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FF: 5 Keys to Winning Before the Results Show Up Mar 30, 2026

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Most people don't fail at entrepreneurship—they quit too early. In this solo episode, host John Odermatt breaks down the five critical traits that separate entrepreneurs who push through from those who walk away before success arrives. Drawing from his 20-month journey as a solopreneur after leaving corporate America, John shares hard-won lessons about delayed gratification, consistency, and the mindset shifts required to build a sustainable business. He discusses picking the wrong business vehicle, the importance of finding the right mentors, and why discipline must come before success. If you're building something while waiting for results to show up, this episode will help you stay the course.

VIDEO CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction: Why Most People Quit Too Early

0:48 Welcome & Fox and Sons Coffee Sponsor

3:16 The Missing Trait: Delayed Gratification

10:18 Key #1: Long-Term Orientation (Think in Years, Not Weeks)

14:26 Key #2: Consistency Over Intensity

18:53 Key #3: Today's Effort = Future Results

20:34 Key #4: Build Through Feedback, Not Emotion

23:34 Key #5: Identity Before Income

27:04 Bringing It All Together: The Power of Consistency

29:44 Closing & Contact Info

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TBNS: Republicans Are Losing Because of ONE Word? Mar 27, 2026

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What if the word "midterm" is literally costing Republicans elections?
James Dixon thinks so.
James is a podcaster, husband, Christian, and one of the most compelling voices on making politics LOCAL again — especially heading into 2026 in Michigan.
And look… the state has been run into the ground.
But here's the thing: James isn't doom-and-glooming it. He's tilting the playing field.
In today's episode, we dig into:
→ Why "midterm" is the language of losing (and what to call it instead)
→ How to bring national issues INTO local races without losing the plot
→ The "continue watching conservative" problem… and how to fix it
→ Why your vote in a local race weighs MORE than your presidential vote
→ The 10x Votes service that makes getting people to the polls actually simple
→ James as a black conservative in the Republican Party — and why he sees zero contradiction
I'll be honest with you, folks.
I pushed back on James a little.
I'm watching the demographic data. I'm watching the GOP coalition fracture. The MAHA moms are upset. The libertarians are upset about Iran. And history says the president's party gets smoked in these elections.
James's answer?
"That's true if we accept the current world at face value."
…Fair point, James.

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:49 - Meet James Dixon & Make Politics Local Again
1:45 - Why "Midterm" Is the Language of Losing
3:10 - Reframing the Argument (The Sales Parallel)
5:15 - Bridging National Issues to Local Races
7:25 - The Coattail Effect & GOP Coalition Fractures
10:13 - Tilting the Playing Field: Michigan's Hidden Advantage
12:55 - The Path of Least Resistance Problem
15:17 - Making It EASY: Permanent Absentee Ballots & 10x Votes
17:10 - Why Local Elections Matter MORE Than Presidential Ones
19:44 - Being Black & Conservative in the Republican Party
21:47 - Politics Is Downstream From Culture
23:31 - Politics Is For POWER (The Probate Judge Story)
26:33 - Final Thoughts: Brian's Demographic Concerns
29:33 - Final Thoughts: James's Case for Michigan Optimism
32:28 - Vote in Self-Defense
35:12 - James's Call to Action & Where to Find Him
35:46 - Brian's Wrap + Cardio Miracle
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MADD: “Kneecapping” Democratic Socialists / Stephen Colbert to Ruin LOTR Mar 25, 2026

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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Irish rap band Kneecap showcases how idiotically hypocritical they are living it up in luxury with the traveling Democratic Socialists while fighting for Cuban "freedom." Also: Stephen Colbert confirms he will be writing a new Lord of the Rings sequel, dooming it to instant failure.

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TLPP: New York is F'd w/ Rafael Mangual of the Manhattan Institute Mar 24, 2026

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New York City is heading in the wrong direction — and Rafael Mangual of the Manhattan Institute is here to break down exactly why.

