Interview with Bud Rebel - The Culture News

Interview with Bud Rebel - The Culture News

Episode Transcript

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Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon,Welcome on the Culture News. My name
is David sib Broke, and Ihave the pleasure today on iHeartRadio and many
other platforms to have the wonderful,the unique mister Bud Rebel. Let me
spell it for you. It's R. E. B E. L So.
Who is Bud Rebel. He isa dynamic, diverse talent with an

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entrepreneurial approach to everything he takes,from his award winning films, to his
YouTube channel, to the Bud RebelShow podcast that is quickly gaining popularity,
and he has interviewed some epic names. I am so jealous right now he
is right now over the phone withus to talk about all the great things

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they have done, but also abouthis most recent film, The Undead,
which premiered earlier this month in NewYork City and will be soon on Amazon
Prime and other platforms. Right nowover the phone is the one and only
mister Bud Rebel. Bud, howare you today? I'm doing great,
David. I really appreciate the opportunityto be on your show and share some

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hopefully great news with your fans andso forth. Oh, but thank you
very much to you. I reallyappreciate that. So the first question I
have for you is is where areyou from? And what brought you to
get into this industry and brought youto these movies, these YouTube channels and
the podcast and the storytelling. Tellus what was your path so far?

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Wow, that's all I've gonna goingthrough. Okay, So all my life
I've enjoyed films. It just wasalways something I had a passionate for,
and the whole entertainment industry is alwaysexciting to me. But I was always
quote very practical, so I alwaysdid it almost as an escape. When
I was in college, I wrotemy first script called The Last Chance for

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Freedom. And even when I wasyounger, I was played on on horse
Shack from Welcome Back Clutter It allthe way in second grade, but I
never really pursued it as much asI'd like. I kept writing script and
writing scripts, and then what happenedis I took a two day class by
a guy named Dub Simmons who taughtat NYU and UCLA, and he said

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that you can make a film,and you're not gonna make money, but
you could do it. It's possible, even and he gave us all the
basic techniques and I got out ofthat class. I was forty years old,
I think it was, and Isaid, you know what, I'm
gonna do this. I just haveso many ideas. I have like ten
scripts. And I decided to doa film, and as I was doing
it, I reversed it and wentinto a different film because I just felt

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like I just it was just toocomplicated. And then I hired a director,
and the director hired the team,and before you know it, all
screwed up was one which was myfirst film, and then after that it
was just the progress of me beingmore creative. And I decided, you
know, I have so many ideasthat I've been thinking of all my life,
and I'm getting older in life.Just throw them on the blog.

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And I would just throw like anyidea, anything that comes in my head,
I just throw it on the blog. Creative ideas, business ideas,
political ideas, anything. And thenI came across a lady and at me
and a guy, and she said, you know what, why don't we
do quote up a show called theBud Rebel Show. And from there we
started. We did this. Wedid like a pilot for the show,

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and we got to be good friends. And then I started doing things on
YouTube with all little videos, andlittle by little things get more and more
progressive, more videos, more thanI decided I want to do a podcast
because I love talking to people.And then then you know, my father
passed away. And when my fatherpassed away, he wasn't the type of
person who gave a lot of compliments, but he said to me I was

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a good writer. So I decidedto utilize the funds that I got to
make The Undead. And that's basicallya nutshell how everything started. But it's
always been a passion and the practicalityof life made me start a lot later
than maybe I would have. Wow, what a beautiful path. And of
course we have a special thought foryour late father. Woman, I'm sure

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must be really, really proud ofyou. So now fast forwarding to your
latest release, The End Dead,can you tell us about why you choose
to make that movie and you're talkinga lot about the mental health, can
you explain to us what is theprocess of that movie and what is the
Undead? The story about The Undeadis the story of this dysfunctional family that

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because the death of their brother andtheir son. They're spiritually that tells them
to go to cabin in the woodsto get reconnected. And as they go
up there, the mother has aform of schizophrenia, so she sees these
undead children, see what is justgoing to wonder all these real they are

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ahead And at the same time personcomes to the cabin knows everything about the
cabin, but it has no ideawho he is. It's all taking place
in the end of times as weknow it. So it's a it's a
it's a horror film with a spiritualelement and also has a family element,
and it's all combined in one.So what I wanted to do is make

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sure first when you go to filmyou're entertained, because that's you know,
people spend a lot of money towork really hard. Number two is they
come across with a very unique perspectivethan any of the film I'll ever see.
And that is also opening the doorof the idea of a mental health
and the treatment of it. Andalso that sometimes what we consider, let's

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say, something that is so badcan in some ways give us more insight
than we never know. So there'sa there's a whole bunch of messages coming
through, and I don't like tobe the type of person and you go
to film that someone's like preaching yousomething. So I'm hoping the audience will
get their own vision from their ownlife when they see this film stead of
being told what to think exactly.That's a beautiful way. So really,

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congratulations for these a great new release, The Undead and for all the great
things you're doing. So you don'thave, from what I understood, any
formal training as a filmmaker, Sohow did you learn to become a filmmaker?
What was your training? In away, Well, the beginning,

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the basic training started. Actually,the first time I did anything was when
I was in camp. I dida short horror movie, which is like
a Friday the thirteenth before there wasFriday the thirteenth, and it was just
a camera and it was, youknow, a little fun thing. But
what got me more fixated on itwas this two day class with Doug Simmons.
And basically, I hate to saythis, but in life, it's

