Part Tw: Richard Marcinko: The Founder of SEAL Team 6
7/16/20261 hr 9 min
We continue the life and times of Richard Marcinko as he enters the Vietnam War and immediately commits numerous war crimes for the CIA. Then he gets to invent SEAL Team 6!
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First 90 secondsSophie Lichterman· Host0:00
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Robert Evans· Host0:02
[upbeat digital music] Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the podcast that, again, I, I did the "you're listening now" bit. Anyway, I'm Robert. You know me. We're talking about Richard, the Navy SEALs guy, you know?
Andrew Ti· Guest0:15
Yeah.
Robert Evans· Host0:15
And, and my guest is, again, Andrew T.
Andrew Ti· Guest0:18
What up?
Robert Evans· Host0:19
Andrew, how are you doing, buddy?
Andrew Ti· Guest0:19
Uh, good.
Robert Evans· Host0:20
Yeah.
Andrew Ti· Guest0:21
Still here, still alive.
Robert Evans· Host0:22
Yeah.
Andrew Ti· Guest0:23
It's a little... It's, it's warm, but I'm alive. This is great.
Robert Evans· Host0:26
It's, it's warm, but you're alive, just like everyone else in the eternal summer that is increasingly gripping the world. Well- Yeah ... let's distract ourselves from our problems by thinking about a man who lived a charm and mirthful life of constant war crimes. [laughs] The SEAL Team Six guy, old Dickie Marks, Richard Marcinko.
Andrew Ti· Guest0:46
Oh, can I, can I ask a, a question?
Robert Evans· Host0:48
Yeah.
Andrew Ti· Guest0:49
Not, not to be glib. Why is SEAL Team Six, like, is there, I assume, one through five? Or is this, like, a James Bond situation where maybe there's only- We'll talk about that. Okay.
Robert Evans· Host0:57
[laughs] Don't worry, we'll talk about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh. [laughs] That's actually a fun story. Um- All right ... but yeah, at, at this point, initially there are, like, two teams. Um, but each team is, like, hundreds of guys, right? They're divided into platoons and stuff. So you- it's not... When, when you hear, like, SEAL Team Six, you might think, like, well, that's, like, six guys or 10. No, there's, like, hundreds of guys. [laughs] Like SEAL Team Six- Ah ... there's a lot of Team Six guys. Um- Got it.
Andrew Ti· Guest1:21
Okay.
Robert Evans· Host1:21
Okay. Yeah, exactly.
Andrew Ti· Guest1:22
Right.
Sophie Lichterman· Host1:23
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