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Speaker 1: We bring you the best of what's going on in
Speaker 1: the world of the military, as well as current affairs
Speaker 1: political stuff. We have some upcoming UM interviews with former soldiers, sailors,
Speaker 1: enairman who are running for office, so during this election
Speaker 1: time of the year, that's always some interesting stuff. But
Speaker 1: today we're gonna be talking about some comedy. UH. As
Speaker 1: many of you might remember, a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: we UH wrote a story about a bunch of veterans
Speaker 1: UH who go by the wold adage laughter is the
Speaker 1: best medicine and UH vets TV is probably not everybody's
Speaker 1: cup of tea, but for those of you who have
Speaker 1: actually been in the military and you know the kind
Speaker 1: of dark humor, sometimes that impertinent kind of humor house
Speaker 1: only military people can poke fun at themselves, and they
Speaker 1: usually do a very good job of it, and vet
Speaker 1: TV is one of the best UM I think one
Speaker 1: of the best examples of that out there. Um. We
Speaker 1: talked about that TV a couple of months ago. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned that it's it was the branchild of a
Speaker 1: former Marine captain and he's a woman who world himself,
Speaker 1: Dario Mallley. He spent six years as Infantry officer rifles
Speaker 1: commander before he you know, he finished his career with
Speaker 1: the Wounded Warrior of Italian and as O'Malley wrote upon himself,
Speaker 1: he was medically retired due to the weak bone structure
Speaker 1: and chronics stand in his lady parts. So with that,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring our guests on because the TV as
Speaker 1: a new actor and director, uh you know that they've
Speaker 1: brought in. I've watched some of his videos. I encourage
Speaker 1: everyone to check it out all out. His name is Mattias.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm saying that correctly. Mattia's Kinker. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: with that, we want to welcome him to the podcast. Mattias,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us this morning. I know it's early
Speaker 1: at your time out there in California. No it's not,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's ten. It's ten o'clock. But I'm glad
Speaker 1: to be here there. So um, you know it as always,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the acting, genre and directing. Most
Speaker 1: people take a kind of direct approach like all the
Speaker 1: other guys on TV. You took the long approach. You
Speaker 1: you actually drew military first. You spent I believe it
Speaker 1: was ten years in the Marines, and um, so tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about growing up. I believe you
Speaker 1: were born in Cleveland, right, Yeah, yeah, it was Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Ohio where I was born. And then um, you know
Speaker 1: I was raised near Akron though, so yeah, yeah, growing
Speaker 1: up I had relatives in Cleveland. We used to go
Speaker 1: out there all the time. So I know that the
Speaker 1: area a little bit. I'm not gonna say I know
Speaker 1: well because it's been quite a few years, but that's
Speaker 1: a it's a tough place. It's it's it's made for
Speaker 1: tough people out there. So what presents you to join
Speaker 1: the Marine Corps? M uh, let's see here. I think
Speaker 1: some of it um had to do with some of
Speaker 1: my close friends that I had growing up. Um, their
Speaker 1: names were Vonna Marashan, and they wanted to join the military.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know what, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: I'll do it too. But I we we, we we
Speaker 1: we made that decision, you know, when we were young,
Speaker 1: like and eleven, we knew that, um, we wanted to join,
Speaker 1: so took me. It was I mean, it was just
Speaker 1: it was a long time before I could actually make
Speaker 1: it happen, you know. So at that age I knew
Speaker 1: I wanted to join it like ten eleven years old,
Speaker 1: but you know, I couldn't leave until I was eighteen.
Speaker 1: Even try to get my mom and my dad to
Speaker 1: sign off on some paperwork to have me, you know,
Speaker 1: get sent earlier, but A said no to that. Yah
Speaker 1: that's most parents too. Yeah. Yeah, I remember when I
Speaker 1: was kirteine, I decided I wanted to join the military,
Speaker 1: and all my parents sat there were just like and
Speaker 1: my father had served during World War Two, and uh
Speaker 1: they were just like oh oh no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but you know, I'm a little bit older
Speaker 1: than you are, so I'm kind of dating myself there.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, you joined the Marine Corps, you end up.
Speaker 1: I saw any videos and uh it was it was
Speaker 1: really Uh we could talk about being a station in
Speaker 1: open hour and it wasn't a favorite place. Years. No,
Speaker 1: I did not like that deployment whatsoever. Yeah, it's funny
Speaker 1: because I know some I my career was arming s
Speaker 1: F and uh. First, such forces group has some guys
Speaker 1: out all those guys to a man, loved it out there.
