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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Recovering Alcoholic. Former Marine Captain. Author. Matthew Betley.

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

He’s a former Marine Captain.  A recovering alcoholic.  A burn pit victim.  An author.  Matthew (please call him “Matt”) joins Michele to discuss lots of stuff, including his latest thriller novel, “The Neighborhood”.

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0:00.0

Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tafoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious

0:05.4

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0:12.5

legacy pm investments.com. Coming up, author Matthew Bettley, you're going to want to get to know this guy.

0:21.8

For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines.

0:26.5

She started very young.

0:27.8

She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships.

0:34.2

And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity.

0:42.7

This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet Earth.

0:49.4

Michelle Tofoya.

0:54.8

Well, this is a place for sanity.

0:57.0

It's a sane sanctuary, if you will.

0:59.9

And I like to have guests on that I think are particularly sane and smart.

1:05.9

And that's why we're having on Matthew Bentley.

1:08.3

But he's given me permission to call him Matt.

1:11.8

You're much more of a Matt than a Matthew, you say. What, what's the difference between a Matt and a Matthew?

1:16.9

I think a Matthew is a very intellectual, kind of soft-spoken, and I'm kind of the opposite of that.

1:24.0

I'm the alpha male, former Marine, very visceral, very aggressive, Matt version of that.

1:34.4

My brother's name is Matthew. We've always called him Matt. He's always gone by Matt.

1:39.8

And his wife likes to call him Matthew. She's sort of the intellectual. So I think there's something to that.

1:45.3

There's something to that.

1:46.1

But he's Matt to me.

1:47.8

So, but your book is under the name of Matthew Bentley.

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