# America First Stories Ep. 15: Nelson McIlveen

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-08-31T06:26:52+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/america-first-stories-ep-15-nelson-mcilveen/
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## Resource

In this sponsor spotlight, Jon Herold welcomes Nelson McIlveen, the injection molder turned water evangelist behind Century H2O. Nelson's origin story is a wild one. He spent decades running factories and building plastic parts for Boeing, Airbus, fighter jets, and yes, the palm-leaf covers on Southwest cell towers, then made a fortune assembling reverse osmosis systems before deciding the water they produced was, in his words, poison. From there he pivots to oxygen, industrial scale management, and a personal health story involving climbing PSA levels that he credits his own filtration system with reversing. It is part manufacturing memoir, part water science pitch, and part Badlands sponsor rundown, complete with a claim that even your cat will notice the difference. Take the health talk with a grain of salt, but Nelson's enthusiasm is hard to miss. Jon just had the system installed and promises to report back. Where to buy and the promo code get covered at the end.

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