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#312 - Braxton McCoy - From Breaking Bones to Breaking Colts

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

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Comedy, Society & Culture

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This weeks guest is Braxton McCoy. In 2006 Braxton McCoy was injured by a suicide bomber in Ramadi, Iraq. Breaking both his legs and arms, and fracturing his spine. He was told he would never walk again. After a decade of physical therapy and rehab, he regained most of his strength and found ways to circumvent his permanent injuries. Braxton is now an advocate for injured veterans and a horseman in Utah.

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0:00.0

Black Ribble copy, baby.

0:01.5

Freedom kill them.

0:02.6

Let's fire this thing up.

0:12.4

Has it been running this whole time?

0:15.5

Start it a few minutes ago.

0:16.7

Okay, okay.

0:18.8

Braxton's good to have you here, man.

0:20.4

Thanks for having me.

0:21.1

Appreciate it.

0:22.5

So tell me one thing about your life that was completely unexpected from the time that you're 18 until now that you would be like, what the fuck?

0:39.3

Boy, there's been a lot of what it was.

0:41.7

Yeah.

0:46.5

I got wounded real bad.

0:48.0

I knew, I mean, I knew it was, it wasn't like, we knew what we were doing. Right. You know, it wasn't like it kind of shocked me, but, uh, that, I didn't think, I for sure, you know, when you go over, I mean, you're down range, a lot more than me, you think about kind of living and dying. You never really think about getting like fucked up. you know I always thought I'd do it first time I broke my back was on a

1:14.9

bowl that was how was like 16 or something seriously yeah so I was used to like I

1:22.9

think I'd broke some like 60 bones before I ever joined, some crazy shit like that.

1:28.4

60 bones before you joined?

1:30.5

Yeah, well, I mean, riding Colts and bulls and motorcycles and just being a general dumbass,

1:36.6

you know.

1:37.7

So I kind of, you know, I'd been hurt a bunch, but I did not think about like one day

1:43.3

I might be 20 and never going to walk kind of thing. Right. Yeah. So I guess that would probably be the most startling thing. I met a woman who's great. That's another shocker. You know, I didn't think that would happen. But I don't know. I don't know that there's any too many more.

2:01.6

I kind of expected a lot of the stupid show that's happened.

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