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00:00:13.000Changed the flow of the conversation made it way better Yeah, that was bullshit because it was like, you know when I really realized it was bullshit like I did a podcast with Stan hope and he was making fun of the commercials While I was doing it, I was like, why am I doing commercials in front of them?
00:00:27.000Why don't I just do that later and stitch it in?
00:00:29.000And I was lucky where the deal that I had for commercials was really just for iTunes.
00:00:34.000And so when I do this, it goes on YouTube first.
00:00:38.000So as it streams on YouTube and you stream, no need for commercials.
00:01:42.000Well, you know, a lot of times we haven't seen each other in like a week or two and we've got a bunch of crazy shit to say to each other and you just start...
00:01:47.000And then by the time the podcast starts, so, what's up, man?
00:01:52.000You know, you learn a lot about yourself.
00:02:05.000The only time is when I'm going through Mastering the System, my tutorial, I do sit there and I am interested in how I'm teaching and what I said and how I could have made the point clearer in my teaching.
00:02:19.000That's the only time, but when it's a podcast and I'm not talking about jiu-jitsu and I'm just talking about like just bullshit.
00:02:26.000It's good to hear though, but for the same reason like you realize why you're annoying to you like I've found things that I didn't know I did like little little ticks little weird things like people do like a big one is saying like People, like, there's,
00:02:42.000like, Tom Segura, I love him to death.
00:09:45.000It seems like it's getting crazier, too, with the advent.
00:09:47.000Like, the more attention that people are putting on leg locks these days, it seems like I'm watching jiu-jitsu, and I'm like, man, I'm not...
00:09:54.000You know, I see transitions on the ground that I understand, but when I see some leg lock transitions, I'm like, I have no idea where these guys are going.
00:10:13.000You have 5th degree, 6th degree, 8th degree black belts out there in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and they've never really looked into the rubber guard at all, and they think, oh...
00:10:24.000They just throwing their legs up and they're grabbing their leg and then there's an arm bar or a triangle and a guy slip out and then they're just grabbing their ankles.
00:10:31.000They don't realize how precise and microscopic it is.
00:10:35.000And that's what I used to think of leg locks.
00:10:38.000I thought leg locks where you just jump on legs.
00:10:40.000I'm a black belt and I'm still thinking this until about a year ago.
00:10:43.000I thought dudes just jumping on, you get that outside one or you get that inside one.
00:10:47.000I was pretty good at a heel hook coming off being mounted.
00:10:51.000But I didn't spend a lot of time with heel hooks.
00:10:54.000It just seemed like, ooh, I don't want to get my MMA fighters.
00:12:13.000He's like the Marcelo Garcia of leg locks.
00:12:14.000And when you say Alan Belcher, we should explain what you mean.
00:12:17.000Like when he fought Paul Hares, Paul Hares is like the best leg locker in MMA. Alan Belcher thought long and hard about this and worked a lot on the strategy and did a lot of leg lock defense.
00:12:26.000He brought in, he flew and he trains in Alabama.
00:12:55.000But Alan Belcher, three years ago, or two years ago, whenever that fight was, it was probably at least three years ago when that happened, when his fight with Rusamar Paharis, he flew both of them in, and he was already known as a really good leg locker.
00:13:37.000And then you get really good at, boom, at staying at that safe, just going right through that safe zone and right to the escapes because, you know, you've done it so much the slow way.
00:13:46.000Then it starts blending little by little, boom.
00:14:30.000That it's not a be-all end-all, especially in MMA. Paul Harris has been jacked a couple times, and even the best guy right now, Eddie Cummings, when he goes in and he competes, he's tapping everybody with heel hooks.
00:14:40.000But he needs two or three tries at those legs.
00:15:26.000So, regardless of how sophisticated and awesome leg locks are overall right now in grappling, still in MMA, they're still dangerous, but...
00:15:38.000It's a very important secret weapon when, you know, the safer stuff, like, you know, taking him down and passing his guard and mounting him and getting his back and nice and safe.
00:15:50.000You're not going to reverse shit on me.
00:16:39.000Can't forget that, because Krokop might be the only guy we've seen do it like that, do it that quickly and devastatingly, but that means it's possible.
00:16:45.000Like, just because you're in someone's guard, that shit isn't safe, you know?
00:19:21.000That's the one thing that I hate listening to myself talk, is because I'll have a story I want to say, but then I think, okay, let me set it up.
00:19:28.000So when I'm listening to my shit, I used to listen to my podcast, and I see it, and I'm dissecting what I do.
00:19:35.000I'm trying to make a point, but I never get to the point.
00:19:37.000Because I go so far back to set it up that by the time I get to the point, I already thought of another story.
00:21:11.000A lot of guys, they do tough at a weight class above, I think, because if you're going to make the extreme weight cut that a lot of guys make, you're going to need six to eight weeks to Whereas if you're on tough, you've got to do it multiple times over the course of six weeks.
00:21:23.000And for a lot of dudes, almost everybody started out a higher weight class.
