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From the Edge to Enlightenment: A Firefighter’s Resilient Journey - with Rick Bucher

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How to Survive a Bullshit Transition

"I think you have to accept the fact that you can't. You do," he says. "You go from a job where there's times where you can make the news on what you're involved with... And you go to a place where now your only interaction with that is to turn the TV on." The actor struggled when coming out of the military as a gay man during Don't Ask Don't Tell time period. It was tough for him to detach from his role but had economic responsibilities, so made himself very busy.

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