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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, a sorority prank gets some young, hot, white girls cancelled and becomes national news as desperate media show their bias. Also: Russell Brand gets railroaded, and NY Mayor Mamdani is disbanding the riot response units in NYC.

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Meet Bob. He's a 49-year-old blue collar guy in Ohio who voted for Donald Trump three times. His son did everything right, learned to code, and got laid off the same month his old company asked for more H-1Bs. On Tuesday, Bob had no reason left to vote Republican. Democrats are projected to win 255 to 258 House seats and flipped at least seven Senate seats. The consultants are already calling it a messaging problem. It wasn't. Republicans held the House, the Senate and the White House, ran on America First, and then governed on the donors' issues. Voters noticed...

Andrew Fox, the unrivaled genius behind Slam Frank: The Musical, joins Lou to talk about the off-Broadway musical that turns The Diary of Anne Frank into the story of a pansexual Latina and her queer family and attic mates struggling to be who they truly are... while hiding in an attic from the Nazis. They get into taking every rule of “woke theater” and pushing it further, the 1950s Broadway version that scrubbed out the Jewishness, why Andrew hides boring antisemitic comments but leaves the funny ones up, and how his grandfather was blacklisted by his fellow artists, not the...

Stephen Keller joins Finding Freedom to share how he built Kelco and helped pioneer the modern life settlement industry, giving policyholders a way to sell unwanted life insurance policies for cash. He recounts the entrepreneurial lessons behind the company’s growth, including his father’s advice to focus on one thing and the television ad that brought a flood of new business. Keller then offers his account of the federal investigation and prosecution that upended his life, alleging that insurance industry interests and political influence played a role. He describes fleeing to Mexico and Panama with his family, his arre...

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, the GOP gets blown the eff out, predictably, due to Trump's idiotic war with Iran. Also: US-backed Volodymyr Zelenskyy's torture chamber of horrors exposed.

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Arts and culture writer David Hiroshi Jager (Tablet, The New York Sun, County Highway) joins Lou to talk about writing with a voice, the Hezbollah pager operation, the Brooklyn art collective that cheered October 7th, the Venice Biennale, Artforum's meltdown, and why he never dreamed his one controversial opinion would be supporting Israel. Plus: Lou's war with India over cricket, a Saul Bellow-esque Jewish father-in-law, and a very dark Bosnian joke.Watch full episodes of The Lou Perez Podcast on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ...

Host John Odermatt sits down with Will Fry, founder and CEO of American Operator, a firm that buys small businesses from retiring owners and transitions them to local operator-owners. They discuss the economic uncertainty facing small businesses amid inflation, tariffs, and an affordability crisis, and how the baby boomer retirement wave threatens to hollow out Main Street if businesses are sold to private equity instead of local operators. Will shares how American Operator's earn-in model works, drawing inspiration from Chick-fil-A's selective operator program, and explains why AI is actually a net positive for industrial and trade businesses. The conversation...

Hannah Henriksen joins Brian Nichols to reveal who actually gets to fix your wheelchair, why right to repair stops at the one device some people can't live without, and how a new Respect America film is pushing open-source power chairs into the mainstream.
You own your car. Take it to any mechanic in town. You own your phone... and more and more, you can fix it yourself.
But a power wheelchair? Too often only one company is allowed to touch it. So you wait. Weeks. Months. Sometimes longer.
Hannah is the President of Respect America, the...

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Philadelphia's very dumb, very Democrat Mayor announces a plan to offer loans to people with terrible credit, just like in 2008 when the entire mortgage industry collapsed. Also: Brazil's corrupt socialist President, Lula, likely cheated in an election before trying to imprison his opponents.

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John Odermatt welcomes back Alvin Lui, founder of Courage is a Habit, for a deep dive into the parental rights battles heating up one week before Election Day. They discuss 17 ballot measures across 10 states — including four on transgender athletes in school sports — and why Alvin argues that passing them is only the first down, not the touchdown. The conversation covers the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) as the root pipeline for ideological activism in all 50 states, the launch of Courage is a Habit's ASCA 50-State Violation report, and the Trump administration's enforcement actions against school districts in Virginia and Los...

