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The warrior's mindset is about conditioning the
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mind, body, and spirit. It takes practice, commitment,
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vision, goal setting, determination, sharp focus,
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respect, and discipline. Once you learn it, you
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can apply it to all aspects of your life. The
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warrior's mindset prepares you for the largest
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competition ever, the competition against self.
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All right, everybody, welcome to the Warriors
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Mindset Radio. You know what we do. We empower
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the world, making sure we tap into the Warriors
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Mindset from the inside out. Always about the
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principles of the Warriors Mindset, God, honesty,
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open -mindedness, and willingness. What I want
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to talk about today, willingness represents faith,
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is having the faith to be able to connect and
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ask God to bring people in your life that can
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empower you and take you to the next level. Boy,
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do God bless you. When I say he blesses you,
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he blesses you. I have two of the greatest men
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in my life today. I have my brother from another
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mother and Mr. Bryant Thompson. Same thing. Brothers
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here. And I think a lot of times when we see
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people out there, we see specialists as brothers
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coming, working together. It's kind of hard to
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keep them together and showing that unity. And
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I'm just honored, guys. Well, thank you. It's
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an honor of mine. Can you give the audience a
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brief introduction of each one of you? I'm blessed,
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man. I'm sitting back and chill. Can you tell
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us? Well, my name is Brian Thompson. Brian G.
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Thompson, if you're looking for me on IMDb. I
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am a filmmaker, actor, director. My latest movie
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is called Blowback. And in Blowback, all three
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of Professor Willie the Bam Johnson, my teacher
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also. All three of his sons are in the movie.
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So I'm blessed to be in a position to do something
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like that. And the movie, thankfully, is doing
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really well. People seem to like it. So I'm just
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grateful and honored to be here. Awesome. Awesome.
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I'm Robert D. Pariam, Jr., PhD. I'm also a filmmaker.
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I'm a former five -time world kickboxing champion.
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And hey. Our latest movies are Heroes, which
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also has Professor Bam and his sons. Loyal Justice,
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which we also have Brian as well as Bam and his
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sons. And Bullets, Blades, and Blood, which will
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be out streaming soon next year. And, hey, God
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is good. I'm blessed. These are my brothers.
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I love them. I love working. We collaborate.
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We read off each other's minds and energies,
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and it's just a blessing. You know, one of the
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things that we talk about the warrior's mindset,
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how important is flow in being a warrior? Because
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in order to be successful in life, you know,
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be it combat, be it business, be it relationship,
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how important is flow? Because that's what brings
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us together. We flow with one another. I think,
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if you allow me, I think flow is important. It's
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just like in martial arts, if you do pre -arranged
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techniques. What you do on the street won't work.
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So you have to know how to adapt, how to bend
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without breaking. And that's the flow and the
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synergy that we have. Yeah. For me, flow kind
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of leads into that perseverance thing, right?
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And so, you know, if you're able to flow with
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life, you need to flow with the same energy that
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you had when you started. before the obstacles
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and so to me flow um you know it it comes along
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with that that sense of no matter what i'm going
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to give a hundred percent a hundred percent of
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the time and i'm going to flow easily into the
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next obstacle um without losing any energy from
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having hit that first wall that i had to break
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and i think that's the relationship that we have
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And the beautiful thing about this, when I'm
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working with both of you guys, there's no ego.
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It's like, especially, you know, when we all
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are warriors and can stand on our own feet as
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individuals by ourselves, at some point in time,
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you got to let go and just be the student. And
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that's what you allowed me to do. That's what
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you allowed me to do. And without getting emotional,
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brother, I remember the first time we did that
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movie and the students like, look at Professor
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Bam. He just laid down there. I've never seen
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Professor Bam just laid down. I mean. How important
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is that to make sure that everybody surrenders
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the ego so the flow can happen? So I'm going
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to tell you a story that a mentor told me. So
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back in the 70s, when the Black Renaissance,
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a .k .a. Blaxploitation movies were around, some
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of the prominent heroes that we know, I'm not
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going to mention any names because I don't want
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to call anybody out with disrespect to anybody,
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all got together to form a company. All of them.
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And the first question was, well, who's going
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to be in charge? Well, I'm going to be in charge.
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Well, you can't be in charge because whatever.
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Well, I'm in charge. And so it never happened.
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So when you learn to let go, things happen. Yeah,
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that's right. Yeah. And I noticed in my journey
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that a lot of times you have to, you can't get
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forward without those partnerships. And so the
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key is to have the humility to be able to recognize.
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When someone has a gift that can complement your
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gift to make the project better, you know, all
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of the projects that you just mentioned. And
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I can definitely speak to to, you know, the project
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blowback. It's like the blowback would not be
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what it is were it not for me recognizing what
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you bring to the table, what you, your family,
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the BAMS dojo. brings to any production. The
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level of expertise, the years of expertise, the
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dedication, the passion, the commitment, the
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consistency, you know, the sense of work ethic
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that all of these great martial artists have.
