Tom Nelson, co-author of the prison survival guide, was the biggest drug dealer in Hollywood, committed armed robbery, and ran over a DEA agent before serving 17 years.
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Rogan and Sheridan work through the details of the January 2025 US special forces operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — a raid that involved dropping operators onto the roof of a high-rise surrounded by Cuban special forces, using what Trump described as a classified sonic weapon that disabled both Russian and Chinese weapons systems and incapacitated enemy personnel simultaneously. Trump reportedly called it 'the discombobulator' and told the New York Post he wasn't allowed to explain how it worked. No Americans were killed. Sheridan observes that if he wrote this sequence in a script, producers would reject it as too far-fetched. The conversation naturally extends to UAPs: Rogan's position is that a significant fraction of unidentified aerial phenomena are classified US vehicles using novel propulsion systems developed over decades in programs far above top secret. Sheridan agrees that whatever the discombobulator represents publicly, there are likely four generations of technology beyond it already being tested quietly. Both men note the deep strangeness of the gap between what the public knows and what is being developed in classified programs.
During the January 2025 raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, US special forces used a classified sonic weapon — nicknamed 'the discombobulator' by Trump — that simultaneously disabled Russian and Chinese-made weapons systems and incapacitated enemy personnel. No Americans were killed. It's the kind of thing that would be rejected as too far-fetched in a movie script.
One side of Sheridan's family traveled from Kentucky to Texas in the 1840s, and a great-great-grandmother kept a detailed journal. That journal — combined with hundreds of other published pioneer diaries — became the research foundation for 1883. River crossings were the most deadly obstacle: almost no one could swim.
Sheridan built the structure of How Not to Die in Prison directly on the Lonely Planet model: overview, glossary, language, food, accommodation, navigating the territory. It covers day one, the yard, gangs, commissary, diseases, riots, and how to make a shiv. One rule: finish it before you get there, and do not bring it inside.
Before Uber, Kalanick built a peer-to-peer file-sharing system and was sued for a quarter of a trillion dollars by 33 major media companies.
CIA operative Edwin Wilson, part of the illegal arms network used by Oliver North, was sentenced to 52 years for supplying Libya with 10,000 machine guns and 20 tons of C4.
US prosecutors sought a 186-year prison sentence for Kim Dotcom, largely because of his financial support for WikiLeaks.
Mario Tabraue, a central figure in Monsters of God linked to drug trafficking and murder, was sentenced to over 100 years in prison but served only 12 years.
Zelig Williams disappeared on October 3rd, 2024 after leaving his mother's home in Columbia, South Carolina and has not been seen since.
Dateline: Missing in America Season 5 features six new unsolved missing-persons mysteries, hoping a listener may hold a crucial clue.
At a high school party, Strickland broke one victim's nose, jaw, and knocked out teeth requiring multiple reconstructive surgeries, resulting in two felony GBI charges.
Joyce LePage's murder has remained unsolved for 55 years despite active investigation from the start.
Joyce's own letter revealed that Mark Wadley had once stayed at a mental institution for trying to strangle people — a detail investigators apparently never followed up on.
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