HEART OF A CHAMPION – RISING ABOVE! With Randy Boom Boom Blake Jr.

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Hello, it's Howard brown. It's the Shining Brightly

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Show. We are here to motivate, educate and inspire. Oh my

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goodness, I am so happy. The Champ is in the house. Randy

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boom, boom Blake. Welcome. How you doing, man?

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Randy Blake Jr.: Hey, that's good to be here. I'm excited.

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Oh, happy to see you, man. So this is an

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incredible story. And we're all about shining brightly here. But

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this is incredible. So let me tell you a little bit about

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Randy because I recently over the last couple of months got

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introduced to Randy. We're doing an author journey show I will

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set out to send eat van breeder. And we're part of the art of

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connection crew with Robert W. Jones and Natalie McQueen. So

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lots of shout outs there. But let me tell you, Randy is the

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coolest cat man. I mean, it's so Randy BoomBoom Blake Jr. Okay.

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He basically journeyed into martial arts. We're going to

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tell you that story, we're going to tell you some childhood

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piece, but he's been doing this for 31 years, and he's a five

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time a ska heavyweight world champion, fifth degree black

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belt in karate. And his dedication to the sport has had

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him introduced the martial arts Hall of Fame's multiple times.

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Ooh, this is incredible. In the world of kickboxing, kickboxing,

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he had a 52 and seven record with 35 knockouts. So that's

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where the boom boom comes from, I imagine and including, he was

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in the top league with Chuck Norris, in the world combat

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League of kg one and glory. This is incredible stuff. So he

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basically transformed that discipline and dedication of

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karate in his life, okay, into being a coach beyond the ring.

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He's dedicated to serving individuals, and helping them

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achieve their goals. He's a motivational speaker. He's a

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book author, and he talks in churches, and he talks at

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prisons and colleges and schools. I know you love talking

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to the kids, and give them inspiration to, you know, for a

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good life. You are honoured with the presidential Lifetime

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Achievement Award. That's a big honour. Wow, congrats on that.

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And you just have a deep, deep desire to take your athletic

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achievements and basically help lift up others, which is all

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about shining brightly is lift up yourself what you did, and

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then you lift up others. And I'm just so so privileged about

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that. We're going to talk about your book, which is, boom, a

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true story of perseverance, mental toughness, and overcoming

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adversity. So I want to welcome you ready. I'm really honoured

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to be here. And I just love being around you. And I want my

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audience to hear from you today. So I'm excited. All right, with

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that grand introduction. Tell me how you're shining brightly

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today.

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Randy Blake Jr.: Well, today, I'm just happy to be on the

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show. I'm always with a smile on my face. And I'm always looking

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to inspire others using my martial arts principles and

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trying to help make the world a better place.

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We are aligned, we are aligned. Okay. And we are

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fine. All right. Well, I want you to take me through as a

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little kid, because it wasn't always this way a little bit

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through your childhood and what happened and sign of your mom's

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aha moment there. Give me some of the childhood background. So

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Randy Blake Jr.: Well, my first aha moment was I was getting

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bullied, picked on. I didn't realise it at the time. But you

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know, I would get my head raked up against the fence every day.

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And I was kind of let it be. Pretty much one day, my aunt

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picked me up. And I get into the backseat. And she looks back to

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ask how my day was, but she saw a big wad of spit just kind of

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rolling down my face and she just flipped out. She's lost her

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cool, like, whoa, what's going on. But um, the parallel to that

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was I was always watching a guy named John Claude Van Damme, I

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was very inspired by this guy. There was a movie called

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Bloodsport for you guys who don't know what that is, is the

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guy doing splits and kicks and fighting in this cool arena and

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at all the cool chicks? And I thought it was cool. So my mom

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decided, well, let's get him into martial arts. My dad

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decided, well, yeah, let's do that. But I couldn't get him a

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box back to so he could practice his punches and kicks. And so

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that was really my aha moment. Because when I jumped into

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martial arts, I instilled confidence or I was instilled

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confidence in me and I had maybe four or five lessons. This bully

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tried to put me in a headlock and spit on me and do whatever

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he was going to try to do to me. And I don't really remember what

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I did. I swung at him, I did something. The whole point was I

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had enough confidence to stand up to this bully, and he left me

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alone. So that was my aha moment. And that was my journey

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into the martial arts world.

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I love that story. Not that fact that you were

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bullied. Okay. The fact is that you actually took action on it.

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Um, bullying still exists, okay? There's all formats of bullying

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right now online bullying and in person bullying, and it still

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happens. But the fact that you know, Auntie saw the spit coming

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off you and I'm such a sickening to me, you know, spit on a

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little kid you're 11 or 12, right? And the fact that your

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parents supported you in this and that bullying went away and

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there's a real lesson to learn from that. So Alright, so now

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you're you're you're you're taking some some lessons, you're

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learning the sport, you're learning the discipline, take

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take me through your martial arts journey. Because one of the

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things I will tell you, Randy, everyone has to find their happy

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place and you found yours on the basketball court guy, I find

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that happy. And I say this in my book, find your happy place and

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go there often schedule it, and I don't care if it's cooking,

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travel, yoga, meditation, hiking, fishing, go there, and

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you found it take me to your happy place. Now take me to the

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martial arts.

