Danger Close with Jack Carr
320 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsGo beyond the books. Jack Carr spent 20 years as a Navy SEAL, where he served as a Team Leader, Platoon Commander, Troop Commander, Task Unit Commander and a sniper. Now, he’s a speaker and the author behind the bestselling Terminal List series. Inspired by actual experiences serving in conflict areas around the world, the novels follow James Reece, a Navy SEAL who becomes embroiled in the world of conspiracies, international espionage and revenge. Now, on his new podcast Danger Close, Jack takes fans beyond the books with conversations from real-life warriors, tactical experts and fellow writers about the world of the Terminal List, real conflicts, gear and a ton more.
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KATIE PAVLICH RETURNS
July 03, 2024 21:22 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBToday's guest is the award-winning author, editor, FOX News contributor, and host of Luxury Hunting Lodges of America, Katie Pavlich. Join Jack and Katie as they discuss Katie’s journey to becoming a FOX News contributor, and delve into the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of politics today. They also explore Katie’s time in Israel following the October 7th attacks and the stark realities of terrorism. Katie shares her perspective on the Greatest Generation, and together with Jack, they e...
A sneak peek inside RED SKY MOURNING: Chapter 2
June 19, 2024 11:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBRED SKY MOURNING is available now! In this last installment of BONUS episodes, I invite you to listen to Chapter 2 of RED SKY MOURNING read by Ray Porter. Thank you to all the readers and listeners who have trusted me with their time and joined James Reece on these adventures. THE TERMINAL LIST was a story of revenge without constraint. TRUE BELIEVER was one of violent redemption. SAVAGE SON explored the dark side of man through the dynamic of hunter and hunted. THE DEVIL’S HAND looked ...
A sneak peek inside RED SKY MOURNING: Chapter 1
June 14, 2024 11:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBIn just a few short days the 7th novel in the James Reece Terminal List series is coming in hot! On this BONUS episode, I invite you to listen to Chapter 1 of Red Sky Mourning read by Ray Porter. When it comes to writing a novel, my goal is to honor the story. I never consider what is “popular” or if shorter or longer chapters are “in” or if I’m going to alienate anyone because of what I am writing – instead it is all about story. By honoring the story I am respecting the reader or listen...
The Final Countdown begins with a special RED SKY MOURNING Q&A
June 12, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBThis week on the Danger Close Podcast, Jack answers listener and viewer questions in a special Q&A session all about the upcoming 7th novel in the James Reece Terminal List Series: RED SKY MOURNING. Will there be spoilers? Not a chance. Stay tuned for the RED SKY MOURNING prologue, read by Ray Porter, at the end of the episode! Buy the audiobook HERE Order your copy of the New York Times bestselling novel, RED SKY MOURNING, HERE. To learn more about the adaptation of THE TERMINAL LIST ...
A sneak peek inside RED SKY MOURNING: Prologue
June 07, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBOn June 18th, the 7th novel in the James Reece Terminal List series is coming in hot! What began as a traditional prologue became the longest, most in-depth opening in the series to date. It is not only an introductory glimpse into the world, characters and events of Red Sky Mourning that sets the stage for the main narrative, but it is also Jack’s nod to Tom Clancy whose debut thriller, The Hunt for Red October, celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2024. Jack invites you to listen to the...
The Countdown to RED SKY MOURNING continues with the ONLY THE DEAD Q&A
June 05, 2024 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBThis week on the Danger Close Podcast, Jack answers listener and viewer questions in a special Q&A session all about Only the Dead. Will there be spoilers? Absolutely. Stay tuned for the Only the Dead prologue, read by Ray Porter, at the end of the episode! Buy the audiobook HERE. Order your copy of the New York Times bestselling novel, ONLY THE DEAD, HERE. To learn more about the adaptation of THE TERMINAL LIST novel to a Prime Video Blockbuster, visit Jack’s website or listen to The...
A sneak peek inside RED SKY MOURNING: Preface
May 31, 2024 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBIn the preface to each of my novels I like to set the tone for what’s to come. They are essentially letters to the reader or listener inviting them to join me on a journey in the pages ahead. In a few short weeks the 7th novel in the Terminal List series is coming in hot! Get a head start on the next James Reece adventure with a special reading of the preface by Ray Porter. Enjoy! Buy the audiobook https://bit.ly/RedSkyMourningAudio Order your copy of RED SKY MOURNING, HERE. Copyrigh...
