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  dot UAV. Welcome to the Tracer Rounds
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  podcast, and I'm Terry, your host.
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  And with me tonight is Lucas Dyerkov, and he is also an MBR
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  host and he's just started his show.
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  Welcome, Lucas. Well, thank you so much for
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  having me. It's exciting.
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  So he is like a stand in guest for someone that had to cancel
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  tonight. So I'm really appreciative of
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  him just stepping up and saying, yeah, take me, take me.
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  So so I appreciate you coming on the podcast tonight.
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  So let's start off with your military service, if you don't
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  mind. I know you're an Army veteran.
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  Can you just kind of walk us through like maybe what how old
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  you were when you enlisted and how long and just maybe some of
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  your favorite assignments and just anything about your service
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  you want to share? Sure thing.
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  Yeah. So I was a combat medic for five
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  years with the US Army from 2007, 2012.
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  And the entire time that I was in the, the the military, I was
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  stationed in Germany and a an amazing duty station.
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  If ever, if ever you have a a choice, you know, then do it, do
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  it. Go to Germany.
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  But yeah, I was so I'm let's see, I'm trying to remember.
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  I was 27 when I when I joined the joined the the army and I
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  was one of one of the older soldiers.
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  You know, it was always just like, you know, me and like
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  maybe like one or two other guys like in basic, you know, that
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  were that, that that were, you know, older than 18 and.
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  Yeah, I had the same thing. I understand.
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  So and it was, it was fun because like, you know, I was
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  pretty, pretty fit, you know, like for my age and so.
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  So even though I came in as APFC, then I was still, I was, I
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  was treated like a, a little differently.
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  I mean, because like, you know, I was like when we were doing PT
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  and something, you know, I was, I was doing pretty well and I
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  did really well. And in the PT tests and such.
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  And so the lot of the drill sergeants, you know, and stuff
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  would just say if you're behind dire cough, you're wrong.
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  And because there's just, there's just no excuse for, you
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  know, some 30 year old to be beaten, some 18 year old kids,
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  they're running around so. Well, I, I found that, you know,
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  the younger crowd is not as active as we were when we were
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  younger. And so they're mostly used to
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  manipulating their fingers versus like going outside and
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  exercising like that. So I know that, you know, a lot
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  of the 18 year olds don't have the fitness level of necessarily
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  a 30 year old or even a 40 year old for that matter at times.
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  Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I, I really, I really
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  enjoyed my my time in in military.
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  So I was a combat medic and, and it was a great way to really
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  see, see a lot of different jobs.
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  I mean like I, I started off attached to a, a tank platoon
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  and a task force. And so that was, that was fun.
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  And then and then I ended my time being attached with a, with
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  some combat engineers. And so, so it was, yeah, you
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  started in infantry, you know, and then and then we, yeah, got
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  into combat engineers. So it was just all over the
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  place. And I, yeah, I got to got to
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  see, you know, working in the aid station.
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  And then also, you know, like in two deployments, you know, just,
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  yeah, they required, or at least at the time anyway, they
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  required like 3 medics on, you know, like almost every convoy
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  that we did. And so, so we were, we were
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  always just involved in yeah. They utilized probably.
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  For sure. Where were you in Germany?
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  What? What base?
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  So I was in Bamberg, so the old con barracks, they're in the
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  southernmost part of Germany. And so we, yeah, we were right
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  by Wurzburg and, and just a stone's throw from Frankfurt and
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  Nuremberg. And yeah, it was, it was to just
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  be able to just jump on the train, you know, and you know,
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  go to Frankfurt, you know, like for a few hours.
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  For context, Germany is the size of Montana.
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  And so you could get around Germany like really quickly.
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  And and it was. It was a lot of fun.
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  I was in Swineford. Yeah, OK.
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  I went to Burtsburg too a couple of times, just, you know, for
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  sightseeing and seeing castles and whatnot it.
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  Was so actually I was stationed in Swine Schweinfurt first, but
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  it's just not as cool as Bamberg.
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  So, so I just never, I never lead with that.
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  It was a it was a good place. Were you Rock of the Marne to
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  begin with? You were I forgot.
