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Joe Rogan Experience #407 - Eddie Bravo
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joe rogan
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unidentified
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joe rogan
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unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
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eddie bravo
Joey D is running out of breath.
joe rogan
He's like a black belt in acting and a white belt in pretending to be out of breath.
eddie bravo
How would Joey do it?
joe rogan
Joey's out of breath all the time.
eddie bravo
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unidentified
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Yeah.
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joe rogan
Yeah, we've always had stuff like that.
unidentified
That's so funny.
joe rogan
Oh, this is a new one.
Okay, I haven't seen that.
Where is that under?
unidentified
It's, uh, I don't know.
brian redban
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eddie bravo
Who's David Rickles?
joe rogan
David Caveman Rickles, who fights in Bellator.
eddie bravo
Oh.
Okay.
unidentified
Sweet love.
I get it.
eddie bravo
Well, it's not a caveman pack.
It's really, like, a fighter that you guys sponsor, and you guys are trying to blow him up, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
No, well, his nickname's Caveman, so that's why it's a caveman pack.
eddie bravo
Oh.
joe rogan
Get it?
eddie bravo
Yeah, now I get it.
joe rogan
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eddie bravo
I just thought it was like on it.
We have a caveman pack.
We have a gladiator pack.
joe rogan
No, his name is caveman.
And since we sponsor him.
eddie bravo
A lover pack.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
eddie bravo
All the Viagra shit you guys use.
joe rogan
That Bellator 155 pound weight class is a tricky weight class, man.
We'll talk about that on the podcast.
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eddie bravo
10th Planet Bells?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, we have a new monkey, too.
We have a new 18-pound monkey.
unidentified
A little baby.
joe rogan
A little howler monkey.
Plus, we've got a zombie coming out.
eddie bravo
Zombie should be big.
joe rogan
Zombie's gonna be huge.
I want to do a Sasquatch.
A Sasquatch that's 103 pounds.
eddie bravo
You know what would be cool?
Is if you could put hair all around that bar so when you look at it, it looks like you're holding someone's hair and you're just fucking throwing it around.
And the edge of it is like someone got decapitated.
You're doing...
Remember the decap-a-sack?
Remember the decap-a-sack?
It looks like you're just a fucking...
You got two of them and you're just chopping heads off and shit.
The Vlad the Impaler series.
joe rogan
Maybe we can make little wigs for them.
eddie bravo
That would be huge too.
joe rogan
Wigs that you could put on.
eddie bravo
And then the end has to be just like skin hanging and stuff.
But it's got to be balanced though.
It's going to be hard.
joe rogan
Well, a really good kettlebell would be one that had like a rubber skin around it that was super durable, but it was like a rubber...
brendan schaub
It only lasts like a year and a half and then you gotta get...
joe rogan
You just gotta get re-skinned.
eddie bravo
It comes with cream that you put on it once a month.
brendan schaub
You gotta take care of it, shit.
joe rogan
So the new Howler Monkey is 18 pounds.
So it's 18 pounds, there's a 36 pound chimp, a 54 pound orangutan, and a 72 pound gorilla.
They're all done in these things called poods, which are a Russian series of measurement, which, thank God, they don't only use anymore.
I used to just say, like, one pood, two poods, and everybody's like, what the fuck, I gotta Google a pood?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The gorilla's the motherfucker, though.
That's the one I use.
unidentified
You use the gorilla?
joe rogan
The two pood, yeah.
unidentified
72 pounds.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's awesome.
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
I use that for alternating cleans, son.
unidentified
Was that the one that you posted a photo of yesterday?
joe rogan
No, that was one of my regular ones.
eddie bravo
You could take a hot chick's head and open up the mouth, go psh, psh.
joe rogan
I have two different gyms at my house.
The gym in the house with the weights.
I just have regular kettlebells.
The one in the garage with the MMA equipment.
That's all.
The gorilla ones.
brian redban
They were talking about you on Opie and Anthony on the way over here.
unidentified
I was listening about you doing kettlebells today.
joe rogan
Why were you talking about me doing kettlebells?
unidentified
I don't know, just how sexy that photo was.
eddie bravo
Sexy!
Dude, you need to put out some kind of kettlebell.
Oh, you're doing it.
unidentified
You're selling them.
eddie bravo
What am I talking about?
unidentified
I was just thinking, you need to sell some kettlebells.
eddie bravo
What an idiot.
See, I smoke too much.
brendan schaub
I told you guys.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
No, you're fine.
You're fine.
Dude, don't panic.
eddie bravo
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eddie bravo
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unidentified
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joe rogan
Good googly moogly, Eddie Bravo.
Good googly moogly.
eddie bravo
What does that mean?
joe rogan
That's Joey Diaz's thing.
Now everybody's saying it.
People say it all the time.
unidentified
When you see something fucking crazy, he goes, Good Googly Moogly!
joe rogan
And so it's stuck.
eddie bravo
I haven't heard that yet.
That must be brand new.
joe rogan
It's a fairly recent one, and Joey's been doing it for the past second.
I'm sure it's an old saying.
You remember the Sasquahanna hat store?
One that he went off about the weed being Sasquahanna weed?
We didn't know what the fuck that meant.
I bet Good Googly Moogly is like that.
It's probably something that dudes used to say to each other.
unidentified
Oh yeah, I remember that.
I've heard that.
joe rogan
You remember Good Googly Moogly?
unidentified
I think they used to say it in cartoons a lot, actually, like old Looney Tunes.
joe rogan
Oh, now that you're saying that, I kind of remember that.
unidentified
Googly Moogly.
joe rogan
Yeah, where did Googly...
Okay, let's Google.
The origin of Good Googly Moogly.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
You think that would possibly be...
eddie bravo
Everything comes up, man.
unidentified
Alright.
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
unidentified
Here's a...
joe rogan
Okay, let's see.
The origin of Good Googly Moogly.
unidentified
Alright.
joe rogan
Yep.
Urban Dictionary.
Wow.
What are you doing?
What are you playing?
unidentified
It's a commercial that has it on there.
Look, it's an old man.
Not going anywhere for a while?
You're a googly moogly.
eddie bravo
Is that something that Mr. Magoo would say?
unidentified
Something like that, yeah.
brian redban
I think my grandfather used to say it or something, or it used to be in the old Looney Tunes or...
joe rogan
Well, it's in the Urban Dictionary, and a phrase used when a real thick female walks by, and you want to say, damn!
unidentified
That's like an updated...
joe rogan
That's what it says.
They've basically co-opted it.
They hijacked it.
Great googly moogly orange.
eddie bravo
How long is it going to take for Joey Diaz to be, like...
An A-list actor, just a tremendous phenomenon.
Yeah, exactly, right?
joe rogan
Here's the origin.
Here's the origin.
Good Googly Moogly is in Frank Zappa's song, Nanook Rubs It.
The song was released in 1974. Play it.
The term is now used as an utterance of great surprise.
Huh.
Wow.
eddie bravo
I like the first definition better.
joe rogan
Yeah, well that works today.
That's the Urban Dictionary version of it.
eddie bravo
So when you see a girl, you can say something out loud and it's not offensive.
How could a girl get pissed off at that?
joe rogan
Especially if you're not looking at her.
eddie bravo
You know what, Rahsaan, hanging out with a couple Brazilian guys, and there's one Brazilian guy that he says, His pickup line was, my God!
He would just go, my God!
That works in Brazil great, but not in the States.
My God!
joe rogan
That's all you need in Brazil.
eddie bravo
Exactly, you just grab them and you just take them.
The girls are used to that shit.
joe rogan
What is it about Brazil?
eddie bravo
There's way more girls in those countries like...
Brazil and Argentina are very similar in that there's way more girls than there is guys.
In the beginning, when we first started training jiu-jitsu, the Machados, we'd hear all these stories about Brazil and we all thought jiu-jitsu was as big as soccer in Brazil based on what they were telling us.
And they'd say, man, when you go to Brazil, 11 girls for every guy is incredible.
And we're like, what?
So all these Americans and shit dudes...
Carlos Machado's guys, all the Texas guys are like, we gotta go to Brazil.
So in 2000 we went to check it all out.
And it's true.
There is a...
You just see that there's more girls than guys.
joe rogan
Is that like statistically?
eddie bravo
It's got to be because you see it.
And you even see it more in Argentina.
I was in Argentina three years ago.
And you see just droves and gangs of girls just all together.
But they react different to the situation in Argentina than Brazil.
In Brazil...
It's a lot easier to make moves on chicks in Brazil.
But in Argentina, it backfired.
So girls are...
In Argentina, they're just like...
They don't trust dudes at all.
Because dudes can easily have multiple girlfriends.
And prostitution is totally legal.
So girls in Argentina are pissed off.
They're like, why should I trust you?
You're going to definitely have other girlfriends.
And if I piss you off, you're going to go right to the whorehouses.
Prove to me that you...
So they're pissed off.
The girls...
That's my experience in Argentina.
joe rogan
Well, that's the one argument against prostitution is that it forces...
It allows, rather, guys to not be forced into relationships.
Like, how do you develop meaningful relationships and have children and all that jazz if there's legalized prostitution everywhere?
Because if you've got a couple of bucks and someone starts talking shit, you just go...
Okay.
You start going, I don't need this.
I don't need someone in my life yelling at me just so I can get my sex.
I can just go right over there and get my sex.
eddie bravo
The guy that was taking us around in Argentina, we had a guide.
He said that it's very typical that you go out on a date with a chick.
You try the civilians.
You try him out.
You know, the whorehouses are always going to be there.
So he said he would just take a girl to a club and need to be dancing.
And if, you know, he'd start putting his hands on her on the dance floor and try to grab her ass.
And if she wasn't intuitive, she didn't respond.
He would just say, I'm going to the bathroom.
And just go right out and jump in a cab and go right to the whorehouse.
brendan schaub
He had no patience.
eddie bravo
He's telling us.
So that's why the girls are so pissed.
Because girls are used to that.
Girls are used to guys just saying, okay, I'm out.
You know?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
They don't have to beg, basically.
joe rogan
What does that do to a culture?
That's very strange when you stop and think about it.
You know, because I'm a person that believes totally in personal freedom.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with someone being a prostitute, if they want to be a prostitute.
If you are working at Denny's, serving people food for fucking $3 an hour, or someone says, hey, you can get a hundred bucks an hour, you can fuck a bunch of nice guys, you know, why not?
Why not do that?
I'm not saying that it should be something that people pursue, but why is it okay to give someone a hug?
Why is it okay to give someone a massage, and it's not okay to suck their dick?
You have a great point there, Joe.
You could pay for a massage.
Someone who doesn't want to touch you rubs on you for an hour and a half.
But you're telling me that, first of all, we both know there are crazy girls out there that would probably love to blow a bunch of guys all day.
They exist.
eddie bravo
They do porn.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know why they exist, but they exist.
You could say they exist because of abuse.
You could say they exist because of childhood neglect.
That's possible.
I agree.
But they exist.
And it's not like you're supporting that market by creating whorehouses.
Those people are going to be there no matter what you do, unless you clean up society.
So you're always going to have people that are off the rails.
Why not?
Is that the big one?
unidentified
Disease?
Yeah, because you have to control the disease.
eddie bravo
With a back massage, you're not getting fucking AIDS. Isn't that crazy that you would think out of all the people on the planet, hookers would be the first to get AIDS, and they're not really getting AIDS? Isn't that crazy?
joe rogan
I don't know if anybody's really checking on hookers.
Going like, hey, how you doing?
eddie bravo
I think they do.
Is your health in order?
Well, you know, you listen to that guy out on your podcast, Dewsburg.
joe rogan
Oh, Dewsburg.
eddie bravo
He said in Brazil, virtually none of the hookers have AIDS. I don't know if he's going down there with a fucking pap smear.
joe rogan
That motherfucker's checking anybody.
I don't know about Dewsburg, man.
I do not know.
I found the conversation with him to be absolutely fascinating.
Very confusing.
I use the phrase, I hate it when I'm too dumb to know who's stupid.
I don't know if this one guy has it nailed and all these other doctors are out of their mind and they're all chasing a disease that doesn't exist.
That doesn't make enough sense to me.
It doesn't make enough sense when this guy starts talking about HIV and that HIV doesn't cause AIDS, but yet everyone else thinks it does.
There's serious peer-reviewed scientists that think it does.
So that confuses the shit out of me.
eddie bravo
He makes a lot of sense though.
joe rogan
It makes a lot of sense.
That's what's even scarier.
You break it down.
That's what's even scarier.
eddie bravo
You know, the debate him and Callan had, I mean, it seemed at the very end of that, it seemed like as skeptical as Brian is, It seemed like at the very end, based on your podcast, it sounded like he was starting to sort of believe him.
joe rogan
It's a bad situation, first of all.
It's unfair because Brian is not a geneticist.
He has no bioengineering background.
He has no idea what Dewsburg does for a living.
His concept of how it all works is so rudimentary.
So for him to debate a guy like that, it's not fair.
He shouldn't have been doing it.
I wanted to have him on because he's a smart dude.
eddie bravo
You should get someone to debate him.
joe rogan
Yeah, I tried.
Nobody wants to do it.
It's really hard.
One of the reasons why we started working with Matt Staggs is that very reason.
To be able to get guests Like that.
To be able to get, you know, use a publicist to reach out and let someone know there's a legitimate show.
We're trying to get to the bottom of something.
No one wanted to touch it.
One guy wanted to touch it, and then he had all this backlash, apparently, from his peers.
People don't want you even debating Duesberg.
They think that it's almost like debating a Holocaust denier, you know, debating someone, you know, who believes really dangerous shit.
And so they think that what his work has done has killed many, many people.
I don't buy that, though.
My problem with I don't buy...
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle, but these people that say, you know, Duzerberger's responsible for all these people in Africa not taking their medication and all dying...
His points about Africa were really fascinating.
He was talking about how in Africa they say that everyone has AIDS, but they're not testing for HIV. They're assuming these people have AIDS because their immune system is trounced.
But you're also dealing with people that are exposed to a wide variety of other disorders and diseases and They have terrible, terrible, terrible nutrition.
And these people are not getting proper healthcare.
And when you see they're sick, if they have AIDS, at least, that qualifies for them to have funds, for them to get funding.
If you're dealing with an AIDS epidemic, you get money.
You get money from charities for an AIDS epidemic.
You don't get money, you know, based on the fact that people aren't eating right.
You don't get money based on the fact their immune system sucks because they're in a fucking tropical jungle.
I talked to this disease expert when I was doing that sci-fi show, and he said that people who live in jungles, like people who live in tropical environments, 100% of them have diseases.
100%.
He's like, they've all got something.
He goes, everyone has something.
And I was like, what do you mean like something?
He's like, there's all sorts of different diseases.
There's undiagnosed diseases.
There's ailments that they just live with.
There's parasites that get in their system.
It's just they get it.
Like the toxoplasma thing that we talked about.
That's why.
It's like that kind of environment.
eddie bravo
How does a chick that lives in the Amazon jungle...
Get into a river and not have vaginal parasites.
How is that possible?
They gotta be covered with vaginal parasites.
That must be a problem in the jungle.
joe rogan
You probably already have them from drinking water.
unidentified
Does it make their pussy feel better?
No, it gives you a bunch of worms in there.
eddie bravo
Dick parasites.
Dick leeches.
You have little tiny microscopic ones that dudes pull out on their own.
unidentified
And every time they pull one out, it's like a tick.
joe rogan
You're not joking around, man.
eddie bravo
There must be.
I'm just saying there must be.
joe rogan
No, listen, man.
When dudes piss in the Amazon, they have to cover their dick.
You have to piss into your hand.
You gotta cover your dick because fish will swim up your urethra.
unidentified
Tapeworms coming out of your penis hole.
joe rogan
That's not bullshit.
They find your urine and they swim up river into your dick.
And then you have to cut them out.
eddie bravo
Wouldn't it be easier if they weren't pissing?
joe rogan
Dude, the world is trying to kill you.
eddie bravo
No, but if you weren't pissing and you're in the lagoon, isn't it easier?
joe rogan
But you can't find the hole.
It follows the river of piss.
Swims up the river.
It's evolved to follow the river like salmon.
Swim up to your mighty...
I used to have a joke about that.
I used to have a joke about that.
I didn't know there was a real disease that did that.
I used to joke about being at a strip club and peeing really hard because I was scared that the VD from the toilet was going to swing upriver into my dick.
eddie bravo
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
But I didn't know that something actually does that.
eddie bravo
That's pre-weed Rogan right there.
joe rogan
It is.
unidentified
That's 99, Rogan.
joe rogan
But there's actually a fish that does that, like a parasite.
eddie bravo
What is it called?
joe rogan
It swims into your dick.
Okay, let's find out.
eddie bravo
You can't be banging Amazon chicks.
joe rogan
You're insane.
eddie bravo
You know the kind of condom you would need?
You would need a fucking NASA would have to make that condom.
unidentified
It's made out of Levi's.
eddie bravo
It'd have to be one of those condoms that...
There are actual shorts, too.
It's one piece.
They're like booty shorts and a condom all in one.
And then you'd have to tape that.
It'd be too hard, dude.
joe rogan
It's called the Kandiru.
The Kandiru is a toothpick fish or vampire fish, a species of parasitic freshwater catfish.
eddie bravo
Ugh!
joe rogan
Native to the Amazon Basin, where it's found in countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Jesus Christ.
unidentified
Oh, Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Swims.
Wow.
The smaller species are known for a tendency to invade, alleged tendency to invade parasites, and parasites, the human urethra.
However, despite ethnological reports dating back to the late 19th century, the first documented case of the removal of the candiru from a human urethra did not occur until 1997. And even that incident has remained a matter of controversy.
Huh, so it might be bullshit.
eddie bravo
Dude, they might have anal catfish.
joe rogan
Well, look at that thing.
How's that gonna get in the tip of your dick unless you want it to?
unidentified
My shit's big.
eddie bravo
That could definitely get into vaginas.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, of girls being there.
eddie bravo
Fucking Amazon shit.
joe rogan
Wow, this is weird.
Okay, so this might totally be bullshit.
Historical accounts.
Earliest published reports of this Kendiru attacking human host comes from the German biologist CFP von Mardius in 1829, who never actually observed it, but rather was told about it by the natives of the area, including...
That men would tie a ligature around their penis while going into the river to pretend this was happening.
You know what that meant?
That meant dudes, they had cock rings on, they got busted, and they're like, no, no, no, there's a fish to fry up your dick.
eddie bravo
Dude, you sound like we're about to take a trip into the Amazon, and one dude's all into banging Amazon chicks, and you're like, dude, look at this, man.
No, it's bullshit.
I totally believe it.
It makes sense.
I believe all that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, it kind of does, but it seems like there was only one case where one was pulled out of a dude's dick.
eddie bravo
Maybe they're just comfortable with him and they just live with him.
They just know him.
joe rogan
Well, let's Google up, can Deeru removed from dick?
unidentified
There's probably a guy that put it in his dick.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what they're saying.
That's what they're saying.
eddie bravo
Punch an Amazon girl vaginal parasite.
joe rogan
Ooh, I'm scared.
brian redban
Here's something on AOL.com about an eel that swam up somebody's penis and it had to be surgically removed.
joe rogan
Okay, well, hold on a second.
There's a penis removal video.
Yeah, dude.
Oh my god.
Go to this.
Kendero Penis Removal Operation.
eddie bravo
Oh no.
joe rogan
Yes, yes, yes.
Get to that.
Candiru, C-A-N-D-I-R-U, penis removal operation.
Good googly moogly is all I have to say.
This is fucking crazy, man.
This is fucking crazy.
Did you get it?
Click on this.
Wait to see this shit.
They got one of them scopes.
And so they're going down this guy's arena and look, he's got a fish.
He's got a little baby fish camped out inside his pecker.
eddie bravo
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Can you imagine in your fucking piss hole this guy- Oh my god, it's got eyes.
It's a fucking fish.
Jesus Christ.
There's a fish in this guy's dick.
This is madness.
This is fucking madness.
This is a real thing.
This fish really does swim into your dick and you gotta send this dude in there with a vacuum cleaner.
A vacuum cleaner with a camera in the end of it to suck it out of there.
And then the fish is swimming away from your dick.
eddie bravo
Is this in the Amazon or what?
joe rogan
It says...
eddie bravo
Where does this happen?
joe rogan
Yes.
It said it lodged in the penis of Silvio Barbosa after urinating in the Amazon River tributary.
Dr. Anwar Samad removes the candiru fish in a two-hour operation.
Dude!
He's got to keep going in there.
Look at how many they're in there.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
It's like his ass is packed with dicks.
But it's not.
It's his penis packed with fish.
unidentified
Couldn't you just put a poison in and kill them all?
joe rogan
That would kill your dick too, stupid.
unidentified
It had to be something.
joe rogan
You don't inject poison into your dick?
What if it breaks your dick?
You've got to let the bad man with the vacuum cleaner go in there and do his business.
eddie bravo
Well, how did they deal with it before doctors?
joe rogan
They didn't.
eddie bravo
They would just die of a rotten dick?
joe rogan
Yeah, they'd just have a fish living in their dick.
You're not getting it out.
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna send a fucking fish hook in there?
eddie bravo
Maybe a shaman could do something.
unidentified
Put a little baby cat in there.
eddie bravo
Blow on it.
Blow some ayahuasca dust on it.
joe rogan
This last weekend's UFC, you know Hootsy?
