Gina Carano
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Life is long and weird, and the longer it is, the weirder it gets. But even by that unchanging standard, Gina Carano has had a pretty remarkable life packed into a relatively short amount of time. In 2006, she began as a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Within a few years, she was starring in big Hollywood films like Fast and Furious. And then, not that long ago, she got one of the biggest roles of her career she was on a disney show called The Mandalorian. In case you didn t see it, here s a clip from that episode. And we re honored to have her join us on set! Thank you so much for being on set, Gina! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Credits: The theme of this episode is Come Alone by Suneaters, courtesy of Pond5 Remake by Pond5 Films. The album art for this episode was done by and the music for the music used is by ? & the beat of this song is by . This episode was written and produced by , and -- The title of the song is The Phantom Menace by Stellium by Ms. -- the riff? "The Dark Lord" is out on in the title sequence? -- "The Last Chance" by Sullen (feat ? "The Good Lady" by "Let's talk about it?" -- "the Good Lord" by the Good Lord?" -- "the Bad Lord" -- "That's a chance to help you make it out of it? "A Good thing" by "The Bad Guy" -- the Bad Lord? ? -- "I'm not going to let you know that it's not good enough? -- "Let me help you know it's better than that? " -- "that's a good thing?" -- I'm not gonna let you help you help me know that you can help you do that? -- That's not gonna be better than this? -- I'll say that that's not a good chance, let you say that you'll let me say that I'll do that right, let not let me do that, right not let that say that s not that chance, right let not that let that not let you think that that'll let that chance not that that let ...
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life is long and weird and the longer it is the weirder it gets you may have noticed that but
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even by that unchanging standard gina carano has had a pretty remarkable life packed into a
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relatively short amount of time so in 2006 she began as a professional mixed martial arts fighter
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within a few years she was starring in big hollywood films like fast and furious then in 2019
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not that long ago she got one of the biggest roles for career she was on a disney show called the
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mandalorian in case you didn't see it here she is stay back dropper easy drop your weapon you're
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gonna wish you never left alderaan i saw your planet destroyed i was on the death star which one
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you think you're funny do you know how many millions were killed on those bases
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drop your blaster as the galaxy cheered last chance destroying your planet was a small price to pay
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so back in 2019 when you worked at disney the disney corporation you could expect a long and
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pretty stable career it's a huge company lots of things you could keep doing there at a pretty good
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salary and the only cost would be you have to follow the rules disney at the time was getting
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increasingly political and the people who worked there were expected to go along with this so don't
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say anything and you'll be absolutely fine but for some reason she could not follow that rule
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and so she went on twitter and pushed back on some of the things that disney was pushing she questioned
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the motives of black lives matter if it's so great why isn't helping black people
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she asked about the 2020 election was it really fair and then
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she suggested that maybe vax mandates were not a good idea so what do you think happened well disney
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fired her what happened next to gina carano it's an even more interesting story than the first part
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of her life uh and so we're honored to have her join us on set now gina thanks so much thank you
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tucker it's so good to see it's great to see you so last we spoke and i don't know because both of
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our lives have taken lots of turns since then yeah i can't remember how long it's been um but you were
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just kind of emerging from the chaos of getting fired for things that in a normal country would not
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cause you to be fired um like refusing to put in a pretty funny way your your pronouns in your email
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and they fired you so what happened now like what are the twists that your life has taken since
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because i think it tells us a lot well we um i went to the daily wire uh after the cancellation
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um daily wire in nashville yes and why'd you go there what was your expectation um because ben
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shapiro had given me the opportunity to you know um kind of try to uncancel me yes hey we'll do a
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movie with you come on out and um let's just do a movie and try to get you know be uncanceled yes and
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so i went out to nashville thinking that we were gonna shoot a movie there we didn't shoot it
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there we ended up shooting up in montana pray montana um what a great town though yeah oh yeah
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i love montana yeah um and so we we shot this two million dollar western movie during like you know
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the time where sag after was starting to um mandate the vaccines and covid tests and masks and um you
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know i just said to the daily wire gave me the op you know the option you know we can either do a
