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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Coast to Coast AM. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: Richard Vera, our guest. Our first guest tonight is Jason Hanson.

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Speaker 2: He's a former CIA spy, an officer, a security specialist

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Speaker 2: in recent successful contestant of ABC's reality show Sharknank. He's

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Speaker 2: also the New York best selling author of Spy Secrets

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Speaker 2: That Can Save Your Life and trains all types of

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Speaker 2: individuals and escapes and evasions, self defense, evasive driving, firearms,

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Speaker 2: and what I want to talk about is moving off

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Speaker 2: the X. He's gonna tell us all about that. Very

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Speaker 2: excited to welcome Jason Hanson to Coast to Coast. Hey, Jason,

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Speaker 2: nice to meet you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for having me rich I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I've spent the last couple of days powering three or

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Speaker 2: two books, which normally I sit and I read all

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Speaker 2: the books and I write all the questions for the show,

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Speaker 2: and I think I have like two hundred questions here.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to have to We're gonna have to,

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Speaker 2: I hope ready. First of all, how does the CIA

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Speaker 2: find you or how do you find the CIA.

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Speaker 3: Well, you are very blessed and you apply. So there's

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Speaker 3: this huge myth out there that you know, everybody gets

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Speaker 3: recruited like some movie and everything. Well, guess what, ninety

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Speaker 3: nine percent of us apply and go through the very

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Speaker 3: arduous process, and probably one percent of people are actually recruited.

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Speaker 3: And those were one percent can speak seventeen languages and

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Speaker 3: you know, have a connection to a Ryan or North

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Speaker 3: Korea or their geniuses or something like that. So I

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Speaker 3: was very lucky to apply and go through the long process.

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Speaker 2: And in your books, because there's some pretty advanced stories

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Speaker 2: and really good details, how do you get the CIA

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Speaker 2: to allow you to even share that at a book?

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Speaker 3: You have to send the complete manuscripts of the agency.

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Speaker 3: There's something called the Publications Review Board. They review it

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Speaker 3: and you go back and forth. So they were adapt

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Speaker 3: to a few pages here. There are a dact pages here,

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Speaker 3: you say, can I say this? Can I say this?

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Speaker 3: So that'd be another long process to make sure that

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Speaker 3: I'm allowed to put it down. I'm not getting in

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Speaker 3: trouble for anything I shouldn't be saying.

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Speaker 2: And we should say that your site and all of

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Speaker 2: your efforts are connected to us at coast to coast,

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Speaker 2: am So enjoy yourself, listen to the interview so you

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Speaker 2: don't have to, like, you know, jump on your laptops

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Speaker 2: right now. You can listen to Jason and he can

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Speaker 2: kind of school us on some stuff. I'm kind of

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Speaker 2: wondering as you sit today in an election year in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, when things seem a little a little

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Speaker 2: whack of do what do you feel like is the

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Speaker 2: number one safety threat that we as Americans face, like

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Speaker 2: right this second.

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Speaker 3: Sure, so there's two big ones. One of them people

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Speaker 3: might keep familiar with the other one not so. But

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna start with the not so much one. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you my sources, but there is chatter

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Speaker 3: among the government and they are very afraid that after

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Speaker 3: the election, states are going to try and to seed

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Speaker 3: and that is going to lead to a civil war

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Speaker 3: I hope that doesn't happen. I pray that doesn't happen.

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Speaker 3: I've got work, guns and Ammo and survival food and

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Speaker 3: water than ninety nine percent of people out there, I

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Speaker 3: believe you I build. I mean, I've got seven kids,

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Speaker 3: so I didn't get married until after I left the

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Speaker 3: So I'm ready. But I certainly hope it never happened.

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Speaker 3: So that is that is thing Number one is many

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Speaker 2: And do you feel like that is based on a

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Speaker 2: certain outcome of the election or no matter what the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they are worried either way. Okay, So they are

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Speaker 3: worried that, you know, obviously very divided, very you know,

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Speaker 3: But it's one hundred percent true. I don't worry about

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Speaker 3: a civil war because it's probably no shank to you.

