The Death of Bruce Lee - EP 109 - The Conspiracy Podcast

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is Eric. This is Jorge.
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Yeah. We'll make you pseudo famous.
But this is an episode that actually is Jorge's request.
Oh my God, really? And this is what the last time I
know. So usually we're giving out
like. Two years ago, yeah.
So this is all Jorge. This is his.
We're going to turn it over to him.

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And this is the story of Bruce Lee.
This is the story of Bruce Lee. Let's get into.
It Jorge is not real, you're in for a treat.
For sure if you're in the discord you'd believe that, but
anyway. So do you guys know real quick
before we jump in, do you guys know a lot about this?
About Bruce is that. Bruce, are you a fan?
Theories. I think every human on earth is

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a Bruce Lee fan. I love Bruce.
Lee That's why I liked it, because I love Bruce Lee and I
didn't know some of them that I when I did the research, I
didn't know some of the theories.
So I have quite a few so. Because we're not that.
Old. I mean, we're like semi, but not
not not all, you know what I mean?

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But. The guy is fucking immortal.
Like, I know. Yeah, you know, that's true.
Going through it, it was kind ofcool.
Like to see how much he influenced all the.
Other how much he actually affected all the.
Other like martial arts movies and shit like they stole some of
his like lines and and stuff like that.
So it's cool. I love it.
All right, so as we always do, you know, we start off with the

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beginning before I even get to the beginning of Bruce Lee's, I
want to kind of set the tone. Oh.
Yeah, set the stage. All right, so in Hong Kong, the
guys in the prime of his life enter the Dragon.
That's one of the best movies ever.
It's fucking amazing. It's about to drop and Bruce Lee
takes a painkiller, basically. We'll get into what it was

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called and all that, but he never wakes up from that.
That's fucking terrifying. So what starts from there is
basically a whole bunch of medical mysteries and of course,
conspiracy theories. And it's been going on for 50
years now and it's still obviously.
When I die, there better be thismany conspiracies legit like

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there needs to be this many I. Don't want to be cut and dry.
No, like it's just not an accident.
I know I was like 95 but like, let's be real, that's.
Especially being one of the hosts in this podcast, there
better be some conspiracies. Oh my gosh.
There better be like branches ofpodcasts, there's.
Like secret. Like there's secret like groups

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in the Discord that like that, Yeah.
Like they make, they're like something's off.
Eric's looking a little SUS. And somebody better make an
episode. I'd kill your Sean in the heat
of passion. Why did?
Why? Did Sean have a a life insurance
policy and Eric was the? Beneficiary and what?
The Hell's going on here? Oopsie, Daisy.
Six days before he died. So there's a couple of theories,

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main theories that you know, youguys will probably have heard
of, like the triads, you know, took them out, was it a jealous
lover and even a theory in thereabout the CIA.
Yeah, yeah. So fucking sign me up.
Or was it just basically like a medical thing?
So we're gonna dive into all that.
The tooth. Healthy.

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That's what I'm saying and I gotsome some details on that.
So it's been 50 years and basically this still remains
unsolved and the puzzle continues to captivate all of us
and and leave us all talking about it.
So as we always do, we're going to rewind to the beginning of
his life and go over all the little details, how he grew up
and all that. Bruce Lee was born on November

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27th, 1940, which is actually the year of the.
Dragon. Of course, of course, of course.
It was the year of the dragon. He is the fucking dragon.
Yeah. So that all ties into like all
his movies and you'll see a bunch of other stuff, so.
What do you know a lot about thewhole?
I'm not good on the whole Chinese fucking China.
Of the years, yeah. I don't.

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Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I.
Don't know but I know that thereis like only I think it's 12
different animals and it kind oflike rotating.
Every 12 years. Yeah.
So it's every 12, so it's no. No, it's the year of the dragon.
Every is every 12 years, so every year is a new as a new
animal. Exactly.
So I think that's what so that'sthere's 12.
So, yeah, so it's every year we.Think I'm like the year new.

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Animal. I think I was a year of the
fucking cock or. Something the rat.
Yeah, probably 1 the rat. The year, the year the goat.
I mean, if I had to pick, I'd bethe year of the cock too.
Of course I was. The year of.
The cow, the cow and this is my episode.
The cow is the cake. The cake.
The cake. Accents.

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See you the cake. All right.
So basically you could say you know.
Sorry, that's fucking good. That's actually great.
So he was he was a child of like2 worlds is what they call it
cuz he was born in San Francisco.
But he was like. In Chinatown, of course, yeah.
But just a few months after he was born, his family went back

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to Hong Kong. Interesting.
So we got citizenship and they're like.
Yes, the. Little story is is I met my wife
in Oh yeah yeah, in San Francisco, the year of the.
Dragon. That was my first line.
I was like, I'm the year of the cock.
Welcome to Chinatown. Welcome to Chinatown, baby.
She's like, OK. No song.

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I actually, I'm familiar with that.
That's clear. Yeah, that's.
Cool, you know Eric is. From San Francisco, right?
Loser. So his father, his name was Lee
Hoy Chung and he was a Cantonese, Cantonese, right,
Opera star. So he was already.
Oh wow, holy. I know, right?
I. Know that he's already did that

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in his blood. Exactly Jeans.
I've never heard a Chinese person do opera.
I know. Yeah, how does that I don't
want? To be racist.
But I don't. We're going.
To skip this part. Right.
Now. Before this.
Is the. 1. Thing.
For the one SSA we don't have. It's like before we get out of
hand, we're going to continue, all right?

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We can make some black jokes, Mexican jokes.
I was about to like go deep and I'm like, don't let the Modello
speak, Shawn. Let the let Jorge speak.
His mom's name was Grace Ho. She was a Euro Asian heritage,
so half European, half Chinese, or I guess Chinese, Cantonese,
whatever. Cantonese Cantonese is a

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language. OK, there you go.
Like that's why I like in the Chinese.
Most Chinese people speak Cantonese.
That's like the language and Mandarin.
Mandarin is the other main. I think that was the Mandarin
was what Bruce spoke, and that'swhat he did is his.
But his mom was Cantonese. European Asian origin.

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Yeah, and that is a a a little detail that we're going to get
into a little bit later that actually affected Bruce Lee.
So. All right, so as a toddler, he
was already on screen on in his father's movies.
So when they moved back to Hong Kong.
That's why they moved back. He's like I'm a upper star
bitch. Yeah, so he.
His dad. Basically put him in into the

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movies and he gave him the stagename Lee the Little Dragon.
Cute. I mean, man, that's like from
like a. Good.
Setup this is like. That's cute.
And so basically by age 7 Bruce Lee began practicing Tai Chi
with his father and then when hewas 9 he Co starred in a movie
with his dad called The Kid. And if you don't know, Tai chi

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is actually, it's a, it's more of a defensive art form.
It's not a sound of really. Oh yeah, Tai Chi.
I thought it was more like a calming.
It is it's but it's in terms of like a martial, in terms of a
martial arts Tai chi is, is is supremely defensive.
It's all about it's not about like attack.
It's about protecting yourself and you're very fluid, the
movements and people use it as like a meditative.

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Have you ever seen those fuckingbullshit videos where it's like
somebody has like the chi and itjust like.
Almost sounds like a like a ha duken like.
Knocks you down, the guy like passes out and then he's like Oh
my God, what happened? Oh my fucking bullshit.
Tai Chi By the time he was 18 healready had appeared in 20
different films. Holy.
So he was already like, grooved.In a movie star, yeah.

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Like I got this. I'm ready for this.
Crazy, crazy that you live or you are born in the family of
drama, I guess, or theatre and then you just.
Well, if you think about it likelook at all the people that are.
I mean, you gonna think like if you're.
Like, look at Denzel Washington's kid.
I mean, he's a great actor. He's actually great.
Spectacular. Fantastic.

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Like in one of the few shows that me and my wife agree on
Ballers. Which one?
Oh, I. Love that it is amazing.
You got me, You got me. On to that one.
And then he's also in Tennant. He's in Tennant, yeah.
He's the main guy. He's Tennant too.
He's. Also in the one with the with
the AI and the robots. I like that one.
It's called the Creator. Which is.
Good, this is good. His name's.
It's. Something Washington.

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Wow, really? John, David.
John David. Really.
Yeah, John David Washington. Yeah, that doesn't ring a.
Bell and he also has a son namedMalcolm Washington.
All right, so by the early 1950s, Bruce Lee's dad started
using opium. Oh, fuck.
In 1956, Bruce was moved to Saint Francis Javier's college

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because his grades were low and then while he was there he was
guided by a brother, Edward Muss, and he was a he was a
teacher. So it was like almost like a.
Catholic, I think it was a. Christian yeah, cuz it's like
Saint Francis is. This is this in Hong Kong?
Yes, he's still over there, he'sstill in Hong Kong.
And while he was there, basically this guy who was a

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teacher who also coached the school's boxing team.
So that's how he was introduced into the into the martial arts?
Exactly. Interesting.
So while he was there in 1953, one of Bruce's friends, William
Chung, he introduced him to thisguy called IP Man.
I don't know if that's his name or that it's.
IP man, yeah. Is it like if?

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You've ever seen like, there's the movies.
IP, yeah, I always, I said it like the American IP man.
But it's IP Man, Donnie yen, Donnie.
Yen is my God. Dude, Donnie.
Yeah, I want to like, go hang out with.
Him, dude, he's actually a legitmartial artist.
Yeah, funny story. There's a there's a story story
of Donnie yen. He was in China and he went to a

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club with his girl and these dudes, there's 8 dudes that try
to jump him outside a club and he literally hospitalized all 8
dudes. My God.
Really. He's actually legit Marshall.
I like that story, but Hitman isarguably considered one of the
greatest Marshall artists he's ever lived.
He's the grandmaster of Wing Chun.
There you go. Didn't Jet Li do a movie or no?

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OK, A movie about him? Yes.
Yes there is. There is a movie.
There is a movie about it, No. No, no.
I don't know if it was Jet Li though.
It was a different. Story.
No, you're thinking of yes, Jet Li did do a movie and it's
called Legend. I think it's called Something.
Like that? No, there's one called Hitman.
No, no, there's hitman is DonnieAnn, and he does Donnie Ann does
all the hitman's OK. There's a movie with with Jet Li

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and I think it's called Legend. Yes.
So it's something like that, You're right.
Yeah, I don't think, I don't know if he's actually portraying
it, man, but he is like a, he does play like a some Grand
Master and it's this whole like thing or like he's a fighter and
he's like he ends up founding this like martial arts school,
blah, blah, blah. OK.
Anyways, continue. No.
Sean's right. Sean's very.