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Randy Blake Jr.: So I was always a good kid, I was always pretty

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laid back just kind of easygoing, my grades are pretty

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decent. But I noticed when I jumped into martial arts, the

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confidence really rose. But one of the biggest things that stuck

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out to me was my competence, to talk to people became better my

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grades, talking to people, just martial arts brought a lot of

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those aspects out of me that I didn't realise that I had. But I

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will say on the downfall of things, I had students in class

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who would challenge me to the point to where it made me almost

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want to quit. So I always tell people, like, you have to have

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the good, but you have to have the bad too. And so luckily, I

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had two good parents who they said, I'm paying all this money,

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you're not quitting, buddy. So you're gonna take a little

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behind the class, I don't care if you get your butt handed to

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you, you're gonna go because I pay for it, you're gonna get

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your black belt. So I'm very thankful for those moments,

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because I wouldn't be here on this podcast with you today

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talking. So yeah, martial arts has been a huge part of my life.

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And it's just exciting. All

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right, so take me through a story that you are

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sparring. But then you're actually going to get into real

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contact with Master kick. Tell me Tell us who master kick is.

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And tell us that transition.

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Randy Blake Jr.: Yeah, so now this is after high school. I go

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off to college, because I decided I was going to be like

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Michael Jordan. That was that was my whole thing. You know,

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growing up as a kid, you see these Gatorade commercials, you

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see this guy sticking his tongue? You know, slam dunk,

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and, you know, I can't I can't tell you our if you haven't done

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this before, you probably lie and as a 90s kid, you know, the

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three to one buzzer beater. You get the ball of socks, roll it

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up and you shouldn't hamper we all wanted that story. So I

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decided I was going to go on this journey and be like Michael

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Jordan. So I went to multiple colleges to try it out. I was

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told no, no, no, no, no. So I come across a small college here

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in Oklahoma. It was a junior college, I ended up getting a

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walk composition. And I just felt out of place. So I decided

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to drop out. I dropped out of college, I moved back home with

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my parents. And I found martial arts again. So now I'm 19 years

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old. rekindling my craft and love for the the art and I'm in

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class with this instructor. And in martial arts, you have semi

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contact, sparring is not full blown hitting, you're just going

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through the moves technique. You're you're a practitioner,

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just, you know, getting a good sweat. Nobody wants to get

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bloody nose or bruises. Because you have to go to work in school

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the next day, if you're going to school, this instructor at the

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time, he says, Randy, you're really good. I would like for

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you to come and do the fighters class. So I said, okay, cool.

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So, this went on for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks. And

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after every class he would like put me in a corner and say,

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Randy, please just come try it out. Please, please, please,

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please. So about a month or so later, he finally like his voice

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guide DP got real Stern, Randy, please try the class up. Because

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in this karate class, we can't hit hard in his fighters class.

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If you'll just come try to one time, you can know what it feels

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like to hit somebody fullblown not get in trouble. You're not

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going to get push ups. You're not going to lose your belt. But

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also they can hit you back and so you can know what it feels

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like to get hit. And so I just said okay, fine, you know, I'll

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try it out this free. One time. Maybe you leave me alone so I

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can go back to my martial arts class.

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Childhood got gentleman's name,

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Randy Blake Jr.: though. The gentleman's name was David

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master kick Bowman. And that name is very monumental to me,

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because I just started To do that one kickboxing fighters

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class, and I enjoyed it, I got a chance to hang out with seasoned

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veterans guys who are preparing for fights guys who have, you

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know, multiple fights in the game and I'm just amateur rookie

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karate guy. And they're hanging out with, you know, big giants

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as a 19 year old. And I never will forget this because after

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that class, that one class, he comes up to me, he looks me in

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the eyes, because he looks up to me because I'm 6364. So he's

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about 510. So he looks up to me. And he goes, Randy, if you stick

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with this class, you will become a world champion. Now, back

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then, I'm 19 years old, the world the word World Champion is

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huge. I'm thinking of guys like Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield.

