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Eddie Bravo Talks Global Governments and How Producers Ruined the Man Show

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Eddie Bravo Talks Global Governments and How Producers Ruined the Man Show", an episode of Adam Carolla published January 13, 2026 (1 h 55 min, about 22,736 words). It mentions 14 people, works and ideas, including Love Line, Pluto TV, Eddie Bravo, Cleveland Browns, K-Rock.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Love Line, Bear Elegance, Eddie Bravo, K-Rock
  2. – 20:00: Love Line
  3. – 30:00: Pluto TV
  4. – 40:00: Cleveland Browns
  5. – 50:00: Cleveland Browns, Larry Zona, President Gerald Ford, Quinn Sean Judkins
  6. – 1:00:00: Love Line
  7. – 1:20:00: Eddie Bravo
  8. – 1:40:00: Pluto TV, O'Reilly Auto Parts
  9. – 1:55:00: Eddie Bravo

Notable quotes from "Eddie Bravo Talks Global Governments and How Producers Ruined the Man Show"

  • Krock and KNAC were like you know everybody listen to the radio. There was no internet and I loved love line. I loved it and I always thought I always thought man I could do I…
    about Love Line · at
  • The Bear Elegance by the airport.
    about Bear Elegance · at
  • Pluto TV has thousands of free movies and TV shows. Woo!
    about Pluto TV · at
  • Interesting thing. Mason Graham. He's a defensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns. He was picked fifth last year.
    about Cleveland Browns · at
  • Too. It's not just good for wrestling or riding the unicycle or whatever. Larry Zona, I'm told, was also a wrestling phenomenon. Who was the Yeah, it'll work for running backs…
    about Larry Zona · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Eddie Bravo — Person · 3 mentions · first at
    Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice. We're going to man it. Get it on. Eddie Bravo, martial artist, podcaster, rack on tour is with us in studio.
  • Larry Zona — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Quinn Sean Judkins — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Cuz this year, again, back to the Cleveland Browns, we have a rookie named Quinn Sean Judkins, and I really like him because the guy we've had for the last couple years named Jerome Ford.
  • President Gerald Ford — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Named Quinn Sean Judkins, and I really like him because the guy we've had for the last couple years named Jerome Ford.
  • Muhammad Noor — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

Concepts & topics

  • ADCC — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

Full transcript with timestamps

And now, Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice. We're going to man it. Get it on. Eddie Bravo, martial artist, podcaster, uh, rack on tour is with us in studio. Good to see you, Eddie.

Good to see you, man. Big fan. I'm a big fan. Wow. You grew up out here? I born and raised in Southern California. Born in Santa Ana. That's where they put all the Mexicans. M

and then I wanted to be a rock star. So I moved to Hollywood uh at 21 and that was like 91 and that was when you know Krock and KNAC were like you know everybody listen to the radio. There was no internet and I loved love line. I loved it and I always thought uh I always thought man I could do I could give love advice too but uh that would have been horrible. I would have been I would have been uh destroying marriages.

Well it's kind of an interesting thing because I was in the same position. I would listen to K-Rock. I was driving a truck. I was swinging a hammer. And I would think to myself, "Oh, I could do that." You know, and so what happens with radio, it's kind of interesting. If you're listening to a talk show, everybody's natural tendency is when they go, "Here's my I'm 15 and I've been dating my boyfriend for a year and blah blah blah." You go you do your answer in your head.

Yeah. And then you have to compare it to the other person's answer who's on the air and then you have to figure out whether your answer would be better than their answer, you know.

And I did the same thing. I just grew up out here and I listen to Krock. I listen to Love Line.

Yep. Yep. Um who was who was the the main host? What was his name again? So, so first I mean going way back way back they had

Jed the Fish that probably had like Jed the Fish or the Swedish Eagle or somebody and then and then also um Scott Mason I think. Anyway, these all old all these old names and then at some point Dr. Drew came in and then at some point the poor man

That's right. came in. Poor man and Dr. Drew. Yeah. Yeah. And the poor man was a big deal and Lovel line was a big deal. And then Ricky Rackman replaced the poor man because the poor man. The poor man. Poor man got into it with Kevin of Kevin and Bean or Bean of Kevin and Bean and he gave out his home address and he told people to go to his house.

Oh no. like in the middle of the night and and a bunch of people showed up at this guy's house at like, you know, 1:00 a.m.

Did he hate him or was he just trying to find him? You know, radio is weird. Radio is filled with just weird kind of broken souls, you know, like [ __ ] up. They're not really comedians. They're not really actors. They're not really in show business, but they're sort of in show business, but people know them.

Yeah. They're just a weird group. And I I don't know what it is, but that was the that was the straw that broke the camel's back. And then and then uh Poor Man got relieved. And then Ricky Rackman from MTV and Headbangers Ball and everything took over for Poor Man. And then he did it for like three years and then they put me and Ricky in the same room for a while

and that didn't work out that he felt like I was trying to take his job. So you came when you first came in, it was Ricky Rackman that was doing So you came in after Poor Man.

I came in after Poor Man, but Dr. Drew was still on when you came. Dr. Drew was always there. Dr. Drew did it for free. It was on Sunday nights only and he did it for free for a decade and then they went to five nights a week and then they syndicated it and I showed up right before they they syndicated it.

Oh, okay. All right. And it was the weird weird power of radio back back in the day.

And how long did you do it for? I did it for a decade. Damn, that's a long time.

I loved it. I I love talking. I love this, you know? I I I loved expressing myself. Like to me, it was the greatest gig in the world. I didn't really even like TV. TV was like makeup and get dressed and hit your mark and face the camera and don't screw your line up and all that. This was like lock ourselves in a dark room and just talk all night.

Yeah. It was it was it was what I wanted to do. And And then you went into the man show right after that. Right from that?

No, I did I was doing the man show simultaneously. Oh, okay. With that, I I never quit my late night radio job. I had Crank Yankers and Man Show and Loveline the TV show on MTV. I had tons of jobs. I just kept doing my job at night. I would I would have to leave man show shoots and go to Loveline. Like I'd go I got to you once in a while we'd shoot something that went late or something and like at 9:00 at night I'd go I got to go I got to go I got to go to Culver City and do it.

When you left uh Man Show you and Jimmy Kimmel uh as you know they Comedy Central kept it going and then they brought in Joe Rogan and Doug Stanh Hope. Yep.

Well, I I got brought in too by force. Joe forced them to hire me as a writer. Really? Oh, it was really bad. It was really really

Why? So, you're working your juujitsu guy at that point. Like world class. Where where' the writing come in?

Well, I wasn't I was a student at that point. I was a strip club DJ for like 10 years.

Oh, really? Yeah. While I was doing jiu-jitsu cuz I teaching jiu-jitsu, what I do now, what pays the rent now. That was never the plan. The plan was to uh take over the music business. I thought I was I thought I was going to be this music mogul. I thought I was going to be this

rockar music producer guy. And so that's what I was always um uh aspiring to. I was working just odd jobs just until I got that record deal. So working the strip club was this. Oh, what a great job until I get the record deal. And then I started doing martial arts early like uh like in early in the early 90s just to stay in shape just so I wouldn't be a fat rock star. So, you know, I don't want to be a fat rockstar. There was this guitar player, famous guitar player named Ingve Mstein. He was a rock star and there was a period where he got really fat. He's not fat anymore and he's he's still playing, but there was a period where he got really fat and everybody

What band was he with? Ingve Malmstein is a like a like a virtuoso guitarist. He was in a band called Steeler, but that was like in the beginning indie band. and uh I he was in a band called umh I forget but but he's mainly known as a solo artist and he got fat and I go yeah if I'm going to be you know playing arenas and stadiums I don't want to be fat so I started doing martial arts so I only started doing martial arts in my 20s just to stay in shape

and um I always loved standup comedy it was like one of my um favorite things to watch you know I loved Richard Prior Eddie Murphy you And then Martin Lawrence like in the 90s I was massive uh in Living Color fan.

Um and I always thought like man I feel like I could write some of this stuff. I felt like I could but I didn't you know I was like I want to be a rockstar you know but it was just like a thing that like a side passion type of thing. And then uh Joe Rogan, he trained at the same jiu-jitsu school I did. And um and this was while when he first started, it was just after news radio because he did news radio for a few years. And in between news radio and Fear Factor, he really didn't h have anything going on. So he got really into uh training jiu-jitsu. And I remember coming in to class and people saying, "Dude, there's a guy from a TV show, an actor that trains here." I'm like, "Oh, really?"

Then I'd come in and they go, "That's Amy over there." So, I never really met him at the at the studio, but I would when I was working at the strip club and I was dating strippers back in the in the 90s,

what like the main date I would take him to is take him to Sunday night at the comedy store to watch the open mic night.

What strip club were you working at? The Bear Elegance by the airport. Oh, Bear Elegance.

Bear Elegance. Oh, yeah. Nice. You ever hear of that one? Oh, yeah. It was Oh, by the airport. There were Bob's classy lady and bad eyes and I have been all the oddball.

Yeah. Yeah. And um Midnight Rhonda. No, not Midnight Round. I don't think of the name of it, but anyway. Yeah. I

I I've been to all of them, but anyway. So So Rogan you meet there. So I met him at the at So he was I had I was on a date at the at this comedy store and then Joe Rogan goes up on stage and I told the girl go that guy trains at my gym. Oh my god. So then when he got off stage, it was in the O, he comes out and I go, "Yo, what's up, dude? We both train at John Jos." He goes, "Oh, you trained there, too?" And that's where we really met. And then we start hanging out and uh we became friends and he would say, "Dude, you should you should try to go on stage, man. Do an open mic night." I you know, he thought he thought, you know, I could do it, too. And I did go up a few times.

Couple times I like survived, but a few other times it was a disaster. So, I I realized back then I thought, "Wow, uh comedy is two things. Public speaking um skills and being funny. Some people can be funny in the parking lot, but when they get up on stage and they and you know, it's they're under pressure, they fold." And then some people have great public speaking skills. They can get up on stage and they're they might not even be funny, but they're so comfortable on stage, you know? So, I realized like, man, you got to have both. And to have those public speaking skills, I was going to have to go up like a regular comedian, like four, five, six sets a week. And I'm like, I I realized like I can't do that. That'll I'll just be going a whole different direction than music if I had to spend so much time getting my public speaking skills together. So, I decided, you know what? I'm not going to I'm not going to

do standup anymore. But, I like writing. So, me and Joe, we were planning on putting together a sketch comedy show. Mhm.

And we had like 30 sketches and we would write together and then all of a sudden he calls me and goes, "Yo, Comedy Central wants to keep the man show going." And they heard I was pitching a sketch comedy show. So they asked me, "I'm going to do it." I go, "This is this is the show we're going to get. It's happening." I'm like, "Oh my god." And I and uh and

so you were in the writer room for the Man Show season five. Whatever season that was.

That was season five. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was a horrible experience though cuz they did not want to hire me. They refused to hire me because I had no TV experience.

Oh, comedy Central. Yeah. But Joe made them hire me. It was It was It got ugly. He basically said, "You bring this guy in or

you know there's going to be problems." Cuz he was already on Fear Factor. Fear Factor already had blown up. So, he had no

reason really financially to go into a cable show when he was on the number one NBC show out there.

