Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Born. Alive. Noise. Gone. (#101-102)

Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Welcome to the Phase World podcast, engaging conversations that cross the boundaries between business, art and the digital world. Ah, it was a culture. Recovery and stimulants, and that's a sick animal. My right is to go to sleep happy and to wake up vibrant and confident that every possibility on exploring what life's about. Is mine. I don't have to pay rent for that tax for that, none of that. It's mine. I'll smoke a lot, but I get green. But I believe that there's billions being spent on making sure people are miserable in order for other people to feel. And a contrast to that to feel special like smiling is in exclusivity. You can only make it exclusive if everybody else is crying. I was given this intelligence and this strength for service, and only when I'm in service do I. My reality. See, I don't have any. I'm just here. What gives me a buzz is being surrounded with other healthy people that are here too. You can either choose to keep people afloat and be surrounded with little boats with people having a great time, or be the only yacht in the desert shit about all the brand that I sent you. You getting mad. I'm sitting back, I'm fucked up. I'm getting trash. Gotta go. The models that deformed human beings. That's what I'm at. War with those behaviors and protocols that have seated. Our behavior that we hang onto and call it culture that ruins the art, the flexibility and the fluidity of human beings. I'm at war with that word for like, no, shut up. Them boys. They got like, hello

Fei Wu: everyone. I can't believe I'm saying this, but welcome to episode number 101 of the Face World Podcast. This is your host, Fay. Episode 100 was a breakthrough for us. Two and a half years into the making a hundred conversations later. We have learned a lot of lessons along the way. I cannot wait to share some of them with you in a mini episode Soon with this new milestone, we relaunched our brand and a new website. To help you more easily engage with Face World content, drop us a note on the blog or social. We would love to hear from you today. I am joined by Johnny Bang Riley Basin, Holland. Johnny is a transient poet, a voiceover artist, and a father every day. He works to find his natural vibrancy and vitality and supports others in finding their own. He's true to himself and to the people he connects with through his. This episode does contain strong and explicit language, so please plan accordingly if you're around children or if you are at work. A headphone is recommended without further a. Please enjoy my conversation with Johnny Bang Riley, believe it or not. Going from really having found out about you to my producer whose name is, uh, Adam Lard, what he was watching, uh, your interview with Brian Rose, I believe. Uh, London Real. And we were completely hooked. So we ended up watching the video again and later that night, I think I probably spent three to four hours, uh, watching all your YouTube videos and. Absolutely incredible. So we're both very touched by your work, by your integrity and compassion. Could you tell me a little bit about sort of how that got started? Cuz I read on your about page that people approached you to write stories, letters and you even worked with a homeless woman. And how do they find you Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: then? I just, you know, I just, I just, uh, end up meeting these people and. Um, I found out through trial and error that there are ways of living that are really polluting and there are ways of living that allow you a life that makes you not question what life's about. I was always questioning what it was about, you know, cause I was dissatisfied. Like, is this it? It was a, it was a culture of recovery and stimulants, and that's a sick animal, something obviously. There's a point where we're at our most organic and most powerful because obviously on a microscopic level, there was so much power there that allowed us to grow into these giant bodies. All the, all the information and all the energy was there, but once we got here and out of the realm of. The protocol of nature was looking after us. Other people's cultures, i e the conquering reality's not really as we know it, it's the isms and schisms of the conquering people that rule the country that we were born in. And I act to sift through all of that cause those shoes never fit me. They caused me a lot of mental fallout. Uh, I was disgruntled. But I just had this fight in me that was like, I'm not gonna implode like everybody else around me. I'm gonna keep fighting until I get what I'm wor what? What is my right and my right is to go to sleep happy and to wake up vibrant and confident that every possibility on exploring what life's about is mine. I don't have to pay rent for that, tax for that, none of that. It's. And when I was younger, I broke the law on my way to being free. I don't know how the hell that becomes a criminal offense. You know, if I had some money and I was hungry, I wasn't gonna feed somebody, I don't know, 40% before I put it in my belly. If I've got anything left after I've got my rights, then you have to tell me why you want my taxes. And then I'll say, for what? For the. So no for me and new tires on my Rolls Royce, well then you're not getting it. I don't know where. Anywhere in nature where that's a law that everything trickles up, everything trickles down. We look after the week. So I spent a lot of my time and energy being self-harming by hating the br, and now I spend my time. Ignoring the BR and loving the poor, and I u I do that aggressively to get the BR back because every person that I can help, not be a victim of them, I'm winning. There's many, there's many that their protocol in their programs were supposed to kill and I whispered in their ear and they didn't kill him. Wow.

Fei Wu: You know, the way you speak. Very poetic and, and I know you are a poet, but I wonder Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: That's a nice, that's a nice word. I'm just a mixture of a Jamaican father and an Irish mother, and I'm a Griot poet. Is, is when I look at the definition of that, I'm like, it's too thin. I like to record my environment for historical reasons. The. And while I'm doing it, why shouldn't I feel good? So therefore, cadence and rhythm makes it, makes the process a little bit nicer. Also allows me to remember a lot of stuff, but I try to make sure it's facts about me and my environment, my take, my particular take on it. While I was doing that, when I lifted my head up, there was a lot of other people in the room saying, and us, us too. That's the problem a lot of artists make. You know, us, we Now, these are your experiences. If somebody comes and tells. Yeah, that's me too. Then you have a right to say us that they have to sanction you, that you know, people sit in their little microscopic dot on the planet and go, we, you have met everybody to say we, but I'm just trying to be, to be. I've got young children and it's really simple. What the reason why try to create patterns and food stacks and patterns of thinking and moving sleeping manner, pattern. That allow my nervous system to not kill me for it not to be alarmed to that it exasperates my, my glands and my filtration system that I end up having a chemical hand around my own throat. And I've got young children and I wanna stay around them a lot and long and they like me .

Fei Wu: I'm sure they do. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: So, um, I find them more fascinating than me. I'm just copying them. I'm a boot,

Fei Wu: what have you. Coffee, what have you learned from your kids? Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Their playfulness. You know what I mean? I haven't learned to smile as much as them yet. People are encouraging me because they say I have a wonderful smile. And, and I stopped smiling because people used to tell me I had an ugly smile. Cause it was too. Yeah, but that I've just regarded those people as devils that liked me to be miserable. I remember seeing a film once called The Mission with Robert De Niro, and there was an important part. I don't know whether it was a part, cause I have, sometimes my memory's a bit blurred cause I've been punched a lot. So I don't know whether it was a dream or whether it's real, but I'm sure it's something to do with the mission. I'm gonna tell you the line anyway. But there was like these, like these rich, so-called holier than our people that gave themself a religion that that allowed them their cognitive dissonance and say that we're not evil. Everybody else is a pagan and a, and a barbarian and a and a, an ape. And they had this assassin and they said, those people that don't live by our protocol are. And we're trying to be exclusive and trying to tell the world that our protocol is the only way to be happy. And these naked people running around in the jungle are laughing, go and kill their children and give them misery. That way we can keep our protocol as being this is the only way you can be happy. And that little part that I think was in that movie or in my dream is happening on a global. I believe that there's billions being spent on making sure people are miserable in order for other people to feel. In contrast to that, to feel special, like smiling is in exclusivity, but you can only make it exclusive. If everybody else is crying, I'm gonna die anyway. And sometimes people get killed for making it less exclusive to be happy. So I'm like, I can't do anything about that. But when you put one in my head, I'm gonna be smiling. So, alright. I do this by making sure that everybody knows how to be a doctor to themselves and take their hands out of drug dealers. Most doctors today are not doctors. They don't teach you how your anatomy works. They don't even know when I went to go and see a doctor and said, I felt suicidal. The, the woman never looked away from the computer screen and, and, and she said, without even looking at me, do you want some drugs? I said, no, I wanna be happy. Tell me what's wrong. What's going on in my body? My unhappiness is an alarm signal. It's a good function of the body. How long ago was that? Years ago. I think I was in my late thirties, forties, something like that. People should learn how to heal the. So that they, you know, this crazy behavior that happens where you just feel like there's a blockage and you're not flowing. So you go, okay, let me cut my breast open and put plastic in that work. Nope. Okay, let me pump my lips up like a car tire that work. No. You know what I mean? Let me split my tongue in half. That makes me happy. You know, it doesn't stop. And all you need to do is eat a type of diet that allows your kidneys to work when your kidney. Cleans up the sewage system, then the eyes brighten up, smile comes, skin shines. Don't need to put stuff on anymore. You know what I mean? There's, it's, it's, it's real, real simple. If you look at medicine and food, it's all stimulant and suppressant based. Let me suppress your pain so you don't feel it, or if you feel lethargic. because your sewer system is backed up, so nothing's flowing. Can't get energy to yourself. Drink a Red Bull. You know what I mean? Like