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I'm thinking of Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture. You know, the

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list goes on, and I'm going, I don't want anything to do with

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those guys. There's no way a little meme can become world

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champion. And so that was a big, monumental AHA piece in my life,

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because I never saw David Volkman after that moment ever

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again. So, you know, he ended up drug overdose and committing

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suicide. And I sit here today, and I tell you, you know, I'm

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very honoured and privileged to be here, because had I not taken

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that journey to go back into the fighters class. There wouldn't

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be any world titles, there wouldn't be any success after

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that with me. So this

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is incredible. Because first of all, you know,

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hit or be hit, and you got that feeling. And but here's the

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thing, Master kicks, saw something in you that you quite

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didn't see in yourself, okay? And I call that mentorship is

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leadership. All right, you allowed Him to guide you in the

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right direction. Okay. But he saw something in you I had that

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same person. Okay. I had a woman named Marilyn Schneider that

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helped me transfer it to Babson College, because I was in a

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liberal arts school and not an entrepreneurship school. We need

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to be open. Okay, that's the lesson be open to that

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mentorship and people that guide you, okay, and take you down the

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right path. And and really, you know, make a master kicks you

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know, name and, and memory be only for a blessing because he

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took his own life. And we're going to talk about that after

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as well. But so now you're on your way. Let's continue this

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because there's a story here. Okay, where you started to get

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involved now in serious competition. All right. So take

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take us through the next step of your your career here into the

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championship, and Chuck Norris and, and champ Shepard and all

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this stuff.

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Randy Blake Jr.: Yeah, so at that time, I was still trying to

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find myself because I told you guys before I just dropped out

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of college. Well, doing that also led me into the club scene.

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So I was, I was partying hanging out, I was a bouncer, I was

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making $10 an hour. But going into that fighters class really

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pulled me out of that world. So it actually it put me on a path

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to start to do good things. And next thing I know with hard

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work, dedication, perseverance, self discipline. I'm now

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fighting. So maybe nine months into training. And now I've got,

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you know, two amateur fights in one professional fight. And so

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I'm not even thinking about making it to the big leagues.

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I'm just happy to just get to hit people, and I get in trouble

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for it. And so next thing I know, I get an invitation to be

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on this league. And this is back in 2007. There was a league at

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that time called the WC L, the world combat League, and then it

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was hosted by Chuck Norris himself. so as to give you a

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quick background on what that was. You have to imagine it

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being like basketball, football, a team based sport, so you had

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multiple weight classes. And it was a team setting. So you had

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your starters and you had your alternatives. Okay, and you have

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one individualise weight class go out. They fight in the middle

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of this rainbow. So it wasn't a rope like a boxing ring. And it

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wasn't a cage like the UFC, octagon, it was just a platform

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you fought on. So you go in for one three minute round. You

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fight. You go back to the locker room at halftime and you come

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back out. You do it all over again. And obviously each

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starter has a backup just in case something happens. So the

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only way that you never actually go out. If you're a starter is

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it you get knocked out. Okay, so I'm now invited onto this team.

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I've got two amateur fights. I've got one professional fight.

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Everyone in the league has at least He's 25 to 30 professional

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fights pull us. So I am when I say I'm a baby at that time, I

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am a baby. I'm 21 years old, I was brought on this team to

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pretty much be a cheerleader to get some experience, and just to

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be around some veterans who, you know, could do things that I

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couldn't do learn what these guys are doing. Are they eating

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properly? are they what are they doing? As far as training? Are

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they running 10 miles a day? Are they doing 10,000 Push ups,

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whatever they're doing, that's what you're gonna do. We're

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gonna put you in for next season. I was okay with that.

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Because I got a chance to travel. I got a chance to see

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Chuck Norris. It was all good. I'm just living the dream now.

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Learning the discipline ready, you were

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learning.

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Randy Blake Jr.: And I'm learning to discipline. And so

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that was my mindset going into this season, you're not going to

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fight. Cool, no big deal. So one specific night, the guy who I

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was backing up at the time, that was 195 pounds that was

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supercruise away. At that time. I'm backing him up. He goes off

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for his fight. It was a one three minute round. Him and his

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opponent. They're going at it back and forth. Okay, I'm

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cheering them on from the sidelines. And it comes to a

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draw. So nothing happened. And so I said, okay, cool. No big

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deal. He gets 30 minutes to rest. 30 minutes to rest. So I'm

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gonna go backstage, I'm gonna pump them up, getting ready,

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hold two minutes for them, motivate them do what I can for

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a young 21 year old pup, and he'll go back out there. So this

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guy decides he sits in a seat to pounce, he throws a tantrum. I'm

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not going back out. He's flipping out. He's saying all

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kinds of crazy words. And when you have that team setting, we

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have multiple coaches. So it wasn't just one coach. We have

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like five coaches, you have five coaches, trying to get this guy

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to prepare himself to go back out there. Now mind you, we had

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30 minutes. His answer was no, no, no. Now my I got a headache.

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My jaw hurts. My legs hurt my My shoulder hurts my arm, my right

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arm hurts. Darn. And I've been knocking people out with I can't

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use it. So I don't want to go out because I'm too afraid to

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lose. That was his answer. And so watching this from a from

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afar going, and that's just, that's kind of scary, but I'm

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also going maybe I might have a chance to go in. So next thing I

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know, I get a pat on the back. And these words always resonate

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in the back of my head always. Randy, I hate to do this to you.

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But I have to throw you in. Now, when I say that it wasn't out of

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excitement. It wasn't like, okay, yes, it was out of panic.

