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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Car Stories

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Speaker 1: with soun K and Amelia Hartford.

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Speaker 2: And today we have an old friend. I met him on.

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Speaker 3: The set of Tokyo Drift and he happened to be

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Speaker 3: my driving double. So he's the one that made me

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Speaker 3: look like I knew what I was doing, which should

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Speaker 3: I do not?

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Speaker 1: Our guest has so much courage and passion, and it

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Speaker 1: takes a lot of that to leave your home country

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Speaker 1: and come to America.

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Speaker 3: He's a true example of the American dream working out

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Speaker 3: coming from a small town in Sweden and then Megan

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Speaker 3: Olie to Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and outside of all the stunt work that he does,

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Speaker 1: he's also a two time Formula Drift champion, has won

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Speaker 1: X Games, rallycross medals, several podiums, and short course off

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Speaker 1: road racing. He is an incredible driver. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Then he's a great example of someone that knows how

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Speaker 3: to balance their professional life and family life. He's an

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Speaker 3: amazing husband, amazing father, and lucky to call him an

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Speaker 3: amazing friend without further ado.

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Speaker 1: Samuel Hubenet, So did.

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Speaker 3: You start with commercial stunt driving or he went straight

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Speaker 3: into movies?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 5: So I started in Sweden I grew up in Lapland,

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Speaker 5: Sweden about the Arctic circle. It's like northern Alaska. To

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Speaker 5: give you an adea how far up. I grew up

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Speaker 5: in a smaller the town called Yokmok. It means a

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Speaker 5: river bend in Laplandish language jockmock. Anyway, I started driving

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Speaker 5: on frozen lakes as a kid. My dad let me

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Speaker 5: start driving for fun, just in his old Mercedes three

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Speaker 5: hundred Diesel nineteen seventy six model, which was power enough

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Speaker 5: to just spin the tires on frozen ice on the

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Speaker 5: lake frozen lakes, and that's where I learned to drive

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Speaker 5: as a young age, around the eight years nine years old.

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Speaker 5: He started letting me. Soon as I reached the paddles,

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Speaker 5: I started driving. Of course, way back then we had

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Speaker 5: no idea what drifting was, but it was with sliding

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Speaker 5: cars was fun. I think around the fifteen years old age.

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Speaker 5: I remember because I was watching him driving and I

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Speaker 5: was like, no, he should do this, and I started

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Speaker 5: to go faster and the eyes track than him, and

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Speaker 5: I mean I just had a passion for it.

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Speaker 4: Then no one told me what to do.

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Speaker 5: I just felt like I learned very quickly and was

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Speaker 5: natural and that's kind of where it started for me.

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Speaker 4: From there, I had a mechanical background school.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't into being in school much was studying, but

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Speaker 5: I just wanted to get out and drive my dirt

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Speaker 5: bikes in the summer, or get on the ice track

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Speaker 5: in the winter, or snowmobile riding was a big passion

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Speaker 5: for me. Having long winters there seven months six seven

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Speaker 5: my youth age working the summer planting trees in the

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Speaker 5: forest to make money to buy a newer snowbill every winter,

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Speaker 5: which I crashed a lot, but back then insurance was

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Speaker 5: doing well.

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Speaker 4: And the side stories.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, finally my insurance company kicked me out because I

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Speaker 5: crashed my snowmobills so many times because I was just

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Speaker 5: going crazy crazy. But yeah, so dirt bike riding, snowmobile

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Speaker 5: riding in winter combined with driving the frozen lake. I

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Speaker 5: just like driving gravel roads in some and my dad

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Speaker 5: took me out to we had a lot of gravel roads.

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Speaker 5: That's where a lot of the rally drivers become big

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Speaker 5: stars from Finland, Sweden, Norway. Solberg and all the other

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Speaker 5: drivers from Finland. They learned just driving on. We have

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Speaker 5: a lot of gravel roads, just a lot of freedom there.

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Speaker 5: Not many people, just roads, so you just go and

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Speaker 5: there because there's not many people, so people can't handle

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Speaker 5: their own business up there. That's that's They gave me

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Speaker 4: Move into a professional career.

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Speaker 5: And I heard about Volvo testing cars up in Sweden

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Speaker 5: from someone that knew they were up there.

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Speaker 4: They were very secret about it.

