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🗓️ 18 October 2025
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Maureen and Jim spoke with Jason- A real life special Operations Veteran who has lived with an extraordinary life and career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to best case, worst case. |
| 0:10.5 | My name is Maureen O'Connell. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm your co-host, and I'm a retired 25-year veteran of the FBI. |
| 0:16.8 | And with me today is... |
| 0:18.4 | Hi, I'm Jim Clemente. Retired FBI Profile of former New York City prosecutor and writer-producer of criminal minds and bluebeard on Audible. |
| 0:26.2 | And with us today, we have a very special guest. |
| 0:29.6 | It's my dear friend and resident badass. |
| 0:35.4 | Jason Kohler. I'm a retired 22-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, was in both |
| 0:42.7 | First Special Forces Group and 10th Special Forces Group. Made a nutshell. That's awesome. Well, |
| 0:49.9 | thank you for coming in, Jason. It's great to meet you. Thank you. Thank you for kicking both of our |
| 0:55.5 | asses by way of your background. That is very impressive and we love it. And you're looking good, |
| 1:01.6 | brother. Good to see you. Good to see you too. And Jim, good to see you again as well. |
| 1:05.6 | Thank you. And so how do you and Maury know each other? Well, I'll just say that I was in the FBI and I was supposed to go speak at this event. |
| 1:16.5 | And I walk into the event and I look around and Jim Clemente, you're not going to believe this, but I didn't know anybody in the room, which is pretty shocking. |
| 1:24.7 | Rare. Yeah. |
| 1:25.2 | And so I look around and I thought, where am I going to sit? |
| 1:27.4 | I don't want to sit there, not there, not there. And then I saw this handsome young. I knew he was in the military in some way, shape, or form because he was sitting straight up. And you could tell he didn't know anyone. And he was like, I hope this isn't as bad as I think it's going to be. And I just, I said, I'm sitting next to that guy. |
| 1:45.1 | So I walk up and I said, is this seat taken? |
| 1:47.3 | And he's like, no, I have a seat. |
| 1:49.1 | And I said, were you in the military or something along those lines? |
| 1:52.5 | And he said, yeah, Green Beret. |
| 1:54.5 | And I said, oh, do you happen to know, do you happen to know General Friedovich? |
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