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It is called legend, right? Yeah.
I mean, there's an IP, IP man. There's a which is Donnie IP
and. There's four of them, I know.
No, there's a, there's a biography that was done and it,
but it's about the guy that you're talking.
About. It's about it, man.
With Bruce Lee. Oh, OK, that's cool.
And yeah, like he and Donnie yen.

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Yeah, Donnie yen did. Well, Donnie was playing hitman.
Yeah, exactly. So he's totally right.
The movie is totally old. Hitman.
Yeah, yeah, he's. Totally right.
He does something. He's totally right.
There's no, there's no like. Yeah, so Bruce Lee is famously
Hitman's, one of Hitman's pupils.
There you go. Right.
And he ends up creating, obviously Horry will get in
this, but he end up creating hisown.
But his own. He takes Wing Chun, but he

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creates Ji Kundo, which is his own art, his own martial arts
form. So as Sean was just saying, you
know, this is a guy that was basically a grandmaster of what
what's called Wing Chun, which is Kung Fu basically, right?
And here's what Bruise had to say about Kung Fu, which I
thought was pretty cool. Well, Kung Fu.

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The best example would be a glass of water.
Why? Because water is the softest
substance in the world, but yet it can penetrate the hardest
rock or anything grainite. You name it.
Water also is insubstantial. By that I mean you cannot grasp
all of it. You cannot punch it and hurt it.

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So every global man is trying todo that, to be soft like water
and flexible and adapt itself tothe opponent.
Feel like water? Feel like water?
Yeah, you guys know that? That's famous.
It's actually a beautiful analogy though.
You know, it's like. You're like adaptive powerful
because water is, while it's like the lifeblood of our

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civilization, water. Your body is made-up of 90% plus
water. But like water's so powerful.
There's water cutters you can cut through metal, you can cut
through fucking wood. You can do anything.
You jump into fucking water, it's fasten speeds like fucking.
And in that interview, he kind of gave another analogy, which
pretty cool. So kung fu's like the Chinese
boxing and he think, he said. Like, think of it like your fist

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is on a chain and it, you know, so it kind of flows and then
boom, it snaps and it hits you. So that's pretty cool.
Like a like a like a wet towel fucking Wick.
Yeah, yeah. There you go.
It's pretty marvellous that he took that to make.
It's philosophical. It is like.
It's. Well, like it's not just
physical Kung Fu, it it's a veryphilosophical.

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And he went to school for philosophy, actually.
Oh, really? Yeah.
So I'm gonna get into that. But if you look at like the old,
old, like you know, in Chinese martial arts, it was it was a
way of life. It wasn't, it wasn't like, oh,
you got to learn something as like a hobby.
It was like you literally dedicate your entire life and
like, that was your way of like reaching some sort of

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enlightenment is through this art form is like how you ascend
to the next level of like, you know, of existence.
Yeah. So at first, Bruce Lee actually
wasn't allowed to learn Wing Chun.
Really. Yeah, because his mom had
European roots. And back then?
Yeah, pure blood. Back exactly back then, true

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that these martial arts schools,they didn't teach people who
were full, who weren't fully Chinese.
What? Damn.
So basically his friend kind of vouched for him and got the guy
to teach him outside of like normal classes I.
Didn't know that I didn't like it in secret.
I didn't. I didn't know that you had to be
like a a pure I. That sounds bad but like a pure

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blood or at least a semi pure blood.
No. Well, you had.
The pure, yeah. He was semi and that's why they
want to teach him. This sounds like the Asian
version of Goodfellas. Yeah.
You know, like where he was like, oh, he was like part, he
was like part Irish. And he was like, oh, I can't be
a main man. Like, yeah, you're a man.
There. You go or I mean, you know, also

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Aryan. Yeah, Yeah.
I mean, that's true. I mean.
I guess I guess you're correct. I'm like, you're not actually
wrong. Weirdly enough, I wasn't going
to get there, but he went there.It's an Eric, you racist shit.

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So in 1958, Bruce Lee won the school's boxing tournament and
by knocking out the previous champion, Gary Allen.
The way you become a new champion.
So that crazy thing is that sameyear he also won Crown Colony
Cha Cha Dance championship. Oh my.
Which is a way bigger feat. Yeah, the Crown Colony dance Cha

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Cha fucking tournament. So he was smooth on his.
He. Was fucking he was like water.
All the bitches like water. Be like water, my friends.
That's how he that's how he got in their pants.
He's like. I.
Fucking I adapting your situation.
I know you see these moves. You're the kick.
But the streets is actually where Bruce Lee actually, truly

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grew. Up.
Don't we all? Yeah, by the time he was in his
teens, he was scrappy, restless,getting into fights all the
time. Beating people's asses.
And he started getting into moreand more fights, and then one
day he ended up beating the son of a Triad final.
That was. Fucking.
He was like, shit that's going to tie into.

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You know. One of the theories there.
Assumingly enough is the the Quentin Tarantino's film made
him like he was constantly trying to fight like his
character. You remember in was the movie
once put on? Yeah, exactly.
It was like he always wanted to his character was like, I want

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to fight. Yeah, like I'm going to just
fucking fight people on the on the like.
It made him like you can imagineonce you're at, obviously once
he's in the at the height and he's.
Everybody. But I imagine Tarantino doing
research on Bruce Lee, Yeah. Because he was like, he was.
He was like a never ending Street Fighter.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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But that scene was hysterical. Or him in fucking Brad Pitt.
He like, picks him up and throwshim into the car.
He's like, what? It's like fired.
That was hilarious. So yeah, so one day, basically
after school, he gets sucker punched by another guy and Bruce
Lee beat him so badly that teethwere knocked out.

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And this led to the boy's parents making a complaint to
the police. Wow, where the triads?
I think this was a different kid.
I don't. I don't.
Know it didn't. Didn't clarify that, but
basically Lee's mom, she had to go down to the police station,
sign a document saying that she would take full responsibility
for his actions, and then they released him to her.

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I did feel love like back in theday, like the old the old times
where they're just. Like I know it's like.
Just promised he won't do it again.
OK, but. This is also.
Like today, you're like, you're in prison.
This is also Hong Kong, so a little different than here.
He's he's still over there. Yeah, he's still over there.
I don't, I don't mean to sidetrack it here, but you got
into St. St., Little Brawl St.
Squabbles. Yeah, you guys.

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I mean, I've yeah, yeah, I mean,but my.
The one, the one time I got my, I got a gun pulled on me.
I mean, that was really, yeah, Iwas younger, way, way younger.
And then we used to fucking fight at the clubs all the time.
I didn't really get. Into you and the.
Latos were fucking. All the fucking time.
And I would. I don't know what the fuck was
wrong with me. I would always just like, drink

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and get angry. Yeah, yeah.
You and you and the squad. Yeah, well, that's that's the
thing. I always had people with me and
I had Ned, though, he knows how to fight.
He was. He used to be like into boxing
and all that shit. So did I remember.
Get some liquid courage. I was just wondering if if you
guys have experienced exactly what he's going through Bruce
Lee. But I wasn't.

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Like on the streets where you'rehaving fights.
And no like when I was looking. For the fights, yeah.
When I was younger, like I, I was like behind one grade, so I
was always. Like, you know, hanging out with
the other ones. I was always the older one, I
was always the bigger 1, so nobody really fucked with me I
guess because of that. And I also always was friends
with the right guys. So it's.

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A really good Yeah. It's great to be the friends
with the right guys. But kind of like so that's.
A tip for you kids there. You go.
Be. Friends with the guy who can
kick anybody. Else and be like.
Wata. Be like Wata and adapt to the
most badass dude. Exactly.
Yeah, so the police detective basically said, you know, to
Bruce Lee's mom, your son is fighting really bad in school.

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And if he gets into just one more fight, I'm gonna have to
put him in jail. So basically that's when she
goes to Bruce Lee's dad and says, you know, we can't handle
this guy. We got to chip him off to.
Boarding school bitch. Now show America, they sent him
off to the United States. Yeah, to, because, remember, he
was born here. He had a citizenship.
He was. By that time, he was already 18.

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Oh. They're like, yeah, you're done.
Yes, get the. Fuck out of here.
Homie so this is like the mid 60s.
This was 1950. I mean, I forgot when he.
Was born, I think it was 5850. 8:00-ish.
Yeah, maybe it's like 5860, Yeah.
So then Bruce Lee comes to America.
He arrives. He gets to Seattle with just

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$100 in his pocket. It's back in the 60s like.
Rich, true, but still you just got here.
Invested in Apple. Buy the.
House. So this is when he starts going
to the University of Washington and he starts studying
philosophy. So that's what we were talking
about earlier. And at the same time, he starts

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teaching martial arts so he can earn money.
And one of the students that signed up was Linda Emery, turns
out to be his wife. So she was a student first.
This sucky? Punch Girl all.
Right, so we Fast forward to 1964.
Now he's a husband, he's a father.
He just had his son, Brandon Lee, you know, who was born in

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1965. But he was figuring out life in
America and trying to be a Chinese man.
And so he was kind of caught between, like, both worlds.
Yeah, You know, because when he was here in the US, he was kind
of discriminated or treated a certain way.
No, But when he But when he wentback to Hong Kong, he was also.

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Oh. They're like looking at the
American. Piece of shit, yeah.
Like, and also because of his mom being not fully Chinese,
Yeah, he was always treated basically like discriminated,
you know that. Sucks, you know, you know.
Welcome anywhere. You know, it's not a lot not
talked about a lot is discrimination of Chinese people
in the 60s during the civil rights.
Movement. Oh.

