Hey Chaplain: The Police Wellness Podcast
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 enforcement families. The show looks at both the humorous and traumatic sides of police life, sharing wisdom to create healthy cops both at work and at home. New podcast episodes about police life and chaplaincy are available on first, third, and fifth Mondays of each month. Look for occasional special bonus episodes! Share this podcast with a cop or someone who loves a cop.
Episodes
Today our guest is Kelly Enos and he's here to talk about making a successful career change from law enforcement to teaching criminal justice and police science at the college or university. Kelly made that very career change unexpectedly less than ten years into his career but he found success in academics as his second chapter and he wants to share with you how to make that change.
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This is the second part of our story of Detective Dana Gouge, who handcuffed the BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader. If you haven't heard part one which told the story of a narcissistic serial killer who couldn't stop talking… then what are you doing?! Go back and listen to Ep 110 right now!
We left off with Detective Gouge putting the handcuffs on Dennis Rader before the task force took him to be...
Today is a crime history episode on the BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader. Rader is known to have committed at least ten murders between 1974 and 1991, communicating with the media about his crimes but not getting caught. He called himself BTK, for "bind, torture, kill," and had disappeared for 13 years when suddenly he began communicating with the media and the police again. This is the story o...
Today we are talking about the hotline for police officers called COPLINE. COPLINE provides 24/7 confidential services to active and retired law enforcement officers and their loved ones. Today's guest is Carmine Czapla, who is a veteran and a retired cop, and is one of the active listeners on the other end of that life-saving phone call. In this episode Carmine, who goes by the nickname Chops, tal...
This is your Quick Guide to Bagpipe Tunes. I'm anticipating that there will be two distinct camps among my listeners, those who love bagpipes and those who don't yet. But please give this a chance. First, this is fairly short, and there's not a single tune here that lasts more than 2 minutes. Second, I really do understand. I'm not naturally drawn to this music, I had to be investe...
Today we have a returning guest, Jim HIggins. Jim plays the bagpipes and teaches police officers and firefighters to play the bagpipes for our ceremonies and parades. Jim often plays with them and is obviously an accomplished musician and expert in all things bagpipes related. I was pleased to get Jim to come in and talk to me about the bagpipes, the tunes that they play, and the police ceremonies, para...
On Today's episode we are continuing our conversation with retired DEA agent Todd Hixson. If you haven't listened to part one, episode 107, then stop this episode and go listen to that right now! Today Todd is going to talk about his career and some of his travels, or at least the parts he's allowed to talk about. But just like in part 1 where we talked about going Fed, this week he&apos...
On Today's episode we're talking to retired DEA agent Todd Hixson. Todd has a tremendous wealth of experience as a DEA agent and we're definitely going to hear some of those stories, working both domestically and on foreign assignment. But I'm going to split this interview into two parts that are both really compelling. First, we have the pros and cons of going Fed and how Todd navig...
Today we have part two of our conversation with a medically retired police officer from the United Kingdom, Ken Anderson. After a brief recap of the life-saving encounter he had on an edge of cliff in the moment before he would take his own life, we'll rejoin the conversation with Ken and talk about the aftermath and his new mission to de-stygmatize the conversation about mental health.
This epis...
Today we're talking to a medically retired police officer from the United Kingdom named Ken Anderson. Ken was a patrol officer, an instructor, and also a firearms officer in Leeds, England. But an accident on the job set him down a path that would eventually lead to him standing on a sea cliff, ready to end his life by throwing himself over the edge. In part one, we're going to get to know Ken, t...
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Hey Chaplain Update Episode 1Q 2025
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Chaplaincy, Bible College, Chaplains, Clinical Pastoral Education, CPE, Education, Law Enforcement, Mail, Preparation, Seminary, Theology, Training, Kansas City, Kansas
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Today we're talking to Anthony Baumgart; he's a former local and state level narcotics agent who worked in California. Tony had almost 30 years in law enforcement, but when it came for his last day at work, he experienced a failure in leadership that sometimes happens in law enforcement. You risk your life and give decades of hard work, only to be shown the door… almost like they're glad t...
Today we're talking again to Deborah Green; she was a California dispatcher for almost 30 years and in Part 1 of this interview she told about how she dispatched her deputies to a middle of the night call at a marijuana grow in the forests of California where they were ambushed by drug cartel gunmen. Make sure you go listen to Part 1 to hear how it all went down. In this second part of the interview ...
Today we're talking to Deborah Green; she was a California dispatcher for almost 30 years and has a compelling story to tell. She dispatched her deputies to a middle of the night call at a marijuana grow in the forests of California where they were ambushed by drug cartel gunmen. The story itself is remarkable but I wanted you to hear this one because it's told from the point of view of the dis...
On this special Bonus Episode we are revisiting the interviews I did last fall with three sergeants from the department that I serve. They collectively have 70 years of combined service and every time I asked another question, they just kept dropping more wisdom that I knew you'd want to hear.
The officers interviewed are Master Sgt Angie Joyce, Senior Sgt Paul Simonich, and Senior Sgt Kyle Hic...
On today's episode we are talking to an Army doctor, Colonel Skip Mondragon. The good doctor is a championship wrestler, a combat veteran, a medical doctor, and also a man who has battled depression. It has become the Colonel's mission to help tough guys ask for help, something that he struggled with first hand and so he knows what he's talking about. We are going to talk about depression...
A special guest host interviews Chaplain Altic to recap the year! Police Major Joe Grasela joins Jared to give us a recap of their favorite moments from the 2024 Hey Chaplain episodes. Listen in to find out what were the most noteworthy episodes of the year; also included are the top 10 listener countries and cities. And don't miss a sneak peek of what topics and interviews will be coming down the p...
This is just a quick Christmas update to read a few reviews of the show, encourage you to write your own, and share a quick Christmas greeting. Guest host Kaleb Sackett joins Chaplain Altic again to help us out and this time Kaleb is sharing a greeting he wrote.
Music is by Kevin MacLeod
Hey Chaplain Update Q4 2024
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Christmas, Chaplaincy, Family, Goodness, Parenting, Patrol, Podcasting, P...
Today we're talking about technology! Drones, Artificial Intelligence, Body Worn Cameras and more are proliferating through police departments at a rapid rate and I find the whole topic just fascinating. So our guest for this episode is Captain Richard Breshears who is the captain over the technology unit in a police department here in the Kansas City metro area. We get to hear from him what cool thin...
This is Part 2 of the interview, go back to Episode 100 to hear the first part.
Is this a hostile takeover? No, it's just one of my patrol sergeants commandeering the podcast in order to ask me questions about my background, education, and family. Paul Simonich is one of my patrol sergeants and he appeared previously in Bonus Episode 38.
Music by Chris Haugen
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