On August 18th, John's guest will be Jake Rademacher, Founder & President of Metanoia Films & Perseverance Productions. Between 2005-2007, Jake risked everything, including his life, to tell the story of his brothers serving in Iraq. While filming this award-winning feature film, Brothers at War, Jake was embedded with multiple units, filmed numerous combat engagements, and interviewed more than forty combat veterans in the warzone. The film played in movie theatres and premiered on Showtime on Memorial Day. To help Service Members and their Families process their experiences, Jake created the Brothers at War Resiliency Workshops. These workshops have been conducted for over 40,000 Service Members and their Families since 2011. In 2019, he partnered with the Gary Sinise Foundation on his latest feature film, Brothers After War, with Emmy Award Winners Gary Sinise and Phil Gurin as executive producers. Brothers After War recently World Premiered winning Best Military Film and Best Documentary Audience Choice Awards at the San Diego International Film Festival. The film will be released in movie theatres next year. Jake has also written, directed, and produced numerous commercials and short films. Jake's work has garnered numerous awards, and he is a Canon Chasing the Light Filmmaker. The Caucus of Producers, Writers, and Directors awarded him the Distinguished Service Award. He is also an honorary Colonel in the Oklahoma National Guard. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and SAG/AFTRA.

Robert Ham is an award-winning director/writer, an Army Combat Veteran, an alumnus of the USC School of Cinematic Arts MFA program, and the Owner/CEO of HAMMR Productions. Robert grew up in Los Angeles and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in film in 2005 and then joined the Army in 2007 as a combat documentarian/videographer. During his time in the military, he served a combat tour to Afghanistan in ’09-10 as a paratrooper with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division (Airborne) and then would deploy over a dozen times to various areas in the Pacific (India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Philippines). Robert received the Department of Defense Military Videographer of the Year award three times and then left active duty in 2014 and remained in the Army Reserve until 2017. Robert remains the most award-winning military videographer in the post-9/11 era. Robert has since graduated from USC’s cinema school with an MFA in Film/TV in 2017. He now owns and operates a service-disabled veteran-owned production company called HAMMR Productions. He has worked with a variety of companies such as Netflix,

Amazon, Hulu, The Veteran’s Health Administration, the Department of Defense, Film 44/45, We Are The Mighty, All Warrior Network, Monster Energy, Veteran TV and has worked with such talents as Tom Hanks, Michelle Monaghan, Joe Mantegna, Toni Trucks and Max Martini on a variety of projects. Robert has won four Emmys and has been nominated for six more. In 2016 Robert was named a Pat Tillman Foundation Scholar and was honored at the 2023 Super Bowl as an honorary captain. In 2022, Robert debuted his first feature documentary about his late wife’s battle with cancer and their life journey called Made With Melanie. Robert’s second feature documentary, Interpreters Wanted, about Afghan interpreters, won the Founders’ Choice Award at the G.I. Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Arizona International Film Festival.

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