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Warrior Poet Society's John Lovell on the Men Who Impacted Him Most
"Or what was most influential to you growing up in understanding the qualities of a true man can be your father, your grandfather, a coach for Jack Carr, the author of the terminal list, it was the heroes he read about in works of fiction and works of history for John lovell, who had the greatest impact. I'm going to have to go with quite a few because it seems I was able to piece together different defining attributes and I wish it had happened all up at front, but I have not arrived even as our own warrior poet ethos of like, I've been arrived having arrived into the man that I am meant to be and I am in the process of becoming. I'm still on that journey, so to speak. My father had the very first an initial role and he taught me how to work hard to not make excuses. He also taught me how to focus, which was ever so important, how to provide for a family. He modeled that extremely well. Wrestling coach really taught me about personal sacrifice and being able to have grit and toughness and aggression. And that was a very, very good thing, though it certainly out of Vogue. People don't understand how those are good and health the attributes for men. Other than that, I'd have to definitely make a beeline for what Jack Carr said of some of the personages that I read in literature or who I would read and the biblical accounts as well. These would be heroes as well. And then you can piece some of it together through movies and then you just find noteworthy men along the way. And you
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"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"I love that. I love that last one. I've never heard it put so succinctly, but services of course, key to our civilization, to the Christian message, but making somebody's day, not in dirty Harry's way, I think, but to make somebody's day every day is a great message. I'm also curious about situation dependent. Situation depending, absolutely. I'm also intrigued. I didn't expect you to say what you said about travel. So my son was a D one athlete, didn't get into the school he wanted to go to. And we didn't know that he basically said, I'm not going to any other college. I want to go to that college. And so he took a year off and he traveled the world, he worked in Africa. He worked in Australia. He worked on a marine reserve in Belize. And he never traveled without us. And then he got into the school that he wanted to get into. And a year later, his coach said to me, D one coach said, you know, I wish everyone on our team would take a year off like your son Paul did. So that travel component, you recommend that for any young man. Absolutely. We have actually a family member that is doing that as well, paying his own way, working jobs here and there, learning so much. He's in Peru he's in he's in Europe. He's in Africa, doing these amazing things, living in little huts on the side of a hill in Kenya, they go down. He's learning so much, experiencing so much. And same thing. Then he'll continue college after that. But you don't have life does get in the way at some point from those kind of things. You have responsibilities that probably will pile up as you get older. So the earlier you realize the value of travel and that you don't have to be so crazy well off to do it. You can do it and you can work your way through it as you go along. I know multiple people who have done that with essentially zero and they've gone and they've done these odd jobs here and there as they traveled around the world. And ten years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, the benefit of having done that. I mean, you can't put a price tag on that. So the travel is vital importance. And you don't have to just think it's something that only the elite can do. You can do it too. Love it. Great message. We're talking to Jack car the author of the terminal is follow him at Jack car USA also go to his website official Jack Carr dot com read the books I'm into the first. I love the show, so I got the book. I'm listening to the book now. He knows how to do characters. He knows how to do dialog. Why? Because he read. That's what he did. He knows how to tell a good story, like so few concerns and patriots out there. Dear Friends are millions of Americans are waking up to a country. They simply do not recognize as they struggle to raise their families and pay the bills, the media and the corporations are saying that they're the problem with America. Thankfully, there are some companies that still believe in America and are not woke. One of them is patriot mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone company in America. They believe in the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the sanctity of life, they don't give millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, like the other phone companies, make the switch today. I did the second the January 6th committee, the show trial committee subpoenaed my phone records, I said Verizon, you done. I switched my whole family over, I kept my old numbers. You can too special discounts for veterans and first responders. They have the same nationwide cavalry to use my name to get free activation switch today. Don't fund your enemies. 9 7 two patriot. Join the good guys who love America as much as you do. Patriot mobile dot com slash geo AKA. That's 9 7 two patriot 972-728-7468 or just go today. Patriot mobile dot com slash GOR KA. All right, last question or two. And then he has to get back to being the mega success he is and hanging out with, you know, people you may have heard of like Chris Pratt. Actually, I have to send you a copy of my book. So I'm going to get a mailing address and I'll send you a Chris a copy of my war for America's soul. Last question, this is from my wife who, you know, behind every great man is a greater woman. Are you optimistic? Jack Carr, or are you pessimistic for the future of manhood in America and in our civilization? Can it be brought back from the brink? This is something actually think about a lot. Publicly, I try to remain as optimistic as possible. I'm fairly optimistic type person in general. Looking for the good as much as I possibly can. But with everything going on, sometimes that's difficult because there are so many inputs these days that we didn't have before. These different inputs are not necessarily the most positive. And we have to be these days if you are a business owner, you have to have a storefront and a lot of times that storefront really is electronic. It's virtual. That's your storefront to the world in many cases. So I try to remain optimistic and what does give me hope is what I talked about a little bit earlier going back to the end of the Civil War. How divided we were and then what happened to bring us back together. So that is what gives me hope. And so I try to think about that if I ever get discouraged and think about how we've been in these situations before, the answers are in the pages of history. I wish we could just go back to them and by we, I specifically mean some of those people who we elect to represent us in D.C. and the bureaucrats that they put into different positions that stay there for so long. I wish that people would spend more time in the pages of the history because the answers are there and we can take those lessons and apply them going forward as wisdom, not just in four or 8 year election cycles, but ten, 20, 30 generationally. And that's really what we owe the next generation. We're not making these decisions. These votes that we cast aren't really for us there for our children and our grandchildren and that's a responsibility for our generation is to hand them over the same freedoms that we enjoyed. And right now, that's it. It's tough. But the answers are in the pages of history. We are living on the shoulders of giants, but we have real men that are protecting us today. Drank has been one of them. We are very grateful to you, the service you have provided this nation with all your buddies from bud. For me, it was judo and rugby, but whatever it takes, guys. Now get back to writing those books in those scripts. This is the first episode of the man who'd our, but of course it's a Friday, so we closed the show every Friday with the words of my former boss, the 45th president of the United States. We will not bend. We will not break. We will not yield. We will never give in. We will never give up. We will never back down. We will never, ever surrender. My fellow Americans are movement is far from over. In fact, our fight has only just begun..