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
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, and now her own practice in Montana treating hormones...
26 Aug 1h 58min
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 into eight years of addiction. The last stretch was he...
24 Aug 2h 14min
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 competition to follow. The opener is about reaching the age ...
21 Aug 1h 7min
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 for the day everything goes wrong. Team leader. Instr...
17 Aug 3h 10min
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 Farage in Clacton, and his platform makes more sen...
14 Aug 1h 6min
