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Unknown Speaker 0:00
Hey, this is Tommy Anderson, veteran, author, screenwriter. And if you really want to learn how to level up your life, you should be listening to time to shine. Today podcast with my friend Scott Ferguson. You all have a great day. God bless America.

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Time to shine today. VRC sweated a Scott Ferguson and I have a very special guest and author, a screenwriter, a speaker, a podcaster. His name is the one and only Tommy Anderson. He is a patriot just like myself. He reminds us that we’re only one generation away from extinction. And that anything we want is really on the other side of fear. He’s going to tell us to never give up to adapt and overcome and the only thing that limits us is ourselves. So without further ado, I’m going to bring out my really, really really good friend and fellow veteran Tommy Anderson.

Unknown Speaker 1:07
Hey, it’s time to shine today podcast what it is Scott Ferguson in freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. That is a by my favorite president, probably because I was eight or 10 at the time when he served Ronald Reagan. But I have on a gentleman that is close to my heart, a fellow veteran who did 23 years serving this awesome country, the United States, no matter what you’re thinking about it right now, the United States is a place that you want to be, because I’ll tell you what I did time in Somalia. I did time overseas, Afghanistan, Iraq, and I still take this no matter what’s going on in this country. Tommy is a pure patriot. I hope he doesn’t mind me calling him that. He’s, he’s fantastic. He’s a screenwriter, producer, author and award winning producer. tog refer artists. He authored the book and screenplay of his military thriller, boob wind, which I cannot wait to read. And by the way, folks, I’m going to actually buy a couple copies have them shipped the time and time he’s going to sign one for me for myself, so, but he’s also going to sign one for you guys. And whoever goes on to our Facebook page after this drops, and puts the first comment of how you love the podcast, I’m gonna make sure that I send that right out to you. He’s a founding member of the best picks film productions and all veteran independent film production company. His first film which is Emperor in post production, and it was delayed a little bit by our our COVID but it’s called life after oblivion is written and co produced by Tommy and his upcoming book is 2 million steps and I am so stoked to bring him on. Tommy, if you could please come on and introduce yourself to the podcast squad but first, what is your favorite color and why?

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My favorite color is Blue.

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And I, I don’t know why maybe that’s why I ended up

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in the air force. There you go the blue sky, right?

Unknown Speaker 3:09
Yeah, I was always as a kid. I grew up next to an Air Force Base. And I always loved that song when they played at midnight when they seemed like at midnight, they would shut down the TV back in the day and they play that. And the Star Spangled Banner. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Remember those? He ended up?

Unknown Speaker 3:28
Yeah, yeah, that or even? Yeah, blue is my favorite color tonight somewhere in it. It’s in both of our colors. So it’s in both of our color wheels. And we get to celebrate a little independence here in a couple days. But Thomas gets your origin and where did you start? I told me spent 23 years of service. Let’s start there and then kind of pull it forward to your plethora of

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talents.

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Okay, well, I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. Right now Heartland,

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Packer fan we refer to

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Oh, big time. Okay. Well, he broke down My dad. Yeah, right now I do too. My dad was an old time Packer fan. And he was he was friends with a lot of the packer greats. And he helped him establish some of the restaurants. Oh, and so I got to meet him when I was a kid in high school. And I was like, Wow, it’s so cool. My dad knows these guys, you know? Did you meet mitski?

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Yes, I met him. I met

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nisky Yeah, well, nisky I’ve got a sign cap from netsky he had a car dealership in town. Yeah, and

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Thornton

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Whoa, Max McGee. Oh, man to meet

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force Greg. It was the only reason why it’s Greg. I mean, I hate Aaron Rodgers. I hate Barbara. ref are the really reason why I say that time is because I’m from Detroit. And we saw you know, it’s like far killed and I don’t think we even won in Green Bay for 21 years. So, but I actually got to go to two games in Green Bay, which is fun. passing me my lions last both times. But it was still pretty cool. It’s such a cathedral, the stadium, but I digress. So it’s kinda like if you want to move forward a little bit from Wisconsin, that’d be great. Sure.

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All right, yeah, I went into the service when I was 17 right after high school when the army spent a couple years there and I got out and I still had a four year commitment

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to the reserves.