Speaker 1: And then I saw your your video and it didn't
Speaker 1: strike out a chord with you and Oki. Uh no, no,
Speaker 1: not at all. Camp schwab By of all the places
Speaker 1: to be on. And then you know, our our libo
Speaker 1: was always taken from us because you know, people act
Speaker 1: stupid ruin it for the rest. So I just spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time just on you know, within the
Speaker 1: gates of swab that was. It was awful. Even I
Speaker 1: even wanted to. I was actually looking forward to go training,
Speaker 1: you know, to go training any of these various places.
Speaker 1: But a lot of those things even got canceled due
Speaker 1: to whatever the case may be. But I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: there's no libo, and and like I can't even train. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well now just hit So you spent ten years in
Speaker 1: the core um obviously, you know you went up to
Speaker 1: becoming an n c O and you experienced a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. What was the worst for you to
Speaker 1: sign me yet? What was it, okay? Or was it
Speaker 1: or your time in Afghanistan? What was worse? Mm hm
Speaker 1: oh okay. I would have loved getting back in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: I will say though, the best appointment by far, and
Speaker 1: the most fun was with Spain. Uh that was that
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. And then um, you ended
Speaker 1: up that you're living there after in the core, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's still she's still in uh so, Yeah, we moved
Speaker 1: out here in well, she got orders out here after
Speaker 1: she became a career planner, and I at that point
Speaker 1: in time, I had spent seven a half years on June,
Speaker 1: so you know, it was definitely time for a different place.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I got set out here after we got
Speaker 1: our orders and I went to Esson Range. You go
Speaker 1: teach recruits table too, combat marktion ship didn't, I imagine.
Speaker 1: I remember my time going through you know, boot and
Speaker 1: the guys who taught marksman should at least in the
Speaker 1: army hated their job because they they had so many
Speaker 1: knuckleheads coming through. I mean, and some of the guys
Speaker 1: I went to a boot camp which should have never
Speaker 1: been allowed to hold a rifle at all, minds, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, uh you know, um um, you know, live
Speaker 1: round stopped ringing, and some of those guys who were
Speaker 1: just awful, you know, and uh, I remember these the
Speaker 1: guys who ran the ranges that and that that time,
Speaker 1: you know they are betting stressed up. M hm yeah.
Speaker 1: So so what what possessed you to decide that, you know, acting,
Speaker 1: because that's a big career change going, you know, from
Speaker 1: being a marine to a director. It was it's something
Speaker 1: that was always seen your mind or did this something this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're right, it is. It is a huge careering,
Speaker 1: um especially you know, nine years, ten years in the
Speaker 1: Marine Corps. You know, I was and I was good
Speaker 1: at that, so it was a very it was a
Speaker 1: hard decision to uh to to make to get out
Speaker 1: and just pursue something completely different. But um, I mean
Speaker 1: I've always liked making people laugh, so that that kind
Speaker 1: of started out. I used social media platforms to make
Speaker 1: that happen, and Vine was the first thing that I used.
Speaker 1: Is six like really short six second clips, you know,
Speaker 1: and I would come up with like these different kits
Speaker 1: to do, and the challenge was doing something that was
Speaker 1: gonna make someone laugh you know hard within you know,
Speaker 1: six seconds. Uh So it started out there and then
Speaker 1: you know, my friends told me that I had an
Speaker 1: act for it, and you know, I was larious and
Speaker 1: what if you just take this to a different level. Man,
Speaker 1: how about you become a filmmaker. Now this this was
Speaker 1: back in I would say when my friend, my friends,
Speaker 1: the one that planted that idea in my head has
Speaker 1: become a filmmaker because I mean, I love doing that.
Speaker 1: Just shoot on my on my phone and edit on
Speaker 1: my phone. And uh, I had to teach myself a
Speaker 1: few things. But then, you know, after he brought that up,
Speaker 1: or after he mentioned it, I was like, nah, there's
Speaker 1: no way I could never be a filmmaker. I can
Speaker 1: never be, I can never act, I can never do that.
Speaker 1: This is just for fun, you know. Uh. And it
Speaker 1: was a it was a hobby, that's what it was.
