This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Kyle Ament
Episode Date: November 29, 2024Today's guest is Kyle Ament, a local Kansas City actor with film credits in local productions, mostly horror and mostly authority figures including cops and the Pope....
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Hi, I'm Mike Chernivsky, and your listen to this podcast is Un Called For.
Hi, everybody, welcome to the podcast.
Got a guest here today, go out and introduce yourself, please.
Yeah, hi, I'm Kyle Amet.
Good to meet you, Kyle.
And where she sends me your resume, you are an actor locally.
Yeah, yeah, I'm a local Kansas City actor.
Been in probably close to 50 different projects, including over 20 feature films.
I've been in a few series.
I've had lead roles, supporting roles, and background roles.
Cool.
Now, look at your resume and those that you had acted in the, is it Promise Chronicles of Memphis?
Yeah, yeah.
The Promise Chronicles Manifestation.
Yeah, the Promise Chronicles.
manifestation, I
was the Pope
in that. You're the Pope. I was the Pope
in that. I really just had
one main scene
in that
I would say
like Holsom Grove was the biggest
project. Most
lines I've ever had, I had
probably over 330 lines.
It
won the best
heartland feature at the Kansas City Film Festival.
It's one at
other film festivals um it's out now it's on uh on amazon prime and tubi and then it's like a bunch
of roku channels and that sort of thing that's like that's my my biggest uh project that i've
been lead before but never so dialogue heavy because like a lot of times if you're like elite
character it's spread out over you know half a dozen people uh this was mainly four and i was the main one
So it was like, it was a lot of work.
Good deal.
A lot of work.
Yeah, I first heard about that project from a friend of the podcast, Rick Daniels.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Rick Daniels is my buddy.
Rick Daniels is my buddy.
So, yeah, I know he's been on this podcast and several others.
He is, he's absolutely hilarious.
He is.
He's a good actor.
Yeah, he's one of the people that we get excited when we see each.
other I get a picture with him every time so I have so many pictures with him and I'll
tell you like the the interesting fact at least to to Rick and I we've been in 11
projects together which is more than I've been in with anybody else and he said
the same so it seemed like if you want to cast Dan I'm sorry Rick Daniels
it's real name's Dan fact you want to count cast Rick Daniels you probably should
look at me and vice versa and I'm guilty of calling them my
Dan, too.
Yeah, that's okay.
That's good.
For our audience,
Rick Daniels is a stage name.
It's a performance name.
Yeah.
And we were talking just before I
started recording,
you've worked with other friends
of the podcast too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I would say Omega Edwards.
Omega and I were in
Best Day of Your Life,
along with Benzino,
and Alan Michael Doherty.
Aaron Doherty was the director,
and he is,
he tops my
list, one of the most competent best directors in Kansas City. I'm supposed to be in a short film
with him this fall with Aaron and then a feature in about a year. And he's one who, if he ever
asked me to do something, I'll say yes. Just like Eric Willis, Holsom Grove. I mean, his next
feature that he's doing Southern Fried Romance. I've already filmed my part. I'm far from the lead
in that.
You know, I think I've got
four scenes total
and they're already filmed.
Yeah.
Good deal.
Good deal.
Good deal.
So Eric Willis,
I kind of know him.
Yeah, you should have him on.
You should have him on.
He's a great guy.
Great guy.
All right.
So,
invites to Eric Willis,
you know,
feel free to contact me
and we'll get your on.
Who are some of the other filmmakers
if don't mind me asking?
Yeah.
I would say,
Probably the next, Robbie Lopez.
I've heard the name.
Yeah, River Beauty, there were, I was one,
they had like three kind of that were main characters.
I was one of the three main characters of River Beauty.
And we actually filmed it, most of it,
well, I shouldn't say most of it.
Lig of the Ozarks and Kansas City, Grandview, you know.
What we're saying right now, Grandview?
Yeah, yeah, we're in Grandview right now.
Not because I live here, but because he, the hardware store and there's a Mexico restaurant,
and we filmed in those two locations here in town.
