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Viking Samurai: From Stockbroker to On‑Screen Warrior · Cinema Yūgen

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G'day. That's right. It's that time again. Time for... CINEMA! YOOGEEEAAAAAAA!
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Yes, welcome back Eugenites from the ashes of One Life Rose,
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a legend, David Kerr Zaal.
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The world calls him Viking Samurai, once a stockbroker, now the standard bearer
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of discipline, honor, and old school action glory.
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A fifth Dan Black Belt, lifelong martial artist, forged through years of training and unbreakable will.
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What began as a love of the golden age of action cinema became a global movement.
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Hundreds of thousands united under a
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single creed earn your strength then
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he stepped forward into the ring into the fire victorious in a debut and unbowed
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when facing legend sugar shane mosley now he carries the triumph to the screen
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standing shoulder to shoulder with icons in the last
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kumate leading the charge in bloodstorm where
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survival is claimed not given
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actor writer producer warrior this
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is not nostalgia this is legacy in motion this is the viking samurai please
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welcome him to cinema you can david oh thanks so much for having me on here
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kent it's a real real honor it's a it's a real we have a we have a ton of crossover
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which you wouldn't believe We've both worked with Rene Perez.
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We've both done interviews with the likes of Don the Dragon,
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Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Matthias Hughes. The list goes on, man.
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Yeah, wow, we are connected. I'm surprised we haven't met up until now.
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Yeah, and we're both friends of David J. Moore. And Don Wilson. Yeah.
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David J. Moore, yeah, the great David J. Moore. You know what,
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funny enough, speaking about Don Wilson, I literally had just interviewed him yesterday.
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Oh, really? Because they are going to be re-releasing a couple of his classic
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films in Germany in high definition for the first time. Oh, sweet. Blood Fist 2 and 3.
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Retro Gold Media, or Retro Gold 63, rather, working with Shamrock Media.
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Are releasing that so i did some interviews for them
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because i'm good friends with don you know the funny thing is like
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whenever i'm in california i train with don wilson so me and
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him actually came really close that is incredible that
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is you would be shocked how well he still moves at
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his age like he's 70 years old but you would
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never know i would never know well i
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mean there's a reason why he was he was a 11 time world
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kickboxing champion yeah well i'm
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in case in point too gino who you just worked with
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on hard redemption he's he's like
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lightning and he's what 66 i i
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don't know how old gino is but you would never know
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like that guy is such a phenomenal martial artist and
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you know if if you told me now now
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obviously you could tell he's not in his 20s just by
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looking at him but the way he moves you would think he's
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in his 20s yeah especially when he you know
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when he uh changes tact like when
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he goes from close combat to sword form and all that sort
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of thing it's um and all the yeah the grappling the striking the weapons like
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the guy's got it all and even our fight scene at the end he was because he's
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like an expert black belt in jujitsu and everything else whereas my i'm i've
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done a lot of different martial art styles but i'm primarily a striker and he
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showed me some really good stuff it made me look good in the.
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Yeah. And I mean, then there was the, like, I said, you know,
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I was talking to them about you and I said, Danny, it looks like Nicolas Cage.
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Especially when you had like the hood on and you're sitting in the back there.
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And then before you get up and like take your shirt off and you've got a pair
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of arms, like Roman pillars. And I'm like, whoa.
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Okay. And then, yeah. Then of course I, I go down the rabbit hole and I watch
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some of your short videos and dude, some of those flying kicks, you're a bad man.
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Oh man, I'm still in my physical prime. Yeah, I practice all the time,
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lift weights six days a week.
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I just want to write a film that showcases everything you can do,
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like the flying kicks and all the cool. Oh, I'd love to do it, man.
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Like, you know, get me while I'm still in my athletic prime.
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Yeah. Because I mean, you're like a one man, you know, you could be like this
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one man, you know, the samurai without a gun doesn't need a gun, doesn't need.
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It's what happens when you grow up watching Rambo movies, watching blood sport,
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you might've become the one man army yourself, right?
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Oh, tell me all about it. And, and looking at the shelves behind you.