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  Is that the first ID the Rock of the Marne or Pat?
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  Could, could be, Yeah, I. Don't have to do a station there
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  to begin with. Was infantry I know.
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  Yeah, so I was with 172nd 1st like when I when I was there and
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  and then and then it really got just broken up quite a bit into
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  like task forces and stuff. So, so it yeah, then it got real
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  segmented and stuff so. And so you said you had two
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  deployments from Germany and how long were those deployments?
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  You said you went to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  Yeah, So it was it was just about a year each time.
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  And in Iraq it was I was just South of Baghdad.
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  This, it's kind of like this sleepy little town called Sowera
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  that we that we patrolled there and we worked heavily with the
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  Sons of Iraq at the time. And that was, it was so that was
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  like around 2010 or or 2009, 2010.
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  And and so, yeah, that that was great, just like working closely
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  with Sons of Iraq and we would we taught them just BLS training
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  and and just to just help to them with just just very, very
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  basic, you know, life saving skills and stuff while they were
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  kind of like growing a growing like a law enforcement there and
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  stuff. So and then and then Afghanistan
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  was a was a the the the Wild West.
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  That was a little that was a little different than my than
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  than I than Iraq. But yeah, that was with Bob
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  Shank just just outside of the the Bagram there.
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  But yeah, yeah, that was. Why did you decide to join the
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  military? Because you were.
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  You said you were 27. So what?
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  What drew you to the military at 27?
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  Well, you know, I, I had kept, you know, like going into
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  college and then quitting and then going into college and
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  quitting, you know, and I was just kind of, yeah, I don't
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  know, I just wasn't committing to anything, you know, that I
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  was, I was doing and, and I, and both like my uncle and my
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  grandfather had, had been in the military and, and so I just, I
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  just decided, you know, that, yeah.
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  I mean, I was already, you know, like racking up a lot of, of, of
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  student debt, you know, and loan debt.
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  And so I just felt like, OK, if I'm going to keep on going to,
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  to school, you know, then then I need to do it for free because
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  I'm just not good at that. I'm not, I'm not good at this.
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  So, so yes, then I jumped into military and, and then as soon
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  as because like, I knew that I had always wanted to go to film
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  school. Film school was a goal that that
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  I wanted to do, but I never would have been able to afford
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  it otherwise. And nearly all film schools are
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  ridiculously expensive. And, and so, so then I went in
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  with the the mind that I was going to use the GI Bill, you
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  know, to go to film school. And then that's exactly what I
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  did when I got out of, of so when I was honorably discharged,
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  then then I went to New York Film Academy out in Los Angeles.
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  And, and so that's where I got like my, my first degree of a
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  bachelor's in film production. And so did just a lot of
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  independent film productions out there and some short films and
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  had a a film like even in in some film festivals out there.
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  And and so yeah. So the, so the army, you know,
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  was just, it was just a. Stepping stone.
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  Yeah, it was great, great stepping stone, you know, and,
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  and just really made a whole lot of things possible for me for
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  sure. Yeah.
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  So why did you choose combat medic when you went into the
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  military? Why was that your your career
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  field that you wanted to do? Did you have anybody else in the
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  medical field in? Your family, well, I mean, so
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  like my, my dad, he, he was a microbiologist and so, so he had
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  like a lot of, a lot of like, you know, like basic, you know,
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  like a, a medical knowledge. But but yeah, but his focus, you
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  know, was primarily microbiology.
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  He then I would just give him a call, you know, like when we
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  were when we were hitting the books and, and really just doing
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  the, the national registry. Then it was great to just have
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  him on the phone and just be just pick his brain about about
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  how to kind of practice and how to how to, to take this, this
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  national registry because it was, it was no joke.
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  And, and like I and I mean, like I even failed the first time
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  that I took it. And, and so and then in the
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  retake got it. But but yeah, to, to cram all of
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  that like in the, in the short time that you have to not only
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  cause like half of the time is spent, you know, on training or
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  well, well in the in class for, for taking the national
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  registry. And then the other half, you
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  know, is just your, your soldiering, you know, you know,
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  just so BLS and all, all kinds of like, good stuff.
