6 Times Things Got Heated On The Joe Rogan Experience
4. Eddie Bravo
Eddie Bravo is Brazilian jiu-jitsu royalty. He famously defeated Royler Gracie by submission in 2003 to become one of the first American's to score a victory over the Gracie family in competition. He is also the founder and head instructor of 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu, a variation of BJJ that Joe Rogan holds a blackbelt in.
However, in recent years it has not been Bravo's wealth of grappling knowledge that fans of the JRE have come to know him for, but rather his fondness for conspiracy theories. Normally Joe likes to indulge his friend in his unconventional theories but on JRE #948 Bravo decided to wax lyrical about his newest, and possibly most bizarre, fascination: the flat earth theory.
The podcast started normally enough, with Rogan, Bravo, and Brendan Schaub talking about the UFC. As is often the case, the conversation then meanders through a variety of topics when, at around an hour and a half into the episode, Bravo begins his patented conspiracy talk.
Predictably the discussion only degenerates from this point as a visibly irked Rogan attempts to repeatedly question Bravo about the reasoning for the total rejection of mainstream science.
A microcosm of the whole episode can actually found in a 40-second fragment that takes place during the final half-hour of the episode.
Rogan: They don't learn astrophysics, they don't study all these things it's hard to learn. The entry barrier is f**king huge! If you wanna study physics, I can barely pay attention to it! I listen to these books on tape and I have to go back over them, three, four times just to understand a paragraph, trying to figure out exactly what the f*ck they're quantifying. They're talking about really intense sh*t that thousands of people have been working on in conjunction! They all feed off each other's innovation, there are so many people working on these things Eddie. The idea that they are all in on some kind of a giant global lie is insane!
The camera then cuts to Bravo looking entirely dismissive.
Bravo: Yeah, yeah, ... that's what everyone thinks
You know the conversation is really coming off the rails when even normally silent JRE producer Jamie Vernon cannot help but get involved towards the end of the podcast in an attempt to call Eddie out on his BS. Bravo remains steadfast in his skepticism however, and the episode ends on a slightly awkward note.