The Nikos Show

Whitecross is an American Christian metal band from Illinois, formed in 1985 by singer Scott Wenzel and guitarist Rex Carroll, and re-formed in 2000. The band won three Dove Awards in the 1990s. They have a new Album being released in March 2024 called Fear No Evil.

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Episode Links:
Michael Feighan "I Still Believe" Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jj1zhovywc
Whitecross: https://whitecrossband.com/
Darthplumber Artist Management: https://www.facebook.com/DarthPlumberAM/

Timeline:
0:50 How to become a full-time musician
2:22 Are drummers the most important musicians in a rock band?
5:35 Practicing the guitar
8:17 Roland VDrums
12:09 Band management in the age of the Internet vs the 80s
14:30 Rex recovering from guitar soloing
15:16 How much of Solos are improvised
22:37 Nikos demonstrates his guitar skills to Whitecross and asks about playing what you imagine in your head
28:12 Rex on living as a Jesus follower vs doing good deeds

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Howard is a Connector for Energy Efficiency & Renewables Projects / Dramady Series Co-Creator and Writer/Peace Advocate/Speaking truth to power since 1967. 

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Episode Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howard-chalfin-b2181118/ 

Timeline: 0:30 The WEF, Wall Street, Elon, Hive Mentality and Biden 12:09 Trump vs Biden and the democratic party (being run by lawyers) 29:25 Bill Gates & Epstein 30:49 Serfdom / Corporate world / The hive 46:24 Hollywood 58:08 Liz 1:05:19 gods among men 1:09:12 Howards Show 1:15:15 "flood" divine intervention? 

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Robin is a Former SAS Soldier. Writer, Veterans Campaigner and Public Speaker. Operations Nimrod and Mikado. 

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Episode Links: https://robinhorsfall.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-horsfall-52243220/ 

Timeline: 1:40 Putin's target audience 4:04 Is this a serious interview? 12:32 Nikos appeals to Biden haters 21:32 Will Putin invade other parts of Europe? 24:51 Is Ukraine getting enough support and MAGA 28:53 Russia doesn't threaten with nuclear weapons? 33:45 Countries joined NATO because they were afraid 34:36 Maidan and the CIA 41:06 America needs to keep its word to Ukraine 42:51 Ukraine's corruption 45:58 Boris Johnson told Kyiv not to negotiate? 59:00 Eventually, Russia will run out of people 1:01:51 Ukrainian bombed lands, soil recovery 

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Peter is a Keynote Speaker • Consultant • Mentor • Scientist • Musician • Author @ Virgin, Bloomsbury, Routledge 

TIMELINE: 0:56 How are things going in the UK with Brexit 2:45 Why was Brexit especially bad for UK musicians? 5:10 Playing Purple Rain at business meetings 8:30 Nikos' live guitar performance and Peter’s coaching/feedback 29:00 How easy can someone near 40 to break into the music industry? 40:10 Nikos sings about the English stealing Scottish oil and Generation Rent 42:26 AI 

EPISODE LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/humandynamics/academy-of-rock.co.uk (Company) https://www.humdyn.co.uk/aboutus (Company) https://brexitrage.com (Personal) 

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Paolo is a Serial founder, and distributed systems researcher. 

TIMELINE: 0:24 How can we trust peer-to-peer protocols vs The Cloud? 3:28 How peer-to-peer complements the cloud 4:45 Comparing Socket Supply with React Native, electron etc 8:20 How does Socket Supply work? 15:43 What is the minimum amount of clusters that we need for 2 peers to communicate? 23:55 Costs at scale vs The Cloud 

EPISODE LINKS: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolofr/ 

https://socketsupply.co/ 

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Brooks is a Web Developer who specializes in building highly interactive, data-rich React applications. He is currently a Developer Relations Manager at Shopify and Remix. 

EPISODE LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooks-lybrand/

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Simon is a popular poster on survival themed Sub-Reddit's

Timeline:

0:00 Intro

1:15 Hazelnut trees

2:07 Soil erosion of topsoil and difference of compost to topsoil

7:07 Why the plough damages topsoil

11:50 Civilisations dying due to bad farming methods

EPISODE LINKS:

https://www.reddit.com/user/Infinite_Goose8171/submitted/

https://ahdb.org.uk/news/plough-vs-direct-drill-soil-health-impact-revealed-by-scorecard

Robin is a Former SAS Soldier. Writer, Veterans Campaigner and Public Speaker. Operations Nimrod and Mikado. 

Sponsors: Highland Kilt Warrior Deep-Fried Mars Bar Throwing Club 

Episode Links: https://robinhorsfall.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-horsfall-52243220/ 

Timeline: 0:00 Intro 1:30 How poorly prepared NATO was 2:28 Our press is spouting russian Propaganda 4:00 Our short-term focused politicians 6:00 Ukraine stealing weapons 10:15 Our leaders are not banging the drum supporting Ukraine 12:21 Putin sees our failures 14:50 The upper class needs to do more to support the poor as we fight russia 15:48 Nothing works in the UK 17:40 The UK army would fit inside Twickenham stadium 18:52 Root cause of NATO’s weakness 24:20 The New Testament commands The Rich to be generous 26:48 Big business in the UK should prioritise British workers 28:27 Get out and work the fields lazy Brits 29:50 The bank of mum and dad 31:54 Politics is all about marketing, not about morality 33:30 Nikos asks Robin to start a political party 34:35 What happens to decent UK politicians 36:20 Slava Ukraini! book 47:15 We should share more skills 49:09 We live in a separated society by money and technology 55:45 Survival skills are not considered manly anymore 59:34 Young people don't know how to cook potatoes in the UK 1:05:30 Dying with lots of money in the bank

Patrick Kilpatrick is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, journalist, international entertainment speaker and teacher. He has appeared in over 200 films and television series. 

