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The Hey Chaplain podcast is where cops encourage each other by sharing their wisdom and experience with the Chaplain. On Hey Chaplain you'll hear from dispatchers and federal agents, Sheriffs and US Marshals, as well as local detectives and patrolmen. From the LAPD to Scotland Yard, the guests on Hey Chaplain deliver advice and insights so that police officers everywhere can survive and thrive. The host, Jared Altic, has almost 30 years of experience serving and counseling military and law e ...
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Send us a Text Message. Today we're talking to Gregg Dorsett; he has been a guest several times before mostly on compilation episodes, but his first appearance was all the way back in Episode 004. Today he's a captain at KCKPD and part of his job now is getting the patrol officers better equipment than what they've had in the past. He's had a hand …
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Send us a Text Message. Today we're talking to Simon Osamoh, who was a highly decorated detective in the UK investigating organized crime and doing counter-terrorism. If you've ever had to container of liquid confiscated at the airport, then you're familiar with the results of Simon's work. Today he's talking to us about communication and empathy, …
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is Part Two of my recent conversation with Ginger Passarelli from the Soup Ladies. You'll want to go back and catch Part One, episode 081, where she talked about her recent work with the Border Patrol. This portion of the conversation focuses on serving first responders more generally and I wanted you to hear Gi…
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Send us a Text Message. Today we have the return of another fan favorite, Ginger Passarelli of the Soup Ladies. For the last couple of years she has been working with the Border Patrol, which is no small feat to bring a non-profit organization into the inner workings of a Federal agency. In this part of the interview Ginger talks specifically about…
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Send us a Text Message. This is just a quick update to answer a question about chaplains at police roll calls and to address the issue with Google podcasts migrating over to YouTube Music. Guest host Kaleb Sackett joins Chaplain Altic to address these topics and get a sneak peek at upcoming episodes! Hey Chaplain Update Q1 2024 Tags: Police, Chapla…
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Send us a Text Message. Today we're talking to Captain Jeff Keck, a North Texas police officer with about 25 years of experience. Jeff and I were talking recently about podcast topics that cops really need to hear and he said a phrase that caught my ear. He said, "from my own experience cops shouldn't always bottle things up." My response was, "ooo…
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Send us a Text Message. One of my favorite personalities, of anyone I know, is my mother, Anita Altic, and I've known since i first started podcasting that she would be a pleasure to listen to. She's funny and a good storyteller, she's intelligent and she has a great voice. All that was missing was a good interaction with law enforcement… which she…
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Send us a Text Message. Today we're going to take a brief look a the 1933 Kansas City Massacre at Union Station. There is so much to learn by studying criminals and law enforcement from over 90 years ago, and this particular story is a doozy. It touches on half a dozen cities and towns in as many states, involving a couple dozen people, some with p…
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Send us a Text Message. This is an interview I did with Simon Osamoh from the Worship Secuirty Academy podcast. I wanted to share it with you because Simon's work (and his podcast) is very interesting but also because I've never discussed the ins and outs of a cop participating in church security, especially from a pastor's point of view. Resources…
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Send us a Text Message. What if I told you that there is an organization that helps first responders find counseling in the area in which they live, with qualified experienced counselors who understand how to help cops and firefighters? And what if told you that this was entirely anonymous and no one from your agency had to know about it? And what …
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Send us a Text Message. It would be so easy to pass judgment on an individual who appears to be nothing more than a pile of trash, literally. Today we're continuing our conversation with Tim Eggebraaten. Judgement is difficult to avoid, and sometimes necessary, but it's also unhealthy to be cynical and negative all of the time. And finding the bala…
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Send us a Text Message. Today we are rejoined by a fan favorite! So back due to popular demand is Tim Eggebraaten with all kinds of great stories to tell. In my most recent conversation with the off duty chief, I zeroed in on two stories that I found especially interesting, both about cops leaping to conclusions about people. This is part 1 of 2. T…
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Send us a Text Message. Today we're joined by one of the world's most recognizable trainers on the subject of human aggression, resilience, and how to successfully function during and after a deadly force encounter. Today's guest is Lt Col Dave Grossman. The Colonel is famous for his books On Killing and On Combat among many others and he is one of…
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Send us a Text Message. Our guest today is Steve Davis. Steve is a Colorado cop with 45 years of experience as a K-9 handler, motorcycle cop, investigator, and police chief. He relates a story of fighting a man on PCP in a restaurant, a fight that nearly took his life. Steve has so much wisdom to share and so please listen al the way to the end and…
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Send us a Text Message. Today Pastor Kaleb Sackett guest hosts and asks Chaplain Altic questions from the mailbag, covering topics from podcasting to chaplaincy to policing. If you'd like to submit questions for future mailbag episodes, please email us at heychaplain44@gmail.com Tags: Police, Censorship, Chaplaincy, Credentials, Leadership, Mailbag…
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Send us a Text Message. Today we're talking to a firefighter; Jeremy Greene is a firefighter in a major city who has his own first responder wellness podcast called the Washdown and I wanted to bring him on the show to talk why alcohol is such a problem in first responder culture. Jeremy is going to talk about his own struggles with alcoholism, tra…
