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🗓️ 25 October 2025
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Maureen and Jim continue their conversation with Ret. Capt. Jason Koehler- A real-life special Operations Veteran who has lived with an extraordinary life and career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the best case, worst case. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor, right, |
| 0:13.0 | reducer of criminal minds and bluebeard on Audible. |
| 0:15.4 | Who with me today is? |
| 0:17.3 | Maureen O'Connell, a 25-year veteran with the FBI and your co-host for today. |
| 0:22.7 | We also have our very special guest from last week is back, and he is... |
| 0:28.4 | Jason Kohler, a 22-year Special Forces veteran, both first and 10th Special Forces groups. |
| 0:34.6 | Awesome. Well, Jason, I know last week you briefly mentioned the first Gulf War. And |
| 0:41.3 | I remember that very well because I was actually in the FBI undercover on the commodities exchange |
| 0:48.4 | trading crude oil futures. And of course, when the war broke out, that created some serious volatility in the crude oil market and |
| 0:58.5 | that was a little bit insane because I was just I literally had never gone to school for any of |
| 1:05.8 | this stuff and I actually got a job as a as a clerk and then six months, took the test, became a broker and was in there trading. |
| 1:16.3 | And of course, every day, because we were so volatile, you know, CNN was there with cameras. |
| 1:21.3 | I was ducking cameras. |
| 1:22.6 | And it was all sorts of craziness. |
| 1:24.0 | But my friend, my friend Yang was flying refuelers out there. And he would send |
| 1:31.3 | me pictures of, you know, fighter jets coming up with, you know, shrapnel holes in the wings and |
| 1:38.9 | fin and everything. And he was keeping me up to date on that. |
| 1:49.4 | You called it a brief war, but it was pretty crazy, pretty crazy. |
| 1:54.0 | And I'm sure that, you know, that was just the beginning for you. |
| 1:56.4 | So that's an amazing career you've had. |
| 1:58.9 | And thank you so much for everything you did. |
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