Brian Nichols  34:09  
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Remso Martinez  34:16  
literally putting him like that. That's, oh, you don't see the number like, they're like, I'm literally putting in my credit card information. I'm like, this is cardio

Brian Nichols  34:24  
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Remso Martinez  34:41  
I got the 30 day one. So you know what I'm gonna do, too, for accountability. Every week I'm gonna, I'm gonna come on and tell you how I'm doing. Of cardio miracle, please

Brian Nichols  34:49  
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Speaker 1  36:03  
in America. Scientific America, the magazine. I remember when I was around, when I grew up with it, yeah, grew up with it, yeah. Okay, well, their editor had to quit.

Speaker 2  36:13  
You saw this? Yeah? I heard about it because she expressed some opinions, right? Yeah, okay,

Speaker 1  36:19  
sure, but it sure didn't sound scientific. It didn't sound like the person I would want to be running Scientific American. Okay? It was a rant on Twitter,

Brian Nichols  36:27  
by the way. Just for context, when Bill's gonna explain what this rant was, the Scientific American lady he's talking about is from Indiana, right? Just, just keep this in mind, like this is not only relegated to specific Big Blue cities. This is across the United States. Is why it's so important.

Speaker 1  36:43  
Okay, I could read it to you. It's, it's really ugly. You know, I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of fucking fascists. Okay, I'm

Unknown Speaker  36:55  
not guessed it, right? Yeah. I'm

Speaker 1  36:57  
not for canceling anybody on either side. Yeah, so I but here's the here's what I think is the scandal. This is in Scientific American Yeah, less than a year ago, inequity between male and female athletes is the result not of inherent biological differences between the sexes, but of biases and how they are treated in sports. That's nuts, and it sure ain't scientific, and it's in Scientific American and that's why the Democrats lost the election. It's true.

Brian Nichols  37:28  
Now, Bill's gonna keep going, but notice how Neil de crass Tyson reacted, not with, oh, you know you're probably right with absolute like, mockery, you silly, Bill, you're just not smart enough. This again. Remember this. Keep this in mind. This is why we have to pay attention to the real world politics versus this ideological goofballness.

Speaker 2  37:59  
Jill, every 20 minutes on your platform, you come up with another reason why the Democrats lost. You already. You already have the answer. They lost the election. So anything you say that's why they did it. First of

Speaker 1  38:09  
all, you don't watch this show, so you don't know it's okay, but You talk as if you do, and you fucking go, and that's okay, just don't bullshit me. That's the one thing people can't ever do my show, is bullshit me, and that's fine, but I don't I have very good Oh,

Brian Nichols  38:24  
I thought you were jumping in. Oh no. I was just oh yeah, no. It gets better. It gets better. Reasons,

Speaker 1  38:29  
but address, engage with the idea here, what I'm asking is Scientific American is saying basically that the reason why an NBA WNBA team can't beat the Lakers is because of societal bias. What

Speaker 2  38:44  
you're saying is not Scientific American says that an editor for Scientific American says that who no longer has the job, so don't indict 170 year old magazine because somebody

Speaker 1  38:54  
okay. This is called Science America, because they're printing something, because someone enters the cesspool that is social media, and then participates in that exchange. So why can't you science? Why can't you just say this is not scientific, and Scientific American should do better.

Unknown Speaker  39:12  
Well, does she still have her job?

Speaker 1  39:14  
No, not because of this. I said the scandal is not her

Speaker 2  39:19  
tweet because that was, like a year ago. Was it? Which one was a year ago,

Speaker 1  39:23  
I think a year ago, women still couldn't beat men in basketball or any other sport, and it wasn't because of society. You don't see a problem

Speaker 2  39:31  
long distance swimming. Women might actually have the advantage. You look into that.

Speaker 1  39:36  
Yeah, maybe long distance swimming, yes, okay, yeah, just,

Unknown Speaker  39:39  
I've looked into it. Yeah, well, I'm

Unknown Speaker  39:45  
gonna file you under Part of the problem.

