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Isabel Brown
only offer Shh, Shh. Everybody be quiet. My show is on. Nick Shirley is back, baby. This time in California uncovering $170 million in taxpayer fraud for Medicare, for hospice, for daycares, voter fraud, and so much more. How come all it takes is one 23 year old kid in a gray hoodie when the entire legacy media establishment is refusing to even ask any of these questions to expose it? We're breaking it all down today on the Isabel Brown Show. The goat of independent journalism himself, Nick Shirley in the flesh, is back at it and breaking the Internet all over again after he broke all of our brains exposing the Somali daycare fraud in Minneapolis last December. If you guys remember, he posted a super long video to X at the time at the end of December. December. It was about a 45 minute expose that no one in the mainstream media really wanted to cover, but was shocking in discovering just how much people are taking advantage of the United States government and how many infinite US Taxpayer dollars are being spent on lining the pockets of bad actors with really bad intentions. His Minneapolis expose is currently sitting at almost 150 million views on X, largely because of the help of Elon Musk amplifying his message, literally putting money where his mouth is, saying we are the people, are the media now. Which propelled Nick Shirley to continue his investigative series and now he is on the west coast of the country, exposing the rampant fraud that is destroying the state of California. Now, it's no major secret, I am not California's biggest fan.
Audience Member
Boo.
Isabel Brown
In fact, if you've known me for longer than five minutes, you should know that I hate California. Actually, I love what it's supposed to be. But California in actuality is like a cancer with its policies and is destroying state by state by state by state all over the country. As people flee California and the insanity that they left to just bring it to the next state that they are moving to. Colorado became the blueprint for this throughout my entire childhood and sadly is no longer the state that I loved growing up in. And never somewhere that I would feel comfortable raising my children today. And I'm seeing this happen like dominoes, just knocking down one by one by one all over the rest of the country. Why? I don't know why people can't leave California and then vote for policies that actually would help people lives instead of destroying them. I don't know. It's one of the biggest mysteries of modern American politics and culture. But I still have a heart for the amazing people that I know and love who live in California and who are fighting to expose this stuff every single day. To fight for their home, their hometowns, their families, raising their children in the same place that they grew up and love, and wanting to pass that forward to every generation still to come. So when I see videos like this new one from Nick Shirley, my heart just breaks. Because unlike just the daycare fraud that is destroying places like Minneapolis in real time and turning Minneapolis, Minnesota basically into Mogadishu 2.0, what's happening in California is so much bigger and almost impossible to wrap your head around, to be honest. Because it's daycare fraud, it's Medicare fraud, it's voter fraud. It is literally every single type of fraud and deception you can possibly begin to wrap your head around at a degree that is impossible to describe. To quote the legend himself, Obi Wan Kenobi, everyone's favorite master. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Narrator/Interviewer
You will never find a more wretched
Isabel Brown
hive of scum and villainy then what you're about to see in this video. Nick is exposing it all, tweeting this this week. Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud. Minnesota was big, but California is even bigger. We uncovered over $170 million in fraud. This is one kid just like looking the stuff up on his own $170 million in fraud. As these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences like it and share it, the fraud must stop. We all work way too hard and pay way too much in taxes. You're telling me as we get ready for the worst day of the year for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians. It's time to expose it all and end America's fraud crisis. Obviously we don't have time to show you the full 40 minute expose, but I do encourage you to go watch it alongside the 10 million other people that have already watched this in the last few days on X. But there are a few standout moments that I wanted to share with you because if this doesn't break your brain as to how broken our current system is, nothing else possibly would. On the note of independent media and its importance to changing the world if you guys are anything like me when you're thinking about social media, you love the good parts of the Internet, but you probably also are side eyeing all of the crazy stuff that's out there that teenagers have access to every day. I'm so glad Instagram Teen Accounts now builds in automatic protections from day one for teenagers. By default, teen accounts limit who can even contact teenagers in the first place, so they're getting messages from people they actually know, not random strangers that are sliding into their DMs. It's also designed to help keep their content experience positive and age appropriate. And for younger teenagers under the age of 16, they can't loosen those default safety settings without a parent's approval, which means you get to stay involved in the big decisions about how your teenager is using Instagram. As a mom myself, someday when digital media becomes a more normal part of my daughter's life, I want to actually guide my daughter's online experience instead of just reacting after something goes horribly wrong. And these teen accounts give us parents a whole lot more tools to do exactly that. So if you've got a teen in your life, or a future teen like I do, check out Instagram Teen accounts and see how these automatic protections can help them connect more safely online. Learn more@instagram.com Teen accounts for a couple minute segment out of this expose, Nick Shirley headed to an apartment type complex that honestly looks like an old rundown motel that has to registered at this address over 15 different hospice companies that clearly are not actually operational but all registered to the same address. And the really telling part of this is in the parking lot. There are 100,000 plus dollar cars lining every spot in the parking lot. He says each and every person that he talks to in this complex is wearing some sort of designer clothing, clearly spending gobs of money. And the second that he started knocking on all the doors and the word was getting out that he was there, all these like mafia mobsters hop in their hundred thousand dollar cars and drive away from this shabby old motel who clearly, allegedly. Allegedly are perpetrating this fraud against the American people. Watch this.