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And at that time, it was two years active reserve in either the reserve or the garden and then two more years of inactive and I went in the guard and I liked it. So I stayed in the army guard for another 10 years. And to get promoted and and to go on in a career field, I switch the Air Guard

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that if it is my time out there,

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and the same time I was doing that I was a firefighter and a medic in the city Madison, that’s where I did my career and retired from the fire department also. Oh, and

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excellent soon, and I Got you. So you pull for you, you were,

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let me ask you, were you journaling during that time or taking notes of things that were going on in your life to pull it forward into what you have going on right now?

Unknown Speaker 6:12
Um, I did at the time, I didn’t know what I was doing. But I was always always doing that. Okay, I was always doing that I was always photographing. They used to come to me sometimes if they’re if both our military reserve unit and others and said, Hey, do you have any pictures of that? Because I always had a camera. So I was always journaling everything and right now some of the only pictures we have for my, from my unit or ones that I had taken while we deployed or did things for And so yeah, I was always kind of doing that. And in 19, transit 95, something like that i got i was hurting a fire and I got, I was disabled. spent three, three years in and out of the hospital and I had to retire after that. And one of the therapists when I was In there said, you know, you got so much to offer, you should start writing. You know, you could I could see you write a book, you know, and and so that was that’s kind of what started it. But I got into the more of the photography. It was more of a diversion from everything was going on. And then I got pretty good at it. And I thought, I thought, well, I’m going to be a professional photographer and I’m tired of freezing in the Midwest. And I said, I said, if I really am going to do this to have a whole new changeable life, I’m either going to go to one of the three places where I could really make it work and one is Chicago and one’s New York and there’s no way the other was the LA area. Oh, and so I came here and I and I really kind of took off but it was really a grueling business. It’s very grueling. And about five years ago May when I was on one of the photo assignments I was working on I re injured my back and I had to have emergency surgery and I almost passed away in the hospital from that. And I had a come to Jesus moment, literally. And I want to say an epiphany. And it was like, if you’re gonna write this is the time you start writing classes. And I said, I gotta either be stay as a photographer, which is really hard, or right. I can’t do both. So I I started writing I still photography a little bit, but it’s more for pleasure than anything else. Yeah. And so I started writing and I started writing a firefighting book and I found out I was having too much pts problems with my neck because we’ve seen a lot of seen a lot of bad stuff. So I thought, well, I’m going to write something that’s a suspense thriller, but I didn’t know what so while I was recouping, I was watching all the news that was going on with North Korea and the Iran deal with the the new killer development agreement. And I thought, well, maybe I can create a story out of everything that’s going on today and spin it into a what if scenario? And what if what if this is a master plan to attack the United States in a coordinated between all these different organizations and that’s how hubub wind was developed. And I created it Where were the main protagonists, the FBI agent who was also a National Guard member who had who had served in Iraq and and his good friend there, the in his interpreter, and they get very close turns out to be actually a terrorist.

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And they’ll spoil the book to

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know but that’s where it leads into and it leads into a story like that where you don’t know who you can trust. And it goes far deeper than just that. Sure. And it’s, it’s, it’s thrilling it just last week. made the top one number 80 to top 100 books on Amazon. Oh, and projections are by this week and it might be the number one best seller. Wow.

Unknown Speaker 10:12
So we can forward Oh, is this dropping a little bit after the independency. But we’re, this is July 1 of this year. So where the name

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hubbub come from?

Unknown Speaker 10:24
Well, it’s the definition is Islamic origins back from the 1800s. It’s a really violent dust storm. And there’s similar to what we get in feed tear and I was stuck in one actually 10 years ago.

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Okay, it’s coming back home

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here from Albuquerque, and I get hit in one I never knew what it was and then I studied it when and I thought, you know, that’d be a good name for books that is nice, but I used that I used as a metaphor for for a dark cloud going on. over the country.

Unknown Speaker 11:00
Oh, wow, that that’s fantastic. It’s funny you said now it rings rings a bell because I got caught in one of those in, in Abu Dhabi. And where everything just came to a standstill. And like he had, you know, it was an aircraft carrier and you had to like, you know, cover all the aircraft. I mean, it’s basically like you Everything was shrink wrapped because of what was right there. So okay, that makes sense. And then, so

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Tommy, like,

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when you became an author, you were starting the book, did the writing come easily to you? Or was it a lot of rewriting some backs and oh, gosh, darn it stuff for what?

