MTV Caged Trailer: Official Preview Trailer for Caged on MTV

By Biagio on December 7, 2011 in Caged, From the Trenches with 12 Comments

Trailer for Caged on MTV

MTVs Caged is our new TV show, and as you know from previous posts, this one is truly close to our hearts. As executive producers, co-creators, and hands-on creatives we feel this is our finest work to date.

Have a look and see why the kids on CAGED have won our hearts:

(embedded from MTV, so please give it a second to load.)

Be sure to follow our official Joke and Biagio CAGED Twitter feed for live tweets during episodes and behind-the-scenes scoop: @JNB_MTV_Caged

Catch Caged Mondays 10pm/9 central on MTV.

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  • Gail Gardner

    This trailer makes me so sad. It is a true reflection of how lost people are – how far we have strayed from any semblance of what is important in life. This is all conditioning – conditioning that has taken place generation after generation and escalated to send mainstream America into the gutter. 

    Please, people, wake up! Competition and violence; drinking and partying; consuming and trashing – none of these things will lead to happiness. 

    What is really important is relationships! Social media is teaching us all that caring about each other and COLLABORATING is the solution to the mess our planet and lives are in. As you watch this try seeing it through my eyes and focus on what is WRONG with this picture (wrong meaning wrong with how people think life should be lived as portrayed in this movie – not “wrong” with the film which is accurately portraying the choices actual people are making). 

    When a client told me his teenage daughter loved the movie Fight Club I had Netflix send it to me. I couldn’t watch it. How did we get to the point where even teenage girls want to see people beat each other – and in real life girls are even doing this to each other? 

    When the economy got tough that client thought the solution was to “cut his competition off at the knees”. It was clear that his standards and mine were too far apart and I no longer work with him. Conditioning has created lives where everything is war and competition and winning and losing. It has created a world where people not only don’t care who else suffers they ENJOY watching and even MAKING them suffer. 

    I have no doubt this will be a popular show because it IS where the majority of people’s heads are. I am just fortunate that I have been identifying and filling my life with people who still have hearts and would never choose to watch those who intentionally live lives that include this kind of abuse by choice. 

      

    • http://www.jokeandbiagio.com Joke and Biagio

      Gail, 
      Wow, thank you for the thorough and passionate reply.  It’s clear you feel strongly about the subject matter, but we’d encourage you to watch the first episode of CAGED before you judge the show as a real life “Fight Club.”

      As you’ll see from the trainers, coaches, and loved ones on this show, as well as the amount of time, love, and care that’s gone into accurately portraying the lives of aspiring MMA athletes, the stories we’re telling are about kids working to OVERCOME life’s obstacles.  Trying to avoid the very pitfalls you mention above.  

      In fact, training for three hours a day, six days a week, is what keeps these kids away from many of the temptations life brings their way.

      Because this is real life, some do better than others. We never shy away from showing the full story. 

      You may feel that sanctioned sports like boxing, MMA, and olympic sports like Tae Kwan Do are simply violent, and are certainly entitled to your opinion.  However, we’ve met countless individuals who’ve turned their lives around through the discipline and self-confidence martial arts has taught them.

      Please know that we make this show from the purest of places: telling the stories of young men and women we find to be extraordinary.  It’s amazing the amount of life lessons we’ve picked up from some of the kids on the show…often times they make the most amazing, shocking, and completely true observations about our world.

      Regardless of if you tune in or not, please know that we share many of your beliefs, agree that “cutting people off at the knees” is a bad thing, and would never make a show that celebrates the suffering of others.  

      CAGED does have some shocking moments, and being set in the world of MMA it does involve fighting, but the show is not about destroying our fellow man, it’s about celebrating the human spirit to overcome life’s most difficult hurdles.

      • http://GrowMap.com Gail Gardner

        Sorry for the delay in responding. If I am too busy to answer right away, finding my way back is a challenege. :-)

        My perspective on life is very different than the one that has been conditioned into people for generations by the media and schools. What is “real life” for so many is to me a focus on all the wrong priorities with competing, sports and violence second only to the worship of money as distractions from what is important in life: exercising free choice over who we are, how we treat each other, and where we are going.

        I did not always see so clearly and know that most people can simply not imagine a world where competition is unnecessary and everyone on the planet has food, water and shelter and cares about everyone else. Indeed, that world does not exist yet and mankind is more likely to kill us all than to create it themselves. That does not mean it will not happen. 

        I personally know Tommy Schmitz, an author who wrote a brilliant book called Tokyo Twins that has the most surprising ending. The first book is available in bookstores and he is publishing the serialized version of book 2 on a blog. I always think of that book when I envision a world without competition. I highly recommend it. It might even make a wonderful movie for you and change the world faster. 

        P.S. In my world we do not recommend, support, or buy from companies that don’t care about their employees or the environment, so if you do buy Tommy’s book please support an independent book seller (the same way I support independent film producers) and do not buy it from Amazon for reasons I explain in my post about why so many boycott Amazon. (Abe Books is now owned by them so not there either).  

        I usually use BiggerBooks or BetterWorldBooks but this is a special book and neither of them has it, but I did find Tokyo Twins by Tommy Schmitz on Powells Books. 

    • X-tremefights

      Are you kidding me? You obviously have no idea! MMA is very strict and disciplined! Our students are in no way allowed to fight unless it is in class, in the ring, or they have been threatened and scared for their lives! If bad things happen then the trainers need to be looked at as well! You obviously have no clue about the origins of MMA. It is also a great way for the kids to get off the couch from playing video games(in which you should be more concerned about that violence and blowing peoples heads off then MMA!) and get a little bit of fitness in their lives!

      • X-tremefights

        In response to Gail

      • http://www.growmap.com/small-business-economy-occupy-wall-street/ Gail Gardner

        Physically pounding each other is violent and glorifying it leads to even more violence Yes, I know that to some that is socially acceptable and you may be unable to even imagine a world where violence is not encouraged or accepted.

        Americans are conditioned to see competition as healthy and violent sports are a great way to condition the masses to be willing to be cannon fodder in “conflicts” that make the few mega-bucks and the many – both military and civilian – “collateral damage”. No doubt that happens in every other country in some form or other.

        War is very strict and disciplined as well, so your students will be perfectly positioned and many most likely eager to “do their patriotic duty”. Before you send them off I highly recommend they watch the video re-enactment of War is a Racket
        by Smedley Butler who was was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps
        and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S.
        history.This is the very best speech on the truth of war I have ever
        heard.

  • the king

    hi im a highschool wrestler i go to astronaut high school i love to compete. I plan on training in mma rite out of high school and some day i hope to get to a ufc champion ship. i love this stuff and cant wait for the show to air.

    • http://www.facebook.com/joke.n.biagio Joke N Biagio

      Best of luck to you! If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that MMA is a highly disciplined sport, and the people competing in it are not only tough but very talented, hard workers.  Glad to hear you’ll be watching and good luck with your journey.

    • http://www.jokeandbiagio.com Biagio

      Best of luck to you! If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that MMA is a highly disciplined sport, and the people competing in it are not only tough but very talented, hard workers. Glad to hear you’ll be watching and good luck with your journey.

    • http://www.jokeandbiagio.com Joke and Biagio

      Best of luck to you! If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that MMA is a highly disciplined sport, and the people competing in it are not only tough but very talented, hard workers.  Glad to hear you’ll be watching and good luck with your journey.

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