On Episode 18 of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief

Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss the, “Kids

Online Safety Act,” (S 1409) and Florida’s, “Online Protections for Minors,” (HB 3). With

social media platforms posing dangers to children like never before, has the time finally

come for government intervention? What is KOSA and what are the pros and cons?

Why has it not yet been put forward for a vote? What roles do age verification and

parental responsibility play in ensuring a safer online experience for kids? Who is on-

record supporting KOSA and who opposes it? Get the answers to these questions and

many more on this weeks’ episode of the Truth Nation Podcast. Available on YouTube

and all Podcast streaming apps. Like – Share – Subscribe!

On this episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner, discus, “Quiet on the Set,” the four-part documentary released in March of this year, chronicling the backstage environment at the Nickelodeon Network in the late 90s and early 2000s. Did the shows push inappropriate and edgy adult themes in teenage programs? Were women treated different them men and paid half the wage? Most importantly, were predatory adults put in positions where they could “groom” children and eventually engage them in physically abusive relationships? Find out what was really happening behind the camera on Episode 17 of the Truth Nation Podcast, live now on YouTube and all podcast platforms! Visit our website here www.truthnationpodcast.com

On this weeks’ episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner, welcome guest Joey Esposito. Joey was a 32-year criminal prosecutor in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and rose through the ranks to the position of Chief Deputy, the highest non-elected position in the office. From prosecuting career criminals in the Office’s, “Hard Core” division to leading the Narcotics Division, Joey has an impressive depth of prosecutorial experience. It’s a broad discussion with topics ranging from the importance of partnerships to the role politics plays in the criminal justice system to where crime and punishment is headed in the United States.

On August 10, 1991, investigative Journalist Danny Casolaro was found dead in room 517 of the Sheraton Hotel, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The death was quickly ruled a suicide and the body embalmed. More than 32 years later, there remain serious questions about his death. Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner on this week’s episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, as they walk listeners through the strange odyssey that was Danny Casolaro’s life. The hosts discuss how Casolaro connected unsolved murders, drug trafficking, money laundering and international intelligence operations and attempt to answer a simple question. Did Danny Casolaro commit suicide, or was he murdered by a professional hitman because he simply knew too much?

On Christmas Eve 2002, Scott Peterson reported his wife, Laci Peterson, missing.  She was 27 years old and eight months pregnant.  In April 2023, Laci's body was discovered and a short time later, Scott Peterson was charged with her murder.  Scott was convicted, and eventually sentenced to life in prison.  Twenty plus years later, the Los Angeles Innocence Project filed an appeal on Peterson's behalf claiming factual innocence.  They raise four specific points which they claim were not sufficiently investigated because they didn't support the police department's theory of the crime. 

• Witnesses may have seen Laci walking her dog at a time when according to the police theory, she would have already been dead. 
• The house across the street was burglarized around the same time Laci disappeared. The two burglars were caught and interviewed.  
• A van was set on fire in an alley a mile from the Peterson home.  There was a blood stained mattress in the back.
• Laci owned a watch which was sold at two separate pawn shops while she was still missing.

The L.A. Innocence Project filed the appeal the day after Netflix premiered American Nightmare.  Was this a coincidence?  Was Scott Peterson the victim of tunnel vision and confirmation bias just like Aaron Quinn, or has the right person been in jail for the last 22 years.  Tune in to this Episode of The Truth Nation Podcast to get the answers.

On this episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss two of the most significant digital intrusions into our private lives.  The hosts breakdown smartphone apps and how they continuously track and transmit your physical location so the data can be packaged, analyzed and sold.  Is ownership of your personal data a god given right?  Should you be compensated for providing your data?  The discussion then moves on to facial recognition technology.  Where is it being used today and how accurate is it?  Have computer algorithms led to police arresting the wrong individual?  Tune in and learn how to better protect yourself from digital intrusions of your privacy.

On this weeks’ episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired ATF Deputy Assistant Director, former NYC Homicide Detective and current Author, Pete Forcelli joins the show to discuss his distinguished career in law enforcement, the terrifying realities of ATF Operation Fast and Furious, his role as a Whistleblower and his commitment to always doing what’s right, regardless of the personal cost.  Pete explains how a flawed plan, unengaged leadership and a lazy prosecutor cost lives on both sides of the border and funneled guns to criminals in way that will continue to haunt us for years to come!  Don’t miss it.

A home invasion by armed men, followed by a kidnapping and a rape.  Imagine you’re the victim of a serial predator, but the police refuse to do their job and instead treat you like a criminal.  This is exactly what happened to Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn on March 23, 2015.  Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner on the Truth Nation Podcast, as they discuss American Nightmare, a chilling documentary detailing the kidnapping and rape of Denise Huskins, a botched joint investigation by the FBI and the Vallejo, California Police Department and a heroic Detective, from a nearby town, who solved the case and put a serial predator away for 40 years.

In January 2024, six people were murdered in a remote part of San Bernardino County, California.   Four of the bodies were burned.  Days later, the San Bernardino County Sheriff said the murders were related to the black-market marijuana trade.  In 2020, there was a seven-person homicide at an unlicensed marijuana cultivation site in Riverside County, California.  When Californians voted to legalize and regulate marijuana in California in 2016, the legislation was touted as the “gold standard” and a model the nation would soon be following.  Eight years later it’s become a cautionary tale of crime, violence, unkept promises, and environmental destruction.  The black-market controls approximately 90% of the California marijuana trade and the spill-over has hampered the attempts of other states to legalize.  On this episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss what went wrong with marijuana legalization in California.  Was it about regulated, taxed and tested marijuana or in reality, was it just an attempt at social justice reform?  Does it make sense that California treats moonshine and unlicensed liquor trafficking as a felony but cultivation of 100,000 marijuana plants as a misdemeanor?  What role does the federal governments’ inaction on marijuana over the past 15 years play?  Will de-scheduling or rescheduling make the situation better or worse?  Tune in and hear the truth.

The current National Debt is over $34 trillion.  That’s about a quarter-million dollars for each tax paying American.  A former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is on record saying the national debt has become perhaps our top national security threat.  

Is the United States Government spending responsibly?  Is it the right time to provide $25,000 in grants to surfers in Communist China or $500,000 in grants to study gambling pigeons at Reed College in Oregon?  

How about $75,000 in grants to determine which types of lizards are least likely to be blown off trees by a leaf blower or close to a half-million dollars to facilitate gender transitions in monkeys? 

On this weeks’ show retired California Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner keep the focus on government spending and expose some of the most ridiculous projects funded with taxpayer money and ask where is the accountability?

It would be funny if it wasn’t our money being spent!

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