Burn the Boats

Intimate Conversations with America’s Change-Makers

Burn the Boats is an award-winning podcast featuring intimate conversations with change-makers from every walk of life. Host Ken Harbaugh interviews politicians, authors, activists, and others about the most important issues of our time.

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Reed Galen: Getting in Trump’s Head

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Reed Galen is a co-founder of The Lincoln Project and host of the Lincoln Project podcast. He’s an independent political strategist who has spent years advising Fortune 50 companies, and has also worked on several prominent republican campaigns.

In this interview, Reed discusses how impactful Lincoln Project ads have been, how Trump has responded to them, and the MAGA movement as a whole.

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Bruce Hoffman & Jacob Ware: The Rise of Extremism

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Bruce & Jacob discuss their book, God, Guns, and Sedition, in which they map the rise of far-right terrorism in the US....
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Dr. Kathleen Belew: Their Plan is Violence

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Dr. Kathleen Belew, an expert on the modern white power movement, explains how extremists groups have continued to grow, and what their plans are ...
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John Cohen: Combating Domestic Terrorism

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Terrorism expert John Cohen talks about the rise of domestic terrorism, and how law-enforcement is attempting to counter it....
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Charlie Sadoff: Right-Wing extremism

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Charlie is the director of Against All Enemies, an award-winning documentary which tracks the rise of violent extremism in the US, and the role so...
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Award-winning host Ken Harbaugh interviews politicians, authors, activists, and other change-makers about the most important issues we face today.

The title for this podcast, Burn The Boats, is inspired by an order given by Alexander the Great to his Navy in 332 BC. Upon landing his forces on the shores of Persia, he told his commanders to “Burn the boats.” The message was clear. Alexander’s Army would either win by advancing, or die on the beaches. There would be no turning back.

America today is at a crossroads. What will define us, in the crises we currently face and for generations to come, are the choices we make when failure is not an option.

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The Team

Ken Harbaugh

The Host
A former US Navy Pilot and past president of Team Rubicon Global. He has served as a commentator for NPR, a host on Crooked Media, and a contributor to The NY Times, The Atlantic, and Yale Journal of International Law.

Declan Rohrs

Producer
Declan Rohrs (He/Him) was born and raised in Lakewood, Ohio. At Evergreen, he has assumed various roles, including Assistant Producer, Editor, Content Creator, and Email-Signature Guru.

Sean Rule-Hoffman

Engineer
Sean hails from Orange Village, OH. He earned a degree in Music Technology with a minor in Electronic Media and Film from Capital University in Columbus, OH.