Larry Keane: Firearm Industry Spokesman and Lobbyist - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’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 can learn more about the NSSF by visiting nssf.org
To stay up-to-date with Larry, follow him on X @lkeane
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Trevor Thompson: BASE Jumper, Photographer, and Former Navy SEAL - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’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 Consulting & Demonstrations to help others learn how to achieve their goals and land on target.
Trevor is also an experienced outdoorsman and photographer, often capturing his skiing, hunting, and BASE jumping adventures on camera. He is a brand ambassador for industry-leading companies like Protekt, 30 Seconds Out, Uncanna, Alpha Munitions, and Apex BASE.
To learn more about Trevor, you can visit his website, thompsonparasports.org, and follow him on Instagram @trevor.p.thompson
You can purchase his photography at trevorpthompson.com
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Matthew Levitt: Hezbollah Terrorist Cells in America - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’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. Military Academy at West Point and with the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as a member of the international advisory board for both the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel and the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore. Matthew serves on the advisory board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance and formerly served on the academic advisory board for the Emirati Center for Strategic Studies and Research.
Matthew’s writings on the Middle East, terrorism, illicit finance and sanctions have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy.
He is the author of Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad, Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks, and Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God. He is also the host of the BREAKING HEZBOLLAH'S GOLDEN RULE podcast.
You can follow him on X @Levitt_Matt
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Julian Rademeyer: Wagner Group’s Organized Crime Influence in Africa - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’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 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 Times, Pretoria News, and The Herald, and he has worked for global news organizations, including the Associated Press and Reuters.
His bestselling 2012 book, Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade, has achieved widespread international acclaim for its unflinching look at the demand for rhino horn from Asian markets fueling its illegal trade and the organized criminal syndicates bringing rhinos to the brink of extinction.
Julian currently serves as director of the Organized Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. On today’s DANGER CLOSE, he looks at the Wagner Group’s influence in Africa and more.
You can follow him on Twitter @julianrademeyer
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Michael Oren: What Led to the Hamas Terrorist Attacks and What Happens Next - Danger Close
Today’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 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Reunion, Sand Devil, The Origins of the Second Arab-Israel War: Egypt, Israel and the Great Powers, 1952-56, The Night Archer, To All Who Call in Truth, and, most recently, 2048: The Rejuvenated State.
You can read more of Dr. Oren’s work on his Substack Clarity with Michael Oren.
You can follow him on X @DrMichaelOren and on Instagram @ambmichaeloren
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Brian Kilmeade: The War on History - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’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 friendship helped lay the groundwork for major change in America.
You can follow him on Instagram @kilmeade and on X @kilmeade.
You can find his latest book tour dates at https://www.briankilmeade.com.
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Jonathan Schanzer: The War in Israel - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’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 State, Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine, and Al-Qaeda’s Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror.
Previously, Dr. Schanzer was a terrorism finance analyst in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He also held think tank research positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Forum.
You can follow him on X @JSchanzer and on Instagram @jonathan.schanzer
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Bear Handlon: Veteran, Co-Founder/CEO of Born Primitive - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’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 Foundation, and the Best Defense Foundation.
He also co-hosts The Born Primitive Podcast.
To learn more about Bear and Born Primitive, follow him on Instagram @bearhandlon and @bornprimitive.
You can also visit the Born Primitive website, https://bornprimitive.com/
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Middle East Expert Samuel Katz on the War in Israel - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’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 Terrorism, No Shadows in the Desert: Murder, Vengeance, and Espionage in the War Against ISIS, Harpoon: Inside The Covert War against International Terrorism’s Money Masters, and Beirut Rules: the Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War
You can find more of his work at samuelkatzonline.com and on X @Samuel_M_Katz
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