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Right, that's good.
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Hey, everybody super excited to be here at Austin Action
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Fest with mister Keith Strandberg, writer, writer, and what else
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did you do on No Retreats, No End producer on
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No Retreat, No Surrender. We're screening one in three here
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tonight at Austin Action Fest. We've got Keith vitally, Keith
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Stranberg here, super excited.
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You are a very interesting character.
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So this was one of the things that I thought
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was so interesting when I started helping with the film festival,
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is you're not just a You're not just a writer, producer,
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stunt person. You're doing stuff with watches, You're doing stuff
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with kids. I think do like you got some So
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why don't you tell our audience a little bit about
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the things that you do outside of film.
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Let's start. Let's start with the kids.
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Well, everything has Everything started with the writing, okay.
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So I was a journalist before I started making movies, really,
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and so the going from writing articles and writing newspaper things,
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and then I moved into writing scripts, okay, and so
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then I continued to do that while I'm an expert
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in watches and an expert in motorcycles and China, travel
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and that sort of thing.
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How does one become an expert in watches?
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You just learn a lot about watches.
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Do you like?
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Do you like?
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Do you open them up and like tinker with them?
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Do you like?
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But I work for a company called Bove. Okay, So
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I teach the retailers how.
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The watches work.
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I teach you how to set the watches because they're
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very complicated.
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Yeah, where does that passion come from?
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I just I love mechanical things. So I love motorcycles.
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I love watches.
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Okay, Okay, what kind of motorcycles do you like?
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Well?
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I have a Triumph So I have a Triumph Duel Sport.
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Okay that somebody told me that that was the bike
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to get that Forget all the other like big name
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whatever the crap, that those are actually the best bike.
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Triumphs are good.
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I've had a Harley of at Suzuki, so I've had
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a number of different ones.
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Okay, Okay, So so you're okay, So you're a watch fanatic.
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You and then you do stuff with kids?
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Kids?
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You teach kids, Okay, So tell us about teaching kids.
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I teach kids in the martial arts, and I also
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teach them writing, So.
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Oh, is it like the same kids you teach both
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things or is it different class?
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Yeah? So what martial arts do you teach?
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I'm I'm a black belt Inhian room, which is no
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kanomi style.
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You studied martial arts?
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I studied is like a really loose term. So like
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I took shotokan karate for a minute, and then I
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took krav magaw, which is some people would argue as
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maybe not a martial art. I don't know, but yeah,
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so I've done some stuff like that. Okay, but yeah,
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so I know how to kick and punch. I can
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look mean on TV, you know, on the camera, right,
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that's my mean face, you guys, that's my now. But
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actually I've always been really fascinated by Like I grew
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up doing gymnastics and being very physical, so it was
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natural when I got out of high school and there
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wasn't sport opportunities, it was like, oh, this is I
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guess what people do.
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You can go do martial arts or you can, you know,
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go do other things. So that's what I did.
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Oh very good.
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Well, yeah, I credit the martial arts for a lot
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of my success because it gave me the confidence and
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the discipline to keep going, to persevere, you know, in
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the hard times.
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Okay, say more about that.
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Well, I think I would love all children to study
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martial arts because it gives you that self confidence to
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be in front of people, Yeah, to go for your dreams.
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And that's what really taught me.
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Yeah, that's that's really interesting because I think right now,
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especially in the culture here, especially in the United States,
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we're just seeing so much more you know, mental health
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issues and obesity.
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And all of these things.
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And one of the things about martial arts is how
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it it's like meditation isn't the right word, but there's
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like a mindset that goes along with it, right.
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You know, a lot of people call the martial arts
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moving meditation. Okay, So when you're sparring.
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Somebody, you can't be thinking about the problems in your
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life or you're going.
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To get smashed.
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Oh yeah, that's true.
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So you have to focus on them.
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Yeah, And I think that's one of the things I've
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tried in my films is to communicate that spirit of
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the martial arts.
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Okay, like the you know, no cheating, no strandard with
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the scenes.
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With Bruce Lee, he teaches him how to look at
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the world, and I think that's really important, especially for
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as you mentioned, with everything that's happening today.
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Well, and shoot, I think there's probably a lot of
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adults that could benefit from that nowadays too. Okay, So
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what is the thing that you're most excited about that
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you're working on right now?
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Well, I'm excited about screening these movies here at the
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other station.
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Yes, okay, good answer. You did you practice that answer?
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Did you practice? He practiced that an make you smile?
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That was good? That was good?
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Well, no, but seriously, what else, like, what what are
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you most passionate about that you're working on.
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I want to.
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Make a movie that has the same sort of messages
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that no are treat no syreinder hit.
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Okay.
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I think today's movies are way more flash and action
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with no substance. And yeah, we've got to get back
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to movies that have a soul and that's yeah, the
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eighties and nineties there are movies with the soul.
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Yeah, absolutely, that's what. It does not matter how good
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everything looks.
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If people cannot relate to the characters and there's not
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a good relationship development between them, and I think that's
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I think that's really what's missing is there's no like
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relationship development.
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It's all just I was.
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On that I flew over in Switzerland yesterday.
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Yeah, and I watched part of a movie called Thunderbolts
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on the plane and there's no story, there's no soul.
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It's just people hitting other people and it just it
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had no meaning. And I think we need movies with me,
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So I'm working on something that will have the same
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sort of messages.
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I love it. I love it.
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You guys, we're here with Keith Stramberg first night, opening
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night Austin Action Fest. We're gonna hear from you again,
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I'm sure multiple times this weekend. But we are so
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excited you guys are here and a part of the
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festival this year.
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We're excited to thank you.