Smart. Funny. Connected. Former Under Secretary of Homeland Security & FEMA Director Michael Brown provides provocative insight into culture, current events and politics. Get an insider's view of what the mainstream media won't be telling you. He delivers incisive content with humor, wit and smartn…
Hour 1: Michael is sick of hearing ‘prop gun'. Security guards at Denver International Airport plan to strike on Election Day. Michael and Angie get distracted by Eileen's Cookies.
Hour 2: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock requires proof of vaccination to get $400 – unless you have an exemption. Bernie Sanders and the pricey infrastructure bill. Politicians don't care if they waste taxpayers money. They use stimulus checks to make up for destroying businesses.
Hour 3: D.C. still claims this spending will be wonderful and cost nothing. The Supreme Court rules what is actually income available to tax. Michael Bennett campaign funds mostly comes from out of state. Michael explains money is necessary in politics, but the stakeholders need to be disclosed to the public.
Hour 4: Tax payer relief shots. Biden's plan to give immigrants $450k. Michael's obsession with key lime pie.
Hour 1: National news: a tree falls on a car. The weather report got more exciting with the term ‘bomb cyclone'. Michael says Alec Baldwin is still responsible for firing the gun; you should never rely on someone else checking it.
Hour 2: How does the letter from the National School Board Association claiming parents are domestic terrorists get to the Attorney General so quick? Michael suspects this was an orchestrated effort. Ted Cruz's question to AG Garland about the Nazi salute being an act of domestic terrorism or protected speech is reported as Cruz supporting Nazis. Sen. Tom Cotton call for AG Garland to resign in disgrace.
Hour 3: The latest pronouns on TikTok. National Strategy for Gender Equity and Equality focuses on women. Misgendering is essentially committing a crime to some.
Hour 4: Biden administration needs a victory. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer sweat trying to pass the spending bill. Michael is disappointed in republicans not fighting against the left. Michael waits for Biden's big announcement on his agenda.
Hour 1: Michael was voted ‘Most Popular' in high school. A restraining order stops Douglas County School District stops masks exemptions; this creates an issue for parents with special needs kids. FDA approves the Pfizer vaccine for children in emergency situations. Time for change is during the school board elections.
Hour 2: There's conflicting information about hospitals having to turn patients away and ICUs being at full capacity. CDC study says you can still get infected with a mask. Report says a cloth mask is more effective than the vaccine. Fear drives mandates than facts.
Hour 3: Controlling healthcare is the first step to tyranny. Americans are still stranded in Afghanistan. Elitists lie. Joe Rogan calls out politicians for taking ivermectin. The government programs are more dangerous than the amount in the spending bill. Elizabeth Warren to tax unrealized gains.
Hour 4: The Keystone Pipeline project ending affected the oil and gas industry. The Queen gets doctor's note to get out of summits. Truckers plan to fight against vaccine mandates if enforced. Michael talks to listeners about unrealized gains and the vaccine mandates in private companies.
Hour 1: Old fart talks about his medication and run-in with a cement truck. India uses therapeutics and has a low vaccine rate; they experience spikes just like those countries with high vaccination rates. Michael analyzes the waves of cases in India and Lithuania and what they use to combat the virus. The virus will virus despite the vaccine.
Hour 2: Michael argues with texter. The vaccines have the same effect as a flu shot. Michael reiterates how much he's not anti-vax. It's not contradictory to be against mandates and still get vaccinated. The government doesn't have authority to force citizens to get vaccinated.
Hour 3: Glen Youngkin is closing the gap with Terry McAuliffe in Virginia race. The National School Board doesn't apologize after calling parents who just yelled at school officials “violent”. People finally outraged with Fauci after learning beagles are being eaten alive in his labs for research. Michael argues the caravan heading to the border could be an organized invasion welcomed with open arms from the left. Alec Baldwin needs more gun safety lessons. The “Rust” armorer claims she was uncomfortable with job and taught herself.
Hour 1: Michael believes things will get worse before they get better. Biden says he'll call on the National Guard to help with moving cargo. Supply shortage and backlogs. Oil and gas policies are destroying the industry.
