Sept. 9, 2024

Middle-Earth & FuelFest: A Legacy of Passion with Cody Walker and The Rings of Power Cast

Middle-Earth & FuelFest: A Legacy of Passion with Cody Walker and The Rings of Power Cast

In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly.  Cody Walker returns to share the inspiring journey of https://fuelfest.com and https://roww.org, shedding light on how these initiatives have grown from heartfelt tributes to global sensations. In his...

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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly.  Cody Walker returns to share the inspiring journey of FuelFest and Reach Out Worldwide, shedding light on how these initiatives have grown from heartfelt tributes to global sensations. In his conversation with Cody, Kyle McMahon explores how FuelFest has become a haven for car enthusiasts, with its blend of motorsports, music, and family-friendly activities. 

They then take a moment to honor the legacy of Paul Walker, reflecting on how his vision continues to drive these impactful endeavors. Cody and Kyle exchange personal stories that underscore their belief in the enduring presence of lost loved ones, and we salute the teams and families whose unwavering support propels these missions forward.

Shifting gears, we dive into the world of Middle-Earth with exclusive insights from the cast of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." Join Benjamin Walker, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Megan Richards, Markella Kavanaugh, Daniel Wayman, Charlie Vickers, and Charles Edwards as they share their excitement about Season 2, revealing behind-the-scenes camaraderie and character arcs that promise to captivate fans. From Arondir's complex journey to Gil-Galad's pivotal role, and even some Elvish humor, this segment offers a tantalizing peek into the epic adventures that await. Don't miss this blend of philanthropy, horsepower, and fantasy!

Kyle McMahon's Death, Grief & Other Sh*t We Don't Discuss is now streaming: https://www.deathandgrief.show/Chapter-One-The-Diagnosis-AKA-WTF/

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Transcript
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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, I talk with

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the cast of Amazon Prime Videos Lord of the Rings,

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Rings of Power season two, and I talked to Cody

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Walker about fuel Fest.

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Let's go.

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from my

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Heart Radio, your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity

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interviews on all the movies, TV, music and pop culture

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u Crab Weekly. Here's Kyle Mcmahonni.

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Noah, what's up? Welcome the pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon.

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I of course am Kyle McMahon. I thank you once

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again for hanging out with me for another.

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Episode of pop Culture Weekly.

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This week, it's all interviews, no rotating panel of guest

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hosts for this episode because we have so many interviews

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relating to the Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power.

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I also Cody Walker returns, the brother of Paul Walker,

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the founder of fuel Fest and the CEO of reach

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Out Worldwide, an incredible organization. Cody comes back once again

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and we discuss fuel Fest, which is a amazing time

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if you haven't been, and also reach Out Worldwide, what

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he's doing with that, which is such an incredible organization

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that you know, his brother Paul Walker started and Cody

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is keeping that legacy going. Depending on when you are listening.

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The mid Atlantic fuel Fest date is in at New

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Jersey Motorsports Park in Jersey September fourteenth, from one to eight,

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and then there's a bunch of dates coming up including

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Atlanta in October and.

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Tokyo as well as Scottsdale.

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Arizona, which is where Cody is from and it's kind

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of his hometown, you know. Finale for the season that's

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December seventh. Can get all the info at Fuelfest dot com.

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So let's jump in to my conversation with Cody Walker.

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So once again, I welcome to iHeartRadio Pop Culture Weekly,

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Cody Walker, fuel Fest reach Out Worldwide.

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How you doing man, I'm doing great, Kyle.

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Thanks for having me back man.

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Of course he applies by fast, it really does. So

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what is the last year brought for you?

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The last year's has been epic, man. We've just had

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a bunch of shows all across the world. I'm leaving

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for Japan in two days for our third year of

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fuel Fest in Tokyo. I'm really looking forward to that, obviously,

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but it's just been incredible.

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It's been a good ride. So far. I've got three

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kids now.

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I got to home from sick sick from school today,

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So if you hear anything, apologies.

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My wife and I work, so it's tough.

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Yeah, for sure. So fuel Fest continues to grow.

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If somebody hasn't yet heard of it, tell me tell

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them about it.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's like a gathering of a car enthusiasts and

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movie lovers. It's it's putting together love of cars, bringing

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the culture together.

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So it's a it's a car meet.

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And a car show, and it has motorsports all day long.

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And in New Jersey this year, we'll have role racing

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again down the down the back street, and we're also

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going to be drifting.

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All day long.

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And that is getting in these high horse power rear

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reel drive cars and going very fast and sliding around corners.

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And we're going to be using the entire track, the

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Big Track at New Jersey Motorsports Park this year, and

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I believe that's a first.

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They've never allowed that before.

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And people can go for ride alongs on the Big

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Track with a pro.

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Wow.

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Pretty cool.

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Yeah, yeah for sure.

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And and I can't And one other thing I can't

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forget is we do a big stage with live music.