Do you know who he is?
Hootsy.
He's an AKA striking coach.
eddie bravo
No.
joe rogan
You know that guy?
eddie bravo
Uh-uh.
joe rogan
He's a badass striking coach.
eddie bravo
I thought it was something Mendez or something.
joe rogan
That's Javier Mendez.
He did some stuff with him too.
I forget his last name.
But anyway, this dude got KO'd and he was singing a song for him.
eddie bravo
Was it his fighter?
joe rogan
No.
eddie bravo
It was the other dude's fighter.
joe rogan
He was taking care of, you know, corners and shit.
And so, you know how they have a bunch of different guys who are trainers or commission guys.
eddie bravo
Commission guys.
joe rogan
And who are, you know, taking care of various things like cut men and stuff like that.
And they run in, take care of corners, do various things.
eddie bravo
So they're not...
That night he wasn't part of a team.
joe rogan
He wasn't with that guy's camp.
eddie bravo
He was with the commission.
joe rogan
Exactly.
So the...
I don't know his exact...
Anyway, when the dude was out, he was singing him an ayahuasca song.
eddie bravo
Nice.
joe rogan
And I talked to him about it, and he's like, he's in the place of the dreams.
I tried to give him comfort while he was there.
Be serious about it.
It's pretty intense.
He's an ayahuasca shaman, so he does ceremonies and shit.
eddie bravo
Damn.
joe rogan
Yeah, so it was pretty cool.
eddie bravo
How often do you see this guy?
joe rogan
I see him all the time.
eddie bravo
Tell him I'm interested in doing a ceremony with him.
joe rogan
Oh, he'll do it, yeah.
We'll come down.
eddie bravo
We'll bring him down to LA. Dean Lister wants to do a ceremony.
joe rogan
I'm not done with him.
Why not?
You know, too much troubles.
eddie bravo
Too much troubles, really?
joe rogan
He's an MMA fighter.
unidentified
I'm just kidding.
joe rogan
I like Dean.
He's a good dude.
eddie bravo
Is he retired from MMA? I don't know, but I was with him all weekend in China for Abu Dhabi.
joe rogan
Did he compete?
eddie bravo
Yeah, he did.
joe rogan
How did he do?
eddie bravo
He did great.
He had four or five heel hooks.
He didn't win the gold medal in anything, but he may have gotten third in his division.
joe rogan
He was a badass grappler.
eddie bravo
Tough dudes this year.
Holy shit.
China stinks.
And if I never go back there again, I mean, it stinks like literally.
Like my bathroom and my hotel stunk like the sewer.
It was like the water.
They turn off the water and then they turn it on.
But the people are beautiful in China.
They're beautiful.
But they just have a problem in Beijing with their sewers, man.
It's just, whew, you walk down the street in every block.
You're like, whoa, Jesus.
joe rogan
Is there just too many people?
eddie bravo
Did someone die or did someone take a shit?
I don't know if it's that.
It's just old.
But Abu Dhabi was amazing.
The tournament?
Jesus Christ.
It was so much.
So, I mean, you know, Amir Alam, one of my brownbolts, fought in the heavyweight division, and he trained his ass off, man.
He was ready.
He was on fire.
And we get an unknown in the first round.
So we're thinking...
Awesome.
We should beat this guy.
His last name was Dopp.
Jared Dopp.
We thought, okay, we should be able to beat this guy.
Because he could have easily had Cyborg in the first round.
He could have easily had Buchecha in the first round.
That would have been fuck.
Okay.
Good luck.
joe rogan
And for people who don't understand, there's a bunch of cyborgs.
unidentified
Oh yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You only heard of Cyborg the woman fighter.
eddie bravo
And there's an MMA cyborg too, not that one.
joe rogan
Her ex-husband is an MMA fighter named Cyborg, but there's a...
Roberto Abreu, is that how you say his name?
eddie bravo
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Badass.
eddie bravo
He won the absolute.
He's amazing.
This guy impressed the...
Shit out of me.
He's so big.
unidentified
He's a fucking ox, but he moves like a gazelle, dude.
eddie bravo
It was incredible.
There's a couple passes that he did just blew my mind.
I'm like running it in.
I'm on the plane on the way back going over that pass.
I can't forget that pass.
I got to analyze it.
It was amazing tech.
There was at least 10 different techniques where I Logged it in my brain.
brendan schaub
I gotta go back and check that one out.
Cobrina, the guy who won it all in the lightweight, he finally beat Hafa Mendes, man.
eddie bravo
Hafa Mendes won the last two years.
He's virtually indestructible.
Him and Cobrina were in the finals again, and Cobrina won.
He pulled it out.
A judge's decision at the end.
They couldn't score any points on each other.
They just canceled each other.
joe rogan
What do you think about those, though?
Aren't those weird when the judges make a score?
I have a real problem with that.
eddie bravo
Well, the one thing I love about Abu Dhabi is the Sheik.
He's such a badass.
The Sheik just decides to put together the best jujitsu tournament on the planet.
He just makes it happen.
He pays for it.
It's all over the world.
One year it's in Sao Paulo.
One year it's in Barcelona.
It's in LA. It's in China.
It's amazing.
The Sheik just throws down and he makes shit happen.
And he created the rules and the format based on what he thought would be best for the entertainment value.
So he's down to evolve.
Over the years, he's tweaked stuff.
He's like the Japanese.
The Japanese in pride, as soon as they recognize a problem, they fucking change it.
joe rogan
For people who have no idea what we're talking about, the Abu Dhabi is Abu Dhabi Combat Championships, right?
eddie bravo
Abu Dhabi Combat Club.
joe rogan
They have the biggest jiu-jitsu no-gi jiu-jitsu tournament in the world.
They have this huge thing and it's put together by, how do you say his name?
Sheik Ta Noon?
Ta Noon.
He is also part owner of the UFC and he's a black belt in jiu-jitsu.
He's a huge jiu-jitsu fan.
So he put together this enormous grappling competition that's the most prestigious grappling event in the world.
And so Eddie was just there in China with one of your fighters.
So how did he do against this dude?
eddie bravo
Well, let me finish what I was talking about the Sheik.
brendan schaub
We're getting to the format, the rules.
So, you know, one of the coolest things that he changed was the same day weigh-in.
eddie bravo
He changed that shit.
And not only is it...
Because generally, especially in MMA and pro MMA, you weigh in officially the day before.
brendan schaub
And then you have 24 hours to recover, so...
eddie bravo
That's huge in deciding what weight category you're going to compete in and how you're going to lose the weight.
It's massive.
If you have to do a same-day weigh-in, ooh, shit, everything changes now.
You can't have that crazy, diabolical cut that you're used to.
Now it's a little different.
And the IBJJF changed it, too.
They make it.
You weigh in right before you step on the mat, and if you weigh even a pound over, boom, you're gone.
So Abu Dhabi, the sheik, he did the same thing.
Not only is it same day weigh-ins, but you've got to weigh in the day before, the day of, and the next day if you make it to the third round.
You have to keep weighing in.
unidentified
I was going to say, because it seems kind of dangerous if you just did it right before you went in, because some guys would still probably push themselves.
You know what I mean?
eddie bravo
It's risky, because you see these high-level grapplers every now and then.
You see them gas, and they try to cut too much weight, and you don't have that much time to recover.
So if you're going to do a same-day weigh-in, especially mat-side weigh-in, man, you just got to get in the best shape of your life and figure out what weight that is.
You really can't cut, really, or you're going to pay for it.
You're going to gas out.
And some people still take the chance, though.
But with the rules, the Sheik decided the best thing to do to ensure action most of the time.
Because no matter how you put together the rules, not every match is going to be exciting.
You have to accept that.
But you're always looking to make the majority.
You're striving for the majority of the matches to be exciting.
So in Abu Dhabi, every tournament does shit different.
But in Abu Dhabi, they're 10-minute matches.
The finals are 20-minute matches.
But in these 10-minute matches, The first five minutes, there's no points at all.
They don't count anything.
And the second five minutes, that's when the points start.
And if you pull guard, you lose a point.
So that's huge when strategizing for a fight.
brendan schaub
Because when you're competing in this...
joe rogan
Explain to people why the first five minutes there's no points.
eddie bravo
That was instilled so that if there's no points, fighters would take more chances because...
Generally, if there's points counting all the time, you don't want to take any chances.
One wrong slip, dude's up two points.
Now he's up, he's just going to hold.
He doesn't really think about the submission, he's just trying to get to the next round.
So it changes the dynamics of your strategy and how it all plays out.
So the Sheik thought, okay, let's try to shake it up.
First five minutes, no points.
So the fighters will take more chances and that turns into entertainment for the viewer.
So, that happens sometimes with some fighters.
Jean-Jacques Machado, he took advantage of that.
He went out there, pulled guard, and got the party rolling.
He's like, okay, I'm gonna sit down.
You get on top.
Let's go.
I'm not gonna spend five minutes trying to take you down.
I'm not a wrestler.
You wrestled your whole life.
Let's just get the party started.
brendan schaub
I'll let you get on top.
eddie bravo
I'll kick the ball off to you.
I'll let you receive first.
How about that?
That's all that is.
So in the first round, guys will do that.
They're like, I'm not going to spend all my energy trying to take a dude down.
It's not a wrestling competition.
So they sit down.
The problem is, in the second half of the match, if you decide to sit down, you lose a point.
So the ref goes, points!
brendan schaub
At five minutes.
eddie bravo
So wherever you're at, the next transition, you know...
If you already have the guys back at that five-minute mark, they don't give you the points.
You have to lose the back and then get it back.
A lot of weird stuff that I didn't understand.
But again, the point of this weird format is to make it better.
So the Sheik is always trying to make it better.
And the one thing I'm pretty sure he's got to change that losing a point...
If you pull guard, because that changes a lot.
We saw a lot of, not a lot, but a couple of the finals where both jiu-jitsu guys, world-class jiu-jitsu guys like Cobrina and Hoffa, some of the two best guys in the world, very good at submissions, amazing at passing, unbelievable, beautiful jiu-jitsu.
What you had in their match is nobody wanted to pull guard because in the finals, you lose a point right away.
They don't give you, it's not the first half, no points.
joe rogan
What in that really does come from guys just having shitty guards.
It comes from people not realizing how dangerous a guard is if a guy's a real bad motherfucker with it.
eddie bravo
Yeah, and we saw that too.
One of the competitors came in.
He's a 22-year-old kid.
Him and his brother are real famous.
They just got their black belts.
brendan schaub
They're the Meow Brothers.
eddie bravo
They're like Machida, like half Japanese, half Brazilian from Brazil.
joe rogan
Meow, like a kitty cat meow?
eddie bravo
Yeah, but it's like Sao Paulo, meow.
unidentified
Okay.
eddie bravo
But it's not really like meow, meow, cat.
It could be, but it's spelled, I think, M-I-Y-A-O. They should get Brian to design their shirts.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
Totally.
brendan schaub
Well, these guys, all they do is pull guard and play De La Riva and Spiral Guard relentlessly.
They don't stop.
That's all they do.
eddie bravo
They're relentless.
brendan schaub
They have an infinite amount of cardio, and that's his style.
eddie bravo
He has zero wrestling.
So that's why he lost.
He lost because, bam!
So what ends up happening with this rule set, which was aimed at making it more entertaining, but what's happening now...
And I'm sure the Sheik's gonna see this because everyone's talking about it on the internet.
I'm not the only one.
Everyone's talking.
As they were watching, everyone came to the same conclusion.
Like, oh, there's a problem here.
Hmm, we got a problem.
The Sheik is one of those guys that will fix it.
And he's got to fix it.
Because the problem was we had Cobrina and Hoffa in the finals.
They just tried to take each other down and they couldn't because they're not wrestlers.
The wrestling is decent, you know, but according to dudes who know wrestling, like dudes who wrestled in college, they'll say they're at like a high school state champion level, you know, not D1. All-American Johnny Hendricks level, right?
unidentified
Right.
eddie bravo
Whole different animal.
So what we end up getting is 20 minutes of two dudes who have okay wrestling, you know, like D5 wrestling, going at it, and we don't see any jiu-jitsu.
joe rogan
No one took anyone down?
eddie bravo
They don't want to pull guard.
unidentified
Oh.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
It's way easier to not get taken down than to take someone down.
It's way easier.
Your whole focus is I'm not going to get taken down and you're going to take me down.
Even if you wrestled in college and I didn't wrestle in college, it's still going to be hard for you.
brendan schaub
Of course, I have to work on it, but you can get that takedown defense a lot quicker than you can...
joe rogan
Take down ability.
eddie bravo
Exactly.
Take down ability, man.
brendan schaub
That takes a long, long, long time.
eddie bravo
Sprawling can come easier.
So what you end up having is two dudes that were wrestling for a very long time.
They got to the ground briefly a couple times and they went to double overtime, triple overtime.
It went forever.
And at the very end, 0-0.
The ref makes the decision and gave it to Cobrina.
joe rogan
So how does that work?
How can a ref make a decision like that?
That's how we got started off.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
I don't buy that.
How does that guy walk away with a win?
I mean, I understand that they're the elite of the elite, two of the best in the world.
I guess someone has to win?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
But that doesn't make any sense to me.
eddie bravo
Yeah, the rules need revamping, and I'm...
I'm quite positive that the Sheik is going to take that.
Because what you end up having, if you don't lose a point for pulling guard, losing a point for pulling guard is like this.
I use a football analogy when I'm trying to explain Jiu Jitsu to someone who doesn't know anything about Jiu Jitsu.
Do you understand the rules of football and the strategy?
Most Americans do, so it's just like football.
Generally, a guy has a ball, and the team has the ball, and they're marching down the field, and then a team is defending, trying not to let them march down the field.
Same thing.
Guy on top in jiu-jitsu is trying to march down the field.
Guy on bottom is playing defense.
The guy on defense can score, but it's not...
A lot easier to score when you're on top and you can use your weight because it's like you have the ball.
You're scoring.
But the defensive football team can intercept and run back for a touchdown.
They can score.
Some teams are very high.
But it's rare.
Same thing with the bottom.
It's rare that there's guys that can score a lot off their back.
But generally, you want to be on top.
You want to have the ball.
If you're on top, you're in someone's open guard.
It's like you're on the 20-yard line.
You get on the top half, you're like at the 50-yard line.
You pass the side control, you can score from side control, but it's a lot easier if you score from the back, so side control is like the 35-yard line.
The mount is like the 20-yard line.
Now you're in the red zone, and if you get the dudes back, first and goal on the 10. Basically, it's the same thing.
You're marching down the field, you're getting into scoring position.
Yes, you can score from midfield.
You could score from top half, you could throw guillotine, you can throw darces, but it's easier when you're on their back.
It's easier when you're right there on the 10-yard line.
So in football, the way they start the game is the ref flips a coin.
One of the teams picks heads or tails.
brendan schaub
And I think it's the visiting team.
eddie bravo
And then if it's heads, whoever wins the coin toss gets to decide.
Who receives and who kicks off?
Generally, a large percentage of the time, if you win the coin toss, you say, we're going to receive.
And you're going to kick off.
We're going to be on offense first.
You're going to be on defense first.
I'm going to be on top in your open guard.
You're going to be on the bottom.
You flip a coin, you have to choose?
Fuck yeah.
Generally.
I would, too.
joe rogan
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
So you're saying that you should do a match where you flip a coin?
eddie bravo
No, no, no, no, no, no.
What I'm saying is, what I'm saying is, so...
Sometimes a team will choose to kick off and not receive.
That's kind of like if we're going to grapple and I sit down, I chose to play defense first.
That's what a guard puller is.
It doesn't happen that often.
So it's penalizing someone one point for sitting on their butt, for letting the guy get on top.
He's working to get on top.
He worked very hard on his wrestling to get on top.
The dude is saying, I'm kicking off to you.
You receive.
I'm going to let you go first.
That's like a team saying, we're going to kick off to you, and losing three points for it.
Like, you're already giving them an advantage.
You're going to lose the advantage and points?
Doesn't make any sense.
You understand what I'm saying?
joe rogan
I could see, yeah.
I could see, so say if they don't have points, you know, they don't score points.
You know, with their idea of advantage, maybe you could say you could give someone an advantage if a guy pulled guard.
eddie bravo
That's still a point.
joe rogan
Is it a point?
eddie bravo
If you give an advantage, you still won.
If it's 0-0, the guy who has the advantage wins.
joe rogan
That's a stupid analogy, actually.
unidentified
Really?
eddie bravo
It should be like this.
It should be like this.
It should either be submission only.
That's it.
And you have overtime rounds.
And I could explain that if you want to hear it.
But generally you have submission only.
No points.
No advantages.
It's all about who gets the submission.
The whole goal is to get submission.
Because in a lot of...
There was epic matches.
There's incredible athletes.
I have respect for all of them.
But when you're under this rule set, there's a lot of times in these matches where the submission wasn't even a thought, just the W. There were matches where there's like three minutes left, guy sat on his ass, he loses a point.
Now I'm on top.
I want to win that money at the end because the winner of each division wins $10,000.
The guy on top automatically is going to be very cautious, reserved, and not be aggressive, and definitely not even consider a submission.
It's all about the W. So that changes...
The entertainment value.
And for me, that's the most important thing.
joe rogan
Do you think that it should be just submission only?
eddie bravo
Either submission only, or you really, really break down the point system the way it should be.
And this is the way it should be.
In Dean Lister's match against...
I forget who he lost to.
There were so many matches.
But he was down on points, and at the very end, he put...
I think it was João Assis.
He put him in a triangle.
He had him in a cinch triangle at the very end.
And he was down by two points, maybe three.
I'm not sure on the points, but he was down.
It was 30 seconds.
Put him in a triangle.
In my eyes, a triangle, you should get more...
Anything cinched, like a triangle, a figure.
If your legs are cinched, like you have a guy on a triangle, doesn't mean he's going to tap.
A lot of times, some guys escape.
But if it's totally cinched, that guy was in deep, deep trouble.
If he escapes, he got lucky.
So that cinched triangle should represent way more than a pass or a sweep.
That's just common sense.
So in my eyes, if you want to score, keep the scoring system, and you're in love with it, you're going to commit to the scoring system, really think about the score, how you score this.
If a pass is three points, if a sweep is two points, a cinched darts, which people escape half the time, but if you cinch it all the way up, and as a referee, you should see if it's a near sub.
If it's a cinched darse, a cinched triangle, a cinched arm triangle, a straightened out arm, like you straighten the guy's arm and he escaped by the skin of his teeth.
You straightened out his leg like a knee bar.
He escaped by the skin of his teeth.
You can see that.
I wouldn't count heel hook and toe hold attempts because then they're so easy just to jump on and then it turns into just a bunch of I would count in my world, I would count straight knee bars, straight arm bars, anything cinched.
That should be seven points.
joe rogan
Yeah, I agree with you.
I think it should five-something.
eddie bravo
Yeah, it should be like football.
Yeah, a pass.
joe rogan
So what is it now?
It's one?
eddie bravo
No.
Anything cinched is not in Abu Dhabi.
There's nothing.
joe rogan
What?
eddie bravo
It means nothing.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
eddie bravo
It means nothing.
joe rogan
That doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't mean anything?
So if a guy has a cinched in triangle, that's not a near submission?
unidentified
Mm-mm.
joe rogan
That's ridiculous.
Why do we have that?
Those rules are terrible.
eddie bravo
It should be worth way more than a sweep.
joe rogan
Yeah, without a doubt.
Sweeps, you know, people recover from sweeps, but if someone has you that close to being tapped, like a cinched rear naked or something along those lines...
eddie bravo
That's like a goal.
joe rogan
That's like a touchdown.
You got out of it, but goddamn, that guy got to an incredibly dominant position.
brendan schaub
Exactly.
eddie bravo
That should be...
And Naga is into evolution, and so is Grappler's Quest.
Grappler's Quest are doing selected super fights, submission only.
So submission only is starting to spread.
The Gracie Nationals is submission only.
Gracie World is submission only.
Sub League up in the Pacific Northwest is submission only.
brendan schaub
Midwest Submission Challenge, which are doing submission only tournaments all over the Midwest.
eddie bravo
It's growing.
It's growing.
But if you're still committed to points, like Naga's, Naga, they did change up and tweak the point system.
They are giving, I think, one point, maybe two for a near sub, which they're on the right track.
You're on whoever's running Naga.
Kip Collar, you're definitely on the right track.
Let's turn it up a little bit more.
Let's make cinch darses, cinch triangles, seven points.
It makes sense.
brendan schaub
That's like a touchdown.
eddie bravo
A sweep is two.
joe rogan
Yeah, no, I agree with you.
We're both on the same page.
eddie bravo
So, besides that, the tournament, Abu Dhabi ADCC is the most prestigious on the planet.
If it wasn't for that tournament, I wouldn't be sitting here.
brendan schaub
That's for damn sure.
joe rogan
Yeah, it just seems like those rules are just, they need to be revised.
eddie bravo
That's all.
joe rogan
Now, tell me about Kron Gracie.
eddie bravo
That's what I was about to tell you.
You read my mind.
joe rogan
No, I'm looking at a video of him right now.
eddie bravo
Kron Gracie versus Gary Tonin.
Gary Tonin's a 21-year-old dude who, he shocked everybody.
That match was probably the greatest grappling match of all time.
