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Here is the link to my Introduction Playlist on YouTube. I created this series so new viewers could spend time learning and listening to our primary purpose of The InBetween Man Podcast, Who the host is, Where can you find the content and How the podcast is going to use different social media outlets to help create a new narrative for who and what the Modern Man may be going forward. The link is below.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI5wg9OtBZJpw4C63UerC7joPcu2EuhR7

This is Part #2 of How Do You Know If You’ve Hit An Emotional Bottom. This episode is with Marcus & Amber Capone. How I found out about both Marcus & Amber is from the research I did for DJ’s video. Patsy, DJ’s wife, calls Amber because she is very worried about DJ and if Patsy is calling Amber, there has got to be a good reason. Marcus, like DJ is a retired DevGru / Seal Team 6 operator and was also interviewed by Shawn Ryan back when he first launched his podcast & YouTube Channel. Another awesome interview conducted by Shawn.

In this episode we start out the first 10 minutes listening to Marcus talk about his experience on Seal Team & DevGru being a breacher. For those of you who don’t know, Marcus was responsible for blowing up small locks on doors or cutting a steel door in half if it’s in the way of their mission objective. It never dawned on me that exposure to 350, 500 or over a 1000 small, medium and large blasts could have such an effect on anyone's brain, but it does make sense. I’ve added a couple of examples into Marcus’s 10 minute overview to try and provide an example of the kind of force these blasts can have on anything. The one video I included, you can see the concussive blast spread out from when it exploded and you can see the camera shocking as a result.

Marcus and DJ’s examples are extreme because they include trauma 90% of the civilian population will never experience. The only similar job compared to what our military might experience is playing football professionally. How many times have you heard Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Jim McMahan all former QB’s talk about getting their bell run and having concussions. But nothing like Marcus or anyone military personnel who have been in combat for a long period of time. I also included a short clip of the movie Warfare that was recently in the movies and available on Amazon Prime. I watched a clip from DJ talking about taking Patsy to go see that movie and at the end, she was balling her eyes out. According to DJ, this movie is what soldiers can experience from a TBI & CTE perspective and the movie only depicted one mission. Some soldiers might have 5 - 10 - 25 missions like this a week. So the numbers add up and the body keeps score.

The remaining clips of the interview with Shawn Ryan are with Amber, Marcus’s wife. Her account of what happens when Marcus retires and what happens when they move back to Texas is just amazing. It’s such a power of example for me there aren’t any words I can think of that describe what Amber & her children went through. The trauma is real, their pain is real, the medical options available to them are small and the emotional toll it takes on Amber is what super hero’s are made of. Amber inspires me and so does Patsy, DJ’s wife.

It’s like getting into a fist fight with someone and having one hand tied behind your back and don’t even know it. I'll see ya in there.

Keep smiling,

R-

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