The David Rutherford Show

🚨 "Something big is coming." The world feels like it's going crazy, the Pentagon now wants major bases ready to run 90 days on their own. Clay, author of Concrete Jungle and Prairie Fire, joins Navy SEAL David Rutherford with a straight answer on what prepping is smart and what's dumb. He explains why general preparedness beats trying to predict the one big event, why he says 95% of prepper gear is garbage, what food, water, power and medical supplies you actually need, his realistic loadout of a thousand rounds and night vision, and how a neighborhood group should run itself. He closes with his read on timing: today's crises aren't the collapse, but he thinks something big is coming within 2 to 3 years.

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0:00 Cold Open
1:19 Clay Martin Joins
2:39 General Preparedness vs Predicting the One Event
5:13 Prepper Myths: More Guns Won't Win
8:03 Building Your Neighborhood Group
23:07 Terrain, Threat and When Your City Is Undefendable
30:30 Black Rifle Coffee
31:19 95% of the Prepper Market Is Garbage: Food and Water
39:39 Power and the Medical Die Off
45:16 The Realistic Loadout: 1,000 Rounds and Night Vision
51:31 Governance and Something Big in 2 to 3 Years

Clay Martin's books, Concrete Jungle and Prairie Fire, are on Amazon. Follow Clay on X: @wayofftheres
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The medical discussion is general information, not medical advice.

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Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford welcomes former Navy SEAL Ray "Cash" Care for an honest talk on friendship after Covid, empty-nest silence, and why men who cannot sit still still need peace. Ray admits he started his speaking business as a fraud copying other operators, until he stopped pretending to be David Goggins or anyone else. He describes a saturated market of about 400 SEAL speakers, credits the Operators Collective, and invites Team to Apex Protocol in Las Vegas November 20 to 23. David asks the question he has been putting to every operator: how do you find peace in the everyday pain of your life? Ray answers as a pain coach, not a motivational coach. Reflect on the pain. Dominate needs before wants. Keep a house full of love. Treat every minute as a mission. Life is like BUD/S. You do not pass it. You survive it. Guest: Ray "Cash" Care is a Navy SEAL veteran, peak performance coach and motivational speaker. After his teams time he did overseas security work including protection for U.S. government agencies such as the CIA in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Site: raycashcare.com

Apex Protocol: theoperatorscollective.com

CHAPTERS

00:00 — "It's easier to find war than peace"

00:38 — Ray "Cash" Care is back

02:20 — Why David went dark after COVID

05:00 — Why warriors can't sit still

07:30 — 400 SEALs selling leadership: the saturated market

10:23 — "I was a fraud": how Ray found his own voice

14:10 — Inside Rob O'Neill's Operators Collective

15:29 — The Apex Protocol: Las Vegas, Nov 20–23

17:50 — AI vs. real human connection

23:05 — The bro-vet war: why veterans attack each other

28:39 — Stop yelling: how Ray changed his message

35:13 — Why vulnerability is strength

40:32 — How do you find peace in pain?

44:42 — Needs before wants

46:44 — "If I died right now, I'd die happy"

49:17 — Where to find Ray

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Steve Baker's pipe bomber footage claim, Iran's buildup into the midterms, and early voting past about 23 million ballots. Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford maps the three stories and what they mean for your wallet and your vote.

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0:00 Pipe bomber footage, Iran and early voting

2:10 Steve Baker and the January 6 pipe bomber

13:58 Iran buildup into the midterms

18:38 Imminent nuclear threat is gone 33:13 Finish the job, IRGC, and diesel

42:30 Early voting and October surprises

1:02:30 What to watch, and close

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Author Matthew Ehret joins Navy SEAL David Rutherford to explain the Fabian Society: why he says it was created after the American Revolution, the Roman strategy it is named after, the eugenics views of its early leaders, and how it fits into the think tanks that drive policy today. They also cover where left vs right comes from, why the French Revolution failed, CIA backed modern art, and why Matthew believes AI cults are emerging. The historical claims are the guest's own.

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00:00 Why the Fabian Society matters
01:52 The Fabian window at the London School of Economics
09:45 How the American Revolution scared an empire
17:39 The Fabius Maximus playbook
26:00 Black Rifle Coffee
43:45 Where left vs right comes from
46:17 Why the French Revolution failed
1:00:13 The CIA and modern art
1:05:46 AI cults
1:16:18 Where to follow Matthew Ehret

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Three moves, three weeks before the midterms, and David says they're all connected. Tulsi Gabbard comes out of a quiet summer to give a speech at the Texas Youth Summit that never mentions Iran. Trump gets Putin on the phone and walks away with a Russian diesel deal that waives sanctions until April 2027. And down south, U.S. special operators run their first direct raid with Ecuadorian police against a Jalisco cartel network — while cartel-linked fighters have been training on FPV drones inside Ukraine's International Legion since 2022.