I'd say probably more of it was filmed in Lake of the Ozarks.
He brought in Michael Mattson, who's from Los Angeles via Sweden, and he brought him in.
And then Tiffany Michelle, who's fantastic local actress.
she's done a lot of stuff
she was the other person
that was in it like of the three mains
but there were more than that
there were a lot of great people
great people in that
and I've been in
with Robbie Lopez
cult of blood which is just now coming out
I was in that with him
in a supporting role
along with
Michael Mattson again
who came in from Los Angeles.
Thomas Smith also was in that.
We were, you know, the kind of,
sometimes the films have an A team and a B team.
That's Robbie's terms, not mine.
We're the A team.
I, as a filmmaker myself, I totally get it.
So, A team, that's your main.
Your main folks.
And then your B team, like the secondary stuff,
you know, the main folks that the actors
that don't need to be with the team.
Excellent.
Beauty I was on the A team yeah pulled the blood I was on the B team so we were in
there we were important Michael Madsen and I were police officers and we were
hanging out in the car we're both kind of incompetent he had on a fat suit
which to me was really funny and you know the A team was a group Dan from New York
he came in I think was the last name I've lost it I want to say Dan Gregory
He came in and they brought in Felissa Rose and Dave Sheridan as well.
They're both. Felissa Rose is Sleepaway Camp was the main key person in that.
And Dave Sheridan was doofy and scary movie, if you remember that.
And but he brought in some other people that like Thomas Smith and myself and
Michael Mattson were like the other three characters where we had kind of side stories
and we interact with the main characters and all that.
So in several scenes with that as well.
Good deal.
So I guess we do a lot of cops.
Obviously, the Pope.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So a lot of authority figures.
Yeah, yeah.
Like a judge or a policeman, Dead Legion series, there's 15 episodes.
I'm in nine of those as a sheriff after like the zombie apocalypse comes down.
It's Nathan Pinyon, Sidney Pinyon.
They're the ones who did that in St. Joe, but they also did it all around.
We were in Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas at the drive-in.
We were in, I want to say, Tanganoxi, Kansas, St. Joe, and then, like, all around St. Joe.
Like, there's some big park south of St. Joe.
I never even knew existed.
And, like, I've learned actually a lot of places exist.
Yeah.
You know, when you do filming, you go to unique places.
I would say probably the, like,
most beautiful settings that I've been to, Maxibillion Studios, which, like, they have, they do
films for cell phones. So they film vertically, but I mean, they're like Netflix-approved
cameras, like nice cameras, not, you know, they're not using cell phones, but they're made for
cell phones. And they filmed Nikita. I did that there. And then,
And they also, they did these 10 shorts that they're going to make into movies potentially.
And I was in three of those.
And they filmed, there was a mansion in Platt City.
Has a, what do you call it, an airstrip right out in front.
It's this huge, beautiful mansion two stories high.
Like the kitchen's just big oak walls, but you open them up and the refrigerators and different things.
like just wall it's like tremendous and then they filmed at a place in independence called
it was a Airbnb the Elvis mansion and because they needed an indoor pool right and they
have an indoor pool shaped like a guitar and it's painted on the bottom like a guitar so it's like
these multi-million dollar mansions which I guess I've been to three of them with that group
doing the filming and
and they bring in
they brought in someone from Los Angeles
and somebody from Texas
and somebody from Ohio and then
I was on the B team and that one too
those three were the A team
and then a lady from Kansas City
was in there. Lauren Smith
she also from the area
she was like those were the four
main people
I was a kind of
a werewolf
I never really transformed
But I was a, I had teeth and red,
yeah, red contacts and teeth.
And Lauren Smith played my daughter in there.
And we were the two most evil of the people there.
And we were kind of like planning, like to sabotage people and things.
But I got killed, so.
Yeah, there is.
You know, I did not go to it.
I just saw the pictures.
But actually, if you type in Elvis Mansion or Elvis, you know, whatever it is, VRBO,
you can see pictures because that's what I did.