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It was out of, I'm afraid. You're a baby. You know, imagine

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like throwing your kid into the lion's den. You know, that it's

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that panicky feeling of, I'm not going to see you again. And

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whatever happens to you. I just want you to know I love you. And

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I'm in spirits with you. But there's nothing I can do. I

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mean, the coaches even call my parents just to let them know.

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And why I bring that up is because it wouldn't have

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mattered because nobody knew who I was. But my parents and and

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arena, we fought in front of like 9000 people. So I get

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ready. I'm going down there and I'm about to fight a guy who has

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never been knocked out. This guy has 20 Plus flights. Last thing

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I hear before I go out there, use your reach, not to whatever

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that he could even mean that's just what that's the last thing

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I heard going down there they call my name to get this big

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Titan Tron. So I'm walking down. I'm seeing all the lights and

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then I'm seeing myself on this big site and Tron screen. I'm

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just going whoa, this is like a jury, right? It's um, slap

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myself in the face trying to wake up and that round goes. The

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bell goes ding so we're moving around. I'm throwing punches.

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He's throwing punches. I'm throwing kicks. He's throwing

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kids. I throw a spinning back thrust kitty. So I spin and I

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throw a kick and I hit him and I go, boom, okay, I dropped him to

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the ground. Okay, the referee goes over and gives him a

Howard Brown: 00:19:34

standing eight count. So he's kind of got this gruelling look

Howard Brown: 00:19:38

on his face. And he stands back up. So that was another aha

Howard Brown: 00:19:43

moment. I said, Oh, he didn't like that. So this time I said,

Howard Brown: 00:19:47

Okay, I'm gonna go over there. I'm gonna throw another spinning

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back thrust kick. But this time, I'm going to jump into it. I'm

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gonna jump in throw all my weight into all 195 pounds into

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it. So we know anything about Oh, Newton's law. That's what I

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did. And I did just that I go over there I throw a jump

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spinning back thrust kick, I put all my weight into it. Boom.

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Drop them. This time you did it get up. So, so to me, that was a

Howard Brown: 00:20:19

great moment. But the most exciting part about that whole

Howard Brown: 00:20:22

fight was I happen to look over and Chuck Norris is right there

Howard Brown: 00:20:26

just cheering this clapping like, Oh, bravo. That was so

Howard Brown: 00:20:30

awesome. That was so amazing. So like, I was fanboy like, Man,

Howard Brown: 00:20:36

this is Chuck Norris applauding a little kid like me. And so

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when I got back into the locker room, the team mates who saw me

Howard Brown: 00:20:45

as this little kid, like, what is he doing in this team? He's

Howard Brown: 00:20:48

got two amateur fights and one professional fight out, walk

Howard Brown: 00:20:51

them hills and valleys to get here and who does he think he

Howard Brown: 00:20:54

is? They finally saw Wow, this kid is really going to be

Howard Brown: 00:20:58

something one day. That's where I got my nickname, boom, boom.

Howard Brown: 00:21:06

Boom, boom, awesome. Alright, so now you've

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kind of got you know, you really, you're in the light to

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meet Chuck Norris. Okay. And then take me through. Is it

Howard Brown: 00:21:17

Mike? Sure. What's the champ that you fought to win some

Howard Brown: 00:21:21

championships? Yeah,

Howard Brown: 00:21:23

Randy Blake Jr.: so. So that's why I was on cloud nine. We're

Howard Brown: 00:21:27

all cheering Whoo. Yeah. You know, Randy's awesome. Boom,

Howard Brown: 00:21:30

boom. So now I've earned my keep. So now I'm a part of the

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actual lineup. So the very next fight, which is a month or so

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down the road, they throw me in there. This time, I fight a guy

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named Mike shepherd. I didn't know that. He was a world

Howard Brown: 00:21:49

champion. At the time, I just looked at him as another

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fighter. And I was able to hang in there with Mike shepper. So

Howard Brown: 00:21:57

there was a couple of times in the fight where I lost some

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points. And he really started scoring more points. And at the

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end of the day, he got his hand raised. So I was a little bummed

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out, because nobody likes to lose, right? So after the fight,

Howard Brown: 00:22:15

we have what's called a post fight party. That's just where

Howard Brown: 00:22:18

all the fighters all the staff, and media and camera crew, we

Howard Brown: 00:22:22

all get together and just hang out. Mike Shepard, being a very

Howard Brown: 00:22:27

humble martial artists, a very respectful person, he walks up

Howard Brown: 00:22:30

to me, it looks me in the eyes. And he says, Hey, that was a

Howard Brown: 00:22:35

great fight. And I just want you to know, he says, I beat you

Howard Brown: 00:22:39

based off experience. I knew you were young. But I can tell you,

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if you'll stick with this. You'll become a world champion

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one day as what Mike told me. So my feelings were still heard.