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  So, well, we're on our first break, so we're going to take a
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  quick break and then we'll come back with Lucas and we're going
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  Military broadcast radio, the station that's giving veterans a
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  Opinions expressed in this program are those of the
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  speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions
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  of any entities they represent. Hello and welcome back to Teresa
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  Surrounds Podcast. And I'm your host, Terry, and
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  I've got Lucas in the studio with me and we're talking about
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  his military service and we were talking about his schooling and
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  film production. So what did you plan to do?
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  Did you plan to make big movies or did you plan to go to work
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  for somebody? Or what did you plan to do with
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  that degree? Well, I, I think everybody or
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  every way that goes to film school, you know, like as
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  aspirations of, you know, writing and directing, you know,
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  their own material. I mean that there were a brave
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  few that that even wanted to perform, you know, like in, in
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  their stuff. I, I was definitely not one of
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  those, but, but yeah, I've, I've been, you know, like writing
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  short stories and just writing a lot for, you know, like since I
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  was in high school. And so I really felt the, the
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  strongest as a screenwriter. And so I had always been
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  interested in, in screen writing and, and that to me is, is just
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  my, my greatest strength. And, and also too, it was, it
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  was a lot of fun in film school. You've, you have people from
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  like all over people like from other countries, you know,
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  international students. And, but being that we were in
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  LA then everybody was pursuing the, the, the Hollywood style of
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  filmmaking and, and that's, you know, what we were were taught,
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  you know, and, and so I, I really got to to help like a
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  doctor. Everybody screenplays a bit, you
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  know, and, you know, and, and then we, they, they got to learn
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  a lot of Americanisms, you know, and, you know, and yeah, just
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  just kind of like build their writing style in that way.
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  Yeah. What would you say your writing
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  style is like? Would you say your science
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  fiction, action, drama? What?
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  Type of in a perfect world, I would be I would love to write
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  some the some science fiction, but but really like my, my
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  first, my I would, I'd say I I lean towards kind of like family
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  drama. And so Strawberry Barbara is on
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  my YouTube channel and, and it's, it's, it's just 9 minutes
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  if you want to check it out. But, but it's just a, it's just
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  a, a great little family drama just about a, a widowed father
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  who is just telling his or getting up the gumption to, to
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  tell his daughters that he has started dating again.
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  And, and the, the waitress that is, that is serving them in
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  this, this restaurant is, is the woman, you know, that he is,
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  that he is starting today. So, but yeah, I don't know.
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  I, I, I've always been, you know, like, you know, I grew up
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  with, you know, like with a, a strong family.
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  And, and so, so the, a strong family unit, you know, is, I
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  guess like always been a part of like what I've written, you
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  know, and, and so I have like a few screenplays, you know, that
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  I'm, that I, that I hope to, that I hope to make soon, you
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  know, that that are just going to also be some family dramas
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  and just kind of like a oh, like a some, you know, that are a
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  little Princess Bride ish, you know.
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  And so that, that'll be fun to, to see if that comes into
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  fruition. They, the pressure is on here in
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  Colorado because Sundance Film Festival is coming to Boulder,
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  Co starting in 2027. And so so now everyone in
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  Colorado is just like, you know, is, is just buzzing about what
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  that going to mean for Colorado. And so it's, it's of course
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  going to be, you know, like a big influx of money, but also
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  it's going to just, you know, help elevate the, the, the
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  cinema culture here in Colorado. And so, so a lot of the film
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  makers here and what little film industry we have in Colorado are
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  really, you know, just ramping up and just trying to trying to
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  get involved with the Sundance Film Festival.
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  That's that's going to be, that's going to be here for a
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  while because it's a, it's a 10 year contract.
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  Oh, wow. OK, you.
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  Know that they're going to be here for a good long while,
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  yeah. So how do you, I would have no
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  idea how you do a film production.
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  Do you have a company that does it?
