Fullstendig transkripsjon av Behind The Lens, Beyond The Hustle with Master Photographer Jeremy Filmsmore

What did you think was over the horizon for yourself, or did you really think much about that? 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.480 To be honestly, uh to be honest, bro, I didn't. 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:50.639 And uh my friend Leland, he was actually I I remember, bro, he asked me this question. 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:54.240 He's like, where do you see yourself in five years? 00:04:54.560 --> 00:05:07.120 And like I think this might have been after high school, but uh I had never really thought about it, and I was like, damn, bro, I don't know, like I've never thought of my future, you know. 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:16.399 Like I I remember just like at one point, well no, it was like I I had a few jobs here and there, you know, I was like very lost, bro. 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:18.720 And like I didn't know what I wanted to do. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:26.399 Um, I had one at school for CNC machining because my mom's uh husband, Bobby, rest in peace. 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:28.399 Dafu was a machinist. 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:34.560 So he would like since I was so lost, he was like, bro, you should you should go to the school NTMA. 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.519 And uh me, I was just like, yeah, yeah, sure, bro. 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:47.360 So I I went to NTMA, me and my homie Pablo, and uh I went there for a year and you know, got certified in machining. 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:55.759 I was probably like 20 years old, and uh worked, you know, a few at a few machine shops and hated it. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.040 I was like, dude, this is like hell nah. 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:09.519 Like I was seeing dudes like who have been machining for like ages, bro, like 20 years, and like you just be standing there at this machine, bro. 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:11.600 Like, I'm like, hell no, bro. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.199 Like, I can't, like, nah. 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:14.879 I refuse to do this shit. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:22.480 And some of the bosses were douchebags where I was like, man, I gotta get out of this rat race, I gotta figure something out. 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.920 Um so that was kind of eye-opening for you. 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:41.759 Um I had a very similar case where I worked with my father at a it wasn't even that, it was like a sub a subcontractor for a Honda plant, and the only thing they did was headlights and taillights. 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:42.720 And that was it. 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:50.240 And it to me, like I thought I I mean, no f I mean, I guess offense because not no offense, offense. 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.199 Like I like I thought to myself, like, this is it? 00:06:53.360 --> 00:07:33.680 Yeah, like am I like like did God put me on this planet to to make headlights and taillights and it was a real detailed man, and I just thought to myself, like, am I gonna be like 40, 50 years old standing around um just putting headlamps in and like that's it, because I felt like man, I've been through so much of my whole life, like I

feel like I could do more than this, and it kind of inspired me to go to college, go into the military, and push forward um into I guess a higher level of career, and I was blessed and fortunate enough to to have those options to do that. 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:39.120 Who do you think was your number one uh biggest influence growing up? 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.720 Uh or did you have several? 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.879 I mean, like what with the arts and stuff like that, or just in life? 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.199 In life, and then also with the arts, yeah. 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:50.800 Who who inspired you? 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:55.120 I mean, bro, Tim Burden is like I've always loved Tim Burden. 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:05.759 Like that dude's like his movies and like they're they're just so artistic, but then he even gets down with like claymations and stuff like that, and drawings. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:16.160 So to me, bro, it's like that's why I named myself Jeremy Filmsmore, because I was like, bro, I want to be like Tim Burden, you know, it's like Steven Spielberg and those dudes. 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:22.319 But to me, Tim Burden is like he's a dude, and I I've always looked up to him even till this day. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:35.600 And um, but for the arts, like, or for like uh for for my career path, bro, like nobody in my family or friend group like did what I did. 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:39.200 So it was like I I really just I don't know, bro. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:53.759 Like I I kind of took it like I inspired myself to go down this journey because there was really nobody that I could look at in my surroundings where like, yo, like they they did this filming, like they they took it this far. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:09:06.639 It was just like I don't know, I guess I dreamed big and just got addicted to filming, and I really didn't I didn't know I was gonna take it this far and traveling and all that stuff. 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:13.200 It just like bro, if you if you're to tell me in high school, like bro, you're gonna be a filmer, I'd be like, no way, bro. 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.080 Like I've only watched skate videos. 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.440 Like I never thought of making like films and stuff like that. 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:20.480 That's pretty wild. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:29.039 A lot of times what happens is um you I I I always use the comparison of kicking the can. 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:37.519 Imagine yourself like on this long country road and you're just kicking this tin can down the road, looking down at it, focused on just kicking that can. 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:41.840 The next thing you do is you look up and you realize how far you are. 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:42.720 That's deep. 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:43.759 And that you know what I mean? 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:54.720 Like that's and for me, like that's how it's kind of been is it's uh uh when people ask me about my time in combat and things like that, and my time in the military, that's what I say is like it was almost like a sleepwalk. 00:09:54.799 --> 00:10:00.000 Like I was so mission focused that I didn't realize how far I'd come. 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:08.799 Like next thing you know, like I'm a captain in the army and and I have the opportunity to do all these cool things, and and that's kind of what it sounds like with you, man. 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:12.159 Like you just focused heavy on on your mission. 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:12.639 Yeah. 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:16.080 And you were just like kicking that can, focused on that can, right? 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:21.679 Next thing you know, you look up and you're in Abu Dhabi, like doing it doing a sh doing a shoot, right? 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:22.559 For sure. 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:28.159 Tell me about uh some of the cool places you've been, man, some of the cool uh, I guess, projects you've been on. 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:38.320 Uh man, I I guess like Amsterdam was one of the most recent places I went to that was like, whoa, this place is like crazy. 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:46.080 Like it was just like I felt like I was like, damn, this is uh just like fairy tale over there, bro. 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.559 Like the architecture and just like the color of the buildings, it's it's wild. 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.519 People riding in the canals and stuff. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:59.200 Like, shout out to the homie uh AD, um Adrian, that that food took me out there for a job. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.960 Or no, he took me out there, bro, for my birthday, actually. 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.919 Because we we were over there in Europe on a job. 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:16.240 We did this like Tattoo Europe tour, and like uh he was going to Amsterdam, and um he invited me, like just he's like, bro, you want to come? 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.080 Like, I'll take you for your birthday. 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:19.360 So I was like, what? 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:22.799 Like, I never been to like Amsterdam, bro. 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:27.279 Like in Europe, I'd only been to Italy, which that that place is amazing too. 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:32.799 Like, I went to Rome, and I was like, damn, I feel like I'm in ancient times over here. 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:37.919 Like the buildings were like just the architecture is crazy, bro. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:48.960 You feel like you're like literally in the gladiator, like, bro, I went to the Coliseum, I went to the the Vatican, which is a crazy place, bro. 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:54.080 Like, and I I've heard of like the Vatican, but bro, I never knew I was gonna go there. 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:54.480 Wow. 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:59.519 And it's like traveling really teaches me like about life, bro. 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:08.240 Cause like, like, yeah, I'm I'm like, I going to the Vatican, it blew my mind because I remember hearing about it like five years ago from my uncle. 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:09.919 He

was like telling me, and I'm like lost. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:13.200 I'm like in Monterey Park, like, what are you talking about, bro? 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.120 The Vatican, like, all right. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:22.559 And then once I go, I'm like, oh damn, like I start researching, and then I'm like, oh, this is this place is crazy. 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:24.480 Yeah, yeah, that's pretty wild. 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:43.840 You know, when I used to travel a lot, I'd be standing in like the I'd be standing in the middle of the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and in the terminal area, and I'd be standing there, and all these people would be surrounding me, and I would think to myself, I am so insignificant. 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:46.879 Like I am just a speck on this earth. 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:52.000 Like, and you don't realize how big the earth is when you don't really travel that much. 00:12:52.080 --> 00:13:01.279 But when you go to so many other places, man, and you see all the people and and you realize like this is a this is a big place. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:06.399 Like this is and it but your world could seem so small if you don't ever leave your community. 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.840 Um how many countries have you been to? 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.919 Who probably not that much, bro. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:22.559 I I was traveling a lot in the States, but I guess uh I've went international probably like six times roughly. 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:23.039 Right. 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:33.919 Like I went to Dubai, Australia, um or actually maybe less, Italy, Amsterdam, Germany, and I think that's it. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.039 What's your favorite? 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:41.279 I mean, it's between Italy and Amsterdam. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:42.799 Like why? 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:44.799 Oh, I actually went to Australia too. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:46.159 Shout out to the homie Jolt. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:58.639 But um, yeah, I guess Italy was just because like bro, I'd never been somewhere where I was like, damn, bro, like this is to me, uh like I like seeing things that are out of this world. 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:04.799 So when you go to uh Rome, you're like, damn, bro, like this is history, bro. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.080 Like being in the Coliseum was insane. 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:12.080 Like I was just like, whoa, bro, like how many people died here? 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:34.000 Like, like there's just so like so much history that I really didn't know too much, but the you know, we got a tour, and the dude was just telling us like how crazy and violent, and just like I'm like, bro, like my imagination just went wild, and I was like, bro, this is like those are some crazy times, and people experience that, bro. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:35.679 Yeah, yeah. 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:38.000 Yeah, it's really part of our DNA, man. 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:46.399 The um, I guess just all the trials, tribulations, the violence,