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Speaker 5: They were using an extra military airfield up outside my

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Speaker 5: a military air base with three runways. Anyway, volves renting

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Speaker 5: that in winter testing prototype cars. It's like, Wow, what

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Speaker 5: a dream job to be paid to drive cars. I

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Speaker 5: I live up here, this I could never become a

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Speaker 5: to settle with driving trucks for my dad. And that was,

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Speaker 5: you know, good enough. But anyway, he gave me a

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Speaker 5: so he said, okay, I'm just gonna pull up yellow

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Speaker 5: pages back then big phone book for Sweden, yellow page

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Speaker 5: of Volver Sweden. One it handed Revolvo pretty much called

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Speaker 5: them and said, hey, I want to talk to the

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Speaker 5: person in charge of testing in jock Mak for winter testing.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'll connect to you. She said.

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Speaker 5: His name is Uligil Nason and he answered. I was like,

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Speaker 5: I got nervous, like wow, well, hey, my name is Samuel.

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Speaker 5: I live in Joka for you testing cars here? Do

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Speaker 5: you need a local driver? He's like, well, matter of fact,

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Speaker 5: we can it background my dad at a trucking comp

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Speaker 5: when I be driving trucks for you him and well,

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Speaker 5: you know where the parts are then that's good. And

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Speaker 5: you've been driving a lot so those are some good bases.

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Speaker 5: I'll let you know in two three weeks I'll call

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Speaker 4: So he woke me up and I was like, hell,

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Speaker 5: To be honest, this is Vulvo calling, will you get

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Speaker 5: another Involvo? Can you come and meet me? So he

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Speaker 5: the Isotel is, which is famous around the world the Isotel.

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Speaker 5: So bought my mom's car, drove up there, met him,

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Speaker 5: And that started my career as a professional driver driving cars.

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Speaker 5: And I was fortunate enough to do a commercial for

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Speaker 5: him that win because they were scouting up there for

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Speaker 5: a Volvo commercial for the new Volvo eight fifty turbo

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Speaker 5: they were going to film there and I was like

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Speaker 5: He asked my boss if they could use me locally,

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Speaker 4: Was nineteen ninety two ninety three the winter over there.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, that's how I started.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what a great story.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a testament to pursuing and going after

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Speaker 3: your dreams. Yeah, some of it is Lucky had to

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Speaker 5: That's that's pretty I know. I think that's it could

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Speaker 5: I think a lot of people here in the beginning,

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Speaker 5: with them for nine years testing and doing core commercial.

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Speaker 5: I got into the race team, involve them doing touring

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Speaker 5: but decided I wanted to pursue basically just living California,

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Speaker 5: working with rich Rudtherford, which also was in part of

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Speaker 5: Drifting Beginning and Fast and Fears and tenor files. We

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Speaker 5: I was back in Sweden. I was in sunny California,

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Speaker 5: be paid to driving. Lucky and blessed enough. Drifting was

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Speaker 5: introduced it at Urundell. Me and Rich heard that they

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Speaker 5: were looking for local American drivers who compete against the

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Speaker 2: Rich to who's Rich?

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Speaker 5: Rich Rudtherford, He's a stuntman. He was part of drifting beginning,

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Speaker 5: great old friend of mine and of Reese Millen and

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Speaker 5: Rich drove of Fast and fears. It was so reach

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Speaker 5: tann myself there anyway, what's gonna go with this?

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Speaker 5: So then sport of drifting we heard it was like, wow,

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Speaker 5: it sounds very interesting sliding cars. This could be my

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Speaker 5: or commercials. That was just you know, even if I

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Speaker 4: I end up showing up with them.

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Speaker 5: that Succia came to. Yeah, wow, yeah, so she came

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Speaker 4: Anyway, Rich and Nick let me pop it up in

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Speaker 5: Then fifty two drivers or they DIEU Shihara, Chris Forsberg,

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And this is before major wide angle kits in massive

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Speaker 5: stability control out of it. Six months later two thousand

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Speaker 5: were not going to hold back and I was lucky

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Speaker 5: enough to get into it super the same super recent

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Speaker 5: the American drivers to make it top ten and Dodge

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Speaker 5: what their more part looking for this new sport and

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Speaker 5: they call me and asked me to join them for

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Speaker 3: That's amazing, Sam, because kids dream and they practice every

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Speaker 4: To keep trying.

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Speaker 2: Did you know anybody in LA to help you?

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Speaker 5: I didn't know anyone in Los Angeles. Now, basically knew

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Speaker 3: So it's crazy now when you hear the name Tanner

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Speaker 1: You guys, are like stable names. Now, wow, in the space.