Howard Brown: 00:22:51

And I was still kind of down. I go over, I said, about five

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minutes after a conversation. I noticed I looked over to my

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right. And there was like a big crowd of people. I mean, it

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almost looked as if there was a fight going on. So I rushed over

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there. And I saw Mike shepherd in the middle. So there's all

Howard Brown: 00:23:11

these spiders surrounding Mike. And Mike is just simply talking

Howard Brown: 00:23:16

about his life. He's talking about his discipline. He's

Howard Brown: 00:23:20

talking about the things that Mike Shepard does to prepare for

Howard Brown: 00:23:24

fights. before, during, and even after fights, he talked about

Howard Brown: 00:23:29

what he did to prepare for me. And that was my aha moment.

Howard Brown: 00:23:34

Because prior to, I was still clubbing, I was still bouncing.

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I was training maybe once, maybe twice a week, I was doing

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nothing but using my athleticism. And if you look at

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my, clearly I was a more athletic guy, but Mike had the

Howard Brown: 00:23:50

brains Mike had the technical. And that's what goes into any

Howard Brown: 00:23:54

sport, you can be as athletic as you want. But if you don't have

Howard Brown: 00:23:57

any discipline, if you don't have any skill sets, and you

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real hardcore mindset. It's hard to win games. It's hard to win

Howard Brown: 00:24:06

championships. And so that's what I learned listening to

Howard Brown: 00:24:09

Mike, there was a lot of things he sacrificed the things that he

Howard Brown: 00:24:12

did weeks and weeks prior to his fight, and how that changed my

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whole career. Because after that, I completely cut off the

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clubs. I'm training to three times a day. I'm literally

Howard Brown: 00:24:26

taking the mike Shepherd formula. And I go on a 25

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winning streak, with about between I will say 15 1718

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knockouts within those 25 wins. And I didn't really do this to

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do this, but it put me in a position to now become the

Howard Brown: 00:24:43

number one contender to now compete for a world title. And

Howard Brown: 00:24:49

come to find out four years later, Mike Shepard himself has

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the world title. And so he finds out that I'm done. number one

Howard Brown: 00:25:00

contender. And so when, when you're the world champion, you

Howard Brown: 00:25:06

decide, because you're on the AI side, when you're the world

Howard Brown: 00:25:08

champion, you decide what type of gloves we're going to wear.

Howard Brown: 00:25:11

You decide the location and the fight you decide. The ring we're

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going to fight in, you decide how many rounds you're going to

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fight, you decide all the rules to contender just shows up, and

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he has to just abide by the rules and do what the ASI wants.

Howard Brown: 00:25:25

So Mike decides, oh, it's Randy Blake, great guy, but I'm the

Howard Brown: 00:25:30

world champion. And oh, by the way, I want to fight Randy in

Howard Brown: 00:25:34

his hometown, because I want to embarrass him in front of his

Howard Brown: 00:25:38

home crowd. And I'm going to do him just how I do my kids when

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they get out of line. So we ended up fighting we fought here

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in Oklahoma. And but the difference was, it wasn't one

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three minute round. So this was a five three minute round fight.

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So meaning after that three minutes is up, you get one

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minute rest in between rounds, and you go back right out you

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fight again. And we were doing Muy Thai rules. So that play to

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my favourite because I'm alone guy have long reach. So love

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through my knees. I have my my sidekicks. And I can continue to

Howard Brown: 00:26:15

clinch and ragdoll him around. And so we got to near Fight

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Night. And that was a totally different animal that was more

Howard Brown: 00:26:23

mature. And they had some experience under my belt to have

Howard Brown: 00:26:26

some some mentorship. And this wasn't a three, three minute

Howard Brown: 00:26:30

round flight where I have to just go, you know, nonstop full

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throttle action, I can really hone into my craft and my

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confidence. And I actually ended up finishing my Shepherd in the

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fourth round with the jump knee. And so I ended up getting my

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hand raised. And that was my first world title. And I

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happened in 2012.

Howard Brown: 00:26:53

Wow, oh my God, that's such an incredible story

Howard Brown: 00:26:58

that you beat the master. Okay, you know, you learn from him.

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And but you did tribute him because you changed your life.

Howard Brown: 00:27:05

You started to get real serious, you made it actually a focus,

Howard Brown: 00:27:09

you change your diet. And you basically you actually fulfilled

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the prediction and prophecy of master kick and of Mike

Howard Brown: 00:27:18

Shepherd, okay, and became a champ. And that's incredible.

Howard Brown: 00:27:22

Because that's a very rare thing to be able to rise up and do

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that. And it's just incredible. And I like to tell people, okay,

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that we all get knocked down in life and you got knocked down.

Howard Brown: 00:27:34

Okay, if you were a humble kid, but you got knocked down a whole

Howard Brown: 00:27:37

bunch, you lost some some some fights too. But you won the big

Howard Brown: 00:27:40

one. I got knocked down twice from cancer, I got knocked down

Howard Brown: 00:27:43

lots of little times in my life. But I've been able to get back

Howard Brown: 00:27:47

up again. And we all must get back up in life and in business,

Howard Brown: 00:27:51

and in careers and in relationships. And you you just

Howard Brown: 00:27:55

it's such an inspirational story. Now, take me through just

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a couple things. What do you think the big lessons because

Howard Brown: 00:28:03

you got hurt, too. You had some serious injuries. You told me

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your concussions. You didn't know if you ever got concussed.

