Joe Rogan Experience #39 - Joey Diaz, Eddie Bravo (Part 1)
Summary
MadFlavor and Eddie Bravo are back with a new episode of the road dogs podcast. They talk about Eddie's trip to Boston, how they got into comedy, and what it's like being on a reality TV show with Eddie Bravo. Also, MadFlavor talks about how he learned how to flip a guy in the head with his arm, and how he thinks he's going to knock out a guy with his leg. We also talk about the time Eddie taught him how to throw a guy to the ground with his foot, and why he thinks it's a good idea to teach other people how to do the same thing with their leg. And of course, they talk about how they're going to beat the hell out of each other in the next round of the game show, "10th Planet Riverside" and how they are going to do it better than they ever have before. Also, the boys talk about why they don't want to see Eddie Bravo on the show and why they think he should be on the next season of "The Office" and why it's not going to be as good as it's been so far as they have been in the past couple of seasons. And much more! Stay tuned for next week's episode of The Road Dawgs. Stay tuned to the end of the podcast next week for a brand new episode featuring a special guest! . Thank you so much for listening to the Road Dogz Podcast. . . . and stay tuned in next week! for another road dogz! -Eddie and Madflavor -Bryan and the crew ! XOXO and the boys. -P.S. -BJ & the boys are back from their trip to the Boston Comedy Club in Boston, MA! -BENNY of the Road Dogs Podcast! -R. and BOB AND EJ & EJ -ROBBIE CHEESE AND THE LADY LOVING YOU! -TODAY! - , R.E. & KELLY, R.A. & KEVY, BABY! -SORRY, EJ, BOBY, JUICY, MABY, AND KAREN, JAMIE, DADDY, GRAVY, P. R. & JOSEPH
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Ladies, gentlemen, hermaphrodites, freaks and geeks, all my friends, lovers and children, welcome to the podcast.
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Let me adjust this camera because we can't see you right.
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And we were talking about this yesterday, but we'll talk about it again just because Eddie's here.
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It was fucking crazy when I asked on stage how many people listen to the podcast.
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It's like the ability that you have when everybody went crazy.
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And there's like, I'd say like 60% of them, 70% of them said they listened to the podcast.
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As long as you make things that people think are interesting, it's only gonna like, this is radio.
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This is just as powerful as any radio station that's ever existed.
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Without the bullshit and the drama and the bad fucking contestants and all that shit.
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Yeah, Brian is off in Ohio with his lady friend.
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You will all understand Eddie Bravo when the 10th Planet reality show comes to light.
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It's funny because I was talking to you on the phone last week and you said that you went to see a shitty movie.
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But you're one of the few people like me that take a shitty movie and make it work for us.
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We see what the bad points are and you said you watch The Expendables or whatever.
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And it's so weird how we learned that from Paul Mooney.
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When you're a comedian, you should get entertained.
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The last two weeks, I've done something that has blown me apart.
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I want to see a different form of entertainment.
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And the way that place is, the way you sit, it's like a big fucking stage.
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If I do a one-man show, I would do it there with the mats facing everything.
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And the first week, he taught this move where you're hitting a guy, and then you roll and take his leg, and the guy gives you an arm, so you have three different options.
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And then last week, when you were there, by the way, you know the fucking move, and you're hitting him, you're on his back, so you take this leg, and you double hook on this leg, and you pull over.
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Because in the beginning of the DVD, you know, because at that point, you didn't really know the system at all.
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That's the beauty of it, is you were just talking about Night of the Living Dead, and then I'd flip you with the butterfly hooks, and then...
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So last week you start on the guy's back with your two hooks in.
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And it was really weird how I went home and it fucked with me that night.
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And then I went the other night, which was a very simple hold where it was controlling the guy with the underhook, which you're really good at, he said.
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He's been in town for the last two weeks, so we've been focusing on overhook butterfly stuff to rubber guard.
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But the point being of the situation was that I was very intrigued while I was watching him.
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Well, when someone's really good at something, when someone's really good at something and really good at speaking about that something, it's always fascinating.
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But how he walks, he does it like a stand-up comic.
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He walks in a certain area, so people have to look at him.
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He doesn't know how just being him, he commands attention.
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I'm supposed to go to a UCB theater and see some fucking guy that's not funny and be entertained.
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But I obviously went to see a jiu-jitsu class and was very entertained and was very intrigued.
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It was about you, that you really locked me in.
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Well, you know, you lock me in all the time, Joel.
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You know how fucking much great shit I talk about you to everybody.
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Like originally, with the 10th Planet Kush, originally it was going to be the both of us.
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But when Joey's around, I'm like, why would I want to put the fucking camera on me?
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I wonder if dudes get upset at some of your predictions.
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No, we're just saying, listen, I picked Kenny Florian to win.
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What we're talking about actually is probably on YouTube right now.
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Okay, but anyways, what we're talking about, this review we're talking about, is actually just being released as we speak right now.
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It's 10th Planet Kush, episode 19, featuring Joe Rogan.
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And Joey fucking goes off, and I... I gotta put a warning thing before this.
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The views of Joey Karate do not reflect the views of Eddie Bravo, right?
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It was funny because I read something that Dana had mentioned that what's-his-name choked.
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How can I say that about a guy that I've never tried what he's doing?
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Like, this is to the point in my life where I'm at.
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Well, people will see exactly what you said when they watch the episode.
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So what it is, for the people who don't know what we're talking about, Joey does this breakdown of the UFCs as Joey Karate, who's a Cuban black belt.
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Even if you're not a UFC fan, it's probably the funniest fucking thing you watch on the internet.
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It's the funniest possible, most entertaining reviews of UFC previews and reviews.
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Sometimes we review a show, but there is nothing out there.
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All that shit's entertaining to a point, but I don't know how many times I fucking turned it off halfway through MMA Live.
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Because I've learned from these guys, and I know what it is to get beat up.
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So I watch these fights, and that's how I pick the things.
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I've been in like two other three lately with the two key matchups always being money.
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I don't want to see that many guys talking about fights, analyzing fights.
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To me, personally, I don't get nearly as much insight from any articles or any commentators.
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I think dudes have more opinions and better opinions and better points of view on MMA forums.
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There's guys who write on the underground that you read their shit and you're like, this guy's a fucking author.
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I mean, he might as well be writing for a magazine.
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A really well-written breakdown of the event, of a guy's performance.
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To me, just because a guy has a job with Yahoo doesn't make him more credible than McFuckstick1 on the underground.
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It doesn't need to be official on ESPN.com to me.
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Interacting with people on the underground and getting someone's opinion, you get a bit more insight as to how a fight's going to go down from that than I think than any of the websites online.
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You know, the one time I do like hearing what a fighter actually has to say about a fight, the one time when they're talking about stuff that the public, me included, really don't know about, what's really going on in that fucking cage.
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So when a guy's breaking down a fight and they see something, a chink in that guy's armor, like he folds, or maybe fighters can...
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After a while, some fighters are known as folders, right?
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And fighters see that quicker than the average person.
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Yeah, there was a time when I was doing commentary with Randy, and a dude got poked in the eye.
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And the referee went over to him and he said, Can you see?
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He goes, if he tells him he can't see, it means he doesn't want to fight.
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Like, his crazy, like, you know, competitive drive came out when he was discussing this other guy.
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But I don't want to hear, like, a bunch of analysts sitting around going, what he has to do is, Clay Guida's got to keep the fight standing.
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Boz is super crazy nice, but he's also crazy, too.
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So Boz is on the plane, and he goes up to use the restroom, and one of the ladies that's working for the plane is like, are you here for the wrestling thing?
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And she tells him that her boyfriend has hands that he had registered as a deadly weapon.
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She's telling me her boyfriend's hands are registered as a deadly weapon.
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I mean, just listen to some of the shit he said on Pride.
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He's got, like, at least 15 to 20 classic lines.
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I mean, he was one of the premier strikers in MMA during his era.
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Like, when he took out Tiyoshi Kosaka, watch that fucking fight.
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That was the first fight he had in the UFC. On the posters, it said, the world's greatest martial artist.
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Like, there wasn't very many dudes who were striking like that in the UFC. Yeah, and Kosaka's fucking tough as hell.
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His attack, man, he could kick so fucking hard.
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All these dudes were kind of doing the same kind of thing.
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And there's a lot of dudes that weren't kicking very good.
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They just were kind of like, They'd take a guy down and dive on leg locks.
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Like, you could grab a hold of a dude's feet pretty easy.
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Boss Rootin came out of nowhere blasting dudes with kicks.
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And the palm strikes, these Japanese guys, they were just slapping each other and grappling.
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How about I fucking slap you really fucking hard?
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So he came in and he was fucking iron palming dudes.
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What he was doing was Boss could pull his hand way back.
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So he was basically just punching you with this.
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He was using all his punch techniques, but he was hitting you with the meat of your hand, which really is better because it doesn't hurt your knuckles.
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In 2001, I commentated for a show called Too Hot to Handle in Holland while I was working for King of the Cage and Pride.
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They fucking hired me, so we're on the same flight, and we're all on the same flight.
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He lived in LA, and this is when he was crazy as fuck, dude.
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I'm not going to get into detail what happened.
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On the fucking plane was a crazy wild man on the plane.
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When we get to Holland, we partied all fucking...
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I have about a hundred pictures of me and Bob all fucked up in Holland.
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Well, I remember a lot of shit thanks to pictures because we took a lot of pictures.
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And then you watch the pictures and you go, oh.
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Isn't it weird how your memories become memories of the pictures?
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You actually remember that those are your memories, the picture.
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Well, memories are only relevant, you know, if you use them.
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If it's a memory that's never going to come up, it's really hard to retrieve.
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If it doesn't have any emotional, like, bearing in your life.
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Like, I have memories from my early childhood because they were like, Strong moments that meant something to me.
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But like a regular memory, just hanging out with somebody?
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Dude, as I get older, I feel like I have less room on my hard drive.
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I feel like I got an old hard drive that's filled up with shit.
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I don't remember the dumb stuff, but I do remember the important stuff.
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What do you think, out of everything you've heard about pancreas, I mean, what do you think?
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I don't know what to think, but Ken Shamrock told me, Ken Shamrock told me, came out of his mouth that all those pancreas fights were worked.
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But when it was Japanese against a foreigner...
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He was in Pank Race as their American to fight so they can mix it in with the Europeans.
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He said, I was brought in, you had to be really good.
