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00:02:31.820It is May 14th. And it's the year 2018. And that's what's going on. We're out here in the millennium. We're out here in the universe.
00:02:42.760You know, we had Eddie Bravo in as a guest this past week.
00:02:47.580And that man, he's keyed up. He's keyed up on life.
00:02:55.080You know, every time you talk to him, it seemed like he's on about an eight ball of just existence.
00:03:01.100You know, you ask him anything and, you know, he just goes off.
00:03:05.140He's like a golden retriever with a hearing problem.
00:03:08.100You know what I'm saying? He's off. He's gone.
00:03:10.660You know what I'm saying? He's out there chasing invisible Frisbees.
00:03:14.000You know, he's out there chasing a Frisbee that was, you know, that just topped out at about 20,000 feet.
00:03:19.380And that thing might not land until Idaho.
00:03:21.160But that's how Eddie Bravo is. He's out there.
00:03:25.400He's out there. And it was interesting to hear a man.
00:03:28.120I mean, it was interesting just if you didn't get to catch the interview.
00:03:32.600It was just interesting to hear a man who had had who'd taken on so many things in his life.
00:03:37.900Everything he got into, not only was he able to get involved and really delve into music, sports, chasing ladies.
00:03:49.040But he made it into a business along the way.
00:03:52.900So he was able to take his passions and make them into enough of a business where he was able to sustain himself while he chased individual dreams.
00:04:36.460And he's out there just, you know, he's out there just dreaming or, you know, he's just out there just, just jumping from one dream to the next.
00:04:46.540And, you know, he done, he, you know, he tried football.
00:05:44.560And he's about to turn that washer, you know, he's about to turn that washing machine and that two pieces of siding, you know, that two piece.
00:05:52.840He's about to turn that into a damn shuttle.
00:05:56.660You know, Viallo, El Bravo in La Galaxia.
00:06:02.160But if you get a chance, check out that Eddie Bravo, man.
00:06:05.980It was amazing to have him in studio and just to, it was just inspiring.
00:06:09.940It was inspiring to see somebody, because what I do is I'll get involved in something and then I'll, you know, I won't, I won't have the tenacity to also make it a business while I am investigating it.
00:06:24.040And he just hopped throughout his life from one thing to the next and made small business along the way, made a band, you know, made a jiu-jitsu, started learning jiu-jitsu.
00:06:32.900And next thing you know, he's winning champs, he's beating, he's beating the greatest in other countries.
00:06:44.540And he, Eddie Bravo was beating people in other countries.
00:06:46.720So if you got to listen to that, cool.
00:06:48.520If you don't know about Eddie Bravo, that's the thing is he's a, look, he's like one of them cans of, um, you ever get one of those cans of snakes in the mail?
00:06:55.780Somebody send you a can of snakes, fake snakes.
00:07:04.280You know, I'm about to sour cream and onion myself down into a straight up couch coma.
00:07:08.240And then your spouse or your, you know, your, your friend or your loved one is going to come in, you know, a couple hours later and found you just comatose in some cushions.
00:07:19.900But you open that can, it's not Pringles, it's fake snakes.
00:09:14.160You know, I was nervous because, you know, honestly, I thought that, you know, I guess part of me, you know, you go into a place and I thought that these people were better than me.
00:09:23.720Or that they were thinking that they were better than me.
00:09:29.560It was just this weird fear in my head, you know.
00:09:31.720So, you know, I got into this weird, it was early, it was kind of early in the morning for me.
00:09:35.440I had a late night of doing shows and next thing you know, I'm there and, you know, I got in there and it's like a half hour till we start.
00:09:43.920And they're eating Asian food early in the morning.
00:09:48.560And some people could say, oh, you're being racist.
00:13:31.460Um, he got them straight up in her, you know, them inner air titties.
00:13:35.860He got them from somebody had overdosed.
00:13:39.680Somebody overdosed, you know, and that's just such a crazy circle.