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And of course, having watched a lot of your videos.
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Yeah, man, don't worry. I'm a blood sport kid. I'm a, I'm a double impact was great.
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I'll never forget when double impact, I went to see double impact at the movie
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theater and was big into Van Damme at the time.
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And I was like, awesome. um van damme like playing like
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two double van damme as the post
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double van damage yep that's how they sold it in the trailer too and
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then of course i met sheldon ledich and he told me the course he
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told you the story about the corsican brothers connection the oh sure yeah yeah
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and i was like then i which which i i don't know should have been obvious but
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then after he told me i went away and watched the corsican brothers and i'm
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like ah i said yeah that's that's nice like i I love the way he like made a,
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a big time action movie out of that,
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that story material, you know, which is great.
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And it's full, like it's, it's, it's cheesy as heck, but it's good cheese,
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you know, there's all, because it's, it's from that 80s, 90s era.
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That's why it's good cheese. Greatest cheese ever came from that era. Oh yeah. Yeah, totally.
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Because the villains are so like, what I, what I miss about villains today is
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they're not those mustache twisting scenery chewing.
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You know they look down their nose at like
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the most horrible thing and that makes them more ruthless somehow
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like today they're kind of just like snarky and
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wear fancy suits you know ken
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outside of the action of martial arts genre you could easily make the argument
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that the best films of any genre really came out in the 90s like if you some
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denzel washington some tom cruise matt damon with goodwill hunting drama like
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the best stuff came out of the 90s.
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I'm i'm not gonna argue with you there i mean being as
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as you said in one video because it is the cinema that
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we grew up with we have this very close
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bond to it as our parents did with of course the cinema
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that they grew up with and the next generation will have with the
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with all the k-pop demon hunters and and
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manga have that and they're superheroes and sure yeah
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and and i mean as you say naturally our stuff will
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diminish and new stuff will come in i mean it's just the
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cycle of of cinema really i
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mean we can't i mean we are fortunate in this instance that our childhoods have
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not gone away i mean there's going to be another masters of the universe movie
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this year now yeah our childhoods have not gone away but every time somebody
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from that era passes like Carl Weathers, maybe like a year ago,
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for example, it's like part of our childhood is like dying.
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Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer. Yeah. Another, another great with Top Gun.
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It was great to see him in the newest Top Gun, you know, recently.
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Yeah, it was, that was great. Wasn't that nostalgia done right?
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Yeah. Yeah, definitely. That was so nostalgia done right.
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Like right from the point where he gets on the old bike on the Kawasaki and
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races the jet as it takes off.
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It was just, you know yeah that's cinematic beauty man one thing real quick
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ken because you do make a great argument earlier about yeah you know we're we
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grew up watching these movies of course we're going to like those our parents
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you know generation before that this younger one currently what's out one thing i will say though.
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To fight for the 90s of why despite how
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old or young somebody is it was that
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perfect era where you had the special effects just right but
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you still had all the practical effects you had all the stunt guys doing real
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stuff because a lot of movies now just look too fake unless
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it's tom cruise who still does a lot of the practical you know
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effects with the action and hanging off
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of airplanes and doing that that's why the mission impossible movies still
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look so great because you could kind of tell that there's realism
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there like yeah he's safe but he is really doing that stuff which
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is what was great with all the jackie chan films too but now
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like when everything's just computerized and you could just
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tell there's like a fakeness to it there's an
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artificial quality that takes you out
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of it compared to stuff from the 90s yes no no
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you're completely right and a lot of a lot of film reviewers and
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critics and analysts alike agree that
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this is the what what became initially with
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cgi what became initially and there's a great documentary about
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this about uh steve williams who was the real genius at
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ilm who came up with the t-rex and the
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liquid metal for the terminator he's he that's
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a whole nother rabbit hole to go down but what they learned the long wrong lessons
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from cgi cgi really helped enhance the film but because it made so much money
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a studio's learned the wrong lesson and go well people love cgi that means we
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need to put more of it in there.