Brian Nichols  39:51  
Yes, oh, wow, yeah. And you know, you know it's legit when Bill Maher is, is like, you can see the pain. In his face. He's like my brother in Christ. Please just get out of your pull your head whatever you have to do, slowly, retract your head from whatever orifice you have, shoved it up and get the shit out of your ears and fucking listen to the words coming out of your mouth. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the exact type of person this holier than thou, smug, elitist, fuck you, plebeian type of person that we won this election against because of the approach they take. I did the why Trump won episode I went through there was that one, I think it was Georgetown professor who told the host that he doesn't believe her, that the reason that they that the Democrats lost, was because of inflation or because of bad, bad economic policies or because of the open border, it was because of inherent racism or inherent sexism. This mentality is a cancer, and it has perpetuated itself into the grand narrative that the progressive left has brought forward as the leading like this is our messaging for the Democratic Party establishment. Not only is this type of mentality dangerous, it's also why the Democrats lost, but just because they lost yesterday does not mean that they can't lose it in the future, so, or rather, that they can't win rather, in the future. So we have to remember people like Neil that Neil deGrasse Tyson, he exists, and he has not learned a single fucking thing. He is as smug and elite and as condescending as he has ever been. And if anything, I don't know about you, remzo, but watching the left versus the left in this exact use case, you can kind of see the the fake, the fake, like politeness of Neil deGrasse Tyson in his I know so much, and you don't start to to lose its its luster, because what do you do? He reverts back to, well, I, you know, I, I've done some research on this. You should do some research on this as though, yeah, you're just an idiot. And, and you can just see the moment that Bill Maher is like, holy shit, this, and this guy supposed to be on my side. That's what Bill Maher is thinking. And he's like, This guy's a part of the fucking problem. And he's right this Neil deGrasse Tyson is 1,000% part of the problem. And the reality is folks right for all my friends in goofball libertarian world and goofball conservative world who think we just need to get the right folks around us, no, because these folks will continue to exist. And it's not a matter of taking your throw out the gas. It's making sure that folks like this. Never have a legitimate seat at the table where they are in positions of power, off soap box. REMSA. What do you say? I always

Remso Martinez  42:48  
think it's funny when people are like, Bill Maher is right wing. It's like, since when did saying that, like, you know, men are not women, and that pedophilia is wrong. Type of makes your right wing, and we probably shouldn't, like, you know, cancel people for just having counter opinions to us like that became a right wing opinion. There was a piece I read the other day. I remember where it was, but it was time out the the incoming Democrat civil war. And I don't think it's incoming. I think it's been this way for a while. I think we really saw a lot of it in, uh, in 2020 when you had like, a spurt of, like, random Democrat governors jump in the race, because they were, like, the Democrats are acting too much like socialists, and Biden has dementia. And then as soon as, you know, Biden becomes a nominee, it's like, Biden is like, super fit and smart and youthful, and socialism is the answer. You know, it's at the point where it's like, it's, it's not even like the Liberal Party. And I said this a couple weeks ago on your show, Brian, like, you know somebody, somebody was some very like, you know, traditionally conservative Republican guy on Twitter, because they exist. He was like, Well, you know, the Republican Party, if you look at the platform and everything now, it's turned into a middle ground Liberal Party. I can't actually disagree with that, because, as I saw on your program, the average Republican today shares more in common with Bill Clinton in 1992 than they would with anybody else even 10 years ago. Like, it's just it is different. And I think that, I think that over the next like, you know, three, four cycles, are really going to see, like, what that looks like, because I think there will be some negatives to it. I can't put my finger on, but I think it's going to be overwhelmingly positive. That's a, that's a, that's a discussion for another day, but it's this, it's this bullshit, like the like, pseudo religion that liberalism has become. And that's, you know, I know we keep going back to libertarians, but it's like so many, so many political ideologies have become near religious in nature. And that is, that is just the really weird thing about it. And it's not that I know why I'm breaking for. Orthodoxy, but it's like, you know, we have to kind of see the world for what it is and it except that we don't live in a void and that this is the problem. So when we have people like the grass Tyson who were saying, Well, you know, men and women are not inherently biologically different, it's like, that's not a right wing opinion. That's just, I mean, it's not a right wing opinion, to say no to that, that's just real life. So it's like you're almost you're not seeing people like Mar go right wing. It's that you're seeing people like Mar who are just refused to be dragged into the Idiocracy, which we're looking at,