Former public defender and former NYC candidate Maud Maron joins Lou to talk about Nicole Hannah-Jones's confession about her daughter's education, what happened to the "tough New Yorker," drug dealers on her stoop, and why she's done with the Democratic Party.

Maud is a New Yorker, a woman, an independent, and currently "independently unemployed." She ran against Alvin Bragg for Manhattan DA on the Republican line.

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Today, Brian chats with Jeremy Todd, who is running as a Libertarian against Isreal-backed Ed Gallrein in KY - the man who primaried Thomas Massie. And he just might shock the world. Also in this ep: Chris Rock nails woke industrialization of "problems", Bioware Games shuts down, and a "Blackface Bagel" in Harlem.

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Mike ter Maat joins Brian Nichols to reveal the VP pick nobody votes on, Vance vs. Rubio 2028, and the $40 trillion debt, and why the Republican Party's biggest fight is happening right now. Plus Starlink's telco takeover... and whether it takes an outsider to fix a broken system.
Mike was the Libertarian Party's 2024 VP nominee. Now he's seeking the Republican nomination for Vice President in 2028. Not president. VP. Nobody has ever run a campaign for that job... so why is he doing it? And what does he want delegates in Houston to do that they've never done before?
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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, the leftist / feminist hypocrisy cabal is trying to cancel Shane Gillis for making fun of women's scrimpy clothing at gyms during an SNL monologue, plus a raging debate about EBT benefits and discounted entry to theme parks and zoos.

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Bretigne Shaffer writes children's horror, superhero graphic novels, and dark comedy about COVID — and she self-publishes all of it, because no traditional publisher (or Netflix) will touch a story that's critical of the pandemic response.

We talk about her Halloween story Elixir of Fear — a 19th-century patent-medicine salesman who's also a wizard, a "budgie flu," and a whole town swept up in a fear campaign — why great art about COVID hasn't arrived yet, the people now pretending lockdowns "weren't a big deal," and why she moved her family from California to Kentucky. Plus: the lost w...

In this solo episode of Finding Freedom, the John breaks down what positive thinking really means—not vision boards and mirror affirmations, but the deliberate, disciplined practice of directing your mind toward what's possible rather than what you fear. Drawing on Carol Dweck's growth mindset research, Martin Seligman's work on learned optimism, and the neuroscience of the reticular activating system, he makes the case that positive thinking is a learnable skill backed by science, not a personality trait. He explains how the brain's built-in negativity bias—supercharged by modern media and social media—keeps most people tethered to anxiety and se...

Matt Walsh floated a Social Security deal for boomers this week... you get back what you paid in, but no more. Brian Nichols breaks down why it started the biggest fight of the week, plus Microsoft's H-1B ban and the Talarico Texas Senate shock.
So who's actually paying the bill? Brian digs into the Cato and YouGov Social Security poll everyone shared this week, what it really asked, and what Gallup says about how the generation footing the bill is doing compared to the one cashing the checks.
Then it's who gets to be here. A...

This week on Politicks: the boys wonder whether the rumors of TX Senate candidate James Talrico being in a mental health facility are true or not, touch on sexually transmitted diarrhea (not physically) and laugh at Obama's Presidential Library work stopping because of worker revolt.

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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian breaks down the lies being peddled in France during "student" riots that are burning down cities and schools, then turns to the Cornell sexual assault lawsuit and the madness it's caused. Also: Boomers want to tax the young to pay for social security, and "Digger" is an all time flop.

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David Zhang built a 1.4 million subscriber YouTube channel exposing the Chinese Communist Party — from his base in the US, where he can actually say what he thinks. Born in China, raised in Canada, now in New York, David breaks down how Beijing operates: surveillance, threats to family members back home, and a propaganda machine that's gotten scarily good at targeting Western audiences.

We get into TikTok as a weapon, China's economy cratering under Xi Jinping, the comedian who got an entire stand-up competition banned for one joke about the PLA, and the doctrine of "un...

The progressive left spent decades building institutional control over American academia, using it as a pipeline to reshape corporate culture, HR departments, and public policy. The fuel that kept that machine running was the nearly unlimited flow of government-subsidized student loans—now a $1.7 trillion portfolio—regardless of whether graduates could actually earn a living. The Trump administration's new Earnings Accountability Rule threatens that foundation by tying federal loan eligibility to post-graduation income, forcing programs whose graduates don't out-earn high school diploma holders to lose funding. This episode breaks down how cutting off the money could cascade beyond student debt into...

