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Ex-SBS Operator: "I've just been PNG'd. I don't even know why." H-Hour #289 Dean Stott MBE

July 05, 2026

Dean Stott MBE returns to H‑Hour for a long‑form sit‑rep on life after the Special Boat Service. We dig into evacuations in Israel and beyond, the “ground truth” versus the media monster, the reality of being PNG’d by MOD, and why outdated secrecy policies are still shaping the lives of ex‑SF operators. Dean talks surfing and fighting at 49, cycling 14,000 miles, celebrity routes for ex-SF, and how he thinks about risk, family and doing things “the European way” in an American healthcare syst...

Ex-SBS Operator - “Excellence is discipline.” H-Hour Icebreaker with Dean Stott MBE

July 05, 2026

This 20‑minute icebreaker with Dean Stott MBE warms you up for the full H‑Hour conversation in Episode 289. Patron‑submitted questions go straight for the deep end: lizards and BBC war‑crime allegations, SAS/SBS selection myths, resilience in chaos, jungle weapon safety, and whether “good enough” is ever actually good enough. It’s short, sharp and a bit spicy, and it rolls directly into the main episode – so let your app autoplay into #289 for the full sit‑rep on Dean’s life after Tier 1.You ...

“We are literally flying the emergency room to street level” Air Ambulance pilot Adele Dobler

June 28, 2026

What happens when your “office” is a helicopter and your job is to bring an emergency room to the streets of London in under seven minutes? In this episode I sit down with Adele Dobler, a helicopter air ambulance pilot with London’s Air Ambulance, to unpack what it really takes to fly lifesaving missions over one of the world’s busiest cities.We get into how Adele went from dreaming about helicopters to strapping into the left‑hand seat, what it’s like to land on tower blocks and motorways, a...