Speaker 1: And then as the you know, as time passed, I
Speaker 1: continued to do, uh, to make these videos. Vine went away.
Speaker 1: So then I moved to Instagram, then I moved to YouTube,
Speaker 1: and I just continue to you know, make these things
Speaker 1: with some friends that that didn't mind acting the fool
Speaker 1: in front of the camera. Then you know, I never
Speaker 1: forgot what he said, and then um, I made a
Speaker 1: decision two really pursue filmmaking, probably two three, two and
Speaker 1: a half, two and a half years before I got out,
Speaker 1: And so that pretty much that first year, I spent studying.
Speaker 1: That's what That's what I did. I just spent uh
Speaker 1: my time studying and learning and uh. Then that second
Speaker 1: year I set out to actually make films. I made
Speaker 1: my huh start making my own short films and whatnot. Uh.
Speaker 1: During that point in time, I had I was actually
Speaker 1: in Okinawa and I had I came across Betteran Television
Speaker 1: and I was looking at all their content and I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I could do that, And
Speaker 1: that's what I told myself. I'm like, I could do that.
Speaker 1: I could How often would it be to be to
Speaker 1: work with these guys like they that the dark comedy
Speaker 1: is something that I'm like, I love and so I, um,
Speaker 1: I just reached out to Daniel Manley. I sent him
Speaker 1: a DM like, all right, there's no way, there's no
Speaker 1: way he's going to even see this or even respond,
Speaker 1: you know, And he did. He did. He looked through
Speaker 1: all my content. He told me that I had a
Speaker 1: lot of potential. There's a lot of talent there. I'd
Speaker 1: just stood comedy. We could we always are looking for
Speaker 1: writers and you know everything else. Um. The thing is,
Speaker 1: I know Donnie tells uh a lot of people this
Speaker 1: especially if they're interested in filmmaking. And uh, the difference
Speaker 1: between myself and most of these other people that he
Speaker 1: talks to, I'm sure is the fact that, uh, I
Speaker 1: stayed consistent with it. So he told me everything I
Speaker 1: needed to work on, what I need to study, who
Speaker 1: I needed to watch, and all this other stuff. And
Speaker 1: I did that. I just kept going, kept going, and
Speaker 1: I would, you know, touch base with him. Hey, Donnie,
Speaker 1: I did this, this and this, I learned this like now,
Speaker 1: and you know I'm starting on this now, what do
Speaker 1: you think about this? Just picking at his brain, picking
Speaker 1: at his brain, um, every step of the way. And
Speaker 1: then once um, once I felt as definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: I learn as much as I could because I was
Speaker 1: just teaching myself YouTube videos, just googling things and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, Okay, well I gotta go
Speaker 1: out and do this. So you're not gonna really learn
Speaker 1: until you until you do, especially in filmmaking. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you want to be a filmmaker, you gotta go out
Speaker 1: and make films. So uh, then I started making short films. Um.
Speaker 1: After each one I make, I bring it back to
Speaker 1: Donnie and whoever else over at bet TV and I
Speaker 1: had to look it over, give me some good constructive criticism,
Speaker 1: you know, giving me good notes about what I need
Speaker 1: to change work on the Okay. Then I set out
Speaker 1: to make another one, and I made seven short films.