Stephen Ferry joins Brian Nichols to reveal what the general welfare clause actually meant in 1787, and why America's 250th birthday finds us $40 trillion in debt and arguing over a Constitution most people can't explain.
Kids can recite the Preamble. 52 words. One sentence. Six purposes sitting right there in the text...
But ask a civics teacher to name all six? Good luck.
Stephen is the new national spokesperson for Citizens Academy U.S., and their guide walks the Preamble word by word using Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary. So why does a 200-year-old dictionary get to be the referee?<...

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian rips the horrifically racist black writers on HBO's "Lanterns," and cites an unacceptable trend in Hollywood and society. Also: a court rules that car companies can record your in-car calls without your knowledge, which police can access.

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In this episode of Finding Freedom, host John Odermatt sits down with Dr. Sage Wolfe — a doctor of natural medicine, former professional gymnast, and certified Wolf Non-Surgical Master Trainer — to challenge the assumption that surgery and pharmaceuticals should be the first resort for chronic pain and joint issues. Dr. Sage explains how the body has an innate capacity to heal when given the right conditions, from rehydrating "bone on bone" cartilage to addressing the root causes of inflammation through gut health, proper mineralization, and parasympathetic nervous system activation. The conversation dives deep into the gut-brain connection, how emotional trauma gets...

Emma Victoria Johnson joins Brian Nichols to reveal the $275,000 mistake she made after a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis at 43... and why Mexico's medical tourism boom is catching so many patients off guard right now.
Breast cancer is climbing fastest in women under 50. And Netflix's Apple Cider Vinegar has everybody online asking who's real and who's faking it.
Emma got caught in the middle of both... people called her "fake cancer girl" because she looked too healthy.
So she did what a lot of scared patients do. She picked the clinic with the best marketing... pools, saunas...

The Politicks crew unpacks the chaotic saga of The Last Ditch, a Boston lesbian bar where a single mask-optional night sparked threats of firebombing from immunocompromised patrons. From there, the conversation spirals into universal suffrage, the radicalization of the Democratic Party, and Nikole Hannah-Jones sacrificing her daughter's education for ideology. Plus a Last Ditch bar update involving accusations of "anti-Blackness" and a debate on whether college degrees mean anything anymore.

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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian breaks down the latest woke overreaction, this time to a Converse shoe ad with a K-Pop starlet in it that is apparently super racist. Also: the BBC is removing its own self-produced comedy content from "That Mitchell and Webb Look" because it's offensive.

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Aidan Grogan is a researcher at the Manhattan Institute. He went undercover at Socialism 2026 — the annual conference sponsored by Haymarket Books, held in Chicago over Labor Day weekend — and sat in on panels that weren't being livestreamed to see what they were saying behind closed doors. In some cases, they were saying considerably more radical things than what made it onto the stream.We talked about: how he got in (registered as Aidan G. with a burner email, wore Marxist pins, didn't iron his shirt, gave up on the disguise by day four); masks required at all times, COVID stil...

Daniel Jiwani moved to Saudi Arabia to work for PricewaterhouseCoopers, but eight months later he was abducted by Saudi authorities, taken to a black site, and falsely accused of terrorism based on a coworker's joke found on his phone. After three weeks in a black site and over a month in a maximum security prison alongside Al-Qaeda and ISIS members, the FBI and State Department secured his release—only for him to endure six more days in a nightmarish deportation facility where he contracted COVID and slept on a concrete floor. He returned home to find his assets frozen, hi...

Dr. Thomas Laehn joins Brian Nichols to reveal how Iowa's data center fight, eminent domain, and Citizens United money all run through the 2026 Senate race - and why voters keep getting handed two bad options.
Laehn is the Greene County Attorney and the first Libertarian in Iowa history to win a partisan election. Then he won it again. Now he's on the November 3 ballot against Ashley Hinson and Josh Turek for Joni Ernst's open seat.
He wrote a bill that passed the House and passed the Senate. It never became law. What happened to it is the...