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This year, we're gonna have Asap twelve is going to

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be performing for us from the Asap crew, so we're

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really excited about that too.

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It's gonna be cool, yeah, for sure.

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And that's actually that's what I was going to bring up,

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was you also, it's also you have a whole music

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element and there's vendors, you know, it's kind of a

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whole community there for the day, which is pretty cool.

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Yep, that's right.

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It's a family for the event. So kids twelve and

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undred are in free, and it's there's something for everybody

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at all these shows.

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So we're very proud of that.

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And why was that important to you to make make

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it free for kids twelve and under?

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Oh man, I if there's any way that we can

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help families out. I mean, times are tough right now,

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but I think the biggest part of it was I

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want to make it as accessible for youth as I can,

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because they are the future. I'm trying to generate more

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love and affection for cars, so like feed the use,

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create that next generation of car lover and so that's

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that's been part of the game plan since day one.

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That's why we do it. That way.

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I love that, and as a father of three, I'm

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sure you you can get it exactly.

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And you can get in. I mean, it's it's super affordable.

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That it's it's like forty dollars for a four pack

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right now or something, which is awesome, you know. So

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it's not like one of these events where you're spending

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one hundred dollars just for yourself to get in and that,

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you know, I mean you can go affordably yourself, your family,

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your friends, whatever, a date and and go and have

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a great time. And all of this stuff is going on.

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And it's for like seven hours too.

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Yeah, from it's from one to eight. And the other

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thing I wanted to add that we got into last year,

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Kyle is the other big The main reason why I

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even put this thing together was to create a fun

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way to yes, inspire the next generation, but also create

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something that can generate some funding for reach Out Worldwide,

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which is the foundation that my late brother Paul Walker

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founded back in twenty ten. And so to date, through

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these shows, we've been able to raise over half a

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million dollars for reach Out Worldwide. So it's really incredible,

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it feels good, it's it's and whether people know it

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or not when they come to the show, like a

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portion of everything they're doing is going to reach Out Worldwide,

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So it's it's really special.

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It's really cool.

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I love to brag about that a little bit, but

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it's really everybody that comes to the show that's made.

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That happen, you know what I mean. For sure, it's.

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Really really neat and that is that's a great thing

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to brag about because half a million dollars is a

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lot of money, and it's helped a lot of people

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to tell somebody that may be unfamiliar what reach Out

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Worldwide does.

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Specifically, the reach Out Worldwide does disaster relief. Don't think

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like Red Cross level anything like that. It's a small organization,

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but it's small by design.

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It's what Haull wanted.

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It allows the organization to get through a lot of

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the red tape and get small groups of people in

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there to help with either mucking and gutting houses or

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getting people medical supplies, water, food. It's coming in after

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tornadoes and tsunamis and hurricanes and earthquakes. We've responded to

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wildfires and done wildfire relief for communities that have been

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devastated by that. I mean, there's there's no shortage of

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natural disasters to go around and or just one of

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those little groups in there that you know, we encourage

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our followers and supporters to directly get involved ro oww

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dot org.

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People can learn about how.

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They can get involved, whether that's being the boots on

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the ground, being a volunteer, or wanting to start their

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own fundraiser.

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So I encourage everyone to go and check that out.

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I love that so much.

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And what got you into your passion for cars and

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the community.

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It's like so many people that I meet. I'm the

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youngest of four, Paul was the oldest.

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I'm fifteen years younger than he was, so naturally had

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a huge impact on me. You know, Fast and Furious

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came out along well before I had my driver's license

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or could drive or you know, I was just dreaming

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of driving at that point, you know.

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And who instilled that in Paul was our father.

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Our father was always into cars and motorcycles, and our grandfather.

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So I think it's something that runs in the family.

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But you know, those are your formative years when I

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being fifteen years younger, when Paul was doing all these

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crazy Fast and Furious movies and really getting indoctrinated himself

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by the tuner culture. Like he became really into the

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whole tuner car scene, and it obviously brushed off me

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in a big way. I was going parrides in his

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you know, his his epic cars at the time that

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were unobtainium you know, our thirty four GTRs and all

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of that stuff back when they were getting those in

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long before they were twenty five years old. There's some

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for those that don't know, there's some funny import rules

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when it comes to vehicles that were never originally sold in.

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The United States. But yeah, he had a huge impact

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on me.

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I grew up loving cars and and he just fed me,

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fed me even more of it.

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So that's kind of how that's all has come together.

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And it's you know, it's beautiful that you have, you know,

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making this one of your making making you have making this,

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I think is the right word, one of your life's

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missions now to to carry on that legacy, you know,

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in both reach Out Worldwide and fuel Fest and kind

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of combining those two with that lifelong you know, passion

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that you've had honoring Paul, you know, and and doing

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great work surrounding it.

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You know, it's really a beautiful thing.

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I appreciate that.

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You know, you never know where life's gonna what life's

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gonna throw out you, or you know what's gonna change.