The Countdown to RED SKY MOURNING continues with the IN THE BLOOD Q&A
May 29, 2024 18:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBThis week on the Danger Close Podcast, Jack answers listener and viewer questions in a special Q&A session all about In the Blood. Will there be spoilers? Absolutely. Stay tuned for the In the Blood prologue, read by Ray Porter, at the end of the episode! Buy the audiobook HERE. Order your copy of the New York Times bestselling novel, IN THE BLOOD, HERE. To learn more about the adaptation of THE TERMINAL LIST novel to a Prime Video Blockbuster, visit Jack’s website or listen to the Te...
The Countdown to RED SKY MOURNING continues with THE DEVIL’S HAND Q&A
May 22, 2024 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBThis week on the Danger Close Podcast, Jack answers listener and viewer questions in a special Q&A session all about The Devil’s Hand. Will there be spoilers? Absolutely. Stay tuned for The Devil’s Hand prologue, read by Ray Porter, at the end of the episode! Buy the audiobook HERE. Order your copy of the New York Times bestselling novel, THE DEVIL’S HAND, HERE. To learn more about the adaptation of THE TERMINAL LIST novel to a Prime Video Blockbuster, visit Jack’s website or listen t...
The Countdown to RED SKY MOURNING continues with the SAVAGE SON Q&A
May 15, 2024 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week on the Danger Close Podcast, Jack answers listener and viewer questions in a special Q&A session all about Savage Son. Will there be spoilers? Absolutely. Stay tuned for the Savage Son prologue, read by Ray Porter, at the end of the episode! Buy the audiobook HERE. Order your copy of the New York Times bestselling novel, SAVAGE SON, HERE. To learn more about the adaptation of the novel to a Prime Video Blockbuster, visit Jack’s website or listen to the limited series Termina...
The Countdown to RED SKY MOURNING continues with the TRUE BELIEVER Q&A
May 09, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThis week on the Danger Close Podcast, Jack answers listener and viewer questions in a special Q&A session all about True Believer. Will there be spoilers? Absolutely. Stay tuned for the True Believer prologue, read by Ray Porter, at the end of the episode! Buy the audiobook HERE. Order your copy of the New York Times bestselling novel, TRUE BELIEVER, HERE. To learn more about the adaptation of the novel to a Prime Video Blockbuster, visit Jack’s website or listen to the limited serie...
The Countdown to RED SKY MOURNING begins with THE TERMINAL LIST Q&A
May 02, 2024 09:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBThis week on the Danger Close Podcast, Jack answers listener and viewer questions in a special Q&A session all about The Terminal List. Will there be spoilers? Absolutely. Stay tuned for The Terminal List prologue, read by Ray Porter, at the end of the episode! Buy the audiobook HERE. Order your copy of the New York Times bestselling novel, THE TERMINAL LIST, HERE. To learn more about the adaptation of the novel to a Prime Video Blockbuster, visit Jack’s website or listen to the limit...
Some Books are Meant to be Spoken with Ray Porter
April 24, 2024 16:17 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBListeners will likely know Ray Porter as the voice of the Terminal List series. An acclaimed actor and narrator, Ray has provided the voice for hundreds of audiobooks, including the entire Terminal List series and will soon be voicing its latest installment, Red Sky Mourning. Ray has a decades-long career as an actor, spending nearly 20 years in Shakespearean productions, and has appeared in TV shows and movies including Modern Family, Sons of Anarchy, Argo, ER, Almost Famous, Zack Snyde...
Chris Pratt: Becoming James Reece
April 17, 2024 15:13 - 17 minutes - 16 MBToday’s guest is Hollywood superstar Chris Pratt. Chris plays Lieutenant Commander James Reece in the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Jack Carr’s The Terminal List and resumes the role in upcoming series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf. Following the debut of The Terminal List in 2022, it became the No. 1 series on Prime Video. It was viewed for more than 1.6 billion minutes in its first week. Chris has also starred in Jurassic World, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, and LEGO Movie fra...
