Heroes Behind Headlines
Hosted by Ralph Pezzullo · Heroes Behind Headlines
4.9from 216 ratings
- 230
- Episodes
- 98
- Transcribed
- 216
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 109K
- YouTube views
About Heroes Behind Headlines
Heroes Behind the Headlines: a new podcast featuring an explosive new story every episode. First-hand accounts of adventures and events which have shaped our world . The real stories behind the headlines you know, told by the heroes you don’t. Hosted by NYT and international bestselling author Ralph Pezzullo.
- Publisher
- Heroes Behind Headlines
- Category
- news · society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 13 Jan 2022
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
98 of 230 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Real Story of the Tonkin Gulf Incident
5 Oct 2026
Breaking Down The Vince Foster Coverup
28 Sept 2026
The Wounded Blue
Inside a recent episode
The Real Story of the Tonkin Gulf Incident
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And finally, we talked and he confirmed many of the things like, for instance, he said that to the best of his knowledge, they never had visually a North Vietnamese PT boat. He had a picture showed up in a newspaper of a North Vietnamese, one that was supposedly attacking. He mentioned about firing the five-inch guns and so on, and they didn't see any signs of any damage, any debris fields or oil fields or anything like that. And we kind of ended up saying, I think the intelligence community and the civilian population, they have a little bit too much of PT boat mania because the year before is when PT-109 was released and the McHale's Navy, you know, and McHale's Navy, you know, was he had a dysfunctional crew with a boat that could do magical things, you know. […]
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- John F Calder
- Randy Sutton
- Jeffrey Robinson
- Michael Gier
- David Rutherford
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 109,426
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 150 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 66 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100
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- Quality
- 49
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 93
Contact Heroes Behind Headlines
- Guest appearances
- Does not typically book guests
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Who hosts Heroes Behind Headlines?
Ralph Pezzullo host the show. Published by Heroes Behind Headlines.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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