00:21:28.000Michael Bisping, even though he competed at 205 and beat a lot of guys at 205, he fought on the Ultimate Fighter at 205. 185 was a better weight class for him.
00:21:53.000Some guys just say, fuck it, same-day weigh-in.
00:21:55.000I'm still going to cut like a motherfucker.
00:21:57.000I just think when you're on that show and you're going to do that several times over six weeks, and then on top of that, it's the nerves and all the TV cameras, your first experience.
00:22:04.000You're better off just not doing anything that's going to drain you.
00:22:08.000He might go to 35. How does he look at 45?
00:24:25.000And then Conor would have to agree to fight him at a catchweight.
00:24:28.000It'll end up being, Conor will go, let's meet at 180. If you can get down to 180 or 185. He can't get down to 180. Or maybe Conor just says, fuck it, we're going to fight free weight.
00:26:30.000But at the end of the day, she's adopting a bunch of people and spending a bunch of time working to help all these sick, needy, and poor people.
00:26:38.000I mean, she does some pretty incredible shit, man.
00:28:28.000Well, that was one of the things Robin Williams was saying.
00:28:31.000Rob Williams was saying before he died that it was really getting really hard for him because the only things that he was being offered that were interesting at all were like scale or sometimes not even scale.
00:30:21.000He's the one that does all the work with traumatic brain injury patients.
00:30:25.000And he said that when people go through any type of a giant surgery like that, like heart surgery, where you have to be under for a long period of time, a lot of times your hormonal system is devastated after that.
00:30:52.000And in that recovery process, he thinks that a lot of patients suffer from massive depression.
00:30:58.000And there's like a correlation between suicide attempts post-surgery that he thinks possibly could be attributed to this devastating effect that being under for a long period of times and then the trauma of the surgery Can have on you.
00:31:11.000So he had a lot going that was wrong before he killed himself.
00:31:19.000But I'm guessing that when you're going through something like that and you're about to die and going through some major surgery, your body's like, we're not thinking about being happy at all right now.
00:31:30.000We're thinking about being alive so it stops all serotonin production just to keep you alive.
00:31:35.000And when you recover, Your shit is so depleted that maybe that's why you're depressed.
00:31:46.000One of the reasons why they would prescribe steroids after surgery is they would prescribe it, especially to athletes when they get injured, not just to make them recover quickly, but because during that recovery process, your body is very weak.
00:32:00.000When you have some major shit going on with your body, you have some major shit fixed, like for the X amount of weeks afterwards, depending upon how old you are and how healthy you are, you feel wrecked.
00:32:28.000He cut off a piece of our patella tendon and stuffed it inside where the ACL used to be.
00:32:32.000There's no ACL. All this inflammation.
00:32:35.000Like your body's on just like crash alert.
00:32:38.000Your body knows something, some pretty devastating, severe shit has happened to it.
00:32:43.000So I think depending upon how healthy you are, it can be rough times afterwards.
00:32:49.000And I think for an older dude like him, who already has these physical issues, I don't know if Parkinson's happened before or if he had had the symptoms.
00:33:18.000California actually just passed a law for assisted suicide, which is going to be interesting.
00:33:23.000I don't know the particular details of the law, but when people are terminally ill, like if you're dying of cancer or something like that, you're just in agony every day.
00:33:33.000Now, finally, you can end your own life, and you can have doctor-assisted suicide.
00:33:38.000They've been doing it to people, either on the sneak tip, or people have had to go to states where it's legal.
00:34:00.000Grandpa's got to just keep shitting his pants and throwing up and falling down and breaking all his bones and then stitch them back together again and give him some pills.
00:34:07.000If grandpa was a dog, you would have put grandpa out a long time ago.
00:35:34.000He was a private investigator and he needed a driver because he lost his license with a DUI. And he said, fuck it, I'm quitting drinking, that's it, but I need a driver, because he still had to work.
00:35:46.000So he put an ad out, and the want ads, for a private investigator's assistant.
00:35:51.000And I answered the ad, and I met this dude, and he was fucking hilarious.
00:35:58.000Occasionally, it would be like a guy who thinks his wife's cheating on him, but most of it was insurance cases, where people would pretend to be injured, and they would get another job, like working for cash, under the table, and you'd catch them.
00:38:29.000You'd just write a few in and get to this one.
00:38:32.000And he would say, listen, my girl was in a hit-and-run accident, and this guy, he took off, but someone got the plate, and they didn't get it all, but they got this amount of it.
00:38:44.000And the guy would go, well, that definitely wasn't me.
00:40:47.000And then what usually would happen, I believe, the way they would work is the insurance company would threaten the person and would say they're going to have them arrested for fraud.
00:40:58.000And then the person would either settle or they would maybe have to pay some of the money back.
00:41:02.000The insurance company just knew they were being scammed.
00:41:54.000I started getting some emails and messages about it, and I was like, no way.
00:41:59.000When was the last time you talked to him?
00:42:01.000Last time I was in Boston just a few months ago, and I'm going back to Boston in January, and I was going to get him tickets to the fights, and I was hoping to have some dinner with him or something, hang out with him.