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Send us a Text Message. A special guest host interviews Chaplain Altic to recap the year! Police Captain Joe Grasela joins Jared to give us a recap of their favorite moments from the 2023 Hey Chaplain episodes. Listen in to find out what were the most noteworthy episodes of the year and learn why Captain Joe may never make another appearance on the…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode I'm going to talk about my motivations and my Christian faith. If that's not your cup of tea, that's ok, we'll resume next week with our regular programming and I'll see you there. If you want to understand why this one particular chaplain hangs out with grumpy, foul-mouthed police officers, and loves every m…
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Send us a Text Message. Matt Landfair is a cop from a small department in Utah who didn't have the all the training opportunities and networking opportunities available in a larger agency. So he deliberately created his own network. After Matt's name kept popping up on my radar, I just had to ask: How is it that you know everybody and how have you …
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Send us a Text Message. Everything is fine… just fine… until it isn't. Resources: The Chosen website: https://thechosen.tv If you need to talk to someone, I recommend: CopLine: 1 800 COPLINE, https://www.copline.org/ Call or Text 988 - National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Tags: Compassion Fatigue, Counseling, Death, Family, Grief, Mental Health, Te…
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Send us a Text Message. The United States has a long history of first generation immigrants filling the roles of first responders, both police and fire. As long as there has been police and fire stations, there have been uniformed personnel with a bit of a foreign accent. So I wanted to bring you a modern example of someone who was born in a foreig…
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Send us a Text Message. Between his trips criss-crossing the country, I asked Dr. Barry Young to stop in my office and cover an important topic: Death Notifications. It's shocking how little and how poorly this subject has been taught because it directly affects the relationship between a community and its police department. Every death notificatio…
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Send us a Text Message. How do you get the bad guy to offer up a confession? It may be part science but it's also largely an art, managing not only the psychology of the suspect but also your own emotions, like pride, anger, disgust, and impatience. For most officers it helps to have someone dialed in who can mentor you and help you find that balan…
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Send us a Text Message. Today we continue our conversation with Jim Dudley from San Francisco. Jim was involved in an officer involved shooting as a patrolman in which he and his partner were nearly killed. We talk about how that incident has influenced him over the different parts of his career. We discuss how encouraging preparedness in the next …
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Send us a Text Message. Today we have an officer involved shooting story from San Francisco. Our guest is Jim Dudley, who you might know as the voice of the Policing Matters podcast from Police1.com. Jim is also a retired deputy chief from San Francisco PD and offered to tell his story from when he was a patrol officer in the City by the Bay. Take …
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Send us a Text Message. Officers are asked to go investigate all kinds of things that go bump in the night. Spooky houses, hospitals, funeral homes, churches, and cemeteries are all have to be checked out. But at the department that I serve, there are multiple people who believe our headquarters is haunted. It's a old building where you feel the hi…
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Send us a Text Message. Marriage in law enforcement seems like a doomed subject sometimes. It's difficult so people talk about it as if it's impossible. But I know several long time married, wise and successful couples where one or both have been cops and they prove that it absolutely is possible to survive an LEO career and keep your marriage. So …
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Send us a Text Message. Today we're talking again to Jonathon Westbrook, from episode 011. Now, two years later, Jonathon is running for a seat in the US House of Representatives. Because he's making a first time run for congress, I wanted to put his story in front of you, to give you a glimpse into the process, and to talk about what it means for …
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Send us a Text Message. Surprise! It's the 100th episode of the Hey Chaplain podcast… if you count every "part two," bonus, and update. So today let's talk about where the podcast is at and what's coming in the future. The show is opening doors for me and for my guests and I'm really grateful to you for spreading the word; thanks for telling a cop …
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Send us a Text Message. Naturally, I think every cop should listen to every episode of Hey Chaplain. But this one… this is really important. It's about leadership and integrity, corruption and gaslighting… it's a about a type of dishonest supervisor who can destroy the culture of a police department and then walk away looking like the only hero. Wa…
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Send us a Text Message. We need 10,000 more first responder chaplains but there's not enough church-trained clergy to recruit those kinds of numbers. So we are going to have to recruit retired first responders! Retired first responders come with a pension, cultural competency, and a passion for the people who run toward danger. But they'll need tra…
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Send us a Text Message. Ward Jenkins is joining us again. I was wanting to do an episode, not specifically on Internal Affairs, but generally about officer integrity. Ward has a good story on that topic and he was also adjacent to the famous Rampart Corruption Scandal in LA over twenty years ago. So Ward can speak specifically about cops throwing a…
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Send us a Text Message. Today we're talking about cold case investigation with J Warner Wallace, he's a famous cold case homicide detective who had his cases featured on television for a decade. Interestingly, he also was once a 35 year old atheist cop who applied his knowledge of solving cold cases to the Bible and then became a Christian. A polic…
