Vinnie brings up a real, almost unbelievable 1990s Pentagon proposal for a non‑lethal chemical weapon that would use pheromones to make enemy soldiers sexually attracted...
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Dan Simmons says Hollywood can’t come close to capturing real combat, because what sticks with him from the worst firefights isn’t the visuals but the smells—blood and...
Dan Simmons explains that in Kirkuk, Iraq, their biggest threat wasn’t IEDs but sniper fire in a dense urban environment where every rooftop and window could hide a...
Vinnie had strong opinions about the Iran situation right up until a trip to the gas station. One expensive fill-up later, he’s ready to solve international...
Dan Simmons explains that growing up he wasn’t wealthy, but he was so over‑scheduled with three sports, school, work, and church on Sundays that he “didn’t even have...
Dan Simmons says the hardest thing to replace after 20 years in Special Forces is the brotherhood—men who would die for you and wake up every day choosing to live for...
Dan Simmons shares how his best friend Jimmy, a fellow Green Beret and an “absolute beast” who had walked away from insane combat situations that should have killed him...
On his last deployment to Jordan, Dan Simmons says one of his twin daughters was so upset he was leaving again during her senior year that she told him, “Dad, don’t talk...
A year before this podcast, former Green Beret Dan Simmons says his back problems were so extreme he wasn’t sure he’d ever walk again, living at a pain level that wasn’t...
