Heroes Behind Headlines

Our guest today is Kris Millegan, publisher of TrineDay books whose father served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II, Military Intelligence (G2), and later the CIA, rising to Branch Chief, Head of Intelligence Analysis for East Asia.  His father told Kris things he didn’t understand while still a teenager in the late 1960s. These revelations led to a passion for inquiry...

Author Dr. Charles Cornish-Dale lays out the extraordinary decline of testosterone levels in men globally: A 50% drop over the last forty years! In his book, " The Last Men: Liberalism and the Death of Masculinity. " lays out the various causes of this precipitous drop as well as potential ways we can offset what he views as a biological crisis of paramount importance for all parents, an...

Our guest today is author and retired Navy radar specialist John F. Calder. His book Fire for Effect chronicles his one-year tour of duty during the critical early days of the Vietnam War aboard two US. destroyers the USS McDermott the USS Stoddard ­– whose main mission was to provide gunfire on shore in support of the 3rd U.S. Marine Division – deployed to Da Nang.  Calder’s account centers on th...

On Tuesday afternoon, July 20, 1993, Vincent W. Foster, President Bill Clinton’s deputy White House Counsel and close friend of the Clinton’s was found dead in a seclude area of Fort Marcy Park, ten miles from the White House. A bullet had entered the right side of his neck below the jaw line and entered his brain.  The national media reported the cause of death a suicide and has steadfastly stuck...

Our guest today is Lt. Randy Sutton founder and chairman of the board of The Wounded Blue, a national non-profit that supports injured law enforcement officers and emphasizes the critical need for community, purpose and post-service direction.  During his distinguished 34-year career with the Las Vegas Police  Department , Randy survived five officer-related shooting and countless violent arrests,...

On the 25th anniversary week of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, guest and international bestselling author of over 30 books, Jeffrey Robinson, talks about his latest work, Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11.  Weaving together more than 60 eyewitness stories, Robinson adds shocking new 'insider' context for what really happened on that fateful day in those few hours as the attac...

Raised in Denmark, Hans Tofte eventually began a lifetime of adventures working for the Special Operations Executive (a precursor to the OSS); the OSS during WWII; and the CIA during the Korean War and afterward. Known for his indefatigable support for Yugoslave partisans in 1943-44; his inolvement in regime change in Guatemala in 1954, and his involvement in the Korean War's Operation TP-STO...

Director Michael Gier talks about his new movie "The Heroism and Resiliency of 9/11: From Tragedy to Triumph" for the 25th commemoration of the attacks on September 11th, narrated by Gary Sinise. Michael’s documentary tells a different kind of 9/11 story -- one that honors the tragedy of the day by focusing on the inspiring human response that followed.  Michael shares unknown stories of...

We're proud to reprise this amazing episode from Season Two: U.S. A WWII hero speaks... Shot down over Formosa and facing a firing squad, Sgt. John Shott – radio operator and rear gunner of a B-25 Mitchell bomber – spent the remainder of World War II starving in a Japanese POW camp. Today we’re deeply honored as he tells his inspiring story. Heroes Behind Headlines Executive Producer Ralph Pe...

Our guest today is former Navy SEAL, CIA contractor, bestselling author, motivational coach, podcaster and all-round great guy David Rutherford: Honorably discharged from SEAL teams, he went to work for Blackwater as an international curriculum development and training specialist. In 2005, he launched his motivational performance company, Froglogic Concepts, to initially help children develop resi...

Travel writer and investigative journalist Michael McCarthy. Michael has traveled to over fifty countries, but his special interest is China. So wherever he goes he keeps his eye out for hidden clues about ways the Chinese Communist Party is secretly infiltrating western democracies in order take over the world.  He finds plenty in unlikely places like Tahiti, Dubai, Vancouver, Switzerland and Los...

Successful entrepreneur and former CEO of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne is a passionate advocate for constitutional republicanism, election integrity, and school choice. After seeing what he considered convincing evidence that 2020 presidential election was stolen in April 2021, he -- along with General Michael Flynn and Joe Flynn -- launched the American Project aimed at restoring election integri...

