warning you're about to enter the arena and join the battle to save america with your host john parnell

hey everybody welcome back to the battleground podcast. Today we have an incredible, incredible guests,

also timely. I'm sure you've seen the success of the movie, The Sound of Freedom, which

had beat Indiana Jones at the box office a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely incredible movie

that brings a ton of attention to child traffic, child trafficking.

It amazes me how this just misses people. People either don't pay attention to it. They don't

want to pay attention to it. They turn a blind eye. But today we've got a guy I've known for a very,

very long time, actually. His name is Jeff James.

Jeff is a Secret Service agent for over 20 years.

He protected U.S. presidents.

And he was also the Secret Service liaison for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

And again, this is why I say this episode so timely.

Okay. children. And again, this is why I say this episode so timely. So, Jeff, welcome to the show, man.

I'm so grateful to have you here. Oh, thank you, Sean. I'm honored to be here.

So, so we were talking in the virtual studio before getting on that you were actually, I don't know if you were a gym teacher at Frank and Regional High School and West. We're both from Western Pennsylvania, but you were a teacher and we all called you Coach James and I was in sixth grade.

Yeah, I was actually teaching English and in the middle school and high school and I was coaching football. So, yeah, and yeah, the way our paths crossed and then didn't cross again

until, you know, you went on to the Army and had your illustrious career and then you, you came to a

speaking event for the Clarion alumni and we re-engaged there.

And that was, geez, that was probably in 2010 maybe.

Yeah.

It was a while ago.

Well, it's just so crazy how small of a world, you know, this crazy place that we live in now.

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