Howard Brown: 00:28:09

But I mean, you're putting your body on the line. Okay, and

Howard Brown: 00:28:12

could you scramble your brain up and things like that. But Did

Howard Brown: 00:28:15

something happen to your bicep?

Howard Brown: 00:28:16

Randy Blake Jr.: Yeah, yeah. So that happened in 2016. So yeah,

Howard Brown: 00:28:22

so at that time, I was going from my third world title. So I

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had my first world title in 2012. And then I wanted again in

Howard Brown: 00:28:28

2015, and then 2016. To me, that was probably my greatest fight

Howard Brown: 00:28:33

ever. Because at that point, I was considered in my peek in my

Howard Brown: 00:28:38

eyes, I was in the zone. I mean, I'm doing some incredible things

Howard Brown: 00:28:43

and training. And I just felt like Superman because the

Howard Brown: 00:28:46

mindset is just completely pure. I was fighting a guy, Great

Howard Brown: 00:28:51

Britain. And now that I'm the world champion, I decide where

Howard Brown: 00:28:54

the fights are at. So why not bring the shows to my own

Howard Brown: 00:28:57

hometown, in front of my own home crowd. So when you're

Howard Brown: 00:29:03

before you fight, you know, we train, we do all those things,

Howard Brown: 00:29:05

but the most important part of the training is training your

Howard Brown: 00:29:08

opponent. So you have to be able to play chess. So it's all about

Howard Brown: 00:29:13

chess, it's all about thinking, two and three moves ahead. It's

Howard Brown: 00:29:16

all about taking your strengths and applying them to your

Howard Brown: 00:29:19

opponent's weaknesses. So one of the things that my coaches and I

Howard Brown: 00:29:22

decided was, every time my opponent throws a right kick, he

Howard Brown: 00:29:27

always drops his right hand. So what that means is he's open to

Howard Brown: 00:29:30

a left hook all day long. So we drilled that for weeks, weeks,

Howard Brown: 00:29:35

and I'm left handed. So I'm going great. So, fight night

Howard Brown: 00:29:41

arrives. We're beautiful 12 week training camp. I'm confident I'm

Howard Brown: 00:29:45

looking this guy in the eyes and I'm saying I'm gonna knock you

Howard Brown: 00:29:48

out. Now, I didn't say that. It's just the confidence I have

Howard Brown: 00:29:50

looking into him as far as stare downs. Flight night arrives.

Howard Brown: 00:29:55

We're moving around. We get into a clinch I shouldn't need to my

Howard Brown: 00:30:01

opponent's ribs, he calls a foul. So in the fight world, you

Howard Brown: 00:30:06

call a foul, you automatically go to a neutral corner and both

Howard Brown: 00:30:10

fighters. So at that time, I'm looking over him going, and I'm

Howard Brown: 00:30:15

going, I'm gonna get him, knock him out, left, but I look down

Howard Brown: 00:30:20

on my arm. Now my bicep is rolled up, like in my armpit.

Howard Brown: 00:30:25

That's when the pain receptors kicked in. Right? Now I'm in

Howard Brown: 00:30:30

shock. I'm shell shocked, like, whoa, what just happened. And so

Howard Brown: 00:30:34

what happened is I tore my bicep tendon at the distal end. So the

Howard Brown: 00:30:39

bicep is attached at the long head, which is the top piece and

Howard Brown: 00:30:43

then at the elbow, which is the distal end. One of the most

Howard Brown: 00:30:46

horrific things you could ever do, because what happens when

Howard Brown: 00:30:50

you tear your bicep tendon is you lose the ability to pronate

Howard Brown: 00:30:53

and supinate. So you lose the ability to turn knobs and turn,

Howard Brown: 00:30:57

you know, the volume on the switch. But in fight World, I

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lost the ability to do the one thing I had been training for 12

Howard Brown: 00:31:04

weeks there on that left. So make long story short, I ended

Howard Brown: 00:31:09

up winning, but it was hard. Because I had to dig deep within

Howard Brown: 00:31:13

myself. I had to rely on my coaches, because I was so

Howard Brown: 00:31:16

fixated on knocking this guy out with a left hook. I'm going to

Howard Brown: 00:31:19

get him I'm going to get him. But that was taken away from me.

Howard Brown: 00:31:23

And so my coach comes in to the cage after that third round.

Howard Brown: 00:31:29

Going into the four. He says, Randy, he's poking me in the

Howard Brown: 00:31:32

chest. If you don't throw any punches, that belt is going on

Howard Brown: 00:31:36

that plane, all the way back to Great Britain. Is that what you

Howard Brown: 00:31:40

want? Now I'm using the PG rated version of it, because he was

Howard Brown: 00:31:44

saying some things it was trying to fire me up from coach to

Howard Brown: 00:31:47

athlete. And he fired me up. He slapped me in the face. And I'm

Howard Brown: 00:31:52

waking up. And I go back out there. And I didn't finish him.

