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What's up, Rick?

What's up, Joe, the morning.

Happy Memorial Day.

A perfect day to have you on to talk about your project.

Because this, it's called a fighting season

it's available right now on iTunes and for folks who are not aware of Rick Schroeder, first of all how dare you and actor now director

producer you're doing a lot of different things and we've been friends for what 10 years now 10 years yeah girls introduced us

crazy yeah So your documentary series is pretty intense man and you showed me a bunch of it last time I was over your house.

And I was, first of all, I was really impressed, but one of the things I was really impressed was your commitment to doing this.

I mean, you spent a lot of time in in Afghanistan and like embedded.

You were with the soldiers in firefights I mean you were there pretty much every step of the way.

Yeah, I was there 110 days from March until July 2014,

and I needed to be there because I needed to be there that long because just to build

trust with the soldiers and the units that I would in bed with took sometimes weeks alone.

Just because everybody looked at me like you know what's this

journalist doing here

a lot of the guys were twenty twenty two twenty five in these platoons

no had no idea of my past they thought i was just a journalist a camera guy that was you know there to tell a story that was probably negative so just took time to build a relationship with them

before I got into their worlds and but you know it's funny the you know when you do

go on a combat patrol and you do have contact with an enemy then like all of a

sudden you know that you're with you're one of them so it like totally changes the

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