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It's typically when you think you have things figured out

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that you know. Uh, someone said, like life has like

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got two hands, you know, in the one hand they're

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giving you the the butterscotch, and then the other hand,

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it's like smacking you across the face. I was a

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paramedic up in Oregon at the time that Paul passed away,

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So it was this kind of a weird uh, you

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know how everything kind of felt together. I him and

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I were extremely close, so everything that he had done

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was like a part of him that he had left

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left behind. And so me, being a paramedic, I was like, Okay,

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reach out worldwide, like how do we help this survive

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without Paul? He was the heart and soul of this.

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He funded this one hundred percent. How do we make

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sure this can tenues onward?

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You know?

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And then of course my genuine love of cars, And

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then here we are, all these years later. It's been

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a wild ride, but I'm so humbled and touched by

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the success that we've been able to see with fuel

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Fest and then therefore allowing reach out worldwide to continue

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to thrive and grow and do more good.

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It's just been it's it's been incredible.

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I know Paul would be blown away because it was

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just such a simple, small idea that he had years ago.

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And the fact that it's still going on strong. Yeah,

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it's we're we're eleven. November is gonna be eleven years.

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Since we lost Paul. So it's just it's a it's

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a big deal.

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you know, watching you do this and is with you,

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and is you know, so proud of all that you're doing.

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And you know, I'm sorry.

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No, no, I'm sorry. Yeah, there's a lot of people

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that make this whole thing possible. I want to make

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sure everybody realizes that, Like, there's there's a lot of

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there's a lot of folks in this wheel. I have

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an incredible team, my wife just as incredible in my family.

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To be able to do this, I'm just I'm just

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kind of a face, I guess in a way. But

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there's so many there's so many incredible people behind the

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scenes that work to make all of this possible reach

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out worldwide, and of course these events feel fest.

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So yeah, yeah, there's a whole Yeah, absolutely, there's always

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a whole team behind all of us that do you know,

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do various things that often don't get that that love.

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So I love that that you shouted them out. But

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you and I talked.

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I think about my mom who had passed a few

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years ago last year, and one of the things she

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said to me before she passed was, if you're you know,

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when you need me, just talk to me. You know,

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you may not see me, you know, you may not

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hear me, but I promise you I'm there, you know,

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And so just talk to me.

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You know I'm there.

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And I truly believe that, you know, I have had experiences,

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which you know we'll get into in this show, but

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I had experiences that I you know there. To me,

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there's no doubt that that she is there and they

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are with us and not only live through our work

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and our lives, but come and check us out, you

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know what I mean. And so for me my belief,

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there's no doubt that he is with you and watching

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you and and just egging you on to keep going

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because you're doing such great things and.

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Your mom is there as well.

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I have no doubt I'm with you on that, Kyle,

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one hundred percent. I often talk to those that I've lost,

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sometimes out loud, even you.

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Know me too, Yeah, I feel that, brother.

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Yeah, you are so up.

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Besides Japan coming up, then you have Jersey, and then

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I believe Atlanta.

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In Atlanta, that'll be the first we've never we've never

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gone to Atlanta before, so that's that's the first for us.

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That's October the nineteenth.

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Actually, okay, and then you you kind of that's your

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last one for the season, right for the year.

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No, we we actually in the year in what is

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now my home state of Arizona.

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Okay, Scottsdale. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay.

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So for those listening, if you if you've heard of

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you know, Barrett Jackson, Big Auction House, car auction House,

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wonderful people over there. That's where they have their big

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auction every year, is at Westworld. So this is going

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to be our second year at West World, I believe,

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our fourth or fifth year here in Arizona now, so

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it's cool.

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We kind of bring it home at the very end

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of the year.

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Yeah, yeah, I love to have a big homecoming.

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And then then in at the end of the year

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you'll announce states and cities for next year as well.

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That's right towards the towards the end of this year.

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We hope to have the whole thing all scheduled out

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and drop that as as soon as possible, because we

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do have some new locations for next year and a

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lot of fun stuff up our sleeves and in the

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works that I'm really excited about, really excited about.

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Awesome. That's so dope.

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Where can we you know, no matter where they're watching

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or listening, where can we get information on fuel Fest

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and reach out worldwide and everything?

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Yeah, we made it easy for everyone.

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It's fuelfest dot com and on over there fuelfest dot com.

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Give the Instagram page, Facebook page a follow as well.

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Obviously that's the quickest you know, in turnover of information.

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But Fuelfest dot com that's how you can find your

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way to get tickets or get involved being a vendor

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or sponsor and a future show.

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And then for.

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Reach out Worldwide, we just do r o w W

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for reach Out Worldwide, r o w W do that'll

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take you to the U the homepage for reach Out Worldwide,

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where you can learn how to get involved with the foundation.

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I love that so much. Cody, thank you as always

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for speaking with me. I can't thank you, of course.