Field Reporter
To the original location where we found over 15 hospices in one plaza. I wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke that Armenian mafia members were running the show and that there weren't just randomly hundred thousand dollar cars the day I went by. And this time it was even worse.
Narrator/Interviewer
Sir, how are you? Good. So what do you think about all this hospice fraud, sir? You're. You're in the cybertruck driving away, taking money from old people, yet he's just driving away in a cybertruck wanting you to answer any questions. Let's see, we have another rich person as well that's getting rich off this hospice. This guy's leaving as well. So the two people that walked out of Holy Angels, they're in a brand new cybertruck and a new BMW.
Isabel Brown
I gotta pause it right there for a second. Holy Angels. Holy Angels. Hospice care. You literally cannot make this up. This is almost as good as quality leering center. And I sure did leer a lot from the last Nick Shirley expose.
Narrator/Interviewer
How lucrative of a business is hospice? I'm seeing a cybertruck here in a nice BMW. It's good. Yeah. Cause it looks like for instance, Guardian of Angels that used to be here. $4.8 million they build the state of California. And how many clients do you guys have? I'm just curious. Yeah, you must be getting paid pretty well, right? Do your parents run the hospice? No. Is that. Who's that guy in the cybertruck? He's your uncle. So it's like a family business to own the hospices. But why was he walking out of the hospice then too? Like these hospices, there's nothing inside of them.
Assistant/Camera Operator
If it's not you guys, how come you're in the newest cybertruck? I can only imagine what the guy is in charge.
Narrator/Interviewer
Just all the other hospices. Do you like taking care of old people? Like are you the one going out visiting the hospice patients or. Oh, he's gonna have to do another point turn. You could Just go that way. What's the key to opening up a hospice if I wanted to open up one? Because it's a. You're in the family business of hospices. If I want to open my own. What do you do for work here? What do you do for work here?
Field Reporter
Why?
Narrator/Interviewer
Oh, we're just looking around. We're seeing all these hospices, so we're just curious.
Local Resident
I don't know, man.
Field Reporter
Word got out that I was inside of the Plaza and all the fraudsters started hopping in their cars, leaving the scene.
Narrator/Interviewer
Excuse me. Let's see if they can just answer our questions really quick. Hello. Can we ask you a quick question? Driving out in a brand new M8, they can't get out that easy. How can I get an M8 as well? Should I open up a hospice driving out in a brand new M8 BMW M8 competition. Listen to this thing. This is the sound of hospice money.
Isabel Brown
This is the sound of hospice money. Can I just say, I spent some time with Nick a few weeks ago. We were at the speaker of the House's cocktail reception right before the State of the Union. And it was so fun to get to catch up with him. My husband and I have been. Nick, Shirley stuff stands well before his Minneapolis videos ever blew up. But he has been truly, I've said at the beginning of the video, the goat of independent media in ways I've never expected. All because he's just a 23 year old kid that is looking this stuff up. It's public record. Anybody can look this up. Taking a handheld camera and walking around just asking people questions like this is the very definition of boots on the ground, independent guerrilla journalism. And this is making such bigger waves, a massive impact than anything any act investigative journalist ever paid $250,000 for a Harvard journalism degree is doing right now. It is crazy to me that more people are not copying this strategy, frankly, because this is the easiest thing in the entire world. And yet he's so good at it, obviously, because he is wildly talented and incredibly smart. But nobody has the secret sauce.
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Assistant/Camera Operator
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Isabel Brown
This is the lamb sauce.