Hour 2: Government blocked competing COVID-19 tests while CDC sent out faulty ones. The PCR tests were worthless and mostly inaccurate, but still became the ideal one to take. Faulty testing, data bases that don't work, and prohibiting other tests led to the FDA nearly halting more effective tests. Health experts said virus could've been squashed if the government didn't interfere. This social experiment shows that if you scare people enough, they'll do anything. Dr. Anthony Fauci under fire for suspected animal testing and cruelty.
Hour 3: Old people are funny with no filter, but not Nancy Pelosi. She provides a roadmap of what's wrong with this country, for example: the taxing billionaires on their wealth. Obama campaigned for Terry McAulliffe. The government should teach about reading, writing, and arithmetic - not culture wars. New Zealand admits to creating two classes of people.
Hour 4: The feds want to tax people on wealth – not income. What has Biden actually done (in his entire career) to create jobs? Biden also says the unvaccinated are in the wrong. People have become dependent on government, and we have given them too much power. It took the government going after kids, for people to get involved.
Hour 1: Greta the Leonberger has herpes. Michael laughs at Michael B. Hancock and Lori Lightfoot hosting a national non-partisan conversation about voting rights. The Denver and Chicago mayors are far from being non-partisan.
Hour 2: Alec Baldwin should be in deep trouble. Michael explains the legal implications and suspects we could see the Hollywood elite get a pass pending what the facts say. Lt. Michael Byrd not charged for killing Ashli Babbitt during Capitol Riot – Michael explains why he disagrees with the ruling. Parents and taxpayers are called domestic terrorists for getting mad at school boards.
Hour 3: Biden seems confused during his town hall and admits to not visiting the southern border. Aspen has questionable mask rules during ski season. If white supremacy is the greatest threat to the republic, they aren't taking advantage of the weakened country.
Hour 4: TPRS. Michael emphasizes what the second amendment says. Amazon Services holds a non-partisan event that is completely one-sided. Michael gives newly wed advice.
Hour 1: The free market is why the economy works. A bottle of fancy Voss water sends Michael into a rant of the lockdowns and broken supply chain that is damaging the economy. Democrats want to pass a bill that will destroy the economy even further.
Hour 2: Buying for quality over low prices. Jim Cramer says inflation is worse than initially thought. Sticker shock makes consumers aware of how bad things are getting. Angie shares how much gas costs in Kuwait, proving Michael's point about the economy.
Hour 3: Biden claims Chris Dodd would never disrespect a waitress. He forgot Dodd and Ted Kennedy assaulted a waitress in the past which is known as the infamous ‘waitress sandwich incident'. Michael's thoughts on why Joe Manchin is considering leaving the democrat party. Sen. Rand Paul accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of funding gain of function research who denied it. National Institute of Health (NIH) admits to funding the research; Fauci lied to congress.
Hour 4: The supposed effectiveness of Pfizer/BioNTech boosters is eerily familiar to the temporary fixes of the original shot. Michael talks to listeners about the UN Climate Conference using Teslas and diesel generators for transportation.
Hour 1: Michael and Angie are accused of kidnapping My Little Pony toys from the afternoon show. Michael has a nightmare about vaccines. Private companies excel in the marketplace, not the government.
Hour 2: Andy Puzder gave a lecture for PragerU about ESG (environmental, social, and governance) the new wokeness that says making a profit is evil and selfish. Social justice comes from individuals. To be woke, you have to judge history based on today's standards.
Hour 3: 3.A special attorney-client privilege conversation with Michael's lawyer, Andy Lester, after THAT afternoon show threatens to impeach Michael. Legislators are starting to realize emergency statutes may not be a good idea. The states get federal money, but no have control over the distribution. Former New York Times writer tells CNN's Brian Stelter the world has gone mad because of people like him.
Hour 4: 1.In and Out tells San Francisco to ‘screw off' and continue to ignore the health department's warnings to follow vaccine mandates. Pfizer has been sponsoring a lot of questionable Inflation is raising prices everywhere to keep businesses afloat. Jen Psaki pivots from answering why Biden violated a mask mandate. IRS reviews everyone's bank account, but there's no funding.
