Cleared Hot
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Cleared Hot
It is safe to say that I have wandered a bit. I served in the military, flew some jets, jumped out of most, climbed mountains (I jumped off of them too), taught fitness, owned a gym, and have spent the last few years speaking to organizations and leaders. It has been a journey, and in all honesty,...
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BUD/S Was Hard, But It Wasn't Real | Full Auto Friday with JP Dinnell | 6.05.2026
Usually Full Auto Friday is just me and the questions. Not this one. JP Dinnell is in the seat — former SEAL, came up through Ramadi, now chief traini...
The CIA Tried to Bury It | Rachel Cuda | Ep. 451
Rachel Cuda grew up the daughter of a Navy SEAL, raised on Coronado around the teams. She speaks Russian, Ukrainian, and German. She studied at the Un...
Don't Live in the Rabbit Hole | Full Auto Friday | 5.29.2026
Two questions this week, plus a video I've been asked about more than anything in recent memory.
I break down the paraglider that got hit by a p...
Are Police Academies Failing Cops? | Dennis Benigno | Ep. 450
Dennis Benigno started in 2001 as a New Jersey corrections officer at nineteen. He moved to the U.S. Park Police in D.C., then to patrol in one of Jer...
Rewiring the Brain After War | Jonathan Dickinson | Ep. 449
Jonathan Dickinson is the co-founder and CEO of Ambio Life Sciences, one of the world's leading ibogaine clinics. He's spent more than fifteen years o...
Foreign Money, Dead Jets, and Criminal Monkeys | Negligent Discharge Friday | 5.22.2026
Thomas Massie just got primaried out, and it cost the most money ever spent on a primary. $32.6 million in ad buys. A guy hand-picked by Trump comes o...
From Ranger Battalion to the OR | Dr. Mike Simpson | Ep. 448
"Crike him." That's the call a tactical medic makes when a guy can't breathe and the clock is at zero. Mike Simpson is the doctor on the other end of...
Don't Let Your Past Be Your Prison | Full Auto Friday | 5.15.026
A soon-to-be 40-year-old wants to face his fear of skydiving and use it to teach his anxious five-year-old that fear is normal but it doesn't get to r...
The Night Stalker They Couldn't Shoot Down | Alan Mack | Ep. 447
Alan Mack flew Chinooks for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment for seventeen years. Chief Warrant Officer 5. Senior MH-47 pilot. Flight le...
Cruise Ships, Cover-Ups, and Cow Killers | Negligent Discharge Friday | 5.8.2026
Michael and I get into it on this one. Hantavirus headlines, the Doomsday Clock, wind turbines, the Epstein note, and a guy on YouTube paying his bill...
The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446
John Kiriakou spent 14 years at the CIA. He started as an analyst, went operational, and eventually ran counterterrorism work in Pakistan that led to...
Learning To Suffer Well | Full Auto Friday | 5.01.2026
Four questions this week. The kind that don't have clean answers.
A guy whose father murdered his mother is asking how to get back to who he was...
Bonus Episode - Drownproof Chapter 1 - Be the Author of your Life, not the Victim of it
Today's "episode" is the audiobook first chapter of my book: Drownproof. Thank you to everyone who helped make the launch such a tremendous success.
Working for Kanye, Building "Items" for Delta Force | Justin Klahn | Ep. 445
Justin Klahn is hard to put in a box. Twenty years inside Nike Innovation. Years embedded with JSOC units building gear that had to actually work. Tim...
Bladder Control and Geopolitics | Negligent Discharge Friday | 4.24.2026
Michael, my dad, and me. Three generations arguing in one room. That's the format today.
My dad watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live at...
How Fast and Furious Buried an FBI Agent | John Shipley | Ep. 444
John Shipley spent fourteen years carrying an FBI badge. Army aviator first — commissioned by his own father, a retired Vietnam-era lieutenant colonel...
Windshield, Not the Rearview Mirror | Full Auto Friday | 4.17.2026
Week one of the book being out in the world, and I still don't have the vocabulary for the support. Thank you. Genuinely. If you read it, an honest Am...
Giving It All Back Before the Clock Runs Out | John Dudley | Ep. 443
John Dudley is a decorated professional archer, two-time IBO National Champion, World Field Championship medalist, and the founder of Nock On Archery....
350 Ops, 200 Bites, and the Future of Healing | Bill Clark & Dr. Bob Harmon | Ep. 442
Bill Clark is a former DEVGRU military working dog handler — one of the first brought into the program when it launched around 2002. He grew up in cha...
