Dave Mustaine
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411 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Thanks.
Of course.
No, I think that was very, very honoring. Thank you for that. I did sell about 40 to 50 million records with Metallica, so it was about 100 million records. Wow, 100 million records.
It's horrible for you. THC 38%.
I'll ask the second question first. How does it affect my worldview and focus? How does martial arts affect my worldview and focus?
Yeah, that's what I thought. So my worldview is, you know, it's in flux. It... changes over time. Something that I thought was okay when I was a teenager certainly isn't okay now. Stuff that I thought wasn't okay seems absolutely normal right now. My thinking evolves just like anybody who has an open mind.
I've been around the world and I've seen so many things that it makes me really grateful for where we live, but it also makes me grateful for the way in which we live.
Going to some of the other countries that are socialist countries or other countries that maybe are third-world countries and the poverty level is extreme, you want to say, hey, this person is just like me, and they are physiologically, but when it comes down to anything beyond that, them just standing in front of you, their whole existence is completely different.
I can't go down to South America, for example, and expect somebody who's a fan, who is living under those pressures of poverty to know what it's like to have your own house. I learned a long time ago that young people in Japan had a decision to make whether they were willing to purchase a vehicle or a house. They could not do both.
And then to get back to your first question about Brazilian martial art, I'm working on my fourth black belt right now in VJJ. And it started with Benny the Jet Ukidas, who was in the Black Belt Hall of Fame. And he was my first black belt that I got in Ukidokan. And that was back in the 90s. And after that, I moved to Arizona. So I was unable to train with
sense of any anymore and the closest most convenient place for me to go work out was a taekwondo school that was there and I got a black belt in that really fast and I was going for the master program and I started to notice there were holes in the program like I was teaching a kid's class and I grabbed the bottom of his gi and I pulled on it and he fell and started crying and I felt terrible
And then I thought, this program doesn't teach people how to fall. But in the meantime, I got my black belt with that. organization and then we went to korea and i got my my third black belt in taekwondo and i got my fourth degree with the world taekwondo federation and uh um mr chung was the uh he was the president at the time he was the one that had presented me my awards and my belts
And then the one thing that I always wanted to do was ground fighting because Yukido-Kan is a hybrid of nine different styles. And one of the styles is Jiu-Jitsu. And it doesn't mean that it's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or man on the moon Jiu-Jitsu. It's Jiu-Jitsu. But I found a school here. I went there and I didn't like the instructor, or the owner, but I liked the head instructor there.
And so much so that I helped him get a school on his own. We moved away from that original school. He opened up a school in Spring Hill and he opened up a second school in Columbia. And it's Renzo Gracie jiu-jitsu. So I have my brown belt right now.
And if everything goes according to plan and I stay in my training routine, I probably will have my black belt sometime at the end of this year or next year. Wow. Wow. Long question.
Yeah. The one thing I did know before I knew how to fight was that I didn't like taking shit from people. I didn't know how to defend myself, but I knew I did not like taking shit from people. 12 years old, I joined the YMCA. My brother-in-law was the chief of police in Stanton, California. And he told me that the YMCA across from the police department was doing free karate classes.
And I went, it was Shorinryu. So it was more the traditional karate style. And I remember when I went and started taking classes there, the first thing we did, it was like within the first couple of classes was a tournament. And I was still a white belt and there's no striking to the face, no striking to the groin.
And first guy that I competed against kicked me in the groin and smacked me in the face. And he was DQ'd, but didn't change the fact that I could not finish. And so I just said, that's it for me. And I went a different route and I started training in Kung Fu San Su after that for a little while.
So I've had various training in different styles, but I still think the best defense is to keep your eyes open and don't be a dick. Wow.
Well, I have two privates a week, and I have a gym in my house. One of your friends knows where we're at and has been there. So it's a little bit more than home gym. It's kind of like a semi-professional gym. We still need some stuff there, but it has everything that you need to get a good workout in. Damn, that's awesome.
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