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I can't wait till until fuel Fest comes to Jersey

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and uh and I can't wait for everybody to go

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and see it at their nearest location.

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Yeah, man, me neither.

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It's gonna be a good time. Year two in Atlanta.

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Last year was an awesome year, which is why we're back.

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So we're realleaking forward to the show.

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Yeah, that'll be a great one.

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Is there any and you might not be able to

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tell me, but is there any cities in like your

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you know, five ten year plan or whatever that you're like,

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I want to go that's a you know, culturally relevant

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city for Turner heads or is that that's what? Right know?

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For sure?

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There's so many I really want to get. I want

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to I really want to get down into South America.

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Central South America would be just absolutely nuts.

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I think like.

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Brazil would be wild for a lot of reasons. You know,

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the Brazilians love motorsports too, so that would be that

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would be pretty neat. I want to get back over

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to the UK and and do another show. It's been

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years since we've done that. We've grown so much. Uh

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in Europe in general, I want to get over to Germany.

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Germany would be nuts. I think Germany would be a

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place where we'd need to do two cities, you know,

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two weekends in a row to like spread the love

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because there's obviously no surprise, there's a lot of people

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that love cars over there, so the list could go

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on and on.

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Really, it's really special, really cool to.

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Be doing a show in Japan. I mean for obvious reasons.

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For for for the tuner folk out there that is home.

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So it's been really incredible to be able to do that.

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This is going to be year number three for us

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over in Japan. There's a lot of places. Uh, there's

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there's that I say, you know, this isn't me, this

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is this has been used a million times.

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I know it has.

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It's you know, cars are a it's a universal language,

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you know, love of love of cars. So you can

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go anywhere and make friends real quick. You go to

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like a car meet or a car you know meet

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up or something. It's like it's a shared passion. So

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the automotive culture is just it's alive, and it's just

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it's everywhere.

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It's everywhere.

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You will find motor lover, motorheads everywhere, and so I

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think the sky is really the limit. I think as

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we kind of move along doing more of these shows,

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we're gonna identify more places that would be a really

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good fit and and and you know, put it together,

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and it takes an incredible team, and to do these

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international shows, it requires a lot of trust and finding

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the right people to work within those countries, because you know, motorhead,

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you know who no one knows it better than the locals, right,

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So you know, that's that's that's.

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Kind of how we play that.

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We want to we want to play nice with everybody

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and not step on toes and just put together like

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a fun event with no ego.

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Yeah, and we succeed in doing that. We crushed that.

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That's why people like our shows, and that's why we

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always are so open to families and stuff.

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You'll see kids and stuff, and it's just fun. It's

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a lot of fun.

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Yeah. I can't wait.

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I can't wait to watch you continue to expand and

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grow and raise money for a great cause. Man, You're

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you're doing awesome more Cody.

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Thank you so much, Kyle of course, brother, Yeah.

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Thank you you as well.

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Cody Walker. It's always a great time talking with him.

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Fuel Fest it's such a cool event, you know, tour

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really that is just such a It's this community that

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comes together and everybody is so friendly and you know,

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there's so much stuff to do and you could go,

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you know, and not spend a dollar if you don't

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want and see all this cool stuff. I mean, all

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these cool people. It's really really, really great. You can

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get more information on Fuelfest at fuelfest dot com get

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your tickets as well. And for reach Out Worldwide the organization,

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you can go to ROWW dot org. Your donation to

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reach Out Worldwide helps the teams there of medical experts

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and disaster release and disaster relief professionals to immediately respond

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when disasters strike. They have over three thousand volunteers across

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the country. It is a pretty incredible organization. It's a

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registered five oh one c three nonprofit founded by Paul

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in twenty ten after the Haiti earthquake, and it's only

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grown from there and thanks to Cody and his team,

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you know, it's continued to grow and continued to help

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people all across the not just the country, but all

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across the world. So there you go, reach out world wide,

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roww dot org and Fuelfest at fuelfest dot com. All right,

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next up, you may remember that I last year, it

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was actually two years ago, for the first season of

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Lord of the Rings Rings of Power, I interviewed the

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entire cast and we had a great time talking to

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you know, I had a great time talking to all

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of them before the show started. Now that we're in

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season two two years later, you know, some different perspective

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and season two was really good.

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So I had to a bunch of questions to ask

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the cast.

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I talk with Charlie Vickers, Charles Edwards, Daniel Wyman, Meghan Richer, Markleek,

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Havenaw Benjamin Walker, and Ismael Cruz Cordova. And it is

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a really great group that talking with, great groups groups

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that I'm talking with today.

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But we're all it's all about.

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Lord of the Rings the Rings of Power season two.

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It is so good.

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It is streaming right now exclusively on Prime Video. And

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you know it is if you're a Lord of the

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Rings fan, you haven't watched Rings of Power. Even if

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you're not a Lord of the Rings fan. If you

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enjoy you know, fantasy and wizards and power and Rings

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and Rings of Power, you will love the Lord of the.

