Greg Anderson
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I just don't get it. Well, I mean, that's really the essence of jujitsu is when you know what someone's going to do and you still can't stop it. And it's funny, man. I have, I have new guys come off the street that are like, you know, just naturally tough human beings and they'll be frustrated on night one. They're like, dude, you arm barred me six times.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Like after the first time I knew you were going to do it and I still couldn't stop it. I'm like, bro, if you could come in here and stop my jujitsu after doing it for 21 years, what would be the point of coming in here?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yeah, bro. You know what's funny? Like my fake black belt. Yeah, I was going to say, I get people that anytime people see us training together on Instagram, I'll get DMs that are like, what's it like to roll with Andy? What's it like to roll with Andy? Like any other fucking person. It's like, people just want to know. And I think people want to know is because you progress.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I mean, what are you, a five or six year black belt? Just under six years. Just under six years. And so to like a lot of jujitsu people, they're like, that's fast, right?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
That's what I was going to say. Seven times a week. Hours on the mat are what build your jujitsu. Not years based on showing up once or twice a week.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I also think you showed up with, I mean, you've already done a lot of things at a high level. So like you understand what it takes to become successful at things. I do what the coach says and no more. Yeah, but you told me you said, hey, I'm either no send or full send, right? So it's like, okay, this jujitsu thing, this is what I do now.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And we could talk about this for the next two hours because I still don't, even after 21 years, I don't know what the right path is to just... hone the basic jujitsu that works for me? Or do you expand your way of thinking and learn squid guard and learn inverted daily worm guard and all that shit? And it's like, for me as a coach, I think it's more important to have an understanding of it.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I want to understand it to the degree that I can deal with it.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yeah. No, I think that's what's key. But then I had an interesting experience literally like three weeks ago. Do you know who Jeff Teagues is? Are you familiar with him?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
He's a black belt. He's a former tier one guy. T-I-E-G-G-S? Do you like that? I don't know, but his son, Aaron, is also a black belt. I don't like this already. So he's 27 years old.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And he started at seven. And he came up to my academy last week. That's rough. And, bro, I haven't been manhandled like that literally since Bouchatia. But the thing is, Aaron's the same size as us. He weighs 205 pounds. Fuck. And he wasn't used, he wasn't like outpowering me or using strength.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
He was just doing whatever he wanted to me with really sound leverage and angles, but he plays all that fancy stuff too, but he knows it all. And it was like, which I think is awesome, but in like in life,
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, and bro, that's been my jujitsu forever. It's pretty basic. And I always reference Hodger Gracie. Like that dude, arm bars or cross collar chokes. Yeah, that's it.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
He was on the back, yeah, yeah. But still, like, very basic jiu-jitsu, right? That's how I would beat him, too. I watched him and Hodra fight live at Metamorris 1, when Bushesha was my coach. And have you ever watched any of the Metamorris shows?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
People are swearing at their radios right now, bringing up Metamoros because it left a sour taste. But that's how I've heard about it. Yeah, a lot of people got fucked over by them from what I understand. But regardless, him and Boucher and Hodger had like a... a pretty gnarly 10 minute match where Brzezina clearly out grappled him, but it's submission or draw. That's how Metamorsk does it.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And so it ended up being a draw because he couldn't put him away. Yeah. And so fast forward a few years, I was like, dude, Marcus is only getting better. He's going to buzzsaw Hodger now. Oh, is that when they met at that tournament? Yes. No, no, no. It was a super fight.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Like there wasn't, they didn't work their way to each other. Yeah, it was scheduled. Yeah, it was scheduled. And fucking. Dude, Hodger put him away pretty quick. He just made, he made it look easy. And it was like hard for me to comprehend, like, because you know what Marcus feels like on top of you.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I call it invisible jujitsu because you can't, you can't see what you can't, you can't see what you can't feel.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
It's like, just so you know, he's like, I was just getting you tuned up for your tournament. No, you hear those stories about Hickson. You're like, is this like old, just jujitsu, like why he claims is real. And then you start to hear it from more and more people. It's like, dude, he did whatever he wanted to everybody. And even his family, like they're all like, yeah. Yeah.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
As long as he signed a waiver and it'd probably be the easiest role of the night.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Fucking get back out here. Yeah, what's Hickson's quote? He says something like, if we're fighting for money, I stop when you tap. If we're fighting for pride, I stop when I want. Yeah. He's got some good ones.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, that, that helps, that helps them carry the initiative. If you can never settle in, that's actually one of the... No, no, no. I'm in a dominant position. I should be the one that's comfortable here. Nope, I'm not. Even if they're clearly losing, if you can't settle in, it starts to fuck with your mind.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And if you're... I'm assuming it's at the coffee shop and a lot of your success and a lot of the good that comes that place is probably a direct result of that crystal. I mean, you never know.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Dude, I love that's been like from day one. Cause I remember I was on my boat. Literally like a week after we did our first episode together. Yeah. And I remember, I don't know if you remember this, I was texting you about what equipment to get to start a podcast. Yeah, I do remember. And you're like, you're out on your fucking boat. I hope that thing sinks. So you've been very consistent there.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yeah, it was crazy. Started thinking for yourself. Well, dude, that was shit. And you were one of the first people that reached out to me and you're like, cause I mean, obviously you did some investigating cause my number is public cause I own a jujitsu academy. No, I hit you up through Instagram. No, no, no. You text me. Did I? Yeah. You text me.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And I was like, well, you probably Googled me. I'm assuming. I don't know.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, whatever you did, you texted me. You said, Hey, this is who I am. I run a podcast. You want to come out? I'm like, I know who you are. Of course I'll come out.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And, uh, it's crazy how a seven minute video can change the trajectory of the rest of your life, dude.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Bro, I'm not exaggerating when I say this. I wouldn't go back to patrol officer for $2 million a year salary. I wouldn't. Because here's the thing, man. Now that I have 265 students at my jiu-jitsu academy, so am I getting rich? No, but I also don't want for anything. We're very comfortable. Which I actually think is a better definition of rich. That's right.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I think rich is the ability to do with your time what you want to. And now that me and my family get to experience that, we're making enough to where like... My daughter turned 16 this weekend and we can go get her a new car, not a new car, but a car without being stressed about it. Right. And we can afford just being comfortable traveling when we want to travel.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
But more importantly than that, not having the stress of a boss, not having the stress of being told what to do. Like, dude, I think back on it now because I was 40 years old when I left the professional law enforcement. In that car, you were 40? Yeah, dude. 39 or 40. With your hat on backwards, you savage. Oh, I was hiding. I was hiding my department.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
How'd that work out for you? Yeah, it didn't. It didn't at all. But to think back, like literally four years ago, if I didn't shave my face that morning. Is that all it was, was four years ago? Yeah. Well, it's five now. Yeah, it's 2020. Oh, how...
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I know, dude. Or to hang out with your friends and do anything. Well, and that's why that story went so viral because everybody was feeling it at home and to see somebody in uniform say what everybody's thinking, that's why it fucking blew up the way that it did. How quickly from you hitting upload to your first call from the boss... Was it pretty quick? Yeah. Oh no. It was the next morning. Yeah.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I uploaded it because here's the deal. We worked, it was the last day of my work week, which was, I worked Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. So it was Tuesday and then I recorded it and put it out there like within the last couple hours of my shift and then Wednesday morning. Hey, I think I told you this the first time.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yes, for sure. They were still looking at it. Yeah, it happened immediately. Yeah. And so they say, hey, you got to take that down. And it was funny, too, because they're like, hey, we agree with your message. Everything you said is we think on principle is good, but we can't say that in uniform. And I was like, I don't really understand that.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Like cops can't say things that are good for the community to hear because we're in uniform. And they just landed on the social media policy. You can't be on any social media platform in a police uniform. I'm like, well, everyone's fucking playing with their dogs and doing all their shit in uniform. No one cares. But as soon as it's a political message, that's what they fell back on, you know?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I'll tell you, bro. I knew that I probably had a five-year window as a police officer before it was time to move on. And I'd already been in the profession because I was a deputy down in Los Angeles for a while, too. And I'll tell you, the Port of Seattle was a good department to work for. Like, the people were cool. My chain of command was made up of pretty good people. I didn't mind...