Gary Tonin and Kron Gracie.
unidentified
Really?
eddie bravo
Kron Gracie gets his arm.
Straightens it out.
He looks like he's going to break it.
joe rogan
Spoiler alert.
eddie bravo
Well, you don't want to talk about it?
joe rogan
I'm just kidding.
eddie bravo
No, trust me.
It doesn't even matter.
unidentified
Straighten his arm out.
eddie bravo
He straightened his arm out.
He wouldn't tap.
They kept rolling.
Straighten his arm out.
Everyone's going nuts.
Everywhere he rolls, the arm crawling is right there at every angle with the arm totally straight.
It looked like it's going to break.
Everybody's going, oh!
He didn't just hold it and escape.
Dude, they were rolling all over the place.
And that arm should have broke off.
Dude, he survived.
He didn't tap.
Gets on top.
Takes Kron's back.
Puts him in the truck.
Almost has Kron in a twister.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie bravo
Kron spins out.
He goes back to the back.
Puts an anaconda on him.
AKA triangle body lock on him.
Has Kron face down.
It looks over.
Hickson's sitting there going, oh, damn.
And in the first match, that was Kron's second match.
In his first match, Krohn demolished Andy Wang.
I love you, Andy Wang, but he went right through him in 30 seconds.
And Hickson didn't even move.
He's sitting there.
And he went right through Andy Wang and Hickson didn't even move.
And I was looking at Hickson.
I'm like, man, that's way doper than getting all excited.
Him not doing anything like he expects it.
It's no big deal.
You went right through him.
The best possible outcome, Hickson didn't even make a move like Yoda.
And I admired that.
I'm like, wow, that's...
It's deep right there.
He's not even happy.
Not even a smile.
But in this match, Hickson was like visibly shaking.
You could see him going, what?
He's watching.
joe rogan
Where's this kid come out of?
eddie bravo
I think he's from the East Coast.
I'm not sure.
But he was on that BJJ Kumite thing with Heenan Cornelius, who also did amazing at Abu Dhabi.
But anyways, back to Gary.
Dude, there's a minute left.
At this point, a minute and a half, and Kron is doing everything to try to escape.
We're watching Kron be defeated right now.
We're watching him be defeated.
After you almost had that dude's arm like five different times.
Kron's struggling.
He can't get out.
Gary Tonin's back defenses or back control is professional.
Assassin-like.
unidentified
Kron cannot get out, but by the skin of his teeth...
eddie bravo
I have to see it again.
I don't know exactly how I got out.
But he got out.
They stand up.
Hickson looks at him and goes, you got one minute.
Kron turns around, dude.
Takes him down.
Passes his guard.
It takes a while.
He gets his back.
Dude, he squoze with two seconds left.
Gary taps.
It was the craziest submission match I've ever seen.
joe rogan
It's really fascinating watching Kron.
For people who don't know, his dad is the greatest jiu-jitsu guy of all time.
There's one guy that's always thought of above all others.
In the world of jiu-jitsu, it's Hicks and Gracie.
eddie bravo
You gotta have him on this podcast.
joe rogan
I would love to have him on.
eddie bravo
It would be easy.
It would be simple.
joe rogan
He lives in Brazil now, doesn't he?
eddie bravo
He's here, right?
I don't know.
You're right, you're right.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I'll figure it out.
I'll get in touch with Kron.
eddie bravo
Dude, I would fly him in first class.
joe rogan
Last time I saw Kron, it was when Hoist fought Matt Hughes in L.A. Damn, that was like 07 or 06. Yeah, he was a young kid.
He was really young.
That was right after I had dinner with Hickson once.
And I went to his house and watched fights, and he broke down what people were doing wrong.
eddie bravo
Dude, you know how crazy that is?
You went to Hickson's house, hung out with them, watched fights, and broke down fights.
I remember you telling me this.
brendan schaub
You were telling me he broke down, because Fedor at the moment was the Mr. Indestructible.
eddie bravo
He was on top.
brendan schaub
Everyone feared him.
joe rogan
Hickson wanted to fight him.
eddie bravo
Yeah, and he broke down how to beat Fedor in his mind, right?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Oh, he thought he could beat Fedor.
He thinks he could beat anyone.
He's a monster.
He's a scary dude.
Well, he's a master.
He's a true master of jiu-jitsu.
And he's got that samurai mindset.
A lot of people talk that samurai mindset.
That fucking dude lives it.
That is his mindset.
eddie bravo
Yeah, the Gracie family is very large.
brendan schaub
And there's a lot of sections, a lot of Gracie cliques.
eddie bravo
There's the Carlson side.
There's the Carlos side.
There's the Helio side.
joe rogan
The Helson side.
brendan schaub
The Helson side.
eddie bravo
And a lot of them hate each other.
A lot of them talk a lot of crap on each other, but Hickson, man, I don't know how many times I've heard people say, fuck that Gracie, like a Gracie saying, fuck that Gracie, or a Brazilian, or someone from the old school, like all the old school guys, but they'll always say, except Hickson.
They tell you, except Hickson.
Like, Alan Goes, man.
Alan Goes, he has a lot of problems with people, but he makes it clear.
He goes, but Hickson's awesome.
Hickson's, because they all say it.
They all agree that although there's no roles on video, like now everyone has their roles on video.
You could catch them on YouTube.
brendan schaub
Like, you catch Marcelo's roles all day.
eddie bravo
The greatest jiu-jitsu player ever.
But Hickson, not too many roles.
But everyone says, it's all like myth.
brendan schaub
It's all legend.
eddie bravo
But you gotta believe it, because everyone says the same thing.
Even David Camarillo, when he went down there, and David Camarillo's a world-class black belt, he said he couldn't do anything with Hickson.
joe rogan
Yeah, even Paulo Filho said that.
Paulo Filho went down there and came back and was like, Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
He's a master.
eddie bravo
In the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu community, Hickson is a god.
He's the best Gracie, hands down.
joe rogan
Yeah, so he had two sons, and one of them, Hoxson, died a few years back.
And he was already on his way to being a badass jiu-jitsu player.
And his youngest son, Kwon, over the last couple years has just become this fucking beast.
brendan schaub
Hickson's son.
eddie bravo
And I remember when he was 12...
Outside of a jiu-jitsu tournament, some IBJJF tournament in Dominguez State Hills here in California, me and John Jock, my master John Jock Machado, we were outside.
He was basically giving me a sermon like he always does, and everything that comes out of his mouth is gospel, and everything's perfect.
He's like a superhero.
And we're walking outside, and Kron's 12 at this time.
He's messing around on a skateboard, jumping up, doing these skateboard tricks, and John Jock looks over at him and says, That's the one right there.
I tell you, that is the one.
brendan schaub
He's going to be unstoppable.
I'll never forget that.
eddie bravo
He called it out.
And Jean-Jacques also, he's called out a lot of people who you thought were going to be legends.
And Jean-Jacques said, he doesn't have what it takes.
He's going to break.
And I'm like, no way, Jean-Jacques.
He's like, watch him break.
He's going to break.
And damn, he was right.
There was a couple that he called out that broke and they just disappeared.
joe rogan
Jean-Jacques can see things.
eddie bravo
That's a fact.
Jean-Jacques, it really is Yoda.
And he...
brendan schaub
He called out Kron.
eddie bravo
He knew it.
brendan schaub
And Kron, he is now in a select group that, man, I don't know if there's more than three or four, but he submitted everybody in his weight division.
eddie bravo
He tapped everybody out.
brendan schaub
And here's another Hickson story.
eddie bravo
Well, Jean-Jacques Machado was the first to tap everyone out back in 99 or 2000. One of those Abu Dhabi's.
98, 99, Jean-Jacques Machado shows up to Abu Dhabi.
brendan schaub
He's the first superstar.
eddie bravo
Back then, everyone was having trouble with the submissions.
A lot of the Gi champions were having a little trouble submitting dudes without the Gi.
And the wrestlers, they didn't know how to pass the guard or submit anybody, but they could throw you around and you ain't taking them down.
A lot of boring matches in the early Abu Dhabi.
And that's why the sheet kept changing the rules, trying to work it all out.
But then the next god who came and just submitted everybody in 2003 was Marcelo Garcia.
He was the second coming of Jean-Jacques.
First that was Jean-Jacques, Marcelo Garcia.
And now, you know, there have been other guys that have...
I've had a bunch of submissions in Abu Dhabi too.
Hodger Gracie's done a tremendous job.
So many good guys out there.
brendan schaub
But as far as coming in and just submitting everybody in your division, maybe Hodger did it too.
eddie bravo
I don't know.
brendan schaub
But Kron Gracie did it last weekend.
eddie bravo
He went through everybody.
And the Gary Tonin fight, that was a close one, man.
He escaped by the skin of his teeth.
But that showed how awesome he is and how he can come back.
And in the final...
First we have Hickson, the first couple matches, he's just real chill, zen.
brendan schaub
And then when he beat Gary Tone, you see Hickson jumping up.
eddie bravo
I've never seen Hickson so happy.
joe rogan
Gary was trying to get him from the twister without actually...
He was trying to get the twister before he even got the lockdown on the back leg.
He was thinking about it early.
He was thinking about putting...
As the body triangles wrapped around him, he's thinking to grab his neck.
brendan schaub
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Where's this kid training out of?
eddie bravo
Gary Tonin.
Look him up.
joe rogan
T-O-N-O-N. Dude, that transition where he took Kron's back is insane.
eddie bravo
And not only...
You know what Gary Tonin did?
He ended up doing the absolute, and the first round he went against Buchecha, who won the heavyweight division, who is considered the best new heavyweight.
brendan schaub
Dude moves like a panther.
eddie bravo
Buchecha is...
I think his name is Marco Almeida.
Man...
Some of these Brazilians, I know them by their nickname, but their real name is hard to remember sometimes.
But Buchecha, he wins the heavyweight division.
Now he signs up for the absolute first round.
It's Gary Tonin, who's 170 pounds, against Buchecha, who just won the heavyweight.
That's the worst possible draw.
brendan schaub
The smallest guy gets the biggest guy.
eddie bravo
And you know what?
Buchecha couldn't tap him.
It was a good match.
I got all sorts of position on him, but Gary kept recovering and Gary kept attacking.
So he loses that right on points, but he didn't get put away.
brendan schaub
The guy I was talking about earlier, Jared Dopp, the guy who beat Amir, he ended up beating Amir.
We were like, fuck, man, we got an unknown.
eddie bravo
It was perfect.
We should have beat this guy.
It was a close match.
Amir had his back for a second, but didn't get points.
brendan schaub
He had him in a Kimura, didn't get points for any of that.
eddie bravo
And the guy took him down once and passed his guard.
And Amir lost on points.
And it was kind of a shocker.
That was the first round.
We're like, damn.
We got a guy that no one knows that we should have beat him.
Damn.
Then he gets Vinny Magalhas the next round.
Jared Dopp.
He beats Vinny!
joe rogan
Vinny lost?
eddie bravo
Vinny got beat by the guy that beat Amir.
joe rogan
Do you think that's because Vinny's doing so much MMA? Vinny was not in shape for this.
eddie bravo
He admitted it to me.
He didn't train very much at all.
He just couldn't turn it down.
I'm sure it had a lot to do with him getting cut by the UFC. And that really fucked with his mind for a while.
joe rogan
The last fight was hard.
He got knocked out with the first punch that homeboy threw.
And he never expected that.
He fought an Australian gentleman.
What the fuck's his name?
eddie bravo
Anthony Parosh.
joe rogan
Anthony Parosh.
Anthony Parosh, who's a black belt in jiu-jitsu, and that's what a lot of people expected.
They thought it was going to be a jiu-jitsu versus jiu-jitsu battle.
And he caught Vinny with the first punch he threw.
brendan schaub
He gets cut.
eddie bravo
He's in a depressive state.
He's not really training hard for Abu Dhabi.
And Jared Dopp beat him.
brendan schaub
He's from Rafael Lovato's camp.
eddie bravo
He's a purple belt.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
eddie bravo
Yeah, so he's just an incredible specimen.
So he gets cyborg next.
He gets cyborg next.
And he is winning.
He's beating him.
All he's got to do is survive for 30 more seconds.
He would have beat Amir Alam, the top 10 planet heavyweight.
Vinny Magalhães, who won the gold medal in the Absolute in 2011, and then Cyborg!
He was going to beat Cyborg!
brendan schaub
But at the very end, Cyborg pulled it off, and he impressed the shit out of me.
eddie bravo
Cyborg ended up winning.
brendan schaub
He ended up getting third in his weight.
Bouchesha won.
eddie bravo
And in the Absolute, Cyborg took it all.
He beat Bouchesha in the finals.
joe rogan
What did Cyborg catch him with?
eddie bravo
He beat him on points.
brendan schaub
Oh, catch you away.
No, just points.
joe rogan
So he was losing until the last few minutes?
eddie bravo
Yeah, Jared Dopp was beating him on points.
brendan schaub
And then I forget how it went down.
eddie bravo
Again, there was 50 matches.
brendan schaub
But all I remember, Cyborg came back at the very end and Jared...
Dopp couldn't hold on.
eddie bravo
He had it.
He just couldn't hold on.
And Cyborg pulled it out of his ass.
brendan schaub
Got some points.
eddie bravo
I think he took his back or something.
Got some good points and barely pulled it off.
He was...
I mean, and then Jared Dopp did the absolute.
And he beats his first guy and maybe a second guy and then he gets hurt.
He has to bow out.
His shoulder shirt.
He was going to get a rematch with Cyborg in the absolute.
joe rogan
Wow.
eddie bravo
But, you know, since he couldn't go...
Gary Tonin, 170-pounder, who lost against Bushesh, who gave him a great match, they call him and go, dude, you're in.
And he's like, oh, shit.
So now he's going against Cyborg, who's like 240 pounds of pure leopard.
You know what I mean?
Like Tiger.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's built like a brick shithouse.
eddie bravo
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
There's videos of him training strength and conditioning online.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Pushing sledge and shit.
eddie bravo
And you know what?
Gary Tonin looked great, man.
He was given cyborg fits.
That guy's going to be a superstar.
unidentified
Really?
brendan schaub
Mark my words, yes.
eddie bravo
Just remember Gary Tonin.
joe rogan
Cyborg being that big and he must be, how young is this kid?
eddie bravo
21. Wow.
Strong as shit.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's not even a big guy.
I looked at the video of him and Kron.
He looks like a normal-sized guy.
eddie bravo
He's out of control.
And he plays...
His best shit is part of the same style that I play.
Gary Tonin plays a lot of prison guard.
I don't know if he calls it prison guard.
That's just what I named it.
But it's like a head and arm from the bottom.
It's basically a Greco-Roman full guard game.
I call it prison guard.
There's no name for it.
joe rogan
He's a brown belt.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
eddie bravo
Oh, the way he got Kron's back, the way he got it was through prison guard.
And again, it's not something that I'm sure he names it, but it's something that I named.
And it's a head and arm from the bottom, and you squeeze on it and you shuck that arm that's caught in between your arms.
You shuck it over your head.
You've got to get really good at that.
And you can go right to the back, or you could transition to a swim move to spiderweb, or if you can't shuck the arm over your head, you could transition right into rubber guard beautifully, or you could put the far side butterfly in and get some sweep, so it's a very, very strong position.
The actual position, the whole style I call prison guard, but the actual position is called homie control, and homie control is the mission control of prison guard.
So I play it all the time, all the time, and Watching Gary Tonin go to it over and over.
Did it to Cyborg.
Cyborg was too big.
It didn't really work on him.
And then he did it on Bushesha.
He kept trying.
I don't know if Prison Guard's going to work on a guy that has 100 pounds on you or something.
brendan schaub
But he kept going to it.
eddie bravo
So look out for Gary Tonin.
joe rogan
Yeah, it sounds like a kid's a beast.
I love that.
I love with all these new dudes are just coming up out of nowhere.
You know, that's one of the cool things about jujitsu is that there's so many guys out there practicing it now.
I think someone, it's about time for someone to put it on TV. I think one of these days they're gonna figure out a format or the guy's gonna get talented enough or scary enough.
Where you're going to be able to put it on TV, and it'll be something that could be on...
brendan schaub
I think about that all the time, and I've had invest...
eddie bravo
I have a show that it's a concept.
We had financial backers that were interested, and then they back out.
We had a couple other more that were interested, and they back out.
brendan schaub
They're not sure, but the whole goal of mine with this show is a 16-man tournament.
eddie bravo
The whole goal is entertainment value, and everything is designed to score.
It's a submission-only format.
There's a few different ways you can go with submission-only, but the way...
Everything in my mind was all designed to create urgency for the submission.
Like, for example, the ultimate urgency would be a submission-only match between two guys and the winner gets $1 billion, the loser gets nothing.
Can you imagine the urgency of that?
And how exciting that match would be.
joe rogan
Yeah, obviously you don't really mean a billion dollars.
eddie bravo
No, no, but I'm just saying, that's an example.
If you could give them a billion, that would be great.
But let's say realistically, in 50 years, 100 years, 2 years, jiu-jitsu is mainstream.
There's like some reality show about jiu-jitsu and it gets so big and people love it.
But we have to figure out the right format first to make sure that there's a lot of excitement.
Because right now, you know, you go to jiu-jitsu tournaments, there's nobody there.
The only people in the stands are the actual competitors and their girlfriends.
brendan schaub
And maybe their moms.
eddie bravo
We've been having these world championships forever.
Nobody's going to see it because the point system is developed to satisfy the competitor.
joe rogan
Well, it's a little bit of that, but it's also just that it hasn't been introduced right.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It hasn't been introduced at all.
You know, now that Spike is starting to put Glory on, like the highest level kickboxing, they're putting that on TV. I think one of these days someone's going to realize that, watch like that Kron Gracie-Gary Tonin fight, that kind of a match is very exciting.
eddie bravo
Let's say that, okay, realistically, 50 years or whatever, jiu-jitsu is mainstream.
You could do a show where there's a 16-man tournament, submission only, and the winner, one winner only, it's just like any kind of reality show, one winner gets $100,000.
Cash.
brendan schaub
Or whatever.
eddie bravo
That's not that unrealistic.
Can you imagine the excitement of those matches?
You have a good matchmaker.
You don't just throw people together.
But the amount of urgency that there is going to be for the submission.
The training would be totally different.
People would be specifically training their setups to these submissions.
It would be all about the submission.
Right now, these guys...
Getting the W and winning by points is all that's necessary.
So guys are specifically training for the points system.
And I'm guilty of it too.
I mean, if that's the format, I understand because I do the same thing with Amir Alam.
He wrestled his whole life.
He's one of my brown belts, but he's a wrestler through and through.
So we were going to go in and just say, you're a wrestler.
He worked on his wrestling.
brendan schaub
Let's beat these guys by the points system.
eddie bravo
Let's get that W. I was doing that.
I'm not like this...
brendan schaub
You're forced to think like that based on the system because you want the W so bad.
eddie bravo
So, I'm guilty of it too.
We wanted to wrestle Jared Dock.
So, you know, you make it a 16-man tournament, 8-man tournament, you make it a reality show, submission only, one guy gets $100,000.
joe rogan
It's a good idea.
eddie bravo
You know, if you did a million, that would even be crazier.
The matches would be nuts.
joe rogan
Well, yeah, all you'd have to do is just have guys who are really good, who are going for submissions and going after it, and it would be a really exciting sport.
A lot more exciting than a lot of shit that is on TV. People just don't know about it.
They're just not used to it.
It could be done.
Someone like the Sheik, you know, could figure out how to do it.
eddie bravo
Yeah, you know, and there's a lot of people that look into jiu-jitsu and then they watch a match and go, fuck this, this is boring.
The way the gi sport is turning into now, it's like I'm a black belt in the gi and I look at the new stuff, I don't even know who's on top.
I have no idea who's winning.
They're playing tug-of-war with the pants and they're in this mangled, tangled position that I don't even know who has the advantage.
Someone got an advantage for a near sweep?
brendan schaub
I go, who did?
unidentified
I'm confused.
joe rogan
One of the things I want to ask you about Kron, he doesn't do any new shit.
Like, everything he does is old-school jujitsu, old-school Hicks and Gracie style, the, you know, that real basic set of techniques and just, it just gets him laser sharp.
That's all he does.
eddie bravo
He has an incredible rear naked choke and even more insane guillotine.
In the final, he went against Otavio Souza.
He's one of the top Gracie Baja guy at that weight at the 170.
And, oh, getting to this match, right?
So it's the finals.
Hicks and Gracie sitting there.
Kron and Otavio.
They're going at it.
Otavio decides to get inside Kron's head.
And the way he's going to do that is keep staying away from him, not engage, slap him on the neck, push him away, frustrate him, because all Kron wants is submission.
He's like Marcelo Garcia.
He just goes forward.
The submission is on Kron's mind.
joe rogan
Right.
eddie bravo
You know, for damn sure.
That's what he wants.
And he kept going forward.
Oteva keeps pushing him away.
Oteva's a bad motherfucker.
He got pushed.
He beat Lido Vieira.
I mean, he's legit.
One of the best.
And he actually, they went against each other in Metamorris.
And Kron beat him in the gi.
He armbarred him.
It was an epic match.
And the match before that at the Worlds, Octavio won.
So Metamorris was a rematch.
brendan schaub
He got revenge.
eddie bravo
Now the rubber match in Abu Dhabi, in the final.
He's smacking his head and Kron's looking over at the ref going, you know, what is he doing?
