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Welcome to The Lions of Liberty Podcast Network – where culture, comedy, and capitalism collide. The true OG voice of liberty and freedom in the podcast space. We cut through the noise with razor-sharp takes on politics, free markets, and the cultural battles shaping our world. Whether you’re a politically inclined free thinker or an entrepreneurial disruptor shaking up the status quo, the Lions of Liberty will deliver what you need. www.lionsofliberty.com

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Latest Episodes:

HUGE: SCOTUS Ruling on Racial Gerrymandering WILL Change America Apr 29, 2026

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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian reacts to the nation-changing impact of the SCOTUS ruling against racially gerrymandered districts. Also: Dems desperately cling to false stats on political violence, and the Biden admin secretly gave Planned Parenthood SBA loans then covered up the trail.

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TLPP: Worldwide Tic-Tac-Toe Championship w/ Victor Varnado Apr 28, 2026

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Victor Varnado is many things: standup comedian, founder of Supreme Robot, King Super Nuts, and the man behind the Worldwide Tic-Tac-Toe Championship. He's also the guy who built disability gaming tech worth $500K — and never saw a dime.

Lou sits down with Victor for one of the more wide-ranging conversations we've had on this show: Richard Pryor's evolution as a performer, what a histology class taught Victor about how history gets told, the UCB rap battle comedy scene, why AI is "like discovering electricity," and how you turn tic-tac-toe into a global competitive sport.

Oh, and the story of the National Science Foundation grant Victor received to build voice-control and audio-description software for disabled gamers — software that could help people who are paralyzed, blind, or deaf play video games without extra hardware — that got sold to a tech company for shares against their IPO... and then the IPO never happened.

TOPICS:

— Gary, Indiana, The Jackson 5, and tall-tale fathers

— Richard Pryor vs. George Carlin (and why Pryor won)

— The histology class that changed how Victor sees the world

— Bombing at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival callback

— 7 years of rap battle comedy at UCB (Battle Ish)

— Supreme Robot: how Victor builds and tests IP before finding investors

— AI and what stays valuable when everything changes (people's attention)

— Opening for Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall) and Gilbert Gottfried

— Norm MacDonald on Sam Kinison and what comedy is actually about

— Tic-tac-toe as a strategy game (and how to make it competitive)

— The disability gaming tech that a company bought and buried

— Neuralink and the medical future Victor actually wants

Play the game: highscoregamearcade.com

0:00

Intro — who is Victor Varnado?

1:35

Growing up in Gary, Indiana and the Jackson 5

4:40

Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and the art of performance

6:15

The histology class that changed how he sees the world

9:30

Moving to Minneapolis, bombing at HBO Aspen, and going solo

11:30

UCB, the Hammer Cats, and 20 years of NYC comedy

13:50

Battle Ish: 7 years of rap battle comedy at UCB

16:10

All those unfilmed shows — and why Victor actually recorded everything

18:30

Supreme Robot: his IP incubator explained

21:10

AI is like electricity — and why that's scary and exciting

24:40

Opening for Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall

26:40

Opening for Gilbert Gottfried at Caroline's

27:05

The joke he's working on about marriage

29:20

Norm MacDonald, Sam Kinison, and what comedy is really about

31:55

The Worldwide Tic-Tac-Toe Championship — yes, really

36:10

HighScoreGameArcade.com and the 100M player goal

37:55

The National Science Foundation grant and disability gaming tech

40:10

The $500K he never got — and what happened to the tech

41:40

Neuralink and the medical future he actually wants

42:15

Outro

The Lou Perez Podcast is part of the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network.

Watch full episodes of The Lou Perez Podcast and more on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ

Listen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081

Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU

Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r TheLouPerez.com | info@thelouperez.com Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez

#comedy #standupcomedy #victorvarnado #AI #disabilitytech #tictactoe #UCB #lionsofiberty

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FF: The Income Trap: Why Earning More Isn't Making You Wealthy with Edward Brady Apr 27, 2026

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Host John Odermatt interviews Edward Brady, a former SEC examiner with 25 years in financial oversight and author of the upcoming book “Awaken Your Financial Star.” Brady explains why people feel financially behind despite higher incomes, citing inflation and lifestyle creep, and contrasts Sylvia Bloom’s $8M savings success with Warren Sapp’s bankruptcy. He outlines practical steps like tracking cash flow, using employer 401(k) matches, and weighing traditional vs Roth IRAs based on future tax expectations. Brady presents his STAR framework—Savings, Time, Assets, Real returns—emphasizing time and compounding, and discusses matching asset choices to investment horizons rather than predicting crashes. He also shares fraud-defense lessons from SEC work, including skepticism, background checks, independent custodians, fiduciaries, and diversification across custodians, and concludes that financial progress is best measured by cash flow and freedom of choice.

