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Episode 74: A Gold Star Widow's Fight For The Truth with Michelle Black

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.96.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Losing our countrymen in war is something that is we have to deal with, but one we accept in that it’s a necessary evil to combat those who wish us harm. When those deaths are clouded in controversy, it makes it incredibly tough to accept. I sat down with green beret Gold star widow Michelle Black, to talk about her search for the truth after her husband was killed in Niger.
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Table of Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
5:45 - Breaking the Ice
9:00 - 20 Acres in California
13:00 - My Green Beret Husband
21:00 - Online Poker?
27:00 - An Active-Duty Wife
34:00 - The Afghanistan Deployment
37:30 - Cattle Thieves
42:00 - Premonitions
46:30 - The Tongo Tongo Ambush
56:00 - An American Funeral
1:01:30 - Then Donald Trump Called
1:07:30 - A White House Visit, A Trump Hotel
1:17:30 - ISIS Releases the Video
1:27:30 - Kids in the House
1:34:00 - Recounting the Events
1:56:00 -The Final Part
2:00:00 - An Investigation
2:10:00 - Wrapping Up
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To find out more about Michelle or to get a copy of her book, ‘Sacrifice: A Gold Star Widow’s Fight For The Truth’, visit her publisher’s website at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647982/sacrifice-by-michelle-black.
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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next

0:06.2

guest to the podcast.

0:09.7

She actually called me and said, hey, I just saw a news flash come across my phone and

0:16.8

it says that a team up near the Molly border was attacked and a few Americans were killed.

0:22.3

I instantly just said that was Brian's team, that's Brian, Brian's dead.

0:30.4

And I tried to calm down and like, okay, you're right because I didn't want to freak

0:33.5

her out.

0:34.5

And so I started making phone calls, but with each phone call, it became more obvious.

0:40.2

There was roughly 50 in Surgeon 3.

0:43.5

We were told it started with there were 50, then it was there were 80.

0:49.0

There I would read in the redacted report at points it would say that they were going

0:54.2

to exploit the campsite at other points.

0:56.4

And so they were on a capture detained mission.

0:59.8

The wording kept changing on what their mission was up there.

1:10.6

Welcome to Mic Drop.

1:12.4

The podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings.

1:28.5

Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next

1:32.3

guest to the podcast.

1:34.2

She is the Gold Star Widow of Special Forces Green Bray Brian Black.

1:38.9

She is the author of the book Sacrifice, a Gold Star Widow's Fight for the Truth.

1:43.8

She actually broke the trim around the door from dragging a huge set of lady balls that

1:48.1

she has through the door.

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