I had actually filmed it and he saw me film it and he's like no no Dan we we don't do
cameras here this is our private time and I was like yeah I respect that Jean-Claude
but damn that video would have gone viral man
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hey guys welcome to part two of my interview with Dan Delts make sure to check out part
one by the way Linked In the description below of how he got into the whole Star Tours thing
taking these big stars out to Australia but in part two we're gonna get some very cool
unique insight and stories into uh basically how Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal
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martial arts Legends you obviously hung out with Seagal for quite a bit Van Damme for
quite a bit like what what's some interesting stuff the audience you could share with the
audience about just these guys in their real life right we've all seen them in the movies
yeah like in their real life well um Jean-Claude what's funny is that they're Jean-Claude and
Steven don't like each other but they're actually very very similar in a lot of ways and um
you know Steven what you see in the film is how he is why don't we just get you some red
boots in the cape and you can fly around the city and stop all across I'll give you a great
example after I taught him in Australia I had an opportunity to take him to Malaysia
for a film festival they were looking for um a talent to to be their guest of honor
and I said have you thought about Steven Seagal now they're like we'd love him and I said
I've just had him in a show he was awesome to deal with and Steven was happy to do it
so we spent a week in Malaysia together and um you know we were going to a shopping mall
and he wanted to get some herbs and and uh medicine and these types of things and and
I'll never forget that I'm in this um Herbal Chinese herbal store in Singapore and Steven's
wearing his Chinese Gear with the beads and all I could think about was the scene from
the Glimmer Man of course yeah
powdered Dear Penis you know it's better man I don't know why it'll be better and and I
I felt like I just was in the scene I was like looking around and my house surreal is
this I'm with Steven Seagal growing up when was Glimmer Man 96 97 something like that
yeah yeah and I'm like and here I am 20 years later in a Chinese herbal store with Steven
Seagal what he's wearing the same year with the beads asking for for medicine um so that
was kind of really awesome and cool yeah sure and he was always and in terms of his generosity
man he was always Dan do one of the things do you you know and at a restaurant and I'll
never forget he was wearing one of his tour T-Shirts from you know how he's he's done
some music albums he plays the guitar oh yeah he's quite an accomplished guitarist and he
had a t-shirt I think it was like the Mojo Priest tour t-shirt and I was like man I've
been trying to get one of those forever but they go for like 300 on eBay and he literally
took it off gave it to his assistant had them wash it and then he gifted it to me and it
was like three sizes too big but I went out got it took it to a tailor so it fits me but
he literally gave me the shirt off his back I'm literally that's freaking us again and
and that's the kind of guy that Steven is and and Steven will ring me at Christmas and
ring me at New Yeknows people that have told stories or got things wrong I mean how many
times have we watched on YouTube I was watching Charles Damiano if you want if you're a big
fan of Bruce Lee but the the Bruce Lee collection I'm a big fan of that YouTube channel as well
and Charles Damiano had this image of one of the Bruce Lee movies where there's supposedly
this scene where Bruce has put this saw into some of someone swears to wish me happy New
Year always sends me a WhatsApp saying brother blessings to you and your family this Christmas
not asking for anything not looking for business just a genuine guy and I think he's often
misunderstood whether there is um you know confusion on his part whether some of the
stories don't add up or don't make sense or he's embellished them um who knows but they
make great stories and you know everyone 's head and there's
stills of this scene but one guy swears black and blue that he saw it on an original screening
back in 78 or 75 or whenever that film came out and the question is did you really see
it or did you just think you saw it because you saw this image and you're convinced that
you saw it on the big screen in some edit many many moons ago so you know the mind plays
tricks on us and sometimes stories overlap or stories don't add up but you know what
um Steven's a great guy he's very humble very generous um and he just knows a lot of stuff
man the dude speaks multiple languages
foreign
He's such a cool guy and you put him in a task on any topic and he knows it and finally
enough Jean-Claude is quite similar that he's a night owl as well he's always researching
stuff on YouTube he's big into numerology uh and aliens and um oh really I'd love to
talk about aliens with Van Damme I'd share my UFO story with him someday man yeah man
I mean look and and and I'm massive fan of the X-Files and not a non-believer but he
was telling me about you know these predicted floods that were going to happen and he wanted
to buy land in Australia because a lot of the world was going to be underwater but certain
parts of Australia weren't going to be underwater um and these guys whether you want to say