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Yeah, because he said you had to be really, really good because if they asked you to take them to the later rounds or whatever, you had to be good enough too because sometimes the foreigners didn't know they were fixed.
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So the foreigners, you'd have to make sure you just didn't knock them out.
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They were trying to create characters and do different shit.
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I mean, if it's all about predicting the outcome, is it like pro-wrestling with fighting?
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That fucking Frank Shamrock against Alan Golas, that shit was real.
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So if you're in a fucking hold, you can grab the rope.
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He was just a real natural athlete, powerful, strong.
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And if it wasn't for the ropes, he would have fucking...
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But at the end, Frank Shamrock got him in a fucking footlock, dude.
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I don't remember exactly if it was a disqualification.
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And then at the end, he got him in an ankle lock, man.
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He stood in the middle of the octagon and bowed to everybody.
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Okay, so you think Frank Shamrock getting in that cage and just bowing to everybody's publicity stunt, that eventually he's going to come back and make it like it's a really big deal that he's coming back?
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I'm not going to say it was a publicity stunt because maybe he believes he's really retiring.
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And you have all these boxers that have made gazillions in boxing.
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Damn, if I fight again, that could fight for...
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I believe he's about 37. You know, even guys with millions come back for the money.
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And I think if he decides that he doesn't want to compete anymore, why should he compete?
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If it's not in his heart anymore and he feels like his performances reflect that, why not just step down?
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The real problem with fighters is at a certain point in time, you're...
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Self-esteem and your self-worth evolves completely around your ability to fight and beat people up.
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And when you can't do it anymore, you feel like a loser.
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A lot of guys, they don't even know who they are when they stop competing because it's such an intense experience that a giant chunk of their life is dedicated to getting really good at it, to getting good at fighting.
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Their whole life revolves around their fighting.
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And then when they're not fighting, it's like they're lost.
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Like, when I was doing comedy and I was sucking, one of the best things that happened to me is I tore my ACL. And the reason being is I couldn't train, I couldn't do anything, and I certainly couldn't fight, and I needed an operation.
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But it took competing as an option away from me.
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Okay, so now I do have to concentrate on the next phase of my life.
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Because otherwise, the thing about martial arts is this is the only thing I'd ever done that I was good at.
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My brain would be like, you don't want to do something and be terrible at it.
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Do something to be good at it, even if there's no fucking money in it and no future in it.
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You know, you can get really, really, really attached to the idea of who you are and being a fighter.
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It's very difficult for those guys to step away.
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It's all of a sudden their life is not wrapped around training camps, And preparing and improving your skills to face the next level and get to the top.
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Well, if you were just a regular dude, there's nothing sad about being a regular dude.
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But I guess if you're a fighter and you go to become just being a regular dude, for a lot of them, it's just too much to handle.
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Dude, I mean, nothing could feel better than beating someone's, like, winning the belt in the UFC, main card.
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When Chuck Liddell throws those arms back and...
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When Chuck would do that and throw his arms back, it looks like he's got, like, the whole fucking...
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Yeah, like there's a lightning bolt coming from the sky.
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When he smashed Tito, and after it was over, he was so fired up because Tito would talk so much shit.
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Chuck is like the nicest guy in the world, but if you talk shit...
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Chuck Liddell is the last person you want to talk shit to because he just wants to take it out on you.
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And when he knocked him out and he fucking threw his arms back like...
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Did I tell you the story about Chuck Liddell partying and Dana's lawyer or something grabbing some chick's ass?
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I don't know the guy's name, so it doesn't matter.
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Well, did he do something that can get him in trouble?
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What happened is we're at some club in Vegas, Excess or some shit, and it's like Dana, Lorenzo, Chuck's there.
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And right next to the next table is this straight baller.
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It was just him by himself with a bunch of chicks at his table.
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And I'm sitting there looking at all the girls going, God damn, this guy has got a lot of girls.
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And the lawyer that was sitting next to me, we're both looking over.
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And I'm going, God damn, he's got some hot ones.
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And the lawyer guy reaches over at their table and grabs the chick's ass.
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And the girl turns around and goes, who the fuck did that?
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He grabbed the girl's ass, and then the girl goes, who grabbed my ass?
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Comes over and he gets right in his fucking face and he's right there saying, did you?
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The lawyer guy tries to shake his hand and goes, like, fuck you, shake your hand.
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He goes, let's just talk this up because I'm going to fuck you up right here.
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And then while this is happening, fucking Patrick...
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He calls Chuck or Dana calls Chuck or Lorenzo, one of them.
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Chuck's just hanging out on the other side of the table.
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He looks over and they go, Chuck, handle that shit.
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And the guy starts going, trying to shake Chuck's hand.
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Yeah, and the guy was trying to shake Chuck's hand, and Chuck was like, oh!
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It seemed to me a little bit more less intense than that.
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The guy was definitely very aggro, but Chuck did get in his face.
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Oh, dude, Chuck got right in his face and shut him down.
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The guy's hands were fucking registered with the FBI. What happened to him?
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No, there's a lot of white karate guys that registered hands.
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When I was a kid growing up, if you were black and you talked about Bruce Lee, there's always that black guy that said, listen, I got a cousin who's a black belt who's got his hands registered with the emperor.
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What does it entail to actually have your hair?
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Only black guys have their hands ready for an FBI.
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Maybe 20 years ago, I think if you had a black belt in karate in some states, you had to register your hands.
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I don't think there's any place that makes you register your hands as a deadly weapon.
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But I would say I'm 90. If you're a professional boxer, boss is very sure.
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If you're a professional boxer or professional fighter and something ever goes down...
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There's a video of that guy being an aggressive douchebag.
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Yeah, well, the guy punched this chick in the face.
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It's the beginning of the video, and the guy just...
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Whoever's filming it looks like he just got lucky and caught this all on tape.
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This big, big guy, he's like 250, fucking giant muscles, walks up to this chick and just blasts her in the face and sucker punches her.
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But the dude's so big, nobody wants to do anything.
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Well, Roger Huerta gets right up to the guy and he goes, hey man, he's got his hands up like this, man, man, you just knocked out a girl.
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And the guy's like, I'll knock out any bitch I want, I'll knock your bitch ass out.
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So Roger Huerta goes, alright, I guess we're going.
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Roger Wirt takes his shirt off, and there's a lot of scrambling in the camera.
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But seconds later, maybe four, maybe five, the dude's unconscious on the ground, and Roger Wirt is beating down on him.
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He just blasts this dude out of nowhere, and they all got it on video.
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And you can't say anything because the guy hit a chick.
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It's like here's a guy using his martial arts for good unquestionably.
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I mean, he's in a place where a guy assaults a woman and hits her with a sucker punch.
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He confronts the man with his hands up in a passive way like this.
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Like, surely there's got to be a reason for this.
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That guy went through a lot of abuse when he was a kid.
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And when he sees a situation like that, it's like, you have to step in and do something.
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I mean, even if it was for a reason, what could it have been?
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What's the reason to walk up to a chick and sucker punch you?
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If she stole my fucking phone, I would fucking...
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If she stole my phone, I would sucker punch her.
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A girl has to steal your phone and you'll sucker punch her?
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What's the longest time you've been without a phone and without internet connection?
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But, goddammit, it'll come on in Thailand on a fucking island off the coast of Thailand.
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And the resort that we went to, that we stayed at near Cancun, no telephones, no internet access, no television.
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My laptop can't even connect to the fucking internet.
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I like watching a little TV. It doesn't matter where I'm staying, how beautiful it is.
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When I lie down in bed, I like to see what the fuck's going on in the world.
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So I called AT&T. Terry called up AT&T. We got everything put together.
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Well, they hooked everything up, except they shut the DSL off.
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You know when Brock Lesnar does that shit sometimes, you really gotta think about it.
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I know you're in a position where you need your cell phone.
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Yeah, but listen, man, obviously I agree with you.
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I think being separate, just having a little time to yourself is very important.
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Look, I mean, I'm a huge proponent of the isolation tank, and that's the whole theory behind the isolation tank, being alone.
00:32:05.000
Eddie's girlfriends always have the best names.
00:32:07.000
Bored again, bored again was one, psycho was another.
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Psycho, we were at the tail end of the relationship, it was falling apart, and we decided, let's try to rekindle our love and drive up the coast to Monterey.
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Getting high, driving up the fucking PCH. The view was amazing.
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I didn't realize, first time ever I drove up, I didn't realize how beautiful the coast is.
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All the way up the coast, it's like, I kept pulling over every 10 minutes.
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I kept looking, I'm like, I gotta videotape this.
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It's weird that it's so close to the edge, though, that road.
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It's like you could easily just turn, just decide, this is it, I'm gonna end it.
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Turn to the right, and you're off the side of the cliff.
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And you're trusting the other person coming the other direction.
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So we're driving up the coast, we go up to Monterey.
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I'm like, fuck, man, I'm having a good time out there.
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It was getting a little boring, but I'm like, okay.
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We were going to drive back down, and there's a place.
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It's like the wilderness next to the beach on cliffs.
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And we're going to rent bungalows for two nights.
00:34:01.000
So we watched the last two days at Monterey on the little LCD screen on my camcorder.
00:34:06.000
We're watching that and I'm thinking, there's only 90 minutes.
00:34:17.000
It was like, whoa, the first time we've ever videotaped sex.
00:34:29.000
That how important TV and internet is, especially when you're, you know, I could just go to sleep or whatever, but when you're trying to entertain your girlfriend, I said, fuck it.
00:34:38.000
I went back to, I went to the front desk and I said, I didn't know that we didn't, there was no reception up here at all.
00:34:59.000
I was like, yeah, let's get the fuck out of here.
00:35:04.000
We've heard each other's stories for the last six months.
00:35:12.000
Man, when you first meet someone, hanging out with them for 10 hours in a row and just talking is easy.
00:35:22.000
By the time I hit fucking Santa Barbara, I was like, okay.
00:35:26.000
I was thinking of the exit plan, you know what I mean?
00:35:35.000
By the time I hit Santa Barbara and Ventura, I was like planning for the future without her.
00:35:42.000
And sometimes that's enough to keep a relationship together for a long time.
00:35:48.000
If we didn't have TV, what the fuck would we do together?
00:35:52.000
Nowadays, couples, couples, like I went to my friend's house, Steve from, you know, Steve Melee from Melee, right here.
00:36:00.000
Him and his girlfriend, they got the big screen going and they're both got their laptops on.
00:36:06.000
They're both, every time I go over, they're watching some movie.