And yeah, it was uh you know, it was kind of funny. I never thought about it, but especially with Fear Factor being back now at Johnny Knoxville, they used to call me I I feel like once a year for like three years and they go, "What do you think about hosting Fear Factor?" And I now realize I didn't realize it at the time. I I would go, "Well, I was doing Love Line, probably the Man Show and stuff like that." And I'd go, "So, what about hosting Fear Factor?" "Well, just kind of gauging your temperature on hosting Fear Factor." And I'd go, "Well, yeah, tell me about it." Or, "I'm I'm open to it hypothetically. What's it what's it entail?" or whatever. And then I wouldn't hear back from them, but then I'd hear from them a year from then, and they'd go, "We're asking again about you hosting Fear Factor." And what I realize now is they were just using me to get Joe to sign or get his price down or get

whatever because what they were doing is they were probably going, "Adam Corolla said he'd host Fear Factor now. You want to sign your contract or should we get Corolla to do it?" And they're probably just using it as leverage to try to get him to sign because I never had any more follow-up phone calls on it. It was always just we're going to take your temperature on hosting. But I realized they were just thinking about trying to get Joe to sign and then later on I left the man show and then he took over at the man show which is kind of a weird dance.

Yeah. Yeah. So they finally hired me but day one. Day one, they made it really clear that they hated me. Like within cuz we came in with 30 sketches already.

Mhm. And we put them up, me and Joe, we put them up on it's, you know, that their studio was right there off uh Santa Monica and like Highland,

Hollywood Center. Yes. So that was that's where we were. They took down all they said, "Listen, we ain't doing those. We're writing new ones." I'm like,

we spent like a year writing those. And they were just like, "No, we're not going to use those." And uh right there we realize, oh [ __ ] they're coming down. Like they they made it clear within the first half hour, they don't give a [ __ ] about me. They're just going to hire me and they're going to pay me, but they don't give a [ __ ] So after that first day, it was it was really bad. Even Joe,

those were the producers. All of them. They all hated me because Joe made them hire me.

Yeah. Yeah. There it's always such a weird. So the end of that first day, Joe said, "You know what?" Joe goes, "It's hard to write in this environment." Because that first day, they gave me some assignments to write and him too. And it was really, it was like, dude, they treated us like [ __ ] the first day. Cuz once he signed, they're like, "Fuck you." You know, you already signed, dog. You got to do whatever we say. So Joe said, "We can't. This is not the right environment. We want to We're going to work at home. We're going to work from home."

And they said, "Go get the [ __ ] out of here. Work from home." So they let me the only time I showed up to the studio was on when we taped uh the the show.

So we had we when we did the man show would not let the producers of the man show come on to set. Jimmy hated the producers so much that he was like you guys cannot show up here. You cannot be a part of this in any way, shape or form. Yeah.

And Comedy Central wasn't like we did the Man Show autonomously. There was no producers. There was no input. There was no Comedy Central.

There was no anything. We just we did it. And And that was clear. And And it was weird. I mean, Jimmy's, you know, can be a little prickly sometimes.

He was just like, "You [ __ ] aren't coming near this place." Wow. And we're not doing it if you come near here. So stay the [ __ ] back in your office.

They stayed away and they they stayed away and we did and look I you know I was like all the time I'm a just a dude from the valley. I didn't get Stone Stanley produced it. Scott Stone we'd be like where's Scott Stone? He's in Israel for three weeks. I'd go I wish I was [ __ ] somewhere for three weeks instead of he's get by the way I know he's insulted but he's getting paid and he's in Israel. We're the ones who are working all night on this [ __ ] busting our hump. So I didn't I looked as a [ __ ] joke was on us like they weren't doing anything. But when we left then they got to come in

and they got to produce. Oh yeah. So the man show was never produced. It'll say produced by Stone Stanley or produced by the [ __ ] produced by. It's all [ __ ] We produced it. We created it. We wrote it. We cast it. We did everything. And that's the reason it was a good show. Then we left and then they came in and they started producing and that's what happened. That's who you had to deal with.

Oh my god, it was horrible. It was a It was a nightmare. It really was. And I had quit my strip club job that I had for 10 years. And I was making good money there. And whoa, did I regret that.

You were making good money because you get tipped out. Yes. The girls tip you out based based on how many uh lab dances they do.

Oh, really? That's a good gig. It was a great gig. But when I left, I was like, "Fuck you guys. I'm going to blow up." So my thing was like, "We're going to blow the show up. We're going to parlay it into movies, and that's how I'll get my music in. I'll get my music in through the back door." So I thought like, "Oh, this is it. I made it. I made it." And I was 32 years old. I thought I made it. And then within a half an hour of the day one, I'm like, "Big mistake. These guys are [ __ ] assholes." So, do you guys have you guys did you have a writer's room or did you guys all just splinter off and go write remotely?

There was nine riders. There was a head rider and then there was nine writers. And a that first day they they they put, you know, three guys in one room, three guys in another room, and then they gave us assignments. But I was only there working one day. And then after that, I I still got paid, but I worked at home. So, I had to come up with a one sketch a day. That's all. And they never used it. So I would write a sketch and then they they were like, "Fuck that dude." They just they just totally ignored me. They realized, "Okay, my checks were $939 a week." So they go, "Ah, that's nothing.

We'll just give him that money just so just to keep Joe happy." Yeah. For those who want to know, like when I did it, we had an office and the main office was like me and Jimmy and Daniel. It's just the three of us in a big office. And then I'd like have an idea for a sketch or a bit or or like a like a parody or commercial or something and then I would have an assistant writer and then I would just go up to my assistant writer's little office and I would sit down his office and I'd go, "Here's what I'm thinking about." And then he'd start typing while I was talking. And we had a writer's room and all and all that. But I can't even keep track of the stuff I wrote was them. I I don't know how you would do it if you're all spread out. Like we had to be all under the same roof.

Had to have the same sort of things had to be copacetic. We had to like, you know, we we would put out a huge corkboard and just put all the bits on it and, you know, come up with all the manovations and all the all the [ __ ] we'd come up with. But the thing that you guys had is you had a template to begin with. Like you had a a a place, a format, like a like a template. A template.

The Juggies. The Juggies. But uh what I don't think anyone realiz is that Stone Stanley, who were supposed to be the producers of the Man Show, never really produced the Man Show. We produced the Man Show. So when Jimmy, me and Daniel, our crew left, there wasn't anything to leave behind because they'd never done it. And that

they just had the name. They just own the name and that's Yeah. They just they just had it.

What was the final straw that made you leave? Um there wasn't really a final straw. We Jimmy and I wanted to do the man show just because we wanted to do a show together. It was it was very organic. We didn't really, you know, the thing about a show, a movie, or anything. It's like you just need an excuse. Jimmy and I wanted an excuse to work together, to hire the people we wanted to hire, to work with the people we wanted work with, and then and to do the kind of comedy we wanted to do. And you can't really just call it the show. You have to like create something and have a format and stuff. But if you really look at the bits, it's just an excuse for me and Jimmy to do the kind of show that we think would be funny, you know. And we did it and we did over a hundred episodes. And when we got to the end,

we were sort of like, we've done a hundred episodes. I don't know what more. Like I I think for a lot of people, the goal is to just keep doing more.

Yeah. But a hundred episodes is enough time to say what you want to say and do what you want to do.

And so Jimmy got the call to do the ABC talk show. And so he we were done. He was going to go do the talk show and the show was successful. So Comedy Central came to me and they went continue. We want to do a fifth season with you. And I said, "I'd like to go with Jimmy to go work on starting his new talk show." And they said, "Well, why don't you just do one more season?" And I said, "I'm I'm really just going to go because we're done. We've done a 100 episodes." And they said, "You can do whatever you want. We You can do it alone. We could pair you. We can pair you with anyone you want. You choose. You do." They gave me the keys and they just went, "Do whatever the [ __ ] you want, but don't leave." And uh we kept having these meetings and I kept telling them I'm I'm just I'm leaving like it's not personal.

They said uh we'll give you 50,000 an episode. And I said that thanks but I'm going to go with Jimmy. And so then I just left and and went with Jimmy. And like I said we were like we didund I don't know eight episodes or something like that. And to me that was like that's enough cuz you know from doing music you have a bunch of ideas for songs and in your head you know and then you do your first album and you get all your songs on there.

Yeah. And then it becomes a big hit and then they come to you and they go we need another album and you're like well I don't really have that many songs in my head anymore. I got them all out. And then they go well come up with some songs. Yeah. So now you're coming up with [ __ ]

versus, you know, I got most of the stuff I had in my head, I got it out in the first hundred episodes. And now you're just sitting around creating something that's not really in your head. You're just like, we got to fill this eps.

Yeah. So at a certain point, like it is kind of I think it's the same with music. I had a bunch of bits that I wanted to do my whole life and I did them and now I'm sitting around going I got to come up with bits that I'm not even thinking about now.

Yeah. The the it's it's exactly like that in music. The only thing that's different though with music as far as live performance goes, people want to hear the same [ __ ] over and they'll be they'll be mad if they don't hear the same songs over and over. But in comedy, if they hear the same jokes over, you need new material. They don't want to hear the same jokes. Maybe maybe they'll hear they want to hear it the second time, but the third time they're done.

So you end up that's when you befriend Joe or you and Joe become friends. Yeah. Before the man show and then he dragged the man show

and uh during that job I man I was like this show's going to get cancelled and I'm going to be out of a [ __ ] job and I'm 32 years old and there's no record deal in sight. [ __ ] You know, I never contemplated suicide, but I did understand it. But that this is why people kill themselves. If I was weak,

I might [ __ ] just jump off a building because I'm like, I'm not going to I'm going to have to go back to swinging a hammer. I'm going to have to go back to waking up at 5:30 in the [ __ ] morning. Holy [ __ ]

And then um so during during uh that season, I had in jiu-jitsu, I had won the North American uh uh qualifier for the the World Championships. It's called ADCC and it was in Brazil. So I'd won the the the trials and the trip to Brazil was right in the middle of that season.

Uhhuh. And then and and Joe in his contract he was coming with me. He said during these days, during that week, I'm going to be gone. So he got that off up front because I knew I was going there six months in advance. I won the trials and then six months later were the world championship. So I thought, damn, my life's going to suck, but at least I got this free trip to Brazil. [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm gonna have one. At least I have I didn't expect to beat anybody. I was a brown belt and everybody were there were black belt world champions.

Um including Ha Gracie, who the Gracie family are the ones that blew jiu-jitsu up. They're the most famous family in martial arts and ever. Yeah.

And Hoya Gracie was the most decorated. No one ever had even scored a point against him. He won it three uh times in a row. And and um so I went down there thinking I was just going to get whooped, but at least I got a free vacation. And then when I get back, I gotta figure out my life.

