We speak with journalist Colin Freeman about covering wars from Iraq and Somalia to Ukraine, including his own kidnapping by Somali pirates and the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion. We also dig into his book The Mad and the Brave, the foreign volunteers who joined Ukraine’s International Legion, and the chaos, courage, and darker realities they faced on the front lines.
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00:00 — Start
01:26 — Colin Freeman’s Path Into Journalism
05:28 — Going Freelance to Cover Iraq
08:09 — The Reality of Freelance War Reporting
11:26 — Kidnapped by Pirates in Somalia
17:46 — Covering the Opening Days of the Ukraine War
21:21 — Taking the Train Into Besieged Kyiv
24:14 — Meeting Ukraine’s Foreign Volunteers
32:04 — Fantasists, Screamers, and the Yavoriv Missile Strike
36:36 — Douglas Carter and the Chaos of the Front Line
42:04 — Hugh Lee and the Shock of Ukraine’s Battlefield
49:08 — Pez and the Hunt for a Front Line
55:19 — Pez’s Near Capture on a Dnipro Island
59:30 — Foreign Volunteers Captured by Russia
01:05:22 — Torture in a Russian Black Site
01:14:05 — Mariupol, Azovstal, and John Harding
01:25:45 — The Bizarre POW Release and Roman Abramovich
01:31:40 — Ryan O’Leary, Chosen Company, and Jack Knight
01:37:15 — The Dark Side of the Legion
01:48:47 — Did Ukraine’s Foreign Legion Actually Matter?
01:52:50 — Could the West Have Built a Better Legion?
01:58:40 — The Mad and the Brave and Closing Thoughts
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