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"All right, last couple of questions for you, Jack. First things first, life advice. I don't know if you've written a book. Maybe you should do a little bit of a life advice book, but if a young man comes to you, where do you start? I'll tell you what I tell to men and women who come to me for career advice. I'm not a seal. I'm not a snake eater, I served in the British Army reserves in an MI unit, but my thing has been national security for about 30 years now. And I say to the kids, I say, hey, I don't care if you want to be a neurosurgeon. I don't care if you want to be an artist or what I did for years, which is CT kind of terrorism for the DoD. Here's my one piece of advice for you. Put the stinking phone down and read a book. Every day and preferably a book by a dead guy who's been dead for, let's put it at Shakespeare. A guy who's been dead for at least 400 years. Ideally, a book that was written a few thousand years ago by a Greek dude in a toga. If you spend time with real books every day, you're going to be a success. I'm sure you agree because you are a bibliophile. What else would you say are just these little hacks that everybody needs to know, Jack? Well, yet you were right about that. Stop tweeting and start reading. That is kind of my thing that I pass along to as many people as I possibly can. Obviously, social media does have benefits, but it is also a time suck and pulls you away from doing those things that are important that are going to make you a better person and a better citizen, a better spouse, a better father. Jumping on Twitter and scrolling through Twitter and on Instagram, probably not going to do that. But it's also important who you follow on those platforms. Yes. As well. Following people that are always negative or asking the question, I think, what does this person or this entity, what action do they want me to take based on what they're doing right here? And if anything is too negative, I just get rid of it right away. Same thing with people in life as well. If they're not adding value to your life to your family's life, they have got to go. We only have so much time on this planet. You don't know if it's 5 minutes, 5 years, 50 years, you have no idea, but you know it's limited. And that's why I put so much time energy and effort into whether it's a tweet, whether it's an Instagram post or any sentence in my novels, a blog post, whatever it may be. I know someone has trusted me with their time and they're never getting that time back. And it's something I take very seriously. But as far as advice goes, putting that investment into that, this, this country, that if we all did that, some sort of service. That we would be a much more powerful country because now we've invested in this thing that is giving us so much. And what is it giving us? Freedom. Freedom to make our own choices. But if you're investing in that, now, now you're part of it. Today, you don't have to invest in it. You can just be a recipient of and your behaviors can be directed by people who do have the power, namely those tech companies and those politicians that we discussed. Essentially, making you a puppet on your one ride on this planet. So I think realizing that is of extreme importance. And then the other thing that I tell my kids, I say never miss an opportunity to make somebody's day. And I think if you go through life with that and at least somewhere in your head, then you're not just working on yourself, but you're having a positive impact on those around you..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"That's Salem now dot com Salem. Now dot com. So I broached the issue of being a warrior of weaponry Jack. Talk to us the bare minimum, not everybody is going to be a seal. Not everybody is going to be a delta tier one operator. But if you're a man, there are certain things you have to do. You have to be fit. You have to be prepared to use violence if necessary. I'm very grateful. This is a product placement. I've lost 40 pounds in the last three months. First time ever in 20 years of diet that worked for me, thank you, doctor Ashley Lucas. I'm going to plug because she's a rockstar. My PhD weight loss dot com. If gawker can do it, that's my brand new suit. If I can do it, where's the photographer with me with my Mustang, Eric? Let's put that one up there. That's what it feels like to be 40 pounds lighter. Go to my PhD weight loss dot com. Jack, where does fitness or just self discipline in the old seal standard or the Jordan Peterson? Tidy up your room and make your bed before you bitch and moan about somebody else. So what are the minimum requirements for being taken seriously as a man? Well, that is a very good question. And today obviously it comes down to what we talked about earlier, but and that's only because you can get away with it without being in shape. These days. But once again, we saw at the beginning of COVID, just how fragile society is. And that's why travel is so important. I think because you get to go around the world and you get to really experience how fragile society is can be and really appreciate what we have in this country. One on the stability side of the house, although we did get a little wake-up call during COVID on that. But also as far as options and opportunities that we have here that are available, nowhere else in the world. And that's why people want to come here. And then you get to think back and about history and you get to think about all the sacrifices that were made so that we can have these options and opportunities here. All the people who sacrificed their lives so that we could be here today, making our own decisions. Not being told what to do, not being born into a caste system, but really forming our own opinions on things and making our own decisions, living with the effects of those decisions, learning from them if we have failures along the way, but really getting to build what we want to build in this country. So travel being is so important. But that how fragile society is. Sometimes it takes an event, and we had it for a split second at the beginning of COVID. And I think people were worried, wait a second. If I do call 9-1-1, maybe someone's not going to be here to come save the day, not that they would be there anyway because they're going to arrive late. But and write reports on things. But maybe I should learn. I've been meaning to learn how to use a firearm as a husband, maybe I should that's something that I should do. Okay, and then things started to get a little bit more lax, food started to come back into the grocery stores. And people got back in their normal routines. But for a split second there, people started to think about self reliance. And what we're going to do if there wasn't food in the grocery store, or if there was no one on the other end of that call, if they called 9-1-1, hey, do I have fire extinguishers in the house? Do my kids know how to use them? Does the babysitter know how to use them? Maybe we should build a fire outside with the kids and go show them how to show my 11 year old how to use a fire extinguisher in case I'm not home. That sort of a thing. So how much food do we have in the house? How much water do we have? And not crazy prepper type stuff. This is just normal things that you would have had to do for most of human history. Prepared. Do I know how to use a tourniquet? What do we have in the house as far as medicines go or first aid kits go and trauma kits go? Do I know how to use any of this sort of thing? So those questions people asked at the beginning of COVID, but I think that's kind of we got back into the comfort zone. Again, but someday there will be something that happens and event natural or otherwise that will necessitate us being a little more self reliant. And it's our responsibility as citizens of this country and so we're talking about manhood on this podcast as men to be as prepared as possible. And it all depends on your comfort level, where you live in a city in the country, that sort of a thing, what family members you have allowed, what your community is like. So it's going to be a little bit different for everybody, but the baseline is being prepared. Yeah, it's just basically common sense. But it also, you're so right to put it into the context of the last two two and a half years as an immigrant to this country, somebody who chose to come here to become an American citizen and still sees it as the greatest nation on God's earth. I am very saddened by the general lack of courage I've witnessed amongst my fellow Americans when it's one restaurant owner in California, one gym owner in New Jersey who says, no, no, no. You're not shutting down my business. I get to feed my kids my employees get to feed my kids. That should have been Americans in general. Because that's how America was built. Rugged individualism the pioneer spirit. And that's what you're going to find if you read the terminal list. All of the books in the series and you got to stream the show right now..