Just smacking my neck and he keeps walking backwards.
I understood what Octavia was doing.
He was trying to frustrate him, get inside his head, and it was working.
He was getting pissed off, but you know what?
It was also working on Hickson, too.
Hickson said, and this is according—I didn't hear it personally, but this is according to what I heard the reporters.
brendan schaub
It's all over the internet.
eddie bravo
So I may be wrong, but it appears to be correct based on the reports I read that— Hickson was, at first, he was like telling the ref, he keeps going backwards.
He's not engaging.
He keeps going backwards.
He doesn't even want to fight.
And then he said, he's chicken, he's chicken.
And then he starts making chicken noises.
unidentified
He's like...
Can you imagine Hickson doing that?
eddie bravo
Isn't that crazy?
You know what that tells you, man?
You know, there's some people out there that don't understand that, but as a father...
I understand it.
I do.
It's like, that's your son.
You're going to make sure...
Like, if my son murdered somebody, I'm going to shelter him.
brendan schaub
I'm going to hide him.
eddie bravo
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
You shouldn't talk about that on the podcast.
eddie bravo
No, what I'm saying is, you do anything for your kids.
joe rogan
I know what you're saying.
eddie bravo
Even doing, making chicken noises that could easily make you seem like you're childish.
joe rogan
Right.
eddie bravo
But he don't care.
All he cares about...
joe rogan
He's very macho.
eddie bravo
He was willing to do anything it took to make Octavio engage.
And it worked.
He engaged, took a shot, Krohn guillotined him.
brendan schaub
The fastest guillotine ever.
eddie bravo
Soon as he took him down, Krohn sat down, boom.
It was over.
Man, I don't know if it's online, but it was over like...
In three seconds, or less.
Less than three seconds.
Boom!
He won the world championship.
Submitted everybody.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
It's just amazing when you hear about a guy who's the son of the great master, like the greatest master ever.
It's almost like a movie, you know?
And when he was young, you know, I remember hanging out with him over at Hickson's house, you know?
He was just like a young kid.
He was talking about rap music and shit.
Of course he trained jiu-jitsu.
He loved jiu-jitsu.
He loved the fact that his dad was this, you know, I mean, can you imagine if that's your dad?
He's the greatest jiu-jitsu guy of all time.
He's got to be the coolest shit ever.
eddie bravo
And he's currently the baddest guy at Abu Dhabi, for damn sure.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
And he's young, too.
eddie bravo
And you know what?
No homo or anything, but that guy, he's a beautiful man.
brendan schaub
Absolutely, man.
joe rogan
Well, his wife was beautiful.
Hickson's wife was beautiful.
eddie bravo
Hickson's beautiful.
Yeah, Hickson married some supermodel back in the day, and they had a bunch of kids.
And all their kids, even Hoxon, and their daughters, they all have perfect little model faces in their tan.
He could easily be a movie star.
brendan schaub
They're models as kids, like Abercrombie and Fitch models.
joe rogan
Well, when he was in that documentary, Choke, that documentary, it's really unfortunate that that didn't become a huge documentary.
Because even people who don't appreciate martial arts, who just want to watch something interesting like...
People keep telling me about the sushi documentary, Janjiro Dreams of Sushi or whatever the fuck it's called.
It's supposed to be amazing about a guy who's like really into sushi.
But I'm not into sushi.
I'm not dying to be a sushi chef.
unidentified
I hate it.
joe rogan
But even if you have no aspirations towards martial arts, Choke is an amazing documentary.
Because it follows this guy who's just...
He's legit.
He's legit masterful in everything he does.
I mean, the dude is a...
He's meditating in the fucking freezing icy rivers of Japan.
He gets underwater up to his neck and he's...
He's doing his meditation, practicing, and doing yoga where he does this weird shit with his stomach.
It's cool when a guy like that exists, when there really is a bad motherfucker, like a real, mystical, sort of a shaman, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu master who's better than everybody else.
eddie bravo
And that reminds me of the most surreal moment of my Jiu Jitsu career, man, was at Abu Dhabi at the first weigh-in.
Hickson comes up to me and says, hey, Eddie, how you doing?
unidentified
He shook my hand.
eddie bravo
My head almost exploded.
I couldn't believe...
Him saying Eddie was very strange, dude.
unidentified
It was strange.
joe rogan
That he knew who you were?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Because, you know, Cron and Jean-Jacques are real tight.
brendan schaub
Jean-Jacques is now a coral belt under Hickson Gracie.
eddie bravo
So Hickson Gracie is Jean-Jacques' master now.
brendan schaub
And he used to be Gracie Bahan under Carlinos and all that.
But now he's under Hickson...
eddie bravo
And Jean-Jacques has always been tight with Kron.
That's how he had that insight.
brendan schaub
That's how he knew he was going to be a champion, the champion that he is.
So Jean-Jacques brought Kron over to my gym maybe two weeks ago.
eddie bravo
And that was the first time I ever got to hang out with Kron and train with him.
And it was pretty amazing to have Hickson's son there.
Anytime I have a Gracie there with me that I could talk to, I always want to remind them that there's a big misconception about what 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu is all about.
To someone who really doesn't know and hasn't done the research, it's easy to kind of see or easy to believe that I turned my back on jujitsu once I got my black belt.
I threw the gi away.
I'm disrespectful to the gi.
joe rogan
Nobody understands this if they don't follow jujitsu, but there's two camps of jujitsu.
There's people who train with a gi, this big bulky kimono thing.
And there's no gi, which is mostly guys wear rash guards or shorts, and they're training basically techniques that would work in mixed martial arts.
Because of the fact that the gi is this big piece of cloth, people grab it and hold onto it, and it really changes the entire nature of grappling.
It changes everything because you have all these handles that you can hold onto.
It becomes really annoying.
eddie bravo
Yeah, and a majority of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu community, they really like the gi, and I understand that.
It's like liking longboards, and you're a surfer, and some people like shortboards.
No gi would be like the shortboard, and longboard would be like the gi.
It's really traditional.
It looks cool.
You grow up, and you see these karate movies, and you want to wear that gi, and you strap that black belt on, and you got a gi.
You feel like a superhero, because that black belt is real.
I get it.
I understand.
But...
I got into jujitsu because of the UFC. I became a fanatic of the UFC. And jujitsu is the closest thing I could do to be kind of close to the sport and understand the sport without getting hit in the face.
brendan schaub
I don't like boxing.
eddie bravo
I don't like kickboxing.
I don't want to get hit.
But jujitsu is awesome.
It's safe.
All you're doing is practicing strangling each other and getting really good at that and practicing breaking limbs.
Who doesn't want to learn that?
Anybody can learn that.
And you don't get hurt, no one's punching you.
I was sold right when I saw the UFC. It was a way for me to be close to the UFC, the sport that I worship now.
brendan schaub
So when I see jujitsu black belts in the UFC, Great with the Gi, but all of a sudden they're fighting in the UFC without a Gi, and now they don't have their handles, and dudes are trying to punch them, and their elbows and all that stuff.
eddie bravo
To me, I thought the Gi was the problem.
brendan schaub
Jiu-Jitsu wasn't looking that good in the UFC, man, in those dark ages.
Like UFC 17 to...
Even today, overall, the jiu-jitsu, I think, could be a lot better if everyone focused on jiu-jitsu techniques that worked specifically when dudes are trying to punch you or elbow you and there's no handles.
It's different.
eddie bravo
So anyways, I loved jiu-jitsu so much that I was tired of being in...
Let down by never seeing, you rarely see sweeps in the UFC. You go to a jiu-jitsu class or a jiu-jitsu tournament where they're wearing a gi, you see sweeps and submissions off your back from the guard when you're on your back all the time.
brendan schaub
But why weren't you seeing it in the UFC? I go, you rarely see sweeps and even today when you see a good quality sweep, it's woo, it's a highlight reel.
eddie bravo
That was an amazing sweep.
But in the gi, they happen all the time and submissions off the back happen all the time.
The difference is, it's just common sense.
In the gi, you don't have to worry about dudes elbowing you, and you've got all these handles, and you develop all these techniques based on pulling the collar and holding on the sleeve, and that becomes your fighting stance.
If that's your fighting stance, and all of a sudden you do MMA, and the fighting stance is totally different, you're clinching now because you don't want to get knocked out.
You've got to focus on that.
So for me, I thought, man, if I ever opened up a school, I never liked the Gi to begin with.
Personally, I'd rather train no Gi.
brendan schaub
It's faster.
I like it faster.
I have no problems with the Gi.
eddie bravo
A lot of my students still train in the Gi.
Personally, it's just too slow for me.
brendan schaub
I need it to be faster.
eddie bravo
So when I have...
brendan schaub
So a lot of people in the jiu-jitsu community think that I turn my back on jiu-jitsu.
eddie bravo
Man, nothing could be further from the truth.
joe rogan
I don't think anybody really thinks so.
eddie bravo
No, no.
joe rogan
There's just a bunch of haters out there.
There's people that hate no matter what you do, man.
There's no need to focus on them.
brendan schaub
No, I just wanted to make it clear.
eddie bravo
And when Kron came to my school two weeks ago, I made it clear to him, I'm like...
I just want to let you know that I have all the respect in the world for the Gracies.
brendan schaub
Anybody that thinks I don't is ridiculous.
In my first book that came out in 2005, it opens up with a paragraph or two on each Gracie and thanking them for creating me and creating the sport and the UFC. That's like 10 years ago.
eddie bravo
It's not anything that I'm trying to do damage control now or anything.
I just wanted to put that out there.
joe rogan
You don't have to put that out there, man.
Nobody believes that.
Hey, what did you think about the UFC this weekend?
eddie bravo
Incredible.
joe rogan
Was that the craziest UFC ever?
eddie bravo
Yeah, it was going on right when Abu Dhabi was going on.
It was going on at Saturday or Sunday morning.
Was it Sunday morning?
And it was Saturday morning here or something like that.
brendan schaub
It was weird.
So I didn't get to see it live.
eddie bravo
And I don't think it was possible to see it live.
brendan schaub
We ended up seeing it the next day.
eddie bravo
Amir and Scott Palmer, another one of my students who went, they figured out how to find it somewhere online.
joe rogan
Oh, so you watched it online?
brendan schaub
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
The Diego Sanchez-Gilbert Melendez fight was the craziest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was madness, especially that third round.
Goddamn, that was incredible.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They just went off.
They just went after it in a way like you very rarely see.
brendan schaub
And for Diego to drop Gilbert Melendez with that uppercut, after all that damage he was taking, Yeah.
eddie bravo
Man, we saw some serious heart that night.
I mean, Junior Dos Santos.
Talk about heart.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Yeah, Diego Sanchez is a special dude.
His belief in himself and his ability to absorb punishment is craziness.
He just bites down his mouthpiece and he doesn't do a lot of slipping and moving.
You know, he's taking a lot of them and just charging forward.
eddie bravo
He loves it.
joe rogan
He's so crazy.
He had a giant cut over his eye, man.
It was bigger than his eyebrow.
It was like the size of his eyebrow.
It was enormous.
There was a whole wild fucking event.
Did you see Hector Lombard and Nate Marquardt?
eddie bravo
Yes.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
eddie bravo
At 170, Hector Lombard's gonna give...
He'll give anybody fits.
brendan schaub
I could see him...
joe rogan
He could be the champ.
eddie bravo
Yeah, easily.
unidentified
Easily.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's terrifying.
At 170, he's a freak athlete, man.
brendan schaub
Would GSP be able to take him down?
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
He's a freak athlete.
I use that term a lot, freak athlete, but Hector Lombard really is a freak.
And at 170, that may be the strongest 170 that's ever existed ever.
He hit so fucking hard.
Dude, he chased down Nate Marquardt, who was a Strikeforce former champion, okay?
Nate Marquardt was the Strikeforce welterweight champion.
And Hector Lombard chased him around like he was some kid that he was gonna assault.
I mean, it was amazing.
Almost like he had no worry whatsoever about Nate Marquardt's techniques.
Just ran after him.
Ran after him.
Kept throwing bombs at him.
eddie bravo
And that last shot, did you see what it did to Nate's body?
It made him kind of like hop and land on his butt.
His legs slipped out from under him.
He was kind of running away and he got one of those uppercuts from behind.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
eddie bravo
And then, boom, it lifted him up and he landed right on his butt.
It was pretty crazy.
joe rogan
It was horrific.
Yeah, he fucked him up, man.
It was spooky.
I didn't know that he was going to be able to do that.
I mean, I knew that he...
Jake Ellenberger and Nate Marquardt had a real tough fight, and Nate got knocked out, but they were going after each other, you know?
I mean, Nate was going after him, too.
It was a real...
He got caught with a big shot by Ellenberger, and Ellenberger could take anybody out, but it was competitive up until that.
This was not competitive.
This was a mugging.
I mean, he just came after Nate Marquardt.
Nate Marquardt tried to counter him a couple of times with right hands, but mostly he was just trying to get the fuck out of the way.
And that dude just came at him like a monster.
It was weird.
He's ridiculously strong.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
This is a scary dude at 170 pounds.
I want immediately to see matches with him against, like, Carlos Kahn did.
Immediately to see him against guys like Johnny Hendricks or George C.A.P. or whoever wins the title.
eddie bravo
According to Eric Paulson, I had him on my podcast, he's telling me some Hector Lombard stories.
Man, the guy is intense 24-7.
The guy in the gym wants to throw down.
Him and Josh Barnett threw down at least once.
joe rogan
Yeah, Josh told me about it.
Josh mounted him and would never let him up.
He was just beating on him.
He wouldn't let him up.
Apparently he had an issue with something Lombard did to someone else in the gym.
So Josh and him just went after it.
Josh said the guy's a freak athlete.
He said he does those muscle-ups, you know those things where you do a chin-up and then you push up from the top?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're really hard to do.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
This motherfucker just, he'd never done it before.
He banged out like ten in a row.
unidentified
I don't think I'll ever be able to do one.
joe rogan
He's a freak athlete.
When you look at his body, he's 5'7 and 5'7 wide.
He's probably about 5'9.
He's probably a little taller than me, you think?
I don't know.
My height or 5'8.
Either my height or maybe slightly taller.
I'm 5'8.
But he's twice as wide as me.
I'm pretty wide.
He might be literally a foot wider than me.
eddie bravo
Yeah, I think...
It's an illusion.
He might be 5'10", but his lats are so wide in his shoulders that it appears that he's 5'4".
joe rogan
He's so wide!
I've never seen a dude his height that wide before.
And the power that motherfucker has.
God damn, it's scary.
Scary.
And just ultimate confidence in his ability to knock guys out.
Ultimate confidence.
As he charged in on Nate, he knew it was a matter of time.
It was weird.
It was weird to watch.
I never thought I'd watch Nate get steamrolled like that.
You think about Nate.
Nate fought Anderson Silva.
It was a decent fight until Anderson reversed him on the ground and beat him up and stopped him.
But it was a decent fight before that.
Nate fought Tyron Woodley and knocked him out.
I mean, Nate is a bad motherfucker.
He's a really good fighter.
Think of all the guys he's knocked out.
He knocked out Martin Campman.
Nate Marquardt's no fucking joke.
He's been around a long-ass time, too.
He's really fucking good.
eddie bravo
Lombard's got that Hendricks power.
Just boom.
joe rogan
But he's got it in both hands.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's just terrifying.
Terrifying.
Lombard's terrifying.
He might be the motherfucker at 170, man.
He really might be.
eddie bravo
Yes, he might be.
joe rogan
These guys, man, sometimes it's just a matter of making that weight.
Getting down to the weight class.
Look at Damian Maia at 170, you know?
But then Jake Shields beat him, which is crazy.
eddie bravo
It could have went either way.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was a, I think, one of those fights that easily could be a draw.
You could decide who wins, but Maia didn't tap him.
You know, a lot of people were saying that Maia was going to dominate him the way he dominated Rick's story.
No.
People forget how good a rapper Jake Shields is.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
He never really got close to any submissions.
And Jake, he's probably top three, if not the best, passer in MMA. His passing is incredible.
Him and Sean Shirk, incredible passing.
And Jake almost passed so many times.
God!
And to have that kind of confidence to try to pass Maya's guard, most wrestlers will just say, okay, in this fight you get on top, don't even try to pass.
But Jake kept trying to pass.
And even though he didn't quite make it, it was very impressive that he had the confidence to keep pushing and keep trying to pass.
And Damien Maya really couldn't do anything off his back against Jake.
brendan schaub
Jake's used to having guys attack him, you know, serious guys off their back.
So, man...
eddie bravo
That was a very, very close fight.
I thought they would give it to Maia because it was in Brazil.
I thought Jake's really going to have to beat him decisively to get it in Brazil.
But that wasn't the case after all.
So congratulations to Jake.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was a big win for him because Maia was on the verge of a title shot.
After the Rick Story fight, after beating John Fitch, John Fitch, John Fitch, and then beat Rick Story like that, a lot of people were like, Jesus Christ, this guy might be the best grappler in the division.
No one can stop him.
So Jake wins that fight, derails his title hopes.
There's just so many good fighters now, man.
It's crazy.
Robbie Lawler is about to fight Rory McDonald.
How fucking crazy is that fight going to be?
eddie bravo
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Robbie Lawler at 170. There's another one at 170. It's fucking terrifying.
He's absolutely terrifying at 170. Did you see Amagov and TJ Wahlberger?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Robbie Lawler knocked out Amagov with a flying knee.
That's how scary Robbie Lawler is.
eddie bravo
I'll never forget Dana White at the Comedy Store years ago.
Telling you about Robbie Lawler for the first time.
I got this kid Robbie Lawler, man.
brendan schaub
This guy can knock you out with both hands.
eddie bravo
I remember hearing that, and then he brought him up.
He did well in the beginning, and then he started fighting for Strikeforce.
joe rogan
He was fighting at 85. He shouldn't have been fighting in 85. He should have been fighting at 170 the whole time.
But he also needed to mature, come into his own.
You know, he's like 30 now.
And now he's like a real legit professional.
You know, he fights smart.
He doesn't just wing punches at guys, but he does still wing punches at guys.
He's got a serious fucking chin, and he goes after guys.
eddie bravo
When is that fight?
joe rogan
That's November.
That's the George St. Pierre undercard.
unidentified
Damn!
joe rogan
Good googly moogly!
Dude, Roy McDonald and...
I mean, think about that camp, that TriStar camp.
Roy McDonald, GSP, he got so many good guys out of that camp, that Francis Carmon guy.
But Robbie Lawler's a motherfucker.
I don't know who's gonna win that fight.
Roy's like super technical, doesn't take too many chances, works on that long jab, you know?
But Robbie Lawler will go after a motherfucker.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's spooky.
eddie bravo
What'd you think of Roy Nelson, Cormier?
joe rogan
Cormier's a fucking sick athlete, man.
He's a sick athlete.
eddie bravo
Is he for sure going to 205?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's going.
He wants to fight Jon Jones.
Yeah, he was saying it.
He was saying, I'm going to 205. Yeah, he'll be at 205. He was 224 for this fight.
He'll go down to 205 and he's gonna be a handful for everybody.
He's that elite Olympic gold medalist caliber athlete.
Those motherfuckers are rare dudes.
Those dudes, they break their hand and keep punching you with it until it falls apart.
He was throwing punches at Josh Barnett with a broken hand.
You know, he's taking Josh Barnett up in the air with a broken hand, slamming him on the ground with, you know, his fucking bones are rattling against themselves inside of his hand.
eddie bravo
To do that to Josh Barnett, man.
joe rogan
Exactly.
eddie bravo
You gotta be out of this world.
joe rogan
And he's not even a legit heavyweight.
He wrestled at 206. I think he wrestled at 206. It was definitely light because he had to cut weight to do it, and that's why he lost his bid at the Olympics, because he had kidney failure.
Because he tried to make the weight.
He tried to cut the weight, like cut a lot of weight, and he fucked himself up.
A lot of guys have that, man.
You know, Jose Aldo has kidney stones now.
He had a kidney stone removed after his fight with a Korean zombie.
That's from cutting weight.
eddie bravo
Yeah, one of my students had kidney stones, and since he went to the hospital and went through all the excruciating pain and me hearing the stories, he said, bro, drink cranberry juice, pure cranberry juice.
Don't drink that cocktail every day.
You do not want to go through what I just went through.
I swear to God, I have...
Pure cranberry juice in my refrigerator.
I make sure my wife keeps it stocked and I drink it every day.
Just hearing his story of excruciating pain in the hospital.
joe rogan
Does this guy...
Who is it?
Which guy?
eddie bravo
I don't know.
I don't want to say his name.
joe rogan
Okay.
Does he cut weight?
eddie bravo
Yes, he cuts massive weight.
He should.
He should.
joe rogan
These dudes that cut weight to do matches.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fuck, man.
That shit's bad for you.
Cutting weight is not good.
But if you want to be a great fighter...
eddie bravo
Just drink pure cranberry juice.
Not the cocktail.
And you should be fine every day.
joe rogan
Probably tastes like shit.
eddie bravo
It tastes sour.
But it's like a shot.
I drink it every day.
joe rogan
Where do you get it?
Do you make it?
eddie bravo
Whole Foods.
You can get it at anywhere.
Any supermarket.
unidentified
They also have cranberry pills that does the same thing.
joe rogan
Does it do the same thing?
eddie bravo
Just take a shot, a shot of cranberry juice.
joe rogan
How could it do the same thing, though?