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Oh, heavily, I mean. Like, well, this is right around
that. Time.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
And I mean, it's also like, you know, they got lumped in because
after Vietnam too, it's like true.
Even though the Vietnamese very completely different, it's still
part of Asia, quote UN quote. Yeah.
So like all Asians get lumped into it.
It's the same thing with like wehad fucking all the wars in Iraq
where it's like, oh, all people of any sort of Muslim descent

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are like all in the same category.
Yeah. So I mean, he basically just had
to go through that, you know, whole thing of, like, being
discriminated, but he also got tried at all times.
Like everybody wanted a piece ofhim because they didn't like
that he was teaching Chinese martial arts to Americans.
When they got opposite, we're superior, we're a oh our fuck,

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that's a good. Point.
It's a good point. Like if you're the master of
your specialty, you will be challenged.
All that specialty. Oh yeah, you know.
What I mean like as as our podcast gets bigger, you can
actually see people going like, oh, well, you know what I mean?
Like they want to take well and they go, oh, the real

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conspiracy. And they want to like, you know
what? I.
Mean like yeah, like you want to.
Like try to Fact Check, yeah. Like you always like, you know,
like you always challenge the narrative, whatever to be the
same, the same concept as like, you know, you're the best
basketball player, you're the best football player, the best
tennis player. Everyone wants the throne.
Yeah, Everyone wants to be like,you know, you want to beat.

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You want to beat. You want to be the ghost.
In order to be the best, got to beat the best.
Yeah, that's right. That's true.
And so I could see how Bruce is like, OK, he's the best fucking.
But remember, he's. Like he's fastest flock.
He's so. Fucking.
But he grew up fucking fighting all the time, so he was already
kind of used to that everybody challenging him anyway.
So he he issued an open challenge that he can be any

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martial artist in San Francisco.What a stud.
I know I won. He's like, bring it on.
I would love in my lifetime to be like, it should open
challenge in anything. It's gonna be a fucking checker.
So I don't know like that's whatan issue or an open challenge.
Like connect four don't tell away, don't nobody's.
Really gonna connect 4? Oh dude, I smashed.

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Eric and Connect 4IN Boston. I was like, I didn't even know
what this game is. But I was thinking 6-7 moves.
How do? You not know what connect 4 is.
I don't know how we didn't know.I don't.
Eric's like just randomly putting him in there hoping for
the best. He's like, sure, so I'm gonna
pop it in. Fuck it.
Short story is we were at a bar.Sean and I were at a bar, It's
called. The bar was called Hennessy's,

(26:34):
by the way, in Boston, if you'reover there.
We were at a bar and he was like, hey, man, like we were
talking about something. And they're like, hey, hey, you
wanna play this game? And I was like, sure.
And it's this huge, massive. Connect 4.
Connect and I walk over. Over like, like the huge yeah.
But it's a child's game. It's a children.
Walk over and like what are the?Rules trying to make it seem
like it's. Massive and I.
It was overwhelming, It was so. Big.

(26:55):
It was like the height of it. A man, you know, it was really
big anyways, And he's like, hey,like go.
And I was like, what are the rules of this?
He's like whatever, and he just starts putting the things in and
then I just put in four like straight thing and he's like I
won and I was like, what is thisgame?
And truth be told, I didn't knowhow to play the fucking.

(27:16):
But you know what's also funny is Sean is so fucking
competitive that he probably didn't tell you on purpose how
to fucking win or how to even how to even play so he can beat
Yeah. Literally.
Earth long, so he would not knowhow to play.
Kinect 4. Just imagine.
You're playing Kinect 4 and I put four in the same one over
and. Over you can do that.
No, but he wouldn't hurt nobody but.

(27:37):
You can do no just. If you ever imagine, imagine the
game you put, he goes 1st and heputs 1 and I put one next to him
and we keep going and then he's like I have 4:00.
That was literally the game, wasn't it?
It was not that bad. It was like 5 boots and Eric
never said. Eric only said that he didn't
know how to play after I won, soit wasn't like I took advantage

(28:00):
of him. Like I don't know why you're
trying to play the pity fucking card here.
It was after the fact. You were like, oh, I don't
really know how to play. And I was like, what?
I'm like it's connect, make 4, make a line up for it.
It's the simplest. Thing no.
It's what happens when this, youknow, people take advantage of
people, you know, oh. My God, Eric, so Christ, you're

(28:21):
going in a nursing home and I'm like, sign this document, Sir,
Trust me. This is a good 1401.
Ki know it, you understand, you're going to love this
investment. So I got, I got another quick
quote for you guys from Bruce, because when he opened up the
that challenge, somebody basically was asking him like,

(28:42):
are you that good? It was me fucking fucking shit.
All the time people come in and say, hey Bruce, are you really
that good? I said, well, if I tell you I'm.
Good. Probably you will say I'm
boasting, but if I tell you I'm no.
Good. You know what?
Like. I.

(29:04):
Tell you I'm good, You think I'mfull of shit.
Basically, he said he's the goat, you know?
One of the one. Of the guys that challenged him,
he was a very traditionalist Kung Fu guy.
His name was Wong Jack Man. Dude Wong Jackman.
Wong, Jackman. Fucking dude, I'm naming my
first born Wong Jackman. It sounds a lot like Hugh

(29:26):
Jackman, but it's Wong. Jackman, Dude.
Wong Jackman. This guy's like a great guy.
Well, he, he was pissed that he was, Bruce was teaching other
people like that we're not Chinese, that he was teaching
them to come. How dare you?
So again, he was a traditionalist, you know, Guy,
it's a Wong Jack. He says if you can beat me, you

(29:46):
can keep teaching, but if I beatyou, then you got to close down.
So then they end up fighting andthis is what happened.
This is a Wong Jackman. As long as like I quit.
I think the fight lasted 3 minutes, so Wong Jong must turn
around, start running from one door to the other.
I think he ran around two or three times.
He stumbled and Bruce got on topof him and was getting ready to

(30:11):
lay him out and he yelled in Chinese, couldn't speak English.
I give up. I give up.
Wow, so Bruce beat his ass. Beat his ass but So what
happened is actually so after hebeat him up he felt disappointed
because he didn't win in seconds.
So, Bruce. Like they said it lasted like 48
seconds. Like God damn it, I fucked up.

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So this is what basically led him to develop his own approach,
which you were just talking about earlier.
Yeah. G Kundo.
G Kundo. G Kundo.
Which? Is.
Which is basically a translationof way of the intercepting fist.
Yeah, because he took, he took Wing Chun and he morphed it.
He took that and then like because he created his own

(30:54):
style. Yep, like using parts of that
and then create his own style. So remember, he was a dancer.
He was, he studied, you know, Kung Fu, he studied boxing.
He basically studied all kinds of fighting, rap, you know,
arts, yeah or whatever. So he kind of morphed everything
into one. So you guys have seen the
iconic, you know, the two fingerpush ups?

(31:17):
Oh yeah, he does these two, the two finger one arm push ups.
Yeah. One arm push ups, I mean 2.
Fingers. I mean, they can do that, yeah.
He does 2 finger 1, you do. One just one Rep.
He does the 6 inch punch and theone inch punch.
I never heard of the six inch. I just heard of the.
One inch. So in the same, in the same.
It's like a martial arts tournament thing in like San
Francisco is where he like showcased all the stuff and he

(31:38):
he's literally doing 2 finger, these two fingers, his thumb and
his thumb and his pointer finger, 2 finger, one arm push
ups. And then he does a six inch
punch and he has a one inch punch.
I can do that. So the six, like the six inch
punch is like it's fucking devastating.
Is it, is it where you go like that and.
Then you're that's the one inch punch is he's literally 1 inch

(31:59):
away and the dude sitting and the dude like fucking falls down
into a chair. The six inch punch the dude like
he sends a dude like 12 feet back.
It's like literally, I mean Bruce Lee was known for like
being able to generate like crazy amounts of power.
There's all these stories about.Him in a short in a short.
Like him being able to him beingable to kick, kick a heavy bag

(32:23):
and make a heavy bag hit the ceiling.
He had to get special heavy bagsthat you know how you can get
like different weights or whatever.
His had metal in it, some sort of like metal or iron, I forget
what the fuck it had because he could basically kick it off the
stand. Yeah.
He could kick it. So hard that they would like
It's just like so it was able. To so much power.

(32:43):
So much power I. Wonder where?
I wonder where I would fit into.They wouldn't fit.
You would not fit. There's no fitting.
No like where I would place like0 and.
Place. Negative.
Second here. 2nd. I think you would punch, you
would punch the bag, you would punch the bag and like break,
break your wrist. Like I might Eric Punch.

(33:05):
The bag and like pulls A hamstring.
I don't know, I'm like, I'm likewhat?
It's like someone. I mean, I might be able to
compete, but that's. Also called being.
Eric calls him out. Yeah.
It's called being 40. That's what happens.
I know this is 40 got here. All right, so we basically now
at 1966, Bruce Lee lands the role of Cato in the Green
Hornet. Oh.

(33:26):
Yeah, remember. That and basically he shows off
his martial arts skills, you know, but.
This is. This is when he becomes.
A breakout. That was like his first main
thing, but the industry kept boxing him into stereotypes.
He was always a sidekick or the servant.
He's never the lead and remember.

(33:46):
Your bodyguard. And he was experienced, but the
whole stereotype and the whole. Yeah, you're in.
Holy discrimination. Classic Hollywood.
They're like, especially in the 60s.
Yeah, exactly. Wasn't a good time for non
whites. Yeah.
Golden age for me, Eric was. Right.

(34:07):
All the good old age. Goddamn good old age.
Eric was like studio head. He's like, I love it.
It's. American when the woman would
make you the oven and. The thing.
Oh my. God, dinner's prepared.
Dinner's prepared and. Now Eric's eating fucking ramen.
Basically, he becomes frustratedwith the whole thing of like how
they're treating him. So he goes back to Hong Kong.

(34:31):
Yeah, he's like this shit, I'm out.
Right. Well.
Main character. But when he gets there, he was
actually greeted with mobs of people and he didn't know how
famous he was or you know how. Especially over there.
You know what? I mean, yeah, over there they're
like, he's like. America's Heart.
It is. America's heart.
It's tough, yeah. So this is when he was
approached by Hong Kong producer, his name was Raymond

(34:52):
Chow and he signs them to the ground breaking deal with Golden
Harvest. Yeah, I've heard of this.
OK. And that's when he releases his
first major film. It was called The Big Boss.
Yeah, this was the hot yes, Yeah, this was the biggest Hong
Kong movie, this Hong Kong moviethat's ever come out.
I mean, it came out in 1971. It shattered box office records.

