1819 News has no problem calling out both bad actors and bad things in state government. That being said, we think it is just as important to highlight good people doing good things. This week 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson sits down with State Senator Chris Elliott who has consistently been a strong voice for good in the Alabama Senate. That includes being a “no” vote, despite tremendous pressure, on the terrible gambling legislation last session. In this podcast you will hear about how Sen Elliott...
Mar 05, 2025•40 min•Ep 169•Transcript available on Metacast Join us for an inspiring podcast featuring John McInnis III, the dynamic CEO of McInnis Industries and co-owner of the iconic Flora-Bama Lounge, as he shares his remarkable entrepreneurial journey and deeply personal faith walk. This episode dives into the life of a third-generation business leader who transformed a family legacy in construction into a multifaceted empire spanning heavy infrastructure, disaster recovery, and entertainment, all while staying rooted in his Christian beliefs. Born ...
Feb 26, 2025•36 min•Ep 168•Transcript available on Metacast The Department of Government Efficiency has been the primary topic in the national news cycle since Jan. 20th. You may have thought to yourself, Alabama needs a DOGE. Well, you're in luck because the Alabama Policy Institute (API) is working on that exact thing with ALDOGE. API has been around for over 35 years working towards limited government, free markets, and strong families in Alabama. Now they have a unique opportunity to replicate the national trend of identifying and eliminating waste a...
Feb 19, 2025•43 min•Ep 167•Transcript available on Metacast In February 2023, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville discovered that the Department of Defense, under the Biden administration, was paying travel and PTO for female employees who desired to kill their unborn children but were prevented from doing so by state law. There were not many options for the Senate minority to stop this, but Tuberville placed holds on the mass promotion of military officers, drawing the ire of radical leftists, mainstream media, the Biden regime, and worst of all, many fellow Rep...
Feb 12, 2025•27 min•Ep 166•Transcript available on Metacast The 2025 Legislative Session has begun and we here at 1819 News have it covered for you! We have more reporters than anyone else covering every aspect of what is happening in Montgomery with a dedicated House reporter and Senate reporter, as well as an Editor who is filling in the gaps and doing a radio show from the statehouse. As citizens of Alabama, each of us has a responsibility to keep an eye on our state government and to make our voices heard. The flip side of that is the fact that many ...
Feb 06, 2025•52 min•Ep 165•Transcript available on Metacast What we have witnessed since the swearing in of President Donald Trump has been nothing short of incredible. Conservatives have never seen what it looks like for one of our people to ascend to power and then wield that power for the objective good. This is new for us, and it’s riveting to watch. This week, Dawson breaks down what he believes led to the steely resolve we are seeing in President Trump. From the fake Russian collusion accusations to China Flu and eventual lawfare and assassination ...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr•Ep 164•Transcript available on Metacast After 31 years, The Rick & Bubba Show has ended. It was a great run, and in those three decades the show became a staple in the Alabama cultural and media landscape, as well as across the Southeast. At the beginning of the year, host Rick Burgess launched his own show—The Rick Burgess Show—retaining much of the former program’s staff and affiliate stations. Rumors abound about how and why The Rick & Bubba Show ended and why Bubba isn’t continuing. Burgess joins Bryan Dawson this week to ...
Jan 22, 2025•46 min•Ep 163•Transcript available on Metacast In October 2024, Gov. Kay Ivey used her ""supreme executive power of this state"" to unilaterally fire then-Alabama Department of Veteran Affairs Commissioner Kent Davis. Quite a saga led up to this unceremonious removal of the beloved ADVA commissioner, and many questions remain on whether Ivey has the authority to terminate a state agency head that serves at the pleasure of an appointed board of directors, in this case the State Board of Veterans Affairs. A similar situation arose in the COVID...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep 162•Transcript available on Metacast Two Alabama Political Firestorms to Start the New Year Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA) head David Bronner recently published an article in the RSA's monthly publication The Advisor in which he bashed conservatives and conservative organizations, lamenting that we never offer any positive solutions and then pitching gambling as the panacea for all that ails the state. He named 1819 News specifically as one of those “smart” but troublesome organizations. Bronner added to his attack with a lett...
