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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to another episode.

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Speaker 2: I'm so King and I'm Amelia Hartford.

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Speaker 3: And today we have a very special guest that Amelia

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Speaker 3: knows really well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Ali was the first producer to really give me

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Speaker 2: an opportunity in one of his films. But he doesn't

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Speaker 2: just come from the film background. He's actually a racing

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Speaker 2: driver and he managed a team where he piloted what

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Speaker 2: was and I think still is today the world's fastest.

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Speaker 1: Subaru, world's fastest.

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Speaker 2: It's funny. By the time this podcast comes out, I'm

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Speaker 2: actually taking over and I'll be piloting that car in

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Speaker 2: various races this year.

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Speaker 3: Wow, so you will be driving the fastest Suparu.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in the world.

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Speaker 3: For those who can't experience going a million miles per

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Speaker 3: hour in a SUPERU, you can watch some of Ellie's movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for instance, what movie were you in?

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Speaker 2: I was in California Christmas, the sequel to the first.

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Speaker 2: I was in Hollywood Christmas. That's a more. And Hollywood Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Wait, California Christmas, Hollywood Christmas.

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Speaker 2: California Christmas, the sequel Hollywood Christmas, And that's a more.

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Speaker 1: What about Los Angeles Christmas?

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Speaker 2: That's next. We'll pitch that one to him. I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, this is another beautiful story of coming to

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Speaker 2: America having nothing and really building a successful career for yourself.

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Speaker 2: This year, he joined the board of Warner Brothers Diversity Program.

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Speaker 2: He's spearheading a push for broader inclusivity and filmmaking at

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Speaker 2: Warner Brothers. He's a very successful producer. I believe twenty

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Speaker 2: four films now. He started as an actor, start as

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Speaker 2: an actor, went to racing cars, and then went back

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Speaker 2: to producing.

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Speaker 3: With no further ado. Ali Afshar, So you guys met

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Speaker 3: each other on the film.

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Speaker 2: So we met through an old manager of mine. Was like,

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Speaker 2: I know of a producer who does He's like a

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Speaker 2: car guy, but he also does these cool movies, like

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Speaker 2: let me make an introduction. I was like, okay, Rad

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Speaker 2: I had seen a history about Sue brus and at

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Speaker 2: the time I was building Sue Brews too, and we

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Speaker 2: got connected through him and Ali and I hit it

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Speaker 2: off and we've kind of been friends. He's been a

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Speaker 2: mentor to me and we've been He's put me in

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Speaker 2: a couple of his films. When we were talking last

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Speaker 2: actually I told you, after nine years of being in

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Speaker 2: LA I got my first role, and it was in

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Speaker 2: one of Ali's films.

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Speaker 1: Which film is that?

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Speaker 2: That was that some More was the first one, but

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Speaker 2: California Christmas ended up coming out first.

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Speaker 1: California Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, you do it. Seems like Ali, you're doing

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Speaker 3: several Christmas theme movies.

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Speaker 1: Huh yeah, yeah recently since twenty twenty. We took a

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Speaker 1: risk and we did our first. Warner Brothers had asked

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Speaker 1: us to do a Christmas movie, so we did one

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Speaker 1: in COVID. I think were the first movie to shoot

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Speaker 1: in California during COVID. It was May of twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: and they licensed it to Netflix and it went bonkers.

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Speaker 1: It became the number one movie in the world for

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Speaker 1: two weeks straight. It's called The California Christmas and Emilia.

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Speaker 1: We did this that met Amelia yet, so when we

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Speaker 1: did the sequel, California Christmas City Lights, we got Amelia

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Speaker 1: to do it, and it's just turned into like they

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Speaker 1: ordered a handful, then HBO Max ordered a handful. And

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Speaker 1: even though we come from a race car action sports

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Speaker 1: kind of underdog diversity background movies for our first like

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Speaker 1: twenty movies last six or seven and including the when

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Speaker 1: we start this week, Oh Christmas, going from an Iranian

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Speaker 1: kid that isn't even Christian, didn't even celebrate Christmas.

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Speaker 3: So people underestimate these Christmas films because they're very big

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Speaker 3: deal it almost they have like a following like horror

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Speaker 3: fans almost, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And arsh are pretty cool because like they're elevated. They're

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Speaker 1: not like the Hallmark Lifetime. They're HBO Max there. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of nudity, a little bit of sexuality,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of language, a little bit of you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not just a cookie cutter what you see on

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Speaker 1: if you know who that is a little more notebook

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Speaker 1: then a little Christmas. But it's yeah, I mean like

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Speaker 1: our guys, we have a star that's been in a

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Speaker 1: bunch of Josh Swicker, like he takes his shirt off

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Speaker 1: and every middle aged woman and you know, Iowa was like,

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Speaker 1: we're PG. Thirteen R than straight G. And they're not

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Speaker 1: really like faith based or anything. They're just like happened

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Speaker 2: But they're still good like feel good movies.

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Speaker 1: Totally. Yeah, all our movies are feel good. Yeah, even

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Speaker 1: our action ones. Our motto was like shedd a tear,

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Speaker 1: but lead with a smile. Even the Ride, the one

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Speaker 1: the one about My Life. They're all like heartfelt underdog

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Speaker 1: kind of diversity happened by storytelling our first five movies

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Speaker 1: you know, La two three years it's been like you

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Speaker 1: like we just did it because it was a better

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Speaker 1: thing that we are kind of like ahead of the

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Speaker 1: curve by happenstance. How did you get into the producing

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Speaker 1: side of things? For me, I acted quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: when I went racing for Super of America for seven years.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you're a banker, Like I don't need a

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Speaker 1: a film financier. I was like what. Three months later

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Speaker 1: we made our first movie called Born to Race, which

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Speaker 1: is what Emilia loved and used to quote it when

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Speaker 1: we first met.

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Speaker 2: Ironically, before actually meeting Ali, in my YouTube videos, I

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Speaker 1: That's cool. Yes, that was our first movie and we

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Speaker 1: So because I owned the race team, so I was

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Speaker 1: I was that boring you guys. I loved street racing,

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Speaker 2: I feel like you're glossing over the fact that you

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Speaker 2: People don't spend the money on those motors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well why Supero like you there were all these

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Speaker 1: So that's how we got into it. But for drag

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Speaker 3: You know, how do I why do I not know

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Speaker 1: Twelve, ten twelve something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was our first one. It's called Born Race.

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Speaker 2: Where you got people to show up to the race.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm not drinking the Hollywood kool aid, just doing

433
00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,360
Speaker 1: it your own way. We posted on it was Facebook.

