Podcast Episodes

From Ranger to Rancher: Picking a Fight With Big Food | Patrick Montgomery | Ep. 473

Patrick Montgomery served in the 75th Ranger Regiment from 2010 to 2014, deploying to Afghanistan the day after the Bin Laden raid. Six weeks into th…

5 hours ago

The Medal, the Memos, and the Mountain | Mitch Hall & Brian Bloom | Ep. 472

Brian Bloom has spent his career in front of and behind the camera as an actor, voice actor, and screenwriter. Mitch Hall served as a Navy SEAL with …

3 days, 5 hours ago

The Ranger Account of Takur Ghar | Josh Walker & Chris Cunningham | Ep. 471

Josh Walker spent 24 years in uniform. He started as a young team leader in 1st Ranger Battalion, left for Florida State and ROTC, then came back as …

5 days, 5 hours ago

Roberts Ridge and the Fog of War vs. the Facts | Mitch Hall & Brian Bloom | Ep. 470

Mitch Hall served in Naval Special Warfare, Brian Bloom came from film and games. Neither of them set out to spend six years on a single morning in M…

1 week, 1 day ago

They Don't Need A Warrant Anymore | Negligent Discharge Friday | 9.18.2026

I asked for positive news this week. What I got was surveillance, a global humiliation, and a man duct taped to his seat at thirty thousand feet.

We …

1 week, 3 days ago

Air Traffic Control Is Running on Windows 95 | Dan Rickert | Ep. 469

Dan Rickert graduated from West Point and commissioned into the cavalry, running Bradleys and gun trucks through Iraq in 2008 before going to selecti…

2 weeks ago

25 Years Later - Be Worthy of the Sacrifice | Full Auto Friday | 9.11.2026

This one airs on the 25th anniversary of September 11th. I'm not dedicating the whole episode to it. I don't tell people how to think or how to feel.…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

460 Days in the Darkness of Somalia | Amanda Lindhout | Ep. 468

Amanda Lindhout grew up in small-town Alberta and waited tables to pay for backpacking trips through Latin America, Asia, and Africa. She taught hers…

3 weeks ago

Seven Minutes and Nowhere To Run | Negligent Discharge Friday | 9.4.2026

Michael was tasked with finding something uplifting. He failed. This is what a slow week for good news looks like.

We open on the flooding in Nepal a…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

The Weight of the Navy Cross | Nick Jones | Ep. 467

Nick Jones enlisted in the Marine Corps at 18 out of Olathe, Kansas. Mortarman, then scout sniper platoon, then selection and 2nd Marine Raider Batta…

4 weeks ago