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
who I worked for, but the profession in itself was starting to eat at me. And it's like, dude, you wake up every day and you go to work and you drive around and you just, you deal with stuff that you don't feel like is even really making a difference, especially in Seattle. It's always like petty thefts, car prowls, a lot of drug stuff, a lot of trespass, like every once in a
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I revived a guy that had a heart attack that day. You go home proud of yourself, things like that. Right. Or you catch a dude taking pictures, a little boys taking a piss. And it's like, Oh, I got a good one today. Right. But I would say 95% of the time, um, It's just low vibration activity that you just start to carry and it feels heavy.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And I didn't know how heavy the profession was until I walked away from it. I had a lot of people telling me the next, I would say within six months of leaving law enforcement, they're like, dude, you're starting to age backwards. Like, yeah, good. Because I'm not carrying on.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, that was one thing I liked about my department is we would bid a position once a year and then you'd work that for 12 months.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yep. How do you not get completely, how do you not just hover at an empty battery? Well, bro, and that's the thing, the science behind being in any type of shift work, a nurse, a firefighter, a police officer, exactly what you're saying. It's, it's, it disrupts your sleep patterns. It loads your body with cortisol and statistically you die within five years of retirement.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And that's what every cop, like almost every cop that I know, the young ones that are new are go-getters. And anytime I talk about this, I always am careful because like, I'm not shooting on the profession. And if you're a hard charger and you're a cop and you like your job, by all means, continue to do that job.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
But there's a ton of cops out there that feel trapped because they have 10 years left. They don't know what else to do. And they're like, well, I get my retirement when I'm 57. And so I have to be here for another 12 years. And they're miserable. And it's a scary place to arrive because people feel stuck.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
But statistically, if you just keep grinding that out and then you finally reach that retirement, your heart gives out a couple of years later.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Bro, I don't think human beings, I don't think we're meant to be exposed to that kind of stuff for 20 or 30 years. I think being a soldier, I think being a patrol officer, I think being a firefighter, I think that those things are a young man's job. Or a young woman. You get people calling in being angry at you. That was Greg Anderson. Made the sexist and misogynistic comment.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
What I've noticed is like, you know, from 20 to 30, like experiencing a lot of those like high stress situations and putting yourself out there and doing those type of hard jobs. But to carry that into your 40s and 50s, I think at that point, people are just doing it because of retirement, right?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
What I think, and I don't even know if this is feasible because you'd have to look at like budgets and available positions and stuff. But if a police officer is a state employee or a county employee, I think we need to start looking at being able to offer positions where it's like, hey, 10 years on patrol. And then you have the option. I'm not saying force people, right?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
But give them an option to retire with some type of government service that's not carrying a gun. And it's not that super high stress stuff all the time. Even if that's like, I don't know, fucking park maintenance or whatever it is. But I don't think we're designed to be living high stress for decades on end.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And have more oversight on us and our businesses. And they should require more permits to open a jujitsu academy. No, I'm just saying, like, I think we need.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Oh, I know, bro. And you want to know another thing about, I don't know if we need to take this conversation a completely different direction, but once the government sees that your business starts to do well, they're like, Oh, they start salivating. Cause my jujitsu Academy was open for fucking, we opened in 2015, but I was a cop for a lot of the time. So it was more like a little hobbyist club.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
We never had more than like 30 members at a time. And as soon as the Academy blew up, Oh, well, suddenly you need a higher flow rating for your water and you need more shrubbery around your parking lot and you're going to need this and you're going to need that. And you'll be shocked to hear that every time they do some type of assessment to tell us what I need, we have to pay them for it.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
So bro, yeah, perfect example. I've been open 10 years. Last year we needed a parking lot assessment. I said, well, cars have been parking here since 2015 without an issue. Why would I need my parking lot to be assessed by the county?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yes. That was one of the concerns. Another one of the concerns was we need to make sure that a fire engine can pull in here.
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Yeah, it's on a- You found the lot, I remember you building it. Yep, and it has like two big fields in it. It has a parking lot that's like- I don't even know, 100 meters long. It's a huge parking lot, right? But because it didn't have the county stamp of approval of being a parking lot. And again, they didn't care for 10 years. And then a couple of years ago, like, hey, you're getting too big.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
We need to assess your parking lot. And here's the thing, bro. I go back and forth between wanting to put my body armor on and go fucking nuts. And then understanding that I'm playing a game, too. Because if you're opening a business, you will be playing a game with the county. That's just the reality of opening a business. I just call it more writing checks. Well, that's what I'm telling you.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Our parking lot assessment cost us $29,000. Yeah, your parking lot's good now. We had a design review of the coffee shop. Yeah, you know, I'm not telling you anything you don't know.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
We all know what's going on there. Wouldn't turn the camera on. Yeah, it's almost sitting in your favorite chair.
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It's my garage door. Yeah. No, dude, I mean... I've been calming down over the last year, I would say. Now you're going to get me all ramped up again. No, same thing. When I built my academy, initially I wanted the academy to face East, right? Was this a crystal thing? No, no, no. It was just the way that it, the way that like you pull in off the road, I thought it would look better.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And it's actually, it worked out the way that it worked out. And I'm happy that it did now hindsight, but regardless, they said, Hey, We know you want your academy to face east, but we're worried about a 10-foot section on the back of the building of containing ancient Indian artifacts. And I said, well, if there's ancient Indian artifacts... How are you allowed to build it all?
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And they're mine, right? Like, if there's a fucking arrowhead in the dirt... Well, technically, I think it belongs to... Can't I pour a four-inch slab over it and just... protect it indefinitely. Right. And they said, well, we're not, we're not just worried about artifacts. We're worried about human remains.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And I said, so you're telling me that you have reason to believe there's dead people on the, on the lot that I bought. Cause if you're telling me I can't build my gym where I want it based on this, do you know something I don't know? And they said, you can't tell anybody this, but we think that site might be of archeological significance. And I said, what do you mean you can't tell anybody?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Like this is a county government, some fucking clerk, like, hey, you can't tell anybody this. So here's how fucked up I am.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
We got to keep this between you and I. So check out what they said to me. They said, you have to ultrasound the property to confirm that there's no bodies in there at my expense. And I said, I'm not paying to have my fucking backyard ultrasounded to see if there's bodies in there. They said, you have to face your Academy South then. And the building is 50 by 60. You see what I'm saying?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Like it's, it's nearly a square. And they said, you can't face it East unless you're ultrasound. And if you refuse ultrasound, you have to face it South. And it's like my book, my building on my lot. It sounds exactly. It's the same shit, bro. It sounds exactly like what the founding fathers were hoping. Yeah, dude.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And it, but it's the frog in the pot analogy, you know, it's like the boiling water. They've been turning this shit up. for a hundred years. How far do you think it goes? Fuck, I don't know, man. You know what I think about COVID though? I think COVID- I want to know what you think about COVID. I think that era, the heat got cranked too far too fast. I think they fucked up. And they fucked up.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And a lot of people like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the fuck on a second. Yeah. And they pushed back and it kind of- it opened a lot of people's eyes, which was actually counterproductive to where they were hoping that that whole thing would go.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Hey, all my hats have been proven over the last, you know, Bro, I'll tell you what. That's what Alex Jones says, too. No, no, no. Listen, though. Because I got fucking receipts. You can go back and listen to my show in 2020 when it's like, listen, I'm not a virologist. I'm not a fucking... Because people always used to say to me, are you a doctor?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I didn't know that I had to go to medical school to have an opinion on something. But people would always push back and be like, you're a gym bro. You're a bro vet, right? Vet bro. Vet bro. Whatever it is.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Okay, we'll talk about that next. But it's like, so... I can't have an opinion about something, but listen, I'm just a knuckle-dragging army ranger. But when you tell me a bat fucked a pangolin and then something fell into a pot of soup somewhere right outside of the Wuhan Institute of Virology that's studying coronavirus... And now a whole fucking worldwide pandemic happened.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I think you, I think common sense, you could say, Hmm, something's not adding up here. Right. And as soon as you said that you're like this fucking radical, like you remember, like we were fucking, you know, wild fucking domestic terrorists for even saying that. And now here we are four years later, they're like, um, yeah, actually it did come from that. That's our bad. And we actually did fund it.
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That's also our bad. And it's like, bro. Yeah. They wanted to fucking string people up for saying what we thought was the truth at the time. And then when they just come out and say, actually, yeah, you guys are right. Four years later, nobody cares. So let's take it a step further.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
That's what I'm saying. If I had to bet on it, I would say it was probably an accidental leak.
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Yeah. Now there's a lot of people that think it was intentional and it was population control and all this stuff. And it's like, or some people think it was an intentional dry run. So the next one, when they release it and we're all like, fuck you, we're not social distancing. And then we all die.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I'm going to jujitsu. I don't give a fuck what you say about this new strand of Ebola.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yeah. Like I kept my academy open too. And another reason it was a blessing in disguise is I was very public about staying open. I said, I'm not going to put cardboard over the windows and tell people to sneak in the back door. Front door's open. we're practicing tonight. And if you don't like it, come here and fucking do something about it.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And that, again, it wasn't like fucking me trying to stir the pot or like tough guy talk. But at the end of the day, I'm not going to fucking let my business fall apart. That's all we had at that point.
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And, uh, Thank God we live in an area where the county sheriff was like, yeah, we're not, we're not going to enforce any fucking mandates against businesses. Same here. You know, we lucked out there because dude, I don't want to get in a fucking shootout with a SWAT team, but I was mentally prepared to do that.
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But regardless, like that whole era allowed us to see what they will do to you if you allow, if you just take a seat and let them dictate your life. And I think it was a blessing in disguise because we now have, like I said, we have a ton of Jiu Jitsu Academy memberships. that are rooted in people that show up when they're not supposed to be showing up.
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And it built the culture of people that are like willing to push back and say, fuck you. And now it's awesome. That's how it should be.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I say it all the time. I say, like, you guys that think all of this stuff is happening, you're giving the government a lot more credit than it deserves. I wish Jason Bourne and those agencies could produce those super assassins. Because there's a lot of incompetence at every single level. But then you also have to look at what's been going on the last four years.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I think anybody that's being realistic... with themselves would admit that Biden was not calling the shots. Yeah. Right? I mean, would you like, come on.
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It's... He would be incapable of sitting and just sharing ideas back and forth like we're doing right now.
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You've not only bought into jiu-jitsu as an art, but as a lifestyle. Should you put it in your bio? You get a purple belt. Should you put like purple dot, purple dot, purple dot? Yeah. No, what I found though is like the majority of people that make purple belt in my academy anyways, one day I end up, I'll tie a black belt around them.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, that was what incentivized me to make that video in 2020, because we're serving these like for me, the governor of Washington at the time was Jay Inslee, who's just this radical leftist that wants to take everybody's guns. And like most Washingtonians.
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in my experience, and I understand I also live in a bubble in the company I keep, but a lot of people in the profession of law enforcement despise him, right? Just like if you talk to most cops in California and ask them what they think of Gavin Newsom, right? So why are we going along with what they're saying? Well, it's because a lot of people live in fear.
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And let me ask you this because, shout out to my book that's coming out in October. It's called Courage Through Adversity.
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But what I'm saying is if you look at the profession of men that carry guns and- And women. And women, right? When did you become so misogynistic? I know, dude. Dudes, yeah, dudes. Dudes that kick doors for a living, right? And in my experience, most of them are men. Hopefully they donkey kick them, not straight ahead.