434
00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,320
Speaker 1: There was no Instagram, man at that time. We actually

435
00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,080
Speaker 1: posted on Facebook, and I think my Space was dead

436
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,680
Speaker 1: by then. But like we went online and just posted say, hey, guys,

437
00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,239
Speaker 1: come out, bring your car to the street races and

438
00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,320
Speaker 1: the main races at California Speedway when they still had

439
00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,679
Speaker 1: the drag strip, and we'll give you food. Be in

440
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,840
Speaker 1: the movie. And that was it. Like four hundred cars

441
00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:24,280
Speaker 1: showed up.

442
00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,879
Speaker 2: Did you have a fear at any point at that

443
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,720
Speaker 2: time that you weren't going to make them back the

444
00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,640
Speaker 2: money your first film, taking out such a mass.

445
00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,240
Speaker 1: Was like the second producer that one. I wasn't the

446
00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,280
Speaker 1: first producer, so it was really wasn't on my back,

447
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,280
Speaker 1: and I did it for free. Actually cost me thirty

448
00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,840
Speaker 1: grands because we used my buddy sixty nine Chavelle, tanked

449
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,560
Speaker 1: his motor and training. I had the rebuils monor in

450
00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:45,280
Speaker 1: training for I got him a new one because they

451
00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,080
Speaker 1: were doing the burnout in the water box in reverse

452
00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,119
Speaker 1: dead in reverse, so almost smoking. I'm like, what are

453
00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:52,879
Speaker 1: you doing with the fucks? So we brew up his

454
00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,080
Speaker 1: motor and training. He's a nice guy. So it actually

455
00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,399
Speaker 1: cost me money. And I didn't get paid for that

456
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 1: one because it's more like a learning experience for me.

457
00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,399
Speaker 1: So I'll do for free, and I brought money to

458
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,520
Speaker 1: the movie. I brought free money, couple hundred thousand free

459
00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,520
Speaker 1: money to the movie. So for me, that was like

460
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,760
Speaker 1: my acting school. That was like my producing school. So

461
00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,360
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about it because it wasn't.

462
00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,200
Speaker 2: A strier than college tuition. Thirty five.

463
00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:12,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a good little movie.

464
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,360
Speaker 3: As you know, if you were to give a young

465
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,040
Speaker 3: version of your self advice, right, I wanted to come

466
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,240
Speaker 3: to town and be.

467
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 1: That's how the manager sold. She goes, you know your dad,

468
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,159
Speaker 1: your mom passed away fifteen, her dad passed away fifteen.

469
00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 1: You love acting, you love cars. She's like the twenty

470
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,320
Speaker 1: year younger version of you're trying to do you. Yeah,

471
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:29,719
Speaker 1: that's how I meant her. That's how I was like, oh,

472
00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,880
Speaker 1: get fine. Yeah, and then she's coolest.

473
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,560
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, because talent's important and it'll keep

474
00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:36,280
Speaker 3: you there. But you know, that's not the only thing

475
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,160
Speaker 3: that is important to become successful in talent. I mean

476
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 3: you started acting without even knowing that you wanted to

477
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,560
Speaker 3: be an actor. What traits do you think you possessed

478
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,159
Speaker 3: that allowed you to get to where you are today?

479
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 1: As you would know, wrestling, getting your ass kicked in

480
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 1: life physically, and you know, like when you're an immigrant,

481
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 1: a bad immigrant. In the American's eyes, you're getting bullied

482
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 1: the fuck out of it because they're your country's holding hostages.

483
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 1: At the time you moved here. It's like the worst

484
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,439
Speaker 1: thing you are is be fucking your onion with and

485
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 1: then all the terrorists in the nine elevens and shit,

486
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,959
Speaker 1: they've always happened since having your mom die at a

487
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 1: young age, knowing how short life is, living in high

488
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,679
Speaker 1: school with different friends, being homeless, I think it's the

489
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 1: hardships that immigrant and paired with hardships just gives you

490
00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 1: a different fight. And then, like my wrestling coach said,

491
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 1: like he said, listen, if you can wrestle and you

492
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 1: put your heart in it, win or lose, this will

493
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 1: be the best thing for your life because you can

494
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,240
Speaker 1: go through anything. Because wrestling, as you know, is so

495
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 1: fucking hard. It's not fun. Nobody has fun wrestling. It's

496
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 1: like you just getting your asking the whole time. Even

497
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: when you win, you're bleeding and tired, you know what

498
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean. So it was just like, tough circumstances give

499
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,160
Speaker 1: you a different kind of fight and a different kind

500
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 1: of awareness that I think Unfortunately a lot of my

501
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,679
Speaker 1: American friends, they take it for granted. They take like

502
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: the kind of bash America and bash the left or

503
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 1: bash the right. I'm like, are you kidding? I can

504
00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: walk down the street and say hello to her and

505
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 1: give her hugging a kiss and I'm not gonna get

506
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: put in jail. She's not gonna get killed like the.

507
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 2: Kiss you guys.

508
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,439
Speaker 1: Just so, I think it's that. I think it's just

509
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: like having those fucked up circumstances and then surviving it

510
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 1: and learning how to be you know, getting through it

511
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: more specifically with I think that does it just open

512
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: your eyes to be aware of your surroundings, as Forrest

513
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: taught me, as Tom Dahl taught me. The all gave

514
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 1: me different lessons. All these big CEOs and multi you know,

515
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 1: self made billionaire guys like I learned from them. So

516
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 1: I soak it in. I'm like, how did you do it?

517
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 1: I literally asked them, how did you do it? You know?

518
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: And it's like, be kind, be honest, work hard, which

519
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 1: is kind of cheesy, but then just be aware of

520
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 1: what other people want, not not just selflessly in a

521
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 1: way that could help everybody, you know, super wanted to

522
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 1: get into this fast and furious world. We literally called

523
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 1: it the fast and furious world to such a big

524
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: genre and lifestyle, and you know the Ride movie with

525
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,359
Speaker 1: Chris it's the bike life. Life is getting big, you know,

526
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: so like that was a whole bike life thing. So

527
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,879
Speaker 1: like trying to just like kind of being aware of

528
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: what your surroundings are, what people want, what brands want,

529
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: what high net worth people want, what the business wants,

530
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: and putting it all together, you know what I mean.

531
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's helpful for ating kids.