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union movie or we can do a non-union movie um what would be the difference the difference would be
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well the difference would be we would have to basically um hire more vaccinated people
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on the union movie just in case they did mandate it which they ended up mandating it
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um which is obviously everything i was standing against and so that wasn't an option for me
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but it was an option for the daily wire um it it was one of their options yes yeah and so then their
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second option was well for half the money so went from four million dollar um you know exciting serial
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killer movie to a two million dollar um non-union movie where that would have given you know so many
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more people that were struggling at the time for not taking the vax for not wanting to apply by the
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covid restrictions and so the daily wire did put that on my you know my shoulders and said you know
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this is your decision this is your movie um and i chose to go up and shoot the two million dollar
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western which was called terror on the prairie so half the budget but you felt that it was important
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as a matter of principle not to participate in a vax mandate yeah i wasn't going to do that i mean
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you know disney uh didn't uh i mean i wasn't i didn't cave to disney you know what i mean i'm not
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gonna like go to nashville and be like okay i was so grateful by the way for the opportunity
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you know that uh they offered me um but it just when i got there it was just two different
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options that i would i thought i i didn't think that that was what i was showing up to
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um but they they did you know um they were like okay then let's let's go up and let's make this
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western for two million dollars uh it made it definitely a lot more difficult um it's kind of
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funny online and on imdb they say it's we shot it for 75 million dollars and they're trying they're
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trying to like write up all these reports that it went into theater and it only made 800 dollars and
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i'm like no it actually was just streamed on the daily wire we made it for about two million dollars
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that i know of you know and it could have been less than that um and we uh it was never in theater
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and you've got like all of the hollywood you know press like look at you know and it's even not not i
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believe it's still on imdb listed as 75 million dollars just to kind of like do these awful things to
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people like of course me and the daily wire and like people like you it's like let's just put as
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much false information that leads people astray um but i ended up being a really good film um terror
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on the prairie i i think there could have been you know adjustments made that made it better but i'm
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i love the performances in it i love the people that made it um dallas saunier is a wonderful producer
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i loved working with him and so i had a you know a really good time so what'd you do after that
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i disappeared i think you know i knew that uh after getting canceled and fired i knew that like
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even during the daily even during that daily wire kind of uh terror on the prairie stint i was wounded
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like a broken animal and i yeah i'm not sure if you experienced the same thing after uh what happened
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with you and fox but i i think everybody handles it maybe differently like yes to me it looks like
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you jumped straight back in and you were like you know hustling i um have maybe a different energy
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where it's like you know i got wounded i got stabbed yes you know i'm very shallow so it's easy to
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recover no stop i i think you're just you know like a certain type of brain that you know you go
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forward right yeah have to um and mine was i've not been like that like when i've been wounded
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in relationships or in life like you know i get i get hurt i'm sensitive so for two years i've been
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you know in this you know kind of desert you know kind of you know like wondering i'm like oh god
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you know i see justice happening and i see people moving forward and i'm not moving forward um like i
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thought i was going to and like i had you know said i was going to try to and i felt very um just
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forgotten and then um so when you when you were fired from disney for reasons that no person should
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ever be fired resisting a vax mandate or not putting your totally insane pronouns in a in an email did did
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did you consider suing them then yes yeah i actually uh confronted my family lawyer and we
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talked about it and i was like you know if this isn't defamation or if this isn't discrimination
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then i don't know what is if this isn't wrongful doing of um an employee yes i don't know what is so
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i know it's my fault uh for not telling your story more completely for those who don't know it it's not
