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You are listening to the USDN on the

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DFPN.

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Thanks for watching!

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what is up everybody and welcome to the

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united states department of nerds where we

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are for the people by the people and

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of the people some weapons are tools some

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are symbols some are witnesses tonight we

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sit down with a man who spent his

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life studying the blade not just how it

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cuts but what it represents you know him

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as a judged

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on Forged in Fire.

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You know the phrase, it will kill.

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But what happens when that philosophy,

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that lifetime of discipline,

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combat mastery,

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and protection is forged into a story?

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Tonight, Doug, Markadia?

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Markadia.

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Marcaida steps into a new arena,

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not the Forge, not the Battlefield,

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the comic book page.

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This is Lineage.

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The Council of Nerds is now in session.

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Doug, welcome to the USDN.

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Hello, everyone.

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How y'all doing?

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Thank you for having me here.

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So close to getting it right.

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And that was one of the questions I

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meant to ask you before we went live

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is how I pronounce your last name.

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And I missed it.

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But let's kick it off, Doug,

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with who are you?

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Well, my name is Doug Mercati.

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Like I said,

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you may know me as a judge on

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Fortune Fire as one of the judges who's

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the end user.

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I am a U.S.

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veteran.

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I was served probably in the U.S.

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Air Force.

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I was born and raised in the Philippines

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and I migrated to the U.S.

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and that's why I joined the service so

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that I could earn my right to be

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in this beautiful country.

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And while I was in service,

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I got into the weapons arts.

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I grew up in the Philippines.

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Being over there,

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I was into the martial arts,

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but I never did any weapons art because

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I had a fear of blades.

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I had some issues with some gangs and

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everything.

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And I had a very bad experience where

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I actually scared the bejesus out of me.

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So empty hand fighting and all that's what

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I did because I was a troubled kid.

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So that's why I moved to the States.

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But while I was in the Air Force,

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I got back into the martial arts and

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one of my friends over there was very

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good with his, you know,

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kickboxing and motions was just blowing me

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away.

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I'm like,

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I got to learn what you're doing.

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What are you doing?

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And he goes, it's called Kali.

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Oh, Kali, never heard of it.

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I want to learn it.

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It's Filipino.

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Filipino, I'm Filipino.

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What are you talking about?

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Oh,

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it's also known as our niece and a

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scream in the Philippines.

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I'm like,

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Whoa,

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those guys fight with weapons and blades.

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He goes, where's your weapon and blades?

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He goes, are you kidding me?

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You don't know that?

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No.

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Well, I really wanted to learn it.

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But when he told me it was a

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scream in our knees,

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I automatically pictured knives, right?

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And he goes, no, no, no.

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We trained with sticks.

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You've seen them trained with a stick,

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right?

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I go, yeah.

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No, no, no.

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But you see,

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this is also like a weapon.

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You look at it and you see,

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do you see the screwdriver in there?

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Do you see a knife in there?

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Do you see all these attributes?

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The stick is just a representation of

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that.

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i didn't want to learn it but i

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really wanted to learn his way of doing

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the empty hands but he goes i'm gonna

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guide you i'm your friend i'm not gonna

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hurt you this is martial arts this is

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us we're buddies what do you think i'm

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gonna beat the crap out of you it's

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not that kind of martial arts so slowly

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we started with this and we started

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progressing through other things that were

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representations of this which

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Easily,

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it's the same way I hold a blade.

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It's the same way I would hold a

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stick.

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Same way I would do a karambit.

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It's the same way.

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You start to see all these things in

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there and just the attributes of that.

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So in so doing,

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I conquered my fear and I became addicted

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to it.

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to the art, my own ancestral art.

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Then I started going to the Philippines

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and I traveled everywhere.

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And that's how my cycle of knife got

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created.

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I started learning everything that had to

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do with it.

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And after that, I continued on.

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After I got out of service,

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I started teaching it.

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And in my travels,

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I started to get requests to start doing

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seminars.

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A lot of my instructor or other students

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were instructors already in the military

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and law enforcement.

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So it's a program for this.

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We created the program.

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And I started designing the blades based

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on,

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because I was a military contractor on the

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side to teach the weapon combat.

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So I started to design the blades with

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KBAR and FOSS and all these other

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companies.

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And one day,

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Fortune Fire called looking for an end

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user.

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They found my videos on YouTube.

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And shall we say the rest is history.

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I got to do what I love.

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I had to leave my medical field job

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after twenty one years to be a military

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contractor.

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But then the show came over and I

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said, you know,

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I'd rather just do the show than that.

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And it was a blessing in disguise.

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That's really my passion.

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So you've lived in a world of weapons,

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martial arts,

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and you've trained for decades.

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What made comic books the medium to choose

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to tell your story of lineage?

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It's because,

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so the comic book is nothing more than

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a way for me to tell my story.

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When I was already training my arts,

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I met with my grandmasters and my teachers

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and my fellow trainers.

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We all had stories to tell.

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I go to the Philippines,

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and even though as good as they are

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with the weapons,

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there was always mysticism involved in the

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blade.

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There was a lot of spirituality involved

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in the arts.

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My teachers all had amulets.

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Amulet for what?

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To protect me from bullets or evil

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spirits?

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I go, what?

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I go, this one here?

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You're afraid?

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Yeah, they had that.

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And I've seen things where I don't

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question it because I'm the Westerner.

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But all these stories, fireside stories,

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everything we do in our training,

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it really resonated with me to be able

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to make stories out of it for my

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own.

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now fast forward i'm on fortune fire and

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i'm studying the all iconic weapons from

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history and i'm looking at different

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cultures they have the same thing

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excalibur you know the lady of the lake

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or or a sort of mars or sort

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of purses every blade all over the world

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they have all these stories as well so

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i wanted to create my own based on

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even watching the bladesmiths when they

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say i want to turn this ore into

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something what will i let the metal tell

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me what it wants to be i mean

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that's the metal tells you i'm like huh

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So there's something we said when they say

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they put their heart and soul into a

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blade.

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Well, I knew in other countries,

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in other cultures,

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they have souls and spirits living in

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blades.

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In some cultures,

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they have to make a male blade and

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a female blade.

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So they're all connected, right?

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Because it's all over the world.

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So with that,

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when I was talking to my producer in

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Fortune Fire,

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we actually came up with this concept to

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make a TV show.

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And that's what we were going to do.

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I was connected to Fortune Fire.

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Let's have this story about this,

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about every blade having a story to tell.

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It's from the blade's point of view.

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That was very unique.

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It would have been unique, yeah.

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Yes.

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So COVID hit and the film industry was

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going through changes,

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cables dying and having its changes.

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So what happened was my producer left our

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Fortune Fire and he got out of the

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business.

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I'm like, OK, I'm stuck with this.

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But then I never gave up on my

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dream to get this story told.

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So I met with some friends and some

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investors.

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They guided me to get heroes.

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These guys, because I go, well,

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what's the first comic book going to be?

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Well, I go, you know,

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one thing I learned,

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because I'm a motivational speaker.

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I do a lot of speaking engagements.

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I go, one thing I've learned,

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if you speak from experience, you're set.

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They can't tell you you're right or wrong.

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So I said, for the first book,

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my first series, Brotherhood of the Blade,

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I'm going to talk about my experience in

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the Philippines, my life,

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all the things that have to do from

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my stories of my blade.

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So I came up with lineage because I'm

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going back to my own lineage.

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But there's more to the word lineage

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because of all the things that we're

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doing.

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And before you know it,

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there to be something a little bit more

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there.

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oh a lot more let's talk about it

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first right i'm talking about my lineage i

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go back to the philippines the story of

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lineage is about these two brothers who

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grew up in the philippines they have a

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memory a memory of training uh the blades

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one has a temper the other one is

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just very gifted but then you start to

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see that

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Out of the blue,

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the father stops the fight,

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and he's killed by a demon.

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Fast forward, the older brother wakes up.

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He's now in the U.S.

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They migrated.

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Hmm, similar.

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And as they migrate to the U.S.,

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he has nightmares of the dream,

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and he doesn't want to remember anything

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about the Philippines,

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except that he inherited a blade that he

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gets to have from his father.

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Now,

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this blade is nothing more than just a

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trinket fidget tool.

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He used it to spread butter and everything

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else, but never a weapon,

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because he just wanted to be reminded of

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what it is about.

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Yeah.

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younger brother on the other hand goes i

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don't remember much about when we were

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young i need to find out about why

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do you have that blade what's my father's

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blade doing with you how come i don't

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have it so they become estranged now

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they're older men uh older young men right

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now so he starts using his tick tock

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to create his own paranormal research show

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it's called on the verge because he's

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verge but when he starts looking around

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it's really because he wants to find out

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more about this blade

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little by little he's getting into the

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spirit world into the paranormal for clues

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about the blade well the older brother

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catches one of the shows and sure enough

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because he was following a clue in a

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tip he saw on a wall a logo

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that was connected to his past and that

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freaked out the older brother so he rushes

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to his brother they confront each other

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what the hell are you doing leave the

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past alone he was like yeah it's easy

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for you to do you have the blade

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i want to find out about it and

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before you know it the demon

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that killed his father manifests itself in

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the apartment that they're in so the

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younger brother freaks out he's just

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trying to fight the thing back get out

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of my house okay who invited you here

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he's a smart aleck the older brother is

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just shocked it's a demon of my dreams

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what's it doing here but then as soon

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as the demon makes a move against his

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a younger brother memories come back and

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instinctively the blade comes alive he

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pulls it and uh stabs the demon now

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the demon starts to bleed and the brother

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goes wait if it bleeds it can be

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killed

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then he realizes is this really a demon

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then he looks at the blade and all

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the memories of their training come

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together and he asks his younger brother

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you remember what our father taught us

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these moves and everything like you know

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the dance goes yeah yeah i do it

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was they were taught how to fight as

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a team and slowly and surely enough they

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start working together and they kill the

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demon now the demons got this horrible

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skull and thorns and you know in a

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big horn so they're inside it's just a

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mask

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So when they remove it,

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all of a sudden, everything is answered.

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It's not a demon.

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It's a human being.

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The younger brother goes, well,

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now that it's been revealed, guess what?

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We need to go back to the Philippines

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and find out what this is all about.

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The story unveils.

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But here's the thing.

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It's the blade that's telling the story.

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That's really cool.

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It's not the brothers.

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You see, if I may, right,

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with the art here,

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because this was really cool because the

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artist is just a genius to me, right?

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You can see that?

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So that's the first page, right?

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And I call it still life,

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like still life, because that's what,

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you know,

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when you look at when you're painting

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fruits and everything,

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it's called still life, right?

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But when you look at that,

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the blades right there,

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the blade is already grayish, right?

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It's on the skull that was being used

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by the cult, right?

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You have two older men there.

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You have ashes and you have a candle

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that's flickering there.

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Now,

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when you go to the storybook and you

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see anything in red and black,

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that's the blade talking.

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If I may just,

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this is art to me, right?

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So the beginning says,

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if only you could see through the edge

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of my existence.

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In the hands of a child,

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I danced through terror,

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yet felt the weight of shadows where

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hearts stood still.

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Poetic.

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In the quiet moments,

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I longed to be heard sharp as a

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blade.

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In the hands of the brave,

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truth in the shadows dwell,

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comes a tale where every blade has a

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story to tell.

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That's the way the blade is trying to

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tell.

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But you see what the beauty of this

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in the still life?

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You see the candle, the meaning of that?

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The blade is turning gray and the blade

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is basically saying, before I die,

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before the last candle flames are put to

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rest,

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let me tell you my story before I

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die.

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It's beautiful.

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And then it goes,

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and as you see the blade here is

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slowly fading away.

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It tells you in the beginning,

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when I first realized who I was,

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I was actually being used by these

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brothers who were training with their

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father.

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That's a start.

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And when I said it,

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it's like a movie.

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You know, when the movies,

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you see somebody dying, like, yeah,

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that's me.

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Let me tell you what happened here.

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No, that is really cool.

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So how much...

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You've already answered this, Ashley,

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but a lot of this is kind of

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inspired by your story,

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your personal story.

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There's pieces of it in this story.

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What was it like for you to kind

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of put a little bit of you,

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your real life into this story and kind

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of like a secondhand autobiography almost?

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It was easy because I already do this

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every day.

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In Facebook,

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I have something called Morning Coffee

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with Mark Haida.

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It was a thing I started doing when

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I was away filming Fortune Fire as to

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let my boys know this is what dad

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does every day.

