0:00 [Music] all right this is just something that I personally want to know because you had mentioned it and every time you kind of say something about it we don't really get to talk about what it is what the hell is the peacemakers again oh oh my goodness that's the funniest thing ever so peacemakers is this like little crew that we made up um back when I this is my fifth year in high school so as a super senior no it was called peacekeepers Peacemaker Peacemaker okay and how I know is because all of us changed our aim screen names to PM space whatever it's official we all changed it wait who was in it uh it was me Mike
0:52 Chris um this guy named young another Chris Derek Chris's little brother Brian you that's a gang you have a gang dude maybe a few others this was during a time when there were real gangs though and there were other clubs yeah so this was like in the sgv um I was getting out of like just any of that weird underworld life so whether gangs or Raves or drugs or whatever and then this was probably the tail end of gangs um but there's still also like just random like uh you know in the sgv they almost have like these high school type frats that you would what Social Clubs you know um so it's like during that era and we created this crew so that we can do like good for the community so one of the things that we did would be like we uh had barbecues
1:42 and we would send Flyers out get people to come and just hang out and pretty much try to get the people that were like don't have friends playing Magic cards behind the bleachers to get them to come and join and wow this guy I've never played so that's what we're trying to do but what it ended up being is just a bunch of people like smoking cigarettes at the park um oh ████ that's ████ Lou and then and then um and then also what we try to do is try to do things uh for justice sounds hot over there so if there's like justice yeah so if people were like so you're like Heroes like if we go to parties and if they they if we go to parties and like let's say uh and we tested someone so for example let's say I push Nick into
2:33 Anthony Anthony gives Nick a bad reaction Nick will go ████ him up and Nick is The Peacemaker oh you're you would start fights the funny thing is when I met them and they told me about this when they told me about this like all right so we go into parties right and if you know sometimes you bump into someone and then they turn around and they're like oh my bad and you go my bad and then they're like that's cool but then if they turn around they're like ████ you and they try to be all tough then that gives us the okay to ████ them up and then all like you guys just want an excuse to fight we made sure everyone was but we were making sure everyone was cool yeah it's like it's like it's like Dexter right it's like it's okay to ████ torture and be a psychopath if they're a bad guy I think that's what they did is they Justified fighting cuz they still had that itch to fight but they're like we're not going to do it for no reason we're going to do it for
3:24 Jus so we did we went to a lot of frat Pary wait when you came up with this idea though was it like in a serious like yeah they were dead serious was your idea it wasn't I don't forgot whose idea was but you know when you're so oblivious to your own ████ that you what you thinking what you think you're doing is good and oh that's a great idea this is how we're going to like sift through the people that are ████ up and the people that are cool hey but in high school though like that is like one of the worst ████ things you can do is you bump to somebody hey you want a ████ scrap like those guys are ████ pieces of ████ that's true yeah these guys live by a Cod and you're just trying to like weed out you're trying to fight and then also to prepare so that we're good at it uh Thursdays on Hershey Avenue in front of Mark Keele we ended up starting like this fight club so we would always we would have your skills we would have like three to like five fights every single Thursday to practice
4:15 their fighting this yeah and then I think they eventually found an MMA gym which I joined and how we joined was me and my best friend that had this yeah uh this is when the UFC is early on right cuz we graduated uh in 2003 so this is like super early on we actually went to every single Mar martial art gym in the sgv that we knew like monre parks and Gabriel alhamra and we would go hey can we fight your black belt if they beat us we'll train here and most oh we don't do that we don't do whatever pretty sick test though we actually would go there and CH such a Hong Kong action film and until the place that me and Joe trained at we went there he goes you don't even have to fight one of my black belts and he goes I'll show you one of our belt tests and then he played uh Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting so he played the belt test and it's a and then it was
5:06 like one of the craziest things we ever seen cuz it's like straight up full contact it's like full contact MMA and then he goes um and if you don't want to um we have this guy right here he's a brown at the time he goes you can fight him anytime and then we're like oh dude let's sign up this is the right place oh that's tight yeah that's that's how we end up finding that gym did you did you guys like walk in ████ take their sign and like ████ break that ████ peacemakers peacemakers man G very very you part of that gym for that one I think I only trained it for like maybe a year I think dude I saw a video of this guy's belt test and he crazy right he grabbed his guy by his head knees him in the face and just punches the ████ out of him that that was ride by the way I know he he mugged somebody is that allowed but there was like a 50 lb difference at the time too but that's how they got that just 50 lb which way that's how we got down every
5:58 day in there yeah that the only difference was for that test we had head gear and we did hit head shots but they're beating the ████ of but yeah every day we did I mean every day we did that and then on Fridays yeah we would put the ████ mask with the plastic thing on and it would go 100% did the guy I thought that was normal did the master at that place did he know that like oh for the rest of the week we're going to go to parties and just make sure fights don't happen no but what he did say he was like Hey if you guys ever have to throw down like I don't want you guys fighting at parties just bring it here but he said no vietamese but he said no vietamese cuz he's like vietamese will come back and shoot you oh but he but he was so he was he said everyone else Chinese but no vietamese Japanese Japanese guy oh ████ yeah but he was super cool he was like yeah if you guys ever have to throw down don't fight on the streets just bring it here the funny thing is he's like so not your