So I went down there and I submitted Horer Gracie, the guy who never So that then when I came back, I was like, "Oh [ __ ] a friend of mine goes,

"Dude, quit that man show job and open up a school right now." I'm like, "Fuck." I So that's what I did. I remember I was on the 101, pulled over, called Joe, said, "Joe, thank you with all my heart for uh making Comedy Central hire me." But, you know, I'm [ __ ] depressed. You know, I'm going this this is my this is my chance to to to open up a school. And again, I thought I was just going to open up a school just until I got a record deal. I didn't think, you know, I'd be where I'm at today with with jiu-jitsu. I thought, "Okay, cool. Cool job. This would be a cool ass job. I teach people how to kill and protect themselves until I get that record deal.

And Joe was like, I he totally got it because he understood like how uh how they treated me

and um what little respect they had for me. So he understood. So I just started teaching jiu-jitsu in in Hollywood at some boxing gym called the Bomb Squad. first day 18 people showed up and then from there I just built little by little and now I have uh you know like 220 um schools that uh licensed my name around

Oh really? Wow. Yeah. So that's that's what pays the rent. Still make music, still putting out albums but independently and uh you know no one wants to hear my music but I still put it out anyways. Well, you know look people should do what they feel they should do and want to do and feels good to them, whether people are watching or listening or not. You know, I don't I never really liked it when people start qualifying things like, well, who's going to be there or how much am I going to get paid? It's like you either [ __ ] play music or you do comedy or you do jiu-jitsu or you don't.

You don't sit around and try to figure out who's watching who's going to get paid.

I'm glad I never got signed out. Now I'm I'm glad. I'm like I don't want to any part of the music business, you know? I'm glad.

But if you play music, you play music. Like I I mean it's like if I when when I would go out to lunch with Jimmy back in the day, nobody paid us. We would just sit there and make each other laugh as hard as we could for the two hours we're at lunch, but we never looked toward who's paying us or who's he did it cuz he did it. I did it cuz that's who what I did. And that's that's who you should be. And so if you're a person whose passion is music or your passion is is comedy, you'll always win if you're doing it because you love doing it and because that's what you do. There's so many people that do it because they're looking at the endgame. They want to get paid or they want to get famous or they want to get laid or whatever that is.

And I would argue you're not really that into it if those are your rules. You know what I mean? It's like what would you do? What do you do for free? What do you do on weekends? What do you do when no one's watching? And if that's what you do, then that's what you're into. Yeah.

You know, and it's like, I'm a carpenter. I don't need it for money. I don't get paid to do it. I do it because that's what I do. To do it. Yeah. I did build this studio. You did.

I built this whole place out. Holy [ __ ] That's awesome. But it's what I like doing. You know what I mean? And I didn't have people watching me or filming me or anything. That's that's just what I do. When you walked into the studio, when I complimented you on how good the studio looked, I swear to God, I had no idea you built this. I was I was impressed with this T. You made this table.

Did not make the table. Built built everything else. Did not build the table. So, I'll be I'll be straight with you.

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People, like I said, if you love music, then you play music. Yeah. Like, and and it's fine. It's like your passion. And I'm I'm the same way with comedy and building. So you Sorry, getting uh getting back getting back to you. You know, the thing about jiu-jitsu is it feels so intimate.

It is and it's like so close and so Yeah. You have to you have to you have to um uh decide. It's uh is it worth it to get into these um crazy positions with other men? Uh is it worth it to to uh be able to uh get really good at immobilizing um an attacker? Is put them out, put them to sleep. Is it is it worth it to get really good at putting people to sleep and breaking their limbs? Is it worth it? And the people that stay say, "Okay, it's worth it." The people that don't do it, they're like, "Fuck that. This ain't worth it, dude. I'd rather get my ass kicked."

Well, now, do you have I was thinking about this the other day. So, I had really uncanny balance when I was young. I mean, still kind of do, but I learned to ride a unicycle in like a half a day or something like that. I was really good on a unicycle. And I always used to before puberty, we didn't have wrestling in my high school, but when I was poor, I just when I was a kid, I just we just wrestled. We wrestled. That's all we did

cuz that was the only entertainment. We didn't have like video games or anything.

And I would wrestle everyone and I'd whip everyone all the time. But I realized it was kind of my balance that that got them. It wasn't any technique. I didn't know anything. I wasn't trained or anything. I just beat everyone because I had balance. And then sometimes I'll see like Jon Jones grappling with people and I'll see his legs spread out in a certain way and I realize, oh, he has weird balance. Like it's a balance.

Well, that's what wrestling wrestling, that's what it is. Wrestling is a game of balance. Like who has it's really who has the best.

So, do you have natural balance? Because balance is its own thing. It's like it's a it's like there's certain things that are like foot speed. Foot speed is its own thing. You're not you don't get to train and run a 4340. You're just it's a foot speed thing. Quickness is a little bit of its own thing.

Mhm. Having rhythm singing voice, you know, we they're things that are kind of their own thing.

Yeah. Balance is a kind of a of course thing. It's its own thing and it's just there or it's not. You can't really teach it. Wrestling is the sport of balance. That's all it is. Cuz it's, you know, you're just trying to take each other down and the person with the best balance is going to be the hardest one to take down. That's why you see, are you a fan of NFL at all?

I'm a big football fan. And you notice that the guy uh the football players that uh like Ray Lewis for instance, he's considered probably the best or one of the best linebackers of all time. He was a high school wrestling champion.

Oh, he was. So you think about like a line linebackers are, you know, they get blocked. That's what they that's what the offensive players do. They block the lineman and they block the linebackers. But if you're a really good wrestler, it's going to be very hard to block a wrestler. So same thing with Micah Parsons. Uh he's playing, you know, with the Packers now and he's he was a wrestling youth phenom and he can't it's hard to block wrestlers.

Interesting thing. Mason Graham. He's a defensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns. He was picked fifth last year. The fifth guy picked in the draft. And he's a a wrestling wrestling champion.

That's interesting cuz I could always sort of out I wasn't the biggest or the strongest, but I would get the better of almost everyone I contacted with. But it was all sort of technique.

Were you a skateboarder at all? No, I I I roller skates. I had I so I had weird I had a a longing for balance, like a weird thing. Like I was the kind of person that if we were standing around and there was a guard rail that was 20 ft long, I would jump up on it and go, I'll get on it. Yeah,

I'll get on it. And and I'll walk across it. I'll walk back. just because like I

had a a thing where even when I was older I had this trainer for a little bit and he said um he goes, "You got really good balance." I go, "Yeah." We had a yoga ball. He goes, "Try standing on the yoga ball." I said, "All right." I just I got I had to do it barefoot. You can't do it with shoes. And I I climbed up on it and I I stood up on it. I just stood on it. He went, "See if you can catch this medicine ball from the yoga ball." I was like, "Okay." And he kind of underhanded it to me and I caught it. I was like, "All right."

Throw it back. 10 minutes later, he's firing the yoga ball at me as hard as he can. I'm catching and firing it back. But I'm standing on a on a on a yoga ball and I'm catching a medicine ball. I'm like firing back to him. I'm 45 at this point. Like, and he's like, "You got weird weird something balance." And I'm like, "Yeah, I always had that." like I always rode the unicycle and stuff like that. And what it does is it makes you good at stuff fast, but doesn't make you an expert at stuff. You can things like just competitive driving in a car.

Do you ski or snowboard? I It was the funniest thing ever. I was saying to I was saying to Dr. Drew yesterday, he goes, "Do you ski?" I I Well, first off nobody nobody in Corola family can't ski. That means you have to buy lift passes and equipment and have a car that could get up to a mountain without overheating and [ __ ] Like we wouldn't do that.

I said to him, I said, "One time when I was 16, I went skiing with someone else's family and I didn't know what the [ __ ] I was doing." I was like 16 and they just put me on skis. And 2 hours into it, I'm going 50 mph down those slopes because I got great balance and I'm [ __ ]

I'm I'm a speed demon and I have no regard for my personal safety. So, I was just like, "Fuck this." I end up getting whacked in the face and stitches in my head and stuff like that. But I was going for it. Like, yeah, I was always like fast, speed, balance, whatever. But there was no, you know, there my high school, we didn't have a wrestling team or good at wrestling. I would have been good at wrestling. I could throw people around all all the time. But it was I realized it was balance. And balance is a weird

built-in thing. And I I have twins and I I had that board, the Bosu board or whatever, the one the cylinder in the middle of it. You could like rock back and forth and whatever. And I would get on that thing, by the way, and as an old person, I could jump up, switch feet, and land on the other side. What?

Facing the other direction. It's totally doable. It seems hairy. Yeah. It seems weird. Seems like you're going to kill yourself. But I could face you,

hop up, sweat my feet, and land on the other side facing the other way, and just go back and forth. You can do it. It's not seems harder. Yeah.

Seems like it's hairier than it than it is cuz you think you're going to eat [ __ ] But

I used to put my son on that thing when he was like 5 years old and he just be like you just fall over. I put my daughter on it. I could see her little hips going like switching like her brain was like firing her hips, you know, and I realized, oh, she's got that. He doesn't have that. But that's just a thing.

Yeah. You know, it's just like kind of a builtin. It's built in. And you know, just like anything, just like speed's built in and like uh um but you could take it to the highest levels, too. You know what I mean?

Oh, you could train and get better and and blah blah blah. That's I have a student who did that as a white belt when he first started jiu-jitsu. He would get on that that cylinder like you're talking about with the board

and he would do it before class like every time he'd show up and now he's got like insane that's what he's known for is his balance is insane.

Right. Yeah. It's good. I you know the thing about balance is it makes you better at everything and it also makes you catch on to things faster.

Yes. Like I I realized the very first time I did a competitive driving school for the Toyota Grand Prix or whatever.

I just showed up. I'd never done anything like it. And and you know they instruct you. They go turn in here and do that then whip the wheel around and then pull the E bra and we'll wet the thing down or whatever. And I did it and they were like, "Oh, you've done these schools before." And I was like, "I've never done this before. I just I can follow your instructions. I have B I realized it was the balance that made

like the pick team like changing tires and stuff on these cars or or driving driving it. Oh, okay.

Yeah. It just I I just sort of realized that balance just sort of makes you catch on to things.

Yeah. A little faster and be a little bit better and understand instructions a little better. I think

I I think Yeah. The the more balance you have uh the less uh clumsiness you have and the less awkwardness you have. For sure.

Yeah. It's just I I I doing a great job of articulating it. I'm just saying balance is its own thing. It's kind of interesting and I would I would recommend people work on it a little bit. Get that double-ended board or whatever.

Totally. People are doing that like they're doing um like uh it's like a half a ball.

It's like you're half one and they're doing like pistol squats like onelegged squats on them and keeping their balance. Right. Right. Right.

People really work up. Balance is huge for sure. Especially for sports. Yeah. And uh you can learn I I learned to ride a unicycle in like three hours or something something like that. It wasn't even my unicycle somebody else's.

But yeah. Yeah, you can get you it's it's good. I think it's good for your head too. I think it I think it like I think you know they go you got to have a good work life balance or good mental balance or something like that. I really think it's like literal balance like work on your balance a little. It's kind of good for your

It's good for your noggin. Yeah. Too. It's not just good for for wrestling or riding the unicycle or whatever. Larry Zona, I'm told, was also a wrestling phenomenon. Who was the uh

Yeah, it'll work for running backs, too, cuz uh this year, again, back to the Cleveland Browns, we have a a rookie named Quinn Sean Judkins, and I really like him because the guy we've had for the last couple years named Jerome Ford. same offensive line, but when Jerome Ford runs, it's different than when Quinn Sean Junk Judkins runs. It's totally different. Like, whoa, there's a big difference because Judkins, it's he's hard to bring down and he gets arm tackles don't bring him down and halfass tackles. He has great balance. And then I find out he's like a pro skateboarder.

