Patriot to the Core

Patriot to the Core


Latest Episodes

Ep 115 | Brian Jodice – Men’s Heath and Recognizing Signs of Suicide
April 15, 2024

Brian Jodice (@brianjodice) of Pick Up The Six Productions and NGBN TV is back to promote this new network for men in their 40s, 50s and 60s. Discussed in this episode: -why focus on this demograph

Ep 114 | Joe O’Keefe – Hunting Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora in 2001
January 22, 2024

Within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, Air Force Combat Controller Joe OKeefe was in Afghanistan working with the CIA and other special operations units. Joe and his small team made their way into the mou

Ep 113 | Hershel “Woody” Williams – Medal of Honor Recipient from Iwo Jima
January 01, 2024

The late Woody Williams will never forget the odor of burning human remains. There are some things about that 4 hours that have bothered me my whole life I cant remember going back and getting the

Ep 112 | Mark Schmitz – Disaster at Abbey Gate
December 11, 2023

Mark Schmitzs son, LCpl Jared Schmitz, was one of the 13 Americans murdered at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, on 26 August 2021 during the evacuation from Afghanistan. He was just 20 ye

Ep 111 | Don Stevens – Security Forces, Combat Control, Burn the Ships, PTSD
November 06, 2023

Don Stevens is one of those rare operators who retrained into the Air Force combat control (CCT) pipeline at the age of 32, after being in security forces. This required uncommon humility since leader

Ep 110 | Special: Kenny Alicea & Mark Forester – Beautiful Symphony of Death and Destruction
September 29, 2023

On this 13th anniversary of the death of my brother, SrA Mark Forester, I have the opportunity to talk with Kenny Alicea who was the Senior Weapons Sergeant for his Army Special Forces team (ODA 7212)

Ep 109 | Nic McKinley - Fighting a War on Human Trafficking
September 04, 2023

Nic McKinley is an entrepreneur, former Air Force Pararescueman, and ex-CIA operative who founded DeliverFund, the only donor-funded solution to human trafficking that delivers proprietary data and te

Ep 108 | Rich Brown – Marine, Author, American Warrior Society Co-Founder, Savage Somm
July 31, 2023

Retired U. S. Marine and former Policeman, bouncer, Corrections Officer and more Rich Brown (@american_warrior_society) is back on the show so I can dig into his new Memoir On Violence & Varietals.

Ep 107 | The Mark Forester Foundation Charity Golf Tournament – Aug 11, 2023
July 17, 2023

The Mark Forester Foundations annual golf tournament will be heldFriday August 11, 2023at theRobert Trent Jones Golf Trailin Muscle Shoals, AL. In this episode, I chat with Doug Cole and Jay Stub

Ep 106 | T. C. Fuller – Stories From a 20-yr Odyssey in the FBI
June 26, 2023

T. C. Fuller joined the FBI after an 11-year career in the Army as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer. Then he joined the FBI and became a Special Agent, serving for 20 years. During his time in t