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Rings The Rings of Power.

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So make sure that you tune in. You can check

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out my interviews with the cast from season one. I'll

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have that in the show note, so just click on

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that and that'll take you to that episode. If for

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some reason you have missed an episode of my show

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and you have like what But if not and you

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just want to listen to it again, obviously, then click

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on that link in the show notes and that'll take

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you to that episode.

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So, without further ado, let's just.

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Jump into these interviews. So, as you know, the Lord

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of the Rings The Rings of Power, it's based on

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the J. R. R. Tolkien's History of Middle Earth and

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the appendence you know, primarily taken from the appendices of

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The Lord of the Rings. The series is set thousands

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of years before the books, in the Second Age of

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Middle Earth, and so season one depicts the emergence of

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the Dark Lord sar On and the forging of the

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first Rings of Power that you know become prominent in

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the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. But it's

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incredible you know, Amazon acquired the rights to the series

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back in twenty seventeen. The first season came out in

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twenty twenty two, and now season two is here for

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twenty twenty four. So first up, let's talk with Benjamin

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Walker and Ismael Cruz Cordova. Benjamin plays Gilgelad, the high

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King of Elves, and Ismael plays Are and Deer, who

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you know has that kind of forbidden love thing going on.

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So let's jump right into my interviews with ben and Ismael.

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Here they are Benjamin Walker and Ismael Cruise Cordova. First

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of all, great speaking with both of you. Congratulations on

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season two. Your characters are are layered and complicated and

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amazing as a viewer to watch. What is it like

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for both of you to be in this world of

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Middle Earth?

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Boyhood dream come boyhood dream come true? I'm gonna say,

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you know, it's what when you're a kid and you're

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running around in the woods with a bow and arrow

470
00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:02.960
you made out of sticks and shoelace.

471
00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:05.279
You had shoelaces.

472
00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:08.240
I found it in the dirt.

473
00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:10.960
It's uphill both ways.

474
00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:13.640
But genuinely, like you wish you could go back to

475
00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:18.119
that kid and and say someday you're gonna get paid

476
00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:18.599
to do that.

477
00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:21.920
I mean, it's it's.

478
00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:23.599
It's just so.

479
00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:25.880
I mean, we're gonna talk about this for ages. But

480
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:28.720
I have to second that is it is a childhood

481
00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:35.119
dream and that informs a lot and it really does

482
00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:38.799
help that it is a childhood dream because the kind

483
00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:43.119
of wonder, sense of wonder and commitment and passion, and

484
00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:45.759
you have to all that that it requires to be

485
00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:48.359
a middle Earth. You have to allow yourself to be

486
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:53.279
completely engulfed by what it is. You can't have a

487
00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:55.279
foot in and a foot out. You have to be

488
00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:58.039
Gil Gold. You have to be out on it. You

489
00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:01.279
have to really am by what he is. So I mean,

490
00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:03.839
i'm I'm and I speak for both of us. I

491
00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:07.680
think it's a dream come true or extremely grateful to

492
00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:10.359
be working and to be in something that means so

493
00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:11.720
much to so many people.

494
00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:17.440
And speaking of out in there, you you had you know,

495
00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:19.599
your I would say your theme in a lot of

496
00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:22.960
ways with the first season was this kind of forbidden love,

497
00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:28.279
which obviously is uh is going to be a little

498
00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:29.480
bit different this season.

499
00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:33.640
How how for you as an actor, how is that arc?

500
00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:37.880
You know, how are you tackling that that arc I should.

501
00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:42.640
It's you know, there's deep, deep, there's deep wound that

502
00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:47.319
only came into the show already. You can sense there's

503
00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:50.119
something that bothers him. There's like a crack in his

504
00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:53.279
in his heart, there's a crack in his holder, then

505
00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.799
his soul. There's so much, so many questions that he

506
00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:00.079
has about who he is and what life is, what

507
00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:06.599
is being enough? And so so this this shift in

508
00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:12.200
this Forbidden Love just further deepens those questions. What his

509
00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:15.680
position is in Middle Earth there's a huge question, and

510
00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:18.000
I think the audience sees it too. It's like, so,

511
00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:19.359
where where is this guy going?

512
00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:21.000
What is he doing here?

513
00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:23.880
You know, because we have all these the heavy hitters

514
00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:26.319
were like what is this guy? And he asked himself

515
00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:29.599
that that the same question. What role do I play

516
00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:34.119
in this whole thing? And I think that's uh, that's

517
00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:38.039
the guiding motivation. Just to give you a general.

518
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:39.559
Spoiler free yeah.

519
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:43.519
Yeah, and Benjamin for you, uh, you know, the High

520
00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:46.880
King of Elves And in the interest of time, what

521
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:51.960
is your favorite Elvish saying that you have learned?

522
00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:54.000
Uh?