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Isabel Brown
There is no sauce. Secret ingredient. Just go expose it. That's what I love the most about Nick in his gray hoodies. We love it. Remember how I said it's not just hospice fraud though? We know that rampant daycare fraud is happening in Minneapolis, AKA Mogadishu, Minnesota. Frankly, we all picked the wrong career path. We all should have been opening Somali daycares this entire time. And maybe we could all be driving cybertrucks and buying gazillion dollar homes and not struggling the way that our generation has been struggling for too long. Daycare fraud is also happening in the state of California. And Nick Shirley uncovered in this one adult daycare that is not open. This is an adult daycare for presumably people with special needs. The front glass panels of the building are all shattered and broken. So clearly this is not actually a business that is currently in use. And yet this adult daycare has billed to the state of California $19 million to taxpayers. This is insane.
Narrator/Interviewer
And another thing to take note of is Gavin Newsom right now on Polymarket. He is the leading nominee for the Democrats come 2028. All this fraud's taking place, all this waste is taking place. Nobody really knows what's going on. I mean, look at this place. This adult daycare received $19 million, has billed the state of California over $19 million in the past few years.
Isabel Brown
All taking place in Gavin Newsom's California adult daycares that are clearly not in operation. Spending $19 million in taxpayer funds and nobody cares. Nobody double checks. There's no oversight. Interesting. It's funny he mentions Gavin Newsom there, actually. And another shocking part of this video is Nick Shirley investigating the streets of California, showing areas that he says look worse than third world countries. I mean, like, this is truly the most destitute poverty you could possibly begin to imagine. And he's warning this decay is not limited to a few spots the way that it used to be isolated to a place like skid Row in Los Angeles. This is everywhere. It is all over the cities that he traversed doing this investigative video. Wasn't it Gavin Newsom, though, that promised when he was very first running for office in the first place, that homelessness, tackling homelessness, was his number one priority. And hasn't it been Gavin Newsom that has promised on the campaign trail over and over and over again every time he runs for reelection? Homelessness and ending homelessness is my number one priority as your elected representative. Yet this has only continued to get worse and worse and worse, worse with every passing year. I spent one summer living in California. I was interning for Prager U in the summer of 2019 as like my first exposure into the content creator world whatsoever. And they offered me a full time gig if I moved to California. And they were so sweet. I love the Prageru team, but I had to look at them and say, nope, sorry, I will never move to this state. I feel Terrible. But no. While we were there, we did several videos exposing a lot of the poverty in skid row, in particular in downtown Los Angeles. And I will never forget the things that I saw. Now I go home to Colorado this year or in the last several years, and the entirety of downtown Denver now looks like skid row. Los Angeles, I'm sure, is infinitely worse than it was even just several years ago in 2019. And if this is indeed true from this Nick Shirley video, that everywhere looks like this, how on God's green earth can people legitimately be considering Gavin Newsom as a viable candidate for the next President of the United States? Like, honestly ask yourself, do you want the rest of our country to look like this?
Narrator/Interviewer
Look at this, the self abandonment here. And then what are these little pods
Assistant/Camera Operator
right here where the gun was pulled out on me? So I kind of want to talk to the treehouse guy, not the guy with the gun.
Narrator/Interviewer
Wow, wow, Treehouse. We're going in.
Field Reporter
Here we go.
Narrator/Interviewer
Let's let Darren go in McTalk for a quick second. Let's see, his name's Freddy. How you doing, sir? We're just trying to talk to Freddy who lives in the treehouse. Ready? Not home.
Assistant/Camera Operator
You want to do an interview, fam?
Audience Member
Sure.
Assistant/Camera Operator
I got a little cheese.
Narrator/Interviewer
Here's a dollar bill.
Assistant/Camera Operator
You want to know what it's like living out here? Has the city ever came to offer you any resources? They get millions of dollars. Have you seen a single dollar from the city?
Audience Member
But they ain't came to offer nothing. They came with some fake little signs saying that they're gonna basically help us out, right? But there's no help, man. There's no help.
Narrator/Interviewer
How long you been out here?
Audience Member
I've been out here for like a year year now.
Narrator/Interviewer
What brought you out here?
Audience Member
Different stuff that happens at home, you know what I mean? Different home, you know, and then the economics of just, you know, losing jobs and stuff, you know what I mean? You know, if you lived out here, you know how it is, you know,
Narrator/Interviewer
I mean, how are people living out here?