Fei Wu: it's true when I do pay close attention to the things I drink, I eat and so many words. And honestly I never learned. And if you bother to look them up on Google and look at the side effects, it's really quite scary. And part of what, what I learned from you kind of almost by accident is how much you care about the poor and how to, how do. People with low income eat a, you know, a satisfying and healthy meal. Wow. Yeah. And the articles, believe it or not, the first of all, they're relatively limited. There are half of the articles I did not agree with. It's about being low income. It's not about just rich people spending less money and so forth and so on. And there's another abstract like white paper on this whole issue, which. Who's gonna read that, you know, and especially people who are not as educated and that paper will deliver absolutely no substantial information to them. So I would love to hear your take on that. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Okay. Imagine, imagine, um, we all have access to the internet. You know, we're spending most of our money on bills. And you know that if you look at slavery, you look at the diets of, of, of certain culture. Where they're like seasoning and boiling pig's, ears to eat. You know what I mean? You can pretty much guess what they were, throw what scraps were thrown to them as people, and that just became their culture. And if it's still in their food things, it means this, the slavery that they were, they were free, free from slavery very recently because the food's still there, it's still in their culture. They still prepare it in the same way. You know, Jamaican friends, they still eat salt fish. That was when we didn't have fridges. So why are you still eating the fish with salt in it? You know, like kept salt. So these people, you know, a lot of us now we have access to media. Imagine somebody's got some kids and they happened to come across something about you. The health is bad. You know what I mean? You're being poisoned and they read all the information. They go, right, I'm gonna do something about this. And they start walking towards the health food store and they see the happy hippies sitting. As they walk in the prices, say, fuck off. Not for you. You know what I mean? And it's like you've got these jolly teaching, these things line and God bless you and welcome and being all fucking lovely, right? And then, and then they've gotta love you and take care of yourselves. And then you go, you really need a detox, and they frighten the life out of you with facts. And then you go, you know, don't trust any other company. I've researched all the herbs. I've got no metals or magnet or, or, or a mercury in them. So you won't get poisoned and don't, you know, take my supplement so your kids won't die. So then you click on the thing. There's like, you gotta take this 14 day course and it costs you 1,400 and something fucking euro. So you go, okay, let me just go back to dying then. But now you're full of, now you're not blissfully ignorant anymore, right? So now the food that was on the plate is terrifying you and you can, can't do anything about it. And that's what happened to me when I discovered it. I'm lucky that I do some voiceovers, which are quite lucrative, right? So I'm able to afford some of these things. But you know, the only thing I can afford from the health food store spin. Organic spinach. The rest of it I have to buy. The fruit that I, that I live in, I have to buy from the average store, which wasn't grown in, in mineral Ritz soil, so it's mostly just fucking water. There's no minerals in it. So I have to supplement with Moreo and thank God there are some companies which I can't mention, and if they sponsor, if one of them wants to sponsor me, then I say, right, everybody I put to, you've gotta give them their first. We've gotta set up, you've got to be able to give away a certain amount of these things for free, but none of them do. You know, I've seen these quacks on, on, on, on the internet and somebody was, they read out and they go, oh, you know, you know I'm dying. And then the guy goes, for camera's sake, alright, you call one of my assistants right now and, um, uh, will take care of you. But I know when that phone phone call goes in, they're not gonna get the supplements or what they need for. It's the same as when you turn up, you know, and you go, I'm dying of cancer. And I go, wait, let me just check your insurance. No, I think you have to stay at home and die. Yeah. I, I definitely wanna find ways around that for sure. You know, I've got an auntie, you know, that, that they basically sent her home and gave her an automated morphine machine, which obviously when somebody. Is out of their mind and pain are gonna keep pressing the thing like crazy and you just step back and go, well, you know, she killed herself. Nothing to do with me. But you know, you knew psychologically you were setting up for that. It's the same as running into a room where there's a woman in the pains of labor and should be left a little bit longer to go through a process so she can have a natural. But you get paid per patient. So you go in there and go, whoa, you know, the baby's under stress and could cause it, could cause that's legal, could cause it brain damage. And the woman goes, okay, what's wrong? Okay, caesarian then and sign this. And of course she's gonna sign it, but is she right to sign it? What if somebody else was in the room and whispering in the other ear and going, actually you'd be right. You know those people, that that alternative information is not allowed in the. And that's what I'm about. I'm allowed in the room and Facebook doesn't push me and YouTube won't push me cause of my message. I see the hits I get on there and I know a lot more people hit me up than the hits that say that are registered on those things. I know. Sure. But I'll get around that because I'll draw people to it by other work I do outside of their formats and people will come and look for me. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'ma, you're no heroes. Don't act like this. And please don't treat me like I'm your. Cause I watch tv, I how life is and he's not easy. Rightm good. I'm, I'm good, nigga. I'm good. I'm. Coming up to me like, you still making music, man. Ask them kinda

Fei Wu: questions. Should it? I think one of the reasons that people do find your message resonating, and I was going to say that one of the reasons for all your videos to have resonated with me so much, you know, carved in mayhem. One of my favorites probably, uh, I would say, uh, is hope. You know, hope is a drug that's homegrown for free. And my, my friends, uh, who knew I'm going to conduct this interview reminded. To say that we all had painful childhood, but maybe it's not wise for me to share my childhood with you because in comparison it's so insignificant, which is true, but at the same time, your message. Has resonated with me at a really, really deep level because my pain was real to me. You know, my suffering is, you know, was what I knew and by reading some of the comments on YouTube, I could tell immediately that people, you know, I don't know who those people are, and you probably don't know many of them personally, but it's very inclusive instead of your message is very inclusive. So people say to say, wow, you really, it's inspiring you. You lighten my day. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: I don't have a, I don't have a right to be a man with testosterone. If I'm not caring about the week that makes me a man. If I'm only caring about the fortunate, I'm useless. I was given this intelligence and this strength for service, and only when I'm in service do I do. I realize my reality. . Other than that, I'm just a fucking consumer, a dust bin for these people to dump their trash into and go, ha ha ha less fortunate than me, wasted his money. I don't want that to happen. I sit in business class when I travel because of the work that I do, and I love that they look at the air studios and go, he's in the wrong seat. And I travel the whole journey and I watch them having to eat and I don't. And I always say to people that ask me, how do you know when you're really healthy? And I say that when you don't, when you choose not to eat, you don't panic. That means your diet's on point. I eat every two days. It, there's no, there's no, there's no difference in my energy at all. Because when I do eat, I don't eat for pleasure. Life is pleasure. I eat for fuel. And you don't really need much fuel. You just need to get stuff out of the. Fuel comes from your soul. I don't need stimulants. How do you think I found my way to the egg fighting off a million other sperms that wanted that opportunity You know what I mean? I didn't. I wasn't, I wasn't, I didn't have an energy drink or pop pills. I was born with it. You just have to get it, get the shit out of the way that subdues it, you know? And that's the key. But there's no money in that and you can't copyright.

