Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Jocko joins us to talk New Year's resolutions and staying on the path in 2022, leadership in life and combat, and answer audience questions.

Jocko Willink is the host of Jocko Podcast, NY Times bestselling author, CEO of Echelon Front, and Chairman at Origin USA and Jocko Fuel. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @jockowillink.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates joins us for a candid examination of America's successes and failures abroad from the Cold War to the War on Terror to China's threat to the global order.

Robert Gates was the 22nd Secretary of Defense, serving under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barak Obama. He had previously served as Director of the CIA, from 1991 to 1993, Deputy National Security Advisor from 1989 to 1991, and Deputy Director of the CIA from 1986-1989. He is the author of From the Shadows, Duty, A Passion for Leadership, and Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World.

For this special year-end solo episode, Dan reviews the major policy failures of the Biden Administration's first year. All the facts you should know about inflation, the border crisis, Build Back Better, COVID response, and much more in just 38 minutes.

1:30 - Oil and gas regulations

7:50 - COVID response

10:00 - Inflation

12:45 - Build Back Better

20:00 - Crime wave and bail reform

24:30 - Biden's administration nominations

27:30 - Biden's Supreme Court failures

30:00 - Afghanistan withdrawal

32:40 - Border crisis

Heritage Foundation's Patty-Jane Geller joins us to examine the implications of China's escalating development of nuclear and hypersonic weapons. We also look at the nuclear capabilities of Russia, North Korea, and non-state actors.

Patty-Jane Geller is the policy analyst for nuclear deterrence and missile defense in The Heritage Foundation's Center for National Defense. Follow her on Twitter at @pj_geller.

For this special Christmas episode, Pastor James Emery White joins us to help answer the most common questions and criticisms of Christianity and the Bible that you would hear from skeptics.

Pastor White is the author of "Christianity for People Who Aren't Christians". He is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church. Follow him on Twitter at @JamesEmeryWhite.

Mike Sommers is the President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, the largest national trade association for America's oil and gas industry. He joins us to examine the policies and propaganda from the Biden Administration which are causing record gasoline prices, crushing industry innovation, and (ironically) leading to greater carbon emissions.

Follow Mike on Twitter at @mj_sommers.

Tech and counterterrorism expert Kara Frederick joins us to discuss what she learned working at Facebook about the ideologies and incentives driving big tech to censor conservative voices, the controversial debate over children's access to social media, worthwhile policy reforms to protect free expression online, and the potential for decentralized social networks like Jack Dorsey's Blue Sky to end the possibility of censorship forever.

Kara Frederick is a Research Fellow in the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Kara helped create and lead Facebook's Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program. She was a Senior Intelligence Analyst for a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command and spent six years as a counterterrorism analyst at the Department of Defense. Follow her on Twitter at @karaafrederick.

Scientist, author, and Member of the House of Lords Matt Ridley returns to share his findings from an investigation into the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis. We also talked about Britain's worsening energy crisis, the differences between American and British conservatism, and much more.

Lord Ridley is the co-author with scientist Alina Chan of the new book "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19." Follow him on Twitter at @mattwridley.

Josh Holmes gets Dan Crenshaw's uncensored take on the conservative movement, what it really means to "fight," and much more in this special crossposting with Ruthless Podcast.

Josh Holmes is the co-host of Ruthless Podcast, president of Cavalry LLC, and former Chief of Staff for Senator Mitch McConnell. Follow him on Twitter at @HolmesJosh.

Elisabeth Braw joins us to discuss the tactics being used by China, Russsia, and other hostile nations. Non-military actions like cyber attacks, coercion of western companies, and disinformation campaigns may seem like minor nuisances that the United States just has to deal with - but for totalitarian regimes these are serious operations that take advantage of liberal democracies and undermine order.

Elisabeth Braw is a Senior Fellow at AEI, where she focuses on defending against emerging national security challenges. She is the author of "The Defenders Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression." Follow her on Twitter at @elisabethbraw.