Jan 08, 2025•48 min•Ep 161•Transcript available on Metacast In the 2016 Presidential election there was much discussion of a populist uprising. They tried to throw negative connotations towards the term, like they do every other thing that threatens their power. In this monologue episode of 1819 News: The Podcast, Bryan defines populism as the combined political force of the working class and goes into the history of how the working class ended up in the Republican Party. He also discusses the meteoric rise of populism on the national stage under Donald ...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep 160•Transcript available on Metacast God is always weaving His way through apparently terrible circumstances. This week we get to hear a story that exemplifies this in an unpredictable way. Kaleb Dillard is a young military veteran who grew up in Birmingham and attended Briarwood Christian School. A relatively normal, upright young man, Dillard found himself questioning the 2020 election results, a fact which landed him at the national Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a day that will unfortunately go down in history. Dillard was caught up ...
Dec 18, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Ep 159•Transcript available on Metacast If we learned anything through the COVID nightmare it is that the medical industrial complex has no limits and no conscience. The things done and the decisions made and enforced from on high had horrific consequences and few positive results, yet no consequences came from the complete failure that was the COVID response. This week Bryan Dawson hosts Dr. Jordan Vaughn, recent recipient of The Albert Patterson Courage Award. Vaughn, CEO of MedHelp in Birmingham and a Co-Executive Director of Conce...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep 158•Transcript available on Metacast The worst thing for conservatives to do now that Trump has won is to go back to their normal lives and assume everything is going to be hunky dory because our guy won. No, winning the election was the first battle in the war to reclaim our nation and to save Western Civilization. We are in an existential crisis, meaning that if we don't do what is necessary in these next two years, the America you know and love will not exist in any real or meaningful way. This week, Bryan does his first monolog...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep 157•Transcript available on Metacast From the locker room speech in Coach Bryant's last game to "The Fumble" in the 1987 AFC Championship games, Jeremiah Castille had an incredible career filled with some memorable moments. He comes on the podcast this week to share his incredible life story of growing up in Phenix City to coming to know Jesus, playing for Bear Bryant, and even playing in a Super Bowl. This week's overtime segment is probably the best overtime segment we've done to date, As the University of Alabama's football chap...
Nov 27, 2024•42 min•Ep 156•Transcript available on Metacast The question is often asked on this podcast, ""We have a church on every corner in Alabama, but those churches have done little to nothing to slow the spread of radical progressive ideas into our institutions and culture. Why is that?"" Today, we are bringing you one of the greatest contemporary Christian authors and cultural commentators of our day, Eric Metaxas, to answer this question. Metaxas was in Birmingham as the keynote speaker at 1819 News’ inaugural Albert Patterson Gala to specifical...
Nov 20, 2024•36 min•Ep 155•Transcript available on Metacast In business, quality results are the only thing that matter. Were the customers satisfied? Did you do what you said you were going to do? On this week’s 1819 News: The Podcast, CEO Bryan Dawson sits down with Alabama businessman Gerrick Wilkins to discuss the absolutely insane, 2024 election cycle through the lens of a businessman who has also jumped into the political arena. Gerrick Wilkins ran for Congress in Alabama's 6th Congressional District because he felt Congressman Gary Palmer should h...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep 154•Transcript available on Metacast This week Bryan sits down with Emily Jones of Moms for Liberty to discuss the American School Counselor Association’s (ASCA) agenda and the fact that ASCA is in every school in the state of Alabama. As the Moms for Liberty website states, “school counselors are the most radical department in K-12 today.” ASCA works tirelessly to enact a Leftist agenda of CRT, gender equity, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), and more in schools across the country and our state by setting guidelines and training sc...
Nov 06, 2024•56 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast 1819 News: The Podcast has a unique episode for you this week! A few things have been getting under CEO Bryan Dawson’s skin lately. Naturally, he sat down with Joey Clark on his radio show News and Views, which airs on Montgomery's News/Talk 93.1, to air some of those concerns. We thought the “radio rant” was too good not to share! Bryan and Joey's conversation begins with the discussion of Alabama State Health Officer Scott Harris' new appointment as the president of the Association of State an...
Oct 30, 2024•42 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast You've probably heard the political ads for people running for PSC in which they tout their conservative bona fides and then attack their opponents as tree-hugging hippies. Those ads don't really help us understand what goes on at the PSC, but they certainly get stuck in your head...""Always totin' Jeremy Oden"" comes to mind. Unfortunately, Alabamians often know very little about positions in our state government that impact them the most directly. The Public Service Commission (PSC) is certain...
