Podcast Episodes

Don't Live in the Rabbit Hole | Full Auto Friday | 5.29.2026

Two questions this week, plus a video I've been asked about more than anything in recent memory.

I break down the paraglider that got hit by a plane …

4 months ago

Are Police Academies Failing Cops? | Dennis Benigno | Ep. 450

Dennis Benigno started in 2001 as a New Jersey corrections officer at nineteen. He moved to the U.S. Park Police in D.C., then to patrol in one of Je…

4 months ago

Rewiring the Brain After War | Jonathan Dickinson | Ep. 449

Jonathan Dickinson is the co-founder and CEO of Ambio Life Sciences, one of the world's leading ibogaine clinics. He's spent more than fifteen years …

4 months ago

Foreign Money, Dead Jets, and Criminal Monkeys | Negligent Discharge Friday | 5.22.2026

Thomas Massie just got primaried out, and it cost the most money ever spent on a primary. $32.6 million in ad buys. A guy hand-picked by Trump comes …

4 months, 1 week ago

From Ranger Battalion to the OR | Dr. Mike Simpson | Ep. 448

"Crike him." That's the call a tactical medic makes when a guy can't breathe and the clock is at zero. Mike Simpson is the doctor on the other end of…

4 months, 1 week ago

Don't Let Your Past Be Your Prison | Full Auto Friday | 5.15.026

A soon-to-be 40-year-old wants to face his fear of skydiving and use it to teach his anxious five-year-old that fear is normal but it doesn't get to …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

The Night Stalker They Couldn't Shoot Down | Alan Mack | Ep. 447

Alan Mack flew Chinooks for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment for seventeen years. Chief Warrant Officer 5. Senior MH-47 pilot. Flight l…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Cruise Ships, Cover-Ups, and Cow Killers | Negligent Discharge Friday | 5.8.2026

Michael and I get into it on this one. Hantavirus headlines, the Doomsday Clock, wind turbines, the Epstein note, and a guy on YouTube paying his bil…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446

John Kiriakou spent 14 years at the CIA. He started as an analyst, went operational, and eventually ran counterterrorism work in Pakistan that led to…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Learning To Suffer Well | Full Auto Friday | 5.01.2026

Four questions this week. The kind that don't have clean answers.

A guy whose father murdered his mother is asking how to get back to who he was befo…

4 months, 4 weeks ago