The David Rutherford Show

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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. 

  1. 4d ago

    David Rutherford Show: Anatomy of a Color Revolution - How They Actually Work | Libertarian Overwatch

    Have you ever heard of a color revolution? I have — I used to watch them go off around my old area of operations. This week I'm joined by Patrick Pillow of Libertarian Overwatch, who's built the most documented public anatomy of these US-funded "organic uprisings" I've seen — 25 years of them, from Serbia 2000 forward, with the grant filings attached. What you'll hear: • David breaks down how a country gets picked for regime change — and who actually signs off • Patrick walks through the NGO machine: USAID, NED, Open Society, Freedom House, and the midnight printing press in Kyrgyzstan • Why pipelines, air bases, and resources keep showing up behind "democracy movements" • David's Blackwater year in Azerbaijan next to the BTC pipeline • Venezuela as the test case — and why Cuba looks like the next target • The uncomfortable question: is a version of this playbook running in America? Patrick Pillow is an independent researcher whose color-revolution series runs on the Libertarian Overwatch Substack and the Libertarian Institute. He works from primary documents — grant filings, contemporaneous reporting, and archived sources. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ 🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    David Rutherford Show: Anatomy of a Color Revolution - How They Actually Work | Libertarian Overwatch

  2. 6d ago

    David Rutherford Show: How Counties Steal Public Land — Legally | Navy SEAL Rich Graham

    Rich Graham is an old friend, a former Navy SEAL, and one of the finest tactical instructors in the country. He's also the property owner next door to a grass airstrip in the middle of the Ocala National Forest that Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University wants to pave into a flight training facility. What happened when Rich started asking questions is a warning for every American who thinks public land is safe. What you'll hear: • Rich breaks down how he says the project was split into three pieces to sidestep a full environmental review • The "five planes in the rotation" pitch — and what the math actually works out to • Fencing approved across sections of national forest the public can no longer reach • Rich's account of the county turning on him — including the email chain nobody erased • Why it took 17 law firms to find one that would take his case • David and Rich on data centers, solar farms, and why the real fight is at your county commission Rich Graham is a former Navy SEAL and the founder of Full Spectrum Warrior, offering private tactical training at his Deep Woods ranch in Florida. His book on the Full Spectrum Warrior philosophy launches this November — sign up at fullspectrumwarrior.com. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ 🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    David Rutherford Show: How Counties Steal Public Land — Legally | Navy SEAL Rich Graham

  3. Aug 7

    David Rutherford Show: Cartel War, In-N-Out Shooting & the $10M WNBA Challenge

    Navy SEAL David Rutherford breaks down the DOJ declaring open war on the CJNG cartel with $102 million in bounties, something he's been waiting for his whole career. Then Saturday, a gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho — and an armed citizen who'd spent five years preparing for that exact moment fired back. This is the week-in-review, with a little Coach Rut context on all of it.What you'll hear: • David breaks down the $102M CJNG bounty announcement from inside the intel world — what "cut the head off the snake" actually does to a cartel, and the questions the DOJ didn't answer • Why the cartels are telling reporters they'll just wait out this administration • What Abdul El-Sayed's 1% Michigan primary win over $65M in outside money signals for the midterms • Clay Travis' $10 million challenge to the WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces — and the league's total silence • The Twin Falls In-N-Out shooting, the good Samaritan who returned fire, and David's case for trained, armed citizens • Where to actually get real firearms training ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ 🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    David Rutherford Show: Cartel War, In-N-Out Shooting & the $10M WNBA Challenge

  4. Aug 5

    David Rutherford Show: Ibogaine - Saving Navy SEALs, PTSD & The 88% Result

    For 15 years I've been trying to figure out how to stem the tide of suicides taking my teammates — and today's guest is on the front line of that fight. Jonathan Dickinson is the CEO and co-founder of Ambio Life Sciences, the world's leading ibogaine clinic, and this conversation gave me more genuine hope than anything I've encountered. What you'll hear: • David breaks down why he calls this the most meaningful episode in show history • Jonathan explains the Stanford study published in Nature Medicine — and the 88% reduction in PTSD symptoms • Why the "signature wound" of the GWOT era was brain damage misread as PTSD • What ibogaine actually restores: "a choice where you didn't have a choice before" • How Ambio protects a sacred Gabonese tradition while scaling from 4 patients a week to 40 • The April 2026 executive order that moved this medicine from the underground to the White House Jonathan Dickinson is a Mexico-licensed psychologist with 15+ years working with ibogaine in clinical and ceremonial contexts. His book, "Ibogaine and the Bicameral Mind," releases September 8 — preorder at jonathandickinson.ca. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ 🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/🕘 Timestamps: 00:00 – Preview 00:30 – The Stanford study: what magnesium–ibogaine did to 30 operators 08:11 – It was never just PTSD: blast waves and the brain 14:08 – Addiction, agency, and "a choice where you didn't have a choice" 22:39 – Identity, transition & why people die when they retire 26:38 – Protecting the ritual while scaling 31:55 – Malta: Europe's first physician-led ibogaine clinic 34:57 – The executive order, new clinics & the risks 40:28 – Gabon, Bwiti & the Nagoya Protocol 44:24 – The bicameral mind, SSRI's, subjectivity 53:10 – Writing the book & stewarding the medicine 59:34 – How to support Ambio + book preorder See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    David Rutherford Show: Ibogaine - Saving Navy SEALs, PTSD & The 88% Result

