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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 both the worlds of business and politics; teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. Welcome to The Brian Nichols Show.

  1. 4d ago

    Is Your Power Bill Higher Because of Data Centers & AI?

    Adam Butcher joins Brian Nichols to reveal what's actually driving your electricity bill higher and why blaming data centers and AI misses the real story about America's energy supply. Everybody's pointing at the data centers. Adam isn't. He's the President and Managing Partner of Basin Ventures. He's managed over $1.25 billion in oil and gas projects for more than 50 players in the industry and deployed over $500 million into minerals and royalties. He's a land guy - leases, title, ownership - which means he sees the part of this story nobody on cable news covers. And he came on with a number that stopped me cold. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983. Roughly 35 days of cover. Draining every single week. Adam's take? Cheap oil is a mirage... and we've been hiding that with artificial levers instead of taking our medicine. So I brought him the stat sheet. Retail electricity up 7% in 2025. Up roughly 40% since 2021. Utilities requested $31 billion in rate hikes in 2025 versus $15 billion the year before. Another $9.4 billion in Q1 of 2026 alone. Virginia has 663 data centers, Texas has 405, together over a quarter of every data center in the country. And Adam looked at all of it and called data centers the new boogeyman. We get into Venezuela and why 2028 is the real timeline. We get into why he says he's always made more money under Democrats than Republicans. We get into the LNG export shutdown, ERCOT's grid math, Zuckerberg's city-sized facility outside Shreveport, and why he moved his fund to 50/50 oil and gas betting on a 2027 boom. Meet people where they're at. Most folks don't care about megawatts... they care about the number at the bottom of the envelope. So that's where we started. CHAPTERS 00:00 Somebody's Paying For The Wires 02:26 Billy Bob Made Us Famous 03:35 The $60 Call He Made In June 04:05 Cheap Oil Is A Mirage 08:03 Venezuela Won't Save Us Until 2028 11:48 I Make More Money Under Democrats 13:23 The LNG Shutdown Nobody Talks About 15:24 The Snake Problem 18:27 What Oil Should Actually Cost 22:11 We Have To Take Our Medicine 22:46 Your Bill Went Up 40 Percent 25:05 Data Centers Are The New Boogeyman 29:15 Texas Needs 5X Its Power 31:06 Final Thoughts CONNECT WITH ADAM BUTCHER Basin Ventures: https://www.basinventures.com Adam's bio: https://www.basinventures.com/team/adam-butcher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwbutcher SUPPORT THE SHOW Cardio Miracle - https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS - use code TBNS for 15% off CONNECT WITH BRIAN https://www.briannicholsshow.com brian@briannicholsshow.com X, Facebook, Instagram: @BNicholsLiberty Recorded at Cardio Miracle Studios in eastern Indiana. New episodes Thursdays. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Aug 16