532
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 2: There are people think correct, Yeah, no, I think that's

533
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 2: super helpful, and I will second to losing a parent

534
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 2: at a young age. I feel like it does give

535
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,400
Speaker 2: you kind of a drive in a way because at

536
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 2: a young age, at least for me, I realized that

537
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 2: I was on my own and I would have to

538
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 2: create my own future because it wasn't something that was

539
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: going to be handed to me. So I do think

540
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 2: that there's in a lot of stories where I meet

541
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 2: people who are highly driven, and in a way I

542
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 2: would say that you know, you lost your dacause you

543
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,919
Speaker 2: didn't have a relationship with them too. That that, you know,

544
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 2: is a common trait that I see in people who

545
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 2: are highly motivated work very hard and also care about

546
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 2: self help and bettering their future and helping others at

547
00:23:58,520 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 2: the same time.

548
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also I mean when you don't have parents,

549
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 1: you gotta survive.

550
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

551
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: A lot of it is like you got to you

552
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: got to hustle, like you know, fight or flight. Yeah.

553
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 3: When you say you know, be you know, be aware

554
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 3: of your surroundings and be aware of the people around

555
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 3: you and what they like, it's like part of that

556
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 3: is like a survival instinct. Yeah, because you know you're alone,

557
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 3: like you don't have somebody to go home to that

558
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 3: you know, there's no insurance, like, it's just you.

559
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: Plan being Yeah, well that's why. And you go like,

560
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I can make ten dollars by selling this.

561
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: I used to go to drug yards and buy cars,

562
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: fix them up and sell them. That was great. But

563
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 1: then you're like, wait a minute, you can make a

564
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,239
Speaker 1: little bit more by fixing hot rods, or oh now

565
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 1: you can go actually race and make more money. And

566
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: then oh wait, you can out make make movies. And

567
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: it's not just about the money. It's ay, I love

568
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: doing that stuff as well, but but it was it

569
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: was a way of like valuing the money and the

570
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 1: opportunities where I hate to say it, but a lot

571
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: of the you know, like a lot of my American

572
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: friends don't they take it for granted. It's just they're

573
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 1: born with it. I don't want to say it's like that,

574
00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I'm not woke like that, so I

575
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 1: don't use the right terminologies, but it's like it's you know,

576
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: they just like they don't put in that extra effort.

577
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: You know. They always yell at me like, oh, you're

578
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: rushing or you're doing things too fat am I? You

579
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, let's put it solid ten

580
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,400
Speaker 1: hours in today and see what happens. Let's not put

581
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 1: six in and just wait. You know, just because it's

582
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: Sunday doesn't mean we can't do something, you know what

583
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: I mean, Like why who made these rules? You know?

584
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: And it gets you to be aware of like you know,

585
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: stay up through the night, you know, and also racing

586
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: when you're racing. We were up many nights through the

587
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 1: night getting the car ready for the race. The next

588
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: morning it was raining in English Town, New Jersey, and

589
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: the rain they're replacing motors because our tarp thing broke.

590
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: Is like when you do that, it's kind of same

591
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: with wrestling, like that last ten seconds of the third

592
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: round when you can't even breathe anymore, you feel like

593
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna throw up, and you still throw that duck

594
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: under or the fireman's carry or whatever. You guys are

595
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 1: big guys. You didn't throw those Those are two heavy

596
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: but double leg, you know what I mean, or some

597
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: kind of throw.

598
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: It's also cool to see like what you're capable as

599
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 2: a human being of doing. So Like in the moment

600
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 2: you may be like, oh, it's my hands are bleeding

601
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 2: from you know, turning wrenches trying to get this car

602
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: ready for tomorrow. And in the moment you're like, oh,

603
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 2: I can't, Why am I doing this? And the next

604
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 2: day you're like, I'm so glad I did this. That

605
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: was so cool. Now I know I can do it,

606
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 2: and just constantly pushing yourself.

607
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: Totally totally yeah. And in the moment it's actually afterwards

608
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: the words winner lose. It's like you feel good that

609
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: you did it.

610
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 3: You know, you think building cars has helped you be

611
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 3: a good producer, help your producing.

612
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: It's a good question. I mean, it's kind of funny

613
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,239
Speaker 1: because people always ask me, like, how did you get

614
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: into building cars? And I'm a big remote control car fan,

615
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,239
Speaker 1: so I grew up put building the RC cars, you know,

616
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: like those old t MEA kids, those Japanese kids. You

617
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: can't you have put them together. So I have like

618
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: hundreds of them still, I have them from the eighties.

619
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: I have a whole collection, and like those help me

620
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: build the car. And then the car. It does help

621
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: you put pieces together because it's all mechanical. You put

622
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: the engine together, you put the rings in the right way,

623
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: you put the bear, and you put the crank, and

624
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: you tighten it to this amount, and you add you

625
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 1: had the fuel, you had gas, you had air. It's

626
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: gonna work, you know what I mean, Like whatever you

627
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: use nitrous fuel, air, Yeah, you put it fire to

628
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: it and it's going to work. And the movie is

629
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: kind of movie business is actually easier than cars. There's

630
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: a lot of shipping cars because you're not there trying

631
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: to make the camera roll quicker than ever, you know,

632
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 1: And our movies aren't like crazy stunt driven like your

633
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 1: guys are VFX stuff. So we're not like Jim Cameron

634
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: trying to reinvent a way to see blue people floating

635
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: in water. We're just doing We do a lot of

636
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: practical action. You know, when we're racing, we're actually racing

637
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: flipping cars. We're really flipping and we'll throw some VFX in,

638
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: like you know, fires and explosions and stuff. But so

639
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: for me, the building the cars and running the race

640
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: team and the personalities. Talk about producing, it's all about

641
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: the personalities that MIPI fuck. It's like you got eighty people.

642
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: They all are different people, different walks of life, and

643
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: that's the tough one. Is like to get every from

644
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: the star to the craft service guy to not hurt themselves,

645
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 1: be safe, get along. And my biggest thing to this

646
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: set is like the stickers, like no drama whenever old

647
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: ages used to do that is we're just fucking making

648
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: a movie. Guys. No one's crying ass cancer. It's like

649
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 1: you probably heard me say that. It's like relax, just

650
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: making a movie. It should be fun. Everybody takes it

651
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: a little too seriously, Like no, dude, it's like you

652
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: know when your parents die at fifteen, or you know,

653
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: challenges you've had, those are challenges. This is no challenge

654
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,239
Speaker 1: at all, you know what I mean? Like, this is

655
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: so what we'll lose an hour? You're the fuck I

656
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: think that that also helped, you know, but knowing how

657
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: things work is always good too, like knowing what it is,

658
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 1: like knowing how this microphone records to that hard drive

659
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: and how it's gonna get edited. Like if you know,

660
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: then whoever you hire to do it, you know what

661
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: to tell. You're not just some suit coming in saying

662
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: do this when you actually don't know how it works,

663
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. The guy's like, well, the

664
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: data stream isn't that quick. I can't upload it that

665
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: fast thing, you know what I mean. So mechanics definitely

666
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: help with that stuff. Plus for me, it's the adrenaline

667
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: of racing, Like I love going fast, Like I've never

668
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: been drunk in my life, don't do drugs, kind of

669
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: like a nerd in that aspect, you know. I've got

670
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: in trouble with the police, but it's always street racing.

