Danny Gold tells Jay about venturing overseas to report, sneaking over the Syrian border, and interviewing MS-13 and ISIS on Uncut with Jay Cutler

Uncut with Jay Cutler

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jay sits down with international journalist and reporter Danny Gold, who has reported stories from almost every corner of the globe! Danny tells Jay about spending four months on a bike during an international race, and how he transitioned from bike rider into journalist. Danny dives into what it took for him to become a journalist, how he would fund his own trips overseas to do reporting, and how he always had a drive to be where history was being made. Danny even jokes about how his family did NOT support his trips to the Middle East, sneaking across the border in Syria, and what it takes to interview groups like MS-13 and ISIS. Danny also talks about PTSD amongst conflict journalists and how much journalists struggle behind the scenes having been in these tough situations.

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome back today. We're gonna switch it up a little bit. We've got Danny Gold in a journalist. I don't even know if we can calm a
0:29.8	journalist. I don't even really know what his title might be, but it's traveled all over the world, different
0:40.0	right stories, investigator, reporter type of thing. He's had dinner with ISIS, you know, MS-13. He's
0:49.0	drug cartels. I'm sure he's been shot at. I'm sure he's been threatened all the things. So we're
0:55.1	gonna get him on. Here's some stories. Let me get some insight in the landscape of the media
1:04.8	now and how what his thoughts are on that. So let's get some cool stories. I don't
1:10.8	Danny Gold. Come on on. Welcome back this week. We have Danny Gold. Not really sure where to start
1:24.5	because you are like a Swiss Army knife of journalism reporter, journalist, director, producer. You've
1:33.4	got a podcast called The Underworld. You've been in more countries and I can count. You've been
1:38.8	in places that I can't even say the words. I can't even pronounce them. I guess where were you from?
1:47.1	I'm from the suburbs in New York, man. Like I grew up just north of the city in a small city called
1:52.3	White Plains and been based out of Brooklyn for maybe 15 years now. Were you all, I mean, did you have
2:00.0	other sisters? Yeah, man. One older brother, one younger brother. I think I'm relatively close to
2:06.8	like the black sheep of the family, I would say. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Just non-traditional path.
2:15.4	You know, kind of taken off to go to like Iraq when my other brothers are working in like finance
2:20.7	or politics and stuff like that. Yeah. So I mean, for everyone listening, they don't know. I mean,
2:25.4	you go into some high risk areas, conflict, war, you know, all the things and report on them,
2:34.6	essentially, how this happens. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a lot of war stuff, some disaster stuff,
2:41.5	you know, like Ebola, I was there a couple times. And then now we have the podcast, which is basically
2:46.1	just all about organized crime all over the world. And we sort of tell stories about stuff that me and
2:50.4	my co-host Sean have reported on. But then also just stories from history that I think people would
2:55.2	find really interesting. So did you go to college? I did. I did. I didn't take advantage of it, I
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