Speaker 1: I made seven of them, one of which I actually
Speaker 1: entered into some film festivals. It's getting a lot of
Speaker 1: recognition and so that's pretty cool. Um. And then at
Speaker 1: that point, at that point in time, after I made
Speaker 1: all my short films, you know, I uh, I was
Speaker 1: getting on the Marine Corps at that time. And then
Speaker 1: you know, I had already established this relationship with Donnie
Speaker 1: and a lot of other people have bet TV, and
Speaker 1: Donnie had been talking and saying saying many good things
Speaker 1: about me and whatnot, and you know, I just you know,
Speaker 1: I got I got the job. He hit me up.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, listen, we're gonna contract you out and
Speaker 1: we want you to, um, we want you to start
Speaker 1: writing a series called Meanwhile on the Field and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be uh, you know, just all the hilarious moments
Speaker 1: and funny things that happened while Yeah, you're saying that
Speaker 1: I saw the teaser trailer for that, and I mean again,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of this dark humor. It's all
Speaker 1: absolutely riveted in truth because just from the trailer that
Speaker 1: I saw, we all remember seeing crazy stuff like that, right,
Speaker 1: my my. I mean that's exactly that's what makes it
Speaker 1: I think. So yeah, yeah, there's there's so many I have,
Speaker 1: you know, it's so many, so many stories. Yuh, it's
Speaker 1: been a lot of my time out on the field,
Speaker 1: you know, in the infastry so um and then anyone
Speaker 1: else like so, I mean the series is is army
Speaker 1: and you know our army infatry. But honestly, we've ever
Speaker 1: been to the field. You can you can relate Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Johnny place that you're I guess since you d so,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I'm thinking back to the trailer and
Speaker 1: I cracked up. You you know, oh airborne fucking airborne
Speaker 1: or so it's like, yeah, I mean, how many NCOs
Speaker 1: have we met that exactly that way? And uh, I
Speaker 1: mean it was it was really good. But going back
Speaker 1: to what you were just talking about, Um, so you're
Speaker 1: basically you taught yourself film backing. You didn't go to
Speaker 1: school for that? No, yeah, I didn't. I did not
Speaker 1: go to school for it. And you know a lot
Speaker 1: of my research that I that I had seen is
Speaker 1: a lot of people question whether or not film school
Speaker 1: is worth it, and now I do think it's worth it.
Speaker 1: Um but and I will go. I will more than
Speaker 1: likely go eventually. But I mean I've had some friends
Speaker 1: that were going through film school as they saw me
Speaker 1: working with that TV And one of the funniest things, Uh,
Speaker 1: someone said to me. One of my friends was like,
Speaker 1: she was like, I'm sitting in the class right now
Speaker 1: learning lighting. And she looked at one of my post
Speaker 1: on Instagram. She's like, you're sitting there doing it in
Speaker 1: real life, you know, so so um yeah, because it's
Speaker 1: like you, I don't know you, it's got to go
Speaker 1: out and do it. That's I mean, the replication. They're
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing that there's no substitute for, you know, experience,
Speaker 1: and it's just like the military. I mean, we can
Speaker 1: train and train and train, but until you actually bought
Speaker 1: and do your job, you know, Uh, that's when you
Speaker 1: actually started learning how to do it right exactly. Yes,
Speaker 1: but you're one of your sure films that you made.
Speaker 1: I watched it last night and I watched them again
Speaker 1: in this morning, Blind Day. It was another one. I
Speaker 1: mean that that was really good because we've all been there, right,
Speaker 1: I mean we've all been there. You try to set
Speaker 1: up your friend with somebody and then they just panic
Speaker 1: and I mean should completely show their ass am. I right,
Speaker 1: ruin everything that wasn't really good and your your two
Speaker 1: co stars were excellent and that as well, Yeah they were,
Speaker 1: they were. I really like that one. Now had you
Speaker 1: work with those folks before these friends of yours or no? No?
Speaker 1: So that was that was a whole Another thing too,
Speaker 1: is so um um. The only person that I worked
Speaker 1: with consistently over and over again was uh the the
Speaker 1: director of photography, UM the best. So you know I
Speaker 1: would tell him I would come to him with the
Speaker 1: three different Uh well, I just I would just come
Speaker 1: to him with scripts and then you know, he telled me.
Speaker 1: He would guide me, uh tell me like how I
Speaker 1: needed to go about and looking for um actors and
Speaker 1: actresses and and anything else to shoot locations and wardrobe
Speaker 1: and all that other stuff. And um, you know, doing
Speaker 1: it on your own, and it forced you to really
Speaker 1: learn every aspect of filmmaking. So um I used I
Speaker 1: always cast it from San Diego, and I just used uh,
Speaker 1: I used uh facebook pages, face Facebook groups, and I
Speaker 1: would put out a casting call like, hey, guys, you
Speaker 1: know doing this, this and this is what it's about.
Speaker 1: If you're interested, email me head shots, resumes and uh
Speaker 1: reels if you have them, you know, and then I
Speaker 1: would you know, I had to sit there and then
Speaker 1: you play the role as a casting director. Now. So
Speaker 1: now I'm like looking through all these emails that I
Speaker 1: got and seeing who wants to do what. A lot
Speaker 1: of people in San Diego are just looking for um
Speaker 1: to build their to build the skill up. L A
Speaker 1: is a little different. L is a little different. I
Speaker 1: feel like everyone out in l A thinks that I
Speaker 1: think that they've made it. But the community, the acting
Speaker 1: community out here and uh you know in San Diego
Speaker 1: is a little different though. They just they you know,
Speaker 1: they're more than happy just to work for credits, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, just get the experience. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: the people that work at that TV, I know, the
Speaker 1: actors are a role veterans of all the different services
Speaker 1: on the people behind the cameras, are they a lot
Speaker 1: of veterans as well or those just uh young pilmmakers?