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"And I didn't quite know how to take that, but once again, power popular culture. It's a real. I have to ask you, were you the odd man out? Were you the ugly duckling in your seal squadron that you were so into books and so literary or did you find other people who shared that passion? I'm just curious. When you're in the team room, you're not surrounded by your personal book. So people that came over to my house or my apartment at the time, they'd see books everywhere and that's just been a natural part of my life. But I'm also not just reading these thrillers. I'm also studying warfare from a very early age. Anything non fiction on specifically terrorism, counterinsurgencies, insurgencies. I'm reading all those things because I know my path. And I know that I'm going into the military and I know that the wars of the future are going to be focused on terrorist groups growing up in the 80s and remembering the Time Magazine and newsweek and the newspaper headlines with the Beirut barracks bombings and 83 TWA 8 four 7 Pan Am over Lockerbie. All these different things were very impactful. And I would study them and I would study terrorism. I would study these different terrorist groups. That has never stopped. And that also helped to form the basis for these novels because I'm reading the thrillers. I'm studying the non fiction side of the house. Now I have this real world experience in Iraq and Afghanistan that all comes to a head when I start writing. But to be a leader in the military, it was also my duty to study these things to study the culture where we're going as well. So I can make the best decisions under fire for my guys that I possibly can. Reading is a part of that, understanding the enemy is a part of that. Understanding them so you can anticipate how they're going to adapt to what you're doing because warfare as we know, it's a game of adaptation and your capitalizing on momentum, you're looking for gaps in the enemy's defenses. And as your duty as an officer to have studied or anybody in the military to have studied that enemy and to make the best decisions you possibly can for the guys that you're leading into combat. For those who are listening to this podcast are not watching us on rumble, he's sitting in front of the crossed hatchet symbol and he's got a very nice double barrel hammer gun on the wall. Let's have a little shout out for one of the stars of the terminal list. It is the combat hatchets that are used by the star Chris Pratt. They are from winglet knives. This is not a paid promotion. I'm just very, very impressed with that website. Oh, he's got one in his hand right now. Look at that. Nicely, nicely down there. A bit of product placement, a wing clear knives. It is a throwback to a less subtle age, but it is just as an effective weapon I may big, big Second Amendment gun guy. We'll talk about that next. Make sure that you are subscribed to all our social media accounts. We are everywhere except the fascistic YouTube. So we are on truth social on Twitter on Instagram, Facebook, you name it all of our video content is at rumble dot com slash said gorka Uncle Tom two is the eye opening documentary everyone in America should see. Sebastian gorka here, an Uncle Tom two offers a compelling and brave analysis of the true history of black America, the cultural shift from prosperity, integrity, and faith to the current perceived state of anger, discontent and victimhood. Uncle Tom two offers historical footage, photos correspondence and date to reveal the genuine strides of black America in the 20th century, the deliberate Marxist strategy to create racial tension and replace God with government, the NAACP's sinister agenda, the fall of black Harlem, the truth behind Black Lives Matter and the demoralization of America for political power. Don't miss Uncle Tom two from executive producer Larry elder and director Justin Malone, with Brandon Tatum, volleyball and Chad O Jackson. Watch the movie on demand or by the DVD now at Salem now dot com..
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"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"It's like Lincoln walder warned us a house divided can not stand. You've got to go to his website. He is the author of the terminal list Jack Carr former seal go to official car dot com. I'm Sebastian gorka. This is the inaugural episode of the manhood hour. Make sure you are subscribed, never, ever miss any of our one on ones, especially our new manhood hour go to Spotify plugin my name, give us a 5 star review and never, ever miss an episode. My pillow is having their biggest sheet sale of the year. You all have helped build my pillow into the amazing company than it is today. Now, Mike lindell, my buddy, the inventor and CEO, wants to give back to my listeners. The per Cal bedsheet set is available in a variety of colors and sizes, and they're on sale. For example, the queen size is regularly 89 98, but now for you just $39 and 98 cents with your listener promo, order now because when they're gone, they're gone. The purple sheets are breathable and have a cool crisp feel. They come with a ten year warranty and a 60 day money back guarantee. Don't miss out on this incredible offer. It's a limited supply, so be sure to order. Now, call one 808 two 9 8 four 6 8 promo code gawker or just go to my pillow dot com, click on the radio list to square and plug in. That's one 808 two 9 8 four 6 8, or my pillow dot com, code gawker..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"It. You became a seal. And now you are a world famous author. So it's an incredible story. I'm going to dive straight in. I think the reaction to your TV show gives us a clue. But the first question I have for you in the man who dies inaugural episode is, Jack Carr is masculinity in trouble, maybe in certain circles, but it's only in trouble if it is because we're so comfortable and we're in such a place of affluence. And maybe a little bit of naivete as well, where it can be. For most of human history, it couldn't be. Because you had to defend this gift of life that you've been given. You had to defend that same gift that's been given to your spouse, your children, your community, your tribe, your country. And then you had to put also food on the table. And a lot of those same tools that were used to put food on the table were also the ones used to defend that gift of life to defend your tribe, your country, your family. So only now for the slimmest slice of human history, how we've been able to think we can dial 9-1-1 and someone will come to our aid, or go down to the grocery store, pick something off the shelf and serve it to our family that evening with no thought to where it came from, how much work went in to making that chicken appear on your dinner table. So for most of human history, you've had to be good at those things. The fighting and the procurement of food. But today, maybe you don't have to be until you do. Until you do on that note, we have an amazing clip will play for you in a moment. One of the best lines from the TV show. I asked for something really, really powerful for my producer Jeff, and he came through with it. You say comfort, perhaps, is one of the issues of all the issues out there, whether it's ideology, whether it's work ism, whether it's the influence of a liberal Hollywood, the breakdown of the classic family unit or marriage or the decline of faith in America, of all these, do you see one that's more important than the others in terms of the damage it has wrought to the role model of the men that we showed at the opening of this show? Is it faith? Is it comfort? Where do you think the locus? To put it in military terms, where's the center of gravity for our enemy in this war on men? There's a few things there, but that family unit obviously is the most powerful, almost essential element of a building, any society. But the education system is really the one that jumps to the forefront of my mind. Of course, we have a lot of issues and there's also people who benefit from us having these issues and having this division, namely, tech companies, and the political elite on this side. So we have this L ambush that most of society is walking right