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Well,

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it turns out that they're not part of

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Facebook.

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So it became a community.

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but my job there is to talk about

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positive things where i've been what i do

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what interests me and i always speak it

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from my point of view so i'm not

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posing as anything if it's from my history

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from my stories and everything else

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there's no right or wrong it's what i'm

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talking about so when i got into the

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comic book thing i just simply talk about

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the things that i already know the things

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that i already see from different ways and

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my creative way of telling a story because

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i'm a storyteller

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So it wasn't difficult at all.

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What was difficult was trying to make it

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into a comic book.

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That's why Kid Heroes really helped.

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We had a Patricio Guimelso of Kid Heroes

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brought in these writers,

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Earl Bailon and Justin Kizon,

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who

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we had the skeleton of the the outline

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of the story and they modernized it they

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make it all flow because i still had

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certain pockets here that were like holes

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to be filled like oh how you know

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how how easy is that that it happens

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to be there that's so you know it's

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gotta form together they have to be able

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to be able to tell it and it

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makes sense you see i'm not an action

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guy i'm a story guy

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i love action but if it doesn't have

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a story i get disinterested and i don't

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care about the actor i need to have

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a good story that's the most important

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thing so those guys were able to do

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it but we found you know uh um

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artists who are who blew me away all

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right so i announced this in san diego

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comic-con last year at the panel because i

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did the cameo with the other comic book

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they were in

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but i got to announce it and we

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had our comic book and there was this

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artist beside me because i'm new to comic

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books i never was into comic books because

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i couldn't afford it in the philippines my

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friends had comic books so i would look

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at that but i didn't understand that there

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are issues and you go further away but

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this art was always great but i couldn't

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tell the difference

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San Diego Comic-Con,

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everybody's art is amazing.

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So I'm talking to this guy,

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and this fellow Filipino was talking about

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his history,

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like he was born and raised in the

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Philippines, he was an artist,

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and he went to the Philippines to discover

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who he was to come back to the

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U.S.

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I was born and raised in the Philippines,

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I was different, I came to the U.S.

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instead, and I found my identity.

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Nonetheless, he was saying, yeah,

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we were talking about the art,

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I was looking, oh, nice art.

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And he's like, yeah,

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you have a good artist too.

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I'm like, cool, thank you.

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I don't know the difference, so tell me,

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you have a good artist.

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That guy telling me that I had a

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good artist in my comic book is Will

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Sportacio.

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He may know a thing or two.

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Yeah.

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I didn't know who he was until every

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time I mentioned it and I mentioned his

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name, I was like, are you kidding me?

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I was sitting beside a legend and I

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didn't even know it.

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It's amazing, right?

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How...

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big that world is and how but also

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how small it is at the same time

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yeah so i obviously i'm like now that

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i dug into it and everybody i'm like

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reading about it i'm like damn well i

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gotta work with him i'm gonna ask him

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for the rest for the rest of the

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books and i've got i've got planned i

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gotta work with this guy because we were

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together and and just that he gave

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validation it's not just saying yeah it's

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good from someone like that so i was

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blown away then i get to see the

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artwork

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Like I said, the genius,

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the Easter eggs in this comic book that

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he does.

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Let me just put it very simple, right?

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If you look at this guy right here,

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I don't know if you can see it.

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There's a bandaid in his hand.

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That's the older brother.

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Now,

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when they're training and they're

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fighting,

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you'll notice that the younger brother is

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able to evade a lot of cuts.

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He doesn't have to work for him.

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The other one is full of temper and

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a lot of strength.

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He's working harder, not smarter.

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The Band-Aid, it wasn't later.

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It goes, yeah,

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that just goes to show that the older

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brother is not as skilled as the younger

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brother.

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What?

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Are you kidding me?

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But that little small detail,

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because we always knew that the older

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brother had a temper.

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So the small details are all over the

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comic book.

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When I talk to him,

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he is a man of the land.

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He does venturing.

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He goes adventurous.

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He always does a lot of hiking.

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He talks to the tribes and everything

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else.

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When he does that,

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he's really into the culture of the

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Filipinos.

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I was born and raised there.

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I didn't even know a lot of this.

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Even our blade that's telling the story.

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If you look at it from this point

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of view, at first I thought,

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what are those crocodile scales?

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It looked cool because all I cared was

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about the mark.

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He goes, no, no, no, no.

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Look at it that way.

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You see the little dots there?

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Those are the heads.

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It's a stick man holding hands.

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That means family.

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It's a real tattoo in our culture.

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I go, what?

00:19:21.907 --> 00:19:22.407
He goes, yeah,

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and he showed me his tattoo because the

00:19:23.768 --> 00:19:25.009
lady who put it there is famous.

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She still does it the old way.

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It's lineage.

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in the blade i'm like are you kidding

00:19:31.132 --> 00:19:34.335
me this guy understands it but what made

00:19:34.375 --> 00:19:36.037
it even better was he's not a martial

00:19:36.076 --> 00:19:38.378
art practitioner in the filipino arts so

00:19:38.699 --> 00:19:40.099
when we got to talking about it go

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i don't want to see superman punch i

00:19:41.862 --> 00:19:43.282
don't want to see hulk smash i want

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to see filipino martial art moves so what

00:19:45.845 --> 00:19:48.346
we did to do that was we actually

00:19:49.188 --> 00:19:50.269
I trained with my brother,

00:19:50.469 --> 00:19:52.810
and I started recording my training

00:19:52.851 --> 00:19:53.912
sessions with my brother and the

00:19:53.971 --> 00:19:56.053
techniques to finish in the blades that we

00:19:56.073 --> 00:19:56.532
were doing.

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He watched it over and over,

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and he was able to capture those motions.

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If you are a practitioner, you see,

00:20:04.239 --> 00:20:04.759
for example,

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there's a technique here we call the

00:20:05.980 --> 00:20:06.621
scissoring, right?

00:20:06.641 --> 00:20:07.520
We scissor this way.

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But in a comic book, it's stopped.

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But if you put the tracings and the

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motion, they go, I recognize that.

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So he was able to convey that because

00:20:16.047 --> 00:20:17.106
we recorded the videos.

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That's how I was able to get my

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martial art into this because there's a

00:20:20.367 --> 00:20:21.868
lot of my history here.

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No, that is really cool.

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And I had a question prepared here just

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to ask you, you know,

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what was that transition like going?

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I mean, you're a natural storyteller,

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but jumping into a comic book that had

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to feel like something very unknown to

00:20:36.255 --> 00:20:36.595
you.

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And you've answered that.

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But it's really cool to see you not

00:20:41.196 --> 00:20:41.416
only...

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jump into this unknown but and fully

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embrace it and to fully immerse yourself

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into it san diego comic-con is like the

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biggest comic-con in comic-cons which is

00:20:55.097 --> 00:20:56.459
really cool that you got to go there

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you got to sit on a panel and

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answer questions and just just be there to

00:21:01.544 --> 00:21:05.227
immerse yourself in all that energy that

00:21:05.267 --> 00:21:06.708
san diego brings with it

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And all that energy also inspired and

00:21:12.548 --> 00:21:14.211
continued my story.

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You see, this is just issue one.

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Issue two.

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So the brothers find out, okay,

00:21:20.338 --> 00:21:20.979
there's something here.

00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:22.480
Issue two, they go back to their country.

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This is about brotherhood of the blade.

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One of the things about martial art

00:21:27.026 --> 00:21:27.446
training,

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especially in the way I learned it,

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we train for six hours.

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Who trains for six hours?

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We're not in a school.

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We're in the backyard.

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We train in the dark.

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We train in a full moon.

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We train with campfires in there.

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We train with drumming.

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We're really into this.

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That's a cult.

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That is cultic behavior.

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We are manipulated in our heads to be

00:21:50.036 --> 00:21:51.958
warriors because that's the way our

00:21:52.057 --> 00:21:54.200
warriors were taught, to be invincible,

00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.022
to have all these incantations and

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rituals.

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That's a cult.

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So I knew that because I had to

00:22:00.906 --> 00:22:03.210
pull myself out of that, right?

00:22:03.230 --> 00:22:04.730
Now, I'm at Comic-Con.

00:22:05.672 --> 00:22:09.673
i see people there doing cosplay i see

00:22:09.713 --> 00:22:11.214
what they're wearing these people are at

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eighty degrees and wearing full leather

00:22:13.297 --> 00:22:14.537
but i got to talk to them and

00:22:14.576 --> 00:22:18.680
they are just as immersed in their passion

00:22:18.859 --> 00:22:20.500
and see the passion is passion no matter

00:22:20.520 --> 00:22:23.382
what it is exactly that is now going

00:22:23.422 --> 00:22:25.824
to influence because our artists put a

00:22:25.943 --> 00:22:29.445
mask on the bad guy i go our

00:22:29.486 --> 00:22:32.807
cult is going to be also answering the

00:22:32.928 --> 00:22:34.388
cult of cosplay

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Because cosplay has that.

00:22:37.862 --> 00:22:39.722
What is it about a mask?

00:22:39.762 --> 00:22:41.703
Why am I hiding behind the mask?

00:22:41.903 --> 00:22:42.684
What does a mask do?

00:22:43.285 --> 00:22:44.965
Am I invincible when I put a mask

00:22:45.046 --> 00:22:45.145
on?

00:22:45.566 --> 00:22:46.967
I may be a regular person without the

00:22:46.987 --> 00:22:47.826
mask, but I put it on,

00:22:47.906 --> 00:22:49.188
I become something else.

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So all that is found in my story.

00:22:53.069 --> 00:22:56.653
So when I immersed myself into the comic

00:22:56.673 --> 00:22:57.153
book world,

00:22:57.192 --> 00:22:58.674
the comic verse or whatever it is,

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I also allowed it to speak to me

00:23:02.377 --> 00:23:06.320
and help me make my comic book important.

00:23:06.381 --> 00:23:08.061
You see, in my story,

00:23:08.122 --> 00:23:09.603
the blade has a soul.

00:23:10.263 --> 00:23:11.505
If you look at the first still,

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that's when the blade is about to die.

00:23:13.006 --> 00:23:13.666
But here's the thing.

00:23:14.207 --> 00:23:15.307
When the blade dies,

00:23:15.508 --> 00:23:20.511
its soul will transfer to another blade in

00:23:20.571 --> 00:23:23.054
another era, in another time,

00:23:23.534 --> 00:23:24.795
and tell a different story.

00:23:25.635 --> 00:23:28.116
That's why it's also called lineage.

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It continues on.

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I love multi-layered stories like that.

00:23:34.701 --> 00:23:36.483
and just how it can apply to just

00:23:36.503 --> 00:23:38.005
about anything but the fact that it's been

00:23:38.025 --> 00:23:41.667
applied to a blade in this instance it's

00:23:41.688 --> 00:23:43.670
just so cool like the multi-level

00:23:43.730 --> 00:23:46.251
storytellings because there's so many

00:23:46.271 --> 00:23:50.756
metaphors right comic books can do yes in

00:23:51.016 --> 00:23:53.597
in many ways that that's very freeing also

00:23:54.038 --> 00:23:56.540
um but just as there's meaning to the

00:23:56.601 --> 00:23:57.942
blade having a soul in it

00:23:59.151 --> 00:24:01.290
And the blades that are making it.

00:24:01.631 --> 00:24:05.011
I wanted my comic book to have a

00:24:05.152 --> 00:24:07.492
soul in it as well.

00:24:07.692 --> 00:24:08.553
How do I do that?

00:24:09.333 --> 00:24:09.952
Issue two.

00:24:10.593 --> 00:24:14.334
Because Kiss bled into the ink that they

00:24:14.374 --> 00:24:15.713
printed their comic book on.

00:24:16.153 --> 00:24:17.814
Yes.

00:24:17.933 --> 00:24:18.714
Supposedly.

00:24:19.575 --> 00:24:21.194
Well, they also look at the comic art.

00:24:21.394 --> 00:24:22.434
It's got to be meaningful.

00:24:22.615 --> 00:24:24.415
So in issue one,

00:24:24.435 --> 00:24:26.316
you get to meet the Mercado that's selling

00:24:26.336 --> 00:24:26.715
the blade.

00:24:27.540 --> 00:24:28.280
Issue two,

00:24:28.922 --> 00:24:32.443
you will get to meet my Kali Hawk

00:24:32.483 --> 00:24:33.864
Tomahawk, real.