And then I saw pictures of the scene because somebody gets pushed in the water.
They had to have somebody get pushed in the water.
So they had to find a place with a pool.
And they found this beautiful mansion and independence.
I didn't go to that one, but I have been to a couple of the others.
I went to the one in Platt City, which was very impressive.
I've spent a lot of time in Platt City lately for my
Oh yeah, yeah
For our day job
Because I teach chess and
Oh yeah
Yeah, I did a lot of work with the Platt County School District
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm sure it's Platt County School District
But it's not in the city limits
It's, I don't know how many acres,
100 acres or something
It's, yeah, that school district goes all the way
To the Clay County line
Oh yeah, yeah, it's huge I'm sure
Yeah, it's huge, yeah
And only four other schools
what is it
four elementary schools
oh yeah
yeah
so yeah
I'm guessing
a lot of these
films are also
horror
yeah
I've done
I've done
some horror
now
like the river
beauty
it's horror
Nikita
of the New Moon
or
Nikita
three times
rejected mate
that was
cult of blood
that's coming out
it was as well
and I'm actually
I'm done
filming my part
but they're still
filming
you know Todd Cheats
I do
yeah Todd Cheats
his big thing was
Bone Hill Road and there's another clown
NATO
he's filming a movie but I can't tell you the title
but I'm the monster
so I get to be
really mean
really really mean in it
before I transform into the monster
you know you can take
those roles you could be like
I don't want to turn into a monster and hurt you
but I'm going to have to or I did the
approach, I want to turn into a monster, so I'm going to get you.
That was more my approach.
Right. Right.
So any other genres that you work in either than the horror?
Oh, yeah.
Well, I mean, like Wholesome Grove was, you know, a very wholesome movie.
I play a businessman.
And there's a dying girl.
It's Ashland Ford.
that they're all local people
and her mother, Ashley Moreland.
And I have
Jeremy Walter is my
attorney, my assistant, so I get to be mean
and they're in the whole time.
And basically I'm like really mean
and angry the whole time.
Not as much, I'd like to be a little more.
But, you know, but I held back.
But no, so I, for the role,
it was good for the role.
So I did that.
and then I have a change of heart because Ashland Ford is the girl who's dying and she
kind of makes it where I have a change of heart you know like someone reached inside my
soul and flipped on a switch I think I say that in the movie it's it has like a slight
Christian feel to it like not not like heavy heavy but it does it definitely has a faith
aspect to it. And I really enjoyed it. It was a good part for me and everybody seemed to be
cast well. I thought like when you watch like the three people I named and myself, I think
are, I mean, there's always things you can do better, but I feel like it was really good
performance. And Anthony Graham is the cinematographer, camera operator, etc. And he makes everybody
look good he checks on like all the detail um he's somebody's real detail oriented i think like
really a quality guy in fact when they do those 48 hour film festivals people probably fight over
him he's one that everybody wants on their team um he's that kind of guy so i've not done the 48 hour
i've done the one-night stands the tad yeah yeah it's the same kind of stuff yeah that's probably
so yeah should i explain to anyone who's listening to have done
know what we're talking about. Sure, sure. They give you 48 hours to make a film. With the one-night
stand, it's 10 hours to make a film, and they give you certain elements that you have to put
in your film, and all those elements have to be, they have to find a way to work them into
the film and everything. So with the one-night stand in particular, it's a line of dialogue,
usually from a famous movie, and objects of some sorts, and...
And, yeah, they used to do theme or something,
but they could have changed it.
It's been a while since I've done.
Yeah, I've never done one, but I went and saw.
They had something where they showed them.
Yeah, they showed them that night.
Yeah, I went and saw, I saw one of them,
I think it was Gordon Lamb that wanted his team.
But yeah, it was really, really good.
He got, you know, he got all the, like,
got good actors, he got people they can edit,
He, like, directed it.
Like, I mean, they did an outstanding job.
It was probably the 10-hour one, not the 48.
