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Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to bring to you my

next guest to the podcast.

Here's in the US Navy for six and a half years, four of which, unactive duty, as a Navy seal.

He's sniper-qualified, a calm guy, and also J-TAC for use of million assholes that's

calling in bombs. He's the author of a phenomenal book called City of Death, and most importantly,

he's the founder of a nonprofit called Stronghold Rescue, which we'll get into really deep in this

podcast. He's had so many stomach bugs from traveling overseas that Jardia now actually catches him.

Have you shit-solid in three years? No, I haven't. No. Lots of wet wipes.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast, Ephraim Matos.

Good things for having me on, man. This is super cool. Appreciate it.

Yeah, I appreciate you coming on. Really interesting book and really a unique story.

You know, I've had a number of seals on, a number of special operations guys. What you've done,

and that's typically the focus, right, is that a lot of people, you know, we bring these guests on,

they talk about their military time, which we will. You know, but you have a pretty unique

story in terms of after your service of what you're doing, and so we'll get heavy into that.

But I'd like to take a quick minute to give a shout out and recognition to our amazing sponsors,

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