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 March of 2002. They did anyway. Their project, Groun...
20 Sep 4h 43min
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 open with reporting that Homeland Security has been...
18 Sep 1h 2min
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 selection and finishing his nine years in uniform on a Spe...
14 Sep 2h 6min
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. But I do open with where I land on it now, a quart...
11 Sep 1h 2min
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 herself the job along the way and turned into a freelan...
7 Sep 2h 51min
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 and what you can realistically do when you live in t...
4 Sep 1h 2min
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 Battalion, where he came up through element member to el...
31 Aug 2h 42min
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 knows what he does with his time anyway. First questio...
28 Aug 1h 1min
