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The Entropy Podcast
Hosted by Francis Gorman, The Entropy Podcast brings together intelligence community veterans, post-quantum cryptography pioneers, CISOs, business leaders, and frontline practitioners for unfiltered conversations on the threats, complexity, and geopolitics shaping our world.
Past guests include former senior CIA officers, leading cryptographers, digital forensics experts, and security and technology leaders from across financial services, critical infrastructure, and government, voices rarely heard together in one place.
Each episode goes beyond headlines to explore how cyber risk, emerging technology, and geopolitical instability are reshaping the way organisations operate, compete, and defend themselves. Expect candid insight on quantum risk, nation-state threats, AI, espionage, financial crime, business resilience, and the human dimensions of leadership.
Designed for CISOs, board members, founders, technologists, policy thinkers, and the professionally curious, Entropy sits at the intersection of business, technology, and cybersecurity a space for genuine conversations with unique minds, the kind that don’t fit neatly into a press release.
The name Entropy reflects the growing complexity and unpredictability of the systems we depend on, and the discipline required to lead through them.
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The Entropy Podcast
How to Recruit a President with Glenn Carle
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In this episode of The Entropy Podcast, Glenn Carle a former CIA clandestine officer with over two decades of experience breaks down how intelligence agencies think, operate, and influence outcomes over the long term.
Drawing on real-world tradecraft, Glenn explains how vulnerabilities are identified, how influence is cultivated, and how narratives are seeded and amplified over time. The conversation explores the growing tension between intelligence institutions and political power, the risks facing democratic systems, and how modern geopolitics is increasingly shaped by information warfare and perception management.
The discussion also ventures into controversial territory examining the possibility of long-term influence operations at the highest levels of power while highlighting the difference between evidence, interpretation, and hypothesis.
This is a conversation about how power actually works beneath the surface and what happens when institutions designed to protect truth are put under pressure.
Takeaways:
- Intelligence is about patterns, not events
- Influence is often long-term and indirect
- Vulnerability ≠ control
- Institutions are under pressure
- Information warfare shapes reality
- The line between analysis and speculation matters
SoundBytes:
“In intelligence, there are no coincidences only patterns you haven’t understood yet.”
“You don’t recruit someone in a moment you shape them over time.”
“Every strength can become a vulnerability in the right context.”
“If telling the truth costs you your job, the system stops working.”
“You don’t need the truth you need enough repetition to make something feel true.”
“The most effective operations are the ones no one notices—until it’s too late.”
“Understanding how something could happen is not the same as proving that it did.”
This conversation explores complex and often controversial geopolitical themes from the perspective of a former intelligence officer. Some views expressed particularly around long-term intelligence operations and political influence reflect interpretation and professional judgement rather than independently verified public conclusions. Listeners are encouraged to engage critically and consult additional sources where appropriate.