they're out there or there um you know eccentric they they've got a lot of free time on their
hands when they're when they're well off and they're not making movies is that they read
and they research and they know what they're talking about um a Van Damme story yeah I
wish I had the footage of it but let me show you the last time I had him the week before
covert we were at a gym we're at the hotel in Sydney um and he asked me to come and train
with him in the gym which he has only done a couple of times and of course the fan in
me was like of course I'm going to come train with you in the gym um and he had his son
Nicholas with him on the tour and we were training and you know he's just he's an absolute
machine in the gym you know he he either had a single it off a single on or his shirt off
and he was doing the lap pull down and his back looked like a Christmas tree he was so
ripped and he just still had this this was um sorry it was called serration or I've used
the wrong the wrong word but they go when they're showing this the uh the definition
and the the clarity between the muscles he's still got it um and and he was uh you know
he does an hour on the bike like with the towel and the jumper which I'm sure you've
seen on his socials he's always got a towel around his neck in the jumper so he sweats
it out um and he's just he will do all right write down we've done an hour of cardio by
this stage I'm buggered um and he's like right now we're on to the weights and then we do
the weights and now we're going to do some punching and some kicking and he um stood
back with the long bag and he was looking at it and moving it around a little bit and
he kicked the side bag off the hinge and I had actually filmed it and he saw me film
it and he's like no no again we we don't do camera see this is our private time and I
was like yeah I respect that Jean-Claude but damn that video would have gone viral man
you know with him doing this that out there man he made me delete it he made me delete
it he's not asleep I could see if he like didn't kick a good like no I cut that but
it was a great kid yeah we need that yeah off the hinge and I'm not talking like a little
speed ball or a half a bag I'm talking a big heavy long bag kicked it off its hinge with
a sidekick like a one-step sidekick um and this was two years ago just pre-covered like
the week before the world shut down oh that's cool man that's a great story um so yeah so
there's a there's a story with Van Damme and with Seagal and look Seagal when we went I
think I've sent you some videos and some photos but you know when we went to Malaysia man
he was mobbed everywhere he went you cannot not notice Steven Seagal uh with his size
that's just six foot four um the there is nowhere he can go where he is not recognized
and mobbed and he took photos with every person well that's good man he still gets a lot of
respect and love in Malaysia it's really [Music] um I don't know I I'm kind of curious I think
a lot of these haters really probably like Steven Seagal like if they've seen him out
in public they'd want a picture they'd shake his hand they would not talk their crap that
they talk online like they would respect a guy you know I think um yeah yeah I mean and
so they've all got their own um they've all got their own quirks like so um so Jean-Claude
is not great with time um and you have to you know push him to get to places and uh
remind him again of what you're doing and what he's doing he's very emotional so this
is a good story um the first time I brought him out in 2016 uh and we're doing the photo
line there was a lot of people to meet him and we're not doing a Comic-Con scenario where
it's four or five hours and it's half an hour slots so our format is you do a 45 minute
50 minute photo line you do a one hour interview on stage you do some q a with the fans and
then you do the dinner second it's an evening with Jean-Claude Van Damme or an evening with
Steven Seagal so we had 400 people there at a medium so we had to push people through
quite quickly and um he was he broke down about 15 minutes 15 minutes in saying Dan
you're rushing these people through these people are pouring their heart and soul out
to me and they're telling me how much should I love me and you just you're just making
it too quick I need to give them time and I said Jean-Claude I'd love to give them all
the time that you would love to give them but you have 400 people here to meet you and
if you give everyone 30 seconds each that's 200 minutes you'll be posing for photos for
the next three hours before you do your interview and then your q and a then you know he goes
okay we do it your way so yeah but it's just but the heart in him is that he loves his
fans now Jean-Claude loves his fans I mean he says it all the time every time he goes
live that he always says I'd be nothing if it wasn't for my fans um and he's always been
that way like I met him as a fan when I was 19 or 20 in 1996 he came to Planet Hollywood
for his birthday party in Melbourne and I'll never forget I had written like a little my
version of a biography of Jean-Claude it was like you know typed on Word document back
then 20 years ago whatever it was um and I wrote him this biography and I gave him this
biography said Jean-Claude here is a book I've written about you why is there no big
book come out about you and I'll never forget he was like meeting the fans and the only
way you could meet him at Planet Hollywood was to win win tickets um because this was