(35:15):
It grossed more than $400 million.
If you if you like trillion dollars of Hong.
Kong, if you adjusted, if you adjusted for inflation, $400
million, yeah, out of Hong. Kong, but out of Hong Kong.
Yes, that's huge. Because it was all about John
Wayne at that time. And yeah.
True exactly. Yeah, I mean, the theatre is
over. There double O 7 I bet was
around then. You know, the early double O

(35:36):
sevens. The originals.
Were Oh yeah, yeah, yeah there'sa guy that would that played
double O 7 I'm going to get intothat he has something to do with
this. But basically, the theatres,
they couldn't keep up with the demand.
Audiences packed, you know all. Theaters, people with movie
theatre demand. Well, because you could.
You're limited to how many seatsthere are.
Yeah, area. Supply and demand.

(35:57):
Sorry, I don't know. The last movie I went to was
pretty empty. Yeah.
I know. Literally empty.
I just stopped going to them alltogether.
Why I told you don't invest in AMC?
That's why we have. The we have the on demand now,
yeah. The following year, Fist of Fury
comes out, hits theaters, but then later that same year, Bruce

(36:18):
wrote, directed, and starred in The Way of the Dragon.
That's another huge one. That's the one.
Have you guys watched any of these?
Yeah. Yeah, Oh yeah, I've seen a
bunch. Of these, especially this one,
that's the one that he fights with.
Chuck Norris. Yeah, Really.
Yep, they fight in the column is.
That the Way of the Dragon. Yeah, The Way of the Dragon.
The way So what's the like give me the vibe of the movies I've

(36:38):
only seen. I think I saw his last movie
before like right when he died. Enter the dragon, enter the
diamonds. But I never.
Saw him in a bulletin bar. Yeah.
I didn't see the other ones. Is there a lot of like acting or
is it just an action? It's like the Way of the Dragon.
It's mostly it's mostly action. And yeah.
And I remember there's because he him and and Chuck Norris

(37:01):
actually actually did like do like a a sparring match, like a
legit sparring match. And and even Bruce Lee was like
fucking Chuck Norris is like legit because Chuck Norris is a
world, a world class kickboxer, like one of the greatest
kickboxers has ever lived. Like, and I think Bruce Lee said
Chuck Norris, if you get hit with a sidekick, you're fucking

(37:22):
done. Like you're done.
Like you can't, you cannot, you cannot Fucking cool.
No. And Chuck Norris gave him like
obviously a lot of props to you because they're both great
martial artists. But yeah, like having Bruce Lee
say that is a testament to, you know, obviously Chuck Norris has
become like the giant meme. Like, he's.
But Chuck Norris is actually legit.
Like, he's actually, yeah, one of the best kickboxers who's

(37:43):
ever lived. Like he's.
So is it? Is it, is it like the action
movies of the 80s that we're used to like worse the Arnold?
Oh, they're way worse. Jean Claude von Dam.
Those are actually fucking gold.Yeah, those are my gold.
Imagine like commando but like Kung Fu, OK?
Yeah, or. Predator.
Yeah, you, son. Of a bitch.
Dylan, you son. Of a bitch like.

(38:04):
Love it. OK, there's a lot of like the,
the, the, the, the, the cinematography.
And then we do like, yeah, like the and like, like the zoom in
on the face, like, you know. It was less.
He's not gonna win an Academy Award, but he's no.
But it's an action entertainment.
Yes, yes. It's like.
And this time? Jason Statham of the 70s.

(38:25):
Yes, there you go, Something like that, but maybe even bigger
'cause like there was nobody else.
Yeah, there was the only thing going.
Yeah. But this one was pretty cool
because they take the the scene is in is in the Colosseum.
They actually, I think they filmed it there in.
Yeah, yeah. So it was it was cool.
But there's when they're about to fight, it's pretty cool
because it turned into a meme when they're like undressing and
they're looking at each other like super serious and like.

(38:48):
And Chuck Norris is like weird mop top hair and.
This super hairy chest. I know it's like, yeah, like.
Burly fucking man. Love that man.
Yeah. He's a legend.
So all right, so then we move onto 1973 3 Bruce Lee was
completing Enter the Dragon, which was this one was a
Hollywood Co production. OK, so.

(39:09):
Hollywood starts to take notice.Move to LA, Yeah.
Essentially, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Like to do this film like this is the LA film.
This is like now Hollywood's like, oh shit.
We want a piece of this. We let this guy go right you.
Can be the main character now. I got some quotes here.
So this is like his wife talkingabout Bruce and the whole like
enter the dragon, how I went down.

(39:32):
Bruce, it wasn't just, oh, this is the next project.
This was the dream of his lifetime.
Anytime in the film that is a little bit philosophical.
That is something that Bruce putinto the script.
It is like a. Finger pointing away to the
moon. Don't concentrate on the finger

(39:54):
or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
So remember, he studied philosophy and that translated
all into his movies, into his martial arts and all that,
right? And.
Then one of the cool things about about Bruce Lee is and I,
I'm pretty sure it's real, but that he his, he was so fast that

(40:17):
they have to slow down. They have to slow down like the
film so that you can actually see his movements.
He's so I've heard that too, just like so heard that.
Dad fucking get. Him to slow down but even they
had to like edit the film in a way that you can actually see
what the fuck is happening he's.So pretty.
So what year is this? 1973.
Okay, so, and just I'm gonna throw this in here because I

(40:39):
know we had talked about it earlier, but apparently, and
this is the conspiracy side of things, apparently Bruce Lee
underwent surgery in 1972. I know this, yes.
To remove sweat glands from his armpits, specifically under the
arms. The reason was believed that he

(40:59):
wanted to avoid the concept of people seeing him sweating on
camera. Because it's like, oh, he's an
exertion, like struggling. Yes.
I gotta be like fucking effortless.
Like now. And just so we know, I wanted to
throw this in here because it's a, it's a very, yeah, It's a
very. It is.
It is, but it's a minor procedure and it's uncommon.

(41:22):
But at the same time, his death,it didn't prove to have anything
to do with it. Yeah, maybe.
Maybe. Maybe.
Supposedly. Supposedly anyways, but I just
wanted to throw that in there aslike that did happen or at least
we think I most reports say thatit didn't happen, right, Right.
Yeah, I heard that. Too.

(41:42):
I forgot to put that in there so.
It's but it's very like he's very conscience or conscious of
conscience, very like conscienceis of well, I maybe, how would
you call it vain though? No, you're right.
You're right. Maybe.
It's like he's he knows his persona.
He knows well the reason he knows it.
The reason I call it van becausewhen you just have a quick pause

(42:02):
and have them like tile you down, it's just sweat.
But he's probably sweating profusely.
I'll just dry him off. Right, profusely.
But have you seen, I've seen some some Chuck Norris vids and
he's dripping. Yeah, that's true.
Full stains, yeah, yeah, Drippedout.
Yeah, this is like tiles are like wild.

(42:23):
But he didn't want to get sloweddown.
Maybe he was just like. Yeah, he's like, you know, such
a. Production.
Maybe it is a vain thing. Maybe it is a vain thing.
Maybe it's a mix of both, you know, Yeah.
I think maybe it's a mix of both.
It's just like I have a hard time building.
That's not vanity because it's like you don't want the
apparency of you being tired or you having to exert because

(42:45):
you're he's obviously he's trying to tie this persona like.
I'm I'm. I'm the pinnacle.
I think that's what happens though, when you're also like
at, you're at the, you're at the, you're at the tip top.
Yeah, you're at the fucking tip top.
I mean, that's the Hollywood actors.
They, they definitely juice, youknow, to get into.
Oh. God, so they have to.
You got millions of dollars on the line.

(43:07):
Oh my dude. I would be fucking like me too.
So, yeah, so this is not totallyrelated, but kind of related.
But But The Rock has said over and over he's.
That he's natural fucking. He is so.
Full We all agree, right? Yeah, so full of shit.
Full of shit. No human.
Is that vascular bro? He's like 58.

(43:29):
Like he's on he's, he's on fucking train.
All the things, yeah. Fucking he's on creatine on the
side Creatine. Creatine with eggs.
All the things. No, I know.
But all the things, Yeah, yeah. OK, so OK.
But no. And, and I'm just going to say,
this is your livelihood. Oh dude, you're making. 10s of

(43:50):
millions of dollars. There's not much I wouldn't do
for that much. That's right.
That's right. Like like don't care.
Fucking. I mean, think about it.
Think about it if you're give meon 10.
Dollars Roy's at the same time. If you're making 10 millions,
10s of millions of dollars. Who cares about back me?
Fuck that dude there. Yeah, let's go.
But you're gonna do all the things right?
I'm doing all the things. Yeah, I'm doing all the things.

(44:12):
I mean, for this podcast, I'm doing all.
If I gotta get on fucking test, let's do it.
I'm. Ready.
I get it. So, so, OK, so we're not like
like it's we're not judging him on it, of course.
Is that what we're saying? No, that's what we're.
Saying. Yeah.
It's. Just.
Cool little detail, yeah? Little thing.
Yeah. All right, all right, So we

(44:33):
talked about like, so he was just finishing Enter the Dragon,
right? Yeah, yeah, He didn't actually
finish it. But so now we're going to get
into the final hours, which, well, hours, the final hours of
his death, right. So now it's July 20th, 1973.
OK. And his last day started like
any other. He was just, you know, full of
energy, is focused on his work. Crushing the game.

(44:54):
Living in Hong Kong making filmsthat morning he met with an
actor named George Lazenby, Who?The worst James Bond that
existed. Exactly.
So I told you that James Bond was going to come into.
It 1 1/2 movies literally if youranked all of them he's where
are you going to put George? It's like, it's like a downsies.

(45:15):
He's. Like he's like the What's Matt
Damon's best friend? Oh, Ben Affleck.
Yeah, it's like the Ben Affleck Batman.
Oh yeah, the. War, he's probably.
The absolutely. Worse.
Hold on, like the. What's what's the guy?
What's the guy that was the vampire George?
Who's the bottom? No.
The vampire guy and fucking. Ben Affleck's worse.
Who's the guy that was the vampire who also fucking played
Batman? I think he's worse.

(45:37):
Oh my God. Patterson.
Yes, there you go, love. Pattinson, fuck you What?
No, I love you as Batman. I love him as Batman.
I love him No, but no as Batman though.
Batman as. Batman, I don't care.
It was the worst. Did you see it?
OK. It.
Was I usually watch it, it was really dark.
Listen, Eric, if you're, if you're, if you're actually into
Batman and the comics and the stuff.

