Joe Rogan - Eddie Bravo on Bruce Lee

You know, I wanted how old you son now he's six now and You hear these stories Constantly about people remembering the first time they saw a Bruce Lee movie. It's so epic I'll never forget my dad took me to the theater blew my mind. Everyone's got a story Joey's got his the first time He saw Bruce Lee so I wanted to make sure I didn't do that too early because then he would forget You know because he forgets special-ass moments we had together from like three years ago I'm like you don't remember that you know, it's so he's only five right? He's six He's six. Imagine how quick your brain is growing and that amount of you forgot a lot of shit, you know, but anyways So I thought maybe I'm gonna hit him with I'm gonna sit him down and and and put on enter the dragon and blow his fucking Mind but I don't want to do a tour like when do I get I'm like thinking maybe I could even wait till he's 10 or 8 or whatever, you know, but he's been doing karate since he was 3 so about three years now He's been doing karate and he took a nunchuk workshop class of that So he's got his little you know those padded nunchucks. He fucking loves those things man, and I thought shit He's getting into the nunchucks. It might be a time to drop Bruce Lee on his You know what I mean? I don't want him to get twisted You know what I mean? Cuz he starts he starts talking about Jackie Chan and shit like that and I'm like, oh I've seen anybody do it on video or only learn it from a class. This is what happened. So he's he's all into nunchucks He's beating me up with them all the time. He loves nunchucks and I and I said, um Oh, then I wore one of those roots of fights shirts and it was Bruce Lee with lunchucks, right? And He looked at my shirt and he said daddy who's the guy with the nunchucks? And I thought okay. It's time Son sit down So, you know kids are so easily brainwashed I can get my kid into Satanism You ever see this little kid? Yeah. Yeah, he's amazing. He's amazing. He's got the Bruce Lee outfit on everything the jumpsuit He's amazing and he's got he's got the game of death sequence down It says the video is my son and in parentheses a five-year-old Acting Bruce Lee's nunchucka scene. Yeah. Yeah, he ran acts the whole thing note for note I think he was on like America's Got Talent or some shit, too So I sat him down and I and I explained to him I go the master of the nunchucks the number one guy You know cuz like like I was like I was saying earlier you could get kids to believe in anything you could brain I could I could get my son into Satan easily He'd be all about Lucifer boom I got him into the browns. Yeah little kids, you know, I'm out. Yeah, totally He's so into the Dodgers because his grandpa is into the Dodgers So he's all about the Dodgers and I got him into the Browns He's all in the Browns now too because I'm I could get him into anything So I sat him down and I say you are but I'm gonna sit you down and I'm gonna show you the master of The nunchucks and it's Bruce Lee. He's number one He's the greatest Martial artist of all time. I broke him and I sat him down and I put him in front of the TV I should have film this I did you film the whole thing you filmed you saying it to him No, I didn't film that but I filmed his reaction. I filmed him watching Bruce Lee First I showed him the greatest nunchuck scenes of all time with Bruce Lee that you go to YouTube and you can get there's there's Compilations they put together the one from the stuff in end of the dragon the stuff in Chinese connection Way of the dragon or return of the dragon and So I sat him down and go I'm gonna blitz him with this shit I'm gonna make sure that whenever he thinks about fucking nunchucks, he knows that Bruce Lee's the master, right? So he's just completely blown away then after I showed him all the nunchuck scenes We sat him down and I wanted to show him the greatest fight scene of all time Bruce Lee versus Chuck fucking Norris Come on, man. So I just wanted to leave that just in his DNA and I film that I filmed him watching Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee and he always Wants to know he loves he loved Bruce Lee Instantly and he he he needs to know who wins the fight So it's like daddy does Bruce Lee when I go he always wins, son He always wins and but my natural reaction because he's constantly asking questions. He's constantly does he win? My natural reaction would be just watch watch you gotta watch right because it's gonna be sweeter if you watch it and you go through The ups and downs and it goes no daddy You need to tell me now and I go no you're gonna like it more if you just watch it You got no daddy does Bruce Lee win. He wants to fucking know He don't want to be disappointed. Yeah, so he's got years old. Yeah, he got completely blown away. So a week later A week later I got today. You're gonna watch the greatest martial arts movie of all time Enter the dragon because it's Bruce Lee dad, isn't it? So we sat him down we put on and he can't stop asking fucking questions About every god. Okay, daddy, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? Is