This week in the studio my guest makes a returning appearance. You first met this guest when the story of Codename Johnny Walker was told. I thought that we needed to know more about this guy and his amazing career which has spanned multiple deployments with SEAL Team 3, Naval Special Warfare Development Group, he was an Instructor at the Naval Special Warfare Center, the senior enlisted advisor to SEAL Team 7 and Master Chief Petty officer of BUDS First Phase. He spent a decade in executive lea...
Jan 16, 2023•2 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 128
This week in the studio I welcome a man who spent over 23 years in the United States military. He is a for former enlisted and an Airborne Ranger Infantry Officer. My guest has spent a lifetime studying the Science of Killing and Combat, which led him to being an expert witness and a consultant in State and Federal courts. He has testified before the US Senate and Congress and has even been cited in an address by the President of the United States. His books are legendary in the military, law en...
Jan 09, 2023•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 127
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Jan 01, 2023•2 hr 17 min
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Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 43 min
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Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This week in the studio a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Army. This guest gave 23 years of service, 18 of those years within the Special Forces community as a Green Beret. He has completed tours to Iraq,Peru,Ecuador,Panama,Colombia, and multiple tours to Afghanistan where he conducted Village Stability operations, never knowing that the allies and friends he made there would so desperately need his help, after his service. He is the Founder of Rooftop Leadership, Co Founder of...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 126
This week in the studio a Master Sergeant in the US Army who started his career in the Navy as a Parachute Rigger with dreams of becoming a Navy SEAL, but that goal was cut short by a mysterious illness. In his twenties when he was supposed to be living his best life, his body was breaking down at an exponential rate that was unexplained by medical science, which was the cause of him giving up (at least temporarily) his childhood dream of being a commando, when he left the Navy abruptly. Fast fo...
Nov 21, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 125
This week in the studio a US Marine that gave 11 years of his life to the Corps. During his years of service he served on 5 deployments with 1 trip to Iraq and 1 trip to Afghanistan. Although he has been an Infantryman, All Marine Boxer, and Combat Instructor at the School of Infantry, during this conversation tonight we are going to focus on his time as a Squad Leader in the Battle of Marjah, the injuries both physical and psychological that he received, and what it takes to dedicate your life ...
Nov 14, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 124
This week in the studio 2 men who couldn’t come from more different worlds. The first, born in Mosul, Iraq, someone who watched his country be torn apart from the inside out. He is not only a veteran of the Iraqi Army but also the only interpreter to ever receive the Navy Seal Trident. His quick thinking, his ability to read a room and the intentions of the people in it, and his willingness to push himself further and faster than any other contracted worker made him a huge asset to the US soldie...
Nov 07, 2022•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 123
This week in the studio a retired United States Marine Corps Major with 24 yeas of service, with time as both an enlisted man and an officer. During that time he was deployed 10 times to over 60 countries. He has been to Afghanistan, The Horn of Africa, and Iraq, where he was responsible for planning and conducting hundreds of combat missions that destroyed insurgent strongholds wherever they may have popped up. During his time of service he learned numerous lessons about leadership,humility, an...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 122
This week in the studio a guest with 31 years of service to this country in the United States Navy. His certifications include but are not limited to Surface Warfare Specialist, Search and Rescue Swimmer, Submarine Dolphins, Special Boat Teams, and is A Navy SEAL that has assignments with Seal Teams 3,1,Naval Special Warfare Group, and Special Operations Command. He has combat deployments to Baghdad, Fallujah, Rhamadi, Haditha, Al Asad, and Columbia. My guest since retiring has worked with the H...
Oct 24, 2022•2 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 121
This week in the studio a man who while attending college initially joined ROTC in order to help pay for his college. After graduating from college he was commissioned as a 2nd LT in the United States Army and was assigned to Ft. Hood. My guest left active duty after a few years but decided to continue to serve his country in the National Guard where he still serves today as the Commander of the Land Dominance Center at Ft. Stewart, GA. My guest was involved in two combat deployments to Baghdad ...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 120
This week in the studio a former Navy SEAL who conducted combat operations in Baghdad and Rhamadi. Upon leaving the service my guest realized that once you been in combat and are no longer in that world, nothing on the other side correlates to it. He also realized that there needs to be stepping stones to something else, because without them that leads down a road to destruction. My guest put his mind and know how to first saving the Monarch Butterfly, but he couldn’t stop there he has establish...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 119
This week in the studio my special co host Chris Van Sant and I sit down with a legendary Special Operations Warrior who entered the Army after High School in 1989. He immediately attended Basic, Airborne School, and the Ranger Indoctrination Program. After successfully completing all of those courses this guest was assigned to the 1st Ranger Battalion just in time to spend his 9th Static Line jump into Panama, but this was not the last time this man would see combat. In October 1991 he transfer...
Oct 03, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 118
In this bonus episode I talk with a writer in the Thriller Genre, who has penned an amazing story full of espionage, tradecraft, violence and politics in the Middle East and the United States. Matt started his writing career later in life after speaking with David Baldacci at a book signing when he asked if he was to old to start writing and he was told the industry could use some young writers. His first novel Surviving the Lions Den introduces the reader into a world that lies just below the s...
Oct 01, 2022•1 hr 14 min
This week in the studio, a former Navy SEAL who has since leaving the military and private contract working has dedicated himself to a whole new cause to fight for, Veteran, Law Enforcement, and First Responder suicides. This guest has seen his share of action in Africa, Oman, Kuwait, and Iraq, and of course all of the injuries, PTS, TBI’s, and insomnia that go along with it. This guest continued to take the fight to the enemy after leaving the service by working private contract gigs with Tripl...