Fei Wu: What do you eat every other day? I'm really intrigued. Now, is today your eating day or non eating day? Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Today is my fasting day. Okay. And, uh, it's, it's dry, fast, knee by mouth. And sometimes I've done 48 hours before and trained after 48 hours and I never felt more alive and listening to my body, adjusting and conserving and even, you know, as the fast, like in the. It's even longer and my voice starts getting more quiet. Not cause I want it to, it just does. And I'm just watching my whole, like all my friends, all of my inner organs going, got you man. You know, they're just amazing dance trou. You know what I mean? And they, they, it's brilliant. And they're, they're all my buddies. They've been there since I was born. These are my friends. You know what I mean? And when you disassociate yourself, Your best friend, your, your being. When you, then you need, I will know, I need friends. You're surrounded with friends. Your skin is your best buddy. Your eyes, your eyelids are blinking without your permission or even consciousness. You don't even have to, they're lubricating your eyes and they're going, I got you. Until we decide to. I'm not John, even. I just do that for, for the communication sake. I don't know what my name is in Arabic is Yahi, and I like that because it means life that, you know, nobody's ever asked me what bang means, what it means. What it means is this. You're born, you're alive, you make some noise, and then you're gone. It's very simple. I'm, I'm sorry, it's not like poetic, you know what I mean? But No, it's true. It's basically it. We make a bag of noise. We all take turns and go, I'm here. That's what all our language is really about. If you, I watch people in conversations. I'm known in the town that I live in, to go out and sit in busy nightclubs with a pen and paper and just sit there laughing because I know the symptom. I'm looking at the symptoms, people dancing around their bag. Somebody goes off to the toilet and then people are talking behind their back to jostle up to get closer to the popular, popular one and all of that. And sometimes I've been caught by other kids who's who, like were sitting there for ages. They told me, watching me laughing, and they were entertained by me laughing. But I'm not laughing at people. I'm just, it's funny how we compensate. It's cute. It's as, it's as cute as my child trying to compensate for her lack of power at the. We are the most amazing friend that we've ever met us. I've taken people to mirrors and say, who are you? And they go and they tell me their name. I find that bizarre no matter what age they are. You know? Who are you, David? That's your name. Who are you? And then they go, see how dangerous that. You've been giving tags and when you take the tags away, there's no information, nothing. I said like, let me tell you who you are, your eyes, your nose, your skin, your teeth, your anatomy, your love, and we can go on and that's a lot more than Dave, isn't it? If you come from behind the, the, the little tags that you've got, it becomes more enriched. I always say to people, do you love your. And they say, yeah. And I said, do you have a book on nutrition? No. Do you have a book on an anatomy about how it works and what it best responds to? No. Now tell me again, you love yourself because you've got an instruction book for your video recorder, and you definitely looked at the instructions before you turned your phone on, and you read how the apps work so your phone don't break. But this massive, beautiful circuitry you. I'll let him decide. Tell me what I eat. Stranger. Sorry. To put a really, I've got old habits from before. You know, where I've got, you know, I'm put these kind of dumb voices on like, and it's insulting to people and I shouldn't do that. It's

Fei Wu: true. I think we, you know, there's so much to say when people listen. I, I posted one of my podcasts on Facebook and one woman said she was so excited because she saw the same man, uh, on Ted Talk for 15 minutes, and she was excited, but my podcast was too long. She said, you know, I know she's a mom, working mom with two kids. See this is something that people don't understand is on one hand you do have to break down a certain concept and say, and tell a story in 30 seconds, or to kind of describe it. Dave's name doesn't have to be Dave. It just, a lot of us walk through life that way, not thinking and. I'm privileged enough to, I have left my job more than a year ago, a very lucrative job that I'm sure the moment I left, it probably received a thousand applicants and people were calling me stupid and crazy and a lot of things, and now I'm a lot happier. I knew my burn rate. I don't really need all that much money and I'm making more than I did before and I'm transforming or utilizing everything I do in my consulting business to do this. You know, I hire the producer, I market this content, and this content isn't for everybody. And you know, but it's important to me for this storytelling. When you say that people either sort of love your content or hate your content, and last night I was watching Abstract, which is a new documentary series on Netflix about designers, and I believe his name is Tinker Hatfield, the designer for Nike. He said, if your work isn't loved and hated by other people, you really haven't done much at all. And I think that's true. The kind of extremists who find your work very attractive. And I'm on the left side, of course. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Well, I, I, I dunno about, there's a certain amount of ego in that, you know what I mean? I hear a lot of people that so-called famous people say that, you know, I must be doing something right because I'm hated by people and you're not doing something right and you shouldn't be happy about that because those people that are hating you are missing the party. because all the people that really like you are enjoying your success. See, I don't have any success. I'm just here. What gives me a buzz is being surrounded with other healthy people that are here too. You can either choose to keep people afloat and be surrounded with little boats with people having a great time, or be the only yacht in the. I choose to just keep people afloat. Man, I wanna be wrong. So I can go through the process of learning and be and then, and then going, yeah, I get it. That process, I don't wanna be right. That's dull. I know everything. So I want go and be completely ignorant about how to live where you live and how to climb that tree and teach me how to walk through this forest and don't eat that. You're gonna fucking die and eat that. You're gonna be strong. I wanna do all. Some people just want to be specialists and go live in their little golden cages and go, I don't, I don't wanna go out there cause I might be wrong. Wrong, they wanna stay here. And I'm like, who really lives in the ghetto then? Cause that's ghetto. You and your gated community go into the same restaurant eating the same food. Look, you live in London. You live in Holland. And then you go to Jamaica and you go to a resort and drink the same beer and eat the same food. You've just hopped into the same com. You've just been transported from one prison to another one. And internally, whether you're in Jamaica or London, your glands and your kidneys don't know they're in a different place. They're in the same old sewage dump. None of you have been on holiday. Because your habits haven't changed. Going on holiday is fasting. That's a vacation, not just for you, for every single molecule in your body. And you know, when I go to eat later on to break my fast, every single molecule parties serious because then all of a sudden I go, go for a run, do some movement, train the. All these suggestions come, everything gets artistic.

Fei Wu: What are you gonna eat? I'm, I'm very curious, what do you have planned for your Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: fast? I usually break my fast with seven dates, a dates from Medina cause they're very powerful and the chunk of cucumber and then some warm lemon with honey in it. And then I'm done. And then I sleep. So then I make, I take Ash Ganda and Valerian. Some magnesium and CRI oil, so I can, I always like to have my brain when it's sleeping in that soup because it, it rejuvenates it. and I do that so that I can wake up without that, dragging myself out of the bed.

Fei Wu: And is that your whole meal just now, what you described? Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Yeah, that's what I'll do to break my fast.