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It makes all the difference when it comes to
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that, right? But you can't get to that point
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if you're like, well, I'm the best and, you know,
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no one's better than me. And so, you know what
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I mean? Um, and I think that the student, you
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said something to me on set that really stuck
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with me. You, you know, you told me that when,
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you know, when we do certain things, um, in the
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business that, you know, that sometimes I'm going
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to be the teacher, sometimes you're going to
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be the teacher. Right. And so, and for me, like,
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that's, that is, it shows me that you practice
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what you preach. Right. Because at the end of
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the day. I knew of you way before I met you,
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right? Like I was a fan of your work, was a fan
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of WMAC Masters, a huge fan. And it just kind
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of came full circle. And so for me, that humility
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is everything. And I appreciate that too. I mean,
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but I'm you guys fans as well, because I think
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about when me and Robert came together and for
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my wife and for my kids. I mean, we know one
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thing, we cherish our families. And I love my
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students like my family. I'm going to protect
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them. And for my students to be a part of everything
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that I do with you guys, they know that means
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a lot. And for my wife, I mean, the first time,
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you know, when you came, she just felt so safe
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with both of y 'all. And I think that's so important.
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And when I ask the question, how does that make
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you feel when someone's family just trusts you?
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and believe that you can guide us all to another
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level collectively. Well, before I answer that
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question, I have to pinch myself because I am
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sitting next to the guy from this, right? And
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this guy from Rogue Cell? Is that Rogue Cell?
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Yeah. So I remember watching that. You guys got
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to see that too. Okay. So back to the question.
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When you can gather or gain the trust of not
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only the individual that you're working with,
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but their family, their friends, their students,
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and their whole collective circle. That's a powerful
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thing. That's a powerful thing. When we look
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at movies, when we see, let's take Robert De
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Niro. We'll see Robert De Niro. Martin Scorsese's
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always directing. Joe Pesci's always with him.
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They have their little circle. They got their
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circle. And they trust that circle. So they'll
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continue doing different projects and different
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projects. When you look at Bruce Lee, it was
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always Bob Wall. It was always, oh, gee, I can't
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get his name. But all those same people, he worked
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with them constantly, constantly. They were in
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all his movies. So it's the same thing that we're
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doing. It's the same thing. Why reinvent the
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wheel when we have the flow in the synergy? Yeah.
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And for me. It's also a responsibility, right?
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So when you say that when you put that much of
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your family and your energy on the line, it takes
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it to another level. I'll give you an example.
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So when we were working on the movie, there was
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one day where we had a lot of scenes to do a
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lot of fight sequences. And I never... I can
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never completely take seeing you in WNBC Masters
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out of my brain, right? And so I know who, you
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know, we're friends, but I know who I'm dealing
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with always. And so, like, I'm on set and I'm
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conscious of that, but also, you know, you pulled
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me aside and you were like, this is the first
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time that all three of my sons have performed
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together in a feature film like this. And so
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at that moment, I had to just stop and I had
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to walk away for a second. I'm like, it just
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took it to another level for me. And so that's
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why I never took a break that day because I couldn't
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like my my my adrenaline just kept flowing. And
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I think that is because I reckon I feel the weight.
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You know what I mean? That's why when I'm in
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class with you, you know, I'm just a student
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like there's I have no sense of. You know, you
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don't owe me anything except the pain that everybody
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else is getting. And I think for me, with both
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of you guys, I mean, even with us, and this means
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a lot to me because it was hard to get my sons
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to work together because a lot of times people
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that try to do projects, they always favorite
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one person. It didn't allow the other person
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to come up and grow. I think the beautiful thing
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about you guys, when you come in, you make everybody
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feel equal. Everybody's on the same level. And
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I think that's so important. You see so many
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people. You a star. You better. You less. And
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you can't run an operation or grow anywhere if
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somebody's better than the other. And you were,
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I mean, you were masterful at that, man. I mean,
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you were able to just make everybody just feel
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so at home and comfortable. And even when it
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was time to have a good time and joke, it's like,
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all right, guys, time to get back. And you didn't
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say it with anger. You just said it with love.
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I think. For me, I think the world needs to take
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that lesson and try to figure out what can we
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do to come together and show that sort of humility
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to other people, to give them a chance to feel
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that trust. What would you say to other people
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on what we can do to bring about that sort of
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synergy and energy? I think you hit the nail
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on the head when you said, when we bring that
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love. So what's missing from our community as
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Black men, as filmmakers, is collective love.
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You know, if I if I'm out of line, I would expect
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you I would expect you to correct me. Pull me
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to say, hey, Rob, that was really cool. Yeah.