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Speaker 1: I hope you realize that because like it's you have

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Speaker 1: I mean you definitely have. You sold everything to pursue

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: It also means you're old now exactly.

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Speaker 4: We are old. We are getting old, yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean people talk when they bring up Tokyo Drift, where

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Speaker 3: He would actually wear a wig to look like me, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean they talk about this movie as like a classic.

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Speaker 3: you know, so so give us just the evolution or

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Speaker 1: Did you feel driving technique from racing was any different

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Speaker 5: I think what I learned was to keep down the

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: What I learned obviously pretty quickly, because I came from

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Speaker 5: I learned that, yeah, you don't have to go fall glass.

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Speaker 1: And what about for modern cars, do you I imagine

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Speaker 5: Like you know, we do a lot of car commercials

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Speaker 5: So you do whatever you can to make it look

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Speaker 5: So, yeah, I like the future. I like new technology,

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Speaker 5: definitely more interested about today's and the future. But for

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00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,760
Speaker 5: driving wise, yeah, it gives us definitely a challenging times

442
00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,800
Speaker 5: sometimes because the electrons. The ability control kicks in when

443
00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:31,359
Speaker 5: you're trying to get the car side way, so you

444
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,399
Speaker 5: can't turn it off. A lot of times you can

445
00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 5: turn off the traction control. You can do you can spin,

446
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 5: you can do little burnout or get some tires rotating.

447
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,680
Speaker 5: But as soon as you turn trying to get some

448
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 5: steering angle, c kicks in and that's something sometimes you

449
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,920
Speaker 5: can even defeat. Sometimes we actually pull the abs sensors

450
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,719
Speaker 5: and that shuts down all those features as long as

451
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,919
Speaker 5: the car isn't go into limp mode. Sometimes the car

452
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,480
Speaker 5: can go into the limp only if you pull a

453
00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 5: few so so such so you have to figure out.

454
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 1: Do you get time ahead and time to try to

455
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 1: figure this out on set or are you showing up

456
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 1: in the day of Yeah.

457
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,840
Speaker 5: It's funny how it is. It's such a short period

458
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,920
Speaker 5: of time. You have time to shoot the commercial, you

459
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 5: say a day or two. Most of the time it's

460
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 5: a day, so we don't have any time. You just

461
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 5: got to figure out right away.

462
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 4: In the morning, you.

463
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 5: Look at the car and try to talk to the

464
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 5: car for people if there's something you know, and then

465
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 5: you figure yourself because as soon as the director's ready,

466
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,639
Speaker 5: you got on the street, you have the street locked up,

467
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 5: you shoot and you move on and you guess said

468
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 5: to get on the fly and don't screw up.

469
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,040
Speaker 3: Well, what about for the movies like in Fast and Furious,

470
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,359
Speaker 3: you guys don't have time to work with the car

471
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 3: and modify it for your personal needs to perform those stunts.

472
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,159
Speaker 5: Movies are definitely better because all depends on who's making

473
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,640
Speaker 5: the cars to you know, Dennis mccarth, you know talent

474
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,399
Speaker 5: group of guys sometimes been building the cars for us

475
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 5: for different movies, so then they're modified very well. So

476
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 5: it depends if you're in one of the cars for

477
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,639
Speaker 5: the back. Usually just another beat up car. You have

478
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 5: to try to do the best. But if it's a

479
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,120
Speaker 5: hero car, you have some type influenced a lot of times,

480
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 5: but unfortunately a lot of times you ask for a

481
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 5: lot and then things are not done the way you

482
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,119
Speaker 5: want anyway, and you're like, really, I asked for a

483
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,439
Speaker 5: lot differential because this is all about triff and now

484
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 5: they give you an open diff I'm like, okay, not

485
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 5: to just try to flick this car and make it

486
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,719
Speaker 5: as size as a cant because someone missed that message

487
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,439
Speaker 5: getting down the line. Yeah, because there's so many people involved,

488
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 5: but like need for speed, throw that doublin Aaron Paul.

489
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 4: That was a good setup Mustang. So I made the

490
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 4: job very easy.

491
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,120
Speaker 5: You know, good power and good diff and just normal

492
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 5: steering angles fine on the Musting to make it look good.

493
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 3: I remember the Ft in Tokyo Trip when we were

494
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 3: shooting that scene downtown where the car flips over. Yeah,

495
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 3: that's when they used to let the actors actually drive

496
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,879
Speaker 3: the cars around a little bit after that film, I

497
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 3: basically never got in a car and drove it again.