00:13:43.760Like somebody was so sick, you know, they were sick and they couldn't get well.
00:13:49.620And they overdosed and God took them out of the game.
00:13:53.360And he took them hitters and put them in a mitt.
00:13:56.920And I'm thinking my first thought is do well, what if that dude was smoking crack?
00:14:01.760And now Mickey got them straight up crack bags in him.
00:14:05.880You know, he got them straight up them, them, them rock rockets inside of his chest.
00:14:12.420What if he starts, that dude might walk out of the hospital fiending for, you know, fiending for that baby, that chemical boulder, that crack cocaine.
00:14:22.220I mean, he might be fiending for that.
00:14:26.640And so I'm a little bit worried about that.
00:14:28.120What if that dude was smoking dope all day and, you know, he got them, trick lung, Mickey's going to come out with them, with them narco sacks.
00:14:37.860He's going to come out wanting to hunt in a gram.
00:14:40.200He's going to come out sniffing for grams.
00:14:55.140So, it's a little alarming, but at the same time, you know, that's the chance you take.
00:15:00.620You know, instead of having hardly any lungs, at least he got lungs.
00:15:03.480Even if those lungs, you know, if they're addicted to cocaine or to crack cocaine, I'd rather have Mickey out there on the street out there, you know, doing what he's got to do.
00:15:13.020You know, selling a little bit of leg or vending a little bit of ass cheek or whatever he's got to do.
00:18:34.640We got a bunch of calls that came in, you know.
00:18:37.520And, you know, we're going to try to sometimes, you know, if we have a guest, we'll connect, we'll connect, you know, whatever previous, whatever previous episode we had, we'll connect, you know, calls and responses into the next episode.
00:18:51.940Those won't a lot of times be on the interview episodes.
00:18:56.120But, yeah, we got a lot of good stuff going on.
00:18:59.520You know, we got a lot of good things happening here.
00:19:01.660And I'm grateful for you guys being here with us and being a part of things.
00:19:04.840Let's get, we'll just get into a couple of calls, you know.
00:19:08.820I'll tell you too right now, and some of you guys know it and some of you don't, that I'm going to be at Clusterfest in San Francisco June 2nd and 3rd.
00:22:17.720He's out there farting in gym class or whatever and telling people and, you know, throwing his nuts down, you know, throwing his nuts, you know, into a children's academy or whatever.
00:29:29.560I bet it just seemed to me like they would just come through like robots, you know, like they just all have sun sunburn on their face from the screen.
00:34:12.200You know, you're going to hear somebody, somebody's going to drop a, uh, you know, maybe a, um, a little USB drive that has the secrets of the universe on it.
00:34:20.160And you're going to get that bitch and be like, dang, Pluto is back.
00:34:25.380They found Pluto or, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:44.980Uh, just listening to this week's episode and, uh, you asked for comments.
00:34:50.160On monogamy, you talked a little bit about, uh, your own struggle, uh, about if you didn't know if you could, uh, stay in a monogamous relationship for long-term.
00:36:09.060So, you know, it's like you see, you see an ad, you, you know, you click on an ad for shoes on Facebook.
00:36:15.780And next thing you know, you walk outside and there's three models walking through your apartment complex and they all wearing those fucking sneakers.
00:42:22.780Only way you can make it to the car without getting wet is if you were like a half inch wide and a half inch, you know, also wide the other way.
00:42:30.680And you were able to run through all those raindrops like Marshall Falk.
00:47:39.280You know, I feel like, yeah, you don't want to forget your story.
00:47:42.320You don't want to forget your struggle.
00:47:43.540But, if at a certain point, if, you know, what's the risk in reframing it?
00:47:53.540What's the risk in saying, oh, we're not, you know, if you always want to think of yourself as a slave and not trying to think of yourself as an immigrant?
00:48:23.620You know, I'm trying to put myself, like, into a situation where it's like, you know, like, people always thought, you know, would say that I was a redneck.
00:48:32.900And so, what I started to think of myself as is rural, because I thought that redneck was, I didn't like it.