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A learning lesson for me. I would I would expect
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nothing less because if you didn't do that, you
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don't love me. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. So that's
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what's missing, you know, in my perspective.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and I would also say that
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a lot of times it comes from inside. Right. So
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if you so. There's levels to it. So the world
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continues to tell black men in some senses that,
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you know, that we're fighting in many cases for
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our self -worth. So when you have people fighting
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for their self -worth and then you have like
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a dojo. Where, like the BAMS Dojo, where you
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come in, everybody is, you know, we're reinforcing
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that a lot of kids don't have that. So those
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kids become adults, and a lot of adults don't
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have that. And that contributes to the phenomenon
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of us not being able to work together because
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we haven't been able to deal with leaving the
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outside world outside. So, you know, what we
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try to do, and I think we all try to do this,
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is create that sense of family. that you might
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not have in other places. But when you step on
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set with us, when you step in this dojo, you
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have that sense of family that should instill
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in you a sense of self -worth that comes from
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your own work. You build your self -worth. And
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when you can build that self -worth and you know
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it to your core, then it becomes easier to work
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with other people. So I look for people. to work
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with who already have that and the people that
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don't have it hopefully they're young enough
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or they're willing to learn we can bring them
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in and get them on that level so they understand
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hey it's this is a community trying to build
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a community every film that that that is really
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goes well is because they were able to to establish
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a community of people willing to work especially
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independent level right yeah one of the things
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that you you hit on too when we talk about You
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mentioned men and you talked about black men,
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and this is not a racial, but it's a real statement.
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How important is it for us to really, you know,
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show that image of strong men, humble men, but
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also men that can work together and men that
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are not being influenced by these other things
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that, you know, because as a black man, it's
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hard. It's always a fight. It's unfortunate.
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Let me say, and this is all my perspective. Let
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me say, first, the media pushes on us that we're
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worthless. And we're far from worthless. The
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media says that we don't have what it takes to
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be a real man. We don't raise our kids. We don't
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work. We can't get along. And all of that is
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untrue. Oh, black men make up 50 % of the people
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in jail, but 13 % of the population. That's not
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true either. you know we make up less than 40
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38 .9 if i'm not mistaken okay there's more other
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race on race crime than there is a black black
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crime per capita per person right so all of all
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of the media that they put on us people believe
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yeah the media is strong influencer on our youth
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and uh some of us as adults when they don't know
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their self -worth sure you know but when they
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know their self -worth None of that matters.
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What matters is what you bring to the table and
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what you can leave for the generations that come
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after you. And I think, to your point, that's
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why martial arts is so important. I think that
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there's the way our society is set up right now,
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especially, I mean, for women, too. Women have
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their own challenges, right? But I think... Men
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in general are confused. I think that there's
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a lot of confusion about what is a good man?
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What is a good man supposed to look like? Are
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you supposed to be macho? Are you supposed to
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be too macho? Is violence good? Is violence bad?
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You know what I mean? And I think that in the
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realm of martial arts and martial arts training,
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you develop that understanding. Because my perspective
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is that a good man is not good because he is
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incapable of violence. I think he's good because
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he's capable of violence, but he uses it only
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when necessary. It's better to be a gardener
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in the war. What's that story? It's better to
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be a warrior in a garden than a gardener during
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a war. But that brings us to what Bruce Lee says,
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the art of fighting without fighting. It's through
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our true strength. And that brings us right to
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this final question. That's why it's our responsibility
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in our films to put out the images that we think
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need to be cleaned up and need to be shown to
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the next generation. It's a responsibility. We
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can't just be blowing people's brains out. There's
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got to be a story. Everything's got to have a
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reason. If not, it's senseless. And I believe
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we come together, God brings us together to correct
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those things. You don't have to preach it, we
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just show it. Because you see it on film and
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what is it going to do? That's how we all were
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inspired by films, right? So how important is
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that responsibility to you? And what's next for
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the world to know what you're going to do to
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fix that, man? As a filmmaker, for me, it's imperative
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that we change the narrative of storytelling.
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Not filmmaking, but storytelling. Now, there
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is a place, a time and a place for gratuity,
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you know, for blowing people's heads off or this,
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that, and the other. But your characters have
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to have depth. Your characters have to have a
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meaning. Your characters have to be somebody
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that someone else can identify with, whether
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it's the antagonist or the protagonist. Wow,
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I'm like that. That guy's a bad guy. Maybe I
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should clean up my act, or I'll end up like that.