New sponsor alert: Jason Gagne’s Good 2GoBody 90-day beginner fitness program.

Chapters:

00:00 Why You Feel Behind

00:49 Show Welcome and Sponsor

02:34 Meet Edward Brady

03:48 Inflation and Lifestyle Creep

06:48 Practical Saving Moves

08:18 Roth vs Traditional Accounts

11:07 From Military to SEC

12:51 The STAR Wealth Framework

15:31 Time and Compounding Lessons

17:54 Fraud Proof Your Money

20:44 Real Estate Done Right

24:11 Market Outlook and Horizons

33:34 Measuring Real Progress

38:20 Book Release and Wrap Up

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Politicks: SPLC and Democrat Dark Money Apr 25, 2026

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Join Brian McWilliams, John Odermatt, Lou Perez and Brian Nichols every other week for the newest show on the Lions of Liberty Network, the Politicks Podcast! This week, we look at the bombshell Indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and expand on the interconnected Democrat Dark Money Web.

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TBNS: I Asked a Finance Expert If the Housing Market is About to Crash Apr 24, 2026

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Is the housing market about to crash? I asked Nic DeAngelo - President of Saint Investment Group and the guy managing over $200M in real estate assets - and his answer might blow your mind.
In this episode, Nic breaks down why the S&P 500 is really the S&P 7... why the Federal Reserve is failing its own dual mandate... and why 54% of Americans refuse to sell their homes right now.
We dig into the numbers the mainstream media won't touch. 80% of every US dollar ever printed in just the last 5 years. $1 from 1913 now worth about a penny. A 4 to 6 million home supply shortage. And the coming $80 TRILLION wealth transfer from Baby Boomers to Millennials.
Nic's take? He's terrified of the stock market... but he's buying mortgages behind single family homes. Here's why he thinks US real estate is the most investable asset class for the next decade - and why he'd bet on America 1,000 times out of 1,000.
If you've been wondering whether to buy, sell, or sit tight... this is the episode you need.

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Why Jim Cramer Gets It Wrong (And Who You Should Listen To Instead)
00:55 - Meet Nic DeAngelo & The Saint Investment Group Approach
02:30 - Why Microeconomics Makes Sense (And Macro Doesn't)
04:10 - Nic's North Star: Wage Growth vs. Inflation
06:50 - The S&P 500 is Actually the S&P 7
08:25 - The CAPE Ratio Warning Sign
18:50 - Tim Pool, Manufacturing & the Ecosystem Problem
21:10 - The Fed is Failing Its Own Dual Mandate
23:30 - How Immigration Inflated Housing Demand
25:40 - Why 54% of Americans Won't Sell Their Home
26:40 - The Baby Boomer Generational Shift
29:25 - $80 Trillion, Austerity & AI Anxiety
31:35 - Why America Still Wins (Nic's Bullish Case)
34:25 - Get Nic's Book & Where to Connect

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ABOUT THE GUEST
Nic DeAngelo is the President of Saint Investment Group, a real estate fund managing over $200M in assets across 30+ states with 500+ loans. Known in the industry as the "Fixed Income GOAT," Nic leads with two foundational beliefs: Wall Street is broken, and economics tells the future. His new book Economics Over Politics strips the emotional noise out of the news cycle and delivers the cold, hard math of today's economy.

