Ep 67 | I’m Not Sober, I’ve Just Learned to Deal with It | Mat Best | The Glenn Beck Podcast

The Glenn Beck Program

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 15 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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American war hero, CIA contractor, serial entrepreneur, and the face of the most freedom-filled coffee America has ever brewed. Black Rifle Coffee Company executive vice president Mat Best wasn’t always the bearded, gun-toting, whiskey-drinking war veteran YouTube has grown to love. In high school, he was a scrawny kid in the botany club! Glenn and Mat dive into his untold history, his years as an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his mission to serve our veterans and help them overcome PTSD through comedy and community — not to mention plenty of caffeinated insight into coffee, filmmaking, and, of course, America, the Constitution, and being a patriot. This Week’s Sponsor: Ashford University gives you the convenience and flexibility to earn your master’s degree at your own pace! Study wherever and whenever you’re the most comfortable learning, on a schedule that works for you. Enroll now at http://Ashford.edu/BECK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's podcast, one of the most popular content creators on YouTube, he would later translate
0:06.8	that success into several multi-million dollar companies, including a clothing line, a whiskey
0:12.5	company, and a coffee company. How am I going to sit with a guy who has a whiskey company and a
0:17.9	coffee company, both two things I gave up and I desperately want? He wasn't always a YouTube
0:24.4	personality and a businessman. In fact, when he first began to make his videos, he was a military
0:29.7	contractor for the CIA. Before that, he served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Elite
0:35.6	Special Operations Force, second Ranger Battalion, and then he comes home and oh, by the way,
0:40.6	before that, he was in the botany club. This guy is an American war hero, a CIA contractor,
0:47.8	a serial entrepreneur. I love this. Today, Matt with One T Best.
1:06.7	So let me ask you this, because you're in your videos. You're a tough guy. I mean, right?
1:12.4	But you, I mean, you're in the botany club. That does not scream tough guy. That's like the guy
1:25.2	I could have beat up in high school. You absolutely could have beat me up in high school.
1:29.0	So what happened? You know, it's weird. I grew up the youngest brother out of six, and so I was
1:36.0	not bullied, but you know, definitely held my hands behind my back and beat up my brother.
1:40.2	So I'm very thankful for that. And then high school. I explained that to people from today's
1:46.8	American culture, how you could possibly be happy. It was tough love. You know, they weren't,
1:51.4	they weren't, you know, punched me in the face and breaking my nose. They were just, you know,
1:54.7	trolling me like older brothers should. And I think that that's a healthy competitive
1:58.7	this between siblings. So, um, and yeah, in high school, I was just a really low-key quiet.
2:04.2	I'm a very, you wouldn't believe it, but quiet person. I'm not in extrovert by any means,
2:10.4	an introvert. And so I kind of put on that persona now, you know, I think that I'm a teddy bear
2:16.1	with kind of a tough outer shell. One-a-half to be, you know, I don't have to. Where did that come from?
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