Howard Brown: 00:31:57

But I started scoring points. I got the crowd behind me. I got

Howard Brown: 00:32:01

my hand raised. But yeah, that's what happened. But I tore my

Howard Brown: 00:32:06

bicep because it's one of those moments that I use. And today,

Howard Brown: 00:32:13

sometimes you have to take an alternate route. Sometimes when

Howard Brown: 00:32:18

things don't go your way. What do you do? Do you sit still? Do

Howard Brown: 00:32:23

you cry about it? Did you just move forward? Do you rise above

Howard Brown: 00:32:28

that you rise up? And then you find another way to get there?

Howard Brown: 00:32:32

Yeah, I It's I'm just saying pure resilience,

Howard Brown: 00:32:35

man, pure resilience. And I love that. So I you know, you can't

Howard Brown: 00:32:39

fight forever. You've got so many accomplishments. So I want

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to go back now to master kick. Okay, and suicide prevention,

Howard Brown: 00:32:47

awareness and education. Why? Why is this so important? And

Howard Brown: 00:32:50

what are you doing about that now?

Howard Brown: 00:32:52

Randy Blake Jr.: Yeah. So when I thought about the master kick

Howard Brown: 00:32:56

thing, that didn't really resonate to me, I was I was

Howard Brown: 00:33:00

saddened by it, because I would have liked him to been there.

Howard Brown: 00:33:02

For my world title wins, I would have liked to been able to just

Howard Brown: 00:33:06

acknowledge, like, hey, like, this is a guy that, you know,

Howard Brown: 00:33:10

helped me and put me on a path when I couldn't see things for

Howard Brown: 00:33:13

myself. What really resonated for me and why I wanted to help

Howard Brown: 00:33:19

was just here recently, you know, a couple years ago, I saw

Howard Brown: 00:33:23

some guys who I had trained with who committed suicide. And there

Howard Brown: 00:33:27

was been some guys in the martial arts world who I was

Howard Brown: 00:33:30

inspired by not John Claude Van Damme. But in the Power Ranger

Howard Brown: 00:33:34

world. I was a huge fan of Power Rangers and Jason, David Frank,

Howard Brown: 00:33:41

the green of the green slash White Ranger, I found out that,

Howard Brown: 00:33:44

you know, he just taken his life and I'm going, Man, this is this

Howard Brown: 00:33:48

guy kept me out of a lot of trouble, because I was spending

Howard Brown: 00:33:51

a lot of my childhood trying to do these Tommy moves, and you

Howard Brown: 00:33:55

know, singing the Power Ranger song, and that really hurt my

Howard Brown: 00:33:59

feelings. And really, right around that same time, I just

Howard Brown: 00:34:05

meet a guy named Buddy Thornton. So in 2021, I announced I was

Howard Brown: 00:34:11

going to have a book, come out. I have my book. It's right

Howard Brown: 00:34:14

behind me. Yeah, I did this book just purely for my daughter. And

Howard Brown: 00:34:18

that's next thing I know, this book is now international

Howard Brown: 00:34:21

bestsellers. And now I'm going on tour. Now I'm doing book

Howard Brown: 00:34:24

signings and meeting all kinds of people. And I catch myself in

Howard Brown: 00:34:29

the middle of Las Vegas at a martial arts convention and book

Howard Brown: 00:34:33

signing. And that's where I meet buddy Thornton. And we exchanged

Howard Brown: 00:34:38

numbers. And he asked if I can jump on a few podcasts with him

Howard Brown: 00:34:42

and I jumped on a few podcasts with him a couple weeks right

Howard Brown: 00:34:45

after that event, and the title has happened to be about

Howard Brown: 00:34:50

bullying and suicide. And so I just started explaining my

Howard Brown: 00:34:54

experiences with bullying which we talked in this show and what

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I would hoped to want to do for suicide if there is anything

Howard Brown: 00:35:02

that I could do, because I don't have a degree. I mean, I dropped

Howard Brown: 00:35:06

out of college. But if I can just do something, be a part of

Howard Brown: 00:35:09

something that help. And I'm in the middle of my sentence, mid

Howard Brown: 00:35:15

podcast, and my phone's going off. And it's buddy Thornton.

Howard Brown: 00:35:19

And he said, Hey, we need to talk after this podcast, we're

Howard Brown: 00:35:23

going to fix this, we're going to, we're going to go and do

Howard Brown: 00:35:25

this thing. And so that's really how it all started, was about

Howard Brown: 00:35:30

two years ago. And so now buddy, Thorton. And I'm, we've put

Howard Brown: 00:35:33

together a nonprofit, and we're gonna go into the heart, we're

Howard Brown: 00:35:37

going to go and do this thing. We're going to go to the

Howard Brown: 00:35:39

schools, to colleges to prisons, we're going to go on the street,

Howard Brown: 00:35:42

we're going to go wherever we can, big corporate small

Howard Brown: 00:35:45

business, and you name it, and we're going to address this

Howard Brown: 00:35:48

thing, and do what we can to help bring these numbers and

Howard Brown: 00:35:51

suicide and mental health down.