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So that's imperative. I cannot stress how important
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that is. And I agree with that completely. I
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mean, I think that personally, my morality always
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comes through in my stories, whether they're
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action or comedy. And I think that people really
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need to understand that there's only a small
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difference. between a hero and a villain right
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it's just all about decisions and choices and
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people need to understand that they we live and
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die by our choices but there's objectively just
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numerically there's not enough black heroes or
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the amount of of black people we don't have enough
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representation in those strong characters male
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and female that are genuinely heroes willing
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to sacrifice themselves and do things that other
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people don't want to do for the greater good
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you know what i mean and so i think that those
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stories have to be told um and certainly from
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my perspective you know like you're always evolving
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with your work but um the the latest film blowback
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is certainly in an example of that of like violence
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is an absolute last resort and anything related
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to crime in general is a last resort but when
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it comes down to you you have to make life is
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full of dilemmas right so you gotta sometimes
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you have to choose between you know really difficult
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situations and you have to make a choice do I
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get dirty or do someone else get dirty because
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I wasn't willing to and let me add to that and
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blow back so not only you have to make the choice
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is do I have am I going to get dirty or someone
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else get dirty or is it my duty to stop this
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you know that's that's important is it my duty
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is it my responsibility to stop this from going
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any further And I think that's what the warrior's
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mindset is all about. It's like tapping inside
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yourself, finding what your strengths are, what
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your responsibilities are. And then it's about
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us coming with solutions. Warriors come with
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solutions. They don't complain about problems.
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And also warriors got to have a vision. You can't
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be a warrior if you don't have a vision. And
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that means you got to have a dream. That goes
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back to even when we doing a project called Quest
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for Your Dreams. We all got to have a dream because
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nobody want to follow someone that don't have
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a vision like that. And that's what it's all
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about. And that's what brought us together. Let's
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plug my man right here. Okay? Let's plug my man
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right here. So he makes some tremendous films.
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Like I said, the first time I saw him was Rogue.
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Rogue Cell. Rogue Cell. One and two. Yes. And
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then I saw the Thanksgiving movie. Right. Right?
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Yeah. Loved it. Thank you. Okay? Thank you. All
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right? And so now he's got blowback. Guys, he's
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working with a legend. He's working with Clifton
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Powell. Clifton Powell, man. Come on. Come on.
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That's all I got to say. Watch Blowback. Okay?
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When you finish watching this, get on your television
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and watch Blowback. Apple TV, 2B, Amazon Prime.
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Is it on Fossum as well? Isn't it on Fossum?
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I thought it was on Fossum. It might be. I think
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it's on Fossum. It might be on Fossum. Let's
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talk about heroes. I don't want to talk about
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loyal justice because y 'all got to wait for
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next year. But let's talk about heroes, okay?
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Not only do you have Willie the Bam Johnson from
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the WMAC Masters. I got to pinch myself every
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time I say that. But you also got R. Marcus Taylor
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in this movie. Come on. R. Marcus Taylor and
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Willie Johnson in the same movie? Winner of Best
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Action Feature at the Virginia Black Belt Festival.
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20 -25. That's right. Just talent. Talent abound.
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Talent in abundance. Tremendous talent. And their
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teams, I love working with them. Okay, so I'm
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going to go to, let's talk about, we are going
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to talk a little bit about Loyal Justice. So
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I had the opportunity to work with Brian during
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a shootout scene. Yes. He murdered me, guys.
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Don't, don't, don't, don't. Okay. That's not
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the scene I'm talking about because he beat me
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down in the movie. So we're talking about, we're
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going to talk about loyal justice. And I had
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the opportunity. And this is how professionals
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work. Okay. Professionals. So we're outside.
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And Brian's like, hey, I got this. And the thing
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that he put together, the sequence he put together
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is absolutely phenomenal. You guys are going
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to love it. Too bad you can't. Well, you're going
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to see it in November if you have a ticket. Otherwise,
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you have to wait till next year. But the sequence
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is absolutely phenomenal. And you're going to
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cheer. You are going to cheer. In the heart of
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Baltimore, where loyalty is currency and betrayal
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cuts deeper than steel. One man was forged in
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the fire of survival. They took his peace. They
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took his family. They left him with nothing but
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the code of the blade. Now, in a city ruled by
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those without honor, he walks alone. A ghost
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among gangsters. A blade among... bullets they
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call him masterless merciless unstoppable because
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when vengeance becomes your only master mercy
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dies with the past loyal justice premiering november
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13th at the historic charles theater in baltimore
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and coming soon to your favorite streaming platforms
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restore honor with loyal justice It's beautiful.
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I just wanted to say that. I appreciate it. I
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just wanted to say that. I wish I could say that.
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I don't watch my movie. My wife would get mad
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at me. So, just like he said, you got to see
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it. I'm trying to see it myself. And what an
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honor just to work with you guys. So, appreciate
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that. I just wanted to take the time to say that.
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And check out Blowback. Check out Heroes. And
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check out Bullets, Blades, and Blood. That's
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it. For everybody out there, continue to tune
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in to the Warrior's Mindset Podcast. We hope
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you love it. So many people have been talking
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about the impact that it has had on their life.
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We will continue to do that. I'm honored to have
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two of my great brothers right here beside me
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and working together. God is great. And don't
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give up on your dreams. Do not quit. See ya.