into because we have to live. We have to have businesses. We use these tech companies for the business side of the house and obviously we elect representatives to government. But we're walking right into this L ambush here. And those two elements, they benefit from that division. Politicians to galvanize spaces, obviously tech companies first for profit and secondly now to impact behaviors and thoughts. So we do have that, but really that education system is one that jumps to the forefront because there are so many issues with it and then COVID, of course, has thrown gasoline on this fire and when it comes back to reading, we talked about reading how important that was to me and when you look at some of these statistics, I was just looking at them this morning when it comes to reading and where our country is. Let's say this from my fourth novel, the devil's hand. I put myself in the enemy shoes and it started before COVID in 2019 and I thought, what is the enemy learned by watching us on the field of battle for these last 20 years? And that's how it started. Then COVID hit. And I thought, well, the enemy is certainly taking notes on our response to COVID. Then a summer of civil unrest unfolds. Well, the enemies just not looking at this and going about their business. They're drawing lessons and figuring out how they can incorporate those into future battle plans. Then a very contentious political season is upon us and contentious election cycle. So the enemy is learning from all those things. And my takeaway was, it was pretty depressing. And it was, well, if I was the enemy right now and by enemy, I mean Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, super empowered individuals, terrorist organizations. If I was one of those entities, I might not do much right now, because we're doing a good job of destroying ourselves from the inside. And of course, that doesn't make for a very dynamic novel, so I had to get creative on how to move the action forward. But that was my takeaway. We're doing a pretty good job of destroying ourselves from the inside and who benefits. Really, those politicians and those tech companies and the rest of us are stuck here in this ambush trying to figure it out..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"Let's start, let's talk about you before we get to what is manhood and what's your take on it? And it's about a photograph I saw of you online, sitting, I guess in your home, with this massive bookcase full of books behind you. And I thought, you know, I've worked with the green berets for over a decade. I've briefed the guys at Daniel creek, coronado. I know seals pretty well as well as the green berets. They never struck me as, you know, hugely bibliophiles, but you have an interesting story about who your mom was and why you are such an avid reader that fills into your capacity to tell stories about warriors. So for those who missed Andrew clavin show, tell us about your passion for the written word Jack. Well, yeah, it really stands for my earliest days. My mom was and still is to this day, a librarian. So we grew up with books and a love of reading and I still have most of those books that I grew up with. Some of them are in the shelves that are behind me in that photo you're referenced, but they're a lot more books than that in boxes all over the place and I'm about to get them all organized and moved into an actual library. But we grew up with reading and it was natural, just as natural as sitting down to dinner. We're going for a hike or whatever else. It was just a natural it wasn't forced upon us. It was a natural part of our upbringing. And I found out what I wanted to do very early on in life, I had this call to serve and a lot of that was just innate, but some of it came, I'm sure, from pictures of my grandfather, who was killed in World War II, I have pictures of him with his corsair fighter plane. So that's the one that had the gull wings that would fold up like that. There's a show in the late 70s, early 80s called black sheep squadron with Robert Conrad portraying pappy boynton and it was kind of my connection to my dad's connection to that generation. So I knew I was headed into the military, but at the ripe old age of 7, I found out what seals were. And my mom, of course, took me to the library. We researched seals, found out about their history and in the early 80s there wasn't much written. You could read it in about an hour. And today obviously you can spend the rest of your life reading about special operations, but not back then. And so I've said on the path. But then by about 5th grade, that's when hunt for red October came out. And then for sure by 6th grade, when I'm 11, I'm reading the same books as my parents. And drawn to those because a lot of the protagonists, if you remember, the main characters in books in the 80s and 90s, they had a background while background that I wanted in real life one day, but typically it was the Vietnam veteran. He was a navy seal. He was an army special forces guy. CIA paramilitary marine sniper. So I'm reading books by Tom Clancy, Nelson DeMille, AJ quinnell, JC Pollock, Mark olden, all these authors who had that background for their protagonists. And so I'm reading these in my very formative years and I knew that one day after my time in the military, I would write thrillers, just like that. So it's stunning. That story is really an encapsulation of the American way. You found something, you had a passion for you identified your own mission at the very young age and you went after.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"You can follow him on Twitter at Jack Carr USA. We're going to dive a little bit into this Internet phenomena that is the terminal list TV show on Amazon Prime. I'm Sebastian gorky former strategist for president Trump. This is America first. If you enjoyed this show as much as we love providing it to you, make sure you never miss anything, go to your favorite podcast platform, go to Spotify, plug in my name Sebastien gawker. It's free. Right at the 5 star review share the links and never miss an episode. We'll be back after these messages. Tuberculosis it's an honor to talk to you. I'm also an immigrant since August 19th, 1968, and I love this country. This country owes me nothing. And I owe it everything. That's why I serve. Wow. This is America first with Sebastian gorka. The best listeners, guys. That liner from that listener, an immigrant veteran. This country owes me nothing I owe it everything. God bless every single one of you, happy Friday. It is Friday, Second Amendment Friday complacency is a weakness that we patriots can not afford for this reason car firearms is teaming up with us here at America first. Car believes Americans shouldn't be afraid to publicly stand up and advocate for our liberties. This is about more than being a gun enthusiast. This has become a very personal issue as we struggle for the soul of our republic. Carr wants America first listen to know that they are not afraid to publicly support Second Amendment Fridays. Check out their amazing line of U.S. made weapons at kahr dot com. I carry a 9 millimeter meter car they also own the iconic line of desert eagles, auto audience 19 11s Thompson's you name it, just go to HR dot com dot com. We are back with lieutenant commander U.S. Navy seal Jack car the author of terminal list and numerous other books you need to read today. We're going to talk about the foundations he supports, but now we have to discuss Chris Pratt as commander Reese, the hero or is he a hero? I don't want to give it away, but what do you call him? Is he a hero? Because he gets up to some pretty dark staff commander. He does. He does. And to me, he always is. He's the protagonist. He's the main character. He's the hero. It was interesting when the show came out to hear people label him an anti hero or ask the question about is he an anti hero, which is a more popular term, from the late 90s in popular culture onward. But to me, yeah, he's a hero. He's the little guy. He's the person the establishment wants to crush. And in this case, actually kill and remove from the battlefield. And but, of course, they messed with the wrong person. And he has this skill set that also, but he also thinks he's dying. And that was important to me because growing up in the 80s, that voice-over that they would have in the movie theaters before trailers that would always say something like he has nothing left to lose. And I always thought, well, he could die, or he could go to prison or there's all sorts of things to lose. And I really needed to put a modern day warrior in essentially what the ancient samurai would do. And that sort of a mindset. And they would go into battle thinking they were already dead because they thought that made them more effective and efficient warriors. So I thought, how do you do that in today's day and age? And I went back to the church hearings of the 70s and some of the some overreach by certain agencies in the federal government testing of drugs on prisoners on mental institution patients, college students, and members of the military. And so I put that in modern day and put him in a situation. James Reese, where he thinks he is dying. And so he has to complete this list and use all the skills, but also essentially become the insurgent that he had been fighting, or at that time, the last 16 years, now it would be 20 years at war. So he becomes this insurgent using the tactics and techniques that the enemy used against us against people in this country who gave his tumors and took out his family. So it was very therapeutic to write on many levels. I'm sure. I'm sure it is absolutely binge worthy guys..