00:36:10.000
Oh, we're watching a movie again and we're on our laptop too.
00:36:13.000
And it's like, that's the fucking wave of the future right there, right?
00:36:17.000
Well, yeah, if you're in that kind of a relationship, yeah.
00:36:20.000
We're hanging out, but we got shit to do, but we're still hanging out.
00:36:24.000
I could kiss you and all that, but I got work to do.
00:36:26.000
Some chicks, though, they want to be watching the same thing.
00:36:29.000
They're like, don't want you in the room while they watch a movie.
00:36:33.000
If you ain't cuddling, why are you watching the movie?
00:36:53.000
But not at 8 when I'm watching like fucking UFC. But I'm better get my nookie cookie, then I'm good.
00:37:05.000
I like to wean myself off of shit, especially the last five or six years.
00:37:21.000
That's why I was the last guy to get a fucking cell phone.
00:37:30.000
When I call somebody and they have a cell phone and they don't answer, it pisses me off.
00:37:35.000
It's in your pocket, you miserable motherfucker.
00:37:41.000
Because I like to get people I call and say, let me look at your cell phone and smash it.
00:37:48.000
It's It's the same thing with these fucking computers.
00:37:53.000
Get off this shit for five days and see how different your fucking life is.
00:38:00.000
I had to go somewhere every 20 minutes to do a bump.
00:38:03.000
That's what I feel like when I'm on a computer.
00:38:05.000
Every time I'm home, I gotta stop what I'm doing every 30 minutes and see who emailed me or whatever.
00:38:16.000
But I actually enjoy the business when I get in the mode and I got to answer all my emails.
00:38:34.000
If right now, if I took your fucking phone and I asked you what your mother's number was, you wouldn't fucking know it.
00:38:40.000
And neither would I. We're getting too fucking comfortable, guys.
00:38:44.000
I take your phone, I smash it, you're gonna sit there scratching your nuts for two days.
00:38:57.000
But I don't even know that number no more because you gotta do one!
00:39:01.000
I had to wait for three days for you to call me.
00:39:04.000
That's why I didn't call you in Boston last week.
00:39:06.000
How many numbers do you think you can store in your brain?
00:39:10.000
Bro, in the old days, because of my cocaine and my criminal shit, I don't want numbers written on papers.
00:39:18.000
When my mother died, that's why I never talked to my sister anymore.
00:39:21.000
Because my mom had all those numbers in her head.
00:39:34.000
I went through a long time where I didn't write any of my comedy down.
00:39:44.000
What I think is happening, Joey, is much more complicated than that.
00:39:52.000
When you leave your phone at home, and I leave my phone at home, and I go out, and I realize I don't have my phone on me, I feel...
00:40:04.000
And you walk in your door, you pick up your phone, and I called you.
00:40:11.000
Think about when you walk in, you haven't had your phone on, and you open it up, and you think all this fucking knowledge is going to be in there.
00:40:21.000
I think we're moving towards an era where you don't remember phone numbers.
00:40:24.000
They're on this device that controls everything in your life, and it might even be a part of your body.
00:40:33.000
In our lifetime, the Internet has made things radically different, just in our lifetime.
00:40:36.000
We have had more change in our lifetime than hundreds and hundreds of years in the past, just in a few decades.
00:40:42.000
I think all this computer and technology and shit, it's not making us soft.
00:40:48.000
And it's going to, I think, in some way, it's going to help human beings evolve.
00:40:52.000
Well, two years from now, when the Arabs bombed the fucking tower or the satellites, and we got no phone, and you're stuck on fucking the floor trying to call me, cocksucker.
00:40:59.000
You'll say, I had a fucking Joey's number in my cell.
00:41:04.000
That's the least of my worries when the world ends.
00:41:11.000
You ain't gonna have no lines when the world ends.
00:41:15.000
You're gonna need to know how to make a bow and arrow with your shoelace.
00:41:22.000
That's why I hang out with the brothers in Vermont and shoot.
00:41:24.000
That's why we're gonna go hunting with Ricky Schroeder.
00:41:28.000
Eddie Bravo, me, and Ricky Schroeder out hunting.
00:41:34.000
If you count a rat, like I set up a mousetrap, you know what I mean?
00:41:53.000
If I was really high, I think I would be better at hand.
00:41:57.000
I wouldn't be high with a gun in the same woods as other people.
00:42:14.000
Because I used to have this joke about hunting in Maine, and I was like, I wonder what the real numbers were, like how many people actually got shot.
00:42:24.000
They'll see a deer, and they'll pull the trigger, and then after they pull the trigger, they realize it's a woman in a red jacket.
00:42:32.000
Because a seasoned hunter has to get so good at recognizing movement.
00:42:38.000
So their brain literally puts an image of a deer in front of them when they see motion.
00:42:44.000
Your brain tries to already give you the image before it even gets it.
00:42:50.000
You're looking for it so bad that your brain makes you visualize a deer.
00:42:54.000
And these guys literally say they saw a deer in the most horrible night.
00:43:04.000
Experienced hunters who just, they're just used to knowing that you have to capitalize on a quick opening.
00:43:15.000
The scariest thing about hunting is hunters that don't know what the fuck they're doing, and, you know, people accidentally shooting people.
00:43:21.000
So you got experienced hunters out there, 30%, and the other is unexperienced.
00:43:25.000
So some motherfucker's gonna get shot, is what we're saying.
00:43:28.000
Dude, the article that I was reading was about this guy who was an investigator, and he was out there, like, investigating people who were shot.
00:43:35.000
And, you know, they had this one guy that he thinks was a suspect, and the guy was an experienced hunter.
00:43:39.000
And he just, you know, was asking the guy, like, hey, you know, you see anything?
00:43:44.000
And the guy's like, no, no, didn't see anything.
00:43:46.000
All he did was just drive by the dude's house every day for a week.
00:43:50.000
Just pause in front of the house, stop, look at him, drive.
00:43:56.000
Imagine the guilt of accidentally shooting somebody while you're hunting.
00:44:02.000
So he talked to the guy, and that's what the guy said once he finally confessed.
00:44:10.000
I saw a buck with a big rack, and I pulled the trigger.
00:44:17.000
I don't want to hunt until they let us hunt for the cop suckers.
00:44:21.000
I want to hunt the fucking humans in the woods.
00:44:27.000
Yeah, but I don't want to eat something like that.
00:44:30.000
I don't want to see that fucking hole in its head.
00:44:32.000
Why would you want the animal to die in some fucking factory farm where they get their brains smashed by a piston and they're living in cow shit all day for most of their life until that happens.
00:44:44.000
I don't want it either, but I eat meat, and I love it.
00:44:55.000
I love pussy, but you don't see me shooting no bitches.
00:44:58.000
I love pussy, but you don't see me shooting a bitch in the head.
00:45:13.000
I don't want you shooting Eddie and vice versa.
00:45:15.000
I don't think that because you eat meat, I don't buy the argument that you should have to shoot an animal.
00:45:20.000
I think we've allowed ourselves to somehow or another be removed from the process of murdering, slaughtering, and butchering the animal, and we just enjoy the meat, which is kind of crazy, if you really think about it.
00:45:30.000
So I just want to, for my own personal edification, I just want to go and experience it.
00:45:36.000
Why can't we get a cow and shoot a fucker in your backyard?
00:45:40.000
My gardener got in trouble for killing a goat in his backyard.
00:45:53.000
He was like, this way you know it's not diseased.
00:46:03.000
He could be outside with a side of beef, sawing off chunks.
00:46:07.000
They would say, wow, that's a big piece of beef you got there.
00:46:09.000
But if you actually killed the cow and started sawing the beef, he would get in big trouble.
00:46:13.000
And I understand it's because you've got to get rid of the guts.
00:46:24.000
I mean, the way he was talking about it, it's like, this is silly.
00:46:31.000
When I was a kid in Miami, my uncle would get the pigs, bring them up, feed them for a couple weeks, and then fucking kill them while we were there.
00:46:38.000
I stopped eating pork for a while because I saw that movie, My Brother's Keeper.
00:46:43.000
It's a documentary about these guys that were kind of slow and one of them, I think, got accused of murder or something like that.
00:46:48.000
But anyway, in the documentary, they live on a farm, I believe in upstate New York, I forget.
00:46:53.000
And the guy went to kill one of the pigs and he pulls out the shotgun.
00:47:03.000
So when this pig sees that shotgun, he just starts fucking running and squealing and scrambling.
00:47:08.000
The guy's chasing after him, finally gets the gun to his head and blows his brains out.
00:47:11.000
But like while before it happens, that pig is in utter sheer terror.
00:47:16.000
I'm like, man, I don't think I want to experience that.
00:47:29.000
But really, the shit that you're supposed to eat, I think, is the smart shit.
00:47:38.000
Cows and pigs are just sitting there laying around.
00:47:42.000
I appreciate your argument, and I know when I eat a piece of meat that some cow's hanging upside down with a fucking thing in his neck.
00:47:50.000
But by me going hunting, which I really couldn't do anyway, it would just make my life...
00:47:58.000
I eat veal scallopini if this fucking Italian makes it to me in the East Coast.
00:48:04.000
And I eat it and I make believe I don't even know what the fuck I'm eating.
00:48:09.000
It's like eating pussy when you're coked up and drunk.
00:48:13.000
I eat meat because of my necessities and stuff.
00:48:18.000
And even though I know they're nasty and they piss all over their fucking legs, I still fucking eat chicken.
00:48:22.000
I won't go to Popeye's chicken, but I eat chicken.
00:48:27.000
Yeah, next time you get a breast from fucking Popeye's, take the skin off it and see the foot.
00:48:33.000
They cut the foot in half and see what the fuck's in there.
00:48:39.000
These opinions are purely those of Joey Diaz's.
00:48:47.000
I, for one, am a huge fan of the Popeye's chicken.
00:48:55.000
I like El Pollo Loco's new chicken jalapeno sandwich.
00:49:14.000
Talking to Mexicans, I got to give Mexicans props this week because I have encountered something I've never encountered in my life.
00:49:19.000
I moved into North Hollywood, the coolest neighborhood I've lived in in California, and we actually have a Mexican ice cream man.
00:49:26.000
You don't know what life is until you have a Mexican ice cream man.
00:49:31.000
Some days he shows up at 10, some days at 6, some days he got ice cream.
00:49:35.000
Last week he showed up at 11.15 while I was watching the UFC on a Saturday night.