00:44:17.000The husband has to sit there while this giant fucking super athlete fucks his girl and then when the guy comes, he comes in the husband's mouth.
00:44:28.000It's the only time the husband sucks the guy's dick, but Azzy, get over here, get your head over here!
00:44:31.000He puts the guy's head right down on the wife's stomach while he's just fucking plowing it, and then he pulls it out and stuffs it in the dude's mouth.
00:44:40.000Right now, someone's writing this down, and they're making this video.
00:44:43.000They're like, we're shooting it this week.
00:44:46.000Dudes on Twitter sending you links that already exist.
00:47:40.000Well, I've heard speculation that the way they did it, they made the girl's lip like that so that she wouldn't be attractive to slaves, to slavers, to people that were trying to get slaves.
00:47:56.000Don't a lot of people that have a lot of metal in their face and shit, and a lot of people have crazy piercings in their cheeks and their nose and their lips, don't people usually say that that's a sign, and this is total bro psychology,
00:48:13.000But that that's a sign of people that have been abused?
00:48:15.000Isn't that usually a sign of people that have had something bad happen to them?
00:48:19.000Maybe like back in olden times, before there was mental institutions, like the crazy people of the village, the big cities, like in Rome, all the crazy people, they just went out to the fucking jungle and started their own little culture, and some of them were fucking nuts.
00:49:04.000We've developed a correlation between people that like girls with face tattoos or five eyebrow rings and a nose ring and two lip rings and a tongue ring.
00:49:18.000Like for me, growing up with long hair, that was a I thought when I was growing up, my dad was never around and my stepdad didn't give a shit.
00:49:50.000It was normal for me to be at the wedding, at the quinceanera, at the big whatever shindig, just pissed off that I'm not with my friends and playing music and listening to Slayer and shit.
00:51:00.000I wonder if that is what happened with the Suri women, that they were being taken as slaves, and so they just started doing fucked up shit to their face to make themselves unattractive.
00:51:09.000And they started their own little camp, and then it turned into a village, and then boom, it was a bunch of fucking crazy people.
00:52:26.000I wouldn't change a thing about my life.
00:52:29.000Nor would I. But a lot of people didn't, right?
00:52:31.000And when you see really fucked up people, really crazy out there people, a lot of times that's what they're reacting to.
00:52:38.000Whatever kind of abuse it was, whether it was sexual abuse, whether it was violence, whether it was abandonment, whatever it is, whatever pain and hurting...
00:52:45.000Made them try to become something different.
00:52:48.000Try to seek out others like her or like him.
00:52:51.000That's what people do when they form these...
00:52:53.000It's like when you're talking about being at the wedding and wanting to be with your friends.
00:54:11.000And, you know, people say that we're more connected now than ever.
00:54:15.000We are in a lot of ways, but in some ways, because we weren't individually connected, and there was only one source, NBC, CBS, ABC, that actually connected everybody.
00:54:26.000And there's everyone listening to the radio and And the radio stations were creating stars and everybody saw different strokes.
00:54:34.000You went to school and everyone saw 8.30 Friday night on NBC. Everyone knew these were special spots.
00:54:41.000That's how everyone got connected in these special Eight o'clock on Thursday, cheers and shit.
00:54:47.000Everyone got, they were so connected, way more connected.
00:54:50.000Now, people aren't on those, like the radio doesn't have that much power.
00:54:54.000I never listen to fucking radio, ever.
00:54:56.000I'm listening to like satellite radio and shit.
00:55:36.000There's people that are huge, and because we're so disconnected with everybody, we're just connected more and more with the people that are like us, and then that's it.
00:55:47.000But the old way, in that one way about NBC, CBS, and we all saw the news in 60 Minutes, we were, at some times, at those periods, we were all connected.
00:57:49.000It is, but what if 9-11 wasn't an inside job?
00:57:52.000I mean, spending all this time thinking it was.
00:57:54.000What if it was just a bunch of incompetent people, a bunch of people that all...
00:57:58.000I mean, the amount of people that had to be involved...
00:58:00.000To make it a conspiracy would be pretty big, right?
00:58:02.000Would it be more likely that there's a bunch of fucking idiots running the government, which we've always known are true, than to have this one mastermind stroke of genius?
01:00:23.000It's also possible that they're retarded.
01:00:25.000It's also possible that they're trying to figure out a way to explain something that they just did a really shitty job explaining in the past.
01:00:52.000There was apparently massive fires all throughout the building because there was some diesel fuel that they had in the basement, giant diesel tanks.
01:00:58.000And if those things were on fire, and if the building was on fire in some sort of a crazy way where it weakened the whole thing, however unlikely, where uniformly once one part of it gave out, it just gave in.
01:01:12.000But what would disturb me about that scenario that I just said was, why didn't someone sue for that building falling apart?
01:01:20.000Like, I would think that if that was my building, and my building just caved in when it caught on fire, I'd be like, let me show you fuckheads some videos of buildings that didn't cave in because they were a blaze, just on fire, like every fucking corner of the building is fire.
01:01:34.000And this is just fire inside the building that fell apart.