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Now? There’s a lot of rewrites. There are a lot of rewrites. I was lucky enough to get into a program out of San Diego was to the US for warriors Foundation, which I’m now on the board of directors of that where we help vets and active duty members who who needed extra assistance but they had a program called veterans publishing and they Had seminars where if you were a vet, you know, they would teach you how to write, teach you how to build a story, build your characters, and I got involved with that. And that’s where I really cut my teeth and writing. And I found some people who are best selling authors who are also military veterans and they, they helped me. They helped me a lot. They went through my books and made constructive criticism. I like to call it that. Sure. And you know, being in the military, you know, don’t sugar coated for me, I don’t need fluff told me if I screwed up. Right and I’ll fix it. And they were and I appreciate that. And I learned a tougher skin. No, it I actually, I actually was helping to run it. And and it came to an end about a year ago and I I do miss it. It was it was a it was a nonprofit. was just really hard to keep going. Understood. And even though there’s a lot of interest, it just wasn’t viable. Sure. So, but I kind of do that stuff on the side now. Well, okay, I do sheep dogs do some speaking. Okay. But yeah, so I had and then I got put in touch with a, a book. They’re not a publishing company, but they’re the company that gets you ready to go to publishing. I got hooked up with them. And then I had they, they went through and did all the editing they did, they had a story editor go through it did cover design, everything and they got it ready to be published. Being an independent author. I went in, they formed my own publishing company, my own label, and we published it under that through Ingram. Okay, and, and so that’s how that got going. But it’s a it’s a process and I work with all People now and I they help me I help them it’s it’s kind of like in the military when you get involved in this heavily you’d be surprised how many people you eat from around the country and you have the same interest or maybe even all the some of the same people. Yeah. And I find that in aviation to work in a military aviation I know people from all over the all over the place, and

Unknown Speaker 14:22
it’s a small world. Absolutely, Tom, it is a small world. So Tom, you you’ve had it like a plethora of accomplishments and whatnot. What I’d like to do is kind of, like if you remember the movie Back to the Future with Marty McFly, I’d like us to get into that DeLorean. Right. Let’s go back to the 22 year old timey and, and what kind of knowledge nuggets we like to call them knowledge nuggets here in time to shine today, what kind of knowledge nuggets would you drop on the 22 year old Tommy that helped them maybe blast through the learning curve or shorten it at least, and really helped them level up.

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You know, I’ve thought about that. And it’s I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I went down the wrong path. I was corrected. I, I learned from my mistakes I remember from some of my, my senior officers know that people I worked with is you make a mistake, you make it once you learn from it, you move on. And I don’t think I would change anything because if I changed anything, I would not be the person I am today. Sure. And everything that I do now my writing, artwork speaking, everything is all because of everything I’ve developed over my life, all my experiences. So I wouldn’t change I wouldn’t change anything. I mean, even the good or bad,

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good for you. If you tell me I’m glad to hear that. And I even kind of took a note of that, you know, make your mistakes once, learn from it and then press on. I love that. I love that. So we talked a little bit about a lot a bit about the dash here at time to shine today and I’m curious to How you want your dash remember that that little line between the life date and your expire ration date? You know life thing death date, how do you want Tommy’s dash to be remembered?

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I want to be remembered as a good man that helped people that believed in his country and, and his country, man. I think that’s Family Guy, friend. That’s how I wanted.

Unknown Speaker 16:24
I love it. That’s a hell of a legacy statement. If you really think about it. I mean, it’s, you know, you’re well liked. People respect you, you know, I even said, Hey, I’m having Tommy Anderson on and a couple people are like, I know, you know, so it’s like, you’re well liked and you do love your country. And I love speaking to people that still love our country, which is fantastic. So yeah, so you’re good man loved your country helped others. You know, it’s it’s that that’s fantastic. Thank you so much for saying that.

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So I couldn’t do what I’m doing right now. If it wasn’t for this Sure, so are you?