It never does.
You know, like, you take those, like, pills, green pills, they're never as good as, like, real wheatgrass juice.
eddie bravo
It's kind of sour, but you get used to it.
unidentified
It's actually not bad.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
And you can't drink that much of it, so it's perfect.
It's like a way to quench your thirst, and you're not gonna down, like, half the bottle.
If it was a great drink or something, shit, you'd kill half the bottle.
But since it's so tart, You're forced to only take a sip.
joe rogan
And so what does that do?
What's in it that protects your dick?
eddie bravo
It's got to be the acid in it because it's kind of sour.
It has something to do with that and making sure that those stones are always broken down.
brendan schaub
It probably just melts them or something.
eddie bravo
I don't know.
joe rogan
I used to date this girl who used to get urinary tract infections.
She used to have to drink cranberry juice to get rid of it.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
How weird is that?
eddie bravo
Cranberry juice is legit.
joe rogan
It's weird that there's foods, though, that cure things.
You have any stomach ailments, anything bothering your stomach, take garlic.
It's incredible.
If you eat some bad food and get some sort of stomach food poisoning and shit like that, eat some cloves of garlic.
It's like sending in rabid Italian troops that go in there and just fuck up all the bacteria.
It's incredible.
Yeah.
People who don't like raw garlic, you don't know what you're missing.
Just eat cloves of that shit.
It's fantastic for you.
It's like an assault on all the shitty things inside your body.
eddie bravo
How about that Tony Ferguson Mars?
joe rogan
Damn!
Why is he called him Mars?
eddie bravo
Well, you know, because you've got to name...
Every move and every position and every transition, in my opinion, in order to teach at the highest level.
So there's a difference between getting a darse when you're on top and you're using your weight.
He wasn't on top.
He cinched it in and went to his back.
And Mark Lehman, He's a very well-known MMA jiu-jitsu coach.
brendan schaub
He used to do that.
eddie bravo
He's the one who actually called it the Darce when it was named after the first guy he saw use it, Joe Darce.
And I think his name is DRC. Mark Lehman is very similar to me as we like to name everything that doesn't have names and lots of jiu-jitsu moves didn't.
So you've got to name...
There's a difference between the Mars, because the Mars is on your back, and that's how he used to do it.
He said that was his thing, that his squeeze was so tight that he didn't need to be on top, and he liked rolling guys, and they didn't expect it, so he called it the Mars.
brendan schaub
There's also a farce, which...
eddie bravo
I don't know if a guy named Freddy made it up.
I don't know the story behind farce, but that's when you're kind of mounting the guy, and you have...
brendan schaub
You are mounting the guy, and you have a darse.
eddie bravo
So there's different variations of it, and the one that Tony...
Trains at 10th Pana Costa Mesa all week, and every Thursday he comes up and trains with me, and that's the move you gotta watch when you're rolling with Tony.
He does flying darses, man.
I mean, his jiu-jitsu's very underrated, man.
He's gonna shock a lot of people over the...
Over his career.
joe rogan
Well, that darts that he hit that dude with, he immediately scooted under him and then almost like an inverted crucifix, he ties his arm up with his legs from the bottom as he does it.
eddie bravo
You gotta have confidence in your squeeze to do that, man.
So that tells you a lot.
You're like, wow, you won't ever see anybody going to the Mars.
You see people going to the darts and if the guy on the bottom rolls, you should be able to roll with him.
Even if it turns into Omar, still finish it, but you don't go there voluntarily unless you're super confident with that move.
joe rogan
Having those long arms is such a massive advantage.
It really is.
As far as that leverage you can get with long limbs, it's really incredible.
Guys who have wicked darces and have long arms, they can just shove them under place.
Like Kendall Grove.
Kendall Grove used to catch him in all sorts of weird spots because he had an extra foot on his arms.
brendan schaub
Yep.
eddie bravo
Jeff Glover as well.
brendan schaub
He's one of the best at darces.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Jeff Glover lets you pass him.
I love that move.
Where he lets you get into side control, and you think you're going into side control, but really you're just going to Darce Land.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
He just catches it in the transition.
Yeah.
Jiu Jitsu, for people who don't know, it's so fucking technical.
There's so many techniques.
I mean, it's truly amazing when you stop and consider the positions, the amount of different possibilities each position holds, and then different ways to submit people, and how they all flow together.
If you've never done it before, it's hard to kind of understand it, and I know that's one of the things that I take a lot of time on when it comes to a ground battle in the UFC. I always make sure I try to explain what a guy's trying to do, where it becomes a problem, where he's going to, and people get a chance to see it more that way, but unless you train yourself, you'll never really truly understand.
The beauty of it.
If you train yourself, you'll get a sense of what it's like to struggle to actually catch a guy in a position.
Then you'll understand how amazing it is when you see, like, really, really high-level stuff.
When you see a mad scramble like Kron Gracie and Gary Tonin and Gary taking Kron's back in that wild scramble.
You know, they kept rolling, kept rolling, kept rolling, then BAM! Locks up the body triangle.
Like, fuck!
brendan schaub
Yeah, yeah.
eddie bravo
It's an art that anybody can do.
Children, old ladies, they all do it.
It's really, really easy.
I'm not trying to sell it.
Obviously, I want to make money, but it's the truth.
The truth is anybody can learn it.
All you have to do is just show up to your local jujitsu school.
And just watch.
Just go and just watch a couple times.
It's free.
You don't have to commit to it.
Just tell the guy you want to watch.
And you watch and you realize, oh my god, I had it all wrong.
You expect that you're going to show up and there's going to be all these fucking douchebags killing each other and bleeding on each other.
And you realize it's a bunch of nerds.
It's a bunch of computer nerds.
brendan schaub
And after you watch one class, you should be sold on it.
eddie bravo
And you don't have to roll and do...
You know, people are scared of rolling and, oh, what if he taps me out or hurts me?
It's so rare that anybody gets hurt, really.
It's so rare.
joe rogan
You usually get hurt more from positions than you do from submissions.
You get hurt more when your leg gets tripped onto you.
But, you know, as you get better at it, that becomes less and less.
And as you...
If you're in a good school like Tenth Planet or like...
There's so many good schools in L.A. and we get spoiled, but...
Most places have to be good in order to stay open in this day and age because there's so much competition.
There's amazing amounts of competition from jiu-jitsu.
eddie bravo
Our beginning classes, we kind of changed them up a little.
brendan schaub
Over the years, I realized that most people are a lot more scared of going to a jiu-jitsu class and checking it out and taking one class than I thought.
eddie bravo
They're way more scared than I thought.
So I understand that.
It's a safe sport and you should know if you want to do it or not.
And if you're not totally into it, I don't want to talk you into it.
brendan schaub
You should just know.
eddie bravo
And then that leaves me with a small percentage of the population, which I consider, oh, you're my family.
But in reality, if I change my beginner classes and make them more, cater more to the guys that want to do it, but they're just scared to death.
They're scared to death of signing a contract.
They're scared to death of getting hurt.
They're coming into jujitsu scared.
So you've got to really think about...
Just walking them through it nice and slowly, showing them that there's nothing to be scared of.
This is a beautiful thing that everyone can learn.
You can learn to get really good at putting people to sleep in six months.
joe rogan
You know, another thing is don't be afraid to tap.
That's another thing that I make sure I really tell people.
It's nothing wrong with tapping.
It's not that bad.
Just go in there and tap.
You've got to think about it like someone scoring a point on you in basketball.
It's going to happen.
It's totally normal.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And once you get past that, especially if you're training with good people, you tap them, they tap you, doesn't matter.
It's good for you.
And if you can't tap a guy but he can tap you, guess what?
That's good for you too.
It's good for you to know that someone can tap you.
You need to up your game and up your skill level to get to the point where he's at.
But just because he taps you is no big deal.
It doesn't matter.
People tap people all the time.
eddie bravo
That's one of the biggest reasons people...
Are afraid to come in.
They're afraid to lose this game of death because really that's why jiu-jitsu is so fascinating and such a beautiful thing because really it applies to life on the streets, saving your family, protecting your children, protecting your wife, your wife protecting your children, and back and forth your children knowing jiu-jitsu and protecting their father and son.
You know, a whole family where everyone does jiu-jitsu, that increases your chances of survival in like some apocalyptic experience.
joe rogan
Well, either way, it's a great way to exercise.
It's a great discipline.
It's great for your body.
It's great for your mind.
Like, after we leave jiu-jitsu class, tell me...
When are we more loose, relaxed, and silly than after jiu-jitsu meals?
We've had some hilarious after-jiu-jitsu conversations where everybody's exhausted.
You've been fighting for your life for the past hour and a half, and we're all just hanging out, chilling, and trying to kill each other just an hour before.
eddie bravo
It's like a virtual reality video game.
joe rogan
Exactly.
And you get used to that.
It becomes a normal thing.
For folks where it's not a normal thing, it seems daunting.
It seems terrifying.
It seems uninviting.
But believe me, I know a lot of, like you said, nerds.
And it's a lot of nice people in jujitsu too.
People who have a good control of their ego.
We've talked about that on this podcast many times.
But I think it needs repeating.
eddie bravo
Absolutely.
I can't tell you how many tweets, emails, messages, how many I get.
I listen to you guys talk about jujitsu on the podcast over and over, and then I finally went to a school and I tried it, and guess what?
You were right.
This is amazing.
This is changing my life.
My son's doing it now, too.
And that is...
The most likely outcome, if you give it a shot and you have an open mind and leave your ego at the door, is it's gonna change your life for the better.
joe rogan
It's gonna give you, without a doubt, it's gonna be one of the best vehicles for developing your confidence that you can ever find.
It will change your confidence.
And that's women, including women.
Think about women that you know that have gone to your schools, gone to different jiu-jitsu classes and gotten better at it, and then they become a more relaxed person.
They become a different person.
They're not worried about their self-defense around men anymore.
They know that the reality is a girl is a brown belt in jiu-jitsu.
Do you remember when we had Felicia do that thing with Seymour Butts?
eddie bravo
Yes!
Explain that.
joe rogan
Seymour Butts is a nice guy.
He's a porn star and a porn producer and he had a show.
eddie bravo
On Showtime.
joe rogan
On Showtime.
I don't remember what the name of it was.
Do you remember the show?
eddie bravo
Maybe it was just Seymour Butts.
joe rogan
I don't remember what it was.
But anyway, real nice guy.
In one of the episodes he wanted to come down and do jujitsu with a woman.
eddie bravo
No, no, no.
He just wanted to come down and do jujitsu.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
eddie bravo
It was not with a woman.
joe rogan
He didn't want to do it with Felicia?
Did you set that up on purpose?
eddie bravo
No, I set that up on purpose.
He had no idea.
joe rogan
Felicia Oh, who's a friend of ours, she's a black belt under Jean-Jacques Machado and a legit bonafide badass.
She's like 135 pounds.
She's not a big woman.
But she is strong as fuck and her jujitsu is top notch.
And she's really smart.
She's super, super, super smart.
So she just gets good at anything.
She just knows how to get good at shit.
And her and Seymour Butts rolled.
It was like his first day.
And she manhandled this poor lad.
eddie bravo
He didn't get hurt.
unidentified
He just tapped.
eddie bravo
He lost the game over and over.
joe rogan
She was so nice.
eddie bravo
Which never feels amazing.
When you tap out, it doesn't feel refreshing.
joe rogan
No.
eddie bravo
But that's why it's so beautiful because it didn't feel good.
You just lost a game of death.
No one got hurt.
But that tap represented the fact that he had your life in his hands.
And the only reason he let go is because he's a cool guy and everyone's cool in class.
But in reality, if he was a douchebag and he wanted to kill you, he could have.
joe rogan
Yeah, they take your life.
If someone wanted to choke you out and then stomp your head out while you're unconscious, that's what happens.
But the point is, Felicia, being this small woman, just using her technique, just tapped him over and over and over again.
Got him in a triangle, got his back, got him in an arm bar.
And the way she did it was so fluid and beautiful.
eddie bravo
And you watch the episode, it doesn't I don't think it goes down like that.
They edited it to make him look good.
Because we shot a segment where I'm teaching, and then I'm teaching him, and we're doing the teaching segment.
And then I asked him, do you want to roll, too?
Because he didn't even know what, like, rolling.
I go, do we kind of spar?
And he said, yeah, yeah, we'll shoot that, and we'll do that.
And I go, well, we'll spar with the woman, you know, to make it.
And he's like, uh, okay, whatever.
joe rogan
That was your idea?
That's so funny.
It was so long ago, I forgot.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
Generally, if you're a girl out there and you do jujitsu for solid, for one year solid, the chances of you getting raped go down significantly.
It's very hard to rape a jujitsu girl.
And it doesn't take that long to get good at it.
Like I said, within two years, time flies.
You could be doing it three years just like that and you're a badass.
joe rogan
The last time I rolled with Felicia, I think I was a purple belt.
I might have been a brown belt.
It was either purple or brown belt.
And it's not like I was trying to kill her, but I didn't tap her.
I didn't tap her.
She weighs 135 pounds.
And she's just fucking good, man.
She's really strong and she's fucking good.
And when someone's really good, they know how to put themselves in the perfect position.
They know how to keep moving.
They know how to keep getting away from anything that you're trying to do to them and putting themselves in a better position to defend, a better position to attack.
That being many steps ahead of the person you're doing it with because they don't know what you're doing, gives someone a massive amount of confidence.
And I've seen girls go into jujitsu class, start getting good, and then start tapping out guys.
And when they start tapping out guys, it's a wild thing to watch.
It's a wild thing to see the guy's face.
It's a wild thing to see a girl cinch up.
The first girl I ever saw tap a doodah was this girl Duncan used to roll with.
They were both beginners.
Do you remember we got Duncan and Ari who gave them a free year for Christmas?
Do you remember that?
brendan schaub
Yes, I do.
Very well.
joe rogan
Ari stuck it out.
Ari got some taps in on some dudes.
He kept going.
But Duncan ran into this girl who was very pretty and very girly, but she tapped him with the quickness.
How many times did she tap him?
She tapped him several.
It was ugly.
But it was fascinating to watch.
This girl realizing if she knew the techniques better, she could get a guy.
A guy that's probably stronger than her.
She can still get him.
eddie bravo
That scarred Duncan, he never...
He didn't laugh.
I think he showed up to maybe a handful of classes at most.
brendan schaub
Ari stuck it out for a while.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
But with Ari, he got hurt.
Something happened to his knee.
I think he had surgery.
joe rogan
He got staff, and then he had a...
Well, he had a meniscus surgery, and then he got staff.
And that was too much.
He couldn't take it.
eddie bravo
Some people...
There's a small percentage of people that get hurt doing jiu-jitsu and that scares them and they never want to come back.
But generally, most of the people who do jiu-jitsu love it so much that the first thing they think of when they get hurt, they're pissed off because they're going to be out for six weeks or they're going to be out for three months.
That's why they're pissed.
They can't wait to get back.
brendan schaub
And you can't wait to get back so much that you're like...
eddie bravo
A lot of times you come back too early and you're not really healed right and then you re-injure yourself.
brendan schaub
So that's...
eddie bravo
Generally, if you...
brendan schaub
Come in with an open mind and you leave your ego at the door.
eddie bravo
Generally, you're going to fall in love with it.
It's going to change your life.
And when you get hurt, you're more bummed about missing jiu-jitsu than you are about the actual injury.
But there are some people that they get ringworm once.
And they're like, fuck this.
brendan schaub
You get ringworm.
eddie bravo
Except ringworm.
It's very easy to eliminate ringworm.
You never have to deal with it if you can be consistent with the yogurt and the acidophilus.
joe rogan
And defense soap.
Get some defense soap.
eddie bravo
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Tell everybody.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Defense Soap is the best.
joe rogan
And it's a great company owned by a great guy.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the company, they support wrestlers and they develop soap that cleans your skin without fucking up all the natural bacteria.
Yeah.
All the healthy four.
eddie bravo
I was resistant to Defense Soap for a while.
I never really looked into it in the very beginning.
I thought...
It was a soap that had all these antibiotics and chemicals that I didn't want to have nothing to do with it.
It just sounded like that, but when I finally looked into it and found out that it was just eucalyptus oil and tea tree oil in high amounts.
It's like three times the amount that you find in it.
joe rogan
I bring that everywhere.
I bring it on the road with me.
I don't go to a hotel room unless I have that shit in me.
eddie bravo
I use defense soap every day.
Every day.
joe rogan
Yeah, me too.
eddie bravo
Once I found out it was all natural, and I was sold.
joe rogan
Now that I don't need shampoo anymore, I use it on the top of my head, too?
I use it everywhere.
eddie bravo
I use it as shampoo.
Damn, you crazy.
brendan schaub
You crazy, any problem?
eddie bravo
You crazy, any problem?
brendan schaub
It keeps dandruff away, because dandruff is a form of fungus similar to ringworm.
joe rogan
Totally makes sense.
Well, healthy skin flora is something that people don't even think about, but, you know, I mean, that's what killed a lot of motherfuckers back in the day, when people got scratched, and, you know, they got some sort of infection, and, you know, they'd People used to die of infections all the time.
That's like one of the biggest deaths, the biggest scary things about going to a hospital today is infections.
And you can do a little bit to prevent that stuff by a healthy diet, eating a lot of probiotics.
Even if you're a vegan, say if you only eat vegetables, you can still get probiotics in the form of sauerkraut.
Sauerkraut, like natural raw sauerkraut, super good for you.
Kombucha, super good for you.
eddie bravo
Vegans can have acidophilus pills.
joe rogan
Well, see, they shouldn't even really have kombucha, because kombucha is a fungus, and a fungus is actually closer to a person than a plant is.
Funguses are actually closer to human beings than plants are.
Funguses are actually much more like an animal than they are like a plant.
So if you're a true vegan and you're eating kombucha, you're kind of a hypocrite.
If you eat mushrooms, you're kind of a hypocrite too.
unidentified
Shiloh.
joe rogan
But they actually probably want you to eat them.
That's the whole idea behind psilocybin.
Psilocybin wants you to eat it.
That's why it's big and white and gigantic.
It shows up.
It shows itself very easily on cow patties and shit like that.
It's literally inviting you to come and eat it because that's how it communicates with you.
eddie bravo
The red tops with the white?
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, come on.
How beautiful.
eddie bravo
The red ones, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, how beautiful.
That's the Amanita muscaria.
But psilocybin, the ones that grow on cow shit, they have the big giant ones in the Amazon.
They grow the size of dinner plates.
eddie bravo
What's the difference?
They both get you to that other dimension?
joe rogan
Amanita muscaria is a very controversial mushroom.
And for folks who've never heard of the Amanita muscaria mushroom...
eddie bravo
It's the red one that you see.
joe rogan
It's the red one with the white spots.
It's literally Santa Claus.
eddie bravo
Okay.
joe rogan
And I'll break it down real quick for people who have never heard this before.
Google Joe Rogan, Santa Claus was a mushroom.
I wrote a whole article about it in 2006 or something like that.
eddie bravo
I'm talking about the difference in what it does for you.
joe rogan
Well, I'm about to explain.
I'm about to explain to people.
The Amanita muscaria mushroom is native to Siberia, to Europe.
It's a different mushroom.
The mushroom, the psilocybin mushroom that you see in tropical climates and you also, we see it in a lot of places now.
The Pacific Northwest has a lot of them.
That's a different experience and that's a much more accessible experience and it's a much more reliable experience.
The Amanita muscaria oftentimes isn't even psychoactive.
Like, they don't know what makes it psychoactive and what doesn't.
There's all sorts of speculation that it could be genetically variable, it could be seasonally variable, it could be, you know, there's strains of it that grew in certain areas and they were super potent, but they don't exist anymore, or you have to find them.
I've never had a good Amanita muscaria trip.
I only had one to speak of that really blew it out, but we took psilocybin too.
We took the Amanita for like an hour and it wasn't doing shit.
eddie bravo
Is that us?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
It was me and Stan Hope.
Me, Stan Hope, and Jan Irvin.
eddie bravo
How many grams?
joe rogan
He made this weird soup.
He made like a tea with the Amanita muscaria.
He knows how to do all that shit.
Yand is pretty well versed in how to prepare these things.
eddie bravo
There was a specific amount that Terence McKenna talked about.
joe rogan
Five grams.
Well, that's psilocybin.
This is the Amanita muscaria, like I was saying.
So we took that and then an hour or so in, we decided to jump it with psilocybin.
And then when we jumped it with psilocybin.
Wow!
The two of them together, it was pretty fucking intense.
And it was the day of the war.
So it was really, really, really weird.
And we had this mata de coco tea.
It's cocaine tea.
It's tea that's derived from coca leaves, like natural coca leaves.
This is more shit that Jan has.
eddie bravo
Is it legal?
joe rogan
I don't believe so.
I would say nay.
But it should be, because the actual leaves themselves in these indigenous high-altitude herding populations, they just chew them.
They chew them all day, and it's like tobacco to them, or like anything else that people normally have.
It's like chewing gum or something like that.
It's a clean stimulant.
It's when you break it down and turn it into cocaine that it becomes a real fucking pain in the ass.
It becomes addictive, and people get weirded out on it.
But they say it's actually better for you than coffee if you just chew the leaves.
eddie bravo
I just found out within the last year, I saw a documentary on where ecstasy comes from.
brendan schaub
The ingredient, MDMA, right?
eddie bravo
It comes from these trees in Thailand and Cambodia.