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And of course that is the absolute wrong lesson because it's not the amount
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of CGI that's going to make your film better.
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The story is going to make the film better. The CGI should only have ever been
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there to do the thing that you absolutely cannot afford or is impossible to physically achieve.
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If you can physically achieve it, go for it because people don't.
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People's eyes can tell the difference yeah and
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the film nerds like us actually appreciate the hell out of it too
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you know we're looking into like the making of the film and everything else
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yeah totally i mean it's like that like i really
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love waterworld a lot of people crap on that movie but you
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watch waterworld compared to like an avengers movie and
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realize that everything that's happening in waterworld is there those sets are
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there the explosions are there that's a
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it's just like watching fury road it's it's not
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it's night and day it's it's when it's
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all there and it's happening on camera you can
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i swear your eye can tell the difference because because
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there is a logic and there's a logic and a less fluidity
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of movement which sometimes it looks like with
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cgi there's no gravity there's no logic they
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can twist and move in the they can twist and move in the air for as long as
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it's needed to reload the gun get the knife whatever and then comfortably land
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on two feet and continue the battle and that's where it that's where your mind
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just could have goes it's like just watching a video game at that point exactly
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and it's like that scene i think it's f9.
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Where where dom and and and the the chick are in this car and they go across this ravine,
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via a tow bar tied to the the the
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front of the car and vin diesel doesn't even
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flinch blink or break of sweat because he just knows
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they're going to land perfectly the car's
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going to be a wreck it's no longer drivable but they're going to land safely
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and he knows that oh yeah fast and furious became the
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avengers basically the avengers with cars and they're going to try and make
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a hot wheels movie too next oh why not it's it's all up for grabs david but
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listen you've been doing some incredible work and and hard redemption is is
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is the newest and the tip of the tip of the iceberg, but you got some other cool stuff.
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I know you probably can't talk about it too much because it's not yet released,
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but you did like a Steven Seagal movie, man.
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Oh, that's insane. Shot that in Serbia. Greatest experience ever.
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You know, the cool thing is because I have gotten, you know,
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pretty big in on YouTube, at least for this like niche 80s, 90s action audience.
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It's not the biggest genre on
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YouTube, but for that niche, the Viking Samurai got kind of big on there.
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So where I'm going with that is like I've met and know people literally all over the world.
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So when I was in serbia shooting that there's a guy who was watching my channel
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for a while and I talked to him On instagram he's like, oh, you're coming to
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serbia shoot that movie I'd love to give you a tour of downtown belgrade in
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my hotel actually happened to be down there So I met up with him.
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He gave me a whole tour great guy, you know, we're like friends Especially because
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I met him in person now and you know, he bought me a nice lunch But like oh, trust me.
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This is a restaurant you you want to go to this the best serbian food
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so because like youtube opens those kind
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of doors which is crazy because i would never know somebody
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in serbia otherwise right so that that just added to like the coolness of wow
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i get to go there to work on a film which is great this is steven seagull movie
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his comeback because i don't think he's been in a movie for like seven years
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and so many great martial artists in there this is ron smorenberg's first lead
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role who was the main villain in that that jackie chan movie,
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I think it was Who Am I? And my buddy Michael Paré is in it too.
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Michael Paré, you know, funny story with Michael Paré, I've now done three films
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with him, but I had never met him in person.
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I did speak to him on the phone because our mutual friend, Jeff Langton,
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actually connected us on the phone, but it's just the funny thing about film.
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You could be in a movie with somebody, or in that case, three movies with Michael
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Paré and never even meet the guy.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, I...
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I, I did write a couple of films for him before I actually met him.
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I wrote, um, the vampire and the vigilante, which he's in. Oh yeah.
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Cause he works with Rene Perez a lot.
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Yeah. Yeah. And the righteous, righteous blood Weston. Oh, nice.
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So, yeah. So, but, uh, it was, it was about, oh geez.
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It was about nearly two years, I think, after I wrote all those films that I
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did eventually sit down and talk with Michael.
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How did you even get connected? How do you know Rene Perez?
