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No guest today. Just me and Michael running through the week.
Conor McGregor goes down in 19 seconds, and why I can respect the athlete and have zero respect for the man. Paddy Pimblett's submission of the night. A man in Yellowstone launched ten feet in the air by a bison, and why you never treat a wild animal the size of a small SUV like a pet. The hot springs that have killed at least 22 people since 1890.
E. Jean Carroll collects her judgment against Trump, and the difference between criticizing an action and vilifying a person. The war in Iran, the cost, and the fact that nobody can tell you what we're actually trying to accomplish. Social media as the greatest propaganda machine ever built. A Georgia family selling their home so power lines can feed an AI data center. Flock cameras and how close the surveillance key is to being turned. And Ben Franklin, who we've apparently been misquoting this whole time.
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No guest today. Just me and Michael running through the week.
Conor McGregor goes down in 19 seconds, and why I can respect the athlete and have zero respect for the man. Paddy Pimblett's submission of the night. A man in Yellowstone launched ten feet in the air by a bison, and why you never treat a wild animal the size of a small SUV like a pet. The hot springs that have killed at least 22 people since 1890.
E. Jean Carroll collects her judgment against Trump, and the difference between criticizing an action and vilifying a person. The war in Iran, the cost, and the fact that nobody can tell you what we're actually trying to accomplish. Social media as the greatest propaganda machine ever built. A Georgia family selling their home so power lines can feed an AI data center. Flock cameras and how close the surveillance key is to being turned. And Ben Franklin, who we've apparently been misquoting this whole time.
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![What Delta Force Cost Him | Kyle Morgan | Ep. 459
Kyle Morgan spent over twenty years in the Army. Infantry, then Green Beret, then more than a decade in the nations premier special missions unit running hostage rescue. In 2015 he was advising the U.S. Embassy in Mali when terrorists took the Radisson Blu hotel. He built a team on the fly and went in. The award for that was the Distinguished Service Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor. Today he runs Blu Bearing, trains police and civilians, and serves on the board of Frontline Healing Foundation.
When the job ends the machine has already forgotten about you, and hell tell you that isnt cruel because it has to forget you to keep moving. The guys who come apart are the ones still trying to replace something that cant be replaced. He didnt leave the way he wanted to. There was addiction, a DUI he hid, and an overdose that nearly ended it, and his old command circled the wagons around him more than once before he finally made it out. Sobriety and faith are what brought him back, almost five years of it now, and he spends his time pointing at the cost so the next guy doesnt pay it blind. Hell tell you hes more proud of the husband and father he is today than anything he ever did downrange.
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Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Conversation cards and leadership
[00:08:07] Active threat training principles
[00:14:14] Cross-training with A Squadron
[00:18:12] Grieving identity after service
[00:23:15] Entrepreneurship, scaling, and mentors
[00:30:33] Personal after-action review challenge
[00:44:03] Public visibility after the unit
[00:52:53] Injuries, therapy, and retirement
[01:01:03] Team leader role and setbacks
[01:12:17] Transition internships and addiction spiral
[01:19:13] Sobriety, Christ, and peace
[01:32:22] Can elite service avoid darkness?
[01:38:50] Radisson Blu attack response
[02:01:25] Stairwell firefight and rescues
[02:15:26] Aftermath, isolation, and narrative
[02:34:00] Healing out loud through service
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