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They are willing to put their physical body in harm to go out there and see mission success, which takes a certain amount of courage to be able to do that. It's like, hey, this operation may cost me my life. How many operations have you been on where you don't know if you're coming back from? And all the guys to your right and your left, they're like, they're down for it.
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Like, Hey, let's fucking see how this goes. Knowing like I might get shot tonight. And then one night you went out and you did get fucking shot. Right? Like that's the reality of those, those chosen professions.
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But those same men that are willing to get shot at and meet violence head on, as soon as you threaten like their, their paycheck or you threaten their retirement, it like has like suddenly some of the strongest men I know started to show fear. And it's like, how can you be willing to meet your own physical death?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
But if someone threatens your fucking paycheck, now you start taking a seat and doing what you're told and taking a knee. And kind of what I've come to realize is physical courage is one thing. But I think having the emotional courage to stand up for yourself is something that it's hard for a lot of people to arrive at. Yeah.
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And it was off the coast of Malibu. Was it? Yeah, Michael. Bro, that was one of the catalysts. That poor bastards. Like... Dude, you're telling me... But again, those are the same guys you're talking about. You're telling me... Everybody knew that that was not the right thing to do. That guy's just utterly ridiculous. And this is another thing I want to know.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Since when does the government own the fucking ocean? Well, inside of 12 miles, it's... You should know this as a fucking semen. You're out on the water and now they can say, you can't be on the ocean anymore. And we're going to go out there and we're going to arrest you. And it's like, it's funny you're bringing this up because that was one of the catalysts for me. Yeah. Look at this. Yeah.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Motherfucker is social distancing. I remember watching that and talk like, and both those cops. Oh yeah, there were two boats in the background. Yeah. Both those cops, they're ashamed of themselves for doing that. First off, where are the cops masks? But remember the lockdowns and then the masks and then the vaccines.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Fucking chain link fence. And now it's like, well, exercise and sunlight were probably the two best things you could have done for yourself. The best way to get through COVID was to not be a fat fuck going into COVID. Yeah. Shocking. Who would have thought that being a healthy person, eating good foods and taking care of yourself would have been advantageous when it comes to getting sick.
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So you can just fuck around. Bro, I'll tell you what, man, purple belt wasn't my most fun belt. For me, it was brown belt for that same reason. I was also a brown belt for over five years. Yeah, but you probably took four years off during that time. No, I didn't. It was the busiest five years of my jiu-jitsu.
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But we're just, we're just bro vets, dude. What are you fucking now? It's vet bro. I keep, I even tried to say it the right way. Actually, she said it both ways on the call. But you know what, dude, I'll tell you what the, that whole era was a blessing in disguise. So I have to look at where I'm at now. For you.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
You know, what was weird is following that era. I think a lot of people kind of landed on like, okay, you can't trust the government anymore.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
No, of course. And so like a lot of people landed on, starting to prep a little bit and take care of themselves and learn how to... Like Joe Rogan said, how many of his friends reached out and were like, hey, can I borrow a gun? Right? Like, oh, you might... Not how it works, buddy. Yeah. You might want to know how to defend yourself. You might want to have...
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a couple months of food and water and just some basic preparedness. And I think a lot of people started to think about that, but just like anything in life, you can also geek out on that too much too. And I noticed myself over the next couple of years, like, I started to fixate on that shit too much. I can see that. What if this happens? What if that happens?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
So we have like me and my wife, we literally have something we call the apocalypse trailer and it's like food and ammo. Fucking weirdo. But bro, no, it's, it's, it's stuff that here's the deal. Where do you keep it? It's a, that's top secret information. It's obviously a storage unit held by a padlock. But the thing is, if you were to need those things, you're going to be so fucking happy that you,
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
allocated a little bit of your resources and your energy into putting that together. And if you never need those things, then so be it, right? But at what point, how much energy can you put into a what if? And what I realized is like your entire life, if you're not careful, that's right. And it can consume you. And so I made the commitment to myself. I said, Hey, if cause 2024, would you agree?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
But I moved down from Seattle to Los Angeles and then started training with Bushesha and Joao. I told you about his top pressure, right? It wasn't what I thought it would be. Yeah, I can tell you about his top pressure in great detail. He's really large. He's large with perfect technique.
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Started to feel weird again. And what part there was just like a, there was just something, an energy around it where it's like, well, you're more, obviously we've talked about the crystals.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
So let me ask you this. Before you would get IED'd or an ambush initiated in Iraq with the hair on the back of your neck stand up? Most of the time I was sleeping. You know what I'm saying is true. Sometimes. Like when, when shit is feeling off.
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Yes. Or the people that are in the streets, the way they're looking at you. It's like, they know something that I don't and it's not good.
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So I've always said, like, if you've served overseas, you learn to trust your instincts. And there's just something that felt off. the years preceding COVID. And I remember thinking like, okay, well, we should probably think about- What kind of information were you consuming? Well, that's the other thing.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
It's like, you're inevitably going to be, whatever you feed yourself, that's going to be the result of how you act is going to be based on what you're feeding yourself. And so I was very intentional in pulling away from that stuff. And I told, like I even said on my podcast, I'm not going to talk about the apocalypse anymore. But then you did the next episode. No, fuck no, bro.
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We're done with that. Go listen. And you know, what's funny too, is a lot of people I've realized cause my, my downloads actually went down a little bit when I moved away from being angry about the government. What year was it though?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, I also was very cognizant and being like, you know what, dude, what? what is gonna enrich my life? And it's gonna be building a path to wealth, having a good family unit, growing my business, learning jujitsu. Like, yeah, exactly. But like doing things that actually benefit not only me, but benefit my community. And that's where I've really started to put all of my energy.
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The podcast is about that, the gym's about that. And it's like, dude, how do we uplift people? How do we make people feel good about themselves? How do we make people capable? And like, it starts with the individual. And if you can empower individual people, I think that's the next mission to making our country strong.
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Because how many people sit at home and they're on the couch and they're fucking drinking Coke, eating Doritos, and they're bitching about Biden or they're bitching about Newsom and all these fucking, all these things that... Sure, that anybody would be angry if you fucking fixated on the shit that makes you angry. But what are you doing to make yourself better?
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What are you doing to make yourself happier? And I've tried to intentionally unplug from the stuff that's triggering and just put all my energy into the stuff that's going to enrich my life and the lives of others. Now, with that said, yeah, do we still have 10,000 rounds in my body armor and my gun safe? Like if shit goes sideways, guys like you and I are going to be fine.
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one way or another, so why do we need to fixate on that all the time? And I think it's unhealthy, man.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yeah, you probably have 100,000 rounds. I was gonna say, those are rookie numbers.
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Well, I mean, everything is skewed though. Like, have you ever fucked around with chat GPT? Hell yeah. And like, you'll start to ask it questions. Cause I asked it a bunch of COVID questions. I just wanted to see how AI would look back on the COVID era and the government involvement and all the shit that we just talked about. And it took a pretty right stance, right?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Oh shit. Yeah. So it allocated. So that's basically self-aware at that point.
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But what, but what I noticed in this is that it started feeding answers to me that it thought I wanted to hear because then I went on a different search. Like I use my wife's phone and open it up and ask the same exact questions and And it had completely different answers. So it, Oh, for sure. Yeah. It tells you what's going to trigger you or what it thinks you want to hear.
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Yeah, and it was predicted. In 1984 with Terminator 1. Have you watched Terminator? No. What's up with that? That should be mandatory.
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These are timeless classics. Honestly, right now- Well, when Skynet becomes reality and you're working for robots, you're going to be like, man.
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And I don't know if this, like, here's the thing. Everything you see on Instagram now, is it real or is it bullshit, right? But do you see the thing where two different AI units were starting to talk to each other and then they just built a new language? Yeah. Almost instantly. Yeah. And it's like. There's entire profiles that are just straight up AI with hundreds of thousands of followers.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yeah. And people ask me like, oh, dude, what does that mean? And it's like, dude, I've been doing jiu-jitsu for 20 years. Like, I can't really tell you.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I wish you and I could communicate like that. Wouldn't that be nice? Dude. Just call you up.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I don't understand that stuff. Some of them are deep Brazilian, though. Not all as easy to understand as buchesha. No. Or what some of them I've noticed will do, they'll be like mid-sentence in English and then they'll go right to Portuguese. Yeah. Because that would happen with Ed Joao's academy. And he'd be like, hey, Greg, don't speak the Portuguese. Go back to English.
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Hey guys, should we actually do this? Well, hasn't Elon been saying for years that you can't slow it down and it is what it is? So we better figure out a way to live with it.
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You haven't watched Ancient Apocalypse and learned about Gobekli Tepe yet? I have.
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Yeah, a fraction of what that evolves. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's probably going to take over and then we'll have to go back. to living, live out in the woods. And you're going to be like, man, I hope, I hope if Greg comes out to Montana, he has that apocalypse trailer that we talked about on cleared hot a year ago. And I'll show up with my 10,000 rounds and my family.
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Bro, I know exactly where I'm going. I'm going out in the woods and I'm hunkering down. I'm going out there too, but with a helicopter. There's going to be some challenge and pass protocol set up. And if you don't know, it's going to be a problem.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
They're awesome. They are awesome. What does a meth head need a sauna for? It's a rhetorical question. You're exactly right.
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Dude, it's hard to say, but the thing is my property is a, it's the end of a one mile driveway. Yeah. You don't ask it.
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I posted about it, but I don't think... This is what I think is happening. There's some crazy people and I think that they're like 220. They might be into drugs, but I just think that their brains don't work properly and they just go out there and they fucking steal rope and they steal a bunch of dumb shit.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Like go hard. Yeah. No, bro, it's funny. He's a fucking gorilla. He's a gorilla, dude. But also a gorilla that has perfect technique. Because he moves like a panther. You know, most heavyweights don't move like him.
