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The Truth Nation Podcast, hosted by Mark Garrett and Bill Bodner, is a platform dedicated to addressing the chaotic nature of today's world with honest discussions and diverse perspectives. In a media landscape dominated by sensationalized and slanted stories, our podcast cuts through the noise to provide fact-based and unbiased conversations on controversial social, political, and economic issues.
As the voice of the silent majority, we tackle topics that are often ignored or misrepresented in mainstream media. Our unique blend of real-world experiences and common sense approach to current events offers listeners a refreshing alternative to the typical 24-hour news cycle.
Our discussions cover a wide range of subjects, including law enforcement issues, politics, social issues, and the intricate connections between these topics. We believe that understanding the complex interplay of these subjects is crucial in navigating the challenges of our modern world.
The Truth Nation Podcast is your trusted source for unbiased, accurate, and thought-provoking discussions on the most pressing issues of our time. Join us as we delve into the heart of the matter and uncover the truth behind the headlines.
In Episode 20 of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner take a look back at the June 12,1994 murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, and the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson. How was Simpson acquitted in the face of overwhelming forensic evidence? Was it a poorly conceived prosecution strategy? Criminologist testimony that conflicted with video evidence? A loss of credibility when a key LAPD witness invoked his 5th amendment protections? Or was it simply a jury unwilling to convict in the wake of the Rodney King beating? These questions and many more answered as the hosts break down the crime, the evidence and the longest criminal trial in the history of the California justice system.
Last week in the US Congress, the bipartisan Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party released a report titled, “The CCPs Role in the Fentanyl Crisis.”
On episode 19 of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner break down the report.
Are you wondering why fentanyl production and corresponding harm began to skyrocket in 2016?
Does the Chinese government really incentivize the production of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors and fentanyl analogues for export even though they are illegal in China and most have no legitimate use throughout the world?
Do they offer tax breaks and grants to companies selling deadly chemicals, as long as those chemicals are only sold outside of China?
Are some of the Chinese companies distributing fentanyl precursor chemicals state owned?
What recommendations did the committee make to address this crisis and will these steps make a difference? All these questions are answered on this week’s episode. Also available on all podcast platforms.
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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
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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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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress made $4.68 trillion in bailout funding available to the American people via 44 different federal agencies. A total of approximately $4.3 trillion was ultimately expended. What government programs ran well?
Did the Covid-aid follow those who had real needs or was the American taxpayer sold out by our elites? How did criminals and fraudsters make off with $400 billion dollars of taxpayer money? Did our government really send a total of $3.6 billion dollars to 2.2 million dead people?
Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner for Truth Nation Podcast, Episode 8, where they discuss the waste, fraud, and abuse of the COVID-19 bailouts and how lax policies and controls made criminals rich and left the American people with inflation and higher interest rates.
In Episode 7 of the Truth Nation Podcast, Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner dive into the topic of Privatized Policing.
What is Privatized Policing, and why is it becoming increasingly popular? Did the defund police movement bring us to a place where those with financial means use privatized policing to protect their communities while those with less financial resources are subject to more crime and less protective police services?
Are the very same community leaders who called to de-fund the police now complaining about inequalities in police services caused by a reduction in services in poorer neighborhoods combined with private contract services in higher income neighborhoods?
Does privatized policing take policing control out of the hands of department leadership and put it into the hands of wealthy community members?
Get the truth about Privatized Policing from Truth Nation, Episode 7.
In October 2022, a group of families who lost children to fentanyl sold over Snapchat filed a lawsuit against the company, in Los Angeles County Superior Court. According to the legal filings, several of the plaintiffs had met with Snapchat executives in April of 2021.
During that meeting the plaintiffs allege Snapchat executives told them the company was immunized from civil liability by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. On January 2, 2024, in what may turn out to be one of the most significant legal decisions of the decade, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff ruled the case would go forward.
This is the first time in history a social media company is subject to claims it facilitated illegal and fatal drug sales.
Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner on Episode 6 of the Truth Nation Podcast as they discuss the ruling, the specific allegations in this case, how drugs are sold using the Snapchat platform, and how social media platforms use an outdated Section 230 as a shield to selectively censor and put profits before safety. If you’re the parent of a child under the age 18, this is a must listen!
In this weeks’ episode, Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss two of today's most polarizing terms: “The War on Drugs,” and “Harm Reduction.”
Have we tasked law enforcement with making societal changes well beyond their scope? When we say the War on Drugs is a failure, what is the measuring stick?
Have we also fought a losing war on homicides in the United States because the murder rate is higher today than it was 70 years ago?
Has the most successful drug harm reduction strategy currently in use been hidden from the public?
Tune in and get the truth!
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In December 2022, a week before Christmas when few were paying attention, and in the midst of the greatest drug crisis this country has ever known, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States released a memo titled, "Additional Department Policies Regarding Charging, Pleas and Sentencing in Drug Cases." In this memo, he instructed prosecutors to do everything short of lying to avoid charging offenses with a minimum mandatory prison sentence. Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner talk about why Garland circumvented Congress and whether he was honest when asked about it. The conversation evolves into a broader discussion of what happens when the Executive Branch of Government circumvents Congress and makes laws with the stroke of a pen.
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Whether it’s drug prosecutions, officer involved shootings, traffic stops or the murder case close rate, there has been a growing voice claiming American law enforcement is systemically racist and needs to be, “reimagined.”
Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Chief Bill Bodner look at the studies, breakdown the numbers, and call on their over 60 years of combined law enforcement experience to give a unique insight into law enforcement interactions with the public.
Join Truth Nation for a deep dive into one of the most misunderstood facets of policing today.
Crime of the Century. The root cause of todays’ fentanyl crisis. Was it corporate greed, naive politicians and government officials who lacked ethics or was it the Mexican drug cartels? Learn who is really to blame for today’s fentanyl crisis.
Did Minneapolis Police Department training and fentanyl play a greater role in the death of George Floyd then we were initially led to believe?
Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and I on the Truth Nation Podcast as we discuss “The Fall of Minneapolis,” a documentary about the death of George Floyd, subsequent civil unrest and the trial of Derek Chauvin.