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"It. So off we went to the races. All right, well, guys, you've got to watch it. I'm not going to give away any spoilers right now. It's rather different in the next segment we'll discuss what's different about this lead character and the character that is played by Chris Pratt. But first things first, I need you to explain a little bit about the frogmen because I've worked a little bit with them. I've briefed the guys at dam neck, but I've spent most of my time with the guys in the Q course at JFK, the green berets at Bragg. And these are different cultures, very, very different to me. In all warriors, total total warriors, but the seals are different from the green berets and the green berets are different from the airborne, the rangers and everything else. Give us your a couple of words, a couple of adjectives for what special about the frogman community. But we all have, we all have, there's some blurred lines there. So we share some mission sets. I would say that we focus on different mission sets, even though we share similar ones, army special forces, of course, is known for language capability, being able to go into a foreign country, build up a military to either overthrow a government or that sort of thing. The unconventional warfare side of the house. But when you're talking about irregular warfare, of course, and you have direct action missions, you have special reconnaissance, you have kind of proliferation of nuclear biological chemical weapons, counter terrorism type missions. So there's all these different mission sets. And each group tends to focus a little bit differently because of their history and some of their experiences, but really the proving ground for a lot of us was Vietnam. And that was really a watershed moment in special operations history. Of course, we trace our lineage back further than that. But Vietnam is really aware as a seal community we came in to our own. But I wasn't clear. I'm not talking about the different mission sets IW V, UW or DA and everything else. I'm talking about characters. There's a different characteristic seals carry themselves differently from green berets. What would you say is the difference in comportment or because there is? They're different. You can spot one. I'm sorry. I mean, you can spot a seal, and I can now spot a Q course graduate. And it's different. It's different. Don't you agree? I do, and I use this gear clothing vehicles to develop my characters in the novels, but just like you, I can see somebody that would walk here onto the property, maybe, and I'd say, ah, okay, gator sunglasses, hat turned backwards, flip flops, shorts, okay, knife clipped in the pocket. I can, okay, that's a seal that I can see somebody else come in and say, okay, a little different type of a hat, different types. Oh, please. They're Oakley's exactly what I was going for. Oakley's dead giveaway. So and I can tell. And you've got to have the Rolex sub Mariner. You got to have the Rolex sub Mariner, okay? Very popular. So you can definitely tell. But it's been so fun for me to get to know both when I was in the service. And now after a lot of special forces guys, I was just on my podcast actually with the guys that started horse soldier bourbon. I just got off with them. The 5th group guys that started that horse soldiers from back in the day, the first inn. So it's really a community that now, especially after the last 20 years, that we don't really have these silos as much anymore as I think we may have before September 11th, and thereafter, but it's really a brotherhood that you can tell I love this stuff, guys, come on, get into the groove, read these books. It's terminal list, the terminal is true believer, savage sun, the devil's hand in the blood, and just go to the website official Jack Carl official Jack Carr..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"You are probably enjoying an Internet phenomenon that is terminal list with Chris Pratt. I watched all of it last night as my wife fell asleep. I caught the last two episodes as well. I said, I gotta see this before my Friday guest arrived. Why? Because it's the man who wrote it, none other than U.S. Navy seal lieutenant commander Jack Kyle. Welcome to America first. Thank you so much for having me on. It's great to talk to you. All right, we're going to talk about the genesis of the book, the genesis of the TV show Chris peratt's involvement. But first things first, I got to get straight to it as a gun guy as a guy who likes edged weapons. Talk to me about why hatchets talk to me about I can see it on the wall back there. Is this the rediscovery of a primal weapon? What does it mean to you and to the guys on the teams? That's exactly what happened to have one right here. Nicely. Yeah, Winkler say tomahawk right here. That's the one from the show and from the books. But when I was creating the character, I wanted something kind of like the 21st century Rambo knife, those of us who grew up in the 80s and of course, remember that being a very important element of that series. And I thought, what is the weapon that I can associate with this character that also tells a story about him? Tells us that he is a student of warfare, but also applies it in a modern context. So I thought that tomahawk, we go back, of course, well, really to the beginning of time, but in America, to Rogers rangers and those mentioned hatchets, of course, I've been fascinated with hashes and Ed's web edge weapons since I was a little kid and also a lot of people carried them downrange in Iraq and Afghanistan. So I thought this was a weapon that I can associate with this character that really tells a story about him.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Welcomes Jack Carr, Author of 'the Terminal List'
"You are probably enjoying an Internet phenomenon that is terminal list with Chris Pratt. I watched all of it last night as my wife fell asleep. I caught the last two episodes as well. I said, I gotta see this before my Friday guest arrived. Why? Because it's the man who wrote it, none other than U.S. Navy seal lieutenant commander Jack Kyle. Welcome to America first. Thank you so much for having me on. It's great to talk to you. All right, we're going to talk about the genesis of the book, the genesis of the TV show Chris peratt's involvement. But first things first, I got to get straight to it as a gun guy as a guy who likes edged weapons. Talk to me about why hatchets talk to me about I can see it on the wall back there. Is this the rediscovery of a primal weapon? What does it mean to you and to the guys on the teams? That's exactly what happened to have one right here. Nicely. Yeah, Winkler say tomahawk right here. That's the one from the show and from the books. But when I was creating the character, I wanted something kind of like the 21st century Rambo knife, those of us who grew up in the 80s and of course, remember that being a very important element of that series. And I thought, what is the weapon that I can associate with this character that also tells a story about him? Tells us that he is a student of warfare, but also applies it in a modern context. So I thought that tomahawk, we go back, of course, well, really to the beginning of time, but in America, to Rogers rangers and those mentioned hatchets, of course, I've been fascinated with hashes and Ed's web edge weapons since I was a little kid and also a lot of people carried them downrange in Iraq and Afghanistan. So I thought this was a weapon that I can associate with this character that really tells a story about him.
