In 2017, Doug sat down with former Navy SEAL and FBI Special Agent, Errol Doebler, to discuss the similarities and differences between the cultures of the CIA, FBI, and US Military. Errol and Doug served in many of the same areas in Afghanistan

Is That Really Necessary?

Sep 1st, 2022 18m 27s

In the Fall of 2019, Douglas sat down with students from Stanford University to discuss career opportunities at the Central Intelligence Agency. The students asked Doug to share his opinions on the top five skills necessary for the Case Officer

Digital Pearl Harbor (Part Two)

Jul 29th, 2022 35m 27s

Part Two is the finale to the abridged version of a June 13th article published in the New Yorker about former CIA employee Joshua Schulte. This curious case explores the question of whether in the years since WikiLeaks was established, in 2006

Digital Pearl Harbor (Part One)

Jul 24th, 2022 44m 38s

The following episode is an abridged version of a June 13th article published in the New Yorker about former CIA employee Joshua Schulte. The entire world, of course, knows about the CIA/NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked highly classifi

Pop The Gate

Jul 6th, 2022 17m 17s

Today, 07/06/2022, marks the beginning of this year’s Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain, after two years stagnant due to COVID. In June of 2010, Doug attended the Festival to run with the bulls. He wrote about this experience in his memoi

Selling The Black Dahlia

May 29th, 2022 28m 35s

In January of 2022, Doug published a podcast series on Audible titled “Solving The Black Dahlia.” It is routinely stated in the series that Doug spent eight years investigating the crime — but few know that it took four consecutive years of pit

Fake Spies

May 16th, 2022 32m 10s

Doug is asked to narrate an Atlantic article revealing the cozy relationship between Hollywood and CIA — and how fictional spies are affecting US policy, the military, and law enforcement far more than the public is often aware.

Who We Wish To Become

Apr 22nd, 2022 14m 3s

Eighteen years ago, former NFL star and Army Ranger, Pat Tillman, was killed in Afghanistan on 22 April 2004. Eleven years later, Douglas Laux, was asked at a Georgetown University event if anyone in particular had inspired him to go to Afghani

Welcome Home

Apr 8th, 2022 22m 38s

Doug is flying home to stay with his parents in rural Ohio and get out of Washington, D.C. for awhile. He is accompanied by his cat, Mr. Bubbins — and the situation starts to escalate with TSA at Reagan National Airport.

Covert Love

Mar 18th, 2022 13m 5s

Learning to love as a spy.

You're A Bully

Mar 17th, 2022 17m 44s

Former undercover CIA operative, Douglas Laux, went from taking down the Taliban to teaching K-12 public school in rural Ohio.

Suspicious Minds

Apr 23rd, 2020 13m 44s

Doug helps out a quarantined friend skeptical of their spouse’s professional pursuits.

Saving Snoop: The Next Episode

Apr 17th, 2020 36s

Doug locates and confronts the kleptomaniac via a tracking beacon he installed in the picture frame.

Saving Snoop

Sep 30th, 2018 16m 37s

Doug decides to help out a friend by using his very particular set of skills to catch a kleptomaniac.

Walking After Midnight

Aug 26th, 2018 1h 30m

In the Fall of 2018, Douglas Laux interviewed author/veteran Matthew Farwell about his forthcoming biography of Bowe Bergdahl, entitled American Cipher.On June 30, 2009, Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his post in eastern Afghanistan,

The Last Honky Tonk Hero

Jun 3rd, 2018 3m 2s

Mike Dawson is the Voice, Engineer and Co-Producer of The Adam Carolla Show. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Dawson has been in Southern California for more than half of his life. You hear him at the beginning and end of every ACS, and also as

In The Path of the Totality

Sep 1st, 2017 15m 18s

In the late summer of 2017, Douglas Laux and Matthew Farwell set out from Dallas, Texas to Rigby, Idaho to witness the National Eclipse on 21 August 2017. Their travels were detailed by Farwell in an article for Playboy Magazine. The following

Ask Me Anything 003

Jun 12th, 2016 37m 51s

Former CIA Operative Douglas Laux shot a three part video AMA series in the summer of 2017 to answer each of the private messages he has received on Reddit to date. Laux answered every question he had been asked over an 18-month period.The vid