Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1430 - Raghunath Cappo
Uploaded: 2020-02-21T20:00:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1430 - Raghunath Cappo' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-02-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1430 - Raghunath Cappo' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-02-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1430 - Raghunath Cappo

three two one boom we're live what's up ray how are you buddy pretty good great
to see you man
it's been a while it's been 10 years no more than that really 2007 i moved out
of la wow
damn that's weird i talked about you in the podcast several times though you
know what uh
i never listened to the podcast until recently um someone told me the second
time you said
i think three times you've mentioned me probably yoga ray yoga ray all these
kids are contacting me
they mentioned yoga ray on the show yeah it was cool i appreciate it i
appreciate you i appreciate
you too yeah i always thought truthfully i always thought joe rogan's gonna do
something good i
honestly i can tell you that and it it may be embarrassing to say but i'm what
i'm proud of you
oh thank you i hope you don't mind me saying that i'm proud of all you've done
thank you that's very
nice that's a funny thing to say though and you've had great just joe rogan
time you've had done some
great stuff first of all stand-up comedian that's that's a great gig it's a fun
gig it's a great gig
and if i could pick a second thing besides stand-up comedian it'd be the
announcer i wouldn't want to
be in the ufc even if i was good because you get pounded on it's a tough job
right yeah that's why you know went to thailand see those kids fight they're
retired at 21
yeah they get beat up they get beat up bad yeah but to be an announcer of the ufc
and you're also skilled at the stuff most people think the announcers aren't so
skilled sometimes
you're very skilled i just remember rolling around with you yeah those were
some of the greatest
memories of my time in la is when eddie opened 10th planet yeah we had a lot of
fun man i mean
it was such a special interesting time of jiu-jitsu i think that it was going
to no gi there's a
demographic of jiu-jitsu guys who didn't want to wear a gi anymore yeah well it
was a lot of people
wanted to learn things that would transition directly into mma and to not have
the clothes
to grab onto it changed the grips and eddie was one of the very first to really
truly concentrate
on using wrestling grips gable grips over unders things along those lines and
then the other people
were still really clinging to the gi he was like a uh and i think the thing
that i was attracted to
about the ultimate fighting when i first saw i think the first one i saw was
two you know ufc two
and i was like oh man this is and you watch those gracie inaction videos it's
like yeah this is real
stuff i want to learn real stuff yeah and so i started even noticing in my gi
game i just played
open guard and i was lackadaisical and i'd always have to tell the guys hey do
me a favor just try to
slap me because this is getting a little unreal i don't want to i want a real
life situation right
and i'm figuring okay i don't want to get by the way i don't want to get caught
up in the gi no gi
thing right now but i always felt like you know real practical fighting the guy
may not be wearing
a tuxedo i think both are good because like you live in new york new york gets
cold if you get
into a scuffle with someone i hope you never would do but if you did and he was
wearing a jacket like
yours you could manipulate him with that jacket and they really probably wouldn't
know what to do
yeah you know this is a real benefit to like being a judo player if someone has
a winter coat on
yeah like if you had a fight with caro parisian or ronda rousey or someone like
that and they
they're wearing a winter coat they'll fuck you up you know they just grab that
thing boom
yeah okay yes yeah well i'm glad i learned that way yeah it's a good way to
learn it's good it's
good for defense too because the gi keeps you from just yanking out of stuff
and exploding out of
things you have to be very patient you have to be you have to use correct
technique anyway it was
appreciation and it was one of my biggest lamentations of moving away was not
to be around
that whole posse and then i never expected it to get as big as it did i know it's
unbelievable
because back then it was like the seed i used to bring my my big kids who are
big now i used to
bring them and they used to just box we used to do it at uh legends no before
legends oh bomb squad
at the bomb squad wow that's crazy that's old school old school yeah that's
2000 what two
somewhere around yeah it was cool it was a great time i had just got my purple
i was super excited
and then eddie just got his black he got his brown his black super quick yeah
he got his brown and
then he beat hoyler and then he got his black yeah i was there that day yeah
that was crazy when john
jacques took it off his back unbelievable heavy that was heavy yeah it was a
good place to be at a good
time it was it's like when you look back at those times it's an it was an
interesting era it was an
interesting era for us as humans it was an interesting era for martial arts
there's a lot going on and that
tenth planet was really a hub of exciting innovation and still is but i mean
back then it was this really unique thing this this
completely
nogi branch of jiu-jitsu that's directly connected to john jock machado which
is a totally very conservative
legit
mm-hmm john jock was is i mean i was so always impressed with him too he still
rolls man he's at my age and he
doesn't get injured like he he might have like a little tweak here and there
but he's so intelligent and he's so
technical and he's just so good that was i'm saying was only because i'm not
there anymore but when i was going there i was like this is such an amazing
place john jock academy the quality of fighters you would get there yeah
i mean that was also at a time where there was no jiu-jitsu in america i mean
it was you have to travel
