Podcast Episodes

You Fall to the Level of Your Training | Full Auto Friday | 8.28.2026

Recorded two of these in one week because when this drops I'll be in Maine at the Origin Immersion BJJ camp. So Michael gets another pass. Nobody kno…

1 month ago

The Zone of Chaos | Casey Stumpf | Ep. 466

Casey Stumpf is a nurse practitioner and my sister. Years in emergency medicine and hospice, a stretch inside military medicine at Camp Pendleton, an…

1 month ago

From the VA Prescription to the Street | Travis Gribble & Brandon Spangler | Ep. 465

Brandon Spangler did five years in the Marine Corps. He broke his neck, crushed his lower back, and walked out with a VA prescription that turned int…

1 month ago

The Conversations Nobody Wants to Have | Full Auto Friday | 8.21.2026

Four questions this week...

An F-18 simulator is going into the coffee shop sometime in September. I don't know why either. Carrier landing competiti…

1 month, 1 week ago

Butler, the Correspondents' Dinner, and the Truth | John Constantine | Ep. 464

John Constantine spent almost 23 years in the United States Secret Service. Fifteen of them on the Counter Assault Team — the assaulters who exist fo…

1 month, 1 week ago

Vote For The Garbage Can | Negligent Discharge Friday | 8.14.2026

Michael is moving to Missoula, so this one opens with a resignation and gets worse from there.

A man in a garbage can is polling at 20% against Nigel…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Welcome to the Age of Collapse | Drew Miller | Ep. 463

Drew Miller is an Air Force Academy honor graduate with a master's and a PhD from Harvard. His dissertation was on underground nuclear shelters and f…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Fingerprint You Leave On Your Kids | Full Auto Friday | 8.7.26

Just me today. Michael also dropped some news on me — he's moving on in a few months to go better himself, so there's a change coming to Negligent Di…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Jail, Lawsuits, and The Comeback After Everything Fell Apart | Mike Glover | Ep. 462

Mike Glover served 18 years in Army Special Forces, worked as a contractor for the CIA, founded Fieldcraft Survival, and wrote the national bestselle…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mid-Flight Exits and Robot Gun Rodeos | Negligent Discharge Friday | 7.31.26

No guest. Just Michael, a stack of conversation cards, and whatever the internet served up this week.

Opening cards: simple is not the same as easy, …

1 month, 4 weeks ago