This week's guest, researcher and podcaster Mike Mosley, is a graduate of the prestigious Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, MD., just outside DC. At his alma mater, Michael socialized and played football with classmates who later played a prominent role in the Russian Collusion Hoax, the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation controversy, and the social media censorship apparatus that was formed du...

Our guest today is geopolitical analyst and bestselling author Brandon Weichert to talk about his recent book, A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine which is a devastating critique of US policy failure in Ukraine. For 30 years, a succession of Russian leaders from Mikhail Gorbachev to Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin warned the West that NATO’s expansion into territories bordering...

Dr. Eugene Lipov is a pioneer of the Stellate Ganglion Block for emotional trauma and mental health challenges and a renowned anesthesiologist with decades of experience. Through his research, Dr. Lipov developed the Dual Sympathetic Reset (DSR), an advanced Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB), proving 80% successful in relief in symptoms of emotional trauma and mental health challenges. His innovative...

Native New Yorker Bryan Stern served in both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy; worked in military intelligence; is a Purple Heart recipient; 9/11 survivor; and a first responder. As a private citizen frustrated with the debacle that was the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan under the Biden administration, Bryan founded Grey Bull Rescue – a team of military vets who donate their time to rescue people ca...

On January 24, 1975, six young businessmen were enjoying lunch in lower Manhattan’s historic Fraunces Tavern when a bomb placed inside the restaurant exploded, tearing through the building. It had been planted by a group claiming support for Puerto Rican independence known as the “FALN,” the most active domestic terrorist organization in American history. Four of the young businessmen died and 50...

Award-winning journalist Bill Conroy is back dishing the inside dirt on how America's war on drugs has really turned into a complex business of law enforcement and political policy conflicts. Bill describes how the federal agencies charged with protecting the U.S. from the drug trade compete with each other and the differing priorities of our intelligence agencies. Bill hits the highlights fr...

Writer Ian Trottier has penned a biography of John Brennan, government intelligence figure with a stellar biography--under former president Obama, Brennan served as head of the CIA, oounterterrorism advisor; and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism; and Deputy National Security Advisor under President George W. Bush. While pointed at the hot issues surroundi...

Charismatic mastermind and one-time meth cook Scott Scurlock befriended Steve Meyer and pulled him into a surreal world of treehouses and crime in Washington in the early to mid-90s. Scott earned notoriety as the most prolific bank robber ever in Washington state, and the nickname, “Hollywood,” for the extensive facial prosthetics he wore during the robberies. Shawn Johnson led the FBI team that a...

Colonel Robert Howard was a very distinguished member of the top-secret MACV-SOG units that fought during the Vietnam War in America’s secret war in Laos and Cambodia. Comprised of only one to a few U.S. special force team members plus a cadre of native Vietnamese, Montagnard, Cambodian (Khmer Krom), and Nung fighters, these recon units operated deep behind enemy lines recovering downed pilots and...

Right after the U.S. dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, Victoria Kelly’s grandfather was sent there as part of the U.S. forces sent to occupy the city after its destruction. Victoria grew up curious about her grandfather’s experience there, as he’d died before she was born. Victoria has partnered with Karen Tanabe, whose family survived the bombing, to make “Atomic Echoes”: A documentary that details w...

Patrick Naughton’s father served in Vietnam when he was a child, and shared accounts of his experiences and adventures – from infantry to serving in Special Forces as part of the MACV-SOG teams doing recon and battling across the fence” in America’s secret war with Northern Vietnam forces in Laos and Cambodia. Patrick felt the only path to truly earn his larger-than-life’s father’s respect was to...

The second half of this two-part interview from 2023 with one of our favorite Americans, in celebration of Memorial Day: A living legend of MACV-SOG and the Green Berets, John "Tilt" Stryker Meyer shares some of the most daring first-person stories of combat ever told! Inserted by Kingbee helicopter into the dense jungle along the Ho Chi Minh trail in  Laos and Cambodia during the height...

We're re-airing this two-part interview from 2023 with one of our favorite Americans, in celebration of Memorial Day: A living legend of MACV-SOG and the Green Berets, John "Tilt" Stryker Meyer shares some of the most daring first-person stories of combat ever told! Inserted by Kingbee helicopter into the dense jungle along the Ho Chi Minh trail in  Laos and Cambodia during the heig...