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simply that they fired you right it's that they defamed you they i mean and harassed and discriminated
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and just uh put me through the struggle session which i didn't know when you're going through it
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you don't know that you know you're like i was so naive at 2020 i haven't been living in the political
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realm at all yes i just pay my taxes and you know hustle for that next job you know that next action
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job or the next drama job and you know that's just what i've been trying to do for my entire life
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um besides my fighting career yeah and so then it was just like when 2020 hits like the the shades got
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opened and i started actually like looking around thinking wait a second wait a second what's happening
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here like yeah uh why are people allowed to riot on the streets and they're not allowed to go to church
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and why are big businesses staying open and small businesses are getting shut down and um you know
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it was just uh it bothered me it's like people forcing masks on each other and i i and and you
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know intrinsic intrinsically new lockdowns are going to be devastating to people this is you know coming
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from an a person who has you know been on and off work i know what it's like to not work for a year
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and yes work for three years and not to work when you take away that consistency it does such an
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emotional mental spiritual thing on you that um you know some people don't know how to handle you
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know they start drugs alcohol addiction and that's exactly what we've seen you know we've seen all of
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this addiction and all this problem um you know deaths and i've lost two friends to overdoses um
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you know one to turbo cancer one to i believe um a vaccine uh uh uh what's it called injury injury
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yeah and then um i've lost so i've lost so many people in the last six years or the last four years
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that it's just like mind-blowing which is just a whole another subject but it it does make me feel
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like um i was i stood up for the right thing i'm not sorry i did it hasn't made things easy
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but um yeah i was uh so i did try to go and talk to a lawyer
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what was the lawyer's response and what was your thinking about it at the time you know like i had
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to get out of la because my life was not safe there at least where i was at and you know it's pretty
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expensive to live in la and and so it's either like moving to keep keep in la or you know try to
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move to maybe nashville and see if that daily wire thing works out well that didn't really you know
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pan out which you know it's not like there's no bad blood there it's just it's not where i you know
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it's not where god wanted me i don't think yes um and so then i just kept on going and i ended up in
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montana how did you wind up in montana we ended up shooting terror on the prairie there and you liked
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it so much you stayed i just being outside and looking at the sky and being able to breathe and
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not feeling that anxiety of a city or um the possible rides coming down the streets and just
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you know there's an interesting thing i feel like in montana uh you know people mind their business
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basically yes and keep to themselves and um i feel like in montana you have to work in your land
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you have to be have a certain toughness during the winter and i think that's really cool so you
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know montana is not a place where weak people go to live and i like to be surrounded by by that energy
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by strong people yeah and so when i me and my lawyer were talking about it my family lawyer he's such a
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wonderful man he was like gina you know i think it's important that you get somewhere safe and take
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care of that first and so i did and and relocating your life as i'm sure you've been through plenty
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of times in your life is you know it's not like an easy thing changing a job changing of a life
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perspective you know and then having to completely uproot and move your life and figure out where you
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belong um yeah all of that has been going on in the last two years and a lot of positive things too
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um i look at you know uh relationships and friendships and future different um you know
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i could have ended up in new york and single at some point and now i really value a partnership and
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i really value a future with someone and it's just like my whole maybe that's just called maturity
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but i was a really late in maturity part you were my little sister you were busy my little sister
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is a lot more mature than me and she's got three kids and she's like any day gina any day i'm like
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well you know i don't know about the kids part but did your spiritual perspective change oh it i've