671
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: So that for me is my high, you know. And

672
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: I have I mean the car I have now is lucky.

673
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: When I drove here, I'm lucky if it has seven horsepower,

674
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: you know, But then I have cars I have two

675
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: thousand horse power. So like cars, the freedom they represent,

676
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: the fresh air, the speed, the adrenaline just being able to,

677
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: you know, go out and do it. And I also

678
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: love the aesthetics of like old cars, to have a

679
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: big classic car. Fan of the looks of that stuff.

680
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: Me too. Yeah, what's your favorite? The sixty eight fastback

681
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: Mustang is my favorite? Sixty eight. I love the sixty six.

682
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: You like the lights's going in in the back. I

683
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,239
Speaker 1: like the lights coming out a little bit.

684
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 3: I like it because it's it was in the bullet Yeah.

685
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 3: I like that forest green color.

686
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: That's a bad color. Yeah, but I'll never buy it

687
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: because I like to dream. Oh you don't. You don't

688
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: want to have it? Yeah.

689
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 3: I like to go on Facebook marketplace and offer up.

690
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 3: And when Craigslist was the thing, yeah, I would go

691
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 3: and search for these cars and then I would actually

692
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 3: go visit the owners and you know and yeah, kick

693
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 3: the tires. And you didn't want to buy it, though,

694
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 3: are you? Because then it's over?

695
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: That's true.

696
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 3: You know, it's like because you can. They're not that

697
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 3: ex I mean, they're expensive, but you can. I mean

698
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 3: at one time I was I was saying something and

699
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 3: when the economy wasn't that great, they were like fully

700
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 3: rebuilt restored. One was like forty forty five grand you

701
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 3: could daily drive that. I thought about it, and I

702
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 3: was like, you know, I really like the pursuit.

703
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: Of the hunt.

704
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 3: And I love going out and meeting these owners that

705
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 3: put their heart into it and hearing the origin story

706
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 3: of why they have this car and then like like

707
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 3: to go home and then do it again.

708
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: Over.

709
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 2: It's weird, you know.

710
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: It's like you have the cars, you know, I own

711
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: to any cars, same thing. You're like, oh, what you

712
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: get it is? It does put the fire out? Don't

713
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: enough time to drive them all? Yeah?

714
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 3: I mean, and as I get older, like I love

715
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 3: like restoring these cars, like I have this Hachiroku, this

716
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,479
Speaker 3: Toyota Corolla yea. And for about four months it was

717
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 3: this like night and day obsession, right, and then meeting

718
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 3: people in the community that helped me find these like

719
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 3: rare parts and then you know, they come over and

720
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 3: they'd like to help me create a wire harness for

721
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 3: the park lights and stuff. And and I love this

722
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 3: interaction and that that whole process of bringing this car

723
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 3: back to life. And as soon as it was done,

724
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 3: I've never driven it again.

725
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: You know what I thought of It's interesting that you

726
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: say that is lately and I haven't shared this with

727
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: you yet because I have so many cars now, you know,

728
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I want to give them away.

729
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: I want to be like you've always loved these bucks,

730
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: this buicks for you, like my good friends, my family,

731
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: just like give them to people because giving feels nice.

732
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Amelia and I we could We'll always

733
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 3: stick a car, never know. Yeah, yeah, you have her

734
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 3: numbers all exactly.

735
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 2: How many cars trucks included do you have now?

736
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: Thirty?

737
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 2: I remember? Was it even a year ago that you

738
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 2: sold your entire fleet and was like, I've doumb a

739
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 2: car as I'm not buying anymore.

740
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: And a year later, years two years ago? Right was it?

741
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: It was just before filming Hollywood Christmas.

742
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: You're right? Yeah. I had a buddy of the mine

743
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: actually had a dealership here. It's a very cool dealership.

744
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: It's called Motor Cars LA. It's right by off Librea

745
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 1: and like Santa Monica area. Okay, he needed inventory. He's

746
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: a good friend of mine. He used to work at

747
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: Aston martin the factory, and he bought I had eighteen

748
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: at that time. He bought eighteen cars in one shot,

749
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: and I was gonna see, Okay, what a cool life experiment.

750
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: I must see how long I can go without a car.

751
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 2: And a year litterious.

752
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: I made it three weeks. I made it three weeks.

753
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: I was like, like ubering places because I've never not

754
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: had a car since I've been sixteen that the cars

755
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: are like a big part of my life. So I

756
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: was like, how long can I go? No cars? No motorcycles?

757
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: He bought them all, So I was like, Okay, let

758
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: me see how what what do you buy them all for?

759
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: For his inventory to sell? Oh, Fay had this place

760
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: called motor Cars La. Making a commercial on your site

761
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: right now for him? He should pay your Yeah, it's

762
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: right there off Libria. It's really cool. He's got cool cars, classics,

763
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: new cars, old cars, million dollar, multimillion dollar, Ford whatever

764
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: leads you called GT forty and Yeah. So he bought

765
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: them all, but it's just is it interesting for me?

766
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: It was like, huh, let's clear your house. I mean

767
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: at Aston Martin fifty five Chevy smoking the bandit trans

768
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: am An XJR one hundred Jaguar. I just bought another

769
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: one I found in Florida. I bought one back that

770
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: only made five hundred of those in two thousand and two.

771
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: I always liked one the ugliest fuck. I don't know

772
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: I like it. But my sue brew brat my race cars.

773
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: He bought everything.

774
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 3: Do you think your your experience as a actor. I

775
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 3: don't know what kind of parts you were going at for,

776
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 3: you know, but as a you know, Iranian immigrants, right,

777
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 3: did you have challenges in terms of the type of

778
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 3: roles that you were initially offered.

779
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: I mean the first it was all first First it

780
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: was young, you could do anything. But then after a

781
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: few years, when you're hitting your twenties, it was like

782
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: you're literally Middle Eastern. No, I'm doing Sanji of the

783
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: Indian food delivery guy in a couple episodes of King

784
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: of Queens. I was doing you know, the JAG and

785
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: NCIS episodes, Old Terrorists, Bad Guys, the lead in the

786
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: Chuck Norris movie Bad Guy. It's some Spanish roles because

787
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: back then it was like you just look at it

788
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: wasn't so specific. Now it's like you better be fucking

789
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: this part of Afghanistan and speaking or doing that's it like,

790
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: it's not Middle Eastern anymore. It's very specific because it's

791
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: so touchy now. But so those were like kind of

792
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: a lot of roles. But I did play a lot

793
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: of like I mean, Harris and Three Kings, this and that.

