Tim Lovestedt Pt. 2: Megan Leavey's Purple Heart, Hollywood Cops in The 70's and Telling My Dad's Story

In this pt. 2 episode we talk more about Tim's father and some of the men he worked with as an L.A. cop in the late 70's and 80's. I refer incorrectly to an article I read about police officers with college degrees being less likely to draw their weapon than officers without a degree.  I'll address that in the close along with a link to the actual article below the description. We discuss the ways our fathers and men of the 60's and certainly through the 70's and 80's dealt with their emotional issues themselves as opposed to now in what Tim calls the post psycho-therapy era.  How do you deal with your emotions? How do you deal with PTSD? How does law enforcement and other first responders deal with some of the horrific things that they see on a weekly basis? Fun and hilarious stuff like that. We talk about the different ways Tim might tell his father's story visually in terms of a feature film versus a long form content like television… not broadcast television but the binge watching type of content we've become used to like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Dexter and on and on and on.  See how much TV you watch? And we start out this session by wrapping up our discussion of Megan Leavey, the marine corporal from the movie of the same name.  Apparently her purple heart had been stolen and returned to her in a ceremony at Yankee Stadium. Plus her dog Sgt. Rex's very different reactions to two Yankee players; Nick Swisher and Alex Rodriguez.  Apparently Rex can sniff out Steroids as well as bombs. The link to that video will be at the bottom of the description as well. The Modern Moron talks about feelings and television and police work… all the good stuff with hardly any laughs!  Thank you for listening. Corporal Megan Leavey and Sgt. Rex Honored at Yankee Stadium U.S. Police: Education levels and the use of force - MSNBC 2014