01:02:41.000It's like watching a movie that was a book, watching the movie, and then watching it three times, and then going back and reading the book, and you're like, oh my god, there's so much shit.
01:02:53.000There's such a backstory and there's all these different players and all this evidence that was...
01:02:58.000Dude, there's no way anybody could watch that documentary and still think, and he's got all the evidence, dude.
01:03:07.000One of my favorite things about 9-11 that never gets brought up was the press conference that Donald Rumsfeld had the day before the Pentagon got hit where he was talking about all the money that was missing.
01:03:17.000It was like trillions of dollars, right?
01:03:19.000Like trillions of dollars they couldn't account for.
01:03:21.000And then the plane slams into the accounting department.
01:03:25.000I mean, if we are living in a movie, this is an awesome movie.
01:07:11.000There was no weapons of mass destruction.
01:07:13.000We just needed a reason to get in there.
01:07:15.000Dude, there's documents that they talk about this.
01:07:18.000These great PNAC, this group, like how are we going to take over and what is the best route to We need a reason to get into the Middle East and control.
01:10:00.000He said, I just got this down from upstairs, meeting the Secretary of Defense's office today.
01:10:05.000And he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries In five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
01:10:59.000Yeah, the scariest thing is you could watch something like this, and like a skeptic who doesn't believe in any conspiracy, you could watch this, they'll watch it, and something like they've been programmed, like they've been hypnotized, like no matter what, obey the official story.
01:11:14.000Do you see that video that was just about to come up?
01:11:19.000The video that was about to come up was the letter that Major Smedley Butler wrote in like 1930-something.
01:11:28.000And he was another famous war hero who wrote a letter realizing when he was leaving the military that war is a racket.
01:11:37.000Major General Smedley Butler and the fascist takeover of the USA. Does it play anything?
01:11:46.000You can roughly locate any community somewhere along a scale running all the way from democracy to despotism.
01:11:57.000This man makes it his job to study these things.
01:12:01.000Well, for one thing, avoid the comfortable idea that the mere form of government can of itself safeguard a nation against despotism.
01:12:13.000For big business, despotism was often a useful tool for securing foreign markets and pursuing profits.
01:12:20.000One of the US Marine Corps' most highly decorated generals, Smedley Darlington Butler, by his own account, helped pacify Mexico for American oil companies, Haiti and Cuba for National City Bank.
01:12:33.000Nicaragua for the Brown Brothers brokerage, the Dominican Republic for sugar interests, Honduras for U.S. fruit companies, and China for Standard Oil.
01:12:46.000General Butler's services were also in demand in the United States itself in the 1930s, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to relieve the misery of the Depression through public enterprise and tougher regulations on corporate exploitation and misdeeds.
01:13:02.000More power to you, President Roosevelt.
01:13:05.000The entire country's behind you, thrilled with hope and patriotism.
01:13:09.000But the country was not entirely behind the populist president.
01:13:13.000Large parts of the corporate elite despised what Roosevelt's New Deal stood for.
01:13:18.000And so, in 1934, a group of conspirators sought to involve General Butler in a treasonous plan.
01:13:25.000The plan, as outlined to me, was to form an organization of veterans.
01:13:29.000To use as a bluff, or as a club at least, to intimidate the government.
01:13:34.000But the corporate cabal had picked the wrong man.
01:13:37.000Butler was fed up with being what he called a gangster for capitalism.
01:13:46.000I appeared before the Congressional Committee, the highest representation of the American people under subpoena, to tell what I knew of activities, which I believe might lead to an attempt to set up a fascist dictatorship.
01:14:00.000The upshot of the whole thing was that I was supposed to lead an organization of 500,000 men, which would be able to take over the functions of government.
01:14:10.000A congressional committee ultimately found evidence of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt.
01:14:15.000According to Butler, the conspiracy included representatives of some of America's top corporations, including C.P. Morgan, DuPont, and Goodyear Tyre.
01:14:30.000As today's chairman of Goodyear Tyre knows, for corporations to dominate government, a coup is no longer necessary.
01:14:41.000And by going global, the governments have lost some control over corporations, regardless of whether the corporation can be trusted or cannot be trusted.
01:14:51.000Governments today do not have, over the corporations, the power that they had and the leverage that they had 50 or 60 years ago.
01:15:37.000Well, that's pretty much proven what you're saying.
01:15:41.000I mean, when you look at that, you look at Iran-Contra, and this is the scariest part, is you know how a certain amount of people can be hypnotized?
01:15:51.000You know, you go to a hypnotist's show, the guy before the show starts, he does a couple tests, and he goes, I got that idiot, and I got that motherfucker.
01:16:14.000Is it real that you can hypnotize someone, wake them up, they appear to be woken up, and when they hear you say a certain word, they react a certain way?
01:16:38.000At least with me, what the guy was trying to do was not what I think would be done if someone was trying to get you to do something like that.
01:16:48.000Is it possible to hypnotize someone in their own, whatever way, whatever way works, and tell them when you wake up, when you hear the bell, you're going to react a certain way or you're going to think a certain way?
