I want to be the best operator I could possibly be, the best leader I could possibly be.

I want to be a better leader and operator today than I was yesterday.

And then that transfers over to today.

I want to be a better author today than I was yesterday. I want to be the next book to be better than this one. I'll let the next TV show to be better than the last one. It's a constant game of improvement going forward. I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired and now host of the Game of Crimes podcast.

If you've seen the Netflix series Narcos, forward. I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired and now host of the Game of Crimes podcast.

If you've seen the Netflix series Narcos, then you know my story. I now bring you stories

of heroism and bravery from our law enforcement and military heroes and occasionally from the

criminals that they faced. Welcome to Game of Crimes.

Hey, gang, welcome to Game of Crimes.

Like I say every week, another fantastic guest coming on this week. Somebody you might have heard his name before, even I had. So that's a little unusual because, you know, I'm not big into TV movies and stuff like that, except what we rate here on the show. But let me just give you his background. 20 years in the U.S. Navy as a Navy seal from 96 to 16. I told him, I was wondering, well, maybe he was with us in Columbia back in the early

90s and just made me feel old when I found out when he really joined the seals. In there, he

operated as a sniper, an assault team leader, a platoon commander, and a special

ops task force commander. He's got deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines. I saw

where he retired as a lieutenant commander, which is an officer. So we're not going to salute him

anything. But he's also, and this is a giveaway, he's a New York Times bestseller a whole lot more than one time.

I mean, just anything he writes seems to just go crazy.

He's a host of not one but three podcasts, probably the best known, is Danger Close,

which yours truly and my old partner, have your opinion.

You got to be a guest on his show recently.

That was a true honor.

He's a public speaker and he's a true entrepreneur. So ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Jack Carter the show. Jack, welcome to Game of Crimes. Thank you so much for having me. It was so great to talk to you on Danger Close about the fourth option. So those should be dropping here around the time of the book. I want to talk to people who had touch points with the world that I explore in that novel. And yeah, one thing from the background, I think you mentioned it, but I want to gloss over. I definitely started enlisted. So I was enlisted for six and a half years. I want to make sure we point that out because you, you, you, you, you, you, you've're on the officer part of it but the the enlisted part of it and the sniper part of it that's

uh I don't know it gives you a little foundation because that comes from a popular culture

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