The Order of Rogues - 016 - Matt Bissonnette

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• MA

  @MarcusVonier · 2 months ago · pinned

  Hearing how Matt took over executive producer duties on CBS&apos;s SEAL Team to hire actual vets and stop Hollywood from putting optics on backwards was incredible.<br><br>Timestamps for the best parts:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=48">00:48</a> – Trilogies &amp; Legal Battles: Matt breaks down No Hero and his newest self-published book, No Easy Way, covering the post-No Easy Day fallout.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=175">02:55</a> – Frontier Childhood: Growing up off-grid in Antioch, Alaska—a remote river village of 500 people reliant on subsistence living.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=237">03:57</a> – Grade School Survival: Dunking 3rd graders through frozen ice to test if they can build a fire with two matches and wet clothes.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=331">05:31</a> – The Magistrate Dad: How Matt’s missionary father went from schoolteacher to log-cabin town judge.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=456">07:36</a> – Hunting Two-Legged Game: How combat deployments shifted Matt&apos;s perspective on hunting from big game to bird shooting and European trips.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=579">09:39</a> – High School Guns: Buying a Colt AR-15 A2 from a history teacher for $700 cash and keeping it in a school locker.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=701">11:41</a> – The Reality of combat: Why the Osama bin Laden raid wasn&apos;t necessarily the most dynamic or dangerous mission of his career.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=809">13:29</a> – The Master Skillset: Why high-level operators are uniquely moldable, teachable, and able to master complex non-military problems.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=942">15:42</a> – Behind CBS SEAL Team: How Matt pitched CBS, became Executive Producer, and hired hundreds of real veterans to fix military Hollywood tropes.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=1088">18:08</a> – Infusing Real Trauma: Injecting TBI, memory loss, and mental health storylines into mainstream network television.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=1362">22:42</a> – &quot;Rules for Thee, Not for Me&quot;: Calling out military leadership and political hypocrisy surrounding pre-publication book reviews.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=1546">25:46</a> – The Real DoD Problem: Clarifying that zero classified info was leaked in No Easy Day, and how political election cycles triggered government backlash.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=1706">28:26</a> – Cutting Out the Middleman: Why Matt chose self-publishing and read his own audiobook using ElevenLabs AI for extra dialogue.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=2166">36:06</a> – Finding Peace: Reconnecting with faith, processing loss from deployments, and the &quot;God is my BUD/S Instructor&quot; mentality.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=2553">42:33</a> – Mental Maintenance: Transitioning away from post-deployment alcohol dependencies toward daily meditation and self-care.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=2649">44:09</a> – Rebuilding the Body: Surviving five neck surgeries (C4/C5 fusion) with the help of a Red Bull civilian surgeon.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=2835">47:15</a> – Raising Wagyu Cattle: Transitioning into the farm business and partnering with Valor Provisions.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=3024">50:24</a> – &quot;No Easy Night&quot;: Joking about writing a Navy SEAL romance novel to disrupt the genre.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFKAMalI7s&amp;t=3366">56:06</a> – No Easy Way Beef: Launching a farm-to-table Wagyu meat line for consumers who care about clean protein.

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• OK

  @Okemo4444 · 2 months ago

  I’ve listened to many of Tyler Gray’s podcast interview interviews and he talks about them, choosing the exact weaponry and the detail that went into putting that show together

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• MA

  @maksimcizmesija9115 · 2 months ago

  Im simple guy. I see video with Matt, I click.

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• TH

  @TheKunsky · 2 months ago

  Matt is a great man.

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• BS

  @bsmithhammer · 2 months ago (edited)

  Damn. Didn&apos;t have this one on the bingo card. Well done, sirs.

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• JA

  @JaredDean-h8i · 2 months ago

  Rules for me, not for thee. Love this and going to use it. I usually say I judge people for myself, not God. Same kind of thinking but on different plates.

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• TC

  @tchambers807 · 2 months ago

  What they did to him was criminal. Zero Dark Thirty grossed over $132 million dollars for more or less the same story

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• BA

  @BadgerMAGA4547 · 2 months ago

  The BHO&apos;bummer years; many MIL/LE personnel were persecuted for doing GREAT work, fired/retired, and then it&apos;s revealed they are THE silent professional heroes. Gracias to FE and MB!!

• CH

  @chiweenie96 · 1 month ago

  An going shoeless, might as well have ripped a will farrell step brothers fart too!

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• BI

  @Bill-p7j1g · 2 months ago

  you know it smell crazy in there

• DE

  @dexterous187 · 10 days ago

  Put some shoes on.

• WI

  @williammccusker8408 · 2 months ago

  I bet that had to come Obama!!