Audience Member
They living bad, you know what I mean? But not everybody's like mentally up, you know, I mean, some people's on drugs, you know, some people's on drugs. Some people mentally, you know, up, you know. They got people like you out here too, like young kids, man. Smart as building like this, though.
Narrator/Interviewer
How old's the youngest person you've seen out here?
Audience Member
Like 17.
Narrator/Interviewer
17 years old living out here in Oakland in these circumstances right here. How long has it been like this here?
Audience Member
About Two years.
Narrator/Interviewer
About two years. So just like recently, two years?
Audience Member
Yeah, yeah, recently, but it just migrated over, you know what I mean? People start burning down each other and then, you know, they move from West Oakland. East Oakland. This is all around. It needs some help out here. Just period.
Narrator/Interviewer
And have you ever been contacted by a city official or by anybody here in the city?
Audience Member
Nobody.
Narrator/Interviewer
Would you accept help if the city gave you guys help?
Audience Member
Yeah, you would accept help.
Narrator/Interviewer
That's enough. Okay, he's called it. All right, have a good rest of your day. Right.
Assistant/Camera Operator
We got a lot to see, but here we got the cops, we have Oakland's finest.
Narrator/Interviewer
We just can't really talk about all those stuff just because, like, we can get in trouble for it. We'd have privacy. Media thing. Okay, you guys, over to our media person.
Assistant/Camera Operator
You guys have a blessed day.
Narrator/Interviewer
Have a good one.
Isabel Brown
You guys be safe.
Narrator/Interviewer
Look, look, the cops pull through. They didn't even do any. They didn't stop or talk to anybody. I don't come through patrol area. I mean, look, Darren, this is next level.
Isabel Brown
Honestly, this looks like something out of a dystopian movie. Like there's no way this is actually real. That American citizens are living like this, and yet they are. We've known this for a long time, especially in the state of California, that American citizens are being completely neglected by their government. This guy says, not once, once, not once has someone from the city or state government come out to ask, how can we help? Can we get you in affordable housing? Can we put you in a shelter? Can we offer you an opportunity to get a job? All of these programs that Gavin Newsom has said for years are his number one priority. And yet Instead they'll spend $19 million on an adult daycare that clearly isn't operational or hundreds of millions of dollars on Medicare fraud. Begs the question. All of this affordable housing that should be available to Californians who have lost their job or are strug with something like addiction or a mental health crisis or any other problem in their life that deserves extra attention and care. I thought we were supposed to serve the least of these to help the marginalized. How much of that housing is actually going to illegal immigrants instead? Begs the question, I don't know. Again, just further proof that these people don't actually care about social justice or helping the marginalized and uplifting those struggling with homelessness or poverty. They're just interested in the talking point about it. Which is why Gavin Newsom has run for office every single time, saying ending homelessness is his number One priority. And here we are. So we've got Medicare fraud and hospice fraud, we've got daycare fraud. And additionally, in this video, Nick Shirley is exposing voting fraud in California, which obviously I expect to lead the country, and just how truly insane it actually is. He claims that abandoned buildings throughout California have countless people registered to vote at them, even though the buildings are themselves abandoned. He interviewed one guy in a Little man on the street interview, and this guy says, I've never seen anything, a single person go in or out of these buildings. It doesn't surprise me. This is Commie Fornia for a reason. Listen to this.
Narrator/Interviewer
This building here in downtown San Diego, there's over 16 people who are registered to vote at this address right here. It wouldn't surprise you if inside of this building alone there's 15 people registered to vote, yet all the windows are boarded up.
Local Resident
Oh, one of the business was duckets and I never saw anybody go in or out of the there.
Narrator/Interviewer
15 people are registered to vote and a lot of them voted in the 2024 election.
Local Resident
Doesn't surprise me. This is Commifornia for a reason.
Narrator/Interviewer
Do you think voter fraud takes place here in California?
Local Resident
100%.
Narrator/Interviewer
And do you trust Gavin Newsome?
Local Resident
No. No, not at all. You could tell by the way he talks. He never wants to answer a real question. Let's see, he calls ice, basically calls him out, calls him terrorists. In some ways, I kind of hope he runs for president. That means someone else is going to get governor. And if he doesn't make it as president, his political career is done. I don't see him winning. I really don't.
Narrator/Interviewer
Right now in Polymarket, he's leading for the Democrats as far as who's going to be the next nominee.
Local Resident
Yeah, Commonwealth was leading. Look how that went.
Isabel Brown
Look how that went. It is time for us to be unburdened by what has been.