Unraveling the Complex History of Hamas with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer
April 11, 2024 11:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBDr. Jonathan Schanzer is a terrorism finance expert, a Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and serves on the FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power leadership team. Along with hundreds of articles on terrorism and the Middle East, he is the author of Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War, State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Pale...
The Future of Freedom with Tulsi Gabbard
April 03, 2024 14:42 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBTulsi Gabbard is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, Iraq War veteran, former Congresswoman, and 2020 presidential candidate. Tulsi was elected the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021. During her time in office, she served on the Homeland Security Committee, the Armed Services Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Financial Services Committee. From 2013-2016, Tulsi served as Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee...
The Cold Hard Truth of War with Chris Ryan
March 27, 2024 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBChris Ryan is a former Special Air Service operator. The only member of his eight-man team to not be captured or killed, Chris evaded enemy patrols and survived a 300-kilometer journey to the Syrian border during the First Gulf War. It was the longest Escape and Evasion in the history of the SAS. In this episode, Jack and Chris discuss how Chris survived his 1991 experience in Iraq. He is the bestselling author of seventy fiction and non-fiction books including the Geordie Sharp series, ...
Beyond Torture: Andy McNab's Mental Fortitude in Bravo Two Zero
March 20, 2024 15:21 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBNOTE: This segment has been extracted from the full-length episode, which originally aired on September 8, 2021. It has been REDEPLOYED. Andy McNab is a former member of the British SAS who led Bravo Two Zero during the first Gulf War. During his time in the military, Andy conducted counter-terrorist and anti-drug missions in Central America, South America and throughout the Middle East. He also worked undercover in Northern Ireland. He was captured in Iraq on a mission during the first ...
Image Straight from Hell with Sean Parnell
March 15, 2024 00:12 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBThis segment has been extracted from the full-length episode, which originally aired on January 31, 2023. It has been REDEPLOYED. Today’s guest is retired U.S. Army Infantry captain Sean Parnell. As a 10th Mountain Division soldier, Sean served in some of the heaviest combat of the Afghan War. Join Jack and Sean as they discuss Sean’s first day deployed to Afghanistan. Sean captured his experiences in Afghanistan in the New York Times bestselling book Outlaw Platoon and is currently ...
Man Up with Ryan Michler
March 06, 2024 14:55 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBToday’s guest is U.S. Army combat veteran and the founder of Order of Man, Ryan Michler. Ryan founded Order of Man because he believes many of the world’s most complicated problems could be solved if men everywhere learned how to be better husbands, fathers, businessmen, and community leaders. Join Jack and Ryan as they discuss the journey that took Ryan from the battlefield to founding and building a community of men working together to reclaim and restore masculinity. Ryan is the auth...
You Don’t Have What it Takes with Johnny Joey Jones
February 28, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBToday’s guest is Marine EOD Bomb Tech Johnny ‘Joey’ Jones. Joey enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served for eight years as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician, deploying to both Iraq and Afghanistan. On August 6, 2010, after rendering safe and destroying more than 80 explosives, he stepped on an IED and lost both of his legs above the knee and sustained other multiple severe injuries. Join Jack and Joey as they discuss Joey's journey leading up to EOD school, ...
Peter Zeihan Takes Big Swings
February 21, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBDescription: Today’s guest is geopolitical strategist and New York Times bestselling author Peter Zeihan. Peter’s work focuses on global politics, demographics, and geography to better understand economic, cultural, political, and military developments to predict future trends. His firm, Zeihan on Geopolitics, provides custom analytical products to an array of clients including energy companies, financial institutions, agricultural interests, intelligence agencies, and the U.S. military. ...
Terry Hayes - Never Look Back
February 14, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBToday’s guest is screenwriter, producer and author, Terry Hayes. Terry began his career as an investigative journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald where, as their youngest foreign correspondent in the U.S., he covered major stories including Watergate and President Nixon’s resignation. After meeting George Miller, the director of 1979’s Mad Max, he wrote the film’s novelization and then transitioned to screenwriting, co-writing The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. He then...
PREPARED with Mike Glover
February 07, 2024 17:41 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBToday’s guest is former Green Beret and CIA contractor Mike Glover. Mike spent 18 years in the U.S. Army, followed by time as a contractor for the CIA. He served as a SGM in Special Forces in various positions and deployed multiple times to combat theaters of operation. He is a sought-after expert in counterterrorism, security, and crisis management. Join Jack and Mike as they discuss Mike’s special operations background and his company, Fieldcraft Survival, which is focused on educatin...