and all that stuff that it took to conquer lands and and things like that. 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:50.960 And to be in the middle of that is is really very, very surreal. 00:14:51.279 --> 00:15:00.399 Do you have any uh wild stories that you care to share about some of your overseas uh ventures that that you had, any that like stick out in your mind? 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.000 Yeah, I got one really crazy story. 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:31.360 I was uh out in Rio de Janeiro, and um the homies uh well the homegirl Henry and VG, they they had took me on this hike, which was like it was in the back of the favelas, like you hiked up this fucking mountain, and uh I got a really sick drone shot of like of the favelas from from that hike, but uh you're you're going up right, and it's like it's steep, bro. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:36.879 Like these these homies are with, they climb buildings like like crazy shit, bro. 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.639 So to them, they're like doing it in like chanclas, bro. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:41.600 They're like up me. 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:42.879 I'm like scared, bro. 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:46.080 I'm like going up, like, yo, this shit's getting steep, bro. 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:48.080 Like, how are we gonna get back down? 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:59.120 And like we get to the top, and it's like the sun's setting, and I'm like, yo, like I can't go back down that way, like, there's no way I'm going that way. 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.840 So we're at the top of the favelas, bro. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:06.240 And they're staying, they're renting an Airbnb or something at the bottom of the favelas. 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:20.799 They have one friend who's a tagger who who lived in the favelas, so like I guess that was like one name they could say, if anything, but they their thing was like, oh, they're they're tattooers, and we're staying in the favelas. 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.000 That was their story. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:29.919 But so, bro, we we get at the top, and it's like fucking the most sickest view of ever seen, bro. 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:34.240 It's like um you you're just looking over real, bro. 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:40.559 You see like ocean, the moon, like the the mountains are like looks like a movie shit, bro. 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.039 Like cartoons, you know, it's like real steep. 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:46.639 But um, I'm up there, I'm like, damn, this is dope. 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:50.480 And then they're like, alright, yo, we're gonna go through the favelas to get down. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:55.360 They're like, don't film, like, do not film at all. 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:59.519 They they will kill you here, like you'll disappear straight up. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:01.200 So I'm like, alright, alright. 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:03.440 And like I just watched City of Gods too. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:04.559 Have you seen that movie? 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:06.559 No, bro, it's a sick movie. 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:10.000 It's it's a film in Brazil, it talks about favelas. 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.680 So I I'm over here, like, bro, I just watched City of Gods the other day. 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:15.279 I'm about to go through a favela. 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.119 I'm like, all hyped. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.839 Bro, we fucking start going because we gotta go down. 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:27.359 It's these two dudes, they're like they're like mid-20s, bro. 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:29.519 They see us, bro. 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:31.440 They start speaking Portuguese. 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:34.079 They literally whip their guns out and cock that shit. 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:39.119 And they're like talking to the homies, but I could hear the tone he's talking in. 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.759 I'm like, this shit ain't cool that we're right here. 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.319 I'm like, nah, this like fuck. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:45.519 This is crazy. 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:52.559 And they're literally like at one point, this fool's like, gringo, and he points at me, and I'm like, Oh, they're talking about me, bro. 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:59.759 So literally, I was like, I wave, I'm like, I'm like, dude, do like the whitest shit you can do is just like like wave, bro. 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:02.559 Like the the you know, just be friendly. 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:05.119 And uh you didn't start speaking Spanish? 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:06.799 No, they only speak Portuguese. 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:09.519 Oh man, so they're like, yeah, they're saying their shit, bro. 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:15.279 And and one dude's pissed that fool cocked his gun was like heated, bro. 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:21.920 And then the the other homie was like a little more lenient, so like he was mad too, but he he let us go. 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.160 It's like, just get the fuck out of here, bro. 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:27.440 Like when you said favelas, like what exactly is that? 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:30.400 Bro, the favelas is like the projects and real. 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:32.240 So it's ghetto, bro. 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:39.440 It's like, yeah, like just picture a mountain of houses, like really like bro, the poorest. 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:42.799 I think a lot of those people make those houses, if I'm correct, bro. 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:47.680 Like just the poorest of the poor, but they have the most amazing views. 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:50.000 Like, it's it's uh it's weird, bro. 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:59.200 Like, cause their view is like a fucking multi-million dollar fucking ocean view, but they're just living in like the slums, bro. 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.079 And uh the cops aren't allowed in there. 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:06.079 Wow, like yeah, they they literally they they cannot go in there. 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:10.720 It's strictly like I hear they feed your ass to the pigs and shit like that. 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:12.799 But so what

happened? 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:15.359 So, bro, yeah, I thought I was gonna die. 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:26.960 And fucking luckily those dudes let us through, and uh and then uh yeah, we just walked to the do the whole favelas, bro, and I'm like right there, and like they didn't shake you down? 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:32.480 Nah, but if they would have, they would have found my drone because I had it in my fanny pack. 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:39.920 And bro, I don't know how that would have turned out because I I don't know, like they're they're just some real gangsters, bro. 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:44.400 Like, and so we start walking down, and then it's like a movie, bro. 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:59.200 Like, there's just like young kids like with machine guns, like the the cops are the local gangsters, so they're just like right there, machine guns, like every every you know so often you'll just see them right there, like guns out, just patrolling, bro. 00:19:59.279 --> 00:19:59.839 Like shrimp. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:07.680 And their chanclaws, like, and you know, after we we went through the first group of guys, like I felt more safe. 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:12.000 They're just like, don't film, like, as long as you don't do that, you're cool, bro. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:17.519 So we just walked through and we drank a beer in there, and it was crazy, bro. 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.440 Motherfuckers were looking like, yo, I know this dude's not from here. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.200 Like, it was I was getting weird looks. 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:25.039 But did you have any protection? 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:26.160 Nah, bro. 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:27.119 Jesus Christ was. 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:28.720 I mean, that was it, bro. 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:33.200 I mean, what did you have anybody with you that like spoke the language or was familiar with the area you said? 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:36.400 Oh yeah, so the the homies, it was uh Enry and VG. 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:39.839 They're they're like uh they're they're Brazilian artists. 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:47.599 They they do this shit called uh Pichal San where they they uh they climb buildings and do it's like their type of graffiti. 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:50.000 So they're familiar with they've been there before. 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:59.440 Yeah, but they don't live in the favelas, but they they like got the pass, like they speak the language, but it still is like yo, what the fuck are you doing here? 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:01.200 They were looking at you like who's this guy? 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:10.880 Yeah, like you know what you guys might be cool, let me ask, but like this fucking white dude who we know is not from here, what is he doing here? 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:17.039 And like I mean, I'm surprised you didn't like try to pass off as being like Mexican. 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:18.960 Like, because you do you know Spanish, right? 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:20.400 You don't know Spanish? 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:22.480 I can understand a little, bro. 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:23.359 What? 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:24.240 Yeah. 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:31.119 I mean, that would have I mean it listen, it's bad in a lot of countries to be American. 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:36.960 So you you want to be like something else, like you you couldn't even disguise yourself as being Mexican. 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:38.000 Nah, bro. 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.279 A lot of people out there thought I was Brazilian. 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:44.000 They would tell me they're like, oh, this guy's Brazilian. 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:44.799 I'm like, nah. 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:45.440 Right. 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:47.759 But obviously I just spoke English. 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:50.240 As soon as you open your mouth, they know like this fucking. 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:52.880 Yeah, yeah, they know. 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.680 And and bro, people like, yeah, they don't like that. 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.039 You know, you go to these places, like, you don't speak their language. 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.599 I've experienced like some racism. 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:04.640 I experienced in Amsterdam some racism, bro. 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.119 Like, and and I spoke English. 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.519 That they they spoke English as well, and they were racist towards me, bro. 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:13.279 Like, it was like so. 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:23.839 When you go deeper where you don't speak the same language, like you could tell the vibes, like some people were just like, you know, what is this outsider doing here, bro? 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:24.720 Yeah. 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:25.680 Wow. 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:28.480 That's a that sounds like a really close call. 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:33.839 Because the reality is, is if they had just decided to take you out, there's nothing that anyone could have done. 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:34.480 Nah. 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:38.720 If the homies would have survived, they would have just told them like there is no search party. 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:40.079 Rest in peace, Jeremy. 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:41.440 They're they're not allowed in there. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:48.720 The cops recently raided some favelas in Rio, like, bro, it was a straight, it was like some crazy shit. 00:22:48.960 --> 00:23:03.119 Like, I seen it on like Instagram, but they had a full out like war, like or little mini war within they raided the favelas, bro, and a lot of people died and got arrested, and it's some real shit over there, bro. 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:05.680 Yeah, they just had the Olympics in in Rio. 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:06.559 No way. 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:19.119 I mean, yeah, just a few years ago, um, they were really trying to clean up their act, um, trying to, you know, get the the crime out of the way of wherever the Olympics are gonna be and everything. 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:25.279 All cities do that to some extent,

