How a Green Beret Smuggled Carlos Ghosn out of Japan | Mike Taylor (throwback ep)
The Team House
dee takos
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
Michael Taylor is a Special Forces veteran who had a hard-earned reputation for taking on dicey assignments. Over the years, Taylor had been hired by parents to rescue abducted children. He went undercover for the FBI to sting a Massachusetts drug gang. He is most well known for smuggling Carlos Ghosn (former chairman of Nissan) out of Japan.
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| 0:00.0 | The Team House with your hopes, Jack Murphy and David Park. |
| 0:11.4 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to episode 214 of The Team House. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Jack Murphy here with David Park. |
| 0:17.5 | Our guest tonight in studio is Mike Taylor. |
| 0:24.2 | Mike served in special forces, number of different assignments in Europe, in Central America, in Lebanon, left the army, went and became an |
| 0:30.9 | entrepreneur, did some undercover work with federal law enforcement, even got involved in |
| 0:35.6 | repatriating children who'd been kidnapped from |
| 0:38.0 | the United States and brought overseas, spent time in Iraq as a security contractor, time in |
| 0:43.5 | Afghanistan as an intelligence contractor. He also probably most famously involved in the Carlos |
| 0:49.9 | Ghosne affair, the Nissan CEO who was arrested in Japan and then brought out of Japan to Turkey |
| 0:58.6 | and then onto his home in Lebanon. |
| 1:01.1 | And, you know, I was talking to Mike when he got back from that and all the way up until |
| 1:05.8 | you were extradited to Japan and spent what nearly two years in prison altogether. |
| 1:12.0 | So this is Mike, his first time breaking his silence really after all of that went down. |
| 1:17.7 | So Mike, we really appreciate you joining us here tonight. |
| 1:20.3 | Great being with you guys. |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah, it's a real privilege. |
| 1:23.5 | So Mike, you're a superhero, obviously. |
| 1:27.5 | What's your origin story? |
| 1:28.8 | What led you to the military? |
| 1:31.0 | How did you grow up? |
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