523
00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:56.480
And Number one I think actually is pretty applicable to

524
00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:02.480
the second season is the the term grach, which is

525
00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:11.640
an Elvish slayer slurlaer, it's an Elvis slur which no

526
00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:17.119
slaring you watch your slare and mount. It's an Elvish

527
00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:26.000
square thank you. That means basically like or like a

528
00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:32.119
cleaner version will be are because they the Elves, in

529
00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:38.519
spite of their infinite wisdom, have found themselves uh, having

530
00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:41.680
made some mistakes, were caught on the back foot. And

531
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:46.880
there's no better way to sum it up other than crah.

532
00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:51.279
I love that crah. Thank you both very much.

533
00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:53.400
I can't wait for everybody to see The Lord of

534
00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:57.079
the Rings Rings of Power exclusively on Prime.

535
00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.480
Thank you, Benjamin Walker.

536
00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:01.480
And it's my Cruz Cordova.

537
00:29:01.839 --> 00:29:06.759
Love those guys and their character arcs in season two.

538
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.000
I can't wait to talk to you about it. So anyway,

539
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:13.200
we got a lot to cover. Let's take a quick

540
00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:16.839
break to pay the bills and we'll be back.

541
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:19.599
All right.

542
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:24.640
Thank you for hanging with me through our sponsors. They

543
00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:28.039
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544
00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:31.319
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545
00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:34.119
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546
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.279
and talk to them, like talk to the people in them,

547
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:39.519
talk to you know, some of my favorite actors and

548
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.039
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549
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550
00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:50.279
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551
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552
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That's so huge.

553
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:59.799
Okay, Daniel Wayman, Meghan Richard, and Marklee Havanaugh. And Mark

554
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:05.359
plays Norri Brandy Foot, a kind of predecessor to Hobbits.

555
00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:10.039
Same thing with Meghan, who plays Poppy. I love Poppy

556
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:13.400
so much. And then Daniel Weyman plays the mysterious the

557
00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:16.880
Stranger who I thought was sore On but is not.

558
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:19.559
And I think lots of people thought that according to

559
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:22.000
like Reddit and you know what you guys were talking

560
00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:25.599
about during season one, but it went on a very

561
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:29.279
different track, surprising and awesome. So anyway, I'm getting sidetracked,

562
00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:32.200
as I always do. Let's get into my interviews with

563
00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:37.039
Daniel Weyman, Meghan Richard, and Marcella Kavanaugh. First of all,

564
00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:39.119
it's great to speak to all of you again. Thank

565
00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:43.160
you so much for speaking with me. I've got to

566
00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:43.880
say so.

567
00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:45.319
I enjoy all of you.

568
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:50.079
But Markella and Meghan, Poppy, you know Noorri and Poppy,

569
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:54.720
your relationship, the two of you together. It's so endearing

570
00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:59.240
and I really love it. And then Daniel, your relationship

571
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:02.960
with the two two of them is also you know,

572
00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.759
it's such an interesting thing. So my my point in

573
00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:10.200
question is is does that come off you know, offset

574
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:12.720
as well? Is that why it's translating so well?

575
00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:15.200
On set? You know on camera.

576
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.680
You have a lovely voice.

577
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:21.759
Oh, thank you, Yeah, it's very like.

578
00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:28.119
Yeah, I think I think. Yeah, it's such a pleasure

579
00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.480
to work with people who you naturally sort of get

580
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:33.359
on with. I feel like, sort of from day one,

581
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.559
it's kind of been. It's felt easy anyway, and I wanted,

582
00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.839
I've wanted to get to know you. But also what's

583
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.599
great is that the characters have such an incredible relationship

584
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.599
and I think that especially Poppy and Nor's relationship has

585
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:50.680
been written so well, and I feel like the show

586
00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:53.359
run has really knew what that relationship was sort of

587
00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:55.640
from the get go, So it kind of feels easy

588
00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:59.960
for me anyway to fall into that. But yes, off set,

589
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.359
we are definitely family.

590
00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:04.920
Yeah, there's something cool that happens when I think your

591
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:10.599
characters all have unique character sort of characteristics that they

592
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:12.640
bring to the table. When when you're all together, that

593
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.880
complements each other. That means that you're all fairly equal.

594
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:18.720
That there's no you know, there's no power in bounce,

595
00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:20.279
or if there is a power and bounce, it shifts

596
00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:22.920
later and shifts later and shifts later. And that makes

597
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:25.799
it quite easy to both work together but also to

598
00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:29.119
you cherish the other the other people and you respect

599
00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:31.319
them for what they bring to the table. And that's

600
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:32.240
a great way of working.

601
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.359
I think I love that.

602
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.599
And and for you, Daniel, I you know, as I

603
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.160
was watching season one, I thought that you were going

604
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:44.079
to be your character was going to be somebody that

605
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.960
you ended up not being, And then I was shocked

606
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:51.599
at the end as you all were reading the scripts,

607
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.359
did you get that enjoyment in these surprises as well?