Brian Nichols  45:33  
yep. Well, and let's talk about the why, um, behind the the liberalism, the libertarianism, like, you name the ISM, why has that seeped into this, like, religious type of mentality for a lot of folks? And the reason is because remso We, we've, as a society, wholeheartedly rejected real religion for the state. And what is the state but a manifestation of our politics, right? So if you as a liberal, right, you don't believe in big G God. You maybe believe in big S state and and with that, you believe in all the isms that come in, you know, the the LGBTQ stuff. You believe in all the progressive stuff. You believe in all the leftist stuff. You believe in all the social welfare stuffs. So if anybody rejects your perspectives. It's not just that I think your idea is bad. It's that I think your ism or this case, your religion is bad and and they, they take that and it's not, it's not the well, I'm removing myself from that, but rather, that's part of who I am. You talk to a Christian, they are a Christian as well, and that's a part of who they are, right? That that is something that is embedded into their soul and the way that they act throughout their life and the way they treat people. But when you go to the progressive left, since there is no religious like true religion, that they are bringing into their lives to help be their guiding North Star, the ISM turns into to the outcome of government policies. And when you start to see folks like Neil deGrasse Tyson have his religion question, he becomes bitter, he becomes mean. And that makes sense, because for him, you're not critiquing the idea. You're critiquing him, because that is his religion that he has bought into. And this is something that has been fascinating to watch rims over the past, like 20, 3040, years, as we've seen your churches start to become lesser and lesser significant pieces of their communities, and especially with COVID man like the more that we look at COVID in hindsight and the outcomes of COVID, the more I kind of look at it with a conspiracy perspective. Because what better way to destroy social fabric than by requiring everybody, regardless of your age, regardless of your risk factors, all these different like things that we should be considered. Sorry, no, you're going to be forced to stay home. And by the way, places of worship close their doors, places where you would work out, close those doors, places where you would get together with real people. No, we're not going to do that. And ever since COVID remzo, I've seen it. I know you've seen it, the social connection that that coherency of even though we disagree, we have commonalities. We have shared bonds and values and morals and principles that really got broken because now people, when they were told during COVID, you can't engage in real life with real people. The only way you can engage with people is to go on social media. And when you go on social media, you're not just going to stand there with a blow horn and yell into the void, talking to everyone, but more often than not, you're going to gravitate towards your hive. It's the people that think like you. But beyond thinking like you, what other things do you have in common and all those important things, the religious side of things, the moral side of things, the community, the shared social bonds, poof gone, and that right there speaks to where we have gotten so far away from ideas being simple Ideas on top of a pre preset, understood groundwork, an understood foundation. You have to have a religious people, a moral people, who then are able to take that understanding and then apply policies on top of it. But when you replace the moral foundation for government, Bad News Bears. REM So, Bad News Bears,

Remso Martinez  49:39  
I think a lot of people conflate the ability to speak with a sign of intelligence. And

Brian Nichols  49:48  
did you intentionally do the qui? Gon Jinn, quote, The just, just your ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Did

Unknown Speaker  49:54  
he say that 100%

Brian Nichols  49:55  
Hold on. Qui Gon Jinn,

Unknown Speaker  49:58  
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3  49:59  
That was from what he said to jar, jar in The Phantom Menace.

Brian Nichols  50:04  
Yeah, here we go. Oh, I

Remso Martinez  50:05  
thought I was being like, really, like, you know, insightful. For a moment now I realize I'm just a nerd who quipped that from somebody, no, but like, that's, that's a very like, I mean that I think people conflate the ability to speak with the sign of intelligence. And I, you know, I was invited to have discussions. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna elevate to be anything more than it was. I was invited to have discussions to join the board of a nonprofit that focused on mental health. It was a mental health nonprofit and, Oh, you want to go ahead and play it. You

Speaker 4  50:38  
almost got us killed. Are you brainless, I speak. The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Now get out of here.

