Podcast appearances and mentions of alex sutton

August 2025 Solicits (DC, Image, Others) Comic Reviews DC Supergirl 1 by Sophie Campbell, Tamra Bonvillain Marvel Godzilla vs. X-Men 1 by Fabian Nicieza, Emilio Laiso, Federico Blee Gwenpool 1 by Cavan Scott, Stefano Nesi, Matt Milla Spider-Verse vs. Venomverse 1 by Mat Groom, Kyle Higgins, Luciano Vecchio, Rachelle Rosenberg Marvel Unlimited Marvel Meow 27 by Nao Fuji Ahoy Toxic Avenger Pinup Special 1 by Matt Bors, Fred Harper, Lee Loughridge Archie Betty and Veronia Friends Forever Spy Girls Dark Horse Huck: Big Bad World 1 by Mark Millar, Rafael Albuquerque, Dave McCaig IDW Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens 1 by Frank Tieri, Angel Hernandez, Heather Breckel Image Cold Witch: A Tale of the Shrouded College 1 by Charles Soule, Will Sliney, Rachelle Rosenberg Exquisite Corpses 1 by James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, Jordie Bellaire Invincible Universe: Battle Beast 1 by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, Annalisa Leoni Oni Dark Regards 1 by Dave Hill, Artyom Topilin, Brittany Peer Vault Money Shot: Big Bang 1 by Tim Seeley, Patton Oswalt, Garth Graham, K. Michael Russell OGN Countdown Alice in Cryptoland by Daniel Villa Monteiro, Nicolas Balas Adventures Of Spawn by Jonathan David, Khary Randolph, Jason Gonzalez, Joe Ferstl Greta Whiteshark Meets the Mermaids by Patrick Baggatta, Emily Mullock Spider-Man Octo Girl Vol 2 by Hideyuki Furuhashi, Betten Court Camp Frenemies by Liz Montague Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Steve Cuzor Little Witcher by Rafal Babraj, Nadia Gasik, Katarzyna Grzyb, Sebastian Kalemba, Katarzyna Krainska, Lukasz Ludlowski, Tomasz Matera, Krzysztof Muciak, Jacek Rembis, Alex Sutton, Bartosz Sztybor, Milena Zajac, Marcin Zwierchowski, Giada Carboni Grand Slam Romance Vol 3: Farewell to Babes by Emma Oosterhouse, Ollie Hicks Insectopolis by Peter Kuper Small Town Spirits by Zack Keller, Gabriele Bagnoli, Valerio Alloro Fitting Indian by Jyoti Chand, Tara Anand Atana and the Jade Mermaid by Vivian Zhou Nordlys Book 1 by Malin Falch Creature Clinic by Gavin Aung Than You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne Downlands by Norm Konyu Additional Reviews: Andor s2 finale Doctor Who ep6 Wylde Park pilot News: Fallout season 3 greenlit, Krysten Ritter confirmed for Daredevil: Born Again s2, rare TMNT back in print, AfterShock returns, Alex Paknadel writing Casey Jones, Galaxy sequel, new Supergirl OGN, Eisner nominations, Buffy reboot lead, Nate Stevenson She-Ra 5th Anniversary comic, Stitch solo series from Dynamite, Another Gwen relaunch, Diamond drama, Red Sonja by Chris Priest, Murder Drones now on Prime, return of HBO Max, Netflix picks up Sesame Street, second wave of DC Go Webcomics announced Trailers: Spider-Man Noir, Ironheart, Superman, Bad Guys 2 Comics Countdown (14 May 2025): Exquisite Corpses 1 by James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, Jordie Bellaire Absolute Batman 7 by Scott Snyder, Marcos Martin, Muntsa Vicente Supergirl 1 by Sophie Campbell, Tamra Bonvillain Phantom Road 12 by Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Walta, Jordie Bellaire Gieger 14 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson w0rldtr33 14 by James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Jordie Bellaire Batman: Dark Patterns 6 by Dan Watters, Hayden Sherman, Triona Farrell Aquaman 5 by Jeremy Adams, John Timms, Jeferson Sadzinski, Rex Lokus Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums 3 by Stan Sakai, Hi-Fi Space Ghost 12 by David Pepose, Jonathan Lau, Andrew Dalhouse

Tom Dean and Alex Sutton are back for another episode, discussing Tom's last full week of in-depth training ahead of the Paris Olympics.Plus there is a dramatic turn of events in this week's Olympics filled game. Can Alex snatch a win?If you want to get in touch follow @tomdean_medalmachine or email medalmachine@global.com, and remember you can follow Tom @tomdean00.

