The Deen Show – The Life and Death of a Real Gangster from Bosnia Ismet Bajramovi elo

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The transcript describes the struggles of Citions' life, including his legal troubles and struggles with violence. He was a gifted torturer and a demolitionist, and eventually executed by the military police. He was eventually executed by the police again and was eventually set free. He became a woman’s leader and eventually found a new form of women’s control, with a new sense of life starting after drinking less and less going to the club. He started less and less going to the club, but eventually started less and less going to the club.

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			Ismet Cielo Baramovich was born in Sarajevo on
		
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			the 26th April 1966.
		
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			His nickname, Cielo, Ismet was sentenced to 11
		
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			years in jail. He was sent to the
		
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			infamous Zeneca prison. Out of the 11 years
		
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			he was sentenced to, Chalo served 6 and
		
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			he was released in 1991,
		
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			becoming the godfather of Sarajevo.
		
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			When he exited jail, he started to work
		
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			as a debt collector for of the underground
		
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			in
		
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			Sarajevo,
		
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			and you really didn't want to avoid payment
		
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			to him since the police were on his
		
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			side. And let's just say he was a
		
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			gifted torturer and a demolitionist.
		
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			There are stories of nightclub owners not wanting
		
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			to give him his share of the pie
		
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			and his men professionally disassembling the building.
		
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			What Bayramovich
		
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			told his men to destroy had to look
		
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			like a quarry after the action.
		
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			He rapidly rose through the ranks of the
		
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			mob to become the most powerful criminal in
		
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			Sarajevo at that time. The nineties in Yugoslavia
		
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			were a very dark decade,
		
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			marked by ethnic wars from 1991 to 2000
		
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			and one. Ismet joined the military and actually
		
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			helped the defenders,
		
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			especially in two decisive battles for Sarajevo.
		
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			The first one was on May second, 1992,
		
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			in the battle for the presidency of Bosnia
		
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			and Herzegovina.
		
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			They fought in Skenderia
		
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			against the special forces of the JNA from
		
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			Nis. The other battle was just 2 weeks
		
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			later on May 16, 1992,
		
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			the Battle of Pofalic.
		
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			Because of his heroic deeds in the two
		
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			decisive battles, Cello became a commandant for the
		
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			Sarajevo military police and his two friends became
		
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			deputies. Criminal groups were the first to enter
		
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			the military forces and defend against the siege
		
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			of Sarajevo.
		
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			They were not too keen to protect the
		
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			city from the attackers. They rather wanted to
		
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			protect their criminal territory.
		
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			And under the veil of war and the
		
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			military uniforms,
		
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			it was very easy to profit, especially as
		
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			a head of the military police.
		
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			At the beginning of 1993,
		
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			he was dismissed from the position of the
		
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			military police chief. Unfortunately for Cielo, he couldn't
		
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			profit for long because he was almost fatally
		
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			wounded.
		
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			In the fall of 1993,
		
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			he was shot by a Serbian sniper. The
		
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			shot barely missed his heart and he had
		
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			to be evacuated from the city and couldn't
		
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			return to the war until 1997.
		
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			He didn't sit with his arms crossed. He
		
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			tried acting in his downtime.
		
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			Chalo appeared in an episode of the PBS
		
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			program during that time. He also gave interviews
		
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			for Vanity Fair and The New York Times.
		
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			After the wars ended, a lot of nineties
		
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			mobsters were either dead, in the prosecution,
		
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			or made their way into politics.
		
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			Cello, on the other hand, continued his life
		
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			of crime. He was arrested multiple times for
		
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			a variety of charges, but was ultimately set
		
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			free a few weeks after the murder occurred
		
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			and Chalo as the leader was sentenced to
		
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			20 years in prison. But after almost 5
		
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			years behind bars,
		
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			his conviction was overturned and he was free
		
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			again. Death.
		
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			Remember the sniper wound to the heart? Well,
		
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			due to that injury and his unhealthy lifestyle,
		
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			his health began to rapidly decline.
		
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			Inhumane prisons in Bosnia at the time didn't
		
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			help either.
		
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			On 17th December 2008,
		
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			shocking news appeared in Yugoslavia. Izmet Cielo Bayramovic,
		
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			the godfather of Sarajevo,
		
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			former chief of the military police, T'asam a
		
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			criminal, and T'asam a hero, was found dead
		
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			in his apartment due to suicide.
		
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			He had shot himself in the temple of
		
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			the eye with a pistol, but unofficially, his
		
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			rapidly declining health was said to be the
		
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			motive. He always cared for himself and didn't
		
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			want to die as a sick old man.
		
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			He wanted to go on his own terms
		
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			with the ringleaders of organized crime and some
		
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			murders. Of course, no one wants to talk
		
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			about all this publicly.
		
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			And whether the stories circulating in Sarajevo are
		
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			true still stays unknown. Well I hooked up
		
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			with an individual that
		
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			I inspired to be like. When you watch
		
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			some of the other Goodfellas and you hear
		
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			about Al Capone, this individual
		
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			was the closest resemblance to those people, and
		
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			I wanted to be the top of that
		
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			lifestyle. And he took great care of me.
		
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			He took me into his home, his many
		
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			homes. He showed me around and said, pick
		
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			1. And I saw the lifestyle he had
		
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			that country. Basically,
		
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			it was his, and he was someone who
		
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			was who you didn't wanna cross.
		
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			And he was respected, and I took to
		
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			him,
		
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			and
		
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			we were very close.
		
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			Eddie returned to Chicago from Bosnia with a
		
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			new understanding
		
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			of the world.
		
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			In the same way, he demanded respect
		
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			and loyalty, this is something that I demanded.
		
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			And if I didn't get, then I took.
		
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			And I put fear in people
		
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			the same way he was doing.
		