(45:58):
Like, hey, he's the worst to you.
He's the. Worst.
He said possible. He's a donation detective.
Man, he was worse. No, but he wasn't.
He wasn't detective. He's such a little pussy.
Pussy. Yeah.
And he's like. What about when he like, woke up
in the morning and he's in sunglasses with his little like
he's all emo. What, because he was a little
bitch? I remember when, like the

(46:19):
Catwoman. Like gave him a kiss and he's
like. Jazz in his pants.
I know he's supposed to be a fucking billionaire Playboy and
he's like, Oh my God, she fucking cussed me.
We'll do whatever she wants and I'm.
Like. I'm bad about it.
I'm bad about this. Man in the universe.
Oh yeah, it's better than fucking Christian Bale.
The worst Batman. Batman.

(46:40):
You better watch. Dude, you.
Better. No, no, no, no, no.
Hold on, hold on. Let me talk.
Let me talk. Let me talk.
Why? Christopher Nolan movies were
fantastic. Yes, the Dark Knights, all of
those Fantastic. OK, Christian Bale trash can.
No. He was the main.
Character in the movie you. Can't.
Say that wrong. Eric, you're saying that he went

(47:01):
wrong? The main character was trash but
the movie was great. This doesn't make any sense.
He's the main. Character Man was a trash
campfire. I'll ever respect you ever
again. Well.
You guys are stupid. There's no you're cut off,
there's no more beers for you. You're getting, you get nothing.
No, I brought these. I don't care, they're mine now,
all. I'm saying is is.
You're stupid. Is.
Is, you know, I love Christian Bale.

(47:22):
Yeah, you don't. Clearly not.
No, I love him and all the otherthings he's done.
That it doesn't even make any sense.
You love Kristen Bale. You don't like his portrayal in
Batman? No.
I OK it's pretty basic, go watchsome.
Movies Listen, Eric, what are. You guys doing?
Are you guys watching the movies?
Listen. So later that afternoon, he was
in his apartment with Betty Tingin Betty Ting's pay apartment,

(47:46):
OK. Who's that?
Betty Ting. Betty Ting pay Taiwanese actress
close friend quote UN quote Theywere working on fight scenes.
I don't like that. Already.
Yeah, I. Don't like it already?
So here's why I fight you with my.
Cat Some people believe their relationship was more than just
work. Some people.
Some people, but she actually ended up being a key part of

(48:10):
what happened next. She was the last person to see
him alive. Betty.
Thayne they were banging. They were 100 percent, 100%.
They were 100% banging. Can we?
It's called spade, we all agree.Yeah, well, there was, there was
rumors for sure that. So it's just rumors she.
Was Mistress. Yeah.
Rumors, I guess. I don't know.
She never comes. Honey, it's just choreography.
It's not real, no. Just it's.

(48:32):
Choreography. Just twist on my Wiener.
We're just practicing our sex scenes.
Just. Twist, twist.
It's a Kung Fu movie. There's sex scenes.
Trust me. Be like water.
Yeah, I'm about to make her like.

(48:53):
Water later that night. Later that night, Bruce, Betty
and the producer Raymond Chow, they all met at Betty's
apartment. They were going.
They were going over the game ofDeath script.
Yeah. Chow later said that Bruce was,
you know, feeling pretty good. He was in high spirits, but at

(49:16):
one point, he even got up. He was acting parts of the film
play fighting in the living room.
And at 7:30 PM, he got a headache.
He felt dizzy. OK, it's been this is actually
kind of a detail. It was, it was a long, hot day
in Hong Kong. So that could play into like

(49:37):
dehydration, a bunch of other stuff we're going to get into,
right. But he had been pushing himself
that day, like working out and rehearsing.
Pushing himself. Got like a body fat at like 1.
Zero. Now, yeah, it's crazy and.
We'll select my body fat is sweat anymore.
That day it was super hot. Listen.
Hong Kong is A and if you don't know, Hong Kong is very much

(49:58):
like Florida. It's super humid, yeah, and they
have monsoon and hurricane seasons, but similar to Florida,
where it it their summer is gnarly where it's it's 85°, but
then it's wet. It's like a blanket of heat,
Yeah. So Betty gave them something
called an Equi Equijesic tablet.Yeah, what the fuck?

(50:20):
This is basically a mix of aspirin and it has a little mild
tranquilizer in it. That sounds like that's not over
the counter. Did he know it?
Yeah, he hadn't taken these before.
Let me get a little equity, yes.Taken them before without any
issues, any problems or whatever.
So he took the pill. He just went to go lie down and
take a nap. Raymond Chow left the apartment.

(50:41):
He was planning to pick Bruce uplater for dinner, but Bruce went
to lie down sometime around 8:00PM and Betty Tink, Betty Tinkpei
didn't check in on him until 9930.
OK, so he was out I'm. Going to take a nap here Betty.
Have you ever taken something that was like a partial
tranquil? I don't know about tranquil,

(51:02):
I've taken pain. No, but I mean like they
describe it, they describe it asa like partial, partial miles.
I know. But I mean, that's what I'm
saying is, have you ever taken something like that?
For sure 100% you have. Like a pain kill every.
Time like what? Not at that time, no.
Like back in the day. Back in the day, I was like,
what? Where I was tranquilizing myself
for fun. Valium that's.

(51:23):
What a Valium. Take Valium.
So Valium would be an equivalent.
I took some other shit down I'm.Taking like liquid codeine.
And this is like after. Surgery.
I was trying, I was like trying to be tranked and So what?
I'm just trying to understand what are the similar drugs that
would have the same? It's not like a, it's not like a
big, it's not like volume. It's not like a huge like

(51:44):
painkiller. This is like, I think it was
over the counter, like it wasn'tthat big of a deal.
It was not like something prescribed or whatever, right?
Because that word, no, the word trank I know is, is.
Kind of throws you off. Yeah.
And it, it's a harsh word, Like it sounds extreme.
Yeah, like that you would, you would, you would be fucking

(52:05):
comatose. Exactly like Michael Jackson,
maybe. No, it was not that.
It's not that. Not that much way hardcore.
He was taking morphine. He was, no, he was taking like
fentanyl. By the way, that's another
episode we we haven't. That's true.
That's another good one. Anyways, Jesus.
So OK, so it had been about an hour and a half since she
checked in on him and he was just, you know, sleeping there,

(52:27):
napping before he had to go to dinner.
But when she comes in, he wasn'tmoving, you know, just laying
there still on the mattress, notresponsive no matter how much
she shook him. Oh, she was trying to wake.
Up. Yeah.
So she started panicking and shecalled Chow and doesn't.
Call the police. Chow didn't call an ambulance.
Didn't call her. She called the producer.
Yeah, she called the producer. I hate that.

(52:49):
Yeah, that's a worse she. Said, you know, you got to come
back. Come on, It's like a Maryland
situation. Yeah.
So then he gets there, they try to, he tries to wake Bruce up.
He's not breathing at this point.
He was unconscious and nothing they did, you know, worked.
Obviously hindsight now. I mean, he was, he was dead.
Yeah, that fucking Equinine or whatever the fuck.
They equigen equigenic. Equigenic.

(53:11):
That's equigenic. That's sketch as fuck.
No, no, no, no. So Chow rushed back and he saw
right away that, you know, things were actually serious.
And knowing how bad it would look for Bruce to be found dead
in another woman's apartment, heacted fast and he came up with a
story. It's just like all PR.

(53:34):
Exactly, it was. Is it PR?
Is it like trying? To or is it real?
So he called the doctor. He did call the doctor in the
ambulance, but he also told Betty to stay quiet about where
it happened. Some Betty shut the fuck up.
You got to say shit. You're fucking fired if you say
shit. Any Betty?
And then that like right after, like, the ambulance picked him

(53:54):
up. Chow told the press that Bruce
had collapsed at home with his wife Linda, not at Betty's
place. So yes, PR, he was trying to
protect his image, right? Spare the family.
Millions of dollars. On the line, but but do you have
do you have anything in the notes there that that was he
sleeping with her? I mean, there's rumors, but

(54:16):
there's never there's rumors, Yeah.
So. He's like a fucking Private Eye
like in the 70s. Yeah, or tell us what that.
Tell me, tell me. I'm just wondering if you know
what I mean. Well, you know, because he lied
about that, then that's also what stirred the rumors up.
Yeah, I. See, you know, but it's not
confirmed. Not confirmed, All right, so,
but it's. Implied.

(54:36):
Yeah. The ambulance.
Also also would it be cool if you're out late at night
practicing your lines with your costar?
I mean, my wife would have a bigproblem if I was like, oh, I'm
just, you know, I'm gonna be here till like 2:00 AM.
This for practicing. For.
For work with the with Betty Ling Ping.

(54:59):
Betty Ping Ping. Ping ping.
With like Gal Gadot. Like, no, you're not.
You're coming home. Or Anna de Armas, you're like, I
got to stay. I got to stay at her hotel,
Motel 6. Yeah, my second career would be
over instantly, you know? They.
'D be like. Well, you're dead at this point,
so. Yeah, I'm already.
That's why I'm acting. Crew is.
Over, Yeah, but your wife would wake you up just to.

(55:23):
Well she would wake me up with to kill me.
Yeah, exactly while I was awake.Exactly.
All right. So anyways, the ambulance
arrived at 10:00 PM. Bruce was likely already gone.
So it's not that late actually. It's not that late, but
remember, he was supposed to go to dinner after this.
He just didn't feel good. He took this shit and lay down.

(55:43):
They rushed him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Doctors tried for 30 minutes to revive him, but nothing worked.
And then in the early hours of July 21 or 21st, 1973, Bruce Lee
was declared death. He was 32.
So young man so insane. There's no clear reason for his
death. At first he didn't have any

(56:04):
injuries. The guy was obviously in 10 top
physical shape. Better shape than I've ever been
in my entire life. And then, of course, you know,
the news started to spread about, you know, his death.
And so all the fans and friends,everybody showed up to the
hospital. Linda Lee, his wife, she flew in

(56:24):
from Los Angeles after hearing the news.
And when she landed in Hong Kong, the press was already
swarming her. I watched a documentary on his
funeral last night and it was chaos.
Yes. Thousands of people rushing and
pushing each other and just chaos.