  5. Aug 3

    David Rutherford Show: Green Beret On Pain, Faith & Becoming | Gabe Gaines

    Former Navy SEAL and CIA officer David Rutherford sits down with active-duty Green Beret Gabe Gaines — the man who dove across a Special Forces qualification course finish line at 2:59:59 with a core temperature of 107.8°, a number that kills Olympic athletes. But the ruck isn't the story. What happened in the hospital bed afterward is: the moment Gabe buried the quitter he'd been his whole life. You'll hear how a preacher's kid and former missionary nearly lost his faith in the dark underbelly of SOF, how his father's stroke planted a "root of offense" with God, and how pain became the mercy that brought him back. David and Gabe break down the audit process Gabe uses to kill inherited limiting beliefs — the same process that took him from high school dropout in remedial math to the top 1% on his GED and a 137 GT score — and why he tells every young soldier to go through their career "with your eyes open." Gabe Gaines is an 11-year Special Forces veteran, former ODA team sergeant, and writer. Find him on X and Substack.Follow Gabe on Substack: https://substack.com/@thegabegaines ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ 🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ 00:00 – Introduction 03:17 – Why Gabe started writing 07:39 – His father's stroke and a crisis of faith 17:18 – Lessons from his father: mercy and perspective 22:51 – The Q Course ruck march and heat stroke 38:12 – Pain, purpose, and mentoring young soldiers 54:07 – Overcoming limiting beliefs 1:00:38 – Finding peace, family, and what's next See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    David Rutherford Show: Green Beret On Pain, Faith & Becoming | Gabe Gaines

  6. Jul 31

    David Rutherford Show: Ukraine Hits Iran, Fauci Takes the 5th, WWIII Gets Closer

    Former Navy SEAL and CIA officer David Rutherford breaks down the week two separate wars became one — and why he recognized the exact waterway where it happened. Ukraine just launched drone strikes on an Iranian cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea — a supply corridor David personally helped surveil during his Agency years in Azerbaijan. In this week-in-review, David maps the full escalation picture: US strikes on IRGC facilities inside Iran, Iranian attacks reaching American platforms in Egypt and Jordan, Saudi Arabia entering the fight, Russia striking Zelensky's hometown, and Poland scrambling jets as NATO stands up an $800 billion rearmament. You'll learn why every major superpower is now committed on one side or another, what the loss of Lindsey Graham means for the Senate as midterms approach, and what Netanyahu's and Zelensky's same-week White House visits were really about. Then David turns to the Fauci hearing — the Fifth Amendment on repeat, the autopen pardon, and what the accountability vacuum is doing to the American mindset. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ 🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/ 🕘 Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro 01:47 – Lindsey Graham's funeral and the Senate power shift 05:10 – Netanyahu and Zelensky at the White House 13:46 – Iran War 28:01 – Fauci pleads the Fifth 37:57 – The breaking point — and what to do with it See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    David Rutherford Show: Ukraine Hits Iran, Fauci Takes the 5th, WWIII Gets Closer

  7. Jul 29

    David Rutherford Show: DC Is Stealing From Vets — Army Ranger David Giralt On The Fight For WY

    David Rutherford sits down with Army Ranger veteran David Giralt, the 35-year-old taking on a ten-way primary for Wyoming's at-large seat in Congress, to ask the question every veteran is asking: why is Washington looking at veterans' benefits and public lands as the pay-for on the national debt? You'll learn why Giralt says the "revenue problem" narrative is garbage, how the death tax is ending family ranching legacies in Wyoming, what four and a half years inside the House Armed Services Committee taught him about how DC actually works, and where he stands on Iran, the MOU, China, and rebuilding America's defense industrial base. David Giralt served 12 years in the U.S. Army, including the 75th Ranger Regiment, and finished his service as a congressional fellow to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He grew up in Wyoming and is running to represent the state he was raised in. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ 🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/   Timestamps: 00:00 - Preview 00:43 -  Ten candidates, one seat, why Giralt is different 05:57 - Post Military Experience In Congress 08:20 - Lobbyists, temptation, and staying accountable 12:03 - Wyoming's top four issues 14:55 - Public Lands 20:34 - The debt, and who DC wants to pay it 25:36 - Rural Health Care 29:53 - WY Economic Development 32:29 - Energy, permitting, and the death tax 35:24 - David’s Incredible Video 38:13 - Lessons From Combat 43:54 - Iran, the MOU, and the end of endless wars 50:52 - How To Support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    David Rutherford Show: DC Is Stealing From Vets — Army Ranger David Giralt On The Fight For WY

  8. Jul 27

    David Rutherford Show: The Center Between Peace & Pain - What An African Safari Taught Me About Living

    David Rutherford breaks down the question he's been chasing since the COVID mental health crisis exploded: is it possible to find peace when you're consumed by pain? You'll learn why peace and pain aren't opposites but coexisting forces, what three male lions stalking a buffalo herd taught David about patience under pressure, and how to find "the center" — the point where you can perceive peace as clearly as you perceive pain — in your own daily grind. David also shares the conversation about suffering with his friend Dr. Dan Luna that set the whole journey in motion. This one launches a theme you'll be seeing a lot more of on the show: The Center. ✅ Sponsors: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ 🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    David Rutherford Show: The Center Between Peace & Pain - What An African Safari Taught Me About Living
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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. 

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    2025 - 2026
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