#053 - Jonathon Blank and Tanner Godfrey - Adaptive Athletes

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Evan Hafer, Logan Stark and Trevor Thompson are joined by two adaptive athletes. Jonathon Blank is a former USMC Staff Sergeant injured by an IED while deployed to Afghanistan. Tanner Godfrey was injured in a motorcycle accident when he was a teenager but continues to push limits and setting world records. Both discuss their stories of rehabilitation and how they have refused to let themselves be limited by anything other than their own determination and drive.

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0:00.0	you have now entered free range american podcast presented by black rifle coffee dot com
0:13.6	all right we got started a little bit late um Evan was doing some business and then i think he just took a shower as well.
0:22.0	Yeah.
0:22.5	And we smell so good?
0:24.2	Yeah, we've got one shower here in the office.
0:26.4	Pro tip, Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap, highly recommend.
0:32.2	It gets a nice little tingle, you know, and you got to get those little refreshing ting it just, like, keeps you, like, feeling light throughout the day.
0:41.1	It's wonderful.
0:42.0	This took a turn immediately.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:44.6	It's super nice, though.
0:46.0	It is.
0:47.6	Mike Clancy, that's compliments on Mike Clancy.
0:50.3	So if you want to look up Mike Clancy on Instagram, it's a fancy Clancy.
0:55.7	Go ahead and follow that guy because he is, shall we say, interesting.
1:00.2	Yeah.
1:00.5	He's very interesting.
1:02.0	He's eccentric too.
1:03.3	But today we are joined by the wonderful John Blank and Tanner Godfrey.
1:09.4	Guys had a chance to swing by today and And we spent a lot of time with John over the last couple weeks doing a bunch of stick and arrow stuff. Yep. Definitely been a lot of fun. We, uh, you know, we're pretty spicy caffeinated right now. And we had a chance to, uh, catch up with what these guys are doing. These two are going on a bear hunt. Are you kidding me? Next week. Next week. Walla Walla, Washington. Oh, nice. We're going to go slay something. It's going to be great. We got 2.50s, a bunch of 7 millimeters, and a bunch of other calibers bring it out. It's going to be real hard-ditting. but we're all hoping to get that fitty killing, you know what I'm saying? It's just going to be unreal.
1:50.0	Murdery. So the first time you shot a bow and arrow was with us a few weeks ago, right?
1:57.3	Or did you have shot one before? I've shot a compound bow maybe twice my life. I picked one up like on a little veterans outing when I was first out of the hospital. And then, you know, it's like, here you go, try this out, 30 pound bow, freaking 20-yard target. Like nothing. And then so the first time I ever really got to get into really shooting compound bow was here with you guys pretty badass before that I
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