    Why Starbucks, Dunkin' And Tim Hortons All Taste The Same | TBNS 1094

    Three brands. Three cups. So why do they all taste the same? Black Sheep Coffee co-founder and co-CEO Eirik Holth joins The Brian Nichols Show to break down how the coffee industry consolidated itself into a single flavor... and what it actually took to build 140+ shops going the other direction. Because that's the thing nobody says out loud. Starbucks, Dunkin', Tim Hortons, Scooter's, pick your favorite. The menu changes a little. The cup changes a little. The experience doesn't change at all. You get your coffee and you go. And somewhere along the way, the most human thing in the world - sitting down and having a cup of coffee with somebody - turned into a transaction. In 2013, Eirik and his college roommate Gabriel Shohet put a fixed date on the calendar, quit their corporate finance jobs, and moved to London with about $15,000 each and no business plan. They ripped apart pallets to build the first bar. Pulled materials out of junkyards. That wasn't a phase... it's the store design now. And the bet was robusta - the bean the specialty world had written off as commodity filler. Higher caffeine. Lower acidity. Full-bodied enough to punch through the milk. Nobody was championing it, so they did. Eirik breaks down why they turned down venture capital and private equity, how they raised from customers who shared a fifteen-year view instead, and why keeping board control is the only reason the concept ever got to become a concept. Plus the franchise model that became the growth engine, and why owner-operators going rogue is a feature and not a bug. And Brian ties the whole thing back to the customer experience fight he's having in the day job every single week. The Maker's Mark wax dip. The hand-painted graffiti on every wall. Why AI can regurgitate empathy but will never actually feel it. And why the copy-and-paste coffee joint keeps losing to the place that bothered to make a choice. CHAPTERS 00:00 - What Does the American Dream Look Like? 01:46 - Two Finance Guys, One Fixed Date, No Plan 03:13 - Dubai, Texas, Florida 03:35 - When "Someday" Never Actually Comes 04:38 - The Copy-and-Paste Coffee Problem 06:06 - The Bean Everybody Wrote Off 08:10 - Too Corporate On One Side, Too Hipster On The Other 09:08 - Customer Experience Isn't Just The Phone Call 09:55 - Junkyard Pallets, Graffiti Walls, Curated Playlists 11:37 - The Maker's Mark Wax Dip and Why AI Can't Fake It 14:44 - One Headline Metric: Customer Satisfaction 15:47 - What Breaks When You Double The Store Count? 16:50 - Founder Vision vs. The Guy Who Came From Chipotle 18:35 - Why They Said No To Private Equity 21:40 - Inside The Franchise Model 22:28 - Turnkey, Owner-Operators, And Going Rogue 24:29 - Where To Find Black Sheep In The US 25:57 - Blank Canvas: Picking Your Own Territory 27:23 - Find The Problem, Bring The Solution 28:56 - Eirik's Final Thoughts 29:45 - Brian's Close and Call To Action LINKS Black Sheep Coffee (US): https://blacksheepcoffee.us US Franchising: https://blacksheepcoffee.us/pages/franchising-us US Locations: https://blacksheepcoffee.us/blogs/locations/tagged/country-usa Black Sheep Coffee (UK): https://blacksheepcoffee.co.uk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/black_sheep_coffee/ Cardio Miracle: https://cardiomiracle.com/tbns Brian on X: https://x.com/BNicholsLiberty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Aug 7

    Fauci Pled The Fifth 111 Times, RFK Torched CNN, & Rand Paul Was RIGHT

    The Fauci diaries are public - 1,141 pages of them. He pled the Fifth 111 times. RFK Jr. torched CNN's pandemic narrative to Dana Bash's face. And they still want a pandemic amnesty... so today, we open the vault. Because I didn't start covering this last week. I have four years of tape. Inside the diaries: the fatality rate he kept private while telling Congress 3%. "I didn't close the schools" - under oath - while claiming credit behind the scenes. Six months of entries... just gone. And the lab leak call HE convened, then cited at the White House podium like he'd never seen it. Then the receipts. 2021: Trent Ortner and I said Rand Paul was right about Wuhan funding while the media called it conspiracy. 2022: Jeffrey Tucker (Brownstone Institute) and I did the autopsy the day Fauci announced his resignation. And my full answer to Emily Oster's "pandemic amnesty" pitch in The Atlantic. We said it then. The data said it then. They lied. And now they want amnesty. No. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Conspiracy Theorist 3:33 - The Day I Became A Threat 5:30 - Inside The Fauci Diaries 6:40 - The Death Rate He Kept Private ⚠ 8:20 - "I Didn't Close The Schools" 10:10 - The Claim That Built The Mandates 11:45 - Six Months Of Diary... Gone 12:05 - The Lab Leak Cover Story 16:10 - 111 Times He Took The Fifth 19:20 - RFK Torches Dana Bash 25:05 - 2021: The Campus Mandate Tape (Ep 316) 46:50 - Rand Paul Was Right 54:30 - The Resignation Autopsy w/ Jeffrey Tucker (Ep 567) 1:12:50 - The Pandemic Amnesty Read (Ep 614) 1:34:15 - The Verdict: No. 1:36:00 - What Happens To Fauci Now Studio Sponsor - Cardio Miracle: Get 15% off your order at Cardiomiracle.com/tbns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Jul 31

    Bill Clinton's Lawyer Just Admitted Libertarians Are Right!?