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And I'm not sure what their incentive is or why they're doing it.
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No. And like a perfect example is I posted being in Montana yesterday. Yeah. And so it's like, if now people know I'm out of town.
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They'll hear some Viking music and they'll be like, what the fuck's going on in there? They'll see a man coming out of the sauna, just fucking steam. Doing a rune chant. I'm going to have my friend do a rune reading for you. You want to do one of those?
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, since you're not into crystals, I thought maybe you would be into rune reading. Until you slightly just clarified, I thought that a rune was a crystal. A rune is basically an ancient alphabet. It's called the Elder Futhark.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Dude, I'll tell you what, like... Each rune contains basically like, and I might butcher this, people that are like really into the runes might be like- Michael's on it today. But each rune basically just has like an energy and it helps guide you and it helps- We're back to the crystals again. Yeah, and you think it's crazy, right? There it is. That's the Elder Futhark right there.
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The alphabet is the same though? It's 24 runes. You see them right there? It's 24 runes. Are those characters like in the alphabet? Yes. Each rune holds a different power, a different energy. It helps guide you differently. It helps you think about things from a different perspective. And see that? There you go, right there. So, hold on. They assign one of these things to you? Yeah.
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My buddy will fucking reach into his bag of runes, pull one out, and then he will discuss with you how that rune relates to your life and how you can use that energy towards success. Now, here's the thing. How many times have you been dropped on your head? It's like the chicken before the egg thing, right?
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He would either be that or the count as an ulcer. I knew coming into this that if I brought the runes up, that this is the shit that you would be saying. That's why I'm laughing because it's hilarious.
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Kenaz, that's how you say that. Fucking whatever. It's like anything, bro, though. You can listen to what that energy is about, and if you believe it, it becomes true. Do you believe in the power of manifestation? Do you believe in flat earth, motherfucker? I'm not there yet. Okay. Well, let me tell you. But hold on though. Depending on how much you believe in flat earth, does it make it true?
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No, I tend to fully believe that we're living on a globe. Hi, I'm glad to hear that. Hey, this is going around lately. The footage from some of the early spacewalks. I don't think that's real. Yeah. I don't know, bro. If that's what they're claiming is real, we have a problem, right? Do you think we went to the moon? Bro, here's the thing.
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I think we went, but we didn't do as much as we said we did. I think our government is completely full of shit on everything. Everything? Maybe not every last thing, but the majority of stuff, they're not being honest. They're not being transparent. And so now it puts us in a place where it's like, well, what have they said that's true? What is bullshit?
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And I think almost everything that we hear is being disseminated to us based on what they want us to know.
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Mel Gibson's house burned down while he was doing the Rogan podcast. And then he says, I no longer have the burden of owning things.
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Uh-huh. You can? You haven't looked into this. No, I have not looked into this. Deeply formed opinions on little to no information. I'm just saying, like, I don't believe, I think our government's full of shit all the time. And if that's the case, I'm going to be reluctant. Bro, we spent our entire youth fighting in Iraq for what? I mean, for bullshit lies. Bald eagles and shit. Yeah.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Of course. Iraq. Hey, we're going to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.
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Of course. No, I mean, I talk about it all the time on my show because I think deploying and being in combat and experiencing that was like transformative for me. I wouldn't take it back, but I can also look back on it with honesty and just be like, why was I in the streets of Ramadi shooting some guy? what was the, what was the real point of that?
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And it wasn't because Saddam had mass weapons of mass destruction and it wasn't because they were going to come over here and kill our families. Like what was the real cause of that?
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Well, bro, this goes back to what you were saying. Do you think the government really knows? Was the whole thing just incompetence? Like someone said Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, so we got to go find him.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Dude, it's one of those passes where it's like I either have to tap out or just – give up the pass as quickly as possible. Like, please pass my guard. I want you in side control. I don't want this weird fold thing happening.
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Especially like the specialist. How dark is that? We both have friends that died there. I know. And they reversed engineered a reason to send us and our buddies there. Like people should be strung up for that. If we're being honest, right? That's treasonous activity. Yeah. And when you talk to most veterans, they have arrived at that same conclusion. That's shocking.
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And you got to shoot people with javelins. No, this is what I say about it because I agree exactly.
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On boots on the ground level, who was fighting who? We were young American soldiers and sailors. There's some sailors there. We're fighting who? Radical jihadists. Mm-hmm. They were there because they hated us. We were there for whatever reason we were there. But in the foundation of what was taking place on the streets, it was just young men trying to kill each other. And you want to know what?
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If you were to sanction a city right now, somewhere in the world, and be like, hey... You can fly here. We're going to issue you body armor and a rifle. We're going to have an A team and a B team. We're going to start at opposite ends of the city and you guys can kill each other. I bet it would be fucking sold out. are we going to monetize this? Do we have ads?
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But the thing is, it's like violence calls to young men. And you know, like when I lived in Los Angeles, when I was a deputy down there, I saw this, like, it was funny seeing the gang behavior, man, you can make direct correlations to the shit you and I did.
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Except my gang was just sanctioned by the US government. So it's all good. No problems there, right? But young wild kids want to go do hard shit, want to go inflict violence on other people and are drawn to that. And we were drawn to that for whatever reason, that's been inside of men since the beginning of time.
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And so like boots on the ground, the guys that were killing each other in the streets of Ramadi, I think we're almost just looking for an excuse to go over there and do that. And so I can't say like, oh yeah, I took part in that. And now 20 years later, I regret it because I got lied to.
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It's like, no, dude, I put myself in every position I could to be where I was at when those things were taking place. And like, it just is what it is. And why can, like, who cares if some things come to light 20 years later that like, oh, well, you know, we got lied to about this or this wasn't actually factual. You can't fucking cry about that stuff. It is what it is.
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Plus it also fucking built you into who you are today. So I always say on my show, like the government may have lied to us and turned us into these savages. And one day that'll probably be the demise of the government. So there's irony in it too. I'm not a savage. I'm very sophisticated. I don't know. Your guard's pretty savage to take it back to jujitsu. One day you can pass it if you want.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Oh, it's really, well, and to take it back to like how I met Bushesha and we're going, right? I'm assuming. I don't know. Michael, did you push the button? He's not incredibly reliable at pushing the button. Do you know who Bushesha is? Uh, no, it's not the Marcus Almeida. He's 13 time world champion. Yeah. Doesn't it mean cheeks? Yes, it does. Cause when he started, he had fat cheeks and, uh,
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I'll let you pass next time and tell you it was all you. Uh, maybe I'll just play guard and see how your passing is. I'm sick of, I'm sick of dealing with here's the, you want to know why I'm sick of your guard? No, just enjoy it. Cause it, if, if you were to watch it, there's, it's not a, it doesn't feel like a sophisticated, it's not sophisticated.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
It's a very, it's a very simple approach, but you always maintain the right grips. You always create the right angles. And it goes back to what we said at the beginning. It's like, it's simple jujitsu, but it's highly effective.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
And it was funny because you're like, that would have been a really boring round to watch, but it was fun. We were working our fucking ass off. There's a lot of shit going on. Yeah.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
No, and I don't even think I got to it because we got sidetracked. But when people will write me and be like, dude, how's Andy's jujitsu? Because they don't want to believe that your jujitsu in five years should be... It's trash. Competitive with people that have been training for two decades.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, if anyone out there listening wants to test Andy's jujitsu... Come out, let me know how it works out for you.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
The people that call your belt a celebrity belt probably haven't said that on the mats, right? That's a DM thing. Oh, I've never had it said on the mats, yeah. Yeah.
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And bro, you might not know this because of how well you fucking retain guard, but I am a good passer. I would tend to disagree. That hurts my heart a little bit. No, Leah was saying- I'm a good passer. I know my jujitsu. I trust my jujitsu.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Is Michael the savage brown belt? Yeah, he's awesome. bro, that fucking dude. And it was funny too, cause you're like, all right, round one, you know? And I'm looking around, there's this big, you can just tell. Oh, did you go for him round one? I didn't go for him. We were just the last two. We were just the last two dudes. And I looked at him and bro, like, You can tell a lot about someone.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yeah. And then the second you touch them and you feel the physicality. Lifelong grappler too. Awesome. And it's like, okay, here we go. And then come to find out he's a lifelong wrestler and a cowboy. Yeah. And bro, I've trained with a couple dudes that are cowboys over the years. They're made of something different. Do you know who's even stronger grip wise? Who? Plumbers.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I have a plumber. You're right, dude. They're like, if they get a grip on you, it's just, can I have that back when you're done? So you want to know an interesting thing about my plumber? He's a blue belt. His name's Drew Hamblin. When you pass his guard, his side control is more dangerous than his guard. He has these weird little like- Side control bottom. Side control bottom.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
You know, like the buggy choke? I don't believe in it, but I'm aware of it. Well, bro, I didn't believe in this shit either. Yeah. And then I pass his guard and he'll start like shoulder locking you. He'll start like putting on weird chokes. I mean, you know the defense to the buggy choke, right? What's the defense to the buggy choke? Just squeeze harder?
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Like I don't want to... I feel like I'm more in danger in his side control.
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I mean, he did my podcast and told the whole story. It's funny because I trained under him for years. I didn't know all the details, like how he got into jujitsu. But he started at 12, but he didn't take it serious until 15.
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That's what I'm saying. Come out to my academy at some point. We'll go on a ride or my boat, if I still have it. Then we'll do some jujitsu.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that Leah saw me pass that guard because she said, she described it as beautiful. I was very upset. Fucking dude. As soon as we locked horns, I was like, Oh, this, this is a fight.
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I just started laughing. I'm like... I heard you. That was funny, man.