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  Do you do that? Do you have to, what kind of
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  equipment do you have? Like how, what's that process
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  look like? Because somebody like me would
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  have no, absolutely no idea how to get started in something like
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  that. Well, certainly like the most
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  affordable approach, you know, is, you know, is just selling
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  what you've written, you know, I mean, so so that's, so that's
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  that's been kind of like my heck, it's still my aspiration,
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  you know, I mean, is, is just to sell what like what I've
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  written. And, you know, and so then it's
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  matter of trying to find, you know, like literary agents, you
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  know, that will represent you and just kind of get it in front
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  of the right people, you know, to to get it made.
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  And sure, ultimately, you know, yeah, that that's the goal is
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  just to just to get the movie made.
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  And, you know, and, and so of course, you know, it certainly
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  helps if you can, certainly helps if, if you can, you know,
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  make it with your own equipment and such.
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  And, and people are doing more and more with less and less
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  these days. And so in fact, you know, like
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  instead of having a like a camera team and a director and
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  everybody, some will be as honest as just saying, well, we
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  need a shooter, you know, we need a, we need somebody with a
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  camera, you know, that they able to point it that way, you know.
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  And so, so yeah, the, you know, and then afterwards, if you
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  could also edit it together, that would be great too, you
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  know? And so, so the, yeah, the, the,
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  it's, it, it really takes a village, or at least it, it can,
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  you know. And so, yeah, it's just finding
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  a team of people, you know, that you're able to work well with
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  really, really makes all the difference.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  I can imagine. So do you have or have you
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  written a big screenplay that could be made into a movie?
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  Have you like put something together that you could market
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  to somebody? Yeah, so there was so for there
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  was like AI think the the biggest film that I that I
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  almost made was was was the Gale.
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  And it was like a it was a Celtic action film.
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  And we were going to be we were going to shoot it in Paso Robles
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  and out in California and we were going to to fake California
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  for Scotland. And, and so we were so we had
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  like a month or two like they're in Paso Robles in the the wine
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  country out there that that really could have worked.
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  So like the, the rolling hills, like, you know, were just like a
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  brilliant green. And, and so it it, it would have
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  worked perfectly. And, and unfortunately, just the
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  just logistics kind of like fell apart like at the last minute,
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  but that was going to be like my, my final film.
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  And, and it was going, the, the idea was to shoot a proof of
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  concept because you know, like you, you always you, you hope
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  that just a great script is enough, you know, but no, and
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  you know, like, instead you write a great script and oh, do
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  you have a, a pitch deck? And it's just kind of like a, a
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  summary, you know, like of what the film is, you know, and you
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  know, and just really kind of summarizes the, the theme and,
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  you know, and all kinds of stuff.
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  So, so they want a script and a pitch deck.
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  And if you have a proof of concept, that would be great.
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  And a proof of concept is basically just like a, a short
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  film, you know, about like your film, you know, and, or, you
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  know, and so there's been just a whole lot of features that have
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  been made that have come from the, from the proof of concept
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  from a from a short film. And so, and then getting that
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  short film in front of a studio, you know, to really see, you
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  know, like, OK, this, this director knows, knows what he's
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  doing, you know, like, and he's kind of got like this little
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  slice of life, you know, like of this feature, you know, like in
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  this short, you know, And so, yeah, you.
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  So I I'm always hopeful that that the Gale will be able to to
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  be made one day. And I have a a lot of friends in
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  Scotland, you know, And so if ever I was able to do it big,
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  you know, then, yeah, that would be, that would be the, that was
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  the the one that got away then. And but yeah, so I think
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  everybody you know is told to, you know, do you really dream
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  big? You know, when they're, you
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  know, when they're writing and you know, it's really swing for
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  the fences and, and hopefully it comes together for them.
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  Who do you see playing any lead characters in The Gale if it was
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  ever made into a movie? Oh man.
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  You know, I, I'd love to see maybe Bryce Dallas Howard.
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  I, I love her to death, you know, and, and yeah, she's did
• 31:12
  just a great tenacious redhead, you know, that that would, that
• 31:19
  would be great for the this, this, this Gaelic Princess that
• 31:30
  is, that is essentially kind of like rescuing like her, her
• 31:35
  Pictish husband, you know, from the Romans that have that have
• 31:41
  taken him captive. And so, yeah, it would be, it
• 31:45
  would be pretty cool to, it would be interesting to just
• 31:51
  kind of see, I don't know, Irish Hollywood, you know, really kind
• 31:57
  of like represented the Irish and Scottish, you know,
• 32:03
  Hollywood, you know, kind of like come together, you know, to
• 32:07
  really kind of represent just kind of old society that became
• 32:14
  Scotland. And so, yeah, I'd love to love
• 32:20
  to see her in that role. Yeah, that sounds like that
• 32:23
  would be very interesting. Can't wait to see it come to
• 32:26
  fruition. You never know.