yeah to get to a jiu-jitsu school yeah you have to fight you have to be into it
and go somewhere
and um to have that many black belts at a school mm-hmm that was like unheard
of yeah i remember i was in his class one day and there was like 11 black belts
i was like this is crazy and it wasn't like that back
no there was a random rogue black belt somewhere and say you know somewhere in
portland or something like
that yeah you had to find them it was a lot of purple belts teaching schools
and blue belts teaching schools in some places even that was a great time to
get in jiu-jitsu also yeah like i went
i went i started with henzo in new york yeah i went there the day that
matt sarah got his purple belt wow that's crazy it's not crazy it was like it
was such a cool interesting
time in jiu-jitsu that place is still the top place in the world it's pretty
impressive and henzo is such a great
guy too he's the best he's so nice sweet i gave him a cd of my band just as a
gift i just met him
and he gave me a krugan gi wow yeah that's legit it was super legit krugans was
the
the gi back that was the gi yeah if you had a krugans like
you know it was a fair trade i wasn't a trade i just wanted to give him a gift
and he just like
without thinking just threw it back at me he had a great attitude well he still
does he's so loved
that guy said i mean that's one of the really nice things about jiu-jitsu is
the camaraderie and the
friendship it's like it's very different than i was compared to other martial
arts and that the
problem with striking martial arts is that you hurt each other all the time you
never develop the sort
of closeness that you do with jiu-jitsu because you're always trying to kick
each other's fucking
heads off well you know i did astanga yoga for years where it's sort of silent
and you're just doing
a set series of poses i could be with people like every day for a year and
practically never speak to them
right i remember meeting a guy at the dmv i was like i know you you're right
next to me every
morning for two hours but we've never spoken we're jujitsu you become best
friends with the guy that
you walk out with like 20 new friends you know each other so well too like you
know when someone's
breaking you know when someone's exhausted you know when someone's getting
better you know when
someone's really been consistent you know like you roll with someone they're
super sharp like what
you've been doing right what are you going four days a week now right oh wow
you see it right yeah
they become like your best friends yeah well it's also like we appreciate when
someone's really good
like if you roll with someone and they're really good and they start getting
you and they didn't used
to get you before you like a pre you like you get excited like all right i
gotta ramp up my game because
you he's doing something you're doing you have a different metric with all
these yeah well i remember you
being one of the first guys that i knew that got into yoga and yoga is a huge
part of jiu-jitsu now
so many people that train in jiu-jitsu i think i'm by the way i'm jiu-jitsu illiterate
now oh you still
know yeah what did you when you stopped were your brown belt i was purple
purple i was purple because i
i didn't i stopped going to john joss classes and we just wanted to and i think
it's sort of before eddie
started giving out actually maybe he did he was giving out he gave out actually
yeah but i just wasn't
it was confusing it was confusing because i was sort of with john jacques right
but i just i wanted to
do the no-gi stuff yeah and eddie had this natural flex has this natural
flexibility that i i related
to and he's my size and i related to that and i'm not like i was never super
athlete in high school or
anything like that i was short but i was flex i was reasonably flexible and
yoga got me really flexible
and so i appreciate i was like okay he has a really great close guard game i
want to learn that from him
and i really sort of like honed in on what he could give yeah and so yeah i
never like approached him
hey can i have a belt do you ever was a vulnerable weird time in my life but
you know did you ever
feel the desire to do it again yeah i do every now and then i go back but i
tell you when i train
because i trained with you guys and trained with uh jean-jacques it's hard to
go to some it's hard to do it
now it's 20 years later all the stuff i just you know i just did some jiu-jitsu
the other day was
at some school and someone got mad at me for i i guess it's illegal some of the
stuff i did what did
you do um i did a bicep scissors that's not illegal it's not illegal someone no
someone could play then i
sat on someone's chest i do a mount where i put the feet forward i don't
remember how i used to do that
with that yeah and i would crank their neck yeah not to tap them but just to
get have them react and
give me an arm or something so i my feet are forward i'm sitting on their mount
i pull their head up and
they panic or something and throw an arm up right and then i'll take a triangle
or an arm bar so i did
that to someone so you can't neck crank listen i didn't know you're going to i
didn't know that's
not a good school it's that's those are legit techniques neck cranks are legit
right yeah all
right it's crazy anyway you know what you just went to a bad jujitsu illiterate
yeah but no i don't
think so and here's the deal i don't want to i didn't learn this stuff to win
points right you
know i wanted to learn now i want to learn you know that's how i know this
other guy that was on your
show james james wilkes yes great guy the ultimate fighter great guy yeah no i
knew him because i used
to do some knife fighting with him oh yeah he's a tactical instructor yeah he's
really he's super
rounded guy yeah very rounded but i i knew him right when he just started jujitsu
you see his he did a
debate with uh i saw a guy i saw about about his documentary it's very
interesting because that debate
really should be like 15 hours long we only got into some points that the other
guy fucked up and got
incorrect and you get in the weeds with nutrition stuff you know because he was
a part of that game
changer documentary yeah yeah you know i heard the docu