Oct 23, 2024•47 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast With the recent influx of Haitians to Alabama and other states, there have been a number of Christian talking heads shaming other Christians into accepting open-ended immigration. Using selective Bible verses, these influencers claim immigration is a good, Christian principle despite the fact current foreigners brought into the country are quite often hostile towards Christian society and the American way of life. In response, 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson is joined on this podcast with Pastor Rich...
Oct 16, 2024•58 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast One of the most incredible ministries in the world is located right here in Alabama. The Big Oak Ranch has been providing a home to children who need a chance for 50 years now. The circumstances that lead each child to Big Oak Ranch are unique. But one aspect of their stories is the same: they have known abuse, neglect, and abandonment by the very people who should have loved them above all. Prior to coming to Big Oak Ranch, the children there have suffered in ways that are impossible to imagine...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast Everyone loves a good story, and there has never been a more riveting one playing out right before our very eyes than the story of Donald Trump's attempt to save America. From him coming down the escalator in June of 2016 to being shot in the head on July 13th, 2024, at the rally in Butler, PA, it has been an incredible ride. Throughout Trump’s time in politics, Americans have watched the D.C. Regime – both Republicans and Democrats – attempt to destroy him at every turn through media, bureaucra...
Sep 27, 2024•17 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast Buckle up, because this podcast is going to take you for a ride. The influx of Haitian migrants in Alabama has been the lead story on 1819 News for over a month now. Haitian immigrants started popping up in Albertville and Athens, then in Enterprise and Sylacauga. Springfield, Missouri is getting all the national headlines but it's happening right here in Alabama. Many of the city and county leaders, as well as the media outlets, have resorted to calling the citizens racist rather than trying to...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast After his stellar collegiate career as a college tennis player at Auburn University to almost being eaten by a grizzly bear, Jackie Bushman may be the most interesting man in the world. This week, Buckmaster’s founder sat down with Bryan to tell his incredible story of building one of the most recognizable platforms in the outdoor industry – from TV to magazines to special events and the Buckmaster’s Expo. Jackie has had the pleasure of working with celebrities such as Bo Jackson, Dale Earnhardt...
Sep 18, 2024•50 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast Round 2 with the Center for Security Policy’s Tommy Waller and Kyle Shideler! With the border crisis raging and threats of WWIII looming, national security is once again becoming a front and center issue. Americans have realized we are not secure abroad or at home, and they want strong, wise leadership to take action. This week Bryan sits down with two gentlemen who devote much of their lives to keeping America safe and strong. Tommy Waller is the CEO of the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and ...
Sep 11, 2024•50 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast With the border crisis raging and threats of WWIII looming, national security is once again becoming a front and center issue. Everyday Americans have realized we are not secure abroad or at home and they want strong, wise leadership to take action. This week Bryan sits down with two gentlemen who devote much of their lives to keeping America safe and strong. Tommy Waller is the CEO of the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and he's joined by Kyle Shideler, the Director and Senior Analyst for Home...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast You’ve probably noticed the rapid decline of legacy journalism in recent years. It’s almost on life support. Over the last few decades mainstream journalism devolved into radical, leftist political activism. The fastest way to become a Marxist in America is by going to a “J School” at a major university. Unfortunately, what you traditionally saw within conservative journalism was rewriting press releases and responding to liberal mainstream talking points – not new and unique reporting. Honest, ...
Aug 28, 2024•24 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Harry was born in a rural Alabama town and the thought of running a multimillion-dollar, executive security firm never crossed his mind as a child, but that is exactly where he's landed as the Founder and CEO of Severance Security. Going to foreign countries to rescue children from slavery was also not something he saw in his future, but as an active board member of Children's Rescue Initiative he has found his mission field. Severance Security protects everything from high profile individua...
Aug 21, 2024•40 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast If you had any doubt that evil forces intervened in the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden, the Twitter Files should have rid you of those doubts. The fact that big tech worked overtime to protect Biden from negative coverage and increase false accusations and narratives about Trump was plain for all to see in the evidence Elon Musk provided independent journalists following his purchase of the massive social media platform. Not to mention the overwhelming evidence of federal agencies working h...
Aug 14, 2024•28 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” This famous quote is from President Ronald Reagan and is the focal point of a new book authored by Brilyn Hollyhand whose mission is to awaken the next ...
Aug 07, 2024•39 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast 