01:17:58.000In that state, like someone can talk you into that state and you put yourself, you willingly allow yourself to get into that state.
01:18:05.000That's, for me, in this situation, if it was a different situation and it was a more gullible person or more easily led person, and then the hypnosis professional was like more into doing that, more into...
01:18:24.000If that guy was more into getting you to remember a certain noise or a certain sound, and when you heard that sound, you're going to associate with something.
01:20:16.000But my point is, this is just my wild conspiracy theory that, I mean, an answer, an attempt to answer the question, why you can show someone film like that, like what you just, like, film like that, and there's five hours of shit like that.
01:20:52.000If there was a giant fire inside that building that caused the building to fail and it collapsed like that, and I'm talking all this crazy shit, I know they blew it up, I know they used bombs, then I'm an idiot.
01:21:01.000And so if I'm saying I know one way or the other, it's kind of crazy.
01:21:50.000And no one is saying that you, based on what you're, like a juror isn't an expert in all this forensics, you're going on what the experts say.
01:21:57.000You're not going on, the juror's not going to go, well, I don't know if he killed him.
01:22:23.000They had offices inside that building of the NSA. I think it was the CIA. Find out what offices were inside Tower 7. Because it was a crazy building.
01:22:34.000It wasn't just like a regular building.
01:22:36.000That building had some really nutty shit stored in it.
01:23:10.000Salmon, Smith& Barney, which is a financial company, Internal Revenue Service, Regional Council, U.S. Secret Service, American Express Bank International, Standard Chartered Bank, Provident Financial Management, Hartford Insurance Group.
01:23:27.000First State Management Group, Federal Loan Bank, a lot of banks, but here it goes NAIC Securities.
01:23:33.000Securities and Exchange Commission, that's when it gets really crazy.
01:23:36.000Security and Exchange Commission, that's the mother load of money right there.
01:23:43.000New York City Office of Emergency Management.
01:23:45.000What would a decent detective think based on all this?
01:23:51.000You would look at that and you'd go, wow, it's convenient that that building collapsed because it seems like there's a lot of fucking tenants in there that probably had a lot of crazy information.
01:24:01.000The Secret Service, the Security Exchange Commission, and the Office of Emergency Management.
01:24:07.000That's a lot of, and then all those banks.
01:24:36.000If that is, what a convenient building to collapse.
01:24:40.000It seems like those offices would have a lot of really crazy shit in them.
01:24:43.000And if a decent detective found out that, oh, it looks like over 2,000 architects risking their license, risking their credibility, is going to go against the government?
01:25:43.000I don't know if they would rig a building like that with explosives when they were building it in the possibility that something went wrong and they had to destroy evidence.
01:26:02.000If you do believe that the building was a controlled demolition, then someone rigged it.
01:26:07.000So the idea is, if they knew that these people were going to be in this building, they knew this building was going to be a high-security building, they could have rigged it with explosives when they were constructing it to make sure that in the event the building was taken.
01:27:03.000So the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency were there on the 25th floor with the IRS. Floors 46 through 47 were mechanical floors, as were the bottom floors and part of the seventh floor.
01:27:27.000But why would you think that it's impossible for them to rig the building with explosives when they constructed it?
01:27:32.000Because it's impossible because they didn't say anything for seven years.
01:27:40.000After public pressure, they were forced to put a scientist out there in front of these reporters to finally give a reason, and they said it was because of fires.
01:28:23.000But why is it impossible that they put those bombs in it when they were building it?
01:28:28.000In the case, or when the Secret Service took over, or when whoever made the tenant, maybe they installed the bombs to make sure, in an event that something happened...
01:28:37.000Like, in 96, I believe it was 96, the World Trade Center towers, they blew them up in the basement, remember?
01:28:43.000They had a car bomb that went off in the basement and they thought they were going to take the tower down.
01:28:47.000If these people thought that put this building in place, or that took over this building, the CIA, the NSA, whoever the fuck it was, if they knew that they had some really important secure information there, It's very possible they could have said, okay, in the event that someone does blow up the World Trade Center,
01:29:04.000like in 96, because it's already happened before, and a catastrophic failure, we can demolish this building.
01:31:08.000I don't know why, but we're living in a world post 9-11 that's...
01:31:12.000We're living in a crazy world where people are fucking dying in the Middle East and getting blown up and getting murdered and kids and stuff like that.
01:31:47.000And then he's running all his shit and all his drugs in his arms through Arkansas with an unknown governor, Bill Clinton, who's letting it happen.
01:31:57.000And then he becomes president after...
01:32:05.000I'm like, that's some gangster shit going on right there.
01:32:10.000And they're just playing with the public and all the dumb motherfuckers who believe that there's this Republican-Democrat battle going on.
01:32:18.000You know, it's fascinating and frustrating at the same time and very scary that, man, we're living with people that just follow the official story and whatever they say, that's the truth.
01:32:30.000And all the other shit that's not the official story, that's crazy.
01:32:34.000There's a lot of people that do really love to buy the official story and they love to argue it.