but a lot of people don't talk about like the places that you've been to. 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.200 Um how do you how do you avoid those kind of places now? 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:37.039 Bro, I would never recommend anybody to it's like stay in your place, bro. 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:45.440 Yeah, like don't ever even that shit taught me as much as it sounds cool to you know see these places, like, nah. 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:47.359 Yeah, like hell no. 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:49.680 Stay on stay on the path, yeah, bro. 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:53.839 Cause even in you know, LA, bro, I wouldn't go uh to these projects. 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:56.559 No like bro, you don't step foot in there, right? 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:12.880 So let alone why are you going in these projects in this country, bro, where they're like some real gangsters, like this ain't no like, yo, look at me, I'm cool, like, nah, like machine guns, like ready to kill people, bro. 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.079 Yeah, that that's that that's wild, man. 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:30.319 When you transitioned out of high school and I guess into adulthood, at at any point did you ever consider like pivoting into the military or doing something crazy or just like off the wall like that? 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.880 So actually I did, bro. 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:41.440 It's like so uh one of my best friends, Pablo, he has a cousin of Paco, who was in the army, I believe. 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:45.440 And um, you know, it was a real cool dude, like successful. 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:49.759 So he he was like, he was just like that bigger cousin. 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:52.000 We're like, yo, look at look at Paco, bro. 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:54.240 Like he went to the army, bro. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:25:12.960 So it was like at one point we're just so lost in life that literally me and the homie Pablo went to West Covina Mall, and like you could sign up for the army there, and like we're like, all right, yo, that I guess his cousin was telling him about this buddy plan or something where you could go with somebody, right? 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:16.400 And it was like on some yo, hold my hand, let's go to the fucking. 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:22.160 So it was like, bro, we go, and it was like, all right, let's sign up. 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.680 So we walk in there, like, yo, we're trying to sign up, bro. 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:32.000 And then uh the only thing that stopped them from officially doing it was I had a weed ticket. 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:35.039 And they're like, all right, bro, they're like, you know what? 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:36.319 We can't sign you up. 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:40.559 You have to fix this weed ticket and then come back, bro. 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:41.759 What's a weed ticket? 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:47.279 Like, I got caught with weed, so like they like just you know, just a little bit of weed, but they gave me a ticket. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:52.000 Uh so they're like, you have to clear that up, and then we could sign you up. 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:54.880 So it was like, yeah, bro. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:26:01.759 Like, so you had to go through extra, you had to go through extra steps, and you probably just didn't follow up after that, right? 00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:08.559 Yeah, I was like, yo, you're gonna take me now, because if I gotta go think about this some more, bro, I'm probably not gonna do it. 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:15.359 So it was like that thing, it was really like, bro, I could have gone on a whole different journey because it was set in my head. 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:17.119 I was like, I'm going, bro. 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:17.680 Right. 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:22.559 And then that, yeah, I don't know, but I I have some homies in the military too. 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:26.880 Shout out to the homie Edwin, shout out to uh Chris, Kevin. 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:30.160 Those fools are like in the in the uh military. 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:34.400 You you spent so many years highlighting um other people. 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:35.200 Yeah. 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:39.680 Um, what do you think you've learned about human nature from behind the camera? 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:42.720 Uh filming taught me everything, bro. 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:46.640 Taught me like a lot about more of life, bro. 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:57.759 Just like traveling the world really opened my eyes and just like um, bro, like learning about different religions, learn learning like different cultures. 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.319 Like, bro, I was born and raised in Monterey Park. 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:06.160 Like, you know, in LA, there is like different cultures out here, but like, not like New York, bro. 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:15.440 You go blocks and you'll be in like these Jewish areas, you like Asians, like you hear people talking languages, you're like, bro, what language is that? 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:16.079 You know? 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:26.559 So it's like it really just opened my mind, like, damn, bro, like even New York, it's only five hours away, but it's a whole different lifestyle over there. 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:34.319 So then when you go internationally, you're like, oh damn, bro, like these people are like everything's different, bro. 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:36.960 Even like the rules we're talking about are different, you know. 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:42.640 You gotta watch out, like, um, you gotta watch out what you do in these places, bro. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:49.359 Like, even going to Dubai, it was like I learned so much out there, I was like, damn, those people will be like watching you, bro. 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:58.480 Yeah, I heard Dubai is a place that's uh people people tend to not understand the local laws and policies. 00:27:58.640 --> 00:27:58.799 Yeah. 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:04.000 And you have to be real, real careful because it is still an Arab nation. 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.480 They

still have those laws in place. 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:06.880 Yeah. 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:12.640 But it's also a place where you could kind of get into the lifestyle of having too much fun. 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:15.039 And did you experience anything like that there? 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:16.960 Were you warned before you went there? 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:23.200 I was like kind of worn, you know, but me, I was like, bro, this is how like unaware I was. 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:27.519 Like the homies were making fun of me because I was like, I didn't know what a Muslim was. 00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:30.240 Because I was like, like, why would I? 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:32.319 Like, I'm like in Monterey Park, bro. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:39.200 There's like no, there was a handful of Middle Easterns I want to repetal with, you know, and like some Armenian homies. 00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:41.519 Like one of my closest friends is Armenian. 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.640 So, like, besides that, I I didn't know, bro. 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:56.720 So I went there and like I remember I was in the market, bro, and I turned the aisle, and it's this girl like all covered up, like, like, bro, you only see your eyes. 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:03.039 So you just wearing, and I was like, oh, like what it kind of shook me up a little, and I was like, yo, this is wild. 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:11.119 And then I'm like meeting people, and then I'm like just shaking their hand to be like, you know, like nice, and they're like, no, no, no, like you don't shake their hand. 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.720 I'm like, oh, like I don't know, like my bad. 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:23.680 I like so like there, I was learning as I'm going, bro, and and like that's when I realized, like, damn, I I don't know anything, you know. 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:26.000 Like, but I'm like, I'm open-minded, bro. 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:28.559 Like, people tell me, like, yo, you don't know this? 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:30.559 I'm like, nah, put me on game, bro. 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:31.279 Teach me. 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:40.559 So like I I learned a lot over there, and uh, dude, I even ran into some problems out there because I was filming this artist paint. 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:41.839 The sh how do you say it? 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:43.279 The shike or chic? 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:44.559 The sh a chic. 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:44.960 Yeah, yeah. 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:50.960 So he was I got a job filming um this this guy, Case McClain. 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:59.839 He did a mural of this of him out of this place called Hata, which was like an hour away from Dubai, like middle of nowhere, bro. 00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:02.240 Like, I was there for like 10 days. 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:04.160 I felt like I was in trouble. 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:08.799 Like, I was like, dude, like they reminded me of Bakersfield. 00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:21.759 I'm like, bro, I just was on a 16-hour flight to go to like Bakersfield, like, but Middle Eastern status, like I seen the same people do the same, like it blew my mind, bro. 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:22.880 I felt kind of sad for them. 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:25.440 I'm like, dang, bro, this is their life right here. 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:37.039 But I I drone shot at this guy doing a donuts in front of the mural, and like he would posted on Instagram, and then the next day he's like, bro, erased that. 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:38.640 Like, I I got arrested. 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:44.000 They they impounded my car because they're watching you on social media. 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:46.799 So I was like, yo, like, what? 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:48.079 He's like, yeah, bro. 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:49.200 Was he from there? 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:52.400 Yeah, he was from there, and he didn't know any better. 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.960 I mean, he kind of thought it was all cool, but the drone shot was cool, bro. 00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:00.960 But it was like, bro, he was doing donuts and like slow motion dirt. 00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:09.119 The the mural, like, I mean, I I guess he was getting kind of dirt, little dust particles on the mural, but it makes sense why they would trip. 00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:19.119 What are some things that people don't understand about when it comes to actually hiring and accepting a job as a photographer sometimes? 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:29.759 Like, I know for me as a podcaster, the one thing that I've learned the most is that my time, like, and having depending on other people to show up and things like that. 00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:36.000 And I've literally have set up shop and like got prepared, and then someone cancels on me, and things like that. 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:39.200 But what like how do you get through those frustrations, man? 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:41.519 It's just part of the game, bro. 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:43.519 Like, you're you're gonna always run through that. 00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:48.720 There's people who've been in their career fields for like 10 plus years and still will run into things like that. 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:54.720 Like, I hang out with a lot of tattooers and film them, and they'll even get cancellations, bro. 00:31:55.039 --> 00:32:02.960 And it's just I guess those experiences should just teach you that he gets that half deposit. 00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:20.319 Like, I mean, when money's involved, you know, it's like, yo, like it just means you just need to be like you need to go through those experiences, bro, because you know, it just teaches you how to be a better businessman, and it's like if you're really about it, all right, send me a half deposit, bro. 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:24.480 And if you gotta second guess it and think, then you're probably not about it. 00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:25.599 And it's cool. 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:27.920 Like, I don't really want to work with people like that. 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:39.680 It's like, you know,