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The warrior's mindset is about conditioning the
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mind, body, and spirit. It takes practice, commitment,
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vision, goal setting, determination, sharp focus,
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respect, and discipline. Once you learn it, you
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can apply it to all aspects of your life. The
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warrior's mindset prepares you for the largest
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competition ever, the competition against self.
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All right, everybody, welcome to the Warriors
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Mindset Radio. You know what we do. We empower
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the world, making sure we tap into the Warriors
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Mindset from the inside out. Always about the
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principles of the Warriors Mindset, God, honesty,
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open -mindedness, and willingness. What I want
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to talk about today, willingness represents faith,
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is having the faith to be able to connect and
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ask God to bring people in your life that can
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empower you and take you to the next level. Boy,
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do God bless you. When I say he blesses you,
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he blesses you. I have two of the greatest men
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in my life today. I have my brother from another
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mother and Mr. Bryant Thompson. Same thing. Brothers
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here. And I think a lot of times when we see
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people out there, we see specialists as brothers
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coming, working together. It's kind of hard to
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keep them together and showing that unity. And
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I'm just honored, guys. Well, thank you. It's
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an honor of mine. Can you give the audience a
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brief introduction of each one of you? I'm blessed,
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man. I'm sitting back and chill. Can you tell
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us? Well, my name is Brian Thompson. Brian G.
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Thompson, if you're looking for me on IMDb. I
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am a filmmaker, actor, director. My latest movie
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is called Blowback. And in Blowback, all three
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of Professor Willie the Bam Johnson, my teacher
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also. All three of his sons are in the movie.
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So I'm blessed to be in a position to do something
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like that. And the movie, thankfully, is doing
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really well. People seem to like it. So I'm just
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grateful and honored to be here. Awesome. Awesome.
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I'm Robert D. Pariam, Jr., PhD. I'm also a filmmaker.
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I'm a former five -time world kickboxing champion.
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And hey. Our latest movies are Heroes, which
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also has Professor Bam and his sons. Loyal Justice,
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which we also have Brian as well as Bam and his
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sons. And Bullets, Blades, and Blood, which will
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be out streaming soon next year. And, hey, God
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is good. I'm blessed. These are my brothers.
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I love them. I love working. We collaborate.
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We read off each other's minds and energies,
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and it's just a blessing. You know, one of the
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things that we talk about the warrior's mindset,
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how important is flow in being a warrior? Because
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in order to be successful in life, you know,
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be it combat, be it business, be it relationship,
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how important is flow? Because that's what brings
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us together. We flow with one another. I think,
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if you allow me, I think flow is important. It's
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just like in martial arts, if you do pre -arranged
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techniques. What you do on the street won't work.
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So you have to know how to adapt, how to bend
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without breaking. And that's the flow and the
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synergy that we have. Yeah. For me, flow kind
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of leads into that perseverance thing, right?
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And so, you know, if you're able to flow with
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life, you need to flow with the same energy that
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you had when you started. before the obstacles
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and so to me flow um you know it it comes along
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with that that sense of no matter what i'm going
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to give a hundred percent a hundred percent of
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the time and i'm going to flow easily into the
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next obstacle um without losing any energy from
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having hit that first wall that i had to break
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and i think that's the relationship that we have
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And the beautiful thing about this, when I'm
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working with both of you guys, there's no ego.
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It's like, especially, you know, when we all
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are warriors and can stand on our own feet as
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individuals by ourselves, at some point in time,
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you got to let go and just be the student. And
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that's what you allowed me to do. That's what
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you allowed me to do. And without getting emotional,
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brother, I remember the first time we did that
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movie and the students like, look at Professor
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Bam. He just laid down there. I've never seen
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Professor Bam just laid down. I mean. How important
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is that to make sure that everybody surrenders
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the ego so the flow can happen? So I'm going
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to tell you a story that a mentor told me. So
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back in the 70s, when the Black Renaissance,
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a .k .a. Blaxploitation movies were around, some
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of the prominent heroes that we know, I'm not
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going to mention any names because I don't want
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to call anybody out with disrespect to anybody,
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all got together to form a company. All of them.
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And the first question was, well, who's going
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to be in charge? Well, I'm going to be in charge.
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Well, you can't be in charge because whatever.
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Well, I'm in charge. And so it never happened.
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So when you learn to let go, things happen. Yeah,
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that's right. Yeah. And I noticed in my journey
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that a lot of times you have to, you can't get
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forward without those partnerships. And so the
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key is to have the humility to be able to recognize.
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When someone has a gift that can complement your
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gift to make the project better, you know, all
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of the projects that you just mentioned. And
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I can definitely speak to to, you know, the project
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blowback. It's like the blowback would not be
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what it is were it not for me recognizing what
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you bring to the table, what you, your family,
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the BAMS dojo. brings to any production. The
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level of expertise, the years of expertise, the
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dedication, the passion, the commitment, the
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consistency, you know, the sense of work ethic
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that all of these great martial artists have.