Olympic gold medalist Tom Dean and best mate Alex Sutton discuss the need for nappies if you're a Taylor Swift fan and the pair were in Monaco this week as the training continues ahead of the Olympics in Paris next month. If you want to get in touch follow @tomdean_medalmachine or email medalmachine@global.com, and remember you can follow Tom @tomdean00.

Olympic gold medalist Tom Dean and best mate Alex Sutton are back to discuss how training is going ahead of Paris, a brand new advert Tom is starring in and how Greggs the bakers are getting involved in their diets.If you want to get in touch follow @tomdean_medalmachine or email medalmachine@global.com, and remember you can follow Tom @tomdean00.

The 2023 Starting Goalkeeper of the Maryland Bobcats, Alex Sutton, joins the Old Bae Brigade to talk about his soccer journey, how he became a Bobcat, and the early part of the season. Happy to have him on the team and on the pod. 

Alex Sutton sits in for Seth Cox for this show. He and Jess react to Steve Keim's leave of absence, discuss the possibility of replacing Keim, go over the pros and cons of firing coach Kliff Kingsbury, look back at the good and the bad in the loss to the Broncos and preview Cardinals-Buccaneers. Note: In the GM segment, we did not mention Buddy Ryan, an outside hire as coach/GM in 1993.

Despite losing to the 49ers, the Arizona Cardinals control their playoff destiny in Week 17. Jess Root and guest host Alex Sutton talk about the loss to the Niners, discuss the injuries they face, react to their playoff chances, break down the possible playoff opponents and preview the critical Week 17 game against the Rams.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest host Alex Sutton joins Jess to talk about the Cardinals' disappointing loss to the 49ers and about the playoffs. They talk about what went wrong, Kyler Murray's injury and status for Week 17, react to their playoff chances, break down their potential playoff opponents and preview the Week 17 win-and-you're-in game against the L.A. Rams.

Welcome to IOTTA Episode 16: It Only Took The Apocalypse… For Alex Sutton to finally gain access to the internet. Today’s podcast guest is highly anticipated, my guest today is actually the floppiest guest we’ve ever had! My guest this week is one of my best friends, Alex Sutton! In this episode we talk about moving country to country during a pandemic, we get stuck into our past with regards to our trifecta with a past guest Max Griffiths and we get deep into the topic of script writing and language barriers and we also find out if Sutton knows the secret password! Don’t forget to hit the follow or subscribe to get all the updates each week!  Check out the official FB page, just search @itonlytooktheapocalypse and you'll find all the updates! Twitter and Instagram are on the way! New Episodes Every Monday!

Alex Sutton of Ivanti tells us about all of Ivanti's upcoming events. We also discuss how events will evolve going forward.

Gordon Brothers experts Alex Sutton and Ulos Anderson discuss the ramifications of COVID-19 on supply and demand across industries and asset types. From the hardest-hit markets to supply chain logistics, and what to expect after quarantines are lifted, Sutton and Anderson discuss current trends and their implications going forward. Episode Links Learn more about the Turnaround Management Association at www.turnaround.org Learn more about Gordon Brothers at www.GordonBrothers.com. Learn more about Turnaround Time at www.turnaround.org/nyc/turnaround-time-podcast Our music is by Kit and the Calltones. Listen on Spotify.

It hasn't been a usual business day lately. There's uncertainty about many things, but we must keep moving forward despite the difficulties around us. How is your company moving forward? Flycast Partners and Ivanti workers are adjusting to the change differently than most companies. Alex Sutton, Channel Marketing Manager at Ivanti, is here to tell us how they're managing and some tips to help you prevail.