00:24:34.785 --> 00:24:35.605
You will get to meet,

00:24:35.805 --> 00:24:36.726
and you saw him already,

00:24:37.671 --> 00:24:40.092
my well i call this the battle ball

00:24:40.491 --> 00:24:42.852
these guys are making cameos in my story

00:24:42.872 --> 00:24:44.613
they're part of it hey man uh what

00:24:44.673 --> 00:24:45.972
are you an issue two i'm an issue

00:24:46.073 --> 00:24:47.433
one oh no we know you're we're both

00:24:47.473 --> 00:24:48.753
in issue two yeah how do you like

00:24:48.794 --> 00:24:50.775
it well i like being interviewed yeah i

00:24:50.795 --> 00:24:52.855
talk to my blades right but here's the

00:24:52.875 --> 00:24:55.016
thing as a knife designer i design all

00:24:55.036 --> 00:24:57.457
my blades now i'm putting this into my

00:24:57.497 --> 00:24:58.217
comic books

00:24:58.936 --> 00:25:00.739
why because it's meaningful to me to watch

00:25:00.778 --> 00:25:02.560
my comic book and say hey hey there

00:25:02.582 --> 00:25:04.884
you are thank you man it's meaningful to

00:25:04.923 --> 00:25:07.426
me that these guys are part and vice

00:25:07.467 --> 00:25:10.211
versa the comic book world now comes into

00:25:10.230 --> 00:25:12.192
me goes like wait wait the real versions

00:25:12.252 --> 00:25:14.134
of this that you can get that are

00:25:14.154 --> 00:25:16.538
in the comic book yes so doesn't that

00:25:16.597 --> 00:25:17.740
make it a little bit more

00:25:18.380 --> 00:25:19.900
meaningful to you to know that you can

00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:22.101
actually have the blade that was created

00:25:22.520 --> 00:25:23.141
from the story.

00:25:23.300 --> 00:25:24.260
And the same thing is I have a

00:25:24.320 --> 00:25:26.000
story that's connected to the blade.

00:25:26.300 --> 00:25:27.442
That's why it's meaningful.

00:25:27.922 --> 00:25:28.862
That's, again,

00:25:28.961 --> 00:25:31.281
another way that I'm putting my soul into

00:25:31.321 --> 00:25:31.642
this.

00:25:32.082 --> 00:25:33.482
Because now the comic book isn't just a

00:25:33.522 --> 00:25:33.923
comic book.

00:25:33.962 --> 00:25:35.643
If you had one of these and you

00:25:35.682 --> 00:25:37.163
picked it up and you know there's a

00:25:37.202 --> 00:25:39.064
story to it, it's a wonderment.

00:25:39.943 --> 00:25:41.683
I've given you that connection.

00:25:41.844 --> 00:25:42.463
That's what I want.

00:25:42.483 --> 00:25:43.624
It's not just a comic book.

00:25:43.844 --> 00:25:45.325
There are real things here that you can

00:25:45.345 --> 00:25:46.505
have tangible in your hands.

00:25:48.526 --> 00:25:49.807
and that was the idea that is really

00:25:49.826 --> 00:25:51.409
cool and like i said i will always

00:25:51.489 --> 00:25:54.731
love comic books for that multi-level

00:25:54.791 --> 00:25:57.713
storytelling that they are able to do so

00:25:58.954 --> 00:26:00.415
and i love the fact that you the

00:26:00.457 --> 00:26:02.238
way you're you're telling this story right

00:26:02.278 --> 00:26:03.898
now just answers a lot of my questions

00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:07.060
but we're at the point now where so

00:26:07.080 --> 00:26:09.642
the blood cult who is pursuing this blade

00:26:09.761 --> 00:26:13.042
as a supernatural edge to your story i

00:26:13.063 --> 00:26:15.304
will always love a good supernatural edge

00:26:15.384 --> 00:26:16.923
in a comic book story or interested in

00:26:16.983 --> 00:26:19.184
a story in general but how kind of

00:26:19.204 --> 00:26:22.185
how did that that develop into your story

00:26:23.390 --> 00:26:26.733
Because of my exposure to that world in

00:26:26.773 --> 00:26:29.017
my knife culture,

00:26:29.718 --> 00:26:31.240
there are blood cults in there.

00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:32.861
There are cults in the Philippines.

00:26:32.881 --> 00:26:35.444
There are myths, shall we say,

00:26:35.805 --> 00:26:36.526
that deal with that.

00:26:38.468 --> 00:26:41.872
You are able to absorb your enemy's

00:26:42.173 --> 00:26:42.573
energy.

00:26:43.314 --> 00:26:44.074
By killing them.

00:26:44.253 --> 00:26:45.654
And there's a way and there are rituals

00:26:45.674 --> 00:26:45.974
to that.

00:26:46.394 --> 00:26:48.115
The blade, and this is all,

00:26:48.536 --> 00:26:50.096
there's a lot of cultures that say that

00:26:50.537 --> 00:26:51.896
the blade has to be fed.

00:26:51.936 --> 00:26:53.538
When you unsheath your blade,

00:26:54.298 --> 00:26:55.179
you made a mistake.

00:26:55.398 --> 00:26:58.099
You better sheath it with blood or it'll

00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:00.520
be thirsty or it will cut you because

00:27:00.540 --> 00:27:01.181
you're not being careful.

00:27:01.221 --> 00:27:01.941
It's got to be fed.

00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:03.402
These are the myths and laws that we're

00:27:03.442 --> 00:27:04.102
talking about, right?

00:27:04.461 --> 00:27:07.603
There's a famous saying also in Latin

00:27:07.623 --> 00:27:11.605
America, do not unsheath me without honor.

00:27:12.877 --> 00:27:15.060
No, do not unsheathe me without purpose.

00:27:15.141 --> 00:27:16.602
Do not sheathe me without honor.

00:27:17.083 --> 00:27:17.383
Meaning,

00:27:17.723 --> 00:27:19.425
don't just pull me out with no purpose,

00:27:19.945 --> 00:27:21.969
but do not put me back without honor

00:27:22.048 --> 00:27:22.348
either.

00:27:23.190 --> 00:27:24.330
So there are so many meanings.

00:27:24.351 --> 00:27:26.032
Like I said, you had touched on this.

00:27:26.874 --> 00:27:28.056
The blade is not bad.

00:27:29.425 --> 00:27:31.948
it's the person using it that's bad yeah

00:27:31.968 --> 00:27:34.309
in the story here the brother had to

00:27:34.369 --> 00:27:36.471
face his fears in over in order to

00:27:36.510 --> 00:27:39.532
conquer it i faced mine you see when

00:27:39.593 --> 00:27:40.854
i look back in my lineage in my

00:27:40.894 --> 00:27:43.316
past i realized i was afraid of blades

00:27:43.977 --> 00:27:45.156
but it wasn't the blade that was bad

00:27:45.178 --> 00:27:46.438
it was the people using the blade who

00:27:46.478 --> 00:27:48.079
accosted me that was bad i was a

00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:49.560
kid what the hell do i know right

00:27:50.161 --> 00:27:51.961
so when i look at this it's the

00:27:52.001 --> 00:27:54.483
same idea this is not evil this is

00:27:54.523 --> 00:27:56.486
stuff that we can build on

00:27:57.026 --> 00:27:59.047
it's used for destruction yeah but i can

00:27:59.106 --> 00:28:00.347
also open a box with this i don't

00:28:00.367 --> 00:28:01.548
want to use my teeth i can cut

00:28:01.588 --> 00:28:02.750
food with it we use it all the

00:28:02.789 --> 00:28:04.770
time i can cut stuff to build with

00:28:04.830 --> 00:28:06.271
it i can cut to open up and

00:28:06.311 --> 00:28:09.594
cure a wound so that of which destroys

00:28:09.614 --> 00:28:12.695
can also build so that's the whole thing

00:28:12.736 --> 00:28:15.097
about this right it's not the blade so

00:28:15.438 --> 00:28:16.979
don't blame and say the blade is bad

00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:18.240
because the blade will go look

00:28:18.740 --> 00:28:19.440
You created me.

00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:20.440
Like if a blade ever went back to

00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:21.500
its bladesmith, right?

00:28:21.800 --> 00:28:22.721
Hey, dad, how you doing?

00:28:23.260 --> 00:28:23.701
How you been?

00:28:23.980 --> 00:28:24.500
Well, you know what?

00:28:25.162 --> 00:28:26.582
You made me as a weapon to cut

00:28:26.622 --> 00:28:27.261
and everything else.

00:28:27.301 --> 00:28:27.501
Well,

00:28:27.781 --> 00:28:29.363
you gave me away to someone and that

00:28:29.403 --> 00:28:29.722
person,

00:28:30.022 --> 00:28:31.903
they used me to clean their toenails.

00:28:33.364 --> 00:28:35.183
The disgusting thing that would happen.

00:28:35.223 --> 00:28:36.023
I'm like, I don't know.

00:28:36.084 --> 00:28:36.825
It's not my fault.

00:28:38.805 --> 00:28:40.006
If only they can come back and tell

00:28:40.066 --> 00:28:40.145
us.

00:28:40.185 --> 00:28:46.048
Oh, man, that's definitely a dirty one.

00:28:46.067 --> 00:28:48.588
So at the end of the day,

00:28:48.648 --> 00:28:50.509
how would you describe lineage?

00:28:50.569 --> 00:28:53.109
Is it ultimately an action story or is

00:28:53.130 --> 00:28:56.731
it a story about healing, reconciliation?

00:28:56.832 --> 00:28:59.353
How would you describe lineage as a grand

00:28:59.373 --> 00:28:59.593
total?

00:28:59.613 --> 00:29:01.272
If you can only sum it up one

00:29:01.313 --> 00:29:02.034
word, one way.

00:29:03.074 --> 00:29:04.434
It's our lineage.

00:29:04.454 --> 00:29:05.255
It's our story.

00:29:06.431 --> 00:29:08.893
Because I will tell you that one way

00:29:09.012 --> 00:29:10.234
I teach is the way.

00:29:10.295 --> 00:29:11.476
So one thing, what am I?

00:29:11.635 --> 00:29:12.436
A martial artist.

00:29:13.096 --> 00:29:14.558
I know how to tell stories.

00:29:14.878 --> 00:29:17.381
I have the ability to see one thing

00:29:17.441 --> 00:29:19.962
and tell me that I see more beyond

00:29:20.384 --> 00:29:22.425
normal perception.

00:29:23.145 --> 00:29:24.207
I see a screwdriver here.

00:29:24.508 --> 00:29:25.208
I see a whip.

00:29:25.548 --> 00:29:27.069
I see everything because I will make it

00:29:27.170 --> 00:29:27.590
as such.

00:29:28.467 --> 00:29:30.627
knowing that when i tell my stories in

00:29:30.648 --> 00:29:32.869
the beginning i tell a story about a

00:29:32.890 --> 00:29:34.770
blade telling a story about its lineage

00:29:34.810 --> 00:29:36.132
then i talk about the brothers who are

00:29:36.172 --> 00:29:38.213
facing their fears then i talk about here

00:29:38.253 --> 00:29:39.855
what happens when you actually see

00:29:39.894 --> 00:29:41.316
something and you realize it's not what it

00:29:41.415 --> 00:29:43.817
is you start to realize that the demons

00:29:44.198 --> 00:29:46.278
that we create are not the real demons

00:29:46.318 --> 00:29:47.859
in front of us they're the demons we

00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:50.382
create in our heads in our past so

00:29:50.422 --> 00:29:51.742
many times when people read this ago

00:29:52.809 --> 00:29:53.630
You can see the art,

00:29:53.769 --> 00:29:54.830
but look at the metaphor.

00:29:54.851 --> 00:29:56.491
Look at the other lessons that you can

00:29:56.531 --> 00:29:56.811
get.

00:29:57.392 --> 00:29:59.553
It is a reflection that you're able to

00:29:59.593 --> 00:30:02.233
go back into your past and see it

00:30:02.273 --> 00:30:04.355
from different points of view that give

00:30:04.394 --> 00:30:05.375
you different lessons.

00:30:06.036 --> 00:30:07.115
So lineage is ours.

00:30:07.215 --> 00:30:08.616
It's by being able to go back to

00:30:08.696 --> 00:30:09.497
heal yourself.

00:30:09.656 --> 00:30:12.798
But it's also in the beginning a whodunit.

00:30:13.219 --> 00:30:14.058
It's a thriller.

00:30:14.419 --> 00:30:16.259
It's a martial art action-packed.

