Transcripts

This transcript is from episode 572 with guest Michael D’Angelo. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Getting out of the military can feel like you’re stepping into a room where nobody speaks your language. The structure that you once had is gone. The jokes that you used to tell just don’t land right, and the people around you…

This transcript is from episode 570 with guest Ken Webb. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: A lot of veterans know what it’s like to keep moving because slowing down means dealing with everything that you’ve been trying to outrun. The PTSD can make it hard to focus, hard to relax, hard, to figure out what to do…

This transcript is from episode 569 with guest Lyubim Kogan. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Some wounds don’t show up physically. They’re not gonna show up on an x-ray or an MRI or anything like that. You can be home doing your job, showing up for your family, and still feel like part of you is stuck…

This transcript is from episode 568 with guest Johnnie Gilpen. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: You can run on adrenaline for years. Then it starts showing up at home, at work, and places that you don’t really want it to be. Showing up. Your sleep is light or non-existent. You snap at the small things. You sit…

This transcript is from episode 567 with guest Alan Brown. [00:00:00] ​ [00:00:05] Scott DeLuzio: The Army gives you a schedule, a uniform daily pt, and a group of people who you can rely on pretty much every single day. But then retirement takes all of that away from you at once. Our guest today,…

This transcript is from episode 566 with guest Pamela Pyle. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Walking into a hospital can feel like walking into some sort of machine that’s already decided that you’re a problem to manage, not a person to care for. When you walk in, first you gotta hand over your personal information, then you…

This transcript is from episode 565 with guest Carla Stumpf Patton. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: A quiet calculation starts in your head. You tell yourself that you made it through the deployment, you made it home. Somehow it still feels like you’re fighting something that you can’t see, something that’s in your head. That fight sometimes…

This transcript is from episode 564 with guest Sean Loosen. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: You know that feeling when your eyes are strained, the headaches start creeping in and you keep putting off getting new glasses because the price is just brutal. Plenty of vets carry that same frustration, especially when life already feels like a…

This transcript is from episode 563 with guest Suzanne Smith. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: There’s a strange kind of quiet that hits after you take that uniform off for the last time after there’s no more formation, no clear left and right limits, no built-in crew that already gets you and life just keeps moving. But…

This transcript is from episode 562 with guest Diego Colon. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: You can push through a lot and you already have. But when a headache starts calling the shots, it steals your focus at work, your patience at home, and your ability to stay present with the people who matter most to you.…

This transcript is from episode 561 with guest Chelsey Woodard. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Some days in uniform, the danger that we face is not overseas. Sometimes it’s right down the hall behind somebody else’s rank. Hiding in paperwork meetings and various threats that make you second guess your own reality. Serving in the military. When…

This transcript is from episode 560 with guest Melissa “Rowdie” McMahon. [00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Sometimes the hardest part about coming home from deployment is realizing that your body made it back, but your nervous system still thinks that it’s deployed. Sleep turns into a fight. Pain becomes this background noise that just never shuts off.…