Russell Brand Describes the Psychological Impact of Jiu-Jitsu | Joe Rogan

Hey, can I do some promotional activity? Tell me what it's called. What is it? This book is called Mentors. And actually, I read bits of it again because I knew I was coming here. And I think it's actually pretty good. Awesome. I wrote quite a lot about Brazilian jujitsu. You really love it, huh? Yeah, I do. My writing is not from a technical perspective. I'm not saying this is what I've got to say on open guard to transition. I'm talking about how the psychological impact that it's had on me and also in there about like the protocols of going to a group, which as a beginner are very relevant. Like you touched on how ritualized it is. I got a hunch that the more we emulate and connect to original ways of human behavior, whether that's dietary or hierarchies or organization of groups, I feel that we will feel a sense of greater connection. Now, the thing I got from going to BJJ classes, Genesis, where I go in back in England, is like that all the white belts get changed at one end of the room. The purple belts and above get changed at the other end of the room, which coincidentally or not is where the control for the timer is and the control for the music is and where the kit is. That's all up that room, end of the room. So all the control is that end. But it begins with sort of dancing around in a circle, doing all of those various exercises, now lifting knees, now do the shrimp in and that kind of stuff is the lower belt shouldn't invite a higher belt to spar or roll, you know, it's like the as you say, the amount of respect, the bowing, the handshaking at the end of it. It's so sort of it provides such a safe environment in which to deal with the primal. I can see why it's valuable. And it's like, you know, I should have been taught that shit when I was 14, 13, like a mandatory so that I didn't come across it like, you know, you're not going to be setting fire to fields and allotments and putting frogs on fireworks. If you've got a way of dealing with that primal energy, yeah, when when it's coming. Some people that don't understand that think that you should suppress it somehow. You should just ignore it or suppress it. They don't understand that it was a man that really a biological male. It really needs to be tackled head on. I mean, you really you really need to embrace what it is to be a physical male. And it frees you in a lot of ways. Do you think this might be a comparable moment to in the 1960s when there was a sort of a sense of sexual repression versus sexual free love? You know, the images of Woodstock and flowers in their hair and smoking joints and having sort of sex outdoors in mud or possibly wheat. That this time of like a kind of an anger about maleness, you know, and maleness may not, as you said, it may be a biological male, but it could be the energy of, I don't know, assertion or whatever. These like, you know, as in grammar, male and female relate to certain words as in French grammar, where I don't know, cat is female and dog is male. I don't know the system. I don't speak French. But I'm saying that these we have labeled these energies.