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Mike Drop

019 Jack Carr

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.96.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

What do you get when you take a SEAL from enlisted to officer, leading men on the battlefield fighting the war on terror to a first time thrilling fiction author with a story based on his knowledge of the government & special operations? Jack Carr is what, ladies & gentleman. Had a blast sitting down with him & catching up after 20 years talking about how his time fighting overseas influenced his brilliant writing career off the battlefield.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mic Drop. The podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings.

0:20.0

The consolidation of power at the federal level and the guys of public safety is a national trend and should be guarded against at all costs.

0:30.0

This erosion of rights, however incremental, is the slow death of freedom.

0:35.0

We have reached a point where the power of the federal government is such that they can essentially target anyone of their choosing.

0:41.0

Recent allegations that government agencies may have targeted political opponents should alarm all Americans regardless of party affiliation.

0:49.0

Revisionist views of the Constitution by opportunistic politicians and unelected judges with agendas that interpret the bill of rights to take power away from the people and consolidate it at all the federal level, threaten the core principles of the republic.

1:04.0

As a free people, keeping federal power in check is something that should be of a concern to us all.

1:09.0

The fundamental value of freedom is what sets us apart from the rest of the world.

1:14.0

We are citizens, not subjects, and we must stay ever vigilant that we remain so.

1:21.0

Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's a distinct honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the podcast.

1:27.0

He spent 20 years and is a retired Navy SEAL. He started off as enlisted, made his way to O4 as an officer, which deems him the bad ass coin term Mustang.

1:40.0

He owns Pineapple Brothers Hunting Company out of Hawaii. He does consulting for tactical operations, but most importantly, and why he's sitting across from me today, as is the author of the political thriller called Terminal List.

1:53.0

He put Grizzly Adams through Mountain Man School. Please welcome to the stage, Jack Carr.

1:59.0

Thanks for having me. It's awesome.

2:01.0

It's my pleasure. I appreciate you taking time out of your schedule. I know you're busy. You've been on a number of bad ass podcasts with some mutual friends of ours this week. Welcome to Texas.

2:11.0

Thank you so much for having me. It's a beautiful spot out here.

2:14.0

I appreciate it.

2:15.0

Absolutely love Texas and having to work out that I was going to come this way anyway with the kids to head up to Red River County and do a little hunting this weekend.

2:23.0

That's good stuff. We're going to get into that. It's been almost 20 years, I think, since we've seen each other.

2:29.0

Crazy. Yeah, we're just talking about that and how it was probably in the bar at Danny's and going out of the last time we saw each other.

2:36.0

I know, but I can't tell you how many crazy ass stories we both have from that place as well as every one of our frogmen brethren.

2:43.0

But it's a podcast and I know itself.

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