{"podcast":{"title":"The Team House","slug":"the-team-house-817706","podcast_index_feed_id":817706,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5960890/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-team-house_2","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/693990662d90e6b6f786f563f8b2f5ce.jpg","author":"dee takos","episode_count":625,"summary":"The Team House is a long-form, fiercely apolitical national security podcast hosted by Jack Murphy, featuring special operations veterans, intelligence professionals, frontline reporters, and guests who have never spoken publicly before. It delivers deep-dive conversations on conflict, tradecraft, and the forces shaping the world, alongside the sister show Eyes On Geopolitics hosted by Mick Mulroy, Andy Milburn, and Jason Lyons, focused on breaking down current geopolitical events and what they mean for national security. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T14:18:50.951962+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-team-house-817706"},"episode":{"title":"Inside JSOC’s Most Dangerous Mission Ever | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS","slug":"inside-jsoc-s-most-dangerous-mission-ever-eyes-on-geopolitics","published_at":"2026-07-09T07:08:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-team-house-817706/inside-jsoc-s-most-dangerous-mission-ever-eyes-on-geopolitics","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-team-house-817706","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/inside-jsoc-s-most-dangerous-mission-ever-eyes-on-geopolitics--72855135","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/clrtpod.com/m/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72855135/jsoc_wmd_spreaker.mp3","summary":"Jack Murphy joins us to break down his new High Side investigation into JSOC’s planned mission to recover highly enriched uranium from Iran, a raid some insiders compared to “Eagle Claw 2.0.” He explains why the operation would have required far more than a small special operations team, the risks of fighting in a CBRN environment, and why the mission may have been too dangerous to greenlight. The High Side: https://substack.com/@thehighside/note/p-192763347?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=mr77m Jack's new book: https://a.co/d/0gywUGvn 00:00 - Inside JSOC’s Planned Iran WMD Raid 01:21 - Why Some Called It “Eagle Claw 2.0” 03:41 - Why Getting Into Iran Was Only Half the Problem 04:46 - Not a Quick Hit: Why This Required 1,000+ Troops 06:40 - Moving Highly Enriched Uranium Out of Iran 07:37 - Fighting Through a CBRN Environment 08:04 - The Libya WMD Plan That Foreshadowed Iran 09:55 - The Limits of Small Special Operations Teams 11:10 - Why JSOC Wanted to Capture the Uranium 12:29 - The Dirty Bomb Risk of Leaving Material Behind 14:56 - Why Trump Did Not Greenlight the Raid 18:14 - JSOC vs. CENTCOM Tensions Over the Mission 20:37 - Iran’s Air Defenses and MQ-9 Reaper Losses 25:20 - JSOC’s Counter-WMD Mission Before 9/11 32:10 - Pakistan’s Fear of a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Raid \"Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio\" Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support .","meta_description":"Jack Murphy joins us to break down his new High Side investigation into JSOC’s planned mission to recover highly enriched uranium from Iran, a raid some i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2869,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-team-house-817706/episodes/inside-jsoc-s-most-dangerous-mission-ever-eyes-on-geopolitics/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-team-house-817706/inside-jsoc-s-most-dangerous-mission-ever-eyes-on-geopolitics.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}