Latest Fixing america Podcast Episodes
Episode 53: A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: former US Rep Chris Collins
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - August 29, 2023 19:00 - 44 minutesMy guest today is American entrepreneur and politician, Christopher Collins. Chris served as the U.S. representative for New York's 27th congressional district (Buffalo NY area) from 2013 until 2019. Prior to his time in Congress, he ran for Erie County Executive in 2007 on a platform of smaller...
Episode 52: Lessons in Preserving American Freedom: An interview with Laz Lopez
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 20, 2023 18:00 - 28 minutesLaz Lopez joins me today to tell his family's story of escaping communist Cuba and achieving the American Dream as a successful business owner in the U.S. In these challenging times, it's just the reminder we need about how precious and tenuous our American freedom really is.
Activism Posing as Journalism: My Love-Hate Relationship with PBS
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 02, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutesElon Musk recently labeled NPR and PBS as “government-funded media” on Twitter, angering both organizations. Is he right, and does it matter anyway? For many years, I supported PBS and NPR financially. I just loved their music, movies and documentaries and their news and opinion programs, that ...
Episode 50 - MLK is Rolling in His Grave
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - March 13, 2023 06:00 - 43 minutes“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.” 63 years ago, a great American, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called out injustice and held America ...
Elections 2022: The Threat to Democracy is Real, But It’s Not What You Think.
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - November 09, 2022 03:00 - 14 minutesInflation and interest rates are inflicting painful damage today. Yet seemingly without notice the national debt is working like a cancer sapping the nation’s long-term economic vitality. Whether we reach the “doom loop,” or just become mired in stagflation, unchecked government spending and mou...
Episode 48 - From a Life of Crime to a Wonderful Life
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - October 20, 2022 00:00 - 44 minutesI was introduced to Larry Lawton through Congressman Bill Posey's office as someone with a compelling story that can help point at-risk kids in the right direction. Man what a story ! Larry was was one of the biggest jewel thieves in American history who ultimately spent 12 years in prison for h...
Episode 47 –America’s Absolute Most Important Priority
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 14, 2022 16:00 - 37 minutesClimate? Guns? Abortion? Equity? Nope. Listen Up for America’s Biggest Issue.
Episode 46 - Memorial Day
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - May 29, 2022 23:00 - 16 minutesIt’s been a month since my last podcast where we spoke with Florida Congressman Bill Posey. I’ve had a lot of family stuff to deal with which I will get to later. But I wanted to get this out by Memorial Day because it is such a powerful transitional holiday, and I am definitely in a transition...
Episode 45 - with Florida Congressman Bill Posey
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - April 21, 2022 02:00 - 46 minutesI am so pleased to have as my guest GOP Congressman Bill Posey who represents Florida's 8th Congressional District. He serves on the House Financial Services and Science, Space and Technology committees. Prior to that he served 8 years in the Florida State Senate and 10 years on the Rockledge,...
Episode 44 - The New Cold War
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - April 01, 2022 17:00 - 34 minutesUltimately, our freedoms and rights power the innovative culture that makes the United States the most successful political experiment in history. Even with its historical warts, America has improved the living standards of its citizens more than any human culture that has ever existed. Democrac...
Episode 43 - with Retired Ukraine Diplomat David Hunter
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - March 09, 2022 18:00 - 37 minutesMy guest today was a guest on this podcast about 18 months ago and we talked about how rising geo-political risks threaten the 75-year-old Pax Americana where global domestic product has increased by a factor of 20 times. Well, it appears those risks are now a clear and present danger as Russia ...
Episode 42 - The Health of our Oceans with Dr. Rikki Neilsen
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - February 03, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutesDr. Rikki Eriksen is a marine biologist focused on the health of our oceans. She grew up in Florida, living on the water with the amazing marine wildlife. Summers were spent on a sailboat in Denmark with her grandparents and winter school breaks sailing in the Caribbean. As a teenager, she start...
Episode 41 - America is only as Good as its Public Schools
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - November 05, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutesThe definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Much of recent American federal government policy seems to fit into this paradigm. Like let’s print a whole lot of money then act surprised when we get inflation. Or stop enforcing our immigration laws an...
Episode 40 - Rome, China, the United States and the Cycles of History
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - September 29, 2021 06:00 - 28 minutesHistory repeats and unfortunately, we are on the downhill run of the latest cycle. But remain optimistic because we have a system with a demonstrated track record of success. China has emerged as a powerful rival, but its authoritarian system will remain its Achilles Heel. Stay vigilant and sta...
Episode 39 - on Race in America with Cecil Grant
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - September 13, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutesToday my guest is Cecil Grant, the host of the new “Changing the Narrative” podcast which you can find on Apple, Pandora and other places. His podcast focuses on issues seen through the lens of a middle-aged African American man who deeply cares about his country and is alarmed by what he sees. ...
