Ryan Fugit - Episode 153
Citizen Podcast
Tetherball Academy Media
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Fugit was a AH-64 Apache pilot in Afghanistan before spending eight years with the CIA. He now runs a podcast called "Combat Story" where he interviews Combat Veterans.
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| 0:00.0 | where the adversaries move quickly. |
| 0:03.3 | They know, like it's a constant race against them. |
| 0:06.9 | What little loophole can they manipulate |
| 0:10.6 | in tech, in communication, in the law, to continue to do what they do and you try to close |
| 0:16.6 | that loop and then they find another. |
| 0:19.8 | Let's go. |
| 0:31.3 | Welcome to Citizen. We've got a special guest today. Ryan Fugit. You've got, you got a lot of stuff going on, so why don't you introduce yourself? |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah, sure, thanks. So, uh, I'm Ryan Fugget.. I run the Combat Story Podcast where we interview veterans about their |
| 0:47.4 | combat experiences. We've been doing that for about three years. I'm a former Army vet. I flew Apaches for seven and a half years. |
| 0:56.4 | Spend eight years at the agency at CIA running ops and then made a transition over to tech in Silicon Valley. I worked at Google for several years running an Intel team and I'm still in tech at another big tech company today that I just don't name when I'm on air. |
| 1:14.0 | Fair enough. |
| 1:17.0 | So let's jump all the way back. |
| 1:19.0 | What was the, where did you grow up, what area? I grew up overseas. My dad was |
| 1:26.8 | career State Department. He was an Army aviator in Vietnam and then did a full |
| 1:31.9 | career as a political officer at state. |
| 1:34.8 | So I grew up in Belgium, grew up in Zimbabwe in Pakistan, moved to the U.S. |
| 1:40.6 | Really for the first time when I was in junior high when I was 13. |
| 1:45.0 | What was that like? I mean, like how long did you stay in one place I guess? |
| 1:52.0 | The longest I have ever lived in one place, I guess? |
| 1:52.7 | The longest I have ever lived in one place |
| 1:54.7 | is where I am today, and I've been here four years. |
| 1:57.2 | So when I was growing up, we would often stay someplace |
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