"Defy the Norm" with Cody Alford

REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Cody is a former Marine Raider & Scout Sniper who was on the frontlines of the Battle of Fallujah. Cody discusses the concept of "normal" and how it's a societal construct that keeps individuals in a haze, going through the motions of life without truly living. He emphasizes the importance of breaking free from societal norms, finding one's voice, and paving your own path.

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0:54.2	The whole idea here for me is like let's find people that I want to learn from, people that
1:15.7	inspire me and the people like the exact people I would want my kids to learn from and like I literally
1:20.1	cannot think of somebody better than yourself. But I heard you said about your dog man and I'm really
1:28.7	sorry about that and I don't know if you want but do you want to talk a little bit about that or
1:34.2	do you want to talk about what your dog meant to you and like I've had dogs my whole life man
1:39.2	and I know with you you serve with this dog and so I got her while I was active duty but I was
1:44.6	in a dog handler the whole story I was super depressed I was going through this like investigation at
1:50.4	work and I went to shot show you've heard of that of course yeah I've been there and so there was
1:56.2	these dogs doing like a demonstration there and my friends were starting a nonprofit they went
2:00.2	up to the dog people they're like hey we need to get we need to get Cody a dog we want to make him
2:04.7	our first recipient so a couple weeks later flew out to Wyoming and found Munich my dog and that's
2:11.2	how I got her so I bring her to work everywhere I went and but I wasn't dog handler so like it was
2:16.0	like already taboo because no one had an act duty service dog but I did I said I was desperate so
2:22.4	she did everything with me and then I had to stop bringing her to work one day this like new command
2:28.0	guy came in he's like they're like who's that guy why does he have a dog like oh that's his
2:32.0	service dog his dog helps him out throughout the day he's like well my wife helps me out you
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