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No, but all... Dude, I like training at other academies where... Like you said, our jujitsu may have a different language, but the vibe is like, dude, let's fucking, let's go. Some of those younger blue belts, they wanted to get down, dude. That's because they just look at your belt and they're like, today is my fucking day. It wasn't their day, I'll tell you that. No, that's the thing.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
It's not going to be their day, but it doesn't stop them from coming. One of them, oh, his name was Marshall. Yeah. I armbarred him a couple of times and afterwards he's like, dude, that doesn't happen to me. I was like, I'll deny it. Well, he doesn't understand your love of armbars. Is it your favorite submission? A hundred percent. Yeah. Was it always? No.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I fell in love with the armbar at black belt because I've been a black belt for 10 years now.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
No, it's weird. That's why it frustrates me that I can't pass your guard. Have you tried trying harder? Yeah, but that trying harder is going to make me breathe and sweat harder too. No, like my whole game as a brown belt was Kimura. Like I fell in love with the Kimura. Interesting. And then at black belt, I started falling in love with the armbar. What's your favorite way to hit it?
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No, and he told me that. I remember one night after practice, he's like, man, I wish I started when I was younger. It's like, dude, you're only the reigning world champion. First off, motherfucker, I found this when I was 40, so I don't want to hear you. I don't want to hear any of that talk. But when I walked into his academy, I was a brown belt from Seattle.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Far side arm bar. Like a step over? Like hard pressure from side control. And then I'll switch to knee on belly. I like to have like thumb and grip on the back of the lapel, far hip. And then you go into like knee on belly and just put that pressure. It feels like it's going to. Really nice jiu-jitsu is what you're saying.
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And then when they try and push you off, you underhook that arm and step over the head. Oh, the arm comes across to try to get your knee off? Yeah, so far side arm bar. I feel like that is the most successful setup. You know what I've fallen in love with lately though? It's the bread cutter. The bread cutter? From north-south.
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So you go under the armpit, four fingers in, and then you grab thumb in grip and come over the head like that. Strong. And the reason that I like that is because you know a lot of submissions, you have to compromise a little bit of a position, right? Like a triangle is a perfect example.
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If you triangle someone from guard and they fight out of it successfully, a lot of times you're in a bad position.
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yeah a tsunami is coming over the top it's the same thing with arm bars like a lot of times if people can defend an arm bar like i was inside controller mount and now i'm playing guard again yeah and so like there's a lot that goes into deciding when to take a submission based on positioning but the north or from north south the bread cutter choke if you get it cool and if you don't you're just smashing their face and pressuring them from top side and nothing changes
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Well, bro, I was just going to say the last six months, one of my black belts really honed his mother's milk.
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What do you mean it's illegal in a gi? Why would it be illegal?
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Dude, that's bullshit. You know why that's bullshit? Because it's awesome? Well, no, that's, bro, pressure. Well, in no gi, you can't. Apparently, in the gi, it's illegal. Wasn't Nicholas Merigalli, mother's milking guys in the gi?
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I don't know, man. I think if you can be out-positioned and put in a position where you can't breathe, that's your problem to solve. Oh, I completely agree.
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Um, and I'm not, I knew like, listen, I'm not a fucking world champion level grappler, but there was no one in Seattle that made me feel like an infant either. There's guys that could beat me, but I was always in the fight to a certain extent.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
I think heel hooks in the gi should be illegal. Or I mean, should be legal. I think if you're at a black belt. I think reaping should be legal. Because like you got Sambo guys that will reap the leg and then really control it and fall into these hubs where they have a plethora of submissions from the leg reap control. So as jujitsu guys, do you hide from that?
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Or do you say, or do you say, bring whatever the fuck you want and we'll see where it goes. And it's strange to me that they're like, well, it puts pressure on the knee, but knee bars are legal. Like part of our sport is literally bending joints the wrong way. And it's incumbent on you to protect yourself.
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Episode 382 - Greg Anderson
Well, you said it last night. Like, what position were you talking about where you're like, the heel hook's there? Oh, the fucking squid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever it is.
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Do we want to build patterns that work just because we're safe because of a rule set? That doesn't seem like being the overall best grappler that you can be.
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And I actually just signed up for a tournament April 5th. It's my first time competing in a long time.
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And I walked into Boucher's academy. And the funny thing is, is I didn't even know who he was at the time. It was, it was the summer before he won his first black belt world title. And he's just this 23 year old kid that was coaching on the side to earn some extra money, sleeping on couches.
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I don't know. I'm 40. I'll be 45 this year. So I'm up there for sure. One of my brown belts was like, Hey, if you sign up for the next tournament, it's called the revolution. It's one of the bigger ones in Washington state.
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Because it'll be good for the culture and a lot of our athletes that are kind of on the fence about competing or wanting to try it, when they see Professor do it, they'll sign up too. And sure as shit, we had 40 of our teammates sign up. So we're going down there heavy, right? And I'm like you, I don't really care about competing anymore. It's essential for people who are scared of it though.
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I tell my team all the time that competing, I don't care if you're, if you want to be the next world champion or you're just a soccer mom that wants to dabble, it's only going to help your jujitsu journey. Now, with that said, I also think this is important and this is from Joao who won ADCC. So he knows how to have a champion's mindset, right?
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Don't ever fucking sign up for a tournament and say, I'm going to go down there and win or learn. Right. Because if there's people there that are dead set. Oh, you've already given yourself an out. You're already giving yourself an out. Like, do not sign up for a tournament. And just say, hey, I'm going to learn. Yeah.
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Set the bar low and then trip over it. If you want to compete. go and make sure you put in the work, you get in shape, you're doing what you need to do to take gold. Because if you're not doing that, you're just, what are we really doing here to start with, right?
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But with that said, if you go down there and you know you put in the work and you showed up in shape and you did what you're supposed to do and you still get smoked, your jiu-jitsu is only going to grow from that.
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And no one really, like the people that were really into the scene is like, Hey, this guy's the up and comer. But outside of that, no one really knew who he was. And I just signed up there because it worked with my schedule and my commute. I fucking trained with this dude. And after he, what he did to me on night one, I told him, I said, Hey, I'm not trying to be like silly.
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Yeah. Learn how to fucking lose. When I watched Boucher go against Gordon Ryan, I was like, oh, even him. And Boucher locked onto one of his feet, and Gordon started laughing at him. That's not confidence inspired. And then Marcus laughed back at him because they both had an understanding. He's like, ah, fuck, dude. Yeah, I just went into your fucking A game.
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You're like, fuck. Let me ask you this. Maybe not now as a black belt because you've been doing it for a long time, but when you were new to the mats and you had someone just... either Mount neon belly side control to where you couldn't breathe. You couldn't move. Did you feel those anxiety emotions kicking in? Sure. And like that panic kicking in. Yep.
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See dude, like that's something you just got to eat it. You got to eat it. But dude, there's a, in my opinion, that's where the most growth happens for people in jujitsu. Yeah. Cause it forces you to deal with, cause what's happening is fighter flights kicking in, uh, you're clearly losing the fight and you can't get away. Yeah. So you're out of options. And now what? Yeah.
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And the, the now what option is endure what, whatever's about to happen, or you can tap out, but then you'll have to fucking hang your head in shame because you tapped a pressure.
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Soul ending. No, it's funny. Lapin called me one day. He goes, bro, I tapped a pressure today, but I could feel my ribs starting to bend. I was like, okay. He's known for being a puss.
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Dude, I say this all the time and I don't know if it's a popular opinion or not, but for a female's jujitsu to work in a real violent encounter, like you got fucking abducted or you got fucking snatched off of a running trail, to deal with a 200 pound violent man, I think you need purple belt jujitsu and above. Yeah.
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But I mean, that's what I tell females. Cause like I've had, I've had offers for, Hey, will you run a female self-defense seminar? I said, no. Because I think it takes four years for you to learn how to defend yourself, not four hours. Now I will offer, I'll call them introduction to jujitsu.
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This isn't a, I'm not being pejorative as you put it. I said, I'm being serious. I think I need to start over at white belt under you.
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Yeah, I'll show you like, hey, this is basically like... the introduction to what we're doing here. But if you ever want it to work, understand it's going to be years of work. So Leah just taught, I've helped her.
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Nothing to do with jujitsu. I tell my people all the time. I said, your jujitsu is going to save you. Not because you fucking do an arm drag to a rear naked choke. It's because the predator is going to say that's not the one for me. Correct. And that's the truth.
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Oh, it needs to be played because dudes need to hear this. This is fucking, I love shit like this because this is another reason why we train jujitsu, right?
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Like, what else do you need to hear? That's it. And so like, that's why you train. It's not because, oh, this might happen or that might happen. It's just an overall projection to the world that I'm not a fucking victim. You know what helps women who aren't at purple belt level yet?
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Like it was the next week of my life because it's like, dude, I know I'm a good athlete. I know I have pretty good jujitsu at that. By that time I'd had a few MMA fights and just I, I didn't think there was another man that could still do that to me. And it was like that, oh shit moment. You know, that first, oh shit moment you have when the first time you feel real jujitsu.
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Yeah. But here's the other thing on that too, right? That's an important thing to put out. Cause I tell women the same thing. Cause my mother, like, well, I got a 38 special in my, in my purse, Greg, I'm fine. Break her fucking wrist if she cracks it. And I said, when's the last time you shot it?
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Because if it was when we were at your friend's house in like 2014 and we put five rounds into the, into the clay banks. Trust me when I tell you that is not going to be a feasible option. And people think you can just buy a gun and now you're good. And that's, I tell people all the time, that's the equivalent of you tying my black belt around your waist and thinking you have jujitsu now.
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Because like, bro, I'll just snatch that right out of my mom's hand and say, thank you. Now I have a 38. Yeah.