Oh, there you go. There you go. You know, skateboarding is like another sport that's all about balance.

Oh, yeah. surfing. If you look at like surfing, it's all about balance, right? Can you balance

uh on a wave? That's it's all about balance. No, it's it's it's crazy. And it's really about sort of tying in your the totality. Everything every molecule is working.

No, I mean I know I should I'm [ __ ] See, my problem is I was always landlocked. That's from North Hollywood. No one had any money. No one could afford a surfboard or a wet suit or driving to the hills or skiing or anything. So, we all just

sat around and I would then create my own little balance games, but I'd have to do it like locally. I couldn't I couldn't go to surfing. I couldn't buy a surfboard. I couldn't We couldn't go anywhere or do anything. I mean, how'd you grow up?

Poor. Yeah, totally. I mean, Santa Ana, that's where they uh Yeah. I think in the 60s all the white people left LA and they went down to Orange County, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Mission VJO, but then they realized like where are we going to put all the Mexicans

because we need Mexicans. So they they designated Santa Ana, that's where they put all the Mexicans. My grandfather ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra raised 10 kids on manual labor, cutting grass, and I cut grass for a couple weeks, too. That's that's when I that's when I really knew like, oh my god, I I got to be a rockstar because I can't do this labor [ __ ] I actually was a landscaper for two weeks.

Labor sucks. I did a little roofing, too. I'm like, "Oh my god, I can't do this [ __ ]

I gotta make it in music. Fuck." Well, look, it's good to find out what you don't want to do. And I think I I don't think people really

get the value. And they talk a lot about exposing kids to this and exposing kids to that. you know, take them to the art museum and expose them.

But expose them to a bunch of [ __ ] they don't really want to do. That's helpful.

Yeah. Too. I I argue about that all the time. I go [ __ ] get a get a job at McDonald's and find out what you don't want to do. I worked at McDonald's. I found out what I didn't want to do. Yeah.

I mean, I was most of what I got out of life was basically finding out what I don't want to do.

I I was a carpenter. I was doing manual labor and I was like, uh, I don't want to do this. I I don't want to do it for a prolonged period of time. I don't want to do it when I'm 50.

What was the first thing you did uh in regards to show business? Like open mic night or something or

Yeah, it was like I was doing open mics and I was doing sketch comedy. I was doing the Acme comedy theater groundings, you know. I was doing Yeah. I was doing sketch and

first it was open mic nights. That was the very Do you remember your first one? Yeah. Yeah. I was open mics. I didn't I I didn't know what I was doing. Like I didn't have my voice. I didn't I was

I was I was up there like pretending to be a stand-up comedian. I wasn't. Were people telling you should do standup? You should do standup.

No. Nobody Nobody ever told me I should do anything. No. No. I I I didn't get any encouragement from anybody. I I it was like I I mean I shouldn't say I mean I don't know how bleak it was but I felt like I was funny like I felt like I had a good sense of balance like I was like I have this thing that I can do and I know I can do this thing that's in me. I mean, you don't get paid for having a good sense of balance unless you figure out a job working with Cirus Olay or something. Cir like that. But it's like it's a thing like so balance is like I have this thing I'm good at. Now I don't know how the [ __ ] I'm going to get paid, you know, to ride a unicycle. Like I I know that's going to work. But I was the same way with I have a sense of humor. I know that. Now I have no [ __ ] idea how I'm going to get paid for having a sense of humor, but I know I have a sense of humor. And nobody encouraged me

to do anything. They they were just work, just get a job and fight to keep it. I I was the one who was like going, "No, I think I think there's something more." And and my friends and anyone I was around was like, "Uh, you know, I could remember telling them like, "Look, man, I don't want to be doing this [ __ ] when I'm 50."

And they were like, "You're 22. Who gives a [ __ ] Have a beer." Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I was like, I get it, but I'm I don't want to do this. I'm looking down the road a little bit. I don't want to be doing this down the road. And they're like, well, you know, life sucks. And then you die, you know, have have a beer. And I was like, I'm going to go take a ground links class at night. And they were like, all right, well, we're going to have some beers and have a good time and get laid.

Yeah. And and I was like, you guys stay back, have some beers, and get laid. I'm going to the [ __ ] ground links and I'm going to give them money I don't even have for these classes and uh I'm gonna drive a truck over there. I don't even have car insurance and I'll go I'll give them money for these classes. And they all wanted they all didn't get what I was doing at all. And so no, there wasn't any any form of encouragement from my family or from them or from anybody.

Yeah. Weird. I started jiu-jitsu when I was 24. Wow, that's old. That's when Yeah. That's when I move I I was already in Hollywood for a couple years. So my family and all my friends in Santa Ana, I was they never ever looked at me as a fighter or like anybody that was tough or I was always a [ __ ] I cried over anything. I was always I was never like this tough guy. Even though I wrestled I never I wrestled a couple years in high school, but I never considered that martial arts at all. I thought it was just one-on-one football. I thought fighting was like you have to be on your feet. So once they started um now I'm in Hollywood and every now and then I'd you know I'd come down for Christmas or Thanksgiving and then they found out that I was doing jiu-jitsu but they're like oh my god he's taking self-defense classes like yeah that's you know they never then I started competing and they just could never accept that uh like I

was getting good at a at a martial art you know it wasn't until after I went to Brazil and beat Holy Gracie then they're like wait a minute you're actually kind of good at this I'm like I've been doing it for nine But I just had this reputation of being such a big [ __ ] that it was very hard for them. Like my uncle called me once said he worked at a a auto parts place and he said, "Yo, one of my one of my co-workers here, he said, "Your his son has your book on martial arts."

I'm like, "Yeah." Because I really didn't talk about I' I've written a few books on martial arts and uh they can't believe they're like, "What? What do you know?" I'm like, "I don't know. They keep paying me. I don't know. I'm just going to do this till I get a record deal. But it's it's it's a cool job until I you know I get signed.

It it I don't even I I never really tried to fully explain to my family what I was doing. I they sort of knew but not really. But they just they were in nobody nobody in my family had cable TV.

Yeah. So they didn't possess cable TV and the only way you could find me was on cable TV. Did you ever move to Hollywood or you just stayed in the valley the whole time?

Uh, I I lived in the valley basically my whole life and then I moved to Lock and Yatta because I built a gym called the um, Bodies in Motion where I was I was an instructor at a gym but it was a boxing gym and that was in Lock and the gym was like in Pasadena or something. So I moved, rented a room opened up, you know, like roommates rented house kind of stuff. And then my first house ever got was up in the Hollywood Hills below the Hollywood sign.

Really? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, it was great. Is that the middle of uh man? Was that man show money?

Um I No, that was that was probably loveline money. Oh, they were paying that good. Well, I owed the IRS money. I had no money and I was like I literally owed the IRS. I had to give like payments of like I don't know 28 bucks a month or something to the IRS. I can't remember what it was. But um I got into radio and I started making money in radio and then I did like one season of of Love Line on MTV, but we didn't know if it was getting picked up for another season or whatever. and I just hauled off them. The second the second I paid off the IRS and the second I'd saved up a down payment, I just immediately bought a house up in the Hollywood Hills, a junker, but I mean a cool old bones, but it was a broken down old house. And uh and everyone's like, "You barely in show business. Like you've been doing this for 10 minutes. Like how do we know? You don't know where your money's coming from. you don't know where

if you're going to get another season. You don't know anything. And I was like, I don't care. I'm I'm doing it.

And um I just bought this house up there. It was 350 grand for a house under the Hollywood sign.

Wow. Back then. Cheap. I know. And it needed a lot of help, but it need a lot of rehab. But I was a carpenter, so I was like, "Oh, I can do this."

So, you spent a lot of time fixing it up? I did. I spent a lot of time fixing up. And it turned out to be pretty cool. And it's probably worth I don't own it anymore, but it's probably worth like two and a half million bucks today. But the the point is is I was just like, listen, I'm going for it. Like like and and and that house I saw that house. I'd only looked at like two or three houses and and I said, "I'm getting this." And and everyone said, "You not you haven't looked at enough houses." And I said, "I've been looking at houses my whole life. I just haven't had any money. I've worked on every I've worked on everyone's [ __ ] house. I've seen everyone's house. I live in neighborhoods. I I've looked at houses my whole life. I just don't have money.

Now I have money and I've seen enough houses and I want this house. So I was always kind of like I'm betting on me and I'm moving forward. I'm doing this. That's awesome, man. I It's one thing I haven't boughten is a house. looked at a bunch of houses, but man, it just seems like uh we just we we're always getting outbid. It's crazy. And there's only been two houses that we weren't outbid and like the owners were like, "Take it. Take it. It's yours." And then it was in escrow and we did the inspections and one of them that the foundation was garbage and we had to we were going to have to spend another 150k uh redoing the foundation. And then another one we found out it was in uh Granada Hills, I think it was. And it was next to the It was too good to be true. It was like a lot of space and like whoa, how come we're the only ones um qualify for this?

Doesn't make any sense. We kept we keep getting outbid on every other one. And then we look we did some research and there was a rocket dine which is like some uh company that make makes uh uh propulsion

stuff for NASA and they had an accident there years ago. A lot of people got brain cancer in that area. So that's like oh [ __ ] and we knew it was too good to be true. So we had to pull out of that one. And then since then they're just like, you know what? They're just it's just not a good time to buy right now for some reason.

Um I know you're you're into I don't know what we call them conspiracy theorists theories. I don't know.

Uh coincidence theories. Coincidence theories. Um I I got to tell you, I I would say if you asked me precoid about any of these things, I'd be like, "Ah, no, no, no, no." After CO, I'm like, "Okay, all right. All right. I'm I'm much closer to the tin foil hat wearing. I I tell people I don't have a tin foil hat. It's a tin foil yamaka. It's not as big as a hat, but it take it's still made out of foil and it's still in my head. And now I'm just starting to realize everything seems to be about money. Everything's just like follow the money. Like everything

ends up just being money. Money in control. In control. People in power, they spend um all their time doing things that will keep their power. No one wants to lose their power. So whatever it takes to keep the power, it's just the human condition. And uh seems like seems like uh this world is run by evil forces. Doesn't seem like good people run are control in control of the world. It seems like it's evil. I'm I'm trying to always trying to sort of negotiate that in my head like when I sort of think about politicians and people like is George Soros evil or is he just have a way of looking at life that's sort of different than I might look at life or even a like a like Gavin Newsome like he's been in here I've interviewed him he's he has a he has a 10-centent head and he's kind of a sociopath but is he bad like is Is he evil or does he just have a bunch of [ __ ] ideas that end up causing very

negative outcomes, you know, because at a certain point, you know, people get killed with [ __ ] policy, you know, and but I can't figure out like what what's the endgame? Like are, you know, because they end up kissing their kids good night every night. They're family oriented and they're they like music and what is it, you know, like are who is evil? Like who are we talking about here? And and and there's people that you know people on the left think Trump is evil and then people on the right think Obama's evil, but are they evil? Like everyone has kids and wants to drink a glass of wine and watch a sitcom like at night. Like what is it? I think it's just a combination of a couple things.