498
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, I mean that movie was really fun

499
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 3: because they sent us to or when they I don't

500
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 3: know if you were there, but they had the viper,

501
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 3: they had you know, they had the three fifty at

502
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 3: the time, they had k car that at the Arc seven.

503
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 3: So they let us drive the cars around and really,

504
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 3: you know, get a feel of it and teach us

505
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 3: as much as I could.

506
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: After that film, we never did that again.

507
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 4: That's a bummer. Yeah.

508
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 3: And I remember Brad, one of the guys that build

509
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 3: the cars for the movie, that works for Dennis. He

510
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 3: came up to me and he goes, hey, this has

511
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 3: a like five hundred horsepower motor in it now, so

512
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 3: be careful off the throttle because the body kid's gonna

513
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 3: fly off.

514
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: And I was like, no, it's not, and he goes, yeah,

515
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:28,439
Speaker 2: be careful.

516
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 3: I thought it was joking, and then I gunned it

517
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 3: and the bodykit fell off, so a big delay and

518
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 3: had to stop.

519
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 2: And then like you know, like put it all back together. Yeah,

520
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,119
Speaker 2: but I remember, yeah.

521
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,120
Speaker 4: That's why that's why I had drive it, because you're broke.

522
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 3: Probably broka Yeah, yeah, yeah, they Yeah, we broke a

523
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 3: lot of cars. I remember when they sent us to

524
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 3: irwin Dale. I got in the three point fifty and

525
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 3: I slammed against the wall right away because I never

526
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 3: I never, nobody taught me how to drift. I was

527
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 3: just trying to just go for it. And I remember

528
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 3: I slammed into the wall and I was panicking.

529
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: I would have been so scared.

530
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like, oh.

531
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 2: Shoot, I'm gonna get fired, Like I'm gonna have to

532
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 2: pay for this.

533
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 3: And then somebody came up to me and I was like,

534
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, and he goes, eh, we got a

535
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 3: whole bunch of them, don't worry.

536
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 2: I was like, really, So I started going crazy in

537
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 2: all of them. That was a lot of fun.

538
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool.

539
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you just got off of for Ari, you.

540
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 5: Said, Yeah, in Italy with the Michael Man and Nagel

541
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 5: was the coordinator, so he got to do this and

542
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 5: he did an amazing job and assembled some great guys

543
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 5: there over there in Italy, and I got to go

544
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 5: there there too. It was a fun experience working with

545
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 5: Adam Driver and the whole crew there were spectacular and

546
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 5: see them doing their thing. Acting Patrick Dems it was

547
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 5: super cool with me, by the way, He's a gearhead

548
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 5: and awesome guy to work with.

549
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 1: It.

550
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 5: We were working with him and the other actress over

551
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 5: there too to get them to do their own driving.

552
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:49,880
Speaker 4: So they got to drive.

553
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,239
Speaker 5: And he got to see me in my element when

554
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 5: we were coaching and driving with them, and then he

555
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 5: got to see me in the movie setting and he

556
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 5: saw me being nervous and he was he was like

557
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 5: turning to encourage me because he saw that, the friend Samuel.

558
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 4: Because sitting there scale like my first line in my life.

559
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,400
Speaker 5: I have to speak here. I barely speak English. I'm

560
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 5: in Sweden and now I to speak British English. But

561
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 5: we'll see. It was fun ad on driver's BIC Tech

562
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 5: with his playing and so on. To see them doing

563
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 5: their thing, it was powerful. So yeah, and then basically

564
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 5: focus on commercials and my wife's Stina doing the same.

565
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 5: So she's doing great too, so fun to see her

566
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 5: doing so well. I saw her skills when we started

567
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,479
Speaker 5: dating back two thousand and four, two thousand and five.

568
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 5: She was mainly focus in my career in the beginning,

569
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 5: and then she got to go to a lot of

570
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 5: driving schools when I was coaching back then, and I

571
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 5: saw her She had a natural talent too.

572
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: She is an incredible driver. I was saying this before

573
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: we started recording, and I want to share with everyone

574
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: listening that she has been a big inspiration for me

575
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: for my entire career, and I have a vivid memory

576
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: of a video she had posted on her socials years

577
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: ago for her doing figure eights. I think in a

578
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: BMW in a parking lot. I don't know, if I

579
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: was around, I think, oh, sorry, though, yeah, for a

580
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 1: Natto commercial. I was like, Wow, that is the coolest

581
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: thing I have seen a woman, not Dequals. In the world.

