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

JACK CARR | Cry Havoc (Ep. 824)

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

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

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Jack Carr back to the show. He is a retired Navy SEAL that spent 20 years in Naval Special Warfare and the #1 NYT Bestselling fiction thriller writer of the James Reece series. He is also the creative brain behind “The Terminal List” tv show starring Christ Pratt and the newly released “Dark Wolf” prequel show starring Taylor Kitsch. In this interview, we discuss his reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, his new thriller called “Cry Havoc”, what fans can expect from the next installment of The Terminal List tv show, the future of the Dark Wolf series, future spinoff potential within the James Reece universe, the project he is working on right now, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is undaunted life a man's podcast. I'm your host, Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. All right, guys, we've got a very special return guest on the podcast. His name is Jack Carr. He's been on the show. This is his sixth appearance on the show now, but if you don't know who he is, he's a retired Navy SEAL. He spent 20 years in Naval Special Warfare, and he's the number one New York Times best-selling fiction thriller writer of the James Reese series, and he is the creative brain behind the terminalist TV show, and that stars Chris Prada. I think most of y'all have seen it at this point, but right now they've got a prequel series about Ben Edwards starring Taylor Kitch. It's out. It's called Dark Wolf. It's absolutely fantastic. But again, he's been on the show six times. Episodes 168, 309, 462, 610, 654, and this one. And today we're talking about his new thriller series that he's starting about James Reese's father, Tom, and book one is called Cry Havoc. It is out right now. You can check that out in the

1:12.6

show notes, but in this interview today, we did spend some time talking at the beginning about the

1:16.9

state of the country post the assassination of Charlie Kirk, what that means, what it means for the next

1:21.4

generation, what it means for the conservative movement, and overall just what it means for our body

1:25.9

politic that we see people openly

1:27.7

supporting and celebrating the murder of somebody that was exercising their free speech.

1:33.0

But then we get into, okay, he just wrapped filming the second season of the Terminalist series

1:38.9

starring Chris Pratt.

1:40.0

And so this is called True Believer and the setting and all the different things and

1:43.1

kind of what all that entails.

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What the arc of the Dark Wolf prequel series starring Taylor Kitch has been Edwards, what that's going to end up looking like. How that's affecting his writing schedule. You know, is he going to be able to, you know, turn out a Tom Reese novel every year? Is he going to be coming back to the James Reese series? so for any of you that's read through Red Sky Morning which is the seventh novel of the James

2:04.9

Reese thriller series you all be excited to hear that we talk about that more so at the

2:08.9

end talk about the different TV options he's got going on the fiction and

2:13.4

non-fiction options he's got going on to the immediate future guys there, there's always a lot of information when he comes on the show.

2:18.8

We're always lucky to have them.

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So without further ado, let's get into it.

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Jack Carr, welcome back to Endaunted Life of Man's podcast, but here's the thing.

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This is your sixth appearance on Undaunted Life of Man's podcast.

2:30.7

You have officially punched every single slot in your card. And so now you get to redeem it for one of two things. The first thing is you get two high fives from me in quick succession. And the second thing is you get to roll one round of jiu-jitsu with me. So you get to choose, like one of those two. So which one you want? I think we'll high five it.

2:51.2

High five at this stage.

2:52.6

Yeah, yeah.

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All right.

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