01:32:38.000They love to argue the official story about everything.
01:32:41.000Yeah, the scary thing is the people, when you ask anybody, they'll say, yeah, the government's fucked up.
01:32:47.000Yeah, the government, you can't trust the government.
01:32:57.000Everyone says, I fucked the government, bunch of crooks.
01:33:00.000But when they get busted and there's all this evidence and all this shit going down and so crystal clear, can you imagine if the video of Tower 7 was not available until 10 years later?
01:33:13.000That would be the craziest fucking conspiracy theory that nobody would get behind.
01:33:48.000Like, that was good for the people that were behind this.
01:33:51.000Like, it was beautiful because you could see that on YouTube and it has millions of views, but people will go, well, the government said it was fires, so I believe it's fires.
01:34:35.000I wonder how long, if there really is some crazy global cabal going on that's ripping off the world, how much longer do they keep going with this in these days of Edward Snowden?
01:34:48.000When you find out exactly how the racket works, the global racket works, when you look into it with an open mind, We just went right back into it.
01:34:59.000I thought we were going to get out of it.
01:35:01.000I don't even know what I was going to say.
01:36:05.000They might not say that, but that's what's going on because that's what people believe most of people think.
01:36:09.000As the news does a shittier and shittier job of covering events in detail, I think people are leaning more and more towards alternative sources.
01:36:54.000There's a few key players, the guys with all the power at the top, the craziest guys at the top, and a lot of guys in the CIA have no idea.
01:37:01.000I think it's like what you were saying earlier, that we were talking about how in the 1980s and whatever, before the internet, there was only a few different programs, so everybody was on these channels.
01:37:11.000But I think in this day and age, there's so much information out there.
01:37:15.000There's so much stuff to listen to and so much stuff to watch and so much stuff to pay attention to.
01:37:19.000It's just overwhelming that when something happens, even if it's a big deal, it's gone in a couple days.
01:40:57.000And it's a serious topic when you have a subject like marijuana, which all these people enjoy, and there's no reason why it should be illegal, and yet it's still illegal.
01:41:08.000See, if marijuana made people's fucking brains melt, and made your dick fall off, and made people just start running out into traffic, there would be a reason why someone would say, hey, we gotta spend a lot of money to stop this, because it's gonna destroy our youth, ruin our children, and just devastate our society.
01:41:23.000Since that evidence doesn't exist, It doesn't make any sense.
01:41:26.000So if someone is still arresting people when there's no evidence that they should be, that's when shit gets scary.
01:41:54.000It has nothing to do with marijuana itself.
01:41:56.000You and I are obviously marijuana advocates, and we're marijuana enthusiasts, and we're known for having beliefs that marijuana is not just a fun thing, but it's a very important thing for creativity.
01:42:09.000It's like a turbocharger for creativity.
01:43:21.000For people who don't even know, the name marijuana referred to wild Mexican tobacco.
01:43:25.000And it had nothing to do with cannabis.
01:43:27.000Cannabis was hemp, and everybody knew that, and they knew that as a textile and as a commodity, it was extremely valuable for the American people.
01:43:35.000For people who don't know, there was actually a documentary that Jack Herrer found, and it was a big deal that he found it, because he had known about this, and people denied its existence, and then he found this documentary, Hemp for Victory.
01:43:47.000And it was made during World War II, after hemp was essentially made illegal.
01:43:51.000But they wanted hemp To use for sales.
01:44:45.000If hemp became the new billion-dollar crop, as it was predicted on the cover of Popular Science magazine, if that happened, William Randolph Hearst would, I mean, he would have been fucked.
01:44:56.000He would have had to spend millions of dollars converting his newspapers to hemp paper.
01:45:16.000And can you imagine, because that was all during the 30s and 40s, can you imagine that there had to be some people that were thought of as some tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists that are saying that weed is actually not, doesn't make you do all these crazy things that they're putting in the movies and with all this reefer manner propaganda.
01:45:33.000Those people must have been, they looked so goddamn crazy back then.
01:45:37.000Well, even today people try to debunk this.
01:45:39.000People have said that to me and they sent me to a website, dude, that's been debunked, sorry.
01:47:45.000So there's all these people that are illegally running booze, and they're making crazy money, and they wind up in positions of power, and even wind up having their fucking children become president.
01:47:53.000That's the real story of the United States, is that Kennedy's fucking parents were drug runners.
01:48:57.000They turn, they try to change the world, and then they had to get rid of them.
01:49:01.000It's just like, you know, gangster 101. Yeah, and then you get the gangsters through the police officers who are arresting people for booze, okay?
01:58:40.000I look down, the phone is taking every word that I said accidentally because I said those words during a podcast or something that sounded enough like it.
01:58:49.000But when you have that, when you do something like that, you could tell it, hey, download me Smoke Serpent.
01:58:56.000Hey, go to Eddie Bravo Radio number three, and it'll fucking find it on the internet and play it for you.
01:59:14.000Smoking a lot of weed and saying stupid shit, but it seems that the record companies in the record business have always, always ripped off the artists.