BATTLEGROUND with Sean Parnell
January 31, 2024 15:53 - 1 hour - 103 MBToday’s guest on the Danger Close Podcast with Jack Carr is retired U.S. Army Infantry captain Sean Parnell. As a 10th Mountain Division soldier, Sean served in some of the heaviest combat of the Afghan War. Join Jack and Sean as they discuss Sean’s 485 days of fierce fighting on the Afghan-Pakistan border in 2006-2007 and key leadership take-aways from Sean’s time in service. They also discuss Sean’s two congressional runs and the power, money and manipulations at play from at home and...
UNSEALED with Mark Greene
January 25, 2024 19:55 - 1 hour - 96.4 MBToday’s guest is Jack’s BUD/S Classmate and Navy SEAL Teammate Mark Greene. Join them as they reminisce about BUD/S, share stories from deployments, and reflect on the profound loss of brothers in arms. Mark's post-military path took him to the University of Southern California, where he played a crucial role in veteran programs and fundraising. Mark's latest accomplishment, the book UNSEALED, is an open, honest, unflinching account of life in the trenches. Tune in to navigate through ...
Be Relentless with Dean and Alana Stott
January 17, 2024 10:30 - 3 hours - 167 MBToday’s guests are Dean and Alana Stott. Alana Stott is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, security consultant, speaker, publisher, and former Mrs. Scotland. She is internationally known for her philanthropic efforts that have raised millions of dollars for causes such as mental health and the fight against human trafficking. She has been recognized for her work with several awards including the title of Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) on the King’s Ho...
John Stryker Meyer and the Secret War in Vietnam
January 10, 2024 12:45 - 2 hours - 161 MBToday’s guest is John Stryker “Tilt” Meyer. He is an author, reporter, and U.S. Army Special Forces combat veteran. John enlisted into the U.S. Army in 1966 and became a Green Beret in 1967. He specialized in covert reconnaissance and served two tours of duty with the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG). He received several awards and decorations for his service, including a Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars with “V” devices for valor. Today, th...
Mark Owen - No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL
January 03, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBToday’s guest is Mark Owen. Mark is an author, television producer, and former Navy SEAL. Following September 11th 2001, Mark made continuous deployments in support of the Global War on Terror, participating in hundreds of special operations missions around the world, including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips during the Maersk Alabama hijacking and as a team leader on Operation Neptune Spear, the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The Maersk Alabama lifeboat and model of Osama bin ...
Matthew Thomas: Holding The Line
December 27, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 105 MBToday's guest is Matthew Thomas. Matthew is the Chief Deputy of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, a former Pinal Regional SWAT team commander, Mexican cartel expert, and bestselling author. He has served with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office for over 30 years. Before becoming the Chief Deputy, Matthew served in Detention, Patrol, Traffic, Training, Academy, Narcotics, Motors, and Investigations. While working in the Narcotics unit, Matthew worked undercover, taking part in street-level d...
Be Legendary - Bert Sorin
December 20, 2023 19:35 - 2 hours - 154 MBToday’s guest on Danger Close is Bert Sorin. Bert is a hunter, hammer thrower, Highland Games athlete, and the president and co-owner of Sorinex. Sorinex was founded by Bert's father Richard Sorin in 1980. The company has been making some of the industry's most durable strength training equipment for more than 40 years. The gear they make is utilized by professional athletes, service members, and students worldwide. Bert is a 4-time Track and Field Division 1 All-American (Hammer and 35...
Justin Melnick: SEAL Team TV Show Star, K-9 Handler, Police Officer
December 13, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBToday’s guest is Justin Melnick. Justin is a police officer, K-9 handler, stuntman, actor, and photographer. He stars as Brock Reynolds on the hit Paramount+ series SEAL Team. Before his recurring role on the show, Justin served as the show’s dog handler, responsible for his Belgian Malinois, Dita, who plays the role of Cerberus. Additionally, Justin is known for his roles in The Matter With Clark, Cupcakes, and Justified: City Primeval. He released a coloring book, The Adventures of D...
