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ποΈ 19 July 2023
β±οΈ 100 minutes
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Dave Radband served in Afghanistan against the Taliban.
He talks us through his dramatic close class, being blown up twice in 24 hours and the devastating effects of war.
He also delves into his trauma after being kicked out of the military and trying to take his own life.
This is the Eventful Life of Mr Dave Radband
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| 0:00.0 | I said I'm a sort of the compound and they told me not to, |
| 0:02.0 | so I'd rather die here now, |
| 0:04.0 | I'd go to fucking the rest of my life and regret. |
| 0:05.0 | Breached the door, and then suicide bombs started running this |
| 0:08.0 | and just cracking their cells off. |
| 0:09.0 | And I thought that was it for me that day, |
| 0:11.0 | like hell, I'm going to die doing this. |
| 0:15.0 | You got blown up in 24 hours twice. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah. I initially thought I was on the stumbling the ID and I've never been to f*** to go in my life now. |
| 0:21.6 | First firefight you get into, you just don't expect it to be like it is. |
| 0:24.6 | When rounds are winging past your head, you can hear them, zipping past you're |
| 0:27.6 | and you're only 18 years old, you're like, f***, hell. |
| 0:30.6 | How's your mind when you do things like that, you can remember every detail. Could I have done this and save this person? |
| 0:39.3 | Could I have done that and saved this person? |
| 0:40.3 | And before you know, you're asking yourself a million questions, |
| 0:42.3 | your head can't take all that information in. |
| 0:44.3 | You can't process it all. |
| 0:46.3 | And then one day it's got too much for me. |
| 0:47.3 | I put a thing up in a loft and stepped out and bang hung myself and when they got to me i was just hanging there no life welcome to the eventful lives podcast i'm your host dodge and i'm the founder of |
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| 1:28.4 | Dave Radpan was a military paratroop who served in Afghanistan against the Taliban. |
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