Keeping your power, money. Um there could be a lot of uh you know uh compromising going on and blackmailing going on. That's how

that's how that's how um you know, you can take a good guy who loves his family, loves his kids, but man, he got caught in some stuff and now he's got [ __ ] on him and now he's got to [ __ ] listen to what they say. you know that that's generally how you know you would run um uh an organization that was built on acquiring as much power as possible. Just like you take it down a street level, that's how gangs run. Gangs gangs like if you want to join a um a gang uh in a general sense, you're going to have to do something really bad that they have something on you. Like if you kill someone and they see that you got a body on you now, oh, they could trust you now.

They know cuz they you got a body and what are you going to do? You going to tell on us you got a body.

So I think there's a lot of that. It's just mafia stuff like mafia tactics. I think like the way the cartel runs in Mexico and in the United States, too. I think there's a bigger cartel that uh is um using the same style of tactics. So you go you you think of like the Obamas and you just go what's what's going on? Like they have money, they have power, they have influence. Um but the weird thing about a lot of these people is I never hear them saying certain things. Like it'd be great if Obama It'd be great if both Obama's just said, "Listen, we're not living in a racist country now. Everyone get the [ __ ] to work. It's fine. It's an even even playing field. like let's all do this. You don't have to worry about that, you know, but they never do. It's always just sort of hustle. Like it's always the same conversation I hear from them.

Yeah. But it's the people that are in power. There's a reason why they're in power. They made some they got some they have a job to do and if they didn't want to do the job, they would not be in power. So, um the people the with the power in this world, they're really smart. They know how to uh manipulate the masses with scops. There's scops going on all the time and uh the news is basically it just propaganda.

Well, yeah. I mean, take something like co like I I knew something was going on.

So, I knew something was wrong with CO super early. Yeah. and and I pointed it out and I I got vocal about it

and it it it struck me that there was a pattern and the pattern was sort of interrupted and I knew something was missing

like for me like I I'm patternoriented and I wasn't hearing the ages of the deaths and and they were keeping the ages out of the news and it it bothered me and it bumped me and so I would start talking about it. And so I caught on early that this was something. And then it was like lab leak versus wet market and and all this stuff. And and also it's interesting. It's all stuff I was yelling into the microphone about. But whenever there's a pandemic or something like AIDS, they always go to Africa. Because what I'm saying is is AIDS is relatively bad in the United States, but it's it's it it's horrible in Africa, right? Like everything's always worse in Africa, so they always go to Africa if there's something going wrong.

It all depends on what you think AIDS is. Well, well, now we're getting really deep. But I'm just going to say I didn't hear any COVID talk out of Africa. There was no discussion. There was what's going on in Spain, what's going on in Italy,

and the the presidents in the countries in Africa that opposed the COVID mandates, uh, they got killed.

Oh, really? Yeah. I think I think there was three of them. They got killed. They were against it.

They weren't. So, I didn't hear any story any horror stories about Africa and then I realized it's because they're all young. It's because they're all fit. Like, they're not heavy. They're not old and a lot of them are on hydroxychloricquin. So, they're on something already and they're young and they're fit and that's why it's not decimating that that population.

But I I I had things that were like indicators to me that made me think this is [ __ ] or this is going what's going on now? I don't know. Was it all just about an election year? like what was pushing CO like and and how did all the news agencies get bought in and corrupted? Is that all pharmaceuticals? I

I don't know for sure. I wasn't in the meetings, but there it was it's obvious that a lot of countries were working together on this. They were in lock step. there was a plan and they were talking about it like people like you know deep in the rabbit holes uh myself included. I mean we saw this coming before we're like damn are they going to do a pandemic? Are they going to do a pandemic? They're going to do it. Check this out. They already started Wuhan. They're going to do a pandemic like a fake one. I think it was all fake. I don't think that I think it was just the flu.

You know I just people they had the had the exact same symptoms. It was the exact same thing. And in I I think it was all fake. They just hijacked the flu and uh because if this was real, jiu-jitsu would have been wiped out. We were the opposite of social distancing and we never stopped. I have over 200 squirrels world schools worldwide. We didn't have one person dying and we're doing the opposite of what they told us to do. We're sweating and dripping every eight minutes a new man and we just a new dude a new dude just sweating gr not not just getting close but squeezing as hard as you can and not one death. And I mentioned that to Dr. Peter McCullik.

He's like, you know, uh, super anti- the jab, but he he thinks it it was like a real thing.

And he thinks what was a real thing? He thinks co was real. Mhm. And so I asked him on Alex Jones. I go, "Then why didn't um nobody in jiu-jitsu, nobody in the UFC, nobody in NFL, nobody in any sport, how how come nobody in jiu-jitsu, how come nobody in my schools died and we did the opposite?" And he said, "Because you developed immunity." I go, "Uh, if that's true, then uh why didn't the beginners die? The the be the beginner should have died."

Yeah. So, you sign up, you sign up for jiu-jitsu and then you're you're immune. Why didn't they just tell everybody sign up for jiu-jitsu AS SOON AS YOU SIGN you're immune? Nobody died.

It it never affected young and healthy and strong. It's the flu kills. The flu the flu kills people old people that have four coorbidities and that's what they found. At the end of the day, they found it and then nobody died of the flu for two years,

right? Come on. Then the PCR tests are [ __ ] They don't they don't they're not checking for viruses. It was all [ __ ] The guy who invented the PCR test, he said it was [ __ ] He said Dr. Fouch's full of [ __ ] He said it was all the tests were [ __ ] Like you got CO and you didn't you weren't even sick. Oh, you got CO. I'm like I guess I get CO but I'm not even sick.

So did we just mobilize like So you go so then what happened? So you go, "All right." So somebody comes up with the phrase Black Lives Matter, and then the next thing you know, Kmart has an aisle dedicated to Black Lives Matter because they're just mobilizing. They're just doing what they do. The people who make masks. I I was literally

I was leaving a hotel this morning. I looked down and I saw that round sticker that said distance or stand here or whatever that [ __ ] [ __ ] I know. But it's it's good business for the people who print those things and make those stickers and it's a good business for the mask people and it's good business for Purel and it's good business for CNN like is everyone else just following in on the business side of it.

Yeah, that's definitely happening. Um but I think the people with the power, call them whatever you want, the elite, Illuminati, deep state, whatever you want to call them, it doesn't matter. the people running this [ __ ] they're not part of a country. They're part of the whole world and they're all working together. And um it's probably I'm pretty sure I wouldn't if you you had them all in a one big room. I'm pretty sure international bankers will be in there, you know? I'm pretty sure like whoever owns like the biggest uh media companies and and newspaper publications, like the biggest like the big ones. I'm I'm sure they'll be in that room. So, is this is this sort of like climate change and that there's just tons of people who profit from this [ __ ] It's

all [ __ ] Yeah, I know it's all [ __ ] but there's just so much money. It's so much money. Like, you take a look, you take something like climate change and you go, okay, that's trillions and trillions of dollars. Nothing ever comes out the other end. It's basically the end, you know, the non tax. They wanted the carbon tax. Oh, that was woo. That that got us closer to world government. The ultimate goal. The ultimate goal. And it's always been this. Even back in Roman times, the ultimate goal was one world government,

right? They're always pushing for this like uh the Paris climate summit and stuff. The accord, we're all going to join the UN. We're all going to join the Paris climate summit. Like we're all going to join. And

like they really care. Oh, they care so much. Why the hell are you guys spraying chemtrails everywhere? You you claim it that's the real climate change. The climate change they're causing it.

Yeah. So it's like, you know, they fly privately to Davos and do the [ __ ] big climate change thing and all this. Yeah, I know. But it's kind of on us as citizens because when I started mouththing off about CO super early on, everyone just attacked me. And I'm like, you [ __ ] [ __ ] You [ __ ] cowards. What the [ __ ] are you attacking me for? I'm I'm trying to spread a little truth around here. And you're all coming at me. And by the way, you don't work for Fizer or Up John. You're just a citizen and you're using your voice to attack another citizen who happens to be truthful about this and I'm speaking up about it.

They're defending big pharma. It's unbelievable. [ __ ] it's it's like it's pathetic. By the way, I People want to know and I I I'm I'm online calling these people cowards and posies every 10 minutes. [ __ ] you. You deserve everything you get, you [ __ ] cowards. You did this. And if you don't want to do it, then [ __ ] apologize and shut up when the next thing comes down the pike. Sit it out, [ __ ] know it all. But you [ __ ] cowards and [ __ ] You caved to this because you were scared. Not of COVID. You were scared of the mob. Yeah.

They all were scared of the [ __ ] mob. Yeah. And and the big, you know, you know, I had Newsweek writing an article about me and [ __ ] like that. They're all [ __ ] cowards. They're all wrong. They never retract anything.

They were wrong about everything. But I don't know if they're just wrong or they're just lying over they attack Joe Rogan about horse paste or whatever the [ __ ] that is.

They're all working together. They're all work. It's like the mafia. It really is.

Right. But you'll just cash out your dignity for nothing. Like Sanjay Gupta. You just [ __ ] cash your reputation, your dignity for nothing for a couple of bucks, a [ __ ] paycheck from CNN.

It's sad. He got eviscerated though on Joe Rogan's podcast. Well, he should have. That was that was incredible. Well, first off, when you're lying, it's really hard to wiggle your way out of it. You know what I mean? When you're just [ __ ] lying. And that's all he did. And that's all CNN did. And that's all Newsweek did, you know, to me. They're [ __ ] attacking me. I told everyone there were I I sent a tweet out pretty early saying look the only

the only people dying of this thing are old people and sick people and the rest

just like the flu rescue [ __ ] got played just like the flu and everyone [ __ ] turned on

all they did is is put the flu on the bench and they took over and they made up some new [ __ ] and all that in my opinion all that gain of function research thing at these viology labs and go oh look they created I'm like in my opinion They didn't create [ __ ] If they could create or if they did, oh man, what a terrible job you did. You got the same numbers as the flu. You go, what a terrible job. What a terrible job you did. But to me, they're just, in my opinion, I think all those emails and all that stuff or the money's being money is just being stolen. They're not actually working on trying to create a virus that could kill a bunch. They wish they want people to believe that they're doing that. They want that's why they push it now. And now they go because they wanted you they want in the beginning they wanted everyone arguing between um what did it come from a bat or or did it come from an evil

scientist? Some people say oh it came from an evil scientist look there's money going to viology labs and then they go no it came we got to really believe that it came from a bat. They wanted you to argue because both of them uh prove both of them basically imply that it it's real,

right? It's real and that you're going to need the vaccine. So whatever one you believe you're going to need the vaccine instead of dude it's just the flu.

Yeah. Listen I I it again the homeless would have been wiped out. They say the homeless would have been I go they go why didn't the homeless get wiped out? Oh because again like the jiu-jitsu thing because they're immune. Go wait a minute. So

you either wash your hands 10 times a day or you don't wash at all and you'll be fine. That doesn't make any sense.