Larry Keane: Firearm Industry Spokesman and Lobbyist
December 06, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBToday’s guest is Larry Keane. Larry is the Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary, and General Counsel to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). The NSSF is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, shooting, and hunting industry. As the SVP of government and public affairs, Larry is the industry’s chief lobbyist and media spokesperson. He also handles legal matters, ranging from corporate governance to drafting legislation. You ca...
Trevor Thompson: BASE Jumper, Photographer, and Former Navy SEAL
November 29, 2023 10:30 - 2 hours - 140 MBToday’s guest is Trevor Thompson. Trevor is a photographer, BASE jumper, outdoorsman, and former Navy SEAL. He served in the SEAL Teams for eight years, making three combat deployments. During his time stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Trevor discovered an interest in skydiving and BASE jumping. As a member of the U.S. Navy Parachute Team, the Leap Frogs, Trevor completed thousands of jumps and hundreds of demonstrations. After leaving the military, he established Trevor Thompson Consul...
Matthew Levitt: Hezbollah Terrorist Cells in America
November 24, 2023 18:49 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBToday’s guest is counterterrorism and intelligence expert, Matthew Levitt. Matthew is a Fromer-Wexler Fellow at The Washington Institute and the director of its Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. He previously worked as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and as a counterterrorism intelligence analyst at the FBI. He has also held fellowships with the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Milit...
Julian Rademeyer: Wagner Group’s Organized Crime Influence in Africa
November 22, 2023 18:55 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBToday’s guest is Julian Rademeyer. Julian is an award-winning author, investigative journalist, and one of the key figures in the global fight against organized crime’s illegal wildlife trade. Julian previously served as chief reporter for Media24 Investigations, the Southern Africa editor of AfricaCheck.org, and was a project leader at TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring network. His writing has appeared in major South African newspapers like City Press, Beeld, The Sunday...
Michael Oren: What Led to the Hamas Terrorist Attacks and What Happens Next
November 17, 2023 18:53 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBToday’s guest is Middle East scholar, historian, diplomat, soldier, and New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Michael Oren. From 2009-2013, Dr. Oren served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States. He is a former member of the Knesset and was Deputy Minister for Diplomacy in the Prime Minister’s Office. He served as an IDF Paratrooper in the 1982 Lebanon War. He is the author of numerous books including Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, Six Days of War: June 1967 a...
Brian Kilmeade: The War on History
November 15, 2023 10:30 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBToday’s guest on Danger Close is Brian Kilmeade. Brian is a co-anchor of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel, the host of The Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox News Talk Radio, a New York Times bestselling author, and the host of One Nation with Brian Kilmeade on Fox News, airing Saturday evenings. In his latest book, Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality, Brian looks at the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington and how their ...
Jonathan Schanzer: The War in Israel
November 10, 2023 17:42 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBToday’s guest is terrorism finance expert Dr. Jonathan Schanzer. Dr. Schanzer is a Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and serves on the FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power leadership team. Along with hundreds of articles on terrorism and the Middle East, he is the author of books including Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War, State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian ...
Bear Handlon: Veteran, Co-Founder/CEO of Born Primitive
November 08, 2023 12:52 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBToday’s guest is Bear Handlon. Bear is a former Navy SEAL officer, collegiate athlete, CrossFit competitor, and the co-founder and CEO of Born Primitive. Bear founded Born Primitive in 2014 making products geared toward CrossFit athletes, and has since expanded into creating durable and quality fitness apparel for everyone. Born Primitive’s motto is “athlete-drive, patriot-inspired.” They actively support the Navy SEAL Foundation, Concerns of Police Survivors, the Tunnel to Towers Foundati...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Security, Sacrifice, and the Search for Truth
November 01, 2023 09:30 - 1 hour - 105 MBToday’s guest is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is an author, attorney and 2024 independent presidential candidate. RFK Jr. focused his early legal career on prosecuting polluters, ensuring safe drinking water for American families and preserving fishing as a viable livelihood in the United States. During his tenure as an attorney for the nonprofit Riverkeeper, he successfully sued dozens of corrupt municipalities to force compliance with the Clean Water Act and led the fight to restore the Hu...