it it doing business here is like I'm still learning, bro, but it was crazy because I actually had to get out of LA for people to take me more seriously. 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:44.880 Because you know, like doing business with like close friends, like just family and friends. 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:46.079 Favors, right? 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:47.119 Favors, yeah, yeah. 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:54.799 People people will never value people who've known you your whole life will never value you like ever, bro. 00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:06.880 Like, it's like you're lucky to get a couple hundred dollars compared to like these people are like flying me around the world, like pink thousands, like and it's like they don't know me, bro. 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:15.759 But like they were like your biggest fan is like somebody you don't know, and it's like doing business around here taught me that. 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:16.480 Yeah. 00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:18.240 I mean, I'd be honest with you, man. 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:23.359 Photographers and videographers, um it's such a saturated market. 00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:27.680 Um anyone can go to Best Buy and purchase an expensive camera. 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:35.519 But the one thing that I always say is you can't purchase time and motivation and and taking yourself seriously, just like what you said. 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:38.960 Um what got you started? 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:42.400 Like what like what was your break to get you out of LA? 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:47.039 And what what made you take yourself more seriously? 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.200 Like at what point did you say, all right, I'm not a hobbyist anymore, this is my job? 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:52.160 Yeah. 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:56.240 I guess it was like reaching out to people that I didn't know. 00:33:56.559 --> 00:34:02.880 Like that was my huge thing, was I was like, yo, I gotta start doing business with people who don't know me. 00:34:03.279 --> 00:34:11.199 And you know, I was like, I guess uh the game changing thing for me, bro, was I I reached out to this company, chopping down films. 00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:23.599 And uh I had you know, the homie touche, he he had told me because he was he was homies with them, and he was like, yo, bro, like these fools seen your video, and like I was like, oh what? 00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:26.400 Like, I I knew who they were, they were killing it, bro. 00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:38.800 And I was just always like, damn, like this film crew's sick, and uh, but I didn't want to reach out, but then when the homie touche, like I was in Hawaii, bro, it was my first traveling job ever, bro. 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:53.920 And um, I was out there, and then yeah, Touche just sent me that message, like, yo, bro, you're like on their radar, and Touche is a sick ass artist, so that that fool, like him saying that, like I guess he had spoken to them a little about me too, you know. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:57.519 So I was like, dang, touche broke that ice with this company. 00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:02.960 I was like, I'm gonna reach out to them, and like I just reached out, I was like, yo, what's up, bro? 00:35:03.119 --> 00:35:04.880 You guys accepting applications? 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:06.239 Like, check me out. 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:14.320 Instagram DM, and uh, I met up, you know, with the owner, Zayn Myers, and uh that foo changed my life, bro. 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:23.760 He he he's the one who put me on this traveling, like me traveling, bro, because I it was always just in the States, or no, it was always just LA, bro. 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.800 LA that foo was on some worldwide shit. 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:33.360 So yeah, linking up with him, bro, like changed everything for me. 00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:44.079 You just never know, man, when that opportunity is gonna present itself and it's all about networking and putting your best foot forward and representing yourself and taking yourself seriously, man. 00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:46.000 And I guess that's why I wanted to talk to you today. 00:35:46.079 --> 00:36:02.880 I you don't I normally talk to military veterans, uh, service members, and people that help with the military community, but every now and then I dabble into leadership, growth, um, and just for the last 10 years, man, I've watched you grow tremendously. 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:05.119 I mean, how many followers do you have now on Instagram? 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.039 Dude, I I reached 36,000, which is chill, bro. 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:12.800 Like a lot of the homies are in like the 100,000, 200,000. 00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:16.320 Like, they're like I deal with a lot of really sick people. 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:20.719 So 36 is chill, but like to me, I'm like, man, I'm trying to get it. 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:22.639 But you're just a kid from Monterey Park, man. 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:23.679 Like that, you know what I mean? 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:28.000 And it's like you but but you're but you're big time. 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:30.719 You've traveled to six different countries at least. 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:38.400 Um you've worked with all these tremendous artists and and done these big projects and things like that. 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:40.960 What's probably your biggest project you've done so far? 00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:45.920 Uh I don't know, that's a tough one, bro. 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:52.159 Like I guess the biggest one I'm working on right now is a documentary on my homie Adrian. 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:58.320 And like, you know, we filmed in uh I met him in Miami. 00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:16.880 So we filmed in Miami, New York, uh, Norkel, um went a uh Germany, Amsterdam, Mexico, like we're we're just gathering this footage of like just him doing his thing, bro. 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:27.039 Like I've I went to his family's house and like showed where he's where he grew up and like you know met his parents and all that, and it's the

biggest project to date. 00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:39.679 Like we put out, you know, like little short films here and there, but the whole the whole goal is gathering these moments and and eventually making a huge documentary, you know. 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:40.400 Yeah. 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:45.519 And is it a documentary on him or is it a documentary about and what like who who is Adrian? 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:47.679 So Adrian, he's a tattoo artist. 00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:53.519 He goes by uh AD tattoos and um he's got a shop in Miami, Green Avenue. 00:37:53.679 --> 00:38:02.880 But uh it's about him, bro, and his journey, and like it's it's cool like just telling his story because he inspires me, bro. 00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:06.559 Like he like going to see where he grew up, bro. 00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:19.199 It's like he showed me all his drawings when he was younger, and like it just showed that like he was a good artist, but like it wasn't like there's these people who were like kids who are just like natural artists, bro. 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:21.199 Like they were good since elementary school. 00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:40.320 The homie Adrian was good, but he wasn't one of those like naturals, but he wanted it so bad that like bro, he turned into this amazing artist, and I'm like, it's inspiring to me because I'm like, damn, bro, like I'm I'm not a natural artist like that, but like I I want to be like right now. 00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.920 I'm I'm going down this tattoo journey, and I'm just like, you know what? 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:48.800 Like, I'm not a natural bro, but I want this shit. 00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:55.840 I feel it in my heart and soul, so it's like seeing his journey, it's just like yo, like you could do it, bro. 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:58.880 Like, so yeah. 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:15.679 I guess overall, uh knowing you for the last 10 years or so, uh, I I feel like you're the type of person, and I've mentioned to you that I mentioned this to you before, is you're the type of person that it doesn't matter what it is, you're like you're gonna win, like you're gonna knock it out of the park. 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:22.400 Whether you transition into something else, you've you've made tremendous strides just doing it on your own. 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:28.960 Like you said when you were growing up, you really didn't have anyone that was in this field to kind of show you the ropes. 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:43.360 You just kind of picked up a camera one day and you kind of figured it out, and then next thing you know, um you're connecting with the right people, and now you're uh traveling overseas, and you know that that's really truly a blessing. 00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:51.360 Um and that's the that's why I wanted to talk to you and I want to have this conversation with you because you're a tremendous person, man. 00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:57.519 Like you may not realize it because you're so humble, but you've traveled to six different countries. 00:39:57.679 --> 00:39:59.679 If you look at all the other folks. 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:06.880 All the other kids, all the other peers that you grew up with and you graduated high school with, chances are, man, they haven't been where you've been. 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:08.480 They haven't done what you've done. 00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:12.480 So you need to pinch yourself and realize that you're in a fucking great place right now. 00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:14.159 And and I'm I'm proud of you. 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:15.039 Like I'm proud of you. 00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:27.840 And whenever you put something out there, man, like I watch it blow up in like literally minutes. 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:33.599 I mean, people are just viewing it, liking it, watching it, and it's uh it's always quality. 00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:44.320 Um what do you think long-term consistency looks like um in a creative field just as yours, where burnout is pretty common? 00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:47.679 Like burning out in a like in your field? 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:48.960 Just work, yeah. 00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:52.239 So I'm like, it's happening to me right now, bro. 00:40:52.320 --> 00:41:01.199 I'm 11 years like in this film, you know, this film journey, and I'm like, damn, bro, like I I want a tattoo. 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:17.519 Like, and it's like I feel I'm like, bro, it's just getting started, like my career, like you know, like trying to take it to this next level, but I'm like, damn, like I don't know what happened, but like sometimes like I guess you just run into like, you know what? 00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:25.440 I need a break from my main thing, and like that's why I'm like I feel the same way, like tattooing. 00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:30.239 I I get this feeling, like how I felt when I picked up the camera back in the day. 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.960 I was like, dang, I feel it in my heart and soul. 00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:43.440 Like I I sit there and visualize it, like I'm like, I could see this happening, and it's like you know, filming is always gonna be my thing, bro. 00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:48.880 But also, too, what's what's pushing me away a little is like this AI stuff. 00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:53.519 Like, I I'm already preparing for the AI takeover. 00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:55.360 It already hit Hollywood. 00:41:55.599 --> 00:42:02.800 Like people, there's like strikes and stuff, like I don't know exactly on what, but I know AI was like messing shit up. 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:08.800 Yeah, and it's like AI, like AI, bro, AI is here to take over everything, right? 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:17.199 So that's why I'm like, man, like even tattooing, bro, like they're they're have these robotic things, you know, like that people are on that mission too. 00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:18.639 But I'm like, you know what? 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:23.119 You guys are gonna have a harder time dipping into that industry. 00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:36.639 So, but the

filming is like, yeah, bro, like why would you hire me when you could just uh if you want to sit commercial, you could just like pay this AI thing and type in detail for detail, like what you want. 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:45.760 You don't gotta fly me out, no Airbnb's, and all like you just type, bro, and that's where the future is heading, even with movies. 00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:52.320 And um, I seen this commercial the other day, the homie sent me, and it was like it was actually really cool, bro. 00:42:52.400 --> 00:43:00.639 It was a Nike commercial, but they made it about like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, because it shows them like training, bro. 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:08.639 It's at first, it's just this dude, you don't see his face, and he's like training, he's like on this farm, like just like working out, and you're like, What? 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:27.440 And then like it's all AI, but it looks real, and like bro, he's training for something, you don't know what, and then at the end you realize it's a Texas chainsaw massacre, and he's like training to go like capture these people and shit, like and uh and I was like, bro, this is crazy, and this is now. 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:33.280 Imagine in five years, like it's just coming to take the jobs, bro. 00:43:33.519 --> 00:43:34.800 It's hard to imagine. 00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:42.320 Um, the internet has completely revolutionized and changed our lives in such a fast capacity. 00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:45.360 Um, you were born in probably the mid-90s, right? 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:46.480 92. 00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:49.760 Yeah, so you were born early to mid-90s. 00:43:50.000 --> 00:44:08.159 Um I'm a little bit older than you, and it life was slow at one time, and it wasn't it wasn't what it was a little more predictable, but now it's like everything from our currency to uh who we hire to take pictures for us, like you mentioned. 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:31.679 Um it it's all changing because of the internet, and and now we got this new AI thing, and it's it's hard to it I always compare it to like Terminator minus the physical robot, but you have like your Amazon Echo Dot taking over your household because it hears everything you're saying, and you're right, like how do you prepare yourself for like the next the next thing to stay relevant? 00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:44.960 Um you know, and and I could understand why you would want to transition into tattooing um only because you want to keep yourself kind of spread out a little bit, right? 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:48.559 Not just creative in like one dynamic, but maybe in multiple dynamics. 00:44:48.639 --> 00:45:01.199 And I could totally see like where you would maybe use the the photography and the videography in in conjunction with the tattooing side of it all, um, you're always teaching yourself something new. 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:02.960 This is like what I'm doing with this podcast. 00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:05.840 Like I wanted to learn audio,