00:48:41.080I thought it had a connotation that, you know, left me feeling negative in some ways.
00:49:38.540It's, you know, there's, I'm sure there's a lot of faults in it.
00:49:41.960Um, but I definitely thought that Kanye's words were taken out of context.
00:49:45.700And that he's just saying, you know, if we continue, if we continue to think of ourselves as this way, is that the best mindset to have out there?
00:57:38.280I'm like, she just dyed it with cold water.
00:57:40.560You know, like she had just dyed it with the own, you know, like the devil was making ink pens and they went out of business at the company.
00:57:46.580And he had a bunch of extra ink and she got ahold of some of it because maybe her stepbrother broke into the factory and, and he got ahold of some and he gave some to her for Christmas because they didn't have much money.
00:57:57.180And the next thing you know, she was dying her bush with the devil's ink.
00:58:00.880So that's something that happened up there in upstate New York.
00:59:36.380You know, they're sitting at a sporting event and this man, this adult male is trying to chat him up, trying to get into his ears with, you know, with thoughts and ideas and questions.
00:59:49.040The guy could have played fucking, you know, a G'd up kind of role and tried not to speak with you.
00:59:53.880You know, the guy could have played that the guy, um, but he's trying to communicate some, I mean, he probably feel like he has to, he probably felt really out of place.
01:00:05.500You know, it's gotta be super awkward.
01:00:29.800You know, I tell that, honestly, I tell that dude to hit the road, but then that could create issues between you and your sister.
01:00:34.520So, but you could always tell your sister what you think.
01:00:36.960You got to do it in a caring way though.
01:00:38.920If you do it in a mean way, then she might just rebel and continue to date him just based on the old, you know, just based on that fuel that you're spitting that gasoline at her.
01:00:47.020So, but that's, you know, that's something.
01:00:51.400Because you got that man out there, he trying to get that naughty, naughty.
01:00:55.280You know, he probably out there doing wild stuff with your sister, you know.
01:00:58.720I'm not trying to get you to think about all that, but at the same time, he out there probably 69 and then doing all of that shit, you know.
01:01:06.360And then they probably laying there and eating starbursts and shit because, you know, young people usually have candy around.
01:01:12.060So, that man, he's definitely, you know, he's hanging out by the devil's doorbell, dude.
01:01:21.580So, you know, I think you can not let him into the house.
01:01:27.540So, I wouldn't be rude about it, but I would go to your sister and just let her know how you feel.
01:01:31.340And then after that, you know, you have two choices.
01:01:34.080You could tell the dude to fucking hit the road or you can just, you know, be supportive of your sister and just be nice to the guy when you can.
01:01:40.840Because you care about your sister and you want to care about what she cares about.
01:03:10.380What happened was, first off, I had to call out of work because, well, first I thought I was going to get some Benadryl and just lose some allergies.
01:03:18.220I sent a picture to my friend, this nice Filipino lady, and she said, no, man, you got a bacterial infection.
01:09:32.100But I don't see somebody, you know, you know, that's, you know, somebody that's, you know, dropped something on the street and want to fuck them just because they, you know, are kind of clumsy.
01:09:42.140If anything, if I don't want to fuck clumsy people, because I want somebody that's handling my dick with care.
01:09:48.880But, but I went 30 days and it felt good.
01:13:01.640It tears me up inside because my biggest fear is before they die, you know, I didn't have an opportunity to show them that I'm going to be successful.
01:13:13.240Okay, so your biggest fear is that you're not being able to, that you won't be able to show your parents how much you care about them,
01:13:18.600that you're grateful for them without spending money that you don't have.
01:13:22.640And your biggest fear is that before they die, you won't be successful.
01:13:25.800Dependent on my own and, you know, to where they don't have to worry about me.
01:13:37.340So obviously, you know, it sounds like, or not obviously, but I'm going to go, I'm going to assume because, you know, this is just a one-way call and I'm sorry about that.
