Part Two: Richard Marcinko: The Founder of SEAL Team 6
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We continue the life and times of Richard Marcinko as he enters the Vietnam War and immediately commits numerous war crimes for the CIA. Then he gets to invent SEAL Team 6!
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| 0:00.0 | QuarZone Media |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the podcast that again, I did the you're listening now a bit. |
| 0:10.8 | Anyway, I'm Robert, you know me. |
| 0:12.0 | We're talking about Richard the Navy Seals guy, you know? |
| 0:15.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.8 | And my guest is, again, Andrew T. |
| 0:18.8 | Andrew, how are you doing, buddy? |
| 0:20.2 | Uh, good. Still here, still alive. Yeah. how are you doing, buddy? Uh, good. |
| 0:21.2 | Still here, still alive. |
| 0:23.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.7 | It's a little, it's warm, but I'm alive. |
| 0:25.6 | This is great. |
| 0:26.1 | It's warm, but you're alive. |
| 0:27.2 | Just like everyone else in the eternal summer that is increasingly gripping the world. |
| 0:31.9 | Well, let's distract ourselves from our problems by thinking about a man who lived a charm and mirthful life of |
| 0:39.5 | constant war crimes. |
| 0:41.8 | The SEAL Team 6 guy, old Dickie Marks, Richard Marsico. |
| 0:47.0 | Can I ask a question? |
| 0:48.9 | Not to be glib. |
| 0:50.7 | Why is SEAL Team 6, like, is there, I assume, 1 through 5, or is this like a James Bond situation? We'll talk about that. Don't worry. We'll talk about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's actually a fun story. All right. But, yeah, at this point, initially there are like two teams. But each team is like hundreds of guys, right? They're divided into platoons and stuff. |
| 1:11.0 | So it's not, when you hear like SEAL Team 6, you might think like, well, that's like six guys or 10. |
| 1:15.5 | No, there's like hundreds of guys. |
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