Seth Fulkerson and Alex Sutton return to AWOI Gaming to discuss the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film Avengers: Infinity War! The Marvel movies are currently playing a big role in pop culture so it felt necessary to discuss comics and how they play an influence on its fan fan base. We also discuss what's happening in the gaming world and what games we have been playing! Follow The Guys Twitter @ColorCastMedia Follow Me on all platforms @Agentplatypus23

AWOI Gaming is back after the New Year! Thomas Adams, Seth Fulkerson, and Alex Sutton return to the show. We discuss our favorite games of 2017 and the latest Nintendo Mini Direct. We then discussed which of the top five is the most influential. Seth and Alex discuss the process of making a video game and what they like about it so far. Then we discuss what games we're looking forward to in 2018. Follow Alex and Seth's page at: @Colorcast_Media OR follow them separately: @alexanderjacobb @seth_fulkerson Follow Me: @agentplatypus23

Alex Sutton and Sian Waters return to AWOI Gaming to discuss the hit Manga called One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. This is part 2 of 2 seeing how there is so much content for the series to discuss in just one episode. This contains spoilers so listen with caution!

Alex Sutton and Sian Waters return to AWOI Gaming to discuss the hit Manga called One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. This is part 1 of 2 seeing how there is so much content for the series to discuss in just one episode. This contains spoilers so listen with caution!

This is Episode 20 of AWOI Gaming! As we approach fall gaming, Alex Sutton and Thomas Adams join the podcast and talk about the games they are playing now and how some games such as Uncharted and Tomb Raider inspired one another. we also talk about silly gaming things!

In Episode 21 of AWOI GAmingSeth Fulkerson and Alex Sutton return to the podcast and talk about the video games that they are excited about this fall such as Metroid Samus Returns. also discuss what exactly our goals are as we continue to grow as game reviewers. We then discuss a mysterious 2DS XL mystery that is still being questioned. Also the controversy surrounding the Youtuber Pewdiepie.

Alex Sutton rejoins AWOI Gaming to discuss the famous Anime of all time known as Dragon Ball. Thomas Adams, a listener of the show also joins in on the conversation. We discuss the author Akira Toriyama and he has had an impact on the rest of the Manga world. So sit back for three hours of conversation!

Alex Sutton and Seth Fulkerson rejoin AWOI Gaming to discuss the upcoming E3 event and what they are looking forward to seeing at the conference. We then discuss what they like from the show so far and what they would like to see from it.

Alex Sutton and Seth Fulkerson join AWOI Gaming to discuss the E3 conference and give feedback on what they are ready to play in the coming months!

