307: Former NFL Player Died For His Country & the Govt. Tried to Cover-up His Death: Pat Tillman Story
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
Who was Pat Tillman? 7:20
Pat's first call to action goes horrible 20:33
Pat falls in love with sports 23:38
2001, the year that changed everything 27:02
Answering the call of the ARMY Rangers 30:18
Rescuing Jessica Lynch 39:48
New assignment, old problems 43:27
The fateful friendly firefight 46:49
Opposing views and confusion 49:17
The immediate fallout of a conspiracy 1:05:38
General McChyrstal's beginnings of a coverup 1:08:07
The first investigation concludes 1:15:35
the repatriation ceremony 1:20:33
Second investigation, Pat's mom fights back 1:24:30
The final investigation, Pat's brother joins the fight 1:31:01
War never changes... 1:39:15
The Tillman foundation, Pat's enduring legacy 1:47:39
Prince Harry controversy 1:49:13
final thoughts & outro 1:52:50
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https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39954768/nfl-cardinals-tillman-afghanistan-9-11
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/pat-tillman-nfl-protest-death-army-disgrace/
https://www.c-span.org/video/?288974-1/after-words-jon-krakauer
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/super-bowl-pat-tillman-reactions
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Hey, what's up everybody? And welcome back to Mile Higher Podcast. This is episode |
| 0:20.5 | 307. I am your host Kendall. And I'm your host Josh. We are joined by our amazing production |
| 0:26.5 | team, Ian and Janelle. The introductions that just get better every week. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm really trying. You know? |
| 0:33.0 | So professionally. |
| 0:34.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:35.0 | That's what I was going for. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, guys, today we're covering a case that I am shocked we haven't done up until now. |
| 0:42.0 | I have so much to say, I know we all really do, and we are going to be talking about the |
| 0:48.0 | death and government cover-up of Pat Tillman. Now, I'm sure a lot of you have heard of Pat Tillman. Some of you are probably pretty |
| 0:56.8 | familiar with his story, but some of you out there may have just heard of him, especially |
| 1:01.5 | at the time that this all happened, but there's a lot of |
| 1:05.4 | misunderstanding as far as what really happened and kind of a lot of false |
| 1:12.3 | information out there. You you even saying someone you know |
| 1:15.3 | had heard a completely different version of who he was and kind of what happened. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, yeah we can talk about it, but someone I know who is like relatively in the government was like, oh yeah, he was killed by his men because he was an asshole. |
| 1:29.7 | And that's just not... |
| 1:30.9 | Oh my God, that's just offensive. Yeah, and that's just not the just offensive. Yeah and that's just not the impression you get at all while |
| 1:36.2 | researching or learning about his story it seemed like he was a pretty well-light |
| 1:39.6 | guy all around. Yeah I'd say he's quite the opposite of an |
| 1:43.4 | asshole. In fact, Pat Tillman seemed like such an incredible stand-up |
| 1:48.2 | guy. Someone I was telling Josh last night, I would love to have had a |
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