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Speaker 3: I'm a Republican. I own a lot of guns. But

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Speaker 3: that's why I tell people you don't have to worry

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Speaker 3: they don't do anything. So it's not something we should

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Speaker 3: have to worry about. Now. What you do have to

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Speaker 2: Well let's go. I'm going to shift back and forth

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Speaker 2: between your two books, if you don't mind, because they're

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Speaker 2: both excellent, by the way, and the first book that

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Speaker 2: you wrote, I think within the first five pages you

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Speaker 2: already had me ordering a tactical pen for me. And

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Speaker 2: my daughter just started at college in New York, so

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Speaker 2: And she was walking around calling me on nine to

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Speaker 2: your friends, you guys got your head on a swift

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Speaker 2: and she's like, it's actually very peaceful here, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: you guys gotta pay attention. I was telling her about

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Speaker 2: reading your book, and I said, you just can't wander

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Speaker 2: around without having a goal because you don't have a baseline.

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Speaker 2: I've putting your book all over the place. But one

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Speaker 2: and especially having you know, a wife and a young daughter,

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Speaker 2: what do you tell I guess guys too, but what

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Speaker 2: that you're you're pretty certain that you're not being followed?

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Speaker 3: Sure? I mean here, Here's what I say is, unfortunately

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Speaker 3: criminals do. They case everybody. They may spend five minutes casing.

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Speaker 3: They may case somebody for weeks if they're casting somebody

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Speaker 3: to the house. Right. But I give an example. I

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Speaker 2: Can you even tell a story about I think your

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Speaker 2: and she noticed right away that he wasn't shopping for anything.

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Speaker 2: He was just kind of appearing in the same place

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Speaker 2: what did she end up doing to kind of get

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Speaker 3: Sure, So that is called a surveillance detection root SDR

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Speaker 3: because if you're followed a McDonald's both or exposed. So

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Speaker 3: you run a surveillance detection route, which means you might

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Speaker 3: then you may go to the dry cleaners, then you

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Speaker 3: may go get gas, and in each of those locations

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Speaker 3: you're seeing if you have any surveillance on you. So

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Speaker 3: that's an SDR. Now in the real world, we don't

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what she did. And I said, run

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Speaker 3: I have no idea who the person was, if they

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Speaker 3: at random. But anybody can run a surveillance detection room.

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Speaker 2: What about if you're in your car, if you're you know,

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Speaker 2: been around me for a long time. Do you tell

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely not. I would not. I mean I would

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Speaker 3: spy trying to pick up on surveillance. But here we

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Speaker 3: if you start taking a bunch of bizarre random turns

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Speaker 3: very quick surveillance detection route, and then you again call

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Speaker 3: nine one one. You can drive to the police station,

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Speaker 3: drive to the fire station, but obviously don't go home.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a part of us too, And I'm

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Speaker 2: not trying to be funny here, I'm just being practical.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if your wife is upset that she didn't

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Speaker 2: get to pick up what she needed at home depot

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Speaker 2: because she had to run. She had to get off

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Speaker 3: As you say, my wife does so much shopping. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure she went back the very next day, so I

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Speaker 3: think she's fine with all the Amazon packages coming.

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Speaker 2: In with I think that's right. I said, it's the

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Speaker 2: same thing to my wife. She's like, why would I

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Speaker 2: be in a home depot. I'd order her online exactly.

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Speaker 2: She's like, why are you doing that? You just make

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Speaker 2: sure now let's talk about that. As a former CIA guy,

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Speaker 2: Well that seems kind of old school, I'm wondering about

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Speaker 3: No? I am very low tech. Low tech is better.

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Speaker 3: You're one hundred percent right. When I joined the agency

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Speaker 2: Your first book, I think you talked about that you

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Speaker 2: And explain to me why this is being prepared in

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Speaker 3: do you have any weapons in your car? And she says, well,

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Speaker 3: She says, well in the back seat, I've got a shotgun.

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Speaker 3: why do you have a year's supply of food storage?

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Speaker 3: Why do you have water storage hundreds of gallons, you know,

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Speaker 3: a budg got location with a well because it gives

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Speaker 2: Of mind is why I do it. Let's talk about

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Speaker 2: some CIA stuff. The book that you just came out

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Speaker 2: with great it's linked at Coast to Coast am dot com.

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Speaker 2: And I'm kind of interested in the planning of when

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Speaker 2: you do a CIA CIA operation. How long does that

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Speaker 2: Is I assume they do a lot?

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Speaker 3: Sure depends what this meaning. What is the tasking. The

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Speaker 3: There's a I'm just making this up. Obviously, there's a

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Speaker 3: week window. Well that one you've got to act very

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Speaker 3: We need to recruit him because he's got plans and

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Speaker 3: And that's one of the biggest things that the kind

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Speaker 2: Have you seen a spy movie or a TV show

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Speaker 3: There was a television show called Quantico, and it was

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Speaker 3: So if the movie showed it was really like, nobody

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