Fei Wu: Oh, to Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: break it, okay. Yeah, because we, you know, you're not supposed to do, like, I couldn't do 48 hours if I want, but I don't wanna do the extremes because there's a level I don't wanna produce cortisol. And there's a level where my nervous system will start to get stressed, and now I'm defeating my objective. So before it starts to get stressed, I. Because you always have to give your body the intention that it's gonna get a break. But if you start being extreme, as soon as you start fasting, you are already in stress. Cause the body's going, that's not natural for me. It's too much. There's a point where it gets beyond. It's like people over cleanse now when you are cleansing, you have to start dumping toxins and that process of it coming out of your body, it's. You don't wanna cleanse to the point that you cause yourself stress. Cause now you're gonna start releasing cortisol, which is poisonous to the body. And our environment is predicated upon the production of protocol. I mean a cortisol. When you really understand what balance is, you realize you probably still are. You just think that you are a little bit calm right now until you really know what calm is. I can't afford it talking bad. I need direction some where it's yours. I've had mine and it's the only thing that I've been working toward and I built it from the floor. Y'all don't seem to help no more csr, the move. The Internet's what? Open Doores. Don't act like it and please don't treat me like I'm your side kid. I watch tv. I ready under what I mean to say is y'all ain't been about the dream even back. School. Y'all were really about the team to know

Fei Wu: It's true. Even. To say that the biggest, it sounds kind of funny work is one thing, but even say dealing with our moms as a daughter, dealing with any daughter, as I've spoken with, you know, my mom's currently, uh, living with me and she's behaving well. It's so called, and she had a lot of things that she didn't quite agree with me and I finally reached the. To say, you know what? I can never control what she does or says, and what I control is me. So the only thing I can do is whether she's praising me or she's criticizing me and I'm going to be me. So Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: there's a difficult process of, of when you start to learn a different life pattern because our parents, God bless them, right, have taken on protocols and ways of living that they call. That will pass down from people that are not very friendly to human beings. And they've taken it on cause that's all they knew. So they live in these exasperated states, but now we've traveled a lot more. So then we get to see comparisons with people that have different protocols that are healthier and happier than us. And then we have to make that choice of going, you know what? I'm dumping your shit. It doesn't mean I'm not your child anymore. I'm just dumping the protocol, which is not. I love you. I just don't like your patterns. What do you mean I'm stupid? Yeah. I'm your child and everything about me says that you were stupid. I'm sorry about that, but you had me to be better than you. That's why I'm called a new generation. I'm here to generate more energy. I'm supposed to be a better version of you. Don't be jealous of my youth and put your restrictions on me just because you've realized through. Your life has really been restricted in comparison with mine. Yes. Don't become an enemy to me. You're my parent. Don't be jealous of my freedom. I'm the escape pod from the crashing spaceship. When you were there praying, when you were younger, when your life is really shit, you went, I really hope it's better. It doesn't necessarily come where your life changes around, but you get, you split into a new human being and that human being comes out of your. And there's the answer to your prayer that you gets a better life. My daughter is, and I'm going to allow her to be what I prayed about when I was desperate, when I was a child, going, I wish life wasn't like this. And she's gonna be it. She's getting everything Johnny should have got. And that's why I survived those beatings that would've killed another. And some of them, there was some serious accidents that could have happened. I remember being drowned in a bath by my mother, which was proceeded with sitting in a freezing cold bath. Cause I remember speaking to my stepfather and we were walking around this park in Greenwich cause we had a blood test. You know, I got older and realized, you know, it was like I wasn't stupid. I'm like, I'm not your kid, man. . You know what I mean? Let's have a DNA. And you know, it wasn't, and then, then he was like really busted up. He goes, are you, are you in pain? You know, because now you know I'm not your dad. And I'm like, I'm really clear that we don't have the same genes. Cause you are a fat, racist, alcoholic. Right. So I'm really happy. I just feel sorry for the kids that are yours. Right. I get to escape this shit. . Right? No, but he was sitting there and I remember him sitting there and he was moving his knees like this when. Reminiscing on my childhood. And that physical action is what children do when they're stressed. And I was like, wow, the thoughts that you are about to spit outta your mouth are causing your body to react like this. So I kind of braced myself and he goes, I was re, I really felt, feel guilty that I couldn't protect you more. And I'm went, what do you mean? He goes, well, I would come from work and see the other kids. And I'm like, where's. And then your mother would turn and goes. He was, he was getting on my nerves and he wouldn't be quiet cause I'm creative. I was a create, I wanna explore. And of course my mother just wanted everybody to sit down and be still, especially me like a good slave, you know, sit, don't speak, behave, and then whipping you on behalf of the public. Don't embarrass me. That's like being afraid that the slave master won't like it. You know what I mean? So you, we subjugate our children, we see all over. I'm gonna whoop your ass. That's from slavery. You don't do that to your children. Where is he? He's in the bath. And then he described coming to the bathroom, sitting there like this blue, because she sat me in a freezing cold bath, and that's where I had to stay. You know what I mean? And that was her favorite trick. But you know, now I realize that I've studied that she just made my immune system strong. . But as a kid that that was given these protocols that say that this not supposed to happen to a child, those protocols made me go, this not supposed to happen to me and made it stressful. After a while, I started to accept it, but one particular time she was hitting me with a thing called a Hurley. It's like a hockey stick. Oh. And I just learned to roll. With it so that, so, because if I stayed still, it would hurt, you know? So I would just roll with it. So I realize now that I'm older, that I was getting concussed and never was taken to a doctor for that. Today you would take your kids to a doctor for that? I was sent to bed. I could have died in my sleep. Then she was like, had the idea of drowning me and um, I just remember she was carrying my little brother at the time, and I remember. Being out of the bath on the floor and her against the wall holding her stomach. And I ran out and she said that I just got the drink to dive, jump up in the air and kick her. And then I ran out on the street naked, naked. And I ran to a police station, ran in the door, will was in police station, and said, put me in the children's home because she always used to threaten me that I'm gonna put you in a home. So as a child, I look at this poetry. And this kid ran down the street naked, ran into a police station. You can imagine a poor sergeant sitting there in this little brown body rode into the place, put me in a children's home, . You know what I mean? And then I, then I was, I was like given something to wear and taken back to the home and then like my, them talking to my mother and then me thinking, I've got support now. You know what I mean? And being a little bit cock. You know what I mean? You can't hurt me anymore. And they were like talking to 'em. And then the policemen taking me into the other room and going, if she calls me again, you are gonna be in trouble. And I was like, huh, it's not supposed to work like that. Why am I being chastised? You're gonna be in trouble. And then as soon as she, as soon as they left, I remember sitting there in my little dressing gown and then she went, go and run another bath and smile. I just ran out the door and ran to a local park and slept there. And then I was found by two lovers that were in the park making out. And the girl would walk past and, and, and she was like, I heard them talking. And she goes, that's, that's a, that's a little boy. And then she was holding me. She was going, I'm gonna take you home with me. And I was going, yeah, I wanna go live at your house. And she was like that. And then the police came and she was like, they didn't come to me. And she was like, no. And they, they told the two people off cause they shouldn't have been in the park. Told 'em to go away and they took me home again. How old were you at the time? I was young, man. I was living in, in the warm lane at the time, and at that time I was at junior school, so I could have been about between six, seven. Something like that. I look at that kid and I'm going, ood the cold. I remember sleeping in, in, in, in like abandoned cars with some of the windows broken and keeping myself curled up and then, you know, periodically drop it off and then waking up cause of the cold and looking at the window and it was iced. And I'm like, you are man. You are tough. You know what I mean? I look at that kid and I'm like, you're tough. But you know, there's echoes of it now. Cause I can't stand the cold now. I can't, winter comes, I don't go out. I can't stand it unless it's snowing. If it's snowing, I'm good. But if it's that rain and windy, forget that you're getting me out the house. Forget

Fei Wu: it. Isn't it crazy that you look back to that 6, 7, 8 year old of yourself and thinking everything that you experience now in comparison in a way it's easier, it's more manageable, and I don't know, do you feel almost invincible knowing that you had lived through that? Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: I think when I was like in my early twenties and stuff, yeah, pretty much did. I don't know. I have a theory that I must, you know, testosterone is, is produced. It's primarily to hunt and fight. And I think if, if you are in a dangerous environment when you're young, you produce it a lot earlier than other males and you'll probably produce a lot more of it to, because nature has a way of balancing things out. So I remember being in the mos. With brothers that just came from Afghanistan and I'm a man and I felt like a boy next to them. Just even the way they, they gait or the way they stand is just their grounding is the bones are better. I always felt that all the men that are around me or boys that are around me were like girls in comparison. And then, you know, I got some wrong advice from older boys. and it says, you know, let's pray on the week. And it was easy. And then I found value in that cause I was patted on the back for taking people's stuff and, you know, I mean, intimidating people and talking to their women and in front of them and they can't do anything about it. And you know, I used all of these negative ways to readjust and to say, yeah, I'm, you know, I'm not vulnerable. I'm. But I was exasperating it because the subliminal of that is, the more I was addicted to that is the more I was compensating for something and the elephant in the room, which was vulnerability. So you're actually more secure when you don't do any of that and have no need to do any of that. And that's where, that's where I'm at now. People, it's young guys walk up to me because I trained and they're like, do you wanna spar with me? And I was like, Maybe by chance you can get that shot that says, oh, I made him wobble. Said I'd be a fool if I give you that opportunity. But I will overlook the way you move and try to give you some pointers in making your craft a little bit better. But you're not gonna fight with me. I don't. I have nothing to prove. I'm 52 years old. I've done it all. I've done what I, not all, but I've done what I need to do to be comfortable today. I've had mine and it's the only thing that I've been working toward and I built it from the floor. Y'all don't seem to help no more csr, the movement cuz the internet's what? Open door Act. Please don't treat me. Hey,