Saint Investment Group: ⁠https://saintinvestment.com/⁠ Get the book: ⁠https://saintinvestment.com/book⁠ Amazon: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Over-Politics-Offending-Solutions-ebook/dp/B0GX2QJMTS⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-deangelo/⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@nicdeangelo⁠

THE BRIAN NICHOLS SHOW
Part of the Lions of Liberty Network. Real conversations about sales, liberty, business, and culture - no fluff, no theory-for-theory's-sake.
Website: ⁠https://www.briannicholsshow.com/⁠ X/Twitter: ⁠https://www.briannicholsshow.com/twitter⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.briannicholsshow.com/facebook⁠ Listener Questions: ⁠brian@briannicholsshow.com⁠

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MADD: SPLC Indicted!! And Ford / GM Asked to Make Military Gear Apr 22, 2026

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TLPP: Fitness Expert Jason Gagne Apr 21, 2026

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I sat down with Jason Gagne, fitness trainer and creator of the 90-day beginner program Good 2 Go Body. Jason has been training people for over 20 years and specializes in beginners — the people who've been told they're not in good enough shape to start working out.

Check out Jason's 90-day program → https://good2go.podia.com/good2go/ibk0g (Every sign-up puts a few bucks in my pocket. Thank you. )

Here's what we got into:

Three things you need to get in shape. Sleep. 100–128oz of water a day. A 20-minute walk. Everything else is built on top of those three basics — and most people are skipping all three and wondering why they're not getting results.

Consistency beats intensity. The human body responds to consistency far more than intensity.

You're only in shape for the gym. Most people who work out regularly are fit for the specific movements they do at the gym — and nothing else. Jason calls this "gym functionality." He built Good 2 Go Body around functional training, so your body is ready for anything: softball, hiking, chasing your kids, not throwing your back out moving furniture.

Fitness influencers are lying to you. Most of what you see on Instagram is either athletes whose full-time job is their body, or guys making trips to Mexico for gear. Comparing yourself to that as a beginner isn't motivation — it's a trap.

Don't change your diet and your exercise at the same time. Jason's take: People know how to eat. They don't need another nutrition program — they need to build the exercise habit first, get their first results, and then the nutrition questions start answering themselves naturally.

The 85/90 rule. 85–90% of what you eat should be real food — meat, vegetables, fruit, and seeds. The other 10–15%? Deep fry a Twinkie and put it on a hot dog. You're not working out to be a monk. You're working out so the Twinkie doesn't matter.

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Intro: Jason Gagne and Good 2 Go Body 03:00 — Why 20-day intense programs set beginners up to fail 07:00 — The three basics everyone skips: sleep, water, walking 10:00 — Consistency vs. intensity: why 25% every day beats 90% three times a week 14:00 — Gym functionality vs. functional training — what's the difference? 18:00 — Pilates, yoga, and the small muscles nobody talks about 22:00 — Fitness influencers, gear, and the Instagram trap 26:00 — Nutrition: don't change everything at once 30:00 — The 85/90 rule — and why the Twinkie is fine 35:00 — How 40-year-olds today look nothing like 40-year-olds used to

Watch full episodes of The Lou Perez Podcast and more on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ

Listen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081

Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU

Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r TheLouPerez.com | info@thelouperez.com Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez

#Fitness #BeginnerWorkout #Good2GoBody #FunctionalTraining #LouPerezPodcast #WorkoutMotivation #FitnessAdvice #HealthyLifestyle

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FF: The Empire That Never Died: How a Tiny Island Still Runs Your Money Apr 20, 2026

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The British Empire didn't die — it evolved. In this episode, host John Odermatt pulls back the curtain on the invisible financial architecture that Britain built after shedding its visible empire: a tightly interlocked system of offshore banking, insurance monopolies, intelligence networks, and manufactured conflict designed to generate perpetual risk premiums. At the center of this system sits the City of London, the Federal Reserve, Lloyd's of London, and the Bank of International Settlements — all tracing back to the same banking families. John walks through how conflicts in Iran, Israel, and the broader Middle East were not accidents but products, engineered to keep Lloyd's premiums high and London's influence alive. He also examines the LIBOR scandal as documented proof of institutional collusion, not theory. Finally, John makes the case that the Trump administration's America First doctrine — from the Venezuela operation to intelligence cutoffs to the Strait of Hormuz insurance play — may represent the first serious attempt in living memory to dismantle this system, and why figures like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene, despite their "America First" branding, may actually be playing into the very architecture they claim to oppose.