00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:18.921
And it also delves into a lot of

00:30:19.301 --> 00:30:21.423
the human psyche about cultish behavior.

00:30:21.522 --> 00:30:22.222
Mm-hmm.

00:30:23.125 --> 00:30:26.929
So you brought real authenticity to your

00:30:27.009 --> 00:30:29.111
own comic, not just the blades,

00:30:29.131 --> 00:30:30.432
but with the martial arts.

00:30:30.791 --> 00:30:32.973
You've literally recorded yourself and

00:30:32.993 --> 00:30:34.974
your brother doing the martial arts in the

00:30:35.015 --> 00:30:35.655
backyard,

00:30:36.296 --> 00:30:40.359
and your comic artists recreated that in

00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:43.142
the book, which, honestly,

00:30:43.521 --> 00:30:45.403
real choreographed fighting.

00:30:46.461 --> 00:30:48.522
brought into the comic book world is the

00:30:48.563 --> 00:30:49.844
coolest thing ever because we're not just

00:30:49.903 --> 00:30:51.404
getting hulk smashes we're not getting

00:30:51.444 --> 00:30:54.267
laser beam eyes we're getting no kidding

00:30:54.708 --> 00:30:58.289
doug and his brother in the backyard

00:30:58.349 --> 00:31:00.912
practicing and just recording themselves

00:31:01.132 --> 00:31:04.654
doing the action of this book and then

00:31:04.694 --> 00:31:06.736
it's being translated into this book which

00:31:06.816 --> 00:31:10.038
is honestly one of the coolest things i've

00:31:10.057 --> 00:31:10.419
ever heard

00:31:11.229 --> 00:31:12.869
no thank you to be brought into a

00:31:12.910 --> 00:31:14.809
comic book i mean they do it they

00:31:14.849 --> 00:31:16.971
mocap in video games and stuff like that

00:31:16.990 --> 00:31:18.510
but this is a comic book we're talking

00:31:18.550 --> 00:31:20.491
about and for it you want it to

00:31:20.511 --> 00:31:22.673
be as authentic as possible to me it's

00:31:22.692 --> 00:31:24.553
like hearing jackie chan did his own uh

00:31:24.893 --> 00:31:27.374
stunts right you did your own stunts for

00:31:27.394 --> 00:31:29.414
a comic book which same thing in my

00:31:29.434 --> 00:31:30.694
opinion i don't care what they say

00:31:34.809 --> 00:31:36.893
How did you because you have to balance

00:31:37.452 --> 00:31:38.714
not just the martial arts,

00:31:38.755 --> 00:31:41.218
but the realism within the comic book as

00:31:41.278 --> 00:31:41.498
well.

00:31:41.557 --> 00:31:43.840
How did you how did they not just

00:31:43.881 --> 00:31:45.042
yourself, the writer,

00:31:45.083 --> 00:31:47.424
the the comic book artist?

00:31:47.444 --> 00:31:49.307
How did you find balance within all that?

00:31:51.282 --> 00:31:51.442
Well,

00:31:51.482 --> 00:31:53.625
a lot of times we spent many nights

00:31:53.705 --> 00:31:57.069
talking about the views that we have and

00:31:57.150 --> 00:31:58.731
also the authenticity of it all.

00:31:59.292 --> 00:32:01.355
We talked about the one thing is we

00:32:01.536 --> 00:32:03.678
all are Filipinos in this group because

00:32:03.698 --> 00:32:05.259
that's the first thing, right?

00:32:05.701 --> 00:32:06.821
I went back to this group.

00:32:07.583 --> 00:32:10.104
And some of them were born and were

00:32:10.124 --> 00:32:11.424
born and raised here in the US.

00:32:11.865 --> 00:32:12.625
I have some of the Philippines,

00:32:12.664 --> 00:32:14.226
but we have that bridge and we talk

00:32:14.266 --> 00:32:15.945
about our experiences from our culture.

00:32:16.405 --> 00:32:17.547
That's why it's easy to remember.

00:32:17.787 --> 00:32:19.386
I go, hey, remember like in Tumuros,

00:32:19.406 --> 00:32:20.167
have you been to the Philippines?

00:32:20.188 --> 00:32:21.248
Yeah, I've been to that old church.

00:32:21.468 --> 00:32:23.328
So that's the kind of feeling I want

00:32:23.348 --> 00:32:24.009
from that old church.

00:32:24.308 --> 00:32:25.529
Remember in the jungles and everything,

00:32:25.569 --> 00:32:26.250
we have banana leaves.

00:32:26.289 --> 00:32:26.730
Oh yeah, we have.

00:32:26.950 --> 00:32:29.570
So we can all relate to that feeling

00:32:29.911 --> 00:32:30.852
the minute we see it.

00:32:31.352 --> 00:32:32.912
And that's why it's easier to tell a

00:32:32.952 --> 00:32:36.094
story because we're truly from that

00:32:36.134 --> 00:32:36.554
culture.

00:32:37.794 --> 00:32:38.115
Dude,

00:32:38.214 --> 00:32:39.297
that is so cool that you got a

00:32:39.356 --> 00:32:42.481
full-up Filipino writing team, art team.

00:32:43.584 --> 00:32:45.246
Dude, that's just so cool.

00:32:48.089 --> 00:32:50.231
not seen that before and it's just really

00:32:50.251 --> 00:32:54.413
cool to see not just the representation of

00:32:54.433 --> 00:32:57.717
the filipino culture in a comic book like

00:32:57.737 --> 00:32:59.657
that to me i think this is the

00:32:59.877 --> 00:33:03.681
first time it's amazing i was born and

00:33:03.721 --> 00:33:05.061
raised in the philippines and i've been in

00:33:05.082 --> 00:33:06.722
the u.s more of my life than i've

00:33:06.823 --> 00:33:07.983
ever won in the philippines i was there

00:33:08.003 --> 00:33:10.404
for eighteen years i've been here for like

00:33:11.145 --> 00:33:12.826
fifty how old am i now but

00:33:14.907 --> 00:33:16.730
um even in the in the artwork that

00:33:16.750 --> 00:33:18.371
we have when the brothers go back home

00:33:18.691 --> 00:33:20.353
the artist has put so much of my

00:33:20.452 --> 00:33:22.755
memories when i was back home i'm laughing

00:33:22.795 --> 00:33:24.115
my heart out like oh my god i

00:33:24.175 --> 00:33:25.636
remember that and i had to send them

00:33:25.696 --> 00:33:28.179
pictures also my training grounds i sent

00:33:28.199 --> 00:33:30.201
them pictures of my teachers i sent the

00:33:30.221 --> 00:33:31.961
pictures when i was younger and he put

00:33:31.981 --> 00:33:34.003
me in there on my youth training with

00:33:34.023 --> 00:33:35.404
my teachers and like perfect

00:33:36.270 --> 00:33:37.172
Dude, that is so cool.

00:33:37.592 --> 00:33:38.673
So let me ask this.

00:33:38.732 --> 00:33:41.013
What do readers misunderstand most about

00:33:41.294 --> 00:33:44.355
edged weapons and martial art that this

00:33:44.395 --> 00:33:46.498
comic actually kind of says, hey,

00:33:46.557 --> 00:33:48.459
it's actually like this?

00:33:49.038 --> 00:33:51.059
Because people just assume knives,

00:33:51.099 --> 00:33:52.101
you know, it's, you know,

00:33:53.061 --> 00:33:54.682
like the Steven Seagal shit, you know,

00:33:54.722 --> 00:33:56.423
you see on his movies.

00:33:57.438 --> 00:33:58.479
Well, one thing,

00:33:59.819 --> 00:34:00.721
being in the medical field,

00:34:00.760 --> 00:34:02.261
and I worked emergency room all the time

00:34:02.281 --> 00:34:02.761
in trauma,

00:34:04.303 --> 00:34:07.326
you don't survive weapon assaults that

00:34:07.445 --> 00:34:07.806
easily.

00:34:08.146 --> 00:34:10.007
There is a consequence to getting cut.

00:34:10.108 --> 00:34:11.568
You may be out for six months,

00:34:11.648 --> 00:34:13.610
you cut muscles and ligaments, you bleed.

00:34:14.311 --> 00:34:15.992
You don't survive that easily.

00:34:16.492 --> 00:34:17.833
So that's one of the things, right?

00:34:19.454 --> 00:34:19.835
We're nothing.

00:34:19.876 --> 00:34:21.577
We're airway, breathing, and circulation.

00:34:21.597 --> 00:34:22.898
You puncture one of those things,

00:34:22.978 --> 00:34:23.378
you're out.

00:34:24.139 --> 00:34:25.179
So in the movies,

00:34:25.219 --> 00:34:26.860
when you see somebody heal that quick,

00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.179
they're like, no, we're not John Wick.

00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:29.541
We're not going to heal that easily.

00:34:29.601 --> 00:34:30.521
It's dangerous.

00:34:31.300 --> 00:34:32.601
Dangerous weapons are dangerous.

00:34:32.621 --> 00:34:33.762
They're created for one purpose.

00:34:34.402 --> 00:34:35.822
When you get cut, you will feel it.

00:34:36.123 --> 00:34:37.163
You will go into shock.

00:34:37.302 --> 00:34:38.402
It does a lot to the body.

00:34:39.023 --> 00:34:40.483
Now, having said that,

00:34:41.427 --> 00:34:42.929
The weapon is not what's dangerous.

00:34:42.969 --> 00:34:44.010
It's a person wielding it.

00:34:44.409 --> 00:34:45.891
You see, in the Filipino martial arts,

00:34:45.911 --> 00:34:46.992
when you first learn people, okay,

00:34:47.012 --> 00:34:48.273
this is a single edge.

00:34:48.313 --> 00:34:49.034
This is double edge.

00:34:49.233 --> 00:34:49.994
We have two weapons.

00:34:50.034 --> 00:34:50.715
We have single weapon.

00:34:50.735 --> 00:34:52.336
We have a long weapon, short weapon.

00:34:52.577 --> 00:34:54.498
So it's all about the weapon system.

00:34:55.378 --> 00:34:57.101
But in reality, it's not.

00:34:57.581 --> 00:34:58.302
They're tools.

00:34:58.621 --> 00:34:59.463
You see, in the end,

00:34:59.523 --> 00:35:00.744
when you're at the higher levels,

00:35:02.264 --> 00:35:04.507
I am the weapon.

00:35:05.873 --> 00:35:08.795
everything else is a tool i will pick

00:35:08.856 --> 00:35:10.858
up something and i will look at its

00:35:10.978 --> 00:35:14.041
attribute and i will make it work i

00:35:14.081 --> 00:35:15.842
can make a toothpick a very dangerous

00:35:15.882 --> 00:35:17.222
thing if i know what i'm doing you

00:35:17.242 --> 00:35:19.925
know why because when i say this weapon

00:35:20.485 --> 00:35:22.967
your focus is on this well what about

00:35:23.007 --> 00:35:24.750
my punch what about my elbow what about

00:35:24.769 --> 00:35:27.192
my head button my kick and then i

00:35:27.271 --> 00:35:29.833
add this so this is not the weapon

00:35:29.954 --> 00:35:31.976
it's just one of the things i'm using

00:35:32.115 --> 00:35:33.317
how many weapons have you had you had

00:35:33.516 --> 00:35:34.818
one i saw it in his hand like

00:35:36.393 --> 00:35:36.934
That's a very,

00:35:36.974 --> 00:35:38.815
very limited way of looking at things.

00:35:38.856 --> 00:35:40.617
He had a sharp object in his hand,

00:35:40.657 --> 00:35:41.577
but he can punch, kick you,

00:35:41.597 --> 00:35:42.478
bite you and everything else.

00:35:42.697 --> 00:35:44.418
But your focus is on the sharp edge.

00:35:44.858 --> 00:35:45.860
Now you're in trouble.

00:35:46.581 --> 00:35:47.601
If you look at the person as a

00:35:47.661 --> 00:35:49.282
whole, he's the weapon.

00:35:49.623 --> 00:35:50.143
All of a sudden, well,

00:35:50.182 --> 00:35:50.963
where are his tools?

00:35:52.023 --> 00:35:54.905
Everywhere around you is a tool, a chair,

00:35:55.806 --> 00:35:57.246
everything, your phone,

00:35:57.568 --> 00:35:59.329
everything is a tool that you can use.

00:35:59.949 --> 00:36:02.351
But it's the person that wields it that

00:36:02.391 --> 00:36:04.112
makes it a weapon, not the tool.

