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They spent a combined forty plus years inside the FBI. SWAT,counterterrorism, human trafficking stings, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, androoms with some of the worst people imaginable.

In this episode two former FBI Special Agents, BrianGrehoski and Eric Robinson, pull back the curtain on what the job is actuallylike versus what Hollywood has told you for decades. We get into howinterrogations really work and why slamming tables on TV is nothing likereality, an undercover human trafficking sting that reads like it was rippedfrom a film script, whether they've ever come face to face with pure evil, whyserial killings have dropped so sharply in the last two decades, and what ittakes to interview someone who has done the unthinkable without losing yourselfin the process.

This is not a show about war stories for the sake of it.It's a genuine curiosity journey into one of the most misunderstoodorganisations in the world.

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In 2014 Jen Hardy was in and out of hospital six times. By 2018 her doctors told her she had a year to live. Her diaphragm was working at 20 percent. They wanted to fit her with a breathing device and a backpack. She was in a wheelchair and could not walk.

She did not tell her husband. She did not tell her kids. She just said they were moving to a barrier island in Florida.

Since then she has built a media empire from a $100 microphone she bought from her son, started two award-winning shows, written five books including a bestseller she published in two weeks, founded the Over 50 and 50 Podcast Awards, launched Hardy House Media, and last month walked a mile uphill in Germany to watch a football game with her daughter when her doctors said she should not even be able to sit in a chair.

She also unboxed her 100,000 YouTube subscriber play button the day of this interview.

This conversation covers all of it. Seven children across four decades. The diagnosis nobody told her family about. The $100 microphone on the hospital table. The pivot from Chronically Positive Mom to Fabulous Over 50 to the Jen Hardy Show. What it actually takes to build an audience from nothing. And why done is the new perfect.

One of the best conversations I have had on The Global Show.

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Jen Hardy: https://jenhardy.net
The Jen Hardy Show on YouTube: search Jen Hardy Show
Voices of Justice Podcast: available on all podcast platforms

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Tom Paolino is back for round three, and this time he's brought co-star Rosanna Pfeifer with him. Since Tom's last visit, One of the Good Ones has won an Audience Award, hit a 7.9 on IMDb and a 4.7 out of 5 on Prime Video, and Tom's just back from red carpet premieres in South Africa with a worldwide theatrical deal now taking shape. Rosanna joins him to talk about playing the film's magnetic, morally questionable ADA Susie Hines-Lawrence, her first time playing a villain, her Buffalo roots, and what it's like watching a $75K hometown film go global.

We also play a game: Did You Beat It? We stack One of the Good Ones' IMDb score against real Hollywood blockbuster budgets, Cats, The Mummy, The Dark Knight, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, to see if a ten-day indie shoot can out-rate the big studios. Spoiler: it mostly does.

Watch One of the Good Ones on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/One-Good-Ones-Julie-OHora/dp/B0GLNX25CC

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Rewind week. Back in early 2023 Tom Paolino sat down with us fresh off a Facebook message from a lawyer turned screenwriter, a GoFundMe campaign, and a dream of shooting a feature film in Buffalo on a shoestring budget. He hadn't shot a single frame yet.Since this episode aired, that film, One of the Good Ones, premiered at the Dunedin International Film Festival right here in New Zealand, then went on to Prime Video, YouTube and Google Play worldwide. Tom's also been back on the show twice more to talk about how it all played out.If you haven't seen the original conversation, this is the one. Hockey scholarship to Brown, an injury that ended it, a pivot into acting under Sanford Meisner, The Purge, teaching algebra in Harlem, and the story of how a total stranger's Facebook message turned into a finished feature film that premiered right here in Dunedin.Watch One of the Good Ones on Prime Video, then come back for Tom's two follow up episodes on the channel.Subscribe for new episodes every Monday: https://www.youtube.com/@TheGlobalShowwithDaveBenson?sub_confirmation=1

Mary Madeiras grew up in a chaotic New York household, escaping into old movies thatplayed through the night. That love of story led her to become a three-timeEmmy Award-winning television director, working on General Hospital, AnotherWorld, and some of the most watched daytime television in the United States.

But that was only the first half of her story.

In this episode we go deep into both lives. How a childhood defined by chaosand survival became the exact training ground for directing live televisionunder pressure. What it is like to work with Lindsay Lohan at twelve years oldand see a child already lost. Why Hollywood shut its doors on soap operadirectors despite decades of experience. And what happened when Mary walkedinto a metaphysical bookstore, a book fell off the shelf, and everythingchanged.

We talk about the Akashic Records, what they are, how she accesses them, whatthe downloads feel like, and why she believes every soul has a record of everylifetime it has ever lived. We also get into spirituality versus religion, AIand authenticity, the fall of Hollywood, reincarnation, and whether the answerto who you are might already be written somewhere you cannot see.

This one will make you think.

Links mentioned:
Mary Madeiras website: https://theakashicway.com
Email Mary: [email protected]
The Akashic Way on Amazon: search The Akashic Way by Mary Madeiras
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Pen Densham has lived one of the most extraordinary creative lives in Hollywood history. He rode a live alligator on film at age four, talked his way backstage to photograph the Rolling Stones as a teenager, left school at 15, moved to Canada at 19 with nothing but ambition, and went on to write Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, work on Rocky II with Stallone, revive The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone, and direct Moll Flanders with Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman.

In this episode we go deep into all of it. How three studios told him nobody wanted a sword movie. How Kevin Costner chose his script over Fox's version. How he fought to keep a birth scene in Robin Hood that the director wanted cut. How he sat across from the chairman of MGM and turned a rejection into a greenlight. And why, after all of that, his biggest creative adventure right now involves a camera, waves, and photography that doesn't look like anything anyone has ever seen before.

