Shawn Ryan

Your awards include Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, and Distinguished Service Medal.

Author of In Company of Heroes.

Tried your hand at politics and ran as a Republican candidate for the US Senate seat in Alabama in 2022.

You're a husband to Lisa, and you have a blended family with six children, and most importantly out of everything,

uh we just found out you're a christian so once again welcome to the show and um you know this is for those that don't know and haven't put it together yet um mike your helicopter went down in somalia in 93 and um the famous incident blackhawk down and uh we are going to get a a full account of

of what happened in that timeframe.

And so once again, it's an honor.

And then a little side note here, just before we get into the interview, I don't know if you've seen this, but it's kind of relevant right now.

Have you seen Minnesota, this happened in Minnesota, Somalis who are defrauding the government to fund terrorism, more specifically al-Shabaab,

Once again, this is in Minnesota and they are using housing stabilization funds to do this.

And according to Polymarket, they only have a 24% chance of ever being deported from this country.

I'm just curious, what are your thoughts on that?

Man, I'm with you.

I mean...

It's surprising, but it doesn't fucking surprise me.

In fact, that flag right there, I don't know if the guys told you where that's from, but this isn't just a left thing, unfortunately.

The government has been funding the fucking Taliban $40 to $87 million a week in cash.

And the person that broke that is a friend of mine, legend.

He's an Afghan-American, was Army intelligence, and brought that flag back when he broke that story and recovered that flag from the fucking Taliban burning that in Kabul, Afghanistan.

You know, and that's still going on.