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always been a christian but i never felt so much like a christian as i do these last few years and it
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just keeps growing and um you know i think that's something that makes people cringe and uh i've seen that
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happen but why does it make people cringe when you say that well i think you know religion and any
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type of you know it's been used so wrongly you know something it's been used so aggressively and
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wrongly to persuade people in evil you know ways that um are fake and um it's it's it's really turned
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people off because usually when people go to god or go to a place of god they're searching because
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they're hurt and they're wounded and when you are hurt and wounded and then you get hurt and wounded
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by the person the people are a place that you feel is supposed to protect yes and be the safe place
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i think then then people just get really um angry at god and i don't think that it's god that maybe
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they're angry at it's at the experience you know yes so the people claiming to represent him
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yes i really haven't been to church an actual church um probably in 20 years yeah um but i in the
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last three years have just grown so much closer and understanding and so it was actually at that point
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where i said you know i was like god you know all these people are getting justice you know and i
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i was so i know i was done so wrong it was so wrong what happened to me and i know that there's so much
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more wrong that happened to so many other people and so i even felt like you know don't be a brat
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about this gina like there's you know doctors and lawyers and police officers and nurses and you know
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this is like awful things are happening all around to everybody and so i just i started looking at my
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justice as you know starting over in montana and being able to see the big sky and just being so
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grateful for my surroundings and then finally it was really interesting when i finally got that out
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of my heart and truly gave it over to god and was just like it's yours if i stay in the desert of work
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and i never work again in this business then okay then i need to learn a different skill
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you know i need to figure out what i'm gonna do and so i had to really let it go genuinely you know
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genuinely let it go and which isn't easy and a week later well yeah that took years
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um i tried to i tried to pretend like i was there so many times but to genuinely let that last
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inch of like it's gonna be okay and i'm gonna give it to you and a week later i got an email a week
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later i got an email from x and they said that they um were some lawyers that um were taking
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up cases that people had possibly been fired um for speaking their opinion on on x and they'd like
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to hear my case so they approached you over email elon musk's lawyers just found you yeah i don't even
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said by the way we'd like to pay for your your case yeah well no no it wouldn't it didn't go like
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that it was i was first of all i was like is this a scam yeah it sounds like a scam right and i was
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like some sort of scam so i like you know had my lawyers look into them to make sure uh my family
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lawyer um no i've never paid a dime to and he has just you know he's actually my brother's or my
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my sister's um husband's uh cousin and here he is just like taking on like my problems just with a
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smile and and i was like do you think you can you know well will lemcoe by the way i i love you will
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um he's been such a wonderful person to me he he was just like these people are legit these are
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actually legit lawyers get back to them and so i said because will will believes in my case he just
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knew my my personal circumstance was very difficult at the time and you know didn't have the money to
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pay for that yeah um i needed to put that money into restarting life yes and so um uh he's like call
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them back and so or or email them back and i emailed them back immediately and i was like ready and ed
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edward trent who is um at the law firm just a incredible man he was like wow he was like we've
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emailed a lot of people and you got it back to us like it's like pretty fast you know and um
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and then from there on and the last you know i guess it's been that was before christmas and it's
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you know probably in november i think um they've we've just been like i'm sending them everything
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and i'm telling them my story and we're having long conversations and they're listening to
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everything that happened and then um you know i'm sending them emails that transpired between me and
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disney and publicists and all the other people and i'm saying everything i've got and um they've