In this episode of the LoU Perez Podcast, Rafael and I discuss the real story behind the Washington Square Park snowball attack on NYPD officers, why anti-police disrespect has become normalized, the media's deliberate obfuscation of the Gracie Mansion IED attack, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's dangerous blind spots on public safety.

Topics Covered:

- The Washington Square Park "snowball fight" and what it actually revealed about anti-police sentiment

- "Is This What Fear Looks Like?" — Rafael's viral piece on the myth of police brutality

- How progressive guilt culture has made New Yorkers afraid to call the cops

- The media's shameful framing of the Gracie Mansion IED attack

- Mayor Mamdani's failure to name the perpetrators or their motivations

- Why disbanding the NYPD's Strategic Response Group is dangerous

- The revolving door of the criminal justice system (and why the average prisoner has 10–12 prior arrests before incarceration)

- New York as a "luxury product" — and why it's losing customers

- Low voter turnout, fringe political power, and who really runs NYC

Rafael Mangual is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "Criminal (In)Justice." His work appears in City Journal, the New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal. https://amzn.to/4tdd8mD

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Lou Perez is a comedian, author, and producer. He's appeared on Gutfeld!, FOX News Primetime, and One Nation with Brian Kilmeade. He was Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning We the Internet TV, and his sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck" has over 20 million views. He hosts The Lou Perez Podcast on the Lions of Liberty Network.

Timestamps:

00:00 – Intro & Rafael's background

01:07 – Washington Square Park snowball fight: what really happened

05:23 – Anti-police disrespect and what it signals

09:07 – "The Talk" and the contradiction in police narratives

14:35 – Confrontations on NYC subway: antisocial power plays

28:57 – When did Democrats stop caring about order?

30:15 – Why progressives won't call the cops

37:02 – The revolving door: prison, recidivism & Heather Mac Donald

49:22 – The Gracie Mansion IED attack

51:33 – Media obfuscation and Mayor Mamdani's failed response

56:44 – Disbanding the NYPD's Strategic Response Group

59:35 – Is this a wake-up call for Mamdani?

1:02:22 – NYC as a luxury product — and why people are leaving

1:04:20 – Wrap-up

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FF: The Fight Over Biological Identity in America with Josh Wood Mar 23, 2026

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A fertility doctor secretly fathered dozens of children using his own sperm—and in most states, that still isn't clearly a crime. Josh Wood, Executive Director of Them Before Us, joins Finding Freedom to discuss South Dakota's groundbreaking fertility fraud law and the massive ethical questions it raises about reproductive technology, biological identity, and children's rights. This conversation exposes the unregulated fertility industry, the troubling rise of genetic selection, and how policies designed to serve adults are sacrificing the wellbeing of children. From anonymous sperm donation to designer babies, Josh breaks down why biological parentage matters more than we've been willing to admit. We explore the legal battles, the psychological toll on donor-conceived children, and the dystopian future that awaits if we don't protect the fundamental right of children to know and be raised by their biological parents. This is an eye-opening conversation that transcends politics and gets to the heart of what it means to be human.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction: The Fertility Fraud Crisis

0:47 Meet Josh Wood & Them Before Us

3:54 The Dr. Donald Cline Case: 90+ Secret Children

6:53 South Dakota's New Fertility Fraud Law

20:46 Legal Precedents & Children Suing for Their Identity

25:05 Policy Solutions: What Needs to Change

25:20 Regulating the IVF Industry & Frozen Embryo Crisis

33:21 The Money Behind Designer Babies & Eugenics

34:11 The Dystopian Future: Artificial Wombs & Child Commodification

40:04 Closing Thoughts & How to Support Them Before Us

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Substack: ThemBeforeUs.substack.com

Social Media: @ThemBeforeUs

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Politicks: Begging Fleeing NYers to Come Pay for Immigrants & Welfare Mar 20, 2026

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This week: NY Governor is begging people who fled abusive taxes and idiocy to come home to PAY for welfare programs. Also: Metaverse is no more, Caesar Chavez is a leftist icon who is also a serial rapist (per a NY Times expose), so that's awkward for them.

