Episode 404 - Matt Graham - Air Marshals, the CIA, and the Worlds best mission timers

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Matt Graham is a former police officer and U.S. Air Marshal. He then spent 12 years working with the CIA. When Matt finished his service, he ventured on to design a wristwatch capable of weathering the types of activities he spent his career taking part in — and thus Ares Watches was born. Matt is now the Owner and founder of Ares Watch Company, an American watch company that’s dedicated to manufacturing some of the best Mission Timers on the market.

Ares Watch Company: https://www.areswatches.com/

Ares Liberty Watch Series: https://www.areswatches.com/collections/ares-watches/products/field-1-gmt

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0:00.0	Okay, got the red smoke.
0:03.1	Gun runs. North and south. West of the smoke. West of the smoke.
0:09.1	Okay, copy. West of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now.
0:13.6	Come on winter, baby. Give it to me. I need it. You're cleared hot.
0:17.2	Copy, cleared hot.
0:19.0	I remember the first time I met him, went went to his house and it was just the little I think it was just a garage it was a multi-room garage but it was there he was talking about building the other one on his property I went down and visited when he was and I don't know anything about building anything but I'm sitting there looking around I also don't know anything about making knives I said Josh I think you might outgrow this
0:44.3	he's like no we have years I don't even know if they had moved in the last piece of manufacturing
0:52.3	equipment before he calls me.
0:54.6	He's like, hey, it's a little tight.
1:01.0	It's wild.
1:01.7	Yeah, some of that stuff when it goes, right?
1:04.5	Like it starts to that snowball effect piece.
1:08.0	Why don't you think it happened?
1:09.5	So, and I absolutely love Josh, and I think it's
1:12.4	fantastic what's happening and that they're exploding that way. Why do you think it happens for some
1:17.7	people and not others? Because for every Josh, let's be generous. It's probably more than this,
1:22.4	but let's say there's 50 other people who have that idea, but it never goes. I was going to say
1:26.2	100, but I was going to say, just to be like super down the middle of the road, 50 for sure. Why is that? I don't know. Part of it, so I'm in this now. Yeah. Well, that's why I asked. And part of what I'm in now, so I'm going to school. Yeah. Why not, right? 52. Let's... And then if you... You need to be... This is a house of learned doctors.
1:28.3	Remembered... Yeah. Why not, right? 52. Let's, and then if you, you need to be, this is a house of learned doctors.
1:48.0	Remember Rodney Dangerfield and back to school?
1:51.0	Yes.
1:52.0	Triple Indy.
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