Norris Streetman and Daniel Warrior

[00:01] NORRIS STREETMAN: Well, my name's Norris Streetman. I'm age of 65 years old. I'm a senior citizens. It's Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And my compadre in crime over here is Dan warrior. Dan, take it away, bro.

[00:17] DANIEL WARRIOR: How you doing, Norris? Thank you so much for that lovely introduction. Yes, yes.

[00:21] NORRIS STREETMAN: Anytime.

[00:21] DANIEL WARRIOR: My name is Dan Warrior. I'm 40 years old.

[00:24] NORRIS STREETMAN: I don't believe it.

[00:27] DANIEL WARRIOR: I don't really know how old I am. I think that I was born in some cave somewhere, and I just came out and opened my eyes and told my mom that she found me behind a Walmart in a trash can.

[00:40] NORRIS STREETMAN: But don't forget the date. We got this cue card here. So it's date.

[00:45] DANIEL WARRIOR: It's Wednesday, April 13, 2022. I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I'm hanging out with Norris Streetman and we met at some fancy Hollywood get together. And he just pulled me off the streets and said, you're a star.

[00:59] NORRIS STREETMAN: Hey, man. I mean, how tall are you? Because you are a tall Native American, indigenous. I don't know.

[01:08] DANIEL WARRIOR: That's good. No, you're right. You're right on. Yes, I'm six foot ten, and, you know, a lot of people and they come up and stand beside me, and they think I'm a lot taller than that, but, you know, I'm wearing my boots sometimes, or, you know. But, yeah, I'm Muskogee. I'm Rosebud. Sioux, south dakota, and absentees, shawnee. And I'm the youngest of four boys. And then I have a little sister named Carissa.

[01:39] NORRIS STREETMAN: Now, that would be a story in itself. Figure out how all these tribes got together in your jingle.

[01:45] DANIEL WARRIOR: They went to haskell, all native american school in Kansas. And my dad and my mom were both very tall, and they met on the. They were both into sports, and they ran off together. And they were called Haskell rascals, the ones that, you know, have. Get married, have babies, and run off and get married. And so my dad found the oil field in Cushing, oklahoma.

[02:09] NORRIS STREETMAN: Oh, wow.

[02:10] DANIEL WARRIOR: And my mother came here, and she worked in the restaurant, and I learned some really family values, hardcore values. We had a garden. We built our fence around. We painted our house. We built our condemned house into a very nice home. As kids, we had newspaper routes. And I lived down the street from my best friend's parents, or my best friend, he's an orthopedic surgeon. And so I got to see the standard of living that I wanted to live one day. So from indian housing a couple streets down, as a doctor. I said, I want to do what he does.

[02:49] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yes.

[02:49] DANIEL WARRIOR: I want to live the life he lives, and I want to drive the cars he drives. And so I wanted to figure out what's the secret to the journey.

[02:56] NORRIS STREETMAN: Now, when did you learn that you were native american?

[03:01] DANIEL WARRIOR: And that's a good question, because when you're a kid, you're just a kid and you don't know, and you're going to church camp, you're going all these things, and there's white, black, mexican, chinese, and you're all just doing what you do. And then you get a little older, then you get into college, and then they start telling you, well, you guys aren't supposed to like those people. And you're not supposed to like. They look different. They look different. The Germans did this, the Russians did this, these people did this. And these are my friends I'm hanging out with. They're on the same basketball team. I played basketball at Southern Nazarene University, and they were from all over the world because we had missionaries all over that would bring them from Africa, from China, Belgium, and just amazing people from all over. I got to experience all the different foods. We'd go to their houses on campus, and then my eyes were opened because I'm like, that's not true about this person. They're from Germany, they're from Russia, they're from China, and they would help me do my laundry. You know what I'm saying? They'd do anything for each other. And we were on a team, so I never saw that until people started to tell me that. And I didn't believe it. So I don't believe it. You're as much me as I am you. That's where I am. I can take you as deep as you want to go into that one. That we're all on this thing together from the moon. Guess what? The earth is peopling. You didn't come into this world. You came out of it. So as that, as what we all are. We all have our strengths, we all have our weaknesses. We all have our things we can contribute. And then we have people that want to take that away. And we have greedy people. But they must exist to appreciate the good people. Like Norris Streetman

[04:58] NORRIS STREETMAN: You're very kind. Now here you are. You have some braids, long hair. You have. And I have no hair. I wish I had long hair. I wish I had hairdouse. And then I see you have some other regalia. Can you explain what you have on? Because we've got an audience out here that cannot see anything that you wear. You're six foot seven, Native American.