he a bad guy or is he a good guy? So we got it down the three main good guys You know Bruce Lee is the main good guy Williams I was His name escapes me the black famous martial artist Jim Kelly Jim Kelly Jim Kelly's awesome and He did die in the movie, which I mean they were doing that shit back then, you know what I mean? Good guy and then Roper John Saxon. He was the third good guy. Yeah, it was Roper Williams and Bruce Lee And they were all they were the good guys and the bad guys. Do you remember the bad guys names? No, Han was the dude on the top left. He's the he's the guy with the claws former Shaolin monk who went bad and started selling heroin on this island and and and and Prostitution rings and all that. Yeah, I completely forgot the plot of this movie. Are you kidding me? Yeah, it's the greatest fucking I remember watching it, but it is, you know, I didn't take it seriously I always thought it was fun. I was I was looked at it not like holy shit. We're gonna see this wild action movie I always thought of it is because by the time I watched it. It was kind of campy I'm sure I watched it when I was a little kid. Yeah, I don't remember Yeah, you got to go back and watch the whole thing because everyone, you know, that's that's most people's common reaction Like you just remember you remember the the scene with Han with the razor hand. That's all remember. He had a razor hand He had a claw hand you remember Bolo young and they're fighting outside in the tournament, you know You remember all that shit you remember Williams getting killed they hung them You remember Williams fighting Han there certain scenes everyone will remember and you just you forget about the little scenes in the plot So I sit down my son I sit down my son and we're watching this and my mom or his mom's like it's appropriate for a six-year-old, right? It's not gonna get too crazy. I go. It's fine. It's just a bunch of karate. No, it's it's fine. So she's all like So we're sitting there and he can't stop asking goddamn questions He can't stop asking goddamn questions. The bad guys are Hans the main guy Ohara Bob Wall. Remember him? Yeah, everybody remembers he had the scar in his face and they everyone remembers that he was him and his gang were chasing Bruce Lee's sister in the movie and they cornered her and she had to Kill herself. She just killed herself before they could like rape her or whatever People people remember that that's another classic scene But you don't remember all you don't think about all that the shit in between man because the plot the plot of the story is Han lives on an island and he has he does a lot of illegal shit. He runs heroin and prostitution through his island, right and He has a tournament like once a year and he invites all the greatest martial artists On earth and he tries to recruit them He sits them all down and he shows them his like underground operation going on You know what I mean? So he tried to talk Roper into it He tried to talk Williams into it, right and Roper almost went for it cuz he was kind of he's a good guy But he was like a gambler, you know what I mean? He's kind of shady But at the end he's like fuck this I'm gonna do this shit. So that's what he doesn't and he called him Bruce Lee, too And he was gonna try to recruit Bruce Lee, but the CIA Got ahold of Bruce Lee first Yes So they get ahold of Bruce Lee and they sit him down in a dark room and they're playing a projector and they're showing You know, they want Bruce Lee to go in there undercover to uncover all the Granny fights the crime and all the stuff that was going on. They doing selling drugs. Yes drugs and prostitution and And doing mind control on So what so I'm sitting there watching it He wants to know who the bad guys are bolo bolo's a bad guy O'Hara Who's Bob walls a bad guy and then Hans the main bad guy? so he's constantly asking questions and then boom you forget about the scenes where Han would has like a madam and he's got all these hookers. There's a hooker scene you forget about the hooker scene They send like five girls to Williams who's a good guy and Roper to try to corrupt them You know what I mean? And boom as soon as they're all in their gowns and robes and wombs like in a robe and I Grabbed the remote and just started hitting fast forward and my son's a little what's going on here. What's going on here, dad? Why you fast for I'm good. Nothing's going on. What are they doing? They're getting ready to go to sleep. Just forget about that same. Boom. You forget that there's a Is this the same there it is right there? and There's titties and everything but um Yeah, he got he was blown away and a mission accomplished. He's Bruce Lee's number one and To him and but I made a mistake The next week I made him sit down and watch return of the dragon Which the end scene was a great scene with Chuck Norris and the old Rome Colosseum But the whole movie before that is so bad It's so bad and Bruce Lee He directed it and and wrote it and it was it's atrocious. It's Except for the Chuck so yeah except for the end but it's like high school kids put together that damn Terrible. I