For over 40 years, The Leadership Institute, founded in 1979 by Morton Blackwell, has taught conservatives how to win. It’s Youth Leadership School, Future Candidate School and other grassroots trainings are considered the gold standard for conservatives engaged in local and national politics.

Chris and Sean zoom with Robert Arnakis, Senior Director of International and Domestic Programs at LI, to discuss LI’s vast influence on the Conservative Movement, his 18 years equipping leaders to know how to win; and, the current haphazard state of the Republican Party.

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Entrepreneur, Beverage Industry Leader, Cannabis Pioneer, and serial Philanthropist, Smoke Wallin, joins Chris and Sean for a wide-ranging discussion of his amazing life. His latest passion is a growing non-profit called Dignity

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Trump dumps a deluge of disastrous tariffs on a host of countries with little or no economic impact on the world while touting it as liberation of the American Economy? If the