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian looks at the insanity of the frozen-smiled maw of comatose Mitch McConnell before lamenting the fall of Sweden under the votes of legalized mass immigration that cemented far-left rule. Also: Democrat bigotry of low expectations is on full display regarding black students' ability to take tests, and AI "actress" Tilly Norwood glitches on Piers Morgan live.

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Andrew Hartz is a psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute — a national directory of vetted, non-activist therapists, plus a peer-reviewed journal, conference, and podcast. He wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed about political activism in mental health, got a grant to do something about it, and hasn't stopped since.

We talked about: what an activist therapist actually looks like (APA's division on psychoanalysis lists 90 talks with zero mention of therapy, evidence, diagnosis, or treatment — but plenty on colonial domination, carcerality, and proximity to whiteness); how APA accredited a drag show called "Feel...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, spent over 11 years behind federal prison walls — sentenced to die as a first-time, non-violent offender. Pardoned by President Trump on his second day in office, Ross took the stage at the 2026 RNC midterm convention to deliver a speech that cuts to the heart of what government power can do when turned against its own people. In this episode, John Odermatt breaks down Ross's speech — the parallels between Ross's imprisonment and the government overreach ordinary Americans experienced during the Biden years and COVID lockdowns, the false choice between liberty and security, and the growing list...

The boys are back breaking down the disgusting world of PoliTicks so you don't have to.

This week we look at the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the Lindsay Clancy jurors speaking out, Wolverine turning gay, and random attacks on innocent people that should never have happened.

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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian talks about an un-recognized aspect of having kids, in the midst of raging discussions about Lindsay Clancy and female postpartum depression disease - namely that men also deal with many of the same challenges. Also: Men are being heavily discriminated against in hiring, with the latest statistics showcasing the clear systematic bias, and something has to give.

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Dr. Francisco Contreras joins Brian Nichols to reveal why natural cancer therapies never get FDA approved and why the answer has nothing to do with a conspiracy. It's a $1 billion price tag and a missing patent... and the surgical oncologist who runs Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana lays out the math.
Here's the argument. Getting anything through the FDA means proving it safe and effective in human trials - roughly a billion dollars. Do that with a new drug and you get a patent to earn it back. Do it with something natural and you get nothing...

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian examines breaks down a terrible take by Joe Rogan about UBI and poverty. Also: women in the US have it better than ever, but the equality and opportunity they received has been weaponized in hatred against men. Buy my new card game: WOKE WORD WARS - ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Word-Wars-Ridiculously-Players/dp/B0FLF8Y16S⁠ 🦁 Support Lions of Liberty: Patreon: patreon.com/lionsofliberty Locals: lionsofliberty.locals.com

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Barry Maher spent 20 years as a corporate speaker and wrote six nonfiction books. Then he discovered he had a brain tumor the size of a baseball. He woke up from surgery with Lady Gaga playing on loop in his head and a complete, fully formed novel already there — vivid as a memory, not a dream. Two years later, that novel became The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon, published at age 76. He's also in remission and can tell time again.

We talked about: the moment on an Asian cruise when he couldn't read a cl...

The Jerry Sandusky case is back in the national spotlight after reports that "Victim 10" Ryan Rittmeyer plans to recant his trial testimony at an upcoming evidentiary hearing. Journalist John Ziegler, who has spent over a decade investigating the case and is the only person to have interviewed Rittmeyer since the trial, argues that the alleged recantation is deeply compromised and that the hearing could backfire disastrously on Sandusky's defense. Ziegler reveals that investigator Frank Parlato developed a deeply conflicted relationship with Rittmeyer — including housing him, arranging a documentary contract, and introducing him to a girlfriend — fatally undermining any credibility the...

A new 2028 poll just dropped, the Lindsay Clancy backlash has TikTok picking the wrong hero, and the AI job panic keeps getting rescheduled. Brian Nichols breaks down all three... and pulls zero punches.
The Newsweek/McLaughlin 2028 numbers put JD Vance on top at 32%. But Don Jr. sits second at 19% without even running, Marco Rubio lands third at 12%, and Kamala Harris leads the Democratic field at 29%. Brian explains why fourth-place AOC is the name the establishment should actually fear, and what the DSA winning real races means for 2028 and 2032.
Then the Lindsay Clancy backlash. 164,000 TikToks. Pink shirts outside...