[05:29] DANIEL WARRIOR: Six foot ten.

[05:31] NORRIS STREETMAN: Six foot. Thank you.

[05:32] DANIEL WARRIOR: Six foot ten.

[05:33] NORRIS STREETMAN: And so why don't you explain what you represent?

[05:37] DANIEL WARRIOR: All right, so starting from the bottom, I'm wearing this nice ribbon shirt that was named by my friend Schwannabin. She's from Tonawanda up in New York. And it was for my wedding. It's a gradient ribbon from a crimsoned red, orange, white, blue, ice blue to dark blue. So this is across my chest in a kind of kaleidoscope pattern.

[06:05] NORRIS STREETMAN: I.

[06:05] DANIEL WARRIOR: And then my beads also gradient red to yellow, then blue to a white, like ice. So me and my wife are firing ice. And then it has corn, beaded corn on the bottom of each one to represent each season of life. And each season of the year will always be plentiful. We'll always have corn. And my braids, I have. They're down to, I don't know about my waist, maybe. And I have them tied up with some leather straps. I acted in a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio. Martin Scorsese. De Niro directed me. And the first ad said, martin. I almost ran into him, and I just saw these little eyebrows over these glasses. And he looked at me, and I reached down, and we both stood there for a second. They were like, okay, we're here. Then I shook his little knuckley hand, and he looked at me and he's like. He looked around and he said, he's magnificent. You're magnificent. Like. And he said it, like, in a way that I believed it. For the first time in my life, I believed it. And I said, if he said that, yes, maybe I am. And so from that moment on, my whole life switched, and I just became this superhero.

[07:30] NORRIS STREETMAN: Was it all of a sudden this, when he said those words, something just shook within you, that something opened up or what?

[07:39] DANIEL WARRIOR: It was a realization of a visualization of a manifestation that I had six months ago because you wanted to be an actor.

[07:49] NORRIS STREETMAN: And here a world class, Oscar winning director says, hey, you, you.

[07:59] DANIEL WARRIOR: He looked in my eyes and told me I was magnificent.

[08:02] NORRIS STREETMAN: Oh, my God.

[08:02] DANIEL WARRIOR: And that was. That was. I stood up a little bit taller.

[08:07] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yes.

[08:08] DANIEL WARRIOR: And everyone stood around him, looked at him, and they kept, like, patting me on the back on the way into the bark lodge scene. I'm going to the Barclays. They're, like, patting me on my back. And he said. He said that he was magnificent. And all these people started taking pictures of me.

[08:20] NORRIS STREETMAN: Oh, my God.

[08:21] DANIEL WARRIOR: You know what? I'm saying, and I'm sitting right next to a lister, Larry Sellers, right after that movie, but right next to him, they said, who wants to sit in the middle by the fire? Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Who wants to sit right next to him? Me. Put me on camera as much as you can. Let's make this thing happen. Because I saw this. Yes, I saw this. And because when I was on the. We were on a slab on a generator and a camper and that we had to buy because we lost everything in the pandemic, I was sitting there thinking I was holding these rocks up because I was trying to, you know, manifest things. I started to pray for the right things. When you're desperate and you're on your knees and everything's taken from you, you pray for the right stuff. I said, I want to lose weight. I want to work on myself mentally. I want to cheer on my sobriety, be better to my wife, my kids. And I'm holding these rocks, like, really shaking. And then I said, I'm going to be on a red carpet with Leonardo DiCaprio. And that was the furthest thing from what I could think of in -20 degrees weather out there. And my kids in there all huddled around the space heater. And I'm like. And I go in and tell my wife that I'm going to be an actor, that I am an actor. I am. I said the words, I am. And she's like, like, h, you are. And then she said, you better go get a job so we could feed our babies. I was like, no, this is real. I saw it. I saw it. And I just started doing pushups. I started eating vegetables. I started drinking more water. I started playing with my kids. I started manifesting. What was I going to wear on the red carpet? And then if I could see it, then it became true, because the first thing that I did was say, well, I had six back surgeries, like minors. I was, I'm tall. It hurts. Maybe I can touch my toes. So I'll start there. So I go to the kitchen, and I couldn't do it. It was really, like, frustrating. And I was down on myself. And then, like, after a month, it started hurting the back of my legs. And I finally touched my toes. I touched them, and I was like. I was like, if I can do that, I can go be in a movie.