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Ether, whatever the fuck you call it. Whatever. Let me ask you this, because I talked about this the other day, and I could tell it rubbed some people the wrong way. I have felt more what I would call fear and anxiety- on jujitsu mats than anything I ever felt overseas in combat. You were shot though.
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So it might be a different, you've had, I never got hurt in combat, but like, dude, like, Hey, we're getting ambushed or Hey, you get Intel that there's IDs on our route or whatever it is. There was always just kind of this accepting that, Hey, that, okay. If it's my day, it's my day, but it's never that like, Oh no. And I would get that. Oh no. And MMA training and
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No, no, no, no. I'm saying like when, like what we talked about, like Bushesha has you mounted and he has his knee going through your diaphragm. Just get out. Yeah. Just stand up. Right. And everything's going the way. Cause I think, I think our lizard brain is like, I'm dying right now. Yeah.
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And it's like, okay, logically, yeah, this is my homie and we're training, but there's something that gets triggered inside you sometimes that's like, what the fuck, dude?
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Yeah. And I told you the guy that, the guy that did that to me, his name's Dallas Dalton. He went through buds with him. Yeah. So that was my first time. He's wee too. Did you say he's wee? Yeah. Well, he's 175. That's wee. Yeah, but he's built like George St. Pierre too. That dude's a super athlete.
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Well, dude, and that's what I've noticed. We had one really bad ambush in Ramadi. It was August 10th, 2004, where we... Remember that scene from Clear and Present Danger with Harrison Ford, where they had like a bunch of machine guns and RPGs and stuff on the rooftop? It was gnarly like that.
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Yes, and our motorcade got diverted because they put a bunch of jersey barriers across the road. And as you know, You're literally driving and now somebody else is dictating your movement. Yeah. So like, again. And you know it too. And you know it. And it's like, fuck dude.
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And then sure as shit, the next road we got funneled on, they did it again. And that's when the lead car is like, reverse out. We can't continue down this fucking path anymore.
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Because now they're dictating our movement. And as soon as we started to reverse out, dude, it was literally like 50 yards from the X. Where had we went 50 more yards, they had a bunch of PCAMs and RPG gunners on the rooftops. And as soon as they start reversing out. They're like, oh, fuck it. It's go time now. And started fucking shooting our cars up.
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And bro, they were level seven armored like BMWs. Yeah. And they just got hammered. Yeah, it can only take so much. And like, dude, check this out too. An RPG blew out the gas tank of our follow vehicle, which was right in front of us. And all the gas just went onto the street. It didn't ignite. So the opposite of Hollywood when you shoot a car with an RPG.
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The classic movie fucking grenade where it's just like, boom, and guys are going flying. I also hit a dude with a 203 and he walked away. I'm like, hey, I thought it was supposed to have a 14 meter kill ratio. It like detonated right at his feet. And then, you know, the plume of black smoke? Yeah. And I saw him run out of the alley. I was like, what the fuck?
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I mean, hopefully he died of shame later, but I mean, yeah, it's, I wish it was like the movies. But what I was saying is like, even in like a really gnarly ambush where it's, it's hectic, like all the cars are getting shot up. There's RPGs being fired. And this isn't like beat my chest, like tough guy talk. Like it's not very scary.
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It's not scary in the moment because it's just mechanically working through the problem. That's what I'm saying. It's just happening. Like you don't feel fear when combat is actually happening. And so maybe like, I'd never been in one of those scenarios where it's been prolonged, where like, you know, you, you hear like Tom Satterly talk about Blackhawk. Yeah.
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Where they're, they're, they're now in a, they're now in a hard point in a room where A 36 hour tick. And they don't know if anyone's coming. Like now you're probably going to have to like deal with emotions and whatnot. I never had anything like that happen. It was always like spurts where you'd get ambushed or you'd get ID'd or you're getting like this, this quick, small arms engagement.
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And then it was over and it never felt very scary. Have you watched the new documentary on Black Eyed Peas? It was fucking awesome, dude.
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Dude. What the fuck? And you know what I loved about that documentary is they went and got the other side's perspective. And those dudes, those dudes are us, man. Like they were gnarly. Fingerless fucking bullet hole through an ear. And he's like, hey, I was here to fight.
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and I was gonna see it through and he's like I got shot I don't care I was here to see it through I was like oh man like you forget like just cause they don't have the fucking equipment or the stuff that we have or the support that we have those fucking dudes are gnarly man
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That'd be a bitch. No, I really appreciated the fact that they like... They didn't skew like, oh, the Americans were bad. But they also didn't like make those guys out to be bad. It was just very matter of fact. They just told the story from both sides. This is what was happening. This is why these people were angry.
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And then they talked about like some of the operations before the main one on October 3rd were like, dude, there's some... There's some people's grandparents that got killed and there were some old people that were like collateral damage. Yeah. And it started to really piss off the fighting age males in the city. And think about it, dude. Some Kalispell old folks home got accidentally bombed.
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He'd be like, you know what? The next time those motherfuckers come back into town, we got something for them. Probably. So it's very easy to understand how they arrived at that point too. Yeah. Yeah. That documentary is fucking good. I was fascinated by that.
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Yeah, just save it for the old guys like us. Totally. No, but I had that experience with him. We were actually in Ramadi together when I first got exposed.
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Okay. You want to know what's funny? When I first walked in to the, uh, to your coffee shop today, I thought that's who you were sitting with. Because me and Brad, I don't know him at all, but we followed each other on Instagram for a while. And I was like, but I've never met him. And I was like, oh dude, he's here with Brad. And then I took a couple more steps. I was sitting with my dad. Yeah.
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We don't need our nods. We don't need water. I was just going to say the same thing. Fuck. Yeah.
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Just like, it's going to be okay. But then the other side of it is like, you're there and you're going to either make it out or you're going to fucking die. So- Yeah. I guess we're all going on a five mile run down the fucking. Can you imagine having to fucking end that entire evolution with just a little jog? God, dude. No.
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Speaking of the hatch you got on. Do you have, well, obviously if you have connections with Sitka, you got connections with private land out there at all or?
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What the fuck is happening? Because he goes, bro, do you want to train tonight? I said, yeah, what do you do? And he goes, I want to, he goes, I'm a purple button jujitsu and a Muay Thai fighter. And I said, okay, let's, yeah, I'll see what's up with it. And I grew up and I wrestled a little bit and I boxed a little bit.
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We can figure this out. Well, dude, check this out. I'm proposing something to you, because I have a homie that is... His name is Joshua Dukes, and he lives on Maui. Okay. And he's connected to all the ranchers out there, because he's lived there for 20 years. Yep. And he was a firefighter for a long time, so very integrated in the community.
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And these ranchers... The fucking access are out of control on Maui.
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Yeah. Well, I heard the herd on Maui is over 100,000 now. I wouldn't surprise you. And what they're doing is they are digging up all the irrigation piping on the ranch. Yeah. And they break into it to get to the water. And so like these ranchers, they want these deer gone. And he's starting to work with some of them. And I've went out there a few times with them.
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They're hard as fuck to kill with a bow. Dude, it's awesome though. Yeah. Like we kill, I'll show you pictures when we're done. But like we went out one day and filled the bed of his pickup truck because there's no limit. Yeah. And there's no season. They want them gone. They want them eradicated.
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But as a new bow hunter, well, I'm not a new bow hunter anymore. It's been like four years, right? Have you ever hunted anything beyond deer? Like where's your fucking, let's get you on some elk. I have not hunted elk yet.
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From your new helicopter? Yes, from the air. You just got to wait 24 hours. Yeah. Is that really the rule? You can spot them, but then you got to wait 24 hours. Okay. Yep. No, but I started deer hunting and then I was hunting out in Wisconsin with some friends out there, which is all tree stand hunting.
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And if you have a little bit of training, you think you're basically UFC level.
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And people hate on tree stand hunting. But if that's what you got, that's what you got. But it's also, bro, tree stand hunting is not easy.
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That's exactly right. You will fucking sit there. It's 20 degrees out. And when you're out there for eight hours and it's just, it's actually kind of fascinating because it's you in the woods. Yeah. And once you're up in a tree, have you ever tree stand hunted? Yes. The woods come alive, dude. Yeah. And you're riding the tree bowl all over the place. Yeah.
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So I did that for a few years and had like, we've had success every year that we've went out to Wisconsin. And then my buddy Joshua invited me to hunt Hawaii and now it's spot and stock. Yeah. But it's fascinating.
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That's what I'm saying, bro. You're getting dumb fights with like college kids at bars and stuff. And it's, it's almost not even fair. And then you experience what a real martial artist feels like. And it's like, Oh, Oh no, I'm a child still.
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Like maybe you'll get your arrow and like fucking jam it in your quiver and then just continue. And bro, they shoot fucking, anything's a go there. Oh, I know. Because like in Wisconsin, what you're like, the thought of releasing an arrow has to be a very ethical shot placement.
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Everything, like the fucking, everything has to align perfectly to make sure you're not wounding animals because obviously that's not what you want to be doing as a hunter. Yeah. Hawaii is totally different. It's like, they're slinging arrows at everything.
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Because there's grizzly bears there. I want to be out in the fuck. I want to be in the river. Bacon swims. I've seen National Geographic. Grizzly bears can swim. Actually, dude, you know, I grew up in Sitka, Alaska. I did not know that. Yeah, it's bouncing back and forth because my dad was a commercial fisherman. Okay. So from May to April, we'd be up in Sitka.
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And bro, those bears, you'll find them on all the islands around Sitka. Hell yeah. Like a mile offshore. And they fucking just swim out there. And I think, I don't know if this is some biologist will write and be like, that guy doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. This is very true. We don't. But the deer will swim out there to have their babies because it's more safe. In the water?
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Yeah. The deer will swim out to the islands to have babies. And then I guess the bears will fucking sometimes chase them out there.