794
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: But I also did like, you know, he's just got

795
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: that into a big rom com. I played my first

796
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: gay role. It was very memorable scenes. It's funny, but

797
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: you know, for me, when nine to eleven hit, I

798
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: was kind of like Supero's golden child and I was like,

799
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 1: oh shit, like I can't be seen like in movies

800
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: and also have Super given us you know, big contracts,

801
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,720
Speaker 1: and I'm there like fastest super in the world, racing

802
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: on a televised you know, those series were televised, like

803
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: the NHR series was televised, So I stopped doing those. Actually, Argo,

804
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: I booked a role in Argo. I met with Ben

805
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: Affleck and all of them and booked a role, good role,

806
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: but not the main bad guy, but the second bad guy.

807
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: Then I read the script because I didn't give me

808
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: a script yet, and we went through all the chem

809
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 1: tests and everything. They hired me, and then I read

810
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: the script like, oh no, like this is like horrible,

811
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: and my dad's an Iran and my buddy at CIA

812
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: that was kind of a side pocket wrapping me. He's

813
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 1: like not worth it. His last movie. Ben's last movie

814
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: was a Jilly or Gilly. It was like at a tank,

815
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: so don't worry about it. It goes to windf and

816
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: it goes and wins in Oscar. Yeah, and they didn't.

817
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: Funny story with that is sat the procting company didn't

818
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: tell SAG that I turned it down because I went

819
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: through a lot of the rounds like I'd filled out

820
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: my paperwork because I didn't have the script yet, So

821
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: they didn't tell SAG that I dropped out. So I

822
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: got a screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Cast, and

823
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: I got a plack and like le thing because they

824
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: still thought I was part of the ensemble, so for

825
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: best Cast, because it won movie the Best Cast a

826
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: couple of awards. Yeah. So after that, the racing hit

827
00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm not doing any more terror

828
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: st roles. And I really haven't done any since since

829
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: nine to eleven. I don't need to anymore.

830
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 2: I think.

831
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: I was like, maybe, kid, I'd still do it. But

832
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: I get to make these cool movies and I've been

833
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: like Bennett's War, I was like the third lead. It's

834
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: a motorcycle racing movie. Really cool. Netflix American wrestler second lead.

835
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: I've never been the lead. They that I never been

836
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: number one in one of our own movies. I did

837
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: one called Damn Foreigners for I got cast to that

838
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: as the number one position. But I've done a lot of,

839
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: like you know, in the top fives for our movies,

840
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: maybe half of our movies. I think California Christmas, I'm

841
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 1: the butler. You're agreeing that, Yeah, yeah, California Christmas, I'm

842
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 1: their butler. Like it's funny.

843
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 3: Do you think your experience as an actor and the

844
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 3: type of roles you were casting gives you a certain

845
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 3: perspective as a producer on what you create in terms

846
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 3: of story and diverse casting?

847
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean totally. Yeah. I mean having so many

848
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: hours on set on that side of the camera, knowing

849
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: I can I definitely help with casting. Actually work used

850
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: to working casting. I used to intern for Nan Dutton

851
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: that did like Nash Bridges and stuff. We used to

852
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: work for her for free just to learn about casting.

853
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: So totally knowing the actors, knowing who's good who's bad.

854
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: They can just tell like that, they just look. You

855
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: can see in two seconds, like who's got it, who

856
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: doesn't have it? Whether they're off book or on book

857
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: or missing the mark, you still know they're good. You know,

858
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: they just made the bad decision. So those are good

859
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: making people comfortable on set, you know what I mean.

860
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: Even our mutual friend Chris. It was great to work

861
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: with him, you know what I mean, because he's a

862
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: good actor and we would like it was cool to

863
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: work with artists, like whether it's like John Voyd or

864
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, or crossovers, not crossovers because like Trace Atkins

865
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: is an actor, now, Chris is an actor. Now these

866
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: guys are been acting for But what makes a good

867
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: actor to you? I mean, I don't know what makes it.

868
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: I just know what it is. Well what is it?

869
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: I mean just the truth? For me, like just just

870
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: being like not acting. Believability, yeah, I mean for me

871
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: is like you know, when you're watching that person, you

872
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: know in two seconds, if they're believable, if they're honest,

873
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: if they're true, if they're actually going there, they're just

874
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: not phoning it in, you know. So I just think like,

875
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,880
Speaker 1: you know, being real, being genuine, being there, present, reacting,

876
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: not acting, listening what you do between the lines. A

877
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: lot of people new actors are just all waiting for

878
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 1: their line to come, like you know the joke everybody

879
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: hears Will Smith or everybody sees Will Smith and like

880
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince where he's like mouthing the other person's life.

881
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I read his book and he talks about doing that.

882
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so funny. But so, you know, but when

883
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 1: it's cool when you see new ones, and it's really

884
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: cool when you see new people, like we have a

885
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: friend that we met. There was a new actress that

886
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: we gave her a chance, and I think that Riley's

887
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: her first lead was with us, right, Riley, I think so,

888
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: And she's amazing. She's worth like three four movies now

889
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: for other people as well. It's really cool to find

890
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: new talent, like even George from American Wrestler, the kid

891
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: that played me, and we auditioned like two hundred people

892
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: and we ended up hiring a Greek kid because we

893
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: couldn't find any Iranian kid to play me ally an

894
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 1: American wrestler. So this guy was like he's a little

895
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: bit taller and better looking than me. So I was like, well, fine,

896
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: we'll hire it. But it was like, you know, you

897
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 1: just like that raw energy and they're just not acting

898
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: for the Graham, you know what I mean. They're not

899
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: trying to just book a job to say I booked

900
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: the job. They're like just real, genuinely enjoy it, like

901
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 1: wearing that other skin. But you know, that skin, in

902
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: my opinion, can't be unless you're daniel Lewis or some badass.

