#206 - Eddie Bravo

You guys do it like an illusion. Professional radio show. You got an intro. That's right, Eddie.

You know why? Because I want to be able. If you. If you. If someone ever wanted to edit it, I wanted to make it as easy as possible, take out where the advertisements are. But I also wanted to make the advertisements as organic as possible without sounding like too much of a queen.

Mushroom dog.

What is mushroom dog? What is the idea?

Mushroom head.

But I don't get the dog the dog part of it.

You want to fuck like loke dog.

Come on.

Mushroom dog.

Mushroom dog, right?

Maybe a cartoon.

Like a wolf like dog with a giant boner as the logo.

Well, you know, they used to say that that's what the Vikings, that the Vikings used to take mushrooms. And I think it was the amanita muscaria. I think that's the mushroom they were supposedly taken. And they would go into berserker mode. They would get fucked up on mushrooms before they would go and jack people, is there a mushroom that enhances sexual performance?

Don't the mushroom experts say that being on mushrooms makes you sexual? The times I've been on mushrooms, I definitely was sexual. You want a massage and sex feels awesome.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I agree with that. So in terms of how it feels. Yeah, like marijuana, too. I mean, especially when you eat it. God damn, man. If you and your lady eat like a little pop brownie together and you chill together for an hour and wait till it kicks in and whoa, you can have some intense sex. It's almost like a psychedelic experience, man. Nice. It gets dark. I think that most things that are as far as, like, feel and sensual things, like music and stuff along those lines, most of those things are accentuated by marijuana.

Absolutely right. Of course.

You're the first person that introduced me to marijuana for people don't even know Eddie Bravo. Back in the day got me high, and then we had ice cream sundaes. It was the greatest experience of my.

Know, because when I started smoking weed, everyone thought I was fucking crazy. At the gym, at Jiu jitsu. I was a purple belt when I started, and I just became a hemp activist trying know preach the truth about weed. And everyone thought I was crazy. And then I thought, man, if I can get Joe. Joe's so smart. Everybody listens to him, if I can just get Joe High. And I knew for sure your comedy would just fucking. Just sprout. I was a million percent sure. I just had to talk you into it. And you weren't easy. It took a couple of months of sitting down and talking to you. You were like, me. I was like, I was not into it at all up until I was 28. I thought it made you fucking stupid. I thought turned you into a loser.

I don't think it took that long for me to do it, dude.

There was a couple. I remember one time I was on the 101 freeway going over Lankersham and I had you. Like, we couldn't just start talking about weed all the time. I would seem like a fucking. Just some insane dude if I just brought up weed. My mission was I just had to sprinkle it in sometimes in our conversation. And then I was on the freeway and I didn't want to go over the pass and lose you was such an important call that I pulled over on the freeway to finish my point. Some story, some analogy, some weed analogy, some historical facts, some shit that I was reading from Jack Herrera's book. I had that shit memorized. I would xerox the chapters and make copies of the chapters and I'd be in jujitsu and just handing them to do because I couldn't hand them books. I was a brokester.

That's right. I remember that.

I would pass out pamphlets of all. I would just Xerox shit from Jack Herrera's book. People thought I was nuts.

They thought I was crazy. That's so funny, man. You're that guy. You're that guy at the locker room handing out leaflets. But hey, man, that's what you had to do before the Internet.

That's what I was doing. I just wanted to.

The Internet. You were a human Internet.

Yeah. Once people started to think I was crazy, that just drove me. Now I got to prove to these motherfuckers that I'm. So. I would bring in pamphlets. I go, just read that just as one fucking page. And if you want, read the second page. And then it was making sense to a lot of people, but still, most people, like myself, were totally afraid of it. And then when I started hanging out with Joe, I heard about you training. I heard that there was an actor guy training at the gym. It was before fear factor. It was like, during news radio. And so I was like, yeah, there's an actor dude. He's on know, he know at night or whatever. And I was training during the day. And I ran into you once or twice and go, oh, that's that actor dude. Never watched news radio, but I saw you at the comedy store. I loved going to the comedy store. And I was there with some chick and I'm like, that's that dude that trains at my school, the celebrity dude. And then you got off stage. I'm like, hey, dude, I trained jiu jitsu. Remember me? And you're like, oh, shit, you're at the Machado's. And we just started talking there.

One time, Eddie thought that someone was fucking with him at a diner because you didn't have your contacts.

Yes, I didn't have my contacts on. It's nighttime. I was kind of a little tipsy and you actually recognized me. And I didn't recognize you, right, yeah.

