Synopsis
Kyle Thiermann is a professional surfer, podcaster, and filmmaker from California. He creates gonzo-style mini-documentaries about current issues happening all over the world. These are conversations with fascinating people he meets along the way.
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#1: Vice Correspondent and Navy Seal - Kaj Larsen
19/10/2016 Duration: 01h18minI Tunes Stitcher Kaj Larsen (@Kajlarsenvice) is an American journalist working for Vice News. He worked for the Vanguard international news documentary investigative reporting show on Current TV beginning in 2005. In 2010, he became a producer and correspondent for CNN until he was laid off in 2012 after CNN abolished their investigative news departments. Larsen was born in Santa Cruz, California. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a degree in political science and a master's degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was awarded a fellowship from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He was also a joint fellow at Tufts University Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism studies.He was a Navy SEAL for five years. Larsen helped develop the Vanguard journalism series, which received an Emmy Award. He had himself waterboarded on TV and was the first western TV journalist in Mogadishu in over a decade. He has reported from Yeme