Challenge coin
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Sep 12, 2026
Matt BesonGUEST
Yeah.
Matt BesonGUEST
So, uh, The challenge coins, you know, John Garth started out with, uh, someone gave him a challenge coin, which it's, it's basically, um, a thing that we, we give out to our participants that shows that you're not alone.
Matt BesonGUEST
There's always somebody there.
Matt BesonGUEST
And a lot of our people carry it.
Matt BesonGUEST
John Garth carries one with him, uh, pretty constantly.
Matt BesonGUEST
Um, and it's, it's about that friendship and togetherness piece that we want the challenge coin to represent for us.
Matt BesonGUEST
Yeah.
John Garth MacDonaldGUEST
So the coin itself, my wife, Michelle, actually designed it for us.
Mike SeibertHOST
But basically, this is some information about the Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket ASROC VLA missile.
Mike SeibertHOST
So there's information about that, as well as the history of Challenge Coins and why they are... uh, significant to folks in the Navy and to service people going back to world war one.
Mike SeibertHOST
And I am, uh, uh, genuinely touched and I, uh, uh, appreciate, uh, the friendship.
Mike SeibertHOST
Uh, we continue in the mailbag and, uh, we're, we're going to get a little more deeper into the fields.
Nicholas AlphonsoGUEST
I retired as the command officer of Coast Guard Station New Orleans.
Big ChiefHOST
And when did Guardian Coins, when did you say, hey, I'm going to start making challenge coins? Was that right out? Was you in the Coast Guard still making coins or did that happen a little later?
Nicholas AlphonsoGUEST
No.
Nicholas AlphonsoGUEST
So I retired in 22, October 22.
Nicholas AlphonsoGUEST
I get that from my dad.
Nicholas AlphonsoGUEST
So if I see something, you know, I try and figure out how to make money off of it.
Nicholas AlphonsoGUEST
And, you know, we talked about Challenge Coins.
Nicholas AlphonsoGUEST
My brother was in the promotional business for years.
Ken KaramichaelGUEST
Wow.
Ken KaramichaelGUEST
And if you know about it, you know, the Challenge Coins, right? They get Challenge Coins.
Ken KaramichaelGUEST
Yeah.
Ken KaramichaelGUEST
Let me show you the one I just got.
Joshua RitterHOST
How are you going to answer these questions? unanswerable questions.
Joshua RitterHOST
And Kevin Reddington attempted to do that today by laying two coins, challenge coins, as if it were, on the prosecution table.
Joshua RitterHOST
It was a moment.
Joshua RitterHOST
It obviously caught the attention of people in the courtroom.
Anna RedmanGUEST
Like we talk about all sorts of kinds of courage, right? Like, oh, someone took a risk, they made a big investment, or they built a company.
Anna RedmanGUEST
Like, I think I have now, especially having built this challenge coin platform, I have now heard so many stories that just floored me and there's no risk like the risk that a person takes with his or her life, right? When they decide to serve.
Anna RedmanGUEST
And I have tremendous, tremendous appreciation and respect and gratitude for that.
Anna RedmanGUEST
And honestly, if when I go on podcasts that are not military veteran podcasts that are civilian oriented podcasts, That's the thing I talk about the most because I feel like I'm talking to myself from 10 years ago when I watched stuff on TV, right? And it just, the reality of it didn't sink in.
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Anna RedmanGUEST
Oh, gosh.
Anna RedmanGUEST
I think there were probably lots of small moments.
Anna RedmanGUEST
But the big ones were really the challenge coins for me.
Anna RedmanGUEST
And that was what launched this whole other side of the business.
Nicholas MossGUEST
Portiam had really great rye spice, but they all had, and this goes back to what you were saying about your MREs, they all had great vanillin content especially for our eyes they weren't super spicy they're more vanilla because all good chocolate has vanilla vanilla is is a compliment that gives depth to chocolate so more people like milk chocolate than dark cacao right and i i truly i love this whiskey it's one that it leaves my mouth watering uh wanting for more and the cotton you can sit there i don't know if you're a smoker but this thing with cigars is crazy um it got a straight meat um i don't drink them with ice personally but uh and that's also black walnut manhattan's with this are stellar and then people think that this button uh a old-fashioned with this is like a chocolate tootsie roll it's unbelievable it's so delicious not that i'm trying to like sell cocktail like oh you gotta hide my whiskey and cocktails i shouldn't be doing that on this podcast but this product is unbelievable
Big ChiefHOST
i'm sitting here thinking about my friends that i'm gonna be like okay uh you know i'm i want them to drink this and taste this and i'm actually recording next week uh i'm gonna sit down with one of my sponsors guardian coins they make challenge coins you can see my my big giant arrowhead up there uh Challenge coin for my podcast.
Big ChiefHOST
But I'm going to sit down with him and I'm going to let my buddy Nick try this right here.
Big ChiefHOST
Because I think this is one of the ones that I'm going to bring down there to record with him with.
Dennis ZigrangGUEST
Yeah, absolutely.
Dennis ZigrangGUEST
And, oh, and you know, and so when, uh, that gal came up to me from Wisconsin and gave me the Challenge Coin, and gave me the idea, I'm like, "Well, now I'm gonna be going to all these places.
Dennis ZigrangGUEST
I need to make Challenge Coins-
Chassity OwensHOST
That's what we said
Dennis ZigrangGUEST
... for my business."
DamienHOST
We'll overlay the...
DamienHOST
Maybe you can just...
DamienHOST
So we got these cool challenge coins.
DamienHOST
We will raffle off 10 of them.
DamienHOST
Yeah, so if you comment below like this, you made it this far.