Tony Blauer
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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like you can empty like a magazine on somebody like 9 12 14 in four or five seconds like you're you're not even finished dialing 911 and you're dead or bleeding so it's for for many people out there they they live in a bubble uh oh you're gonna love this this story i think it'll really resonate with where you're going so i was really good friends with bruce lee's son brandon
And I was on the set of The Crow with him three weeks before he was shit. You never knew this? This is wild. I'm on the set of The Crow. They're doing some stunt work. And I'm like going, like, this is a dangerous set. Like, these guys, something's off here. And there was one part where they were going to throw an actor into some boxes. And I see nails coming out of the boxes. Oh, my God.
And I'm like... Like, I go over to the stunt coordinator. I go, dude, like, there's two nails out of this, like, crate here. You're going to throw somebody in. So when I heard what happened, I was like, there was a moment where I felt like if I was there, I'm the type of guy that if there's a gun on the table, I'm going to check. Is it loaded? Is it this?
So I don't know if you know the whole story of how he died. There was the dummy round blew when the primer blew. No one cleaned the gun, so the tip of the bullet was in the barrel. When they put the squibs in to close up on the gun so you get the flash, it blew the lead out so slow that it just did so much damage when it hit Brandon in the stomach.
but I got this call like Brandon's dead and I'm like, holy shit. Um, and, um, so I went out to the funeral and I'm on a red eye back and it was back in the day, Walkman, you know, so I had a Walkman. I, I love to read. I had three books. It's a red eye back. I was living in Canada at the time. And, uh, I put my books down here. I'm in business class. I got a seat beside me. I'm like, oh, good.
I'm quiet. I'm doing this. And before they close the door, a flight attendant, not working the flight, runs on. So she's got her name. She's got whatever, Delta or American, whatever it was. She gets in, and I'm wearing like this, T-shirt, jeans. And she says, oh, that's my seat. I move my shit, and I'm thinking, oh, fuck.
you know and then she's like fired up it's midnight you know she goes oh my god hi my name's uh you know suzy i'm a flight attendant uh i thought i was gonna miss the flight this isn't my hub and i'm going oh my god she's gonna talk all night i want to sleep and i'm like i'm not in a good mood a good friend of mine just died i'm coming for a funeral I'm trying to make this dramatic.
And she goes, she goes, so what do you do? And we're starting to taxi. And I look at her and I go, I'm a life insurance salesman. Thinking, who wants to talk about life insurance just as you're taking off, right? And she looks me up and down. She goes, you're not a life insurance salesman. I'm a good reader character.
person and I said okay you got me I'm lying I'm a life extension insurance salesman and she goes life extension insurance what's that I go I teach self-defense and she says oh my god I always want to learn how to defend myself and I interrupt her and I go no you didn't because people who always wanted to do something do it I said I think what you meant to say is you always wanted to be you always want you want to know how to never be near a situation where you might have to defend yourself
And she goes, oh my God, yeah. I ended up doing a five hour seminar for the whole flight home. But it was this idea that if, when you say to people, come to Blacksite and train with us, they go, this looks cool. But then they sit there, they don't realize the noxious effect of fear. Like why would you invest in and practice something you never want to have happen?
You've got to be at another level in your thinking where you go, The worst day of my life would be I had a chance to influence the outcome, but I didn't know what the hell to do. And that's what we're giving people here is options. We're options facilitators. Every one of us is a human weapon. We all know how to fight. We don't know how to fight. We don't know we know how to fight.
And it's overcoming that fear first. And it's the type of thing where you can come and do the training and go, okay. Now I know, and maybe I'll do one or two more gun classes or I got to practice once a month with the tourniquet, or I am going to learn jujitsu or whatever. You fall in love with something, but the ability to know that you can protect yourself and not be manipulated, that's huge.
But the transcendent value is that changes your emotional, psychological posture at your next meeting, right? So it's super interconnected. You know the expression, the pen's mightier than the sword? So I took some poetic liberty and I added a sentence to it. The pen is mightier than the sword when you know how to use a sword. So you're there, you're going, in the back of your mind,
You're such a strong negotiator because you know you don't need the deal. If you don't like the person or you don't like the whatever, you're gone. That's the katana. I'll cut this in a second. Remember Iggy Pop? This is one of my favorite quotes. He said, imagine if desperation were attractive. So a lot of people come in there, they need the deal so bad or they need.
And, and so they come at you negotiating with fear as opposed to with fierce, like in, you know, it's, uh, it's that mindset switch and you can get closer to that when you do this training. Cause you discover that you are vulnerable and then you, you build to strengthen that and you just, you become a better version of yourself immediately, even after two days.
Yeah, thanks. So I grew up. doing wrestling, taekwondo, boxing, got into some confrontations where nothing worked. They were so close, they were so fast. One was a road rage, one was multiple assailants, one was actually in a boxing ring. And, and I had this wicked tunnel vision and I was a Bruce Lee junkie, like all of us, right?
I think you were the world's biggest Bruce Lee fan, but I was like everyone, every Bruce Lee fan thinks they were the biggest Bruce Lee. I loved them. I remember when I was 15, my mom said, are you going to go into the family business? You're going to be a lawyer, doctor, cop, you know, it was the seventies. So there were only three jobs.
And I, and I, I said, mom, I'm going to be a famous martial artist like Bruce Lee. I'm going to develop my own system. And I was on the floor looking at Bruce Lee magazine doing the splits. She pat me on the head and said, okay, sweetheart, we'll talk about this when you're older. Like I just knew I wanted, I abhor violence. And I'm so afraid of it that I just think about it all the time I study.
I'm obsessed, not passionate, obsessed. And so I started teaching in 1977. My first paying official student in 1980, this kid, Mitch, gets dropped with a left hook, Dan. And I'm teaching him at the time what we all think of when we think about fighting. We think John Wick. We think Jackie Chan. We think Bruce Lee. Doing moves, doing moves.
So I'm teaching him the moves and how to think and do this stuff. And I go and just visualize this.
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