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Oh, well, I started the previous incarnation of this, what I do,
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started on a podcast called Podcasting Them Softly, at which I was part of a
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much bigger group of contributors.
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And by luck I met David J. Moore
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and of course he does PR for a lot of indie
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movies and I was just doing the regular
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stuff and he said do you think you would ever want to publicize indie
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movies and I said well there's no reason why we can't so I
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just started doing it so you know 10 years into it now yeah so i just i've met
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a whole lot of people i interviewed renee for i forget which film now it was
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one of the bronzy movies i think it was cry havoc i'm pretty sure it was cry havoc,
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okay cry havoc was coming out and i wanted to
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get in touch with him because i wanted to talk about this whole this bronzy
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character because i thought this guy is a dead ringer and by that time he'd
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done death kiss sure and so i was trying to in trying to get a hold of robert
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bronzy i got a hold of renee perez and so in talking to renee perez he says
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i'm about to do a horror movie but i haven't written the script yet and i sort
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of said well i'm a screenwriter how long.
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Would you give us a shot when do you need the script by like monday and this
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was friday afternoon he says and his eyes sort of got water he says you can
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write a script that fast i said mate i want to be hired i'll write it as fast
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as you like he said if you can do it you got the gig,
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and and the rest is history so wow yeah so yeah so i've been yeah i've been
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you know in reference to your question i've been slowly meeting people in the
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industry by interviews and stuff for the last.
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Decade or so or writing reviews or newspaper articles and stuff so yeah oh it
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is an unusual question how did a little grub from the scrub how did crocodile
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dundee worm his way into hollywood well that's the answer i just you know i'm
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people who know people who meets people who you know,
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oh and speaking of which that's kind of how i got
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i got in hard redemption i got to give a shout out
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to david jay moore because he had recommended me to gino right
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and then i was able to audition for you know and christine yeah
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and then you know did a couple tape readings and read for
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a couple different characters and then they they liked me for
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solomon yeah like yeah i like i like how you i
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like i like how you did that you'd be you'd be really good for that role i was
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like fantastic you know great and that's and you know and as you know that's
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kind of how it happens in this business you meet someone who introduces to someone
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who meets you someone else and yeah yeah and the planets the planets all align.
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Yeah, everything aligns. You know, the funny thing now with Rene Perez,
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this, this kind of goes back to YouTube because he was editing one of his films
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and he happened to be watching one of my YouTube videos and I was talking about.
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With another guy in serbia funny enough different guy not the one that i met up with
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but i i had him on we were having a discussion kind
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of like how me and you are now and we were discussing like
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how come they don't make action martial art movies like
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the 80s and 90s anymore and that you know that was
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kind of a cool topic and renee had that on and the guy from
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serbia made a comment about me he's like oh you're kind
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of like those guys because like you're you're the real guy you're in
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the gym working out all the time you're in great shape you're good martial arts like
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all this other stuff and you know of course i gotta put a couple clips of me
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from what i put on instagram you know working on stuff in the video splice it
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in and that kind of caught renee's attention so he was like he he messaged me
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on facebook he's like well i i i really think you got something here i think
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you'd be perfect you know for a couple different films and then,
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you know long story short it ended up being the uh you know this one right here
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the the bloodstorm Yeah. Yeah.
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That I, I played the lead in. Yeah. And.
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I like the foreign art one where you look like Rambo on it.
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One of the foreign, one of the foreign, is it a foreign DVD or a foreign poster
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where it looks like it's painted?
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Oh yeah. Retro Gold 63 put that out because you're doing a bunch of different
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media books. They got five different covers.
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This of course is a U S one right here, which is cool.
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But yeah, they totally have a Rambo two looking one and the image they used,
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even though it's, you know, kind of more of an animated look like this, they did. Right.
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More painting. Of a real, They built it off of a real picture of me holding
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that real gun because it ties back into what the serving guy said.
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You're kind of like the real guy. It's like, yeah, kind of. I mean,
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I'm not in Vietnam firing this thing for real, but I do shoot it legally in
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the shooting range and I do look like that.