00:49:45.000
You go out there, the best soft-serve ice cream I've ever had out here.
00:49:57.000
As long as you keep moving, I guess he's got a mobile store.
00:50:10.000
A fucking huge truck, like Mr. Softy in the East Coast when I was a kid.
00:50:16.000
Like, I've seen an ice cream man downtown that just goes, and he just talks in Spanish, and everybody flocks out.
00:50:41.000
You only see them in poor neighborhoods, right?
00:50:47.000
Some dude just selling you some shit on the street out of his truck.
00:51:02.000
You have to have some sort of a merchant's license.
00:51:05.000
It must be really hard because we would see more ice cream trucks in rich neighborhoods, but we really don't.
00:51:12.000
You know, you can't be going through Beverly Hills in an ice cream truck.
00:51:15.000
Because people think you're probably trying to rob them.
00:51:19.000
You know, the main thing is they know in the rich neighborhoods the kids just can't come out.
00:51:24.000
And the poor neighbors, the kids are out in the fucking streets at three and four.
00:51:28.000
They're like, the kids are like fucking stray dogs in poor neighborhoods, right?
00:51:33.000
Dude, when I was living with my grandfather in Newark, when I was living with my grandfather in Newark, they would be playing stickball in the middle of the street.
00:51:41.000
You would have to stop and whatever they'd be playing.
00:51:44.000
They'd be playing soccer in the middle of the street.
00:51:46.000
They'd be playing, like, right, there's mostly Puerto Ricans and Dominicans and stuff in Newark.
00:51:50.000
And you would literally have to stop your car and Wait in order to get through to where you wanted to go.
00:51:59.000
The car would drive by and they'd restart the game.
00:52:00.000
Every goddamn day playing football on the street.
00:52:09.000
90% of all the kids, we were like fucking the little rascals, dude, on my fucking block.
00:52:15.000
I was like 10 and 11. Once my stepdad left at 10, I was gone.
00:52:23.000
But once I was 10, we were on the fucking streets.
00:52:25.000
It was like two, three dudes at 10, my brother at 14 and 15, and then we had some 18, 19-year-olds and some 20, and we were all Mixed in, playing football, organizing shit.
00:52:35.000
We're always on the street playing basketball games, a bunch of Mexicans, and we're all into rock.
00:52:57.000
I came from an Irish-Italian neighborhood and we played fucking everything on the street.
00:53:04.000
And then when their leaves came down, that's when you played two-hand touch.
00:53:08.000
We put the bricks in the middle of the street and you pile the leaves on top of it.
00:53:16.000
When I lived in Jamaica Plain, when we first moved to Boston, we moved to a bad neighborhood.
00:53:22.000
One of those streets where you would, on the street, there was like, you know, maybe 15, 20 kids that would live on the street, and they would be hanging out in the middle of the street all night.
00:53:31.000
It was like 3 o'clock in the morning, and you'd be like watching TV. They'd be like 10 feet in front of your window screaming at each other, yelling, drinking beer, throwing shit.
00:53:43.000
When there was a blizzard, everybody was out in the street fucking riding, taking sleds, taking sled rides down the hill.
00:53:56.000
Whenever we'd get together late at night, we'd get in camo, climb lemon trees, fill backpacks with lemons, and then we'd climb in other trees, and we'd be all camouflaged in a tree, and when the cars would come by, fucking throw lemons at them, and then they would stop.
00:54:09.000
Dude would come out and we'd be hiding in the fucking trees, man.
00:54:16.000
But we would practice jumping fences and escape routes.
00:54:19.000
We knew everybody's backyard and everyone's fence.
00:54:30.000
You know, I had this conversation with Brian Callen yesterday.
00:54:32.000
I'm going to have it again with you guys, too, because...
00:54:34.000
We're all the same in the three of us that we were kind of like left to our own devices.
00:54:41.000
I think every interesting person that I know, almost all of them were not raised by their parents.
00:54:49.000
They all figured out their way through the world.
00:54:51.000
They may have a good relationship with their mother, but they don't really see her that often.
00:55:03.000
If you had a really cool dad who was a Christian, who was a real Republican but super nice guy, you could have thought like that.
00:55:14.000
If your dad raised you like that and brought you along like that?
00:55:22.000
Your brain gets programmed by the people that are around you, especially your influences and your teachers.
00:55:26.000
And your father, of course, is going to be the biggest teacher in your life.
00:55:29.000
If your father was a really nice guy and a sweet guy and a fun guy and a loving father and a Christian and really gung-ho, rah-rah Republican, the United States would never do a bad thing to us, you could be sucked into that way of thinking.
00:55:46.000
You don't think so because you're you, and you grew up wild.
00:55:50.000
You grew up, your parents died young, you were really on your own in a lot of ways.
00:55:54.000
I mean, you were taken in by people's generosity, like your friends and families.
00:55:59.000
Yeah, but I had a mom until 14, and it's weird because...
00:56:07.000
Here she was, had a bookmaking bank, was involved in heroin.
00:56:11.000
Right, but I'm saying it's very difficult to look at the world like this is how you developed.
00:56:15.000
It's very difficult to step back and say, okay, how much of who I am is my environment?
00:56:22.000
I'll tell you what, when I was a kid, I didn't buy into the Boy Scouts.
00:56:35.000
But up to the age of 10, I wanted to be a white kid, an American kid.
00:56:46.000
No, I'm not about being Cuban, but my big thing was to be an American.
00:56:53.000
There's white kids who want to be black, black kids who want to be white.
00:56:55.000
When I came to this country, my mom stressed that we came here for you to be an American.
00:57:00.000
One time on a bus, some kids were talking in Spanish, and they wanted to beat the teacher up because the guy threw them off the fucking bus and made them walk home.
00:57:09.000
My mom's like, I don't know what you're upset about.
00:57:13.000
My mom raised me to be an American, and I seen some of the shit I bought into it.
00:57:18.000
I'm hearing a song in the background right now.
00:57:35.000
But I don't want to vote because what were my choices last year?
00:57:44.000
So part of me is in, the other part of me isn't.
00:57:58.000
I was going to school at night, and I was snorting coke with three hands.
00:58:02.000
And I fucking got involved with some kid, and he was going to rob his roommate, and ended up robbing them, both of them.
00:58:09.000
And then the guy that I had as a partner was going to rob me.
00:58:12.000
What a tangled web we weave when we tangled to deceive.
00:58:15.000
And it just so happens that the guy got caught.
00:58:18.000
Like, I told him the guy I didn't want nothing to do with it, even though I had the coke with me.
00:58:21.000
I sent the coke to Aspen, but the other guy, the guy that tried to rob me, he ended up getting pulled over with the guy we kidnapped in the trunk of his car, all fucking bandled up and shit.
00:58:30.000
So I got arrested for the kidnap, kidnapping too and everything, but you know what?
00:58:38.000
Listen, bro, 10 to 7, I got a ticket this morning for $200.
00:58:46.000
I was going to Tai Chi at 7, so I had to drive there.
00:58:49.000
So my wife said, if you ever go to Tai Chi at 7, you might as well drop me off at the train station.
00:58:53.000
I usually walk her every morning to the train station.
00:58:57.000
I couldn't pull over, so I pulled by where she crosses the street.
00:59:01.000
When I made the right, when I made the left, there was a cop on me.
00:59:07.000
I have to give you a $200 ticket for parking instead.
00:59:11.000
And I took the ticket and I was not angry at him.
00:59:19.000
A lot of people got pissed off at this guy for pulling me over.
00:59:24.000
You know, when I kidnapped that guy, I kidnapped him.
00:59:29.000
They should have thrown me in there for ten fucking years.
00:59:39.000
You don't know what your life, how precious it is.
00:59:48.000
Listen, when you do time, bro, and you do time, guys like you, it's just another day in paradise.
00:59:53.000
They're going to take us to a place where we get the bullshit about jiu-jitsu instead of two hours a day, eight hours a day.
01:00:08.000
I smoked the weed Castro smoked before he went to the mountains to take over.
01:00:12.000
Now, what was a typical day in prison like for you?
01:00:21.000
Bro, you gotta remember, I went to prison for four years.
01:00:32.000
Dog, they used to have movie night on Thursday night.
01:00:34.000
So the projector would always fuck up like Ustream.
01:00:40.000
So on Thursdays, the people just jokingly, I would always go, what the fuck is wrong with the projector?
01:00:45.000
And everybody would say, Cuba, get up there and talk.
01:01:06.000
I fucking, the first day in prison, they made me a baker.
01:01:17.000
And I made these cinnamon rolls, dog, that almost blew up the kitchen, right?
01:01:24.000
And they made me a fucking dishwasher and a stockroom clerk, right?
01:01:31.000
And whenever they had shitty meals, the guys I knew when they were going through the line, I would yell, Don't do it!
01:01:44.000
But it didn't matter because at lunchtime I was allowed to go to the store for 15 minutes.
01:01:48.000
I worked it out where I had to drive to take garbage out so I would go to the store for 15 minutes.
01:01:52.000
Not only that, I would call in my owner at the Chinese restaurant so it would be ready by the time I got there.
01:01:57.000
So I would go back to the prison with Chinese food and groceries.
01:02:04.000
Plus, they were doing steroids and selling drugs.
01:02:09.000
So I was in the stockroom clerk, so they had to pay me rent.
01:02:15.000
I would say to you, yeah, I'll hold your roids, but you've got to give me three dollars.
01:02:28.000
They just belonged to other people, but you put them under pallets.
01:02:31.000
So I would give them a key whenever they needed to go take shit out of it.
01:02:42.000
Can you imagine shooting a steroid in your body?
01:02:51.000
What you do is you take your fucking kid and you fill his pockets with the yum yum.
01:02:55.000
And while you're making out with your husband, you say, you want to see the kid?
01:02:58.000
You pass the kid to the husband and he takes the drugs out.
01:03:08.000
Bro, there's more drugs on the inside than the ones on the outside.
01:03:16.000
When you have a contact visit, there's parties every night.
01:03:27.000
So the Mexicans took a Mexican thing of heroin, melted it.
01:03:30.000
I had to put like a funnel in my nose made out of paper and they dripped it in my nose.
01:03:34.000
And I got up and I had like candle wick burning out of my nose.
01:03:43.000
And then the white dudes, the bikers would give me speed.
01:03:45.000
And they would play basketball all fucking night on speed.
01:03:48.000
The I'd be out there with them huffing and puffing.
01:04:10.000
Minimal security prison where everyone's partying and it's just the greatest time ever.