582
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: There's incredible women. I don't want to, you know, leave

583
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: anyone out, but that at the time for me, I

584
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: was like wow that. I looked up to it and

585
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to try to do that.

586
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: And that was a representation that I didn't have at

587
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: the time to be like, you know, this beautiful girl

588
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 1: is driving a car and out driving probably a lot

589
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: of men out there too, like I want to I

590
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: want to try that. I want to do that, And

591
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: she was a big inspiration to me starting to slide

592
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 1: cars around.

593
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 5: First of all, it's cool, just you think it was

594
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 5: Anito Tiger merge because we were just promoting them because

595
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 5: they were hooking us with tires, so definitely it's crazy.

596
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: I remember specifically that too.

597
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 4: So manufacturers out there give people some free things. It works.

598
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 5: You know, we promote you guys and you will sell

599
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 5: more pars. But yeah, Stina did that in the BMW.

600
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 5: This was way back when Facebook was more influence. I

601
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 5: had more power, and this thing went viral. A lot

602
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 5: of kids sitting there and just hammering on her, bash

603
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 5: talking her, and I know it shouldn't affect you, but

604
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 5: it did. But it did in a good way for

605
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,239
Speaker 5: me because I was like, you know what, all these

606
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 5: criticals bashing on my wife saying, you know, she should

607
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 5: go back to the kitchen and what is she doing?

608
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 5: They did because I know they were all jealous, but

609
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 5: it trigged me and made me inspired to take it

610
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 5: to the next level. And that's the reason we got

611
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 5: the Lamborghini Hurricount, because like, I got inspired. You know what,

612
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 5: I'm going to shut them all off. I'm going to

613
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 5: get a supercar.

614
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 4: It's going to be a card.

615
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 5: They haven't even been sitting in think it's going to

616
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 5: be so cool, so they're going to be as quiet.

617
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 5: And that's what I did with Stina. We got her account,

618
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 5: got need the tires on board, the sponsor us to

619
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 5: go do a video with Donut Media, we got to

620
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 5: do with Lamborghin you per Beach and we took the

621
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 5: car and drifted Lamborghini and you pur Pach Dealership around

622
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 5: millions of dollars of the cars.

623
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 4: And she did an amazing job.

624
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 5: And that video took her into a whole other level too,

625
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 5: and she got more respect than she got more commercials,

626
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 5: and no one criticized it because she did such an

627
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 5: amazing job in a supercar, which is really hard to drink. Yeah,

628
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 5: they're not easy to handle with the engine sitting there.

629
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 5: It's a handful, especially with millions of dollars around you

630
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 5: because that you had to pay if you crash them. Anyway,

631
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 5: that was a cool thing and it came out of

632
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 5: that anger of naysayers. I'm going to show them wrong,

633
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:14,959
Speaker 5: and she did.

634
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised to hear that she got roasted. I'm

635
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: sorry that that happened, but I mean, I still get

636
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: it today. I almost didn't even YouTuber pursue a career

637
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: in cars because of how terrible of a backlash I

638
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 1: was getting of some of the worst things people could

639
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: say to anyone, and you're reading them online, you're by yourself.

640
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: You get in your head about it. And it's people

641
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: who are just jealous at the end of the day,

642
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: who like, well, I can't believe I'm not there doing that,

643
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: so instead I'm just gonna hate on this person because

644
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: I'm mad at myself.

645
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 4: Exactly. There were just sex there was so respectful for her.

646
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: Well good came out of it because for me, I

647
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: was like, I'm going to learn how to do a

648
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: figure eight and like slide right into the camera.

649
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 4: Exactly.

650
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: It's really cool.

651
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 5: That's the best way to use that type of negativity

652
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 5: is make it to something better and go back and

653
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 5: show them wrong.

654
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: What's the saying, No one doing more than you is

655
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: going to talk shit on you or something like that,

656
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: or you're never going to hear negativity from the people

657
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: doing more than you. It's only people doing less.

658
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she did something important. I mean she influenced

659
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 3: people like Amelia.

660
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 5: Now you are doing the same. So it's pretty cool.

661
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 5: It's just going to be a good wave of you know,

662
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 5: positivity for other women.

663
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: Thank you. I hope only leave a good impact on

664
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: this earth.

665
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: You will. Thanks Sam.

666
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 3: When you watch these films with cars and these you know,

667
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 3: car stunts, do you feel like from when we shot

668
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 3: Tokyo Drift to where it is now with all the

669
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 3: CG and special effects.

