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Ed Calderon

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“I have a class where we specifically work on social engineering and kind of how you can go about something that at a micro level. I do a class with a guy named Matt Fiddler who does basically he's one of the premier experts on how to get into and bypass locks basically. He'll show you how to open up every single or bypass every single commercial lock available in the United States. Like he'll spread it out and open up everything. And my part in his class is I talk about how you can pull some of that off in a public space and not get caught or how you would employ some of these things in a context where it's like useful for law enforcement, for the military, stuff like that.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Personally, I like being in a car and running everybody over. That would be great, you know, if I could or driving really far away. Or I had this experience in Utah. Some friends of mine, military, some of your best shooters, some of the best shooters in the US, coming from the Marine Corps. Showing me how they would shoot something from really far away. And I was like, You don't even have to be in the same vicinity. Scope of violence and how far you can be from it, or how close you can be from it”
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“And if you think you're going to go on the ground and get in a guard with a guy swinging around a shovel handle, right, as tear gas is going on because you've got to stop there and your car was, windows were broken and your family's in the back seat, that is a different situation. So getting medical learning about weaponry, I personally don't really like fighting on the ground, but that's why I forced myself to go to the train with different people out there, you know, on the ground, Jujitsu, catch wrestling.”
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“Maybe somewhere if you put a pen in your hand, that might turn into that, but that's the only way. The only way, right? But a lot of these myths are kind of like faded away. Now you see people that have different combative bases combining them all and becoming a fighter. UFC fight two people fighting each other is one thing, you being in the middle of the Portland riots and a bunch of state troopers throwing gas at riders and then riders themselves fighting each other and you finding yourself in the middle of that, that's a completely different thing.”
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“Can't use it in the sporting, you can't show you this because it'll kill you now. We pretty much know that most of that was, you know, flights of fancier BS. And it pains me too, man. I wanted to learn some of the D mock single punchy and killing technique. I remember those books. But that's just not”
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“That comes from this experience that you have. Again, a lot of these things were just horseplay when we were growing up in some cultures or, you know, rough and tumble with your brothers and shit like that. But some of us are growing up in single kid homes now and we don't get that. We were missing that. And if you don't have it, then you find it and you find it in a jiu-jitsu jam. You find it in a boxing gym. You find it in a Thai boxing gym. You find it in places where they specialize. Focusing on certain aspects of this whole combative hall, right? It used to be before UFC. The Kung Fu man, Kung Fu guys, street lethal shit. Yeah.”
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“Gives you an awareness of your body gives you a spatial awareness. If you can't see the points with your peripheral vision, if you can't see the points of somebody's feet in your peripheral vision, they are in range to stab you in the heart if they wanted to. And that's something you learn from boxing, that you learn from jujitsu, you learn from a bunch of combat arts where you learn about distance and angling people.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sense of it's probably a bad idea to go off and do this because all these repercussions. I could see how that could be dangered as society. And some of the volume knobs, some of the countermeasures of people exploding on somebody else with a weapon, you know, that you see videos constantly online. I remember seeing this one of these two teenage girls somewhere in the US. And one of them just, there's a fight. There's a hair pulling competition and all of a sudden one of them takes out a knife. And it just happens like that. And it's just pure unrestrained downward stabbing. You're like, wait, where's that come from? Well, she's from an environment where she saw that as an option. She didn't see the repercussions of it. And she found herself in a place where she thought that was the only viable option, pulling out a weapon”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't have a volume knob to that. So it's like a garden hose without a nozzle on it so you can regulate it. They haven't developed that. They haven't learned that maybe from somebody else or used to be warrior cultures you would be apprenticed under somebody or you would learn some of these things from other people. Even some gang, modern gangs have a little bit of that. But if you're not, and you're just this kid that's been playing Call of Duty,”
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“Dangerous school when I say dangerous school, I mean the most dangerous people usually come from those desperate environments you can have people in Coronado holding on to logs in the ocean and go through this millions of dollars worth of training and just be professional killers for the government and just be these incredible human beings. And then there's a kid that will walk up to one of them when he's off, you know, and put an ice pick right into his chest when he's least expecting it. And that doesn't mean they want to superior than the other. It just means that there's more than one way to become that, you know.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everywhere in the world. First off, you look for advantages, right? If it's something that's unavoidable, like you're in between me and my ability to go home, or you're in between me and my ability to feed my family, or you're in between me and my ability to posture to the people that are behind me, the young guys that I'm in charge I will do everything in my power to end you. The motivations are not my realm, but the ways they do it are, you know, and basically the advantage part of it.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, there's different situations. You could be facing a sociopathic predator who is looking for something in you that you were the resource that they're looking after. Maybe it's a woman. It could be a group of people that don't like the fact that you have a specific nationality or your passport is stamped in a specific way or that you pray to whatever God. All these factor in. But in the end, they all do the same thing. They look for an advantageous position. If I were to target you, I would put you in between that wall and me. So you have two avenues of exits. And I will step on one of your feet to keep that avenue closed so you have to go this way. So this is where my knife is going to be. You see that behavior mirror.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, they're looking for opportunity, opportunistic. That's the predators. That's what they do. They look for an opportunity from jumping down from a tree and getting the slowest gazelle to looking for the opportune moment to pounce on something that's probably big, but the risk is worth it.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Other thing you notice is these are kids going after someone growing adults, and some of these grown adult men are with women. And you see them kind of getting outside of the grasp of this kids that are trying to rip their chains off their neck or their cell phones. And they have no consideration for the women around them. You see other men that are with women and you see them grab the women and put them behind them. And immediately they'll say, this is the wrong one. Let me move off to the next one. So that small little lesson in those videos will show you first how these kids are growing up to profile and target who the perfect victims are. That's a school for them. And that is an adversarial school. We should look at that school and apply it to ourselves.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They start learning about profiling and how they identify victim mentality or the perfect victim, lack of awareness. They keep on a straight line, avoidance, avoidance of eye contact if they're doing something nefarious or wrong and how they pick who they're going to go after, you know, the small people, the women, even some of the men, and they separate the men that they're perfect victims versus the men that is going to turn around and punch them in the face. What are they looking for? Well, first off, you notice that the men that are in that environment that look at them and are aware of their presence, the hyper aware are the ones that are not good to target. So that's the first lesson there. So it's probably a good idea not only to be hyper aware, but to recognize that hyper awareness in others, if I want to separate myself from the victim crap.”
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“Again, the whole aspect of me showing how some of these things, some of these methodologies and somehow people prepare for violence and how people experience violence, how they make their weapons, how the people fight in the streets and stuff like that. It's to recognize that behavior from the inception. There's a video I show where it's a bunch of street kids in Rio de Janeiro. I think it's during the Olympics where they're snatching Jains and cell phones from people. And it's a fun video, you know. See it. The first thing you learn about it is how they target people Who are they going after? There's a bunch of people there. Why are they going after that specific person?”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To take those losses and basically just posture, you know, lower your head and live to fight another day type situation. The thing with modern violence is the access to weaponry. Again, nobody owns life, but anybody can hold a frying pan can own death. I've seen people get double-legged takedown somebody on the ground. It's a different thing doing in the mats versus concrete. That's a good way to kill somebody, the most prolific impact weapon on the planet is the planet itself. You can see various videos of people online where they fall and they hit their head or somebody hits their head and they go into the stretched out fit basically. And that might not kill you then, but it'll kill you that night or the second night if you don't get checked out, you know, people bleed out internally, get an edema.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Smiling when there's nothing to smile about. I think there's a picture I saw somewhere of Russians taking a portrait and there's Americans there and the Americans are smiling, but the Russians aren't. Because, what is there to spile about, which is true.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But it didn't. I don't know. To me, there's small lessons there. There is a case to be made about social engineering, about learning about behavior, about learning how to lie and how to kind of move your way or navigate your way around situations like that. Small things like bartering, knowing how to bribe people in conflict zones is the thing that I show when I talk about or train people to work in hostile environments, de-escalation, you know, specifically kind of figuring out what is a value in the environment, what things you shouldn't be doing in an environment that might be considered disrespectful or out of place. You know, people have a tendency that it didn't grow up in places that are violent to make continuous eye contact with somebody that might be an issue.”
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“Was getting my phone out to film this, you know, maybe. And even I was just lowering my phone to give him a slow clap. That was a beautiful move. And then there was this other man. There was a riot somewhere in Enada, the municipality of Senale in Baja. They were protesting. Some of the people that pick those fields down there, part of a tribe called Ostrikis. Very hardy, hard working people, but nefarious people too. They're pretty good at their thing. Was a riot line they couldn't break And this old man walks in the middle of the riot line and yells grenade and throws an avocado in the middle of all the cops. And all that cops. Broke that rhyme with an avocado.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's two cases that I saw of people utilizing social engineering to a beautiful degree to de-escalate shit. One guy somewhere. First off, if you're in a place where people are grabbing your wife's ass or something like that, what are you doing there? You know, there's a load of things that are wrong with everything that you're doing in your life to be in that environment. But let's say you're in an inescapable situation. There was this guy who was in a compromised position. Somebody wanted to fight him, legit kick his ass. And he said, okay, let's go, but I need to warn you that I have hepsy before we go outside.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think violence should be always an option. Everybody should have that option, and you need to be good at that option. I think I heard Jordan Peterson talk about the fact that everybody needs to be dangerous, but keep that shit under control.”
