Folkes Unfettered is where leadership, entrepreneurship, and ownership converge. Hosted by Gene Folkes, MSOL, a U.S. Air Force veteran, entrepreneur, author, and former contestant on NBC's *The Apprentice with Donald J. Trump, this podcast explores business strategy, capital literacy, economics, culture, history, and leadership. Every episode challenges conventional thinking and equips you to think strategically, lead authentically, and own your narrative. Speak Freely. Think Deeply. Live Unfettered.
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16 Jul 2026
Guest Host Evan Grollman on Why America Stopped Listening | Folkes Unfettered
Folkes Unfettered hands the chair to a guest host this week. Evan Grollman, host of Blue Dog Whisperer, sits in for a hard look at something most of us feel but few are willing to name directly: civility in America isn't just declining, it may already be gone.
Together, we dig into what actually killed it, algorithms rewarding outrage over understanding, institutions that stopped modeling restraint, a culture that mistakes contempt for conviction, and what, if anything, it would take to rebuild a public square where disagreement doesn't require dehumanizing the person on the other side of it.
This isn't nostalgia for a politer past that never fully existed. It's commentary that cuts, asking what civility actually protects, who benefits from its absence, and whether it's possible to disagree fiercely without treating each other as enemies.
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25 Jun 2026
Happy Birthday, America. We Need to Talk.
This isn't about whether I love America. It's about whether America has ever loved all of us equally and what 250 years of evidence actually say.Not the sanitized kind of answer. Not the kind that fits neatly on a flag or a bumper sticker. The kind that comes from a Black man who swore an oath to defend this country, and then had to spend decades watching this country decide, over and over again, how much of its promise actually applied to him.In this episode of Folkes Unfettered, I'm getting into what America 250 means to me, not as a talking point, not as a protest, but as a reckoning. As a United States Air Force veteran. As a Jamaican American. As a man watching in real time during the Trump era, when the question of whose America we're celebrating has never felt more charged, more contested, or more necessary to answer honestly.We'll talk about what the uniform meant. What the oath cost. What it feels like to love a country that has never quite loved you back unconditionally, and why, despite all of it, I'm still here, still speaking, still demanding that the full measure of this nation's promise be accounted for.This isn't bitterness. This is clarity.250 years in, America doesn't need more performance. It needs more truth. And that's what we do here.🎙️ *Folkes Unfettered* — Commentary That Cuts.Subscribe. Share. And if this resonates, leave a comment below, I want to hear what America 250 means to you.
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