    Lanny Davis joins Brian Nichols to reveal why he agrees with libertarians on government surveillance and why America's privacy crisis is happening right now. This isn't a gotcha. Davis was Special Counsel to President Clinton, legal advisor to Michael Cohen, and the only Democrat George W. Bush put on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - the panel that watched the government's surveillance programs from the inside. The invitation came from Karl Rove himself. So what makes a lifelong Democrat go straight to George Orwell's 1984? Flock cameras. License plate readers. Every car in America logged and shared between departments. Davis looked at all of it and said the quiet part out loud... "the bigger government is, the more I feel shared wisdom with libertarians." His new book, Finding the Third Way, tackles the civility crisis head-on. He and Joe Lieberman once asked 535 members of Congress and 50 governors to sign a civility pledge - three signed. Davis names his own party's labeling problem, pulls a Harry Truman warning from 1948, and makes the case that Democrats and libertarians agree on more than either side admits. And then Brian does the thing we do... the scorecard. Three things Lanny got right. Three where he lost me. One of them pointed straight at our own side. One standard. CHAPTERS: 0:00 The Guest Nobody Expected 0:06 "Who Are You, Zelig?" 1:53 The Resignation That Wasn't 2:34 The Karl Rove Phone Call 5:31 Inside the Spy Room 7:21 The Guardrails Are Slipping 8:16 The Empty Oversight Board 10:00 Cameras on Every Corner 11:26 "Big Brother Is Watching You" 12:24 Only 3 Out of 585 Said Yes 15:32 The Socialist Label Trap 17:49 Truman's Warning to Democrats 20:38 Why Voters Snapped 24:14 "The Heck With Your Civility" 26:02 The Empathy Problem 29:52 Lanny's Curveball Close 33:11 The Scorecard GUEST LINKS Get the book: https://lannyjdavis.com Purple Nation column: https://www.realclearpolitics.com SUPPORT THE SHOW Cardio Miracle - 15% off: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS (code TBNS) Website: https://briannicholsshow.com Email: brian@briannicholsshow.com Socials: @BNicholsLiberty New episodes every Thursday. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Jul 25

    What Your Union DOESN'T Tell You (Until You Try To Leave!)

    David Osborne joins Brian Nichols to reveal how public sector unions trap members into paying union dues long after they quit - and why leaving your union is nearly impossible right now. Osborne is the former CEO of Americans for Fair Treatment and helped start the Fairness Center, a public interest law firm representing teachers, firefighters, police, and municipal workers against their own unions. This is a throwback to Episode 233, April 2021, with a five-year scorecard on what he got right and what he missed. Inside, you'll hear the uncensored breakdown of the union resignation window, the restrictive membership forms nobody reads at orientation, and the clause that makes public employees pay dues regardless of membership status. This is the playbook nobody hands you when you take a government job. And here's the part that should bother you... the union never had to win. They just had to make leaving expensive enough that you stopped trying. What happens to your paycheck when the organization that's supposed to protect you is the one you need protection from? At 6:00, the Pennsylvania teacher whose own union blocked where her money could go - even after they agreed she'd never pay them a dime. At 10:17, the gym membership analogy that explains the whole trap in sixty seconds. And at 25:30, the specific request David made to the Supreme Court in April 2021 - and the answer he got eight weeks later. Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday. This episode is powered by Cardio Miracle - lower your resting heart rate, lower your blood pressure, improve your pump. Head to cardiomiracle.com/TBNS and use code TBNS for 15% off. Full episode library at briannicholsshow.com. Reach out at brian@briannicholsshow.com or @BNicholsLiberty on X, Facebook, and Instagram. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Chapters: 0:00 The Gym You Can't Quit 2:30 Who Your Union Actually Fails 6:00 The Teacher They Wouldn't Let Give 10:17 Quit The Union. Keep Paying Dues. 18:00 One Person Against The Machine 21:00 The Free Way Out Nobody Mentions 24:00 The Scorecard 25:30 The Ask The Court Ignored LINKS DAVID OSBORNE Commonwealth Foundation (current role) - https://commonwealthfoundation.org/staff/david-osborne/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-r-osborne-59505668/ Americans for Fair Treatment (Special Counsel) - https://americansforfairtreatment.org/author/david-osborne/ Goldstein Law Partners - https://goldsteinlp.com/attorney/david-osborne/ Writing at Reason - https://reason.com/people/david-osborne2/ Writing at Law & Liberty - https://lawliberty.org/author/david-osborne/ MENTIONED / REFERENCED Americans for Fair Treatment - https://americansforfairtreatment.org The Fairness Center - https://www.fairnesscenter.org Ladley v. PSEA - https://www.fairnesscenter.org/cases/ladley-v-psea/ Misja v. PSEA - https://www.fairnesscenter.org/cases/misja-v-psea/ The Battle for Worker Freedom (50-state grades) - https://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/research/state-public-sector-labor-laws/ How Government Unions Fund Politics - https://commonwealthfoundation.org/research/government-unions-fund-politics/ Original Episode 233 (April 2021) - https://www.briannicholsshow.com/videos/233-david-osborne-ceo-of-americans-for-fair-treatment/ TBNS https://briannicholsshow.com brian@briannicholsshow.com @BNicholsLiberty on X, Facebook, Instagram Cardio Miracle - https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS (code TBNS, 15% off) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Jul 17

