There is no way to do justice to a subject like courage in the space of an hour. But there is a way to hit some major wavetops, and that\u2019s what we did this week. Combat vets Dave Hartmann and Douglas Dodge joined the show for a discussion about courage that ranged from the philosophical to the personal. And then Doug talked about Medal of Honor recipient SFC Al Cashe. If you don\u2019t know about Al Cashe, you should. And if you haven\u2019t heard Doug talk about Al Cashe, then you need to. Military guys do a lot of hard, traumatic things. But what Doug and Al Cashe went through is on another level. It may not tell you everything you need to know about courage, but it tells you more than you probably knew.
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\n\nWhen I\u2019m tired, I don\u2019t get inarticulate, I get overly articulate and end up using polysyllabic words that don\u2019t mean what I mean them to mean. And going into this show, I was tired. Not so tired that it detracted from Doug or Dave or the subject matter, but enough that I noticed it and felt bad enough to own up to it now. So, if you need to, grab a bunch of shots and make a drinking game out of my malaprops, brain farts and general over-articulateness.
\n\nI don\u2019t want to be too maudlin about this, but Doug Dodge really fucked Dave and me up. It was the closest I\u2019ve come to tearing up on the show ever \u2013 which didn\u2019t help me become more articulate and less fatigued. Regardless, it\u2019s a great compliment to Doug to pull that on Dave and me his first time out. And it\u2019s a great compliment to him and Al Cashe \u2013 most of us will never know if we could have acted as bravely and most of us will never have to find out, but they set examples that day. I mean, don\u2019t get me wrong, there was that time I watched my wife save a rooster from our Chihuahua, but you really don\u2019t get examples like that too often (sorry, felt a desperate need to lighten things up).
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\n\nMedal of Honor recipient SFC Al Cashe
\n\n\n\n\n\nBrittany Medrano needs a kidney and is O-Negative. If you can help please reach out through: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/support-brittany-through-her-medical-endeavors
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