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Most Americans assume the electrical grid is protected — and that if it ever failed, the military or federal government would step in. Jonathan Hollerman once wrongly assumed the same thing.
That changed after he participated in a nationwide grid-down war game at Maxwell Air Force Base alongside federal agencies, military branches and utility experts. Jonathan walked away convinced that the safety net Americans expect simply isn’t there. And worse, any attack on the grid would be absolutely catastrophic to the American people.
In part one of this two-part conversation, Jonathan joins Chad to explain why America’s power grid may be the country’s greatest weakness, how quickly a nationwide failure could become catastrophic, and why decades of warnings have produced so little action.
KEY TOPICS:
What Jonathan witnessed during a nationwide grid-down war game

Why the military and FEMA lack a plan for a nationwide outage

How true is the claim that 90% of Americans could die within one year in a grid-down scenario?

Why military bases depend on the civilian electrical grid

America’s high-voltage transformers and years-long replacement times

Physical attacks, cyberattacks, solar storms, and nuclear EMPs

How few critical targets could trigger a nationwide blackout

Concerns surrounding Chinese-built transformers inside the U.S. grid

The policy failures that have left America’s infrastructure exposed

What it would take to begin hardening the national grid

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Rich Graham spent years learning how to fight at the highest level. He earned his Trident at 20, served as a sniper with SEAL Team 10, trained in martial arts for decades, and eventually built a career teaching others how to protect themselves. But his biggest realization was that tactical skill alone doesn’t make someone a complete warrior.
In this episode, Rich joins Chad to take us inside his life with SEAL Teams and the experiences that shaped his Full Spectrum Warrior philosophy. They get into firearms, combatives, physical readiness, mindset, and preparedness — but also the personal cost of constantly chasing the next achievement. It's a raw and real conversation with someone who reached the summit most men dream about and discovered it still wasn’t enough.
KEY TOPICS:
Why Rich originally joined the Navy to hunt drug cartels

Hearing America was going to war while in SEALs training on 9/11

How the intensity and purpose of training changed overnight

Earning the SEAL Trident at only 20 years old

Deploying as a sniper with SEAL Team 10

The “broken dudes” hiding behind elite achievement

Building the Full Spectrum Warrior philosophy

Faith, family, service, and life beyond the SEAL Teams

LEARN MORE ABOUT RICH:
His Full Spectrum Warrior Lifestyle book: fswlifestyle.com
His Full Spectrum Warrior program: www.fullspectrumwarriors.com
His charity: www.homefrontk9.org
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This one is personal for Chad. He sits down with his longtime professor — Carlson Gracie Jr. — for a conversation about the family and the art that have shaped the world of fighting. Carlson shares stories about his grandfather Carlos Gracie, his father Carlson Gracie Sr., the early days of Vale Tudo and the UFC, and what it was like growing up inside one of the most influential families in martial arts.
Very few people can talk about the evolution of BJJ from this close to the source. Carlson grew up around the people who built it, competed through a very different era, and has spent the decades since watching the art change in ways his father probably never could have imagined.
Key Topics:
Growing up inside the Gracie family legacy

Carlson Gracie Sr.’s impact on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Vale Tudo

The fights that helped build the Gracie name

How the early UFC changed Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Why Royce Gracie was chosen for the UFC

What made Carlson Gracie’s academy different

Old-school BJJ vs. modern competition jiu-jitsu

What Carlson thinks modern BJJ is losing

Why self-defense still matters

Why belts matter less than development

What jiu-jitsu teaches about losing and resilience

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War is changing faster than most people realize, and Dave Cosnotti has seen it firsthand. After more than two decades in Army Special Forces, Dave now works alongside American and allied forces on modern national security challenges involving drones, AI, cyber warfare, critical infrastructure, and the rapidly evolving battlefield.
Dave’s biggest warning isn’t that America has already lost its edge — it’s that being on top today guarantees nothing about tomorrow. Warfare is evolving too quickly for old advantages to last forever, and the next world order may belong to whoever learns, adapts, and moves fastest when the rules change.
Key Topics:
How AI, drones, and cyber warfare are changing the battlefield
Why Ukraine is becoming a testing ground for the future of war
Why Dave says Russia is still an enemy of the United States
How China has played a longer geopolitical game than America
Why America’s four-year political cycles can create a strategic disadvantage
The growing threat to America’s power grid and critical infrastructure
What happens if communications, power, or supply chains go offline
Why future wars may target civilians and infrastructure as much as militaries
Why humans still matter more than technology on the battlefield
Why Dave believes the next 3–5 years could be especially turbulent
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MKUltra is supposed to be a dark chapter of American history that closed decades ago. James Martinez doesn’t believe it ever really ended. He argues the experiments simply evolved — from drugs, hypnosis, and behavioral conditioning into technologies capable of collecting brain data, influencing behavior, and potentially reaching directly into the human mind.

James has unique views, built upon decades of studying MKUltra. What follows is a conversation shaped by that worldview — skeptical of official narratives, deeply suspicious of where technology is taking us, and willing to go places most people wouldn’t even consider.

Key Topics:
What MKUltra was actually designed to accomplish

Why James believes the program never truly ended

How mind-control technology may have evolved since MKUltra

Human chipping and brain-computer interfaces

What happens when thoughts and brain activity become data

Why James calls cell phones “training wheels” for telepathy

His theories about engineered public personalities and “Manchurian candidates”

Why he believes some alien abductions were artificially created

AI, cloned voices, deepfakes, and manufactured evidence

The technological ruling class James believes is shaping human behavior and the whole world

Transhumanism and the potential merging of humans with machines

Why James ultimately sees what’s coming as a spiritual battle

This is an action-packed episode! You may not agree with every conclusion James reaches, but you’ll probably come away thinking differently about how much power technology could eventually have over the human mind.
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