May 15, 2026
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 run your life. I break down the difference between gambling and accepting calculated risk, what to actually look for in a drop zone, and why pushing yourself smartly and...
May 11, 2026
Alan Mack flew Chinooks for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment for seventeen years. Chief Warrant Officer 5. Senior MH-47 pilot. Flight lead. Instructor. He was the pilot in command of Razor 03 on Takur Ghar — the aircraft shot up trying to insert a SEAL element on top of the mountain that became...
May 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 bills by getting stung by bugs.
I open by confidently passing along bad medical advice from two articles I read. Michael fact-checks me in real time. We agree it's a good...
May 4, 2026
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 the capture of Abu Zubaydah. He was the first U.S. government official to publicly confirm that the agency was waterboarding prisoners. For that, the Obama...
May 1, 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 before. He's not.
A 28-year-old still living at home is watching his mom's cancer come back and trying to figure out how to spend the time he has left.
A man in his sixties...