Speaker 1: Uh so, I mean a lot of Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of veterans that at that TV. Not everyone
Speaker 1: is though, um, but uh majority, Yeah. I think that's
Speaker 1: awesome for veterans who are are looking to get into that,
Speaker 1: you know, realm. That's a great place for them to
Speaker 1: look to. I mean because a lot of it again,
Speaker 1: watching some of the the clips from VET TV and
Speaker 1: you know, you're your trailer for the upcoming Meanwhile on
Speaker 1: the field, you know a lot of it it's not
Speaker 1: really acting because it's stuff we've all acted out in
Speaker 1: real life. I think, M yeah, definitely. So you know,
Speaker 1: do you have a favorite, Uh, we've quite a few
Speaker 1: short films. Do you have a favorite one of that
Speaker 1: I made? M Yeah, I would. I would have to
Speaker 1: say Social Ootcast. That's the so so whenever I first
Speaker 1: set out to make a short, make my short feel like,
Speaker 1: I had this story in mine and uh, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's called Social Outcast and I started writing it and
Speaker 1: it was so long, you know, I didn't know what
Speaker 1: I was doing. That was my first script that I
Speaker 1: was writing and everything, and then uh, this one, I
Speaker 1: told myself, Well, I eventually found out that this one.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this is uh this this is
Speaker 1: more of a passion project and I need to I
Speaker 1: need to start with something much smaller, you know, because
Speaker 1: I was looking at the at the the number of
Speaker 1: pages that I had, which I ended up having to
Speaker 1: trim down anyways, but it was like fifty pages already,
Speaker 1: so uh yeah, I can't. I can't set out to
Speaker 1: make a feelm like this. I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: So you know, I started out with something, you know,
Speaker 1: much smaller, and then I made each film a little
Speaker 1: bit more complicated as I went, and then by the
Speaker 1: time uh, I felt good enough to write Social Outcast,
Speaker 1: I was probably probably that was a while later, a
Speaker 1: long time, like it's like a year since I first
Speaker 1: since I first wrote it, and I rewrote the script
Speaker 1: several different times while I was still making, uh making
Speaker 1: these other short films and teaching myself and learning and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got to a point where I was
Speaker 1: comfortable enough to film my passion project. And then that's
Speaker 1: the one. I'm like, okay, cool, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: done at the beginning of January. And I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: make a short film all of I mean all of
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make another short film. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: enter this one into the film festivals and that's what
Speaker 1: and that's what I've been doing. And like I said,
Speaker 1: it's been getting a lot of recognition, and as I
Speaker 1: I'm glad it is because you know, it took a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of efforts to put that one together.
Speaker 1: That's great and uh you know so mean meanwhile on
Speaker 1: the field, that that skinny I mean plea uh so
Speaker 1: not that skinning be released on vi CV, is it not?