I know that doesn't make any sense. I again the homeless would have been WIPED THE [ __ ] OUT. THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST TO GO AND jiu-jitsu would have gone. If I would have had two people die of CO on me, I would have just I would have quit. I said, "Oh [ __ ] this is real."

But it's not real. Nobody died. Not one person. No. Not one healthy person. Yes.

That was sweating on each other and and and smashing each other. Listen, we we would have all been dead if that was real.

I [ __ ] said this. It's It's We're nuts. But again, it's not the Illuminati. It's the neighbors who enforced all this [ __ ] We didn't have to do it. You cowards made this happen. Impossible. It's mostly women.

But it'll never happen again. They could never do it again. They They could No, they I It was not going to work unless It didn't work with me the first time. It's not going to work the second time. They're going to try.

They've already tried though and it didn't work. They've tried to bring it back like two or three times and just nothing. Crickets.

Right. Yeah. you [ __ ] up your entire reputation. So, it it's weird in like a metaphoric way that fake pandemic was like a a vaccine for a real pandemic. You know what I mean?

Uh, good point to go out on the podcast. Look into it with Eddie Bravo. Also going to be at Hyenas in Dallas, Texas coming up with Sam Tripoli. Good day.

Yeah, we're going to do Houston and uh Dallas end of April. Go to samripolley.com for tickets

and 10th planet jiujitsu as well. Good to see you Eddie Bravo. Good to see you, man. Thank you for having me.

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Yes, this was a huge letdown. This was my Christmas present and I got a loss. I'm feeling uh two of two things. A, I want AJ Brown packing his bags and I want him somewhere else that is not here. I love you AJ, BUT LIKE YOU CAN'T YOU CAN'T MAKE THOSE DROPS IN that game. And I also want Kevin Patulo flipping burgers at like the local McDonald's or something. I don't care.

Why do you say that? Whenever he's an offensive coordinator, it's like he's flipping burgers. One side he's cooking, one half he's cooking, and the other half is completely raw. That's a great moment in local news. Now back to the Adam Corolla Show.

Kids talking Eagles. Yeah, I was performing all weekend and the games were always on and I'd have to leave with four minutes left in the fourth quarter to go out on stage and have no idea how the game all of them ended. And they were mostly all barn burners, man. Parody.

Amazing. All right, Alicia Krauss has news. I have a vlog installment which is my oneyear anniversary of the fires in Malibu Palisades and Aladena. And so um I got a little one minute trailer to uh play you guys, but you can go to amcroll.com and just check out the uh again it's the 30th it's about 30 minutes long but it's the oneyear anniversary of nothing getting done. Uh but I'll play you the clip.

All right. So the four major quesons on the outside of the seaw wall are where the house is going to go. The seaw wall is on the quesons underneath it. And these things go down about four stories into the ground. And again, if you look on top of the quesons that form the seaw wall, there's no rebar sticking out. So they're not going to try to tie those tops in. These have 22 in of rebar sticking out because they are going to tie those in with horizontal concrete forms that are called bond beams. So all those are going to be tied together. You can see it in their neighboring structure. You can see the quesons coming up and the bond beam is going across the top. And once that bond beam goes across the top, probably be three feet high, probably be another 30 yards of concrete just in this front bond beam, then they'll build on top of that.

So basically that scene in Planet of the Apes where Charlton H saw the Statue of Liberty, that's what'll be here in 2,000 years. Nothing else will be here. He'll just be staring at this. You damn dirty coastal commission. All right. All right. So it's crazy. I I I I don't know. I get going. The regulation people, it's the regulation. It's It's a weird It's a weird thing because like when you own something property

Mhm. And then somebody from the city like comes over and goes, "Hey, uh you you going to do some work on this property?" Go, "Yeah." You go, you put a chain link fence around that oak tree at the top of the hill and you go, "I don't want to do that. It's my property." They go, "Do it." Or you don't get your permit. and people sort of go along with it, but it's it's the most it's the most intrusive a government can be.

So, I'm going to confess to something. I hope that the statute of limitations are up, but it's one of the times I said f it to Uncle Sam,

specifically here in LA. Our little Brussels Griffin died toward the end of COVID and my husband was out of town for work and the country girl and me came out.

Your Brussels Griffin as like they they're cute little dog that looks like an Ewok.

Uhhuh. And so I called up my girlfriend that has a farm in Colorado and I was like, "Hey, how should I properly bury this thing in my yard?" So I waited for the girls to go to bed. They all said goodbye to the dog. They they all cried.

And I, you know, wet the ground, dug a hole, did everything she told me to do, buried the dog,

go inside, pour myself a glass of wine, so it's mama's time to cry over the dead dog now.

Googled it. Guess what? It's illegal to do in the city of LA. It's illegal to do everything in LA. I don't think people really

And I literally was like, it was one of the times in my life if I I said the f word aloud. I was like, like seriously, f it. This is my yard. This is my house. This is my dog.

It's my dog's car. Why am I going to pay some vet $1,000 to cremate him? It's so, you know, I I was It's so You're [ __ ] everyone with your big [ __ ] government. I was doing shows in Colorado and I was doing a bit where I was talking about the masterpiece Cake Baker and the guy was out of Denver, Colorado. And and look, I I think you can

I think we can distill my world and their world and your world and the progressive world down to this case, this situation. Like if you want

how do I feel about this? How do you feel about this? It's right there. The guy ran a small business and he employed people and he paid his taxes and he created a product that people in the community consumed. It's like

you want this guy. By the way, this guy's not the enemy city of of Denver state of Colorado. You you have people [ __ ] ripping off the government all day long. But you've decided that this guy is the enemy, which is number one. like the homeowners, the taxpayers, the people that keep the lights on. We're not the enemy. Leave us alone. So, the gay couple comes in, they tell him to bake him a gay wedding cake, you know, for their marriage. He says, "I can't do it." And um

and the city and the state and then a heterosexual couple wants him to do a transition cake and they sue him. And it look it literally goes to

You can't win. He keeps winning in court. It goes to the Supreme Court. You're bankrupting a guy who just says, "I'm religious. I'll bake anyone anything, but I know I'm not baking a gay wedding cake because it's against what I feel my religion would dictate."

Okay. Go across the street and city and state. Don't get involved. You should not be involved with this at all. It it is their it it's his prerogative. And by the way, you can go get a cake anywhere and that'll be that.

Yep. But I was the I it's something that's driven me nuts. It's drive It drives me nuts. But I was doing a show and a guy who worked for the Masterpiece Cake Baker, he he came up to me. It was like we're doing stuff meet and greet after the show signing autographs and whatever.

And he said, "You know, this thing had to go to the Colorado Supreme Court. Do you understand this, Doss? You ready to get pissed?"

Yes. You want the You want to know what the the Supreme Court said? He is no longer allowed to bake wedding cakes. Not gay wedding cakes. No wedding cakes. They've dictated that this baker and they go, "That's 65% of his business. You're not allowed to do this."

People, I don't know what you think or what you want, but how MUCH BIGGER DO YOU WANT government to be? How much bigger DO YOU WANT [ __ ] GOVERNMENT TO BE? YOU [ __ ] [ __ ] sheep imbecile. How much bigger do you want government to be? You want the government dictating to this small business owner who he can make his cakes for? That's what you want.

They want it to be so good, right? Because can funnel money a hero. You're a hero. You're all [ __ ] heroes. Okay. The difference between me and them is that

Yeah. That's it. They're all for my mom and everyone she knows would have loved to shut this guy's business down. I don't give a [ __ ] And by the way, you're the same people that want a women's only gym and a black dormatory on the college campus and black graduation ceremony. So, are you for segregation or what are you for?

Yeah. Well, no. Men in the women's only gym if they identified as the end result's going to be government cake.

Government cake. I know. Just shut the [ __ ] up everyone. I can't believe you people are fighting.

It's not good. And they make you eat it. You're fighting for this. This is what you want. You applaud this.

That's what they want. What the [ __ ] happened to everybody? They don't want me to be able to bury my dog.

They don't want you to be able to like say, "No, I'm not using a chain links fence to tie up that oak tree." They want, you know, Somali immigrants, defraud the government for this.

Growing up, we had two rules as kids. No crybab, no Tattletales. Yeah. If we just got back to that, we'd all be good.

All right. What do you got for the news? So, did anybody watch The Golden Globes on Sunday night?

I was working. You were working. Yes. I uh I liked Nikki's act. Uh some buddies of ours in the conservative podcast world didn't love it so much, but it wasn't too bad. She had one bit where she talked about CBS being like the top editor, and I thought it was joke about how when they edited Kla Harris, his interview,

right? But Shapiro and Ruben and others run it as a joke of like no not liking Barry Weiss over at CBS News. Now, um,

it is a funny, you know, what's a funny thing about the left? They did the same thing with CBS as they're doing as they did with X. Listen, you guys had it your way. You got to [ __ ] lie and use this platform and lie the whole time. And then somebody else got hold of it and went, "Look, we're going to open it up." And now you guys are all crying like stuck PIGS LIKE, "OH, WE don't get TO LIE ANYMORE." YES, YOU DON'T GET TO lie anymore. Barry Weiss is just wants to tell the truth and Elon Musk just wants the truth. You guys used to control what the truth was and now you're pissed because you don't get to control it anymore.

What the truth is, right? Which is kind of telling, but that's just what it is now. So, you don't get to cry about it.

But, but we're the bad guys. Yes, we're the bad guys. Okay. So, comedian Wanda Sykes, Mark Ruffalo, Ariana Grande, a few other people, they were wear they were wearing their Ice Out pins on the red carpet because this is the new thing. And then Mark Ruffalo is also wearing his be good pin. Uh Wanda Sykes though decided to go after Bill Maher. I guess she didn't uh doesn't like his tone of comedy. This is this is pretty telling.

And that's the other thing, too. God forbid Bill Maher just tell the truth a little bit and they get angry at him now. All right, here we go.

Bill, you give us so much, but I would love a little less. Just try less. Bill does not like this. Bill a little less a little less of his type of truth in comedy.

I don't even know what that joke is really. I don't think it is a joke. I think that's the laugh is everybody there feels compelled to laugh because it's their own people.

Was she accepting or presenting an award? She was presenting. Okay. Yep. She was presenting

scripted. She wanted to laugh. She She also uh we have another video of her talking about Oh, yeah. This is great. She's talking about how horrible the government is, too.

Okay. Yeah. Here we go. The pin be good. Tell me about the be good. Yes. Um, of course, this is for um the the the mother who was uh murdered uh by uh ICE agent. Um, and it's really sad and you know, I know people are out marching and all today and we need to speak up. We need to be out there and shut this this rogue government um down cuz it's it's just awful what they're doing to people.

She you could tell she didn't know her name. this uh the the mother. Also, you idiots left the border wide open for four years and a whole bunch of people came over and now we have to figure out who came over here and mop up the mess that you guys made and you're angry about it, but I don't know what what's the alternative.

