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Craig Jones

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“Yeah, and we stopped running. He's like, stop, stop. He's like, it didn't go off. So we're sitting there quite close to the car lighting it, trying to light more as we walk back to the car. And then we just hear the car ignite. And he's like, run, run, run. So he came quite close to death already at that point. But we wanted to get this shot, some photos in front of the burning logos. But we had told the guys at the shooting range to basically give us ten minutes or so.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A bold move. Luckily, they let me get away with posting. But when we were there, it was at basically at a shooting range and we cleared them out for a while. So we'd blown up the car, we'd set it on fire, we'd done all this sort of stuff. I remember we were trying to blow it up. It wasn't quite hitting. One of the missiles was lodged in under the car, so it was kind of risky. That could have gone off at any moment. But we needed to get it to ignite. We needed to get a shot where it was on fire, the logo of the enemy tournament was basically on fire. So we poured gasoline on it. We shot the gasoline tank. That didn't work. That must be a movie trick or something. And then we decided we'd light on fire a rag and just throw it into the blowing out back window. I'm with this guy, special forces guy, and we throw the rag in the back.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They helped me out though in my marketing campaign for the tournament. Able to secure a lot of classic Soviet Union car, we towed it, we painted it with the logos of the other event, the ADCC. We got to shoot some RPGs at it. Experience, great fun.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the guys are always laughing and joking. They were laughing and joking at me quite a bit holding weapons, trying to shoot weapons and stuff. They got a lot of enjoyment out of me shooting the RPG.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Last time the village we went to basically It was the debt we left. So we stayed there overnight. The day we left, it just started getting extremely shelled. And the soldier we were with just took a selfie video of us. And basically in the location we were in, just hearing just artillery strike after artillery strike, just being like, oh, you guys left and the fun began. So they take it in good spirit. I was trying to use their energy to reassure myself, but I guess when they see it every day. They're kind of more adjusted to it. They're not freaking out every time something crazy like that goes on.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's constant all the time. Yeah, and you hear that noise, and you're like, is that coming or going? Very, very concerning.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Roads were clear for us to leave. Ultimately, it ended up being someone died and a few people injured from that blast which was less than half a kilometre from us and basically there were radioing saying end the tour come back to police station.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After this point, we heard artillery strike. And because you're in an armoured vehicle, it sounds further away than it is. Obviously, the sound doesn't get in. So I thought it sounded far away. We could see some smoke that actually appear closer in the distance. The guy driving us took us to a point where a large building was blocking us from, I guess, the angle at which the missile would have came from. And I thought everything was cool. I thought it was that must have been off in the distance. And then we heard two more strikes hit very, very close. They sounded really loud. And then I think his radio in to see if everything's safe, if we can leave this point. And then we basically raced back. But I started to realize we were in danger at any point where he really sped the car up or sort of took sort of evasive movements in the car. But we got out of there and I think I had someone translate it later and basically, yeah, he was checking to see if the”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On top of the car, which didn't look reassuring, he also Took a helmet out the back of the car, which I thought he was going to give to me, but he just threw it in the back of the pickup truck and said, oh, you won't need this. You'll be dead anyway. And I was like, oh, I've made a great life decision with this little curse on tour. But then we took a tour of the city. And curse on used to be kind of like a beautiful beach city by the Nepro River. But basically it's just the river that separates Russia from, I guess the Russian land they've taken from Kherson, so Kurson split across that river. There's just Russians on the other side of the river and Ukrainians on this side. So very, very dangerous. But Kharkiv makes a lot of press because of the long-range missiles that hit, but Kerson's just being hit all the time. So we took this tour. We went along the river. We went to within one kilometer of the front line. So that was the closest we got.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he said that in a joking way, but I think it was serious, but I said, just leave it, you know? I don't think they need it. I don't think we'd be much left probably if we get hit over there. But we go basically into Kurson. I think Kurson's population used to be like 250,000. Now it's basically all military down to 50,000. So we went into the police, basically station in the bunker underneath the top of the building was destroyed. And then one of the local guys just took us on a city tour. which again, we had some filming restrictions because obviously anytime something's hit, I guess the other side wants to be able to see what damage has been done. So if you take any footage of recently destroyed buildings, that's going to help them recalibrate and target the next shot. So curse on being so heavily hit, it's basically within range of every single thing Russia has, every form of weapon, drones. Before we took the tour, he put some drone blocking things.