Host Lisa Kiefer interviews Oakland based filmmaker Alix Blair about the challenges of making her first feature documentary FARMER VETERAN premiering on local PBS station KQED May 29 through Independent Lens. The film focuses on veteran Alex Sutton, home from three combat tours in Iraq, suffering from PTSD, and forging a new identity as a farmer.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness, a weekly public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer, and today I'm speaking with Oakland based documentary filmmaker Alex Blair Speaker 2:[inaudible]. Speaker 1:[00:00:30] Welcome to the program Alex, and actually this film Speaker 3:armor veteran. Can you just give us a brief synopsis of what's this about? Yes, so it is about a one man who comes back from three tours in Iraq and starts a farm in rural North Carolina with his girlfriend Jessica. And then things are not what they seem to be as the film goes on. What drew you to examining a veteran? Let's talk about your [00:01:00] subject. Yes, Alex. Yes. I actually did a farm program at UC Santa Cruz and I met a veteran who had fought in Iraq down there and he had some amazing things to say about the connection between being a soldier and being a farmer. And so when I was in North Carolina and I met this man, that becomes the main character of our film. My mind was primed to be curious about how can your experience in war translate once you become a civilian again and what are, what are ways we can support [00:01:30] our veterans as they transition back into civilian life and my dad went to Vietnam and never, never, never talked about his experience and I think there was a seed in me that was curious. Speaker 3:Did you grow up in North Carolina? No, I grew up in Chicago. Okay. I grew up in Chicago but I moved to North Carolina for a job in documentary work and then being part of the farm community and I worked for a farming nonprofit and that's how I met our main character was through that work and I thought this is so interesting why he's so perfect. Three tours, three tours in Iraq, [00:02:00] Afghanistan is less clear. That is part of the story that kind of unravels in this film is as we are trying to understand his PTSD and what happened to him in Iraq and what it is to come back from combat, we start learning a lot about how the stories we tell ourselves is a part of coping with trauma. It sounds like it's mostly about the mental health issues. Yes. That this 1.2 million veterans in the United States come home and suffer from. Speaker 3:Right? Absolutely. [00:02:30] And that wasn't our intention. We thought we were making a short film about how great farming is for veterans and the more we gain trust and build relationship with the veteran and his wife, the more we kind of dove deep into the worlds of mental health, especially of these most recent wars. Half of all farmers will retire in the next decade and the biggest number of returning veterans are from agricultural areas where most people are unemployed. So it's this perfect juxtaposition of solving [00:03:00] two of our greatest challenges in the United States. And I still believe in that greatly. What I learned is that you cannot take someone who has no background in farming, give them some land, give them some money and expect that they're going to be okay. Like we have to have community support not only for our veterans but for our farmers. I mean farming is one of the hardest jobs that exist. Speaker 3:That's why the USDA, its beginning farmer qualification is 10 years or less. Like you work 10 years at any other job, [00:03:30] you are going to be an expert but you're still a beginner and farming and like all the things you can't control whether you know the seeds, the insects, the, especially if you're doing it organically, like there's so much that you are up against and if you are not being supported either with mentorship or with community support or with classes, it's another kind of battle. I wanted you to talk about Alex A. Little bit. He got injured and what was the outcome of that? He did get injured, um, in [00:04:00] his first tour in Iraq. And I think it's important to say he was diagnosed with PTSD after his first tour and sent back two more times after being diagnosed as [inaudible] we've learned from making the film. Speaker 3:It is really common and I think it's part of having a volunteer military is that if you are short on people you send people back, that may be shouldn't be going back if they have very severe trauma experience. So I mean we dove into that world with Alex of understanding more deeply [00:04:30] like what is the toll our modern experience with war takes on these young men and women and mostly coming from rural areas mostly, you know, enticed to be able to go to college or serve their country or getting out of the women or have employment. Like if we could support our farmers so that it was like they were level of Rockstar, you know, that's what I always say like we exist because they're growing food. Like nothing is more direct connection than that. And yet the stakes are stacked against farmers in so many ways. Speaker 3:Yes. [00:05:00] This guy that you interviewed, this veteran, he had both of his legs blown off and he has titanium legs. Is that correct? You will need to see the movie to find out if that is true or not. Okay. The reason I'm being cagey is I think the film explores a lot of in experience of trauma and especially in experience of PTSD. The stories that we tell ourselves about what happened to us, whether we're a soldier or a rape victim or someone else in some kind of trauma stories are how we [00:05:30] survive and get through. But then there's a certain point where stories we tell ourselves may be causing harm. Also, if you think of a man like our main character who his whole life has wanted to go to serve and being a soldier is the ultimate thing you can be. And being the