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REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Marine Raider Nick Koumalatsos

REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Nick Koumalatsos is is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, podcast host, and producer.

After getting into trouble as an adolescent, Nick joined the Marine Corps in 2000 and went on to serve for 12 years. He deployed all around the globe supporting the war on terror, serving with 2D Force Reconnaissance, 3rd Reconnaissance Bn, and as a Marine Raider with 2D Raider Bn, Marine Special Operations Command. Jon talks to Nick about his experiences in special forces, his evolution as a father, and the myriad of other subjects he explores in his book and on the "Always Forward" podcast.

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on everybody is John, bam, bam the dog. First on behalf of

0:05.5

both of us and everybody from the Real One's team, I just want to sincerely

0:09.1

thank you guys for tuning in. The folks that I bring on the show, their family to

0:13.8

me and being able to tell their stories and bringing you into their world

0:17.7

something I'm just super proud of and again grateful that you guys tune in. We

0:22.2

decided we want to take things just a step further. We're going to introduce a

0:25.5

Patreon community and basically what that means is if you become part of this

0:29.3

community, look I already bored, bam, bam. If you want to become part of this

0:32.7

community, you're going to be able to hear episodes early and all that, add free

0:35.9

and all that good stuff but there's all this behind the scenes footage, all this

0:39.4

stuff that we've shot that really brings you into the folks that we've had on

0:43.4

the show, really brings you into their world. You're going to be able to do live

0:45.9

chats with me and the folks that I bring on the show to talk about their world,

0:49.2

talk about the issues that they're dealing with, about their triumphs and their

0:52.2

tragedies. Just go to Patreon slash Real One's. This whole idea was something about

0:58.3

building bridges and bringing people together and bringing folks that often

1:03.0

don't get the mic and giving the mic to them. So the fact that you guys tune in

1:06.4

means the world. Anyways, again thank you. Be good to each other out there. Rock

1:10.2

a Roll.

1:18.6

So in that time that you're messed up with these guys and you're on the streets and

1:24.9

we can get into that. Legitimately, I looked at them like father figures, like

1:29.1

bigger brothers. And do you look back at that time now? Look, we have a lot of

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