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we basically take this huge journey all the way down to Kherson. We switch at a city outside. I can't remember the name, but we had to switch to sort of armored vehicles. And I remember the guy that picked this up there said, hey, give me a phone number for someone to call to recover your bodies.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so we went to Odessa. We briefly went back to Keith. So I made a connection with the police chief of basically the entire country last time. And he had said to me that if I wanted to go somewhere sort of really heavy in terms of action, we could go to curse on. And he's like, oh, personally escort you to curse on. And I was just like, well, here we have an invitation for adventure. I think it's a great idea to go. And I thought, you know what? I'll completely lie to my cameraman and tell him it's a safe trip to go on so that he can pass that information on to his fiance She won't have any concerns.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was wild. It was abrasive to the eyes, but I appreciated it. Especially a middle-aged man in underwear with a beer belly doing a sundance at dusk, that would frighten many people.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the rocket launcher. I shot a rocket launcher with the troops on the first trip The second trip I went back to, which was only maybe four to five weeks ago. This time we went to some crazier spots. So we went to Odessa, which has been hit a ton.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I mean, we felt pretty safe when we're there. There was an air alert went off. They were kind of more concerned with me dying just for the PR side of things. It's like Australian.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think it'll be a tourist spot for a very long time because if you were thinking about areas to demine when the conflict ends, an area where if you accidentally trigger a mine could cause a radiation leak, it's probably going to be very low on the list. So tourism for Chernobyl, who knows how long until that returns?”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just completely empty. I guess it's kind of like the fantasy you have. I imagine people go on tours of Chernobyl back in the tourist days when it was a tourist spot and it would be busy full of tourists. We got basically a private tour, so we got to really feel that abandoned sort of vibes. I guess I was interested in it from Black Call of Duty and then... Chernobyl series, all the documentaries and stuff, but very, very strange place to go visit.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We were able to get there. We passed like four security checkpoints. It took two attempts. First time we tried to go in there was the Special Forces Guy. We cleared two security gates. Then they stopped us and basically threatened us with arrest. Rightfully so really have no business going to Chernobyl. Made a connection. I want to say this connection was, but he had heard about what I had done sort of with a charity event and opened some doors for us to be able to go to Chernobyl. So we got to see Chernobyl. We had some filming restrictions there just because it was a crazy military sort of conflict at one point and we got to actually see Chernobyl. Shinoba had always been a dreamer mine to see because it's just such an interesting place and to see under these conditions very, very strange.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, some bowler moves out there. I love seeing people that just crazy stuff's going on from the war and they don't even react to it. They don't go to the bomb shelter. Like a ball of move, like, I'm not going to change my lifestyle. Actually, on that first trip as well, something else that I probably shouldn't have been allowed to do was go to Chernobyl. Chernobyl, I believe troops came through Belarus and there was some fighting going on in Chernobyl. I think the whole world got concerned at that point if any sort of radiation leaked. But Chernobyl, as it stands, the troops backed down and it's completely covered in mines. Very, very difficult to go to Chernobyl. Basically, as a tourist or as like, I guess, an idiot like myself should really probably not be allowed in a place like that.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Protecting Cave, yeah, that was at the time where US hadn't voted to, I guess, keep funding the weapons over there. So it was kind of a tense moment because I think, I don't know, everyone was thinking like, when do those air defense missiles run out? So that was a heavy moment for me thinking, look at what it shot out the sky. Like imagine if that didn't. didn't have that but we yeah that was probably the most surreal moment but key you've largely life goes on most of the time as per normal i i was faced with crazy messages and comments even just posting that video like i'm uh getting paid by ukraine and stuff and it's just like People just don't understand that life has to go on. Like, Keeves here, the front line's far away, like the cities have to largely try to operate as normal. This life will not go on in those villages and cities”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was in cave, so it got shot down, and then some of the local troops actually took me to the site of where just part of the missile had landed in the ground and left this huge sort of indentation. That already cleared up most of the, I guess, shrapnel from the missile. I don't know if I should or if I was legally allowed to do this, but I took some of that missile back home with me. I don't know where I left it actually. But I thought maybe that would raise some alarm bells and airport scans. I took it regardless. And that was basically the crazy thing that happened on that first trip.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the gym pumping some iron, and this was divine intervention that a hypersonic missile was shot down by the Patriot event system just like five minutes from the hotel. So the whole hotel and the attached gym just shook like crazy. And people started, some people started freaking out. Most people went to leave to go outside, which I don't think is recommended, but you want to see what's going on out there.