The Shawn Ryan Show

I can finally talk about this...

Only if you're curious about Glacier itself — this is one extended pitch for Ryan's own app, though the CIA spy-game war stories framing it are genuinely colorful.

1. 01Shawn Ryan traces Glacier to the clunky black phones his CIA team carried while hunting ISIS and the Taliban in the Middle East.
2. 02Ryan partnered with the makers of a $10,000 black phone — former NSA and intelligence developers, by his description — to rebuild it as an app called Glacier.
3. 03The lead feature in Glacier is burner numbers in any US area code, handed out to stores or campaigns and killed the moment one is sold or abused.
4. 04Ryan's own secure DNS had blocked more than 1,300 web trackers by 4 p.m. on the day he recorded the episode.

#351 Chris Hansen - Hollywood’s To Catch a Predator Movie: “They Make Me Look Like a Vampire”

Chris Hansen gives his first detailed account of how A24 handled a film about him, alongside a practical look at how today's predator stings actually run.

1. 01A24's film starring Robert Pattinson uses Chris Hansen's real name, and Hansen says the studio first contacted him the day before its trailer came out.
2. 02Chris Hansen says his real stings run alongside police, with decoys posing as children aged 12 to 15 and arrests made before or after his interview.
3. 03Chris Hansen puts the prosecution rate for his Takedown stings above 99 percent, crediting the police agencies he chooses to work with.
4. 04Chris Hansen says A24 offered him a screening only if he signed an NDA that would bar any future legal action against the studio.

#350 Mike Hayes - The Navy SEAL in Obama’s Situation Room During the Captain Phillips Rescue

Hayes gives a first-hand account of how a mid-ranking officer set a hostage rescue in motion from the White House, alongside blunt lessons on risk and leadership.

1. 01Mike Hayes, a SEAL commander serving as a White House fellow, was at the National Security Council when pirates seized Captain Phillips in 2009.
2. 02Hayes says a Pentagon three-star refused to plan a rescue, so he called back 20 minutes later citing White House guidance and set planning in motion.
3. 03SEAL Team 2 dropped bombs more than 1,000 times during Hayes's 10-month command in Afghanistan in 2012, and everyone in his force came home alive.
4. 04Hayes refused a general's order to send Green Berets on a ground damage check, and the Afghan unit sent in their place lost three or four men.

My Unredacted Interview with The Leah Files

It lets you judge for yourself an interview its own host first refused to air, and it carries specific figures on Flock camera searches.

1. 01Shawn Ryan held back his interview with The Leah Files because he doubted her CIA background, then released it in October 2026 after criticism on X.
2. 02Leah's method at Black Widow Global starts with vendors, because she says LLCs paid for marketing are the easiest place to send money back to insiders.
3. 03Leah reads Waze's terms of service as placing disputes in Israel and says Google kept them after buying the app around 2012.
4. 04Have I Been Flocked logs cited by Leah show 84.2% of nearly 4.7 million Flock plate searches had no case number, and only 9% were for crime.

The Space Technology That Could Change History Forever

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#352 Cain Velasquez - UFC Champion Hunted the Man Accused of Abusing His 4-Year-Old Son

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#353 Dr. Thomas Madden - Rome Historian Reveals the 7 Warning Signs of a Dying Republic

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