About the Podcast
A podcast for former feds who got the fork out. Former FBI analysts deconstruct 2025's federal exodus and the destruction of American governance.
Forking Off launched on October 1, 2025, as an independent podcast for former feds who got the fork out of government service.
Earlier that year, hosts and former FBI intelligence analysts Jill and Philip Fields joined the exodus of public servants leaving federal service under the deferred resignation program. Conflicted over what to do next, they began encountering other recently departed feds fighting to find their voice.
They started Forking Off as a platform to lift them up, preserve the public record, and document the destruction of American governance.
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