• 32:28
  Well, we're due for another break, so I think we'll play
• 32:31
  Dustin Garner, brother in arms, and then we'll be right back on
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• 35:24
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• 35:42
  Welcome back to MBR where we're giving veterans a voice and
• 35:45
  tonight's voices to Lucas and he's also a host on the MBR
• 35:48
  platform. Why don't you tell us about your
• 35:51
  show? You've it's the Aries Brood
• 35:52
  podcast and what are you doing with?
• 35:54
  That yeah, so the the Aries Brood podcast is about
• 36:00
  role-playing games and board games and that that are kind of
• 36:07
  like of a grim dark, you know, persuasion.
• 36:12
  And so. Yeah.
• 36:15
  Well, one thing that I've just always that I've always enjoyed,
• 36:21
  you know, is board games and, and I've become a game master
• 36:26
  for a lot of role-playing games and, and board games at local
• 36:33
  conventions here in Colorado. And then also at Gen.
• 36:37
  Con, which is just around the corner just at the end of the
• 36:40
  month. Gen.
• 36:41
  Con is the largest board game convention in the country that
• 36:45
  takes place in Indianapolis IN. And last year, 70,000 people
• 36:51
  turned out to it. And, and so, so yeah, just to
• 36:59
  kind of like bring that the, that a little more exposure, you
• 37:06
  know, to, to that is what the Aries Brood podcast is all
• 37:11
  about. And also the Aries Brood is also
• 37:18
  a community of, of game players, like board game players like
• 37:26
  here in the Colorado area and, and at the just some local
• 37:32
  conventions and section and, and also going to slowly but surely
• 37:39
  kind of grow into a into a publisher.
• 37:43
  And so I would I have a a few role-playing games that I am
• 37:48
  that I'm just about to finish. And and so then, yeah, we're
• 37:54
  going to we're going to publish those under the Aries Brewed
• 37:58
  LLC. And so I'm really looking
• 38:02
  forward to to that coming down the Pike, you know, in in the
• 38:06
  future. So you're developing a a
• 38:10
  role-playing game, not necessarily a board game, but a
• 38:12
  role-playing game. And so you're you're developing
• 38:15
  the characters and developing the storylines and everything
• 38:18
  that goes along with that role-playing game.
• 38:22
  Yeah, so and the yeah, the, the the role-playing game is, is, is
• 38:32
  just kind of like a a murder mystery role-playing game.
• 38:35
  And and then we're also going to be getting into, you know, just
• 38:40
  kind of like some like like role-playing game accessories
• 38:46
  and such, you know, like for the hobby and stuff too.
• 38:51
  So yeah. So that that's, that's a ways
• 38:57
  away before we get to to that point, but but that's certainly
• 39:04
  in the works slowly but surely. Did you grow up playing board
• 39:08
  games? Did you enjoy them?
• 39:10
  Oh, yeah, yeah, so, so much risk.
• 39:14
  My, my dad, he was, he was, he was really into risk.
• 39:19
  We had a a painted risk table. Oh wow.
• 39:24
  And, and so, yeah, he had painted that out himself.
• 39:29
  And, and he, I mean, he is not an an artist by any stretch of
• 39:35
  the imagination, but but yeah. But he he really put together
• 39:42
  like a, a pretty cool little, you know, map layout, you know,
• 39:50
  for it. So he went all in.
• 39:52
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, So, yeah, but it was it was a lot of, you
• 39:57
  know, like the typical Risk and Monopoly and such.
• 40:00
  But but then just over the years, I mean, like, you know,
• 40:04
  board games have just become more and more involved and and
• 40:10
  just more and more engaging. So Settlers of Catan, I think
• 40:16
  like a really like was a game that really just.
