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
177 episodes
109 - We Will Stay On the Line With You: Carmine Czapla, COPLINE
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 ve...
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A Quick Guide to Bagpipe Tunes - Bonus Ep 40
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,...
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108 - The Saddest Tune at the Funeral: Jim Higgins, bagpiper
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 musici...
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107.5 - When to Move on from the DEA: Todd Hixson, Part 2
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 h...
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107 - Pros and Cons of Going DEA: Todd Hixson
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.&nb...
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106.5 - Rising From the Ashes: Ken Anderson, Part 2
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 o...
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106 - On the Precipice: Ken Anderson
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 wo...
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Does a Chaplain Need a Degree? The Mailbag (w/ Kaleb Sackett)
It's mailbag time!Use the link above to leave a comment or a question and we might use it on a future show!Music is by PineApple MusicHey Chaplain Update Episode 1Q 2025Tags:Chapla...
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105 - An Unrecognized Retirement: Anthony Baumgart
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 lea...
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104.5 - Critical Incident Aftermath: Deborah Green, Dispatcher, Part 2
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 C...
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104 - Deputy Down: Deborah Green, Dispatcher
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...
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The Wisdom of Police Sergeants - Bonus Ep 39
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 ...
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103 - Battling Depression: COL Skip Mondragon, MD
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 miss...
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102 - Year End Evaluations 2024 (w/ Joe Grasela)
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 notewo...
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Review Writing and Christmas Greeting (w/ Kaleb Sackett)
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 sha...
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101 - AI, Drones, and Cameras, Oh, My!!! Richard Breshears, Technology Unit Captain
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...
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100.5 - Friendly Takeover: A Sergeant Asks Personal Questions (w/ Paul Simonich), Part 2
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, educat...
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100 - Friendly Takeover: A Sergeant Asks Personal Questions (w/ Paul Simonich)
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 Bo...
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Gratitude According to Police Sergeants - Bonus Ep 38
On this special Thanksgiving Bonus Episode I asked three sergeants from the department that I serve to come talk to me about gratitude and the perspective that younger officers need to have to be successful in law enforcement....
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099 - 99 Ideas I Haven't Made Into Podcast Episodes Yet
This is a special milestone episode: number 099 (of the enumerated main episodes)! So here are ninety-nine ideas that I have not yet made into podcast episodes. Enjoy the look into the future publishing schedule and please keep an e...
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Informal Leadership: Blue Canary interviews Jared Altic - Bonus Ep 37
Steve Kellams from Blue Canary has devoted this season of his show to leadership topics and he brought me on to talk about informal leadership, because as a chaplain I have influence but no actual authority. We ended up talking about seve...
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098 - From Beauty Queen to Police Chief: Kendra Brown
In this episode we're talking to police Chief Kendra Brown. She's one of over 300 police chiefs in America who happen to be women. She's also happens to be a former participant in the Miss America pageants – not the usual starting p...
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The Ghost on the 8th Floor: Detective Stuart Littlefield - Bonus Ep 36
Every cop has a bump in the night story; sometimes those bumps happen in broad daylight. Today I'm talking to a veteran homicide and cold case detective from Kansas City named Stuart LIttlefield. Detective Littlefield was recommende...
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097 - The SWAT Career Path: Ryan Miller
When you first became a cop, you probably had a goal. You wanted to become a homicide detective, or a K9 handler, or you wanted to make the SWAT team. Maybe you're on track to achieve that goal, but even if you do make it, what then...
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Recruiting Gen Z: Jim Dudley & Janay Gasparini - Bonus Ep 35
Today we address one of the most frequent topics that I hear about in the police station, the great difficulty in recruiting Gen Z. My friend Jim Dudley co-authored a recent book on the subject, called "Recruitment & Retention of Gen-...
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