01:04:21.000
Then I went to the halfway house, which was even better.
01:04:26.000
When I go to the halfway house, it was even better because I started loaning money out to the Invix.
01:04:33.000
But if your rent's not paid on Thursday, you're not allowed for the weekend.
01:04:35.000
So the rent would be $65, so I'd give them $65 for $92.
01:04:40.000
Like, I'm going to give you $65, but you've got to give me $92 tomorrow.
01:04:47.000
The biggest scam I had at the camp, the biggest scam I had was there was an old Italian dude from Brooklyn.
01:04:53.000
He was like a half a mobster and he had pool cards.
01:04:59.000
And I went up to him and I go, bro, you have a problem with these cards.
01:05:10.000
He went from selling one card every Monday to doing 10 with me.
01:05:13.000
Because I had the brothers, I had the youngs, I had the Puerto Ricans, I had the whites, I had everybody.
01:05:19.000
That's why I really learned that I could really fucking do this.
01:05:22.000
So on Thursday nights, they would say, Cuba, fuck the movie.
01:05:42.000
And he told me that he was in there for eight years for involuntary manslaughter.
01:05:49.000
And he would tell me about, like one day some guy nailed him $2.
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And I go, no, I think he's packing and leaving.
01:06:01.000
He's like, motherfucker, you better give him my $2.
01:06:13.000
Beat a black guy in L.A., downtown L.A., because I was in a federal place.
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He beat him with his fucking hands and got eight years.
01:06:29.000
He was one of those brothers and shit that his eyes would go crazy.
01:06:32.000
Why do you think the gold tooth thing really caught on the black community?
01:06:36.000
It's like a pubic hair in your mouth, you know what I'm saying?
01:06:43.000
Yeah, because people look directly at your face, so you want to catch your attention, that's why you got the necklace, that's why you got the watch, but nothing beats the fucking tooth.
01:06:52.000
Next, you know, that's why they bling the glasses out too, and it's like...
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Yeah, but that never caught on with the white community.
01:07:03.000
You know, white people can't join you on this one.
01:07:08.000
In real life, mayhem ain't walking around with a grill on.
01:07:12.000
He does it like part of it is to be silly to be mayhem.
01:07:15.000
But it's not like he wants to be wearing an iced-out grill like fucking Lil Wayne or something.
01:07:23.000
If that is the case, if Mayhem does, that's one.
01:07:26.000
Out of like, you know, how many wiggers are there out there?
01:07:38.000
One thing about white guys that wish they were black, they have all one thing in common.
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No, I'm happy to be myself, you know what I'm saying?
01:08:09.000
You can't talk like that if you get red pubic hair, son.
01:08:13.000
White guys who want to be black, they have to try extra hard.
01:08:16.000
That's crazy, though, but to continue with Eddie, what I was telling you was that I went in there every Thursday, I get on stage, and then one day, this is fucked up, Joe Rogan, this is why I really dig you, because one day the guy in the library was like a nerdy dude.
01:08:36.000
He was intelligent, but he had some problem or something.
01:08:40.000
And the funny thing was that one day he came up to me in the jail.
01:08:47.000
He came up to me and he goes, hey, bro, I got your notebook.
01:08:52.000
He goes, so when you get out, you can write some jokes.
01:08:57.000
And I looked at him, and I go, I don't even write.
01:09:01.000
He goes, you don't write, and you go up there every week and do that?
01:09:05.000
He goes, when you get out of here, it was like an angel.
01:09:10.000
He just goes, what I watch you do, you really need to write and get it together.
01:09:22.000
Came up to me when they go, hey, I got your notebook.
01:09:27.000
That was like a really nerdy guy that would always roll his own cigarette.
01:09:33.000
Do you think that if you didn't go to prison, if you didn't have that experience of talking in front of those people, that you probably never would have done stand-up or would stand up something that was in the back of your head anyway?
01:09:50.000
Because you had to be funny before prison, right?
01:09:52.000
Anybody who heard The Niggas Crazy by Richard Pryor, you had to think of it.
01:09:58.000
But before prison, you were always in the life of the party.
01:10:06.000
And then the thing that really got me was when you go to prison, they do a diagnostic on you.
01:10:12.000
That's the only thing that irks me about my life.
01:10:14.000
A lot of times, people say, oh, I slept with this guy.
01:10:17.000
With me, I always wanted to know it was on that paperwork because it was an intense psychological evaluation.
01:10:23.000
It just wasn't a guy with a piece of paper saying, what do you think when you see a star?
01:10:27.000
They put shit in my head, electrodes, and all this shit.
01:10:30.000
It was three days of mental testing, and it was eating me alive.
01:10:40.000
He goes, I hate all you bug fuckers, spics and niggas.
01:10:46.000
And he said to me, he goes, I go, bro, his name is Mr. Blue.
01:10:49.000
I go, when are you going to fucking tell me what's on there?
01:10:51.000
And one day he's like, you really want me to tell you what's on here, bug fucker?
01:10:55.000
That's what he would call me to my face, bug fucker.
01:10:57.000
He goes, I'll tell you what's on here, Mr. Bug fucker.
01:10:59.000
It said that if you really wanted something and I had it, that you would take it from me.
01:11:04.000
He goes, now you do what the fuck you want with that.
01:11:10.000
But what he was trying to tell me was that anything I wanted in my life, that's what it said.
01:11:25.000
And a week later he came up to me and he goes, hey, did you understand where I was going with that?
01:11:40.000
Do you consider the ones in prison your first stand-up gigs?
01:11:43.000
I'm talking about first official at a club, like your first time you went up.
01:11:46.000
But I'm thinking that if you did it, how many times did you do it in prison?
01:12:03.000
Can you imagine repeating a joke in front of those yams and shitting all those crazy, roped out Mexicans?
01:12:08.000
That's the first time I really knew about the whole heritage.
01:12:10.000
They would sneak in fucking green chili burritos.
01:12:17.000
Mexicans always have wild-ass fucking prison tattoos.
01:12:20.000
I was in jail with three generations of Mexicans at one time.
01:12:22.000
I was in jail with the grandfather, the Aiellas, the father, and the son.
01:12:28.000
Once you start seeing that thing, you're like, wow!
01:12:34.000
And I always wanted to shoot somebody and be a criminal.
01:12:38.000
I always thought about that my life deserved more than to spend it in here.
01:12:44.000
If people come up to me and go, how bad was prison?
01:12:46.000
Prison is how bad you make it for me, for fucking me.
01:12:55.000
By the way, did you see the show about that dude that robbed millions?
01:13:03.000
If you get a chance, watch that on fucking MSNBC. What is this show on?
01:13:12.000
He went right in there and teamed up with the fucking mob.
01:13:15.000
And he don't give a fuck, that guy, about people.
01:13:19.000
Did people have to tell you that you were funny, that you should go on stage?
01:13:27.000
I would consider the first time he was on stage...
01:13:33.000
Because my first time on stage was an open mic night, but before I went to the open mic night, it was the locker room.
01:13:40.000
I like your first night officially as a comedian is an interesting one.
01:13:48.000
The truth of the matter is, now that you get down with it, about a month ago, I got a call from a friend of mine and we were talking that I hadn't talked to.
01:13:56.000
I hooked up with him on Facebook and he said something to me.
01:14:02.000
And I asked him, I go, what are you talking about?
01:14:04.000
He goes, do you remember after freshman basketball, you would get on the bus and fucking go off every night?
01:14:10.000
He goes, it got to the point where the bus drivers wouldn't pick you up anymore.
01:14:13.000
Because we used to go on and do the theme from The Odd Couple.
01:14:16.000
And then I would go into a fucking 20 minute skit all the way until we got to the thing.
01:14:23.000
After he told me that, I called a bunch of people from those days, and I go, bro, what did we used to do on the bus?
01:14:30.000
We used to take all the fucking buses, the number one bus, 90th Street to 38th Street.
01:14:34.000
We ran it, and you were the fucking host, an emcee.
01:14:38.000
And I started thinking, I'm like, that's right.
01:14:40.000
So if I really go to that, that was freshman year basketball.
01:14:48.000
And I remember that, like being out there for two different bus drivers, and they would pick you up because you guys are too fucking loud.
01:14:56.000
But then in school, you know, no one ever considers that maybe this guy should be a stand-up comedian.
01:15:06.000
The lack of discipline is really what makes someone a comic, though.
01:15:09.000
I wasn't a stand-up at all, like in that sense, like growing up, but I was always, every year, I was always, depending on the teacher I had, because junior high and high school you have like seven teachers, I was always the dude to start shit, play pranks, and always.
01:15:25.000
Unless the teacher was Mr. Enders, you never did shit, you just fucking, he was a bad motherfucker.
01:15:35.000
Mr. Enders, 10th grade, I think, geology, I don't remember.
01:15:43.000
There's no way to tell, you know, the funny thing about someone becoming a comic is there's no one who could have pulled you aside and said what you really need to do is become a comic.
01:15:51.000
It's like you almost have to experience all this resistance to your personality, to regular life.
01:15:58.000
It's like if someone can't just come up to you and go, this is what you really need to do.
01:16:02.000
You need to go through all the bullshit in life to experience that before someone comes along and tells you.
01:16:18.000
I was 21. It would have been better if I was 30. Because when I was 21, I didn't have shit to say.
01:16:25.000
Can a 15-year-old stand-up comedian, because there's a lot of guys...
01:16:32.000
My problem was, when I was 21, my whole life, from 15 to 21...
01:16:37.000
It was all just taekwondo tournaments and kickboxing.
01:16:45.000
I didn't want to be a loser, and I wanted to be really good at taekwondo, and I wanted to win the nationals, and I wanted to compete in the Olympics.
01:16:54.000
I had no clue as to what was going on in the world.
01:17:01.000
So when I started going into comedy, I literally had no opinions.
01:17:04.000
I know how to kick somebody in the head, and I know I like pussy.
01:17:11.000
My jokes were sex jokes for like the first year and a half.
01:17:15.000
When I'm 21 years old, what the fuck kind of opinion did I have that was interesting on anything?
01:17:19.000
If I told you anything about anything other than sex or kicking somebody in the head, you would already know what I was going to say way in advance.
01:17:30.000
I hear that a lot, that people are too young to sing, maybe they don't have a lot of life experiences.
01:17:33.000
Well, when you're 30, the kind of comedy you do, where you look at you, look at you, you stupid fuck, you know, you do that kind of comedy, where you point some shit out.