00:36:06.141 --> 00:36:06.820
Yeah, I like it.

00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.780
I like it a lot.

00:36:08.161 --> 00:36:09.702
So we've already answered my whole net set

00:36:09.742 --> 00:36:11.762
of questions, which as we went along,

00:36:11.802 --> 00:36:13.422
which is I love that kind of stuff.

00:36:14.202 --> 00:36:16.244
But I do have to ask this one,

00:36:16.284 --> 00:36:16.503
though.

00:36:17.664 --> 00:36:18.925
This one hasn't been answered yet.

00:36:19.385 --> 00:36:22.206
Do you see lineage becoming something

00:36:22.326 --> 00:36:25.206
larger beyond the initial story that you

00:36:25.226 --> 00:36:26.286
have created right now?

00:36:28.478 --> 00:36:30.420
I've seen it in my mind's eye.

00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:31.800
I'm manifesting it,

00:36:32.340 --> 00:36:34.242
and I know it will be.

00:36:34.782 --> 00:36:36.164
This story is not new.

00:36:36.923 --> 00:36:39.186
This has been going on for fifteen years

00:36:39.286 --> 00:36:40.686
in my martial art travels,

00:36:41.146 --> 00:36:42.427
with my martial art group,

00:36:42.728 --> 00:36:43.909
with my close friends.

00:36:43.949 --> 00:36:45.969
We've told this story over and over around

00:36:46.050 --> 00:36:46.110
us,

00:36:46.130 --> 00:36:48.231
so we perfected it to say everyone I've

00:36:48.271 --> 00:36:49.952
talked to says it's a great story.

00:36:50.293 --> 00:36:52.034
Now, I was in Athenscon.

00:36:52.914 --> 00:36:54.235
In Greece, I don't speak Greek.

00:36:54.836 --> 00:36:56.139
I'm there and people were coming up

00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:57.521
because they knew me from Fortune Fire and

00:36:57.541 --> 00:36:58.643
they go, oh, nice artwork.

00:36:58.724 --> 00:36:59.043
Artwork?

00:36:59.063 --> 00:37:00.085
No, there's a story to this.

00:37:00.646 --> 00:37:02.208
As soon as I talked and told them

00:37:02.248 --> 00:37:03.731
about the story with my interpreters,

00:37:03.771 --> 00:37:05.092
their eyes all widened up.

00:37:05.293 --> 00:37:06.175
I knew that already.

00:37:06.456 --> 00:37:07.697
Look, I'll ask you this.

00:37:08.157 --> 00:37:09.920
you know the story is being told by

00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:10.400
a blade.

00:37:10.699 --> 00:37:11.581
What do you think of that?

00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:13.623
You know that the blade will later on

00:37:13.682 --> 00:37:16.545
move to another blade in another time.

00:37:16.605 --> 00:37:18.385
Who knows maybe tomorrow it'll wait when

00:37:18.425 --> 00:37:20.527
it dies it'll wake up as a katana

00:37:20.628 --> 00:37:21.849
and then they'll be in Japan they'll have

00:37:21.869 --> 00:37:23.230
a different story to tell and then when

00:37:23.269 --> 00:37:25.891
that passes on it goes on to another

00:37:25.931 --> 00:37:26.193
blade.

00:37:26.452 --> 00:37:28.994
Maybe it's a kukri somewhere in Nepal and

00:37:29.014 --> 00:37:30.356
they have a different story to tell.

00:37:30.635 --> 00:37:32.378
Now it is just a witness

00:37:33.217 --> 00:37:34.579
Is it going to be part of it?

00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:35.900
Because people think just because you're a

00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:37.922
blade, you have to see combat.

00:37:38.101 --> 00:37:39.543
Do you know how many blades are out

00:37:39.563 --> 00:37:41.583
there that just collect dust and are

00:37:41.664 --> 00:37:43.925
nothing more than just witnesses?

00:37:44.967 --> 00:37:47.329
So that's why the stories are endless.

00:37:47.829 --> 00:37:49.369
It's all about the great stories.

00:37:49.789 --> 00:37:50.831
What can this tell me?

00:37:50.891 --> 00:37:51.992
It could be just a witness to a

00:37:52.032 --> 00:37:52.753
love triangle.

00:37:53.489 --> 00:37:54.791
They've never been used at all.

00:37:55.030 --> 00:37:56.110
But then you can see it also used

00:37:56.130 --> 00:37:56.711
in rituals.

00:37:56.751 --> 00:37:58.192
Those are the very easy ones, right?

00:37:58.472 --> 00:38:00.172
Oh, it's made for rituals.

00:38:00.213 --> 00:38:01.173
It's made for combat.

00:38:01.534 --> 00:38:02.414
That's the easy part.

00:38:02.434 --> 00:38:03.295
He's brought up a really cool

00:38:04.385 --> 00:38:06.786
What I would really enjoy seeing is, like,

00:38:07.447 --> 00:38:09.588
as the knife dies in this story and

00:38:09.648 --> 00:38:11.309
wakes up in its next life,

00:38:11.409 --> 00:38:13.750
is the next, you know, maybe the next,

00:38:14.070 --> 00:38:16.150
you know, couple of comic books.

00:38:16.231 --> 00:38:16.931
Like, it's just, like,

00:38:17.351 --> 00:38:18.992
this story that could just keep going and

00:38:19.032 --> 00:38:19.831
going and going.

00:38:19.871 --> 00:38:20.052
It is.

00:38:20.092 --> 00:38:21.353
It's made for that.

00:38:21.373 --> 00:38:22.333
That's exactly the plan.

00:38:22.432 --> 00:38:24.673
It's the same knife from the beginning

00:38:24.713 --> 00:38:26.394
telling a different story from a different

00:38:26.414 --> 00:38:28.615
point of view in a different lifetime.

00:38:28.635 --> 00:38:29.396
It's not the same knife.

00:38:29.476 --> 00:38:30.637
It's the same soul.

00:38:31.797 --> 00:38:32.858
Yes, the same soul.

00:38:33.498 --> 00:38:35.438
And that to me is just a really

00:38:35.458 --> 00:38:36.778
cool concept to run with.

00:38:37.980 --> 00:38:41.161
And I've already had like at least four

00:38:41.501 --> 00:38:43.202
books already planned out.

00:38:43.563 --> 00:38:44.543
This is just book one,

00:38:44.583 --> 00:38:45.603
Brotherhood of the Blade.

00:38:45.663 --> 00:38:47.963
Nothing more than when it was living in

00:38:48.025 --> 00:38:50.405
this particular blade in the Philippines.

00:38:51.146 --> 00:38:53.166
But we have one already for elsewhere.

00:38:53.822 --> 00:38:54.802
It could go forwards,

00:38:54.882 --> 00:38:56.443
it could go backwards in time.

00:38:56.923 --> 00:38:59.684
Dude, that is a beautiful thing, Doug,

00:38:59.804 --> 00:39:01.644
and by damn, I'm here for it.

00:39:02.525 --> 00:39:02.865
I'm glad.

00:39:03.226 --> 00:39:04.585
I'm looking forward to it.

00:39:05.586 --> 00:39:07.507
When you actually read the comic book,

00:39:07.626 --> 00:39:09.228
let's get back together and do a comic

00:39:09.288 --> 00:39:11.849
reading so I can tell you all the

00:39:11.949 --> 00:39:15.030
different Easter eggs that you can find in

00:39:15.130 --> 00:39:17.550
all the pages that our artist has left

00:39:17.570 --> 00:39:18.411
behind for us to find.

00:39:18.431 --> 00:39:18.831
You know what?

00:39:19.630 --> 00:39:20.652
That is a good segue.

00:39:20.711 --> 00:39:22.972
And I'm a huge fan of Easter eggs

00:39:22.992 --> 00:39:23.773
and comic books.

00:39:24.373 --> 00:39:26.414
I will literally study comic books.

00:39:27.094 --> 00:39:27.295
Oh,

00:39:27.335 --> 00:39:28.715
you can read a comic book in ten

00:39:28.755 --> 00:39:29.135
minutes.

00:39:29.496 --> 00:39:30.896
I cannot read a comic book in ten

00:39:30.916 --> 00:39:32.378
minutes because I'm looking for Easter

00:39:32.478 --> 00:39:32.677
eggs.

00:39:33.338 --> 00:39:34.880
There may not be any in that entire

00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:35.199
book.

00:39:36.123 --> 00:39:37.286
But I'm still hunting for Easter eggs

00:39:37.306 --> 00:39:38.547
because there's got to be something there

00:39:38.588 --> 00:39:39.188
in my head.

00:39:39.809 --> 00:39:41.532
And it prevents me from just like, oh,

00:39:41.552 --> 00:39:42.494
I'm just going to read this story.

00:39:42.554 --> 00:39:44.016
No, I'm looking at the artwork.

00:39:44.077 --> 00:39:45.918
I'm looking at the individual person.

00:39:46.380 --> 00:39:48.302
I'm looking at the character's eyes to see

00:39:48.342 --> 00:39:49.784
where they're looking in the story.

00:39:49.826 --> 00:39:50.967
What are they looking at?

00:39:51.809 --> 00:39:52.949
So that's just me.

00:39:53.188 --> 00:39:57.750
I am very attentive to the details of

00:39:57.809 --> 00:39:58.989
the page of the story.

00:39:59.510 --> 00:40:00.951
But I'm glad you brought that up because

00:40:00.990 --> 00:40:02.590
let's talk about this Kickstarter.

00:40:02.610 --> 00:40:04.630
It's currently ongoing.

00:40:05.110 --> 00:40:06.592
It started earlier this month.

00:40:06.972 --> 00:40:09.592
Did you do a full thirty day or

00:40:09.791 --> 00:40:11.172
how long is your Kickstarter?

00:40:11.213 --> 00:40:12.273
I think we're doing a thirty day on

00:40:12.293 --> 00:40:12.652
this one.

00:40:12.853 --> 00:40:13.873
We're going to finish the series.

00:40:13.893 --> 00:40:15.632
So the first one that we did is

00:40:15.652 --> 00:40:17.733
just to see if I should even be

00:40:17.773 --> 00:40:18.893
involved in the comic world.

00:40:19.681 --> 00:40:21.103
And it got a very good review.

00:40:21.543 --> 00:40:22.405
It got good reviews.

00:40:22.465 --> 00:40:24.786
So I'm like, well, let's finish it.

00:40:25.128 --> 00:40:27.710
But here's why I like going back to

00:40:27.730 --> 00:40:29.110
my comic book and going back to the

00:40:29.152 --> 00:40:29.371
words.

00:40:29.532 --> 00:40:31.153
And let me explain this because this is

00:40:31.173 --> 00:40:32.255
something important here, right?

00:40:32.875 --> 00:40:34.036
You say you can go back to the

00:40:34.076 --> 00:40:35.538
comic book and look for Easter eggs.

00:40:35.918 --> 00:40:38.099
The reality there is there are no Easter

00:40:38.201 --> 00:40:38.360
eggs.

00:40:38.380 --> 00:40:40.342
You just keep going back with a new

00:40:40.402 --> 00:40:41.143
set of eyes.

00:40:41.784 --> 00:40:44.547
you're older yesterday i was i i go

00:40:44.588 --> 00:40:46.269
back to my this and i was looking

00:40:46.329 --> 00:40:48.652
at it and then today i'm doing something

00:40:48.693 --> 00:40:50.054
and something i learned something else i

00:40:50.074 --> 00:40:51.536
come back and educated with more

00:40:51.596 --> 00:40:53.619
experiences and so every time you go back

00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:55.400
to it you know if i go back

00:40:55.420 --> 00:40:56.842
to it as a child as an adult

00:40:56.862 --> 00:40:58.465
a teenager as an adult i will see

00:40:58.605 --> 00:41:00.487
different things all the time plus

00:41:01.427 --> 00:41:03.590
if i showed you this today that's what

00:41:03.610 --> 00:41:05.590
you're getting right right there tomorrow

00:41:05.670 --> 00:41:06.952
i will ask you to do this you'll

00:41:06.972 --> 00:41:08.974
see a different version now i'll ask you

00:41:08.994 --> 00:41:10.074
to look at it from this point of

00:41:10.094 --> 00:41:11.635
view that's all you're going to see or

00:41:11.695 --> 00:41:13.856
from this point of view so it's always

00:41:13.916 --> 00:41:16.278
with new eyes right but the fact that

00:41:16.318 --> 00:41:18.139
you are going back and taking the time

00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:21.061
to do that to find your lineage once

00:41:21.101 --> 00:41:22.864
again i'm telling you that word is so

00:41:22.923 --> 00:41:28.327
important let's go to kickstarter let's do

00:41:28.547 --> 00:41:29.608
it i want you to be part of

00:41:29.648 --> 00:41:29.849
this

00:41:30.981 --> 00:41:35.166
I wrote lineage also for my great, great,

00:41:35.246 --> 00:41:38.128
great grandkids that I will never meet

00:41:38.168 --> 00:41:39.269
because I'm going to be dead.

