Matt Fulton
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It's me, hi | Co-host, Secrets & Spies Podcast | Occasional spy novelist and screenwriter | linktr.ee/fultonmatt
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If you need a podcast for your weekend, check out our latest episode looking at Vladimir Putin’s shadow fleet in Singapore. Check out the YouTube version for some video of the ships.
New Podcast Episode
🚢 Ghost ships. Fake identities. Oil on the move.
Remy Osman joins Chris to expose Putin’s shadow fleet—how “zombie” tankers dodge sanctions, why Singapore matters, and why everyone can see it… but no one stops it.
Audio: pod.fo/e/36dfd8
YouTube: youtu.be/8gIaVW7FzWs
🚢 Ghost ships. Fake identities. Oil on the move.
Remy Osman joins Chris to expose Putin’s shadow fleet—how “zombie” tankers dodge sanctions, why Singapore matters, and why everyone can see it… but no one stops it.
Audio: pod.fo/e/36dfd8
YouTube: youtu.be/8gIaVW7FzWs
December 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you need a podcast for your weekend, check out our latest episode looking at Vladimir Putin’s shadow fleet in Singapore. Check out the YouTube version for some video of the ships.
First Manhattan of the night has been made. Executing a tactical pivot to the fireplace next. #ChristmasEve
December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
First Manhattan of the night has been made. Executing a tactical pivot to the fireplace next. #ChristmasEve
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Yes, that important criteria in multi-billion dollar force structure decisions: is it impressively large? reassure us that ours is bigger than the other guy's? big dick energy? FFS, 🤦♂️
How much extra for the "roll coal" option?
How much extra for the "roll coal" option?
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yes, that important criteria in multi-billion dollar force structure decisions: is it impressively large? reassure us that ours is bigger than the other guy's? big dick energy? FFS, 🤦♂️
How much extra for the "roll coal" option?
How much extra for the "roll coal" option?
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Federico Varese joins Chris to explain why John le Carré understood Russia early—how oligarchs, corruption, and security services fused into a mafia state that now weaponises criminals and cybercrime abroad.
Audio: pod.fo/e/36c963
YouTube: youtu.be/VfxAE8trReA
Audio: pod.fo/e/36c963
YouTube: youtu.be/VfxAE8trReA
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Federico Varese joins Chris to explain why John le Carré understood Russia early—how oligarchs, corruption, and security services fused into a mafia state that now weaponises criminals and cybercrime abroad.
Audio: pod.fo/e/36c963
YouTube: youtu.be/VfxAE8trReA
Audio: pod.fo/e/36c963
YouTube: youtu.be/VfxAE8trReA
I don’t know, I think the vice president of the United States should have better things to do with his time.
JD Vance: "I remember watching every video of the assassination looking for clues, trying to understand what happened. I tried to hide my friend and that terrible bullet hitting him, but I would try to look around. I stayed up all night for many nights in a row researching every conspiracy theory."
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I don’t know, I think the vice president of the United States should have better things to do with his time.
For your weekend listening on @secretsandspies.bsky.social: Chris spoke to @johnsipher.bsky.social about Russian intelligence and what the West gets wrong about Putinism.
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
December 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
For your weekend listening on @secretsandspies.bsky.social: Chris spoke to @johnsipher.bsky.social about Russian intelligence and what the West gets wrong about Putinism.
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
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First question on KGB cognitive test is also a picture of lion, giraffe, fish & hippopotamus. They beat the shit out of you until you say the giraffe is the hippo.
Explains a lot tbh.
Explains a lot tbh.
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
First question on KGB cognitive test is also a picture of lion, giraffe, fish & hippopotamus. They beat the shit out of you until you say the giraffe is the hippo.
Explains a lot tbh.
Explains a lot tbh.
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Uh oh
Former CIA officer @johnsipher.bsky.social joins Chris to unpack what the West gets wrong about Russian intelligence—from hostile counterintelligence to Putin’s use of active measures and reflexive control.