I wanted to learn video. 00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:16.000 Um and it's been a very steep, steep cliff climb, which I'm sure tattooing will be the same for you if you haven't already done tattooing. 00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:26.639 I mean, it's you know, to be a master of that art, I mean, people people don't realize how difficult that is to stay steady and articulate when you're doing those lines and things like that, man. 00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:27.840 Have you have you done that already? 00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:28.960 Have you done any tattoos? 00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:31.679 I've tatted myself like three times. 00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:37.119 And uh I tatted my homie Pablo on his thigh like 10 years ago. 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:42.480 And bro, I actually did a little heart on my grandma's ankle like two days ago. 00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:46.400 She was like, she'll be seeing me like tatting on fake skin. 00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:51.039 Yeah, she's like, Jeremy, can you give me a tattoo on on I'm like, what? 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:53.360 Like, nah, grandma, like what are you talking about? 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:59.599 And then like she's like, Yeah, I want like a little heart on my ankle, and like so I just like dismissed it. 00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.079 I was like, ah, it's like I don't know, Grandma. 00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:09.599 Then like, bro, she kept like telling me and telling me and telling me to where I was like, yo, like grandma wants a heart in her ankle. 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:15.760 And I was like, Alright, like, so the other day, like she just called me out on it. 00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:17.119 She's like, yo, do you have time? 00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:17.840 Are you gonna do it? 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:20.559 And I was like, Yeah, I'm ready, let's go. 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:24.960 So yeah, I pulled up to her house two days ago, and I actually vlogged it. 00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:29.840 I like filmed it, and like, yeah, it was it's hard, bro. 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:31.440 Like, it is so hard. 00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:36.800 Like, the homies make it look easy, but they're like 10 years in that shit, 10 years plus, you know. 00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:46.079 But it just made me realize, like, just doing a little heart, I'm like, bro, these guys are crazy with what they're doing in the tattoo world right now. 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:50.880 And bro, I'm barely like dipping my feet in there. 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:55.280 Like, I'm supposed to tattoo my homie in a couple days on his upper thigh. 00:46:55.440 --> 00:47:08.719 So I feel that's gonna really it's it's gonna be the most experience that I'm that I'm gonna get because it's like I'm and when I'm tatting myself, bro, I did it on my thigh, so it's kind of weird and uncomfortable. 00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:15.840 So now that I'll be doing his thigh, I get to like like sit like a certain way and just be more comfortable. 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:20.880 So I'm really curious how I'm gonna do like my goals to kill it. 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:24.559 I might take you up, man, because I have a tattoo that needs to be cleaned up. 00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:26.480 Yeah, it it was dirty, man. 00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:38.480 Like I went to a tattoo convention and I'm I'm pretty sure the tattoo artist was drunk um because he squibbled some lines up, and you you wouldn't tell you wouldn't be able to tell unless you really looked at it close. 00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:38.880 Yeah. 00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:42.159 But um, yeah, it was it it was all messed, it's all messed up. 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:45.119 So I might I might be hitting you up, man, for appreciate that, bro. 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:45.920 For some work. 00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:50.000 You you talked about transitioning in transitioning into tattooing. 00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.719 Um you recently had a health scare. 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:53.760 Yeah, bro. 00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:55.599 That landed you in the hospital. 00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:01.519 It probably helped you with this new with this new perspective, this new horizon of maybe I need to transition to something else. 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:03.920 He talked about talk about what happened. 00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:04.960 Yeah, bro. 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:11.119 It's um 33 and I had a stroke June, I think it was like second or third. 00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:14.239 I was just sitting on the couch, bro, on my mom's. 00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:19.039 I was gonna go up to Big Bear that day to go with my cousin Richie. 00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:27.920 But uh my mom's car, like she she needed it to get an oil change, so I took it, and then like they were lagging it, bro. 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:33.360 They're like, you know what, we found a nail in the in the tire, so it's gonna take longer. 00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:36.719 So I was like, damn, like, alright, whatever. 00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.039 So I'm just chilling on my mom's. 00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:56.079 She's like over there, like she got off work early, and uh, bro, I just ate wingstop, and uh, I'd went on a run right before that, and bro, I was watching 50 First Dates just sitting there, bro, and then like bam, that shit just hit me. 00:48:56.320 --> 00:49:02.880 I just like had a stroke, like I didn't know what was going on, but yeah, dude, shook me up. 00:49:03.039 --> 00:49:12.079 I was in the hospital for like 10 days, like seeing like bro, my roommate died, like I was seeing body bags and shit. 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:14.559 Like, I was like, bro, where am I? 00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:16.960 Like, what is going on in my life right now? 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:40.079 And like, and like, you know, I've like been smoking weed and shit since I was like in high school, drank and like you know, I've partied and shit, so it's not like I'm like, yo, this like innocent angel, like what h I'm like, oh shit, like damn, shit caught up to me, you know, like that's what I can imagine. 00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:45.360 So now I'm like six

months sober, bro, and I haven't been sober since high school. 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:57.679 Like I was smoking weed on the daily, and it's crazy because like I was like, bro, I ain't gonna lie, about two months before this happened, like I actually pray to God, bro. 00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:01.039 I was like, man, I like want to go sober. 00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:06.079 Cause I was just like thinking, like, damn, bro, like, because you know, I'll smoke cigarettes at times. 00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:11.679 You smoke a cigarette, and it's like by the time you're finished, look at the end of the cigarette. 00:50:11.760 --> 00:50:15.119 Like, that shit's like the residues like right there. 00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:16.400 You're just like, damn. 00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:25.840 So I'm like, bro, my insides is like 20 years, 15 years of this smoke inside of me, and it just started like scaring me, bro. 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:30.159 I'm like, bro, I'd be so pissed if I like get lung cancer or some shit. 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:37.760 Like, so it was like, bro, I was just bad, like smoking weed from the second I woke up, going to the gym. 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:39.360 Like, I was functioning, bro. 00:50:39.519 --> 00:50:43.199 I would get high as shit and go to the gym, work out, like everything. 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:47.440 And then it was like, but I'm like, bro, I don't want to die. 00:50:47.840 --> 00:51:00.000 So I prayed, bro, and then to me, I like to believe like, oh yo, like honestly, I wouldn't have got sober if it wasn't for this, because this is like life or death. 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:05.440 It's like, all right, Jeremy, you smoke or drink, or like do anything, like you might die. 00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:09.679 Like you get another stroke, the doctor's like, you'll probably go paralyzed, bro. 00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:11.760 So I'm like, ah shit, dude. 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:15.119 That day I gave my my weed wax pen away. 00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:17.039 Uh I was like, fuck. 00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:20.320 I I dude, it was like it was like the movie Half Big, bro. 00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:24.000 It was like the the last time I was like, fuck, like this is it, bro. 00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:24.960 This is the last. 00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:25.679 It's funny. 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:35.519 Like, and bro, I gave it like to uh it was uh my Nina Sonya was there and uh Vanessa, and then like I gave it to them, bro, and they they threw it in the trash. 00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:39.599 Like I almost the inner addict in me, bro, wanted to hit that shit. 00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:55.119 Like I was like that, like bro, I'm that much of an addict where I was like, damn, bro, but like being an addict can actually you could turn it into a benefit like uh into a positive thing, you know, because I'm a film addict, bro. 00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:08.000 Like I have an addictive personality, and I learned that about myself these past couple years, to where like bro, if I like a certain food, bro, I'll like eat that shit like four days in a row. 00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:16.320 I've like been going to the gym like every day, like just like addicted, like and it's like if I don't go, bro, it bothers me. 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:19.440 And like filming, like I got addicted to that shit. 00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:28.000 Like, bro, I picked up the camera one day, is like fast forward 11 years, I'm like, fuck, like, bro, I haven't put that camera down. 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:33.199 I'm just like addicted to it, and now that my new addiction is tattooing. 00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:39.599 So I'm like, all right, like you know, you could be an addict, bro, but you could you could turn this into a positive. 00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:45.039 Like since I've met since I filmed a lot of people, I dip into like businesses, right? 00:52:45.119 --> 00:53:08.559 Like I'll meet like the leader of nah just different businesses, and I notice a but like every time I would meet some like boss, I'm like, oh, these foods are like a little, like they're they're a little like not off, but they're like, bro, you have to be like a little ad freaking like uh addict to to right to reach these certain levels of success. 00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:13.599 And like that's that's a similarity I've seen, and I've just been like, oh, like that's a trip. 00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:24.079 I feel I have that, I just need to be a bigger addict because these people were like I filmed people who took it to levels where I'm like, damn bro, like crazy. 00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:39.119 Dude, that's interesting you say that because I I I I've seen that with um criminals before, where like it's like wow, if you put this much this much passion into something positive, you'd be so successful. 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:43.039 Or like you look at some of the geniuses out there, like even like Elon Musk, man. 00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.920 I mean, he's he's supposed to he's he's autistic. 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:53.119 So like at the end of the day, dude, it's like it's like you have you know, you have to be a little bit like a little bit off. 00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:57.280 Like you have to be a little bit crazy, and you have to be a little bit something. 00:53:57.440 --> 00:53:57.840 Yeah. 00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:02.880 And the one thing is you gotta focus that energy towards something positive. 00:54:03.039 --> 00:54:03.280 Yeah. 00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:05.679 You it's sort of like the fork in the road. 00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:09.440 Like I've always said this about about my about my siblings. 00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:16.719 The the differences between me and my siblings is that somebody at some point told them that they weren't good enough and they agreed. 00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:20.079 And they and they chose the path of drugs. 00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:24.079 They chose the path of like not following the right way. 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:24.800 Yeah. 00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:45.280 And I feel that that's the same with a