• 40:20
  Broke a lot of barriers, you know down just from getting a
• 40:23
  lot of Americans out of the rut of just playing Monopoly, you
• 40:27
  know forever. And, and so it was just a
• 40:30
  little, it was a very simple civilization building game and
• 40:35
  where you're trading very simply, you know, with the other
• 40:39
  players. And so, yeah, I don't know, I, I
• 40:44
  think Settlers of Canada was a gateway game for a lot of a lot
• 40:49
  of people that have kind of gotten into the hobby and, and
• 40:51
  really seen the tabletop, the tabletop community really,
• 40:58
  really grow and just become bigger and bigger.
• 41:02
  So. So has Dungeons and Dragons
• 41:05
  always been like out there or is it just now coming back?
• 41:09
  Because I hadn't really heard of it for a long time and like like
• 41:13
  I would say 20 plus years ago it was really big and everyone was
• 41:16
  playing Dungeons and Dragons. Has it waned over time or is it
• 41:20
  still always been a go to game and it's and it's still just
• 41:25
  resonating with people today? Yeah, I mean, Dungeons and
• 41:28
  Dragons will always be, you know, just the most popular
• 41:33
  role-playing game, you know, of all time.
• 41:37
  I mean, so starting in the, you know, in the 80s, then, then it,
• 41:43
  it really, you know, gained traction, you know, and really
• 41:48
  became a thing. And, and then, and I think only
• 41:56
  recently has the, the role-playing games, you know,
• 42:03
  like really, you know, kind of like grown into like modern day
• 42:07
  role-playing there. There's a, a wild role-playing
• 42:13
  game that we actually went over on the, the podcast just just
• 42:19
  last week called Be like Crow or be like a Crow.
• 42:26
  And, and you are a crow and, and you are just trying not to die,
• 42:32
  you know, and that's, and that's the, that's the whole deal.
• 42:37
  And it's, and it's a solo role-playing games.
• 42:40
  You can play it by your by yourself, you know, and so so
• 42:46
  role-playing game publishers are just getting more and more
• 42:48
  creative at making like all kinds of really different
• 42:54
  flavors of role-playing games. And so it's not just, you know,
• 42:59
  like Dungeons and Dragons, like it used to be.
• 43:03
  Now, you know, all genres now are being represented in really
• 43:08
  cool ways. So murder mystery stuff to
• 43:17
  science fiction and, and you have great publishers like Free
• 43:25
  League publishing that is, that is doing everything from like
• 43:31
  Alien, Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, all kinds of just such a
• 43:37
  wide diversity of, you know, of, of role-playing games.
• 43:43
  And so but yeah, Dungeons and Dragons will always be, you
• 43:48
  know, kind of like the the forefather of, of role-playing
• 43:52
  games. And, and I think that it's only
• 43:56
  kind of like been talked about like more and more recently just
• 44:01
  because of the popularity that it has, that it has spawned, you
• 44:07
  know, And so like all of these, these others are, are really
• 44:11
  just kind of, you know, I don't know, raising the water table, I
• 44:15
  guess, you know? And, and so that people, you
• 44:17
  know, who haven't looked into role-playing games or haven't
• 44:22
  heard of role-playing games are now getting exposed to, to
• 44:29
  role-playing games of all kinds, you know, and people are saying,
• 44:33
  well, you know, Dungeons and Dragons really started it all,
• 44:37
  you know? And so, so yeah, they're,
• 44:41
  they're, you know, finding the hobby in a lot of really
• 44:45
  interesting ways now, so. Yeah, so on your show, we're
• 44:51
  going to take another break here in a minute, but on your show,
• 44:53
  do you have people come on and play the game, or are you and
• 44:56
  somebody else playing the game? How does it work if somebody's
• 44:59
  tuning in for the first time? What's the expectation of how
• 45:02
  the game goes? Yeah, so it's a it's been
• 45:05
  changing all the time, but yeah, we we love to do playthroughs
• 45:10
  and you know, and so when it comes together, you know, we
• 45:14
  yeah, we'd love to we love having, you know, like a a full
• 45:20
  role-playing game go and I I look forward to that day, you
• 45:24
  know, when we do that. But but yeah, so like next week,
• 45:30
  I think, or in the the next show when we get that going, then
• 45:35
  we're going to be playing the bloody in.