Sponsors: Scottish Deep-Fried Mars Bars Highland Kilt Warrior Club Elite Spartans 

Episode Links: https://www.patrickkilpatrick.com/ 

Timeline: 0:00 Intro 1:55 Are you less busy in your 70s as an actor/director? 7:15 How are you copying during this strike? 12:05 How to sell movies visually 18:17 AI finance estimation for pitching to investors 28:20 It the Movie star a dying breed? 32:30 WHy so many drugs in showbiz? 34:36 Do actors hang out with actors?

Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers/comments/177zaxm/why_are_999_of_people_around_me_not_interested_in/?sort=confidence 

Sponsors: Scottish Deep-Fried Mars Bars Highland Kilt Warrior Club My Local Chippy 

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Pyotr works at the World Bank and hosts geopolitical discussions on his show The Global Gambit 

 Episode Links: https://www.youtube.com/@theglobalgambit https://twitter.com/PKurzin 

Timeline: 2:00 Alternative history had russia turned Ukraine into a new Belarus 7:40 Moldova risk 21:02 NATO and Finish involvement in a potential kinetic war with russia 27:40 The BRICS 32:35 prigozhin vs putin
 

Avraham is a technical leader, architect and above all, a master communicator. He has applied these skills to projects in Digital Television, Cryptography-Based security, and technical industry. 

TIMELINE: 0:50 Spacefaring communism (star trek) best case scenario after the singularity? 6:28 Do your staff worry about job losses? 9:05 Should job losses be morally enough to stop AI development? 11:55 Do we need an intervention due to AI? 17:50 Nikos doesn't need a junior developer because of ChatGPT. 47:58 Nikos playing guitar in Ukrainian church. 1:14:00 Why Ukraine is strong. 1:17:57 Speaking versus writing. 1:28:46 AI desire for ever increasing progress proves man is trying to make his own God? 1:33:54 Nikos recommends everybody becoming farmers. 

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Kevin has been working in the tech industry since 2012. He saw the infancy stages of the tech boom and currently works in data and data science. 

TIMELINE: 0:00 Intro 1:50 Programmers are losing jobs to ChatGPT and LLMs, and how LLMs work 22:44 Our leaders are not ready to have a fair society in the age of AI 44:22 What if Hitler had LLM? 49:24 Zero-sum games 52:56 Trying to be positive 

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Colin D. Heaton is a professor of history, military history, and sociology at the American Military University and the author of three books and numerous articles on World War II. He lives in Southport, NC.

GUEST'S LINKS:

IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12362822/...

TIMELINE:

0:00 Intro

5:10 Reparations

33:55 Dear Globalists, we will reduce emissions if you sell your private jets

41:10 WW3, Trump and China

50:25 President Xi is the most dangerous type of advesary

58:15 Would President Trump have stopped putin?

1:01:15 Obama let Crimea be taken

1:08:15 Would russia go nuclear?

1:16:59 Reparations for lockdown

1:19:59 Disband the UN?

 My friend Howard Chalfin and I had a chat today about the #Dollar, #BRICS and the Future and he wanted to say hi to all his Linked In friends and say he will return after a bit of a sabbatical.

And he is the first in a new podcast within my Nikos Show Podcast called Rapid Fire

Chris is the cofounder of Couchbase, Chief Architect of Mobile, and President & CFO during the Membase/CouchOne merger. Recently he created Fireproof: a cloudless database 

I almost recorded this episode in McDonalds - but common sense prevailed 

SUPPORT THE SHOW Open to discussion with four companies who like my show and want to lock in a sponsorship deal at a flat yearly rate for both the next 12 and 24 months 

GUEST'S LINKS: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jchris/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jchris Fireproof: https://fireproof.storage/ 

TIMELINE: 0:00 Why do we need a new cloudless database 2:10 Can we use a Fireproof database for a banking 5:40 This could take away billions from AWS, Microsoft and Google 11:20 What could we replace some of our #postgres databases with, with Fireproof

Adam is a Self-Defense Expert, Creator of Smart Safe Defense LLC and Creator of “The Get Real Self Defense Podcast” 

SUPPORT THE SHOW Open to discussion with four companies who like my show and want to lock in a sponsorship deal at a flat yearly rate for both the next 12 and 24 months 

GUEST'S LINKS: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-joll... Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cpUHRm... 

TIMELINE: 0:00 Most people don't have a clue how to self defend 2:04 Adams real-life examples of self-defence 9:07 Self-defence lifestyle 16:35 Personal self-defence insurance policy 25:53 Women self-defence 33:52 Sherlock Holmes 39:25 Collaborating with an adversary 47:30 Nikos’ walking stick of wrath 55:54 Social posturing 1:02:45 Krav maga 1:13:00 Uncontrollable situations 

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Steve Longi is a veteran feature film and television producer based in Los Angeles, California. With over twenty years of experience, Mr. Longi has developed and produced numerous projects including the critically acclaimed "Hacksaw Ridge 

GUEST'S LINKS: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519347/?... https://longitudeentertainment.com/ 

TIMELINE: 0:00 Intro and reacting positively in life 4:35 Living through crazy times and speaking positively to yourself 14:40 why do you go for challenging scripts? 17:20 Directing versus producing 19:00 Hacksaw Ridge 27:35 The pressure of making movies 41:05 Classic film preference 43:00 Authentic films 47:40 The secret of movies is audience engagement 

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