Heroes Behind Headlines
Heroes Behind the Headlines: a new podcast featuring an explosive new story every episode. First-hand accounts of adventures and events which have shaped our world . The real stories behind the headlines you know, told by the heroes you don’t. Hosted by NYT and international bestselling author Ralph Pezzullo.
Episodes
228 episodes
9/11 Stories of Heroism, Resilience and Unity
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 ...
101-Year-Old WWII Hero John Shott
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 ...
The Development And Wisdom Of A Former Navy SEAL
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 curr...
How China Is Buying the Worldd
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 se...
Controversial & Relentless Fighter For Election Integrity: Patrick Byrne
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 ...
Inside The DC Elite That Drives Social Media Censorship
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 p...
Ukraine: A Disaster of Our Own Making
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...
Breakthrough Treatment for Emotional Trauma and PTSD
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...
Hostage? Trapped Behind Enemy Lines? Call Grey Bull Rescue
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....
Son Seeks justice for His Father’s Death in Terrorist Bombing
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 Pu...
The Truth Behind The War On Drugs
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...
High Stakes Treason: Former CIA Chief Cashes In On Terrorism
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...
Bank Robber And FBI Agent Remember The Hollywood Bank Robber
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 ...
Medal Of Honor Winner & MACV-SOG Legend
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 ...
At Ground Zero In Nagasaki
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 ...
Born From War: A Father’s Legacy To His Son
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 Amer...
REPRISE: SOG Green Beret legend in "The Secret War" in Vietnam: Part II
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-pers...
REPRISE: SOG Green Beret Legend in "The Secret War" in Vietnam: Part I
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 ...
Daughter Of A Scoundrel: Karen Holt On CIA Cutout Dad Chauncey Marvin Holt
Karen Holt didn’t realize her childhood was anything other than normal--whether it was her father’s absence every Monday to Friday; their odd moves from town to town without any warning; the FBI arresting her father; seeing Detroit mafios...
Friend’s Death Reveals Web Of Arms Deals And Money Laundering
Born on a U.S. airbase in London of American parents, Geoffrey Gilson began his career writing speeches for Margaret Thatcher, leveraging his dual British-US citizenship to navigate elite political circles. With decades of front-row acces...
Attacked Outside A Bar; Arrested For Attempted Murder
Former U.S. Army Ranger, Barry Todd, was out celebrating a professional milestone with his wife and several friends at a local watering hole in Yuma, Arizona, when he was attacked by a drunken patron along with some buddies. Barry was slammed h...
Murder Of State Assemblyman’s Father
California State Assemblyman Mike Gatto was a rising star in the California Democratic Party when on November 12th, 2013, his retired father Joseph Gatto was found murdered in their family home in the neighborhood of Los Angeles. Emotionally de...
One Writer's Trudeau Nightmare
Proud Canadian and innovative thinker and author, Jeff Brown was flattered beyond when Sophie Trudeau, (his country’s “first lady” at the time.) reached out to compliment his writing and aphorisms, and engage him to think about ideas that...
Marine Recon Sniper’s Gritty Account Of Time In Iraq
Growing up in the New Hampshire mountains, country boy Brennan Morton couldn’t wait to join the military, and when 9/11 occurred, it provided the final push for enlistment. Brennan loved every minute of the training as a Marine recon sniper...
Linking The JFK & RFK Shootings With Help From Expert Mark Shaw
Mark Shaw shares his recent discoveries linking the JFK and RFK assassinations, and also the mysterious and dreadful death of famed journalist Dorothy Kilgallen who was hot on the trail to solve the mystery behind President Kennedy's death. Rip...