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TBNS: They're Both Collapsing... Mar 19, 2026

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We're diving into the recent Axios piece where Democratic strategists, including those from the Barack Obama campaign, admit uncertainty about the party's future identity post-Donald Trump.
Both the Democrat and Republican parties are facing the same identity crisis in 2026. Democrats admit they have no platform post-Trump. The GOP coalition is fracturing over glyphosate and Iran. And nobody is connecting these two crises until now.Democrats' own strategists went on the record this week admitting the party runs almost entirely on anti-Trump energy with no actual product to sell. Meanwhile the MAHA movement erupted after Trump signed a glyphosate executive order that handed immunity to the exact chemical RFK Jr. once won a $289 million verdict against. Libertarians and non-interventionists are in open revolt over the Iran war. Trump's approval has cratered to historic lows.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - The Story Nobody Is Connecting
1:18 - The Democrats' Confession
4:39 - The GOP's Mirror Image
7:00 - The Non-Interventionist Revolt
9:40 - The Sales Diagnosis
12:29 - What This Actually Means for You
14:45 - The Prescription
17:14 - The Fix Starts With You
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MADD:Will Cuban Communism Finally Fall? Mar 18, 2026

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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian looks at the unrest, economic collapse, and energy crisis in Cuba, which is in reported negotiations with the Trump Admin. Also: Quick Oscar reax, and fry fly consciousness transferred to a computer. Buy my new card game: WOKE WORD WARS - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLF8Y16S⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🦁 Support Lions of Liberty: Patreon: patreon.com/lionsofliberty Locals: lionsofliberty.locals.com

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TLPP: National Socialism Expert Dr. Rainer Zitelmann Mar 17, 2026

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Dr. Rainer Zitelmann — historian, author, and one of the world's leading experts on Hitler and National Socialism — joins Lou to discuss something that would be unthinkable in the United States: he's currently under criminal investigation in Germany for retweeting a meme comparing Putin to Hitler.

Zitelmann, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Hitler and has spent decades studying National Socialism, shared a post drawing a parallel between Hitler's promises before invading Czechoslovakia and Putin's promises before invading Ukraine. The result? A letter from the Berlin police and thousands of dollars in legal fees — with potentially more to come.

They dig into Germany's Section 86a speech laws, how legislation designed to stop neo-Nazis is now being used against libertarians, historians, and center-right journalists, the government-funded neighbor-reporting hotlines that echo the Stasi, why cancel culture has escalated into legal repression across Europe, and what it means for free speech when even the people who know the history best can't reference it.

They also get into Rainer's new book New Space Capitalism (Skyhorse Publishing) — the case for private property rights in space, how SpaceX has done what 50 years of government programs couldn't, and why capitalism is the only system that has ever actually worked, on Earth or anywhere else.

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FF: Cutting Through the AI Hype with Marty Milligan TechnologyAI Mar 16 Written By John Odermatt Mar 16, 2026

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Artificial intelligence is being sold as either the next industrial revolution or the end of humanity, but how much of that is hype? In this episode, John Odermatt sits down with Marty Milligan, founder of Digital On-Ramp WSI, to cut through the AI marketing machine and discuss what AI can actually do today. They explore whether AI poses real job threats, examine the data center infrastructure boom, and address concerns about government surveillance versus sci-fi singularity fears. Marty shares practical advice for small businesses looking to leverage AI tools effectively. The conversation challenges common narratives around AI job loss, energy concerns, and doomsday scenarios while highlighting the real opportunities and risks businesses need to understand.

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction: Cutting Through the AI Hype

2:29 - Meet Marty Milligan: From EDS to AI Consulting

5:35 - How Worried Should We Be About AI?

8:49 - Job Loss and Corporate Downsizing: AI's Real Impact

12:27 - Is AI in a Bubble? Comparing to the Dotcom Era

17:29 - Using Multiple AI Models: Why Vendor Diversification Matters

22:31 - Data Centers: Separating Fear from Reality

33:50 - The Singularity and Skynet: Should We Fear AI Taking Over?

40:19 - Practical AI for Small Businesses and Solopreneurs

44:00 - The Most Overrated AI Claims

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