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🗓️ 27 February 2024
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0:00.0 | What's up, guys. If you're on Spotify right now, please follow the show so that you don't miss any future episodes and leave a five-star review. Thank you. We drove into an area that's about seven kilometers that the Taliban owned. It was their territory. Can't make a left or right turn. You've got to go north or south down this road. And we had to stop. We heard the Taliban on the radio. They had to set up ambushes on both ends of our small convoy. and they were getting rid of his. |
0:23.1 | And then I realized, oh, shit, the only way we were going to... stop. We heard the Taliban on the radio. They had to set up ambushes on both ends of our small |
0:21.5 | convoy. And they were getting rid of us. And then I realized, oh, shit, the only way we're getting |
0:24.9 | out of this is we got to run the gauntlet now. And I remember when we turned around that night, my Afghan interpreter was with me. Dude, as soon as I started driving, I said, shoot, anything we're a bad guy getting high behind it, you know, |
0:33.9 | I said, don't relent until we get out of this thing. |
0:35.8 | So as I'm sitting there, I'm watching the vehicles go one by one, |
0:38.9 | the firefight starts. |
0:40.2 | I got time to watch the show and think about it before it's time for me to start driving my vehicle, right? And all of sudden, I thought, you know what? I've been in a lot of ambushes, but I've never actually had to deliberately drive into an ambush to get out of it. But I have no choice this time. And And I started thinking, man, what if I don't make it out of this one? You know am driving them with the antennas and so I thought about my family and I took the moment I said okay I want to visualize every one of my children's face everybody's face my wife my kids one by one see their face the last time maybe their face their face their face their face their face their face their face their face is and then what I want to do is get that all out of my mind, so I'm no longer distracted by that, right? |
1:12.6 | And knowing that would be maybe the last time I ever think about him or see him. |
1:15.6 | So, Dale, do you refer to yourself as a mercenary these days? |
1:29.7 | Yes, no. |
1:30.7 | Yes, no. |
1:31.6 | Okay. |
1:32.2 | Well, so let me kind of clarify that a little bit. |
1:35.4 | Funny to bring that up. |
1:36.9 | So BBC came to my home in Florida last May, and they went to film a documentary about me, right? |
1:43.8 | They got this fetish about mercenaries. |
1:45.8 | And it stems from something I did back in 2015, 2016, and made international news. |
1:50.7 | I was part of a strike team that was contracted by a foreign government to go after terror targets. |
2:00.3 | And so we made the news because of that and some of the fallout from it. |
2:05.6 | But so they've been kind of interested in me for the last several years. |
2:09.6 | And then with the invasion of Ukraine by the Russians and the Wagner group, right, the Russian mercenary company. |
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