• 45:38
  And, and so we were just going to be kind of introducing the
• 45:42
  game, doing a little tutorial, you know, and talk about it so.
• 45:47
  So when is it on? So it is it, it, it is every
• 45:55
  Wednesday at 4:00 PM Eastern Time, but not this week just due
• 46:06
  to yeah, just to do some scheduling.
• 46:10
  But but yes, hopefully every Wednesday that that's the goal.
• 46:17
  Well, that sounds good. I'm going to have to catch an
• 46:19
  episode when I'm not working. I'll have to or during my lunch
• 46:22
  hour or something. I'll have to take a break and
• 46:24
  check it out. So we're going to go to another
• 46:26
  quick break and we're going to play Joe Muse, Dead Man Walking.
• 51:01
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• 51:05
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• 51:23
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• 51:33
  Thanks. So welcome back, Lucas.
• 51:35
  So you were telling us about that, your podcast, and you were
• 51:39
  telling us about the convention that you're a part of about
• 51:43
  gamers. How long has that convention
• 51:46
  been going on? Because I've never heard of it,
• 51:47
  but I'm not, I, I love board games, but I'm not like so into
• 51:51
  it that I would know all that. So how does one find out about
• 51:54
  that stuff? So I, I, I guess, you know, just
• 52:00
  like the, your, your FLGS, your, your friendly local game store,
• 52:05
  you know, is, is the best place to get and kind of get connected
• 52:10
  into kind of like the, the, the nationwide, you know, stuff.
• 52:14
  So like, like even just recently, just last week was
• 52:21
  free RPG day. So it's, it's, it's a little
• 52:26
  obscure and is like, is only, you know, like in the last, I
• 52:33
  don't know, 5-10 years, you know, kind of like really kind
• 52:35
  of grown to, to be nationwide, you know, So, but, and it's just
• 52:43
  because the pressure's on for a lot of publishing companies, you
• 52:46
  know, to really kind of, you know, get their games out to the
• 52:49
  public, you know, and, you know, and, and just just be
• 52:54
  successful, you know, and, and so free RPG Day is really, you
• 52:59
  know, just something where a lot of publishers are just kind of
• 53:04
  promoting, you know, like their, their games, you know, to the
• 53:09
  country, you know, and it's, and it's, you know, a lot of the
• 53:13
  biggest publishing companies, you know, that are, that are
• 53:16
  participating. But yeah, I think Gen.
• 53:21
  Con probably started, I, I want to say in the 80s or like late
• 53:27
  80s, but, and it started off, if I remember correctly, it started
• 53:33
  off as like just war games. And, and so it's called Gen.
• 53:37
  Con, which is short for the Geneva Convention.
• 53:42
  And, and so it was, it was really just started off as just
• 53:47
  a lot of like war gamers that were just busting out like these
• 53:51
  huge, you know, World War One, World War 2 board games.
• 53:56
  And, and, and then it really kind of grew into just all board
• 54:03
  games. And, and so now it's, it's the
• 54:07
  largest, you know, board game convention in the country.
• 54:12
  And, and it's been in Indianapolis for a long while.
• 54:15
  But I, I, I want to say that it started in like Wisconsin or
• 54:22
  something, but, but I'm, I'm, I'm not entirely sure.
• 54:26
  So but but yeah, but it's a, it's a community, you know, that
• 54:33
  is, that's only growing. And, And, and even with the the
• 54:40
  recent setbacks of tariffs that have that have just kind of
• 54:45
  stifled a lot of publishing companies that really kind of,
• 54:50
  you know, kind of pull from, you know, international sources, you
• 54:53
  know, to know, for their games. Then even Despite that, you
• 54:58
  know, they're they're finding, you know, workarounds, you know,
• 55:02
  to and, and just minimizing, you know, like, you know, the just
• 55:09
  like their their output a bit, you know, and, and just just
• 55:13
  finding some yeah, different, different ways of getting their
• 55:16
  games out there and stuff. So.