01:13:44.780I appreciate you leaving the voicemail and thank you for calling and, you know, and sharing one of your fears, man.
01:13:50.240And, you know, your parents, here's what I feel like is our responsibility for our parents is to be happy.
01:14:08.320And, you know, I've had days where I've had some money and I've had days where I've had no money.
01:14:13.920And next week I'll have both of those types of days and next month I'll have both of those types of days.
01:14:19.140And if I can, I couldn't fathom if my parent, if my mother's affections differed pending upon which type of vibe I was riding or which reality I was living, having money or not having money.
01:14:35.940It's always been the same, you know, because your mother just wants you to be happy.
01:14:43.760How are you, not how are your finance?
01:14:45.000I mean, you know, I guess if your parents can offer to help, then they might ask how your finances are.
01:14:50.340But here's what I'm going to go out on a limb here.
01:14:52.000I'm going to imagine that, you know, it sounds like you're still, you know, you're still dependent upon your parents some.
01:14:58.320And you want them to know that you care.
01:15:01.780You're probably, you know, it sounds like you're, you know, making some wild choices or not really sure where you are in your path in life yet.
01:15:11.540And, and maybe there's pressure from your parents or you feel that they are pressuring you into getting your path straighter.
01:15:19.700Or you don't want to get your path straight right now and you are, and it makes you feel good to, to put, you know, to kind of blame them a little.
01:15:30.540You know, yeah, it feels good to say, oh, my, you know, I'm just worried my parents won't feel grateful.
01:15:38.180You know, I'm worried that I'll never make them happy.
01:15:41.340And you probably make them happy just by being alive.
01:15:45.280You know, now if you, are you telling yourself, man, you know, they're not happy with me just because that gives you an edge against them.
01:15:53.340Like that gives you an argument with them, which then lets you justify whatever behaviors you're doing that, that are keeping you from getting your shit together.
01:16:07.180You know, I felt, I've, you know, I've called somebody out, you know, because it gave me something to stand on, even though they weren't really doing shit.
01:16:14.700And that was all just to mask what, that I wasn't doing shit.
01:16:18.440You know, that I wasn't pulling my end of the bargain.
01:16:20.440But no matter which one of those it is or isn't, man, you know, I feel, I feel for you and I'm sorry that you don't feel good.
01:16:29.980But you know what you can do no matter what is going on?
01:16:32.380You can always apologize and you can always start to take the next right action.
01:16:37.320And that right action can be small, it can be big.
01:16:41.660You know, if you're boozing and getting fucked up every night, it might be hard to keep those things in line.
01:16:45.260You know, and you, you can sometimes leave a trail of terror in your wake when you're out there partying and not taking care of stuff.
01:16:52.460But I bet your only responsibility, as far as I'm concerned to you, is your parents, to your parents is to, to be happy.
01:17:01.340If you move to fucking Guam and teach yoga, if you do service work, if you make a million, whatever.
01:17:06.980If your parents' happiness depends upon you making money, then that's on them.
01:17:12.180If that's the real truth, then that's on them, dude.
01:17:16.700That's not your, that's not, then that's their problem.
01:17:21.220You know, you can always go to like Al-Anon group or a 12-step program that could help you kind of figure out some of those feelings.
01:17:26.580And figure out kind of if you're, you know, where you stand and all that.
01:17:31.160And if you're blaming them too much or if you're blaming yourself or what, that can kind of help.
01:17:37.700But if you're just blaming them, man, and just because it gives you a leg to stand on, you know, they're not, you know, they're not going to think you're grateful.
01:20:21.880You know, sometimes, you know, the good thing about being a friend of an alcoholic is that you have a chance to actually really affect them.
01:20:30.180But you can't expect to, if you're trying to fall in love with an alcoholic or get them to shape or, shape and, you know, turn your life into a heart shape.
01:20:56.080And you could get into one of those and really, really, um, you know, you could really, hopefully, find some people that can help you learn and help you feel better.