Today, Andy sits down with Investigative reporter Kashmir Hill about her research into the facial recognition company Clearview AI. Her new book is called "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It." It tells the story of the tech startup, which has created a massive database of faces (scraped from the internet and social media sites), sparking major privacy concerns. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. Sponsors: Change Agents is presented by Montana Kn...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Today's guest is Chris Dalby. Chris is the author of CJNG: A Quick Guide to Mexico's Deadliest Cartel and currently the director of the World of Crime Think Tank. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. Sponsors: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company. Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for 10% off your first order at https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/ MTNTOUGH Go to https://mtntough.com and enter code CHANGEAGENTS to receive 40% OFF - a savings of about $100 your MTNTOUGH+ annual subsc...
Aug 07, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 46
On today’s episode of Change Agents, Andy is joined by geopolitical expert, Dmitri Alperovitch. He is also a national security expert, and the chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator thinktank. His latest book is titled “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century. He discusses what will happen if China invades Taiwan, why the stakes are so high, Putin’s connection to the conflict, and more. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. Sponsors: Change ...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Today on Change Agents, Mark "Billy" Billingham and Julie Colombino-Billingham return. They give an inside look at the gang takeover of Haiti. Billy spent 27 years in the British military. Over 17 of those years were with the SAS and the other 9 were in the Parachute Regiment. He helps to spearhead the REBUILD Globally initiative with his wife Julie. The organization fights poverty in Haiti by providing innovative education and job-training programs that guarantee job placement. Julie is the Fou...
Jul 24, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 44
On today's Change Agents, Andy Stumpf sits down with Principal Adversary Hunter at the cybersecurity company Dragos, Kyle O’Meara who previously worked at the National Security Agency, and Gus Serino, an industrial cybersecurity consultant, and has worked with large water utilities on security issues. His company is I&C Secure ( https://www.iandcsecure.com/ ). They discuss the reality of cyber war and the vulnerabilities of America's utilities, Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Com...
Jul 17, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Today on Change Agents, Andy takes a deep dive into the strange country of Guinea-Bissau with Mark Shaw. Mark Shaw is the Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Mark worked for ten years at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), including as Inter-regional Advisor, Chief of the Criminal Justice Reform Unit and with the Global Programme against Transnational Organised Crime, with extensive field work. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. SPONSORS...
Jul 10, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 42
On today's Change Agents, Andy discusses the illegal wildlife trade and its connection to global organized crime with Julian Rademeyer. Julian is the Director of the Organized Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. He is also a former project leader at TRAFFIC, and the author of "Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade." If you want to learn more about Julian’s work, follow him on X @julianrademeyer and to ...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Enjoy this preview of Legends of the Old West. Hosted by Chris Wimmer, Legends of the Old West is the longest-running podcast about the American West —featuring narrative storytelling about famous figures like Wyatt Earp, Billy The Kid, and Crazy Horse. This preview highlights the beginning of their most recent series on the Texas Rangers: In the spring of 1861, it becomes clear America is headed for civil war. Texas Rangers Ben McCulloch, Henry McCulloch, John S. “Rip” Ford, and Lawrence Sulliv...
Jun 26, 2024•15 min
On today’s Change Agents, investigative journalist Nick Bryant returns to discuss the links between the recent human trafficking investigation involving Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein. He also discusses his new book, The Truth About Watergate. Today Nick serves as the Director of the Organization Epstein Justice, which seeks justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein is also the author of the book The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers Child Abuse & Betrayal. For more, check o...
Jun 26, 2024•55 min•Season 2Ep. 40
This bonus episode of Change Agents with Andy Stumpf was recorded in late March, and is a follow up to our recent conversation with Dr. Garry Nolan about UAP, alleged crash retrieval programs, and what the government may be hiding. Rep. Tim Burchett is the Congressman for 2nd District of Tennessee and in 2023, he launched the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Caucus. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. Sponsors: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company. Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for...