    This 2021 Warning About Woke Culture Just Came True

    Kenny Cody joins Brian Nichols to break down how woke culture took over corporations, the media, and COVID - and why he called its collapse five years before it happened. This is the very first episode The Brian Nichols Show ever put on YouTube, back in early 2021, and Kenny looked into the camera and warned that government was becoming a religion and social media the temple. Now watch it age. Back then it sounded dramatic. Coca-Cola getting called "Woka-Cola." Dr. Seuss canceled. Corporations pulling out of Georgia. And Kenny tying all of it - cancel culture, corporate America, and COVID hysteria - into one machine. But here's the part nobody was saying out loud in 2021... that the same people demonizing you online were just handing the federal government more power to do it. So we did something different with this one. We went back, five years later, and graded the tape. What did Kenny nail? What did he completely whiff on? Because we don't just take victory laps around here... we call the misses too. And one of his biggest predictions aged in a way you won't see coming. Inside you'll hear why Kenny says conservatives literally cannot be fascists, the "government is a religion" breakdown that predicted the last four years, and the three issues he swears the left loses on every single time. Then stick around for the 2026 scorecard - where Kenny is now, and the full-circle endorsement you genuinely could not script. If you want common-sense politics that actually holds up over time, hit subscribe and ring the bell. Every episode lives at briannicholsshow.com. And today's show is powered by Cardio Miracle - the heart-health supplement I take right here at the Cardio Miracle Studios in eastern Indiana. Lower your resting heart rate, drop your blood pressure, get a better pump. Head to cardiomiracle.com/tbns for 15% off. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - How Woke Culture Took Over Everything 12:00 - When The Mob Came For Him 16:00 - When Government Becomes Your Religion 24:00 - The Only Way Out Is Individualism 28:00 - The 3 Issues The Left Always Loses 32:00 - 5 Years Later: What We Got Right Links: Kenny Cody: X → https://x.com/KDCodyTN Campaign → https://votekennycody.com Human Events (Opinion Editor) → https://humanevents.com The Brian Nichols Show: https://briannicholsshow.com brian@briannicholsshow.com @BNicholsLiberty Cardio Miracle → https://cardiomiracle.com/tbns (15% off) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Jul 10