Remso Martinez  50:47  
That's it. That's it. And ultimately, I was not selected, and you know it, and this isn't, this is an accusation, because I don't have, like, the hard evidence. So you know, I'm not gonna muck and conflate to be anything it is. But I, you know, I know that the people that were reviewing it knew how my politics were after, after they started talking to me, and they also, you know, as they do background checks into potential board members and stuff like this, you could very much see. And, you know, I was very public about this when I was the editor for bounding in the sports.com in 22 through early 23 I'm sorry, 22 through late 23 you know, I, I spoke a lot about, you know, the the trans athlete thing, and you know, one thing that you will see is that I actually never, I didn't want to concede the point, I wouldn't say a trans male or trans female female. I would say a man pretending to be a woman or a woman pretending to be a man, and checks out. It's just when they looked at that, it did not meet with the very left wing progressive, quote, science agenda that they had. And it's all very much, you know, gender affirming and and all this other stuff. And it's, it's not, it's not focused on reality. You know, it used to be that mental health is actually supposed to make people better. Now mental health is about making people feel justified, yes, in whatever issue they have. And, you know, I think I would have been a good value add to that organization, if anything, as to just a counterbalance to it. I don't go out of my way to fight people, but it's one of those things where it's just like, you know that that is, that that is one of the big problems, is that we lose the institutions, and then we wonder why? But, I mean, it's, it's just how it is, like, these are the people running, running the circus. So, you know what? What What else? What else is there to do in that regard? It's pathetic. Not

Brian Nichols  53:04  
my circus, not my monkeys, some of my daughter's favorite books right now. Um, well, remzo, this comes down to, and we're going to end with this last article here. It comes down to words mattering. Right? Like, like, language matters. Words matter. Narratives matter. And it's, it's one thing to say the right things. It's another thing to say the right things in a convincing manner. And that is exactly what Trump Just Did in selecting the youngest the youngest press secretary ever, Carolyn leovitch. She is 27 years old. Remzo. She's actually the former press secretary for communications director for my old Congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, up there in New York, 21 and Elise Stefanik just got appointed to be the UN ambassador there. So Carolyn, though I've seen her on the stage there for quite a while, she is a rock star, and now she's going into the Trump administration, helping not just serve as the White House press secretary, remso, but also to make sure that the narratives are clearly articulated and understood and specifically dealing with a question mark on the press right now, I don't know what to expect with the press going into this administration, remzo, because a lot of the press right now, I think, is taking a step back and saying, What the hell have We been doing the past four years, eight years, 16 years, and why has it not been working? Should we, you know, actually put the engines into neutral and flip it into reverse, kind of a moment like that after the 2016 election, you know, New York Times doing this big Mia culpa, like, Oh, this is what we have to do better next time. We have to really talk to your average American, and then they go out and just like, completely blow past that narrative. And they were just like, let's just talk to people who think like us, who but like this right here will someone like a Carolyn Lee, of it actually stand to fight against the the rabid insanity of some of the press members, like a Jim Acosta, whose name I could not remember a couple episodes ago. But like, when you have a Jim Acosta there, you point. And yelling about press secretary say that again. Oh, scroll down. Scroll down a little

Remso Martinez  55:07  
bit. Yeah, it's 10s only season in the Trump White House.

Brian Nichols  55:12  
Oh, the only person who could have beat her would probably be like, what? Megan Kelly.

Remso Martinez  55:17  
Meg, probably,

Brian Nichols  55:20  
I'm just going to put it out there. Megan Kelly for what she's in her like, late 40s, early 50s. Dude, she was

Remso Martinez  55:26  
making fun of Mika Brzezinski this week. Oh, my gosh. Oh, you didn't see it. No, hold on. Oh, go to YouTube. Do? Megan Kelly, Mika m i, k, A, this is Brian, how I didn't

Brian Nichols  55:41  
I didn't even have to go to YouTube, remzo. I went right to Twitter, because Twitter is the best platform here. Let's share this instead.

