Joe Rogan Experience #2040 - Eddie Bravo

Eddie Bravo joins Joe Rogan for a three-hour conversation that opens with Joe's newfound football obsession after his first NFL game and quickly turns to fighting. They dig deep into MMA and grappling history, K1 kickboxing, Muay Thai, bare-knuckle fighting, and old Pride and UFC fights, arguing for tournament formats and rule changes like knees to a grounded opponent. The talk wanders into conspiracies and politics, Russia and China, fluoride in water, homelessness in California, and taxes. Later sections cover dangerous animals, feral hogs and hunting, dog nutrition, fasting and the carnivore diet, and Eddie's spinal disc replacement and his back recovery through Joe Hippensteel's stretching method.

• Joe attended his first NFL game (Jets vs Cowboys) and became fully obsessed with football.
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• Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles on his very first drive as a Jet after enormous hype.
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• Eddie was flown to Japan to commentate the revived K1 absolute heavyweight kickboxing tournament alongside the quintet grappling event.
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• Eddie only had one of two recommended spinal disc replacements six years ago and is now hitting the point where he'd need the second.
  02:32:08
• Eddie's chronic back pain is reversing through Joe Hippensteel's 'Ultimate Human Performance' stretching method, the same person who fixed David Goggins's back.
  02:35:17

• Nick Chubb averages 5.4 yards per carry, top-three in NFL history, before breaking his leg on Monday Night Football.
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• Tommy Chong served nine months in federal prison plus a $20,000 fine for selling bongs.
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• Vancouver had a 'drugs store' selling tested cocaine until its owner died of a suspected fentanyl overdose.
  00:13:30
• They discuss fluoride being added to drinking water and a claimed correlation between high fluoride and low IQ.
  00:55:33
• MMA fighter Jeff Monson became a Russian citizen with a hammer-and-sickle tattoo.
  01:00:11
• Cage Rage fighter Lee Murray was part of the biggest armed robbery in UK history.
  01:29:28
• Big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton walked off a broken ankle that hardened into a giant calcium deposit.
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• Feral hogs number in the millions across Texas and the South and reportedly taste better than regular pork.
  02:09:39
• California countertop cutters are dying young of silicosis from inhaling stone dust.
  02:24:18

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