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Eddie Bravo Talks Global Governments and How Producers Ruined the Man Show
13 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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From Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Eddie Bravo. And the news with Alicia Krauss. And now, Adam Carolla.
Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but to get it on. Get it on. Eddie Bravo, martial artist, podcaster, raconteur is with us in studio. Good to see you, Eddie. Good to see you, man. Big fan. I'm a big fan. Wow. You grew up out here. Born and raised in Southern California. Born in Santa Ana. That's where they put all the Mexicans.
And then I wanted to be a rock star, so I moved to Hollywood at 21. And that was like 91. And that was when, you know, K-Rock and KNAC were like, you know, everybody would listen to the radio. There was no internet. And I loved Loveline. Yeah. I loved it. And I always thought, I always thought, man, I could give love advice too. But that would have been horrible.
I would have been destroying marriages. Well, it's kind of an interesting thing because I was in the same position. I would listen to K-Rock. I was driving a truck. I was swinging a hammer. And I would think to myself, oh, I could do that.
And so what happens with radio, it's kind of interesting if you're listening to a talk show, everybody's natural tendency is when they go, I'm 15 and I've been dating my boyfriend for a year and blah, blah, blah. you go, you do your answer in your head.
Yeah.
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Chapter 2: How did Eddie Bravo transition from radio to comedy?
But when I left, I was like, fuck you guys. I'm going to blow up. So my thing was like, we're going to blow the show up. We're going to parlay it into movies. And that's how I'll get my music in. I'll get my music in through the back door. So I thought like, oh, this is it. I made it. I made it. And I was 32 years old. I thought I made it.
And then within a half an hour of day one, I'm like, big mistake. These guys are fucking assholes. So did you guys have a writer's room, or did you guys all just splinter off and go write remotely? There was nine writers. There was a head writer, and then there was nine writers. And that first day, they put three guys in one room, three guys in another room, and then they gave us assignments.
But I was only there working one day. And then after that, I still got paid, but I worked at home. So I had to come up with one sketch a day. And they never used them. So I would write a sketch and then they were like, fuck that dude. They just totally ignored me. They realized, okay, my checks were $939 a week. So they go, that's nothing. We'll just give them that money just to keep Joe happy.
Yeah. For those who want to know, like when I did it, we had an office and the main office was like me and Jimmy and Daniel. It was just the three of us in a big office. And then- I'd like to have an idea for a sketch or a bit or like a parody or commercial or something. And then I would have an assistant writer.
And then I would just go up to my assistant writer's little office and I would sit down in his office and I'd go, here's what I'm thinking about. And then he'd start typing while I was talking. And we had a writer's room and all that. But... I can't even keep track of the stuff I wrote versus them. I don't know how you do it if you're all spread out.
Like we had to be all under the same roof, had to have the same sort of, things had to be copacetic. We had to like, you know, we, we would put out a huge cork board and just put all the bits on it and, you know, come up with all the manovations and all the, all the shit we'd come up with. But the thing that you guys had is you had a template to begin with.
Like you had a, a, a place, a format, like a, like a template, a template, the juggies, but, uh, What I don't think anyone realizes that Stone Stanley, who were supposed to be the producers of The Man Show, never really produced The Man Show. We produced The Man Show. So when Jimmy, me, and Daniel, our crew, left, there wasn't anything to leave behind because they'd never done it.
And that was the problem. They just had the name. They just owned the name. Yeah, they just had it. What was the final straw that made you leave? Um, there wasn't really a final straw. We, Jimmy and I wanted to do the man show just because we wanted to do a show together. It was, it was very organic. We didn't really, you know, the thing about a show, a movie or anything, it's like,
You just need an excuse. Jimmy and I wanted an excuse to work together, to hire the people we wanted to hire, to work with the people we wanted to work with, and to do the kind of comedy we wanted to do. And you can't really just call it the... show. You have to like create something and have a format and stuff.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Eddie face in the writing room for The Man Show?
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You're welcome. Do you ski or snowboard? It was the funniest thing ever. I was saying to Dr. Drew yesterday. He goes, do you ski? Well, first off, nobody in the Corolla family can't ski. That means you have to buy lift passes and equipment and have a car that could get up to a mountain without overheating and shit. Like, we wouldn't do that. I said to him, I said, one time...
When I was 16, I went skiing with someone else's family. And I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I was like 16. And they just put me on skis. And two hours into it, I'm going 50 miles an hour down those slopes because I got great balance and I'm fucking... I'm a speed demon and I have no regard for my personal safety. So I was just like, fuck this.