Hour 1: Greta the leonberger puts life into perspective during a walk with Michael. There's ways the people at the bottom can initiate change. Michael's political advice when he was consulting.
Hour 2: With the plethora of news sources, Michael encourages you to look at other perspectives to better empower yourself. The so-called vaccine mandate is doctrinaire science. Joe Rogan confronts Dr. Sanjay Gupta about CNN lying about him. School board race upended amid controversies and cover-ups.
Hour 3: People shamed for questioning the government's ‘science'. Why does society reject natural immunity? People with antibodies are still being pressured to get the vaccine and to prove it. Vaccine segregation brought to you by Fauci. Manipulated statistics say cops die more from COVID than gunfire. Politicians use Colin Powell's death for their agenda.
Hour 4: Michael discusses who broke the supply chain. Listeners ask Michael about federal exemptions for the vaccine.
Hour 1: Milk shortages due to materials for containers. There's no actual mandate for vaccines for private companies. Michael remembers Gen. (Retired) Colin Powell, his former colleague and mentor.
Hour 2: 2.Michael shares insider stories when he worked with Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. Powell was fulling vaccinated and still faced complications. A federal judge barred United Airlines from putting unvaccinated employees on unpaid leave.
Hour 3: Vaccines won't save you from COVID. Fauci says we can't rely on natural immunity, something no one wants to talk about. Therapeutics haven't been developed for COVID.
Hour 4: Terry McAullife says parents don't have a role in kids' education and AOC endorsed him. Democrats violate the Hatch Act when they used a video of VP Kamala Harris endorsing McAuliffe in black churches.
Hour 1: The My Little Ponies kidnapping has escalated. Raiders coach Jon Gruden's career has been ruined because of emails with anti-gay language. Raider's defensive end, Carl Nassib, takes time off after Gruden's emails are released. Michael used humor during hurricane Katrina and has never asked for time off.
Hour 2: Cancel culture will come for you. Michael says offensive language isn't equal to slurs. Anti-bullying efforts are great, but children aren't being taught resiliency.
Hour 3: The White House calls unemployment and supply issues “high class problems”. People have left/lost jobs and never return to work. Democrats want to make California truck regulations part of federal law. Michael compares the morning stories from CNN and Fox News – only one is reporting that Biden is reinstating Trump's Remain In Mexico policy.
Hour 4: Self-defense doesn't make national news. Michael talks to listeners about an oil rig that's basically a floating bomb, how police view armed people, and future elections.
Hour 1: Hunter Biden sells paintings since deciding to become an artist, but the buyers remain anonymous. Investigations into how corrupt Trump was have failed. Dave Chappell upsets people for believing Caitlyn Jenner is a man.
Hour 2: Michael picks a fight with Angie. The symmetry of federalism is ruined when senators are directly elected. Federal government takes power from state legislators.
Hour 3: Coffee is a necessity of life during morning drive. Insider trading in the pharmaceutical world. The free market isn't working when it comes to drugs. Michael blames hedge funds.
Hour 4 : When pilots stand up for their beliefs, they can ruin a lot of peoples' travel plans. Goldman Sachs on the housing market and zoning laws. Climate junkies want to move people from single family homes to multi-family homes – just like Michael has seen in communist countries.
Hour 1 : We have shortages of supplies, staff and leadership in the White House. Biden is basically Chance the gardener, played by Peter Sellers in the movie ‘Being There'. Michael credits the federal debt with causing the malaise.
Hour 2 : Michael explains how other country economies affect us. The public education system is failing kids. Examples of authoritarianism you may not see.
Hour 3 : VP of the Cherry Creek School Board, Kelly Bates, made sure to let people know the board is diverse, but doesn't want a white man. The labor department has not released any vaccine mandates, which means Biden has no legal authority to implement any. Be thankful for those who stand up for individual freedom.
Hour 4: Michael discusses the anxiety many people are feeling. People want to fix our problems with human engineering. Harvard study shows how the vaccine isn't helping the spread of COVID. Michael suspects it's actually just a shot to minimize symptoms and keep you out of the hospital.
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