perfect soldier, like just think of our mainstream media, like we glorify war and snipers and everything from you know, World War II movies to now. Speaker 3:And so if you are removed from that world, you need to understand [00:06:00] like you need a new story of your self identity. And so stories of like the ultimate strangeness or Massive Event I think are ways that you cope. You did a Kickstarter campaign and get this going. Yup. And you had this intention to tell this story. And so midway through you uncovered a completely different story about this man. And I think this is very true of documentary film. You know, of course the difference from fiction film fiction film, you get to control the entire story, start to finish [00:06:30] and documentary. You're dealing with real human lives over a very long time. Like this is the sixth year since this started. We were filming for about two years. Very, very consistently. Humans have messy, complicated, strange lives. And I think any documentary, you never know when you start what it will be at the end. Speaker 3:But in this one specifically, that was startling. And my team, the team I work with is amazing. They started as dear friends, the other director with me as Jeremy Lang, DL Anderson as the producer, Michael Barton, [00:07:00] associate producer and this amazing editor Nina of Manir. We just held a really safe, terrifying, vulnerable space to think about, oh my God, what, what has just happened? This is totally different than we thought we were going to make. How do we go forward honoring that change and also, which I think is so important, communicating it to the people you're making a film about. Speaker 1:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness, a weekly public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay [00:07:30] area innovators. Today I'm speaking with Alex flair. She's the director of a documentary film called farmer veteran Erin next week on PBS. It examines the challenges veterans face when they returned to civilian life after Iraq and Afghanistan. I mean it is an enormous privilege and burden to be responsible for someone else's story. So how did you, it must have added time and money on, Speaker 3:yes, yes. Documentary filmmaking is not a glamorous high paying. So [00:08:00] did you have to do, we had the amazing privilege and opportunity to be part of Itvs, which is independent television service, which you applied to them through a grant process and they're a branch of PBS. And then they come on as your co-producer if you get it. So did they come on with your previous story? No, they came on after mom learned the surprises. I mean, and we were all Jeremy and DLR dads. I was in Grad school. We were all working other jobs like this. This was in the most purest [00:08:30] form of labor of love. Like we went out in our free time when we could, we borrowed gear, you know, we use very old technology compared to, you know, what is available nowadays. So it was absolutely a shoe string doing it out of the love of it. Speaker 3:And then once we got itvs, which would be the path to getting on independent lens next week on PBS, they, they gave us the money for all our postproduction. Did you start a production company? Actually it's part of the origin story is I had met Alex Sutton, our [00:09:00] main character through my job outreaching to farms around the same time DL was starting a skill share collective because in that part of North Carolina, like Durham Chapel Hill, there are a lot of documentary makers. So DL DL had the idea to basically trade skills and support each other. I showed up with this idea to make a film about a farmer veteran. Jeremy, the other director with me was working in a, a beautiful photography project about veterans soldiers coming home. [00:09:30] So the three of us hooked up and then to make this story and then out of that DL with Michael founded, um, vittles as a production company. Speaker 3:So you don't have to go to school to make a film. It might make some things easier, but you can definitely learn, learn along the way. But it was a challenge and a challenge. They are dear friends and people I care about deeply. But you have multiple creative ideas. I would say at times that was a challenge of, and that comes with great trust and I think patient [00:10:00] work over time that we could make space that we could hear each other's thoughts challenged when we wanted to challenge or suggest other ideas, especially when the huge twist came in the story that was a deeply emotional and vulnerable place to have invested so much time, so much personal money, deep sacrifice of, you know, social connections and friendships to make this film out of nothing. So there were some very, very hard times of really believing [00:10:30] that we were making something that was worth it because it's easy to be discouraged. Speaker 3:You were also on a bunch of festivals and you got a lot of great accolades and awards. I think one of the lessons learned is it's worth your money to get a publicist because we were pretty much, you know, nobody's, none of us had ever worked on feature films before ever. And we were all coming from backgrounds different than filmmaking and only our producer had taken any classes in film making. So this was kind of diving [00:11:00] off the deep end, not knowing what we were getting into, but we had lots of success, especially in the southeast being a film out of the south, out of North Carolina. And I think that might be part of it is, is having that connection to place and issues of veterans and rural areas is, I mean is across our entire country. But in the southeast is definitely, um, it is a very real issue that I think people face and, and lot of lots of military families, again everywhere, but lots of them in the southeast. Speaker 3:What are some [00:11:30] of those groups or people that you met and what are they saying we need