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What’s that? Are you? Oh, yeah, absolutely. I couldn’t do this. I know, firsthand from what I saw. I mean, I was, you know, there’s a movie that there was made Black Hawk Down, and I was there, you know, yeah. Malia and I saw how that’s ran. And if this was to not be policed in this country, that we would have warlords everywhere, you know, it would be just like that, and you couldn’t speak freely, like we do here over the air to you know, potentially reach, you know, hundreds of thousands of people over time. And absolutely, absolutely. And that’s what the that’s what’s great about this country. Tommy, do you mentor people?

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Yes, yes, I do. I, I belong to a group of veterans media and entertainment. Okay, we’re all that sewer and in either in the music or movie or television industry. I do some mentoring there. I do a lot of learning too. I go around. through us for warriors night, we help we help young vets young families, you got some e4 that’s got three kids and they’re having a hard time making it. So we try to help them San Diego, you know big Navy Base

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Camp Pendleton

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and, and so yeah, we do that we do a lot of mentoring with with us for warriors. I like to go out and talk to high school kids about writing off something you know, get out there and write in fact, starting tomorrow I was starting a podcast with a network. IQ podcast on San Diego got my own show, which is called the take back I with a friend of mine, Tina. She is a singer songwriter from out here and the purpose of it is to tell people that they have unlimited potential you can do whatever you Want to do and, and what’s holding you back is yourself. And God gives us God gives us opportunities and you just got to be ready to take that opportunity. And nothing’s easy, right but and you might not get rich at it but sometimes sometimes what you get from what you accomplish is more valuable than money. And and we want to reverse. We want to take people especially with with PTSD, and tell them you know, don’t let it win you You’re in charge for you take charge your life, write a story, right? You can do whatever you want in order to help and we’re going to find the resources that was my purpose out of the movie life after oblivion.

Unknown Speaker 19:41
Sure. Right and then post production Oh

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yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s done. And we just got held up. We did it with the Armed Forces film Consortium, and which you would go into the GI Film Festival but it’s it’s a story about a Marine sniper that comes back from Afghanistan is PTSD. Okay, and Tina, my co host on the podcast. We’ve been close friends for a long time and her son had had killed himself last October. And he had seven years in the infantry. And he just couldn’t take and we had his funeral on October and I, I told her we have to do something good out of this. So when I wrote this, I dedicated it to him. And so far there’s 28 men from his unit there since they come back from from Afghanistan, and that is it’s unacceptable. We said at the same time, it is its turn I know. You know. And and so this is as part of the reason for she wants to be part of the podcast is that we can get that message out.

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You know, here’s Mom

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and Dad, you know, didn’t see a comment either.

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well hear that that’s my little brother took his life in oh nine and he did did the deed as well so I, I can feel there I can feel their pain with that. So when you’re Tommy when you are starting to mentor somebody is there any good question that you wish they would ask you but never do

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sometimes

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the reality of how hard something is because when I talked to like high school kids, you know, they, I tell them it’s not writing or screenwriting making movies is not like watching a hallmark movie where all this stuff just falls into place. And I said,

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Ask me how hard it is.

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Because everyone’s got a story. Everybody’s got a bestseller and they had but if you don’t know what you’re doing And you don’t you don’t realize how much hard work it is, then you’re going to fail. Right? And that’s the one thing that they don’t ask and if they don’t ask it I bring it up because they have to know the realities. And for me and probably you too, Scott, you know military people usually we we accept a challenge. We don’t if you if you if you want me to get something done you told me I can’t do it. And yeah, and maybe that’s part of that Midwest stuff. Yeah, exactly. Got that got there from my dad, you know, I play now.

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He taught me what’s three things you can’t live without.

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Three things I can’t live without. Well,

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I’m going to start out with the freedom that this country gives us. That’s number one, God and my family. There you go again, but I got added and that includes my dogs. Yo, I got my, my tip pulled to ease right here. Well I’m talking to Yes. My rescue do I got my man, my Mastiff asleep and you got a massive nice beautiful

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fantastic so tell me what is your definition of a life well lived

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life well lived is where

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you

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you don’t really have any regrets. I think that’s a big one for me because I’ve seen it I seen it with my own dad when he passed away he had regrets. And I never understood why you just didn’t act on that. And that’s probably why I do what I do is because

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I don’t want to

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be sitting there saying I should have done that. I I wish I could have done that. I can say I did it or at least I tried to do it. Yeah. And I think that’s probably