[10:37] NORRIS STREETMAN: Because it's all about action.

[10:39] DANIEL WARRIOR: That's it. It's action. You put your words and thoughts into action, and the next step, and the next. Do you either get bitter or get better. And whatever you choose determines your character. And that's all you have. When you leave this place. You don't leave with any. You don't have a u haul behind a hearse.

[10:53] NORRIS STREETMAN: But there was a point that you weren't acting right. You didn't have action, wasn't it? I mean, was there a point? And then what was it that kind of changed you to see the vision that you always had within your heart and within your mind?

[11:11] DANIEL WARRIOR: I took a total stranger believing in me when I didn't believe in myself. Like saying, hey, you're worth it. You know what you are. And I didn't understand. I was always bullied. I was the youngest of four. I was an art nerd. I was band geek. I was in science and math club, whatever. But now I can, you know, play six instruments. I can. I know quantum physics. I know, I get it. And I know eastern philosophies and everything like that. I read 27 books during the pandemic. I didn't look at my phone one time. I didn't know who the president was. I said, I'm with my babies. I'm fixing this dinner tonight. We're going to exercise in the morning. We're going to read together, and we're gonna have this tent out back. If you get sick of each other in this little, tiny 37 foot camper, go outside the tent and you get the burnouts of steam out in the boom boom room is what we called it, because, like, we would go wrestle out there, whatever was like, me and my son, and just turn it around. You know, I started thinking, better. I started thinking, you can turn anything bad by your words, and you can also turn everything good. Like I said, you have to have the yen without the yang, and you can't, like, focus on a white canvas. And if you put a dot on it saying, oh, it's ruined because it has a black dot, you have to understand what the dot was. Is it a hole through the thing into a new universe? Or is it like the white saying, this is what the canvas you have to work with, and you create anything. So it's what you focus on. Is it the canvas or the dot?

[12:44] NORRIS STREETMAN: So when you. I want to get back to this set.

[12:48] DANIEL WARRIOR: Killers of the flower moon, right? Killers of the flower moon.

[12:51] NORRIS STREETMAN: I mean, this is going to be your kind of earth shattering announcement to the world. I mean, here you're into a $200 million Mark Grace Leonardo DiCaprio Robert De Niro movie, and you're starring along, right with them. What was that? Like, when you walked on set for the first time.

[13:15] DANIEL WARRIOR: It was, well, first of all, it was kind of like I walked in and they had my costume already for me with my picture on it, what I'm supposed to look like with, like, a water bottle there. And they had, like, your person that was supposed to walk you to set, doing your makeup and feeding you, fanning you while you're walking. And it was like, what just happened? Because you knew, like, movies I was working on before, like these, you know, little small tulsa movies. And, like, we're just struggling to get, like, people all show up at one place together, you know, and there's like a thousand people out there for this one shot, and they're all cheering you on. Everyone's looking at you and, like, backing up and letting you walk through. And then I had to get in the mood of me being that person because I'm back in 18 hundreds, 17 hundreds. I think it's a flashback scene to the Barclays maybe. They didn't really tell me a lot. They just said, this is a very sad scene. And I said, well, put me right there because I got a lot to cry about. I said, where I just came from and to sit here today and know that my daughter is going to see this and she's going to one day say, that's my dad, and she's going to be proud of me because I took a chance. I showed up every day in Pawhuska, like, wearing my braids, my fan, my hair down a cowboy hat one time just so they'd see me on the side of the road. And we didn't have money to do that. And my wife was like, just go. Just go. And I was like, really? And she said, I got it. And then I was, like, staying in hotel rooms with some of my friends I worked on sets with behind the scenes because I was craft services for reservation dogs. I was on a Danny Trejo movie, and it was all, like, really fast. But it was like, I appreciated the art and the craft of the thing because I'd worked so hard to get there. I'd worked on being sad in the shower, just like, what would be the saddest thing I could think of? And it was like, always something dumb. And I was like, that didn't work. And then finally I was sitting there and there was, like a fire going, and I just all hit me. I opened my eyes and I'm sitting next to these people and they're speaking in their language and the osage language, and it's like, I'm in this thing. Like I'm in this world. And they made it so real that it was like.

