Phil Singleton spent years operating in the shadows — tier one SAS, Operation Nimrod, the Iranian Embassy siege — and then quietly disappeared into a second career training thousands of law enforcement officers across the U.S. as Training Director for Heckler & Koch. He doesn't carry a cell phone, doesn't chase recognition, and until now has been one of the most quietly consequential British operators most Americans have never heard of. This week Phil pulls back the curtain on what it really took to earn that winged dagger, what it was like to storm a foreign embassy in the middle of London on live television, and why — at 72 — he's perfectly content stacking bananas in a grocery store produce aisle with zero regrets.
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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - P Company
00:01:01 - Sponsor: Team Dog
00:01:46 - Phil Singleton Intro
00:03:24 - Last Book Read
00:06:26 - Growing Up Welsh
00:10:42 - Joining The Army
00:13:06 - Sponsor
00:15:03 - Army Apprentices
00:20:50 - Enlisting: UK vs US
00:26:05 - Path To SAS
00:29:09 - P Company
00:31:53 - Stretcher Race
00:37:10 - First SAS Attempt
00:41:53 - Inside The Regiment
00:44:56 - Sponsor
00:47:07 - HALO Jumping
00:51:28 - Meeting Wife
00:59:52 - Sponsor
01:01:19 - Welsh vs English
01:09:46 - SAS Today vs Then
01:16:00 - Sponsor
01:18:11 - Sketch Map Challenge
01:21:53 - Operation Nimrod
01:34:13 - Sponsor
01:35:42 - Delta Force Connection
01:37:38 - Nimrod Planning
01:44:42 - Sponsor
01:51:29 - Terrorist Demands
02:04:24 - Leaving The SAS
02:07:11 - US Citizenship
02:12:22 - Training Law Enforcement
02:18:28 - Singleton International
02:19:36 - OJ Simpson Story
02:22:54 - Produce Department Life
02:27:20 - SAS Arabic Training
02:28:40 - Rastafarian Story
02:32:00 - Geopolitics Today
02:38:20 - Kosovo & Bill Clinton
02:41:11 - America's Future
02:44:36 - Brexit & Britain
02:48:33 - Concealed Carry
02:50:49 - What's Next
02:55:04 - Closing Thoughts
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