(56:45):
Like I just don't think I've ever in Hong Kong yet.
I don't think I've ever. Liked a celebrity that much to
do that? To to go to their.
To go to the funeral. And it's like, be like, be like
in a frenzy. Yeah.
You know, like, I've just. I've never been like, I don't
know it. Might have been different.
It might have been different like back then, no Internet, no

(57:09):
nothing. That's.
The last one that I was like, I would, I don't, I don't know, I
don't even live near there. But I didn't go to his funeral,
obviously. But anyway, the one that hit me
was Kobe. Yeah, OK.
Yeah. That was rough because yeah.
Like if you lived in LA, maybe you would.
Maybe. Maybe.
But then I think it's like so tacky to like you're, you're

(57:30):
like ambushing a funeral. Like, like, come on, dude.
Like what's crazy is that you can watch his the his funeral on
fucking prime. It's like what the?
Amazon Prime and literally we watched it last night and you
could see his body. Oh my God, the.
Open casket. Yeah.
All right. So they ordered a full autopsy.
Yeah. The inquest lasted 9 days longer

(57:53):
than normal. Awesome.
Because. Along, Yeah, because there was
so much. Attention short.
To me that's short 9 days. 9 days.
Autopsy. Autopsy.
Forensic Forensic results after 9 days, I don't know what.
For a fucking pill that he. Took, Yeah.
But anyways, I mean, obviously he was super famous.
They wanted to make sure that fast.

(58:13):
Yeah. All right, so now we're gonna
get into the findings, the official cause, all that sort of
good stuff. So the autopsy was done at Queen
Elizabeth's hospital, and the main finding was serious.
Bruce Lee's brain was badly swollen.
He had cerebral edema, which basically means his brain had
filled with excess fluid, blood or water, I'm not sure.

(58:38):
But it was 13% larger than normal.
So to give you a sense of scale,the average adult male brain
weighs around 1400 grams. His brain that day weighed
15175g. So he had. 5% heavier 5 or 6%?

(58:58):
And when you get that kind of swelling, it basically just
increases the the pressure inside your skull exactly, just
kind of like pressing up againstyour brain.
It just starts pressing up against your brain and that
starts to shut everything down, including your breathing.
OK, so the doctors couldn't figure out right away what what
did 'cause the swelling, there was no like, real trigger.
So they ordered toxicology. The tests revealed just two

(59:22):
things that were in his system. 1 was the Echogesic pill, which
is again, the aspirin and something called meprobamate.
That's the tranquilizer thing. But he also had cannabis.
Has she? Oh, he did.
No. So maybe that's what like.
He was known for smoking a little hashish once in a while
for relaxation and pain. He had back issues he had back

(59:45):
pain for. Being such.
An So what you're telling me is that is that he was smelling
weed at a Co stars hotel at lateat night?
Late at night, smoking. Later at night at a Co.
Stars Hotel. Yeah, yeah.
No big deal. No big deal.
He had a little swelling in his head.

(01:00:08):
I mean, come on. I'm just saying it's it's
suspicious circumstances. It is.
It's well. It's just us that he's, it's us
that he's there, and it's us like.
Right. Yes, 100%.
So it so you're doing a movie and you text Tay and you say,
hey, I'm just going to do a little hashish, no big deal at

(01:00:30):
my Co stars motel. OK, granted a cigarette.
Granted. Good.
Point not actually. Granted.
Retracted because now it's legal.
Then it wasn't. Everybody.
Did it? I know, but I'm just saying he's
at a hotel. I'm.

(01:00:50):
Just saying that he's at a hotelof a Co star.
And we're also late at night in Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong? Your wife's in LA?
Yeah, I'm just saying. You're getting a little bit
crossing the line, yeah. Yeah.
If I was Linda, I would be pissed.
Yeah, exactly 73. 7373. OK, they literally banned it in

(01:01:14):
1969 in Hong Kong. So, OK, four years after the.
Fact. Let me just say that.
Break. So he's breaking the.
Case you guys didn't hear they ban cannabis nashish in 1969
Yeah, in Hong Kong. So he's he's.
He's just saying it's suspect. He's got some black market.
Source. That's like when they ban
alcohol. Everybody was fucking still
drinking still. Doing it.

(01:01:34):
Yeah, Eric, that. Wasn't like it wasn't.
So I just want to make you the bad guy.
It was 1995. It actually Fords my it helps
me. It helps me to make you look
bad. That makes sense.
It's not like personal I love you.
So one of the theories was like they were trying to see if that
cannabis had led to the edema, but nothing.

(01:01:56):
Don't do that. Yeah, nothing that they found,
really. Yes, that's a good point.
So after looking over all the details, Doctor Tier ruled out
cannabis as a cause, OK, Becausethere was just a small little
amount. It was not even harmful.
Instead, he focused on the equidgetic pill and that.
Yeah. So the official cause of death

(01:02:17):
became basically he was hypersensitive to the common
painkiller. That he's used before that he's
used. Before, yeah, you said he used
it. Before exactly which led to
fatal brain swelling. That's basically what the
official cause of death was. There is no signs of injury, no
foul play and all the evidence pointed to it.
Just tragic, unpredictable, medical, you know, reaction.

(01:02:41):
Sounds like inside job. Yeah.
And then on September 3rd, 1973,the Coroner's court in Hong Kong
concluded its inquest. The death was classified as
death by misadventure. The fact that it's labeled.
That what does that? Mean by misadventure?
Which is? Which is British speak, which
means an accidental death causedby a voluntary risk.

(01:03:03):
The reason is British speak because they had to bring in
this British remember like back then Hong Kong, parts of it were
still ruled by. Britain by.
Britain so they brought in like big time Doctor from.
I see. England or whatever.
Basically, it means accidental death caused by voluntary risk.
Well, that's kind of the way I would want to go.
Yeah, I mean, hopefully they banned Equi Jesse.

(01:03:25):
Just a freak, freak accident basically.
And still a lot of people, you know, had a hard time believing
the official explanation. I mean, if you were a fan of
Bruce Lee, you know, a a pill takes him down.
So nobody really was buying. He's like.
Norris couldn't even take him down.
Exactly. He's like the the top specimen.

(01:03:47):
Yeah, and then but there were doubts.
Betty Ting Pei reportedly said it wasn't the first time that he
that she had given him an equidistic for a headache, so
why would this one be any different?
It's also like why does he keep getting headaches like was he
had? Like dehydrated is.
His brain swelling like a thing beforehand if he's constantly
getting headaches. It's like taking a an Advil

(01:04:10):
ibuprofen right now. Like millions of people will
take that shit. Yeah, that's what I was trying
to tell you. It was like a just like a over
the counter common painkiller and.
Real sketch name, Yeah. But back in the 70s, some of
that shit was. Weird.
Super SUS. Oh yeah, like a bad batch.
And it was like fucking oh shit.What do you mean the?

(01:04:31):
Problem. It's opium.
Oh, no big deal. So check this out.
Two months before his death, he had a similar close call.
He was dubbing lines for Enter the Dragon.
It was a hot studio and he became dizzy, collapsed and he
began having seizures and vomiting.
And maybe this fucking. It's just two months.
Before maybe this brain thing was like a problem.

(01:04:51):
He was like I don't need a fucking doctor.
I don't need no X-rays. He went to the hospital, he went
to the hospital, doctors found he had cerebral edema again,
same shit. They managed to save him by
giving him Manitol. It's a diuretic, reduces the
swelling and some oxygen. OK, so he recovered a few days

(01:05:11):
later. He went back to work like
nothing. And then, but no one could say
for sure of that, you know, first episode had anything to do
with his death two months later.Yeah, see this is starting to
now seem like this is like some fucking pre-existing condition.
It is a pre-existing condition, so it.
Seems of what though? I don't know, fucking brain
swell. I mean, it was.
How do you for? Sure, it was like a training.

(01:05:33):
Sign I don't. Know if fucking weird shit
happens all the time? So it's possible that he already
had, you know, some sort of medical underlying issue going
on, they just didn't diagnose 2 months earlier.
It's strange though to have justbrain swelling as a thing that.
Happens. I mean, that's what I'm saying.
I wonder if he had like a like, does he have like a primary care
physician? It's all for like his fucking

(01:05:54):
physicals like is. He No guy ever goes to the
primary care. I'll tell.
You that, but I knew. What, we never go?
No, I mean, yeah, if he had, if he had some shit like that going
on. Bruise lane for.
Brain swelling. Yeah, I know, right?
Shut up. So all the factors made the
official verdict an allergic reaction.
That was the official, yeah, youknow, thing.

(01:06:15):
It's a little too that's a little too clean.
Too easy. I mean it's possible.
It is possible for sure because.Of what he had going on.
I mean, if he, if he had some sort of medical thing going on,
then yeah, he could have had an allergic reaction.
The medical examiner had to callBruce's death an allergic
reaction, largely by ruling out all of their causes.
Like they couldn't really find something else that would.

(01:06:36):
Medical technology back in the 70s, was it really that good?
It's not. Like it is now, I mean.
Was Forensic Files before then? I don't know.
No, no way after bro Forensic files didn't come out to like
early 90s. That's true.
No anatomical defect was found. So they didn't find any
aneurysms, they didn't find any strokes and heart attack toxins

(01:07:00):
and drugs were minimal. I mean.
No trauma. Minimal.
Yeah, except toxins. Except for the cannabis and the
and the equi just. Equi just get over the head.
Yeah, no trauma, no, nothing like that.
So just by process of elimination, the only thing that
makes sense is the thing that hetook before he went to sleep.
So caused some sort of alerting.Yeah.
So that was the story, OK. Yeah, I'm running some

(01:07:22):
untraceable shit that gave him like, leave your body in one
minute. Well, I yeah, I like that theory
that you're talking about. Was it laced with something?
Yeah, that was like. It was just something that.
Would be the girl. Then is it hit this, hit this.
Dube. Homies girl, don't be better.
Betty. Betty Lee, Ping, whatever.
Yeah, but was it her or somebodylike got to her?
It was a producer. He's like, I got to go.