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			Influenced by his father's work in the club
		
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			industry,
		
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			Eddie naturally began to seek out that path.
		
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			We worked for, for one of the largest
		
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			promoters in Chicago. Eddie worked for him and
		
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			I worked for him as well. Eddie was
		
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			one of the guys, one of the enforcers.
		
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			He used to run around. Basically just beat
		
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			up people. That was really Eddie's nature and
		
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			his essence.
		
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			Eddie was also a ladies' man. Eddie brought
		
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			a lot of the ladies. At any given
		
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			moment, he could have 7 to 8 women
		
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			that are running around the club looking for
		
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			him. While all of this was happening,
		
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			Eddie, who loved to fight,
		
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			found a new form of release
		
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			in Brazilian jiu jitsu. You know, there's 24
		
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			hours in a day, but it seemed like,
		
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			for 25 hours he was training. You know,
		
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			he was researching, training,
		
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			sparring, just, you know, was in love with
		
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			it. Jiu Jitsu, you know, change him, you
		
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			know. But jujitsu wasn't enough to keep Eddie
		
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			away from the cooler lifestyle. I know Eddie's
		
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			presence was very significant in the club. Everybody
		
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			knew Eddie. When he was dating one of
		
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			the hottest girls in the city, he decided
		
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			to get a, get a Harley, a chopper,
		
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			430, a nice new Mercedes. As the cool
		
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			became common,
		
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			Eddie began to have a new sense of
		
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			life.
		
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			We're about 6 months into,
		
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			owning this night club together. We were probably
		
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			drinking
		
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			6 nights a week because we're at the
		
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			bar all the time. So as training went
		
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			down, a lot of women went up. And
		
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			Eddie, I think, to this day may look
		
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			at God's way of kinda saying, yeah, you're
		
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			having fun but this isn't the way you're
		
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			supposed to be having fun. All the power
		
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			he possessed
		
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			still made him feel helpless.
		
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			As strong as he is and as intimidating
		
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			as he is as an individual,
		
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			it really didn't matter. There was no peace.
		
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			The glamorous life Eddie had been living felt
		
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			shallow and empty.
		
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			There was no peace of mind. Initially, when
		
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			we met, Eddie seemed pretty perfect.
		
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			The perfect lifestyle. All the women, all the
		
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			cars,
		
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			tough guy. He can do anything he wants
		
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			to do, runs around with his head up.
		
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			But as I got to know him, it
		
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			seemed it seemed flawed. There was things missing.
		
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			His physical being was great for his ego,
		
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			but it left him empty.
		
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			Feeling lost,
		
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			Eddie started searching for answers. Didn't take long
		
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			before Eddie was reminded of death. I was
		
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			in Brazil. I was maybe a week from
		
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			coming home and I was talking to my
		
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			brother on the phone. And then he asked
		
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			me a question in Islam like, did you
		
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			read this book? He wanted to make sure
		
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			in himself and inside his heart that that
		
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			was the truth. When my brother first started,
		
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			to learn Islam, he was so
		
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			enthusiastic.
		
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			It wasn't about forcing people to change.
		
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			Eddie's newly acquired knowledge allowed him to see
		
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			life
		
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			in a very different way. So he started
		
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			less and less going to the club. He'll
		
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			go to his parties but leave, like, be
		
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			there for an hour and leave.
		
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			Sometimes he wouldn't even show up and just
		
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			have, me and,
		
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			someone else run it. He kinda, like, wanted
		
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			to talk to people about Islam, but then
		
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			he was kinda being a hypocrite
		
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			because he was in the scene, and I
		
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			think it forced him more to get out
		
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			of it. Eddie had stopped drinking at this
		
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			point. Me and Eddie used to drink a
		
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			lot. Eddie used to drink maybe more than
		
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			me. At that point, Eddie had quit drinking
		
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			this over 2, 3 month time period. He
		
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			was praying 5 times a day. He was,
		
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			doing a lot of reading, a lot of
		
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			studying on Islam.
		
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			Giving up the old lifestyle proved to be
		
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			a real struggle for Eddie
		
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			but determined as he was,
		
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			he quickly adapted to the situation.
		
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			And that that first episode of that,
		
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			show
		
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			aired, I think that's when you saw the
		
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			full formation coming to to hope this guy's
		
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			changed. What's going on here? The Dean Show
		
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			combined with his passion for jujitsu
		
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			has made Eddie achieve goals he never thought
		
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			possible.
		
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			Eddie's purpose with the Dean Show was to
		
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			enlighten people
		
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			who might be in a similar condition
		
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			as he was in the past.
		
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			It is good for him to make up
		
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			for all those,
		
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			times that he missed doing what is right.
		
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			So, you know, and he probably realizes that
		
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			that's why he's working extra hard, you know.
		
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			Eddie continues his struggle to help people find
		
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			a way that has been lost to them.
		
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			For he himself
		
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			is an example
		
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			of redemption.
		
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			He is living proof
		
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			that if one puts his or her mind
		
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			to it, they can achieve anything.
		
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			If you want to do it and you
		
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			have a willpower, you can do it. And
		
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			if you if you have,
		
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			some support and some guidance, it is possible.
		
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			Being part of the biggest family of martial
		
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			arts, with over a few 100 students, in
		
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			the Dean Show, man, man, it's it's a
		
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			lot of work. He's he's a machine, you
		
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			know. If someone who knew Eddie,
		
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			in his youth, they would maybe predict that
		
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			he'd be dead or he'd be, in jail
		
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			or he'd be definitely
		
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			in in, on the, in the negative side
		
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			of life, you know, but to see someone
		
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			change, to see that their their whole,
		
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			their character changes, to see their, these these,
		
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			you know, countless changing positive changes in their
		
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			life,
		
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			It's a sign, of God.