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 Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Kubota Tractor Corporation: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kubotatractorcorp Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at: https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Kubota Tractor Corporation: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kubotatractorcorp Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Kubota Tractor Corporation: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kubotatractorcorp Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Adams is a former CIA targeter and the host of The Watch Floor, a show that breaks down global news and emerging threats for everyday people. She previously served as senior advisor to the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi and was a co-author of the Committee's report on the 2012 terrorist attack. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Chapters (00:00)  Introduction: Sarah Adams (03:23)  When Are We Taking the Uranium Out (06:19)  Can Regime Change Happen From the Air Alone (10:44)  Trump Wants to Take Kirk Island (14:35)  The Haqqani Network Bombshell (18:43)  How US Money Actually Reaches the Taliban (26:55)  Confirmation That Hamza Bin Laden Is Alive (32:58)  The 2000 Foot Tunnel Discovery (36:22)  The Cartel and Al Qaeda Connection (39:19)  The Northern Border Nobody Is Watching (46:21)  The ISIS Arrests That Weren't Real ISIS (54:44)  Closing Thoughts Sponsors: Firecracker Farm  Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Murphy, former Army Ranger and Green Beret, host of The Team House podcast, co-founder of The High Side, and author of the new military thriller The Most Dangerous Man, joins Andy to break down the Iran war, the limits of an air campaign, what it would actually take to secure Iran's enriched uranium, the threat picture inside the US, and the unprecedented era of global change we're all now navigating. Jack's new book The Most Dangerous Man is out now wherever books are sold. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (01:09) Perpetual War Without a Declaration (11:05) Iran: How We Got Here and Why (22:39) The Air Campaign, the Reapers, and What We're Losing (28:33) The CIA, the Kurds, and Iran's Real Capability (34:57) The Enriched Uranium Problem Nobody's Talking About (43:28) Russia, China, and the Global Economic Fallout (52:23) The Truth About Iranian Sleeper Cells in the US (58:20) The Most Dangerous Man (New Book) and Closing Thoughts Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NOTE: With all of the buzz being created by Steven Spielberg's new film Disclosure Day, we are re-releasing this Change Agents documentary about disclosure, UAP, UFOs, and military black projects. We'll post an all new episode Change Agents tomorrow. Who is hiding the truth about UFOs? Are UAP actually secret government weapon programs? In this full length documentary (created from a supercut of our IRONCLAD Original series, Black Project), Andy Stumpf talks with experts, whistleblowers, and insiders including Dr. Garry Nolan, Rep. Tim Burchett, Chrissy Newton, Richard Dolan, and others to get to the bottom of the mystery. Chapters (00:00:16) - Part 1 - NAZI Origins? (00:02:50) The Strange 'Foo Fighters' of WWII (Nick Cook and Richard Dolan) (00:05:31) Nazi Flying Saucers and the Nazi Bell (00:09:21) Nazi Secret Weapons Programs (00:13:37) Roswell and UFOs Show Up America in the 1940s (00:18:28) A Connection Between UFOs and Nuclear Sites (00:20:25) Anti-Gravity Breakthroughs by the U.S. Military? (Vinnie Adams) (00:31:48) Part 2 - ORBS (00:31:52) The Mosul Orb (00:34:49) Military Encounters with UAP and UFOs (00:44:06) The Ryan Graves Encounter (00:49:09) Journalist Chrissy Newton's UFO Observation (00:54:12) Underwater Encounters and USOs (00:56:04) The Phoenix Lights and Black Triangle Craft (01:01:52) Part 3 - Military Black Projects (01:02:05) What Were the New Jersey Drones? (01:07:31 Skunk Works and the History of Military Black Projects (01:17:13) UFO Misinformation Efforts (01:25:58) - Part 4 Reverse Engineering Programs (01:26:07) - Dr. Garry Nolan's Gets Visited By Pentagon Officials (01:35:20) Secret Dark Money Programs  (01:38:24) Lockheed Martin's Secret Materials  (01:45:330 Reverse Engineering Programs  WATCH FULL INTERVIEWS FROM THE FILM: Dr. Garry Nolan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HAY_MUYcrI Dr. Richard Dolan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufZVg0TcE1Q Rep. Tim Burchett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aR2l88iFEU Luis Elizondo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5i7PeRl5ME Annie Jacobsen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TjmpLNN1k Change Agents: Black Project is an IRONCLAD Original Sponsors:  Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Hollow Socks For a limited time Hollow Socks is having a Buy 2 , Get 2 Free Sale. Head to http://Hollowsocks.com today to check it out. #HollowSockspod Mizzen and Main Get 20% off your first purchase at https://www.mizzenandmain.com with promo code IRONCLAD20 Delete Me Go to https://www.joindeleteme.com/IRONCLAD and use coupon code IRONCLAD, or  scan the QR code Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Payne Lindsey is an investigative filmmaker and podcaster known for hosting hit the true crime series including “Up and Vanished” and “Atlanta Monster”, and his latest show, which investigates the UAP, UFO, and alien abduction phenomenon, “High Strange”Payne is also the co-founder of the network Tenderfoot TV, whose podcasts have been downloaded more than 400 million times.  Change Agents is an IRONCLAD OriginalChapters(00:55) - Solving a Cold Case Murder(07:15) - Becoming an Investigative Journalist(08:52) - Taking a Journalistic Approach to UAPs/UFO Disclosure(16:17) - Are UFOs Actually Military Black Projects?(20:00) - The Travis Walton Abduction Story (26:24) - David Grusch & Whistleblowers(29:21) - The New Jersey Drones Hunting Portable Nukes?(36:28) - Is There a Darker Truth Behind UFOs?(43:05) - UFO Encounters in Other Countries(51:10) - Weapon That Alters Reality Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake Adelstein is a journalist and writer, known for works including Tokyo Vice (adapted into an HBO Max series), The Last Yakuza, and Tokyo Noir. In his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, he pulls back the curtain on crypto’s criminal underworld, linking Bitcoin’s rise to dark web marketplaces like Silk Road, the collapse of Japan's Mt. Gox exchange, and the figures moving money through it all. It’s a deeper look at how organized crime, fraud, and digital currency collided behind the scenes.Change Agents is an IRONCLAD OriginalSponsors: Watch Pressure in theaters starting May 29th.Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/Norwood Sawmills:Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironcladSubscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SKmtN55V2AGbzHDo34DHI?si=5aefbba9abc844ed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices