#1430 - Raghunath Cappo

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Three, two, one, boom.

We're live. What's up, Ray? How are you, buddy?

Raghunath Cappo (0:07)

Pretty good.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

Great to see you, man. It's been a while.

Raghunath Cappo (0:10)

It's been...

Joe Rogan (0:14)

10 years?

Raghunath Cappo (0:15)

No, more than that.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Really?

Raghunath Cappo (0:16)

2007, I moved out of LA.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Wow, damn, it's weird. I've talked about you in the podcast several times, though.

Raghunath Cappo (0:22)

You know what? I never listened to the podcast until recently.

Someone told me the second time, you said, I think three times you've mentioned me.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Probably.

Raghunath Cappo (0:32)

Yoga Ray.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Yoga Ray.

Raghunath Cappo (0:34)

And all these kids are contacting me. They mentioned Yoga Ray on the show.

Yeah, it was cool. I appreciate it. I appreciate you.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

I appreciate you, too.

Raghunath Cappo (0:41)

Yeah, I always thought, truthfully, I always thought Joe Rogan's gonna do something good.

Honestly, I can tell you that. And it may be embarrassing to say, but I'm proud of you.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Oh, thank you.

Raghunath Cappo (0:53)

I hope you don't mind me saying that. I'm proud of all you've done.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Thank you. Thank you, that's very nice.

That's a funny thing to say, though.

Raghunath Cappo (0:59)

And you've had great, just Joe Rogan time, you've done some great stuff. First of all, Stand Up Comedian, that's a great gig.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

It's a fun gig.

Raghunath Cappo (1:07)

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 wanna be in the UFC, even if I was good, because you get pounded on, it's a tough job.

Right? That's why I went to Thailand, see those kids fight. They're retired at 21

Joe Rogan (1:24)

Yeah, they get beat up.

Raghunath Cappo (1:25)

They get beat up, bad.

But to be an announcer of the UFC, and you're also skilled at this stuff. Most people think the announcers aren't so skilled sometimes. You're very skilled. I just remember rolling around with you.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

Yeah.

Raghunath Cappo (1:38)

Those were some of the greatest memories of my time in LA, is when Eddie opened 10th Planet.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Yeah, we had a lot of fun, man.

Raghunath Cappo (1:45)

I mean, it was such a special, interesting time of jiu-jitsu, I think, that it was going to no gi. There's this demographic of jiu-jitsu guys who didn't wanna wear a gi anymore.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

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 the other people were still really clinging to the gi.

Raghunath Cappo (2:17)

He was like a... 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 2 And I was like, oh man, this is... And you watch those Gracie in action videos, it's like, yeah, this is real stuff. I wanna learn real stuff.

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 wanna, I want a real life situation.

And I'm figuring, okay, I don't wanna get, by the way, I don't wanna 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.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

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. This is a real benefit to like being a judo player, if someone has a winter coat on.

Like if you had a fight with Karo Parisi and a Ronda Rousey or something like that, and they're wearing a winter coat, they'll fuck you up. They just grab that thing, boom.

Raghunath Cappo (3:31)

Yeah, okay, yes. Well, I'm glad I learned that way.