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Yeah, that's fantastic. Yeah, it definitely, it definitely, you know,
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Photoshop is convenient and everything.
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But, you know, as you know, from back in those, back in those VHS days,
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a really, a really good sort of painted cover was, was attracting enough to
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get you to stop and go, Hey, that's, that's one I could take home.
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You know, I know you should never judge a book or a movie by its cover or poster,
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but sometimes they. But people do, man.
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Sometimes they're just attractive. That's what gets it off the shelf.
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Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, like, and sometimes they do the art very well.
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Like i was very surprised like the like the art
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for the original art for the vampire and the vigilante was kind of just you
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know straightforward photoshop but the one that they put on the on the and i'll
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be you probably can't see from the oh yeah that that looks good man with the
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big very stylish and you've got the red blue light kind of thing oh sure so
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yeah sometimes they really like.
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They, they go all out, they go for the fences, you know, it's not just a,
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a poster full of big heads,
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which I really can't stand most of, you know, the pyramid of heads,
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like you go past the cinema today and you know, everyone that's going to be
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in the film because their faces are all on the, on the poster, you know,
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sort of gone to the days where you have that sort of either one iconic image
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or, or, you know, I mean, with like the Bloodsport videos has just got,
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yeah, the classic one is just Van Damme sort of mid flying kick.
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And that's kind of all. Oh, I love that one. That's the one I've seen in the video story.
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Yeah. That was like coolest. You know, yeah.
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Did you, did you hear about speaking of Van Damme? Did you hear about the Olivia
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Oliver Harper has done a, a look into no retreat, no surrender.
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I think it's coming out at the end of the month. He did.
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Yes. With, uh, yeah. He Strandberg and, and all concerned from seasonal. Yeah.
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They got all the guys in there, but Van Damme.
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Oh, okay. So they didn't get him. Oh, okay. I thought that was. As far as I know.
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Right, right. They got everybody in there, which is weird that,
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you know, they got Kurt McKinney, everybody.
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It's weird that they wouldn't have Van Damme though, because obviously of all
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the people in that movie, and it's a great movie, Van Damme ended up becoming the biggest star.
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So then, even though he's really only in the beginning and the end of the film,
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they throw him on the box like he's the main guy, right? because they got to
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market it like that now that he's this big star.
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And that's the one...
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We just don't know that much. I mean, I know a pretty good amount behind the
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scenes because I talked to his best friend at the time, Mohamed Kesey,
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who played Tong Pong Kickboxer, came out from Belgium, you know,
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to America, and they both were trying to pursue the movie thing.
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And I got so in-depth with Mohamed Kesey on these interviews.
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He gives so many details.
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But even he himself, who knows, you know, some good behind-the-scenes stuff,
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he at that time when Van Damme was shooting that movie went back to Belgium.
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Him so he wasn't there because he was with van damme the
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whole time when van damme's doing cyborg black eagle
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blood sport obviously kickboxer you know because he's playing
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song po a death warrant all he knows everything
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but even at that time that was like a little gap in
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their history and i know van damme
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didn't make that much money from that movie but from
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what i heard it did open the door to blood sport because
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you know guys like sheldon ledich and frank dukes had
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seen that yeah i think sheldon was the one that told frank
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hey frank this dude like he could play you in blood sport
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he's looking he looks pretty good yeah right so anyway
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it's weird that van damme wouldn't want to talk about that yeah
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i i must say i i i went down the rabbit hole and listened to all your frank
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duke stuff because oh frank duke that's because i've because i've only heard
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i've only heard the story from sheldon ledich's point of view so yeah so it
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was interesting to hear more or the other side. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Cause when I, I've interviewed children a couple of times over the past
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and, and particularly the last time he went into like a screed and told me like.
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You know, his, what he really thinks of Frank Duke.
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And, and so, yeah, it was, it was, it was interesting to, to,
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to see the whole picture rather than just sort of one person's.
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Well, the funny thing is the way I got the Frank Dukes interview is because
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I had interviewed guys like Sheldon and some, some other guys who said not the
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nicest things about Frank based on their own experience and memory.
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And Frank had seen those. And I seen Frank on another
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podcast and he mentioned oh that viking samurai
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guy is inviting all these people and they're saying all these
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negative things but he never once invited me and he
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he lacks ethics or morals or something like
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that and in my head i'm like wow frank dukes knows who i
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am that's so awesome and like i know people who know him
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i reached out i'm like frank i even made a video it's like come on
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the show anytime man i would love you know i want to be fair i
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want to get your side and you know it took a while to
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convince him but but i got him on and i and in
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my opinion i think i got the best frank dukes interview out there yeah i
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mean i was surprised like because because normally people
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are under such high scrutiny even seagal you know
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for some of the as you're probably aware some
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of the the store like like there's there's a there's almost a
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a super cut out there probably on youtube of celebrities with
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steven seagal horror stories i don't
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know if you oh yeah man seagal gets john
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leguanzama is probably one of the more famous ones oh sure
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yeah i think well yeah that's because supposedly single punched him or something
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right so he's still you know he doesn't like seagull because of that but i seagull
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gets more crap than almost anybody on the internet for at least it seems and
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maybe because i do focus on the 80s 90s action and martial arts genre a lot.
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But I was on Jason Brandt's show, So Bad It's Good, where they watch bad movies
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and kind of, you know, make fun of it.
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It's a very popular show, and he was one of the—I think he was one of the co-producers.
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I know he had some involvement with The Last Kumite, and that's where I met him in person.
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But I told him when I was out there, you know, I told him and his wife,
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I was like, you know, I got the perfect idea.
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Because people know me—like, the videos I put out about Stephen Scull are actually positive.
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Like, I talked to his most senior student, who I actually did some training
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with, Sensei Elliot Freeman. And so I talked to these people who have like real
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experience with Seagull, you know, and I'm not trying to get the negative stuff
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out there, even though I know it'd get a lot more views.
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I want to try to keep the channel more positive.
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Plus, I, you know, I do respect Seagull. I loved his movies and I've,
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I've, I've, I've talked to him over the last few years and he's always been
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respectful and kind and very knowledgeable about the martial arts.
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So that's, that's, that's gotta be huge. I mean, I know myself.
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But for, for, for us little kids that watch these guys, how huge is that?
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Like, do you sit there? I'm talking to Steven Seagal on the phone.
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I'm talking to Steven Seagal on the phone.
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It was very surreal because I just remember as a kid, my mom taking me to the
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shop bet, which are like a little convenience store on army basis.
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Cause I grew up in army brat and you could rent movies and me and my brother
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would rent like out for justice movies like that. So for me and my brother,
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outside of Stallone and Arnold, Stephen Skull and Van Damme were like the coolest guys ever.
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And, you know, watching all those, even though I'm like 10 watching rated R
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movies, you know, it's like, man, what a cool guy.
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So, you know, but then like being able to talk to him on the phone later and
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even more recently working on a film with him.
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Yeah. So it was surreal the first time I ever talked to him.
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But anyway i did
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i so jason brant is known to really
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tear into steven seagal like on those straight to video movies and his audience
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just love steven seagal but i thought it'd be funny you know what like let me
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go on the show and i'll be pro steven seagal and talk good about him and we'll
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watch under siege 2 because i do like that movie not as much as obviously but i love under Right.
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Yeah. So for me, it's very easy. Ryback. Ryback.
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I'm just being completely honest and authentic when
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i talk highly about the movie and just my own
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experience with seagal yeah it got so
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bad in the comment section where i had people like threatening to
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to fight me and and saying all this negative stuff
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you know all these people that say that will never show up in real life by.
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The way of course but but jason actually had.
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To kind of like turn the comments off or
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like remove so it's like okay you know and i knew i was
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going in the lion's den but look i'm having good fun with it you know these
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people like get more serious about like it's a political debate you
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know like you're talking about trump or biden it's like they're that serious where
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they literally want to kill you over i'm like dude it's it's not
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that big of a deal under siege two folks under
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siege two right and
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look people will hang crap on it but i went to
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see under siege two in the movie theater i thought
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that yeah okay it's not under siege
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but it hits all the good notes you're telling
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me casey ryback's on this train it's come
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on it's badass man everett mcgill
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is the heavy you know what's not to love
28:38
you know especially where he takes the mace and pepper spray
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you know awesome it's
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classic man it's it's under
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siege on a train it's yeah it's it's look
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the formula look the formulas might be
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corny like they say okay let's do under siege on
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a train let's do instead of snakes on
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a plane let's do bears on a submarine you know i mean it's monday morning quarterbacking
29:05
you know it's even hard redemption is under siege in a high school there you
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go right gino's casey right back he's right yeah but he's casey right back yeah
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he's a dude with a past and he knows martial arts and yeah.
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He just prefers to teach instead of, you know, kick ass.
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Until, until pushed. Yeah.
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But listen, David, I really don't need to sell you because you're out there
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all over the world, but, uh, the Samurai Viking tell all of our wonderful listeners
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where they can check out everything you got coming.
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Cause you're, you're everywhere right now. You're on the rise.
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Oh yeah. Of course. The YouTube channel, Viking Samurai, check that out.
29:49
And then Instagram, somebody had like that name, unfortunately.
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So on Instagram, I'm RealVikingSamurai. Okay.
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Yeah. So those are my two biggest social media platforms. You know,
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I post a lot of my training and I post...
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Like if you go to my stories, which I post several stories every day that are
30:07
only up for 24 hours at a time, I just put a lot of positivity out there.
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You know, like sometimes I'll share my messages, what I'm feeling.
30:14
I'll put some of my training.
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I'll put other things that I find inspirational on Instagram and share those
30:21
because that's just how I am.
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I'm trying to, you know, just put that out there, that positive energy that
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like I'm very goal oriented and, you know, I get inspired by things. I'm motivated.
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I try to share that with other people. yeah that's great
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that's what the world needs more positive approach because
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there's a lot of too much negativity really well you
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know the funny thing is they say uh negative misery loves
30:44
company which is true but it's it's the
30:47
same thing like when you see an act of kindness doesn't
30:51
it make you want to do like you you see somebody doing something nice like
30:53
man i want to do something nice you know and and like when you're around
30:56
people i try to surround myself with like people that actually
30:59
want to do something bigger than when they're where they're
31:02
currently at you have a lot of people you know
31:05
will try to talk negative and tear people down to
31:08
try to bring them down to their level and make themselves feel better but you
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you got to surround yourself with people who are literally trying to elevate
31:15
or people who are already at those higher levels surround yourself with them
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and like i'm telling you they say misery loves company but it's the same thing
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with positivity and optimism you hang around those people which is why i love to go to church too.
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It just, man, you know, it, it builds momentum, right? I don't know.
31:32
It's like that. It's like Morgan Freeman's narration for a million dollar baby.
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If there's magic in boxing, it's believing in a dream that no one else can see, but you.
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Yeah, it's just like the Rocky movie, man. But yeah, it's beautiful.
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And to get there, it's not about how hard you can hit. It's about how hard you
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can get hit and keep on coming.
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Oh, I'm going to keep getting hit. Yeah, that's the thing, man.
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And that's the only thing that will ever separate someone from being successful
31:59
to somebody not. It's not like they're smarter. It's not like they're more talented.
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It's not, you know, they know more people. It's literally that guy that will just never quit.
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He'll keep getting back up and he
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will figure it out because nobody knows how to
32:14
get there but they figure it out on the way and then all
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of a sudden they're there yeah there you go wise words from the samurai viking
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in an alternate universe he's playing me in a feature film version based on
32:28
my life david kursall thank you mate for being on cinema yugen oh thanks for
32:34
having me can't yes There's the Viking Samurai,
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David Curzal.
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Get down to the links in the description.
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Get over to his YouTube channel, Viking Samurai, for all of his goodness,
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great interviews and content. And look out for all of David's awesomeness on film coming soon.
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