#285 - Navy SEAL Ephraim Mattos and a Non-Profit Built for War Zones
Black Rifle Coffee Podcast
Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network
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🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 133 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I step back behind the tank and then I get shot. |
| 0:02.5 | The bullet hit me in my calf, just my leg from my calf. |
| 0:04.8 | And then the guys, they start screaming. |
| 0:06.3 | They start screaming like, get up, get up, get up. Because I'm looking at my leg going, all right, as my leg snapped in half, I'm like waiting for the pain to set in. I'm looking for blood him in some sort of momentary shock because I just got hit. And we're getting fired on from the flanks. ISIS is dumping mortars on us. |
| 0:20.2 | This is like a suicide mission. |
| 0:22.5 | The Black Rifle podcast starts now. So you went to Buds with him. Yeah, yeah. I went through Budswood and SQT with, yeah, Mr. Bollin. Oh, okay. Does he have his like real name out there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, yeah, it's John Allen. Oh, okay. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, he talked about it publicly. Yeah, yeah, he, um, when he, um, I forget, I've read exactly how we, how he got started. He was like one of the first dudes to, like, really, um, get into TikTok, like when it, when it first started, as he started doing storytelling on. And so he just went massively viral, |
| 0:58.3 | moved people over to his YouTube channel and he just blew up from there. I think Amazon, |
| 1:03.7 | I think Amazon bought his podcast and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's awesome. I was down in California not too long ago, which I tend to stay out, just in general, just for a combination of reasons. |
| 1:13.1 | And I met a guy, I was working on a different deal. I met a guy that represented him. And he was |
| 1:20.7 | like, hey, would you guys? And I was like, I've never, I'd never even heard of him. And it wasn't |
| 1:24.9 | because, like, that's definitely not me being a dick whatsoever. I just |
| 1:28.4 | don't spend a lot of time on social media, which is somewhat weird because considering like what I |
| 1:35.0 | do and who I do it for. But I just don't because I find it fucking just a nauseating like in incompetent |
| 1:43.1 | gaggle of morons most of the time. Yeah, that's fair. But I do like, I love making content. Like, I love making content. Post and ghosts, as Rogan says. Post and ghost. But then I went down the rabbit hole. Like, okay, okay. Then I went down the rabbit hole on him. I was like, this guy's awesome. Yeah, yeah. His stuff is really, really good. Yeah. Yeah. And like how it's diverse, not like, you know, progressive diverse. |
| 2:06.8 | It's like he's got these mysteries that he unpacks. |
| 2:09.7 | And I was just watching this whole thing that he did the other day on this Japanese island and kind of how they had these hidden secrets or whatever. I was like, |
| 2:19.3 | fuck, this is fascinating. Yeah, so super cool guy. Strange, dark and mysterious. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, |
| 2:24.0 | and you were saying before we went on air, the donut operator was in the same same class or whatever. |
| 2:29.1 | Yeah. Yeah. No kidding. I had no idea. Yeah, that's very interesting. It's a small, it gets to be a small world at times. Super small world. Yeah, and then we're talking about before, yeah, Mr. Ball and John did a video, Navy SEAL goes rogue in Iraq. Yeah, yeah. That brought us a lot of attention for my organization, Stronghold Rescue, and Relief, which was really cool. So what was that all about? I didn't watch that video because to be fair, when I see thumbnails like that, |
| 2:53.8 | I'm like, |
| 2:54.2 | whatever. which was really cool. So what was that all about? Like I didn't watch that video because to be fair, |
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