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The Left's Latest Gun Control Efforts With Rep. Louie Gohmert
"This man right now, rep Louis gohmert. He's got half a million followers. I've retweeted the video that you've posted. It's about the Second Amendment. Really shocking footage coming out of Capitol Hill, not only do they want to take away our weapons congressmen. The Democrats have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to guns, do they? They really don't. And part of the legislation that they mentioned rimfire ammunition and I ask you guys even know what rem fire is. And they looked around and one of the staff handed them a note. Yeah, I think I know what it is. Well, anyway, they don't, and they are wrong about so many things. And you would think if you're going to be trying to take away a constitutional right that you would need to be right about what little you were trying to get right. But it is a dangerous situation and Sebastian, I know you, I know your knowledge of the world. I know how well versed you are in other nations rises and falls. And what we're looking at here that want to take away guns, they haven't been able to repeal the second amendment. So they came up with one way they could do that. And that is to make gun manufacturers liable for any criminal act with a gun. And I know that would put every gun manufacturer out of business.
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"jack carr" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"It's a high protein diet, especially meat as much meat as you want, which is relevant to our next guest who was supposed to be on the show at the beginning of the week, but Texas is very own Louie gohmert, congressman gohmert. What were you doing on Monday when I wanted you on my show? Well, we didn't have votes until 6 30, 99. And so I planned for some time to be here and start at 7 30 in the morning and cook ribs all day long and then serve them. The Democrats say it's only time I ever leave them with a good taste in their mouth, but hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, congressman. Did you actually give some of your ribs to the Democrats? Yeah, I actually did. Actually, the best compliment I've ever gotten. And I mean, I had people that can't stand me, but they were coming up and just going on about how good they were. But Luis slaughter has passed on. She used to be Democrat chair of the rules committee, and she told me, you know, Louis, I snuck a few ribs homes on that evening and it wasn't worried about my husband eating them because it sees them strict vegetarian. And I set them down to catch a cabinet change clothes when I came back to the kitchen, my husband standing there, my ribs were gone. I could wear my ribs and he said, I hate them. She said, but you're a strict vegetarian. He said, oh, I need those ribs. Oh my gosh. Hang on, I need to know what's the secret? Is it the rob? What's the secret to your ribs? Yeah. Yeah, I started with LBJ secret rib rub and modified it to where I liked it better. And that's what I used. No marinating, just put on a mixed up the rub Sunday knot and this was putting that on the ribs and put them on the charcoal grill. All right, I need to eat. I need to try some of those ribs. I will get dispensations..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Former WH Physician Ronny Jackson Describes the Stress of the Big Job
"Please give us your experience years and years in The White House serving multiple presidents as their physician. Let's stay on this issue for a second. You know, I'm not complaining, but I was in the west wing at 7 a.m., sometimes we were there till 8, 9 at night. It was a long job for just me, a deputy assistant. But for a president of any party, how stressful a job is this, from a medical point of view. It's incredibly stressful, both physically and mentally. And you have to be able to multitask like nobody's business. I mean, you know this. He'll drop down the elevator in the morning or be walking back from the oval in the evenings and the entire day that he's over in the oval in the west wing. He's got multiple people coming at him with different issues, you know, domestic issues. You know, foreign affairs issues just, you know, you have to be able to manage all that stuff. You have to be able to take that in and make decisions. And it's very, very stressful. And it's very, very fatiguing, and you're right. He had more energy than I had. We'd go on overseas trips sometimes and would fly for 13 hours on Air Force One, end up in Southeast Asia. We'd leave Andrews Air Force Base here in D.C. at 9 o'clock in the morning. We'd get there and it'd be 9 o'clock in the morning again and we'd have a 14 hour day ahead of us and we had to get off the plane and work the Secret Service detail the medical folks, the military aid and the president and we'd do this all day and it was the most fatiguing thing you can imagine. And at the end of the day, the one person that had the most energy was Donald Trump and if somebody wanted to talk to him and there were people in the lobby waiting they wanted to say hi to him, everybody else was thinking about nothing but getting in the bed. He would have the energy to go downstairs and just and talk to people like he had just woke up. So the man's got incredible energy, incredible endurance, and it's a complete opposite of what we have in The White House right now.
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Rep. Ronny Jackson: Joe Biden Should Take the Test!
"When they challenged president Trump that he's too old and he's not up to it? Well, he took the test. Let's play the car. I said to the Doctor Who was doctor Ronnie Jackson. I said, is there some kind of a test? An acuity test. And he said there actually is, and he named it, whatever it might be. And it was 30 or 35 questions. The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question. It's like you'll go person, woman, man the president walked us through it in that interview with Mark Siegel, he discussed it from the podium. And then afterwards, he was given a school. What was that score? That's awesome man himself. Presidential White House position rear admiral Ronnie Jackson. Now congressman Jackson from Texas is 13 district. Remind our millions of listeners, congressmen, admiral. How did our old boss do on that test? Sebastian, he did great. I can barely hear you though. There's another fate in my ear right now, but I think you're asking me how the president did on the test. Yes. He did extremely well. I mean, he passed with blind colors. And I'm pretty convinced that our current president would have no opportunity whatsoever to get anywhere close to that. So we've got a big issue right now, but president Trump set the standard. He established the precedent and I think that that's something that everyone should do now. And Joe Biden should submit to the test as well. All right, so
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"jack carr" Discussed on Gun Talk
"That looks to be a good one. Yeah, if you like what I just vindication, righteous violence, that is the one. Oh, that was fun. Have a Jack car on. Like I said, I enjoy reading his books. I got the medium at a bit last year, and he's the real deal. Obviously, sort of a number of years in the Middle East with the navy seals doing combat stuff. Very good writer knows his guns likes guns still shoots guns, you know, he's just he's been there done that and shares a lot of that. And it has a great imagination as well. If you like thrillers, I would encourage you to take a look at them. Jack Carr. Newest book in the blood comes out in a couple of weeks. And of course we got the Amazon prime series. The terminal list. Great premise. Love the premise on that one. If you think you would like to watch the series, one of the things I like to do when I know that movie is coming out that I think I'd like a lot of times I'll go read the book first. And people say, well, the movie is not as good as the book. Yeah, they can't be. It's like, okay, book is 400 pages, and then the script for the movie is a hundred pages. Stuff gets left out, has to. At the same time, this is an ongoing series. So it'll be a lot longer than a movie. So maybe they can get more stuff in. But the other thing that happens, at least for me, I don't know if it works this way for you. But when I'm watching a movie based on a book and I've read the book, I don't look at the movie and say, oh, wow, you know, they didn't include this. I actually got the other way and say, I just fill in what I know and remember from the book and to me it makes the movie that much richer, that much denser, you will. I can add in stuff that I know that happened originally that had to get left out. So anyway, just a thought for you there. Yeah, we talked about Jason Burton will have him on here just a little bit. Talk about 19 11s when the things I want to ask him is, if you had a specialized in a customizing a gun, why the 1911? Get his answer on that. Compared to shooter instructor as well. Let's see, there are new guns out. See, what was the one just came out? Got to make sure I get this right, okay? Oh, Walter is a new version of their PDP pistol? Yeah. They call it the F, which kind of don't like the name. It's for female, I guess. PDP F series, especially with for a woman's hand, I like the PDP pistol. I think it feels good. And what they've done is they've trimmed it down a little bit. We grew up and everything else. And actually, I haven't shot it yet. We have one in the office. I just have a shot at it. Easier to work the slide. And what's going to happen? It's kind of like a nighthawk custard brought out the ladyhawk. Really nice pistol, a 1911. They trimmed it down, made it more comfortable. Supposedly for women, except that a lot of us shot it and went, oh man, this feels good. And.