Yeah, One Night Sins is 10-hour.
Yeah, it was that deal.
So one One-Night Sin that comes to mind for me was, it was called Unfiltered.
It was Pat Lamb.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It ran along, and we didn't finish adding on time, but we still got show.
Yeah.
And then afterwards, it didn't.
eight different edits
because I believe in our first draft got
banned in Germany and Japan
yeah because of the
music I had used in
wow yeah that's interesting
so yeah be careful what
music you use for these things
yeah I was going to tell also I was in
a TNT Jackson with
Todd Cheats as well
I played a
crooked city councilman
who got arrested and stuff
so it was kind of fun
and it's the very beginning of it
so like if you're
watching it just to watch my character
you watch the first 10 minutes and you can watch
me commit a crime, watch me
get arrested all in the first few
minutes
and then another series I was in
I was in four episodes
Agony and Ecstasy
with Vicki McGill
she's like a super
nice lady
Actually, I really loved to work with her.
But I was in four of those episodes, and that's like a crime thing.
I'm actually like a normal person in that one.
So I got to play, I was telling people before, like I want to play like a regular person 10 to 25% of the time.
I want to be the bad guy, 75% to 90%, which is what I'm doing, which is pretty much what I'm doing.
It's pretty much what I'm doing.
So I get to play the bad guy.
That one I play a regular person.
I'm a doctor.
You know, I tell people that we couldn't save them and, you know, whatever, things like that.
I tell people diagnosis and results from DNA tests and, you know, all sorts of things like that.
But I actually think it's a pretty good series.
Someone trying to be musician, there's criminals, there's, like, you get a stance to see.
Marcus McIntosh is in that.
And he's another one, you know, kind of like Rick Daniels, that we kind of are in things together and stuff a lot.
So there's several of them.
Thomas Smith, yeah, several people that I see the same people a lot of times here in Kansas City.
Yeah.
Other names I'm usually associated with include Brian Boy and the late day Barry.
Yeah.
Actually, don't know either, though.
So.
Well, Brian, fortunately, is still with us and just did fringe with me.
Oh, okay.
Very cool.
I did the podcast at Casey Fringe this past year.
So Brian did, he was his third time on the podcast.
And Dave, unfortunately, died in 2018.
Okay.
Actually, I think I've heard his name because they do a dedication to him.
Yeah, every year.
So, yeah.
After you said that, I recognized his name.
Yeah, he was a great guy and great guy to work with.
Yeah.
And I did a lot of one nightstands with the two of them.
Oh, there's one more one nightstand I need to break up.
It's called Mike from Orlando.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
The premise is, because I watch a lot of political news, specifically MSNBC,
and even more specifically Keith Oberman.
Yeah.
And got hooked up with the whole Oberman versus O'Reilly thing.
and it's based around a phone call
that this guy named Mike from
Orlando made into O'Reilly's
show, said, well,
hey, I listen to the show, but I think
Keith Homer got cut off.
Yeah, he's a gone guy.
So we have your phone number.
We're going to turn over, Fox Security,
and we'll be getting a little visit.
Wow.
And this short film was basically
dramatization of what happened to this guy.
So he's...
so after he makes the phone
he writes a love letter
that was the item
saying I gotta go into exile
which was the theme
I got to go in exile
and then
knock on the door
it's Fox Security
who beats him to death
with a lufa
wow with a lufa
wow yeah
I tell you people are so creative
and his last words were
I could have been somebody
I could have been contender
and the
Lufo was very specific
to the O'Reilly thing
was a little bit of a history lesson
for people
Bill O'Reilly was sued
for sexually harassing one of his
female producers
and in said lawsuits
she had tapes
of him
on talking
dirty on the phone
and included a
shower sex
scenario where the
lufa mitt
eventually evolves to
the falafel thing
wow
yeah and just
an insult to entry I didn't have
a falafels
on the day but we didn't have
pita bread so just
threw a piece of a
pita bread on the corpse
wow
wow
people are creative
I have to tell you like I writers
I always in my
people that can write
like probably actually
just about every director
that we've brought up
I never said Hunter Johnson's name
but he's the one with
Maxie Billion Studios
he's with
it's L.A.horror.com
he's from
Wisconsin, lived in Los Angeles
for like 10 years
but we found a woman in Kansas City
to recruit him for here so now he's here
goes back and forth
he's fantastic director and he's done
so many movies.
