Episodes

The Man Who Lived is an alternate-history political drama podcast that asks a single, haunting question: what if John F. Kennedy survived Dallas? In this series, history doesn’t breakm it bends. Kennedy remains in office, carrying the weight of survival as the nation continues to demand certainty, progress, and strength. Publicly, the presidency moves forward. Privately, cracks begin to form, within his marriage, within his family, and inside the Democratic Party itself. From Caloroga Shark Me...

Deep in the Florida Everglades, where corruption runs as thick as the swamp, a broken immigration detention center becomes ground zero for a darkly comic uprising. When mild-mannered maintenance worker Tommy Esperanza is wrongfully detained, he teams up with a mysterious fellow inmate to turn the system upside down—using bureaucracy’s own chaos against it. With wisecracking narration from Southern legend Beau Thibodaux, Alligator Alcatraz is a sharp, satirical romp through government failure, fa...

June 13-15, 2025. Sixty-three hours of precision warfare eliminate Iran's nuclear capability while systematically consuming everyone who made precision possible. Dr. Tehrani dies in strikes he helped target. Captain Amiri dies defending against attacks his investigation enabled. Colonel Karimi is executed for treason that served both countries. But Marcus discovers the devastating truth: every "enemy" was actually an ally working toward the same goal. Tehrani was developing cancer treatments. A...

October 2024 to June 2025. Iranian missiles strike Tel Aviv, triggering eight months of impossible calculations by three world leaders. Prime Minister Weiss authorizes military planning while President Mitchell pursues diplomacy. Both discover that Iran is using negotiations to buy time for nuclear completion. As the window for preventing nuclear war closes, Marcus coordinates final preparations knowing the operation will consume everyone who makes it possible. Dr. Tehrani provides final target...

Captain Amiri's investigation dismantles the old network as Marcus builds a new one. Over three years, weapons and operatives are smuggled into Iran piece by piece, establishing drone bases and operational capabilities for the ultimate mission. David Mizrahi, a young Israeli-Iranian double agent, penetrates Tehran society while struggling with gambling addiction and the psychological cost of betraying people who trust him. As the Persian Carpet network grows, so does Iranian paranoia about fore...

November 27, 2020. A one-ton remote-controlled machine gun, smuggled into Iran piece by piece, waits on the Absard highway for Dr. Mohsen Rahimi—Iran's nuclear weapons architect and a grandfather who coaches youth soccer. The assassination takes sixty-three seconds and triggers a five-year manhunt by Captain Reza Amiri, who will stop at nothing to find his childhood friend's killers. As Marcus coordinates the most sophisticated elimination in intelligence history, Dr. Ahmad Tehrani attends the ...

Colonel Darius Karimi leads Iran's hunt for the warehouse thieves, but he's been working for Israel all along. Marcus coordinates the recruitment of a network spanning from Tehran to Tel Aviv—twenty-three Iranian intelligence officers who choose conscience over country. Dr. Ahmad Tehrani discovers his peaceful research feeds weapons development and faces an impossible choice. As the network grows, so does the risk of exposure. When Iran's chief nuclear scientist is assassinated using intelligen...

January 31st, 2018. Tehran's Shorabad district. Marcus Cole coordinates the most audacious intelligence operation in history as twenty-two Mossad operatives infiltrate a heavily guarded warehouse containing Iran's nuclear weapons secrets. With only six hours before guards return, the team must breach thirty-two reinforced safes and extract half a ton of classified documents proving Iran's deception about their peaceful nuclear program. But as Marcus watches from his Tel Aviv control center, he ...

New episodes every Sunday. Operation Rising Lion is the untold story of one of history's most audacious intelligence campaigns, narrated by the man who lived it. Marcus Cole spent twenty years coordinating Mossad's most sensitive operations. Now, at...