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"jack carr" Discussed on Gun Talk
"Jason, he makes those gorgeous. As a result, you don't know this, but coming up our next guest is going to be Jason Burton right behind you. Talk about. That's great. I love that guy. He's fantastic. Oh, he is. It's like, you know, I asked her I said, well, Jason, how do you, how could you get $8000 for a 1911? He says, I just polish it till I can get 18. $8000 for it. It's simple. And he built wonderful guns. Together, actually. We're in the beginning stages of working on what he's working on, we're still looking for the right pitch to build out. But we're in the beginning stages of him working on something pretty special for me. So that's terrific. Yeah, and we've done videos with Jason. And he's not only a gun builder. He's a competitor. He's a destructor. And unfortunately, he's Friends with rob Latham, but I can forgive him a lot of things. So what are you going to do, right? What can you do? Yeah, exactly. Let me ask you a question. How do you stay up on all your gun stuff? Is it just because you're in it? Or do you make a conscious effort to work at it? Yes, I was always into it before my time in the military. I didn't come to firearms through the military. It was just something that was drawn toward very early in life. It made sense to me. I think it's just flowing through my blood was, hey, we're American citizens and it's our responsibility to defend this gift of life and defend the lives of those who are responsible for spouse, children, community, and so I just came to it very naturally and was studying firearms my whole life. Any magazine I could get any book I could get when I was growing up and then started training as soon as I possibly could. I was on the range, got my concealed carry as soon as I possibly could as soon as that was legal going through my course and got all that and just was around gun culture, really my entire life. So I came to the seal teams very comfortable, particularly with a pistol. And then, of course, got to do a lot more M4 type work once I got to the end to the military. And then I kept training on the side the whole time. So even though I was getting trained in the military and the seal teams, anytime somebody would pass through town like Larry Vickers or pat McNamara or I'd go up to thunder ranch and continue training there. So I was always training on the side as well, just wanted to keep those kids, make those skills, keep them as high as I possibly could, continue to build, continue to evolve, continue to learn. I've always been a student of the gun just like I'm a student of writing and I want to make each book better than the last and continue to move the genre forward even if it's just by a degree each and every time because that's what I think I owe my readers who have decided to trust me with their most valuable asset, their time that they're never going to get back. So guns to me are just a natural part of life. And I stay up with it just like I stay up with eating and sleeping and writing and everything else just a natural thing for me. Well, it is terrific. Jack Carr, thank you for your time. Thank you for your effort your work. I love reading your books and I can not wait to see the Amazon series coming out here..
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"jack carr" Discussed on Gun Talk
"Back up here. I'm Tom Gresham. We're talking about Jack Carr. He is the author of a number of novels, the latest one out in two weeks is in the blood. It'll be out in two weeks. And actually in two months from today, the new Amazon series breaks based on Jack your first book, the series, the terminal list starting Chris Pratt, you want to tell us about that and kind of what it's like being on the set when they're doing all of this. Oh, absolutely. That's right. It's may 1st. Yeah, I didn't even thought of that too much to go. Yeah, oh my gosh. It's pretty surreal to walk on one of these sets. And especially when you have the exact person that you wanted to portray your character, actually doing it, and you have the director, Antoine fuqua, the only person you wanted to direct, directing it. So it was an incredible experience, but what really stuck out to me was when I walked on how similar it was to a military operation. I didn't expect that, but you walked on and there's craft food services because you know what? You got to feed the troops. Just like in the military. And then you have the explosives guy, just like in a platoon or a troop. You have your breacher. You have your explosives expert. So we have that same thing on set. We had the armorer on set, just like you would in a seal platoon or troop. And that person is checking the weapons in and out from the actors. And then you have the director, Antoine, who's like the commanding officer of the team. And he's setting that tone strategically for everything that happens. And then you have Chris Pratt and he's like the troop commander, which is actually playing in the series. Setting the tone tactically for everyone. So it was incredible to see. And because of COVID, we couldn't put Chris through a boot camp, but luckily he didn't really need it because he is very comfortable around firearms. So I honestly had the right person. And so on the set, I was very lucky that I had seals and rangers there. Each and every day to make sure that the weapons handling was on point. Because sometimes even if the weapons handling is on point, the camera is in the wrong direction. You know what it looks like, it makes it look like it's not so there's a lot of that going on as well. So but I could not be more thrilled with how things turned out. Chris, absolutely. Is it crushing? And weapons people are going to like this. You make a good point about the camera angle, let me tell you how many times I've had people comment because I've made a lot of TV shows about shooting guns and a lot of videos and people saying, oh, you know, he was pointing that gun at somebody. You go, no, he really wasn't. But the camera angle can often make it look like that. And sometimes I'm just left with saying, you just got to trust me on this. Trust me, we're not really pointing loaded because we're using our loaded guns on our shoots and we're not really pointing loaded guns to people. And we're pretty careful about that. So when you're watching, and you know, I mean, you're a gun guy. You hear all the comments oh God, they exclude that up. Why didn't they get that right? And so you had to kind of bring a little bit of that to the thing. With your professional eye of, are they getting this stuff right? Oh, exactly. And of course, the novels are very gear centric because I'm a very I'm a gear guy was before my time in the military. It was certainly during my time in the steel themes and continue to be a gear person today. And you know when you see somebody walk up to a range and you can with one second once over, CNN, what they're carrying, how they're carrying it. What shoes they're wearing pants, belts, everything. It tells you something about them. So it helps develop the character. So I use these things to develop characters in the novels and the series was the same way. And there was no it was interesting. There was no product placement paid for in the series. And I think that's very unusual in Hollywood. So all of the gear, no one paid to have anything in this. It was all real and authentic and so I think people will appreciate that as well, just knowing that a gun company or a nice company or whatever didn't pay to be in the show. It's Amazon realized how important that was to the characters or the series. And kept it that way for this. So they went above and beyond getting the exact rifles and something a little different here and there just because there's some things you can't get. And if you can. But like the armorer went to Utah sat down with a rifle maker that built this certain rifle that I start the books with and I think the terminal list and of course made a few copies of it because you have to have a one that's completely rubber and doesn't work and then you have to have one that and night four side of the scope I used in the book they don't even make anymore. So we got that on there and so people should appreciate the detail, I think. That's cool. I certainly do when we work we work hard to get it right. In the latest book in the blood, I was laughing very early on in the book, talking about somebody's using adjacent Burton 1911. I'm thinking, wait, I know Jason, he makes those gorgeous. As a result, you don't know this, but coming up our next guest is going to be Jason Burton right behind.