6:48 typical idea of a martial artist in the sense of like you must always be peaceful he'll say ████ like all right if there's a fight walk the other way and then he'll come to to class the next St talk about how he ████ up a cop or how he ████ up these guys that were messing with his dad cuz his dad owned the bar in L Tokyo there's these two like big six-foot guys that were like just trying to steal all of his cans and like and I think his dad like keeps it for the recycle guy oh and then they were like fighting over it and he just came in and ████ did a jump boom punch to the face and he said he punched the dude so hard that his fist went in his mouth yeah went it went into his mouth and when he pulled his hand out all the teeth fell out he had a lawsuit with one of the Cities cuz he was just hanging out at a bar some guy picked a fight with them so he ████ his ass up
7:38 and and then when he got back up from the ground the guy pulled out a badge and he arrested him oh yeah so he uh this is like old school MMA like he would kick through Louisville Sluggers you know the baseball bat yeah this is like this is like old school style damn this is like 2003 like if you're doing MMA back then and you have a gym with students like that you were ████ pretty hardcore I thought that was normal why why is it I'll show you the video that's like literally every day and he would yeah he would kick um he kick through Louisville Sluggers he's like at home what I want you to do is after you finish drinking a Corona whatever I want you to whack your shins with the glass bottle that's how you're going to get get them stronger he's a crazy ████ you know what he what he taught us like oh when you go to competitions like I he was um he used to do this thing called was it saaki challenge challenge so it's like a full contact with um throws it's Japanese
8:31 kickboxing and then um he would psych himself out and then he goes every opponent I would say oh he graped my sister now I have to kill this guy so his head is just like okay that's how you get ready for a competition it's like you got to go in there and you got to murder this dude and I'm like hly that does help though do help he's like method fighting that that's but he has a really good fight score I think it was like only two losses and like 50 wins or something what happened what happened to that guy he was a saaki challenge champion so that was kind of like pre UFC pre- Pride it was uh like full contact kickboxing rules with throws so you can throw you can shoot you can dump them but then the fight will stop and then the ref will stand you back up yeah no grappling yeah they actually they they actually brought it back recently Zak and they I think they had a Taekwondo guy fight a MMA Brazilian
9:22 juicy guy and they're on an elevated stage he double legs him all the way off the stage and it's like a ████ like 10 like a 5 foot drop he guy like broke his arm was pretty our Sensei was that was like the league that he fought in coming up R Sensei has a um full contact background full contact karate background oh okay and those guys go hard those are they're hardcore yeah super hardcore but what happened to him I heard now I think he sells cars at Honda shut up no way no way that's the last thing that I heard yeah well dude his gym was so hardcore I think his gym was a ████ car it was hard for him to keep a lot of students cuz the guys that would stick around you literally have to be ████ hard like there's no way and then but he would produce Fighters though there were guys that went to King
10:13 of the cage they would got like every single kickboxing match our top students went to they always won so like he he produced some Fighters yeah another another fighter that was stopped by all the time rip cuz he passed away his guy named Joe kamacho like he he found out about this guy striking guy's really good at striking so he would Joe kamach is like a legit Legend in this area in this area yeah like one of the ogs be CRA so he he came down he would train with us all the time Jo kamano bro that what never happened to like you didn't need to do peacemakers anymore everything was just fine out in the area um so what ended up happening I remember we just stopped part like going to parties well I was never a part of that dumbass group I just thought it was hilarious I so funny no but mean like I'm like if we're going to fight let's go I don't need a reason to fight but I
11:03 was also like man I don't want to do what you guys are doing I just want to like focus on school and sell drugs Joe's the levelheaded one yeah he'll make peace his own way I think I think it was like we were all pumped up too like we got all these skills n let's ████ use them oh yeah when you're at the age that's all you want to ████ do yeah what an interesting group you did that's so funny yeah it's but it's funny from the outside cuz then it's like it's during that you know that era so if we rolled up somewhere everyone has ████ loud exhaust it's like and everyone gets out smoke cigarettes and it's like we're trying to be this role model group but it doesn't feel very role mod and then we like in every single like message we had we had like a little bible verse at the end try to like spread the good word of God this was a Christian group peacemakers is
11:54 based off of a Bible verse something something like blessed are the peacemakers it's like an actual Bible verse that's that's where peakers came from got it oh wow I was like damn well I don't know how down you guys are but one time there was a bar fight because I had an issue and they just joined in with me and I was like these guys are good they're making peace make the they're literally they heard my story and they felt bad for me because I got my car bashed and all this stuff so they said you know what if I see them I'm joining you and then they actually stuck to what they said guys a lot of guys would say that they're like oh man if we see them and then what they'll do is like oh man my mom's calling me I got to go these guys would be like hey I saw them in the I saw them at the bar I saw them there and I'm like oo and they're
12:44 like all right let's go yeah man man sounds like nothing but trouble maybe they're still out there somewhere keeping the peace
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