Video Chapters

0:00 – Introduction: The Empire That Never Died

1:17 – Jekyll Island 1910: The Secret Meeting That Copied the Bank of England

2:24 – Welcome to Finding Freedom: What This Episode Is About

9:26 – The Architecture of Invisible Power: Four Buildings, Four Dates

15:05 – Lloyd's of London: How Conflict Became a Product

16:07 – The Strait of Hormuz and the Iran Risk Premium

21:03 – The LIBOR Scandal: Proof, Not Theory

23:37 – Trump's America First vs. the British Banking Cartel

25:40 – Operation Absolute Resolve: Venezuela and the Dollar War

32:55 – AIPAC, US Elections, and the Distraction Machine

33:33 – What This All Leads To: The System Behind the Conflict

35:37 – Wrap-Up and Where This Series Is Heading

Resources & Links Mentioned

Vivify Mariposa – "The Empire That Never Died" (Substack: No Filter, Just Facts): The primary source article for this episode — https://nofilterjustfacts.substack.com/p/the-empire-that-never-died-britain-conflict-money
Rich Does Politics – YouTube channel John recommends for global economics and intelligence analysis: [youtube.com/@RichDoesPolitics]

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TBNS: I Was 385 Pounds & BIG SUGAR Wanted to KEEP Me Way Apr 18, 2026

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Natalie Nicole, founder of Dulsa Life, joins Brian Nichols to reveal why Big Sugar wanted to keep him at 385 pounds and how the alternative sweetener industry is quietly destroying America's metabolic health. Natalie breaks down why roughly 70% of Americans are now battling chronic metabolic illness, how high fructose corn syrup hits your cells like a fire hose compared to the "garden hose" of real sugar, and why every pink, blue, yellow, and green sweetener packet at the grocery store is laced with maltodextrin, dextrose, or sugar alcohols that wreck your gut. They get into the Ozempic shortcut trap, the 10-year slow-poisoning timeline that precedes a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, and why SNAP benefits and Big Soda subsidies are making the problem exponentially worse for working class Americans.
We expose the uncomfortable truth about why "zero calorie" sweeteners are one of the most successful marketing scams in food history... and why the same playbook Big Tobacco ran in the 60s is now running Big Sugar. Natalie shares the blueprint behind Dulsa - a functional sweetener built with organic monk fruit, allulose, prebiotic yacon root, and shelf-stable probiotics - and walks through how she's hijacking your body's natural GLP-1 production without the black box warnings. If you've ever flipped over a "healthy" nutrition label, shrugged, and told yourself "it's probably fine"... you need to hear this.
Chapters :
0:00 - Intro: Big Sugar's War On Your Health
1:55 - Meet Natalie Nicole: From Red Pill To Sugar Fighter
3:49 - I Was 385 Pounds And Drinking A Liter Of Mountain Dew Daily
6:49 - Sugar Is A Slow Poison (The 10-Year Diabetes Countdown)
8:21 - The Ozempic Generation & The GLP-1 Shortcut Trap
11:15 - High Fructose Corn Syrup Is A Fire Hose To Your Cells
14:56 - Path Of Least Resistance: Why We Keep Choosing Sugar
16:49 - The Big Tobacco Playbook Is Now Running Big Sugar
19:13 - Our Kids Have Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
21:19 - RFK Jr, The Food Pyramid, And Sugar's 600 Hidden Names
23:18 - Aldi, Food Deserts & The Free Market Solution
26:06 - What Dulsa Actually Is (Sweetener + Supplement + Probiotic)
28:57 - Why Your Grandma's Food Doesn't Exist Anymore
31:59 - Natalie's Final Message: You're Not Broken
33:31 - How To Get Dulsa (Use Code: NICHOLS)
Dulsa Life:
Website: ⁠https://dulsalife.com/⁠

Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dulsalife/⁠

Health Benefits: ⁠https://dulsalife.com/pages/health-benefits⁠

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Referenced In Episode:
Dr. Adrian Bejan / Constructal Law (Duke University) - prior TBNS guestJohn Odermatt / Plexus - Lions of Liberty Network colleagueCX Without the BS (Brian's business podcast)Lions of Liberty Network: ⁠https://www.lionsofliberty.com/⁠
The Brian Nichols Show:
Website: ⁠https://thebriannicholsshow.com/⁠Brian

on socials: @BNicholsLiberty

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MADD: California's Response to Fraud? Outlaw Investigative Journalism Apr 15, 2026

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On this week's Mean Age Daydream, California responds to massive documented fraud by... outlawing people from investigating it, with AB2624. Also: New polling shows the Iran war is truly a Boomer war, plus it's Tax Day!

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