Howard Brown: 00:35:54

That's, that's first of all, that's beautiful.

Howard Brown: 00:35:57

That's, that's noble, that's heroic, that you're now taking

Howard Brown: 00:36:01

your whole career. Okay. And now you're focusing on helping

Howard Brown: 00:36:05

others and getting the word out. I just love that. That's such an

Howard Brown: 00:36:07

example. You know, to your daughter and for your legacy,

Howard Brown: 00:36:12

okay, you have a legacy already, but now the legacy becomes so

Howard Brown: 00:36:16

broad, so much broader. And so I really appreciate that. So I'm

Howard Brown: 00:36:20

gonna ask you to put on some sunglasses. Okay. You got the

Howard Brown: 00:36:23

cool ones. You got the Coolio glasses on. Oh, look at that. My

Howard Brown: 00:36:28

Randy Blake Jr.: my three year old daughter.

Howard Brown: 00:36:32

You're looking fly. So this is the shining,

Howard Brown: 00:36:34

brightly spotlight. So I want people to tell how they should

Howard Brown: 00:36:37

best get in touch you. Of course, I'll put everything in

Howard Brown: 00:36:39

the show notes and on social media, how to best get in touch

Howard Brown: 00:36:42

with you. Then also share with me a quote that means something

Howard Brown: 00:36:45

to you to inspire others.

Howard Brown: 00:36:47

Randy Blake Jr.: Okay, yeah. So if you want to get a hold of me,

Howard Brown: 00:36:51

I have social media with Facebook, Instagram, and

Howard Brown: 00:36:55

LinkedIn, just typing and Randy Blake Jr. You'll, you'll see

Howard Brown: 00:37:00

their profile picture, which is my book cover, that should pop

Howard Brown: 00:37:04

up and then I'll add you as a friend. If you would like a copy

Howard Brown: 00:37:07

of my books, autographed copy, then you need to go to my

Howard Brown: 00:37:11

personal website and as Randy Blake, Jr.com. You can go there.

Howard Brown: 00:37:18

autograph it, I'll put a special sticker on it and make it

Howard Brown: 00:37:21

personalised to you and I will ship it directly to you. One of

Howard Brown: 00:37:26

the quotes that I like and it's a quote that I live by, because

Howard Brown: 00:37:32

it just helped me out so much because we we go through life,

Howard Brown: 00:37:36

and we love the sunshine and rainbows. But sometimes that's

Howard Brown: 00:37:40

just not the way things happen. And when they don't happen, we

Howard Brown: 00:37:43

ended up taking these weights and these burdens and we carried

Howard Brown: 00:37:46

on our backs. And then we just we Debbie down and we don't know

Howard Brown: 00:37:53

how to get back up. And so one of my favourite quotes I live by

Howard Brown: 00:37:58

is in moments of quitting, find greatness, don't carry mistakes,

Howard Brown: 00:38:05

step on them, use them as stepping stones, and rise above.

Howard Brown: 00:38:11

So every little piece of adversity, everything that's

Howard Brown: 00:38:15

negative, everything that's not going your way that you don't

Howard Brown: 00:38:18

feel that's going to help you get to where you need the Great

Howard Brown: 00:38:21

Bay. Use that as a stepping stone. That's what's going to

Howard Brown: 00:38:24

help you climb higher rise up rise above to get you to where

Howard Brown: 00:38:28

you need to be. I

Howard Brown: 00:38:30

love that, man. Thank you. Thank you for that.

Howard Brown: 00:38:33

Well, we take off the glasses now. And I just what a great

Howard Brown: 00:38:36

show what a great story. There's so much more to it, please reach

Howard Brown: 00:38:39

out to Randy at his website and socials and the book and all

Howard Brown: 00:38:43

that. This has been an amazing show. So for me, I want to give

Howard Brown: 00:38:48

a shout out to some people that helped me get here. So front

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edge publishing, read the spirit.com that comes out every

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Monday. That's a very inspirational blog I do goes out

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to a lot of people, and then also my amplify U team that

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helps help them to get this podcast produced. So if you want

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to contact me it's simple shining brightly.com And you can

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learn about the book and you can learn about my speaking my

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motivational paid speaking gigs. Also, the podcast is there. But

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my the real important stuff to me is my advocacy just like

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yours is is for suicide prevention, minus cancer. Mine

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is entrepreneurship and leadership and also with

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interfaith, knowing the other and expanding your worlds and

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lifting people up. So this has been an incredible show. Boom,

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boom. Randy, thank you. This is great and just be well and keep

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by keep doing what you're doing and I appreciate you.

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Randy Blake Jr.: Thank you so much.