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I sort of love it question. I love it I got going on now but every time

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I do something that’s kind of weird that I was taught by my mentor This is years ago, I actually celebrate my own funeral every day. And I’m not saying I’m not gonna want to die. I’m just saying that I’m celebrating it because every day I get up. And I can’t remember a day that is went by I mean, I have crappy days, but a day when I take that kind of look at it like today is what matters. Period. Not Yes, right out right on the future today is what matters. So this is my last day, then it then I’m going to make it count. I’m going to have a lot of another’s days that I wake up with no energy and you know, sometimes you got to find that hack, you know, for lack of a better term to get around that. But I wake up every day with a kind of shiny Penny mentality where it’s just it’s the start it’s, you know, it’s time to shine today are my coaching clients we talked about inch by inch, it’s a cinch by the yard. It’s hard, we bite off a little bit at a time and just keep chopping away. Kind of like probably what you talked about in your next novel. 2 million steps where the sounds like it’s two guys that kind of grew up together and went fought in Wisconsin that went and fought for the Union Army in whatnot. There was, you know, we were on our heels the union was on the heels a lot. And then, you know, you had people that really stepped up like, I don’t know, like you someone I studied was Joshua Chamberlain

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ringabel.

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Yes. Oh, very much. In fact, I just reading I love reading his exploits.

Unknown Speaker 25:39
Yeah, fantastic. You know how I found out about him is the book that I recommend anybody that’s in doldrums like my brother killed himself. The market crash. This was 2009 Market Crash real estate market crash. I was literally Tommy living in a house that I had listed as a short sale because they moved to Florida. This was in Michigan, they moved to Florida, actually okay in their house. without them even knowing and somebody just said, Hey, I think you need to read. In one of the chapters Andy Andrews is the author. He’s a Christian comedian, fantastic guy. Number one bestseller, wrote, he sold millions of books. It’s called the travelers gift. And one of the chapters is about the decision Joshua Chamberlain had to make the hole down the left flank, in the in right, the great battle so I just was wondering if you had heard of them but it’s just, you know, literally leveling up an inch by inch. It’s a sanches is what it is and that so 2 million steps it’s kind of briefly kind of go through that and in tell us a little bit about what 2 million steps is about.

Unknown Speaker 26:42
Well, I wanted to, I wanted to do a story on the, on the Civil War. But I didn’t want to make another history book, but I wanted to make making a novel around his around history, or historic novel per se. And one of the, one of the two men in name really is my great, great grandfather.

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And he went with this

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company that was 25th, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry company. And at that time, they were forming companies from communities. And they figured that family and friends would be more cohesive and fight, fight together. And so there was very little information left from my, my great, great grandfather, outside of I know where he served. I know what you know what he did. His rank was actually a private, but I embellished it to make the storyline because I I wanted to, I wanted to be able to create a character that really wasn’t him but I had his name to work with. So I did that and I created a friend for him and and I had them in battle together and showing what, what the life was like for these guys, you know, living in all different types of conditions. Sure, it wasn’t all fighting. But it was hard times in the 25th, Wisconsin, if I remember right, they had they weren’t seven major campaigns and dozens of skirmishes and suffered the most losses of all regimens from Wisconsin in the Civil War. Yeah. And and that after victory after

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Kennesaw mountain

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in Atlanta, where they they took a beating General Sherman had them lead off the rest of their attacks very through the Carolinas because the, the way he put it paraphrasing right now, and I even wrote about it is, is that the ferociousness of the words? scottson fund frontier man, you know, encouraged all the other people in the in the battle. So you put them at the forefront of the and that picture that you had of that you’re talking about that I took at Gettysburg. That’s a Little Round Top where Chamberlain was right that’s right on letter roundtop and I was there two years ago, I was I was doing part of the part of my tour with the boob wind. And I decided to spend some time there is one of my favorite places to go and I did a lot of photography in that area around there and that’s where I was kind of finishing up my my book, okay, what I what I had done is I take it actually taken six weeks and I had gone follow the path of the 25th to the Civil War, okay, and I stopped at each place I photographed I talked to historians and I just tried to get as much feel for the book and where these people were. And you say in Michigan, I reminds me one of the places that they fought at When I went in there, you could see the cut timbers that the Michigan engineers had cut to make roads for the Wisconsin to go through. Wow. It was just and it was still there. You can still see the chop down trees. And it was. I mean, you’re just right there immersed in the history.

