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Dedicated with Doug Brunt

Jack Carr

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

SiriusXM

Over Drinks, Books, Tv & Film, Novels, Lounge, Doug Brunt, Megyn Kelly, Author, Cocktail, Arts, Book

5.0599 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Special Episode also available on video - download the SiriusXM App here: (https://www.siriusxm.com/streaming) Former Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author Jack Carr reveals who would win in the Octagon between Conor McGregor and Jocko Willink, how it's been working with Chris Pratt and Amazon on the hit show TERMINAL LIST which is based on his first novel, his thoughts on the great pioneers of the thriller genre that he read as a kid and also while deployed as a SEAL, the key step he takes when beginning each novel to make sure he has a story worth telling, how the Department of Defense has forced redactions of his manuscripts and how that backfired on the DoD, the food from back home he craved most while deployed, how he followed his childhood ambitions to serve in the military and to become an author.

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about the writers you want to hear on this show. I've been getting a lot of great booking ideas

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from you guys. We did a special episode of Dedicated this time with Jack Carr.

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If you want to see the entire conversation on video, Jack and I are in a really cool studio inside Sirius XM.

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So if you want to see it on video, Jack and I drinking some whiskey and figuring everything out,

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Go download the app from your app store.

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And that is the only place the video is

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actually available. You can listen here on the podcast or get the full video on the Sirius XM app. Thanks.

0:45.6

Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt. You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's

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look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors,

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and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle,

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creative process, latest work, and behind-the-scenes revelations.

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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're talking with number one New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr. His books featuring former Navy SEAL James Reese will have you white knuckling the book in your hands. This is due not only to Jack's gifts as a writer, but because he is also a former Navy SEAL. His books feel authentic because they are. Jack joined the Navy in 1996 and spent

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20 years in naval special warfare. He's led sniper teams and assault teams and counterinsurgency

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operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. His first book, Terminalist, was adapted for

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television by Amazon Prime and stars the very talented Chris Pratt. And is now out with book six in the series Only the Dead. Jack, welcome. It's great to be with you. Great to be hanging out here. I love this. This is a great, great spot. Oh, thanks very much. The special treatment for our number one bestsellers. Thank you. Thank you. I understand you got these nice cameras in here just for me today so I appreciate that. Yeah, the special episode. We're doing video today, which we don't always do. And first of all, thank you. I understand you got these nice cameras in here just for me today, so I appreciate that. Yeah, a special episode. We're doing video today, which we don't always do. And first of all, thank you for your service to the country. Thank you. And thank you for these great books. I've been following the book tour on social media. And you were having a, it looks like the most fun book tour of all time. You're having a blast. They turned into into more than signings it seems like last one and

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this one uh into more events uh so i did book tours for the first one the second one then

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covid hit and so there were two where there were just virtual tours yeah uh the last one for

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in the blood was the first one where i was back and the crowds were fairly large uh i was

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