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"jack carr" Discussed on Gun Talk
"On it. Okay, good deal. We're working on getting Jack car. He's the author of the new book beyond just a few minutes. A couple of weeks. See if we can get him on just a minute here. Give him a caller. It's always fun when you find an author who you really enjoy reading. And especially if it just keeps coming out, he or she comes out with books that July can go, can't wait for the next one. Can't wait for the next one. And that's the way it was when I started reading Jack Carr in his books, the protagonist is James Reese, former seal. Well, that works out pretty nicely since Jack Carr himself. He is a former CIA who joins us right now. Jack, thanks for being with us. Congrats on the new book, man. Thank you so much. And thanks for having me on. I always love talking to you. And yeah, I feel so fortunate that I get to have done one thing that I wanted to do with my life, which is to serve our nation in this field teams. And then now to be writing thrillers, which is the other thing that I wanted to do. So extremely fortunate every single day. The new book is out at a couple of weeks titled in the blood, it is part of the series that James Reese series. I guess were we ought to do this back all the way up, but you might just give people the cliff notes on your military service. Yeah, so I came in before September 11th and went through budge and maybe it's my first deal team in the pre September 11th years and then we thought we were going to be zipping all over the world doing secret missions from day one once the cross that quarter deck. But that wasn't the case. We had to wait till September 11th and then we really started to do what we thought we were going to do coming in and that was off to the races for the next up until really today. But got out in 2016 and I was wondering to write thrillers because I grew up really, my formative years were the 80s. So if you wanted to do research into the field teams, you could go to the library and it would take you maybe 5, 6 hours to read everything ever written about deal with that in the early 80s. Of course you can't you couldn't stop. You spent your whole life reading about special operations online if you started today and tried to do that. But I knew I wanted to do that from an early age and then I started reading the things that my parents were reading in about 5th grade. So I started reading Tom Clancy and Nelson DeMille and David morrell and AJ quin and JC Pollock and Mark golden and Louisa Moore and all these guys who had protagonists with backgrounds that I wanted to have one day. So typically it was the Vietnam marine sniper. It was the Vietnam seal. It was the Vietnam army special forces guy. It was the Vietnam era CIA paramilitary officer. So I started reading these books and it was so magical for me. It's such an impact that I knew that that is what I would do after my time in the military. So that's what I did. Very cool. And yeah, it's like you move from the Carlos hathcock era to the in the sandbox era and now with James Reese, your protagonist, you've got a guy who has done all of that and then done the what happens afterwards. I mean, I actually know a couple of guys who do what happens afterwards and they work for the three letter agencies and they really do go do a lot of this stuff that people think is fiction, don't they? There's certainly a lot going on. There was during the Cold War, there is today. And it's really enough because of this program. Sniper school for me was in 2000. So we're talking about Vietnam and we were still in 2000, still really reliant on all the lessons that is not just in the sniper arena, but really all tactics techniques and procedures based off Vietnam thereof. And then after September 11th, we started morphing those tactics because obviously fighting in the 10,000 feet in Afghanistan is a little different than in the jungle and the new con delta. But same thing with sniper school, it was much more of an art when I went through in 2000 and then with all over the last two decades, a lot of changes on the science side. So blending that art and that science of sniping is something that I've used in this novel and I'm sure continue to use going forward. Well, I finished it yesterday. It's fabulous because you kind of got some of the old school of almost futuristic stuff going on in here, which is very cool. The cyber world and what's going on there. And that's all part of it these days. And we're always known that there are things going on in the protection of the country that we don't really know about. And honestly, I think a lot of us say, you know, there's stuff that I don't really need to know about. Is that a fair assumption? Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you need to know about it enough because right now, oh my goodness, I went down the rabbit hole, researching artificial intelligence, quantum computing, mass data storage, surveillance of U.S. citizens. And a lot of the books that have been written about that were already outdated. I mean, right now, technology is evolving so quickly that even if it's like I read Edward Snowden's book. So that's already a decade old, essentially, and things have moved forward quite a bit since then. And I got to have talked to people who had touch points in the national security arena, just like I did with the last book, the devil's hand where I go into the biowarfare bioweapons side of things. Well, everybody in those worlds, whether it's the bioweapon side of the house, or this data collection side of the house with quantum computing and artificial intelligence, they all leave out something. So they don't want to trust any lives..
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"Travis and buck Sexton sound off Welcome to everybody to the clay Travis and buck Sexton show that a lot to get to with you today on updates from the battlefield in Ukraine What are EU partners going to do about this NATO partners what's going to happen with these MiGs the Polish offered up that looks like they're not going to make their way all the way to Ukraine At least not yet The political fight back here at home over energy the Biden administration wants it both ways They're not standing in the way of energy except it's going to end the world if we don't stop using fossil fuel so which one is it They're lying to you even more about the don't The parental rights bill in Florida We need to stop using the term that they use for it because it is meant as one of propaganda It is a lie but that's how they've managed to get so much attention for all of this And beyond that I have a story I want to talk to you about with the Shackleton voyage So the Shackleton ship endurance was found Under the sea That'll be later on in the show I just love that book The book endurance about the actual the non fiction book about the shackling voyage will talk to you about that later That's a book recommendation for the weekend Going to mix things up We got our friend Raheem kassam joining later on in the program to talk to you about he's from the national interest editor in chief there Carol markowitz he's going to talk about Ukraine Carol markowitz joining to talk about the slow walk away from we know masks work We know lockdowns work to oh I mean like not really And they're saying this in The New York Times but we'll dive into that And then the bottom of this hour actually coming up just a few minutes Jack Carr former navy seal sniper number one bestselling New York Times author of a thriller series the terminal list He'll be with us I wrote an op-ed with him on Fox News.