lot of people that I know where like they you have a fork in the road and you can put all this energy and effort into you know, work, yeah, or something you're passionate about, or you can put all this energy into partying and drugs and alcohol and everything else. 00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:52.960 And the reality is, is I always say moderation is the most important thing, and that's kind of what I wanted to ask you about. 00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:58.960 How the hell do you balance the work hard, play hard attitude? 00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:04.000 Um, is that something you feel like has not been balanced, and that's maybe why you had this stroke? 00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:06.800 And like, how do you work hard, play hard, man? 00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:12.400 Because you because you're in some awesome areas, like you're you're around awesome people, like in nice, cool locations. 00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:13.280 Yeah. 00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:26.719 So I feel the more of the partying was done with me and my homies not on the jobs because, or like these traveling places, you know, when I would travel, it's like, believe it or not, bro. 00:55:26.800 --> 00:55:33.119 I actually don't party like that when I'm on the roads because I'm like, bro, these people are spending mad money, they're flying me out. 00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:38.159 Like, I love filming so much that I'm like, I have to make something good. 00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:40.880 And if I don't, it's a reflection on me. 00:55:41.039 --> 00:55:49.199 And and I realize if I'm gonna get another job, then like I just have to put all my energy into my last film, you know. 00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:54.079 Like, I don't want to be some dude like, oh, check out this thing I did like five years ago. 00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:55.119 It's cool, right? 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:58.639 Like, my thing is like, nah, bro, don't dwell on anything. 00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:11.280 Like, you're as good as your last project, and like I'll be on places like I'll definitely smoke weed, you know, but like, but say like drinking beers and shit, it was like people be like, yo, you want to drink? 00:56:11.360 --> 00:56:19.199 I'm like, nah, because I'm filming, and and if I have the camera in one hand and then the beer in the other hand, I'm gonna miss a shot. 00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:19.599 Right. 00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:24.400 So, and I'm like, I've experienced that, you know, like where I'm like, all right, bro, that's dumb. 00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:27.760 Like, I just hit the weed, bam, all right, go work. 00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:36.639 And uh so yeah, the parting, it's like it's like people were like, bro, you travel the world in this, but it's always working. 00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:42.079 Yeah, and and it's like bro, you gotta people, if they're gonna fly you, they're gonna max you out, bro. 00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:45.280 Like, it's like, all right, bro, we're we're gonna work, work, work. 00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:49.599 Like, yeah, we'll go out and have

fun, but hey, yo, we gotta wake up early, bro. 00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:51.360 And me, I'm like, fuck, man. 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:53.920 Like, I'd rather get some sleep. 00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:57.039 And especially going into different time zones, bro. 00:56:57.119 --> 00:57:12.559 You're like, you're like, damn, you might pull into a spot and you're up for like 24 hours, and then you gotta adjust, and then you gotta like, you're just like, whoa, and then like by the time you're barely getting your sleep schedule correct, it's like, alright, gotta go, bro, we finish. 00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:22.719 And I'm just like, all right, so I can't imagine just going in, not sleeping 24 hours, wanting to party, and then like, bro, I'll be all messed up. 00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:44.880 You you don't realize it, but you have a lot of inherent discipline, like a lot of just inner discipline that I don't know where you learned it from, but but for me, like, even when I was becoming an officer in the army and I went through the ROTZ program, um, I I refused to go all in on that program. 00:57:45.039 --> 00:58:07.199 And what I mean by that is I did not buy into the this is military officer training land, and these are make pretend positions, um, and we need you to take this serious 24-7 type stuff, because I was prior enlisted before I I went the officer route, and I understood that I only had four years of college. 00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:13.679 And those four years of college, I was gonna go to the clubs, I was gonna go to the bars, but I also had to get up three days a week at 6 a.m. 00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:15.760 to do physical fitness training. 00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:19.760 And just like what you mentioned, uh, here was the problem. 00:58:20.079 --> 00:58:28.719 Monday, Wednesday, Friday was the mornings I had to get up early to go do physical fitness training before my college classes, right? 00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:35.920 Um the problem was Tuesday night was college night, Thursday night was ladies' night. 00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:39.760 So I wasn't gonna miss those two nights. 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:40.320 Yeah. 00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:57.360 I mean, I would literally like go out, stay out late, and then get like two or three hours of sleep, and then go to physical fitness training the next morning, run like six to eight miles, puke my brains out, like literally just everywhere, and then go to class that day. 00:58:57.599 --> 00:59:00.079 Like that was the work hard, play hard mentality that I had. 00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:05.280 Because I understood, like, I do want to enjoy my upbringing, my childhood or whatever. 00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:05.920 Yeah. 00:59:06.239 --> 00:59:11.360 But I I don't want to like not get anything done. 00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:15.119 So you have to have that work hard, play hard uh mentality. 00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:19.679 But uh when I say you have inherent discipline, what I mean by that is like you understand business. 00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:29.280 Like there's a lot of other people out there that would take advantage of your situation and they would go to Germany or they would go overseas somewhere and they would not get the job done. 00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:34.719 And then they would just botch the entire project and never get hired again anywhere else. 00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:45.119 So I don't know where you got it from, but from what it sounds like, you have a lot of just given discipline within you already, and that's that's very impressive, Jeremy. 00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:59.599 Like, I mean, I don't I don't know where you get it from because it doesn't sound like you know it was really taught to you growing up, but um because for me it was my father, he was 20 year military veteran, so he would whip my ass and like make me do stuff, but yeah, um for people out. 01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:03.280 There that are just grinding nonstop, what advice do you have for them? 01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:13.760 I mean, the energy you give in is what you get, like pretty much like in terms of health and things like that that you were just talking about. 01:00:14.079 --> 01:00:15.679 Oh, wait, say say the question again. 01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:21.119 Like what like what advice would you have people out there that are grinding nonstop but not really thinking about their health? 01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:24.400 I mean, damn, bro, it's it's crazy. 01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:33.599 I mean, I feel working out is like everybody should be physical, you know, like do some physical activities, like that shit just makes me feel amazing. 01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:43.760 And I think like, but even then, bro, like you you're not even promised, like being healthy because I've been working out, bro, trying to eat good, and I still had a stroke. 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:49.840 So it's like sometimes it's inherited, like sometimes it's like I don't know, bro. 01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:52.079 Like, do you think it was stress induced? 01:00:52.559 --> 01:00:54.559 I don't Do you tend to hide your stress? 01:00:54.800 --> 01:01:04.320 I for sure probably have stress, but I I feel like I was just parting, bro, and just like you know, some of my homies are like, yo, it was a stress. 01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:07.199 I was like, Yeah, I was also doing some bad shit. 01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:07.599 Yeah. 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:16.800 And it was like, and maybe like, you know, there's people who are like younger, bro, like who have had crazy ass things happen to them. 01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:31.119 So I'm like, for me, for parting so hard for 15 years, that like I made it this far, bro, like my body is kind of good, you know, but I did go hard, bro. 01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:39.519 Like it's it's embarrassing to say, but like, yeah, man, like I was just a huge, like fucking always trying to turn up, bro. 01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:45.920 Like, or just always like on weed, or like, yeah, and it's like that shit caught up, bro. 01:01:46.159 -->

