Always know what your action is because then when you come in in the morning
Confident or when you're coming in the morning that can't hit your ass with both hands, you know what to do
Just boil down what it is you're doing whether there's a camera around or just what am I doing today today? I'm
showing up and I'm trying to be
honest and and also to
to listen and learn I
Think part of the reason I'm still so interested not just in in
life, but also, you know getting to do what I do is I'm a fan I love
Movies I love creativity. I love music. I love I love
culture and the fact that I actually have a place in it while I'm
observing it and digging it is like it's it's
It's an honor
This concept of things just sort of falling into place. I'm a big believer in that - yeah
What what is that though? Is that you?
Getting out of your own way. Like what is that is it isn't that 70% of it? Yeah. Yeah. I say it's 70%
maintenance of what can I do to do my part to stay out of the way and
Then the other part I always think of it as like this little super thin
invisible thread
But you can feel the tug and you just kind of you have to be really gentle and you have to pause when agitated
And you have to go for it when you go like there's four walls in here. Which one has the map behind at you?
It's that one and you knock down walnuts there
half the stuff that I've been able to do right in my creative life are
Principles that I learned on the mat with my Sifu guard your Center
Keep your eye on the lead elbow
Get to the Blind Side half the time
if I would be in a
critical artistic
situation I
would just say
Because Wing Chun problems are life problems like problems or Wing Chun problems
And I would just go back to this kind of relate to 30 years
He is struggled with a dangerous drug addiction that nearly destroyed him. And today. He says he's clean
He's in love. And so by the time you're in prison, that's not rock bottom for you. Nope. Nope
It coincided with my recovery
and the two things just somehow or other seem to to log in and it
Locked him with this. It was an apprentice and apprenticeship and it was an apprenticeship that was contingent on me being in certain
headspace, you know cuz you can reach out for help kind of a
half-assed way and
And you'll get it and you won't take advantage of it. You know, it's really it's not that difficult to overcome these seemingly
Ghastly problems what's hard is inside?
What do they say faster alone further together, how can you possibly hope to stop me like the old man said
together
Sometimes you can only think about further because you gotta get downfield
Other times you're thinking
Hey
This is my moment to run and I need I need a little help and a little approval and I need a little leeway
But that's any creative endeavor. It's easy to embrace hopelessness
When things seem insurmountable, it's actually just a matter of time until all of the elements come together for things to be
All right. I mean I believe that you know most
difficult
Situations will resolve themselves if you are persistent, and if you don't if you don't give up entirely and that's what I never
Did I never gave up? I ran those six or eight lines. I had a
thousand times
Lying in bed over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
it was one little mosaic after the next and and
It was a piece of work I was doing
And I cared about doing it as professionally and as honestly as I could at this point in my life and being
You know kind of middle-aged and all that. Well, I know I'm gonna fly around the world
I'm gonna sell some soap and I know I have a new project and I know I've just retired my Jersey on this
12-year journey I've been on and
And how do I want to start and it came up? How would you like it go?
Yes, that's exactly what happened to I want to go have the Joe Rogan experience and and kickoff this
year in this season and this new chapter by doing what I love which is a an interview as we're looking at each other and
It's there's a give-and-take. I went to rehab I stayed in the same room that Robert Downey jr
He became my idol because I mean what he did with his career
I made him my mentor without him even knowing God. He wrote on a corkboard McCallum Hall. I am here with you all
Where is your heart?
It's easy to believe that things are gathering momentum and going into a negative place
I mean, I think human nature can tend to be a little bit critical of itself. Sometimes you just gotta go. Yeah, you know, I
Effed up. I just took full advantage of it
I mean, you know, even though it wasn't the end of my struggle, you know
I made the best use of that time that I could because they say if you don't do the time the time will do you
You are an agent an hour
what's humbling is to is to have to live your
life for some reason that is yet to be explained to me by
By God in in such a public way when so much of it is so humiliating and embarrassing
So by the time I got into prison it wasn't like wow. This is the worst thing that's ever happened to me
you know it was it was an extension of
Things being miserable. It's just incredible our
culture
Never encourages taking a break never encourages saying don't chase that thing