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
December 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Uh oh
Hiked out to Turkey Point Light at the head of the Chesapeake. (Aberdeen Proving Ground was making a racket across the bay.)
December 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hiked out to Turkey Point Light at the head of the Chesapeake. (Aberdeen Proving Ground was making a racket across the bay.)
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not releasing it will, in itself, also detract from their winning streak and make the inevitable leak of the text more of a news event.
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
not releasing it will, in itself, also detract from their winning streak and make the inevitable leak of the text more of a news event.
The raging narcissism and unfathomable idiocy prevents him from grasping that this incessant North Korea shit—to say nothing of the cartoonish scale of grift and corruption—is exactly why his movement is rapidly crumbling around him.
Breaking news: The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has voted to rename the storied arts institution the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Kennedy Center board votes to rename ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Kennedy Center trustees, installed earlier this year by President Trump, have voted to rename the center after him, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The raging narcissism and unfathomable idiocy prevents him from grasping that this incessant North Korea shit—to say nothing of the cartoonish scale of grift and corruption—is exactly why his movement is rapidly crumbling around him.
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Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files
I’m gonna need the Martha’s Vineyard farmers market vendors to be a lot meaner. Get creative with the bullying. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Alan Dershowitz muses over the constitutionality of a third Trump term
The president’s former legal adviser reportedly met with Trump about his new book, which considers hypotheticals for the possibility of him holding office past 2028.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I’m gonna need the Martha’s Vineyard farmers market vendors to be a lot meaner. Get creative with the bullying. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Podcaster couldn’t hack a real job — shocker there.
Dan Bongino has said he will leave his role as the FBI's deputy director in January.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dan Bongino stepping down as FBI deputy director
The ex-podcaster announced he would leave the FBI after US President Donald Trump told reporters he "wants to go back to his show".
www.bbc.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Podcaster couldn’t hack a real job — shocker there.
The staffing is just sooooooo bad. So bad.
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The staffing is just sooooooo bad. So bad.
This man is why there’s an Adderall shortage.
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This man is why there’s an Adderall shortage.
I’m so glad they put this on the networks.
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I’m so glad they put this on the networks.
Dude. Fucking breathe.
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Dude. Fucking breathe.
Then Stephen Miller slapped a coin down on the counter and told the photographer to “Call it.”
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Then Stephen Miller slapped a coin down on the counter and told the photographer to “Call it.”
This look could make a Walmart cashier drop dead on the spot.
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This look could make a Walmart cashier drop dead on the spot.
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David Tuch on Harold Derber: a WWII spy who pioneered the global drug trade—and wrote the playbook still used today.
Audio: pod.fo/e/3681a7
YouTube: youtu.be/dIYCKH35Y6s
Audio: pod.fo/e/3681a7
YouTube: youtu.be/dIYCKH35Y6s
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
David Tuch on Harold Derber: a WWII spy who pioneered the global drug trade—and wrote the playbook still used today.
Audio: pod.fo/e/3681a7
YouTube: youtu.be/dIYCKH35Y6s
Audio: pod.fo/e/3681a7
YouTube: youtu.be/dIYCKH35Y6s
Exhibit A for when this piece of shit finally croaks and everyone on Fox and Facebook starts clutching their pearls that those nasty liberals could be so cruel to speak ill of the dead.
December 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Exhibit A for when this piece of shit finally croaks and everyone on Fox and Facebook starts clutching their pearls that those nasty liberals could be so cruel to speak ill of the dead.
Once you’re well into your 30s, your preferred birthday gift ends up either being some meat-smoking contraption or books. I didn’t make this rule.
December 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Once you’re well into your 30s, your preferred birthday gift ends up either being some meat-smoking contraption or books. I didn’t make this rule.
I think an argument can and will be made that the rapid elite capitulation seen in the first ~6 months of this year was, politically, the worst thing that ever happened to Trump and MAGA.
December 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I think an argument can and will be made that the rapid elite capitulation seen in the first ~6 months of this year was, politically, the worst thing that ever happened to Trump and MAGA.