608
00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:58.480
Or does it kind of you know, it's it's work

609
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:00.599
at the end of the day for you, so it's

610
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:02.720
just like oh okay, and you move on, Like, is

611
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:06.759
there some of that fanboy fangirl you know, excitement as

612
00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:07.799
you're going through.

613
00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:10.759
Yeah, I mean I think that like with anything that

614
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:13.880
I watch or with anything that I read, it is

615
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:16.880
always exciting when you have anticipation around a character that

616
00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:19.000
you think might be this, or you think might be that,

617
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.440
and it's it's all about you feel like you're really

618
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:25.359
involved in the journey of them discovering who they are

619
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:28.519
as characters, and you're discovering that along, you know, with them.

620
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.319
I really love that as a viewer and as a character.

621
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:34.279
I feel like it then you feel so invested.

622
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:34.599
In their journey.

623
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.640
So yeah, the what if is really it's fun and

624
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.279
it's exciting, and I can see why.

625
00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:41.559
People we were lucky enough to read some of the

626
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:43.960
when the episodes came out, we would read them also

627
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:46.720
get together and it was real because you didn't know

628
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:48.519
what was going to happen, and it was you know,

629
00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:50.400
we'd sort of catch each other and going, oh my god,

630
00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:52.680
the page turn and it keeps going, oh yeah, it

631
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.119
was great.

632
00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:58.440
And how do you keep I mean, besides being contractually obligated,

633
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.839
how do you keep the the the secrets and the

634
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:04.880
you know, I just feel like it's so exciting that

635
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:07.720
you know, I guess you can talk to each other.

636
00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:11.119
That's how you can kind of talk about it, right, totally.

637
00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:13.719
Yeah, And also I think sometimes it takes the fun

638
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:16.719
out of it if you reveal too much, because otherwise.

639
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:17.199
What is there to watch?

640
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:19.960
Yeah, and it's really it's really fun to I think

641
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:22.800
hold things back and then you get and then especially

642
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:24.280
you know, like you said that you were surprised that

643
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:27.360
that's such a wonderful, incredible reaction that you could now

644
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:29.440
share with us, Like I think that wouldn't have necessarily

645
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:30.800
happened if we told you.

646
00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:34.280
Thank you.

647
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.119
All three of you are a delight to watch and

648
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:37.800
talk to.

649
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.079
I can't wait for everybody to see Lord of the

650
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:42.159
Rings the Rings of Power season two.

651
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:44.519
Thank you, Thank you so much.

652
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:48.199
Take care you too. Dannuel Wayman, Meghan Richard, and Mark

653
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:54.400
Kella Kevin love love love them, Love the Horfoots. I

654
00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:59.000
love that storyline through the Rings of Power, and Poppy

655
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:03.400
and nor are just a good time. I love their show.

656
00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:07.440
And then you know, pairing them with Daniel Wyman as

657
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:09.920
the Stranger, like it's just such a good mix.

658
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:10.840
I love it.

659
00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:15.239
In any event, last set of interviews, I'm like torn

660
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:20.519
between telling you you know, but I also like, you're

661
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:24.360
gonna know if you watch season one, you already know.

662
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:27.599
I'm just gonna say it, so here's a spoiler. So

663
00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:30.000
if you don't, if you haven't yet watched season one

664
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:31.320
or the end of season.

665
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:36.559
One, then like skip the next twenty seconds. Okay, all right.

666
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:42.800
Charlie plays the shape shifter who we know as the

667
00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:46.400
evil dark Lord sore On. We saw him in many

668
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:50.960
different forms in the first season, and of course Charles

669
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.360
plays Celebromores. You know, he's kind of like a like

670
00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:56.639
Oppenheimer in a lot of ways, which you know I'm

671
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:58.719
gonna ask him about. But in any event, I'm getting

672
00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:02.320
distracted again like I always do. Let's get right into

673
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:07.639
the interviews. Charlie Bickers and Charles Edwards. Hey, great to

674
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:11.800
talk with both of you again. Thanks for speaking with me. Charlie,

675
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:17.000
I want to start with you. You are a shape shifter.

676
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:22.360
You've played many shapes in this series so far. What

677
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:24.320
has that been like for you to be able to

678
00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:28.239
kind of, you know, put on different masks if you will.

679
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.760
It's a real privilege. I mean, it's kind of an

680
00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:35.920
actor's dream, right. It's why I got into acting, I think,

681
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:39.400
and something that I've connected to with the craft of it,

682
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:42.840
I guess since I started doing it. And to have

683
00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:46.360
the kind of role where you can really lean into

684
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:51.480
transformative work has been really incredible. So there has been

685
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:54.400
a lot of hard work to distinguish the different characters.

686
00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:58.840
But the stuff I've really enjoyed has been developing different

687
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:04.400
vocal changing, you know, my vocal work and physical work

688
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.760
to suit what I imagine the characters to be.