So they're chopping down all these trees to get the inner core of it, and that's what makes ecstasy.
brendan schaub
How crazy is that?
eddie bravo
I thought it was a pure lab-created thing.
joe rogan
I did too.
I think there was a Vice documentary on it.
Another fucking Vice one.
Those Vice guys are on top of everything.
eddie bravo
Maybe that's the one I saw.
joe rogan
Probably.
But it was fascinating.
unidentified
It's crazy.
eddie bravo
It all comes from Cambodia and Thailand.
joe rogan
And there's a lot of violence associated with where these trees are now because people are killing people to try to get to these trees.
eddie bravo
Crazy.
brendan schaub
I wonder how that would be like taking it naturally, like right from the tree.
joe rogan
I know, right?
eddie bravo
I wonder if you could.
unidentified
Trip to Thailand!
eddie bravo
Let's go find the trees.
That's a movie.
A group of guys that go find the tree with like three hot chicks.
All the chicks die, of course, within the first 45 minutes.
One survives.
brendan schaub
Only one at the end.
joe rogan
Ecstasy is a funny one, man.
It's a really funny one.
It's a really interesting one.
Because it's thought of as a party drug, and it certainly is, but you can learn a lot on ecstasy, man.
I've only done it once, but I learned a lot.
I had a very beneficial trip.
I paid the price with my mental health for the couple days afterwards.
I was wrecked.
My brain was not working well.
brendan schaub
The comedown is terrible.
joe rogan
For me, it was.
For some people, apparently, it's not.
Or if you take 5-HTP... I don't know.
Are you joking around?
Are you serious?
unidentified
You don't remember that?
eddie bravo
I don't remember Roll On.
joe rogan
When Aubrey created it, the original thing was Aubrey likes to party.
And he created it for the comedown off of Ecstasy.
eddie bravo
Because 5-HTP... And that's what New Mood became, right?
joe rogan
Sort of.
It was enhanced and now New Mood has a bunch of different shit in it, like L-Tryptophan, which converts to 5-HTP. So it has like a time release effect.
unidentified
It's better.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it's better in that there's more than one mechanism for converting 5-HTP to serotonin.
L-tryptophan converts to 5-HTP, which converts to serotonin.
It gives you the building blocks to replenish your serotonin surprise after you do something like that, but also gives you The extra serotonin throughout your day, which picks your mood up.
So much so, man, that they say for people who are taking SSRIs or antidepressants, they tell them not to take 5-HTP. Because Neil Brennan, you know Neil Brennan, the dude who met from the- Dave Chappelle's guy.
He was on 5-HTP, but he was also taken in antidepressant.
The doctor told him to lay off the 5-HTP because it would give him too much serotonin.
eddie bravo
Huh.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
So that's for real.
joe rogan
Oh, it's definitely for real.
Have you tried any of that shit?
eddie bravo
Well, I will say this.
Depeche Mode was just in town last month, and after the Depeche Mode concert, I did take some New Mood.
Took about four of them.
joe rogan
I see what you're saying.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
I see what you're saying without saying it.
eddie bravo
What are you talking about?
joe rogan
You know what you should have done?
eddie bravo
New Mood.
joe rogan
You should have taken Alpha Brain before the Depeche Mode concert, and you would have been smart enough to not go.
Oh!
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
Oh no, I didn't.
Oh no, I didn't.
eddie bravo
Sold out to Staples Center three nights in a row.
Come on.
They haven't had a hit single in ten years.
joe rogan
I'm joking, obviously.
eddie bravo
That's like Pink Floyd status.
unidentified
An old friend of ours, I think you were friends with him.
I was friends with him.
He used to work at the comedy store.
I was murdered last night.
I don't know if you remember Katie.
joe rogan
What?
brian redban
He used to work there at the comedy store and he recently moved to Los Angeles.
unidentified
Las Vegas.
brian redban
And what happened is this gunman came into a nightclub, I believe it's at the Palms, and shot two guys.
And he was just supposedly a guy that was at this club, and he tried to tackle the guy because the guy was pointing his gun to innocent people.
So he was doing a hero thing, and then he got shot.
unidentified
I don't know if you remember Katie.
I remember that, too.
He was one of the nicest guys.
eddie bravo
He was dating Katie?
joe rogan
No, no, his name is KD. His name's KD. KD. Oh, remember KD? Yeah, yeah, we talked about KD yesterday on the podcast, how hilarious she was.
brendan schaub
It makes sense.
brian redban
KD was one of my first friends in Los Angeles when I first moved here.
joe rogan
That's terrible.
Fuck, man.
There was another school shooting the other day, too.
Did you hear about that shit?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Real quick, before we get to the school shooting, back to the mushroom thing, I'm reading...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, we didn't even describe the difference.
eddie bravo
I'm reading a baby book, and this is back to mushrooms, and I've never read so many goddamn books in my life over the last six months.
brendan schaub
My kid, that's his favorite shit, is to have...
eddie bravo
He goes, grabs a book.
We have a thousand books.
He grabs his favorite one.
He sits on my lap, and I read it.
He loves that.
And he knows what the last page is, and he'll flip it over.
brendan schaub
Start it over, son.
eddie bravo
Start it over.
brendan schaub
And there's this one book about Nicholas the Bunny, and he's talking about how in the fall, I like to watch the leaves.
eddie bravo
In the winter, I find shelter from the rain under a toadstool.
And it's a mushroom.
I never heard mushrooms called toadstools before.
And then on the other side, there's a mushroom with a toad actually sitting on top of the mushroom.
Right?
joe rogan
Yeah, they've been called toadstools forever, but they also, if you look up any old-school Christmas shit, all old-school Christmas cards, anything with elves, they all have mushrooms around them.
And they have that mushroom, the Amanita muscaria mushroom.
eddie bravo
Isn't there a myth that if you lick a frog's ass, you get high?
joe rogan
No, it's not a myth at all.
eddie bravo
It's real?
joe rogan
Some frogs.
Some frogs, it's different though.
What they have is five MEO DMT in them.
eddie bravo
But what I'm saying is, I open up this baby book, there's a little bunny, Nicholas the Bunny, hiding under a toadstool, and then they show a mushroom and a frog on top of it, sitting down on it.
So maybe that's why...
When you lick a frog's ass, you get high because they actually sit on mushrooms?
unidentified
No, no, no.
eddie bravo
Maybe they're using the mushrooms to...
unidentified
No, you don't...
joe rogan
Listen, you don't lick a frog's ass.
You don't lick a frog to get high.
The way you...
This doesn't work.
It's an excretion.
Yeah, this is what it is.
There's an excretion from certain types of frog skin.
And you have to rub it on glass.
So you take this frog, and you rub them on glass, and they'll excrete their substance on the grass.
Then you take that glass, you put it in the sun, it dries out.
Then you take a razor blade, And you scrape it off the glass, and it's a white powder.
You smoke that white powder, and it's 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine.
eddie bravo
Now, is that secretion coming from their rectum?
joe rogan
It's coming from their skin.
eddie bravo
Okay.
joe rogan
It's that whole thing of licking a frog is just one of those urban myths.
eddie bravo
Okay.
It's just weird that in a baby book, you hear about the myths of licking a frog's ass, and they're sitting on...
Maybe...
Because, you know, some people put ecstasy pills in their ass for better absorption.
You've heard of that, Brian, right?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
eddie bravo
So maybe the frog is trying to get high, and maybe they figure out how to get high by sitting on a mushroom.
It goes up their ass, and they get high, and then you lick a frog's ass, and you get high.
That's all I'm saying.
This was in a baby book.
joe rogan
This is the name of the frog.
It's called the bufo aureus.
unidentified
And you can't get fucked up, Joe, by licking it.
brian redban
If I remember correctly, it's super concentrated and super dangerous, though, to do it.
joe rogan
To lick it?
unidentified
To lick it, because it's really concentrated.
If you remember, why don't you Google that?
Yeah, but you gotta Google shit like that if you don't know.
I bought the frog to do this.
eddie bravo
The book's called I Am a Bunny.
joe rogan
You bought a Bufo Alvarez?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's called the Colorado River Toad or Sonoran Desert Toad.
It contains 5-M-E-O-D-M-T and bufotenin.
Bufotenin?
unidentified
B-U-F-O-T-E-N-I-N. There's a website that sold these frogs, and so I bought one, and I had it for like a month, and I was like, no, I'm not doing it.
eddie bravo
Was it alive?
unidentified
Oh, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
So you never licked it?
unidentified
No, I don't even know what ever I do with it.
joe rogan
I think it's a myth.
If you had it, why didn't you lick it?
unidentified
I don't know.
I was too scared.
eddie bravo
Can you Google licking a frog's ass?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm doing that right now.
I just did.
brian redban
The toad's venom is concentrated on the surface of its skin, and that's why licking is dangerous.
Smoking is a different story, however.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
So it's too powerful if you lick it.
unidentified
Too powerful if you lick it, because it's concentrated.
joe rogan
Hmm.
The toxic ingredient in the toad's venom is called bufotanine, which is burned off while smoking.
That's why it's dangerous.
Because the two things are in it.
If you burn it off, what's left is 5-MeO-DMT. So you don't want to lick it because if you lick it, it gives you bufotanine.
Bufotanine gets burned off while you smoke it.
That's why it's dangerous to lick it.
Yeah.
So I guess it really can't freak you out.
eddie bravo
Does it say anything about the butthole?
joe rogan
So listen to this.
This is what's weird.
This frog, they're native to the Colorado River or Southern Arizona, California, and Northern New Mexico.
Even though 5-A-M-A-O-D-M-T is classified as an unscheduled substance, which means it's legal to possess, But the venom also contains bufotinine, which is scheduled, so you can be in possession of an illegal substance, even though it's not a psychedelic.
The weird thing about 5-MeO is it's stronger than NNDMT. NNDMT is the one that gives you the crazy visuals.
But the stuff that we did the first time, that's 5-MeO.
It's even stronger than NN, and it's legal.
eddie bravo
The one where I was screaming?
joe rogan
Yeah.
They missed that one.
In the sweeping Psychedelic Drug Act of 1970, they missed 5-MeO DMT. This is what I had bought.
unidentified
A Colorado River Toad.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the motherfucker.
Good thing you didn't lick it, dummy.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Because you wouldn't have Googled it.
unidentified
I didn't have Google back then.
It was right before I moved here to Los Angeles.
joe rogan
Well, anybody listening, please don't lick the toad because you can die.
unidentified
Don't lick poisonous dart frogs.
joe rogan
Yeah, but if you take that stuff and you smoke it, it's DMT. You will trip your fucking balls off if you smoke the shit that comes from that toad's skin, which is really kind of crazy.
The difference between that and psilocybin is very similar.
Psilocybin also is NN-dimethyltryptamine.
It's got that and something else.
So psilocybin is like 4-Fox, 4-Loxley, NN-dimethyltryptamine.
So the last part of it is dimethyltryptamine.
Then 5-MeO-dimethyltryptamine, which is what these frogs have, is dimethyltryptamine with like an oxygen molecule attached to it.
So it has a different impact.
But all that shit that's, like, prevalent in children's books and folklore.
Like, all those elves...
unidentified
That guy's name is Toad, and he has a mushroom head.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he has the head of the mushroom that's Santa Claus.
eddie bravo
Dude, I'm telling you.
I think that's the people that are making books for kids.
unidentified
Oh, absolutely.
eddie bravo
You gotta kind of have had a mushroom trip to really want to help kids.
You know, and it's kind of like...
joe rogan
Oh, that's crazy.
eddie bravo
I don't know, man.
There's a lot of mushrooms.
joe rogan
A lot of people want to have kids.
They don't have to trip on mushrooms.
eddie bravo
I don't know, but I swear to God, I watch a lot of educational TV for children, and they bring up mushrooms a lot.
What is this?
It's a mushroom, and it's a red mushroom.
There's so many other things you could have brought up.
You're talking about mushrooms.
Mushrooms come up a lot in children's books and in their TV. I don't know what it means.
unidentified
Super Mario Brothers.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, think about Lewis Carroll and think about Alice in Wonderland.
It was all about acid.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
Right now, there's billboards everywhere all over LA. There's a new show called Wonderland or something, and there's a guy and a girl that look in each other's eyes.
In the background, all these mushrooms, red-topped, like those...
joe rogan
Amanita Mascara?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, those mushrooms are what they believe to be Santa Claus, because it even looks like Santa Claus.
Those mushrooms also, this is where it gets really crazy if you haven't heard the whole spiel before.
They have a symbiotic relationship with carniferous trees, like pine trees.
They grow under pine trees.
They have a mycorrhizal relationship with the soil.
Like those trees, that's where those things always grow.
They feed off of each other.
So this fucking thing is always underneath these trees.
Just like brightly colored gifts that are always underneath Christmas trees.
Why are Christmas trees always pine trees?
Why do Christmas trees have these ornaments hanging in them?
You know how crazy you sound right now?
They used to pull them out of the bottom of these trees and then hang them in the tree to dry them out.
The other way they dried them out was they would hang them in front of fireplaces.
That's why socks are white and red.
Christmas socks are white and red.
Who the fuck has white and red socks?
Nobody.
Why would you hang your socks in front of the fireplace like that?
Because that's how they dried out mushrooms.
They used to tie them to strings and dangle in front of the fire and that's how they dried them out.
That's how they preserved them.
It's like everything about it has to do with shamans and everything about it has a connection to this mushroom.
And that mushroom was synonymous.
The Amanita muscaria mushroom was synonymous with reindeers because reindeer love those fucking things.
Reindeer or caribou, caribou live in Siberia.
That's where they live up there.
And these motherfuckers, when you're in a shaman's hut and they're all eating Amanita muscaria mushrooms and having these tribal ceremonies, They would go outside to piss, and the caribou would literally knock them over to get to their piss.
Because their piss had Amanita muscaria smell to it.
unidentified
Damn, Hamilton Morrison did it on Vice.
joe rogan
Of course he did.
unidentified
He's done everything.
Did mushrooms?
eddie bravo
On the show?
unidentified
You puke a lot.
joe rogan
This is the Amanita?
unidentified
Yeah, there's part one, two, and three on the frogs.
joe rogan
He's done the frog, too.
Well, there's another type of frog.
If he shows a scar...
There's a different thing.
There's another type of frog where you take the venom of the frog and you cut yourself and you take this toad's venom and you put it like directly into your skin and somehow or another by doing that by doing it I think they burn themselves like they burn themselves like with ash like an ember and then they put the frog like so it opens up the pores and they put the frog's venom right into them and they have this transcendent transcendent experience Is that Hamilton Morris?
My stomach is in excruciating pain.
He's such a freak.
I love this guy.
eddie bravo
Is that a frog?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, see they burn you and then they stick this shit in on you.
And you trip your balls off.
You go meet with the spirit world.
But, you know, people throughout history have come up with a bunch of different methods to transcend normal reality, normal consciousness.
And in different parts of the world, when they were stuck in some area that didn't have mushrooms, they figured out what Datura does.
They figured out what does this cactus do if you light it on fire?
What's in this bush?
People have been finding that stuff forever.
The scholars in Jerusalem think that that was what Moses was seeing when he went to the burning bush.
He saw the burning bush that was God.
He gave him the Ten Commandments.
They believe that was DMT. Because the bushes they have, like the acacia bush, very rich in DMT. It's all over that area.
Bush, burning, DMT, light DMT on fire, get high.
It's so obvious.
eddie bravo
The crazy experience I had.
With mushrooms back in 2008, I did five grams, specifically five grams, weighed it, put it in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and went to the zoo.
brendan schaub
And that was a bad choice, bad decision.
unidentified
Yeah, you must have got fucked up.
brendan schaub
It was a bad decision.
eddie bravo
I thought, hey, we'd be with animals and it'd be all about love.
We get that.
I went with the chick, and while we were checking out the gorillas is when it hit, And all we wanted to do is just sit in the shade, not look at the animals, close our eyes, and the visuals you get are just amazing.
brendan schaub
When people say, oh, that's in your head, you made that up.
eddie bravo
There's no way.
brendan schaub
If I made that up, it would be fragmented and all fucked up.
eddie bravo
There's no way.
As soon as I close my eyes, there's a show waiting for me.
In my opinion, there's no way.
I'm doing this.
If I was running the show, it would not look like that.
I don't have the ability.
joe rogan
What they believe is that what you're doing is you're hijacking...
Your visual cortex.
And so that these chemicals impact your visual cortex and create this incredible display because your body does not know how to process what's coming in.
That's the idea behind it.
But it doesn't, it doesn't.
What I've always said is it doesn't matter.
Because whether you're creating it, whether it's real or not real, it's still the same experience.
Whether it's real or not real.
What is real?
When it breaks down to it, you're actually seeing that.
So whether or not that's your imagination that's creating it, that's how people like to dismiss things.
Oh, it's just in your imagination.
No, it's not, and it doesn't matter even if it is, because it's still the same thing.
It's still this insane, crazy thing that you're looking at.
So even if it is your imagination, it's still the wildest fucking thing you're ever going to see in your life.
eddie bravo
So hard to explain.
The only way I could explain it is like, It's like those visualizers on your iTunes times a thousand.
joe rogan
It's perfect.
eddie bravo
It's not broken up.
To me, in my opinion, something else is creating it.
I don't know what it is, but something is creating that because there's no way I can create this amazing art.
And it's perfect and perfectly symmetric and it's like snakes of just crazy.
So after like five minutes of just sitting there at the zoo, we had like a fear and loathing in Las Vegas moment where we just had to get out.
We ran to the parking lot and it's at the LA Zoo and we're looking at the mountains.
I'm like, are you looking at the mountains?
Look at the mountains.
And I instantly understood what all the Aztec art was all about.
brendan schaub
I'm like, that's what they're seeing.
eddie bravo
I go, you look at the mountains, we're dancing.
And the guy who gave it to me goes, dude, the clouds are going to dance for you.
I thought that was a metaphor.
I didn't know he actually meant that.
And any time you focus on something for one second, you look at the clouds, they start dancing for you all perfectly.
It's like, what?
joe rogan
It's a weird feeling because it feels like something's there all the time.
You just can't see it.
That's what it feels like.
Whenever I've been on mushrooms, like when I was talking about the one where Doug and I took the Amanita Muscaria and then the Psilocybin, The feeling I got, and it didn't last very long because there was so many things going through our head, and it was the day of the Iraq war, the day the war started, so it was a pretty freaky moment.
But I saw this honeycomb pattern in front of me, like where everything, I saw like the pattern of the universe, and it like occurred to me like, oh, this is here all the time.
I just don't see it.
And that's what it feels like when you see those things dancing.
eddie bravo
Absolutely.
It was incredible.
It was so hard.
That was the craziest drive home.
The first time I saw Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I thought, man, this is so unrealistic.
You don't see shit like that when you get high.
brendan schaub
I've been high plenty of times.
You don't.
eddie bravo
But I understood it because the drive home, I didn't know.
brendan schaub
I should have been dead.
eddie bravo
There's no way I should have made it home.
I didn't know if there was cars next to me that were right here.
brendan schaub
It felt like I was driving through a jungle.
It was crazy.
joe rogan
I remember you called me and said, dude, the road turned into flower petals.
eddie bravo
Yes, yes.
I was being guided by...
I was in a jungle and there was flowers and green moss and I'm driving through it and I could see the cars in the distance but just in my little cube, my little circle, I was in the forest.
unidentified
I can't believe you drove through that.
eddie bravo
I should have been dead.
I don't recommend that.
If you're going to experiment with psychedelics, stay home.
brendan schaub
Stay where you're at.
eddie bravo
Because the show, the great part of it is being in a dark room and closing your eyes and checking out the light show in your head.
It's not like you pass out or anything.
If you smoke DMT, you pass out and it's kind of like you're in a dream state.
But with Mushrooms, you're completely conscious.
You're talking, but as soon as you close your eyes, it isn't like it takes 10, 15, 20 seconds to dissolve into the show.
The instant you close your eyes, it's right there waiting for you.
It's like right in front of your eyes, and it's deep.
It's like five-dimensional, and it's perfect.
There's nothing breaking off.
To me, there was some intelligence behind it.
joe rogan
Well, it certainly feels like there's some intelligence behind it.
But the thing that's always struck me as weird is it always feels like it's there all the time.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, whenever I do DMT, one of the weirdest things that happens is this feeling like, oh, I've been here before.
Even before I ever did it.
The first time I ever did it, I was like, I've been here before.
I know this place.
Like, I know this place.
You know?
I don't know why.
brian redban
I felt that with mushrooms also.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
It seems like all those hallucinogens, like, I've done this before.
joe rogan
Well, one of the reasons, most likely, is that mushrooms and DMT, all these things mimic human neurochemistry.
So the real wonder is, what's happening to you while you're sleeping?
What's happening to you for that six to eight hours, whatever it is, where you're out cold?
They don't really know, but they do know that the human mind mimics the reactions to dimethyltryptomy.
Not only does it produce dimethyltryptomy, but it produces similar reactions, like dreams.
When you're done with a dream, it's hard to remember it.
You know how that is?
You know, it's weird, man.
It's like the dream is so amazing.
I've said to myself, too, like, oh, I don't have to write this down because I'm going to remember it because I'm a lazy bitch.
I don't want to get up and write something down.
