Dangerous Intellectuals: The Podcast

Recorded on location at the Storm Summit as part of the Dangerous Intellectuals Season Two kickoff, this full conversation features veteran trial lawyer Peter Ticktin — founder of The Ticktin Law Group, and a classmate of President Trump — on why he came to Las Vegas to get the word out. Ticktin and host Blaine Holt take on the national anxiety rising toward the 2026 midterms and much more.

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The global macroeconomic bubble is colliding with physical reality — Treasury market stress, de-dollarization, BRICS settlement systems, and a widening gap between paper gold and the metal you can hold. In this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, Andy Schectman, Founder and CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, breaks down gold and silver supply and demand, COMEX activity, and central bank accumulation — and what a bur...

Dangerous Intellectuals opens Season Two on location at the Storm Summit, September 10–13, 2026, at the Ahern Hotel in Las Vegas. This special video episode takes you inside a gathering of speakers and attendees from around the world confronting the real conflict of our time: sovereigntists versus globalists in a fifth-generation warfare environment of narrative control, election integrity fights, and institutional capture.

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Child trafficking, child exploitation, and missing children are not distant headlines. They are an industrial-scale assault hiding behind words like “runaway” and “awareness.” In this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, former CIA Special Operations officer, Marine, and Association for the Recovery of Children founder Bazzel Baz names the size of the human trafficking fight — and why slogans do not bri...

Social media addiction was not an accident. Infinite scroll, autoplay, and the attention economy were built to capture your focus, spike anxiety, and keep you scrolling. In this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, former federal agent and author Cara Chace breaks down The Social Media Burnout Cure — and why screen time, echo chambers, and algorithm burnout are a civil-society problem, not just a personal one.

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Ireland is rapidly becoming the clearest example of how globalist economic power is being used to crush national sovereignty and silence dissent. Through housing policy, migration, energy, regulation, and financial pressure, a coordinated set of forces is reshaping the country in real time — turning what was once a fiercely independent nation into a testing ground for control. On this episode, economist and Irish commentator ...

America is under psychological assault. A series of manufactured crises — from COVID and climate hysteria to cancel culture and endless proxy wars — have been deliberately spread like mind viruses, eroding critical thinking and producing a toxic culture of fear, compliance, and controlled outrage. In this powerful episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, John Leake, author of Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessio...

For more than four decades, a powerful medical-political complex shaped American public health from the AIDS crisis through COVID, silencing dissent and punishing those who challenged the official narrative. At the center of that system stood Anthony Fauci. Investigative journalist Celia Farber, author of Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS, spent her career documenting the corruption and paid a steep price for he...

The most important battlefield is no longer just in Washington or on the world stage — it is inside the local school board meeting. Across the country, democratically elected school boards, the last remaining layer of genuine local control over education, are under systematic assault. In their place, a sophisticated network of public-private partnerships, corporate interests, and globalist institutions is being installed to r...

For decades the world was told China was an unstoppable rising power destined to eclipse the United States. That narrative is now collapsing. Beneath the military parades and global ambitions, the Chinese Communist Party is wrestling with deep economic fragility, demographic decline, political repression, and growing internal chaos. On this episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, Gordon Chang — Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Inst...

What if the next frontier of warfare isn’t fought with bombs or bullets, but inside your own mind? In this explosive episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, MK Ultra whistleblower and cognitive liberty advocate James Martinez reveals how advanced technologies like V2K (Voice-to-Skull) and the emerging 6G infrastructure are being weaponized as tools of Fifth Generation Warfare. He breaks down how these systems represent a clear an...

We are living through a Spiritual War — a silent, multi-front battle for the soul of humanity, where narratives, institutions, and technology are being weaponized to erase national sovereignty and individual freedom. While many see only darkness and inevitable defeat, Mark Attwood — host of The Mark Attwood Show and author of God Wins: Spiritual War Poetry — sees something far more profound. He calls himself an &l...

Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, America stands at a pivotal crossroads. The nation forged through revolution, intense debate, and the careful construction of the Constitution now faces serious questions about its future. While many will celebrate this historic milestone, others are asking whether we are still living up to the vision of the Founders — or whether we are dangerously close to lo...

America’s food system has been quietly captured by powerful corporations that prioritize profit over human health, flooding the country with ultra-processed, chemically treated products designed to create dependency rather than nourishment. From seed to shelf, this industrialized machine has turned what should be life-giving into something that is slowly poisoning the population while enriching a handful of global players. Th...

What if the greatest technological breakthroughs of the modern age were never lost — but deliberately hidden? For decades, rumors have persisted that anti-gravity propulsion and revolutionary energy systems were developed in secret by military black projects and then locked away from public view. In this compelling episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, Nick Cook — former Aviation Editor at Jane’s Defence Weekly and ...

Across Nigeria, Christians are being hunted.

Behind much of this brutality stands the enduring ideological shadow of the Sokoto Caliphate — a centuries-old jihadist project that continues to fuel modern groups determined to eradicate Christianity from large parts of Africa. While the world looks away or offers empty statements, one man has repeatedly traveled into the heart of the killing fields to document the atrocities, bri...

The Chinese Communist Party is not merely a geopolitical rival — it is actively conducting a sophisticated, multi-front war against the United States from within. Through economic infiltration, technological theft, political subversion, and influence operations, the CCP is systematically undermining American sovereignty as part of a larger globalist effort to dismantle national borders and concentrate power beyond democratic ...

The world is experiencing a once-in-a-century collision: massive geopolitical realignments, the total restructuring of the global monetary system, and the explosive rise of exponential technologies are crashing together at the same moment. While most commentators see only chaos, crisis, and collapse, Dr. Pippa Malmgren — renowned macro economist, tech entrepreneur, and visionary Substack writer — sees something far more...

What if the greatest threat to American sovereignty isn’t coming from foreign enemies, but from the very intelligence agencies created to protect us? In this explosive episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, Colonel Towner-Watkins is one of the most relentless researchers of U.S. intelligence history — pulls back the curtain on the dark origins of the American deep state. From Operation Paperclip and Gladio to MK Ultra and ...