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American Regret

American Regret

Smart people don"t ruin their lives by accident. They do it by being convincing — and the person they convince is themselves. American Regret is a forensic examination of how capable, self-aware people talk themselves into the choices that end their lives as they knew them — and how the rest of us are doing the exact same thing right now, just with smaller stakes and no federal agents involved yet. Every episode takes one person who had everything to lose and lost it: the cancer researcher who

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CORNELL: Your Mother Must be SO PROUD

American Regret ·

2026/10/08

f your son was one of the seven men in that room at Cornell, you’d find a way to call it a mistake. If your daughter was the one on the other end of it, you’d call it the worst night of her life. You already know both of those sentences are true.Everybody covering this case is arguing about who, where, when, and why — because those four questions have an exit on every side. I’m not interested in the exits. I raised a son who was active in a fraternity. I’ve sat on the side of the courtroom that

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10:27

I'll Choose the Man over the Bear...Every Time.

American Regret ·

2026/10/06

My daughter once described online dating as wading through a pile of shit looking for something shiny. I thought that was hilarious enough to climb into a porta-potty and make a reel about it. Nobody watched it. The metaphor wasn't wrong about the pile — it was wrong about the shiny thing. Everybody standing in it thinks they're the one.This is the full accounting: the dating profiles that should come with a warning label, the exact moment a man becomes "they," and the three men who actually taught

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36:48

What You Do With a Consequence That Was Never Yours?

American Regret ·

2026/10/02

HOOKSomeone else's mess just became your mess. You didn't sign up for it or do anything to deserve it — you happened to be in the room, or the family, or on the lease when their choice became everyone's problem. Suhay was twenty, asleep with her one-year-old, when she turned over and saw a gun pointed at her face. Two days later, the letter came: she'd passed every exam for the Border Patrol Academy, and the federal system no longer wanted her. She lost a career she didn't choose to lose, and

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5:48

Christa Pike Survived Her Own Execution. Now What? l...

American Regret ·

2026/10/02

I served time with a woman who did something comparably brutal to what put Christa Pike on death row. She's doing twenty-one years at a federal camp. Pike was scheduled to die Wednesday night, and she survived the execution. Same government, two eighteen-year-olds, two completely different answers, and a botched execution that raises a harder question than anyone's actually asking. I'm not telling you Cinthya Proctor deserved worse, or that Christa Pike deserves less. That's not my call, on either

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4:02

I Was the Hillbilly: My Son's Wedding as a Convicted...

American Regret ·

2026/09/27

My son got married in Tennessee, and I went down there carrying every Northern assumption you can have about a Southern wedding. The bride's side looked like Pinterest. Our side looked like the Feds opened intake. This is a solo episode about life after federal prison and how far a felony follows you, into rooms where nobody is even talking about prison. The flower boys stole the show. I got two minutes on the dance floor with my son. Then the bride's father played saxophone into three million

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51:24

Episode 4: The Tables: Turned

American Regret ·

2026/09/11

EPISODE 4: THE TABLES: TURNED | The DEA and What You Have in Common With a Cartel HitmanFeaturing: Chris Macolini — Former DEA analyst (15 years), now international corporate investigator. Runtime: ~38 min Release Date: [TK] HOOK A DEA analyst sat across a table from a man selling counterfeit cancer medicine to dying children. He met a thirteen-year-old who'd committed twenty murders. He watched fourth graders recite how to cook crack. And after fifteen years of it, he came away with one conclusion

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67:35

Episode 3 - The Cost of "NO"

American Regret ·

2026/07/25

EPISODE 3: THE COST OF NO | What Happens When You Can't Give the Feds What They WantFeaturing: Martha — Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, El Paso. Served 14 years of a 20-year federal sentence. Runtime: ~54 min Release Date: 7/25/26 Get every episode before you go looking for it: Join the list! HOOK In the last episode, a man cooperated with the feds for six and a half years and walked free. This is the other half of that story. Martha was a federal agent for thirteen years. When

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59:34

Episode 2 - Snitch Math

American Regret ·

2026/07/25

EPISODE 2: SNITCH MATH | What Happens When You Become a Confidential Informant Featuring: Matt — Former drug trafficker, DEA confidential informant (2002-2006) Runtime: ~51 min Release Date: 7/25/26 Get every episode before you go looking for it: Join the list! NOTE: TO PRESERVE THE INTERVIEWEE'S IDENTITY, THIS EPISODE WAS RERECORDED BY VOICE ACTOR, ADAM ROCKE (ADAM@ADAMROCKE.COM) HOOK There's someone in your life right now telling themselves they had no choice. Maybe it's you. Today's story is

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38:42

Episode 1 - The Wrong Kind of American

American Regret ·

2026/07/07

EPISODE 1: THE WRONG KIND OF AMERICAN Featuring: Alia — Jordanian-born, Muslim, U.S. citizen, cancer researcher, federal inmate Runtime: ~38 min Release Date: 7/7/26 Get every episode before you go looking for it: Join the list! HOOK Naturalized citizens are scared right now, especially Muslims. They're watching the news, watching ICE expand its reach, wondering if a piece of paper they earned can be taken back. This episode is for them — and for anyone who's ever assumed that being American on the

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