(01:07:43):
But why would you want to take out Bruce Lee I?
Don't know, let's get into the theories too with me.
What's wrong with Bruce? Maybe he was the guy that he
like. He was the he was a triad kid
that he fucking Bruce Lee beat the shit out of.
Funny one, Yeah. That's one of these.
Vengeance. I've never forgotten Bruce.
Did you say the legend? Vengeance.
Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Alright, so before before I get into all the theories, I'm just

(01:08:04):
going to like do a quick recap. All right, so Bruce died in
Betty Ting Pei's apartment in Hong Kong in the late evening of
July 20th, not at his own home. Yeah, his wife said.
Like home tending to his children. 4000.
Miles away and then the attempt the attempt to, you know, muddy
up the the facts by Chow, right.Because that's like, it's I'm

(01:08:27):
sorry, Like if, if it's automatically sussed when the
guy's like, oh, we don't want itto look bad.
If it's not bad, just call the fuck like.
But but the movie hadn't come out and they know, so there's
an. Investment, there's a lot of.
There's a lot of money behind. That he's a bruiser, so he's
running the money. So he's like he came through the

(01:08:48):
dragon cell. Until the dragon was about to
come. Out it didn't come out it.
Hadn't come out yet. Yeah, well, see.
That's why it's about. It's probably a Chow was really
about him. It wasn't about Bruce.
It was like, I got to get paid on this.
True. Yeah.
So the only people that were present there around Bruce in
these final hours was Betty Raymond Chow earlier.
Not necessarily when he, you know, at the time that he died,

(01:09:10):
Bruce's wife Linda was not there.
She was in the US at the time. And there is no indication of
any other stranger or anybody else that broke in or anything
like that. Bruce was working, he was
socializing. He's not engaged in any like
dangerous activity or something like that.
He did smoke some Heshish that afternoon and he took that

(01:09:32):
equidgetic for the headache so. Hey hey, for for idiots like
myself, what's the difference between hashish and weed?
Well, technically, I mean, they're they could be considered
the same thing really, but. Like a strand or what?
No. Well, technically hash or

(01:09:52):
hashish is like, it's a concentrated version of THC.
So what you do is like you, you can, like you can literally
there's a process of like prettymuch getting it down to where
it's like a, it's like a brick in essence and like gooey and
it's, it's almost, it's like 98%THC.

(01:10:13):
So it's concentrate weed? It's concentrated THC.
So what you, what we used to do,you could take actual weed and
then you put a piece of hash on top of it to like fucking, you
want to like roar it up like Nosand some fucking weed.
That's what he did. Yeah.
Then you like pass. Out.
I was just wondering. What a bunch of you know.
What I mean like what's? Yeah, what is it?

(01:10:33):
What is it? And then as far as the medical,
'cause everybody basically agrees that it was from the
brain swelling and the only thing that could have been
again, process of elimination was an allergic reaction,
hypersensitivity to the equijesic, no aneurysms, no
other like anything else that happened in the body.
All right, all right, so theory number one.

(01:10:55):
So the main theory is the triad hit.
You know that they they had a hit on him.
They never, they never forgot. Yeah, they never forgot.
One of the most popular conspiracy theories around his
death, which is the Triads, who's a organized crime in Hong.
Kong. This is the mafia of Hong Kong.
Exactly like Asia, that's what it is.

(01:11:16):
Yeah, exactly. So remember back in the story,
you just said it like he. Did shit out of.
Yeah, he had that that fight with one of the sons and.
Let's be honest, the mob never forgets.
Yes. They're very fickle about that
shit. That was one thing, and another
thing is they did have a lot of influence in the film industry
and so they. Especially in like the 70s.

(01:11:39):
Did the Triad ranch it? Yeah.
And so one of the stories aroundall that is that they wanted him
to pay for protection. So.
That's how they get you like, I mean like the neighborhood, but
things could go wrong. Unless.
But Bruce turned it down. He's like, I fucking protect
myself. Yeah, it's like, of course you

(01:12:01):
can fucking beat anybody. You know, say hell fuck easily.
I don't need protection so the facts don't back up anything
with regards to these guys. Like there was no foul play.
The autopsy didn't find any signs of poisoning.
But who's to say the triads can't just be like, tell the
autopsy guy like, true, I'll kill your family.
You didn't find anything on the autopsy, right?
Very true. I did not find anything on the.

(01:12:22):
Like the the Mexican say Plata Plomo like or the Colombians?
Yeah, exactly. You either say this or you're
fucking. Toast.
Yeah, pretty easy to convince a dude when you're like, I'll kill
your family and they're like, I didn't find shit.
This is strange. The British A British person
came in and did the Optops. Yeah.
So he wouldn't have been. He wouldn't.
Have been influenced. Man, yeah, the British guy

(01:12:43):
wouldn't have been influenced bythe triad.
But why do you but but what he'swhy?
Announcing a British. Guy into Hong Kong.
Well, remember, Hong Kong is runexactly.
It's a British territory. Exactly not in the. 70s, well,
not anymore. In the 70s it was.
It was yeah. How do they own like 1 little
little nugget? That's why remember back to it
it's. Crazy if you go to Hong Kong
there are still you can see there like half the street signs

(01:13:06):
are like British names. It's like fucking.
Still, because it was, it was owned by Edward St.
For so long. Yeah.
Yeah, Oh. Weird.
And then remember his mom was Euro, Asian or whatever.
So like that's, you know, kind of plays.
Obviously like this is before the CCP.
Yeah, yeah. The triad theory does stick.

(01:13:31):
I mean, that's, like I said, oneof the most famous ones are the
ones that kind of goes around the most.
Yeah, but again, no actual. Proof.
No, but. Why does that one stick like
what's? There's nothing.
Just because of how much like they ran everything and how
dominant they were the. Fight.
And stuff. One part of it, yes, is because

(01:13:53):
of the fight with the Sun, but that happened so long ago that.
But but Can you imagine like? I don't know.
That that really is imagine thatsun takes over, you know, time's
gone past. The sun's now like the thick
king and he's now he sees the movie.
He goes to the movie with like his like girlfriend.
She's like, Oh my God, Bruce Leeis so hot.
And he's like, that motherfucker.
I'll never forget him. Beat my ass.

(01:14:15):
Yeah. Like, you know, like, and those
guys are all about pride. It's all about like, you know?
And it's like all. Yeah, exactly.
And, and all mafia is always about that.
It's like they want to control, they want to get the money.
And if you say no? Yeah, you're going to fucking
learn today. So the other the other theory is
actually the American Mafia theory.

(01:14:35):
What? Yep.
Fuck. So this version of the the the
mob theory is basically all around Hollywood.
The idea was that the American mafia wanted to wanted a stake
in Bruce Lee's, you know, career.
So kind of very, very similar. Like they wanted a piece of of
the money. And when enter the dragon was
coming back to, you know, to Hollywood and they knew it was

(01:14:58):
going to be a major hit based onhis other movies.
So they wanted, they wanted a piece of, you know, his career
for the fucking. Nuke.
Disaster and it it's actually pretty well documented.
Like I found a bunch of stuff that talked about like how
infiltrated they were in Hollywood.
So this one, actually, it's actually pretty good theory, but

(01:15:20):
again, there's no actual proof. Yeah, I just don't see the
American mafia going to like Hong Kong to, like, fucking kill
Bruce Lee. I agree.
Like triads. I can totally get behind that.
The American Mafia and. Also another thing was when the
the major influence that the American mafia had in Hollywood
was mostly like in the 40s and 50s, not the 70s.

(01:15:42):
It's kind of like bygone era. Frank Sinatra era Frank Sinatra
ties with the mob. And all that fucking Vegas and
worried about fucking. OK, the next one here is
Vengeful martial arts Rival. Sure.
OK, there's I can see that one. And there's something called the

(01:16:03):
death touch theory. You ever heard of that?
Oh, is this like fucking is thislike Kill Bill with like the
fucking five finger death punch?Yeah, basically like, and that's
what I was saying, there's so much of these like martial arts
movies that they got from Bruce Lee.
It's kind of funny. Shit, I didn't know about this.
Oh yeah, I kind of like this oneFive Finger Death bunch.

(01:16:24):
So this theory basically says, you know, that Bruce stirred up
traditional martial arts circle by teaching non Chinese students
and then saying that his Jeet Kung do was better than any of
the older styles and that didn'tsit well with a lot of the, you
know, the older masters. So rumor basically has it that
the Kung Fu masters, the Japanese ninjas, decided to

(01:16:47):
punish him. But the but wouldn't there be
like, wouldn't he there be signsof like some sort of like a
fight before like, Oh yeah, somedudes like try to step to me and
you know, it got a little, they got a little shot off and it
wasn't a big deal. Yep, exactly.
I mean, so basically the death touch, the legend has it, it's a

(01:17:07):
it's a legendary move that with one punch to a secret pressure
point, it can cause his death, but it has a a delay of days.
What? Yeah, dude, it's like the
perfect crime. You got to.
You got to. Hate him in the right.
Press. Your point in the right, you're
like. Fuck, I feel like shit.

(01:17:27):
Yeah. That's a cool.
Theory. It's pretty cool.
I feel like it kind of goes backand it ties into the whole, you
know, the Kung Fu legends and myths and you know all that.
But again, his what Sean was just saying.
The autopsy didn't show any signs of injuries.
No, not even bruises. They wouldn't show that.

(01:17:47):
No, yeah, they wouldn't show that.
Pressure points. Pressure points can't be.
If the death touch is really that good, it wouldn't show up,
right? All right, so then there's
another one called. This is basically the poison by
Mistress. So Yep, Poison by Mistress Betty
Pink. Backroom, Betty.
Backroom Betty because Bruce died Betty's apartment.

(01:18:10):
Of course, the suspicion, you know, arose from from that.
So the tabloids basically took over this this whole, you know,
headline. And it makes for a good
headline. So.
Yeah, exactly. So the headline basically was
that Betty poisoned him, maybe out of jealousy or maybe some
other hidden reason that we don't know, but she gave him
that echogesic pill that maybe was laced with some poison.

(01:18:35):
Wait. When did they how long after he
died did they do the autopsy? 9 days.
No way it took him 9 days. 2-9 days.
But it was like immediately, I mean, he was rushed to the
hospital and they did the autopsy there at the hospital
for 9 days. I mean, because there's certain
things like arsenic and stuff like you either have to test
specifically for it or like it leaves your body.