[15:50] NORRIS STREETMAN: Powerful, emotional. I mean, all these things are coming from the past up to the present.

[15:57] DANIEL WARRIOR: Moment, and I have to represent all of our people and what they went through in that ten minute scene.

[16:06] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yeah, yeah.

[16:08] DANIEL WARRIOR: And I was like, how do I do that?

[16:12] NORRIS STREETMAN: Was the weight on you? Did you feel the weight?

[16:14] DANIEL WARRIOR: I mean, did you actually. I felt liberation.

[16:16] NORRIS STREETMAN: You felt liberated. Wow. Because you're actually able to share the sorrows of all indigenous, all Native Americans.

[16:27] DANIEL WARRIOR: And they had 1 second to flip that switch and say, this is going to change the future.

[16:38] NORRIS STREETMAN: Man, that's powerful stuff. Brings tears to my eye. And who would have thought if you hadn't had this vision within your. In you. And who would have thought if that person that you did not know came to you and said, you are worth.

[16:58] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yeah.

[17:00] NORRIS STREETMAN: And then here you were standing right across the way from Martin Grasace in the biggest movie that year.

[17:10] DANIEL WARRIOR: He's sitting behind the lens looking at me and he said, mister Warrior, are you ready?

[17:17] NORRIS STREETMAN: How powerful is that? How powerful is that, man? And I can't believe. I mean, what is so exciting that your woman, your wife, your mother of your children said, go for it. We might not have it, but go for it. Wow. Who does that?

[17:43] DANIEL WARRIOR: She's in my life.

[17:44] NORRIS STREETMAN: She got me crying. Oh, wow. So when it was over with, when that scene was over with, was it a release?

[17:56] DANIEL WARRIOR: Well, I couldn't believe what just happened. And all the stuff I trained for. And I was like, man, if I think of this or make my face like this or do this, I'm like every. I'd watch myself in the mirror and it was a lot of self healing when I was trying, when I was practicing, but I didn't know I was practicing for. I didn't even know that that was gonna be my scene. But I said, I said, if I can do this, and I know I could show emotion on film without any pressure, like visualize it, then when I get there, I can do it. Cause once you visualize something, you use the same exact part of your brain every single little, every. It's similar. You could run a ten meter dash in your brain and then use the same functions in real life. And so when you get there, it's like you've already done it, but nothing can prepare you for the moment when it's like my knees are right next to the main guy sitting. And then I look up and they created the sun because it was a cloudy day. And they had to use a reflection of a spotlight that showed down into the barg lodge. And it's right on me. And these metal things that I'm wearing a. These conchos down my chest all the way down to the floor. And Scorsese said he wanted me to make sure I showed that. And it showed the light right on it. And I was. This is my moment. Yes, this is it. And nobody even knows that. My family doesn't even know I was in that movie. We had a falling out when I went to rehab. And I was a hard road of alcoholism and all that. Like, we just. They don't know. And so all that, what I could use for the emotions. Like, I came a long way. You know, I was in a ditch in Kansas and some. For some reason, my cousin, he's like, what are you doing? I'm like, I'm in a ditch in Kansas. I ran out of vodka and I ran out of gas and my car died. And I. He said, get up. And so some stranger picked me up. His name is Fox Coe. I keep in touch with him. He's a civil War reenactor. And he's. He never picked anybody up before, but his wife said, pick this guy up. They gave me some money and took me home, let me stay there. And they're some of those people that the angels. It was late at night. It was like two in the morning or something. And I don't know how they gave me money to get home. And so he kept with me. Ten years later, he's looking at pictures of me in this movie and he's like, I never knew that. You know, you had this in you, first of all. But he said, but how far you've come. It wasn't about the trophy. It was about the journey. And then that was like, people forget.

[20:33] NORRIS STREETMAN: That it's about the journey.

[20:36] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yeah. And that's how. That's this right now is what we have. It's the moment. Right now, we don't. There's no future, there's no past. It's continuous now. And people lose sight of that and they. And they worry about everything that hasn't happened yet. And they build these fake walls and fake mirrors and everything that's going to throw you off. And they're paper thin if you just turn them sideways. They don't exist. All the things we're scared of is we're built. Our brains are built to look for the things to be scared of. And then. But we never look up to say, what are the things we're not scared of, that we want to get. And you can have anything. You can have everything. And I found that out. I got more than I asked, actually. I got everything I asked for and more. But it was like, I got to be in my friend's band, Travis Bond and the Rebel Souls. Like, we were playing Rocklahoma. That was one of my dreams, to play on stage at Rocklahoma.

[21:25] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yeah. A lot of people don't know this. You're a fabulous musician. You're a drummer, you're a pianist, you're.

[21:30] DANIEL WARRIOR: A singer, you're an artist, you're a flea guitar. Yeah.

[21:34] NORRIS STREETMAN: Anything you pick up, you can learn.

[21:36] DANIEL WARRIOR: Right. And I want everybody to know that, because people don't believe that. And once you believe that you deserve it and that you believe that you're worth it and that you're due and that this is yours and all you have to do is grab it. Then you'll realize that everything that you're worried about is like, wondering if there's another side of that mountain over there. It's not yours to worry about. We don't have to even worry about that. If it's outside your reach right here, it's outside your power to change. And you have to just go with the flow, man. The thing that changed me is when I was in rehab in New York, St. Joe's, it was the best place it could ever been. I saved my life. And it was the whole thing. I didn't. The treatment, I didn't really care for. You know, it was hard, but the last life changing, right.

[22:24] NORRIS STREETMAN: All you gotta do is just change the way you think.

[22:26] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yeah. Yeah. That's the whole thing. That's all you gotta do is change everything. The one thing you have to do is change everything. But the last thing he said to me was, stay in the river. It knows where it's going.

[22:36] NORRIS STREETMAN: Oh, my God.

[22:37] DANIEL WARRIOR: And that was like, wow. It took every bit of stress off of me because everything that's outside of my control, if I'm just in that river and I'm not trying to grab the sides and rake my fingers outside to control where it's going because it already knows where it's going. It's that it's got an end on this thing.

[22:55] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yes.

[22:56] DANIEL WARRIOR: And we fight it. We fight it. We swim against it and we get tired and we get worn out and we get stressed out and we lose our hair.

[23:03] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yeah.

[23:04] DANIEL WARRIOR: You know, I know about that, but it's not worth it.

[23:07] NORRIS STREETMAN: No.

[23:07] DANIEL WARRIOR: And the great minds of the world in their last days say worrying is the word, like, the absolute opposite of why we're here. Just let it go.

[23:21] NORRIS STREETMAN: Now what one of the producers or someone in the film industry said, this is going to be your time. When this movie comes out, everyone's going to know Dan Warrior.

[23:36] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yeah. He said, the whole world might know. I said, I thought they already did, because in my mind, I already stood on that red carpet. I had my trophy up.

[23:51] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yeah.

[23:52] DANIEL WARRIOR: You know, and I did it for the right reasons. And it was from my hero, Will Sampson.

[23:55] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yes.

[23:57] DANIEL WARRIOR: Because he changed the face of native actors.

[23:58] NORRIS STREETMAN: Now a lot of people don't know who he is. Who was he?

[24:02] DANIEL WARRIOR: Okay, he's from around Preston, Okmulgee area. He's a six foot seven native American, and he was in poultry, guys. He was in one flew over the cuckoos. And that's what James.

[24:15] NORRIS STREETMAN: He was the native American that was there, right?

[24:17] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yep. And juicy fruit is his main line that everyone remembers. But it was him that just said, well, look, he's on this horseback. He's got this face paint on, and he's charging at this camera, and I can't remember who it was.

[24:33] NORRIS STREETMAN: That was Clint Eastwood.

[24:34] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yes, Clint Eastwood. And he's just this powerful giant guy. And I'm like, hey, I'm taller than that guy. You know, I got hands like he does. I have. I'm growing my hair out, you know, and I. And I was, you know, gonna learn to ride a horse. I could put face paint on.

[24:52] NORRIS STREETMAN: Right?

[24:52] DANIEL WARRIOR: I can do this, man. I can. He did this, and he did it against all odds back in the day with, like, hardcore racism. What can I do? I'm capable. I want mine, too, you know, and I'm not gonna watch my daughter's little boy and the older two huddled around a space heater ever again.