Speaker 1: Is that next week that it comes up? Yep, sap,
Speaker 1: timber Knight. I can't wait to watch that one. Because
Speaker 1: but as I said, and I encourage to all our
Speaker 1: listeners out there, uh, if you haven't done it yet,
Speaker 1: check out that TV um. You know, for all of
Speaker 1: us who have been there, I mean, because it's all
Speaker 1: it's all based in fact. I mean yeah, you sometimes
Speaker 1: say the guys, you know, you play it a little
Speaker 1: bit over the top, but we've all seen that stuff.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what makes the military so compelling
Speaker 1: to people, because we have a very serious job. As
Speaker 1: everyone knows. Anyone who's been there to know if the
Speaker 1: serious business we're in. But there's times, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of times even in times of you know, you're
Speaker 1: out in a combat situation, some crazy shit happens, and
Speaker 1: you know, I mean we all have to admit, right,
Speaker 1: the military has some compelling characters in there. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: so it's really hard. You know a lot of those
Speaker 1: guys are not working at that TV. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: in and uh you know, with that TV and recreating
Speaker 1: these stories from you know, the audience and what because
Speaker 1: they all there's so many crazy things that happens, like
Speaker 1: you said, in the military, and there's many different characters
Speaker 1: and whatnot. And is we just take that and run
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, everyone really about you know, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and that's what's that's what's so good about it is
Speaker 1: because you know, for those of us have been an
Speaker 1: it's gonna resonate because we've all seen exactly you know,
Speaker 1: this type of situation. And I think that there's going back.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'll go back to the days
Speaker 1: in my book camp. I think all good military instructors
Speaker 1: have a little bit of comedian in them because they
Speaker 1: can tell you you're the lowest form of life on earth,
Speaker 1: and they'll make it to where you're trying not to
Speaker 1: crack up laughing. And I remember that because I had
Speaker 1: a hard ass troll Sartin. I used to say, I
Speaker 1: thought it was Richard Pryce's cousin because he would call
Speaker 1: me every name in the book and and I'd be
Speaker 1: biting my lip trying not to laugh, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: because I mean he was hilarious and I'm one of
Speaker 1: my good friends at the time. It was a country
Speaker 1: kid Carolina. He could never stop from laughing, and you
Speaker 1: know what happens when you laugh and then you pay
Speaker 1: the price. So but I always I always remember him
Speaker 1: and the funny thing. Years later, I think it was
Speaker 1: maybe ten years later, I ran into my old crill
Speaker 1: Sartin and uh, and I started talking to him and
Speaker 1: he remember being the kids that could never stop laughing,
Speaker 1: and he was like, yeah, that was a kid with
Speaker 1: the howdy duty fashion could never stop laughing. I remember that,
Speaker 1: and I see and uh, and it goes you know
Speaker 1: how hard it was for me to keep straight faced
Speaker 1: looking at you. kN Uh. Yeah, I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's that's awesome. So yeah, anyway, enough about me,
Speaker 1: So what's next on it for you? You just finished
Speaker 1: this project that you have something on online now calling
Speaker 1: up that you planning on? Yeah, yeah, I do. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm actually so, you know, this whole COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: thing is uh is really just been difficult for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. I mean, has that has that impacted
Speaker 1: your guys and you're filming. Uh no, no it hasn't.
Speaker 1: We we can't. So that's what I was gonna go into,
Speaker 1: is that we can't. You know, we're not doing our
Speaker 1: larger productions, uh, like the one stay a Grunt's Life,
Speaker 1: you know, recruiters, um, these other larger productions. We had
Speaker 1: to postpone you know, and and and push to the right,
Speaker 1: but we still had to you know, we want to
Speaker 1: release content to the to our audience every week still,
Speaker 1: so you know what we did was, um, I mean
Speaker 1: we're pretty much self sustaining. We use our in house actors.
Speaker 1: We have writers, directors, actors, you know, director of photography,
Speaker 1: we have editors, you know, producers, all that stuff. So
Speaker 1: we basically what we have to do now and what
Speaker 1: and that's what Memhi on the Field was, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: same thing with and maybe Drone Boys, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but just smaller productions, you know, skeleton crew.
Speaker 1: We don't want very many people on set. Uh, they
Speaker 1: don't have to be things like that. So but with
Speaker 1: with how you know, COVID hasn't impacted us in that way,
Speaker 1: with us not being able to do our larger shows,
Speaker 1: we got people you our audience is asking us like
Speaker 1: when a Grunts Life Season two is you know coming out,
Speaker 1: because uh, you know they love that. That's my favorite,
Speaker 1: you know. So you know the Meanwhile on the Barracks
Speaker 1: fild military what was that film on? No? I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't believe it was because it looks
Speaker 1: like one I actually know, uh, season two of Meanwhile
Speaker 1: the Barracks was actually filming at our office. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know the way they have set up and I
Speaker 1: mean it actually looks like a military installation. Now that's awesome.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. But so basically, um, what um Donnie wanted
Speaker 1: me working on next is giving the audience something uh
Speaker 1: for you know, A Grunts Life. So what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do is I'm by writing these uh you know micro
Speaker 1: content uh sketches that are dealing with Lieutenant Murphy in
Speaker 1: his platoon before the deployment that they're getting ready to
Speaker 1: go on and that we will see them on in
Speaker 1: season two. So that's that's awesome. So, you know, when
Speaker 1: it comes to the creative process, see you guys right
Speaker 1: separately or do you guys right together? Uh? We do
Speaker 1: right together. Uh. We usually have a there's the head
Speaker 1: writer and then the secondary writer, and there could be
Speaker 1: a third as well, but you know, the head writer
Speaker 1: is the one that's actually doing the writing and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and then we bring on uh consultants and whatnot. So
Speaker 1: for meanwhile, in the in the field, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: Marine Corps Infantry. You know, I'd imagine the Army infantries
Speaker 1: culture isn't too much you know, different than ours. But um,
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about the eighty sewod everyone, and
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about the hundred and first rocket songs.