01:59:24.000The artists never make, all of them, when you look at documentaries, every band the same thing.
01:59:40.000I respect the shit out of them, and they do got some good stuff, but I'm just not that kind of southern rock thing.
01:59:45.000We're all just prisoners here of our own device.
01:59:47.000Yeah, I love the story, shit, the documentary, the story of how they got together and their dynamics when they broke up and got back together and shit.
02:04:22.000Unless it's like an anomaly where you have a Depeche Mode or U2. Where they get fucking massive and they could just sustain a career and 20 years into their career, they write fucking Beautiful Day and that's a smash hit.
02:04:34.000You know, once you're like that, then after like 10, 15 years, you own your own shit and you realize, okay, I'm going to do my own shit here.
02:04:42.000But then get the majors to distribute it.
02:04:45.000I'll use their distribution like what Dr. Dre did.
02:05:16.000They're trying to do that in the world of podcasting.
02:05:18.000There's a lot of that going on in the world of podcasting where companies are coming in and they're trying to own half of podcasts and put you on a network.
02:05:54.000If someone like Radiolab or like Hardcore History is a perfect example, he's almost always like in the top three or four whenever he releases something new.
02:06:02.000Maybe sometimes often one, number one.
02:13:03.000Now the publicist, the best version of it is social media.
02:13:08.000The best version of it is having a good connection with the fans on social media and people finding out about your shit and they spread it virally.
02:13:57.000Because you don't know what the fuck they're putting up there unless you approve each and every message.
02:14:03.000The best way to do it would be you tell me what you want me to say, what are you trying to get me to say, and I'll tell you whether or not that's ever going to happen.
02:14:11.000And if you want to say something in my voice, which they're trying to do, I'm like, you're fucking crazy.
02:14:26.000You think I'm going to tweet promotions for other shows or live tweet things that you've got going on or get involved with your fucking shark week or whatever the fuck it is?
02:15:57.000That's, in a lot of ways, a lot like a record company because that's one of the big complaints that artists have had about Spotify is that they don't get paid enough money from it.
02:16:06.000That's like Taylor Swift's complaint about it.
02:17:37.000But little by little, you see what appears to be happening is little by little, the artist is now, because of the internet, it's slowly the shift, the power is going back to them.
02:18:40.000Because now that you have your music on your phone, instead, I remember, it seems like just yesterday, where I'm driving around, I always had 55 CDs in the back of my car, people stepping on them, there's always CDs, and once every couple weeks I gotta fucking organize my shit.
02:18:55.000There's just CDs everywhere in my car.
02:19:09.000And these guys that were like radio DJs, essentially what made them cool was their personalities.
02:19:14.000But when you get trapped in a DJ gig like that, people get little snippets of your personality and your thought process on things, and then you play another song.
02:22:31.000And I can't tell you how many fucking people I've talked to that say, hey man, listen to your show, and because of your show, we start our own podcast.
02:22:42.000If it's good, if you have one person take a fucking chance on your podcast, one person, and they go, that's pretty fucking good, and they send it to their friend, dude, listen to these guys shoot the shit about shit.
02:22:51.000We saw it the other day when we were talking about Josh Olin, who we had in on the podcast.
02:22:57.000We both watched a podcast that had like...
02:23:44.000If that motherfucker was alive, if he lived in LA, I'd have him on the podcast every week.
02:23:49.000I'm kicking myself that I never had him on while he was alive, but he never comes to LA. That guy would be hilarious on a podcast.
02:23:56.000If someone gave him a podcast like the fucking Investigator Chronicles, the Private Investigator Chronicles, and you just let him be himself.
02:24:04.000He could figure out how to be himself.
02:24:07.000What if you could do stand-up like in your podcast where you're talking, you're telling jokes, And everyone's connected to your headset so you could hear people laugh.
02:24:15.000Oh, they would also start yelling shit at you.
02:27:33.000And they're all the closest to human neurochemistry.
02:27:35.000One of the most fucked up things about the really powerful psychedelic drugs is the strongest ones, like mushrooms and like DMT. DMT is the strongest.
02:27:44.000It's like an actual human neurotransmitter.
02:27:47.000I mean, it's not even like an addition.
02:27:51.000It's actually produced in your own body.
02:27:52.000That's the weirdest thing ever about drugs, that the strongest one we know of, your own body makes.
02:27:58.000The fact that most people don't know that, the fact that most people know that Kanye West is married to Kim Kardashian, most people don't know that your brain produces the most powerful psychedelic drug that science has ever observed.
02:28:25.000The greatest era of technological innovation ever.
02:28:30.000Wi-Fi, the ability to download songs instantly on phones like we were talking about, the periscoping and fucking just insane ability to connect with each other at this day and age.
02:28:42.000We still have illegal marijuana, illegal psychedelic drugs, illegal...
02:28:47.000Bill Gates, or Steve Jobs said that LSD was what led him to create Apple.
02:28:52.000He said it was like one of the most important moments of his life, was having an LSD trip.
02:28:56.000There's so many problems in this world, so many different levels, coming from all different angles, from all different forms of life.