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It makes all the difference when it comes to
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that, right? But you can't get to that point
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if you're like, well, I'm the best and, you know,
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no one's better than me. And so, you know what
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I mean? Um, and I think that the student, you
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said something to me on set that really stuck
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with me. You, you know, you told me that when,
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you know, when we do certain things, um, in the
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business that, you know, that sometimes I'm going
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to be the teacher, sometimes you're going to
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be the teacher. Right. And so, and for me, like,
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that's, that is, it shows me that you practice
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what you preach. Right. Because at the end of
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the day. I knew of you way before I met you,
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right? Like I was a fan of your work, was a fan
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of WMAC Masters, a huge fan. And it just kind
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of came full circle. And so for me, that humility
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is everything. And I appreciate that too. I mean,
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but I'm you guys fans as well, because I think
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about when me and Robert came together and for
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my wife and for my kids. I mean, we know one
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thing, we cherish our families. And I love my
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students like my family. I'm going to protect
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them. And for my students to be a part of everything
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that I do with you guys, they know that means
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a lot. And for my wife, I mean, the first time,
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you know, when you came, she just felt so safe
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with both of y 'all. And I think that's so important.
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And when I ask the question, how does that make
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you feel when someone's family just trusts you?
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and believe that you can guide us all to another
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level collectively. Well, before I answer that
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question, I have to pinch myself because I am
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sitting next to the guy from this, right? And
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this guy from Rogue Cell? Is that Rogue Cell?
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Yeah. So I remember watching that. You guys got
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to see that too. Okay. So back to the question.
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When you can gather or gain the trust of not
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only the individual that you're working with,
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but their family, their friends, their students,
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and their whole collective circle. That's a powerful
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thing. That's a powerful thing. When we look
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at movies, when we see, let's take Robert De
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Niro. We'll see Robert De Niro. Martin Scorsese's
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always directing. Joe Pesci's always with him.
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They have their little circle. They got their
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circle. And they trust that circle. So they'll
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continue doing different projects and different
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projects. When you look at Bruce Lee, it was
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always Bob Wall. It was always, oh, gee, I can't
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get his name. But all those same people, he worked
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with them constantly, constantly. They were in
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all his movies. So it's the same thing that we're
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doing. It's the same thing. Why reinvent the
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wheel when we have the flow in the synergy? Yeah.
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And for me. It's also a responsibility, right?
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So when you say that when you put that much of
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your family and your energy on the line, it takes
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it to another level. I'll give you an example.
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So when we were working on the movie, there was
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one day where we had a lot of scenes to do a
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lot of fight sequences. And I never... I can
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never completely take seeing you in WNBC Masters
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out of my brain, right? And so I know who, you
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know, we're friends, but I know who I'm dealing
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with always. And so, like, I'm on set and I'm
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conscious of that, but also, you know, you pulled
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me aside and you were like, this is the first
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time that all three of my sons have performed
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together in a feature film like this. And so
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at that moment, I had to just stop and I had
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to walk away for a second. I'm like, it just
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took it to another level for me. And so that's
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why I never took a break that day because I couldn't
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like my my my adrenaline just kept flowing. And
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I think that is because I reckon I feel the weight.
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You know what I mean? That's why when I'm in
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class with you, you know, I'm just a student
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like there's I have no sense of. You know, you
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don't owe me anything except the pain that everybody
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else is getting. And I think for me, with both
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of you guys, I mean, even with us, and this means
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a lot to me because it was hard to get my sons
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to work together because a lot of times people
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that try to do projects, they always favorite
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one person. It didn't allow the other person
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to come up and grow. I think the beautiful thing
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about you guys, when you come in, you make everybody
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feel equal. Everybody's on the same level. And
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I think that's so important. You see so many
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people. You a star. You better. You less. And
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you can't run an operation or grow anywhere if
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somebody's better than the other. And you were,
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I mean, you were masterful at that, man. I mean,
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you were able to just make everybody just feel
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so at home and comfortable. And even when it
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was time to have a good time and joke, it's like,
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all right, guys, time to get back. And you didn't
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say it with anger. You just said it with love.
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I think. For me, I think the world needs to take
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that lesson and try to figure out what can we
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do to come together and show that sort of humility
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to other people, to give them a chance to feel
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that trust. What would you say to other people
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on what we can do to bring about that sort of
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synergy and energy? I think you hit the nail
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on the head when you said, when we bring that
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love. So what's missing from our community as
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Black men, as filmmakers, is collective love.
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You know, if I if I'm out of line, I would expect
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you I would expect you to correct me. Pull me
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to say, hey, Rob, that was really cool. Yeah.
