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The Smoke Pit is a live veterans' roundtable from 50501 Veterans. Hosted by Katie Chorbak and Carl Able. Produced by Crayon Eater Media. Veterans, military families and guests take on the issues hitting the veteran community: VA care, deported veterans, war powers, elections, and what the oath still asks of us. Issues over party. Straight talk over spin. Live Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8 to 10PM ET, on YouTube and Twitch. The podcast episode posts after every broadcast. Candidates who join us are interviewed on the issues. 50501 Veterans does not endorse candidates. Questions for the panel: 50501vets.com/ask
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Smoke Pit is a live veterans' roundtable from 50501 Veterans. Hosted by Katie Chorbak and Carl Able. Produced by Crayon Eater Media. Veterans, military families and guests take on the issues hitting the veteran community: VA care, deported veterans, war powers, elections, and what the oath still asks of us. Issues over party. Straight talk over spin.
The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans is hosted by 50501 Veterans. The show has published 26 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "SITREP: DOJ Sues California Over Mail Ballots, the Iran Toll Hits 21, VA Union Contract Dead" (18 October 2026, 76 minutes), "Can the VA Be Repaired? Richard Ojeda on Staffing Cuts, Claims Backlogs, and War Powers" (15 October 2026, 71 minutes), and "SITREP: Bombing After the Midterms, Hegseth's Voter Stand Down, and 37 Wounded" (4 October 2026, 51 minutes).
The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 69 minutes across 26 episodes.
Booking probability for The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans's contact route on record: verified email.
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50501 Veterans hosts The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans, a news podcast with 26 episodes published.
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SITREP: DOJ Sues California Over Mail Ballots, the Iran Toll Hits 21, VA Union Contract Dead The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans · Saturday, October 17, 2026 · Pillar II: Democracy, Peace, and Constitutional Duty Host...
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The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans · Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · Pillar I: Veterans Care, Rights, and Dignity Host: Tim Boivin, writers room lead, 50501 Veterans Substack Guest: Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda, Democratic...
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Recorded live Saturday, October 3, 2026. Thirty-one days out from the midterms. Iran sent a seven-day plan through Qatar to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president rejected it in public, then told aides he expects to...
The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans
At the UN this week, the President called it a choice: a deal with Iran, or "annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly." Congress never authorized this war. The House has voted three times to end it. The Senate...
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The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans · Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · Pillar II: Democracy, Peace, and Constitutional Duty Host: Carl Able Guest: Alex Rikleen, former Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts...
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Host: Carl Able, Gunnery Sergeant, USMC (Ret.) Panel: John Moses, Bryan C. Winter Three times in 2026 the House of Representatives voted to end the war in Iran. The third one passed on September 15 at 10:32 PM, 220 to...
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We swore to defend it. Tonight we argue about fixing it. Seventy-seven percent of Americans say the system needs major change. Twenty-seven percent think it can actually happen. On the eve of Constitution Day, Carl...
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Godfrey Wade came to Georgia from Jamaica in 1975. He was 15. He held a green card for 50 years, served in the U.S. Army in Germany, raised six children, and has three grandchildren. In September 2025 a traffic stop in...
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Thursday the Speaker sent the House home. Two weeks of work cancelled. The House has taken 295 recorded votes this year, against 362 last year, which was already the fewest this century. Same week, the Secretary of...
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American elections are infrastructure. Like any infrastructure, they have an attack surface, a set of failure points, and people whose job it is to defend them. This week the Smoke Pit runs a threat assessment on the...
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<p>Brit Robinson is running for Congress in Florida's 4th District (FL-04). She joins The Smoke Pit to talk policy: where she stands on veterans' care, the war powers question around Iran, and the money driving...
The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans
Brit Robinson is running for Congress in Florida's 4th District (FL-04). She joins The Smoke Pit to talk policy: where she stands on veterans' care, the war powers question around Iran, and the money driving...
The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans
<p>Veterans and military families are joining forces for a mass march in Philadelphia on July 4th, and on this episode of The Smoke Pit, the organizers tell you exactly why. Katie Chorbak (50501 Veterans), Hanna Lafko...
The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans
Veterans and military families are joining forces for a mass march in Philadelphia on July 4th, and on this episode of The Smoke Pit, the organizers tell you exactly why. Katie Chorbak (50501 Veterans), Hanna Lafko...
The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans
<p>Ceretta Smith has been planning this run since 2015. That was the year she walked into her congressman's office in Washington, D.C., leading a union delegation on veterans' and federal worker issues, and got a polite...
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<p><b>IN THIS EPISODE</b></p><p>The Saturday crew dives into a week that felt ripped straight from a dystopian screenplay. Katie, Carl, and Bryan cover the $250 Trump bill, the collapsing White House fair, the UFC fight...
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<p>What happens to veterans who get deported from the United States? On this episode of The Smoke Pit, host Katie Chorbak sits down with Dee James, an Army veteran and deported veterans advocate who served six and a...
The Smoke Pit with 50501 Veterans
<p>On Memorial Day 2026, the Smoke Pit paused the news cycle to do something simpler: remember.</p><p></p><p>Our members shared the names of those they served with who never came home. Army veteran Katie Chorbak traced...
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<p>In this episode, we're not talking about maps. We're talking about power: who has it, who's being engineered out of it, and what veterans are doing about it.</p><p></p><p>From Bloody Sunday and the Voting Rights Act...
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<p>The White House just released a new counterterrorism strategy that labels left-wing extremism, including anti-fascist ideology, anarchism, and transgender ideology, alongside narco-terrorists and Islamist movements...
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