01:17:41.000
Well, you can't point some shit out at 21. You're not seeing it.
01:17:44.000
They're not going to listen to you unless you're some super genius, and even then it's probably not going to be funny.
01:18:02.000
I went to school, and then I was sick and tired of people telling me, try it.
01:18:06.000
And I was getting breakfast one morning, I opened up a paper, and there was a be a stand-up comedian class for $33, and I took it.
01:18:16.000
I wasn't funny until I started doing Taekwondo and we would fight and compete in tournaments and everybody would be nervous.
01:18:22.000
You'd be nervous even in the locker room when you're about to go work out.
01:18:24.000
Because somebody might just get kicked in the face and knocked out.
01:18:28.000
Guys got knocked out in class all the time they get kicked in the face.
01:18:33.000
And so I was always cracking jokes to break the tension.
01:18:36.000
I was always the guy who was doing impressions of other people on the team.
01:18:42.000
Because other than that, I didn't think I was funny.
01:18:46.000
God damn, I just thought the idea of it was so crazy.
01:18:49.000
The first time I saw Richard Pryor live on the Sunset Strip, I couldn't fucking believe this guy was just talking.
01:18:56.000
It was one of the most profound moments of my young life.
01:18:59.000
I was in the audience, and I was just looking around.
01:19:01.000
And people were falling out of their chairs laughing.
01:19:06.000
I remember my stomach was hurting because I was laughing so hard.
01:19:11.000
He's just talking, and what he's saying is way funnier than any movie I've ever seen.
01:19:15.000
I was thinking of Stripes at the time, because Stripes was this amazing movie.
01:19:19.000
You know, Bill Murray, the funniest guy ever, and Chevy Chase, and they're together in this movie, and it's incredible.
01:19:23.000
This was way funnier, and this is just a guy talking.
01:19:29.000
I was like, I think, 13, 12 or 13 when that came out.
01:19:32.000
And me and my brother watched it at his girlfriend's house who lived with her mom.
01:19:36.000
And we were watching it with my brother's girlfriend.
01:19:38.000
We were fucking dying because they're the only ones that had like, I think it was a VCR or something.
01:19:44.000
Then the mom came home and we stopped laughing.
01:19:50.000
We're like, oh shit, we're going to get busted.
01:19:54.000
She stood there, heard fucking Eddie Murphy go off, and she didn't say shit.
01:20:19.000
When I was a kid, man, that was the best shit ever.
01:20:27.000
You ever want to listen to some old Bob Hope shit?
01:20:29.000
It'll make you want to jump out a fucking window.
01:20:43.000
He goes, homosexuals, they want to make homosexuals illegal.
01:20:47.000
They take a guy who's gay and they put him in prison with a bunch of guys who want to have sex with him.
01:20:54.000
He knocked that shit out of the park in like 1950. That's funny.
01:21:05.000
Towards the end, he would just go on stage with his legal papers and read from his legal documents.
01:21:18.000
He goes, Catholics, man, I don't think they get it.
01:21:21.000
You know, it's like, you know, Jesus comes back, you think he wants to see a cross?
01:21:25.000
It's like a guy walking around with an electric chair on his neck.
01:21:37.000
When I seen, when I heard Bicentennial Nigger and his son, I said Richard Pryor.
01:21:50.000
The best one from whatever is, hey man, say nigga, you with the cape.
01:22:04.000
You ain't the smartest motherfucker in the world, you know, but you ain't the ugliest.
01:22:46.000
I told him, don't you go down there messing with them Jews without no money.
01:22:56.000
He was great, but Bison told me when he goes to the baptism and a face like a lion and a body like a serpent.
01:23:03.000
I don't know about you, but I don't want to see no motherfucker that looks like that.
01:23:08.000
Man, when I was a kid, when I was in high school, me and my girlfriend, Bethany, we used to come home from high school and I had a cassette player and we'd listen to Richard Pryor cassettes and just giggle because we knew we shouldn't be listening to this.
01:23:22.000
Dude, there was this guy that I work with at UPS. We work next to each other on an assembly line where we're sorting boxes.
01:23:44.000
If you had kept that job today, they would have paid job for $2 million.
01:23:50.000
Can you imagine he had the same job since high school?
01:23:53.000
He would have to go on 11-15 and work till 3. In high school!
01:23:59.000
When UPS went public, they paid that motherfucker $3 million.
01:24:03.000
When they went public, because he had 30 years of stocks.
01:24:11.000
That motherfucker got so much money, he stopped talking to his brother and everything.
01:24:17.000
He's like, bro, why would your brother have business investment opportunities?
01:24:20.000
People always have business investment opportunities.
01:24:23.000
No, there was this guy, this black guy that I worked next to.
01:24:30.000
He was pissed off that his conveyor belt was busier than mine, and I was the new guy.
01:24:37.000
But anyways, he would always have a ghetto box, and he fucking played Andrew.
01:24:47.000
He was always angry that he got the Busy Belt boxes were coming.
01:24:56.000
But anyways, he would always play Andrew Dice Clay in a ghetto box.
01:25:00.000
At that point, it was like 1990, Andrew Dice Clay had a few CDs at that point.
01:25:07.000
He would put a different one, The Day the Laughter Died.
01:25:16.000
By the way, I gotta tell Joe while we're on this subject because it's very interesting.
01:25:19.000
I used to always tell you about UPS. People used to always tell me how they used to ship ship on UPS and I'd take them aside and go, don't ship nothing on UPS. Because my buddies ran the Paramus one.
01:25:30.000
And in all UPSs, they have a little gate where they have Rolexes and diamonds because they ship all the world's diamonds on UPS. A lot of people don't know that.
01:25:39.000
So when that bell goes off, that means the security gate opens and they would have these conveyor belts.
01:25:45.000
Well, my gangster buddies would take shit and throw it under the conveyor belt and it would get stuck and rip open.
01:25:55.000
My buddy used to show up with Rolex Presidentials, bitches, and they were selling for $10K cash, selling three a week, making $8.50 an hour at UPS, selling three Presidentials.
01:26:05.000
How did they not know there were so many getting stolen?
01:26:10.000
This is a long time before surveillance cameras.
01:26:13.000
The cameras would rip open because the boxes would rip open.
01:26:17.000
They just wouldn't take the box and throw it on the floor.
01:26:20.000
They would take the box and throw it in the conveyor belt so the belt would break it.
01:26:29.000
The watch was in their fucking pocket with the warranty and everything.
01:26:33.000
So a $20,000 watch, they would sell three a week, these kids.
01:26:37.000
Each of them were yanking 90 grand a week out of that.
01:26:40.000
Plus diamonds, plus anything else that came out of fucking UPS. The good old days.
01:26:49.000
The position I had, I thought it was a promotion.
01:26:53.000
Up in UPS. The way you get into UPS is hard, because I was working as a temp at the United States Post Office, and that shit was only six months, a year, something like that, and it was coming to end, so I had to get another job, so I had people that worked at UPS, they go, dude, try UPS. It's going to be really hard to get in, though.
01:27:10.000
They hire three out of 30 people that they come in.
01:27:12.000
They bring 30 people, and they hire three, and I'm like, dude, they're looking for warriors, dude.
01:27:19.000
2.30 to 7.30, and they work you four hours, like a Fucking dog.
01:27:23.000
But they paid you eight bucks an hour, and minimum wage back then was $3.35, so it was like, I want that fucking money.
01:27:28.000
So I went in there and just bullshitted my way through it.
01:27:31.000
I went to the fucking interview, and they go, why do you think you're good for this job?
01:27:36.000
I love working in the middle at Graveyard Shift.
01:27:41.000
I just want to have so much energy at that time.
01:27:44.000
I don't want to work retail and deal with people.
01:27:47.000
So basically what you did was like what you would do to a chick.
01:27:50.000
You would try to pretend that you're something you're not?
01:27:53.000
Dude, they called the three finalists and one of them was me.
01:28:09.000
And then they give us on a tour of UPS. Tremendous warehouse.
01:28:14.000
So did you say, I really think my career is here.
01:28:18.000
I can see me retiring with UPS. So at first, when you first come in, this is 1.30.
01:28:26.000
The first job is you get in the semi, the two worst motherfuckers, there's all these semis and go, you're part of the semi crew.
01:28:31.000
You're just putting fucking boxes on conveyor belts and then the conveyor comes out and then the first guy sorts it by zip code and he has a bunch of belts behind him and he's going for it.
01:28:42.000
Working hard, going, I gotta get out of this fucking truck.
01:29:06.000
I was like, I'm like, I'm like always looking around.
01:29:09.000
I'm like, oh, this motherfucker's gonna tie me.
01:29:17.000
And after we would have our meeting, it was a great day.
01:29:36.000
Like the dude who sorts for the actual trucks that are going out.
01:29:41.000
The promotion goes to Edgar Bravo for his fantastic work and his fantastic times.
01:29:50.000
How did they not know you were horse shitting them?
01:29:55.000
They don't get mis-sorted because there's conveyor belts that go for fucking like hundreds of yards and they're going through all this shit.
01:30:02.000
By the time, down the road in the conveyor belt they see a mis-sort.
01:30:06.000
Goes to the mis-sort I own and it comes all the way back.
01:30:13.000
Well, anyways, I thought I got a promotion, got a 50 cent raise and I'm sitting there Back-to-back like me or you're sorting for people behind you and I'm sorting for people behind me and it's me and Phil Collins and we're going I'm the the the reason the guy quit I didn't know he couldn't handle working with Phil Collins because Phil Collins is like just this mean fucking black guy that would fuck really cool before work started with everyone to what about the Jets oh my god God, did you see fucking Boomer Esiason?
01:30:40.000
Everybody was really fucking cool at 2 o'clock in the morning.
01:30:42.000
But once it starts, you start fucking getting pissed.
01:30:45.000
And he would get pissed that I was getting help because I was new.
01:30:50.000
The guys were always helping me, the managers, but they weren't helping him.
01:30:56.000
They were begging me to come back because to get a guy to get...
01:31:00.000
It takes like two months to fucking have that shit wired.
01:31:03.000
And until you get it wired, the fucking guy's got to help you.
01:31:09.000
We just put in a fucking nine months in with you.
01:31:37.000
B-H-I-L-C-O-O-C-O-L-L-E-N. I don't remember, man.
01:31:42.000
There was a drummer and then there was a guitar player from...
01:31:55.000
I told you on the way up here, Doug, I was listening to Leonard Skinner, who I never even seen coming out of the woodwork, but I heard...
