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 injury, credentialism without competence, and the quiet ways people are broken after they’re no longer useful. There are no party lines here—only power, incentives, and consequences. Episodes confront subjects most platforms prefer sanitized or avoided entirely: veteran healthcare failures, adversarial disability systems, administrative abuse disguised as policy, and the psychological toll of being forced to navigate systems designed to exhaust rather than help. CT does not speculate from the outside—he speaks as someone who followed the rules, trusted the process, and watched it fail in slow, deniable ways. Al’s Garage rejects performative patriotism and therapeutic language used as a shield against accountability. When institutions hide behind procedure, CT names the harm. When experts speak in abstractions, he brings it back to lived impact. When critics are dismissed as “difficult” or “noncompliant,” he explains why that label exists and who benefits from it. The tone is blunt, sometimes dark, often uncomfortable. Humor appears, but only as gallows humor earned through experience. This is not outrage for clicks—it’s controlled anger, precision critique, and refusal to soften language to protect reputations. The audience is veterans, clinicians, lawyers, first responders, and civilians who have learned—often the hard way—that systems do not fail accidentally. They fail predictably, and they fail people without consequence unless someone documents it and speaks plainly. Al’s Garage is not about fixing things. It’s about exposing what’s broken and why it stays that way. If you’re looking for reassurance, optimism, or safe conversations, look elsewhere. If you want unfiltered analysis from someone who has carried institutional trust to its breaking point and is done pretending, you’re in the right place.