The Outside Interview: Robert Young Pelton

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Robert Young Pelton has made a career of tracking down warlords and interviewing people in the most dangerous places in the world. He's been kidnapped in Colombia, survived an assassination attempt in Uganda, and joined the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Outside editor Chris Keyes wanted to know how spending that much time on the edge has affected him in the long term. But the answer's not what you'd think.

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0:07.2	We're adding a new show to the Outside Podcast this week,
0:10.0	featuring conversations with some of the most interesting people in the outside world.
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0:28.9	editor Chris Kies and it was a seamless transition until we sent him out to interview Robert Young
0:35.2	Pelton this week and someone left him alone with a piece of technology.
0:38.8	I want to beg for a couple more questions because I committed the Cardinal Sin of journalism.
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1:18.0	From Outside magazine and PRX, this is the outside interview.
1:20.0	I'm just going to test your guys' mic
1:22.0	with Chris Katz.
1:25.0	So this week Chris talked with Robert Young Pelton, and as you may have heard,
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