Infantry Marine Turned Investigative Journalist | James LaPorta | Ep. 166

The Team House

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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James LaPorta is an investigative reporter for The Associated Press covering national security, the intelligence community and the U.S. military. He is a military advisor to the award-winning television show This is Us on NBC. His reporting as garnered various journalism awards and accolades with bylines, work, and commentary appearing on and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek The Daily Beast, Vice News, CBS News, CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, PBS News Hour, BBC News among others in the United States and internationally. James is a Marine Corps infantry veteran of the Afghanistan war. From 2006 until 2014, he served in multiple leadership billets, working as an infantry squad leader, a combat marksmanship instructor and as an intelligence cell chief. To help support the show and for all bonus content including: -2 bonus episodes per month -Access to ALL bonus segments with our guests -Ad Free audio feed Subscribe to our Patreon! 👇 https://www.patreon.com/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Social Media: The Team House Instagram: https://instagram.com/the.team.house?utm_medium=copy_link The Team House Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTeamHousePod Jack’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/jackmcmurph?utm_medium=copy_link Jack’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackmurphyrgr?s=21 Dave’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_parke?s=21 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSample Want to sponsor the show? Email: 👇 [email protected] #usmc #jameslaporta #afghanistan

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0:39.3	Special Operations, Covert Ox, Espionage, the Team House, with your hopes, Jack Murphy and David Park.
0:58.0	He'd be working at a fake news out there. Hey guys, welcome to episode 166 of the team house.
1:06.5	I'm Jack Murphy here with Dave Park, Deed Producing here, and we have our special guest
1:11.5	tonight, James Kiporta, who's a former Marine and a investigative journalist at the Associated Press.
1:17.0	Joining you tonight on a Monday evening instead of our usual Friday, we're trying to mix in some additional shows into the normal cycle, I guess you could say.
1:27.0	So we'll still have Tim Weiner on on Friday to discuss his books and upcoming books.
1:33.0	Monday, we're here with Jim,
1:35.0	and I really appreciate you, you know,
1:37.0	taking some time out of your Monday evening for us.
1:40.0	Yeah, thanks for having me.
1:42.0	Yeah, absolutely, man.
1:44.0	So I'm going to hit you up with our classic question about your origin story.
1:49.0	I'd like to hear a little bit about, you know, where you grew up and kind of what was your pathway into military service.
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