Fake ManBoobs, Foreign Policy, and the Dildo of Consequence | Negligent Discharge Friday | 4.10.2026
Another week where nothing happened and everything was totally fine.
Kristi Noem's husband Byron has been living a secret life involving cross-d...
A Mushroom Cloud Over Small Town America | Adam B. | Ep. 441
Adam B. is an active-duty police officer in Ohio, a 17-year military veteran, and a former M1 Abrams tanker who deployed to Iraq and Korea. He grew up...
The Biggest Lie Women Were Told | Casey Stumpf | Ep. 440
Casey Stumpf is a nurse practitioner with 18 years of clinical experience spanning emergency medicine, military family health at Camp Pendleton, hospi...
42-Year-Old Privates in the Army and the Purpose of Struggle | Full Auto Friday | 4.3.2026
The Army just raised their max enlistment age to 42. I don't know exactly why, but I'd like to. I'm hearing from a lot of people who were considering...
Ride it Until the Wheels Fall Off | Travis Pastrana | Ep. 439
Travis Pastrana is a 17-time X Games gold medalist, multi-discipline motorsport champion, and the founder of Nitro Circus. He grew up in a Maryland co...
Jack Reacher, Blow Darts, a Quadruple Amputee Murder Case | Negligent Discharge Friday | 3.27.2026
Negligent Discharge Friday. Michael and I run through the week's headlines and somehow end up exactly where you'd expect.
We kick it off with a...
Schools, Cover-Ups, and the Epstein Files | Rich Hy | Ep. 438
Rich Hy is a police detective in the Special Victims Unit in Buffalo, New York, an Army Reserve drill sergeant, and the creator behind Angry Cops, a Y...
The Monster Might Be a Sock Puppet | Full Auto Friday | 3.20.2026
Full Auto Friday to round out the week!
A listener flew from San Diego to Kalispell to tell a woman she was his person. He laid it all out on a...
Government Overreach, Lying About Your Service, and Rowing to Hawaii | Greg Anderson | Ep. 437
Greg Anderson is a former Army Ranger and deputy U.S. Marshal with two decades in law enforcement and combat, a 3rd-degree black belt, and the owner o...
Iran, The Draft, and Smuggled Ants | Negligent Discharge Friday | 3.13.2026
Negligent Discharge Friday. Michael now has nunchucks. We're accepting name suggestions. Two names. Because there are two of them.
We got into I...
The Armor on Their Back Is for Their Own Admin | Erica Gaines | Ep. 436
Erica Gaines came into law enforcement as the Knife Girl — selling switchblades at police conferences, making small talk with cops, building relations...
Pack Light, Fight Hard, Say What Needs to Be Said | Full Auto Friday | 3.6.2026
Listener Q and A to close out the week. Topics are heavier than usual, but that's how it goes sometimes.
-What's in the EDC fanny pack and why
Inside Cartel Conflict and the Reality At The Border | Oscar Hagelsieb | Ep. 435
Oscar Hagelsieb is a Mexican-American law enforcement professional known for his lengthy career in U.S. federal service focused on border security, or...
The Lie Of "Stranger Danger" | Full Auto Friday | 2/27.26
Four questions for today's Q and A that all center on responsibility and perspective. We start with a man in a movie theater watching someone try to e...
The Real Generation Kill | Brad Colbert | Ep. 434
Brad Colbert is a retired Marine Master Sergeant with 30 years of military and government service. He served with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion in Afgh...
Negligent Discharge Friday | 2/20/2026
Young Michael dove deep on his internet research for this Friday. We spent an hour discussing a variety of topics, and as usual, he did not disappoint...
Built to Kill: Writing the Gray Man | Mark Greaney | Ep. 433
Mark Greaney is one of the most successful thriller authors working today — a #1 New York Times bestselling writer who built an entire spy fiction uni...
The Cost of "No Quit" | Full Auto Friday | 2/13/2026
This week's Q&A tackles a mindset I respect—but one that can turn on you if you're not careful. Two listeners ask different versions of the same quest...
When War is The Easy Part | Mike Glover | Ep. 432
After two years of legal battles and business upheaval, Mike Glover returns to the podcast with a clarity and perspective few men ever earn. Mike spen...
Tough or Stupid? | Full Auto Friday Q&A | 2/6/2026
This week's Full Auto Friday is a return to listener questions and some uncomfortable but necessary conversations. We talk about the fine line between...
Violence Is Escalating | Caleb Gilbert | Ep. 431
Violence against public figures, politicians, and high-profile individuals is no longer rare or isolated — it's increasing, accelerating, and becoming...