God bless Megan Kelly, so she's making fun of this picture, by the way. Mika Brzezinski, that's, that's Joe, Joe Scarborough's foot, right? There was this before or after they they became a thing on air. Oh,

Remso Martinez  56:13  
this was, this was in the middle of it when they were cheating on their spouses. That's each other.

Brian Nichols  56:18  
It's even grosser when you look at it that way, like this, this, though, right? This is why someone like Kelly would be great. I love her for

Remso Martinez  56:25  
all the shit she said about Alex Jones. Now,

Brian Nichols  56:29  
whether it's Megyn Kelly, it's it's Carolyn Lee, of it. I mean, name, name that the folks and by the way, what? What an idiot Mark Cuban looks like right now,

Speaker 5  56:40  
you know, Trump just doesn't surround himself with smart, intelligent women.

Brian Nichols  56:44  
You look like a dumb shit. Now, Mark Cuban, who, by the way, LOL him going ahead and, like, nuking all of his social media, and then, just like the number one gift reaction I see to all of his posts are that clip from, from super bad where it's, it's Jonah Hill's character going, didn't you piss your pants? Like eight years ago? Didn't you piss your pants? That was like eight years ago. Asshole, no, people don't forget. Like that is Mark Cuban, right now. He is the the one having the deal with the people don't forget. And like him leading with this narrative, right? And it was such a bullshit narrative to begin with. But like now, Trump not only is putting very strong, intelligent women around him, it's 10 season. Remzo

Remso Martinez  57:26  
10s only season, we're back. Okay, we're

Unknown Speaker  57:29  
back. Okay,

Unknown Speaker  57:30  
we're so back. Oh,

Brian Nichols  57:33  
God bless America, to quote Max Bialystock from the producers, God bless Sweden. If you watch the producers, you understand why. Uma Thurman, um, God bless. 2005 Brian was a very different Brian. Um, taste didn't really change that much, though. Anyways, with that being said, Rem, so we're gonna go ahead and wrap things up here. Um, my final thoughts for today, folks, get out of your bubble, right? Whether you're in a left wing bubble, a right wing bubble, a libertarian bubble, a socialist bubble, get out. Talk to real people, right. Get off. Get off the internets. Go to your local farmers market. Go to your local stores, go to your local meetups. Go to the local AMVETS or Moose Lodge or miracle. Go get some cardio. Miracle. Get your heart healthy. We need you around America healthy again. No more. See. Have you seen those, those those those reels with RFK Junior? They are the funniest things. They'll be like a guy reaching into his refrigerator to grab the the coffee make creamer in the morning, and then it's just like this jacked body with an RFK cut out in his head. It's like, don't put that in your coffee.

Unknown Speaker  58:41  
That's that's just seed oils.

Brian Nichols  58:44  
Go here. What you need to do is go get some pre workout, because we're hitting back today. We're making America healthy. Give

Remso Martinez  58:49  
me a joke that, like, fat, ugly people were liberals, but like, I think now, based off how you treat your health and everything, is going to be like a sign of your politics,

Brian Nichols  59:03  
1000 there was a lot of folks who were like, is Lizzo going to be entering her like, crunchy mom era when she started doing all of her weight loss stuff like this is happening. People are starting to have to Jillian

Remso Martinez  59:14  
Michaels, wasn't, like, appointed to be RFK, like, assistant or something. How

Brian Nichols  59:19  
awesome would that be? Jillian Michaels, by the way, for folks who are not remembering Jillian Michaels, she was like, one of those boot camp fitness instructors. What was it called? The Biggest Loser? Yeah, The Biggest Loser. She

Remso Martinez  59:30  
was, like, the female Simon Cowell,

Brian Nichols  59:32  
yes, that's a great it's a great comparison, yeah. And also a smoke show she would have fit into the trump, the Trump 10s only, absolutely.

