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Matt Zeller | PBD Podcast | EP 107

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4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

During episode 107 of the PBD Podcast, Patrick Bet-David sits down with Gerard Michaels and special guest Matt Zeller to talk about topic such as Matt Zeller's Afghanistan Commission, Global Federalism, and much more!

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The Spanish did a census.

0:12.8

did a census. Uh, there I'm just getting a photo.

0:15.9

Cool. The Spanish did a sense.

0:18.8

Live today with Matt Zeller, who, uh, if you're not familiar with Matt Zeller I think what was it three four months ago where you went viral all over the place

0:29.6

Afghanistan I think Brian Williams said John interesting Brian Williams just recently stepped down and he had you on and you were talking about Afghanistan with the decision they made to leave Afghanistan was right and you went off and the next thing you know you and I spoke I think the

0:44.0

day after or two days later and then from there we're seeing what's happened to

0:47.8

Afghanistan now so before if some people don't know your background

0:51.1

Matt if you don't mind taking a quick second and give everybody

0:53.7

your background.

0:54.7

Sure.

0:55.7

I enlisted after 9-11.

0:58.9

My family comes from a long line of people who signed up to fight when this country needs them.

1:03.0

Grandpa joined the Navy right after Pearl Harbor, for example.

1:07.0

So 9-11 for me was like our generation's Pearl Harbor.

1:09.0

I signed up to serve in the military, ended up getting recruited in the CIA, did a tour

1:14.0

to overseas in Afghanistan, and yeah, I've been intimately involved in

1:20.8

helping the Afghans get out of Afghanistan now for the better part of a decade

1:24.2

because the only reason I'm sitting here talking to you is because my Afghan interpreter

1:28.3

saved my life in a battle 13 years ago when he shot and killed two Taliban who were about to kill me.

1:34.2

And wasn't there a story done on that seven years ago with BBC or something like,

1:37.5

Caroline, you can come in here.

1:38.8

It's all over the place.

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