Dangerous Intellectuals: The Podcast

by Brig Gen (ret) Blaine D. Holt

Season 2

S2:E3 The Reasonable Man: Peter Ticktin on the Midterms, Lawfare & a Nation Under Pressure

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. This is a field-report interview about lawfare, the ballot box, and a sovereigntist-versus-globalist fight Ticktin says is no longer only American. If you are searching for insights into what the next moves from the Oval Office will be, listen now. Duration 54:59

S2 · E3

Sep 28, 2026

54:59

S2:E2 When the Bubble Breaks: Andy Schectman on Gold, the Dollar and What Comes Next for Americans

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 bursting credit-and-currency bubble means for American savings, wages, and purchasing power. Schectman has spent decades translating complex markets into plain language for investors who want more than the official story. To make sense of it all, download this conversation now. https://milesfranklin.com/media/ https://www.youtube.com/@MilesFranklinMedia https://x.com/MilesFranklinCo Duration 1:09:33

S2 · E2

Sep 21, 2026

1:09:32

S2 E1: Sovereigntists Assemble: A Las Vegas Field Report from the Storm Summit

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. Host Blaine Holt, a keynote speaker at the summit, sits down with voices on the ground to move past slogans and talk about the big issues — and the bigger solutions required to reclaim freedom. If you search for Storm Summit Las Vegas, 5GW, election integrity, or how sovereigntists can win, start here. Download the Season Two Premiere now. Unauthorized.One Duration 2:28:16

S2 · E1

Sep 14, 2026

2:28:15

Season 1

Episode 52: The Patron Saint of Missing Kids: Bazzel Baz and the Fight to Recover America’s Children

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 bring abducted kids home. Baz built ARC to recover missing, exploited, and trafficked American children at home and overseas, at no cost to families. This conversation covers what official systems still fail to do, what real child recovery requires, and how citizens should think about protecting kids without panic. Download now if you want the truth about child trafficking from a man who has spent three decades going after it. https://www.recoveryofchildren.org https://bazzel-baz.com Duration 1:15:10

S1 · E52

Sep 7, 2026

1:15:10

Episode 51: The Social Media Burnout Cure: Cara Chace on Reclaiming Civil Society from the Algorithm

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. Chace shows how constant scrolling damages mental health and presence, then offers a real path to unplug, digital detox, and take your attention back without disappearing. Download now if you want out of social media burnout. https://www.carachace.com https://a.co/d/05K4TUuz https://www.instagram.com/carachace/ Duration 1:08:20 (Now on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@DangerousIntellectuals)

S1 · E51

Aug 31, 2026

1:08:19

Episode 50: Ireland as Ground Zero: Melissa Ciummei on the Economic War Against Freedom

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 Melissa Ciummei breaks down the economic battlegrounds that matter most and explains why Ireland may be ground zero for the wider war on freedom. Ciummei delivers a clear-eyed assessment of how these pressures operate, what they reveal about the globalist playbook, and what the rest of the free world should learn from Ireland’s experience before it’s too late. If you want to understand how economics is being weaponized against sovereignty and dissent, download now. Find Melissa at: https://x.com/KSCUBKEE https://www.youtube.com/@kscmbc Duration 1:07:27 (Now on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@DangerousIntellectuals)

S1 · E50

Aug 24, 2026

1:07:26

Episode 49: War on Critical Thinking: John Leake on Mind Viruses & America’s Irrational Obsessions

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 Obsessions and member of the McCullough Foundation, exposes how these campaigns were engineered and why they have proven so effective at reshaping the American mind. Leake traces the historical roots of this manipulation and confronts the harder question: how do free people break free from this deadly cycle before the damage becomes irreversible? If you want a clear-eyed diagnosis of the war being waged on independent thought — and a path out of it — download this episode now https://x.com/johnsearsleake https://a.co/d/02TmzzMI DI is now on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@DangerousIntellectuals Duration: 1:21:00

S1 · E49

Aug 17, 2026

1:21:00

Episode 48: Blood Sport: Celia Farber on Fauci, Aids & The Cost of Telling the Truth

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 her courage. In this powerful episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, Farber connects the AIDS years to COVID, examines the machinery of medical authoritarianism, and assesses whether Fauci’s recent congressional testimony offers any real chance of accountability. Download now for a clear-eyed conversation about power, suppression, and the long fight for scientific truth. https://x.com/BarrierTruth https://celiafarber.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Duration: 1:31:36

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Aug 10, 2026

1:31:36

Episode 47: School World Order: John Klyczek on the Globalist Takeover of American Education

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 reshape curriculum, governance, and the very purpose of schooling, transferring power from parents and voters to unaccountable outside forces. In this powerful episode of Dangerous Intellectuals, John Klyczek, lays out exactly how this takeover is being engineered and why overthrowing local democratic control of education is a primary objective of the globalist project. He exposes the mechanisms, the key players, and the long-term consequences for parental rights, intellectual freedom, and national sovereignty. https://a.co/d/0frZo6KF Duration: 1:16:53

S1 · E47

Aug 3, 2026

1:16:52

Episode 46: The Sick Dragon: Gordon Chang on China’s Ambitions, Internal Chaos, and the End of the Rising Power Myth

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 Institute and author of The Coming Collapse of China — delivers a frank, unflinching assessment of the real condition of the Chinese regime. The central question is no longer whether China will rise, but what kind of dragon we are actually facing, and whether it is sick. If you want a clear-eyed, expert analysis that cuts through both the hype and the denial, download this episode now. Gordon Chang is telling the hard truths about China that most policymakers still refuse to face. https://x.com/GordonGChang https://www.gordonchang.com https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/biography/Gordon+G.+Chang Duration: 1:04:08

S1 · E46

Jul 27, 2026

1:04:07

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