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“When you see lack of symmetry in the environment, somebody with their hands going backwards, there's a crowd of people and two or one individual is looking counter where everybody else is looking. There's a hyper aware individual in a crowd. The hyper aware are always usually out there to fuck somebody over? Or are they trying to keep those predators from fucking somebody else over? Unless you step back and you put yourself in the process of learning how they learn and you become that potential nightmare person, it's hard to recognize that in a crowd.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And when they start coming to the realization that it's pretty easy to do that and they start figuring out how do you counteract that? Well, number one, learn the behavior yourself so you can recognize it. The whole aspect of being a good counter ambush team is to be the best ambusher in the planet. So again, the whole aspect of Musashi saying, know your enemy, know his sword. You figure that out as far as learning that behavior. When you start seeing how some of these stabbings occurred, the first thing you notice is that one of the hands is always kind of out of the picture, or there's a lack of symmetry in the people that are about to do something horrible.”
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“It used to be that we had to hang around people would come back from battle and we would hear things next to the campfire as far as, oh, he stabbed somebody here and this happens. But now we live in an age where you can, you know, when I do a class, this is a stab to the heart. And here's like five videos of it happening live on live leaks or whatever. And we can deconstruct that. Not only that, but what weapon was used. Oh, it was a gas station folder. It was a pioneer woman knife from Walmart with flowers on the handle, you know, whatever it was. And people start realizing that it doesn't take a lot. That it doesn't take a lot of training because a lot of these people are not high level assassins trained by ninjas in the hills or anything like that. They're people that grew up rural by seeing that behavior in others.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A cheap one that cost 89 cents at a Walmart and an expensive $400 one. And the cheap one will outperform the expensive one. The tipple snap off during some of it”
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“The same thing, you know, the medical training should come first, you know, or if you don't have that, be a hunter or go to a butchery class. That will teach you more about how to use a On somebody else than anything. That'll give you the experience of flesh. Most people, you know, I do this example every now and then where I have people bring in. Tactical knife, and they'll bring in a butter knife. And I ask them which will go through a torso. We have a pig there, so it simulates a torso pretty closely. Most people will say, ah, that butter knife is not going to go through. And it does. You know, it does go through. It's thin enough, strong enough, sturdy enough that it'll go through. Kitchen knife.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With a knife if they pick it up as a weapon, then. Most of the martial artists that I've seen kind of approach some of these classes where I go and have a simulated torso in the form of a pig hanging in a room somewhere.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is an ambush counter ambush based scenario where somebody pulls out a knife during a grappling situation on the street or when somebody turns a striking exchange of punches into pulling out a cheap gas station knife or a pen or a rock from the ground or a handgun. Most modern combatives when it comes to weaponry should be kind of based on the whole aspect of ambush encounter ambush. There's a lot of people showing valuable material and coursework on this out there. My whole approach and my specific kind of realm is in the aspect of how people go from the process of learning some of these things from experiential stuff, people that grow up in rural places grow up on pig farms that actually get the experience of processing a pig, for example, or processing an animal. Those people will have more skills as hunters. Those people will have more skills.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would make sense in that scenario, in that context, but I've never seen a lot of people actually get into these one-on-one knife altercations. What we see now in a modern context when it talks about weaponry.”
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“Again, a lot of the classes I do are for orientation and for people to recognize that behavior. So a lot of law enforcement comes to some of these classes. Oh, that's horrible. That's how somebody will kill somebody. Yeah, this is how people that know their thing, their shit will try and approach somebody and stab you to death. This is how they would do it. There's a tendency to view what we see in John Wick or view what we see in this martial arts community where they're slicing and dicing people in different myriads of ways. A lot of that is based on dueling-based cultures, like the Filipino martial arts or some of the Italian martial arts out there where somebody's facing off with somebody else with a similar weapon and where both of us are agreeing to basically get into a stabbing competition.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do you have a defensive mechanism, and you see it sometimes when people are ambushed and people try to open up each other's necks from behind? If you push somebody's neck forward, the carotids will actually lower themselves and be encased in more flesh and muscle. You pull a head back, not so much. So that's a way that at least I think the evolutionary we have a defensive mechanism for that. There's a few videos out there of people getting their necks sewn back shut after somebody pushed their head forward to try and slice their necks and they survived. This is a viable target. The heart is another one. Interesting about the thing about the heart and people get alarmed when I talk about this and show it in classes.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's the carotid arteries which are used commonly in jiu-jitsu as something to choke because they feed a computer, you know?”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it also teaches you what to stab and what to shoot if you're thinking about it in a full and on all the dimensions of it, all knowledge can be weaponized. And I think that's the approach that all people should kind of figure out for themselves when they start getting ready or if they want to take the responsibility of their own safety in their hands.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're no good. You don't want to be a detriment to the situation. You want to be an asset. So build yourself up as an asset in a situation like that because you might be doing that on yourself or on somebody else.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Basically, how to stop somebody from bleeding out or dying from a stab wound, gunshot wound, or any of those types of wounds, or an amputated leg during an IED scenario, anything you would see in a Boston marathon type event or a Vegas shooting event where people are getting shot, stabbed, cut.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think before you get there, you have to prepare, you know. So one of the first things I tell people is if you don't have a basic TCC training class behind you, you should reanalyze your life and your ability to prepare.”