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Three weeks before the midterms, I went back through everything that has and hasn't happened with our voting machines since 2020. The Secretary of Homeland Security says foreign adversaries have parts inside them. The government hired a firm to tear down Dominion's scanners, got a 100-page report, and never released it. And after 64 lawsuits and two nine-figure settlements, not one case has ever gotten to a real forensic audit. I'm here to tell you where I actually land, and it's not where either side wants me to.

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0:00 With A Month To Go, What's Still Unanswered?
2:31 Why Is Rut Reviewing This One Month Out?
2:56 What Did The DNI Take From Fulton County?
4:05 Did Secretary Mullin Just Say Our Machines Aren't Secure?
5:15 What Did Investigators Find In Puerto Rico?
6:15 Why Was The Mojave Report Never Released?
7:21 Why Did A Georgia Malware Report Sit Sealed For Two Years?
9:32 What Really Happened In Antrim County?
10:49 Why Has No Court Ever Audited Dominion's Core Software?
15:51 Fox, Newsmax And The Settlements Nobody Can See
20:17 The Tina Peters Case
22:13 Patrick Byrne: The Last Case Standing
27:03 Why Does Byrne Call Himself A Federal Whistleblower?
30:38 The Questions Rut Wants Answered
31:41 How Do You Check Your Own County?
32:56 Are Our Elections 100 Percent Secure?

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Headlines this month said Noah's Ark may have been found in eastern Turkey. Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford talks with Andrew Jones, founder of Noah's Ark Scans, who will not say that. Jones calls the Durupinar formation the best candidate. He says he cannot call it 100 percent. He says a radar slice showed repeating layers, and that the lab still has the samples. Jones is a software developer and independent researcher, not an archaeologist. The 2026 fieldwork is led by Prof. Dr. Cenker Atila of Sivas Cumhuriyet University. What Jones says about depths, odds and cubits is his account, not a published result.

Timestamps

0:00 Cold open: he can't say 100 percent

0:45 Who Andrew Jones is, and how this year started

13:48 The radar and the layers he says are there

25:32 BRCC (insert, not on the raw tape)

28:47 Why he stayed 30 years

41:28 Best candidate, not proof, and the tests still out

48:06 How to follow Noah's Ark Scans

52:41 Close

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David Rutherford is a former Navy SEAL, CIA-trained intelligence officer, and championship performance coach.

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Why do talented, hardworking men still lose? Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford welcomes back Rich Graham, a former SEAL Team 10 operator and the founder of Full Spectrum Warrior, who says it's rarely the skill that takes a man out. It's the stuff on the side: his lifestyle, his discipline, his decisions and what happens at home. Rich saw it training police officers who could barely get into a kneeling position in their gear. He points to Tiger Woods, who in Rich's view lost number one because of his life off the course, not his golf, and to the SEAL Teams, where he says guys rarely lose the trident for bad operating.

You'll hear the sniper school rule Rich applies to every mistake: let the missed shot go, but know why you missed, or your next shot is just a guess. Rich explains why owning your mistakes takes away everyone's ammo, why making the SEAL Teams still left a huge void in his heart, and how to tell if you're really succeeding when you're winning at work and losing at home. He also walks through his new book, The Full Spectrum Warrior Lifestyle: An Introspective Guide to Creating Balanced, Long-Term Success, out December 1.

Guest: Rich Graham is a former SEAL Team 10 operator, firearms instructor and the founder of Full Spectrum Warrior. He created the Navy SEAL Kettlebells program, the Combat Mobility System and the Protectors Summit, and he founded Home Front K9 Project, which trains and donates service dogs to disabled veterans from the Special Operations community.

Timestamps
0:00 Cold open: know why you missed
1:11 Rich Graham is back, and why men need this book
10:06 Cops who couldn't kneel: why skill isn't the problem
15:45 Tiger Woods, the SEAL Teams and what really takes men out
22:04 BRCC ad
24:47 Ownership first: the sniper school rule
34:32 Faith, and guarding what speaks into you
48:09 The false summit: winning at work, losing at home
57:41 How to measure success: relationships, finances, leadership
1:03:18 Get the book

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Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford asks a simple question after last week's Senate hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith: when Congress puts someone in the hot seat, does anyone ever pay? Smith has been referred to the Justice Department over his House testimony, but he has not been charged. David walks through nearly a century of Senate investigations, from the 1934 air mail hearings to Watergate, Iran Contra, Enron and the Church Committee, to show how rarely a hearing ends in a prison sentence, and why the Justice Department, not the Senate, decides who gets charged. Then he turns to what happened at the White House the same day: President Trump and the leaders of six AI companies signed a voluntary accord to police their own technology, and the government launched America.gov. David asks who will watch the watchers. His view is that the rules for the powerful are not the rules for the rest of us, and that your voice still matters. (Recorded September 30, 2026.)

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Timestamps:

0:00 Cold open

0:54 Intro and the Jack Smith Senate hearing

14:02 Do Senate hearings ever put anyone in jail?

21:15 Watergate, Iran Contra, Enron and the hearings where nobody was charged

30:48 Two sets of rules

33:53 BRCC ad

35:26 The White House AI accord: companies agree to police themselves

44:33 America.gov and online passports

50:07 What you can do

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David Rutherford says the U.S. is already at war, and walks through seven warning signs he says came before America's wars. 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.

