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The Man Behind 9/11 Is Still Alive | Jessica Trant & Frank Pellegrino | Ep. 480

53K views · 3d ago · 3:06:16

Jessica Trant lost her father on September 11th. He was on the 104th floor of the North Tower, above the impact, and he called home before the building came down. She spent years running from it, then turned around and faced it, and she now travels to Guantanamo Bay to sit through pretrial hearings for the men charged with killing him. Frank Pellegrino spent more than three decades in the FBI.

Topics: Documentary, KSM, and the 9/11 trial · Why the case stayed in military court · What justice and finality mean for families · Frank’s first interview with KSM · Tracing KSM from the 1993 bombing · Pre-9/11 warnings and intelligence failures

Who You Are When Nobody's Watching | Full Auto Friday | 10.30.26

28K views · 6d ago · 56:24

Last Friday's VA disability answer generated a lot of "but what about" responses. One came from a Marine who was medically retired after Helmand, went through NICoE, and now runs a manufacturing business that sees how much money pours in from defense work. If contractors can fleece the government, why shouldn't the people who were the living, breathing tools get a cut?

You Don't Owe the Unit Anything | Kyle Lamb | Ep. 479

143K views · 1w ago · 2:54:14

Kyle Lamb spent more than 21 years in the Army. He started as a commo guy in the 82nd Airborne, went to 5th Special Forces Group for Desert Storm, then spent the bulk of his career in the Army's Tier 1 special mission unit, retiring as a Sergeant Major. He fought in Mogadishu on October 3, 1993, and his Bronze Star with V from that day was later upgraded to a Silver Star.

Topics: Psychedelic therapy risks and recovery · Writing biblical war stories · Deborah, Jael, and the Battle of Agincourt · The book’s mission and military lessons · Post-9/11 unity and veteran storytelling · Truth, exaggeration, and military service

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Fentanyl, Flock Cameras, and a Drug War We're Losing | Britt Elmore | Ep. 478

33K views · 1w ago · 2:37:56

Britt Elmore spent 27 years with the San Francisco Police Department, 25 of them in narcotics, almost all of it undercover. He dropped out of school at 15, worked as a garbage man and a glazier, got a GED at 24, and started at the San Mateo County jail before SFPD hired him in 1998. Six months in, he was loaned to narcotics for six weeks of buying dope in the Tenderloin. He never left. His last 15 years were on a DEA task force running gun buys and federal wiretaps.

Topics: Retirement, staying busy, and law enforcement AI · Flock cameras and San Francisco policing · Why proactive policing vanished · Can San Francisco be salvaged? · BASE jumping and tandem skydiving stories · Narcotics conferences and undercover security