The Shawn Ryan Show
Hosted by Shawn Ryan · 20 decoded episodes · newest Oct 8, 2026
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.
Episodes 20
- Oct 8, 2026 · 3h 18mRanger recounts Mogadishu and questions America’s warsJames Lechner’s account connects the human cost of the Battle of Mogadishu to hard-earned doubts about intervention, counterinsurgency, and strategy.
- Oct 5, 2026 · 4h 56mWynonna Judd confronts grief, family secrets and generational traumaWynonna connects childhood instability, fame, addiction, and Naomi Judd’s suicide to a long effort to reclaim agency and interrupt inherited patterns.
- Oct 1, 2026 · 2h 53mDusty Slay links sobriety, faith and comedy’s creative freedomThe conversation traces how recovery, religious conviction and family priorities shaped Slay’s work while confronting his doubts about accepted explanations of reality.
- Sep 28, 2026 · 4h 52mMcAfee confidant traces war, addiction and spiritual redemptionJimmy Watson’s account connects the violence of military contracting and private enforcement to McAfee’s volatile world, recovery, and a new faith-driven purpose.
- Sep 24, 2026 · 3h 6mSERE specialist connects survival training to drone warfareThe conversation links hard-won survival skills with the vulnerabilities exposed by modern war, infrastructure failure, and social collapse.
- Sep 21, 2026 · 2h 4mCartels turn regional power into an international drone pipelineThe conversation connects Mexico’s cartel infrastructure to political corruption, diversified criminal economies, and emerging military expertise from the Ukraine war.
- Sep 17, 2026 · 1h 51mCommercial data turns everyday life into a surveillance systemThe episode shows how governments and companies can buy and combine intimate behavioral data faster than privacy law can constrain its use.
- Sep 14, 2026 · 5h 22mCraighead recounts Nairobi rescue amid faith and legal battleThe episode pairs a detailed account of a terrorist siege and civilian rescue with competing claims about faith, politics, trauma, and who gets to tell the story.
- Sep 10, 2026 · 2h 44mCardinal Burke defends the New Testament’s historical and theological claimsThe conversation connects Gospel reliability and Christ’s resurrection to Catholic teachings on salvation, worship, family life, and the end of time.
- Sep 8, 2026 · 2h 7mCardinal Burke traces the Old Testament’s path to ChristThe conversation presents the Old Testament as a unified story of covenants, spiritual conflict, and humanity’s redemption through Christ.
- Sep 3, 2026 · 2h 12mAutonomous ground vehicles move battlefield logistics toward machine speedThe episode examines whether autonomous vehicles can protect troops and expand military capacity faster than traditional defense procurement can adapt.
- Aug 31, 2026 · 2h 36mLiDAR and earthworks reopen the history of the AmericasThe conversation tests how new archaeological surveys can expand the record without turning gaps in evidence into lost-civilization myths.