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The Team House

Legendary Conflict Filmmaker, Author, & Journalist | Robert Young Pelton | Ep. 280

The Team House

dee takos

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7929 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Robert Young Pelton is a Canadian-American author, journalist, and documentary film director. Pelton's work usually consists of conflict reporting and interviews with military and political figures in war zones. Pelton has been present at conflicts such as the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan, the Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) in Chechnya, the rebel siege to take Monrovia in Liberia, and the siege on Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, and has been with ground forces in about 40 other conflicts. He spent time with the Taliban and the Northern Alliance pre-9/11, the CIA during the hunt for Osama bin Laden and also with both insurgents and Blackwater security contractors during the war in Iraq. Pelton's regularly published survival and political guide The World's Most Dangerous Places, provides practical and survival information for people who work and travel in high-risk zones, and is a New York Times bestseller.[8] He was also the host of the Discovery Travel Channel series entitled Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places from 1998 to 2003. Now residing in Los Angeles, Pelton currently writes books and produces documentaries on conflict-related subjects and documentaries.
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Hey folks,

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Hey folks, welcome to episode 280 of the team house. I'm Jack Murphy and our guest on tonight's show is a much requested person that our viewers have wanted us to have on here for quite a while.

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We're really happy to have Robert Young Pelton on the show.

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Robert is a conflict journalist.

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He is the author of The Hunter, The Hammer in Heaven.

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I'm licensed to kill, the world's most dangerous places,

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numerous other books about the places he's gone,

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I mean he's kind of notorious for traveling to all the danger zones of the world and coming out of them with some really interesting stories

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These books had a big influence on me in my life and kind of colored the direction that I went in.

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So we're really happy to have him on the show and hear about some of his adventures and some of his life experiences. And I just first off want to tell you guys about our Patreon if you guys would

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