The Long Debrief

health, fitness, mental, news, commentary · EN

The Long Debrief: Some stories take years to be ready to tell. This is where they finally get told. The Long Debrief is a long-form podcast hosted by Adrian — combat veteran, former law enforcement officer, and psychology student — built around the conversations we don’t have nearly enough of. Trauma. Survival. Broken systems. Ideology, radicalization, and what it actually takes to change. Not in theory. In practice. From the inside. Adrian served with the 1st Infantry Division during the Baghdad surge — a period of sustained combat, compounding grief, and moral weight that doesn’t translate neatly into a LinkedIn bio or a bumper sticker. He later spent six years as a sheriff’s deputy and peer counselor, working alongside people in crisis while quietly carrying his own. He grew up in a high-control religious community in rural Iowa, left at sixteen, entered the military, and has spent the years since slowly taking apart every framework he was h