The David Rutherford Show

The David Rutherford Show represents the highest form of the emerging new media landscape. As a former Navy SEAL, CIA contractor, and world championship performance coach, David has been exploring the human condition for the past 30 years in his epic quest to understand how individuals and teams can defeat the negative insurgency. In his new show David will give experienced analysis to most pressing topics of our time. His mission is to consolidate the battlefield of information and provide unique context to most important issues of the day. Don’t miss this exciting show and allow David to be your flash bang of truth.

The David Rutherford Show is a news podcast hosted by iHeartPodcasts, with 184 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

iHeartPodcasts hosts The David Rutherford Show, a news show with 184 episodes published.

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  David Rutherford Show: 7 Warning Signs Before Every US War

  Sep 30, 20261h 2m

  David Rutherford says presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Lyndon Johnson promised to keep America out of war, and then the country went to war anyway. In this solo episode, David, who says he spent much of his adult life in special operations and intelligence work, walks through seven warning signs he sees in the years before America's wars, and says he sees them again today. He says he is not predicting a war and that his list is not a definitive way to read history. He wants to give listeners more context for their own critical thinking. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ What you get: David's account of the broken "no war" promises from Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Johnson. A plain-language look at The Fourth Turning , the 1997 book by William Strauss and Neil Howe that David says sparked this episode. Seven signs, each tied to history: World War I, World War II, Korea, September 11, and the present day. David's view that the U.S. is already at war with Iran, backing Ukraine against Russia, and under economic strain at home. What David says listeners can do: strengthen family and community, get offline, and push for in-person paper ballots. 0:00 Cold open 0:39 Presidents promised no war, then war came 3:30 The Fourth Turning and how the seven signs came together 8:09 Sign 1: The enemy tells us what it plans (WWI, Pearl Harbor, 9/11) 20:56 Sign 2: Adversaries link up (Nazi-Soviet pact, BRICS) 27:30 BRCC ad 29:19 Signs 3 and 4: Unclear deterrence and economic warfare 42:48 Signs 5 and 6: Sea lanes and political violence at home 49:06 Sign 7 and the three wars 54:20 What can we do? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  David Rutherford Show: Black Rifle Coffee's Jarred Taylor on His Insane New Book, the Game Behind It & Helping Vets

  Sep 28, 202657 min

  Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford reconnects with Black Rifle Coffee's Jarred "JT" Taylor, years after their last sit-down, to talk about the most ambitious thing JT has ever built. It started with a promise to a friend. When Colonel Pete Donnelly died, JT remembered the question Pete always asked him: "What do you got for me?" Three days later he started writing. Twenty-two days after that he had a first draft of Deep Scythe: Zero Hour, a military thriller about a carrier air wing that answers only to JSOC, where every character is a real pilot JT flies with in Digital Combat Simulator. Then JT went further. Readers can join the Wet Boys, go through flight school, earn a call sign, and fly the actual missions from the book with the actual characters on the radio. David and JT get into why putting veterans back on comms "wakes them back up," how an 80s paratrooper learned to fly an F-16 in the sim in about a month, and why JT thinks artists who fight AI have the wrong mindset. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ Links Fly with the Wet Boys: https://flywetboys.com The book: https://weexecutethings.com  (Deep Scythe: Zero Hour on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible) Timestamps:  00:00 - Cold open: "You wake him back up" 00:48 - Jarred Taylor returns to the show 03:42 - From VHS edits to writing without limits 09:11 - The drunk submarine trick for writer's block 10:31 - Colonel Pete Donnelly and A15 Publishing 15:50 - The book he owed Pete: a draft in 22 days 19:46 - The premise: a carrier that answers only to JSOC 23:08 - Read the book, then fly with the characters 25:56 - Inside flywetboys.com: flight school and call signs 34:44 - The Andy Stumpf surprise 36:29 - Two soundtracks, AI music, and the Top Gun mood 38:43 - How to start flying DCS without going broke 41:08 - Why veterans come alive back on the radio 46:26 - DCS and the 24/7 living war server 53:02 - The $4.5M report and the case for AI 54:57 - Where to find Deep Scythe and the Wet Boys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  David Rutherford Show: Hegseth Preps the Pentagon for War

  Sep 23, 202651 min

  The people running the West are getting ready for a bigger war. Hegseth just announced a combat test for colonels before they make general. NATO's chiefs of defence met in Copenhagen and told the arms industry to build at scale. And Europe — which can't recruit an army — is suddenly talking about a draft. What you'll hear: • David breaks down Hegseth's Joint Warfighter Evaluation, the Stu Scheller connection, and what a wartime leadership filter is really signaling • Why roughly 850 flag officers today versus about 300 in 1941 tells you 22 years of GWOT produced dead weight • NATO by the numbers: 3.5 million troops, most of whom have never fought • Mark Rutte's "NATO 3.0" — an alliance that no longer plans on America • The recruiting playbook: NATO's new ad, "Send Me" billboards, Isaiah 6:8, and a British politician saying the word conscription out loud • Why Gen Z won't buy the pitch — and why the White House launching Trump TV is part of the same story David Rutherford is a former Navy SEAL and CIA-trained intelligence officer. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  David Rutherford Show: How This Cop Survived His Own Department Trying to Destroy Him | Michael Legregni

  Sep 21, 20262h 34m

  Mike Legregni guarded American embassies as a Marine. Then he came home, became a cop in New Jersey, and ran into an enemy he never trained for: his own chain of command. Mike says it started with one crash report and one video his bosses wanted gone. It ended with his badge. This one is a gut punch, and it's also one of the best stories of forgiveness I've heard in a long time. What you'll hear: • The crash, the surveillance video, and the order Mike says he got: delete it • 76 internal affairs complaints, by Mike's count, and the witness who asked him, "What complaint?" • The memo that stripped a veteran cop of any decision-making on duty • Fired on Halloween, the whistleblower suit, and an $843,000 settlement with no admission of wrongdoing • How he learned he'd been put on a list that ended his shot at the DEA • His wife's ultimatum, and how forgiveness and faith brought him back Michael Legregni is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, former police officer, and founder of Veteran Wood Co. The account in this episode is his own.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  David Rutherford Show: The Insurgency Is Inside America Now: A SEAL's 9/11 Warning

  Sep 16, 20261h 6m

  Twenty-five years after 9/11 and I can't escape the same question I've been asking for thirty years: what are we actually fighting? I spent two decades going after insurgencies overseas, and I'm here to tell you the same insurgency is operating inside America right now — in our institutions, our communities, our families, and our own heads. This one's a solo. It's part briefing, part confession, and by the end, I'll admit it, part sermon. What you'll hear: • David breaks down what he's called "the negative insurgency" for twenty years, and why it works exactly like the ones he fought in Afghanistan and Iraq • Why "it's always been like this" is a lie — and what 150 million dead in the last century should tell you about this one • Why the war that was supposed to end with bin Laden never ended, and why Joe Kent isn't lying to you • What actually happens to 300 million people when you kill their religious leader in a strike • The tell that gives the insurgency away: everybody, on every side, is trying to convince you to hate somebody   ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ • "Satan rules this world," "you are the steward of God's creation," and the one reason David can't quit — and you can't either See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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