Field Reporter
I can imagine what can be and
Isabel Brown
be unburdened by what has been. You know, I actually feel for this guy. I share his disgust and disdain with Gavin Newsom's policies. But it's a dangerous game to play to say I hope he runs for president so someone else can be the governor of California because he definitely won't win the presidential election. I don't think people realize on the right how shockingly well Gavin Newsom probably would do in a presidential election. Not that he's guaranteed to win per se, but I think you would be shocked how well this man would do running for President of the United States, which is why we have to expose this stuff now, today, right here with whatever resources we have available to us. Honestly at this point. Shame on the mainstream media for their complete failure to act in exposing any of this stuff. Nick Shirley has gone to two states, and not even the entirety of two states, but just two states and uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud. I don't see a single federal investigator talking about this. I don't see a single investigative journalist taking it upon themselves to go do all of this stuff on their own. What I see is a 23 year old in a gray hoodie filming it on his phone. God bless this man. Nick Shirley for Supreme Leader of the world at this point. I get asked all the time, how can somebody possibly begin to build a following or have a gazillion followers on social media or get 150 million views on a video like Nick Shirley did. But again, what I love about Nick is he's just a normal guy. He's a 23 year old kid who saw something happening, who saw a legitimate injustice in society and decided to do something about it, to expose it, to just put it out there. You never know what will happen if you just have the courage to use your voice. The gift that we have through social media and the platform of the Internet, especially on platforms like X and TikTok, where you never know where virality is going to come from, that has never existed in the history of humankind. So get off your booty today and go do something about it. Go use your voice, go film something on your phone, Go expose something that's happening in your own community. Because if we all had the courage to do what Nick Shirley does every day, we would put the legacy media, AKA mostly state sponsored propaganda at this point, out of business tomorrow. Lifelock. How can I help?
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Date: March 18, 2026
Host: Isabel Brown (The Daily Wire)
Guest/Focal Point: Nick Shirley
In this episode, Isabel Brown dives into the explosive investigative work of Nick Shirley, a 23-year-old independent journalist making viral waves by exposing extensive taxpayer fraud in America. After his high-profile reports into daycare fraud in Minneapolis, Nick goes undercover in California, unveiling an even larger crisis—over $170 million in Medicare, hospice, daycare, and voter fraud. Isabel unpacks the significance of Nick's findings, the failure of mainstream media, and the power of independent investigative journalism to keep government and institutions accountable.
[00:59–04:44]
“How come all it takes is one 23 year old kid in a gray hoodie when the entire legacy media establishment is refusing to even ask any of these questions to expose it?” — Isabel Brown [01:07]
[04:44–10:52]
"I wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke that Armenian mafia members were running the show... and this time it was even worse." — Field Reporter [07:50]
“This is the sound of hospice money.” — Narrator [10:52]
[12:04–13:22]
“This adult daycare received $19 million, has billed the state of California over $19 million in the past few years.” — Narrator [13:02]
[13:22–15:46]
“Honestly, this looks like something out of a dystopian movie. Like there's no way this is actually real. That American citizens are living like this, and yet they are.” — Isabel Brown [17:56]
"There's no help, man. There's no help." — Local Resident [16:19]
"I've been out here for like a year now... the economics of just, you know, losing jobs and stuff, you know what I mean?" — Local Resident [16:20]
[17:48–20:46]
“Doesn't surprise me. This is Commifornia for a reason.” — Local Resident [20:16]
[20:53–23:23]
“What I see is a 23 year old in a gray hoodie filming it on his phone. God bless this man. Nick Shirley for Supreme Leader of the world at this point.” — Isabel Brown [21:14]
Throughout, Isabel blends serious concern with sharp wit and impassioned advocacy, referencing pop culture ("Obi Wan Kenobi," “dystopian movie”), using humor to highlight absurdities, and directly inviting listeners to act. The tone is brisk, skeptical of authority, and confident in the impact of independent truth-tellers.
This episode of The Isabel Brown Show offers a scathing, detail-filled look at governmental and bureaucratic fraud through the viral lens of Nick Shirley’s investigations. Hospice and daycare fraud, systemic misuse of public funds, unchecked homelessness, and potential voter system abuse are detailed as part of a broader call for local accountability and citizen journalism. Isabel celebrates the impact of ordinary voices, urging listeners to use the tools at their disposal to challenge institutional failures—especially when mainstream media refuses to act.