Fei Wu: it's Faye. I am back for a few words at the end of the. I hope you enjoy what you heard. You can visit us online@faceworld.com, where social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, also under Face World. To keep things simple, I personally review and respond to all the messages. Love to hear from you. Thank you. And lots of hugs. See you next week. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Even back in high school, y'all were really about the team to those who were, you know, I know. And your support means everything about to prove come from anywhere and become anything that you can take whatever you love and make it everything but with part is bigger than us. We made it everything, you know, it's because I wear my word like a wedding ring, sticking to my crave for honesty, up above everything. Cause I ain't been perfect, but at least I got a purpose and stars in my contact list. Piece we me conversations with the greatest. Can't wait to say I made it Shouts to those who say I helped them get through hard times. Do my favorites. Shouts to channels that blow me and the haters that can blow me. And shops at the bull world and system you won't seek control. Me, blacks that show me love and friends who love what we does, everyone who sees us hitting the top befores heroes act like, and please don't treat me like I'm your side kid. Cause I watch tv. I see how I miss and it's not easy, but still. Is screaming. I'm good. I'm, I'm, yeah. Good. My, I'm good. Im good. I'm good. I'm good. You're no hero so don't act like it and don't treat me like I'm your socket. Cause I watched tv. I see how life is and it's not easy still Right here.

Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Welcome to the Phase World podcast, engaging conversations that cross the boundaries between business, art, and the digital world. Ah, ah, it was a culture. Recovery and stimulants, and that's a sick animal. My right is to go to sleep happy and to wake up vibrant and confident that every possibility on exploring what life's about. Is mine. I don't have to pay rent for that. Tax for that, none of that. It's mine. Jz, I'll smoke a lot, but I get green. But Nob, I believe that there's billions being spent on making sure people are miserable in order for other people to feel. And a contrast to that to feel special like smiling is in exclusivity. You can only make it exclusive if everybody else is crying. I was given this intelligence and this strength for service, and only when I'm in service do I. My reality. See, I don't have any. I'm just here. What gives me a buzz is being surrounded with other healthy people that are here too. You can either choose to keep people afloat and be surrounded with little boats with people having a great time, or be the only yacht in the desert about all the brand that I sent you. You getting mad. I'm sitting back. I'm fucked up. I'm getting trash. Gotta go. I. The models that deformed human beings. That's what I'm at. War with those behaviors and protocols that have seated. Our behavior that we hang onto and call it culture that ruins the art, the flexibility and the fluidity of human beings. I'm at war with that word for like, no, shut up to them boys. They got like, just remember.

Fei Wu: Hello everyone. I can't believe I'm saying this, but welcome to episode 102 of the Face World Podcast. This is your host, Fay. Episode 100 was a breakthrough for us. Two and a half years into the making a hundred conversations later. We have learned a lot of lessons along the way. I cannot wait to share some of them with you in a mini episode Soon with this new milestone, we relaunched our brand and a new website. To help you more easily engage with Face World content, drop us a note on the blog or social. We would love to hear from you today. I am joined by Johnny Bang Riley Basin, Holland. Johnny is a transient poet, a voiceover artist, and a father every day. He works to find his natural vibrancy and vitality and supports others in finding their own. He's true to himself and to the people he connects with through his words. This episode does contain strong and explicit language, so please plan accordingly if you're around children or if you are at work. A headphone is recommended without further a. Please enjoy my conversation with Johnny Bang Riley, I'm so glad you brought up your childhood and origin stories is a really big part of who you are, clearly in this case. And you wrote, you know, all the cruelty shit. People did and were, I still make people cry when I write poems. And given the say that you are now today, what still makes you cry? What makes you emotional in particular? I cried Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: yesterday. I was trying to use language to tell my daughter I'm, I'm gonna cry now. I was trying to use language to express how much to my daughter. I love her and she doesn't deserve the words she deserves. The. So that's what happened. So when I'm trying to express love, I get frustrated with words. Love deserves to be expressed with tears.

Fei Wu: Oh, that's a, that's very special. How old is your daughter now? She looks very little on videos. She's four. Wow. She's only four. And you have more than one child Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: of. 14 kids. Wow. Yeah. Unfortunately, a lot of the, the part of about validating your manhood is producing children. I'm still making up for the, trying to be here for them now, and it's working because I couldn't, I'm, I'm offering so much more wealth to them now. Before then, I produced them, but I definitely wasn't ready to be a father. I had no wisdom. I was brute, I wasn't a child. Good human beings or a good country. How? As a child of a protocol that's based in brutality, that applauds brutality, there's a reason why Floyd Mayer and Conor McGregor are millionaires because we like brutality. There's a reason why we weren't just satisfied with boxing, with big gloves on stuff like. It was only a matter of time before we go, you know what? Smaller gloves and then elbows, and then strangulation, and then breaking limbs and you know, the type of injuries that people get in MMA we're desensitized to. If you saw pictures like that, when I was a kid of that amount of blood, the other day there was a kid called, no, I'm not gonna say his name. There was a fighter and he did a flying knee into this other guy's forehead and crushed his forehead like a circular. In the guy's cranium, is that cranium? I don't think you could do that to somebody's skull unless it was a hammer. And the only thing was discussed was what? On a magnificent blow. And then the O, then the guy who takes this selfie of, of himself for Instagram of the dent in his forehead with a smile. You know? That's where we're at. And I'm like, what is the difference between us now and when we were in diapers, who devalued us to that? Yeah, look, I've got a dent in my head. You know, you disfigured me. What would your mom think? My child walked in here and my daughter's obsessed with fighting. I don't think, it's not with violence, it's it, the movement of it. She likes the chess game, you know what I mean? But I'm never gonna send her into a sport that encourages head blows, especially when she's young and when she's older. I would. Why do you wanna get hit with your head flying around the place like that? Why, why do you, why would you wanna do that and risk that?