I ended up getting whacked in the face and stitches in my head and stuff like that. But I was going for it. Like, yeah, I was always like fast, speed, balance, whatever. But there was no... You know, my high school, we didn't have a wrestling team.
You would have been good at wrestling.
I would have been good at wrestling. I could throw people around all the time. But it was... I realized it was balance. And balance is a weird built-in thing. And I have twins. And I had that board, the Bosu board or whatever. The one with the cylinder in the middle of it. It could, like, rock back and forth and whatever. And... I would get on that thing, by the way, as an old person.
I could jump up, switch feet, and land on the other side, facing the other direction. It's totally doable. It seems hairy. It seems weird. It seems like you're going to kill yourself. But I could face you, hop up. Sweat my feet and land on the other side facing the other way and just go back and forth. You can do it. It's not, seems harder.
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Chapter 4: What early observations did Eddie Bravo make about COVID-19?
And so I would start talking about it. And So I caught on early that this was something. And then it was like lab leak versus wet market and all this stuff. And also, it's interesting. It's all stuff I was yelling into the microphone about. But whenever there's a pandemic or something like AIDS, they always go to Africa. Because what I'm saying is AIDS is...
Chapter 5: Why is Africa often mentioned during pandemics?
relatively bad in the United States, but it's horrible in Africa, right? Like everything's always worse in Africa. So they always go to Africa if there's something going wrong. It all depends on what you think AIDS is.
Chapter 6: What indicators led Eddie Bravo to question the COVID narrative?
Oh, well now we're getting really deep, but I'm just going to say, I didn't hear any COVID talk out of Africa. There was no discussion. There was what's going on in Spain, what's going on in Italy. And the presidents in the countries in Africa that opposed the COVID mandates, they got killed. Oh, really?
I didn't hear.
I think there was three of them. They got killed. They were against it. So I didn't hear any horror stories about Africa. And then I realized it's because they're all young. It's because they're all fit. Like they're not heavy. They're not old.
Chapter 7: How does Eddie Bravo view the role of governments during the pandemic?
And a lot of them are on hydroxychloroquine. So they're on something already and they're young and they're fit and that's why it's not decimating that population. But I had things that were like indicators to me that made me think this is bullshit or this is going – what's going on. Now, I don't know. Was it all just about an election year? Like what was pushing COVID?
And how did all the news agencies get bought in and corrupted? Is that all pharmaceuticals? I don't know for sure. I wasn't in the meetings, but it's obvious that a lot of countries were working together on this. They were in lockstep. There was a plan. And they were talking about it like people like, you know, deep in the rabbit holes, myself included. I mean, we saw this coming before.
We're like, damn, are they going to do a pandemic? Are they going to do a pandemic? They're going to do it. Check this out. They already started one. They're going to do a pandemic. Like a fake one. I think it was all fake. I don't think that. I think it was just the flu. You know, I just, people that had the exact same symptoms. It was the exact same thing. And then I think it was all fake.
They just hijacked the flu. And because if this was real, jujitsu would have been wiped out. We're the opposite of social distancing and we never stopped. I have over 200 schools worldwide. We didn't have one person die. And we're doing the opposite of what they told us to do. We're sweating and dripping every eight minutes, a new man.
And we just, a new dude, a new dude, just sweating, not just getting close, but squeezing as hard as you can. And not one death. And I mentioned that to Dr. Peter McCullough. He's like, you know, super anti the jab, but he... He thinks it was like a real thing. He thinks what was a real thing? He thinks COVID was real.
And so I asked him on Alex Johnson, I go, then why didn't nobody in jujitsu, nobody in the UFC, nobody in NFL, nobody in any sport, how come nobody in jujitsu, how come nobody in my schools died and we did the opposite? And he said, because you developed immunity. I go, if that's true, then why didn't the beginners die? The beginner should have died.
So you sign up for jiu-jitsu and then you're immune. Why didn't they just tell everybody, sign up for jiu-jitsu. As soon as you sign, you're immune. Nobody died. It never... affected young and healthy and strong people.
It's the flu. The flu kills people. The flu kills old people.
Old people that have four comorbidities. And that's what they found. At the end of the day, they found it. And then nobody died of the flu for two years. Come on. And then the PCR tests are bullshit. They're not checking for viruses. It was all bullshit. The guy who invented the PCR test, he said it was bullshit. He said Dr. Fauci's full of shit. He said it was all about the tests were bullshit.
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