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think it would have been March or April. So we went there. We went basically spent two nights up on the front line. Went back to Kiv, and that was it for that trip. In terms of crazy stuff that happened, obviously just the people living. Like you download the air defense tracker. So at any time, there could be an air siren going off and air alert on your phone. Could be like drones heading your way, planes are in the air, missiles flying. And then those missiles will change direction and stuff. So the air alert, you don't know if it's heading a different direction, but they just sort of warn everyone. So you live under a constant state of fear, basically. And then on that first trip, the heaviest moment was I was going downstairs in the hotel to work out, which is honestly a rare thing these days, not something healthy with myself.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And one of the soldiers there, one of my friends there, good friend now, who's on the front line, he made a comment on there and he said, hey, this is a seminar to donate profits to the soldiers. But we're on the front line. Was like, you know what? I'll come to you. And he's like, listen, I can't promise you'll survive, but I'll promise you'll have a good time. And I said, that's all I needed to hear. So we connected and my friend Roman, we went really, really close. I think we were at the closest point seven kilometers from the front line. Obviously very surreal experience to be over there, seeing basically how the battles fought with all drones.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think they learned to love me and then to hate me again. So I was like a bit of an all-encompassing relationship for the Kazakh people. But we basically abandon shit. It was proven too difficult to film some things, some sensitive subjects over there. And I said, where should we go next? And I just looked at the map and I was like, we're near Ukraine. Ukraine was a place that I'd been offered to teach a jiu-jitsu seminar prior to, I guess, the war commencement, the full-scale war commencing. And we're looking for a bit of adventure, something interesting to film, following the news, obviously very controversial in the news. People have very strong opinions. And I was like, let's go over there. Let's throw a charity event. Let's do something. Let's train with the people and really experience with ourselves. So we set up a seminar. Turned out to be the biggest seminar for Jiu Jitsu in Ukraine history, which is wild, considering obviously they are at war, but everyone came together to support it.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, but I guess it's the same type of humor. I guess I'm not pretending to be Kazakh. I'm just out being an idiot and enjoying the local culture. But we're over there in Kazakhstan. We did that. That was obviously a bit risky”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that amount of money that could win is very, very significant. And there's me in there. They're also pointing out, bore out, bore out thinking I was making bore out jokes, which again, very traumatic memory for the people of Kazakhstan.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I was in there amongst, I guess, the horse riders, the cockbye riders, and we weren't leaving. We just were in there for quite a while. And he was just, he could talk a little bit, he could talk English pretty well, actually. And he's like, oh, I thought you'd want to check it out from the inside. And then while we're in there, someone picked up the sort of carcass and a wave of horse riders came at me. I was quite concerned at that point because they're bashing into each other. And obviously the angry they're seeing a foreigner in there. I was wearing like basically biggie smalls kudgey geku looking sweater. So I stood out. They definitely didn't like that I was participating in a game that they probably trained their whole life for.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A game, a very, very old game. They cut a goat or a sheep. I didn't get too close to look at it, but they cut its head and legs off, and they use it as some form of bull. And then they'll have like up to a thousand guys on horses. Violently trying to pick this up and drop it in the other end's goals, basically. The goals used to be concrete. Now it's just a tarp, but local business owners will throw down huge amounts of money for the winners, and these horses have been trained from a very young age. The riders have been trained. I've never ridden a horse before. We wanted to film something that made it look like I was going to go into the horse pit, into the cockpa pit. However, the drunk stunt man that we used just decided that when he took my horse reins.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we're in Kazakhstan. We're doing some filming in Kazakhstan. And obviously Borat's still a very traumatic memory for them. And some of my jokes felt like they don't go as well in that neck of the woods. So we had some difficulty filming out there. So we filmed this horse game. Have you ever heard of Cock”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My relationship with risk, I like a bit of excitement. I like a bit of adventure. I'm more about the adventure by I will not let the risk get in the waiver and also obviously just go back from Ukraine. I'm happy to take a few risks if it's part of what the locals want me to do. You know what I mean? Like in Kazakhstan, we did some things that were dangerous. Like if the locals are like, come along, join in on this activity. I feel personally obligated to go with them.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it was a company that sponsors me, shuffle.com. It was their friend, a friend of theirs. So a guy that's never met me before. Just took the risk to show up to a stranger's house with a million dollars in cash to bring to Joe Rogan. It was a big risk of him.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, we're going to wing. I thought, I mean, I was told not to tell anyone But I sent pictures of it to everyone I know That was probably a security risk.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We had security, but only by Joe Rogan's request because he said, you're really going to bring it? Have security? I said no. He's like, don't worry about it. I'll send my security.”
2024-08-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source