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-New Episodes Every Wednesday- Find out what it takes to solve some of the world's seemingly impossible problems. In each episode, SEAL Team 6 veteran and "Cleared Hot" podcast host Andy Stumpf interviews a new "agent of change" who is enacting real change to understand the scope of their work, how it can be replicated, and the unimaginable stakes of their everyday lives. An IRONCLAD Original.

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Ryan "Max Afterburner" Bodenheimer is a former F-16 Thunderbird and F-15E combat fighter pilot, and the geopolitical analyst behind the YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@MaxAfterburnerUSA/

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Today's guest is Zachary Levi. He famously played the title role in the NBC action series Chuck, and has been in films including Shazam!, Tangled, Harold and the Purple Crayon, American Underdog, and others. His most recent movie is a remake of the J... more

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Mariana van Zeller is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker renowned for her investigative reporting on global crime and black-market networks. She was the host and executive producer of National Geographic’s Trafficked with Mariana v... more

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Brittany Butler is a novelist and former CIA targeting officer. Her latest book, The Patriot’s Daughter, is out now.

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Zachary Levi
Actor known for Chuck, Shazam!, Tangled, and Angel and the Badman
Wyldwood Studios
Episode: Zachary Levi’s WILD Plan to Save to the Movie Business & Change Culture
Mariana van Zeller
Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, host of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
Muck Media
Episode: What Really Happens Inside the World's Most Dangerous Cartels (Mariana van Zeller)
Brittany Butler
Novelist and former CIA targeting officer
CIA
Episode: CIA Conspiracies, the Real ‘Lioness’ Teams & Iran Threats: Former Targeting Officer Brittany Butler
Annie Jacobsen
Journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author focused on national security, defense and intelligence
Episode: Siberian Lab Pneumonic Plague Super-Weapon Leak? Annie Jacobsen Said This Could Happen [REBROADCAST]
Shane Smith
Journalist, co-founder of Vice
Vice Media
Episode: Everything You Are Being Told About Iran Is Wrong: Inside Tehran with Vice’s Shane Smith
Joe Hefferon
Investigative journalist; guest discussing the capture of El Mayo
Independent journalist
Episode: The Capture of El Mayo Was NOT What It Seemed: The Violent Real FBI Operation That Brought Him Down
Cory Gautereaux
Founder of the GOAT Initiative
GOAT Initiative
Episode: How China Is Using Cartel Networks to Infiltrate the U.S. (with Cory Gautereaux)
Dr. Richard Spence
Historian, academic, author; Professor Emeritus of History at University of Idaho; expert on espionage, secret societies, and intelligence
University of Idaho; Strange as it Seems podcast; International Spy Museum
Episode: The Secret Societies That ACTUALLY Run America (Dr. Richard Spence)
Tim Gallaudet
Retired Rear Admiral, Oceanographer, UAP Whistleblower and author
US Navy; NOAA; ODNI advisory roles
Episode: INSIDE the Pentagon's UAP Task Force: A Rear Admiral Wants Disclosure (w/ Tim Gallaudet)

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Andy Stumpf
Host of the show and interviewer of guests with a background as a Navy SEAL and veteran leader; appears across multiple episodes in leadership, resilience, and mission-driven topics.

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 1.7k ratings
  • Love Andy but way too many ad interruptions

    Love Andy but way too many ad interruptions. Leave the ads for the opener so we can have an uninterrupted experience

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    3
    dustydann
    United States4 months ago
  • THIS episode hits!

    I usually tire of the UFO talk, although I, too, want very much to know that ‘we aren’t alone’ in the universe. However, this episode hit home in my perception and conception of a world beyond my daily latte at blasé cafe (when will BRCC come to the Central Valley of California?). Your guest today, along with your input in painting possibilities, captured my imagination and so much so that my watching the Moon Landing (1969) as a little kid…took me to the doorstep of the notion of other dimensio... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Amdyfyn
    United States5 months ago
  • Episode with Mubin

    One of the most enlightening episodes.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Amdyfyn
    United States7 months ago
  • Must listen!

    Great topics and knowledgeable guests. Please fix your volume! Ads blow out ears while guest’s mic is often too low. Makes it difficult to listen sometimes.

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Wisco Skeptic
    United States7 months ago
  • Peter Zeihan is a bad guest

    He sounds intelligent, but as soon as you know about the topic he’s discussing, you realize he makes wild conclusions. For example, his understanding of NATO “Supreme Commander” is just incorrect. I’ll add his random accusations people are under Russian control.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Your S1
    United States9 months ago

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CIA Conspiracies, the Real ‘Lioness’ Teams & Iran Threats: Former Targeting Officer Brittany Butler
Q: What are your thoughts now having, you know, some years removed from those conflicts looking back at Iraq and Afghanistan? How do you feel about just the area of the world in general? Did we, did we have a, this is a question I asked myself. Did we have a positive impact? Were we there for the right reasons? Did, what are two decades, two decades of involvement in that area of the world? What came of that? What did we accomplish?
Butler says the campaign in Afghanistan decimated Al Qaeda and that she does not regret the mission, while acknowledging that the broader question of the wars' impact is difficult to answer. She argues that intelligence operations required a ground presence and access that aerial surveillance alone could not provide.
Siberian Lab Pneumonic Plague Super-Weapon Leak? Annie Jacobsen Said This Could Happen [REBROADCAST]
Q: What does the Defense Department think is the most likely scenario as to how this would begin?
Jacobsen describes her scenario of an accident at the Vector laboratory in Siberia, where an explosion could release a dangerous pathogen. She says officials would need to determine quickly whether anything escaped and that transparency could help contain an outbreak.
CIA Conspiracies, the Real ‘Lioness’ Teams & Iran Threats: Former Targeting Officer Brittany Butler
Q: What type of disinformation do you think that a Russia or China, where would they start? What would they try to do to push the US to a brink of civil war?
Butler says adversaries could exploit distrust of government and divisions between federal and state institutions, using divisive messages to weaken American unity and democracy.
Siberian Lab Pneumonic Plague Super-Weapon Leak? Annie Jacobsen Said This Could Happen [REBROADCAST]
Q: Which one scares you more, nuclear war or biological war?
Jacobsen says Defense Department doctrine treats nuclear weapons as the most destructive, but biological weapons pose the greatest threat because they are easier to acquire and deploy.
What Really Happens Inside the World's Most Dangerous Cartels (Mariana van Zeller)
Q: Do you have any worry at all about your long-term safety or any repercussions from sitting down?
Van Zeller says she protects sources carefully and that local fixers and journalists often face greater danger. She recounts feeling especially threatened by powerful pharmaceutical executives and their lawyers.

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This program features high-stakes conversations with a rotating slate of guests who are actively driving real-world change across business, defense, technology, and global affairs. Episodes often explore leadership under pressure, entrepreneurship, and the systemic challenges faced by veterans and mission-driven organizations, with twists into controversial or complex topics like psychedelic-informed leadership, illicit markets, and advanced military tech. A notable strength is the guest diversity: founders, journalists, military veterans, and subject-matter experts who share hard-earned lessons, practical frameworks, and actionable takeaways for scaling impact, risk management, and responsible innovation. The show tends to blend tactical, ... more

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2. Mariana van Zeller
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