01:32:25.000
I was going to go to Sal's and I don't know what happened then.
01:32:27.000
Sal's Comedy Hall is temporarily closed down because he's got no liquor license.
01:33:07.000
Yeah, you've been selling that place out, right?
01:33:19.000
Do you have a schedule when you're going to be there?
01:33:22.000
If you go on the Breyer schedule, it has me on there.
01:33:29.000
No, I have the Beauty and the Beast website updated.
01:33:36.000
I've got a lot of people that would like to know where you're going to perform.
01:33:40.000
We need to get you a real website with a real schedule.
01:33:45.000
And if you don't know Joey's Twitter, it's on the Ustream page.
01:33:50.000
M-A-D-F-L-A-V-O-R. I don't know nothing about that.
01:33:55.000
Listen, I'm glad that you're finally at least connected to the internet and really into this.
01:34:16.000
My Facebook has more family people on it that I grew up with.
01:34:29.000
MySpace, I go all out, but there's nobody left.
01:34:31.000
It's like me and a couple people, but I write my blog.
01:34:37.000
Sometimes if I get a lot of hits real quick, I put it on Twitter or something.
01:34:40.000
It's kind of weird how MySpace just fucking fell apart.
01:34:53.000
My MySpace, I don't even bother advertising for seminars.
01:34:57.000
Yeah, I don't advertise my shows anymore on MySpace.
01:35:05.000
But I don't fuck with the jujitsu part of it at all.
01:35:07.000
Facebook's just so much smarter with their updates and shit.
01:35:09.000
You can go to your timeline and see all this different shit that's happening.
01:35:17.000
Just get all busybody and start fucking looking through it.
01:35:20.000
By the way, September 19th, I'm in Rochester at 10th Planet, Rochester with Chris Herzog.
01:35:32.000
September 19th is the Viper Room on the Sunset Grill.
01:35:39.000
For some reason, I believe that the 18th is Saturday.
01:35:47.000
If you want to get on the guest list, twisterbravo at sbcglobal.net.
01:35:53.000
I'll put you on the guest list if you're in LA. September 19th, Sunday, 9 p.m.
01:36:11.000
And the Monday is a holiday, so come on, bitch.
01:36:14.000
There's a grand opening of a UFC gym on the 18th.
01:36:31.000
All the shit that I put up on my website is all free.
01:36:34.000
It's stuff that I charged for before, up until October 1st.
01:36:44.000
So, uh, your chick got fucking picked up for cocaine this weekend out of Vegas, that dummy.
01:36:56.000
It's a running joke that Joey Diaz will just hop into a fucking car in the middle of a police parade.
01:37:10.000
And I'm always thinking we're going to get pulled over and we're going to get, you know, this is not good.
01:37:26.000
She was smoking, the windows were open, and the fucking smoke got out, and there was a bike cop or something.
01:37:32.000
Yeah, and he drove right by him, and he's smelling weed.
01:37:35.000
So he pulls him over and finds coke in her car.
01:37:37.000
Well, this bitch asks to go to the bathroom, goes to the bathroom, forgets to...
01:37:40.000
You know, when you get pulled over, the first thing you do is you take that illegal substance and put it in your fucking snatch.
01:37:59.000
If it was you or I, we would be in there right now.
01:38:04.000
Speaking of Dr. Phil, I've read some stuff in the tabloids that he's having trouble with his wife.
01:38:16.000
Dr. Phil is worth like hundreds of millions of dollars and I bet your bitches bomb on me.
01:38:21.000
What I'm saying is I don't give a fuck what anybody does in their own life with their marriage.
01:38:29.000
That motherfucker, Dr. Phil, I'm going to enjoy watching his life fall apart.
01:38:52.000
It's going to be funny to catch him busted with hookers and shit like that.
01:38:57.000
It's going to be interesting what does happen to him.
01:39:00.000
He's going to have to be very careful about his image if he does get divorced.
01:39:03.000
It could be total horseshit and he could be getting along with his wife great.
01:39:06.000
But if he gets divorced and he's out there wilding, he's out there dating, because there's going to be bitches that want to set him up, try to get on TMZ. How about the Dr. Phil sketch that was on the Man Show?
01:39:19.000
It was a reality when a guy that was posing as Dr. Phil had a fake book signing and people showed up and thought it was him.
01:39:46.000
And then he was making moves on this one chick, and from under the table, a girl came out like he had been getting a blowjob and just walked away.
01:39:52.000
And he just kept talking to her, go, you want a party?
01:39:58.000
It was so funny, that sketch, it was so much material, it was the only comedy, it was the only man show sketch that had two parts.
01:40:12.000
If Stan Hope and I had a real show where we could have really done what we wanted to do, it could have been very interesting.
01:40:17.000
There was two problems with doing that man show.
01:40:18.000
One was that I was doing Fear Factor at the same time.
01:40:23.000
In the middle of all that man show shit, I'm training for Abu Dhabi.
01:40:27.000
I'm looking for the man show, depressed, out of my mind.
01:40:34.000
I'm like, this fucking is not what I thought it was going to be for.
01:40:37.000
Well, when it started out, what it was supposed to be, was supposed to be we would be able to do whatever we wanted.
01:40:43.000
Explain the beginning how they offered you the show while you were still on Fear Factor.
01:40:46.000
I was doing Fear Factor and they were saying, we want you to take over the man show.
01:40:51.000
And they said, well, we have a short list of peoples or anybody you would want to do it with.
01:40:54.000
And I'm like, there's only one guy, Doug Stanhope.
01:40:58.000
I go, this is the only guy that's like that, like fits right in there with me, like my sensitivity, my sensibility rather.
01:41:04.000
And so they said, well, you guys would be perfect, you could do it.
01:41:08.000
They're like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
01:41:12.000
He said, if we got sued, okay, it would be great publicity.
01:41:21.000
Essentially, you could do anything that you would talk about.
01:41:23.000
And real quick, we already had like 10, 15 ideas for sketches, even before that, so this was like a perfect thing.
01:41:29.000
I remember you called me and go, dude, the fuck Comedy Central wants me to take over the man show.
01:41:39.000
And they came up to me and they basically just gave us a story about what they were going to be able to do for us.
01:41:47.000
Well, once we got in there, it was a completely different story.
01:41:50.000
They had really restricted ideas about what the subject matter should be.
01:41:54.000
The guy who was the executive producer wound up kind of hijacking the show and taking all the things in his direction.
01:42:08.000
I remember you going out to dinner because before you signed, you were like, let me pick the head writer.
01:42:21.000
Yes, you wanted to bring in Chris McGuire and Matty Kirsch and me.
01:42:26.000
And they said, no, no, whatever you want to do, man.
01:42:32.000
And you called me and go, dude, they're giving me total fucking power.
01:42:35.000
You go, well, I want to be able to hire the head writer.
01:42:37.000
You went out, met with some guys, and you met with Giannis.
01:42:42.000
I know what you're saying, but I don't want to throw Tom Giannis under the bus.
01:42:46.000
He just did what he thought was the right show.
01:42:49.000
Well, I wasn't there, and the network had real serious ideas about what they wanted.
01:42:52.000
And, you know, they were the ones running the show and coming up with the money, and they had some real serious ideas about what they thought was funny.
01:42:58.000
And one of them was they didn't want Joey on the show.
01:43:00.000
And I wanted Joey to come out at the beginning of the show naked and introduce everybody.
01:43:04.000
He would come out with a microphone, a handheld microphone.
01:43:09.000
It was probably one of the funniest things we ever did.
01:43:14.000
This fucking chick, who I like, a very nice person.
01:43:33.000
We'll do one without it and we'll do one with it.
01:43:36.000
You go out there, the fucking place goes apeshit.
01:43:44.000
And so then I go to her and I'm like, you know, I raise my hands up.
01:43:51.000
I'm capable of reproducing what I think is funny.
01:43:56.000
You might not think it's funny as I'm describing it to you.
01:44:00.000
And if it's funny to me, it's gonna be funny to other people.
01:44:02.000
It just has to be people who think the way I think.
01:44:04.000
But these are the executives that went to college for four years.
01:44:08.000
Well, it was also the reason why it turned out.
01:44:11.000
It was the reason why Adam Carolla and Jimmy...
01:44:16.000
It's because they gave up ownership of the show so that they could have creative control.
01:44:21.000
They gave up ownership because they're tired of these idiots.
01:44:27.000
We just want to be responsible for what gets done.
01:44:32.000
Once you sign, they go, no, this Eddie Bravo has no TV experience.
01:44:37.000
And they're like, no, we're not going to hire him.
01:44:42.000
The problem was they didn't understand what I was trying to do.
01:44:48.000
He might not be a writer as far as he's not going to come up with a properly formatted sketch.
01:44:56.000
He could eventually do that, but for right now what he's good at, he's good at looking at things funny, smoking pot, coming up with crazy ideas.
01:45:09.000
I was doing Fear Factor at least three days a week.
01:45:11.000
So for three days, they would be running the show.
01:45:14.000
And Doug did not feel confident enough to take over.
01:45:18.000
He would call me up and go, Dude, it is fucking hell here.
01:45:22.000
This fucking stupid sketch is getting in, and I can't get this done.
01:45:26.000
And then the Janet Jackson nipple thing happened, and then we were fucked.
01:45:30.000
Because then shit that we already had approved, they yanked out.
01:45:35.000
Because after that Janet Jackson nipple fiasco, people who don't know, who weren't in show business, a lot of people, it was nothing.
01:45:42.000
Some chick pulls her tit out in a video, you know, in a Super Bowl thing, rather, and it's like, who cares?
01:45:48.000
You know, they did something, and it's over, you know?
01:45:54.000
People were worried about sponsors pulling out.
01:45:56.000
People were worried about losing commercial money, and they acted, man.
01:45:59.000
They started chopping up sketches and removing bits, and everybody went on a panic.
01:46:05.000
They just went on this panic sheep run, banging into walls, tripping over themselves, trying to stop comedy.
01:46:10.000
How about the sketch that we wrote that they originally approved and they backed out of we were going to do extreme sack fighting?
01:46:19.000
It was funny because I'll never forget the day that that all went down.
01:46:23.000
Between you, me, and all three of us, I didn't want to fucking be there either.
01:46:32.000
I went, they made me rehearse, like jack-offs that they were, and the guy, Tom Giannis, came over, and oh, it's hysterical, we love it.