95 96 I had you know done Double Impact here I think he had maybe double team was about
to come out probably time carb heart heart
so radio station was giving away a ticket you had to win tickets and I'll never forget
my girlfriend at that stage was like basically there was people in like what we call the
Trading Post which would be your version of Craigslist where people were winning them
and they were trying to sell them for like a thousand dollars and I'll never forget my
girlfriend rang the radio station and said if you do not give my boyfriend tickets I
am going to pay this person a thousand dollars and the radio station was like who are these
people selling them they're not supposed to be selling and she's like I'm not telling
you who they are because if you don't give them to me I'm gonna go and buy them and then
the radio station gave me the the tickets so I got to meet him and tell him how much
I loved him and how much he meant to me and um you know I've got my hard target poster
signed which I still had framed in my home um you know which I talked you know I told
him 20 years later now I've got a Bloodsport and Kickboxer these are the posters that I
had on my wall and I was 16 17 in the early 90s these are the posters I get these guys
to sign and frame
for now don't rush me I'm with my fans and I was there I was right in front of him when
he said it and I was just like the respect I had for him I was like yeah this dude's
awesome um and then Flash Forward 20 years later I was in his house eating soy cheese
with muffins yeah that's that's really good man that's great stuff yeah yeah you know
I really wish that uh Van Damme and Seagal were buddies because look what happened with
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone they had the huge rivalry but then they became
like good friends and you know unfortunately it seems like Van Damme is to go some um because
I keep them and you know love them still but um but I'll never forget is that Jean-Claude
was meeting people at this Planet Hollywood opening and this I guess a Handler or whoever
was running the event was like Whispering into his ear when I was talking to him Jean-Claude
we need to take you now back to the VIP booth and you need to mingle with the local Australian
celebrities and he turned around and he said no these are the people that made me I'm here
with my fans it's my birthday party I'll get to the VIPs but till have that rivalry going
back to the late 80s you know and they never became friends yeah I think look I think probably
the fans are the ones that miss out right I mean you think about it like Expendables
and Expendables too to me was the peak of the series um and which was a great series
like a great throwback um they missed the mark with Expendables three and I'm you know
as much as I'm hopeful for Expendables for Stallone's more of a cameo I don't think Jet
Li's in it Jason Statham is the is the main star which I've met Jason at Arnold's house
he's a he's a really lovely guy a lot smaller than I imagined him being um but yeah um but
I I just think that kind of they miss the mark I mean imagine how good it would have
been in their Prime in the 80s or 90s
yeah yeah I think I think in general back then it was the ego but honestly I think now
I honestly just think Jean-Claude and and Seagal are just two very very different people
Seagal really um he does he's not a big drinker he will have a drink but he's he's not a big
drinker he likes cigars but he doesn't smoke cigarettes or anything else he's never been
into drugs in my experience and in my knowledge of him he's never been known to have been
busted doing you know A-Class drugs for example um Seagal um you know he whether he's that
the FB was involved with the CIA CIA or the FBI or you know he did the police Series where
he's the honorary policeman he's got that real military discipline so every time we
did an event like I would say when am I needed Dan and I say I'll be here at four o'clock
you guys I'll be here I'll be ready at 3:58. um so so so so Steven was ready he always
wanted to know what he was doing next who was he meeting how many people is he meeting
he just has got that that disciplined military mindset is what I would say he's a cook plain
and simple a few moments later Ryback is an ex-seal cooks for sale such a cool guy and
John Cena is very very similar when I taught John Cena he was like right Dan what time
do you need me I'll be ready five minutes before he was always on point um did not want
to let anybody down and so so he comes from that real disciplined uh he's still into the
martial arts he's still uh you know meditates whether he practices a keto or not is a different
story but I think Steven is a very serious person with a very dry sense of humor whereas
Jean-Claude wears his heart on his sleeve he's very personable he's very outgoing he'll
have a drink he'll you know have a dance he is a people person and he likes to party you
know he's that's not a secret Jean-Claude likes to party maybe not as much these days
um but you know he's they're just two very very different characters so whether it's
the ego I mean yeah I think for the fans it sucks that they can't put that aside to go
you know what we could make a really really good product and we could make really good
money um but I just think they're just two different and um whatever they had in the
past is it's just probably not likely to change I mean I hope it does but I don't think it's
likley