The AGI Promise Is a Cover Story | Bill Thompson | Ep. 476
Bill Thompson joined the Army at 17 and spent 22 years there, most of it on the technical and communications side of a special missions unit. He now runs Spartan Forge, an AI-driven hunting app with o...
12 Okt 3h 2min
Is Convenience Making Us Weak? | Full Auto Friday | 10.9.26
Traditional Q and A to round out this week: A high school senior sent five questions about American culture for a class assignment, so I answered all of them. The smartphone posture you'll see everyw...
9 Okt 1h 1min
Robots Will Fight the Next War | Mike LeBlanc | Ep. 475
Mike LeBlanc spent 13 years in the Marine Corps as an infantry officer. He deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 and went on to 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. After getting out he studied his way into Harvar...
5 Okt 3h 5min
Lying Never Holds Up | Negligent Discharge Friday | 10.2.2026
A last-minute Friday episode, because I forgot we didn't have one. Michael worked under pressure. We open with the Roberts Ridge series. The criticism online was valid: I should have asked Mitch and B...
2 Okt 57min
Immaculate Constellation and the Cost of Blowing the Whistle | Matthew Brown | Ep. 474
Matt Brown spent his career inside the national security world without ever wearing a uniform. He came up through grad school and think tank work in DC, earned a TS/SCI clearance, and landed in the Of...
30 Sep 2h 17min
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 that first deployment, his brother-in-law, also a Ran...
28 Sep 2h 20min
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 the Naval Special Warfare Development Group and lat...
25 Sep 2h 6min
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 a signal officer and went on to serve in 7th and 3r...
23 Sep 2h 19min