Jun 24, 2024•27 min
Today’s guest is Academy Award winning filmmaker, Kevin Costner. Costner co-wrote, directed, and stars in the new film Horizon: An American Saga. In this episode of Change Agents, he and Andy Stumpf discuss why he invested so much personally into the project, his career, his philosophy on storytelling and more. Stay tuned till end of the episode to hear Andy's honest reaction about the movie. CHAPTER ONE hits theaters June 28th, and CHAPTER TWO in theaters August 16th. Join the Frontier Pass at ...
Jun 19, 2024•51 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Dr. Garry Nolan is one of the world’s leading immunologists and is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Executive Director of the Board and co-founder of The Sol Foundation. There mission is to “bring together experts from academia and government to address the philosophical, policy, and scientific problems raised by the likely presence on the Earth of UAP.” Learn more here: https://thesolfoundation....
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Mike Baker is a former CIA covert operations officer and a security expert. He is the CEO of Portman Square Group, a global investigations and strategic communications company and is the host of the show Black Files Declassified on the Discovery Channel and The President’s Daily Brief podcast, which recently launched its new Weekend Special Edition interview series. He is also the author of the book COMPANY RULES: Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA. You can check out The ...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 37
Today on Change Agents, Andy Stumpf learns about how the violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel is raking in millions by preying on elderly Americans with elaborate phone scams. His guest, Steve Fisher, is an investigative reporter based in Mexico City who covers organized crime in Mexico for outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post and the LA Times. SPONSORS: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company. Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for 10% off your first order at ht...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Today’s guest is Ian Urbina. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who left The New York Times in 2019 to start The Outlaw Ocean Project. The Project’s mission is to produce ”investigative stories about human rights, environment and labor concerns on the two-thirds of the planet covered by water.” On today’s show, he and Andy discuss investigating murder on the open ocean, forced labor on fishing vessels, the special operations veterans who now hunt pirates, and more. You can l...
May 21, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Today's guest is Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen. Frances Haugen is a specialist in algorithmic product management, having worked on ranking algorithms at Google, Pinterest, Yelp, and Facebook. In 2019, she was recruited to Facebook to be the lead Product Manager on the Civic Misinformation team, which dealt with issues related to democracy and misinformation, and later worked on counter-espionage. She became alarmed over Facebook’s prioritization of profit over safety and security, and f...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Today’s guest is writer and investigative crime journalist, Sean Williams. Sean is the co-host of The Underworld Podcast. On this episode, Sean and Andy discuss the world of Asian meth cartels operating out of Myanmar’s remote Wa State, where an autonomous government and military protect massive super labs. SPONSORS: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company. Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for 10% off your first order at https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/ MTNTOUGH Go to https://mtntoug...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Jake Adelstein is an investigative journalist and the author of several books about Japanese organized crime including Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which is currently being adaptation into a TV series by HBO Max. His latest book, The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld, is out now. He is a board member for Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims and hosts the podcast The Evaporated, about the countless people who vanish in Japan every ...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Today’s guest is award-winning journalist Katherine Blunt. She is a Wall Street Journal reporter and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid, a national bestseller, and winner of the 2022 Golden Poppy award for nonfiction. She was also a part of the reporting team that uncovered how Instagram’s algorithms promoted disturbing underaged content. On this episode, she and Andy discuss vulnerabilities to America’s grid, the danger ...