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they took that to x and elon and said we believe in this case very much so very much so um
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and they presented it to x and then x is like you know you have to they had to get the permission
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from them so i'm sure x has their lawyers looking through it because this is a completely different
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law firm yes retained by x yes so i'm sure x has their own people that are looking at it as well
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um so there's multiple eyes on this and then um then they had to take it to elon and you know brief
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him on it and then you know they came back and they said we're taking it on let's do this we're
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going to write a complaint and we're going to file i mean that's just an amazing story yeah
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um i heard elon say something i read uh some statement where he said well you know anyone
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who's free speech on x has been used against them right uh can have our lawyers look at it but what do
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you i mean and i responded to that which i you know i didn't think that anything would ever come
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of it but he he tweeted that out um and i said you know in a quote tweet i said well i think that i
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think i qualify or something like that smiley face and um nothing happened for months and i was like okay
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well you know i didn't expect anything so and then when that happened and i got that email it's like
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it's one of those there's been a couple of those calls in my life or a couple of those moments in my
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life that i've just been like oh my gosh like i get a chance right now i get a fighting chance to
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clear my name to let the world know what happened here to you know the the world's a lot gone come a
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lot uh you know a long ways in three years a lot of information's come out yes so i mean you shouldn't
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get fired for being ahead of the curve you know what i mean i shouldn't have gotten fired for you
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know talking about lockdowns and masks and encouraging that i was encouraging conversation
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you know i shouldn't have gotten fired for my so supposedly controversial tweets they were not
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controversial they were just they were just they were just having trouble with where i was coming
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from i think um i it's it's it's bewildering like it's mind-blowing what happened um so you have any
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idea why i mean even very rich people rarely pay for lawyers for strangers on principle i mean have you
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do you know why elon musk is doing this you know you know i've never even met him i've never even spoken
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to him i think he's retweeted me once um and he's doing this not only for me in this big case he's
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doing this for many other people and um i think there's just i think we're living in a time of such um
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such an incredible person that would be fighting for free speech on the biggest level i mean if we did
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not have what elon musk is doing right now so many of us would be in such deep trouble um nations would
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be in trouble and um i respect what he's doing and i i don't know why he's doing it you know i think that
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you know a lot of billionaires put their money into more selfish things and he's choosing to put his
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money into the defense of free speech and the defense of injustice and um i have to imagine
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you know i have to imagine that i had to do something with may musk his mother um because
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i follow her too and i think you know how heartbreaking it's been for my family to watch
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me go through this hardship and i really wonder about the musk family um and what tough skin they
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must have had but what an incredibly classy woman that that woman is and i i love following her
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because i see this came from somewhere you know um and and yeah i just think what an incredible family
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that has burdened such a um such a tough moment in time that i think that he will go down in history as
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one of the greats um as will you tucker well i'm not i'm not doing anything like that i'm just talking
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on camera that's that's a pretty generous thing to be doing for people you don't know i mean never even
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spoken to him so tell us i hope i get to thank him one day like and shake his hand and you know i don't
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know like how you you you thank someone like this you know like just uh thank you elon for fighting
00:26:35.180
this fight for so many of us um it it is uns it's just i don't know anybody like this person and i
00:26:44.140
don't even know this person amazing so what what's the suit like and it goes without saying that we're
00:26:51.020
fervently rooting for you and for justice in this case but tell us about the suit well my lawyers yeah
00:26:57.800
um they said you know keep the lawyer talk to the lawyer talk right so i don't stick myself in any
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bad situation um so i kind of leave that up to them it's all on the complaint they filed the complaint
00:27:11.840
um it's uh february 6th and disney now has a certain amount of time to respond to that complaint
00:27:22.120
and so um yeah that's but basically the substance as i understand it you're fired unfairly in violation