Fei Wu: I think it's a. In a way, I guess it's not unexpected that you, you really take care of your family as well as your friends and be that wisdom because you know when people are at the top, sometimes they don't think anything would happen to them in a way, you know, many people are guilty of, oh, I'm young, unhealthy, you know, death is optional and not even that is how we die. as well, when you Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: got, when you got a full tank of petrol, If you look at young people, they put their foot down and they race. Watch them. When the petrol gets low on the gauge, they drive more careful, right? Of course they're young, they've got their foot down, they think their petrol's gonna last forever. When you're young, all you do is think about life cuz that's what you are life. When you get older, you think about death cause you can feel the, it's hard daily petro the tank. So you start conserving. It may be the fact that I'm just getting old, that I'm mellow. It's not that I've chosen to be mellows, that I've got no choice, right? And I hate that. I always used to say, you know, you see these images of Buddha, that he's a big fat guy. And I always say, what choice does he have but to be peaceful? Who the fuck can he be nasty to? Yeah, we got no choice. I mean, is he really a good guy? If he was fit and had power, would he really be like that Gandy, you know, I wanna be really peaceful, fucking racist, but you know what I mean? I really want to be peaceful, but, well, you got no choice. You're a. But my answer to that is that, you know, people say you mellowed with age. They said, well, no. Cause I could still knock out a 25 year old. My body is not 52. Trust me, I can still victimize most men and I have more skills. Now I can get the job done a lot quicker. So this is the choice to be good. Trust me, this is a choice to be a good person because it's logical. It's logical and wouldn't I be a slave if I was still following the protocols of these motherfuckers, that that warped my behavior as an innocent child. I'd still be given over my power to those unseen people or pulling, still pulling my strings. All those cruel people, I'm gonna be like one of the them suckers on death row. Yeah. You know, because I was abused at school, I abused everybody else. Those people are still pulling your strings now. You're killing people in jail. Their people are still, fuck that. I'm sniping. That shit's gone. I will see them people tomorrow and say, I'm not doing life in prison because of you and I'm a happy person and it's got nothing to do with you. Why? I'm happy. Most of the people I went to school with look like a mess. Right. And you know what would happen? My worst enemies, I'd probably have to consult on being healthy because they don't deserve me to even be bitter. Why do I wanna carry that energy? I don't wanna carry that. I feel it coming up in me because I'm full of those old programs. I haven't rewired my brain fully yet. I mean, the real divide needs to be healthy and unhealthy. That's all that matters. Healthy and unhealthy. Keep all your things. I don't care about your things, but I want you to be happy cuz you all ain't happy. I can ask you, I can ask you kidneys and it would, you can smile as much as you want and talk all the shiny stuff on your face that says you're vibrant. You can do all that as much as you want, but your skin will tell me something else. Color of your toenails will tell me something. Stick your tongue out and let me have a look at your tongue. You're not happy. I know. And let me take care of that for you because once you start getting like that, then things will change. And when things change, you won't have any influence over little girls anymore. But the more I hate on you is the more you're gonna do that shit to get me back. I don't wanna hate on you. I don't wanna love you. I just wanna guide you towards loving yourself. I'm the Trojan Horse man. I'm in the Trojan, I'm in the horse. I wanna guide, glide my way into all of these people's lives and show them just little ways of just, you know, simple little reasons why you're behaving like assholes. Simple. There's no need for it. Trust me, you can keep all your stuff. Just be

Fei Wu: healthy. How would you fix them? How would you, what would you say to them? Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: First of all, you have. Get into a discussion and let them tell you what they think happiness is and then prove to them with facts that they're not so. So just say, move, get, go in a squat position and stand up and tell me you didn't feel any pain. But you gotta stay there for five minutes. Just see if you can stay there for five. Just squat down. Happy person. Let's just squat together. Let's do a simple thing that you were doing as a baby when you were playing all the time. And you're supposed to be new and improved and powerful now, right? So let's do that stuff you were doing when you were sitting in your diaper playing with your bricks. Just squat down without raising your heels off the floor. Now let's stay here for five minutes and see who the superpower. Right. You might manage five minutes. You might mask a little bit of pain. Now let's stand up fluently with grace. It probably won't even be able to get outta the position. And once we do that, and I go, Zach, I'm not arguing with you. You tell me now. Okay? And let's not eat for a day. And let's see if you can hold your super self together. See if you're not cranky. See if you can still be int. See if you don't make any spelling mistakes, see if you can hold your emotions together. Cause if your food and your luxury and your money is doing all that for you, you should be able to not eat. Because isn't that the meaning of being, having nutrients in your body that when you don't eat, you don't give a fuck? I've got a friend called Bruce Leader. I mean, I've seen a documentary on Dore and Yates. They should never have done a documentary on Dore and Yates. They should have done it on this guy called Bruce Leader. Because this kid called Bruce Leader was completely natural and had a better anatomy imbalance than do yz. Completely natural has become second. Never won a bodybuilding. Competition became second. I think he won a couple of minor ones, but some of the bigger ones, he's become second in his work, in his weight class. Everybody was on steroids. He was. He was. He was completely natural. And if you see this guy's physique, He lives in Australia and he's, he's a guy that, that, um, really couldn't spell right. No disrespect to him. You know what I mean? Happened to a lot of us because we had other issues when we were at school, and there is a woman, I don't don't remember her name, but she'd done an experiment about racism, a white lady, and she'd been doing it since Martin Luther King days. She basically used the same. In a model form that society uses against people of color. But what she did, she said, everybody with blue eyes and she put colors around their neck, and then she, she put them in a separate room and then she said, everybody with brown eyes, now you got to behave towards them in this manner, which is what black people go through. And they brought the people with blue eyes in the room and everybody behaved towards them in that way, ignored them, spoke over them, ignored them, and for about 20 minutes, and they were all profess. and then she gave them simple tasks to do and they made spelling mistakes and they would, the brains didn't function. What, what do you think happened to you after 400 years? That's why I always say that any person of color, anybody from that disenfranchised background. Cause you know, they say that Irish people were also indentured slaves or whatever, but the children weren't born into slavery and when they finished their contracts, they. Given their freedom. It's not, you can't compare. Black people's children were born into slavery. They were owned. Most of the medical research that was done on gynecology and whatever were done was done on human beings because they just, you know, you, you think you own a rabbit, so you can experiment on it. And this is facts and like doing brain research and opening up with this hook, implement, opening up the cranium of slave children and using. Black children for crocodile bait human beings. 20 minutes you're making spending mistakes. But about 400 years of that shit, and still today, you can't go to school. And if you walk in the wrong way or dressed the wrong way, you may get shot by a police officer. You've got to school and do your studies with that. And always say that if a kid comes out with their diploma or even a master. Living in those environments with that, with, with those hippie health food stores going fuck off, you can't afford it. And still coming out with a master's degree. With all of that, the weight of that amount of study that you have to do to retain and that aspirated brain with all that stress, these people, that's natural zen. They must have natural z. With these, like in answering your question, I've been off in a tangent as I do, but you know, in answering your question, I would question, your lifestyle has made you anatomy not be able to move and they may just be smiley about it and go, why? Why? I don't need to. I go in my show for driven car, I've got a personal trainer. What's the function of your body? I don't need to function. I walk around and turn around in the mirror, look at my fault, bum selfie even day, and I'm like, yeah, and you sound like the pillar of happiness. They may throw me out of the room. They can't keep me out of their head. Uh, yeah. Men, the world needs better laws. Maybe them will be better raw. I'm hoping that it comes, but it never does. I just wanna beat them, man. My dad never was my music. It's all soul. Just got new Bris and they all go. So my God, beef with the propo, they don't like my style. No, no note. I don't really give a damn. Deering switch gears and the fans just keep cheering. No interceptions, no interfering. So I'm on a, a team. No, at cheering. I'm headed for the stage. Now. They clearing all the bad women in the building, man. There's bad women in the building. Let's get to started. This one's on me. Let's go downtown tonight. One shot, two shots. I don't really know if I'm counting right. We drake it down so we can live it up. Why? Cause you never know with tomorrow this life. And I'm thankful even when they say I'm. Got, ain't nobody shut it down the way. I'm killing it when

