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Drinkin‘ Bros Podcast

Episode 511 - Special Guest Green Beret Richard Stayskal

Drinkin‘ Bros Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Comedy, Sports, News, Politics

4.88K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ross Patterson, Jarred Taylor, and Dan Hollaway welcome special guest, Green Beret Richard Stayskal, who is currently fighting for his life.  He was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in June 2017.  The 38-year-old Green Beret's cancer was missed by Army care providers in 2017, and is now terminal. For the last year he's been fighting to change a decades-old legal rule known as the Feres Doctrine, which bars Stayskal and his family from suing the government for the alleged medical malpractice. On Sept. 9 and 10, instead of being home in Pinehurst, North Carolina, with his wife and two daughters, Stayskal was in Washington, D.C. trying to drum up support for his namesake legislation, the SFC Richard Stayskal Military Medical Accountability Act, which would allow service members to sue the government for certain medical malpractice incidents.  President Trump has signed the bill, but it needs to pass the Senate and is currently being blocked by Senator Lindsey Graham.  We need your help.  3 weeks ago we discussed this story on air and Richard was kind enough to drive down and do the show, but he needs other voices to speak out as well.  Please contact anyone you know and share his story!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Drinking Bros presented by GhostBed.com

0:10.0

Sit back, relax, and grab a fucking drink!

0:22.2

Welcome to Drinking Bros.

0:25.3

A couple weeks ago we did a fake news episode where we went all in on Lindsey Graham.

0:34.0

It was not favorable.

0:35.5

You guys flooded his inbox and it was all to help a guy, a green beret, named Richard

0:41.4

Staskell.

0:43.9

And his inbox got filled immediately.

0:46.9

He ended up deleting his email at one point.

0:49.7

It was super strange.

0:52.8

Anyways, the outpouring from the listeners and the community of Drinking Bros was so massive

0:57.7

that Richard actually reached out himself and said, hey guys, thank you so much for your

1:03.4

support.

1:04.4

I've been trying to get as much press as I possibly can.

1:07.9

Can I fly down and do the show with you in the studio in Wilmington?

1:11.6

Now here's a guy who's been diagnosed with terminal cancer who's willing to fly down

1:18.7

to our studio and do a show just because he knows he needs the press and attention and

1:23.7

support from everyone to get this bill passed in Congress.

1:28.0

It is currently on their desk right now by the way.

1:30.6

It is close.

1:31.6

It needs one more signature and that is Lindsey Graham's.

1:35.4

So of course we said yes and he is live in studio today in Wilmington, North Carolina

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