• 55:19
  So why did you decide to start the podcast?
• 55:21
  Is it to get more people interested in board games or was
• 55:24
  it because you're trying to like figure out how you market your
• 55:28
  or your new game? Or is it just all those things
• 55:32
  all together 'cause I think it's a really interesting idea.
• 55:34
  I'm just curious how you came up with it because I was like,
• 55:37
  they're doing board games like that's cool.
• 55:39
  Like how did, who thought of that and how and why and how is
• 55:42
  it going to work so. Sure, sure.
• 55:44
  Yeah. No, I I've always been, you
• 55:48
  know, like interested in, you know, in board games and it's
• 55:52
  slowly but surely kind of like made its way to online more and
• 55:57
  more. So there's there's a lot of, you
• 56:02
  know, online streamers, you know, that are, that are
• 56:05
  producing, you know, like little, you know, they're that
• 56:11
  they're their role-playing game sessions, you know, like they're
• 56:14
  just putting online, you know, and and so it's, it's slowly
• 56:20
  growing and, and it's just, it's just so much.
• 56:24
  It's so fun to to just kind of do like this guided story,
• 56:34
  guided storytelling like with other people.
• 56:38
  And I just feel like it's such a great creative outlet, you know,
• 56:43
  that has that has made so many great writers and so many great,
• 56:49
  great games. And, and so it's something that
• 56:53
  I just want to see, you know, like more of a spotlight on,
• 56:57
  especially because so many of these publishing companies have
• 57:03
  what's called the open gaming license and, and that they have
• 57:08
  a rule set that people can, can take and, and write their own
• 57:16
  game with those rules. And, and then they can, you
• 57:22
  know, sell, you know, like their own.
• 57:24
  So, so for instance, a role-playing game that that I'm
• 57:27
  working on is Free League Publishing's year 0 engine or,
• 57:34
  and, and it's just like a, so it's a rule set that I'm
• 57:38
  adapting for the story that I want to tell, you know, or for
• 57:42
  the experience that I want gamers to have.
• 57:45
  And so it's, it's cool to just see, you know, creative people
• 57:52
  getting these rules sets and then just making it their own.
• 57:57
  So, so for instance, freely publishing, they have no murder
• 58:04
  mystery role-playing game, but you know, I've kind of tweaked
• 58:09
  like their their their rule system to make a like a
• 58:16
  whodunit, you know, kind of role-playing game.
• 58:19
  And so it's like these kinds of opportunities that I think are
• 58:24
  really interesting that that a lot of people like may not know
• 58:29
  about, you know, and, and I just wanted to be a part of, you
• 58:33
  know, just kind of, you know, making people like aware of just
• 58:37
  these cool storytelling opportunities and cool games.
• 58:42
  And and so, and with any with any luck, you know, you know, I,
• 58:48
  I, you know, can, you know, kind of gets some of that, you know,
• 58:55
  success Roland, you know, like from some of my games, but but
• 59:00
  ultimately just, you know, getting, getting people to play
• 59:04
  more games, you know, I guess is the is the big goal.
• 59:08
  Yeah. No, that's great.
• 59:10
  So we're going to have to wrap it up, but I want to thank you
• 59:12
  so much for coming on the show today.
• 59:15
  And so your show is Wednesdays at 4:00.
• 59:19
  Yeah, yeah, 4:00 PM Eastern and you can also follow us at
• 59:27
  ariesbrood.com. And we also have a Facebook
• 59:30
  page. And if you're in the Colorado
• 59:33
  area, you know, then, then we, we game kind of all over, all
• 59:39
  over Denver, the, the Denver area.
• 59:42
  And, and hopefully when we get online, you know, then, then
• 59:49
  yeah, we'll, you know, yeah, get some, get some stuff online as
• 59:54
  well. Well, we look forward to seeing
• 59:56
  that. So we're going to have to say
• 59:59
  goodnight tonight, but we will have you back on when you get
• 1:00:02
  your game together and we'll see you on your show on Wednesdays.
• 1:00:06
  So this is Tracer around signing off and thank you, Lucas for
• 1:00:09
  coming on the show tonight. Yeah.
• 1:00:10
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• 1:00:12
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