This is a conversation about failing forward, protecting your ideas, and never letting someone else's ceiling become your floor.

Links mentioned:
Pen Densham Photography: https://pendenshamphotography.com
Pen's IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219720/
Pen's website: http://www.pdensham.com
Pen's free creativity book: available at pendenshamphotography.com

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What if humanity has already discovered some of its greatest ideas… and then forgotten them?

In this episode of The Global Show, Dave Benson sits down with Jack R. Bialik, author of Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge, to explore one of the most fascinating and unsettling ideas about human civilisation: progress is not always a straight line.

Jack has spent more than 10 years researching forgotten and vanishing knowledge, gathering hundreds of examples of ancient innovation, lost technology, destroyed records, and rediscovered wisdom.

From ancient cataract surgery and cranial repair, to Roman vending machines, mysterious megaliths, the pyramids, digital storage, AI, and the risk of a modern digital dark age, this conversation asks a powerful question:

What have we already known, lost, and may need to rediscover?

Watch the full episode here:
https://youtu.be/sqsso_1jTuI

In this conversation, we cover:

• Why only a small fraction of human history has been recorded
• How wars, disasters, politics and human behaviour destroy knowledge
• Ancient technology that appears far more advanced than we often assume
• Roman vending machines and the inventions of Hero of Alexandria
• The risk of a “digital dark age” and whether today’s data will survive
• Pyramids, megaliths, Stonehenge and ancient engineering mysteries
• AI, truth, misinformation and the future of human knowledge
• Why wisdom matters as much as intelligence
• Jack’s book Lost in Time and what he is researching next

Jack brings an engineer’s mind to history, asking not just what happened, but how things were built, why they were built, and what we may have misunderstood about the past.

This is a conversation about memory, civilisation, technology, humility, and the fragile thread that connects the past to the future.

Guest: Jack R. Bialik
Author of Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge

Find Jack here:
Website: www.lostintime.world
Author Website: https://jrbialik.com

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This week on The Global Show, Dave Benson is joined by Israel Reyes, an international cybersecurity and national security expert whose work spans cyber risk, cyber intelligence, critical infrastructure, operational technology, cyber resilience, data sovereignty and national security.

Israel has worked across Mexico, the United States, Russia, China, Australia and New Zealand, and brings a truly global perspective to one of the most important subjects of our time: the rise of cyberwarfare and the way technology is reshaping national security.

In this episode, Dave and Israel explore why the modern battlefield is no longer limited to land, sea or air. Today, the cyber domain connects everything from power grids and financial systems to military capability, communications, satellites, supply chains and civilian infrastructure.

They discuss how countries are using cyber operations, why critical infrastructure has become a major target, how AI is accelerating cyber threats, and why social engineering, phishing, deepfakes and misinformation are becoming harder for ordinary people and businesses to detect.

Israel also shares practical advice for individuals, families and businesses, including the importance of verification, education, call-backs, awareness training and building a stronger digital culture.

This is a conversation about cybercrime, national security, AI, human behaviour, global conflict and the uncomfortable reality that the next major crisis may not begin with bombs or tanks.

It may begin with a click.

Cyberwarfare and fifth-generation conflict
Artificial intelligence in modern cyber operations
Deepfakes, fake voices and digital impersonation
Social engineering and phishing attacks
Cyber risks facing small and medium businesses
Critical infrastructure and national resilience
The difference between real and fake information online
Why human behaviour remains the biggest security weakness
How families and businesses can better protect themselves

Israel Reyes
International Cybersecurity & National Security Expert

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LinkedIn: Israel Reyes Gomez

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The Global Show

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This week on The Global Show with Dave Benson, Dave is joined by author Erik Foge, a writer whose love of history, intelligence work, and moral dilemmas has shaped a series of novels where the past is never as simple as it looks.

Erik shares how a childhood trip to Washington, D.C. sparked a lifelong fascination with government, history, and the Central Intelligence Agency. From calling the CIA as a teenager to being approached while at college, Erik’s story feels like the opening chapter of one of his own books.

The conversation explores the real inspiration behind his Project Pegasus stories, including the uncomfortable question at the heart of One Way Roads: what if killing Hitler did not fix history, but made everything worse?

Dave and Erik also discuss World War II, the butterfly effect, JFK, the Battle of Britain, rejected manuscripts, literary agents, turning novels into scripts, and why history is not just something trapped in old books. It is alive, dangerous, and full of consequences.

Erik also talks about his upcoming book Deceptive Protocol, the prequel to We Know Your Name, and his new story about soulmates, reincarnation, and love across history.

This is a conversation for anyone who loves alternate history, spy fiction, time travel, World War II, the CIA, and stories that ask one very dangerous question:

What if changing the past is the worst thing we could do?

Find Erik Foge online:
Website: erikfoge.com
Books available on Amazon
LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook: Erik Foge

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What happens when a military veteran, law enforcement officer, radio personality, voice actor and storyteller decides to build a production company with his daughters?

In this episode, Dave sits down with Mak Taylor, Tania Taylor, Mellysa Taylor and Molly Taylor for a fascinating conversation that spans decades of entertainment, broadcasting and family collaboration.

Mak shares stories from his early life growing up on a ranch in Eastern Washington, his time in the military and law enforcement, his unexpected journey into radio, and the remarkable people he met along the way, including Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Soundgarden and Nirvana before they became global icons.

The family also reveals how they came together to create Two Crows Productions, develop original film and television projects, and tell stories that often go unheard. Along the way they discuss creativity, family dynamics, Indigenous voices, independent filmmaking and the future of entertainment in the age of AI.

Plus, Mak and the team make an exclusive announcement about their new partnership with Pacific West Entertainment.

This is a conversation about reinvention, resilience, family and the power of storytelling.

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