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who you put in charge. Sowhen I did decide I was going to
make a film, after I wentthrough all my script was gonna do,
It's gonna be all screwed up.I decided I needed. The first thing
I needed was a director. Andthe way I got a director was getting
someone who's a cinematographer who was alwaysbehind the camera and knew what they were
seeing. So I took that greatcinematographer. I got all these people,

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resumes, all this stuff, andI saw this person who had this really
great way of looking at things.Its name was Neil Steppens, and I
made him the director. And hehad dealt with so many people. He
had dealt with a lighting person,he had dealt with the sound person.
So he put his whole team togetherand I just watched it all begin and
I also, of course, youknow, I saw my script. We
went over the script. Do youwant what scenes we could do? We

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changed it from outside because of thecourt to moving into basketball caught inside,
and that's the same thing with theUndead. Once I decided that was going
to be the script, we satdown and we decided, Okay, what
scene is possible within the budgetary means? Can we cut out turned things we
want? Do we want this tobe more? What's the purpose of the

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scene. What do I wanted theviewer to see? What kind of angles
get and all this happens over.You know, as I'm doing more of
these shorts, I'm learning more aboutthe process of making films. I'm learning
more about the lighting. I'm learningmore about sound, I'm learning what special
effects, and that's helping me developthese scripts, not the scripts, but
also helping me develop what's going tobe on this on the actual the big

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screen. You might say, wow, and definitely this is this is a
good way to really put your handsright into the problem. So congratulations again
on the on all the great thingsyou you're doing. So you're doing that
podcast of yours, this YouTube channel, uh, this movie? What do

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you like the most to do actuallybetween all these arcs? Wow, that's
a great point. I do lovethe podcast because I love talking to people.
I love what we do in thepodcast, and I want still from
your podcast because my guess is greattoo. We do a lot of different
things. We always want to havea real positive message at the end.

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We do strange facts. I giveone of my business ideas because I,
as you said, an entrepreneur.I have so many ideas that I know
I can't do in my life.So if you listen to my podcast and
you want to like you think ofyou. Oh, I don't know to
do my life. Maybe I'll giveyou an idea direction to go give that
away. I took about, youknow, I talk about some ways to
invest money in the difficult times wehave. I have like a little and

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then I have something called Strange Facts, and then I have something called things
I Hate, so it's things theylove. I decided to do that,
so we add that. So it'sa fun show. And I get to
meet really interesting people who you know, made it up and deal with their
own old difficulties to become like thesuccess they are. So I always enjoy
hearing those stories. And you know, we let me talk about current events,

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so it's a really good dialogue goingback and forth. I definitely enjoy
that. I enjoy filmmaking films.Sometimes I'm a really hyper person, so
like a scene could take a whole, you know, longer than a day
sometimes and I'm like, come on, move, move, move. My
head says that. But seeing inthe big screen and seeing what you wrote

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actually come out, it's really anemotional experience. So that's really a great
thing to do. Tell And Ilove writing my blog because it's just like
it's a way to express myself.So all these things help me keep my
therapy LSS ther be much less.It's because I'm doing all these things that
express my emotions in a positive way. You might side, well, that

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is a beautiful way to tell us. You know about all the great things
that you're doing. Indeed, youknow your your podcasts are very entertaining and
I encourage everyone to really check outThe Bud Rebel Show. Once again,
Rebel is spelled r E B eL The Bud Rebel Show. So before

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we start to say goodbye to eachother, can you tell us what is
next for you? What are youworking on? What are your next projects
in the in the near future.Well, right now waiting to see the
return a bit on our film TheUndead, and I'm hoping to make another
film. I have two in ormaybe three that I'm thinking about. One

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it's called Seduction, and it's basicallyhow sex is a drug and how it
can drag people down in a differentdirection. It's like a little another horror
type film. I might do acomedy Hell Can Wait, where a person
is brought to hell, but hefinds an exit door and maybe changes his
life it's a little convoluted, butit's a really great story. My daughter

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loves it. One or I gotone another one I wrote which is about
how this music makes people go insaneand kill people. So there's at least
three of them I have that I'mwilling to try, and I'm going to
decide between my distribution company and anotherinside of where we want to go with
that, and that would probably bemy next film project. I'm going to

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continue the podcast, trying to getbigger or larger guests into the podcast as
well. The great story is reallythe whole thing, and just keep plugging
a lot. I'm just really enjoyingthis process, and I really love the
feedback from the audience, and itfeels great to be doing the art that
I really appreciated doing, you know, and I hope it makes a different

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in people's lives, and just hopeit entertains people. You know, people
have very difficult things going through andToby mental health. You know, people
are going through a lot of stressfulthings, and families are falling apart,
and inflation it inturates and more,and it's just a very difficult time for
a lot of people. Entertainment it'sso important. It's a great escape,
and I'm hoping that they get alittle bit more enjoyment in their life as

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I listen to watch these podcasts andmovies and so forth, and we definitely
would be there to always support you. We want to say hello to our
friend Mikaela from a Storm. Wereally appreciate her. So right now,
ladies, it was my pleasure tohave over the phone the very talented Bud

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Rebel. Rebel is spelled r Eb e L Bud Rebel. Check out
his YouTube channel, check out hispodcast, The Border Rebel Show, check
out his new film called The Undead, and you can find all the information
on his actually all his YouTube channel. I had really I was lucky to

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check out a lot of his videos. They are a lot of fun,
very entertaining and you will have agreat time. Mister Bob Rebel was the
guest on our show today. Rightnow, more music to follow up on
iHeartRadio. Stay tuned with us.It's a beautiful day.