Winning at Any Cost: Clean Competition, Soft Power through Sports, and the Russian Doping Scandal with Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
In this episode, A'ndre and Ryan talk to Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), about maintaining the integrity of international sports. Travis, who has spent two decades at the US...
25 Jan 202350min
What in the World?: Classified Documents, Davos Conspiracies, and Wrestling with a Potential Saudi WWE Purchase (01/19/23)
In this week's episode, A'ndre, Ryan and David dive into some of the biggest stories of 2023. With President Biden's classified documents scandal heating up, they discuss the political and legal impac...
19 Jan 202334min
Risky Business: Web3 – Rogue States, Regulation, and Risk with Ari Redbord, Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs
Welcome to Risky Business, a limited series in partnership with Trenchcoat Advisors, a risk advisory firm. In an unpredictable, complex, and chaotic world, the business risks are ever-present. To help...
11 Jan 202355min
The Defense Innovation Unit: Former DIU Director Mike Brown on Leveraging Commercial Enterprise for National Security
This week, A'ndre talks to Mike Brown, who recently served as Director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) between 2018 and 2022, on what DIU is and why the organization is unique within the Departme...
4 Jan 202358min
Risky Business: Data – The New Oil or the New Nuclear Competition? with Jessie Liu, fmr. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Welcome to Risky Business, a limited series in partnership with Trenchcoat Advisors, a risk advisory firm. In an unpredictable, complex, and chaotic world, the business risks are ever-present. To help...
28 Dec 202249min
Inside the CFIUS Black Box: Foreign Investment and National Security with Tom Feddo, Fmr. Asst. Secretary of the Treasury
In this episode, Ryan talks to Tom Feddo, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Investment Security, about the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Tom, who led the i...
21 Dec 202248min
Live from RNDF22: Bucky Butow, Defense Innovation Unit Space Portfolio Director
On December 3rd, Burn Bag co-host Ryan Rosenthal was in Simi Valley, CA covering the 2022 edition of the Reagan National Defense Forum, one of the nation's largest gatherings of the defense community....
15 Dec 202216min
Risky Business: When Business and National Security Collide with Bill Priestap and Holden Triplett, Founders of Trenchcoat Advisors
Welcome to Risky Business, a limited series in partnership with Trenchcoat Advisors, a risk advisory firm. In an unpredictable, complex, and chaotic world, the business risks are ever-present. To help...
14 Dec 202227min
