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25 Years Later - Be Worthy of the Sacrifice | Full Auto Friday | 9.11.2026

This one airs on the 25th anniversary of September 11th. I'm not dedicating the whole episode to it. I don't tell people how to think or how to feel. But I do open with w

460 Days in the Darkness of Somalia | Amanda Lindhout | Ep. 468

Amanda Lindhout grew up in small-town Alberta and waited tables to pay for backpacking trips through Latin America, Asia, and Africa. She taught herself the job along the

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 rea

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 u

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

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 practic

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 addi

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

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

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,

Welcome to the Age of Collapse | Drew Miller | Ep. 463

Drew Miller is an Air Force Academy honor graduate with a master's and a PhD from Harvard. His dissertation was on underground nuclear shelters and field fortifications.

The Fingerprint You Leave On Your Kids | Full Auto Friday | 8.7.26

Just me today. Michael also dropped some news on me — he's moving on in a few months to go better himself, so there's a change coming to Negligent Discharge Friday. Thr

Jail, Lawsuits, and The Comeback After Everything Fell Apart | Mike Glover | Ep. 462

Mike Glover served 18 years in Army Special Forces, worked as a contractor for the CIA, founded Fieldcraft Survival, and wrote the national bestseller Prepared. He's been

Mid-Flight Exits and Robot Gun Rodeos | Negligent Discharge Friday | 7.31.26

No guest. Just Michael, a stack of conversation cards, and whatever the internet served up this week. Opening cards: simple is not the same as easy, and failures are tu

The World's Greatest Mic Drop | Jack Osbourne | Ep. 461

Jack Osbourne grew up with cameras in the house. The Osbourne's made his family the biggest thing on television, and he was earning seven figures by 15. He got sober at 1

The Secret History of Operation Red Wings | Ross Schneiderman | Ep. 460

Ross Schneiderman spent his career as a reporter and editor. Newsweek, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ESPN. He covered mixed martial arts, then ran a foreig

Evolving at the Speed of War | Full Auto Friday | 7.24.2026

Every other Friday it's just me and the inbox. This week the emails came in heavy, so we cover a lot of ground. Two people in law enforcement, both strong personalities

What Delta Force Cost Him | Kyle Morgan | Ep. 459

Kyle Morgan spent over twenty years in the Army. Infantry, then Green Beret, then more than a decade in the nation's premier special missions unit running hostage rescue.

Are We Living in a Surveillance State? | Negligent Discharge Friday | 7.17.26

No guest today. Just me and Michael running through the week. Conor McGregor goes down in 19 seconds, and why I can respect the athlete and have zero respect for the ma

What Happened on the Third Floor | Matt Bissonnette | Ep. 458

Matt Bissonnette grew up in a remote Alaskan village, read every SEAL book he could find, and made it all the way to SEAL Team 6. Fourteen years in the Navy, 13 straight