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A learning lesson for me. I would I would expect
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nothing less because if you didn't do that, you
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don't love me. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. So that's
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what's missing, you know, in my perspective.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and I would also say that
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a lot of times it comes from inside. Right. So
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if you so. There's levels to it. So the world
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continues to tell black men in some senses that,
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you know, that we're fighting in many cases for
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our self -worth. So when you have people fighting
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for their self -worth and then you have like
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a dojo. Where, like the BAMS Dojo, where you
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come in, everybody is, you know, we're reinforcing
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that a lot of kids don't have that. So those
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kids become adults, and a lot of adults don't
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have that. And that contributes to the phenomenon
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of us not being able to work together because
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we haven't been able to deal with leaving the
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outside world outside. So, you know, what we
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try to do, and I think we all try to do this,
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is create that sense of family. that you might
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not have in other places. But when you step on
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set with us, when you step in this dojo, you
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have that sense of family that should instill
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in you a sense of self -worth that comes from
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your own work. You build your self -worth. And
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when you can build that self -worth and you know
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it to your core, then it becomes easier to work
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with other people. So I look for people. to work
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with who already have that and the people that
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don't have it hopefully they're young enough
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or they're willing to learn we can bring them
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in and get them on that level so they understand
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hey it's this is a community trying to build
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a community every film that that that is really
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goes well is because they were able to to establish
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a community of people willing to work especially
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independent level right yeah one of the things
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that you you hit on too when we talk about You
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mentioned men and you talked about black men,
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and this is not a racial, but it's a real statement.
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How important is it for us to really, you know,
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show that image of strong men, humble men, but
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also men that can work together and men that
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are not being influenced by these other things
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that, you know, because as a black man, it's
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hard. It's always a fight. It's unfortunate.
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Let me say, and this is all my perspective. Let
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me say, first, the media pushes on us that we're
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worthless. And we're far from worthless. The
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media says that we don't have what it takes to
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be a real man. We don't raise our kids. We don't
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work. We can't get along. And all of that is
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untrue. Oh, black men make up 50 % of the people
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in jail, but 13 % of the population. That's not
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true either. you know we make up less than 40
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38 .9 if i'm not mistaken okay there's more other
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race on race crime than there is a black black
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crime per capita per person right so all of all
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of the media that they put on us people believe
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yeah the media is strong influencer on our youth
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and uh some of us as adults when they don't know
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their self -worth sure you know but when they
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know their self -worth None of that matters.
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What matters is what you bring to the table and
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what you can leave for the generations that come
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after you. And I think, to your point, that's
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why martial arts is so important. I think that
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there's the way our society is set up right now,
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especially, I mean, for women, too. Women have
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their own challenges, right? But I think... Men
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in general are confused. I think that there's
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a lot of confusion about what is a good man?
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What is a good man supposed to look like? Are
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you supposed to be macho? Are you supposed to
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be too macho? Is violence good? Is violence bad?
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You know what I mean? And I think that in the
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realm of martial arts and martial arts training,
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you develop that understanding. Because my perspective
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is that a good man is not good because he is
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incapable of violence. I think he's good because
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he's capable of violence, but he uses it only
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when necessary. It's better to be a gardener
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in the war. What's that story? It's better to
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be a warrior in a garden than a gardener during
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a war. But that brings us to what Bruce Lee says,
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the art of fighting without fighting. It's through
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our true strength. And that brings us right to
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this final question. That's why it's our responsibility
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in our films to put out the images that we think
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need to be cleaned up and need to be shown to
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the next generation. It's a responsibility. We
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can't just be blowing people's brains out. There's
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got to be a story. Everything's got to have a
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reason. If not, it's senseless. And I believe
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we come together, God brings us together to correct
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those things. You don't have to preach it, we
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just show it. Because you see it on film and
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what is it going to do? That's how we all were
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inspired by films, right? So how important is
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that responsibility to you? And what's next for
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the world to know what you're going to do to
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fix that, man? As a filmmaker, for me, it's imperative
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that we change the narrative of storytelling.
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Not filmmaking, but storytelling. Now, there
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is a place, a time and a place for gratuity,
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you know, for blowing people's heads off or this,
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that, and the other. But your characters have
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to have depth. Your characters have to have a
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meaning. Your characters have to be somebody
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that someone else can identify with, whether
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it's the antagonist or the protagonist. Wow,
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I'm like that. That guy's a bad guy. Maybe I
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should clean up my act, or I'll end up like that.
