My guest is one of the most interesting people I know. Steve Sloat was twice appointed Deputy US Marshal by President Ronald Reagan (and once by Jimmy Carter). He's also been a champion race car driver, gone undercover in a high-profile case and authored three fiction thrillers.

I wanted to get Steve on the podcast while reading his second book, The Children Whispered, last year—I featured the "page-turner" on ManOverseas.com in March 2019. But decided I wanted to interview him in person (I was out of the country most of last year).

In this episode, we discuss his primary responsibility as a sky marshall. I ask about the biggest scare he’s ever had in the air. He talks about which flights are likely to have air marshals on them, where they sit on the plane a ...