The speaker was hit by a car bomb while in a turret.
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Unsubscribe PodcastSep 13, 2026
The only source for the claim is the claimant's own podcast passage, which describes being hit by a car bomb and blown back in his turret, but no independent source covers this speaker or event.
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What was said
… That's not good. That's actually kind of what happened when I got blown up with this. My god, fingers come down. Oh, what the fuck? Oh, I should marry her. I should marry them. Stripper oh, wait, bomb. When I, when I get hit with a car bomb, there's two guys in a car, and, thank you for your service. Yes, you're welcome. I don't have, uh, a Purple Heart from it, but that's because, you know, I'm good at diving bullets and people meet. But, uh, he, they detonate yeah, they detonated, and, ah, I got, I got blown back in my, in my turret, and I fell out the back of the turret, and then I stood up, and I scanned my sector, and then I started looking around because, like, I was seeing things, like, move, like, quickly out of my vision, like, and I look over, there's nothing there, and then I'd …
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Context. The claim is a faithful extraction of the passage, where the speaker says 'when I get hit with a car bomb' and 'I got blown back in my turret'. Since the passage is the claimant's own account, it cannot corroborate the claim.
Context. The Road to Baghdad article describes a car bomb incident involving Army gunners in a turret, but it concerns a different unit and attack on Nov. 6, so it is a different referent.[1]
Context. The Samarra VBIED podcast episode describes a different car bomb attack during a 2004 deployment and does not name or describe the speaker in this passage.[2]
Context. The Unsubscribe Podcast listing confirms only the episode title and guests, not the details of any car bomb attack the speaker describes.[3]
Sources
3 sources: 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Road to Baghdad a highway of hazardsnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 2Operation Iraqi Freedom II 20th Anniversary, Episode 6. VBIED at PB Razor.youtube.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Unsubscribe Podcast - Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com · not rated · cited for: context
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