I was outside of your range of vision and you're like, oh, dude, I can't see shit outside. How bad is your vision if you don't have contacts on?

It's not that bad. If I'm like ten yards away from you, you start getting a little fuzzy.

Do I look like a pretty girl right now? Do I look like a pretty girl right now?

Well, maybe I have my contacts in.

Maybe I was.

It was at Mel's Diner.

Yeah, I was at Mel's Diner and I was walking.

I thought you were like hitting on the chick out or something, right?

But you weren't. I don't know what you thought. I think you thought I was fucking with you. I think you thought I was fucking with you. I don't remember what it was. I don't remember what I said. I was just like, yo, Eddie, yo, Eddie. And for whatever, like, your brain misinterpreted that as someone fucking with you. And then you're like, oh, hey, dude. Oh, damn. I could have swore it was you saying that you couldn't see that good.

Yeah, I couldn't see that good. And I actually thought you were fucking with me or I don't know what.

It was, but that could not see that good. That trips me the fuck out because my eyes are going, man, and I barely knew you.

I barely knew you.

I didn't watch news radio. There's a lot of dudes that go to the gym. I met you once or twice. I was probably faded and someone's calling me and I'm like, I don't know what the fuck's going on. But then you were taking privates from Sylvio at the time, remember?

Yes.

You were only doing privates in the beginning. You weren't rolling. You thought you were doing the best shit, right?

Yeah, I was only rolling with him.

And then you guys were, like, on an off hour. You invited me one time. Remember? He was giving you a private. And you invited me to come down to roll, too.

Yeah, Eddie came down and stoned and strangled me. He was so high, I could totally.

I remember that, too. I got you in a twister, too.

Oh, did you got me in everything.

I think I just got you once.

I think he got me a couple times. I think it was more than once. I think it was, like, twice.

I was just a purple belt. Yeah, I wasn't that good. And you're fucking. You came in strong.

I didn't know what you were doing. I had no idea what you were doing when you went for that twister roll. Dude, I was so lost. That's when we started training together.

That was so fucking long ago.

Long time ago.

And then we ran into each other in 97 in Louisiana.

Yeah, the UFC. You were with Ricky Rocket?

Yeah, I was with Ricky Rocket, drummer for poison.

I just recently met think. Did I meet him back then? I don't know if I met him back then. I might have met him back then, but I recently met him at the hard rock.

He's a black belt brazilian jiu jitsu. The drummer of poison.

All that makeup, machado lineage.

Yeah, he's hardcore martial artist. He was way into Ji Kundo as well. And, like, weapons and shit. Like in. Before jiu jitsu blew up, he was already into kung fu, and he just jumped on know, because he's smart.

I love when people get into it. What's his name? Jonathan.

Nicky.

Is that his name? The young kid who was an act. Was he from Jerry Maguire? Yeah, that young kid from Jerry Maguire is really good. Apparently. Apparently, Hefron rolls with him. He strangles Hefron.

That's crazy.

Isn't that awesome? I love hearing shit like that, man.

That is crazy, though, right?

Dude, it's one of the coolest things that I hear when we go on the road, when we do comedy shows, is how many people come up to me after the show and tell me that they started doing jiu jitsu after they listen to the podcast. I get those lives.

I get those tweets all the time. And they always tag you in them, too. I'm sure you.

Yeah, all the time. All the time. And I meet those folks when I do comedy shows, man. This past weekend, Fort Lauderdale, I met a gang of dudes that were talking to me about jujitsu a gang of dudes that hadn't done jujitsu until they listened to the podcast, just one after the other would come and tell me that, which is awesome, man. You hear shit like that.

Isn't it crazy?

Awesome?

The drummer for poison is a bad motherfucker.

He'll strangle people.

Yeah, it's crazy, right?

Fuck yeah.

Nobody wore more makeup than poison, but that dude will fuck you up with weapons kung fu. Would you?

No one ever really gave a fuck about the dudes in the crazy hair and makeup doing that because everybody knew they were doing that because they were rock stars and they got insane amounts of pussy. Even if you were like, oh, look at what they're doing. And, ogie, you're wearing crazy lipstick and crazy makeup. They got so much pussy you couldn't say shit.

Yeah, that's basically, the more feminine they go, they're going, the more pussy you get, the more you could dress like a chick because no one can say shit.

Yeah, man.

If you had 50 hot chicks around you, you could just start sucking a dick and you'd be fine. I got all these