#312 - Braxton McCoy - From Breaking Bones to Breaking Colts

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This weeks guest is Braxton McCoy. In 2006 Braxton McCoy was injured by a suicide bomber in Ramadi, Iraq. Breaking both his legs and arms, and fracturing his spine. He was told he would never walk again. After a decade of physical therapy and rehab, he regained most of his strength and found ways to circumvent his permanent injuries. Braxton is now an advocate for injured veterans and a horseman in Utah.

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0:00.0	Black mapleic maple coffee, baby, free to kill!
0:02.0	Oh!
0:04.0	Oh!
0:05.0	Let's fire this thing up, let's go.
0:11.0	Has it been running this whole time?
0:16.0	Start a few minutes ago. Okay, okay.
0:18.0	Braxton's good to have you here, man. Thanks for having me.
0:21.0	I appreciate it.
0:22.0	So, tell me one thing about your life that was completely unexpected from the time that you were 18 until now
0:34.0	that you would be like, what the fuck?
0:36.0	Oh, boy, there's been a lot of what. Yeah.
0:43.0	I got wounded real bad.
0:48.0	I knew, I mean, I knew it was really, it wasn wasn't like we knew what we were doing right
0:54.8	you know it wasn't like it kind of shocked me but uh
0:59.5	that I didn't think I for sure you know when you go over I mean you're down
1:05.2	Rangel a lot to me you think about kind of living and dying you never really think
1:10.0	about getting like fucked up right you know I always thought I'd do it. First time I broke my back was on a bowl. That was, how was like 16 or some?
1:19.0	Seriously? Yeah. So I was used to like, I think I'd broke some like 60 bones before I ever joined some crazy
1:27.2	shit like that.
1:28.2	60 bones before you joined?
1:30.4	Yeah well I mean riding colts and bulls and motorcycles and just being a general dumb ass, you know.
1:37.0	So I kind of, you know, I've been hurt a bunch, but I did not think about like one day I might be 20 and
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