[25:12] NORRIS STREETMAN: Right?

[25:13] DANIEL WARRIOR: We lost our business. We had a tattoo shop in New York.

[25:17] NORRIS STREETMAN: Now, this is you. You had. Yeah, the tattoo shop. You had this business that you love.

[25:22] DANIEL WARRIOR: I had a. I was teaching drums. I was teaching piano. I was teaching guitar. After. After work, I was a radio dj in New York on 97, three CQ, and as a native radio station, Mohawk radio. And they didn't take to me very nicely when I first got there, but I won them over. I started throwing them dances, sock hops for the older people, rocking and skate for the kids. You know, things that brought the community together, because I saw them as a sad people. Like, it was sad. And there was, like, a lot of bitterness and a lot of. And I was like, they don't know me. But I put a billboard right on their main street of me right on top.

[26:01] NORRIS STREETMAN: What do you think? A lot of times, Native Americans, the indigenous world, they're bitter. Have you? And they're stoic. They're stoic and they're bitter.

[26:14] DANIEL WARRIOR: Right. And there's reasons for this intergenerational trauma. There's. I mean, we're a sad people because we've been portrayed as that a lot in Hollywood, a lot in books, a lot in my cowboys and Indians. We lose. And it's like, okay, well, we're just thinking. We weren't even recognized as citizens until recently.

[26:37] NORRIS STREETMAN: We believe the movies. Is that what we're doing? We're believing the movies?

[26:40] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yeah. Cause that's all we have to look. That's all we have to see. And that's why Sterling Harjo is making waves with reservation dogs, because they're getting a glimpse inside of our lives that aren't. That we're not riding horses. We're not, you know, we're living real lives with real pains, real hurts. And we're real people, and we're very educated. We're very smart. We're very. I mean, in the ways of, like, the world. Like, we can create anything with our hands. We're funny, you know, but people are just now seeing that. And so I want to be a part of that power wave of big native american stars. Like, I'm already a star. People don't know that. I was homeless in Hollywood playing Will Sampson and one flew over the cuckoo's Nest in Little Tokyo. I didn't have enough, like, money to live out there. I didn't know what I was getting into. And I went to Hollywood, go there with a plan, because I was cleaning rooms just to live in the shelter with other guys in a bunk bed.

[27:41] NORRIS STREETMAN: But you were driven.

[27:42] DANIEL WARRIOR: I was gonna do it.

[27:43] NORRIS STREETMAN: Something made you.

[27:45] DANIEL WARRIOR: I somehow got to Hollywood. My girlfriend at the time broke up with me because I went there. I ended up on the street. I was sleeping on the stars, literally, like, in an egg crate next to a guy drinking vodka. Like, we were. We were. It was the bottom. He was, like, peeing on the ground right next. I mean, it was like, literally people walking over me. And when that happens to you as a literal human being, you're like, I'm just worthless. But. But I had.

[28:13] NORRIS STREETMAN: But you had this drive. Somehow you had this vision. Even though you were. You were laying homeless on the stars and people walking all over you, somehow you still had this vision. Something kept you moving forward.

[28:31] DANIEL WARRIOR: At that point. I didn't even know how I was gonna get back home or anything. And I somehow got ahold of my friend Peter, and he took me to the airport, got me back. My mom, like, started feeding me chicken noodle soup, you know, like. And, like, started. She made me paint the barn to get silver again, to, like, get my life back together, and then sent me to New York.

[28:57] NORRIS STREETMAN: Literally. We're painting the barn.

[28:58] DANIEL WARRIOR: I painted the whole barn. Yeah. I was standing on this thing. Like, I was really. It's at my mom's. It's. It's. It houses the bulls in there, so it was all rusted, so I painted it silver. And I learned a lot of things out there about myself.

[29:15] NORRIS STREETMAN: When you were painting, what did you learn?

[29:17] DANIEL WARRIOR: Well, don't box yourself in while you're painting. That was.

[29:24] NORRIS STREETMAN: But that's life, isn't it? Don't box yourself. Keep all those things.

[29:27] DANIEL WARRIOR: All those little things. Yes. And it was all mind related to mindset. Why am I running out of paint? Well, you didn't plan for it. Like, why did you. Why. Why is this part of it creaking? Well, I'm 400 pounds. You know, I'm not anymore because that, at that time, I started.