903
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: That skin can't be too far from your skin, you

904
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's got to kind of be

905
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: your it's your skin in a different light, you know

906
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 1: what I mean, unless you're some real method you're calling Farreller's,

907
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, or calling further any calling, just pick it,

908
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: calling him, you know. But yeah, so that's that's what

909
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: I think, you know, and also doing it so long

910
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 1: you just can just tell, you know, you just watch

911
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: people's taps or watching them in person, and it's all

912
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: zooms now. So it's all like watching and you know,

913
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 1: it's the lean in factor, Like if you're ever watching

914
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: something and like an audition or something and you're like

915
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: lean in slowly, Okay, that person works. And I actually

916
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: do that with our own producers and directors. I watch

917
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: them and see how they're reacting, you know, expose them.

918
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: They're like that's the difference, you know, it's kind of weird.

919
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's no real formula in my opinion. But again,

920
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: I probably don't even do it right. We just do

921
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: what we do. Literally, we do what we do. We're

922
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: like the odd ball. We came up with an idea,

923
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: wrote the script, made the movie with Riley, our friends

924
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: starring in it in like three weeks.

925
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 2: Shout out Riley, Yeah, shout out Riley.

926
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: Danish the star. Yeah, just I don't know, I kind

927
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: of We don't do the traditional find the filmmaker, get descripted,

928
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: find the talent, kiss ass, kiss ass, this agent then

929
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: like that live's too short. You want to be in

930
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: a movie, you got the money, you have the idea

931
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: is good? Do we think it's good? Fix it, shoot it?

932
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: And so we also do like three or four movies

933
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: a year, five movies a year sometimes, but they're small,

934
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,720
Speaker 1: you know, they're not like they're not fast and furious

935
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: heavy though. Were they like around five five mil? Under fives? Yeah,

936
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: threty five? How many? How many days of production are

937
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: you in them for a film? Any we're up from

938
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: like the light side if there's not a lot of

939
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: stuff sixteen seventeen on the high side twenty two to

940
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: twenty five four weeks pretty fast, yeah, very fast.

941
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you need a pretty good director, like a

942
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 3: person that can kind of lead the team. So what

943
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 3: do you look for in because you say that you

944
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 3: work with like two three directors and you're really too.

945
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're my friend. We used to street race together earlier. Yeah.

946
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: His first job with me was doing a public service

947
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: announcement because I got arrested for the fifth time and

948
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: they judge said you need to make a public service announcement.

949
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 1: It was like part of my punishment. So I was like,

950
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: I'm alifshar don't street race. That was the first thing

951
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: we did because he made his first movie called The

952
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,240
Speaker 1: Last Race. It was a little short at like glen Oaks.

953
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: That's a place that used the street race here kind

954
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: of by where my shop was. So we met that way,

955
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: became friends and he and his friend his name is

956
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,439
Speaker 1: Alex Ornardovello. He's directed a bunch of our movies. Movies

957
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: you've been in, right, Yeah. I think being talented and

958
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: being good at what you do is good. I don't

959
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: know who I heard it from, was it DeNiro or somebody,

960
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: But also being a good person equally it counts for

961
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: me because you can teach people what to do. So

962
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: we're not like, director, do your thing. We're like, let's

963
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: do our thing. So our producers, our writers, our directors,

964
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: we all could contribute where nobody has ego, like I'm

965
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: probably the biggest asshole there is and I'm not even

966
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: an asshole. But we'll all put our heads together. So

967
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: let's say you don't understand this acting thing, I'll step in,

968
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: or Christino step in, or we need a little more

969
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: stunt thing, We'll bring like a stunt guy will help

970
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,280
Speaker 1: us with how this car action works and stuff. So

971
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: so for us, a loyalty, a friendship, a work ethic

972
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: really works. Obviously, you need to know what lens to

973
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: use and how to get coverage and put a good

974
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: You know, our editor works hand in hand like day one,

975
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: the editors looking at the footage making sure we're not

976
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,720
Speaker 1: missing stuff. We've really had one editor for all o movies,

977
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: one composer all our movies. It's like almost like a

978
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: TV show. We just go to movie to movie. It's

979
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: the same. Eighty percent of the crew is the same

980
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: crew from sound to DPR Rubin Steinberg or DP is

981
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: direct DPEAT. I think every movie except the two or

982
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: three Sean ones, right, Brad Rushing did those two. So yeah,

983
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:36,439
Speaker 1: just like kind of like, I don't know, I'm probably

984
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: not doing it the best way because I think when

985
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: you talk to the big boys, they like, you know,

986
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: this guy's talented and this type of storytelling. And I'm

987
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: kind of like, I think we can do anything. I'm

988
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: going to do our first four movie now, even on

989
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: the big ones.

990
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 3: Like I think that style of like the a tour director,

991
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 3: like having yielding all power and every decision, I don't

992
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 3: necessarily think that happens anymore because I haven't worked with

993
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 3: type of structure in a.

994
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: Long long time.

995
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it doesn't work like that anymore, especially

996
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 3: because of the budgets or so the studios are coming in.

997
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 3: Yet it's very in many ways, it's just a bigger

998
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 3: version of your system, you know.

999
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: But we use the same people. That's the thing where

1000
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: I get, like the studios kind of come to me

1001
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: and be like, well, who are you going to get

1002
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: to do this? You can't have your same people, And

1003
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm like why not? Yeah, you know, they want the

1004
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: new Hottest Sun Dance winner, the short film, and I'm

1005
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: like I kind of owe it to these guys that

1006
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: have been busting us for me for the last ten years.

1007
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: Like we're going to do it our way. It's a

1008
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:35,919
Speaker 1: little more Tyler Perry method than big Hollywood method. Right.

1009
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 2: Well, it's yeah, you're on your twenty fourth movie now,

1010
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 2: so and serious and something.

1011
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: The series goes good, hopefully we'll you know, make a

1012
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: whole budget'll put you in series. I mean, you've worked

1013
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: with Ali and his directors, right, so what makes a

1014
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: good director?

1015
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: You know, when you and I first sat down and talked,

1016
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 2: you were asking me if I'd ever had a bad

1017
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,959
Speaker 2: experience with the director, and I couldn't say I ever had,

1018
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: because you know, my experience has been working with his team,

1019
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: so which I'm so incredibly thankful for because everyone is

1020
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 2: just so great. It's very family oriented and even Neil

1021
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 2: on GT he was such a joy to work with.

1022
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 2: So I feel very fortunate in that space that I

1023
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 2: haven't had a bad directing experience to compare to. But

1024
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 2: I would say what has made it great is having

1025
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: people directors wanting to hear what you're bringing to the table.

1026
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 2: It's more collaborative, They're open to trying new things. It's

1027
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 2: you know, a room of patients and a room where

1028
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: it's a safe space. So if you want to try something,

1029
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,319
Speaker 2: you know, no one's going to get mad at you

1030
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 2: or say you're you're ruining something or braiding you. Everyone's

1031
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 2: kind of like, you know, everyone's see everyone else succeed

1032
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 2: and it's a really good safe space with positive energy.