Episode 38 - Time to Wake Up to Rising Geopolitical Risks. Are You Listening Joe?
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - July 27, 2021 17:00 - 39 minutesThe Biden Administration is busy. Very busy. Busy making sure all we hear about is racial politics, the dreaded COVID Delta Variant, climate change, diminishing our election laws, defunding our police, and turning our schools into indoctrination centers. So I guess it's understandable that they ...
Episode 37 - Seeking Middle Ground with Author Andrew Shelley
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 08, 2021 02:00 - 50 minutesToday my guest is Andrew Shelley, author of the book, “American Butterfly”, an excellent exploration of the roots of the American culture wars through the lens of a deep-fried southern fish out of water. We explore Andrew’s transition from a boy born to a conservative southern family to a north...
Episode 36 - Crypto with Stormborn Part 2.
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - May 18, 2021 16:00 - 44 minutesJust like e-commerce internet companies in the 1990's, most crypto projects won't succeed. However, the ones that do transform our world. In the last decade, Bitcoin and Ethereum emerged as two of those transformers. If you invested $2000 in ETH five years ago, you'd be retired now. This is beca...
Crypto with Stormborn Part 2.
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - May 18, 2021 16:00 - 44 minutesJust like e-commerce internet companies in the 1990's, most crypto projects won't succeed. However, the ones that do transform our world. In the last decade, Bitcoin and Ethereum emerged as two of those transformers. If you invested $2000 in ETH five years ago, you'd be retired now. This is beca...
Episode 35 - May You Live in Interesting Times
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - May 14, 2021 02:00 - 33 minutesThe fact is that middle ground in America is to the Right of where we are now, not further Left. The pendulum swings back and forth in politics but a razor thin Democrat majority in the House and an equally divided Senate, is NOT a mandate to discard the Constitution and re-do America as a socia...
Episode 34 - Systemic Racism isn’t the Problem. It’s Bad Public Policy.
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - March 23, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutesAnti-discrimination laws have historically targeted a company’s intent but in 2015, a Supreme Court ruling allowed certain types of outcomes to be considered discrimination even if there was no explicit intent to discriminate. This is called disparate impact and we think this is really bad polic...
Episode 33 - Bitcoin and Crypto with Stormborn Partners
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - February 25, 2021 06:00 - 51 minutesFor years, really smart people sneered at Tesla and shorted its stock. Over the past 10 years, all Tesla has done is revolutionize the auto industry, deliver an 18,885 percent return for its shareholders, and make Elon Musk either the richest or second richest man in the world, depending on the ...
Episode 32 - Biden's First 2 Weeks: a Common Sense Analysis
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - February 10, 2021 06:00 - 54 minutesJim brings in his buddies Cecil Grant and Ted Zwijacz to provide an analysis of Biden's unprecedented 50 executive actions from the perspective of "the average Joe American."
Episode 31 - with Charles Marohn of Strong Towns
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - February 04, 2021 03:00 - 46 minutesI published my book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government, in October 2019 thinking that I was at the forefront of a movement to restore America’s bottom-up constitutional design and its power to make government more responsive, holistic and sustainable. Silly me. I discovered a coup...
Episode 30 - with Lyn Alden, Economist and Investment Advisor
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - January 26, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutesFor those of you who have been listening to my podcast and reading my blogs, you know that I periodically focus on making a stronger more sustainable you, by bringing in interesting, smart guests who can help you make money. Last year I had Whitney Tilson to help you align your investments with ...
Episode 29 - What's Next?
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - January 22, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutesJoseph McCarthy was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, he became the public face of anti-Communism in the midst of the Cold War by using his position as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations to identify communists, So...
Episode 28 - The Twelve Days of Christmas
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - December 25, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutesChristmas is a joyous time that calls us all to be grateful, enjoy family, and think about others. But there is also no denying the fact that Jesus was a revolutionary who was unafraid to speak truth to power. He had the ultimate skin in the game and that is what all of us need to do more of. Ge...
Episode 27 - Civil Disobedience
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - December 12, 2020 21:00 - 37 minutesProtests are a form of protected free speech that is vital to our nation. Our founding documents were designed specifically to protect us from government over reach and tyranny and ultimately recognized the power and duty of the people to resist that government when it fails us. In his timeles...
Episode 26 - What Happened to Free Speech on College Campuses?
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - November 30, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutesMore than 23% of our population is within the education bureaucracy. If that bureaucracy is becoming less tolerant of free speech, how can we expect the adults that emerge from that system to be tolerant of free speech? As time goes by, it will feel increasingly normal for those adults to becom...
Episode 25 - with Election Supervisor Leslie Swann
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - November 21, 2020 01:00 - 54 minutesThose of you who have been listening to me for a while, know that I am a big proponent of de-centralized power. My book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government, is all about that. The Constitution enshrines this decentralized power model by giving most power to the states and the peopl...
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