to do? We're um, informally partnering with a lot of groups that look at the trauma side of it and also the side of the burden that comes onto caregivers. Like the people that love the veteran that is suffering from trauma and talking about what it is to live with someone with that kind of trauma. So we had recently an Oakland did a screening and we had um, Dr Broder who works with a group called horse sensing in the bay area that [00:12:00] does Aquinas horse therapy with veterans. There's a lot of groups that do animal therapy, fishing therapy, wilderness therapy. There's a group called vet scape that is started by a veteran that is almost like outdoor adventure for veterans and the VA, the few VA's that we've connected with, there's an amazing man named Dr. Cooper at the Arkansas VA in their mental health department who said that this film is like the film for Understanding PTSD and how it affects the [00:12:30] veterans that are trying to integrate back into society. Speaker 3:There's also the farmer veteran coalition and they do everything from having local chapters in, I don't know if it's every state, but also they do a lot of policy work to try to help veterans. Our biggest hope for this film is to ignite a new conversation the same that there's an urban rural divide and we saw that play out in our election. I think there's also a veterans' civilian divide and I mean I think of my [00:13:00] community and I only know one veteran as a friend. I think there's this massive disconnection between who serves in our wars and who doesn't and then what is the responsibility for those of us that don't serve to understand the experience of those coming back and that it's a very nuanced, complicated, messy experience. I think one thing I learned about PTSD and trauma healing is it's not linear like you don't, there is no pill that you can take that it, things might make you feel a little [00:13:30] better, but it's therapy work. Speaker 3:It's group work. It's agriculture work. Like because trauma is so subjective, you have to find the thing that works for that person. And also like our main character's wife, Jessica in the film, she says it might get better. It might not. If it doesn't, you still have to live with that person and, and love them and support them and understand them. It bothers me that so many people with these issues also have access to a lot of guns. Absolutely. That's, that's in the [00:14:00] film. And I think that's another kind of human messy area is that his guns in Iraq was the single thing that kept him safe in many ways. So we shouldn't blame them for then as they need to seek safety, having a relationship with their guns. But again, it's that line of like is it to their benefit to keep having a relationship with the guns. Speaker 3:And that's one reason why I think agriculture life can be of benefit to veterans. What were some of the challenges you encountered besides the fact [00:14:30] that the plot basically changed in making your first film? I mean, I think you touched on it before Lisa, but I think money is a huge, huge challenge. Being newcomers who you know, makes a big difference. So if you don't know people, it can be, it can be tricky to find, you know, find your way into festivals or things like that. Challenges with them. I mean they, they were so open and so brave. I think it's so brave to let someone make a film about you. [00:15:00] I see it as a courageous, deeply compassionate act to, to have your story, hopefully make other lives better. And, and in our conversations with them, that is what they hoped for by laying themselves bare, including their darkness than their hardness is that their story might make it better for other people. Speaker 3:And though a challenge was continuing to communicate along the way, they got sick of us. Of course. I mean you can't, you're basically living with these basically. Yeah, having a camera in their [00:15:30] face. I mean it would be Jeremy and I out there with, you know, saying ignore us and, but like you can't ignore someone that's right there. I think one thing that frustrates me is when filmmakers say they're a fly on the wall, like you're never ever a fly on the wall. You can do things to become more invisible to your, your people in your story. But you're always changing it because you're there with a camera filming. What's happening? Does he come out to your screenings? He is not come out. He has seen the film. So a lot of people asked that like, have they seen the film? What [00:16:00] do they think? Speaker 3:What do they think? I mean they feel exposed. They feels like very personal things that are revealed to audiences but they maintain them and I still talk to them all the time. I talked to his wife very frequently and I don't know if it made things better or worse. And I think that's again like a cross that the filmmaker has to bear in many cases as not really knowing like was it better that we asked them all these very difficult questions that a therapist might ask when we started, we thought it was going to be a very quick short film. So [00:16:30] negotiating like, okay, a year has passed, we still want to be here, we still want to talk. We think the story's changing. We think it's going to be more about you know, your trauma and, and how it affects you. I mean we did our best to be as transparent and communicative all the way as possible, but you know, and also like I see photographs, I hate what I look like. Speaker 3:Like I think that's a very human experience to like think you look one way. And then see a film and you don't look the way, you know you're not Rambo on film and like, cause that came up [00:17:00] a little bit of like discouragement of even just like the physical, like I don't look like a movie star. And we're like well it's not. This is a Hollywood movie. You talk about the cocktail of drugs that he saw and I have read a lot about veterans, who