02:31:37.000He's going to take five grams of mushrooms on a webcam and just talk to Skype with people from all over the world and answer their questions about what he's going to do to fix the world.
02:32:46.000It's only because it's illegal that people are forced to go to these indigenous cultures and do it there.
02:32:50.000If it was legal, you could have a shamanic retreat center in America, and people could go to a shamanic retreat center, and it could be treated just as respected as going to, you know, whatever, a psychiatrist, or just as respected as going to a fucking cancer doctor or an oncologist or anybody,
02:33:12.000One of the only countries on the planet Where ayahuasca is praised and legal is the same country where they take a month off from work and party straight.
02:34:02.000I just got to get used to the wrong side of the road or convince them to drive on the correct side of the road, which would probably be better.
02:34:49.000Like, you could totally fit right in there.
02:34:52.000Like, if you had to live in Sydney, or, that's the only place I've been, but I'd be like, yeah, that's just like living in a nice city in America where people have a cool accent.
02:37:23.000Him being off TRT, what do you think about that?
02:37:26.000Well, the reality is, okay, if he really needed it so bad that he said he needed it before, and it was a medical issue, his body was low on testosterone, and he had to take it.
02:37:40.000And then he took it, and it was just destroying everybody.
02:38:14.000And he's still bombing on Rich Franklin.
02:38:17.000He still had the skills and everything that he had, but I think it might have been one of the reasons why he fades so quickly.
02:38:23.000One of the reasons why it's hard for him to sustain a hard pace without the TRT. And I think that a fight like the Dan Henderson fight points to the fact that he's still super dangerous.
02:38:33.000He's got nasty skills and really fast as fuck, but he didn't do anything.
02:38:50.000This is after TRT. No, this is before TRT. See, he fought like this, and then he fought Anderson, and then all the way, by the way, this is all after he tested positive for steroids, the first time he fought in Pride.
02:39:07.000In Vegas, he tested positive for steroids when he fought, I think it was Dan Henderson.
02:39:11.000He lost that fight, but he tested positive for something, some metabolite.
02:39:19.000They had the one show in the United States, they tested.
02:39:21.000And that's the one show where Nick Diaz got popped for fighting Gomi, remember?
02:39:24.000He got popped for weed, and Vitor got popped for steroids.
02:39:28.000So when the side effect of using steroids, and this is one of the reasons why a lot of people are against testosterone replacement therapy for fighters, is that when you use steroids, your body stops producing testosterone on its own.
02:39:55.000They put the results against the commission.
02:39:56.000And they say, hey, this guy needs tests.
02:39:59.000And so they give him a testosterone use exemption, a TUE. And that was what all these fighters were getting.
02:40:05.000But the complaints from the people that were clean or wanted everybody to be clean, allegedly were clean, I should say, Was that the only reason why these guys have low tests in their early 30s, like, you know, some of these guys, like, they had a guy that was 25 that was on testosterone replacement.
02:41:44.000I understand that it's not fair, and I wouldn't expect Weidman to take that fight if he knew that Vitor was on TRT. I wouldn't expect it, but goddamn, I would have loved to have seen it.
02:41:52.000And no way Luke Rockhold is on TRT. No way, right?
02:41:56.000Well, you can never say no way because guys have tested positive that looked absolutely like shit.
02:42:01.000You never know because they look like shit and the testosterone makes them look a little bit better or whatever they're taking makes them look a little bit better.
02:42:26.000He's one of the toughest guys in the sport and real smart, real technical, but TRT Vitor ran him over.
02:42:34.000TRT Vitor wheel kicked him in the fucking head and beat him down and he beat down Dan Henderson like that.
02:42:39.000He knocked out Michael Bisping with a head kick and fucked his eye up permanently.
02:42:44.000Michael Bisping's eye is permanently disfigured because of Vitor kicking him in the head.
02:42:49.000This is, like, he's one of the scariest guys in the history of the sport when he was on TRT. It was like a four-fight run where he was just fucking smashing people.
02:42:58.000And the Dan Anderson fight was one of the most devastating.
02:43:27.000And then Vitor just uncorks that head kick.
02:43:31.000So the question is, when you look at Vitor now, he definitely looks better in this fight than he did in the Weidman fight.
02:43:37.000He looked more built, but he still didn't look like he looked when he was on TRT. Look at that shot down where he's punching Dan Henderson in the head.
02:46:52.000Right there, that's when I became pro-female MMA. That's when I thought, like, wow, people like watching girls pull their hair and scratch each other.
02:54:15.000Well, he was really good for MMA. He was really good at a bunch of different things.
02:54:18.000But if you compared him back then to a guy like Andy Hoog, who was fighting K-1 at the same time, who was a real world-class striker, or a guy like Jerome LeBanner, or, you know...
02:57:56.000And during that podcast, you started talking about mushrooms, and you were going off, and you You broke it all down, and she's sitting there, and she was in a real bad spot in her life.
02:58:05.000Like, her life was falling apart at that point, and she just decided, fuck it.
02:58:10.000I'm going to Peru, or wherever she went in South America.