00:27:32.380
of the law and then defamed tell us about the defamation tell us what they did to you in more
00:27:39.280
specific terms well there is defamation i'm not sure and if that's a legal claim i mean i i should
00:27:45.000
i should as well as a non-lawyer keep the but they they trashed you they did they did they what uh what
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they really did was they put out this um awful so i put up a tweet that i this become infamous tweet of
00:27:57.420
saying that uh and i don't even know because i just put it up in like a story section i didn't post
00:28:04.040
it i put it in like the you know quick everybody look through like the stories of the tweet because
00:28:08.640
tweets used to have the fleet section and it was basically saying that it didn't start like uh you
00:28:14.580
know nazi germany didn't start just with people just waking up being nazis and like you know demonizing
00:28:19.980
you know like throwing people jews into the concentration camps it didn't start there
00:28:24.240
it started before that it started with propaganda it started with you know um you know you had to
00:28:30.980
kind of start urging people to make it okay to um demonize your neighbor and hate people for
00:28:38.000
whatever differences it was at that time it was jewish people and um you know that's where it started
00:28:44.980
and that's that's what made it so much easier for you know you're living in a house and then you know
00:28:50.660
the nazis come and their next your next door neighbor is getting hauled off that you know maybe
00:28:57.040
years before you guys were all having dinner and having this wonderful relationship and then
00:29:01.660
um it gradually happened it just wasn't something that happened just like that and that was what the
00:29:08.140
meme meant to me was that i was trying to tell people now like don't demonize each other understand
00:29:16.060
you know we're all human beings still and and you know basically just bad things have happened in the
00:29:23.400
past and to learn from the past yes and i thought that was something that everyone uh democrats republicans
00:29:30.940
independents that everybody could um understand and get i thought that was a tweet for everybody
00:29:36.140
and the um the hollywood press and every you know major news and media that they came against me and they
00:29:44.380
said she just she compared republicans to jewish community the jewish holocaust and um she's denigrating
00:29:52.320
you know the jewish community and like right so so you you came out against the nazis but they claimed
00:29:58.980
you were pro nazis they called me they smeared me as an anti-semite smeared me and i was like wait i
00:30:05.560
don't and i still don't get how how did you do that right um and why did people believe in it but you know
00:30:13.900
like uh and then what disney did was they put out a statement that said um uh we are no longer
00:30:22.440
working with uh there's there is a statement uh when we're not we're no longer working with gina
00:30:28.000
carano um and we basically think that she's denigrating people off of their cultural and
00:30:33.220
religious beliefs and they said something about me being abhorrent and for your anti-nazi tweet yeah
00:30:39.900
so you obviously know this since you worked in the business but i mean people who write about
00:30:52.180
television and movies are directed to the word by the pr departments at the television and movie
00:30:59.300
companies right so there's no independent press that writes about the movies or about television
00:31:05.220
right even cable news you know what i mean yeah like the big cable news websites are all controlled
00:31:12.080
by the pr departments right it's true in hollywood and that's really been uh you know so i had my own
00:31:18.100
um had hired my own publicist during you know uh season two of the mandalorian and they were working
00:31:24.380
with the publicist from the disney people and then they were working with the uta who dropped me
00:31:31.020
immediately as well of course they do uh-huh and then your agent who's there
00:31:34.960
fighting for you yeah all of them i mean and then the entertainment lawyer yeah dropped me of course
00:31:43.020
and that the the funny thing is like the entertainment lawyer i think was uh he they would
00:31:48.100
constantly be sending out hey we're having this democrat you know um at my house come on over for
00:31:53.200
you know raise some funds for the democrat you know party da da da or whoever the candidate was that
00:31:58.100
they were you know and so all of these people just dropped me immediately and i was like people you'd
00:32:04.060
been paying to stand by your side in case there was a big problem yeah the second there was a big
00:32:08.620
problem they fled and denounced you yes immediately may they all rot
00:32:17.440
that's so much you know i mean i knew that like maybe something could happen where disney would might
00:32:25.180
be like hey you know um as professionals i thought maybe they'd just be like okay well maybe
00:32:30.740
we're gonna not work with you or maybe something like that could happen by speaking out um about the
00:32:37.460
things that i spoke out about but i found the things that i spoke out about were so much more
00:32:40.840
important than the the career part because i felt like you know we needed to be talking about we're
00:32:47.520
headed in a really bad direction oh yes you know the lockdowns the mask mandates the vaccines you know i
00:32:52.940
felt like we needed to um i never even said who i was really voting for it was just i was getting
00:32:59.040
really pushed into this like you're an extremist you're an alt-right extremist you know um and so i
00:33:04.940
thought maybe that that could be an option but never in my wildest dreams would i thought that they would
00:33:10.640
have through twitter or through um a publication without even calling me this is how i found out i was
00:33:19.360
fired online on twitter like they didn't call me they didn't say we're letting you go we're not we're
00:33:27.680
no longer going to work together um this is why you know it was just um she's denigrating people off
00:33:35.640
of cultural and religious beliefs and she's abhorrent and i was like for coming out against the nazis
00:33:40.520
yeah yeah okay so backwards yeah and but again you know that when you get attacked in the hollywood
00:33:52.080
trade press that's because the company you worked for directed those reporters right and i'm learning
00:33:58.320
that more and more so now yeah you know when there's like a a piece uh that somebody writes
00:34:04.860
about me um i go and i look up the journalist and i go and look up what other you know what i what
00:34:11.740
other you know articles has this journalist written of course and you can almost just trace it back
00:34:16.920
