{"podcast":{"title":"Angry Planet","slug":"angry-planet-46907","podcast_index_feed_id":46907,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/3dd76634-7b1c-45c2-a9cf-2f6f96d4e0b4","website_url":"https://angryplanetpod.com","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61435638f581aa08d9520e67/show-cover.png","author":"Matthew Gault","episode_count":501,"summary":"Conversations about conflict on an angry planet. Created, produced, and hosted by Matthew Gault and Jason Fields 781951 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T20:21:01.676209+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/angry-planet-46907"},"episode":{"title":"Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up","slug":"vanessa-guill-n-and-the-importance-of-speaking-up","published_at":"2025-10-15T14:48:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/angry-planet-46907/vanessa-guill-n-and-the-importance-of-speaking-up","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/angry-planet-46907","url":"https://shows.acast.com/warcollege/episodes/vanessa-guillen-and-the-importance-of-speaking-up","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/warcollege/e/68efb43aead096a6103b95b0/media.mp3","summary":"Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.com The episode is about Vanessa Guillén, a US soldier who was murdered at Fort Hood in 2020. She also experienced sexual harassment while in the military. I spoke with ABC Special Correspondent John Quiñones about his new podcast, Vanished. It’s a good podcast that covers Guillén’s case in-depth and highlights the reforms the Pentagon instituted after. We recorded the show on September 30, Guillén’s birthday. That morning, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a long speech about his own military reforms. Many of the changes Hegseth has pushed through conflict with the changes that Guillén’s death ushered in. As such, I thought it was important to get John’s reaction to Hegseth’s speech. Before we began recording,I told him I planned to ask him about this and he agreed to talk about it. When I asked the question during recording, a public relations person from ABC jumped on the line and asked me to stop talking about Hegseth. I pushed back, but not hard enough. The next day, ABC PR reached out via email to ask if I would cut this moment from the show. I will not. It’s included here in full. Further, I want to take a moment at the top to highlight the reasons why I brought up Hegseth’s speech. There’s a lot to it and, honestly, it demands its own episode. Here are Hegseth’s thoughts on toxic leaders. “Today, at my direction, we’re undertaking a full review of the Department’s Definitions of so-called toxic leadership, bullying and hazing, to empower leaders to enforce standards without fear of retribution or second guessing. Of course, you can’t do, like nasty bullying and hazing. We’re talking about words like bullying and hazing and toxic. They’ve been weaponized and bastardized inside our formations,…","meta_description":"Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.com The episode is about Vanessa Guillén, a US soldier who was murdered at Fort Hood in 2…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2869,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/angry-planet-46907/episodes/vanessa-guill-n-and-the-importance-of-speaking-up/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/angry-planet-46907/vanessa-guill-n-and-the-importance-of-speaking-up.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}