{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Silvercore Podcast with Travis Bader","title":"Ep. 191: The Next Mission: Kyle Lamb on Cancer, Faith, and the Poems He's Never Published","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":9279,"description":"Retired Delta Force Sergeant Major Kyle Lamb returns to the Silvercore Podcast to talk about his new book, The Next Mission, co-authored with his wife Melynda. Kyle spent 21 years in the US Army, 15 of them in Delta Force, and fought in the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.\nThe day episode 124 finished recording, Kyle got a phone call telling him he had bladder cancer. He had just told Travis, on tape, that he was living as though he had six months left. What happened next changed how he and Melynda live.\nIn this conversation:\nThe phone call after the last podcast, and the lung finding that followed for his wife\nWhy The Next Mission reads the Bible through a special operations lens, and why Bible scholars are not the audience\nEhud the left-handed assassin, and how researching a bronze dagger led to Herodotus and tin from ancient Britain\nThe Apostle Paul chained to a Roman soldier, and the two words that would have stopped his beating\nWhy Melynda's name is on the cover, and the five chapters she red-X'd out of Leadership in the Shadows\nTwo poems read aloud that have never been published anywhere\nTwelve years without a drink, and the conversation in Hawaii that changed how he saw it\nWhy the Christian who did the most for his faith in two years is a Muslim friend\nWhat tribe actually means, and why it has nothing to do with skin, geography, or religion\nThe redactions left visible in the book, and the note inside the cover confirming no AI was used\nThe Next Mission is 432 pages, published June 6, 2026. Signed and personalized copies are available direct from Viking Tactics. It is priced at $27.17, a reference to Proverbs 27:17, iron sharpens iron.\nKyle Lamb and Viking Tactics\nSigned copies: https://www.vikingtactics.com/shop/the-next-mission/\nStay in the Fight Foundation: https://www.vikingtactics.com/stay-in-the-fight-foundation/\nTeam VTAC Podcast: https://kylelamb.libsyn.com/\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/vikingtactics\n_____\nSilvercore Club -...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/B8WTW1_pTQK-2h9DfU1TlgOqrgcmMPFrunfof0Y4JM8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZDM3/YzE1NjU0ZjU4YzY3/ODljOTE3YzY0ZTlj/MmVhZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}