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Citizen Podcast

185 | Morgan Lerette

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Education, Society & Culture

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Morgan Lerette, a former Blackwater operator in Iraq, joins the show to discuss his time as a mercenary and his new book, "Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq" -- BUY THE BOOK NOW


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0:00.0

All these generals have been losing wars since Korea, right?

0:03.4

And they all write these books, and they all get to like go and teach at Princeton and

0:07.8

Columbia and you name it.

0:09.4

I'm not calling anybody out, but Petraeus, you know, that guy.

0:11.9

He's like, I'm gonna cheat on my wife, not a big deal.

0:13.7

Yeah.

0:14.2

Columbia will still bring me in.

0:16.5

And they do these victory lapse after one year, two years,

0:21.6

and then you realize that none of the stuff that they did actually worked.

0:25.0

Let's go.

0:27.0

Welcome to Citizen. We got a special guest today, Morgan Lorett. You got a new book out.

0:38.6

Girls, Guns, and Greed. I was a Blackwater mercenary in Iraq. But before we get get to that let's talk about you for a bit

0:46.1

tell me where you're from I'm from the metropolis of Cottonwood Arizona probably never heard of it

0:51.5

but it's close to Sedona.

0:52.6

Is that a metropolis?

0:54.0

A thriving metropolis.

0:56.0

Isn't metropolis the home city and Megamined or whatever the fuck that cartoon thing was?

1:02.0

I think that was. So are you a super villain or a superhero would you say?

1:05.8

Definitely a villain.

1:06.9

Okay. And how do you distinguish between the two because it's not always easy?

1:10.4

Well I was in FFA in Cottonwood so definitely villain stuff. An FFA? Yeah future

1:16.0

farmers of America those guys are all the villains right? I know I thought farmers were

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