#080 - Eddie Gallagher and Donut Operator - War Crimes

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jarred Taylor and Eli Cuevas host special guests Eddie Gallagher and Donut Operator. Eddie is a former Navy SEAL accused of war crimes who was later found innocent after a highly publicized court martial procedure. Donut Operator is a popular internet personality who brought recognition to the case when he published a video to YouTube breaking down all the facts and evidence available to him at the time. The video conflicted with the mainstream media's portrayal of Eddie and rallied the support of thousands to Eddie's defense.

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0:00.0	You have now entered Free Range American Podcast, presented by black rifle coffee.com.
0:15.5	This is a new bunch for Free Range American.
0:18.8	Hi.
0:19.1	Wow.
0:20.2	Hi, Eli.
0:39.2	Hi. You're my goodness. We have two guests. Introduce yourself. Well, all right. Eddie first. Eddie Gallagher, second time being on here. Yes, second. You were one of the first. That shot show, yeah. The first eight that we ever did. The OGs. Yeah. And then we've got donut operator returning.
0:41.3	Hey, guys. You've done this before.
0:45.1	Yep. Now, you're here specifically planned.
0:47.0	We planned you. Yeah. Planted me. Because you guys have some.
0:49.2	Some stories. Bad blood, right?
0:51.6	Yeah. You guys have been more to settle it today. Going back and Twitter on Instagram and things like that. No, how is it? How is it that you guys came about to know each other? When he was getting into trouble, like the very first of the trouble, I made a video about his whole situation breaking everything down from what I could read that was publicly available,
1:11.3	and it hit like two and a half million views.
1:13.8	It wasn't just headline garbage.
1:15.9	You know,
1:16.1	you actually went into the details for everybody.
1:18.2	I tried the best I could.
1:19.4	You actually looked into it and investigated it unlike everybody else in the case.
1:23.3	Yeah, and random YouTube guy here.
1:25.5	I was like talking your wife and talking all his best friends and people we deployed with. And like, no one was really doing that. Reporting? What? Yeah, that thing. Investigative facts. Reporting. Sanity. Without bias. Critical thinking. Because you didn't know him. You didn't have a bias. You didn't have a goal. They spoke to to him until the video was released. You just wanted to know yourself. Did you initially set out like I'm making a video on this? Or was it you started to even just read past the headline and go, wait a minute, there's more to this story. Yeah. Like that's my whole YouTube channel was always saying read past the headlines,
2:01.1	and I was looking at all the headlines, and they were just slaying him, like, not one good thing.
2:06.0	New York Times doesn't like you, right?
2:08.1	Yeah, well, Dave Phillips from New York Times.
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