Episodes

  • The Tightrope and the Net

    The Tightrope and the Net
    Apr 10 2026
    FEMA's workforce is being cut. The primary federal mitigation grant has been canceled. State disaster reimbursements have been frozen. Track these separately and they look like the usual policy disputes and budget fights. Track them together and the si...
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    11 mins
  • When Disasters Become Battlefields: Disinformation as a Gray Zone Weapon

    When Disasters Become Battlefields: Disinformation as a Gray Zone Weapon
    Mar 27 2026
    In this episode of the Crisis Lab Podcast, host Kyle King opens with a question most emergency managers haven't been asked: what if someone is actively working to make your disaster worse? Not by intensifying the physical impact, but by flooding the in...
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    12 mins
  • When Trust Breaks: How Policy Failures Are Eroding Community Resilience

    When Trust Breaks: How Policy Failures Are Eroding Community Resilience
    Mar 13 2026
    In this episode of the Crisis Lab Podcast, host Kyle King opens with a scenario every emergency manager recognizes: an evacuation order goes out, every protocol is followed, every system is activated, and people don't move. What it reveals: trust is in...
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    12 mins
  • Signal and Noise: What January 2026 Reveals About What Actually Matters

    Signal and Noise: What January 2026 Reveals About What Actually Matters
    Feb 16 2026
    In the Season 5 premiere, host Kyle King asks one question: what should we have been paying attention to? A blackout in Berlin, a fatal train collision in Spain, and the systematic destruction of Ukraine's power grid all point to the same pattern. The ...
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    12 mins
  • Operationalizing AI: How Senior Emergency Managers Can Fight Burnout with Tom Sivak

    Operationalizing AI: How Senior Emergency Managers Can Fight Burnout with Tom Sivak
    Dec 17 2025
    In this episode of the Crisis Lab Podcast, host Kyle King speaks with Tom Sivak, Chief Emergency Manager at Emergency Management One, about the fundamental shift in the crisis management profession from a knowledge economy to an allocation economy. Wha...
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    38 mins
  • Governance, Bureaucracy, and Recovery Lessons from Christchurch with Brenden Winder

    Governance, Bureaucracy, and Recovery Lessons from Christchurch with Brenden Winder
    Dec 12 2025
    In this episode of the Crisis Lab Podcast, host Kyle King sits down with Brenden Winder (Christchurch City Council). They dissect the fourteen year recovery journey following the Christchurch earthquakes. What it reveals: the dangerous illusion of shor...
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    29 mins
  • What Sweden's Transformation Tells Us About Gray Zone Reality

    What Sweden's Transformation Tells Us About Gray Zone Reality
    Nov 28 2025
    In this episode of the Crisis Lab Podcast, host Kyle King examines Sweden's transformation from traditional emergency management to integrated security governance. What it reveals: the gray zone reality facing emergency management professionals across ...
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    14 mins
  • How Adversarial Stress Testing Reveals the Gray Zone

    How Adversarial Stress Testing Reveals the Gray Zone
    Nov 7 2025
    In this episode of the Crisis Lab Podcast, host Kyle King examines how gray zone operations are fundamentally reshaping civilian crisis management across Europe. Kyle walks through Russian drone incursions over Poland, GPS jamming affecting hundreds of...
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    13 mins