Fei Wu: people are wealthy. What? You know, I, I happen also to know a number of people who are incredibly wealthy and I look at their children and all of them have issues because they assume the wealth will always be there. The support network will always be there. Everything they. Always be there and it's not true. And I think, you know, happiness and it's based on sometimes is the ability to survive under any circumstance. Yep. They know they don't have that. They know if they called it not even the Uber, they don't have, even if you remove one single element, a chef, a personal trainer, you've removed one thing out of their lives that the majority of the world don't have any of. I think Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: they'll. You know, they fall to pieces. Yeah. And it's a shame they don't need to do that. Like I said, I'm not, sometimes, you know, I forget, and I, and I use my language wrong, and it comes across like I don't like the people. I like people. I see people, everybody in diapers. A pedophile does the most heinous act on the planet He was, or she was a child to. Is a set of ideas and interactions that they've been going through that led them to that action. I hate the models that deformed human beings. That's what I'm at. War with those behaviors and protocols that have seeped into our behavior that we hang onto and call it culture that ruins these cookie cutters that ruin. The art, the flexibility and the fluidity of human beings. I'm at war with that now. First of all, I wanna destroy its model and then I wanna find it. And that's the only time I will let my violence go. Cause it won't survive. But until then, I'll kill its model, it's poetry, I'll find it, and I wanna kill it. And it's running around in people's. And as long as that's only got the airwaves, it has that independent, you know, it's, it's controlling. All I can do is talk in the other ear and create the argument and walk away and trust that the heart and the immune system goes, that's the model we've been waiting for. And then start the, the conflict. Because right now they're afraid of the, of the griots, the poets, so to speak. They have these, I have a beautiful cadence with my voice that you can't keep out of your head. I know the sound of my voice that I was born with. I was able to use my voice alone and convince somebody to give me everything they have when I was younger. Not women, not old women. I wasn't doing all that bullshit. Other combative males, usually drug dealer. Would take their shit and throw their drugs away. But I took their money and I was able to just talk to them and tell them that their life would end and convince them of that with my voice. And on the other part, when I wanted to have a female, I was able to make her talk, just talk, and she would slide her nickers off. So I know it's a gift now that's voice sound that I've got that people just. You have a beautiful sounding voice, and the way you cuddle words and deliver them is my gift. My, my school is doing the voiceovers. You know what I mean? I've got like these billion dollar companies going, please put your voice on our product, otherwise we won't be able to pay our bills. I understand why advertising likes me. I don't advertise. I would never, ever give my talent for alcohol or bullshit food, even for clothing. People need clothes. Most people exaggerate their product and there's something in, in my voice that they want to use because I sound sincere. I sound real. And that's where I went to school. And when I saw these people falling all over themselves, I've grown men when I'm in the vocal booth jumping up and down in the room because I've nailed their commercial. Cause they're like, we're gonna get paid. I get it. Because these people have a global. And they've just shown me that I've got a global voice, but they, nobody owns me. Nobody. You can't control me. So I can use this voice for who I want, and now I'm using it for the poor people, and that's every human being on the planet who is not living in the rainforest and knows that leaf does this for my kidneys. That one does that for my heart. Look at the absurdity of. We don't know how to sequence our food, when to take it with what? To take it. So you eat a burger, right? And then you drink a cold drink. You know what you've just done to the facts. You've turned them into rubber in your gut. Ever seen oils or whatever drop into cold water? What happens to them? You just pour this cold drink on top of that. And then what happens is you eat meat and then you have afterwards you go, oh, I'm gonna have a dessert, and you have fruit. Fruit ferments. So now it's sitting on top of the meat fermenting. Now it's fermented the meat. So your whole food, because of the order that you edit in, is now poisoning your anatomy, absolutely poisoning it. If you were to eaten the fruit first, you'd have prepared your stomach for the meat or whatever, or the fat that you are eating.

Fei Wu: Are you a vegetarian by? No, I'm not uhhuh. You do eat meat, but just the order and sort of how you structure. I'm, I'm, Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: I'm falling outta love with it, to tell you the truth, because of, you know, because of how, it just feels like concrete in my guts. You know, I love, I like, I like to flow, so I, so I'm really in love with a fruit, almost Fruitarian diet mixed with herb. So I get my minerals and stuff from the meringue and, and, and the herbs and stuff like that. And I don't, I think also the same thing I feel about the meat in my gut. I feel the same way about vegetables. They're just hard to digest. I don't have pop belly like a gorilla or mile long intestines like a cow to a properly process that stuff. Juicing it, I think is better for you. Cause then it's semi digested by the.

Fei Wu: I'm so glad I asked that question because you're given how much, considering how much you've gone through, you've aged very well and you know, once you're into fitness, I'm very into Marsha. I've been practicing TaeKwonDo Kung fu for, uh, 15, 16 years of my life, and. Yeah, it's a, I'm a, I'm a black belt and I , I know it's about, people always say, what does that mean? And uh, people who don't do Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: my stay, stay a white belt, you'll keep improving. Exactly.

Fei Wu: So I think that's how I feel. You know, when I started, when I was much younger, 18, 19, getting a new belt was all I wanted, but that changed. Now it's like, well, was the point for me to go for a third degree if. Happy with who I am, what I'm still learning. You know, I'm not an eight year old. I don't need a indication or certificate to tell me who I am. And I know you're a street fighter too. So, which is, you know, the real, that's why I'm trying to, I Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: don't fight. I don't fight anymore. I move. If somebody comes to me and says to me their child wants to fight, cause you need to take that out of the child's vocabulary, you don't want 'em to even, even discuss what that word. Leave them with love, play, fight. Forget that energy move. When somebody wants to fight you, there's a difference. Let other people fight. You move, let them fight. We don't fight. I move. That's a marginalized. People that fight end up in a fight. Their technique's. If you end up in a fight, you're in a controlled situation where you can't move properly or there's something wrong with your technique, you should never be fighting. Fighting is when you're feeling desperate and you're, you are threatened. I move. Even if you are hitting me, I still regard it as movement. I used to fight.

Fei Wu: You had to in Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: a way, right? Sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I did it for the check because Yeah, I did. It had to is the right word. I had to because. Messed up emotionally and needed these cheap, accessible things to validate myself and form some sort of sense of strength and personality and be a male. I love what

Fei Wu: you said about everybody can start a fight, but how many people can actually finish it? , Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: 99% of them can, right. 99% of them, can't they who leaves their house? You have the intention, allows you to go to distance. Who leaves their ass and goes, if one of my eyeballs pops out and he kicks my teeth down my throat and I feel I've got a broken jaw after that, I'm gonna do this and this and this. Who? You know what I mean? Who even thinks about that? Me, I think about that. Cause that's happened to me. So don't fight me cause I'm willing to go there. Please don't fight me or anybody like. Now, and you're lucky that I've got these. There are people that like me, that don't have the beware the dog sign on their face. Be careful. I'm in the gyms with them every day and they're, they're wonderful, fresh faced, quiet, gentle boys who are all in the team and say, oh, their trainer, who would tear you a new asshole?

Fei Wu: So, You know what I mean? Don't underestimate people. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: I love it. Set the bar on my mother backing down. That never does it. Plus, so buzz, you got one? I got dozen. If she's taking, I hope she got a cousin cuz she's had it in the Arizona landscape. I better do the things in the man can. I'm a chef and that dude's a pancake. We can keep it a s just like a handshake. Shit. Life ain't free but a right. See what the world brings you with a God like me, he could die Pat first baby. I'm an og. It'll be all good. Just fly with me. This one's on me. Let's go downtown tonight. One shot, two shots. I don't really know if I'm counting right. We it down so we can live it up. Why? Cause, you know, brings in life and I'm thankful even when they say I'm crazy. You would live this live, this live. That's live this live. So let's try to everything that we've been through. What's.

Fei Wu: It's so true. I teach in my tech on those school. Yeah. The little girls. I mean, there are a couple of girls, a couple Indian girls and a couple of other white girls just so they're, I mean, the black girls are the toughest, but they're just a couple of, from every. Every group. It just, they're phenomenal. And I love, during sparring, you call it one of the girls' name and all the boys are starting to look down and say, not me. And then somebody, a boy gets called out and he's like, oh, he's so upset Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: what you just said. Let's discuss that where you said, black girls, white girls. How about we changed that? Yeah, it's stranger, black girl, white girl. Nationality.

Fei Wu: Nationality. Yeah, Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: true. But let's, what if we change that to black body, white body, Uhhuh, brown body. Yellow body. Mm-hmm. . But all girls.

