Interview with Kevin Lacz, Decorated Navy SEAL and American Sniper Star

In this episode, I interview decorated Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” Star Kevin Lacz. He is he author of THE LAST PUNISHER, A Seal Team Three Sniper’s True Account of the Battle of Ramadi. He served with Chris Kyle, the subject of the movie American Sniper and played himself in the film. We about veterans…

Interview w/ Sidney Blumenthal – Putting Lincoln in a Political Context, Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, The Whigs and More

We are joined by Clinton adviser and the author of Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol II, Sidney Blumenthal. In this cast, he talks about Lincoln in the 1850’s, as he emerges as a small-time lawyer to being ‘woke’ by the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Bill to make a…

Dueling -The Bad Side, and Secret Good Side to a Tragic American Practice.

The Two Hamiltons, and other tragic stories of dueling. And Why it had a positive side (though we don’t wish its return). We discuss: How Two Hamiltons Met the Same Fate The Rules of Pistols Andrew Jackson’s Long Time Dueling Injury How Preston Brooks, Who Caned Sumner in the Senate, Got Owned