they're given drugs when they're in service and then when they come back that continued to do drugs. And how does your character, Alex feel about having to be on so many drugs? When men and women are in service, they're under the Department of Defense, [00:17:30] the dod. And when they come back they're under the veterans affairs, the VA and the dod and the VA. Speaker 3:What I've read is that they don't always talk to each other. So the treatment that the men and women are getting under the dod while they're in combat, they are with extremely well intentioned doctors doing the best they can to handle the situation at the time. So you say you can't sleep, you're given sleep meds, you're saying you have anxiety, which who wouldn't in combat, you're given anti-anxiety man, you need to stay [00:18:00] awake and you need to stay awake or you need, I mean whatever's going on, they're doing the best they can to treat them and then they come back. And when you take things to just cope with really stressful circumstances, those aren't necessarily the same things you should be taking when you come back. But, and then you don't really have the departments talking to each other that well and again at the VA for as much press as they've gotten, they are extremely dedicated people working at the VA to try to do their best to take care of veterans on not enough resources. Speaker 3:[00:18:30] And the other thing is most medicine that we have as civilians is tested in like data trials and controlled trials. Veterans as a, as a group don't really want to wait around maybe having a placebo. I know a trial they're doing, they're using psychedelics. Yes. And MTMA for veterans to see if it can reduce and it's been really successful. The other thing too, if you think about so much of the brain when it has to do with like depression or not sleeping or anxiety, it's very subjective. So the [00:19:00] pill that might work for Bob does not necessarily cure PTSD in John, you know, for example. So I think that's one of the battles that we have to treat trauma and PTSD is fine. There's no one size fits all. And that's one thing I learned a lot in making this lesson. It's very expensive to have that kind of individual attention. Speaker 3:Absolutely. And individual therapy and diagnosis. Exactly. And I think for myself, like I use the Benadryl example, but [00:19:30] when I take a Benadryl, I don't feel like myself, you know, it alters the way I feel in my body. In our main character here is a man who for years and years has been on a mix of up to 15 different medications. He doesn't know who he is, like who he is without those drugs. He has not met that person in years. And I think what is common in many veterans that are dependent on medication to wake up, to go to sleep, to not freak out to [00:20:00] whatever is the fear of unknowing what would happen if they stopped or were able to wean off. There's such a dependency. You make a good point there about years of this cause you give the example that he joined up at the age of 17 and how old is he now? Speaker 3:I am making the film. We met him at 33 so lots of years to lie on drugs and Afghanistan and Iraq are the longest wars we've ever had in the United States history [00:20:30] with the least serving with the least serving that. Thus the repeated tours. You said you came out of radio and so my background is in college. I got involved in the student radio station and fell in love with it. And where was this? And this was at Brown University and back in the early two thousands late nineties early two thousands and I had a a teacher I loved that suggested I try my hand at radio and I had listened to it like this. American life was early days and I loved that but I [00:21:00] never thought it was something accessible to me. And then once I got the mic in my hands like this world opened up to access people's stories and I love, I love when you are limited to sound only and how you craft a story when all you have is sound. Speaker 3:I love that and I went on to work as a freelancer making radio stories for different shows. I worked for several years at the Center for Documentary Studies in North Carolina at Duke. It's part of Duke University, so I was a student of theirs for [00:21:30] a couple of years and then I worked for them for a couple of years. There was so much like short film starting online and this is about like 2011 2012 I started really getting curious of pairing images with sound. The nonprofit I was working for, I was making some multimedia stories for them. And I think radio directly set me up to do film. Well, I mean you have to learn new equipment of course, and how to use a camera and lighting and speed and all those technical details. But the act of being an empathetic listener, [00:22:00] learning how to ask good interview questions, learning how to be comfortable in silence, like being able to anticipate your story, all those skills that you learn in audio production that translated pretty easily into film. Speaker 3:And if you mess up your sound, your films ruined. Like you have to have good sound in film also. So I think the radio background helped prepare me. You have a great soundtrack on this film. Can you talk about how you went about getting the music and some of the original pieces? [00:22:30] Yes. Um, so for people that don't make documentary films, uh, getting the licensing rights to music that is owned by other people can be extremely, extremely expensive and prohibitive in the film. When you see or hear that music, it actually falls under what is called fair use law. And so because we did not choose that music, it was music that was happening in the scene. Like Flo rider's Lo is a song that the veteran chose to have at his wedding. So we as filmmakers, [00:23:00] we're not making any aesthetic decisions about it. Speaker 3:It just happens in the life of these people and that falls under fair use ruling. Now, if