Episode Transcript: #652 - Ricky Schroder
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And we're live what's up Rick
Happy Memorial Day a perfect day to have you want 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 ten years ten years now ten years
Yeah, girls introduced us
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 with 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 the soldiers and the units
That I would embed 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 20 22 25 in these platoons
No had no idea of my past