Apr 24, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Today on Change Agents, Andy talks with renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Conti. Dr. Conti holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine and is the former chief resident at Harvard Medical School. He is an expert on mental health and understanding the root causes of issues like anxiety and stress, as well as creativity, leadership, and discipline. He is the author of the best-selling book Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic which seeks to understand “How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal It ...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Today on Change Agents, Andy sits down with investigative reporter CD Goette-Luciak to discuss the violent situation in Ecuador. CD Goette-Luciak is a reporter for the Latin America Advisor, and freelance writer for publications outlets including Vox , The Guardian, The Washington Post, with extensive experience reporting on civil conflict, politics, and corruption from Central America. In 2018, he was even abducted by government forces and expelled from Nicaraguan for his reporting on the admin...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Today’s guest is one of the world’s pioneering researchers of psychedelic and Dimethyltryptamine, known as DMT. Rick Strassman is the author of several books on the topic including The Psychedelic Handbook and DMT: The Spirit Molecule. He is also a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Today on Change Agents, he and Andy talk about the dark side of psychedelics, their promises when it comes to therapeutic treatments, what people should kno...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Today on Change Agents, Andy speaks with former Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Los Angeles Field Division, Bill Bodner. Bill had a 31-year career in the Drug Enforcement Administration, in which he was responsible for overseeing the daily operations of 14 offices located in Nevada, Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, and the counties which make up the greater Los Angeles area. Bill discusses the evolution in American street drugs, the forces behind these new drugs, and how dea...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 27
John Nores served as a Game Warden for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for more than 25 years and was a sniper on and led the Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET), an elite tactical unit targeting cartel drug operations. He is the author of the book Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming Wildlands From the Drug Cartels as well as War in the Woods: Combating the Marijuana Cartels on America’s Public Lands . The 2nd edition of Hidden War is out now. He is the co-...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Today on Change Agents, Andy Stumpf sits down with Josh Wilson, the executive director of Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry. He is also a coach for the Special Olympics Unified Sports at his local high school and is an archery coach. Today, we’re talking with Josh about his passion for the hungry, and the unique way he’s found to fight back against hunger. You can learn more at feedingthehungry.org Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. SPONSORS: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife ...
Mar 13, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Today on Change Agents, Andy Stumpf sits down with one of the world’s leading cybersecurity experts for a discussion ranging from AI, China, TikTok, hacking, spying, and personal data. Professor Alan Woodward is one of the world’s leading cybersecurity experts whose research extends to covert communications, forensic computing, and quantum technology. He has previously worked for the government of the U.K. and currently advises Europol through the European Centre for Cyber Crime (EC3) as well as...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Today’s guest is United States Army veteran and author of the book Damn the Valley: 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2/508 PIR, 82nd Airborne in the Arghandab River Valley Afghanistan, Will Yeske/ The book presents stories from soldiers fighting in the Arghandab River Valley — which they called “the meat grinder” — during the deployment of 2 Fury to Afghanistan in 2009–2010. The deployment had a 52% casualty rate. Learn more at https://damnthevalleybook.com/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. SPO...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Today on Change Agents, Andy Stumpf talks with the host of the new IRONCLAD original Borderland, Vincent “Rocco” Vargas. He is a Hollywood actor, former Army Ranger, and Border Patrol special operations (BORSTAR) veteran. The first episode drops on Feb. 22. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Subscribe: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/borderland-with-vincent-rocco-vargas/id1730589324 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6w9YAIljxWKXsetl10w9Qp?si=0bf0fe70abef426e YouTube: https:...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Today on Change Agents, an IRONCLAD original, Andy Stumpf has an extended discussion about the horrors of modern Eritrea, home to the second largest population of slaves in the world. Investigative journalist Katharine Houreld is the The Washington Post’s East Africa bureau chief and previously served as the East Africa bureau chief for Reuters, based in Nairobi. She is the writer behind a stunning recent report entitled, “An African gulag so ghastly that inmates risk death to escape” https://ww...
Feb 14, 2024•49 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Rosalie Fish is a member of the Cowlitz Tribe and a runner from the Muckleshoot Reservation in Auburn, Washington. She is a women’s track and field athlete at the University of Washington, where she was recently selected for a prestigious Truman Scholarship from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. She often runs and trains with a red painted handprint on her face, dedicated to Indigenous women and girls who have been killed or disappeared. Countless have gone missing, though numbers are ...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 20
