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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

230 – BOTCHING AFGHANISTAN | Eric Maddox

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we continue our Botching Afghanistan series, where we give friends of the show the ability to give their brief thoughts on the situation currently going on in Afghanistan. This episode features veteran, author, speaker, and interrogation expert Eric Maddox. Eric served three tours in Afghanistan and was part of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) team responsible for tracking down Saddam Hussein. Let’s get into it... Episode notes and links: https://www.undaunted.life/podcast/ericmaddox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.

0:21.2

I'm your host Kyle Thompson.

0:22.8

Let's get into it.

0:23.8

Alright guys, today we're going to do another episode in the botching Afghanistan series

0:26.8

and this is with a new guy to you.

0:28.2

This is Eric Maddick.

0:29.2

So if you don't know who that is, he's an author, speaker, consultant and he's a sales

0:32.9

and negotiation expert and trainer, but also this guy was a member of a Delta four special

0:37.5

ops team into crit that was part of kind of the JSOC team or, you know, the joint special

0:42.0

operations command team that was responsible for tracking down some of the high target

0:46.1

most wanted people in Iraq, including Saddam Hussein.

0:49.2

And so we'll get way more into that in a future episode, but he did three tours of

0:52.6

duty in Afghanistan and he's an expert interrogator and so he had a lot of really good insights

0:58.3

on this particular subject matter because, you know, with some of the guests, you know,

1:01.4

I let them go wherever they want to go.

1:02.6

So if they want to go political fine, if they don't want to go political and be more empathetic

1:05.5

towards ghosts, our families, I don't care.

1:07.1

I just want to hear their points of view, but we were able to do quite a bit of follow-up

1:10.2

on some integral questions.

1:11.4

We even got into what the Trump administration's withdrawal strategy was and why it would

1:15.4

have worked so much better than this non-strategy by the Biden administration, but guys without

1:18.9

further ado, let's get into it.

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