Hey Chaplain: The Police Wellness Podcast

Updated: 31 Mar 2025 • 177 episodes
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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.

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Text a Message to the Show 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 veteran and a retired cop, and is one of the active listeners

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Text a Message to the Show 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, and there"s not a single tune here that lasts more than 2 minut

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Text a Message to the Show 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 musician and expert in all things bagpipes related.  I was please

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Text a Message to the Show 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 his career and some of his travels, or at least the parts he

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Text a Message to the Show 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.  But I"m going to split this interview into two parts th

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Text a Message to the Show 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 own life, we"ll rejoin the conversation with Ken and ta

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