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About Larry Smith

Larry Smith is a USAF veteran, retired State Police Sergeant, investigator, author, and host of the Bribes, Lies & Alibis podcast. He never planned on running a show that digs into corruption, but here he is. His best vacation? Diving with great white sharks off Guadalupe Island—and he’ll admit, he felt safer in the water. Sharks are true to their nature. Politicians? Not so much. That’s exactly why his podcast exists: to shine a light on the games, the cover-ups, and the people who think they’re untouchable.

When Larry isn’t dragging skeletons out of closets, he keeps himself busy with the things that make life worth living. He loves to cook (and people besides his family have said he’s pretty good at it). He has a growing interest in photography, and he has been a Boston Bruins fan since Bobby Orr was still skating. And if you know hockey, you know that rooting for the Bruins is the quintessential definition of insanity—doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different outcome. Fans cheer, they show up, and they bleed black and gold no matter the quality of hockey being played. One Cup since Orr left? Maddening, frustrating, hair-pulling—but Larry remains all in.

Most people don’t know this about him, but he was once a Division I cheerleader at Northeastern. At 25, fresh out of the Air Force and not the typical undergrad, he walked across campus one day while the squad was practicing. They were short a guy, asked him to step in, and before he knew it, they were at nationals in Dallas and took 7th in the country. Not exactly where he thought college would take him, but life is a lot more interesting when you lean into the unexpected. Like starting a podcast.

These days, Larry lives on the Massachusetts coast near the New Hampshire border, where he enjoys scuba diving, cooking, hunting, walking the beach, playing with his two German shepherds, and writing. And he’ll admit it—he can’t wait for his podcast to launch. He knows where the bodies are buried, and he’s bringing shovels. For the ones buried extra deep? He has a backhoe. With 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts, plenty of people will have to explain how they spent Uncle Sam’s ARPA money. Larry knows exactly where to look and how to find it.