I'm like, I'm not going to forget this.
Then I wake up in the morning like, what the fuck was it?
eddie bravo
I don't remember it at all.
joe rogan
DMT is the same way.
You do DMT and the dream just, whatever it was, whatever the experience was, disappears.
Like in the morning, you can't remember it.
Or when it's over, rather, you can't remember it.
eddie bravo
Well, how about when you're dreaming, you don't remember reality?
joe rogan
Exactly.
eddie bravo
Right?
joe rogan
It's true.
eddie bravo
You don't remember it so much that your uncle could be David Cassidy and you'd be like, fine with it.
You know what I mean?
You're like, you're totally cool with it.
You're not going, wait a minute, how the fuck is he my uncle?
You're like, yeah, he's my uncle.
joe rogan
The Partridge family?
Wait a minute.
eddie bravo
I actually had a dream like that.
joe rogan
Did you really?
David Cassidy?
eddie bravo
Random people would show up in my dream.
You accept it.
You remember this dimension as much as you remember your dream state when you're in this dimension.
So it's like, man, what is it really?
brendan schaub
And when you think about that we're all empty space, that quantum theory where...
eddie bravo
At the subatomic levels, we're 99.9999% empty like this.
This is empty.
Your body's empty.
How is that possible?
It's solid.
How is it possible that this is empty when you look at it at the subatomic level?
How is that possible?
It's so hard to wrap your brain around.
joe rogan
Well, we had that Amit Goswami guy on the podcast.
eddie bravo
Yeah, I heard that great, great podcast.
joe rogan
Yeah, but did you understand a word he was saying?
eddie bravo
Some of it.
Some of it.
joe rogan
I faked it through some of it.
eddie bravo
I wonder if it has, like, the reason this is solid, I wonder, you know, because electromagnetic energy is running through everything, right?
So that's, it seems like it must be powering everything.
Like, where do we get our electricity?
Like, we're plugged into the universe somehows.
And according to science, we're just flooded with electromagnetic energy and it's just running through everything.
So it seems like that's how we might be plugged in and that's what's giving us the power because it's not our muscles that are doing anything.
It's the electric pulses that are doing it.
That's where you're getting your strength from.
And that's what's running your heart.
You know, your heart isn't just beating.
It's connected to this ocean of electromagnetic energy that we're in.
So if we're electromagnetic energy, magnets might have something to do with it.
So I'm thinking, you know, when you try to put a magnet together, there's like nothing there, but it's solid.
Like maybe the subatomic particles that were created...
It's maybe, it's solid because it's really just a magnet in its own little unique form.
Like, it's really not there.
It's not, but the way it's, the photons or whatever, I'm just making shit up, are put together.
The way they're put together, it's a certain form of magnet.
Like, this is this kind of magnet.
It's the skin magnet, but it's really not there.
Just like when you try to put two magnets.
joe rogan
What the fuck are you talking about?
eddie bravo
Well, we're all empty space.
joe rogan
I don't get the magnet thing.
eddie bravo
Well, when you try to put two magnets together, you can't.
Because it's like you don't see anything there, but you just can't.
It's just something solid.
joe rogan
You can't if you flip it.
eddie bravo
But you know what I'm saying?
There's nothing there, yet it's solid.
Like, they're saying something's there.
So maybe since we're all running through electromagnetic energy, now this is just my crazy stone theory, maybe it has some...
Because people are baffled.
The top scientists don't even know what the fuck...
brendan schaub
How is this empty space?
eddie bravo
How is this empty space when it's solid to us?
Maybe it has something to do with particles being magnetized.
joe rogan
Who knows?
These are just theories.
eddie bravo
There's not in a book anywhere.
joe rogan
The reality of quantum mechanics, this is what we absolutely know, is that particles can be in a state of superposition, which means they're moving and they're still at the same time.
They blink in and out of existence.
eddie bravo
Millions of times per second.
joe rogan
And particles from here, they could be on the other side of the planet and they react instantaneously, faster than the speed of light.
eddie bravo
They've done experiments where they'll split up A photon.
And they separated by 14 miles or whatever.
brendan schaub
One experiment was 14 miles there in different labs.
eddie bravo
And whatever they did to this half of the photon, the other half reacted in the exact same way.
joe rogan
With no lag.
With no lag at all.
They don't understand it.
So just that alone, that's science fiction.
eddie bravo
Those are all the clues.
joe rogan
They can blink in and out of existence.
eddie bravo
Shit, how does it work?
joe rogan
I think there's something way more to this world Then we're ever going to be able to wrap our heads around with what our crude minds and bodies can perceive of the reality that we exist in.
I think we have this idea that the reality that we exist in, the measurable reality we exist in is all there is.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I think there's probably a whole soup of possibilities that we're swimming in.
eddie bravo
We don't know shit.
joe rogan
We're not interacting with it.
We don't know shit.
But we also know it exists.
Like, that's karma.
You know?
That's love.
That's momentum.
And you start having good things go your way.
Good things tend to stay going your way.
And it all sorts of feed into other good things.
There seems to be, like...
A way the universe would like you to react and behave.
And it rewards you with a positive experience.
It rewards you with love.
And if you pay attention to people that are living like a fucking disaster of a life, the universe is not rewarding them.
At every turn, it's fucking them up.
Their car is breaking down.
They're getting arrested.
Their girl hits them in the head with a fucking frying pan while they're sleeping.
It's like a constant stream of shit keeps coming their way until eventually they either die or get locked up.
And it's like the universe is setting that up as well.
It's like it's rewarding or not rewarding the correct behavior or the incorrect behavior.
eddie bravo
Life is so perfect and so beautiful and so just incredible.
brendan schaub
I mean, as humans, we have the intelligence to make satellites and rockets and airplanes, but we can't even make a flea.
eddie bravo
We can't make a flea.
We have no idea how that shit works.
joe rogan
Yeah, make a flea that can fuck and make another flea, too.
eddie bravo
How come we can't make a tree?
We can't make a tree.
brendan schaub
We think we gotta figure it out.
eddie bravo
We think there is no higher intelligence out there, some kind of something.
Come on.
joe rogan
It might even just be law.
You know, it might just be a law of the universe or, you know, instead of a law, like an equation, like, you know, positive and love and this and that, it moves towards this direction.
Negative and horrible and evil moves towards that direction.
And it's almost like the two need each other to do battle back and forth and to empower the other.
eddie bravo
Absolutely.
You know, Esther Hicks says, you know, it makes sense.
Like, you, we're here, who knows if this is true, this is just something that someone said that it seems pretty awesome to me, that it seems that we're here, we're existing, we're supposed to feel the pain, because if we don't feel the pain, we're not going to appreciate the good stuff, and it's not going to feel as good.
brendan schaub
Like, she uses an example, your best meal is always eaten when you're hungriest.
eddie bravo
And that totally makes sense.
If you're never hungry, you won't really give a fuck about food.
If you're born a billionaire, you don't care about money.
You don't care about what it can buy.
So it's almost like we need the pain.
It's almost like we're here for the pain.
joe rogan
Well, there's certainly reward systems built in, and it seems like if you look at all the animals on this planet at least, there's a struggle that's going on constantly.
Nobody lives easy.
Everybody's struggling.
You're struggling to find food, you're struggling to keep off predators, you're struggling to keep your young alive.
And it seems like it's set up that way.
It seems like it could be way easier if there was total harmony in the animal world.
Isn't life and success what they're looking for?
Wouldn't they all just be fucking and eating plants?
Wouldn't that be the best way to go about it?
But no.
It seems like the struggle's built into the whole code of life.
And there's a battle to try to figure out how to do it right.
eddie bravo
Well, we want the struggle in a lot of things.
In movies, we don't want to go to a movie where there's no conflict or nothing bad happens.
That would be the worst movie ever.
The greatest movies are the ones that take you down to the depths and you buy it.
You suspend your disbelief and you're down there and then you come up with it and the story's believable and you lose yourself in the movie.
But without the conflict, the movie sucks.
joe rogan
Do you worry about that with your kid?
Like, in a certain way I do with my kids, it's like, I don't want my kids to experience a lot of adversity.
Just, you want to protect your children.
But I know that all the people that I know that experience adversity are the most interesting people.
You know, all the people that we know, think about all the people that we know.
Think of, like, Joey Diaz.
He's one of the most interesting guys ever, because his life was completely crazy.
Like, his life was full, total chaos.
Like, the adversity you had to go through, the adversity I had to go through, the adversity Callan had to go through.
Like, all the people that we know that are interesting, they all had kind of a fucked up life.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
What's that about?
Do you think that you could get away with just exposing your kid to difficult things like jujitsu?
Like exposing them to martial arts and maybe they could develop their character that way without having to go through the horrible ups and downs of...
eddie bravo
I don't know if jujitsu promotes or guarantees a great sense of humor and the ability to make other people laugh, but the one thing in my experience that I know that Jiu Jitsu does for children.
Absolutely.
brendan schaub
And it has a lot to do with what you always talk about.
eddie bravo
When a kid doesn't have martial arts, and Jiu Jitsu specifically, because of the tapping and...
Getting tapped out, what that shows you, that automatically in jiu-jitsu you know where you stand.
You know where you stand.
You know that you're a blue belt.
brendan schaub
You're probably not going to beat purple belts that much.
But when you do, you'll get your purple belt.
eddie bravo
And you're probably not going to beat brown belts and black belts that much in the beginning.
But when you start doing it, then you get your brown belt and so on and your black belt.
So when a kid comes into jiu-jitsu and he's four years old, five years old, he knows that he's...
Not going to...
Rarely going to beat the 7-year-olds.
And when he's 7, he's rarely going to beat the 10-year-olds.
So that teaches...
If they don't go through that, there is a possibility.
Not always.
There's plenty of great kids that have never done jiu-jitsu.
But what I've seen with jiu-jitsu kids, it almost...
Guarantees that they won't be delusional and become a douchebag kid.
Because if you're not checked that way with a tap, like reminding you that this guy's 15 years old, you better respect that 15-year-old.
And then what ends up happening is when you become 15, you know what it was like going through the early stages of jiu-jitsu.
brendan schaub
So I see kids that are 10 and 11 are great with the 5-year-olds and great with the 6-year-olds.
eddie bravo
It takes you out of that delusionary state and lets you know that you better respect your elders.
And as you get older, you better respect the kids, too, because they're going to get older, too.
So what jujitsu really does is it instills discipline in you like most people think martial arts does, like karate and taekwondo.
And that definitely works, too, because it does promote discipline.
But jujitsu does it, I think, better because of the tapping.
Most kids that I know that are good at jiu-jitsu, they have a tremendous relationship with their father.
It brings them tighter.
Traveling all over the world like I do with all these seminars.
I don't know how many times I've met kids, these jiu-jitsu phenoms that are eight, nine years old, and their dads bring them to jiu-jitsu, and their best friends, Avery, down in...
He used to be in Springfield.
brendan schaub
Now he's in Omaha.
eddie bravo
He's 16 now.
Him and his dad are best friends.
When I run into them, I'm like, man!
Give me advice.
What else did you do?
Because you see it over and over again.
brendan schaub
So for those of you with kids out there, and maybe you're having trouble with the kids, try to talk them into jiu-jitsu.
It might be hard, but I think that if you're having trouble with your kids, or you want to ensure a beautiful relationship, a tight relationship, a trusting relationship, a relationship where your kid wants to hang out with his pop, and you do jiu-jitsu too, you do it with your kid, that...
eddie bravo
That's just a little something that I've learned.
brendan schaub
That's a little insight.
eddie bravo
You can take that for what it is.
brendan schaub
I'm just trying to...
joe rogan
No, it's good advice.
Anything a kid can do that's difficult, it's good for their personality development.
One of the real problems with kids today is because everything's handed to you.
You don't develop character because you don't ever face adversity.
Your food comes from a supermarket.
You can go to a store and get whatever the fuck you need.
You know, it's not hard.
It's easy to live life.
And so when you're not tested, especially as a young person, Like, a lot of bullying comes from insecurity.
And people say, like, what's the best way to stop bullying?
I always say the best way to stop bullying is teach kids how to fight.
If you had, like, mandatory jiu-jitsu classes, if you had mandatory martial arts classes in school, you would have a whole lot less bullying.
Because, first of all, they wouldn't be inclined to do it, and second of all, it wouldn't work.
Like, if a guy is talented and skilled and he's 155 pounds and there's an asshole that's 180 pounds that's fucking with him, he's not gonna back down.
They're gonna figure out a way around it.
The kid's gonna be able to figure out a way.
Like, listen, you know, if you want to fucking fight, you want to be an asshole and pick on me, I have to fucking defend myself, then I'll defend myself.
But it's not like he's gonna be terrified and not know what the fuck to do.
It's gonna be a completely different scenario.
And I think that one of the reasons why people do it in the first place is they're trying to They're trying to prove that they aren't scared themselves.
The reason why people are bullies, why they have that instinct is they're insecure.
They're trying to be dominant without, you know, without putting in the work.
But if you put in the work, if you do jujitsu, if you learn a martial art, you actually develop some proficiency, you don't have that need.
You don't have that need to dominate people.
You don't have to need.
You get it all out.
You get it all out in the gym.
brian redban
All my bullies were in the wrestling team.
unidentified
So that kind of like...
joe rogan
No.
Wrestling's different.
Wrestling's a sport.
And probably they're just sick of you.
brian redban
No, I mean, did you have bullies growing up?
joe rogan
Not really.
I mean, I was bullied before I started doing martial arts, but from like 14 on, not really.
unidentified
Because I was like thinking about, like all my bullies were all guys in sports.
Like football team, wrestling, mostly wrestling.
joe rogan
Football, big time, yeah.
unidentified
A lot of wrestlers.
joe rogan
Yeah, with bullies in what way?
Like how were you bullied?
unidentified
You know, like, just pushed around on the playground and stuff like that.
joe rogan
What year are you talking about?
unidentified
I'm talking about middle school, elementary and middle school.
joe rogan
They used to trip you?
unidentified
Yeah, trip you, like, when you're walking and stuff like that.
joe rogan
Wow, you got dicked with.
unidentified
Yeah, I was fucked with a lot, but then, like, in high school it went away.
joe rogan
It's a douchebag move, man, to be a bully.
It's one of the worst things a person can do.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's a weird, natural human weakness.
It's a weakness instinct to, like, shut the fuck up, bitch.
brian redban
Yeah, my shit was mostly because my parents were divorced and I was poor, I think, was the big why they picked on me.
joe rogan
Did they pick on you because you were poor?
brian redban
Yeah, because I lived in Worthington, which is a higher-end place in Columbus, but I was living on that one part that was all apartments that shouldn't have been in there, but somehow I was in Worthington.
So they knew I was poor, and my parents were divorced back then.
unidentified
Back then, divorce wasn't as crazy.
As it is now, where, you know, if you're divorced...
joe rogan
Yeah, it was unusual back then.
unidentified
Yeah, a little bit more unusual, yeah.
joe rogan
Isn't that weird?
That, like, when we were younger, people didn't bother getting divorced?
Or they didn't happen nearly as much?
eddie bravo
Not in my neighborhood.
Everybody got divorced.
All my friends didn't have fathers.
All of them except one.
Inorio Galvin, he's the only one out of maybe 15 friends that we had growing up.
Every father left.
joe rogan
You grew up in a really poor neighborhood.
eddie bravo
It was all Mexican.
Mexicans be leaving.
They get drunk and go back to Mexico and say, fuck that.
joe rogan
Isn't that weird, man?
People that don't take care of their kids.
As a father now, doesn't that freak you out?
eddie bravo
Yeah, man.
I can't imagine it.
joe rogan
Freaks me out.
eddie bravo
My father had 19 kids from 8 different chicks.
unidentified
Oh my god.
eddie bravo
19. Is he still alive?
I don't know.
joe rogan
What kind of crazy hell does that guy live in when he closes his eyes at night?
eddie bravo
The last time I saw him, I was 27. And he...
My...
On my mom's side, my mom's mother and father, they stayed together to the very end.
They were married 50 plus years and had 10 kids.
And my dad told me, first he told me at 14, I saw him at 14, then I saw him at 27. At 14, he tries to shove advice down my throat and he said, make sure you marry, when you marry your wife, she's at least 15 years younger than you.
He told me that, I remember that.
And he also said, and my wife is 15 years younger than me.
It wasn't strategic, but it just happened that way.
brendan schaub
And the other thing he told me at 14 was be nice to kids because they grow up really fast and they'll turn into adults.
eddie bravo
So he was trying to give me the right advice.
And then at 27, I hadn't seen him in forever.
brendan schaub
I thought he was dead.
He shows up one day.
And my grandfather's house goes, do what you...
eddie bravo
He's older.
brendan schaub
He's like, do what your grandfather did.
That's the way.
eddie bravo
Have kids every Christmas and Thanksgiving.
He has all his family and all his grandkids.
That's the way.
brendan schaub
If I had to do it over, I would do it that way.
That's what he said.
eddie bravo
He was a massive player just banging everything and just getting everybody pregnant.
joe rogan
Wow, that's so sad.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a sad life, man.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
And I asked him, I go, what made you want to come by this time?
I was like, he hadn't been around and I just...
I heard he showed up to my grandfather's house.
He had been friends with my grandfather while he was messing with my mom and him and my grandfather got along.
And my aunt called and goes, your dad's...
Get over here now.
Your dad's at your grandma's.
brendan schaub
And I'm in Hollywood.
I drive down to Orange County.
And the whole drive down, I'm like, I'm not going to give him a hard time.
eddie bravo
I hadn't seen him in...
brendan schaub
Like 13 years.
eddie bravo
I'm not going to give him a hard time.
brendan schaub
I'm just going to start over.
eddie bravo
I get another chance with my father.
brendan schaub
I was like, it was a long drive.
It was like an hour drive.
eddie bravo
And show up at my grandma's house and I'm happy, got a smile.
I'm like, damn!
I thought he was dead.
I'd have dreams of him dying and he's...
Is this real?
He's right here?
brendan schaub
Shit.
eddie bravo
Let's go out to eat.
We went to Black Angus in Tustin.
brendan schaub
My mom went.
eddie bravo
We're all sitting there.
brendan schaub
I'm like, fuck.
eddie bravo
We get a second chance.
Meanwhile, I'm all happy to see my father.
brendan schaub
My mom wants to see me more than I actually drive down and see her.
But now I want to start another relationship with my father.
eddie bravo
So then I asked my father, And at this point, I didn't know about his 19 kids.
At this point, I thought he had five kids.
I knew he was married, had five kids, and he was seeing my mom on the side.
brendan schaub
I knew that.
My mom was his side girl.
That's what I knew at this point.
eddie bravo
And I said, why did you come by this time?
brendan schaub
I'm curious.
eddie bravo
And I was expecting him to say, it's been so long, I wanted to see what's become of you.
And he said, I was passing through Orange County, and I wanted to see if your grandfather was still cool with me.
I didn't know if he...
Was mad at me or anything.
joe rogan
Wow.
eddie bravo
And I just kept a smile on and right there, right there looked at my mom and I'm like, fuck this dude.
Fuck this guy.
I'm going to spend time with my mom.
Fuck that dude.
And I just kept a smile on and right there I made the decision.
I will never see this guy ever again.
And I never did.
But, during that dinner, he did say, hey, two of his kids live in LA, the ones from that family.
He goes, they want to have dinner with you.
They want to meet you.
So I did end up meeting with them, never saw them again.
They're the ones who told me.
They sat me down at the old spaghetti factory in Hollywood when I was 27. And they go, do you have any idea how many kids your father has?
I said, five plus me?
They go, he has 19 kids.
I said, how did that happen?
Because he got...
brendan schaub
Not only did they know about it, he told his family about every kid and every girl he was seeing.
eddie bravo
He was trying to drive his wife insane to get a divorce.
brendan schaub
She wouldn't divorce him.
eddie bravo
She was hardcore Catholic, so she wouldn't divorce.
He wanted a divorce.
He wanted a...
To marry my mom, that's what he says, but she wouldn't give him a divorce, so he would tell her.
They knew all about me.
He would come home and say, oh, Maria's pregnant now.
Oh, Maria had the baby.
We named it Edgar.
joe rogan
He would come home to his wife and kids?
eddie bravo
To his wife and kids and say, oh, Maria had just got pregnant.
We just had our kid.
I'll be gone for the weekend.
I'm going to spend time with my son.
So I actually spent my mom, my dad had my mom in an apartment promising that he would leave his, my mom thought he was going to leave his wife for her.
She was in love.
And he never did, but he had her in an apartment in downtown LA. And then after like three years, apparently I lived with him for three years, my mom just said enough's enough.
She went back to Orange County, back to her parents' house.
brendan schaub
That was the end of that.
joe rogan
It's a weird thing, isn't it?
The idea that someone could just do that.
When you have kids now and you get on a plane, we were talking about you leave your house knowing you're going away for the weekend.
You miss them as soon as you get in your car.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
As soon as you start driving away.
joe rogan
That this guy could just abandon his kid and then see you and not even have a connection with you.
Be like, oh, I just want to see if your grandfather was mad at me.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
And then when I talked to them, when they told me about the 19 kids, it started to make sense.
I'm like, no wonder he didn't give a fuck about me.
Now I understand.
I got 19 kids.
He was never a dick to me.
When he would see me once a year, he would cruise by.
Did he hug you?
But I found out that he never said I love you.
