Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

On this week's episode of Change Agents, Andy Stumpf welcomes Jonathan Hackett to unpack the escalating conflict between the U.S. and Iran.

He is a retired U.S. Marine Corps interrogator, counterintelligence agent, and special operations intelligence officer who ran assignments for the NSA, DIA, and Special Operations Command, and is the author of Iran: Shadow Weapons, Covert Action, Intelligence Operations, and Unconventional Warfare.

Co-host the podcast Eyes on Geopolitics: @EyesOnGeopoliticsPod

Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original.

Chapters
(00:01:33) Explaining Iran in one sentence
(00:09:04) Mirror imaging the regime
(00:14:28) The experience gap at the negotiating table
(00:19:02) A broken decision-making process
(00:27:29) Losing our intelligence assets in Iran
(00:32:12) Where the nuclear program really stands
(00:39:41) Why an executive agreement won't hold
(00:50:08) The truth about Iranian sleeper cells
(00:59:36) What Americans get wrong about Iran

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On this week's episode of Change Agents, Andy Stumpf travels to the headquarters of GBRS Group in Virginia Beach to sit down with co-founder DJ Shipley.

He spent 17 in years in the SEAL teams where he served at SEAL Team 10 and Naval Special Warfare Development Group before medically retiring in 2019 due to injuries sustained in combat and training.

Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original.

Chapters
(00:00:41) The Mental Health Void in the SEAL Community
(00:02:25) Feeling Alone on the Island
(00:05:16) Ibogaine Therapy in Mexico
(00:08:15) Missing the Tribe
(00:11:11) The Electrocution
(00:13:04) Building GBRS Group From Nothing
(00:16:11) The Cost of Having No Balance
(00:19:21) Would You Do It All Over Again
(00:24:47) Tour of GBRS Group HQ
(00:30:04) What Would You Have Changed
(00:38:49) Supporting Gold Star Families
(00:42:14) The Physical Toll
(00:54:56) Recovery Room Tour
(01:00:20) What Would You Do If You Lost It All
(01:05:20) The Most Effective Way to Talk About Mental Health
(01:11:40) The Veteran Suicide Epidemic - Is It Fixable?
(01:19:37) Closing Thoughts & Where to Find DJ

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Steve Robinson is an investigative journalist and the editor of The Maine Wire, a news outlet that has grown from 20,000 monthly readers to nearly one million. A Maine native, he spent three years mapping a sprawling network of Chinese organized crime operations embedded across rural Maine documenting over 270 illegal cannabis grows, tracing financial patterns through deed records and electrical inspection data, and connecting the operation to the Chinese Communist Party.

Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original

Chapters

(00:00:00) Intro
(00:08:24) Why Maine Won't Act
(00:17:53) The Search Warrant Gauntlet
(00:27:12) The Governor's Brother
(00:30:31) Following the Money
(00:37:14) On the Ground
(00:48:12) Why This Affects Everyone

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This week on Change Agents, we look back on one of the breakout interviews from the first season of the show in 2023.

Andy Stumpf sits down with former Australian special operations sniper Damien Mander. Today, he is the founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation: https://www.iapf.org/

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On this week's episode of Change Agents, Andy travels to Chase Hughes' new studio to break down how human behavior is manipulated at scale, from bot farms manufacturing fake consensus to the psychological framework Chase calls WOUND that explains why outrage, fear, and loneliness keep us glued to our phones.

They dig into why Chase believes the algorithm is less a sinister mastermind and more an engine optimized purely for ad revenue, how think tanks may shape policy more than most people realize, and why Walter Cronkite and Julia Child both have far stranger backstories than anyone learned in school. Andy also gets a tour of Chase's new independent news studio, Station One, built to show audiences the psyops behind the headlines rather than just the headlines themselves.

Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original

Chapters:

(00:00:00)  How the Media Actually Works

(00:05:59)  Why Chase Built Station One and How It Works

(00:08:20)  Unrestricted Warfare and the Chinese Playbook for Dividing America

(00:13:34)  The WOUND Framework: How Social Media Gets Weaponized

(00:17:20) Do They Start With the Outcome or the Emotion

(00:19:28) The Deep State and Think Tanks

(00:23:26) Station One's Intelligence Brief Format

(00:27:55 ) The Biggest PSYOP Right Now Is…

(00:29:49) Engineered Loneliness and the Fear of Judgment

(00:38:58) Is the System Correctable From the Top Down?

(00:41:58) True vs Truth: The Coaster and the Elephant

(00:48:47) Why Chase Joined the Navy

(00:50:56) What People Actually Regret on Their Deathbed

(00:56:44) Veterans and a Broken Relationship With Money

(01:00:21)  Can You Truly Bulletproof Yourself Against Manipulation

(01:03:15)  Walter Cronkite Was on CIA Payroll: Operation Mockingbird

(01:05:50)  How to Fight Back Against Division

(01:09:30)  What Social Media Companies Will Do When Usage Drops

(01:11:57)  Outro

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