I watched a movie he was in called Porcelain, which was filmed in Philadelphia, and he was
one of the main actors in it, probably like the one of the top two characters.
And it's so funny because I didn't realize he was such a good actor because I've just seen
him as a director.
Right.
He can do it all.
The most recent film I did any work for was.
there's one that Jessica Whitfield
front of the podcast
Yeah, yeah, I know Jessica
Yeah, she's great
She wrote this film called
Prepper
Yes, I know that
I know exactly
Megan Hitchcock Smith
And all that
She asked me to do the voice
Of a podcaster
Oh
So I got to record it
And she's another one
Like I really
She actually attended
The episode
With Brian at Fringe
Wow, yeah
She's like very
impressive to me just the fact she can do so much she can write act and making a
living doing this stuff you know and so like really doing I think exceptionally
well like the writing is is beautiful that she does so I'm I've always been
impressed with her like certain people that I feel like wow that's impressive
and she's one and prepper was something she brought up on the podcast too soon
Oh, wow.
So, yeah, that was,
thanks, Jessica, for that opportunity.
Yeah, yeah, we were in,
trying to remember how to pronounce it,
S-Y-R-O-E-C-R-O-E-C-R-D is what it's from,
C-R-R-R-O, C-R-R-O,
and, yeah, and that was Keenan-C-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-E-C-V-E-G-E-E-C-ROT
this and it's basically like there's Rachel
Kloicki, Thomas Smith,
Aaron Lewis, Jessica Whitfield, myself, whatever.
I play a weird gardener.
So in this one, I'm like in the background
of a lot of scenes. I have some lines too, but like a lot of it, I'm in the
scenes just because I'm a weird gardener
wearing a blue suit, watching everybody.
and all this.
It's actually,
it is one of the most cleverly written things,
and Nick and Keenan wrote it,
like where it is,
like, one of the most unique stories that I've seen.
And so I really enjoyed,
like people are kind of lost.
They're all lost in the same place.
I'm kind of the person that knows what's going on,
but nobody else does.
So it's kind of interesting.
It's an interesting little story.
It's going through, like, the festival.
circuit right now.
So hopefully that's going to come out.
And Tanner Smith, I've only done one movie with Tanner Smith.
I've heard of him.
Yeah, yeah, I was view like, someone said, and I agreed with it, so I've repeated it.
Tanner Smith and Eric Willis keep the local films.
They both are like prolific writers and filmmakers, both them.
They're both great.
They both just write and just direct and just make things.
And feature films, like not the short films,
none of the short films.
But honestly, I like feature films.
You'll sit down and watch a feature film,
at least a lot of people will,
before they'll sit down and watch a eight-minute film.
They'll watch an hour, an hour and a half.
I went into filmmaking with that mindset too,
and yeah, that goes too well for me,
but to each his own, so I can really say I've tried it.
Well, probably best to do a few,
like if you're an actor, you're a writer, your director, anything.
Do a few short films first.
Get all that experience before you try the big project.
Yeah.
Words of the wise.
Yeah.
And from experience, yes.
Yes, yes, sir.
Yeah.
Patrick Poe is another guy that another friend of the podcast said.
Yeah, he's a great guy too.
He's done some features.
Yeah, yeah.
I've met him.
I've never worked with him.
But I've met him before.
I think he's a very, a very nice person.
I'd love to do something with him someday.
But not yet.
Hasn't worked out.
How about Sam Toddy?
That's another.
That's another one that I haven't worked with, but I would like to.
And I'll tell you, it's so funny.
I've worked with Sam at Jukov.
Yeah, oh, okay.