00:41:39.851 --> 00:41:41.231
This is their lineage.

00:41:41.931 --> 00:41:42.952
This is where they'll go and go,

00:41:42.972 --> 00:41:43.454
you know, my great,

00:41:43.474 --> 00:41:44.315
great grandfather wrote this?

00:41:44.434 --> 00:41:44.815
Really?

00:41:45.034 --> 00:41:45.536
That's cool.

00:41:45.635 --> 00:41:45.856
Okay.

00:41:45.876 --> 00:41:49.719
Number two, I want you.

00:41:50.985 --> 00:41:53.746
be part of my lineage everyone who was

00:41:53.806 --> 00:41:56.585
part of lineage of lineage in the first

00:41:56.626 --> 00:41:59.746
issue will forever be engraved on the

00:41:59.786 --> 00:42:02.788
comic series what does that mean that

00:42:02.807 --> 00:42:05.047
means that you two will be able to

00:42:05.108 --> 00:42:06.927
pass this on to your great great great

00:42:06.967 --> 00:42:08.248
great grandkids so when they pick it up

00:42:08.268 --> 00:42:09.889
you go you know george smith right there

00:42:09.909 --> 00:42:11.449
that's my great great great grandfather

00:42:11.809 --> 00:42:14.190
you have something to that number three

00:42:15.233 --> 00:42:17.643
you're going to get replicas of the

00:42:17.702 --> 00:42:18.907
stories that are in here,

00:42:19.068 --> 00:42:20.333
of the characters that are in here.

00:42:21.192 --> 00:42:22.393
What am I going to do with this

00:42:22.413 --> 00:42:23.092
when I die?

00:42:23.773 --> 00:42:23.914
Well,

00:42:23.954 --> 00:42:25.275
I might as well pass it on to

00:42:25.295 --> 00:42:25.394
me.

00:42:25.414 --> 00:42:27.056
So my great-great-great-great-grandfather

00:42:27.076 --> 00:42:27.315
was like,

00:42:27.677 --> 00:42:29.097
so this is where he was and everything.

00:42:29.117 --> 00:42:31.639
And look at this ancient little thing that

00:42:31.659 --> 00:42:33.041
was passed on to me.

00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:33.760
You see,

00:42:34.202 --> 00:42:36.103
when we look at the great comic series

00:42:36.123 --> 00:42:37.304
or great stories of old,

00:42:37.744 --> 00:42:39.644
Star Wars with George Lucas,

00:42:39.686 --> 00:42:41.626
imagine if George Lucas was there and

00:42:41.646 --> 00:42:42.327
saying, hey guys,

00:42:42.568 --> 00:42:43.547
I know this is going to be a

00:42:43.608 --> 00:42:43.889
hit.

00:42:44.248 --> 00:42:46.289
Would you like to be in my comic

00:42:46.329 --> 00:42:46.771
series?

00:42:46.871 --> 00:42:48.012
Imagine what that's worth today.

00:42:48.746 --> 00:42:50.347
Not only that, Game of Thrones.

00:42:50.806 --> 00:42:51.847
If I was like in the beginning,

00:42:51.887 --> 00:42:53.048
I was like, you know, guess what?

00:42:53.548 --> 00:42:54.949
I was there for Game of Thrones when

00:42:54.969 --> 00:42:55.190
it first,

00:42:55.230 --> 00:42:56.630
and then my name is in that comic

00:42:56.650 --> 00:42:57.251
book today.

00:42:57.871 --> 00:42:59.152
They didn't do that.

00:43:00.273 --> 00:43:02.295
I'm doing it for you.

00:43:02.855 --> 00:43:03.635
I'm telling you,

00:43:04.076 --> 00:43:05.257
be part of this so that you have

00:43:05.297 --> 00:43:07.679
something to pass on because we're not

00:43:07.699 --> 00:43:08.318
going to live forever.

00:43:08.878 --> 00:43:09.880
Be part of this because you have

00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:11.460
something, an heirloom to pass on.

00:43:12.001 --> 00:43:13.623
And I'm giving you the chance to be

00:43:13.702 --> 00:43:14.603
part of my journey.

00:43:14.902 --> 00:43:16.123
It's not my lineage anymore.

00:43:16.204 --> 00:43:17.465
It's our lineage.

00:43:17.905 --> 00:43:18.565
Who does that?

00:43:19.347 --> 00:43:21.208
I'm in the last quarter of my life

00:43:21.509 --> 00:43:22.610
where my job right now,

00:43:22.670 --> 00:43:24.452
my purpose is to leave everything that

00:43:24.512 --> 00:43:25.213
made me shine.

00:43:25.873 --> 00:43:27.894
I'm teaching seminars.

00:43:28.335 --> 00:43:29.677
My seminars will be teaching this because

00:43:29.757 --> 00:43:30.518
I got to leave it behind.

00:43:30.538 --> 00:43:31.358
What am I going to do with it?

00:43:31.798 --> 00:43:32.579
All my knowledge,

00:43:32.699 --> 00:43:33.920
everything that allowed me to shine so

00:43:33.940 --> 00:43:35.583
that other people will pick it up and

00:43:35.623 --> 00:43:35.943
shine.

00:43:36.664 --> 00:43:38.664
This story, book one, who knows?

00:43:38.784 --> 00:43:40.326
If I'm lucky, I'll get to book five.

00:43:40.726 --> 00:43:41.427
When I'm gone,

00:43:41.626 --> 00:43:44.048
I hope somebody picks up the mantle who's

00:43:44.148 --> 00:43:46.170
part of all of this and will write

00:43:46.269 --> 00:43:47.791
six, seven, eight, nine,

00:43:47.851 --> 00:43:49.271
ten till it keeps on going.

00:43:49.351 --> 00:43:51.253
It's not for me to just give up

00:43:51.333 --> 00:43:51.592
on it.

00:43:52.152 --> 00:43:53.494
That's what lineage is all about.

00:43:53.614 --> 00:43:55.454
It's our lineage, not mine.

00:43:55.956 --> 00:43:57.336
I'm just a piece of the puzzle that

00:43:57.356 --> 00:43:57.856
started it.

00:43:59.427 --> 00:44:00.807
I love that way of thinking.

00:44:01.309 --> 00:44:03.030
So what did this first Kickstarter that

00:44:03.070 --> 00:44:04.331
you did for book number one,

00:44:05.112 --> 00:44:08.195
what did that validation mean to you to

00:44:08.235 --> 00:44:10.237
have that one be as successful as it

00:44:10.277 --> 00:44:10.559
was?

00:44:11.824 --> 00:44:12.965
It was that I got to share my

00:44:13.005 --> 00:44:15.608
story with people and I got to really

00:44:15.827 --> 00:44:16.528
talk to them and say,

00:44:16.548 --> 00:44:17.489
did you see what I saw?

00:44:17.869 --> 00:44:19.010
That was the most important thing to me.

00:44:19.431 --> 00:44:21.172
When they read it, I was begging them,

00:44:21.233 --> 00:44:22.313
can you tell me what you read?

00:44:22.653 --> 00:44:23.295
What did you read?

00:44:23.315 --> 00:44:24.376
Because I want to know if I got

00:44:24.396 --> 00:44:25.175
my point across.

00:44:25.737 --> 00:44:27.077
And everybody had different versions of

00:44:27.117 --> 00:44:27.177
it.

00:44:27.197 --> 00:44:28.800
That's why I realized everybody will

00:44:28.900 --> 00:44:30.360
always put their own spin on it.

00:44:30.661 --> 00:44:31.963
But then wouldn't it be great if we

00:44:32.003 --> 00:44:33.583
all got together and talked about it?

00:44:33.985 --> 00:44:35.306
This is what my story is.

00:44:35.606 --> 00:44:36.967
Because that's what I train in Filipino

00:44:36.987 --> 00:44:37.447
martial arts.

00:44:37.746 --> 00:44:37.987
You see,

00:44:38.288 --> 00:44:40.128
I will give you bits and pieces of

00:44:40.168 --> 00:44:40.668
the puzzle.

00:44:40.748 --> 00:44:42.269
I'm not going to spoon feed you where

00:44:42.590 --> 00:44:43.590
I teach you everything.

00:44:43.690 --> 00:44:45.251
Then you have to see only what I

00:44:45.311 --> 00:44:45.452
see.

00:44:45.512 --> 00:44:46.192
I'll say, okay,

00:44:46.851 --> 00:44:48.193
I'm going to give you a couple of

00:44:48.213 --> 00:44:48.532
pieces.

00:44:48.572 --> 00:44:49.034
What do you see?

00:44:49.373 --> 00:44:50.333
I see a giraffe.

00:44:50.574 --> 00:44:50.835
Good.

00:44:50.994 --> 00:44:52.074
I really was going to teach you a

00:44:52.135 --> 00:44:52.476
dog.

00:44:52.795 --> 00:44:53.635
It's a picture of a dog.

00:44:53.916 --> 00:44:54.856
But you saw a giraffe.

00:44:54.876 --> 00:44:56.018
You saw a cat and everything else.

00:44:56.077 --> 00:44:56.697
It's yours.

00:44:56.878 --> 00:44:57.838
That's yours forever.

00:44:57.858 --> 00:44:58.958
It's something that I don't create.

00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:00.559
Same thing with my storyline.

00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:02.240
I want to see what you read.

00:45:02.681 --> 00:45:04.021
And maybe somehow, some way,

00:45:04.041 --> 00:45:05.202
we're going to build on that.

00:45:05.623 --> 00:45:09.786
for the upcoming series dude i like it

00:45:09.967 --> 00:45:13.429
and honestly this has been coming into

00:45:13.469 --> 00:45:15.271
this i didn't know i kind of understood

00:45:15.311 --> 00:45:16.692
what the comic book was about i mean

00:45:16.711 --> 00:45:18.353
i got the bio got all that stuff

00:45:18.733 --> 00:45:20.215
i have not actually as soon as we're

00:45:20.235 --> 00:45:22.315
done here i'm hopping on kickstarter and

00:45:22.356 --> 00:45:25.438
i'm getting my own lineage and uh so

00:45:25.458 --> 00:45:26.659
i can read it and um

00:45:28.235 --> 00:45:29.516
but we'll come back and we'll review it.

00:45:29.536 --> 00:45:30.376
We'll see what you saw,

00:45:30.675 --> 00:45:33.317
but we will do it.

00:45:33.896 --> 00:45:34.697
Oh, I'm, I'm down.

00:45:34.717 --> 00:45:35.398
You know, Jeff,

00:45:35.478 --> 00:45:36.677
Jeff's the guy who set it all up.

00:45:36.717 --> 00:45:37.797
Let's get back and do this.

00:45:37.978 --> 00:45:38.478
Like I said,

00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:41.380
I am just excited that I get to

00:45:41.400 --> 00:45:41.920
share my story,

00:45:41.940 --> 00:45:43.139
but I want to see what's in your

00:45:43.179 --> 00:45:43.659
mind's eye.

00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:44.840
And, and once again,

00:45:45.541 --> 00:45:46.481
After having met me,

00:45:46.681 --> 00:45:47.762
after having read this,

00:45:47.802 --> 00:45:49.664
and this is why it's so important for

00:45:49.704 --> 00:45:51.365
people to go to podcasts where they're

00:45:51.385 --> 00:45:52.507
featuring comic books,

00:45:52.947 --> 00:45:54.268
is that you get to really see what

00:45:54.307 --> 00:45:54.728
it's about.

00:45:55.168 --> 00:45:56.349
People don't read.

00:45:56.929 --> 00:45:57.710
They say they are read.

00:45:57.931 --> 00:45:58.731
I glance through it.

00:45:58.791 --> 00:45:59.152
I go, no,

00:45:59.251 --> 00:46:00.813
you don't really see it that way.

00:46:00.833 --> 00:46:02.014
So let's talk about it.

