#318 - Marty Skovlund, Jr - Journalist, Photographer, and Filmmaker.

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Comedy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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This week on the Black Rifle Coffee Podcast. Evan and Logan talk to Marty Skovlund Jr. Marty is a journalist, photographer and filmmaker. Marty is the current the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. Prior to his current role, he went on assignment to cover the Standing Rock oil pipeline protest, embedded with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan and reported on the ground in Ukraine during the Russian invasion.

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0:00.0	Black Ribble Coffee, baby.
0:01.5	Freedom cool.
0:02.6	We're starting now.
0:10.4	Marty, good to have you back, buddy.
0:15.4	Yeah, good to be back.
0:16.5	Yeah, it actually is.
0:18.7	Yeah, it really is.
0:19.8	It's, man, it hasn't been that long since I've been in Salt Lake. You know, recently we tried to make this work, and you had a little bit of fun down in Miami. That's right. You know, so I've been back to Salt Lake recently, but this is the first time being back in the office, getting some coffee, seeing some familiar faces, like really good. Makes you homesick, doesn't it? Man. Makes you a little
0:44.5	bit homesick. It sure does. Yeah. Just hanging out. Can you say that? You can't say that. Yeah,
0:49.4	I say it all the time. I tell people all the time, and it's not a slight against where I work right now or anything
0:55.3	like that and I like the people I work with right now. But I mean, it's really easy for me to say that the five years that I was here were some of the best five years of my life. You know, and I thought I would never say that because, man, I had a pretty good, pretty good run in the military too where I got to do some awesome things.
1:09.9	And I think we all look back nostalgically at that time.
1:13.8	But man, that's... pretty good run in the military too where I got to do some awesome things and you know I think we all
1:10.9	look back nostalgically at that time but man that accelerant that happened in black rifle
1:19.0	about the time that I came on full time and up through the IPO and after like what a special
1:26.4	life experience you know like you just don't't, I think you get one of those in your life. You know, maybe? I don't know. At least for me. I don't know that I'm going to ever experience that again. And just like, dude, do you think about some of the stuff that we did over the years, right? Like the Guatemala trip and some of the things that we were doing within coffee or die, just even the IPO. You walk into the New York Stock Exchange and see the Black
1:49.6	Rifle Coffee logo on every screen in New York Stock Exchange. Like, that's awesome. Logan, do you remember
1:56.7	that night that we were standing on top of the 10 house, the fire department in New York,
2:01.3	as they did the 9-11 anniversary, and you're just, both of us just sitting there like, this is our
2:06.4	lives. Yeah. Yeah. There's things that you can't, you know. Yeah, there's like those unique
2:13.2	American moments that come and go. And there's, you know, it's easy to look back and be nostalgic throughout your whole
2:21.3	entire life, but like specifically like American nostalgic.
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