[29:46] NORRIS STREETMAN: How. How are you 250?

[29:49] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yeah. I mean, I lost 150 pounds.

[29:51] NORRIS STREETMAN: Wow.

[29:52] DANIEL WARRIOR: By seeing myself. I'm built, dude. But what it was is, like, I saw myself, like, real, like, dark and everything, and, like. And this bike suit, and I had a helmet on, and I never ride bikes, so I was like, oh, that's kind of crazy. But I started accepting, like, those visions that I was seeing. I was like, yeah, I look pretty thin in that. It's a yellow skin type biker shirt. And then I was like, hey, I could probably do that. And then once I saw it, my mind and my body wouldn't let me eat the donuts. It wouldn't let me get the extra ice cream or the cookies and milk at night that I used to. It wouldn't let me do it. So I just said, well, what about some vegetables? What about a new vinaigrette? What about walking around the block? And so it was like, the things that hurt because this life isn't. We choose this dream we're in because it's hard. Because it's hard. Because imagine if you could fly every day. Would you? You'd want to, like, stub your toe every once in a while, you know, you'd want to see, like, if things could still go wrong. And so if you could dream 75 years of life in one dream at one night, and have the best pleasures and best fun. You'd say, well, I want a surprise this time. You know, and it could be a good surprise. They'll throw you a surprise birthday party and like, oh, that was pretty fun, but you want to. And then those would equal out the bad and the good. Then you'd say, that's where you are right now. This is what you're living. There is bad and there is good, but what are you looking for, right? You see your favorite car everywhere you go. You know why your subconscious is. It's manifesting that for you. And if you don't listen to that, that's your fault if you don't act on it. That's called karma. Karma means doing. And then no man, no person has ever gotten away with anything in this whole world, somewhere down the road, somewhere down the next minute. So choose your next step wisely. Choose the right. Be a light and don't lose sight.

[31:44] NORRIS STREETMAN: So what's your vision today? What is your dreams today?

[31:49] DANIEL WARRIOR: Hope you buy me lunch.

[31:51] NORRIS STREETMAN: That's no problem. You got that?

[31:53] DANIEL WARRIOR: No, today it's like, you know, I prayed before I came here that I would say the right things. But what are the right things, you know? You need to hear something different. I need to hear something different. I need you to hear it. I need your ears to comprehend my voice, to give you a new message. And you do the same for me. And that's why we're here. We're here for connectedness. It doesn't matter who we are, because you're a mirror. Your face, when you walk in, are you like, all sad and face. Everyone's going to look all mad face and mean bugging at you, of course, because look at your face. I go and smiling everywhere. Guess what? People looking at me, what do they do? They smile.

[32:32] NORRIS STREETMAN: I did a test one time there. I walked around all day frowning at everybody, and everybody would frown back, except this one homeless guy. He'd come up to me and say, hey, man, what's wrong? Yeah, he's the only guy. And then, so the next day, same place I smiled, everybody smiled at me. And same almost guy came out. What are you asking about?

[32:58] DANIEL WARRIOR: So that's the balance, man. And once you can see, once. I mean, I saw rock bottom, so I knew there had to be a top. But for me, it just seems like even grabbing and getting the stars, I can still see past the stars, you know what I'm saying? Like, there's still something out there for me. And I'm. I can't wait for the next red carpet. I can't wait for the next producer to say, all right, mister Warrior, it's your turn. Danny Trejo said, bro, why are you picking up trash? And I was like, I'm a pa. You need something to drink or, you know, whatever. He's like, no, I don't want them to see my star picking up trash.

[33:32] NORRIS STREETMAN: Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

[33:34] DANIEL WARRIOR: And then I was like, whoa. He's like, I'm firing you from this position. And he came back a week later, and they paid me, like three times as much just for being in his movie.

[33:45] NORRIS STREETMAN: How cool.

[33:45] DANIEL WARRIOR: With Efren Ramirez, Pedro from Napoleon dynamite.

[33:49] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yeah.

[33:49] DANIEL WARRIOR: And Sal Lopez. He was in full metal jacket, Selena, all these major movies, and it was just like one person from the next. Just from smiling at these guys.

[33:58] NORRIS STREETMAN: Oh, yeah.

