#808 Flowing with Rich Ting
Bruce Lee Podcast
Shannon Lee
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Bruce Lee Podcast, Shannon welcomes actor, colleague and friend Rich Ting. You may know Rich from his work portraying Bolo on season 1 of Warrior but their connection goes back a lot further than that. Find out how Rich first met Shannon when he was just 13 years old and the journey he went on from athlete to earning two post graduate degrees to becoming an actor! Rich’s new show On Call for Amazon Prime debuted in January of this year, just as he wrapped an arc on Tulsa King Season 2 alongside Sylvester Stallone. Rich talks about the incredible work ethic he brings to everything he does, from his days playing football at Yale to his transition into acting.
A lifelong Bruce Lee fan, Rich also opens up about his journey—from almost quitting martial arts and how his mother’s tough love kept him on course to how that perseverance prepared him for the physically demanding and challenging life of an actor. Listen in as Shannon and Rich discuss resilience and how pushing through life’s challenges leads to growth and evolution in this inspiring, joyful and full-circle conversation between friends!
Show notes and more episodes at Brucelee.com/Podcast
Connect with Rich….
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/richtingworld
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RichTingWorld/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@richtingworld
- IMDB: www.imdb.me/richting
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My guest on this episode of the Bruce Lee podcast is actor, colleague, and friend, Rich Ting. |
| 0:07.4 | Rich can currently be seen on Amazon Prime's new half-hour drama on call. |
| 0:12.4 | This is the first streaming series from Wolf Entertainment and its 10th current scripted series overall. |
| 0:21.5 | You may know Wolf Entertainment from all of the various Law and Order shows that there are. |
| 0:28.1 | But for those of you who are a fan of Bruce Lee and a follower of the podcast, you may know Rich |
| 0:36.1 | better as the character Bolo from season one of Warrior. What's funny is when we cast |
| 0:44.0 | Rich for Warrior, I didn't even know that he and I had a personal connection, one that you'll learn |
| 0:51.9 | about if you listen to the podcast. We had such a great time |
| 0:57.6 | just getting into it, getting into work, getting into process, getting into changing his |
| 1:06.2 | career from an athlete to someone who graduated from Yale and went on to get a JD and an MBA and then |
| 1:16.8 | decided to get into acting. So for those of you who are interested in listening to your heart |
| 1:23.8 | and what it might take, this conversation is definitely for you. Rich and I have gotten to |
| 1:29.3 | become friends over the course of our time after working together on a warrior. And I am so |
| 1:38.3 | happy to be able to call him my friend. So listen in, because this is a pretty fun episode, where Rich and I really get into it, |
| 1:48.5 | all things acting, all things life, on this episode of the Bruce Lee Podcast. |
| 1:55.8 | Empty your mind. |
| 1:57.9 | Formal. |
| 1:59.8 | Shape. |
| 2:00.4 | Like mortals. Like water, like water, |
| 2:08.6 | I want to crash. |
| 2:11.6 | Welcome to the Bruce Lee podcast, a podcast about Bruce Lee's life and philosophy. |
| 2:22.4 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. My guest is Rich Ting. Hey, Rich. Hey, Shannon. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Same time. I'm good. Welcome. It's so great to have you here. I mean, |
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