Remso Martinez  59:40  
And, I mean, what was funny about her is like, she's like, she's like, a liberal lesbian only ever voted Democrat. And then when it came to, like, you know, the men pretending to be chicks issue and everything, she's just like, what's wrong with you people? And then all the Liberals online were like, you're a right wing fascist. And then she was like, Okay, I guess I have to vote. Up for Trump. Now,

Brian Nichols  1:00:01  
Nicole Shanahan, same exact thing. She's the ex wife of Sir gay question mark, the guy from Google, and she was the VP candidate for RFK. She's not a Republican, she's not a conservative, she's a crunchy mom. I

Remso Martinez  1:00:13  
would love to see her run against Gavin Newsom,

Brian Nichols  1:00:19  
remzo down. Okay, here I'm bold fucking prediction for the future. I predict Put, put it in the timestamps. I predict in the next 10 to 15 years, California and or and, or New York State will be read, I would say New Jersey before either of those. Oh, 100% no producers going after that next, right? Yeah, that's that's why we need to do the mass deportations and reinstate voter ID on that note, um, mass deportations and pay attention. Yeah, don't know where to go from that. Brian Nichols and remso Martinez, we're gonna go ahead and wrap things up here on our AMP America Week in Review, part of the Brian Nichols show. Thank you to the couple 100 folks who've been popping in and out today over on x, we were live here on November 23 Thanksgiving is right around the corner. We will be doing an episode next week. Pay attention. Is probably not going to be an early morning episode, because holidays travel. Woo. But remzo and I will be doing something for you guys. So again, if you have not had the chance yet, make sure you head over to Twitter x.com hit that little bell next to the notifications, that way you will not miss a single time we go live, which could be a video version or maybe a Twitter spaces. I don't know. We're gonna figure that out, but make sure you stay in touch. And, by the way, make sure you head over to Brian Nichols show.com, get some love. Subscriber to the show and your favorite podcasting platform, Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube music or your favorite video platform, YouTube, Rumble, Twitter or Facebook. We are uploading the entirety of the Brian Nichols show over on those various platforms. Follow yours truly at B Nichols liberty, and you can find remzo on Twitter at Hey remzo, and then over on Instagram at go, remzo. Remso. Any final words for the audience as we wrap things up today, I think I've said too much. You never say too much, brother. If anything, you said just enough. And with that being said, Brian Nichols, signing off here on the Brian Nichols show for our AMP America Week in review, we'll see you next week. Bye.

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July 12, 2024

873: Why Do People Trust Experts Without Thinking?

Brian explores the unsettling shift he's observed in many of his friends who have gone from questioning authority to blindly following government mandates and expert narratives, urging listeners to maintain critical thinking and value individual liberty in an increasingly compliant …

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July 26, 2024

879: How Politics is Changing for Young People | Week in Review

Millennials are reshaping American politics as they face unique economic challenges and demand fresh voices in leadership, while also grappling with unexpected issues like drug-affected marine life, highlighting the urgent need for younger generations to get involved and make their …

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Aug. 12, 2024

886: Is Your Money Safe? | 3 Money Moves to Make Before the Economy C…

Financial expert Joe Lombardi warns of economic disaster under a potential Harris presidency and reveals unconventional strategies to protect your wealth, regardless of who wins the 2025 election.

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Aug. 14, 2024

887: What Makes Things Cost What They Do? | EXPLAINED

Using a banana farmer's dilemma as a relatable example, this episode unravels the complex interplay of supply, demand, and pricing in a free market economy, revealing how these forces shape every business decision and consumer purchase in our daily lives.

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Aug. 20, 2024

889: Brain Glue | How to Make Ideas STICK

Glue your ideas to their brains: the sticky science of unforgettable communication.

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Sept. 2, 2024

895: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels to Fight Poverty | Climate Activis…

A Kenyan farmer challenges Western climate policies, arguing that fossil fuels are essential for Africa's development and poverty reduction, not a threat to be eliminated.

