HOLLIE MCKAY | Living Under Taliban Control in Afghanistan (Ep. 270)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Hollie McKay back to the show. Hollie is a journalist, war correspondent, humanitarian, and bestselling author of the book Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield. She just returned home to the United States after spending the last several months in Afghanistan living under Taliban control. In this interview, we discuss what it was like on the ground when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, how she stayed under the radar during the takeover, why she fled the country only to come back quickly thereafter, how close she felt like she was to being killed by the Taliban, misconceptions about what is going on in Afghanistan, the deep-seated corruption inside the country, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Undaunted Life a Man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:23.6	Alright guys, we are kicking off the year 2022 with a bang with a great interview with
0:28.5	one of our favorites. That's Holly McKay. So if you're not familiar with Holly McKay,
0:31.8	she's an author, a journalist and a war correspondent. And in addition to that, she finds time to be
0:36.2	a humanitarian. But Holly is the best selling author of the book that we named the book of the
0:40.3	year for 2021, only cry for the living memos from inside the ISIS battlefield. She's been on
0:45.3	this podcast twice before. So episode 188, we spent a ton of time going into that book in her time
0:50.4	on the ground with Syria or in Syria with ISIS and all the things that were going on at the time.
0:54.8	Then in episode 222 of this podcast, we had a very, very short interview where we talked about
0:59.1	what was going on in Afghanistan. That was the first in a line of episodes called botching
1:03.4	Afghanistan in that series. But the thing is is in this interview today, we go into a ton of
1:08.7	detail over the last five months that she spent in Afghanistan because guys, she was in Afghanistan
1:13.7	when it was falling to the Taliban. Right. So when the United States decide they were going to pull
1:17.5	out of Afghanistan and almost immediately the Taliban took over, she was in Afghanistan.
1:22.0	The night that we talked for that ended up being episode 222, she's in a building in an area
1:27.3	where the Taliban is is coming in. Right. At that moment, she doesn't know if she's safe or not.
1:33.3	And again, you know, she held it together for our interview. We talked a little bit afterwards,
1:36.9	but we couldn't really get into details. It was a rough situation. And I, you know,
1:41.2	talked to a bunch of you guys saying, hey, we need to pray for her right now. Things are,
1:44.4	things are absolutely crazy. So she was right there in the middle of that. So we're going to get
1:48.2	into all that detail on this particular interview. We're going to talk about some of the misconceptions
1:52.4	as to kind of what's been going on in Afghanistan, how the media has been covering it. And she
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