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So that's imperative. I cannot stress how important
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that is. And I agree with that completely. I
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mean, I think that personally, my morality always
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comes through in my stories, whether they're
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action or comedy. And I think that people really
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need to understand that there's only a small
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difference. between a hero and a villain right
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it's just all about decisions and choices and
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people need to understand that they we live and
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die by our choices but there's objectively just
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numerically there's not enough black heroes or
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the amount of of black people we don't have enough
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representation in those strong characters male
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and female that are genuinely heroes willing
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to sacrifice themselves and do things that other
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people don't want to do for the greater good
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you know what i mean and so i think that those
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stories have to be told um and certainly from
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my perspective you know like you're always evolving
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with your work but um the the latest film blowback
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is certainly in an example of that of like violence
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is an absolute last resort and anything related
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to crime in general is a last resort but when
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it comes down to you you have to make life is
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full of dilemmas right so you gotta sometimes
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you have to choose between you know really difficult
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situations and you have to make a choice do I
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get dirty or do someone else get dirty because
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I wasn't willing to and let me add to that and
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blow back so not only you have to make the choice
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is do I have am I going to get dirty or someone
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else get dirty or is it my duty to stop this
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you know that's that's important is it my duty
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is it my responsibility to stop this from going
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any further And I think that's what the warrior's
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mindset is all about. It's like tapping inside
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yourself, finding what your strengths are, what
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your responsibilities are. And then it's about
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us coming with solutions. Warriors come with
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solutions. They don't complain about problems.
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And also warriors got to have a vision. You can't
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be a warrior if you don't have a vision. And
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that means you got to have a dream. That goes
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back to even when we doing a project called Quest
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for Your Dreams. We all got to have a dream because
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nobody want to follow someone that don't have
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a vision like that. And that's what it's all
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about. And that's what brought us together. Let's
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plug my man right here. Okay? Let's plug my man
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right here. So he makes some tremendous films.
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Like I said, the first time I saw him was Rogue.
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Rogue Cell. Rogue Cell. One and two. Yes. And
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then I saw the Thanksgiving movie. Right. Right?
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Yeah. Loved it. Thank you. Okay? Thank you. All
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right? And so now he's got blowback. Guys, he's
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working with a legend. He's working with Clifton
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Powell. Clifton Powell, man. Come on. Come on.
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That's all I got to say. Watch Blowback. Okay?
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When you finish watching this, get on your television
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and watch Blowback. Apple TV, 2B, Amazon Prime.
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Is it on Fossum as well? Isn't it on Fossum?
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I thought it was on Fossum. It might be. I think
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it's on Fossum. It might be on Fossum. Let's
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talk about heroes. I don't want to talk about
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loyal justice because y 'all got to wait for
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next year. But let's talk about heroes, okay?
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Not only do you have Willie the Bam Johnson from
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the WMAC Masters. I got to pinch myself every
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time I say that. But you also got R. Marcus Taylor
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in this movie. Come on. R. Marcus Taylor and
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Willie Johnson in the same movie? Winner of Best
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Action Feature at the Virginia Black Belt Festival.
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20 -25. That's right. Just talent. Talent abound.
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Talent in abundance. Tremendous talent. And their
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teams, I love working with them. Okay, so I'm
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going to go to, let's talk about, we are going
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to talk a little bit about Loyal Justice. So
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I had the opportunity to work with Brian during
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a shootout scene. Yes. He murdered me, guys.
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Don't, don't, don't, don't. Okay. That's not
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the scene I'm talking about because he beat me
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down in the movie. So we're talking about, we're
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going to talk about loyal justice. And I had
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the opportunity. And this is how professionals
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work. Okay. Professionals. So we're outside.
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And Brian's like, hey, I got this. And the thing
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that he put together, the sequence he put together
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is absolutely phenomenal. You guys are going
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to love it. Too bad you can't. Well, you're going
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to see it in November if you have a ticket. Otherwise,
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you have to wait till next year. But the sequence
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is absolutely phenomenal. And you're going to
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cheer. You are going to cheer. In the heart of
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Baltimore, where loyalty is currency and betrayal
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cuts deeper than steel. One man was forged in
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the fire of survival. They took his peace. They
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took his family. They left him with nothing but
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the code of the blade. Now, in a city ruled by
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those without honor, he walks alone. A ghost
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among gangsters. A blade among... bullets they
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call him masterless merciless unstoppable because
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when vengeance becomes your only master mercy
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dies with the past loyal justice premiering november
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13th at the historic charles theater in baltimore
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and coming soon to your favorite streaming platforms
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restore honor with loyal justice It's beautiful.
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I just wanted to say that. I appreciate it. I
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just wanted to say that. I wish I could say that.
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I don't watch my movie. My wife would get mad
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at me. So, just like he said, you got to see
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it. I'm trying to see it myself. And what an
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honor just to work with you guys. So, appreciate
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that. I just wanted to take the time to say that.
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And check out Blowback. Check out Heroes. And
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check out Bullets, Blades, and Blood. That's
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it. For everybody out there, continue to tune
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in to the Warrior's Mindset Podcast. We hope
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you love it. So many people have been talking
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about the impact that it has had on their life.
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We will continue to do that. I'm honored to have
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two of my great brothers right here beside me
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and working together. God is great. And don't
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give up on your dreams. Do not quit. See ya.
