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Kennedy Saves the World

A KSTW Encore…Kennedy Saves Afghanistan

Kennedy Saves the World

FOX News Podcasts

Entertainment News, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.5812 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kennedy revisits a conversation with the co-Founder of Combat Flip Flops Matthew Griffin on the 2021 re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul. Matthew shares his experiences at West Point and as a Special Ops Army Ranger in Afghanistan. He also shares the inspiration that led him to start a company as a way of supporting women and girls in Afghanistan. Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:15.8

Thank you. Welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world today.

0:37.4

Hopefully we're going to save Afghanistan. It's all anyone can talk about because everyone is working. Welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world today.

0:39.3

Hopefully we're going to save Afghanistan.

0:48.9

It's all anyone can talk about because everyone is horrified by the images and stories that are coming out of a country that we have been embroiled in for two decades.

1:10.9

And, you know, some of the hardest things to listen to are the stories of combat veterans who have served over there, the people they have lost, the people they have served with, the people they fought alongside who are from Afghanistan, who have now been left behind. And one of the people that I wanted to talk to was actually so inspired by his three tours there that he started a really cool business as a way of supporting people over there and especially

1:18.7

women and girls. There's a great company and maybe you've heard of it. It's called Combat Flip Flops.

1:24.8

And it was started by a guy named Matthew Griffin. He goes by the name

1:29.7

Griff. He went to West Point. The alma mater of one of my favorite presidents of all time,

1:35.6

Ulysses S. Grant. He was also a special operations Army rager. And again, he did three tours over there.

1:43.0

He co-founded combat flip-flops in 2006 so griff

1:47.6

welcome to Kennedy saves the world thank you for having me today I'm excited to be here so tell me

1:52.6

what you are seeing as as you know obviously uh you've got just about as much as experience as

1:59.3

anyone who has been over there and served. And I know

2:01.7

that you have been emotionally and professionally invested in the place for a long time. So given all of

2:07.3

that and all of your experience, what are you seeing and how are you processing it?

2:12.8

What we're seeing right now is the complete handover of a nation to the Taliban. From the reports we're

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