01:01:50.480 It seemed like in your mid-30s you were looking for a life of purpose. 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:58.800 And I always say a life of service is a life worth living, mainly because my career path has been, you know, military and and things like that. 01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:07.760 But for you, there's nothing wrong with with where you're going now because it's kind of like a new chapter in your life. 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:18.320 You start out in your 20s, you're in chapter two, chapter three, chapter four, chapter five, and then like in your mid-30s, you're now realizing that I gotta make a change, I gotta do something different. 01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:24.320 And when you're in the hospital, was there a moment where you kind of just laid there and said, Something's gotta change? 01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:30.719 I mean, it's crazy because this was the only change in my life that I've never done was be sober, bro. 01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:33.199 I've I've done everything, bro. 01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:43.840 Like, but it's like sobriety was the main thing where I'm like, you know what, maybe this is why I haven't reached that next level, is because of I've never been sober. 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:49.119 And so to me, it's like, you know, six months to me, bro, is crazy. 01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:50.880 Like, I I can't believe it. 01:02:51.039 --> 01:03:02.239 And like I heard Mike Tyson talk about sobriety one time, bro, because he was an addict, and and that foo in the video, he was like, he's like, man, he's like, I've been sober for three days. 01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:05.519 He's like, you know how fucking hard that shit was. 01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:08.239 He's like, you know, like three days, bro. 01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:10.639 And I was like, I feel him, bro. 01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:17.679 Like I was that deep into it where I'm like, bro, I would be happy, like, yo, I want to smoke weed for a day. 01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:20.480 But I did the pat like 15 years, bro. 01:03:20.559 --> 01:03:22.639 I was like, I'm celebrating a day. 01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:24.639 Like, I'm like, fuck, bro. 01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:33.039 Like, that's actually before that, the longest was two weeks, because I was in Dubai, bro, and you couldn't you couldn't smoke weed out there, bro. 01:03:33.280 --> 01:03:36.800 So I was like, that that was the longest I was sober, bro. 01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:41.840 I remember when I came back from there, I was like, dang, like, do I wanna like do this shit again? 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:44.320 Like, I'm sober off this shit. 01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:57.360 And bro, I just smoked and went right back down to you know, like just being high all the time, and like I feel like I like bro, my biological father, it's like inner blood, bro. 01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:05.360 Like, Daffu's an addict too, like, you know, like I have family members, like we're it's just in my DNA, you know. 01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:08.559 And does that kind of hang over your head

a little bit? 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:11.599 I mean, nah, it's just it is what it is, you know. 01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:13.679 It's like to each his own, bro. 01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:29.360 Like, I I've just like realized like this, you know, like I don't judge anybody, bro, like on some like, yeah, bro, somebody could come and do drugs, some crazy shit next to me, smoke meth or heroin, and I'm just like, that's their problem. 01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:31.199 Like, I I don't I don't judge them, bro. 01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:40.639 I'm like, cause I understand, like, oh, my poison is just weed, so I can't sit here and judge this guy because his poison is this, or maybe it's alcohol or cigarettes. 01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:44.239 It's like, but at the end of the day, it's a it's a similar problem. 01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:46.559 We just pick different poisons, you know? 01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:47.039 Right. 01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:53.199 You know, this podcast focuses um on preparedness, adaptability. 01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:57.360 Um, how has life forced you to adapt recently? 01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:01.920 I mean, I'm still it just forced me because it's like life or death, bro. 01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:08.400 Like, I like for sure got PTSD from this sitting down having a stroke incident. 01:05:08.719 --> 01:05:15.440 And it's just like, bro, there's days I'll be like sitting there, like laying down, I'm like, fuck, like, bro, is that shit gonna happen? 01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:18.079 Like, dude, how how long am I gonna live? 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:38.079 And I'm just like, you know, like I I gotta like eat better, and and the the first couple months I was eating real good, bro, but now I'm like eating a little, you know, bad stuff here and there, and I'm like, fuck, like I can't go down that that fucking, you know, just that path because I'm like, dude, I'm gonna shorten my life. 01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:48.400 Like, there's obviously something wrong with me, and I just can't afford to put any bad shit in my body, and I'm just like adapting. 01:05:48.480 --> 01:06:05.519 I'm like, man, like, you know, just eating good is one thing, but you know, like my my friend be telling me, she's like, yo, like you gotta eat all these herbs and all this crazy, nasty stuff, like like you know, like these Asians live long as hell, and like what what are they on? 01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:12.000 Like, go go like down that rabbit hole, like so I still need to do it, bro. 01:06:12.079 --> 01:06:15.760 I'm like halfway in, halfway out, but I don't want to die, bro. 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:23.199 No, I and I I'm with you, like every morning I drink green tea, and um you know that's that it to me. 01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:29.519 I try to put good things in my body, even though I still eat the burgers and the fries and all that junk too. 01:06:29.599 --> 01:06:30.800 So I'm I'm with you on that. 01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:35.920 And I'm surprised when you said that you run and that you're physically

fit and things like that, man. 01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:44.800 Because I mean, a lot of a lot of people today don't put enough emphasis on physical fitness, and I think America has like the highest obesity rate in the entire world, right? 01:06:44.960 --> 01:06:45.840 So For sure. 01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:49.360 I was surprised, and that's what I talk about when I told you you have inherent discipline. 01:06:49.599 --> 01:06:51.119 Like that's like who told you that? 01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:58.320 Who to like people that do what you do typically don't concern themselves with physical fitness, and so I'm really surprised to hear that from you. 01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:04.800 What to what is success to you now versus what it would have been like five to ten years ago? 01:07:05.199 --> 01:07:07.280 So back then it was just money. 01:07:07.440 --> 01:07:07.760 Yeah. 01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:15.280 Now it's like, bro, health is wealth, and and freedom is the ultimate goal in life, bro. 01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:17.920 Like to me, that is the end goal. 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:25.199 Like, even with me trying to chase tattooing, it's like, you know, like I just like the freedom, bro. 01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:43.199 Like, that's all I care about is being financially free and just being able to do whatever I want with this one life that I have, and just not having somebody who's the same as me, like human, like just telling me what to do, like I don't want that shit, you know. 01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:48.960 Like, yeah, bro, the health and freedom to me is like the biggest things in life right now. 01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:58.400 I always tell people that if I only have like another year to live, another two years to live, five years to live, or if I'm blessed to live till I'm 80 or 90, so be it. 01:07:58.960 --> 01:08:02.960 But having purpose is probably the most important thing to me now. 01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:07.039 Like sitting down with you, having the opportunity to tell your story. 01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:14.239 A kid from East LA, uh, Monterey Park area, brought up by a single mom. 01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:20.399 You have several known, I guess, father figures that you would consider like his dads, right? 01:08:20.880 --> 01:08:23.520 Probably didn't have a lot of expectation growing up. 01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:33.680 You picked up a camera one day and all of a sudden, next thing you know, you're in six different countries, you're working on all these huge projects, you amassed thirty-six thousand followers. 01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:35.920 I love telling stories like yours. 01:08:36.399 --> 01:08:36.960 Thank you, bro. 01:08:37.359 --> 01:08:39.840 To be honest with you, man, like that's that's what it's about. 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:54.479 Like, if if I died next year, the fact that I've had over 300, I want to say like over 300 podcast episodes in the last three and a half years, and I was able to tell all these stories, like I feel like I left something. 01:08:54.640

--> 01:08:58.880 I left a footprint, and that's what's important for me now at 45 years old. 01:08:59.119 --> 01:09:04.720 So, what do you think is next for Jeremy films more productions over the horizon, man? 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:06.479 Like, where like what are you building here? 01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:14.560 My goal is to make sick documentaries and eventually, I guess, learn this AI stuff, you know, if that's a game we're gonna play. 01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:33.840 Like, I I like making films, so you know, just you know, maybe eventually making a movie one day, just six short films, and but tattooing got thrown in the mix recently, so yeah, it's like I don't know, filming and tattooing, that's all that's on my mind right now. 01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:35.840 And I'm filming tattooing too. 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:40.800 Like, my goal isn't make the illist tattoo videos, you know, do tattoo documentaries. 01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:52.560 Like, I used to watch like Tattoo Nation, and my goal is like, man, like I I want to make my own version of like Tattoo Nation, you know, like it's it's a new generation now. 01:09:52.800 --> 01:10:04.880 Like, you know, Tattoo Nation talks about the OGs and and the people who like paved the way, but now it's like the tattoo industry is like, bro, it's it's at its peak right now. 01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:10.079 Like the the level of artwork people are doing is insane, bro. 01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:32.960 Like insane, and it's like the machines changed, like you got people like marketing came into the mix of tattooing, like now like filming is is a big part of tattooing, and it's like alright, like you know what, like it just hypes me up more to be like, dang, like if I make a sick documentary, people would just watch it, you know. 01:10:33.119 --> 01:10:46.079 Like nowadays, you know, it's so like we're we're on this new generation of just creating content or movies or docs, like it's just crazy, but who knows? 01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:48.960 Like, shit changes like bro, every five years. 01:10:49.199 --> 01:10:55.199 So I really don't think that AI is ready to replace you. 01:10:55.359 --> 01:10:57.359 I think we're not there yet. 01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:05.600 I think there's still time to get under the door uh because AI's not ready to replace the human brain just yet. 01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:11.920 What could happen is I think at some point AI will try to replicate you. 01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:13.119 For sure. 01:11:13.439 --> 01:11:19.279 Jeremy, I really think at some point AI will try to replicate what it can't do now. 01:11:19.439 --> 01:11:29.760 It'll try to replicate like your brain and the things that you're putting out there, like the angles you're getting, the shots you're getting, the tattooing uh that that you're doing, the artist work that you're doing. 01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:34.640 As strange as that sounds, that's where I think we're headed to next. 01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:36.880 And I think there's the door