01:46:40.000
Then the next day I go there, and now everybody's talking about it.
01:46:43.000
It was hysterical to see all these fucking educated white people walking around like they didn't know what the fuck to do.
01:46:48.000
He's going to take his balls out, and he's going to run, and they're going to kill, and that's it.
01:47:09.000
And then they wanted me to be a juggie, a man juggie, and take a piss and show me my crack.
01:47:15.000
When Joey came running out, yeah, they're like, we want to put him in makeup and everything.
01:47:28.000
But even after the first one, even after they'd seen the laughter, they were like, it's not going to happen.
01:47:32.000
But what got me was, I'm not familiar with this environment.
01:47:38.000
I had done a couple things, but I wasn't familiar with the whole other side of this business.
01:47:43.000
So the guy who was telling me to my face how funny I am, I catch him when I get off stage telling the Comedy Central people that it was tasteless, and he thought it was terrible, and he's going to tell Rogan how my balls aren't funny.
01:47:56.000
And all of a sudden, I look at him, and I fucking was raging.
01:47:59.000
And as I'm at the end of the show, I'm outside, and what really happened was, because I don't give a fuck, I was smoking a joint with a security guard, with this black security guard.
01:48:10.000
And me and the security guard was like, what you doing?
01:48:12.000
We went into a little nook and cranny on a Saturday.
01:48:17.000
And we sparked up and we got really fucking high.
01:48:20.000
I got to put up with all that cut Judy Brown, all that shit.
01:48:28.000
And I stopped and I go, how can you say that to me?
01:48:33.000
I just see you with my own eyes telling the people.
01:48:39.000
And he didn't see you when he was saying office.
01:48:44.000
He goes, I go, as a matter of fact, I'm going to go in there and tell Joe.
01:48:55.000
I'll still smack you in the fucking mouth, fuck.
01:49:01.000
Yeah, he thought he was bad to the bone with his bike.
01:49:05.000
So the funny thing is, he's outside by the pipe.
01:49:12.000
And we're outside, and he's sitting there like, I'm not going back unless Joe Diaz leaves.
01:49:16.000
You're a fucking man, and you're sitting by a pipe like a little fucking girl.
01:49:20.000
And all of a sudden, my main man had to come up to me, Jeff Sussman.
01:49:22.000
He goes, hey, man, they don't want you on the lot.
01:49:28.000
And I remember, I go, Suss, walk me over there.
01:49:34.000
And he just looked at me like he was a tough guy with his friends.
01:49:37.000
And I remember he looked at the security guard to throw me out.
01:49:40.000
He looks at the security guard, and the security guard is like...
01:49:46.000
He was very political and very, very deceptive.
01:49:55.000
I fucked up in a bunch of different ways on that show, but I fucked up with him.
01:50:04.000
He decided that he was running shit, and it was a real problem.
01:50:06.000
Remember, day one, we walk in, and we think that we have two episodes already done.
01:50:17.000
He goes, we got all these episodes ready to go.
01:50:29.000
They had a bunch of sketches they had already prepared.
01:50:36.000
And day one, they put me in a room with Chris McGuire, and they go, Write some jokes about Miami.
01:50:53.000
By the fucking time that nightmare day ended, Joe was there all day, too.
01:50:56.000
I go, Joe, man, I just can't fucking write here.
01:50:58.000
They're ignoring all the other sketches that we did.
01:51:00.000
And you were like, yeah, man, I can't write here either.
01:51:05.000
So that day, you told Giannis and the producers, hey, me and Eddie are going to write...
01:51:26.000
You know, we got together a lot too, but he was really busy with Fear Factor.
01:51:29.000
So if we couldn't get together, I'd write at home.
01:51:36.000
I'm training for Abu Dhabi going, oh my God, this is not what I thought it was going to be.
01:51:40.000
Fuck, I just quit my strip club job, strip DJ job for 10 years.
01:51:49.000
I'm like, oh my God, either the show's going to get canceled because they were green lighting a bunch of bullshit.
01:51:54.000
Every now and then occasionally something would be funny, like the Decapasac thing, the Doug Stanhope, that was hilarious.
01:51:59.000
What we needed to do with that show was we needed to have control of it.
01:52:03.000
And we had to have a producer that was on the same page.
01:52:07.000
And the other problem we had with that show was that it was the man show.
01:52:11.000
We should not have been taking over someone else's show.
01:52:13.000
To me, it was like a prepackaged show that was like it was easy.
01:52:17.000
It was like, you know, being on Fear Factor, I didn't really have the time to put something So this way, it'd be all put together.
01:52:24.000
And it was disrespectful to those guys, Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla.
01:52:29.000
I thought they had amicably parted ways because Jimmy wanted to do his talk show and Adam wanted to do his thing.
01:52:41.000
So we shouldn't have done it in the first place.
01:53:14.000
You're going to hang in there 20 minutes without air conditioning?
01:53:18.000
Think about what McCain went through in NOM. I don't give a fuck with that cocksucker.
01:53:37.000
I thought, you know, BJ, the game plan, like when they were in between corners, they didn't seem to have a game plan.
01:53:45.000
You know, the game plan was like, there was no leg kicks, you know?
01:53:50.000
I thought, he can land leg kicks, he's landing them.
01:53:52.000
And every one of those leg kicks takes a spring out of your step.
01:53:54.000
You're dealing with a guy who can't, you can't catch him.
01:54:04.000
When he tried, but the attempts were not that many.
01:54:07.000
I know it takes a lot of energy, but he should have been throwing a lot more leg kicks.
01:54:29.000
I just thought BJ's game plan, it just didn't seem right.
01:54:31.000
The game plan, I don't agree with his advice, the advice in the corner.
01:54:36.000
They were just giving him and saying, kick his ass.
01:54:38.000
Whatever that advice, whatever you want to call it.
01:54:40.000
I don't know this from that, but the last two fights against whatever, that was not the same guy seen against Diego Sanchez.
01:54:50.000
It could be, you know, he needs to mix things up.
01:54:52.000
Well, the difference between Frankie Edgar's stand-up and Diego Sanchez's stand-up, come on.
01:55:05.000
BJ didn't have any fucking tenacity in the two Frankie Edgar fights.
01:55:08.000
Well, it could be because Frankie Edgar counters that tenacity with his speed.
01:55:12.000
It could be that BJ gets frustrated and he gets a little disheartened.
01:55:17.000
We're seeing an amazing wrestler with serious standing because for the longest time, BJ had the best hands at lightweight.
01:55:24.000
No one was fucking with BJ. He was the best boxer.
01:55:29.000
I mean, it's totally different, but it seems like he's just too fast, too good.
01:55:33.000
He's working too hard, and I think, you know...
01:55:36.000
Maybe BJ might, you know, switch, like you mentioned, a switch of camps maybe might not hurt or add something new.
01:55:44.000
I think Frank Yeager's kicking it to a whole other level athletically, speed-wise, endurance-wise, the way he can move.
01:55:53.000
He's one of those little dudes you can't fuck with.
01:55:56.000
Someone's been fucking with him all of his life.
01:55:58.000
And he built up a level of tenacity that not that many people can handle.
01:56:04.000
He's got like Randy Couture's mentality, you know what I mean?
01:56:09.000
But, you know, if you look at like the way he moves, he moves better than Randy.
01:56:15.000
And, you know, people are saying, oh, he's not stopping people.
01:56:18.000
What you have to realize, though, is he's quite a bit smaller than everybody else in the division.
01:56:25.000
I think, ultimately, he's throwing with evil intentions.
01:56:30.000
But I believe, you know, within the next couple years, two, three years, maybe five years, he's going to be crushing people.
01:56:36.000
He comes in to blast 100% now with BJ. He hurt Veach, and Veach is a tough guy.
01:56:45.000
His stand-up when he was fighting with Sean Shirk, he totally out-kickboxed Sean Shirk.
01:56:52.000
It's going to be interesting, though, the rematch with Gray Maynard.
01:57:03.000
You've got to be able to stop him from taking you down, man.
01:57:05.000
He's a powerful motherfucker, and he's a good wrestler.
01:57:07.000
Or you gotta have a wicked fucking Dustin Hazlitt guard or something, you know?
01:57:11.000
Even more than wicked than Dustin Hazlitt, really, right?
01:57:13.000
Because Dustin Hazlitt couldn't do shit against Rick Story, you know?
01:57:17.000
It's more, he needs like some fucking Aoki guard.
01:57:19.000
Well, he's going down to 55 because he should be there.
01:57:23.000
Clearly, Ricky Story was three times stronger than Dustin Hazlitt.
01:57:27.000
Right, but so, you know, Josh Berkman's strong as fuck, too, and Dustin had no problem with him.
01:57:32.000
Yeah, but I think Ricky Story is stronger than Josh Birkman, dude.
01:57:36.000
He's from Washington, and he's rolled with Gerald, one of my black belts, a lot.
01:57:40.000
And Gerald, he calls me to tell me about the roles with Ricky Story.
01:57:50.000
You're going to see him start to develop some finishing, too.
01:58:01.000
And his fucking mental game, that guy goes in there and he loves to destroy.
01:58:08.000
Dude, when he attacked Hazlitt up against the cage, he started ripping his body with punches.
01:58:14.000
Hazlitt was doing everything he could just to stay alive.
01:58:27.000
Frankie Edgar might really need to take his guard game to the next level.
01:58:35.000
I was impressed at how he recovered when BJ mounted him.
01:58:53.000
If BJ mounts you to rest and you're like, oh, fuck, now I got to get out of this.
01:58:57.000
Frankie, the moment he got taken down was move, move, move, move, move, move, move, move.
01:59:03.000
Obviously, BJ's guard wasn't good enough to really threaten Frankie Edgar, really.
01:59:13.000
But what I did like about Vijay is his guard recovery, his butterflies, and his foot-on-the-hip control.
01:59:22.000
And again, you know, he didn't really attack that much off his back, but his recovery is just amazing.
01:59:31.000
And when he had both his feet on Frankie's hips, that's just serious, amazing Yoda control, you know.
01:59:39.000
Yeah, no, he's badass in controlling guys like that, but not enough to finish guys.
01:59:43.000
It's weird that B.J. is such a jiu-jitsu master, but yet he doesn't really finish guys off of his back.
01:59:48.000
You know, he's had problems in a lot of fights where guys can take him down and hold him down.
01:59:51.000
You know, that was obviously the problem in the George St. Pierre fight, and that was obviously the problem when Frankie Edgar took him down, too.