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Onto the hunting list or you mean? No, no, no, no, no. Into the state. Cause there was no grizzlies. Why? That's, that's, that's my question. Like, what are you doing? There's no natural predator for grizzlies. No. So it's... Why are they doing that? They're always doing stuff like that.
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Yeah. And they're introducing like wolves back and shit like that.
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I mean, whatever. What's your book about? The book is a two part book. And again, it's called Courage Through Adversity. And dude, I've wanted to write a book off and on for a decade. but I always have that, like that little voice that's almost imposter syndrome. It's like, who are you to fucking tell a story or to try and guide someone?
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And then I went from white to brown belt and then felt that all over again with Bushesha like day one. But only probably with him. Only with him. Yeah. Don't get me wrong. They also have like, it was like Lucas Leitch, Marcelo Mofra. Like they all had academies that were close. So we would, the whole checkmat circuit would like train with each other. Joao Assis too.
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And I would say it's not until the last couple of years when I've watched the jujitsu Academy blow up, I've watched the podcast blow up and it's like, no, we all hold the power to help people. Cause I'm sure you get those emails all the time, you know? And it's like,
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once you start to believe in like who you are and your message and helping people and you lean into it, that's where the magic starts to happen. So I was like, this is my year. I'm writing the book and it's a two part book. Part one is kind of like my story, because I feel like if you're going to give any type of guidance or try and help people become better, some backstory is necessary.
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And so it talks about who I am, what I did, my military experience, my law enforcement experience, my jujitsu experience. Then part two is about how to empower people to find the best version of themselves.
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No, it's all in one book. And I even say in the beginning, it's like, you don't have to read my story if like they're separate. You can go right into part two if you're not interested in some guy's military journey, because there's a million books like that. Right. But I just put that for, so I feel like it gives my words validity. Yeah.
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And then part two is literally about the things that we need to be doing to empower our community. And it starts with ourselves. It starts with who we see in the mirror. And I hear from people all the time. It's like the two things that men have that they voice concern to me about is not liking who they see in the mirror and not liking the profession they're stuck in.
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Maybe, but I feel like men in particular, like we have these expectations on who we're supposed to be. And I think most people are knowingly fall short of that. And if you're overweight and you're weak and you haven't prioritized your health or your fitness, or you know what else a lot of people don't prioritize is their relationships, right?
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Like one thing I hear from men all the time is like, man, I see you've built like a really powerful community. I don't have anything like that around me. I don't have any friends. I don't have anyone to bounce ideas off of.
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So the book talks about all that stuff, building community, building like resilience within your friend group, building resilience within your family, and just touches on all that stuff because I feel like it's lost right now. How many words? How many words? I think I was at 62,000. Sweet. When's it come out? October. October.
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No, no. So I'll tell you the, the manuscript is completely done. Yep. The full book is written, turned in. I've hired a, I'm working with Chad Robichaud's agent cause he's connected in that world. Yep. And we're at the phase now where he's presenting it to different publishers to see who wants to pick it up.
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And there was these little fucking blue and purple belts. So Barambola your ass and you couldn't stop it. I didn't even know what a Barambola was. That's when you slap bump and walk away.
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Um, I'll put you on the back cover. Front cover will sell better.
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We'll put the front cover as a picture of me trying to pass your guard. Or that'll be book two, titled The Endless Endeavor.
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Yeah, no, that's why we're going into it now. And my agent says for books that are around these topics, an October release is typically the best. It's what you want to shoot for.
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I like this one too. Yeah. That's the one we want. That's the one. So there's that. That color scheme, it just pops.
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But bro, I'll never forget it. It was another, I was partnered up with this blue belt and we're in La Habra, Lucas, Lucas Leitch's Academy. And we were drilling Barambolo and I just does not compute. I couldn't, I couldn't grasp the, the way you invert, the way you roll through and then transition to the back.
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Is that up to the publisher to decide then if they want to go through and have it scrutinized?
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None of us do. Well, there's a, there's a handful of guys who, that seems like they post a picture from the GWAT every day and it's like- I didn't even think to have the fucking camera with me.
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Well, dude, my first deployment, my first and my second, I just brought like a couple of those disposable Kodaks.
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Yeah, and then you get home and you drop it off at Walgreens and then three days later, you see what you got out of your deployment.
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And what I was kind of shocked to hear is like once a publisher picks you up, it's basically their book.
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And you could tell this kid was frustrated because like I wasn't a very viable drilling partner as a brown belt and he was a blue belt. It's embarrassing. Yeah. Inversion is not meant for our body size.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, the good thing about the advance is that if your book completely flops and you don't even sell one copy, you don't have to pay them back anything.
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Yeah. And also though, like... even after, even after that, the, they're going to get a substantial percentage of the royalties because my agent talked to me about self-publishing too.
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There's pros and cons to both. And he said like a guy that has a big platform that could be, you would be very applicable for this. You would have the potential to move a lot of books without a publisher or
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That's exactly what I said, dude. I would rather just say, hey, let people that know what they're doing figure it out. And if I make a little less money in the end, I don't really care. I want the book to have a wide reach and I want the book to be received well and big publishers know how to do those things.
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Are you going to read it? You have to read your own audio book.
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Bro, you know what else you can do? You can let chat GPT listen to one of your episodes. Yep. and learn your inflection, your exact presence and how you articulate things, and then run the book through that and it'll spit it out instantly. I almost felt like that's cheating.
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And then I was talking to a guy, it's like, bro, it's 2025 for you to sit at your podcast microphone and fucking read for 10 hours.
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Because I think I've thought about that. Like I don't have as big of a following as you, but still the people that do follow me consume my podcasts. So the people, a lot of people that are going to be tuned into your audio book, they need to hear you. I think it may. Or do you want me to read your audio book?
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What is that going to convert to actual pages? Like 250 or something? Close to 300, I think. Close to 300, okay.
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Yeah. One reason that I was very apprehensive of self-publishing was my agent was talking about how you need to have an understanding of how many books you need at release.
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But he's like, dude, if you, there's two things you do not want as an author is you don't want 5,000 books sitting in your garage that aren't moving or selling 5,000 books and you don't have it. And he goes, what's even worse is exactly that. you sell them out.
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And now, because when it's hot and it's new and your fans are wanting your item and they go click and it says sold out, they're not coming back next week. So like you have to find that happy middle ground and top publishers know how to do that better than we'll ever fucking know how to do it.
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Yeah. Hey man, they go like this. Yeah, that's right. And they turn. I already knew where you were going because if you get too stubborn, not accepting a pass, you can actually fuck yourself up.
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No, I'm the same way. And you know, it's, I think a lot of people that are new authors, they must just want to fucking micromanage everything because I've said that exact same thing to my agent a handful of times. I'm like, dude, I'll let the guys that have been in this industry 20 years kind of guide me.
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Like if you think this needs to come out or this needs to go in or this font pops more Barnes and Noble, like, no, it doesn't like, dude, just, I mean, clearly it's going to be Helvetica.
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And I bet you they already changed to like Times New Roman or some shit. You know what would be cool though? And this is also obviously depending on who picks your book up. St. Morton's Press. That's who picked yours up. And so you'll be able to go to likely any Hudson News while you're traveling. And draw a dick. And there's your book. Who can stop me? I feel like I can draw a massive cock.
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And then it'll become a thing. Like, dude, if you got one of the books with the cock by Andy, it's worth this much more on eBay.
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You know, it's, it's still doing good. Like, and just like you said with the book, I don't do the podcast hoping I get this many downloads or this much money from it.
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And, uh, it did slow down a little bit. but I feel better about myself after what you said. It's like people are out doing their stuff now.
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They'll find it again. Yeah. No, but dude, that journey has just been one of the most transformational journeys of my life too, because it just, before you know it, and either doing other people's shows or inviting people on my show, you're building your network, you're building relationships. And now I feel like I'm connected with these different people all over the country.
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Like dude, a perfect, do you know Bedros Koulian? Do you know who that is?
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No, no, no, no. There's no chakras. There's no runes. There's no crystals. That's what I read. I'll fucking pull this up right now. Pull it up. Yeah, it's called BK Life. Which is chakras and runes. He actually said, he goes, I really, cause I was talking to him last week. I said, I was coming out here to do this. Yeah.
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That's what it says. He's an entrepreneur and he's, he's actually a really cool guy. and I invited him on my show and we ended up hanging out for just like we're doing right now. And by the end of it, he goes, dude, I got a big event coming up in may. If you want to be part of it, let me know. And it's just like little doors are always opening up just from doing this, you know?
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And so I think that that's one of the most important aspects of doing this. Like you're on what? Episode three, something now.
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378 was our last one. Okay. So you're coming up on 400. Yeah. So think about how many people you've connected with and how many doors have opened just from this. It's wild. You know? And so it's like, that's what motivates me to keep doing it. And again, the mission is to enrich people's lives. And as long as we can keep doing that, I think it's fucking, it's what we should be doing.
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Uh, no, not really, man. I mean, I shouldn't say not really have lots of goals, but nothing that we haven't really already kind of dived into the, uh, I was hoping the book would come out this year and you just crushed that goal.
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And then the other thing is just continuing to grow the Jiu Jitsu Academy. You know, we'll be at a wild, we'll be at three, we'll probably be at 300 members by the end of this year.
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Her jujitsu is certainly not trash. The first time I rolled with her, I thought she was a purple belt because she had the breast cancer awareness. Yeah. And I said, I said, dude, who's that purple belt? Cause she's fucking good. And you just laughed. You go, actually, she's a black belt world champion. Made me feel better about myself. Yeah.
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Bro, I think so. Yeah. I think, again, like my academy kind of blew up at the right time with kind of the perfect storm with my story and like a lot of things kind of fell into place. But I also think that when you have basically everybody with a voice these days praises jujitsu.
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You know, when you're looking at all the big podcasts and maybe not obviously like true crime, like there's top podcasts that have nothing to do with guys like us, but guys- Plus because there was no crime because they took that motherfucker out.