Sep 19, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 117
This week in the studio a man who served with the 10th Mountain Division in Iraq where he received a Purple Heart for injuries that he sustained. He is also a 10 year veteran of the Louisville Police Department serving in positions such as Patrol, the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force, and the Special Response Team. He also served briefly with the US Border Patrol but in 2020 when the absolute horrific riots that tore apart most major cities in the United States, he decided to return to Lewisville...
Sep 05, 2022•2 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 116
This week in the studio a man who in 1964 was born in South Miami to immigrant parents. His father Russian and his mother Cuban, he was raised in a strict household that taught him, if he wanted to be or do anything in life it was on him to make it happen. Fast forward to 1984 while working as a lifeguard he got to see his first Marijuana bust, and it was at this moment that the hook was set for my guest to become a law enforcement agent, working with Customs on the Miami boat crews, as an under...
Aug 29, 2022•2 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 115
This week in the studio a graduate of the Military Academy at WestPoint and a member of units such as the 82nd Airborne, the 101st Airborne, and the White House with the Presidential Contingency Programs office. This guest even did a little clandestine work for an unnamed agency. That’s not all this guest did, he also ran 9 100 mile and 7 50 mile ultra marathons, and when he could not run he raced an ultra endurance mountain bike from Canada all the way to Mexico. After receiving a third torn me...
Aug 22, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 114
This week in the studio my co host Chris VanSant and I have a conversation with a man who dedicated 27 years of service to the US Army, more than 21 of those in Special Operations, including 12 years with the Special Missions Units as a Tier 1 Operator. Our guest has spent time with units such as the 3rd Infantry, 101st Airborne, 5th Special Forces, 10th Special Forces, Special Operations Command as a congressional liaison, and even as an Army Congressional Fellow where he advised Senator Kay Ba...
Aug 08, 2022•2 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 112
This week in the studio a man who was a three time volunteer in his service to his country. In 1967 he volunteered for service in the US Army, then at a briefing for jobs in the military and after just viewing the John Wayne classic The Green Berets, my guest volunteered for Special Forces, but that still wasn’t enough. My guest finished in country training and was asked to volunteer for a Top Secret Group and Operation that was happening at that time. After attending a briefing and signing a 20...
Aug 01, 2022•2 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 111
This week in the studio a man who in 27 years rose from the rank of the Enlisted to become the Commanding Officer of Foxtrot , 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Marine Special Operations Command. On March 4th, 2007 his career took an unbelievable turn when his convoy was attacked in a complex ambush and his Marines returned fire. This is where this story goes horribly wrong, before even returning to their fire base, word had spread like wildfire, that his unit had attacked and killed nume...
Jul 25, 2022•2 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 110
This week in the studio a man who joined the military at the age of 28. By age 29 he had completed BUDS training. After 8 years and a couple of combat tours with SEAL Team 7, this guest became an instructor at the Advanced Training Command. During his years of service he discovered that he had some quite visible injuries that he had sustained like a career ending back injury and a quadruple hernia. This guest noticed more than the visible injuries he was being dragged into an abyss from the long...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 109
This week in the studio my guest is a Best selling author, Emmy-nominated investigative reporter and award-winning journalist. This guest doesn’t do puff pieces. She has spent two decades covering terrorism, murder, mobsters, and corruption for television, newspapers and radio. Included in her career she is the author of five true crime books, She was the Police Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News for nearly a decade and has covered high-profile crime cases nationally and internationally, i...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 108
This week in the studio, a man with 20 years of service in the US Army. He served in such units as the 75th Ranger regiment, the 3rd Infantry Division, the 82nd Airborne, and the famed 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Delta Force). He has undergone 11 combat deployments in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa. He has hunted the likes of Hussein, Zarkawi, and other notable deck of cards players. This has not been an easy life as most would understand, but in this ...
Jul 04, 2022•3 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 107
This week in the studio a man who spent 26 years as a State of California Game Warden. He started out his career very normal with jobs like training cadets, conducting State, National, and International Firearms Training. But that where normal ends in this story John co developed and lead his agencies Elite Tactical Unit “The Marijuana Enforcement Team”, but also developed his agencies first Sniper unit and then used them as a tool to combat the worst criminals and cartels that were setting up g...
Jun 27, 2022•11 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 106
This week in the studio a man with almost 4 decades of military service to this country. His dream started all the way back in the summer before his freshman year of high school when he finished reading a military based book about every three days. By doing this his mind was set on a life a service which began in 1983 when he was assigned to the 1st Battallion 75th Rangers as brand new private. He made colossal strides in his career by not only becoming a Ranger but also a JumpMaster by the rank...
Jun 20, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 105
This week in the studio a woman with 21 years of Military Service. She’s been both enlisted and a Warrant Officer. She specialized in Counter and Human Intelligence. She was the first woman ever admitted to the Marine Air Ground Task Force CounterIntelligence/Human Intelligence Course. She has tracked and hunted terrorists during her military service with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and now is spending her retirement years hunting human traffickers with Deliver Fund. If that’s ...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 104
This week in the studio a man with over 45 years of both National and International Law Enforcement experience. During that time he has worked Counter Terrorism, Narcotics, Human Trafficking, Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Protective Operations to name a few. He was part of the Mariel Boat Lift with Cuban refugees, Operation Overlord, Operation Purple Haze, and Engility, a team of prior law enforcement that helped US and international forces during Operation Enduring Freedom. He has rece...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 103
This week in the studio a retired Command Sergeant Major with over 30 years of service to this country. It seems like an odd story that he would rise from the rank of private to Command Sergeant Major especially because he initially enlisted because of his best friend. He completed his first full tour and decided to leave military service and become a missionary. He left the service but the service never left him, he enlisted in the Guard and worked with 1st Battalion 211th ARB and 19th Special ...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 102
