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The Shawn Ryan Show

Former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan's long-form interview show, known for candid conversations with operators, intelligence figures, and whistleblowers that regularly break news.

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86 episodes tracked · 10 guests covered · 11 pieces published, latest 2026-08-01

A SEAL Team 6 operator says his only combat regret is hiding his Christian faith from a teammate who died days later.
The Shawn Ryan Show·Culture

A SEAL Team 6 operator says his only combat regret is hiding his Christian faith from a teammate who died days later.

The anonymous DEVGRU veteran survived a house-borne IED in 2008, but he is still haunted by a conversation he dodged.

Aug 1, 2026
Annie Jacobsen says a biological attack could push America from outbreak to anarchy in six days
The Shawn Ryan Show·Health

Annie Jacobsen says a biological attack could push America from outbreak to anarchy in six days

The author of Nuclear War: A Scenario argues that the real bioweapon nightmare is not just death, but the speed at which fear of infection breaks a country.

Jul 26, 2026
A CERN physicist says CERN is not trying to create a black hole
The Shawn Ryan Show·Culture

A CERN physicist says CERN is not trying to create a black hole

On The Shawn Ryan Show, a theoretical physicist punctured the best CERN conspiracy by making the real thing sound both safer and, somehow, nerdier.

Jul 26, 2026
Annie Jacobsen says the U.S. has a classified devolution plan to send the president alone to a cold site in a 100 percent fatal plague
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Annie Jacobsen says the U.S. has a classified devolution plan to send the president alone to a cold site in a 100 percent fatal plague

The national security writer says the public name is known, the actual program is classified, and the creepiest detail is not the bunker, it is the president alone in a room with the nuclear football outside.

Jul 22, 2026
John Stryker Meyer says MACV-SOG reports went directly to the White House and he could not talk for 20 years
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John Stryker Meyer says MACV-SOG reports went directly to the White House and he could not talk for 20 years

The Vietnam veteran’s account of the secret war is less a war story than a lesson in how a country hides a war from itself.

Jul 17, 2026
Ron White says a Proverbs verse on his dead mother's refrigerator brought him back to God
The Shawn Ryan Show·Culture

Ron White says a Proverbs verse on his dead mother's refrigerator brought him back to God

The memory champion's most striking claim wasn't about technique, it was about a Bible verse his mother left where he would see it.

Jul 14, 2026
Tulsi Gabbard says Democratic elites want to be God and compete with Americans' faith
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Tulsi Gabbard says Democratic elites want to be God and compete with Americans' faith

On The Shawn Ryan Show, Gabbard turns a familiar anti-elite argument into something grander and darker, a theology of Washington power.

Jul 13, 2026
The Circuit: the week the tidy story kept losing
The Shawn Ryan Show·Culture

The Circuit: the week the tidy story kept losing

Across nine conversations this week, some of the biggest names on the podcast circuit spent their time roughing up the clean version of events, the plague that supposedly ended Rome, the aliens in the government freezer, the trophy that counts as a World Cup. What kept surfacing was a preference for the smaller, stranger, less quotable truth.

Jul 12, 2026
Mike Rowe says China built 1,000 ships last year while America built three
The Shawn Ryan Show·Money

Mike Rowe says China built 1,000 ships last year while America built three

The Dirty Jobs host turns a shipbuilding stat into a warning about welders, electricians, student debt, and America’s bad habit of treating trade work like a consolation prize.

Jul 9, 2026
Jim Capers says his Operation Bulwark Silver Star may be upgraded to the Medal of Honor
The Shawn Ryan Show·Culture

Jim Capers says his Operation Bulwark Silver Star may be upgraded to the Medal of Honor

The Vietnam veteran frames the possible Medal of Honor upgrade less as vindication than as a cruelly late receipt for men who never came home.

Jul 7, 2026
A Marine scout sniper says Angela, a 14-year-old from Sunnyvale, gave him permission to keep living after Afghanistan
The Shawn Ryan Show·Health

A Marine scout sniper says Angela, a 14-year-old from Sunnyvale, gave him permission to keep living after Afghanistan

The Shawn Ryan Show clip turns the usual combat-hero frame inside out, making the rescue story not about air support or tactics, but about a freshman with a pen.

Jul 7, 2026
Army sniper 'The Reaper' says Obama's rules of engagement stopped a bomb drop while he fistbumped his teammate goodbye in a Chechen sniper standoff
The Shawn Ryan Show·Interviews

Army sniper 'The Reaper' says Obama's rules of engagement stopped a bomb drop while he fistbumped his teammate goodbye in a Chechen sniper standoff

Three hours in a crater, a Chechen sniper picking at every movement, and the only thing between these guys and CNN beheading footage was a rules-of-engagement memo.

Jun 28, 2026
Five Guests on the Secret to a Good Marriage, and One of Them Is Actually Right
The Shawn Ryan Show·Interviews

Five Guests on the Secret to a Good Marriage, and One of Them Is Actually Right

Shawn Ryan asks five people the same question and gets five answers that range from profound to a GPS dog collar ad.

Jun 2, 2026
Joe McMoneagle Says He Found Russia's Typhoon Sub With His Mind. A Soviet General Believed Him.
The Shawn Ryan Show·Interviews

Joe McMoneagle Says He Found Russia's Typhoon Sub With His Mind. A Soviet General Believed Him.

The CIA's star remote viewer told the National Security Council about a monster submarine. They called it fantasy. Then they took the photos.

Jun 2, 2026