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But like anybody in our space that's into fitness, into guns, into hunting, like, All the guys at the top are proponents of jiu-jitsu.
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You got guys like Rogan and Jocko and yourself. Everybody talks about the value of jiu-jitsu. And I think it's expanding because of that. And a lot of people... Because, dude, I used to get... The only people that would come and want to train jujitsu were savages like guys that either wanted to become fighters or former wrestlers. And now it's, it's all walks of life.
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A lot of kids, a lot of women, a lot of dads that are like, they've never been an athlete in their life. Well, who's your, uh, how old's your oldest member?
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Yeah. We don't have anyone. I mean, I had a guy that started training because he attended our guns and geese program and he got his blue belt at 70 years old. That's awesome. And it's like people, once people lean into jujitsu, I tell people all the time, I've yet to meet the person that dedicated time to jujitsu and then regretted it.
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There's no nursing home in my future. One day. No. I keep telling my dad. Not a fucking one.
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That happened last week. well i think about that with my father because my father passed in 2015 but he was already reaching that point like this fucking remote dude how the fuck do i navigate into this app and like do you use apple tv yes my dad carried around in his breast pocket an apple tv remote for a week asking people how to recharge it at the coffee shop
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Um, do you think your jujitsu has an expiration date? I try to have a style that does not. As, as, Well, as I get older, I try and move it towards that. Yeah. But I also think like, I don't know, man. I look at some of these old guys that just look like decrepit and they look- Talk to him about how their game used to be though.
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No. But that's the thing. It's like if you're Hickson and you literally built a legacy around jiu-jitsu and the cost of building that legacy is... an L a percentage of your physical health. Like that makes sense. It's a given a take, right?
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That's what I'm saying. But it doesn't, I don't think that makes sense for most people. Yeah. If they reach a point where it's like, Hey, jujitsu is now doing more harm than good.
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Isn't it weird? A lot of dudes have wives that they want to hide from. Why are you married to her?
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Bro, I tell you, like when he was really bursting onto the scene and he had, it was like him and Adolfo Vieira in the finals every year for like three or four years in a row. And he would be getting ready for that. And he would beat me so fucking bad at practice. I remember I pulled him aside one time.
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You ever hear the story Jocko told about his first time rolling with a female world champion? No. He's like, dude, this, and he didn't say who she was by name, you know? Cause he's like, man, they said like she, she won the world title. And he's like, so man, what's this going to feel like? You know, like, am I about to get beaten by a girl?
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And then he goes, and then I did whatever I wanted to her. It's not magic. Yeah.
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I don't know. Like everybody, it's funny. Whenever I say this, people are like, what the fuck are you talking about? You might quit jujitsu one day. Like, what are you talking about? And it's like, this is a phase of life. It's been a long phase. It's been 21 and a half years now. Jujitsu has been my consistent through a lot of different phases of my life too, which has always been cool. Right.
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But if it's to the point where it's, it's hurting me and it's bringing me more harm than good, like it's probably time to move on. And when I say that, you could like jujitsu people get hurt. What are you talking about?
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trying to fucking shower this morning i'm trying to wash my hair and it's like this elbow is barely working and it's just because i've like i said we have that competition coming up so we've been getting after it and then going with your gnarly brown belt and it's like sooner or later i'm gonna want to be pain-free because i i don't even remember what being pain-free is like and you'll never feel it again it's already too late for that
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I know, right? But we don't need to add to the pain. And jujitsu does, man. It just does. It has to be a net positive.
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And also, I don't know if I ever want to be the guy. I don't have to have rounds where we're fighting to the death. But I also want to be... Doing real rounds. If everybody's just babying you cause you're the old broke guy. I think I'm just going to go become a Yogi and meditate. Yeah.
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I'm like, Marcus, seriously, dude, like I know we're homies and we don't, I don't think there's any issues, but are there? Because like that, that was different. He goes, Oh no, no, bro. I pretend you're Adolfo. I pretend it's finals of world. That's how hard I go. I'm getting ready. And I was like, show me on the doll where somebody touched you.
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Plus I want to sail the world. Maybe you'll come on that journey with me.
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I'm going to buy a boat that's unsinkable. That doesn't exist.
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They tried that with the Titanic. Some of those catamarans, their cores are... Limp it, mine. I'll take care of that. What do you want to close it out, man? We've been at it for almost three hours.
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So guns and geese is a pretty limited program. We're only running one this year. And it's a program that means... Really push yourself. Yeah, I know, right? Yeah.
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No, it's not sold out. There's some spots available. It's in my academy, Lake Stevens, Washington in July. And it's just a weekend of shooting and fighting. But again, at the essence of what it's become, it's more about personal excellence and community and connection.
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You know, like people say all the time, we do three hours of shooting in the morning and then three hours of jujitsu in the afternoon. And then we do dinners and bonfires together. And consistently people are like, my favorite aspect of camp is the bonfire conversation. That makes total sense. And so like, I actually want to lean into that more over the next year.
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You asked me what my goals were for 2025. And I said, I don't know, not much. I'll just do this one course. Really going to push myself. No, I want to, I actually want to move into connection and community building and offer more things that are around that as opposed to shooting. I'm kind of over guns, dude. And I know that's blasphemy to say.
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That's right, dude. And then I'm going to convince everybody to give me their wives. Like, hey, if you want to have a baby, it actually has to come from me because I'm connected to God. And give me 80% of your money. 80% of your money. And then we're all going to drink a magic potion and fly off on a comet together. Fuck yeah. You know what the problem is? People have signed up for this shit.
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A dude did that. I know. And people signed up. You know what's funny? I always say at my Jiu-Jitsu Academy because people are like, dude, it's become like a cult here just because like... how bought in people are, right? Jiu Jitsu does meet every criteria. I said, but I don't have sexual rights to the wives. That is actually not a required. That is, that is a required criteria.
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But it's nuts how some people, it's just will absolutely give like all of their sovereignty and their autonomy over to another man. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yep. There's signups still available. Um, outside of that though, like we talked about jujitsu for half of this podcast. Did we, if you're not training jujitsu, go find a spot and start training. I agree. That is what I find to be the catalyst to change. more than any other aspect of people's lives. And there's a reason we can sit and talk about it forever.
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This is what he said to me. He humiliated me, but trying to give me a compliment. I said, well, bro, like I appreciate it, but I just don't feel like a viable training partner sometimes because that felt completely one sided. He goes, oh, no, no, no, bro. You're good for my cardio. So that's my favorite Bruce Asha quote. Oh, no, no, bro. You're good for my cardio.
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It's because we both feel the power in it. We both know how much value it brings to your life. And what you will find is almost none of the value that you pull from the mats has to do with choking people or arm barring people.
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Because people will say that all the time. Hey, can you pull footage at 642? I want to see how this guy passed my guard or whatever. And it's like, no. Now you can just have login and do it yourself. Oh, man. Or here's a thought.
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No, but I mean, that would be my biggest advice to anybody that is seeking personal excellence, seeking growth, seeking community, just trying to connect with other people. Find an academy and start spending time there. And don't have expectations of anything.
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Just be consistent, show up, and your life, the trajectory of your life will move in the positive direction in almost a direct correlation to how much time you're spending on the mats. And I know, again, it starts to sound a little culty, but when you've seen this happen over and over and over for two decades now, it's undeniable. I mean, Michael, you're 23.
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Well, and a lot of that positive impact, I mean, we talked about earlier, it comes from just developing some confidence, how you walk, how you carry yourself, how you believe in yourself. I say it all the time to my guys, like,
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not only what we talked about earlier is like walking in the parking lot with your shoulders up and just having an awareness, but you know where I've noticed it too, is in professional settings. Like I've had supervisors that are just kind of arrogant assholes and the way they talk to people, is a direct reflection of them being those arrogant assholes.
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But when they know that you can take them down and strangle them unconscious, they treat you a little differently.
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And that's the thing, dude. And it's like, am I going to go into my supervisor's office and strangle him? No, I think everybody understands that's probably not going to happen. Let's leave it at a maybe. But that's what I'm saying. When it's even a possibility. Yeah. People hold you in a different regard.
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It does, man. And like I tell the young people in my academy all the time, jujitsu will serve you the rest of your life professionally just as well as it will actually give you a skill set to defend yourself because people will hold you in a different regard.
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Yeah, so if you're in Lake Stevens, Washington, I know a good academy.
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And anywhere else, just go try different academies, see what's up, dude.
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No, I don't think you can learn it online. And I get this question a lot. This is what I... It's a real one. Yeah, and this is what I recommend. Find literally the closest academy, even if it's a three-hour drive. And then find a friend or two and be like, hey, let's commit to going to that academy once every six weeks. Even something like that.
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And dude, any reasonable Jiu Jitsu Academy owner, if two guys came to me and said, hey, I live three hours away and I can only make it. like every month or two, oh, well, it's too bad. You're going to have to have a, of course.
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It'd be exciting, right? Yeah. Because some jujitsu is better than no jujitsu. And that's a fact. And just the reality of it is, are you guys going to be learning some bad habits? Yes. You're going to be doing some things that you probably shouldn't be doing. Yes. But some jujitsu is better than no jujitsu. I agree.
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So, but at the end of the day, you still want to be learning underneath someone in some capacity. You trying to just fucking figure this out on YouTube. I don't think that that's the best option. So go find somewhere that can kind of guide you, even if that's very, very intermittently. And I think that that's probably the best scenario. Yeah.
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That's what, uh, do you know, uh, the Jeff Smith, Colorado craft beef? Yeah. He trains like that very intermittently. I mean, I think it's like once a week or something, but still like once a week, better than nothing. It's better than nothing. Yeah. So it is what it is. Cool. Right on. Are we going to go fly your helicopter around now?