and a couple i traced right back to lucas foam and i was like of course you know right there you guys
00:34:22.860
you know you call up your people and uh you know it's ugly it's the most dishonest thing ever
00:34:29.980
yeah and a reporter at the hollywood reporter or wherever yeah and and it's all involved right
00:34:35.560
it's the agencies it's the managers it's the um publicists it's the studios and it's just this big
00:34:43.180
mafioso that um does not give the independent artist unless they're willing to comply and fit in
00:34:50.960
a hundred percent into that um ideologies and their narratives and be basically these manufactured
00:34:58.440
robots you know um i mean i feel like there's the one percent of hollywood that can do what they
00:35:03.380
want and say and think what they want and those are the very very talented people um but at the peak
00:35:09.540
of my career it was like you know i think they thought let's make an example out of this one for sure um
00:35:15.580
she's an action actress you know she hasn't done you know drama yet she hasn't gotten there um we'll make
00:35:21.920
an example out of her and uh it had the complete opposite effect which was um just overwhelming
00:35:29.580
support um uh it was pretty funny like as soon as they they were at the peak of their um stock market
00:35:39.620
ever in february 2021 or no yeah in february 2021 and right when they fired me is when it
00:35:47.800
started plummeting to what it is now and you know they're you're obviously very smart people and
00:35:55.220
they're trying to salvage it but um people saw they saw what was going on in my case it was very obvious
00:36:02.960
do you have friends who are still there yeah i you know everybody i worked physically with um i never
00:36:09.340
had a problem with and uh you know like um you know me and pedro reconnected after um you know
00:36:19.020
carl weathers passed away yes um and you know there was all these lies and all these weird stories
00:36:27.140
and that people make up in their heads and you know one thing i can say is you know i adore pedro
00:36:34.520
um and he said one thing to me he said you and carl were protectors and and that means so much to me
00:36:46.540
that he remembers me and our time together as me being a protector and um it's important like
00:36:54.360
like people don't know what the real story is like why do you think pedro's calling me a protector
00:37:01.200
to his fans i want i would you know there's a reason and there's stories that you don't know
00:37:07.980
that happened and i was there and i and i protect people you know like uh there was a person
00:37:16.800
multiple times that's just my nature is when you know there was a person who was wearing a mask on set
00:37:22.500
and they were at their end they were over time and they were uh crying and they were upset and they
00:37:31.320
couldn't do it anymore they just couldn't they were broken there was a broken person in that mask and i
00:37:38.100
nobody was saying anything and i just simply went up to the director at the time and i said
00:37:43.120
this person's done they're done they need that they're they need their um they need the contacts out
00:37:51.260
they need the the thing off their head they need to breathe they're broken and um the director and i
00:37:59.160
was like look i you know and i worked long longer hours than maybe probably any actor because my face
00:38:04.940
was showing and i did all my own stunts so if you go back and you look at like the work records you're
00:38:10.380
going to find who was on set the most as like the actors and you're going to find me at the top of that
00:38:15.280
list and i said i'll you know get my coverage tonight i know you guys wanted to do it you know
00:38:21.840
the next day you can get my coverage tonight you give this man a break and i will um you know i'll
00:38:28.320
stay later and you know push my time and um i'll show up early and you know don't worry about it but
00:38:34.660
i've done that on numerous sets and that's um you know because i do understand that like
00:38:40.800
well i come from a fighter's background and um and i want it and i wanted it so bad that i feel
00:38:48.280
like i can i have if i can have the energy to push in i can do it and it crushes me when people are
00:38:55.280
broken or hurting or being bullied yes and which was my whole purpose of speaking out um
00:39:01.520
you know in 2020 was just the weakest got bullied the most as always they a lot of people that you know
00:39:09.760
i was usually very introverted i you know get really nervous for interviews although that's
00:39:15.480
getting better um i get nervous for public speaking i get nervous for performing um but when i'm
00:39:23.160
passionate when i mean something that's when i can speak and that's the only reason why i'm probably
00:39:27.460
able to speak with you right now is because i have a clear heart about what happened i want the
00:39:33.520
lawyers to look into it i want the professionals to see what happened and how ludicrous and absurd it was
00:39:39.660
and um and i want things to change so that it doesn't happen to other people what's your next chapter
00:39:50.720
well my next chapter is going to be i'm going to make a movie i'm going to produce and possibly
00:40:01.800
direct it i am going to do it i'm going to get it financed i don't know how yet um
00:40:07.460
but i'm going to make some art and it's going to be truly inclusive and um i think that's going
00:40:15.900
to be a gift that that's that's where my heart has been i thought i was going to get that a couple
00:40:21.780
years ago with the daily wire i thought that was the path that was going to happen but i'm you know
00:40:27.560
i think god's teaching me a lesson right now of how to um how to do this how to learn how to put
00:40:35.700
this together and how to attract the people that you want to work with and um you know i i i lost
00:40:43.040
my team when i got canceled you know so i didn't have anybody and so the rebuilding of a life and
00:40:48.500
everything has been my focus in the last two years well i've i've rebuilt that now and you know there's
00:40:54.820
still things that i need to you know do i need to rebuild my body you know a lot of stress and not
00:40:59.540
working and you know depression and all of that i need to focus on my health that's very that's at
00:41:04.880
the top of my list and i've been saying that but um also to get creative and uh i think that's what's
00:41:13.240
going to happen i think that's what i want to do is i want to direct and produce a movie and um start
00:41:19.760
being more in control of giving getting my stories out there that i that i like
00:41:27.340
i think being in control is a good thing at this point yeah well i hope you'll come back when you
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do that thank you thank you thank you so much sucker it's just a great story and i'm glad to see you