670
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 2: Do you think it's gotten better or worse in your opinion?

671
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 5: So for me, it's being worse. But I understand that

672
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 5: the new generation they're so use to CEGI and video

673
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 5: game type of the experience. I haven't been playing many

674
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 5: video games the last ever, really, so I see that

675
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 5: they feel it's okay when cars are flying to the

676
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 5: moon and everything and being so unrealistic.

677
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 4: I still in an old school.

678
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 5: I like when it's just real deal driving and it's

679
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 5: actually done for real instead of CGI and faking everything.

680
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 5: So for me it's tough to see. To be honest,

681
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 5: I haven't even watched the last first Fast and Few Moose.

682
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 5: I was in number nine myself, but I didn't see myself.

683
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: Did you drive in that film? Did you get to

684
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 2: do anything cool stunts or anything?

685
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 5: Nothing? Spectatically? I was asked to come and do doubling

686
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 5: four Vindez's brother. I believe it was himself in nine.

687
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 5: When they're done in Thailand for a month or two

688
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 5: down there, I was going to do the driving main driving.

689
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 5: Spiro called me, which is you know, the second year

690
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 5: director for Fast and you're amazing talent man. So it

691
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 5: was an honor to have a phone call. But I

692
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 5: turned it down because the time away was not attracted

693
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 5: to me that time. I have three kids, a wife.

694
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 5: I want to be home, and also we were going

695
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 5: to We're going to Sweden every summer, so it's a

696
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 5: tradition we want to do. And I was going to

697
00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 5: be in Thailand for one or two months and then

698
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 5: to the country Georgia for another month. So it was

699
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,239
Speaker 5: it was too much commitment, so I turned it down.

700
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 5: But I did that the NASCAR scene at d you did, yeah,

701
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 5: when when he had got a flashback with his father.

702
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 5: That's all I know because I didn't watching it myself.

703
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 5: But we got to drive Nascars for two three days.

704
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 5: It was fun, just going hard around there and get

705
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 5: an experience a lot of seat time in Nascars.

706
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 4: It was fun.

707
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: That's cool.

708
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 3: That's the best part of the movie. By the way,

709
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 3: I did see the film, and that was the best part.

710
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 3: Maybe I have to watch it now, just watch that part.

711
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 2: It's really hard. It's really good. It's really awesome.

712
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 3: Okay, having a relationship and staying married in this business

713
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 3: is hard because you have so much time away.

714
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: You know, like, how do you balance that your family?

715
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 3: You have three kids now, and you know, and I

716
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 3: can see that you're super involved as a dad, and

717
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 3: you have like a Hollywood family.

718
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 2: It's like some I see pictures.

719
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 4: Or a non Hollywood family.

720
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's a movie family exactly, family picture perfect.

721
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 2: So what do you guys do to balance that?

722
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 4: I mean, for me, basically, I never pursued the movie world.

723
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 4: I didn't.

724
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 5: I didn't take on and go travel the world and

725
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 5: do big movies because there's film mainly out of California,

726
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 5: a state focused on doing cor commercials to make a

727
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 5: living and being home more. That's the best recipe, I think. Yeah,

728
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 5: so just trying to work here more. I take on

729
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 5: two three weeks of something, maybe on the movie car

730
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 5: chase scenes, because that's what I do. I do car

731
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 5: chase more specific. I don't do big crashes. I have

732
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 5: an old bit bless I don't want to wake it up.

733
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's for the stunt man.

734
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll do the driving. So I'm being blessed to

735
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 5: make a living doing that. It's a side note. When

736
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 5: I was at Fast and FEWIORUS three, I met a

737
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 5: lot of stuntmen there legends done all the historic movies,

738
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 5: and I remember one of them. I forgot his name,

739
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 5: but he said, well, if you're going to make in

740
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 5: this industry, you need to be able to do everything

741
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 5: right horses, fire fight scenes, everything. Otherwise it's not going

742
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 5: to work.

743
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 4: Okay.

744
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 5: I said, thank you for the advice, and I was thinking, no,

745
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 5: that's not me. I'm going to make it through with

746
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 5: just driving cars because that's all I know I'm really

747
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 5: good at and I don't want to fall from buildings

748
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 5: because I'm afraid of heights. Yeah, type of thing. I

749
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,479
Speaker 5: just believe it's going to work, and and it did.

750
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, why not be great at one

751
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: thing instead of good at several?

752
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 3: Right?

