Talking Race, Acting, and Taekwando with Action Film Actor Chuck Johnson

Listen Hunnay with Jeannie Mai

Studio71

Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

International action film actor and owner of Quiet Flame Productions, Chuck Johnson, joins the show all the way from Tokyo to talk about how his childhood hobby of Taekwondo altered his life forever. Chuck discusses his martial arts journey, growing up as a Black man in Seoul Korea, getting into action movies, and how he ended up with his own production company. In addition to his incredible life journey, Chuck and Jeannie also take a deeper look at racial tension between Black and Asian communities in the United States and around the world. www.quietflame.org Instagram.com/quietflameproductions Get 50% off your first month plus FREE shipping on ANY crate line with code JEANNIE at kiwico.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Listen honey, listen honey.
0:04.0	Listen honey, listen honey.
0:07.0	Listen honey. Listen honey.
0:08.0	Hey everybody.
0:09.5	I hope that you guys are having a phenomenal week.
0:12.4	I know that, uh've just been having such a crazy
0:16.6	week not only with my schedule of Dancing with the Stars and also shooting the real, but this
0:22.1	podcast has been a saving grace because it allows me to just
0:25.1	stop my entire world and just learn and and live through the journey of somebody
0:30.8	who I find super interesting which is all the guests that you
0:33.1	guys have seen me share with you in the past few weeks and today's guest is someone pretty
0:38.3	supreme someone I've I've never had somebody of this type of talent
0:43.8	joined me on this podcast before.
0:45.2	So I want to tell you guys about Chuck Johnson.
0:47.8	So Chuck Johnson is an international action film actor
0:51.6	who's actually based in Tokyo Japan.
0:54.0	He's from Michigan, but he began martial arts training with Olympic Taekwondo at the age of 15
1:01.0	and with a crazy fanatic training schedule, he's received a black belt in two and a half years and six days later became the Michigan State Junior Olympic Taekwondo champion for both sparring and forms. So Chuck Johnson, welcome to listen her name man and
1:18.5	thank you for calling us and joining me all the way from Japan.
1:23.0	No, thank you, thank you.
1:25.0	And before I say anything else, I just gonna tell you,
1:28.0	I watched your Chacha and your salsa and your tango
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