He never told any of his kids I love you.
Never said I love you.
So he had something really wrong with him.
So then it all became clear.
I'm like, oh, this guy has no love in him.
brendan schaub
That's why he just keeps having kids with whoever and he doesn't really care.
eddie bravo
He was never a dick to me.
He just didn't really care that much about me.
joe rogan
It's kind of weird because that's sort of like, if you look at nature, if you look at the programming of the human animal, that's like the programming.
The programming is to spread your seed as much as possible.
The programming is to have as many babies as you can.
The program is not for the male to take care of them, though.
It's really strange.
You know, the program is to keep going, to keep spreading that seed, and that's one of the reasons why they say that, like, The intensity of attraction goes away within a few months of meeting someone, like the intensity when you first meet them.
That intensity of attraction for a man goes away within the first five or six months because usually by then the woman's already pregnant in nature.
You've been banging her, you know, every day for several months.
One of the days, she's been ovulating.
You shot one in there.
It ensured this intense bond, you know, initially to make sure that you continued having sex as much as possible to increase your odds of getting them pregnant.
And then, all of a sudden, this weird thing kicks in where you want to go.
eddie bravo
Sometimes that kicks in as soon as you nut.
Post-nut syndrome, baby.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's a weird thing that nature is literally set up that way.
And so in order to conform to what society expects from a person, you have to fight against your genetics.
You have to literally fight your instinct.
Your instinct to fuck other girls, the instinct to shoot loads into them and get them pregnant.
It's weird.
eddie bravo
Do you remember that when we worked on The Man Show, that sketch I wrote...
For post-nut syndrome, it was a pill that you could take where you could have sex with a girl and not get post-nut syndrome if you take it 30 minutes before sex.
joe rogan
I don't remember that.
eddie bravo
It never got green-lighted, but it just reminded me of a...
It'd be cool if that was a pill, right?
joe rogan
That is a real thing with men, though.
eddie bravo
Pulse syndrome is serious.
joe rogan
It's the feeling that you have, like, right after you come, you're like, oh my god, I gotta get out of here.
brendan schaub
I gotta get out of here.
joe rogan
And if you don't have that, that's when you know, like, hey, I think I found somebody.
eddie bravo
Yeah, she's cool.
joe rogan
I think I found a real relationship.
brendan schaub
If you feel like, hey, let's go get something to eat.
eddie bravo
Don't leave, let's watch TV. You guys like spooners?
joe rogan
What are you saying, what?
unidentified
You guys like spooners?
joe rogan
What are you saying, what?
unidentified
After I come, I just want to spoon and snuggle.
brendan schaub
With every chick?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah, and then wake up and do it again in the morning.
joe rogan
He's half retarded.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
It's different.
You know those girls that if you have sex with and they're really dumb and you go, oh my god, why did I do this?
brendan schaub
You just want to jump out a window.
joe rogan
He's as smart as them, so it's perfect.
unidentified
I don't have that kind of stuff.
joe rogan
They lock up.
They mesh perfectly.
They talk about shoes.
They sit there and they talk about who's fat.
eddie bravo
Girls don't really get post-nut syndrome unless they're married or something.
Then they feel guilty.
But if they're not married, if they have sex with you, they fall more in love with you.
joe rogan
Oh, that depends entirely.
That depends entirely on what the experience was like.
eddie bravo
Generally, though, right?
Guys get post-nut syndrome way more than girls.
joe rogan
It's also the guys that we know, too.
We know a bunch of savages.
You know, if you compare, like, we went to an accountant's meeting, you know, and said, so, hey, how do you guys feel after you come?
What?
You know, people.
Some people, man, you start talking to them about sex.
It's a weird thing.
When dudes start talking, like, you and I have done this before.
We won't name any names, but we've had sex conversations around square dudes, and you watch them panic.
Like, they absolutely panic, you know?
Like, they don't know what the fuck to say.
Like, how often do you fuck your wife?
Be serious.
And some guys will tell you, like, I fuck my wife like three times a week.
No more than that.
Like, I don't want to fuck her every day, but I fuck her a lot.
And some guys will just go, what?
They just, they just clam up.
eddie bravo
Twice a day.
joe rogan
I can't, or they will say, I can't, it's just not something that I discuss.
Like, you don't discuss how often you bang your wife with another man.
Like, why wouldn't you discuss that?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you not love your wife?
If you love your wife, you have sex with your wife.
So is that off the books?
You can't talk about it?
Like, what do you, I'm not, I'm not asking you like specific details.
unidentified
Okay.
eddie bravo
You know what's crazy about my wife is before the kid, you know, once you're going out with a girl for a year or two years, you come home from jujitsu.
My classes are kind of late.
A lot of times I'm broken.
I just went to war for an hour with guys from out of town trying to tap me.
I come home, I'm going to drink a protein shake, I'm going to get on the internet a little bit, I'm just going to collapse and die, generally, after jujitsu.
So, you know, for a while there, it's like, I have sex tomorrow, you just keep putting it off, and you don't have sex as much, and then when you have a kid, now you can only have sex when that baby's asleep.
So now, I really can't have it that much.
So, I want it way more than ever.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
Don't be easy with the voice and the microphone.
eddie bravo
I want it way more than ever.
I like it.
The one thing I learned in my old age, the one thing I learned, because I've dated girls that didn't...
Some girls...
Didn't want sex as much as I did.
And that would kind of piss me off.
I'm 23 and it's like, man, this is bullshit.
I should get it whenever I want.
You're my girlfriend.
Oh, you're tired?
I would get pissed off and I'm like, man, I want a girl that wants to fuck anytime I want it.
But then you have girls and I've had most girls where I wanted it more than I did.
I was always the tired one and they always wanted it more.
I get to the point where it's kind of bothersome.
I'm like, damn, she wants it way too much.
But now, looking back at all that and where I'm at now, looking back at that now, I would rather want it all the time and rarely get it Then always get it and rarely want it.
That's the one thing I want.
joe rogan
That's definitely better.
As long as you are still getting it.
eddie bravo
Yes.
joe rogan
Did you see this?
Chael Sonnen and Vanderlei Silva are going to host Tough Brazil.
The ultimate fighter of Brazil.
brendan schaub
That's perfect.
joe rogan
Chael Sonnen is going to go to fucking Brazil.
That crazy asshole.
After all the shit that he talked on Brazilians and Vanderlei Silva.
And Chael has been putting these rhymes up on his Twitter account.
eddie bravo
Is it going to be in English or Brazilian?
joe rogan
It's going to be both.
It's going to be Americans fighting against Brazilians.
Sixteen Americans will go to war to find eight guys, and then sixteen Brazilians will go to war to find eight guys.
brendan schaub
That might be the greatest tough ever.
joe rogan
Those two teams, they might have a lot of extracurricular violence.
You know, you got to be careful.
If your coach is Chael Sonnen, he said a lot of nasty shit.
Excuse me, a lot of nasty shit about Brazilians.
But he's just talking trash.
That's all he's doing.
You know, if you asked him honestly off the record, he'd say they're great fighters.
It's an honor and all that jazz.
But he talks so much mad shit.
And Vanderlei wants to kill him.
Vanderlei and him is going to be a crazy fight, man.
That's going to be crazy.
As long as Vanderlei's healthy.
eddie bravo
I don't want to name any names or any seasons or anything, but apparently there's been some stuff on the Ultimate Fighter that happened behind the scenes that was so violent that they didn't even want to air it.
joe rogan
Really?
eddie bravo
Have you heard about that?
joe rogan
Like fights?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
There have been fights that they just completely edit out.
unidentified
Really?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
I believe it.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
I believe it.
Dudes get crazy.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
unidentified
Do they have them all still living in houses together?
joe rogan
Yep.
eddie bravo
This season they have girls and guys living together.
Eight girl fighters.
brendan schaub
It's a great season.
eddie bravo
This year's season is awesome.
unidentified
That house must smell so bad.
That's protein farts.
joe rogan
They clean that shit.
unidentified
Sweat.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
And dirty guys.
joe rogan
It definitely probably smells bad.
brendan schaub
Are you watching the season?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's good.
eddie bravo
Dude, I love it.
joe rogan
Dude, the drama between those two chicks, man.
eddie bravo
Jasmine Duke and what was the girl she fought?
Raquel Pennington or something?
Was that her name?
joe rogan
I'm not sure.
brendan schaub
But she can hit hard.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know the girls' names.
eddie bravo
But Jasmine Duke, man, talk about heart.
brendan schaub
She was getting hit hard and she kept coming back, throwing knees, throwing down.
eddie bravo
And she's actually more of a jiu-jitsu chick than she is a striker.
And man, talk about heart.
She's out in LA now, training with Ronda Rousey's team.
joe rogan
Dude, you gotta come to the one in December.
The UFC in December?
December 28th?
eddie bravo
Which...
joe rogan
Come to Vegas.
You gotta come.
eddie bravo
Okay.
joe rogan
That's the one where Ronda's gonna fight Misha Tate.
eddie bravo
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You gotta be there.
And it's also Chris Weidman, Anderson Silva, Dose.
eddie bravo
Oh, damn, I'm there.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta be there.
Okay, count me in.
When Misha Tate fights Ronda Rousey, when they actually step into the octagon...
Oh my goodness.
That might be the most insane evening ever.
unidentified
Is that Barnett also?
Or is that the 18th or something like that?
joe rogan
Let's find out.
eddie bravo
Who's Barnett fighting next?
joe rogan
He's fighting Travis Brown.
eddie bravo
Oh, that's right.
joe rogan
Holy shit, son.
eddie bravo
Good fight.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, it is.
Yeah, let me see.
eddie bravo
Those front snap kicks are coming back strong, aren't they?
Everyone's throwing those.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's crazy.
Isn't it weird?
That technique barely even existed.
eddie bravo
Do you remember us going over it in your garage and mastering the system?
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
And I remember asking about it.
I go, why haven't we seen the front snap kick so much?
joe rogan
It's hard to land.
eddie bravo
Yeah, and you were like, yeah, it's hard to generate power.
And you were throwing a couple.
I'm like, when you were throwing, I'm like, that looks like it would hurt if it landed.
brendan schaub
And boom, right after that, Anderson dropped Couture with it.
eddie bravo
Or no, Anderson dropped Vitor, right?
joe rogan
Vitor, yeah.
eddie bravo
And then Machida dropped Couture.
And now everyone's throwing those snap kicks.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Overeem goes down with them.
joe rogan
That's a big technique now.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay, let's see.
Anderson, fight card.
Anderson Silva, Weidman, two.
Oh my god, this is an amazing card.
unidentified
Oh shit.
joe rogan
Ronda Rousey, Misha Tate, Travis Brown, Josh Barnett.
eddie bravo
Oh shit.
joe rogan
Gleason Tebow versus Michael Johnson.
Chris Lieben versus Uriah Hall.
Oh shit.
eddie bravo
Wait, wait, Chris Lieben?
joe rogan
Chris Lieben versus Uriah Hall.
eddie bravo
How is that possible?
joe rogan
Oh shit.
eddie bravo
Chris Lieben is a 185. Oh, Uriah Hall.
I thought I was thinking Uriah Faber.
joe rogan
No, Uriah Hall, the winner of his ultimate fighter.
Dennis Eever versus Manny Gamburian.
unidentified
Ooh.
joe rogan
Oh my goodness.
That's going to be good.
unidentified
Oh my goodness.
Just pronounce on it.
Sweet.
joe rogan
Oh, C.R. Bajardezura.
How do you say it?
Bajardezada versus Doomsday Howard.
Holy shit.
Dustin Poirier versus Diego Brandao.
unidentified
Oh my god.
joe rogan
This card's insane.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
unidentified
That's December 28th.
joe rogan
Jim Miller versus Fabrizio Carmoins?
eddie bravo
Damn.
joe rogan
Oh my god, this card's insane.
eddie bravo
I think Fabrizio Carmoins is that guy that hit that badass triangle from the mount.
joe rogan
Do you remember that?
Maybe, but now, yeah.
eddie bravo
I wouldn't know that was Sergio something.
It's a different guy, I'm sorry.
joe rogan
I don't know who did it.
eddie bravo
Yeah, different guy.
joe rogan
Either way, what a fucking card.
What a card!
This weekend, I'm going to, I'm headed to England.
Going to Manchester.
UFC? Yeah, well I was going to do that blood treatment thing in Germany, but now I'm going to do it in Santa Monica.
They do it in Santa Monica.
unidentified
What's the blood treatment?
joe rogan
So stem cell thing that guys do for their discs, it's supposed to be incredible.
That's the one thing that kept me out of jiu-jitsu.
I've been, like we were talking about, been injuries, and you look forward to getting back to jiu-jitsu.
I've been stitched up before.
I've had two knee surgeries, and I went back to jiu-jitsu.
I had my nose fixed, went back to jiu-jitsu, and everything's fine.
But this was a scary one.
When you start getting numb hands, and then we knew quite a few people that have had, like, real serious issues with their backs, where they have atrophy of their arms, and Boss Rutten has one arm that's, like, literally half the size of his other arm.
It's scary.
So I wasn't down with any surgeries, man.
I wanted to make sure that I did all the right things as far as rehabilitate, and I got a lot stronger.
I came back that one day and rolled pretty fucking hard and didn't have any problems, but it was real stiff.
And the next day it was stiff and sore, but I'm like, at least I can roll.
I know I can roll, but I think I can make this thing better.
eddie bravo
You haven't rolled since?
joe rogan
Before I go back.
I haven't rolled since.
Mostly been doing just Muay Thai and a lot of weightlifting.
Which doesn't bother me.
It doesn't bother me with kettlebells, and it doesn't bother me with Muay Thai.
It's just getting my neck cranked.
And the day I came back to the gym, too, it was all arm triangles.
Remember, it was arm triangle transitions and guillotines, which is my favorite.
I love arm triangles, but goddamn, that's a lot of shit going on with your neck.
eddie bravo
So how are you feeling right now today?
joe rogan
I feel fine.
Stiff.
My back's stiff.
But that's just because I lifted weights yesterday pretty hard.
eddie bravo
Man, I hope that works out for you.
joe rogan
Me too.
You gotta do it too, man.
eddie bravo
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You gotta try that shit.
eddie bravo
My back's feeling great, but I would...
joe rogan
It'd make it even better.
eddie bravo
It's not 100%.
joe rogan
Right.
eddie bravo
But it doesn't stop me from rolling, doesn't stop me from training.
I just gotta really focus on keeping my hamstrings nice and stretched.
I never stretched my hamstrings ever.
That's the downfall of lower backs is...
Tense and tight hamstrings.
So that's a new thing of mine where every morning I'm waking up, I'm stretching my hamstrings before class, after class.
Sometimes, you know, I don't have time, but I'm more committed to stretching my hamstrings more than anything.
joe rogan
This is what the stuff is.
That's important, but this is what the stuff is called.
The term is called Regenokine, R-E-G-E-N-O-K-I-N-E. Orthokine is the actual medical procedure.
They take your blood, extract it, they manipulate it somehow, then reintroduce it to the body as an anti-inflammatory drug to reduce chronic pain and arthritis.
And the process involves two ounces of blood drawn from your arm and then it's incubated in a slightly raised temperature.
The liquid is then placed in a centrifuge until its constituents' parts are separated.
The middle yellowish layer is dense with agents that are believed to stop an arthritic agent known as interleukin-1, which causes degeneration of the joints and a breakdown of cartilage.
That serum is injected into the patient's affected area The procedure reduces pain and discomfort to the joint, and the treatment generally lasts five days with six shots of the serum into the affected area.
It's normal for a patient to receive annual injections to ease joint discomfort.
So many pro athletes have done this and had miraculous recoveries.
Peyton Manning went to Germany for this.
He had two neck surgeries, and he was on his way out of football, and now he's a fucking superstar again.
eddie bravo
He's having the best year of his life.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's from this shit.
Dana White did it and he just raves about the results of it.
eddie bravo
So if you have arthritis in your spine, your lower back, Louis Ho from 10th Planet Montreal has got this.
He's got arthritis in his back.
joe rogan
Yeah, I guarantee you this would help him.
I mean, I don't know how much he has.
I haven't seen his MRI, but I guarantee you that this would make him feel better than he feels now.
I'll give everybody the breakdown of it when I do it.
I start next week when I get back from England.
I go in and we'll see what happens.
You have your MRI? Yeah, I already had all that shit done.
I had my MRI done right after the injury.
It looked pretty nasty, man.
I had a six-millimeter bulge in my neck.
It's pretty big.
You know, it's reduced now quite a bit, but right after the injury, it was six millimeters.
That's not good, and that's why I was having numb hands.
And you know what it's from?
It's from doing it, getting injured, and then taking a couple weeks off and jumping right back in.
That's what it is.
Not allowing myself to fully heal up.
And core strengthening.
Core strengthening is massive.
It's so important.
You know, if you're going to be in there throwing down on a regular basis, you've got to do some core workouts.
You've got to do something that keeps you, gives you a little armor to protect you from being injured.
eddie bravo
Squats?
joe rogan
Squats help a lot.
Squats, windmills, kettlebell windmills are huge.
I love those.
That is strengthening your entire core, you know, all that bending and carrying that heavy weight, Turkish get-ups, that kind of shit.
unidentified
You're doing any shows when you're in England?
joe rogan
I am doing two shows.
The Dance House Theater.
They're both sold out, so go fuck yourselves, English people.
unidentified
Are you bringing anyone?
joe rogan
Too late.
No, I'm going with a guy who's there.
Local kid.
And Dave Bishop.
Dave Bishop's going to...
eddie bravo
Oh, he's doing comedy again.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
He's going to just introduce us.
unidentified
He's done.
Mark Hayden ever go over there?
You ever see Mark Hayden?
joe rogan
He's like the Candyman.
You just said him twice.
Don't say the third time.
He'll show up.
That's it.
This podcast is over.
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eddie bravo
Can I throw a couple seminars out?
joe rogan
Yeah, absolutely.
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What's going on, Eddie Bravo?
eddie bravo
I'm going to be at 10th Planet Yuma, November 9th.
I'm going to be at 10th Planet San Francisco, November 23rd.
Go to 10thplanetjj.com.
brendan schaub
Get on the Nibiru Forum, my message board, for all the info and details.
eddie bravo
My podcast is Eddie Bravo Radio.
brendan schaub
It's on iTunes and Stitcher.
joe rogan
And dude, send me your seminars when you're doing them.
I tweet them for you.
I tweet everybody's dates.
eddie bravo
I never want to bother you with that.
joe rogan
Don't worry.
eddie bravo
You've done so much for me, man.
joe rogan
It's not a bother.
People love it.
Anybody who's interested...
You know, it's something to do.
You should do it.
You'll learn a lot.
Seminars are awesome.
It's a great way to see a new aspect of jiu-jitsu, to check out a different person's game.
And I know how much time and effort you put into them.
They're awesome.
They're great seminars.
eddie bravo
Thank you very much.
joe rogan
Shit, I've been going to your seminars since...
Damn, when was the first one we did?
God damn, it was a long ass time ago.
eddie bravo
The first one, I think...
joe rogan
Colorado?
Boulder?
eddie bravo
Oh, we started doing seminars with your comedy kids.
We did one in Miami.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, that's right.
eddie bravo
Like an hour late.
joe rogan
Do you remember how crazy that rain was?
eddie bravo
Yeah!
joe rogan
I'll never forget that.
We hit a wall of water in Miami that you couldn't see anything in front of you.
eddie bravo
You had to stop on the freeway.
joe rogan
The whole freeway stopped dead for rain.
It was fucking crazy.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
That was awesome.
eddie bravo
I haven't did a seminar in Miami in forever.
Jesus.
joe rogan
A lot of jiu-jitsu down in Miami.
eddie bravo
I think that was the last time.
That was the last time.
joe rogan
There's a lot of jiu-jitsu in Miami.
A lot of MMA in Miami.
A lot of jiu-jitsu.
eddie bravo
A lot of Brazilians like that Miami weather.
joe rogan
So follow him on Twitter.
It's EddieBravo on Twitter or 10thPlanetJJ.com and come down to headquarters.
And as soon as I get this back shit...
I've settled out.
Within the next month or so, I'll be back on a regular basis.
eddie bravo
I teach downtown.
Just email me for info, twisterbravo at sbcglobal.net.
joe rogan
Yeah, once I'm back in, man, we should do some shit together.
We'll figure out how to do some seminars in the same place where I'm doing comedy.
Let's work that out.
Let's do that.
eddie bravo
I'm down.
joe rogan
Let's make it happen, bitch.
Beautiful.
All right, folks, we will be back soon.
Next week, I got Sam Harris is here next week.
Should be a lot of fun.
And someone else as well.
I forget who.
Don't worry about it.
It'll be good.
Don't sweat it.
All right?
Keep it together, you dirty freaks.
And I will be at the Irvine Improv, November 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
That's the next date coming out that's available.
The River Cree in Edmonton, I think, is sold out.
And then I'm in Vegas on December 28th at the Mirage.
27th or 28th?
Which one is that?
Which one's Friday?
December 27th at the Mirage in Vegas with the one and only Joey motherfucking Coco Diaz.
So holla at your boy.
Alright, we'll see you fucks very soon.
We love the shit out of ya.
And thanks for all the love back.
Big kiss.
Thanks everybody who came to Houston this weekend too.
unidentified
Thank you.
joe rogan
Had a great fucking time.
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