    How To Get Paid In Bitcoin For What You Already Know

    Eduardo "Ted" Alexander joins Brian Nichols to reveal how to get paid in Bitcoin for what you already know - and why the banks, Big Tech, and inflation are quietly draining your value right now. Ted's a former venture capitalist who ran a half-billion-dollar fund, then walked away to build FeeMe, an app where you set a price on your knowledge and get paid in Bitcoin and Litecoin through a non-custodial wallet only you control. No bank. No middleman. No gatekeeper deciding whether you're allowed to earn. Inside, Ted breaks down the playbook nobody in Silicon Valley wants you to hear. How a bounty works - you post a question, put Bitcoin on it, and experts around the world compete to give you the best answer while you reward the top three. Why he flat-out refuses to touch dollars, PayPal, or Cash App. And how a non-custodial wallet - twelve words on a piece of paper - hands you money no bank can freeze, seize, or manipulate. Here's the uncomfortable part. As long as the government controls the money, they control you. Every dollar they print quietly steals from the one already in your pocket. And the same gatekeepers who flagged this very show as "harmful content" for asking questions during COVID are the ones deciding which voices get seen and which get buried. So what happens when you route around all of them? At 8:55, Brian gets raw about why The Brian Nichols Show is STILL labeled harmful content on YouTube - and why that's the whole point. At 11:40, Ted pulls out his phone and walks through a live bounty, Tinder-style, right on camera. And at 15:46, he explains the regulatory trap that would turn him into a bank overnight if he ever accepted a single dollar. If this one hit home, subscribe and share it with someone who still thinks Bitcoin is monopoly money. Download FeeMe using the links below, grab the show wherever you listen, and tag Brian @BNicholsLiberty on X, Facebook, and Instagram. And a big thanks to Cardio Miracle for powering the show - support healthy blood flow and energy with the stuff Brian takes every day at cardiomiracle.com/TBNS, code TBNS for 15% off. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Intro 2:56 - Why He Left California For Freedom 6:02 - The Problem With "Trust The Experts" 8:55 - Flagged "Harmful" For Asking Questions 11:40 - Put Bitcoin On A Question, Watch Experts Compete 15:46 - Why He Refuses To Take Dollars 23:26 - The 12 Words That Put You In Control LINKS Guest / FeeMe Download FeeMe (iPhone): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feeme/id6741012486 Download FeeMe (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feeme.application FeeMe website: https://www.feeme.com The Brian Nichols Show Follow Brian on X, Facebook & Instagram: @BNicholsLiberty Listen/watch: YouTube, Rumble, Spotify, Apple Podcasts Sponsor Cardio Miracle - 15% off with code TBNS: https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Jul 3

    Did Trump Turn Michigan Into A RED State?

    Tom Norton joins Brian Nichols to reveal why Trump won Michigan by a BIGGER margin in 2024 than 2016 - and how Republicans are quietly converting blue dog Democrats to turn a supposed blue state red. This is an Afghan War veteran and Michigan State Senate candidate breaking down the demographic shift nobody in the national media wants to admit: gun-owning, pro-union Democrats who are done with the far-left agenda and flipping right. According to Tom, Michigan isn't drifting blue... it's trending red, and it's becoming more conservative than it's been in decades. We expose the reality behind the "Michigan is a blue state" narrative... and the ground game that's actually moving the needle. Tom knocked roughly 8,000 doors in a single week - and he's selling voters on a platform that should make every bureaucrat in Lansing sweat. Gutting CPS. A Michigan version of DOGE. Full school choice. This is the playbook that's converting Democrats one door at a time. But here's the question that should keep both parties up at night... if a former blue wall state is flipping red, what does that do to the map in 2028? Get this shift wrong and you misread the entire country. Inside, you'll hear Tom explain why Michigan Democrats are "blue dog" Democrats who like their guns (17:19)... how the Michigan GOP went from Romney-Rockefeller liberal to genuinely conservative (17:19)... plus the CPS due-process nightmare costing veterans their kids (6:16) and the lottery-style audit he wants running the entire state budget, Ron Paul "audit the Fed" style (7:53). If you got value from this one, smash subscribe and hit the notification bell - new episodes drop every Thursday at 9PM Eastern. Follow Brian across X, Facebook, and Instagram @BNicholsLiberty. Today's show is powered by Cardio Miracle - head to cardiomiracle.com/TBNS for 15% off. Support Tom's campaign at ThomasJNorton.com. Educated. Enlightened. Informed. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Intro 2:54 - He Scared The Feds... Now He's Coming For CPS 6:16 - Why 62% Of CPS Kids Turn Violent 7:53 - Michigan's Version Of DOGE 10:32 - Where Your School Taxes Really Go 17:19 - Did Trump Turn Michigan Red? 21:40 - Where To Cast Your Vote Links: Tom Norton for State Senate (campaign + donate) - https://www.thomasjnorton.com/ Donate direct - https://secure.anedot.com/friends-of-thomas-norton/donate Tom Norton on X - https://x.com/ForNorton Sponsor: Cardio Miracle - https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS (15% off) The Brian Nichols Show: Follow Brian @BNicholsLiberty on X, Facebook, and Instagram Watch on YouTube, Rumble, X, Facebook - Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music New episodes Thursdays, 9PM EST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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