Speaker 1: So uh, I had to talk to people, you know,
Speaker 1: and put it up. We made we created Army Infantry
Speaker 1: bat TV facebook group, a whole bunch of people in there.
Speaker 1: And then, um, you know, as I'm pulling information from
Speaker 1: the audience from them, um, I found the ones that
Speaker 1: were really giving me the most feedback, and then I
Speaker 1: would bring them on as a consultant. I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: this right here, these are the stories that I have
Speaker 1: in mind. This is what I want to do? What
Speaker 1: you got would you guys say this? Or how would
Speaker 1: your platoon commander act in this situation? Or how a
Speaker 1: would the squalitaer or what are your what are your
Speaker 1: junior you know, enlisted, like you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Uhh yeah, And again I don't think it's that bigger difference.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of the jargon might be a little
Speaker 1: different between the core and the Army when it comes
Speaker 1: to the infantry guys, but that's about it. Grounds are
Speaker 1: the same. And then when when it comes to them
Speaker 1: to that doc humor, I mean there's you know, you
Speaker 1: have to have a thick skin, you do, I mean
Speaker 1: because they I mean, if somebody messes up, you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna hit that person is gonna here for a
Speaker 1: very long time until somebody else messes up. And even
Speaker 1: still they look out like that. Yeah. Yeah. And it's
Speaker 1: like like I was in Special Forces and let we
Speaker 1: were onto the internal Regret. They made me an officer,
Speaker 1: so you know, my guys were always harp on me.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, rank I had no privilege in
Speaker 1: that SF. So you know guys would oh you know
Speaker 1: on your heart it is just everyone else. So you
Speaker 1: just had had to learn how to deal with it
Speaker 1: and uh, and then you just did on everyone when
Speaker 1: it's their turn. That's the way it works. But now
Speaker 1: this is great. And I to our listeners out there, UH,
Speaker 1: if you have them, check out the TV yet you
Speaker 1: really need to do so because it's it's really really
Speaker 1: well done. Uh, it's very funny. Uh. And they have
Speaker 1: a lot of really talented people there and Matthias it
Speaker 1: is one of those talented people. It's on on the
Speaker 1: show there and we look forward to hearing uh a
Speaker 1: lot more from you in the very near future. M M.
Speaker 1: So before we wrapped this up, is there anything else
Speaker 1: you'd like to share with our listeners today? Um, let's
Speaker 1: see here m hm um, Well, be on the lookout
Speaker 1: for me while to feel this dropping next week that
Speaker 1: that gets released September nine TV. Yeah, the TV and
Speaker 1: mm hmm describe if you have it, If you haven't
Speaker 1: subscribed as that TV, I think, uh it would be
Speaker 1: in your best interest to do that. I think you'll
Speaker 1: enjoy it. It's really really good stuff. And UM, we
Speaker 1: look forward hereing a lot more. And yeah, I look
Speaker 1: forward to seeing some of the me more. If you
Speaker 1: do any independent short stories I look forward to seeing
Speaker 1: those again. Um. Like I said, I love the way.
Speaker 1: I haven't checked out with social ocash yet, so that
Speaker 1: that'll be next on my agenda. But I also like
Speaker 1: bad time to be at Homie's house, so uh and
Speaker 1: when you when your boss don't care. Yeah, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: be looking forward to some more of those. So um yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking the time today. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And I know you have some stuff lined up this afternoon,
Speaker 1: so uh, we didn't want to take too much of
Speaker 1: your time up. So thank you for joining us, thanks
Speaker 1: for being on Software Radio, and uh please do uh
Speaker 1: keep in touch with us and let us know how
Speaker 1: you're doing, and we'll be watching uh an expecting great
Speaker 1: things from you. Thank you so much and thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. It was our pleasure. So folks, thanks
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