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Yeah, it’s amazing. It’s amazing. I’m trying to think of my father lives in kind of where Alabama meets Tennessee meets Georgia and Cuyahoga, it starts with a C, I forget, but we go through that battlefield every time I visit them. And it’s Yeah, it’s just south of south of Chattanooga, but it’s okay. Yeah, it was. They say like the third bloodiest battle, but the memorials so that’s my favorite war. I hate to say it like that, but it’s my favorite word to study. My favorite time of all history is the Gilded Age because of everything that happened after the Civil War, you know, with the commerce and inventions and stuff like that. But the Civil War is my favorite. My father and I are polar opposites where he’s from Alabama moved to Detroit in the industrial North worked, and then back down to Alabama. And, you know, so when I go there, I hang out with him. We go to civil war sites all the time. And down there. I’ll tell you what they think it’s at halftime. They think the supports at that time.

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It’s kind of creepy. I was thinking.

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I was stationed in Georgia for Georgia and Alabama for a while and yeah, and yeah, it was half time for a lot of them. Funny. Yeah, it was pretty funny.

Unknown Speaker 31:32
Tommy we gotta wind things down here a little bit. We got to get you through our leveling up lightning round. It’s there’s okay. Questions you and I could talk for 1015 minutes and each one of them but my producers over on the other screen. In five seconds. You can answer these really quick. Okay, so no, I understand this. The answers all right, brother.

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Hey,

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what is the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received?

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Never give up loving. That’s perfect. share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success. Attention to detail. There you go. Love My military. Okay, so not the book you wrote the books you’ve wrote not the book you’re reading now or the flavor of the month. But what’s that one book that really stands out to you?

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Stephen ambrosus abandoned brother. Yeah. excellent book. excellent book. Do you text? Do you talk? Do you some text messages? Unfortunately I do. What’s your favorite emoji? do you use? Oh, wow, I still gotta learn how to do that.

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I love it.

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You’re brutal. I don’t do this. I still do this. I still do the semi colon. Dash in and everybody’s coming up with these emojis and I my wife does too. And I said they’re going I have no idea and I don’t really care.

Unknown Speaker 32:56
Tommy what age physically Would you be if you could say that ah the rest of your life 45 Beautiful, beautiful. What’s your favorite charity and organization you’d like to give your time and or money to?

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us for warriors foundation beautiful. San Diego

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in the last question is what is the best decade of music 60s 70s 80s

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that’s really hard because I love music from classical on up for me, probably will always be the 60s Love it.

Unknown Speaker 33:36
Love it. Ladies we’re going through the lightning round so Tommy How can we Okay, I’m at my website which has all my links on it is Tommy Anderson calm, made it nice and simple. Susan made it simple for me guys. Beautiful site. I mean I have literally opened in front of me right now. So Tommy, do me a favor and leave the time to shine today squad out there. One last Knowledge Nugget you want them to take with them internalize, take action on the level up.

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All right. Squad, never give up, adapt and overcome. We can do anything we want to the only thing that limits us is ourselves. Don’t take yourself out of the game, because you’re the only one that can cancel yourself out

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of that. All right squad you’ve just been blasted with a masterclass from my good friend and fellow veteran Tommy Anderson, who will tell you You know what, it’s cool to make mistakes. You want to make mistakes, but make them once learn and move on. You must be remembered as a good man who loves his country and love to help others. He looked out for his podcast I know because I am the take back podcast. So Tommy’s gonna keep me up to date. When that starts to drop in, if you’re starting to work with somebody that you respect and you really want to level up your life. Ask for the reality of how hard something is. Ask you know, life’s gonna punch you in the mouth, as I always like to say and ask how that mentor, maybe push through and level up and like he says, adapt and overcome. live a life of no regrets. Never give up. And don’t take yourself out of the running, everything will pass. And you will just continue to move forward and level up. And Tommy, thank you so much. You’re so humble. Yet you’re so driven. You’re you take care of your health and take care of your wealth. You’re my fellow veteran. I love you, brother. Thank you so so much for coming on.

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You Becka Thank you, brother.

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