I I'm we I've had this I'm sure you have had dinners and conversations with liberal center right-leading friends over the last week about Renee Good's death. And you cannot I think as a normal human being look at that and think it's

oh yeah you know totally like good glad she's dead like it's not she wasn't a gangbanger she wasn't a cartel member uh she was just supportive of those people and it is a that is the definition of a tragedy but I think what frustrates me is these same people that are standing up for her don't recognize oh the drug gun and human trafficking of innocent girls that's happening at the southern border Like, do they know the names of those women that are like dragged over here to be sex slaves and put up on Only Fans by like coyotees and cartel leaders? Like, where are the pins for them?

Oh, they don't. They're They're [ __ ] dumb shits and they're very convenient. And and somebody tweeted out this story, which I I was on it in 2017 cuz I forgot about this story that took place in Minnesota. It was a another woman being shot to death by an officer and nobody gave two shits. By the way, these people never give a [ __ ] because the woman was blonde and the officer shot him was black and Somali. But I'll I'll play you this clip. It It's It's the same place. It's the same thing.

Wow. It's literally apples to apples. It's a It's a officer. It's a civilian. It's a woman. And the difference is is

the narrative doesn't work for them. No. She was outside of the car and he shot her from inside the car,

which you haven't even heard this story because it's crazy. I I'll play the clip and then we'll I'll play the thing. It's crazy.

So, do you know who the last white girl to get unalived by law enforcement in Minneapolis was before Renee Good? No, you don't. And I bet you don't know that the person who did it was the first Somali police officer in the entire United States and that they were convicted of murder and it was later overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court and they only served a couple years. Bet you didn't know that, did you?

This story is insane. This woman Uhhuh. was a blonde yoga instructor from Australia, I believe.

Wow. She called the cops because there was like a disturbance in the alley or whatever be at night, like behind her place or something. So, she called the cops.

The cops rolled up. She was in her bathrobe and they thought she was the person. came down to talk to the cops and the partner, not the guy driving the car, the guy in the passenger seat, the Somali cop,

pulled his gun out and shot her across his partner out of the squad car and killed this unarmed woman who called the cops who came to see the cop car in her [ __ ] bathrobe.

Wow. Now, you can talk about there's, you know, we get into the cop killing thing all the time. It's like there unarmed, you know, Michael Brown, you know, hands up, don't you? Yeah. He's a 700B giant man who was wrestling with a cop trying to get for his gun. Okay. He got shot. That's what he did. He wrestled with a cop. And then, you know, LeBron James laments the poor girl who was trying to stab the other girl in the middle of stabbing her got shot. But there's there's things you you can do. You can do look this latest thing. She's behind the wheels. She's asked to stop. She's asked to get out of the car. She goes forward. She hits the guy. She gets shot. You can say,

"Well, isn't it all a bit of an overreaction? You know, George Floyd, whatever." Yes, George Floyd passed a bad check. Cops got called, wrestled with cops, got put in the back of a car, said he couldn't breathe, pulled out again, wrestled with cops again. Okay, this is none of that. This is literally you calling the cops

and then seeing the squad car pull up out front of your building and you walking out and getting dusted by a cop. That that is way worse than any of this stuff. I don't remember any marches.

You idiots can go, "Well, she didn't deserve to. Yeah, I know. The woman driving the minivan didn't deserve to die, but she was still driving a vehicle and she did move encroach toward a police officer and so on and she put herself into that situation.

She was trained by leftist groups that were allegedly funded by George Soros to put be put in that situation.

There's lots of stand up and fight and get in front of and all your [ __ ] [ __ ] nonsense. And now people are dead because yes, you're gonna stand up and fight and more people are going to get shot. She was shot by this. He w his name was uh Muhammad Noir and he was a Somali. He was the first Somali cop. And of course,

has he been funneling money to terrorist groups? The optics look horrible. Yeah,

they're horrible optics for CNN. A black guy, a Somali guy, a cop shoots a blonde woman dead. So that's why we move the [ __ ] on. This shooting in Minnesota was 10 times more egregious than the ones Mark Ruffalo is wearing her [ __ ] pin for. You [ __ ] [ __ ] But you know what? Mark Ruffalo doesn't know about this story and neither do any of those [ __ ] at the Golden Gloves.

Yeah, you're probably right. Oh, they have no idea. Do you want to listen to Mark Ruffalo talk about how horrible and dangerous and scary? Cuz we have that, too.

And I made a joke. I made a Mark I don't know why it was a Mark Ruffalo joke, but somebody asked me when I was on the road. Um, somebody was doing my home doing their due diligence and they said, "You're getting a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood."

Oh, that's cool. I know. I I I blocked it from my mind, but I but it is cool. And they said, "Where do you want your star?"

Uhhuh. And I I never I you know I was stupid being interviewed so I was trying to be funny but I hadn't thought about it you know. They said where do you want your star? I said well not next to Trump's star. And they said why not? You don't like Trump? And I said no I like Trump but once a week when they show up with the pickaxe to destroy Trump's star, they're going to turn around be walking back to the van and they're going to see my star and go [ __ ] this guy. Like we got as long as we got the axe out

we're right here. I said, I want to be next to Mark Ruffalo star where I won't get the pickaxe.

That's a solid call. I don't even know he had a star. I don't know. Just don't put the star next to anyone who's openly conservative or a Jew in Hollywood and you'll be safe.

If I get next I am thoroughly convinced that if mine was next to Trump on the way back to the Prius Yeah.

I would get hit. Yeah. Because the the pickaxe already out. Put it next to Mark Ruffalo where all the SJP pro- kamas types won't do anything to touch it.

That's where I want to be. All right, let's hear what the great uh Mark Ruffalo has to say.

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Mark, why do you feel that this platform is still useful to spread a message like this? Listen, I I I want to pretend like this is I want to be here to celebrate and I am here to celebrate and I'm proud to have a Golden Globe nomination, but also this is not normal anymore.

And so I don't know how I how I could be quiet and I'm feeling a little sick. So it's hard to BS right now. So

Oh, he's sick. Wasn't he one of the ones that told us to get vaccinated and wear a mask?

It's hard to BS when you're sick. I'm at my best when I'm sick in terms of the BS

they do. I feel like when you're sick and when you're old, it's like no filter man.

Well, there's no there's more BSing when you're not sick because that's when you're calling in sick, but you're going fishing

the day after the Super Bowl. That's right. Ah man. Get back from the Bachelor weekend. Can't come in tomorrow.

Not feeling myself. Terrorized. Do you feel terrorized? Oh, I wake up. Listen, it is so easy to avoid getting shot by a cop. It's real easy. You just listen to what they say

and you'll be fine. And by the way, don't go down there. That's the other thing, too. If there's [ __ ] going on, stay at home.

If there's stuff going on, just don't try to obstruct anybody in a uniform with a gun. That's just like a good rule.

I'll put it to you this way. I just got done walking through the airport. They tell you what to do every 10 ft.

Uhhuh. And it's on the speakers, too. If you're a toddler, if the guy asked for my ID and I just got him in a headlock instead, then then I might get [ __ ] with by cops. Or you can just comply. Yeah.

If you really think about an airport, you have white, black, women, Hispanic, young, and old, all just funneling through this place times a million a week.

Mhm. Everyone complies, everyone goes right through the airport. Yep. Stop complying, then you get stopped.

You get on a no-fly list. There's a way to do it. Yes. All right. What's next? All right. Well, I did like some of the dresses, but this isn't the show for that. No,

you don't want to break down the dresses I liked. I don't know. I I'll listen if you got if you got something.

No, no, it's fine. I love Nikki's dress. I actually liked Miley Cyrus's dress. I don't know why people are knocking it. It was great. Okay, so comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers are apparently walking back comments about Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett. You know, the sassy congresswoman.

I like her style, too, most time. Don't like her politics, though. Apparently, they encouraged fans not to donate to her Senate campaign. The episode was posted a couple of weeks ago and the co-host waited into the political territory by debating the Democratic Party strategy for 2028 and Crockett's electability. Here's a clip.

Should we have listened to the populist message all along? Is that ultimately what would work for them? Yes. It's not going to be Gavin Newsome. And when anytime a politician is making it too obviously about themselves, I'm already done. And don't waste your money sending to Jasmine Crockett. Do not do it.

I I must agree. Don't do it. Don't. You're gonna waste your money. Take it from someone who sent Sarah Gideon like a ton of money in Maine.

So, they got a ton of backlash. Why they got a ton of backlash? Because she is a liberal darling and you're not allowed to say don't send money to her. So, then they put this statement up on their Instagram stories and they had to apologize and he said that they should not have weighed in on it and transportation and cander matter yada yada. And they're so smart.

Transportation. Transparency. Okay. Cuz transportation matters. Transportation. I need

it does. Well, it matters. I would argue it matters more than transparency. Transparency in Canada.

And the ultimate transparency in transportation is Wonder Woman's jet. She has an invisible jet, which there's a little flaw in the invisible jet department because Wonder Woman flies an invisible jet.

Invisible. She's not invisible. So, it just looks like a woman sailing across the sky, which would draw more eyeballs,

okay, than an actual jet would. I wish I were invisible right now cuz that was a dumb blonde moment. Anyway, they said that transparency

and candandor mattered deeply to them, especially on the podcast. I'm a very progressive person.

But listen, here's let me just say this everybody. When you walk back [ __ ] that you mean,

then I don't find you genuine. No, then you're not genuine. I do not believe you. There's no more. You know, it's like

I actually would start listening to their show if they doubled down on it. Well, like Camala Harris was against fracking, then she's for fracking. What is she? She's just walking [ __ ] around trying to get votes. Now you [ __ ] are just walking [ __ ] around. If you meant it. Well, you said it, so I'm assuming you mean it.

He said that he has great respect for her and he regrets his word suggested otherwise. No, it doesn't suggest otherwise. You just saw her grift and you're calling it out. I feel like people on the right and the left need to be doing this. And when you don't do it, then your side ends up losing because you have grifters like her who are on CNN and MSNBC all the time

collecting money but not helping the progressive movement. I mean, I hate to give free advice to Democrats, but he should have doubled down on this.

They're [ __ ] and we don't need to listen to anything they have to say because they're [ __ ] they're cowards and they're liars because they're walking [ __ ] back. All right, we have a clip of uh

Oh, we have the uh the mayor of Minnesota. Uh Minneapolis, Minnesota. This guy, what happened to guy? I wrote a book called 50 years all be chicks. This guy's a chick.

Um he's even got the the nicely quafted hair going on. He looks a little sad though. So, after months of Democrats, including him, saying there was no fraud, no fraud, no fraud, no fraud.

Here we go. Walking it back. Let me ask you about the leadership in your state. Dozens of people in Minnesota have been charged and convicted with stealing millions of dollars of taxpayer money for government programs. Do you think Governor Walls did enough to stop the fraud in your state? And do you support his decision not to run for reelection?

Well, look, Governor Walls is the reason that we've got paid family leave in Minnesota. He's the reason we've got free school lunches. Uh him and I, we've been through thick and thin.

But did he do enough to combat fraud? Mayor, did he do enough to combat fraud? Look, obviously everybody could have done more to prevent fraud. I think I I love the when they expanded out. Obviously, you know what I mean? Everybody.

So, a guy who runs a bait and tackle place outside of Garrison Keeler's place could have done more like whenever they expand it. We all could have done more. Yeah. Everyone could have done more.