gotta have to go back a while. Yeah, we know we should we should do a fight companion And watch end of the dragon that would be fucking great dude, are you kidding? Come on man a fight companion So there it takes place in Italy his one of his like think his uncle or just or just somebody knows has a Chinese restaurant in Italy and The Italian mob these guys. These are the goons they're trying to run them out of business and and control their business or Pay them off to take the building or something and they're they're resisting in Italy. So they send Bruce Lee from Hong Kong to handle the mob to Italy so corny. It's Fucking bad. So what do you think happening? I think Bruce Lee was just partying too much doing a little blow Having a good time out in the town beat a big Hollywood star puts together this movie and you just got a little crazy with it Yeah, you know what? This is before he blew up though. This is because he did this movie. He did Big boss Chinese connection and this one was his third one and then after this is when Warner Brothers came in and signed him That's when they did enter the dragon. That was his last one. Enter the dragon was Had a budget. This is really any budget. This is a like just cheap Chinese production, you know It's crazy when you think that there was really no one like him before him. There's Chuck Norris waiting Waiting for him. Look at that thumbs down You know when you when you think about there was no kind of movies like this before this this fight scene greatest fight scene Worse movie. How about the grab of the chest hair pulls a chunk of it out? Yeah that oh sure. There's a chest hair bitch. I Mean it's it's funny watching it with no volume too because it's so corny And it's all overdubbed and and it's it's god-awful but dude his martial arts technique Especially when you think about the fact this was what? 1974 so this is that was like 71 71 it was released in 76, but he died in 73 He had incredible technique like really good technique like his kicking technique Especially for back then. Yeah, I think because of the YouTube and shit There's so many guys out there that they're doing like these jump spinning 360 wheel kicks there was some guy that mwinkle John Jackson had on his The Instagram page and it's a Korean gentleman doing some fucking ridiculous shit just like jumping 360 degree wheel kicks and like a series of cartwheels flying through the air and doing all these things like None of this was ever in the movies before you know until like when like maybe Jet Li I guess No, Ong bok right because they're there a level in terms of like athleticism I mean, there's that crouching tiger head and dragon right? I mean, that's all like mystical. Yeah, that's magic This guy's actually doing this. This is just a video of him He starts out normal throws like a bunch of front kicks throws a bunch of sidekicks and then he starts doing Jumping wheel kicks 360 wheel kicks tornado kicks He's just fucking flying through the air and flipping through the air aerial cartwheel kicks and like whoa People can do shit now and they do stuff in like in martial arts films The techniques just way better. They're just way better. He's got better at it Can you put that that fight scene back up with Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris? See if you can find that video first while you're looking for just what we're talking about the one the one thing about Bruce Lee All the pads and he flies no, no, no, no. It's just a guy throwing kicks in the air He's just throwing kicks in the air. It's on the Jackson wink. Yes Jackson Winkle, John. I just looked at Instagram page. Oh, this guy's doing it in MMA No, no, he's doing it in the air. I'm just doing in the air Which of their pages is he planning to use it in them? Top one Jackson wink MMA that one check that one out. There's a Korean dude if you keep going down I don't know if he's planning on using an MMA Fuck is it? Hmm Hmm Maybe they were commenting on it. Fuck somebody had it up Sorry, anyway, but with Bruce Lee fight scenes What I like about him is you could see him although, you know him beating up 50 guys at a time You know that you know, how real can that be? But he does were on one-on-one fights. He does a lot of feinting He'll do boxing stuff. He'll do wrestling. He'll do jiu-jitsu. You see him mix it up and he's trying to make it a Lot more realistic like that, you know, then you have your classic Kung Fu theater type movies where they just You're like yeah, that's shit is just get always is so Bruce Lee Bruce Lee will dance around He'll throw a jab fate kick you in the leg Fake low go high and knock you out. He does that against Chuck Norris in in in Way of the dragon and if you go back to 1970 like that kind of martial art technique, I mean he was He was amazing He was also the first guy that figured out how to put a bunch of martial arts together and just forget about Amjudo your karate and forget about that. Just just just Use everything that works everything from everywhere. Yeah, that was heresy back then I mean he might have been He may have been the first guy to do that really I mean