The "Shawn Ryan Show" is hosted by Shawn Ryan, former U.S. Navy SEAL, CIA Contractor, and Founder of Vigilance Elite. We tell REAL stories about REAL people from all walks of life. We discuss the ups and downs, wins and losses, successes and struggles, the good and bad in a respectful but candid way with our guest. We're better than entertainment, we're the REAL thing. Please enjoy the show.

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Byron Tau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at ProPublica and the author of "Means of Control." He spent five years tracing how the surveillance apparatus built after 9/11 came home and found Border Patrol monitoring millions of American drivers through hidden cameras and a secret algorithm. Shawn and Byron get into who built these tools, how buying data legally sidesteps the Fourth Amendment, and what it means when the machinery aimed at foreign targets gets turned around.



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#340 Byron Tau - The Government Doesn't Just Spy on You. It Buys You.

Christian Craighead is a former British SAS operator who served with the Parachute Regiment, Pathfinder Platoon, and 22 SAS during a career focused on counterterrorism and high-risk operations. In 2019, while in Kenya, he responded to the al-Shabaab attack at Nairobi’s DusitD2 complex, helping rescue civilians and engage the attackers, actions that later earned him the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. He is also the author of One Man In, where he recounts the attack. 



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#339 Christian Craighead - The Uncensored Story of the Nairobi DusitD2 Attack

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke is an American cardinal, canon lawyer, and one of the Catholic Church’s most prominent defenders of traditional doctrine and liturgy. He previously served as Archbishop of St. Louis and as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Church’s highest judicial court, before being elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. He is also the founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.



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#338 Cardinal Burke - The New Testament

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke is an American cardinal, canon lawyer, and one of the Catholic Church’s most prominent defenders of traditional doctrine and liturgy. He previously served as Archbishop of St. Louis and as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Church’s highest judicial court, before being elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. He is also the founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.



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#337 Cardinal Burke - The Old Testament

Professor Byron Boots is the co-founder and CEO of Overland AI and a leading expert in machine learning, robotics, and autonomous systems. A full professor at the University of Washington with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon, he previously held research roles at NVIDIA and Google and led the University of Washington's DARPA RACER team to victory. Through Overland AI, Byron is developing autonomous ground vehicles for the U.S. military, helping modernize battlefield logistics, improve operational effectiveness, and reduce risk to service members.



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#336 Byron Boots - He Turned a Polaris RZR Into a Self-Driving Military Vehicle

Dr. Edwin Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer known for his work mapping ancient Maya cities and studying the civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America. In this episode, he breaks down the Maya, Aztec and Inca empires, the revolutionary use of LiDAR to uncover lost cities beneath the jungle, the mystery of the first people in the Americas, and what modern archaeology may still be missing. He also weighs in on Graham Hancock, lost civilizations, ancient human sacrifice, Maya prophecy, and the discoveries that could still rewrite history.



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#335 Ed Barnhart - The Amazon Rainforest is Hiding a Lost Civilization?

Clint Emerson is a retired Navy SEAL who spent more than two decades in Naval Special Warfare, including time with SEAL Team 6. During his career, he specialized in intelligence collection, physical and technical surveillance, and operations against high-value targets in hostile and denied areas around the world. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of 100 Deadly Skills, the founder of Escape the Wolf, and the only Navy SEAL ever inducted into the International Spy Museum.



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#334 Clint Emerson - Inside SEAL Team 6's Spy Unit: Black Squadron

George Christie is the former longtime president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club's Ventura, California chapter, where he spent decades leading one of the country's most well-known outlaw motorcycle clubs. After leaving the club, he became an author, speaker, and commentator, sharing insights on leadership, loyalty, the justice system, and personal accountability. His memoir, Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel—and Beyond, chronicles his experiences inside the Hells Angels and his life after leaving the outlaw world.



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#333 George Christie - Surviving 40 Years in the Hells Angels

Alex West is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL who served 20 years, completed 15 combat deployments, including 13 with DEVGRU, and served as an assault team leader during Operation Neptune Spear. After years of combat, personal loss, and the Extortion 17 tragedy, he confronted the psychological toll of service, found a path toward healing, founded One More Wave, and became a mental health therapist focused on trauma and recovery.



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#332 Alex West - SEAL Team 6 Operator on Crashing a Black Hawk Into Bin Laden's Backyard

Scott Payne is a retired FBI Special Agent who spent twenty-eight years in law enforcement investigating drug trafficking organizations, human traffickers, outlaw motorcycle clubs, gangs, public corruption, and domestic terrorists.

He served as the primary undercover agent on dozens of operations, including infiltrations of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club and The Base, a violent neo-Nazi accelerationist group. Payne also served on an FBI SWAT team and trained agents in firearms, tactics, active-shooter response, and undercover operations.

He is the New York Times bestselling author of Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America’s Nazis.



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