Drugged In Colombia, Escaping Jail & Defeating UFC Wrestling - Craig Jones - #950

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
That would be good, you could do like a Andrew Huberman's morning routine and my morning routine compared.

**Craig Jones** (0:04)
Well, I think we start pretty similar by messaging five different women we missed. Are we recording? I hope that's it, cut that in.

**Chris Williamson** (0:14)
Yeah, that's it. All right, man. Hello, welcome back. How are you?

**Craig Jones** (0:18)
Good to see you, mate. I'm still alive, unfortunately.

**Chris Williamson** (0:20)
Yeah, last time we were together was CJI 1

**Craig Jones** (0:23)
And I think I left you at a strip club around 7 a.m. No, that was someone else that looked like me. James Smith.

**Chris Williamson** (0:31)
That was James Smith. How did you celebrate after CJI?

**Craig Jones** (0:35)
Oh, shit. I mean, we went to Cartagena, Colombia and went on a five-day bender, pretty much. Came out very unhealthy but survived it.

**Chris Williamson** (0:45)
Direct from Vegas.

**Craig Jones** (0:47)
Yeah, so we left the after party, flew straight in there. The secret investor threw us a party and it was the hardest five days of my entire life. It was growing.

**Chris Williamson** (0:57)
In Colombia?

**Craig Jones** (0:58)
In Colombia, yeah. Heavy times down in Colombia.

**Chris Williamson** (1:01)
Right, so it was like an endurance sport, an endurance racing, like the David Goggins of parties.

**Craig Jones** (1:08)
Pretty much. I mean, we didn't sleep much. The guy had it set up so we had IVs every morning. That probably kept me alive, quite honestly. And we brought Volkanovsky's coach, Joe Lopez, 73 years old, didn't sleep, did not sleep for three days, used his poor Smanish on any woman that would listen to him, but somehow still alive, returned to his family safely. Every time I take him away, Volkanovsky calls me and is like, please, bro.

**Chris Williamson** (1:35)
Bring him back alive.

**Craig Jones** (1:36)
He's going to die and I might ask what his family wants. They keep asking me.

**Chris Williamson** (1:39)
Right, okay. Jesus fuck. How would you, what's your synopsis of how the first one went?

**Craig Jones** (1:47)
I mean, I think it really couldn't have gone much better. You know, like it actually surprised me. Obviously, I have my personal assistant, Seth, take care of a lot of the more mundane activities in preparing us for the event. But yeah, everything went off without a hitch as far as I'm concerned. What did you think of the show?

**Chris Williamson** (2:04)
I enjoyed it, man. I think my lifetime watching of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was multiplied by about 10 over that single weekend. I saw more Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in that one weekend, than I think I had my entire life up until that point.

**Craig Jones** (2:18)
Day one was a marathon, that's for sure. Day two hit the sweet spot. I think for this next one, we're going to try and make both days a little shorter. I mean, no matter how much you love something, 10 hours of it, unless it's a Colombian after party, is a lot in my opinion.

**Chris Williamson** (2:33)
What were the best bits? What were the worst bits in your opinion?

**Craig Jones** (2:36)
I mean, to be honest, my favorite part was the crowd turning positive on Gabby Garcia because she's been the villain the entire time. We made her the villain in the lead up. She's been the butt of the joke and then everyone's booed her whenever she's won. So then there was that heartfelt moment. I was quite happy for her to get that.

**Chris Williamson** (2:55)
That was cute. Okay, you finish up CJI, you go to Colombia, but it took four months for you to get back into the US longer?

**Craig Jones** (3:06)
Yeah, it took, honestly, I don't know what it was. You might be able to imagine, but something about Colombia really struck at my heartstrings, something about the culture down there. So, I went back to see my family in Adelaide. They were quite surprised I survived Colombia, and then basically went straight back to South America and continued the adventure.

**Chris Williamson** (3:24)
Okay, what did you adventure?

**Craig Jones** (3:26)
We went to Brazil, we went to Argentina, we went back to Colombia, and I was back in Colombia for a good five to six weeks, but this time instead of Cartagena, straight into Medellin. Okay.

**Chris Williamson** (3:41)
Did you meet Pablo Escobar's sister?

**Craig Jones** (3:43)
I did, and this is actually a weird story. So I put up a post. I think I should make quite an insensitive post. I was using the cocaine sunglasses to pour some powder, a prop, onto Pablo's grave, like one for the fallen homies, you know, but a guy messaged me on Instagram, and he's like, do you want to meet the sister? And I was like, you're full of shit, for sure, you know? You get one of those DMs. But then he sent me a picture of a large quantity of a substance that made me assume that he was the real deal. So I ventured off down to meet him on a Saturday night in Columbia, and he showed me some pictures with the sister, and later that week we went out for dinner. She took us on a bit of a tour of Pablo's old house, and then we got hammered together on red wine. And everything was going good until I tricked her into putting the sunglasses on for a photo, and then we explained to her what the sunglasses were for, and it took a bit of a turn, but still we...