Yeah, I actually, I counted up, and I don't remember the number,
but I've worked with maybe 25 different directors in Kansas City.
So it's, and this just like,
six and a half years here in Kansas City. I was one year in Texas where I first started
doing this. Where in Texas? I lived in Irving. Oh, just outside of Dallas. Yeah, yeah, so around the
former home of Texas Stadium. Yeah, yeah, actually I lived in the area that when they tore it down
it became the Los Kalinas area of Irving. I lived in Las Kalinas. So real close to where the
stadium was, maybe even right there. My mother was raised in Beaumonts and oh okay, by the
Louisiana, yeah.
Yeah, and a lot of my,
a lot of that side of the family
lives in the Houston area now.
Yeah, yeah, it makes sense.
Beaumont's probably closer to Houston than Dallas.
Oh, yeah.
I like to, I actually like living in Dallas.
I like to.
It's basically, it's always,
I'm stating it as a fact,
but 12 or 13 degrees warmer than Kansas City.
So if it's 22 here,
and it's like, boy, it's really cold this morning,
it's 35 there.
if it's 95 here like oh my goodness well there it's 106 you know there was 12 or 13 degrees you know
give or take 10 degrees warmer and it's summer winter always and the summers are horrific it was
109 degrees in Dallas when I was there and just the batteries in your car wear out fast if you park
outside and stuff they would replace car battery that shouldn't have been
replaced and they said oh where are you parking it and it's like well it was outside so uh yeah i'm
currently experiencing some uh car difficulties right now yeah and it's ironically parking in hot
weather inside might have triggered it so wow at the uh crown center garage so wow did you just
move uh no i've lived in kansas city my whole life oh okay okay i thought i saw something about you
moving but maybe it was someone else so yeah so you uh not and
It might be work related because we're moving offices.
Oh, okay, okay.
That's probably what is.
But now, I've been in the KC area in my whole life.
Yeah, mom, of course, originally from Beaumont and dad from Pittsburgh.
Wow, it was an unusual place to end.
They met at Lamar University in Beaumont.
Wow, yeah, no, I have two daughters.
one, they're both married.
One lives in Ovalon Park.
My other daughter lives in Springfield.
Yeah, I'm in Ovalent Park.
Yeah, yeah.
North Ovalon Park, in my case, I'm very near downtown.
Okay.
Downtown Ovalon Park is beautiful.
I love that area.
I love the little farmer's market stuff.
Yeah, I can walk there.
Yeah, you're living my life.
You're living my life.
Yeah, it's been, yeah, about a mile.
east of my house so wow that's really cool yeah so cool what did before you got in that
acting if you don't mind oh no I well I've had different jobs like their mental health
related jobs probably like I used to work Department of Corrections mental health I worked
in investigations for Department of Mental Health,
assistant director and for a while and consultant for a while.
Hospital mental health programs had programs just all around like Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri.
They used to travel a lot.
Cool.
Always seem to travel for work.
My job now, I work for a company.
we teach de-escalation.
So I travel the U.S. and Canada probably over 30 weeks a year.
Cool.
I go out.
I go to Rhode Island and West Virginia, the next two states.
Texas, too, supposedly.
But it might cancel it.
It might cancel it.
Good deal.
Yeah, I've had a lot of jobs over my life too.
So clean floors.
I've worked as a security officer.
Yeah.
Works at a warehouse for a while.
There's a TV intern.
Wow.
Yeah. Very cool. Very cool.
DoorDash and teaching chess.
Wow.
DoorDash actually got as a side effect of doing this podcast.
Yeah.
This is an episode with two of my buddies who I've worked in the warehouse with.
And one of them said, you should go and do DoorDash.
And I'm glad I did.