Fei Wu: All girls. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Not specific types of girls, just types of bodies. It's not like people hate black people. They hate black bodies. There's a difference. They hate black bodies. Now we can discuss. Once you start going people, that argument is a bottomless pit. There's a lot of con like conjecture. I don't like him because I think he's gonna be like this, and I think he's gonna be like that. That's, that's your imagination. You know nothing about this person. What you don't like is the body, that shade of body. Let's discuss why you don't like. Okay, that, that might be valid, blah, blah. Now I'm gonna give you some information about why that body is like that and why that body being like that is actually beneficial to you. Do you know why? Because they're your grandparents and if they didn't have that body, you wouldn't fucking be here.

Fei Wu: Racism is something that never made sense to me. You know, growing up, I grew up in Beijing, China and where the majority of the population are a hundred percent Chinese. And then I came here when I was just a teenager, and to me there was, we were ingrained the part of the culture. America are filled with immigrants. And I must say that when I got here, Was very different cuz people were very accepting. You know, I think some of my friends who went to study, including there were a lot of Chinese people who went to a study in England. Um, some chose to study in France and Germany. I think their experiences were quite different than mine, whereas people don't, people. Who are from those countries, those bodies feel like they, they've belonged there for a very long time. Versus, you know, in the US at least where I'm, where I'm living right now in Massachusetts, you know, New York, this area, to be quite honest, I really have not experienced much of racism, uh, at all. , but with one scenario when I was at work and I was nasty, something I'll never forget, but just that one time. Um, but in general it just, it doesn't make sense to me, you know, in the country like this. I don't think it should exist anywhere, you know? But at the same time, I feel like I'm rejecting that idea and therefore I find it that it's hard to Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: process. What is racism? I mean, an is or an is is a specialist, right? An is like a scientist. , right? So you're specializing in race. Specializing in race doesn't hurt anybody. It's the prejudice that hurts people. Being an expert in your, in your particular race is not a problem. I know this is how I operate race. What the fuck is that? Even, you know, there's one race, humans. See, this is where we get fucked up using their, their word magic, because it doesn't make any sense. Racism doesn't make any sense to me. If I say it, I'm making it real. It's not real. And this is what, this is what I need to learn to fight. I don't need to take on these terms. There are people with prejudged ideas, so I'm not gonna talk from the about racism. That's their. I'm gonna talk about and keep it real open. There are nervous systems that have prejudged negative ideas about other bodies that don't look like this. And they're usually all based on on fear. Now my question is, why are you afraid? Why are you afraid you are gonna starve if you let that person eat the same quality of food as. Why are you afraid of the even playing field? Why do you think even if that person is more powerful than you at a particular thing, that it's not gonna be anything more than, I can climb this tree, so I'll get your coconuts. Do you know what I mean? Why do you think that you're gonna go climb the tree and I'm gonna kick them all? Why do you, why are you thinking like that? You don't know? Why do you think if I end up having more talent than you at helping your children have a future, which means that my ideas you are gonna have to abide by for a while because I've discovered something. Because I've taken more time in discovering this thing than you, that I'm gonna keep it to me and only benefit my kids. And star of yours, what makes you think that I'm gonna do that to. Other than the fact you got three fingers pointing back cuz your index fingers pointing towards me because you think I'm like you. I'm not made of the same stuff as you. I'm not particular to anybody. Don't care what color it is. It's beneficial for all of us that all of us are healthy and not afraid, and that starts. Sorting out the sewage system. So the nervous system is not on some fight or flee shit, I don't think I should be shot in the head for that. I know a lot of people are gonna lose money if we're happy. It's not my intent to attack anybody's pocket. You're all creative. Find something, some, some other way to make money, but you know, I know it's all about copyright. You know, if I'm telling you just all you need to do is eat some fruit and in particular herbs that you know, eat Dandy Lion. , you know, and, and, and, and stuff like that to let your glands start working better again. You can't copyright that, so you can't corner the market.

Fei Wu: Mm-hmm. , and then just, it's true. No, I, I love. talking about food and health because you know, I think many of us, unfortunately, people even in our twenties and thirties, they just got all this junk in the system and they care. It doesn't matter how beautiful their bodies might look. Yes. You know, I even question some of those people with perfect bodies and Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Yeah. But the fact that, the fact that they have to keep going and maintaining it because as soon as they, as soon as they stop, it wants to tell the truth. Everything goes like this. My abs are gone after a.

Fei Wu: Yeah, how did that happen? How much do you, how much information do you consume and where do you consume them? I, you seem to know a lot about a lot of things that, Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: yeah. I don't know. Somebody said to me the other day that if we speak to you about a subject you seem, you would come across like that's all you've ever studied, like you're a master of that. and then you change the subject and ask you about another subject, and you know about that subject as much as the last one we asked you about. I think looking for answers was the re was the reason why I consumed so much stuff. But sometimes I'm known, I, I'm, I can sit in front of the internet probably at least about 15 hours a day, consuming information. And I can watch a lecture for four hours, no sweat, you know, and I can just sit and watch. And I, and I have a way of just like dissecting the bullshit, but really it's all really simple. But you know, the only thing that bugs me is that everybody's up to something. That's

Fei Wu: so beautiful. You're curious. You're not trying to limit what you consume to just a specific category or you follow a specific person, but you sort of open up your mind and starting with what I think not only the most basic, but also the most important, which is. Your body, your mind. And without that, there's nothing you can do. I mean, there's nothing you can do or even any decisions you can make at a hospital, so, which we talked about earlier. Yeah, it's very true. I'm just so happy to hear you talk because rarely you come across. People you've known sometime your entire life and you sit there and thinking, please, just for once, just tell the truth. Yeah. Just tell me how you actually feel. Yeah. And we have never met in person and all I've ever consumed so far are your poetry, your videos, and uh, you just come across as super transparent. Like, you know, almost like a baby. You look at the content and you know, it's pure, you know, because Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid what you think about what I think, so I don't need to edit myself or give you what I think you are. Like, I couldn't give a shit. I'm not, if you don't like me, you must be a, what am I doing wrong to anybody? I just wanna drink some clean water, eat some fruit, and move.

Fei Wu: I feel so grateful, uh, for what you're doing for the people around you and for people beyond, and especially people in need. Um, so thank you so much, Johnny. I will, I'll be in touch. All right. Peace. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Peace. Byes yours. I've had mine and it's the only thing that I've been working toward and I built it from the floor. Y'all don't seem to help no more csr, the movement cuz The internet's what? Open door.

Fei Wu: Hi there. It's me. I want to thank you very much for listening to this episode, and I hope you were able to learn a few. If you enjoy what you heard, it'll be hugely helpful. If you could subscribe to the Face World Podcast, it literally takes seconds. If you're on your mobile phone, just search for a Face World Podcast. In the podcast app on iPhone or an Android app, such as. Podcast addict and click subscribe. All new episodes will be delivered to you automatically. Thanks so much for your support. Johnny B.A.N.G. Reilly: Support means everything that to prove come from anywhere and become anything that you can. Take whatever you love and make it everything but with part is bigger than us. We made it everything, you know. It's because I wear my word like a wedding ring, sticking to my crave. Put honesty up above everything. Cause I ain't been perfect, but at least I got a purpose and stars in my contact list. Piece and we, me conversations with the greatest. Can't wait to say I made it. Shouts to those who say I helped them get through hard times. Do my favorites. Shops to channels that upload me and the haters that can blow me. And shops at the bull world and system you won't seek control. Me, blacks that show me love and friends who love what we does. Everyone who sees us hitting the top before heroes, don't act like it. Please don't treat me like I'm your side kid. Cause I watch tv, I see how I miss and it's not easy, but still. I'm screaming. I'm, I'm, I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. I good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. You know, hero, so don't act like it. And please don't treat me like I'm your socket. I watched tv. I see how life is, and it's not easy still right here.