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The Operator With Rob O’Neill
Tetherball Academy Media
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This is the Operator Podcast With Robert O'Neill.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden. |
| 0:08.8 | Where we continue to follow the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden now. |
| 0:12.5 | Those are just some of the scenes overnight as thousands of Americans gathered in celebration of Osama bin Laden's death. |
| 0:19.0 | Former Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill says he has thought about the mission every day since that May Day in 2011. For multiple conversations you had with Rob O'Neal over the past a year and a half, how'd you get... And you described that his head kind of exploded when you hit him. I actually hit him three times, because I shot him twice when he was standing and once on the class. That is the fucking American bad ass. |
| 0:38.3 | Go go, go. |
| 0:39.3 | We are not going for fame and we are not going for bravado. |
| 0:44.3 | We are going for the single mom who dropped her kids off at elementary school on a Tuesday morning, |
| 0:51.3 | and then 45 minutes later she jumped to her death out of a skyscraper. |
| 0:54.7 | If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm Rob O'Neill, and this is the Operator Podcast. |
| 1:05.5 | Hello, welcome back to the Operator Podcast. I'm Robert J. O'Neill, former Navy SEAL. And this is going to be, let's see, |
| 1:18.9 | probably episode 157 is the episode here, but back in the studio, which is always a good thing. |
| 1:25.5 | Did a little traveling, went down to Texas and back. |
| 1:28.0 | Do you do that just to commute? |
| 1:30.9 | Like, I need to go do a podcast in Texas, |
| 1:32.9 | so I'll just fly out of Texas. |
| 1:35.0 | Do a podcast and come back. |
| 1:36.2 | It was good, though. |
| 1:36.7 | Good to get in the air and get back out amongst it. |
| 1:42.6 | Good to try to catch up and read. |
| 1:44.2 | I want to read on planes. I read. I want to read on planes. |
| 1:46.0 | I have the best intentions to read on planes and study stuff and take copious notes, |
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