Photo: (Matt Hartman via AP)

The helicopter flight was known as Extortion One-Seven. On board in Afghanistan were members of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six. The same special forces unit which killed Osama bin Laden. When the Chinook helicopter was shot down by a insurgents, 38 lives were lost, including some of the most battle-hardened special forces operatives in the world.  There has long been a rumour the shooting down of Extortion One-Seven was directly related to the assassination of Bin Laden. 

Guest: Ed Darack.  Author: The Final Mission of Extortion 17.  

Photo: (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)

A continued look at the Edmonton terror attack.

Guest:  Mubin Shaikh. ex-CSIS & RCMP operative. Author: Undercover Jihadi. Former supporter of extreme jihad.

Guest:  Kirby Bourne.  630 CHED Edmonton reporter. 

Guest:  Scott Newark.  Former federal and Ontario security advisor post 9/11. Former crown attorney and senior policy advisor to the federal Minister for Public Safety

A terrorism investigation is underway in Edmonton, where a police officer was stabbed and four pedestrians struck down by a fleeing U-Haul truck Saturday night. What do we know so far?

Guest:  Julia Wong, Digital Journalist, Global News.

Guest: Sgt. Mike Elliot. VP Alberta Federation of Police Associations. Also a Sgt. with the Edmonton Police Service.

Guest: Raheel Raza. Author, educator, public speaker, consultant for interfaith & interculture diversity.  Author:  Their Jihad, Not My Jihad.

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Mark Yost writes on the business of sport for the Wall Street Journal and Sports Illustrated. He writes this is the beginning of the end for the NFL. What are the NFL protests doing to the viewership numbers? 

Guest: Mark Yost. Author:Tailgating, Sacks and Salary Caps ... How the NFL became the world's most successful sports league.

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The helicopter flight was known as Extortion One-Seven. On board in Afghanistan were members of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six. The same special forces unit which killed Osama bin Laden. When the Chinook helicopter was shot down by insurgents, 38 lives were lost, including some of the most battle-hardened special forces operatives in the world.  There has long been a rumour the shooting down of Extortion One-Seven was directly related to the assassination of Bin Laden. 

Guest: Ed Darack.  Author: The Final Mission of Extortion 17.  

Photo: (AP photo/Artur Harutyunyan, PAN Photo)

Why are we so fascinated with the Kardashians? 

Guest: Jerry Oppenheimer.  NY Times bestselling biographer who has written about the Clintons, Bernie Madoff, Martha Stewart and the Kennedy's. Author: The Kardashians: An American Drama.

Photo: (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports/Reuters)

Callers: Are you onside with the protesting players, or are they causing you to turn off the NFL. Aaron Rodgers urged Green Bay Packers fans to link arms and join the players in protest before the game. Instead, Rodgers was savaged by Green Bay fans on Twitter.

Photo: (AP Photo/Matt York)

Mark Yost writes on the business of sport for the Wall Street Journal and Sports Illustrated. He writes this is the beginning of the end for the NFL. What are the NFL protests doing to the viewership numbers? 

Guest: Mark Yost. Author:Tailgating, Sacks and Salary Caps ... How the NFL became the world's most successful sports league.

Photo: (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

A terrorism investigation is underway in Edmonton, where a police officer was stabbed and four pedestrians struck down by a fleeing U-Haul truck Saturday night. What do we know so far?

Guest:  Julia Wong, Digital Journalist, Global News.

Guest: Sgt. Mike Elliot. VP Alberta Federation of Police Associations. Also a Sgt. with the Edmonton Police Service.

Guest: Raheel Raza. Author, educator, public speaker, consultant for interfaith & interculture diversity.  Author:  Their Jihad, Not My Jihad.

The Roy Green Show Podcast

Hugh Hefner died at the age of 91 this week. Despite criticism, Hefner was massively influential on society.

Playboy also included interviews with some of the world’s most influential and interesting people, as well as renowned pieces of fiction.

Guest: Professor Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for TV and Popular Culture at the University of Syracuse
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Chronic pain patients are being increasingly marginalized and are having their opioid medications withdrawn, leaving them in severe agony and causing an increasing number of them to take drastic measures.

Guests: Dr. Lynn Webster, past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and author of “The Painful Truth”, based in Salt Lake City, Utah

Dr. Gaylord Wardell, anesthesiologist and pain specialist in Medicine Hat, Alberta
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Kristian Saucier is a U.S. Navy Petty Officer who took six photographs – intended to be personal mementos – of the inside of the 40-year-old submarine on which he was serving.

He was sentenced to a year in prison for this.

Now he wants to know why he was sent to prison for “improperly handling classified information”, but Hillary Clinton was not.

Guest: Kristian Saucier
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A charity that runs a Vancouver-area mosque has been penalized by federal regulators after an audit alleges its former president and imam spent tens of thousands of dollars on personal purchases.

The audit also alleged the charity had a “relationship” with a Qatar organization accused of supporting terrorism.

Guest: Stewart Bell, reporter for Global News investigating this story
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A Mainstreet Research poll released suggests that Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is on the road to defeat in the current mayoral race.

Why is one of Canada's most highly profiled mayors on the brink of being rejected by voters?

Guest: Quito Maggi, president of Mainstreet Research

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