753
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think both works. But for me,

754
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 5: it was about just folks and driving. That's all I

755
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 5: want to do. I love driving anything. Just give me

756
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 5: a vehicle. It's fun.

757
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 3: Do you feel like the kids today are less into

758
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 3: actually cars and like modifying cars from when you were

759
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 3: growing up.

760
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 5: I mean, I think so, there's so many other distractions

761
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 5: now and people can uber see they don't need to

762
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 5: have a license, So it sounds like I mean, also,

763
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 5: you read up about it how percentage have gone down

764
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 5: to sixteen year olds to get their driver's license. Like

765
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 5: that was one of the biggest days in my life,

766
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 5: the day I got my driver's license.

767
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 4: I mean, I was so happy. So, I mean, it

768
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 4: is what it is.

769
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 5: I guess here in La we wish there were less

770
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 5: cars on the roads, so the traffics. I guess, my

771
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 5: biggod thing take the bus, so go together.

772
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 2: Do you notice that with your friends, Amilia, in your generation.

773
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: You know, I want to be in denial of it.

774
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: Say no, everyone's stole in the cars. I think when

775
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: I was living in Indiana, what we would do on

776
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: the weekend was just work on cars, swap turbos, built engines.

777
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: And as I've gotten older and especially out here, it's

778
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: more everyone's stile in the cars, but it's more let's

779
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: go driving the canyons, let's wrench on the cars.

780
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 3: I mean, it seems like at least in LA there's

781
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 3: like a massive explosion of JDM FURV. Like these kids

782
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 3: are like all into the you know, the R thirty

783
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 3: fours and thirty five.

784
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's definitely appreciation there, but compared to just wrenching

785
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: on cars from like twenty years ago, I wonder.

786
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's a status symbol thing with these maybe.

787
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, late they also been, I mean starting to make

788
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 5: more cowboy movies. Right, it's like a new trend with

789
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 5: yellow Stone and everything is like coming back with horses

790
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 5: and stuff. So changing in the movie world, coming back

791
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 5: to some more western style old school movies and stuff too.

792
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 3: So when you do your stunts, who handles all the

793
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 3: safety expects and stuff?

794
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: Is that you?

795
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 4: Yeah?

796
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 5: So when we do car commercials, generally we're just one

797
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 5: or two cars usually in car commercials, and we are

798
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 5: the ones handling ourselves, just between us and the camera.

799
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 5: Cord drive to be working with us such whoever got

800
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 5: hired by the director, he's kind of more in charge,

801
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 5: and he maybe brings in a couple more drivers for

802
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 5: the other cars, and together we just discussed the shoot

803
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 5: and we get it done and move on.

804
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 3: You know, the stunt performers are the most underappreciated people

805
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 3: on set. A lot of the times I think about

806
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 3: it and I go, you know, how many people on

807
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 3: the movie set actually risk their lives to come to work,

808
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 3: And it's the stunt folks that actually are in that position.

809
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: I mean, the actors, we don't have anything complain about them.

810
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 3: There are people, you know, bringing us water and holding

811
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 3: an umbrella, like so you know, the sun doesn't hit you.

812
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: Like we're have a heated trailer and a TV and

813
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: a couch and.

814
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 3: So spoiled, you know, and you know, so I just

815
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 3: want to say thank you Sam for everything you do,

816
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 3: because you know, a lot of people give me credit

817
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 3: for these movies and they're like, oh, you're so cool

818
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 3: and you're like an amazing.

819
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 2: Driver, and I tell them and I'm very like up front,

820
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: I go, that's not me.

821
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 3: I'm not the one doing that. It's this guy from Sweden,

822
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 3: you know. I mean it's all hilarious. Look what when

823
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 3: he's in the costume, he's in my costume and he.

824
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: Has a wig on.

825
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: I hope you guys took a photo together.

826
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 2: We have photos, I know I have. I have them somewhere.

827
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 4: Yeh's fine. The Yeah, it would be fun to see.

828
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 4: I think I small ones. But yeah. No, there's no

829
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 4: Oscar at all for any of the stunt cred he

830
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 4: or anything.

831
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't thought about that. Do they do

832
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: stunt awards of any kind?

833
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 5: We have our own, but it's sponsored by Red Bull

834
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 5: just for the stunt community itself. What's that called Taurus? Yeah,

835
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 5: the Taurus that makes Taurus world stunt to words, that.