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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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Death investigator Joseph Scott Morgan has spent 40 years in living rooms telling families their child is dead — and he's here to warn David Rutherford that death has become entertainment.

Twenty-five years after 9/11 unified a country, the Charlie Kirk assassination and the Lindsay Clancy trial are dividing one. Joe explains why the same public that once vomited at terrorist execution videos now scrolls past them, why "closure" is a lie he refuses to say to grieving families, and the disturbing pattern he's seeing in the murder cases crossing his desk.

David breaks down what Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's "killology" research found about desensitization, why he believes the men online begging for a civil war have never smelled what they're asking for, and how the hate he carried into Afghanistan almost killed him — and what actually saved him.

Joseph Scott Morgan is a veteran death investigator, Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University, host of the Body Bags podcast, a regular forensic analyst for Nancy Grace, and author of the memoir Blood Beneath My Feet. He is one of the most-cited forensic voices on the Charlie Kirk case.

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"Not one inch eastward." That's what James Baker told Gorbachev in February 1990 — and it was never written into a single treaty. This week I did something you don't hear on the news: I read the actual documents. Article 5. Article 10. The Budapest Memorandum. The 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act. Then I walked the 35 years that got us from the fall of the Soviet Union to the meat grinder in the Donbas — and to this week's headlines out of Germany, Moscow, and Leipzig.

What you'll hear:

• David reads Article 5 and Article 10 out loud and explains why they matter more than any pundit's opinion

• Why Ukraine gave up the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal for "assurances" — and why that one word was chosen on purpose

• The 1997 promise NATO made to Russia, and the expansion that came 22 months later

• Tuzla Island, 2003: the armed standoff David believes is where the Ukraine clock really starts

• What Putin took from the Orange Revolution, and what Bucharest 2008 set in motion

• David's read on the AfD's 44% in Saxony-Anhalt, Witkoff and Kushner in Moscow and Kyiv, and the low end of where this goes next

This is not a defense of Putin. It's the context you need before you decide what America should do.

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Everybody's telling you we're Weimar Germany. The hard right says it, the hard left says it, and both of them want the same thing the Germans got in 1933. This week I sat down with Brandon Gresham — Air Force Security Forces veteran and co-host of I Came With Fire — who actually did the homework on 1919 to 1933, and he says the comparison falls apart on contact except for one lesson nobody wants to hear.

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What you'll hear:

• Brandon breaks down why the Weimar comparison collapses the moment you look at 1919 instead of 1933

• The one question that tells you whether you want the country fixed or just want the other side whipped

• How propaganda makes you feel like an individual while it herds you into a crowd — with America First as the case study

• Why "your vote doesn't count" is the most useful lie anyone in power can get you to believe

• The China and Russia info war over American data centers

• What Millennials and Zoomers inherited — and were never taught to maintain

Brandon Gresham is a U.S. Air Force Security Forces veteran and co-host of the I Came With Fire podcast, where he and Army Special Forces veteran Chris dig into history, propaganda and the forces shaping the West. He co-founded Freedom Syndicate PAC, which recruits and funds Global War on Terror veterans running for office.

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A secret CIA rendezvous in Moscow. An explosive drone found beside a Ukrainian cargo plane at a German airport. NATO and the EU declaring the evidence clear — and the Kremlin's most senior voices claiming World War III has already begun. I've been digging through all of it so you don't have to, and this week I'm giving you my full, unfiltered assessment.

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Retired Special Forces Sergeant Major Tyr Symank spent 31 years in uniform and in high-threat contract work — Green Beret, combat medic, Blackwater, DSS. I met him last spring and knew within one conversation that he understood something about peace that most warriors never find. This week he tells the whole story, including the night that nearly took him and the work that brought him back.

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What you'll hear:

• Tyr breaks down why he calls his career "addiction disguised as selfless service"

• The 2007 moment — a car backfire — that told him PTSD was real

• Why refusing help to "keep the edge" is a fallacy that dulls the blade

• The night in Baghdad, the three things that stopped him, and four months of full-time therapy

• The five words that rebuilt him: "You have to forgive yourself"

• David and Tyr make the case for mandatory therapy for senior military leaders

• Resources every struggling vet should know: dial 988 press 1, All Secure Foundation, and Beyond the Battlefield

Tyr Symank served across the 1st Cavalry Horse Detachment, 19th Special Forces Group, and multiple government agencies, retiring as a sergeant major. He now helps veterans navigate the VA claims process with Xterra Health.

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David Rutherford sits down with Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat — Secretary General of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance and co-founder of the Cuban Democratic Directorate — days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Cuba will be on an "irreversible path" before this administration ends. Orlando doesn't hedge: there is an insurgency in Cuba right now, and beneath a 95-year-old Raúl Castro no one is in charge.

Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami, has lectured at Georgetown, and has interviewed Cuban nationals captured fighting for Russia in Ukraine. He co-signed the March 2026 Liberation Accord uniting Cuba's opposition.

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