I have co-workers because we work where we're gone.
off the full week but we're going a lot during the week and then we have time off like i'm off
this week for instance cool and uh during the week's off some people do door dash some people
i mean they they do all sorts of stuff i'm trying to think all i can think of is uh tutoring and door dash
but there's like there's several of them do different things uh one of them translates documents to
another language like this different different things and i i do acting if it can work out on my
schedule where I'm already off or if I can switch around and get and get off that
week if there's stuff during the week I can get off and and do it and I've done that
multiple times so by the by the way just if I ever do cast you for what my
projects I do like to that well in that foreign languages from time to tell oh do you
yeah so tales from the intern that that's the project that's Rick and Omega worked
on, uh, they didn't have to learn a, uh, alien languages, but I did have an alien language, uh, made up for them.
I also had the lines in, uh, Japanese.
Wow. Wow. Very cool.
And some rides in, uh, Russian, even though I don't speak a lick of Russian.
Yeah. But you, you had it. That's really cool. Uh, yeah. But, uh, there's a great, uh, Russian
community here in Kansas City. Yeah. And they were more than, they've been more than helpful.
That's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah. Omega. Omega.
is he's one of my favorite people as well and he's he's really going around making things happen
I hope he gets lots of success his music acting he got to be in one of the gardens of the galaxies
the second one nice yeah he was in that I think he was in it very quickly he got killed by the
raccoon he got killed by the raccoon but they like showed his character yeah I mean he was not in there long
but you can see him, boom, gets killed.
So.
I'm not to check that movie yet.
Yeah, but it's still funny.
Yeah, he's got like a big,
they put this big hair on him,
and he's already, like this,
he's a big gladiared looking guy already.
Yeah, he's a big guy.
Yeah, he's my height with, you know,
50 pounds more muscle,
and then they put that outfit on him
and he just looks really intimidating,
so, which is why it's funny,
because then he has this little foot and a half raccoon
shooting this big, scary monster.
And also a good time to remind you.
people my sister is Polish not Russian oh okay yeah yeah yeah because a lot of
people say my name is that Russian like no Polish it is it is Slavic but it's
not do you speak any Polish then no no that would be the one to learn you got people
maybe they could help you a bit Polish is too difficult yeah well I think Polish
probably similar to Russian as far as I think it would all be hard to learn
Russian and frankly the serralic alphabet's the easy part my dad actually speaks Russian
he took it in college he's he's 83 so back then when he was in college like a lot of
people like Russian learning Russian was a thing right and so he learned it so he could
teach it like in high school he planned on teaching Russian but he never did he never did
but he still likes everyone's all saying things in Russian he gets excited when you hear his Russian
words.
Yeah.
So for me, my
language learning was Spanish
in high school.
Mm-hmm.
And
very useful language.
Yeah, that would be the one
to learn.
Yeah.
Especially if you have to
work in restaurants.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And Japanese I learned
in college.
Oh, very cool.
Because I'm a martial artist.
And, uh...
What martial art did you?
Karate.
Oh, okay.
What style of karate?
I've started with Kempo and then I learned a Jushita Khan.
Oh, very cool.
Yeah.
Very cool.
And it was for college karate that ultimately didn't take those courses,
but that's what spirit of my interest in learning Japanese.
And I'm glad I did because that is a fun language.
Yeah.
I mentioned karate.
It's the same.
Kara is in a word I can.
insistently hear mispronounced by English speakers.
Sure, sure.
Karaoke.
Oh, very interesting.
I'm actually a master of Hopkito,
which is Korean art,
Korean like bodyguard training, basically.
More than that, but that's the main thing.
That's what I claim.
The Blue Belt and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,
some other credentials.
Nice.
But I'm also, now I'm arthritic,
orthoridic shoulders and back so yeah so I'm I probably can't do much now
yeah we can all still do the disarm type of stuff and all that so do yeah some stuff
but basic stuff yeah but yeah the the no that's yeah age plus old football injuries
yeah yeah well your your body yeah so someone says it's not the age of the car it's the
miles on the tires or something that's like i get i get it all right well i think that's going to
wrap it up here so thanks cow for coming on yeah yeah great skin to know you and uh yeah we will
talk to you all uh again very soon all right thank you sir i appreciate you uh having me on
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