836
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 3: Makes sense and it should be televised and you know, yeah,

837
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 3: it's kind of like Hollywood's dirty secret that you know,

838
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 3: these men and women risk their lives to make all

839
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 3: the actors look good, and you know what doesn't want

840
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 3: to acknowledge it.

841
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: Do you have advice for people who want to get

842
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: into stunts or specifically driving, if they want to build

843
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: their career into the space.

844
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I get I get that question sent to

845
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 5: me a lot on you know, social media platform. So

846
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 5: many people reach out to me and ask him because

847
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 5: you know, of course it's a dream job for many

848
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 5: and it's so hard because it's like there's no specific

849
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 5: way to come in. But I usually tell them, got

850
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 5: to move where the business is to start, like I did.

851
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 5: You can't sit in some little town in Oklahoma and

852
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 5: hoping to be a stunt driver or something. You got

853
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 5: to go where it happens. I would say Los Angeles

854
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 5: as a good spot. Maybe actually Georgia right now, Atlanta,

855
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 5: Georgia has a lot of TV shows and then just

856
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 5: start networking. You have to build up some type of

857
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 5: restume on yourself, which means you need to spend some

858
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 5: money and get your own car and start showing how

859
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 5: eager you are and do driving and meet other people

860
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 5: and hopefully meet someone that maybe get you in it says,

861
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 5: as a backup driver or something, and just keep hustling.

862
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 4: And there's no guarantee. It could take many years.

863
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 5: It's so much responsibility because we're in big vehicles to

864
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 5: cause so much damage if you make a mistake, causing

865
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 5: lives and equipment. So I mean, I basically tell people

866
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,240
Speaker 5: it's easy to become an actor. There's more actor jobs

867
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 5: than stunt work almost because there's a lot of different

868
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 5: shows and acting jobs, but stunt drivers a smaller community.

869
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,760
Speaker 5: It's tough, but if you really believe we are the best,

870
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 5: the best and can succeed, just keep trying.

871
00:38:59,680 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 4: Let work.

872
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also, you know, I can add to that

873
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 3: a lot of you know, people that I've met, you

874
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 3: know in the stunt community that you know, they fizzle

875
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 3: out pretty quickly because they might have talent, you know,

876
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 3: and they have the ability. But the thing that sets

877
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 3: someone like Samuel Laparte is that when he comes to set,

878
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Speaker 3: there is this wonderful energy about him. You know, he

879
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 3: says hello and everybody, there's no ego. You know, he's

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00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,439
Speaker 3: really pleasant to be around. That's why, you know, after

881
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 3: all of these years, it's like, you know, I'd love

882
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 3: being around sam and you can only speak highly of him.

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Speaker 3: And that's something that I think a lot of people forget,

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Speaker 3: is that you can have talent, but your personality and

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Speaker 3: your enthusiasm and your passion for what you do and

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00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 3: the energy that you know you put out there and

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Speaker 3: you know, being a collaborator.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's just fantastic.

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Speaker 3: There are you know, some dudes that show up and

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Speaker 3: they have this attitude and this ego and I'm too

891
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 3: cool for school and stuff, and you know, after a

892
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 3: couple of times, you don't want to be around those people.

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Speaker 3: So you know it's like it's a relationship is this

894
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 3: and you know, and you know everybody loves Samuel, you know,

895
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Speaker 3: so that's something that you know, you know, for the

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00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 3: listeners out there, it's like work on your craft, but

897
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 3: then also work on yourself, like you know, be a

898
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,959
Speaker 3: cool person to be around, being kind, to be kind,

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Speaker 3: be a good mood dude, being nothing.

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Speaker 1: To be nice to people and everyone's fighting a battle

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Speaker 1: you know nothing about.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, that's a good point.

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Speaker 5: I mean everybody is important on the on the commercial

904
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Speaker 5: movie that you know, the ones cleaning or fixing or feeding.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's a team, so you have to respect everybody.

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Speaker 5: And again that little worker doing something over there, he

907
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 5: might be the next producer.

908
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Speaker 4: So you never know. We all come from nowhere most

909
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Speaker 4: and then we get somewhere because we're going to keep

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Speaker 4: climbing the ladder, So respect and treat everybody, saying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone has to start somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well thanks Sam, thanks for your time, thanks

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Speaker 2: for your words.

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Speaker 4: You know you guys too. Yeah, still come up with

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Speaker 4: some more fun stuff.

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Speaker 2: I hope.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, we'll make some cool stuff yeah before

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Speaker 3: we leave this earth.

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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much for coming on, having

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Speaker 2: you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all right.

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Speaker 3: M