[33:59] DANIEL WARRIOR: They say, bro, I want to be in my next movie, and I'm going to introduce you to this guy. This guy. Let's go. Let's do it. Come on. Let's go. What do you got for me? Because I love coming home to my wife with good news and handing her a bunch of money. Just saying there, just do what we need to do, and let's just keep our baby smiling because it doesn't matter. I had a lot of money. I had zero money. And to have a baby reach for me, my little tiny daughters and my son reached for me for no reason. An old alcoholic thought I was worthless guy, and they're reaching for me, saying, that's my dad. And just that alone is worth more than gold. So you guys can have everything I have. Just let me see that smile.

[34:43] NORRIS STREETMAN: So tell me what it's like being a father. And how many children do you have?

[34:47] DANIEL WARRIOR: I have. She had two previous to me, and they're mine. De ja lacwanega huataniosta, 1615. And then my son, Lanonkwa Tselatzatste, which means he is powerful medicine. He's four and a half. Gunna lonkwaet tela hawi means she's the bringer of love. And then dehonya de la stelate, which means the little sparkles on the river, but we call him brave Zena and Aurora sky, so hers we call them bubs and missy. And so we just had a little tight little, little tribe in our little camper, and things are looking up. We just moved into a new camper. We got hot water, we have electric, we have, you know, heater.

[35:35] NORRIS STREETMAN: So now you just got back from Florida?

[35:40] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yeah, some big shindig. Speaking to the military about Native Americans and their hair, being able to wear long hair in the military, it passed. So now we can. In the air force, and then also wearing your regalia for ceremonies, for award ceremonies in the military, and then not getting punished for leave time, for feasts and ceremonies for all Native Americans across as a soldier, as whatever branch they're in. And so now that passed, and so it's a big deal. So now we get to spread the news about that. And then I just flew home after that. I got some fancy charcuterie board under these palm trees, and then I was back on the airplane the next day, back to my camper with tales of adventure from my wife. And she said she was proud of me. And then also, I said that I was doing this with you, and she also said she was proud of me. So this is the message for everyone. It wasn't the stay in the river and knows where it's going. It wasn't the trophy. It was the journey.

[36:43] NORRIS STREETMAN: But, you know, I think a lot of people don't realize this. The indigenous people, the native american warrior. Of all the categories of races, from white to italian, the Native American has more warriors, literal warriors, that go to war than any other.

[37:09] DANIEL WARRIOR: In all branches?

[37:10] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yes, in all branches.

[37:12] DANIEL WARRIOR: Yeah.

[37:12] NORRIS STREETMAN: That's powerful. That's powerful stuff.

[37:14] DANIEL WARRIOR: I mean, it's still ours. We're still gonna defend it.

[37:17] NORRIS STREETMAN: Yes.

[37:18] DANIEL WARRIOR: At the same time, you know, just keeping our families safe at home and our friends and keeping them loved, keeping our arm around our people and having hard times. Spreading that medicine is better than, you know, any, like, I was gonna say some amusement parks or whatever, but just knowing that you have friends there beside each other is more powerful because you have a conscious, collective mind.

[37:48] NORRIS STREETMAN: Community.

[37:49] DANIEL WARRIOR: Community, yeah. And it's hard to teach that. And I want my kids to know, like, you know, they don't want us to like each other, but, you know, my kids hug everyone they see, and they know that love, and that's what I want them to spread to the world.

[38:05] NORRIS STREETMAN: What is there. Is there anything that you tell your children? Do you give them any kind of vision like you have?

[38:17] DANIEL WARRIOR: Well, like, I literally record it on blockbuster movies. Like, literally, I get into movies so I can show them whatever they dream in their head can happen, and there's a record of it. So now it's on a silver screen. And so that's what I do for my kids. You know, they're too young to speak, but I can teach them by example. Like, they saw where we were. They saw our house falling apart. They saw everything taken from us during the pandemic. And they also saw me rise all the way to the top within one year because I didn't set any boundaries on myself. And so people are cheering me along on social media and Facebook. They're cheering me on. I'm like Peter Pan. The more they clap, the more I can fly to. So I hope everyone does that for me here. And I appreciate you bringing me on the show because I finally got to tell some stuff that I didn't get to tell before. Like, you know, I've been waiting to tell somebody.

[39:13] NORRIS STREETMAN: So my brother, Dan Warrior, a true warrior.

[39:22] DANIEL WARRIOR: Thank you. It.