Middle East Expert Samuel Katz on the War in Israel
October 30, 2023 15:55 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBToday’s guest on this special episode of Danger Close is an expert on the Middle East, counterterrorism, and special operations. In addition to hundreds of articles on topics related to the Arab-Israeli conflict and international security issues, New York Times bestselling author Samuel Katz is also the former editor of the trade publication Special Operations Report. He is the author of more than 20 books, including The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terr...
Israeli Military Expert Yaakov Katz
October 27, 2023 13:39 - 56 minutes - 52 MBToday’s guest on this special episode of Danger Close is Yaakov Katz. Yaakov was the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post where he remains a columnist, is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, and was an international fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He is the author of three books on Israeli military affairs: Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power, The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-T...
Dean and Alana Stott: Evacuation Support in Israel
October 25, 2023 09:30 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBToday’s guests on this episode of Danger Close are Dean and Alana Stott. For the last two weeks, Dean has been in Israel helping with evacuations following the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7th. Alana has been coordinating efforts from the United States. About Dean: Dean Stott is a security consultant, speaker, author, and former Special Boat Service (SBS) operator. After a parachuting accident in 2011, he began working in the private security sector focusing on high-risk jobs invol...
Doron Keidar: The Frontlines of the Israel-Hamas War
October 20, 2023 14:53 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBToday’s guest on this special episode of Danger Close is Doron Keidar. Doron has served in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the IDF reserves. His unit was mobilized on Saturday, Oct. 7, and he is currently on the frontlines of Israel’s war with Hamas. He is also a security professional, serving as the Director of International Relations at the BHS Security Defense. You can follow Doron on Instagram @keidardoron SPONSORS: Navy Federal Credit Union: Today’s episode is presented by Navy...
Jim Shockey Returns
October 18, 2023 09:30 - 2 hours - 135 MBToday’s guest is Jim Shockey. Jim is an award-winning writer, wildlife photographer, videographer, naturalist, wilderness guide, and outfitter. He is the host of Jim Shockey’s Hunting Adventures, The Professionals, Uncharted, and Shock Therapy on the Outdoor Channel. He owns several outfitting territories in Canada's wildlands, including the Pacific Rim Guide Territory on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Rogue River Outfitting in the Yukon Territory. His work documenting wildli...
Peter Zeihan: What’s Really Going on in Israel
October 16, 2023 19:36 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBToday’s guest on this special episode of Danger Close is an expert on geopolitics with unique insights into global conflicts. Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist, New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and consultant. His work focuses on global politics, demographics, and geography to better understand economic, cultural, political, and military developments to predict future trends. His firm Zeihan on Geopolitics provides custom analytical products to an array of clients incl...
Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel at War
October 13, 2023 14:10 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBToday’s guest for this special episode of Danger Close is journalist Haviv Rettig Gur. Haviv is a senior political analyst for The Times of Israel. Haviv served as a combat medic in the Israel Defense Forces, was the Director of Communications for the Jewish Agency for Israel, and was a correspondent for The Jerusalem Post. You can follow him on X @havivrettiggur SPONSORS: Navy Federal Credit Union: Today’s episode is presented by Navy Federal Credit Union. Learn more about them at ht...
Chris Hadfield: Astronaut, Fighter Pilot, and Author of ‘The Defector’
October 11, 2023 13:30 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBToday’s guest is Chris Hadfield. Chris is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, musician, retired astronaut, and former combat pilot. Before becoming an astronaut, Chris was a tactical fighter pilot in the Canadian Armed Forces. He was the top graduate of the U.S. Air Force Pilot School and was named U.S. Navy Test Pilot of the Year in 1991. In 2005, Chris was inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame. Chris is one of the most accomplished astronauts in the world. He was the fi...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Interviews Jack Carr
October 09, 2023 21:48 - 48 minutes - 67 MBProducer’s Note: This special release originally ran on the RFK JR. PODCAST on Sept. 22, 2023. The episode was titled WAR AND PEACE WITH NAVY SEAL JACK CARR. On today’s episode of Danger Close, Jack is interviewed by 2024 presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr in a special dual-cast conversation. They discuss 9/11, Afghanistan, senior military officers, politicians, accountability, consequences, the intelligence community, and the long-term impacts of November 22, 1963. This week, ...