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Send us a Text Message. The 1980 Norco Shootout was an astonishing bank robbery turned running gun battle turned manhunt turned courtroom drama/circus. And like any critical incident, it had an effect on everyone involved. But throughout this story, I kept asking the same question: how are these officers doing now, 40 years after the deadly event? …
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Send us a Text Message. The Norco shootout is a very modern critical incident, despite happening over 40 years ago. Apart from the lack of cell phones, much of this could happen today. The bank robbery, shootout, and manhunt that happened in Riverside County California in 1980 are important in part because it is one of just a few historical events …
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Send us a Text Message. Let's define a wellness retreat as a combination of vacation, seminar, professional conference, and counseling session. But most cops I know are very reluctant to go to one, in fact they avoid it like the plague. But I want to encourage you to attend these events. And I also want to figure out how we can make these events mo…
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Send us a Text Message. Today I'm talking to Paul Kurtzweil, better known on YouTube as QRoo Paul. Paul is a retired deputy who moved to Mexico but now finds himself teaching Spanish on YouTube. I wanted to talk to Paul for multiple reasons. First I think he genuinely can help those of us who are stuck in learning Spanish. But secondly, I wanted yo…
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Send us a Text Message. My guest today is Hansie Breedt, who was a police chaplain in South Africa both before and after the end of Apartheid. Hansie talks about his experience in a police force that went from a minority white controlled government to a majority black controlled government. But I especially want you to hear what his officers, both …
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Send us a Text Message. Steven Keogh from Scotland Yard has a new book that is one part history, one part modern true crime, with a Sherlock Holmes kind of flavor; it's called Murder Investigation Team: Jack the Ripper. The book reinvestigates the serial murder crime spree of Jack the Ripper and compares and contrasts how that investigation in 1888…
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Send us a Text Message. This is a story of parents who came up in hard times and imparted values and principles that are critically important today to Law Enforcement, family, and our culture. In one sense, it's obviously the continuation of episode 060 with Mark Garrett from the California Highway Patrol, although the topic is dramatically differe…
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Send us a Text Message. Today I'm talking to former Patrol Chief Mark Garrett, who was the division commander for the California Highway Patrol in LA county. Mark is one of those cops who I could interview on about a dozen topics but today I'm asking him about what makes the California Highway Patrol special and his experience in the CHP, one story…
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Send us a Text Message. Today you get to hear part two of my interview with K-9 handler Ryan Sumner. Ryan is going to share several K-9 stories but he's also going to talk about his career path as a K-9 handler and what it means to know you have your last dog. This episode is also going to be useful if you want to know more about starting or expand…
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Send us a Text Message. Today I'm checking off another item from my podcast bucket list by interviewing a K-9 handler. My guest today is Ryan Sumner from the Lenexa (KS) Police Department and he has been a K-9 handler for most of his twenty year as a cop, finding drugs, tracking and apprehending bad guys, as well as training other handlers and thei…
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Send us a Text Message. This is an interview I gave to the While We're Still Here podcast. This podcast talks about death and dying… while we still can. On this episode, the host, Kathy, gets me to talk about my two roles as a church pastor and as a police chaplain. We discuss death notifications, caring for traumatized first responders, preparatio…
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Send us a Text Message. Some of the most thankless jobs in law enforcement are the 911 operators and police dispatchers, which in some communication centers might be the same person doing both jobs simultaneously. So what motivates a person to work in communications for twenty, twenty-five, or thirty years, when most of us couldn't do it for one? T…
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Send us a Text Message. Here are my top 4 reasons to listen to every episode of Hey Chaplain this year: 1) To increase you knowledge: Hey Chaplain can provide you with valuable information about the challenges and stressors of the job, as well as how to cope with them. I'm also going to introduce you to people and resources that are available to he…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode marks the beginning of our third year, so I wanted to go back and do some follow up with some of my past guests. In this episode we talk about staying healthy physically and mentally, changing jobs within the police department, serving food to the Border Patrol, and much more. If you missed a guest's original ep…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back to part two of my interview with Ryan Miller about leadership at the sergeant's level. In this episode, Ryan is going to talk about leading officers across that wide spectrum of different ages, how to balance your new administrative responsibilities with leading in the field, as well as giving some good advice a…
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Send us a Text Message. A few months ago, a listener wrote in and asked for advice for new police supervisors. He said, "I'd like to listen to someone that's been in a command role for years and I'd like to hear their experiences and also any advice they might have for the future generation of supervisors." So today we're talking to Major Ryan Mill…
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Send us a Text Message. Mother's Day is coming up. Show your appreciation by calling, visiting, or going to church with your mom. In this episode, I interview Amy Paden, a law enforcement officer's mom from Kansas. Amy shares her story and wisdom on how to endure the stress of being in a law enforcement family. Listen and learn, and then call your …
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