689
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:09.119
I love that.

690
00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:16.920
And uh and Charles for you, Celebromore Celebramore has been

691
00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:22.360
I would say, almost like that Oppenheimer of Middle Earth

692
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:26.320
in some ways. Would you agree with that kind of assessment.

693
00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:26.920
You know what?

694
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:27.880
I like this.

695
00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:30.360
It's been coming up with a bit quite a bit recently,

696
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:34.599
and I like it because, yes, I think there are

697
00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.800
a lot of similarities unleashing this thing that he's uncertain

698
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:41.119
of of of of the effects, well, the effect is

699
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:45.320
going to have, but there's certainly the torture that's the

700
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:50.639
kind of mental torture that's that's that that Oppenheimer goes through,

701
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:53.719
and the and the shall I SHANN'TI dilemma and all

702
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:55.519
those things I think are very applicable.

703
00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:57.519
But he's.

704
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:02.320
Oppenheimer is less on in the thrall of a guy

705
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:07.679
like Saron is pulling the strings. Ultimately, although it is

706
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:10.639
very much a power play between the two of these characters,

707
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:15.639
they both need each other for various things, so that

708
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:17.320
makes it more interesting that way.

709
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:20.719
And for both of you. You know, I spoke to

710
00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:24.599
you season one before that launched. Now I'm speaking to

711
00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:29.360
you before season two launches. What are where? How are

712
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:32.960
you different from when we talked this time last year

713
00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:36.760
in regards to your your yourselves and the show?

714
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:41.320
Well, I think I think it's probably two years now

715
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since we did this press press tour.

716
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And has it been two years?

717
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:45.760
Yeah?

718
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And I think I was cast in this show in

719
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twenty nineteen, so and we've just done the second season, right,

720
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So it's it's it's I think a lot of things

721
00:38:56.079 --> 00:39:00.440
have changed personally, I mean, but I guess for me

722
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.960
it's about being getting really comfortable and adjusting to doing

723
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:07.840
a show on this scale and living in this world.

724
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And I think just naturally living with a character for

725
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:13.320
so long it's my first experience of that. It just

726
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:16.159
deepens your understanding because it's kind of always there on

727
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:19.000
the back burner, in the back of your mind, whether

728
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:21.559
you're doing another project in between. I'm kind of always

729
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:25.360
thinking about this character because I know I'll be returning

730
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:27.760
to it at some point, and that's a real joy.

731
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.679
Yeah, it is to know something is ongoing, even though

732
00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:33.920
there are these huge gaps between each season. It really

733
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:36.800
absorbs you, but even when you're not doing it. And

734
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I think this season we're a lot more grounded, we're

735
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:41.440
a lot more well, it's still amazing to walk onto

736
00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.639
those sets, but we're a lot more O FAI with

737
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:48.320
it now. So and also the stories are really settling

738
00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:49.880
now and now we're telling the stories.

739
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.800
I love it. I can't wait for everybody to see

740
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:53.360
season two.

741
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:56.880
Thank you both for speaking with me, and I look

742
00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:58.199
forward to speaking with you again.

743
00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:01.320
Thank you very much, Thanks your time, Thanks Kyle.

744
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:05.679
Thank you Charlie Vickers and Charles Edwards.

745
00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:10.760
Like, I can't tell you how cool it is for

746
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:13.519
me to be able to say that I just talked

747
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:17.039
to sore On, not only like this time, but I

748
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:19.719
talked to him last season two, not even knowing that he.

749
00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:22.880
Was sore On, which is crazy.

750
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:25.079
Like this is like a childhood dream come true.

751
00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:26.599
So I'm so stoked.

752
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:29.599
I'm so hyped for you to see season two of

753
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:33.519
The Lord of the Rings Rings of Power exclusively on

754
00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:38.360
Prime video. Do yourself a favor, please watch it so

755
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:39.880
we can talk about episode one.

756
00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:42.119
I can't wait to talk to you about it.

757
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If you haven't joined the conversation yet, you can hit

758
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:48.119
me up on any social at KMAC Music or at

759
00:40:48.199 --> 00:40:49.840
Real Kyle McMahon.

760
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:52.320
Or at pop Culture Weekly. You'll find me everywhere.

761
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.039
Pick one and hit me up, or send your hate

762
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:57.199
mail as always to my email, which.

763
00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:01.039
Many of you do. Love that. Keep that coming, please.

764
00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:04.840
And all right, we got some exciting stuff coming up

765
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:08.039
in the next few episodes. We're getting close to my

766
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:10.599
favorite time of year, Halloween, so you know it's gonna

767
00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:15.920
be an all horror October slate of pop Culture Weekly episodes.

768
00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:18.960
All right, that's all for this episode.

769
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Talk to you soon. I will see you next week.

770
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I love you.

771
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We thank you for listening to pop Culture Weekly. Here

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