1033
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 2: And that's why I feel, I mean, I feel very lucky.

1034
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 2: So my again, my experiences with directors thus far has

1035
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 2: been really good.

1036
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 1: And we're lucky to have her too, because, like she said,

1037
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: it's irreflective, you know, it's a mirror because she comes

1038
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: with a certain confidence in the desire and she's only

1039
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: been acting for like a year, you know, already booked

1040
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,919
Speaker 1: like three, four or five movies already two or three

1041
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: with us, you know, and the GT and all these

1042
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 1: other ones. So like when you have somebody so eager

1043
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: willing to put the work in, you know, because there's

1044
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: other people that like say stuff and you're like, okay,

1045
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: try that take for you, go ahead, but it's not

1046
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: going to work. But then you get other friends they're like, hey,

1047
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 1: can you do this? Can you do that? And people

1048
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: like Emelia just make it like I like that Discovery

1049
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: you know, like you like looking at the cars and

1050
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: like not getting them. I like finding new talent, Like

1051
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: I find I've found people and like literally on the

1052
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: street that have been in our movies, waiters that have

1053
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: been like come to be in this movie. Like we

1054
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: I like doing that. So, you know, having another a

1055
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: girl that's kind of on my trajectory, you know, like

1056
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: car racing wants to get into movies, you know, cars

1057
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: and that. You know, I'm kind of shoeing her a

1058
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: little bit back more to the car sided a little

1059
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: bit for the for the racing stuff, you know, but

1060
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: because you know, back when I was a kid, like

1061
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: there was no social media. We had to win to

1062
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: get on the magazine cover, to get on the TV show.

1063
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: It wasn't you know. I wish. I almost wish I

1064
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: could trade places where now I could do these crazy

1065
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,720
Speaker 1: car and just do fun you know, like like everything

1066
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: like Rob and His Ridiculousness show and like the you know,

1067
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: Travis went off and did his Nitro Circus stuff and

1068
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: with Ken Block, Arrest the Soul and like and you know,

1069
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,439
Speaker 1: like all this cool stuff. It wasn't about winning. I'm

1070
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: just always about winning because that's what at my time

1071
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: you had to race the win. It wasn't like it

1072
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: wasn't about followers or views or subscribers. So I kind

1073
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: of missed that boat. I kind of feel like, oh man,

1074
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 1: I wish it was like twenty years ago. How would

1075
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: I do it now? You know what I mean? It'd

1076
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: be cool, you know, but hopefully with you, you know,

1077
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: we'll combine the two, you know, we'll win. That's the front. Yeah.

1078
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 2: I feel like we'd also be doing a disservice to

1079
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 2: not mention everything you're doing with Warner Brothers on the

1080
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 2: diversity side of things. So yeah, yeah, yeah, congratulations to that.

1081
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: Thanks you were doing. Want me to say about.

1082
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 2: It, sure, if you want to talk about it.

1083
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: It's one hundred anniversary for Warner Brothers this year, and

1084
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: they're doing this cool diversity initiative where they're given six

1085
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: underrepresented communities and they're gonna be making remakes of iconic

1086
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: Warner movies but a short form like twenty minutes. They're

1087
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: going to be making short films. They're gonna get a

1088
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: little bit of a budget, but they're going to make

1089
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: these cool like the Old School Rebel Was Out of

1090
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: Causes and those kind of movies. But it's through their lens.

1091
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,720
Speaker 1: When you see the films that are coming out, shows

1092
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: that are coming out, do you feel like inclusion and

1093
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: diversity has gotten better since you started as an actor.

1094
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: I think it's gotten better, but I think it's a

1095
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: little too checklisting now, you know what I mean, Like

1096
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 1: you have to, like, I think the worst thing to

1097
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 1: do right now, it'd be like a good looking American person,

1098
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 1: like you're never gonna work, you know what I mean.

1099
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: I think it's I think the pendulum has swung pretty

1100
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: good in the right direction, but I think it's like

1101
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: I guess it's needed. So I take that back, so

1102
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to get every real flared up, but like,

1103
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely going in the right direction. You

1104
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: can now you see more real people on TV. You

1105
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: see a lot more different colors and stuff. You know,

1106
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: we have a gentleman. I think we hired in this one.

1107
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: We're working out the deal with the stagent today. The

1108
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,479
Speaker 1: movie we're doing now that's in a wheel it's gonna

1109
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 1: be our first actor in a wheelchair. And it was

1110
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 1: just like it kind of just makes sense, like hey, this,

1111
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: why not you know, this is a cool opportunity to

1112
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: do it. But it wasn't like, oh, we need to

1113
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: have somebody wheelchair write a role for it. You know,

1114
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: the diversity I think could follow the story. But if

1115
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: you can get you know, diverse stories coming out from

1116
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: those people writing, whoever's writing and creating these stories can

1117
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: be you know, we have a couple of Iranian projects

1118
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: in the in the pipeline. Talked about one of them

1119
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: this morning. It's really nice called American Wings, even though

1120
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: it's about an Iranian wrestler again kind of like ours.

1121
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: But you know, if more and more people are exposed

1122
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: to it, because I mean the Hollywood started with like

1123
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, all the big studios were like white Jewish

1124
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: American men opened the Wall of Disney, Warner Brothers, They're

1125
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: all you know, they all did that. So that's who

1126
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: started it. So for all of us other ethnicities to

1127
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: get and it's going to take time, it's going to

1128
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: take this push. It's going to take you know, us

1129
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,760
Speaker 1: telling better stories, just like in the real world, blending

1130
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: into the population. You know, what do you think Amelia

1131
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: as a white yeah, white American woman, do you agree

1132
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: with Ellie? Like, how do you see it?

1133
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 2: I don't think there's enough diversity. I you know, even

1134
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 2: as simple as just being a you know, woman in

1135
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 2: a male dominated space. I felt like there's times where

1136
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 2: I needed to see that representation in order to know

1137
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 2: I could do something. And I feel like with film

1138
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 2: and television, you're telling these stories that you know children

1139
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 2: are looking up to, and you know, they may not

1140
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 2: know that this is possible for them to do if

1141
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 2: they're constantly just seeing the same race leading these films.

1142
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 2: So I feel like it's very important to have that representation. Yeah,

1143
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 2: I mean, if you think about films twenty years ago

1144
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 2: to what you see on TV today, I think it's

1145
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 2: awesome the direction that things are going.

1146
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: That's cool. I feel like we covered so much.