still open. 01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:54.880 Um and it's wild just to think about, man, that someday when we pass on, if our kids or our family members want to talk to us, it may just be an AI thing that's replicated your brain and your thoughts and your responses. 01:11:56.399 --> 01:11:56.960 Isn't that wild? 01:11:57.279 --> 01:11:58.000 That's wild. 01:11:58.560 --> 01:11:59.680 So you live forever. 01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:09.920 Like films more productions and the things you're putting out there, your your perspectives, your creativity, could live on forever. 01:12:10.479 --> 01:12:11.840 I mean, that's deep, bro. 01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:16.399 It's like you could probably show AI this podcast and be like, yo, check it out. 01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:17.680 This is Jeremy, right? 01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:23.279 And it's like, you know, like I I feel right now, like people are doing that with AI. 01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:31.840 It's like you could be like, yo, I want a Tim Burden style type of video, or like, yo, this is uh add Jeremy films more. 01:12:32.079 --> 01:12:33.680 I want his like type of style. 01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:35.439 Like that's already happening, bro. 01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:35.920 Right. 01:12:36.079 --> 01:12:40.399 And it's like, but yeah, what you're talking about is insane, bro. 01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:42.560 Like, that's it's kind of cool in a way. 01:12:42.720 --> 01:12:47.840 Like, I think videos are really cool because people pass away, bro. 01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:55.680 Like, even before AI, it's like throw AI out of the mix, but it's like, all right, say this video, bro, we both die one day. 01:12:56.399 --> 01:12:59.600 We live forever, like people get to see this, bro. 01:12:59.680 --> 01:13:01.920 And it's like it's always fascinated me. 01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:09.520 Like, I film people who have passed away, bro, like a handful of people, and I'm like, that it trips me out every time. 01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:10.720 I'm like, damn, bro. 01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:24.319 Like, I'd be having like footage of them, like, and it's just like, bro, they're no longer with us, but they're like right here, live, bro, in this screen, like they're alive, and it's cool for like the people who never get to meet them, you know. 01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:31.439 Like, I think there's like some magic there, and uh filming is just on some crazy technology, bro. 01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:32.880 It blows my mind. 01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:37.920 Like, I've I've always been fascinated with like yo, how who created the camera? 01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:55.840 Like, you know, and and I actually looked into it and and it's like it's a trippy little story, bro, on like who created it, and like that dude Tesla's name is in the mix, but like it kind of sounds like it was like um stolen, bro, like a stolen invention. 01:13:56.239 --> 01:14:13.119 Like this dude who created it was like not um he was not that good of an inventor, but uh I don't know, he has something to do with the first camera, and then he was gonna go pat in that shit or something, and like bro, this dude just disappeared. 01:14:13.359 --> 01:14:18.640 Like nobody like found him or seen him, and nobody knows what happened to him, bro. 01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:21.920 And then and then it got put on a like Tesla. 01:14:22.159 --> 01:14:24.640 Tesla's name was like in the mix after that. 01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:35.760 So I was like, yo, like what really happened with this creation, this invention that like I couldn't imagine back then how mind-blowing it was seeing the first cameras. 01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:39.439 Like, I hear people were like scared, you know, they're like, yo, what are you like, bro? 01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:40.960 Getting my soul or something. 01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:47.760 Like it was so far in advanced technology that yeah, I don't know, bro. 01:14:47.840 --> 01:14:49.279 The cameras trip me out. 01:14:49.600 --> 01:15:07.520 Yeah, I mean it I have read some of the um the stories behind like the inventions, and there is a lot of circumstantial events that happened and possibly some fraud that that happened with uh with who takes credit for what. 01:15:07.680 --> 01:15:11.920 So I I am familiar with what you're talking about with with that kind of stuff. 01:15:12.159 --> 01:15:16.960 When it's all said and done, Jeremy, how do you want people to remember the man behind the camera? 01:15:17.279 --> 01:15:25.359 Just I don't know, bro, just as some creative fucking dude that like to joke a lot. 01:15:25.520 --> 01:15:40.000 Like I I I like to get work done, but I like to have fun in the process, and I just, you know, I feel like one of my favorite quotes is like, yo, don't take life too serious, you'll never make it out alive. 01:15:40.319 --> 01:15:47.199 And it's like, yeah, I just like yeah, let's get shit done, but let's have fun and laugh, bro. 01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:57.119 Like, I love laughing, and like, yeah, if somebody like I just want them to remember me as that a creative who like to laugh, bro, and have fun. 01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:03.840 I really appreciate you being on the podcast today, man, and sharing part of yourself that most people don't see. 01:16:04.079 --> 01:16:07.039 Aside to yourself, I should say that most people don't see. 01:16:07.439 --> 01:16:10.000 Um I'm very proud of you. 01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:17.279 When you started doing uh the camera work, Instagram wasn't really a thing. 01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:25.279 I remember when when we first signed up, uh when I first signed up on Instagram, it was like this new thing, new idea. 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:27.600 Uh Facebook was still kind of a thing. 01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:32.720 Um and so you've grown, I guess, with the social platform. 01:16:33.439 --> 01:16:36.880 And man, I'm I'm interested to see where you go from here. 01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:38.960 Uh besides Instagram, where else are you? 01:16:39.039 --> 01:16:40.239 Are you on TikTok as well?

01:16:40.479 --> 01:16:43.119 Yeah, I'm on TikTok trying to do that thing now. 01:16:43.359 --> 01:16:44.079 It's crazy. 01:16:44.159 --> 01:16:46.640 I'm build my building my following on Instagram. 01:16:46.720 --> 01:16:46.880 Yeah. 01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:50.319 And then it's like, well, we don't know if Instagram's that cool anymore. 01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:51.760 It's all TikTok. 01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:58.079 So I'm like, damn, like, all right, so let me like I'm dabbling on there, but I post more freely. 01:16:58.239 --> 01:17:01.199 Like, I don't Instagram is more strategic. 01:17:01.279 --> 01:17:02.720 I just can't post anything. 01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:03.039 Right. 01:17:03.279 --> 01:17:06.079 TikTok, I'll be like experimenting, posting. 01:17:06.239 --> 01:17:10.079 So like it's like how I used to treat Instagram in my early days. 01:17:10.479 --> 01:17:12.159 I'm like that on TikTok right now. 01:17:12.399 --> 01:17:12.720 Okay. 01:17:13.039 --> 01:17:17.840 So what uh so Instagram, TikTok, who where else can people follow you? 01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:26.319 Yeah, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, just you know, Jeremy, period, films more, or on YouTube is Jeremy Films More. 01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:28.960 And um, yeah, that's about it. 01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:31.279 Instagram, it's filmsmore productions. 01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:36.960 Oh no, so Instagram, so I was on this journey where I was trying to do films more productions. 01:17:37.039 --> 01:17:43.199 It's I still have the name bot and all that, but I'm like, I'm really focusing on Jeremy Films More right now. 01:17:43.680 --> 01:17:56.800 Like, but Films More Productions is definitely in the future, and like, but I'm like, you know, building myself up, and like that that will transition like in in the near future. 01:17:57.039 --> 01:17:59.600 But right now is Jeremy Films More. 01:17:59.920 --> 01:18:00.800 Cool, man. 01:18:01.359 --> 01:18:02.479 Jeremy, listen, man. 01:18:02.560 --> 01:18:05.600 I really appreciate you coming on the studio to everyone listening out there. 01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:07.840 Take care of your health, protect your purpose. 01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:10.319 Jeremy, thank you again for coming on the show. 01:18:10.479 --> 01:18:12.800 Anything, any last shots before we end this? 01:18:13.119 --> 01:18:15.600 Uh I want to shout out my mom. 01:18:16.159 --> 01:18:18.960 Um, dude, I I really owe it all to her. 01:18:19.119 --> 01:18:22.479 You know, she helped me out like throughout this whole journey. 01:18:22.560 --> 01:18:27.359 And um, you know, I want to shout out all my close friends, you know, like friends and family. 01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:30.960 Like, you you know, there's too many to name, but you guys know who you are. 01:18:31.199 --> 01:18:36.560 And um, yeah, just thank you for having me, bro. 01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:39.680 I'm excited to, you know, see your journey, bro. 01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:41.680 Like, you know, you've been killing it, bro. 01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.720 And I'm proud of you, super honored to be on here. 01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:48.079 And uh, yeah, bro, keep keep doing your thing, bro. 01:18:48.159 --> 01:18:49.039 I'll see you. 01:18:49.279 --> 01:18:52.560 I hope someday I can grow up and be like you, man. 01:18:52.720 --> 01:18:56.000 Like you are honestly, you're you're you're the creative one, man. 01:18:56.159 --> 01:18:57.119 I'm just like, whatever. 01:18:57.199 --> 01:19:01.279 I'm trying to learn, bro, you know, in in low-key style. 01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:10.000 But folks out there, if this episode resonated with you, make sure you follow Jeremy on Instagram, on TikTok, on YouTube as well. 01:19:10.239 --> 01:19:12.560 I've watched this man grow for the last 10 years. 01:19:12.720 --> 01:19:14.640 I mean, he's only gonna go up from here. 01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:17.760 Gets into tattooing, he's gonna own that industry as well. 01:19:17.920 --> 01:19:22.079 So until next time, stay tuned, stay focused, and stay motivated. 01:19:22.399 --> 01:19:24.000 Warriors, fall out.