I could have done more, right? Except for I think the comp troller could have done a little more,

right? We don't write checks. So, we just pay taxes. You guys then distribute the money. So, I don't

garbage men. We all could have done We all could have done more. So, whenever they start including everybody, that's a bet that that So, here's how they do it.

First, they go this never happened. Then the next thing they do is it may have happened but this is really just the right attacking us. Then it goes to these counts.

Yeah. Then it goes to it happened but not that much. Then it ha then it goes to it oh well definitely did happen but happened before I got here and here's why I don't. And then it expands into everybody wishes and then there's a thing where now Newsome will do this all the time. He'll expand it. He'll go, "What about your homeless problem, Gav? Many cities are STRUGGLING WITH." YEAH, WE'RE NOT ASKING ABOUT THEM. WE'RE ASKING ABOUT YOU. You and your city in your state, not you. When they expand it, that means they're doing it.

Or whenever you ask him about the budget, he always talks about how California is the world's fourth largest economy.

Leading the way, always leading the way. All right, I want to hear a little more of him. Sorry.

Obviously, everybody could have done more to prevent fraud. And I think that's a a fair point to make. Do more to prevent fraud. And you look what he's doing right now. He's setting up a whole bunch of infrastructure to do that. And by the way, look, the fraud's real. We've all got to acknowledge that the fraud is very real. And and by the way, when somebody commits fraud, and there are many that have done that, you investigate it,

you charge, you prosecute, uh, and yeah, you put the person in jail. Oh, as ICE officers are doing,

you put the person in jail as an individual. You do not hold an entire community, any community, accountable for the actions of individuals.

It's fascinating. I agreed with the second half of what the dude said. Mhm. But he doesn't understand that that's exactly what ICE officers are doing.

Well, also, when they do this thing where there's another thing, too, where they go, "Nobody's doing more now." It's like, "We're not talking about now. We're talking about then." Like when you embezzle money from the bank you work at for 20 years, we're talking about that. We're not talking about what you're doing next Monday. We're talking about that number one. Then number two, when they do the procedural stuff, they go you we will find you. We'll arrest you. We'll incar we'll try you and we're Yeah, I get that's what you do with criminals. The question is is why haven't you done any of the [ __ ] in the last 20 years, you [ __ ] pansy? just running out the clock in that answer, right?

Oh, and the hand motions and the pausing and annunciation of the words. Yeah, it is a good stall.

They run out the clock and then she never asked any. By the way, she she's [ __ ] horrible. She's a piece of [ __ ]

Like she's the one who did I I'm telling you the greatest clip. Like if you want, you know, they're they're

Oh, you showed me this one before. They're clips that I would call time capsule clips.

I did not believe it when I saw it. people go when people are like, "Well, how would you capture this moment we're in?" Like, I would show them

if someone said, "What was this era like?" I would show them the VW commercial where the biracial gay couple hijacks a sheep and takes it home to raise them with their SUV. I would go, "That's what we're That's where we were. That's that's us. That's our society. That's what was happening." and and Trump is trying to debate Biden and Trump's talking about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia gate and all that stuff and Biden's laptop and Hunter's laptop and that little dumb [ __ ] is sitting there going, "CAN WE GET BACK TO RACE?

WE GOT TO TALK ABOUT RACE." I'm like, "Okay, that's perfect. Perfect. She's running interference for Biden because she wants to talk about race in 2021 or whatever the [ __ ] it was. It's a non-issue that you guys want to keep talking about so you can use as a cudgel, a weapon. And that was her. It was her going, "WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO RACE, GENTLEMEN. We're 80year-old guys. We got to talk about race in America. Keep talking about race. We're not going to talk about all the [ __ ] that's actually happening and wrong with government.

Remember when people on both sides of the aisle were actually afraid of like journalists and reporters?

Oh god, they're so And like the Sunday shows used to be some of the best of the best. I know.

Like, oh, here it is, by the way. We'll show it to you just because it makes me laugh,

Joe. They're calling you a corrupt politician. Nobody's President Trump. I want to stay on the issue of race. We're talking about the

top from hell. President Trump. We're talking about race right now. And I do want to stay on the issue of race.

Okay, let's just talk about race so we can make black people more angry. I do love Trump's hand motion.

Kristen Welker, nice job, [ __ ] Speaking of race, that's got to be de diire for her, right? That's not She's [ __ ] horrible at her job. Gentlemen, I want to talk about race. Okay, you could look into the laptop, [ __ ] But you're not.

Not the like look into the laptop. Look into all the riots that they called peaceful protests.

No, no, we don't keep talking about race. That was like literally happening then. LA was burning. LA and Portland were burning.

We got to talk about race. Nope. More race talk. All right. All right. One more.

All right. Uh I noticed you're wearing green today. I'm wearing red. I'm wearing green because Mark Ruffalo said

I don't know what I'm wearing blue Iranian sisters right now who are marching in the streets on my hat.

They're guesstimating that like close to 2,000 people have probably been arrested and over 500 are dead but we don't know for sure because

the you know the regime has shut down internet and cell service. Over the weekend there were people you know marching for freedom in Iran and a man drove a U-Haul truck straight through this crowd of protesters in LA. I think this was over in the Beverlywood area and the event in the aftermath was all caught on tape from so many different angles. Did you see this?

Well, no. I I kept I like I said, I was working and traveling and doing shows and stuff and I I was not able to catch keep up with I heard bits and pieces. There were like hundreds of people if not thousands of people who showed up in LA protesting against the regime in Iran and they're heard screaming as this massive vehicle just bulldozes straight through the group seemingly without regard for humans there. And in other clips you can see that cops are seen trying to snatch the man out of the vehicle. So there this is the video of the vehicle just rolling down the street.

Okay. He's just driving through the now I mean is there somebody on the roof of it? Somebody apparently jumped on the roof cuz they were trying to remove his pro- regime sign.

Oh. And then when he finally gets to a point where he has to come to a stop, there's this video of these like, good for them, average citizens going all guardian angels on his ass, like trying to get him out of the cab before the cops get there. And then the there's like another video of the cops trying to just separate everybody and try to figure out what the hell was going on.

Now, to be fair to him, he was in a U-Haul trying to get the [ __ ] out of California. So maybe his argument would be

he wanted to go back to Gavin Newsome so bad. I was just trying to grab He's paying a premium too.

Pay a premium because three grand to get it to Austin but 30 bucks to get it back from Austin. So he he paid his premium. He's got grandma's attic up there. He's got the super I love reading about how easy it is to load him up. Maybe that was it. So he drove a U-Haul U-Haul through this through this crowd.

Yeah. It's scary. Yeah. and then didn't run anyone over. Huh. I mean, that's a that's like a terror attack.

That's what Mexican flag is the Iranian flag. I can't tell. There's too many flags that the same schemes.

What? The Mexican flag and the Iranian flag. That was a Mexican flag at the Iranian protest.

What's really cool is is that a lot of people So, you see that flag with the lion on it. It was what happened. It was what they had before the Ayatollah. Oh,

and so people all around the world are going to Iranian embassies and replacing to the OG.

I'll tell you all I would here's what I would like to go on a tour of a a U-Haul band tour of. I would just

literally show the first episode of Saturday Night Live from 1975. Mhm. And I would show the first 10 seconds of the news and I I would put together a montage because you show the news from SNL from 1975 and Chvy Chase will get up there and go, "Well, trouble in the Middle East." And I go, "Trouble in the Middle East. Trouble in the Middle East." And then I would put a montage together with a calendar and the pages blowing by. Trouble in the Middle East. Every [ __ ] news. Every news broadcast I've seen in the last 75 years starts with trouble in the Middle East. And then I would go, could you people get your [ __ ] [ __ ] together? For the love of Christ, it's trouble in the Middle East. It's always trouble in the Middle East. Maybe we should internalize some of this. Perhaps it's you. Perhaps there has something to do with the people who live in the Middle East. That every single news

since I've been alive has started off with trouble in the Middle East. I think when you look at the area broadly, but it's just like that's like saying like trouble in the United States. Well, turns out Minnesota and LA are going to have different types of trouble than Dallas and Austin are, right? And I think that when you look at the Middle East, the problems of the Iranian people are very different than the problems of the Egyptian people.

But it's all back to one thing, which is we can't [ __ ] do this. Can't just get along. Can't just have a government. Can't just not [ __ ] persecute people.

Of bad guys. I I know. But we have bad guys. There's bad guys in Canada, but it doesn't start off with trouble in Canada. It starts off with trouble in the Middle East. And it will never end. And it's the people that's the problem.

That's the problem. Yeah. I believe it was probably right around 50 years ago, the the fall of the Shaw of Iran. We all of us have Iranian friends whose parents fled in the early '7s and they're fully normal cool

American adjusted people. Yeah. Yes. Nobody remembers about those guys. But I think that there's there's people what you're seeing now with like the protest there is like

they haven't I mean this is a perfect example of why America is a beautiful experiment that worked is we have that first amendment that lets you and I say

what about slavery this we have the second amendment. What about the trail of tears?

Uhhuh. And what about the Japanese American internment camps? Mark Buffalo wants to know.

He wants to know. What about the internment camps? Yeah, he wants to know. But I think part of the reason why there's consistently trouble in the Middle East is that the people there do not have the rights and the freedoms that we do here.

That's why and Canada ain't as great, sorry guys, to the great white north. But they also have different rights that people in the Middle East do not have. So they

at a certain point you got to figure out why they decided it was a bad idea to have rights. I mean, you got to you got to start deconstructing it at a certain point.

Oh, when it comes to the Ayatollah, it's because of radical Islam. Yeah. I'm just saying whatever the whatever the plan is. It's it's it's been a while. Let's think about shifting gears.

Timeline. I don't know. You want to blame the water or you want to blame the people? You want to blame the powers or the people that are in power? You want to blame the religion? Whatever it is, it's not working out is what I'm saying. Maybe hopefully it'll change. A change of direction. I would say I basically say the same thing to Al Sharpton and all the race hustlers out here. whatever it is you're doing for the black community, maybe you should knock it off.

Maybe a little direction change would be the way to go. Yeah, cuz I'm looking at the stats and you guys haven't helped.

Yeah, that's all I'm saying. There's It could It's very fascinating to live in a time like between what's happening Iran right now, what's happening in Ukraine, what's happening in Venezuela. Like, there could be shifts happening all over the world.

It'd be nice. All right. This weekend, me I'll be in uh Oregon, Grants Pass. That's right. Rogue Theater. And uh that'll be Friday. And then Saturday I'll be in uh Midtown Ballroom. That'll be in Bend, Oregon. And we're going to New York. I'll be at Rodney's doing some live shows there on the 29th and stand up there as well. Heading on out to uh heading out to DC at the uh Kennedy Center and the Trump Center.

The Trump Kennedy. Well, the thing that's funny is RFK Jr. people got hold of me and he wants to come out and that's his name, his family's names on it. So, we may do something on stage here. We're going to figure that out. Alicia Krauss, you got your oped at the Washington Examiner.

Sure do. And Eddie Bravo's got his podcast. Look into it with Eddie Bravo. Go to abcrow.com for all the live shows. Until next time, Adam Crawford for Eddie Bravo and Alicia Krauss saying mahalo.

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