00:46:02.514 --> 00:46:03.876
And that's what I'm starting to learn.

00:46:04.016 --> 00:46:07.478
You know, I'm enjoying because you said,

00:46:07.538 --> 00:46:08.798
you know, manifesting, right?

00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:10.880
do i know that this is a hit

00:46:10.981 --> 00:46:14.085
yes i do i know it's this is

00:46:14.125 --> 00:46:16.768
fifteen years so i know but i wanna

00:46:16.807 --> 00:46:18.989
take you and make you part of it

00:46:19.030 --> 00:46:21.333
when it becomes now this is just the

00:46:21.373 --> 00:46:23.454
call of action this is just so be

00:46:23.514 --> 00:46:25.617
part of my kickstarter look i don't ever

00:46:25.757 --> 00:46:28.019
ask anything from my followers for nothing

00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:29.742
it is something for something

00:46:30.282 --> 00:46:32.922
You pay and you help support it.

00:46:32.943 --> 00:46:33.864
You're going to get a comic book.

00:46:33.884 --> 00:46:35.144
You're going to get all these add-ons,

00:46:35.184 --> 00:46:36.686
all these different versions of a comic

00:46:36.706 --> 00:46:36.885
book.

00:46:37.186 --> 00:46:37.945
You get the stuff.

00:46:38.126 --> 00:46:38.726
You'll get more.

00:46:38.806 --> 00:46:40.327
I'll sign it for you and everything else.

00:46:40.708 --> 00:46:42.168
I don't ask for something for nothing.

00:46:42.608 --> 00:46:44.409
You will be getting more than that.

00:46:44.849 --> 00:46:47.251
Then it becomes yours that you can pass

00:46:47.311 --> 00:46:47.411
on.

00:46:47.431 --> 00:46:48.052
That's forever.

00:46:48.811 --> 00:46:50.273
Yeah, I'm going to complain about, oh,

00:46:50.532 --> 00:46:51.253
I donated to that.

00:46:51.333 --> 00:46:51.853
No, you did not.

00:46:51.914 --> 00:46:53.135
You got something that you're going to

00:46:53.155 --> 00:46:54.016
keep passing on.

00:46:54.096 --> 00:46:55.077
There's value.

00:46:55.597 --> 00:46:56.398
There is value.

00:46:56.458 --> 00:46:57.338
I'm telling you right now,

00:46:57.918 --> 00:46:59.820
just like if I start in the beginning

00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:01.882
with George Lucas and the Star Wars and

00:47:01.942 --> 00:47:03.443
what those things are worth today,

00:47:03.922 --> 00:47:04.724
I'm telling you right now,

00:47:04.824 --> 00:47:06.105
this is what it's worth today.

00:47:06.684 --> 00:47:07.385
I've been there.

00:47:08.186 --> 00:47:10.989
I don't talk without confidence because I

00:47:11.048 --> 00:47:12.389
know I've already tested it.

00:47:13.090 --> 00:47:14.271
So that's what I'm doing.

00:47:14.411 --> 00:47:15.393
I want to give back.

00:47:16.072 --> 00:47:17.894
I want you to be part of my

00:47:18.474 --> 00:47:21.257
last purpose of my life.

00:47:21.458 --> 00:47:22.159
I love it, man.

00:47:22.219 --> 00:47:23.500
I love your enthusiasm.

00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:24.581
I love your energy.

00:47:25.134 --> 00:47:26.534
I love everything you're bringing to the

00:47:26.574 --> 00:47:28.936
table in the representation of the

00:47:28.976 --> 00:47:31.036
Filipino heritage and its culture and its

00:47:31.097 --> 00:47:31.536
people.

00:47:32.056 --> 00:47:32.496
Like I said,

00:47:32.577 --> 00:47:34.297
I've not seen it in comic book form

00:47:34.318 --> 00:47:34.838
before.

00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:37.380
And to see you bring it to the

00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:40.420
forefront for everybody to see now is just

00:47:40.460 --> 00:47:42.141
simply a beautiful thing to behold.

00:47:42.782 --> 00:47:44.382
And I can't thank you enough for doing

00:47:44.443 --> 00:47:44.563
it.

00:47:45.023 --> 00:47:45.684
I've been there.

00:47:45.804 --> 00:47:46.525
I've done that.

00:47:47.105 --> 00:47:48.525
I've been all over Asia.

00:47:49.027 --> 00:47:50.168
We were talking beforehand.

00:47:50.208 --> 00:47:53.911
We're both prior service and just getting

00:47:53.931 --> 00:47:55.711
to see it at the forefront of something

00:47:55.731 --> 00:47:58.233
like this in its natural raw form that

00:47:58.253 --> 00:47:58.954
you brought it to.

00:47:59.989 --> 00:48:02.230
absolutely amazing to see doug please join

00:48:02.369 --> 00:48:04.530
us you know not only that i came

00:48:04.570 --> 00:48:06.170
up with another add-on that was so

00:48:06.210 --> 00:48:08.652
exciting about so you have the blade the

00:48:08.672 --> 00:48:10.472
race functionally great right but that's a

00:48:10.532 --> 00:48:12.092
canvas right there so one of the things

00:48:12.112 --> 00:48:13.773
we're going to add on is i'm going

00:48:13.793 --> 00:48:16.815
to have laser print of the comics uh

00:48:16.914 --> 00:48:17.414
art in it

00:48:18.202 --> 00:48:19.925
That's another, right?

00:48:20.324 --> 00:48:21.306
So I just keep on coming up with

00:48:21.326 --> 00:48:21.565
something.

00:48:21.585 --> 00:48:22.427
Let's make it more exciting.

00:48:22.467 --> 00:48:22.788
What else?

00:48:23.168 --> 00:48:25.769
You're going to get a pendant of the

00:48:25.809 --> 00:48:25.990
blade.

00:48:26.010 --> 00:48:28.632
That's even cool, yeah.

00:48:28.652 --> 00:48:28.753
Right?

00:48:28.793 --> 00:48:29.414
Because why?

00:48:29.454 --> 00:48:30.235
Because I'm proud of it.

00:48:30.275 --> 00:48:31.036
Number one, it's cool.

00:48:31.056 --> 00:48:32.797
Oh, yeah.

00:48:32.836 --> 00:48:34.139
And it's just a representation of the

00:48:34.179 --> 00:48:34.679
characters.

00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:36.960
You have it red when it's active,

00:48:36.981 --> 00:48:38.282
and when it's dormant, it's black.

00:48:39.231 --> 00:48:39.931
Oh, that's really dope.

00:48:40.432 --> 00:48:41.032
And to be fair,

00:48:41.092 --> 00:48:43.635
I would probably own my NetSun box,

00:48:43.655 --> 00:48:45.295
and I'll probably be sitting here with

00:48:45.315 --> 00:48:47.416
that, trying to open boxes like this.

00:48:47.476 --> 00:48:49.398
Oh, no, this is just a pendant.

00:48:49.478 --> 00:48:50.378
It's not sharp.

00:48:50.838 --> 00:48:51.579
I would still try.

00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:52.619
But wait, there's more.

00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:54.240
I do have a sharp version of it,

00:48:54.380 --> 00:48:54.920
a box cutter.

00:48:54.940 --> 00:48:55.282
Oh, see?

00:48:55.402 --> 00:48:56.362
That's what I need right there.

00:48:56.402 --> 00:48:57.083
That's what I need.

00:48:59.007 --> 00:48:59.909
Come on there.

00:48:59.969 --> 00:49:00.548
Come on, guys.

00:49:00.789 --> 00:49:02.489
Be part of the movement.

00:49:03.231 --> 00:49:04.351
That right there is going to be a

00:49:04.411 --> 00:49:06.934
part of What's in the Box episode three

00:49:06.974 --> 00:49:08.914
when it will air next month.

00:49:09.235 --> 00:49:10.016
You bet.

00:49:10.215 --> 00:49:11.436
You bet that's what it is.

00:49:11.516 --> 00:49:12.617
It's going to be there, guys.

00:49:12.657 --> 00:49:13.697
Be part of the journey.

00:49:13.797 --> 00:49:15.880
I'm telling you, you won't regret it.

00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:18.302
What other comic books or comic series

00:49:18.461 --> 00:49:20.623
does this and involves everybody to have

00:49:20.663 --> 00:49:22.083
fun?

00:49:22.103 --> 00:49:22.744
Dude, this is...

00:49:23.304 --> 00:49:25.447
I've been a part of so many Kickstarters.

00:49:25.467 --> 00:49:25.706
Like,

00:49:26.664 --> 00:49:32.289
I'm probably forty fifty starters to some

00:49:32.349 --> 00:49:34.510
degree, whether it's been supporting them.

00:49:35.012 --> 00:49:36.914
I think I'm a super backer on Kickstarter

00:49:36.954 --> 00:49:38.695
at this point or I'm very close to

00:49:38.755 --> 00:49:38.795
it.

00:49:38.815 --> 00:49:40.396
So that's almost twenty five starters

00:49:40.436 --> 00:49:40.737
there.

00:49:41.217 --> 00:49:42.918
But that doesn't include the ones that I

00:49:42.938 --> 00:49:45.961
couldn't support at the time because your

00:49:46.001 --> 00:49:48.525
bro had just paid his mortgage and he

00:49:48.565 --> 00:49:50.025
couldn't back it at that moment.

00:49:50.065 --> 00:49:50.907
But yeah.

00:49:51.697 --> 00:49:52.358
But, yeah,

00:49:52.458 --> 00:49:53.739
this one is a lot of fun.

00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:56.541
And I always say, you know,

00:49:56.722 --> 00:49:58.302
for people doing Kickstarter,

00:49:58.322 --> 00:49:59.563
it's just to keep it simple.

00:50:00.443 --> 00:50:02.065
Unless you have the means to make it

00:50:02.925 --> 00:50:04.467
something bigger and you have a team

00:50:04.507 --> 00:50:06.047
around you to help you make it something

00:50:06.088 --> 00:50:06.409
bigger,

00:50:06.728 --> 00:50:08.090
then by all means go bigger and go

00:50:08.130 --> 00:50:10.251
home and you've gone big and you're at

00:50:10.271 --> 00:50:11.132
home, I'm guessing.

00:50:11.893 --> 00:50:17.096
So it's really cool to see something big

00:50:17.155 --> 00:50:19.117
like this and you're not just, you know,

00:50:19.197 --> 00:50:20.458
like, yep, you can get comic books,

00:50:20.498 --> 00:50:20.659
but

00:50:21.987 --> 00:50:25.068
knives you know that's really cool to me

00:50:25.108 --> 00:50:27.648
because i'm a big fan of knives i

00:50:27.909 --> 00:50:30.909
i lose them all the time i yeah

00:50:30.929 --> 00:50:32.771
i don't know what it is i probably

00:50:32.791 --> 00:50:35.050
have the worst habit of anybody about

00:50:35.090 --> 00:50:38.632
losing that kind of stuff but um except

00:50:38.652 --> 00:50:40.253
for my boot knife my boot knife i

00:50:40.273 --> 00:50:42.733
know where it is twenty four seven seven

00:50:42.753 --> 00:50:44.253
days a week it's right on my boot

00:50:44.693 --> 00:50:45.574
i know where that one is

00:50:46.364 --> 00:50:49.786
But when people hear your name years from

00:50:49.827 --> 00:50:51.467
now, Doug, we're talking years.

00:50:52.789 --> 00:50:54.090
I'm no longer doing this,

00:50:55.090 --> 00:50:56.931
and you're no longer doing what you do.

00:50:57.010 --> 00:51:00.452
What legacy do you want attached to your

00:51:00.532 --> 00:51:01.833
name at the end of the day?

00:51:02.333 --> 00:51:03.514
Is it forged in fire?

00:51:03.695 --> 00:51:04.615
Is it legacy?

00:51:04.755 --> 00:51:06.556
Is it your time in the military?

00:51:07.157 --> 00:51:08.938
Is it being a respiratory therapist?

00:51:09.739 --> 00:51:11.820
Or is it all of the above because

00:51:11.900 --> 00:51:13.300
that is what made you Doug?

00:51:15.324 --> 00:51:16.565
A lot of times when I think about

00:51:16.585 --> 00:51:17.847
what is the lesson I want to leave

00:51:17.887 --> 00:51:21.811
behind is that I was kind and I

00:51:21.851 --> 00:51:22.391
was happy.

00:51:23.132 --> 00:51:24.293
That's what I want to leave behind,

00:51:24.313 --> 00:51:25.974
that I was considered a kind person.