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Sept. 7, 2024

897: Why Pennsylvania Decides the 2024 Election | Week in Review

@BNicholsLiberty and @HeyRemso challenge conventional political wisdom, exposing the dire consequences of unchecked immigration, the critical role of Pennsylvania in the 2024 election, and the potential fallout of third-party voting, ultimately questioning whether America is on the brink of losing …

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Sept. 18, 2024

901: How to Save Money on Healthcare | SECRETS Hospitals Hide

@PeterGillooly from @twc_health shows how our healthcare system's perverse incentives are costing you money and potentially your health, and teaches how taking control through early intervention and medical autonomy could be your lifesaver in a world where hospitals and insurance …

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Sept. 20, 2024

902: How to Talk Politics Without Sounding Like a Nerd

Libertarians must shift from selling features to solving problems, ditching the "autistic approach" for emotional connections, to effectively communicate their ideas and win hearts and minds.

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Oct. 5, 2024

908: How to Make Money in Countries You've Never Heard Of | Expat Mon…

Rethink your approach to wealth and freedom by exploring unconventional strategies like offshore investing and international diversification, as traditional political activism and US-centric investing may no longer be enough to secure your financial future in an increasingly uncertain global economy.

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Oct. 18, 2024

913: Alcoholism Recovery & Dealing with PTSD | New Approaches for Vet…

A Marine veteran's raw journey from trauma to transformation reveals how questioning everything, embracing vulnerability, and exploring unconventional healing methods can lead to profound personal growth and self-discovery.

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Oct. 25, 2024

915: Why Government Wants to Control Social Media | THE HIDDEN TRUTH

As governments worldwide move to ban social media platforms and criminalize online speech - from Brazil's complete ban of X to UK police monitoring citizens' posts - this episode reveals how quickly digital freedom can vanish overnight and why America …

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Oct. 26, 2024

916: Why Libertarians Are Switching to Trump in 2024 | Week in Review

Popular libertarian voice Dave Smith's endorsement of Trump signals a larger shift in the liberty movement, as key figures like Rand Paul, Ron Paul, and Thomas Massie coalesce around Trump's campaign - highlighting how pragmatic libertarians are choosing strategic influence …

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Nov. 3, 2024

918: Ron Paul and Elon Musk Team Up With Trump? | Week in Review

In a shocking pre-election bombshell, as Ron Paul and Elon Musk join forces in a potential Trump administration, New York state's killing of a beloved Instagram-famous squirrel becomes a rallying cry against government overreach, revealing how bureaucrats will dispatch more …

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Nov. 21, 2024

923: How COVID Changed American Politics Forever | The Real Story Beh…

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent government overreach shattered public trust in institutions, leading to a massive political realignment as Americans across the spectrum rejected establishment narratives and embraced new coalitions focused on personal freedom and government accountability.

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Dec. 5, 2024

926: Dear Santa: All I Want for Christmas is Freedom

Host Brian Nichols crafts a heartfelt Christmas list to "Liberty Santa," asking for practical freedom-oriented gifts like fiscal responsibility, school choice, and honest journalism while teaching listeners how to effectively communicate liberty principles during the holiday season.

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Dec. 7, 2024

927: Bitcoin Hits $100,000 | What This Means For Your Money in 2024

Bitcoin's historic rise to $100,000 represents more than just a price milestone - it signals a growing movement toward financial independence as people seek alternatives to government-controlled money in an era of inflation and increasing centralized control.

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Dec. 19, 2024

930: How to Heal Your Body NATURALLY (Step-by-Step Guide)

A former Wall Street insider exposes the truth about our broken health system while sharing how natural solutions and proper supplementation can transform your health, challenging everything we've been told about "genetic" health problems.

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Dec. 24, 2024

932: Weight Loss SECRETS (Without Surgery or Pills!)

A former college football player shares his remarkable journey from 470 pounds to vibrant health through the power of walking, intermittent fasting, and proper supplementation, proving that sustainable weight loss starts with simply taking the first step.

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Dec. 27, 2024

933: What They SHOULD Have Taught You in School (But Didn't)

Our education system prioritizes theoretical knowledge over essential life skills, creating generations of graduates who can solve complex equations but struggle with basic adult responsibilities.

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Jan. 20, 2025

937: How to HEAL Your Body (Without Prescription Drugs!)

A groundbreaking conversation revealing how a Colombia-based healing center is combining cutting-edge natural treatments with ancient wisdom to help patients heal from serious illnesses while exposing the corruption in American healthcare.

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