Listeners 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 Snyder's Justice League, and most recently Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire. Follow Ray on Inst ..read more

Today’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 franchises, along with Moneyball, Zero Dark Thirty, Passengers, The Magnificent Seven, On ..read more

Dr. 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 Palestine, and Al-Qaeda’s Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups & the Next Generation of Terror. Prev ..read more

Chris 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, Alpha Force, the Danny Black series and The One That Got Away, which details his experience ..read more

NOTE: 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 Gulf War in 1991, an experience he recounts in his first book, Bravo Two Zero. Andy wa ..read more

This 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 the host of the Sean Parnell Battle Ground Podcast, which airs daily at 5pm EST. To lear ..read more

Today’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 author of The Masculinity Manifesto, the founder of Order of Man, and is the host of the Order of Man ..read more

Today’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, his first deployment, the mission that resulted in his life-changing injury, and the weight of losing fell ..read more

Description: 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. Join Jack and Peter as they explore Iran’s historical and geographical influences on culture, along with th ..read more

Today’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 wrote the screenplay for 1989’s Dead Calm (Nicole Kidman).  He went on to writ ..read more