Justin Wren Takes a Bullied Kid Under His Wing | Joe Rogan

Different things like that. I think one bullying moment that I even kind of forgot about until going through this with Dr. Eamon was I was in the locker room and this little guy named Raiden that I've been hanging out with a lot, he was just beat up in the bathroom. I saw that video, the video that was online is a horrible video of these kids beating him up. But then I saw him with you. Yeah. Yeah. So that's been fun. What are you doing with him? Just man, it's great. Perking up his spirits? Yeah. You just want to rally around him. That's awesome. Surround him with love and support and compassion. We're in the same town. No shit. In the same town, Oklahoma City. So actually, Jamie's okay to play one of those videos I saved. It's called Raiden videos and it's the first one. But just for people that haven't seen it, you and Dakota talked about this and you and Laird about the diffusion of responsibility. So it's called. And people can just stand around and watch. Well, that's what happened with Raiden in the in the urinal. Actually, not this video, but the next one. This one's a fun, supportive one. And then this one right here is just him at the urinal going to the bathroom. And the kids beat him up. I don't want to watch this. Just real quick after that. There's so that's him at the urinal. There's eight to 10 kids in the bathroom. They actually think up to 12, four or five are just filming it. And he's got special needs. He was born with autism, deaf in his right ear. So he's got a hearing aid. He's diabetic. He's got diabetes in his family and he's been relentlessly bullied since he was nine years old. This is him at the bathroom was on Thursday. This is on Friday after school. Three kids jumping him, hitting him from all sides for no reason, for no reason. He's a big teddy bear. And he just his mom said since her picking him up at school and kindergarten, first grade, second grade kids would just walk up and hit him in the stomach or punch him in the arm. OK, let's stop. Yeah, we don't have to keep playing it. But so but it's really cool that you reached out to him. Yeah, well, they they I guess knew about Fight for the Forgotten and we're in the same town. And so a dad reached out to Jim Stewart. You've met Jim. He's our director. And Jim hit me up right away and said, hey, is this a kid that we could we could rally around that you could, you know, we want to do all this. We have a curriculum for bully prevention. And I think character development is bully prevention. So if you have good character, you're not going to bully. Well, that's one of the one of the things that I've always said about martial arts. Yeah, believe it or not, like learning how to fight is one of the best ways to keep people from being assholes. Absolutely. Which is so counterintuitive, but it really is because a lot of people being bullies, it comes from a lack of confidence. Right. And confident people are generally pretty kind. Yeah. Confident, accomplished people. And you know yourself. So you don't have these need this need to improve. Prove yourself. You don't have that insecurity. Yes. The need to diminish others. Right. And the other beautiful thing about gyms, particularly jujitsu, I think, is that everybody kind of boosts everybody up. It's a real family sort of camaraderie feeling a real those environments almost every gym I've ever been to every jujitsu gym is good. They have this family environment to it. And it just makes you feel like you belong somewhere and you get used to being kind to people and nice to people. Yeah, absolutely. Even if someone catches you with a technique, they'll show you. Yeah. They'll show you. This is, you know, you left your arm here when you were transitioning. And if you do that, it gets stuck. And this is why I can catch you. Yeah. Humble hearts. Yeah. So with with jujitsu or with martial arts, if you hurt your training partner, you lose the person that's helping you get better. Yes. And so as you help them get better, they make you better. And it's this give and take where actually the more you give, the more you get in return because you're making them a better training partner, a better person. And I think martial arts takes it to another level. I've done numerous sports. My parents grew up with them being the professional or official photographers of like the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Mavericks. And so I grew up around professional athletes. But what's so different, I think about martial artists and why people love MMA, one, because of sports so pure and it's like a chess match and it's an incredible sport. But the athletes, they truly are more approachable. And I think that they're more giving and compassionate and more community minded and driven. Not that other athletes aren't, but just a martial artist are so more. Yes, because they've had it drilled into them from having mentors and other black belts that are on this lifelong journey of even service to others. That's part of the black belt journey and self respect and discipline and