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“Nobody owns life but anybody that can hold a frying pan owns death is a quote that I heard once, which is a beautiful one.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And also, the current state of affairs where people need to arm themselves with things that are concealed as far as their purpose in a place where in a country or in a society that limits their ability to arm themselves. So if you're going to a safe place, you're going to a place where no weapon's allowed, which means a target rich environment if you're a predator. That's a sign of rebellion.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hazard effectiveness of a shank or an ice pick. It's not going to cut, but it's going to make a hole where it shouldn't be.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All it takes is about the half of your thumb or the length of your thumb to stab into your chest cavity and now your pericardium is pierced and it's being filled with blood or your whole heart is pierced and you have a few minutes to live if you're at a standing heart rate.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a guy online coffin tramp is his moniker. It is a G10 rod. G10 is a very strong material, basically a lot of people make actually G10 knives, which are basically non-magnetic, non-ferrous objects that can be utilized as a stabbing implement. The core of it isn't an actual pencil core. It's a G10 core. And it's encased in oak, hard oak. So that is capable, again, of stabbing through a torso. Now, the guy that made that is an artisan, you know, he makes that. It looks like a pencil is concealed in the nature of the object itself. But that small object is capable of being introduced into a chest cavity.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It'll make a point and an angle that will guide its way into your flesh. So you can actually go through a torso with that if you know what you're doing.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, if you take that tip off and you grab it and grind it on an angle on the carpet, the heat will actually turn it into a hypodermic needle if you know what you're doing.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I could basically the heat and friction created from this carpet. Can grab that pen in and of itself, it will pierce flesh, but it will slow itself down because it has a few angles on the tip.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a system and this is a way, but there's other ways out there that might negate or defeat the ways that you are concentrating on, you know. So kind of get out of that bubble. My whole kind of speciality or what I focus on is mindset and figuring out the software that some of these people gain and gather from. If I need to arm myself, the easiest thing to manufacture in most places is a pointed object so I can take that crystal big pen that you're writing on that notepad with and using the friction from the carpet, I can turn it into a hyperdernic needle that you can then poke into somebody's neck.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, he was in the middle of this class that we were doing where people were basically focusing on both. Ernest Emerson, who's a famous for his knives. He has a knife company. He's done knives for NASA. Not only that, but he's also a very avid martial artist. He trained with a lot of Filipino martial arts related to knives and stuff like that. But a different mindset, you know, a defensive mindset, trying to train people how to defend against that. And you have Royce, who's from Brazil. I mean, he has some street in him. That's something that those guys, those we say in Mexico. Seeing the ways he would, he stepped in there and provided some encouragement to the people there as far as how people sometimes focus on the...”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wearing pajamas, and everyone's like, what is this guy wearing pajamas for? And then he would strangle people with those pajamas. I remember seeing that and just having it, I think, probably what a generation before had with Bruce Lee, I guess, my generation was Royce walking into that octagon and changing paradigms. Seeing him in that gym. Also, I have a gun owner and shooter, which is interesting, you know, having seeing somebody like him who is well versed with his hands also be a man that has gone into the realm of being well versed with weaponry, which is an aspect of martial arts and the martial way of thinking that, you know, some people kind of The purist will stick with one side of it, but he's obviously a warrior in a lot of ways.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's a pretty interesting character. I remember seeing him in a bootleg VHS video, and I told him about it. We were doing a class out at Emerson Knives. It's a knife company, but Mr. Emerson also has a jujitsu gym there where Royce strays out of. That's his space. And they're teaching how to defend against somebody trying to stab you. And I'm showing them all the ways you can get around that and fabricate and improvise and smuggle things. Basically, the adversarial side of that. That's what I'm known for. Psychology and kind of the ways that people do that. I remember him seeing some of the stuff that I was doing and just being like, where are you from, Mexico? Makes sense. Somebody from Brazil, you know, tipping the hat to somebody from Mexico as far as with him seeing the violence and some of the mentality behind it.”
2022-12-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I meet people every weekend with different stories. People come to something of my classes. I show them how to weaponize the environment, how to arm themselves, how to not get abducted. I meet people that have gone through those experiences and are basically trying to work through some of their own issues by going through training like that. I get to meet people that are people that I've only seen online or the scene in videos. I remember meeting Royce Gracie in Harvard City.”
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