we had taken that song and we had chosen it and kind of played it over a scene, then we would have to pay for it. The song that is basically the theme song of our film Jubilee, this beautiful, beautiful ballad and sung by three incredible singer, Amelia May 8th who is still Vanessa and Vanessa and you use another [00:23:30] woman who they were both in mountain man. Yes. They were both Alexandria, not man. When I saw, how did you get Alice Gerard to get involved in this? Oh man, this is an incredible, incredible singer. I wish I had something to do with it. I didn't. It was our producer. DL Anderson. Yeah. Speaker 4:[inaudible] Speaker 5:so [inaudible], [inaudible] Speaker 4:[00:24:00] [inaudible] swing again to really to really say, hey, [inaudible], Speaker 3:one of his dear friends is this incredible man, Phil Cook, who is an incredible, incredible, [00:24:30] like a, can't say that word enough musician and composer. He composed all the music in our film. Phil is like this sunshine that is connected to all these amazing musicians. He was an a, still is an abandoned Megafaun. Yeah, Speaker 6:which is incredible man. He also has his own group called Phil Cook, Speaker 7:[inaudible], [inaudible], [00:25:00] [inaudible], [inaudible] [inaudible], Speaker 6:[00:25:30] and he's just the kind of person that brings people in RPD, CTL DL, who is raising his head Speaker 3:with Phil Cook's son like they're best friends, and through that connection, Phil I think had the ideas of who would be the good singers for this. An Amelia of Sylvan is Durham based. When she's not touring her amazing music [00:26:00] and jubilee, the rights. It's so, it's such an old song, this Appalachian valid that it had no copyright on it or we were able to have them sing it. What's coming up for you next? I am working on a new documentary feature film that I began a little while ago. I am very, very privileged to have gotten a California humanities grant for it. So big props to the Neh, want to support them to help it stay exist forever. And I'm a a film House resident through the Program SF [00:26:30] film that supports local filmmakers, both documentary and fiction. So I'm working on a story about 89 year old ex republican congressman Pete mccloskey who was a Republican, um, under Nixon's administration and even ran against Nixon for presidency on an anti war ticket. Speaker 3:And he with his wife who is 30 years younger than him, they live on a farm outside of Davis and they are mounting this very don Quixote in quest to find people to run in [00:27:00] 2018 to challenge politicians that are not being supportive of everything. Pete and Helen belief in Pete was a part of all our modern environmental policy. So he was part of the clean air act, the endangered species act. He Co founded Earth Day like that was his baby. Who would think today. I mean, especially like my generation and younger that it was under Republicans during Nixon that so much of our modern environmental policy and civil rights policy happens. So I'm, I'm using this film to explore [00:27:30] like what it is to be getting older and relevance and, and to watch this thing that you built be taken apart and also the power of love. Speaker 3:Like they've been together almost 40 years. Like how the people we love, who love US influence our identity and our passion, our fights. So I ran pretty early production. I'm right now trying to fundraise. So I am doing it through grants right now. I think one challenge and lesson learned with farmer veteran is that we in hindsight did our Kickstarter way too [00:28:00] early, way too early. We should have waited. We should have waited until we had grown a bigger awareness. We had amazing support and we met our goal. I think we even went beyond our goal, but it was mostly like family and friends that loved us. And I think, which of course is amazing, but I think if we had waited we could have maybe had a bigger splash. And so that's one thing I'm taking with this new film is to maybe hold off a little while there aren't incredible films out there that deserve love and money and attention and it's a huge playing [00:28:30] field and the, the pool of funding is so, so tiny. Speaker 3:So it's, it's um, I mean it's such a privilege to tell other people's stories, but to make a living at it is, is, is pretty tricky. When can local people see this film on PBS? So we are so honored to have this film beyond the show independent Lens, which is an Emmy award winning show on PBS Independent Lens. You should double check your local listings, but I believe it's 7:00 PM on Monday. [00:29:00] Memorial Day KQD. Yes. So kqbd Memorial Day, May 29th, pretty sure it's 7:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. And you will also be able to watch it online on KQ eds channel online for, I believe it's two weeks. It'll be streaming there. If anyone has a question they want to ask, please, please. We have a website. Um, it's the title of the film farmer veteran one word farmer, veteran.com. And if you, you can find out all the information there, but if you click on this screening [00:29:30] button, we actually have set it up so that you can bring, you can host your own screening of farmer veteran in your own community. So we have everything set up and laid out to allow you to do that. So if you want have a party in your backyard Speaker 1:or you are a nonprofit and you want to host it for the veterans in your community, you can do that. Farmer veteran.com. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. You've been listening to method to the madness, to a weekly public affairs show on k a l x burglary celebrating bay area innovators. [00:30:00] You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes university. We'll be back next Friday at noon. Speaker 2:[inaudible] Speaker 7:okay. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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