Al’s Garage is a confrontational, no-permission-needed podcast hosted by C.T. Sorrentino, LtCol, USAF (Ret)—a combat veteran who has spent a career inside hierarchical institutions and now speaks openly about what those institutions actually do to people once the slogans stop working. This is not a lifestyle podcast. It is not motivational. It is not polite. Al’s Garage exists to say out loud what veterans, patients, and professionals are punished for saying in public: that many of the systems claiming to serve us are structurally incapable of accountability, allergic to truth, and more invested in self‑protection than outcomes. CT brings an operator’s perspective shaped by combat deployments, command responsibility, and direct exposure to military, VA, medical, legal, and bureaucratic machinery. The show dissects institutional gaslighting, moral ...