00:51:26.054 --> 00:51:29.056
I have far many issues in my life

00:51:29.297 --> 00:51:30.157
that I've ever done.

00:51:31.259 --> 00:51:33.420
I've done a lot of bad things and

00:51:33.460 --> 00:51:34.061
everything else.

00:51:34.782 --> 00:51:36.284
Now that I've been able to be pulled

00:51:36.304 --> 00:51:37.684
away from that, I want people to remember.

00:51:37.764 --> 00:51:38.344
I want them to,

00:51:38.364 --> 00:51:39.425
when they think about me,

00:51:39.927 --> 00:51:40.666
I want them to smile.

00:51:41.532 --> 00:51:43.172
They've seen a lot of things that I've

00:51:43.253 --> 00:51:46.434
done in my TikTok, my Instagram,

00:51:46.454 --> 00:51:47.034
my Facebook,

00:51:47.074 --> 00:51:49.155
and I am the goofiest person in the

00:51:49.195 --> 00:51:50.315
world with my videos.

00:51:50.856 --> 00:51:52.976
I do the funniest things because I want

00:51:53.516 --> 00:51:55.177
them to smile for a lot of things.

00:51:55.217 --> 00:51:58.398
So I hope that that resonates with who

00:51:58.478 --> 00:51:58.777
I was.

00:51:59.217 --> 00:51:59.958
That's a judge.

00:52:00.257 --> 00:52:00.478
You know,

00:52:00.657 --> 00:52:01.579
I want one day that they'll say,

00:52:01.918 --> 00:52:03.498
you see that old man in the wheelchair

00:52:03.539 --> 00:52:05.579
there in the corner playing with the poop?

00:52:06.139 --> 00:52:07.400
It will kill me, guy.

00:52:07.460 --> 00:52:08.039
It will kill, yeah.

00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:08.579
LAUGHTER

00:52:12.788 --> 00:52:13.548
No, that's not.

00:52:13.588 --> 00:52:14.528
Yeah, it is.

00:52:15.710 --> 00:52:16.710
Talk about that, man.

00:52:19.853 --> 00:52:22.434
But are you ready to bring it home,

00:52:22.454 --> 00:52:22.713
Doug?

00:52:22.793 --> 00:52:24.295
Let's do some rapid fire questions.

00:52:24.315 --> 00:52:26.396
All right.

00:52:26.416 --> 00:52:27.677
I already know the answer to this one,

00:52:27.697 --> 00:52:28.797
but I'm going to ask it anyway.

00:52:29.398 --> 00:52:30.438
Blade or firearm?

00:52:31.318 --> 00:52:31.539
Blade.

00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:32.460
Yeah.

00:52:33.715 --> 00:52:35.416
I'm a firearm guy, but hey.

00:52:35.436 --> 00:52:36.056
I don't need bullets.

00:52:36.518 --> 00:52:38.099
I can take it everywhere because a blade

00:52:38.259 --> 00:52:38.840
is everywhere.

00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:40.641
I don't like projectiles.

00:52:41.001 --> 00:52:42.822
You don't have to have a license to

00:52:42.862 --> 00:52:45.286
have it.

00:52:45.385 --> 00:52:46.065
Discipline.

00:52:46.666 --> 00:52:47.327
Instinct.

00:52:48.188 --> 00:52:50.010
Discipline.

00:52:50.530 --> 00:52:51.751
I have a lot of instincts that are

00:52:51.771 --> 00:52:52.052
bad.

00:52:52.211 --> 00:52:53.152
I'd rather be disciplined.

00:52:55.094 --> 00:52:55.675
Realism.

00:52:56.036 --> 00:52:56.635
Spectacle.

00:52:57.777 --> 00:52:58.217
Realism.

00:52:59.429 --> 00:53:02.869
function before aesthetics and I've seen

00:53:02.889 --> 00:53:05.349
some of the interior pages in this comic

00:53:05.369 --> 00:53:08.771
book is When Doug says him and his

00:53:08.811 --> 00:53:11.192
brother recorded Danes the pages I've seen

00:53:11.891 --> 00:53:13.472
Definitely reflect that and it's really

00:53:13.512 --> 00:53:13.771
cool.

00:53:14.072 --> 00:53:15.572
I think everybody's gonna love this book

00:53:16.552 --> 00:53:22.514
one word that will define lineage Family

00:53:24.375 --> 00:53:25.375
You know what else is family

00:53:26.291 --> 00:53:26.931
A lineage.

00:53:27.612 --> 00:53:29.072
So lineage could have been an answer.

00:53:31.394 --> 00:53:31.474
Yeah.

00:53:31.494 --> 00:53:31.914
All right, Doug,

00:53:32.115 --> 00:53:35.157
tell everybody where they can find you and

00:53:37.579 --> 00:53:38.920
where they can find the Kickstarter.

00:53:38.940 --> 00:53:39.942
What's listed under?

00:53:40.585 --> 00:53:42.748
So you can find me on my social

00:53:42.788 --> 00:53:43.327
media pages.

00:53:43.367 --> 00:53:45.530
I've got a Facebook under Doug Marcaida,

00:53:45.590 --> 00:53:46.811
Instagram under Doug Marcaida,

00:53:46.851 --> 00:53:48.211
TikTok under Doug Marcaida,

00:53:48.251 --> 00:53:49.373
YouTube under Doug Marcaida,

00:53:49.413 --> 00:53:51.074
and all my shenanigans are there.

00:53:51.554 --> 00:53:52.074
For this,

00:53:52.114 --> 00:53:56.719
just go to kidheroes.es slash lineage,

00:53:56.798 --> 00:53:57.139
I believe.

00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:58.280
But if you just go to Kid Hero,

00:53:58.320 --> 00:53:59.860
you'll find us listed there for our

00:53:59.900 --> 00:54:00.501
Kickstarter.

00:54:00.922 --> 00:54:01.661
We have about...

00:54:02.623 --> 00:54:04.344
I don't know, twenty five more days,

00:54:04.443 --> 00:54:05.244
I think, or twenty.

00:54:05.264 --> 00:54:06.724
I don't know how many days we got

00:54:06.784 --> 00:54:08.244
left, but be part of it.

00:54:08.445 --> 00:54:11.005
And for the first fifty backers,

00:54:11.204 --> 00:54:12.945
you will get a very special.

00:54:12.965 --> 00:54:13.626
What do they call it?

00:54:14.365 --> 00:54:17.186
It's like it's a cover with a red

00:54:17.266 --> 00:54:17.927
flash on it.

00:54:18.347 --> 00:54:18.606
Right.

00:54:18.646 --> 00:54:19.166
OK.

00:54:19.288 --> 00:54:19.387
Yeah.

00:54:19.407 --> 00:54:21.907
For the first fifty fifty backers.

00:54:22.027 --> 00:54:24.268
So I think we're at thirty thirty five.

00:54:24.608 --> 00:54:25.768
So hurry up, guys.

00:54:25.849 --> 00:54:28.050
Sign up and you'll get that very special

00:54:28.070 --> 00:54:28.269
thing.

00:54:28.650 --> 00:54:29.951
when we're done here it'll be thirty six

00:54:29.990 --> 00:54:32.773
or thirty seven hopefully more hopefully

00:54:33.213 --> 00:54:35.755
you know hopefully more this will

00:54:35.775 --> 00:54:37.657
definitely go live before the kickstarter

00:54:37.777 --> 00:54:39.358
ends like i said it'll be live within

00:54:39.380 --> 00:54:41.541
a couple of days so hopefully it brings

00:54:41.581 --> 00:54:43.322
some more in because it's definitely what

00:54:43.503 --> 00:54:45.985
people should definitely check out it's a

00:54:46.025 --> 00:54:50.768
fun story supporting a fun cause i love

00:54:50.789 --> 00:54:51.849
seeing vets do good

00:54:54.300 --> 00:54:54.760
Amen.

00:54:54.782 --> 00:54:55.722
You're a good dude.

00:54:57.367 --> 00:54:58.949
I know people know you for Forced in

00:54:58.989 --> 00:54:59.329
Fire.

00:54:59.391 --> 00:55:02.456
I like to see you as you're that

00:55:02.536 --> 00:55:04.481
kid who came to the States and

00:55:05.657 --> 00:55:07.239
made the right choices in life,

00:55:07.898 --> 00:55:08.880
joined the military,

00:55:09.059 --> 00:55:10.760
earned your right to be here,

00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:12.420
which is honestly,

00:55:12.460 --> 00:55:13.842
I've seen so many people do that

00:55:13.862 --> 00:55:16.182
throughout my twenty plus years of doing

00:55:16.222 --> 00:55:16.302
it.

00:55:16.923 --> 00:55:18.824
And it always fills me with pride that

00:55:18.884 --> 00:55:20.184
they are serving their country,

00:55:20.224 --> 00:55:23.005
that they their adopted country to become

00:55:23.025 --> 00:55:24.126
a part of that country.

00:55:24.206 --> 00:55:26.487
And it's it's amazing to see.

00:55:26.827 --> 00:55:27.088
Doug,

00:55:27.148 --> 00:55:28.889
I'm glad you did that and I'm glad

00:55:28.929 --> 00:55:30.150
to have you here tonight.

00:55:31.219 --> 00:55:33.681
But everybody go back lineage.

00:55:33.922 --> 00:55:35.403
The link will be down into this.

00:55:35.543 --> 00:55:35.804
Actually,

00:55:35.824 --> 00:55:37.286
the link is currently in the description

00:55:37.306 --> 00:55:37.905
of this video.

00:55:37.925 --> 00:55:39.788
But once it goes live again on both

00:55:39.847 --> 00:55:42.391
podcast platform and on YouTube,

00:55:42.771 --> 00:55:44.532
all those links will be in there.

00:55:44.592 --> 00:55:46.554
His his TikTok, his Instagram,

00:55:46.574 --> 00:55:47.335
his Facebook,

00:55:48.016 --> 00:55:50.338
the Kickstarter link will all be there for

00:55:50.378 --> 00:55:51.599
you to check out.

00:55:52.139 --> 00:55:53.920
Highly encourage you support a fellow

00:55:53.940 --> 00:55:55.583
veteran and go.

00:55:56.445 --> 00:55:57.224
Go give this a like.

00:55:57.264 --> 00:56:00.847
Pick up a copy of Lineage because it's

00:56:00.887 --> 00:56:01.407
a fun book.

00:56:01.728 --> 00:56:03.268
I've seen covers of it.

00:56:03.307 --> 00:56:05.429
I've seen some of the artwork from it.

00:56:06.070 --> 00:56:07.349
Really beautifully done book.

00:56:07.891 --> 00:56:10.492
So check it out.

00:56:10.532 --> 00:56:12.293
But some stories are written.

00:56:13.603 --> 00:56:16.565
Summer lived, lineage is forged.

00:56:17.047 --> 00:56:18.588
Doug has spent a lifetime studying

00:56:18.628 --> 00:56:19.027
weapons,

00:56:19.068 --> 00:56:21.510
but this story isn't about destruction.

00:56:21.829 --> 00:56:24.012
It's about protection, it's about legacy,

00:56:24.331 --> 00:56:25.932
and it's about the blade that connects the

00:56:25.972 --> 00:56:28.175
past to the present.

00:56:29.356 --> 00:56:30.836
If you want grounded action,

00:56:31.056 --> 00:56:32.277
real martial arts philosophy,

00:56:32.338 --> 00:56:34.599
and a story cut from lived experiences,

00:56:35.219 --> 00:56:37.742
Lineage Kickstarter launches February,

00:56:38.782 --> 00:56:40.864
which is just eleven days ago, I believe,

00:56:40.903 --> 00:56:41.965
if my math is mathin'.

00:56:42.554 --> 00:56:45.076
But, Doug, thank you for coming in today,

00:56:45.536 --> 00:56:47.257
talking to the fellow Council of Nerds

00:56:47.297 --> 00:56:49.458
members, and to everyone watching,

00:56:49.539 --> 00:56:51.260
this has been the United States Department

00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:51.800
of Nerds,

00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:54.862
where indie comments come to life.

00:56:55.463 --> 00:56:56.282
Ladies and gentlemen,

00:56:56.382 --> 00:56:57.603
the Council is adjourned.

00:56:58.465 --> 00:56:59.565
Y'all be safe out there.

00:57:00.885 --> 00:57:01.226
Thank you.

00:57:39.240 --> 00:57:39.440
Duh.