1147
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 2: I'd ask about advice, but you kind of asked that,

1148
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 2: asking him as he was younger, what would he tell

1149
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 2: himself today? Yeah, or vice versa.

1150
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: Nothing matters.

1151
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 2: Everything matters matters.

1152
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,399
Speaker 1: So you're gonna be a flash. Just take the risk, good,

1153
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: do your best, and you just do it, dude, Like

1154
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,439
Speaker 1: not everything that you think is gonna matter not gonna matter,

1155
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Don't be a dick and

1156
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: don't you know, keep your morals and ethics clean. But

1157
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter shit to bother at you ten

1158
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: years ago that broke your heart. Then you don't even

1159
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 1: think about now, you know what I mean. It's like

1160
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: you might think about the girl because I was a

1161
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: positive you know. Just have good experiences, be kind and

1162
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 1: like just do it like no if time is limited,

1163
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: any minute, anything can happen.

1164
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. People remember the way you made them feel, not

1165
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 2: what was said.

1166
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: To them or what was given to them or yeah,

1167
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: what you look like. Yeah, it's just how you made

1168
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: it feel. How old are you forty nine, forty nine? Yeah,

1169
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: same age, you're forty nine, fifty. I'm a little older

1170
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: than When did you turn fifty? April? Oh so you're

1171
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: you're born in seventy two. I'm seventy three. Yeah, I

1172
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: turned fifty this year. Yeah, April? What April eighth? In areas,

1173
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: of course, you're a good guy. Gemini Aris, we get

1174
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: in law. You believe in that stuff? Kind of yeah,

1175
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:55,839
Speaker 1: do you yeah?

1176
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 2: Do you no?

1177
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: Yeah? I get along with a lot of It's kind

1178
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 1: of funny, like a lot of my girlfriends have been aries.

1179
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: You're Geminis. A lot of my friends, My boss is,

1180
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: my mom, my favorite cousins all Aris, they're all aries.

1181
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 3: But it's funny with the horoscope stuff is that it's

1182
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 3: so it leans towards positive like affirmation stuff, but no

1183
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 3: one would ever go back to it. It's like, hey,

1184
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 3: you're a aries, Like, oh it says you're an asshole.

1185
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:22,959
Speaker 3: You're like you're a piece of shit?

1186
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: Mind? Does that's just that twins? No, it's a twins.

1187
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, you're a Gemini. You're like dual personality.

1188
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, mine is good and better, so like

1189
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: instead of good and bad, but Gemini gets to bad scorpios.

1190
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: My oldest brother literally textbook out there, fight mohawk tattoo

1191
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: is crazy, you know what I mean.

1192
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 3: Like, but then I can bring a I can show you,

1193
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 3: I can line up twenty aries.

1194
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: Thats exact same.

1195
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: I'm not big on it, but I do feel like

1196
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 2: there's personality traits. I don't know a lot of all

1197
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 2: the signs, but I'm a Leo. When I meet another Leo,

1198
00:51:58,760 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I could kind of see it.

1199
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: I think it's just so fun too. It's just like,

1200
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: what's a Leo? What's the trade of Leo?

1201
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 2: I got strong, go get her, maybe a little stubborn.

1202
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: But that's yeah, that's every single like.

1203
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 2: A fire or an air sign.

1204
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have no idea I would. My

1205
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,320
Speaker 1: wife would call me fire. Yeah, okay, nice stubborn.

1206
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 2: Leo's are firesides too, so stubborn, like she would say, stubborn,

1207
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 2: really stubborn, hard to get.

1208
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 3: Along way right, It seems so when I read the

1209
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 3: other side areas like gentle, like collaborative, that's me creative exactly.

1210
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 3: But then you can go like aries lazy, selfish, that's

1211
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 3: me too. Depends on the day you catch me, you

1212
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like if I'm hungry, like that's.

1213
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: That's funny, if anyone's hungry that yeah, yeah, how do

1214
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: you feel about it? But how do you feel about

1215
00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: like Jackie Chan's roll, remember well, yeah, well I was

1216
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: a kid when chill is all black, can't see out.

1217
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: It's all like trying to get so so racist, like

1218
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: you can't do that now we were talking about trying

1219
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: to do Canniball run again. Yeah you know, remember like

1220
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 1: it was meant to be sure or super or something, right,

1221
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: I think it was black. You couldn't see out the window,

1222
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 1: and it was old like like just lights and flashing

1223
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: funds because they're trying to say, like the Japanese were

1224
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: so you know, technology driven. It was like you know,

1225
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: and like Jamie Farr that was on mash you know,

1226
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: he's the Arab guy with oil erab. You like, this

1227
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 1: is so fucking like staneodtypical. You can't get away.

1228
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 2: I've gone back to watch some commercials I grew up on,

1229
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 2: and that's crazy the stuff that they used to say.

1230
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 1: They do that anymore.

1231
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, Melbrooks movies. It's interesting that you even bring up

1232
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 3: Jackie Chan. I was talking to somebody about what Jackie

1233
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 3: Chan represents for Asian Americans and to me growing up

1234
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 3: with Jackie Channer knowing Jackie Chan, he represents somebody that

1235
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 3: is an icon from the action foo genre, right, and

1236
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 3: what he represents right in his homeland, right, But in

1237
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 3: America he's almost the N word for us, because yeah,

1238
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 3: you can't call me a chink or goog or you know,

1239
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 3: or some slope now.

1240
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:16,439
Speaker 1: But you can call me Jackie Chan.

1241
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 3: And so it's interesting the racist or these people that

1242
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 3: want to put someone like me down, they yeah, and

1243
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 3: I go, what do you think that's funny?

1244
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: You think that's okay for you to do that? As

1245
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: I look at.

1246
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 3: Them, and I'm like, what, why would you take something

1247
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 3: so positive? But then they they don't laugh with Jackie Chan.

1248
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 3: They laugh at him, and I'm going, why why are

1249
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 3: you laughing at him? What is it funny that about him? Yeah,

1250
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 3: but that's that's where the seed, like you actually bring

1251
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 3: that up. It's like I always wondered, like, why do

1252
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 3: people think Jackie Chan is a joke?

1253
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: Because that's what he accept He did that. Yeah, it's true, right, Well,

1254
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: I only he had experience. He wanted to come to

1255
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,760
Speaker 1: America like Bruce Lena. Nobody goes Bruce Lena jokey way

1256
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: because it was the first of you. But I think

1257
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: it's I think if Bruce Lee was alive, maybe they would. Yeah,

1258
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: you're right, Yeah, it's interesting. Right So anyway, Okay, you're good.

1259
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: All right, we're good. Thanks for coming on, Sally,