(01:18:58):
So it's like it's possible that there was something given to him
that, you know, wouldn't show upin a like a, a standard autopsy.
So she got a bunch of death threats from fans who thought
that she had something to do with it.
You can imagine. I mean, if you just, if you saw
the funeral, you know how, like,passionate his friends were.
Yeah, it. Was wild.

(01:19:19):
Reportedly that, you know, they were in a relationship and maybe
emotions like jealousy got the best of her and whatever she,
you know, she poisoned him and if that were the plan.
They give the headache foods. Let me help you.
No problem, Bruce. But The thing is like, yeah, so
like if if she did do that, thenwhy would they call the

(01:19:40):
ambulance from her house? Well, she called Chow first.
That's true. She.
Didn't call straight ambulance. That's true.
Chow called the ambulance. That's a good point.
See, maybe she was like, oh, I'mgoing to let the enough time
pass before, you know, just to make sure he's dead.
I don't know. In later interviews, Betty
admitted they were close, but she denied any wrongdoing.

(01:20:01):
Of course she did. Most reports described her as a
deep as deeply upset about Bruce's death.
The only real cover up was staying quiet about where where
Bruce died. And that was even then, you
know, at the request of Raymond Chow, who didn't want the media.
Yeah, Raymond Chow's like I got to get my bottom line, baby.

(01:20:22):
Exactly. So yeah, so basically I was more
about like protection of protecting his reputation and
getting and getting the money exactly because he's a producer.
Producer is all about the money.That's right.
All right. So the next one, the family
curse. Well, yeah, have.
You heard about this? I've heard about this.

(01:20:43):
I. Was going to bring it up if you
didn't. So on March 31st, 1993, on the
set of The Crow. Yep, Brandon, who was Bruce
Lee's son. He was 28 at the time.
He was filming a scene where hischaracter Eric Draven was shot
by, I think he was mugged or something, right?

(01:21:05):
What happened was that an actor,Michael Massey, fired a prop gun
at Brandon and the gun was supposed to fire a blank, but
Brandon collapsed with a real bullet with a wound to his
Amazon abdomen. He was rushed to the hospital.
Some say it was a Shard like a something got into the blank.
That's like some sort of like shrapnel.

(01:21:26):
Or something. Yeah.
So it wasn't necessarily a bullet, an actual bullet, but
like a Shard got into it. Yeah, but it debatable.
The bullet came from a a 44 magnum revolver that was
improperly prepared earlier in the filming, a dummy round.
So that's a a, a bullet with no,no gunpowder.
Yeah. With no gunpowder.

(01:21:47):
With no gunpowder that was used on a close up shot that they
were doing and the crew removed the gunpowder but failed to
remove the primer. So the primer itself shot the.
Yep. That's the SO.
He just got stuff in his abdomen.
Abdomen. So when the dummy round was
fired, when the dummy round was fired, the primer pushed the

(01:22:09):
bullet into the barrel where it got stuck.
OK. And and then later the gun was
loaded with blank when? They shot the blank.
Exactly the. Blank has gunpowder in it that
forced the bullet that was stuckin the chamber out.
Exactly. Now, what's interesting is, is
that that other movie that came out explored the family curse.

(01:22:33):
In the 90s, a movie came out about Bruce Lee, and it was like
a biopic of Bruce Lee. And it was the they really
leaned into the family curse thing.
Yeah, but the only thing I don'treally.
I mean, it's only two people. Yeah.
So it's not like there's like this is.
Strong like yeah, but. Like the two, it was the two

(01:22:53):
men. I know, but that cannot true,
but it'd be. Different.
But they couldn't continue. True.
No, but you know what he he alsohad a daughter and the daughter
actually has a podcast and it's all about Bruce Lee.
And if you wanted to go like further into the life of Bruce
Lee, it's all about I forget hername.
I forget her name, but but she Emma no something and she does

(01:23:15):
her she does a whole Bruce Lee podcast.
Oh, that's. So cool.
Yeah, it's cool. So as far as as the, the, the
family curse, I mean, there's just, it's just two, yeah.
Yeah, but again, that is the. Curse is like, at least.
Five. Yeah, I mean maybe 3.
Is against or on his lineage. So yeah, the men cannot continue

(01:23:40):
the the Lee, you know. I understand that.
In 2022, I think this gets into what Taylor was talking about.
So IN2022A team of kidney specialists proposed a new
hypothesis that Bruce Lee's fatal cerebral edema may have
been caused by something called hyponatria, which is too much

(01:24:02):
water, too little sodium swelling the brain.
He. Wasn't taking like his like
vitamins? I mean, he was obsessed with
hydration. He would often drink gallons of
of water. You know, he thought he would
stay razor sharp with that, but the his obsession with
hydration, with no salt, with nosalt, Yeah, he was obsessed with

(01:24:23):
being, like, hydrated. And if you pair that with the
Equijesic, which is known for effects on the kidney, could
have overwhelmed the body, the body's ability to maintain
fluid, you know, balance and allthat, And that led to cerebral
edema. Well.
It kind of seems that my time with like the whole sweat gland
thing, you know, like something about he's drinking on this

(01:24:47):
water. I don't know, he's like missing.
And his his body's not able to. Natural.
Excrete, excrete it properly or whatever, yeah.
So there's another theory about heat stroke.
OK, that day, that the day that he died, July 20th, Hong Kong
was experiencing extreme heat. OK, He had been, he had been

(01:25:09):
rehearsing intense fight scenes earlier that day.
And the theory says that the heat combined with his limited
ability to sweat led to heat stroke, overheating of the body
that can cause brain swelling. So that does tie in to two
months earlier when he had that incident and he had basically

(01:25:29):
the same symptoms. Dizziness, heat stroke, That's
like, OK, maybe there's like a reoccurring theme here.
So still, there's no direct medical proof heat stroke wasn't
well understood in the 1970s. And the autopsy didn't
specifically look for it, so it does make sense but.
Yeah, so that's the thing with. It's not a confirmed 'cause I.
Feel like with a lot of things, like you have to be specifically

(01:25:52):
looking for something in order to find it.
Yeah, you know, like you have tobe like, it's not like, oh, it
just tells you everything. I think that's one of the common
misconceptions is like, oh, theydid an autopsy.
It tells you everything. It tells you like the basics,
but for very specific things youhave to actually look for the
specific things. Yeah, I almost have a theory,

(01:26:15):
all right. All right, I got one more.
Okay, so this is the epileptic seizure theory.
Yeah, Bruise had an undiagnosed seizure disorder and the
equidistic or undiagnosed like yeah, it's just because remember
two months earlier he they did say that he had.
A because he had if you have one, it's like totally maybe
he's got them all the. Time and the equidistic or the

(01:26:37):
cannabis could have triggered A fatal seizure that caused the
brain swelling. Oh, so like he could be in the
room like no one he's been having like seizing.
Yeah, yeah. But from what you said earlier,
he's been doing cannabis for a long time, so.
Well, he had also been doing theequidistic for a long time.
Yeah. So I mean, I don't know about a
long time. But he had.
Before, I don't know, maybe likeI don't know how seizures work.

(01:27:00):
I don't know. Maybe I don't know if that could
trigger something, you'd be triggered by it.
I have no idea. I mean, what we know is that
the. Medical advice.
Incident that he had like 2 months earlier involves symptoms
like dizziness, convulsions which could point to epilepsy.
Seizures can lead to cerebral edema in rare cases, but

(01:27:21):
especially if they're untreated,so it could lead to that.
OK, so now we're like pulling itstraws like.
Yeah, it could have. It could, yeah.
But yeah, I mean, the guy didn'thave any history of epilepsy.
That at least was documented. So there's nothing in his
medical records. And the autopsy didn't confirm

(01:27:42):
seizure related brain damage. So it's a medical lung shot, but
not. Impossible.
Not impossible, yeah. So there you go.
I mean, yeah, just a few short years, you know, that he he did
5 films, that he achieved what others, you know, spent a
lifetime doing. For sure.
He's a fucking. Legend.

(01:28:03):
He's been like, immortalized into like pop culture like he's,
yeah. Like, you know, Bruce Lee died
before we were even born. And it's still, he's still like
a. Lot of these like famous, you
know, like Tupac or, I don't know, Bob Marley or like
whatever, like. Cultural icons.
Yeah, culture icons, you just think like, what could he have

(01:28:23):
done? And.
He was definitely an icon. It's like, it's weird.
How long? Well, you guys, you guys want me
to go first? Usually I don't go 1st and you
you want me to go first. I want you to go first.
Yeah, right. So I'm going to start it out
with by saying that I, I, I do really like him and I, I, I

(01:28:45):
think he's, I think he did wonderful things from like the
body and creating the disciplineand, and even philosophy and,
and doing better for the world. Like I actually really, and I
really enjoy everything that he's done and I really love him.
I do believe, and this is goes into the theory is 'cause I

(01:29:09):
think he was also not the legendwe think of him.
I think he yeah, he may create like a persona like he.
Correct. Yeah.
And and you know, and trying to create this perfect, perfect
body and this perfect thing. And so he did the surgery with
this the, the fucking sweat glands and he was like 2% body

(01:29:32):
fat and just up to the extreme. And his body, he just couldn't
take it. And he was doing some weird
things, like he was probably cheating on his wife.
You. Know what I mean?
Yeah. But and then he was doing into
his death. No, because then he was doing,
I'm just saying he's doing, he'stechnically doing nefarious
things. It's just I think I I with
drugs. Yeah, I'm picking up what

(01:29:53):
Eric's. But yeah, he's drugs and
nefarious actions, etcetera. And then it just his body just
fucking gave. Out and like on to all, to all,
apparently to us, like the layperson, we're like, Oh well,
he's like the fittest man in theworld.
And he's it's impossible that this could have happened because
he's so everything's so perfect.Exactly.
Yeah, but in reality, he's having an affair in in a hotel.

(01:30:15):
Yeah. And doing drugs and then doing
more drugs on the drugs. So you think it was more the
cannabis or more the? All the things, all the things
the. Combo the cocktail.
We've learned from these these episodes that that the drugs end
up being the thing. Yeah, the.
Demise, especially, especially when like, you know, and I get

(01:30:37):
you cocktail it up. People have like their opinions
and that's fine. But like a drug is a drug is a
drug. Like while a drug may be, you
know, arguably safe or or safer than other drugs, doesn't mean
that it's not a drug and it doesn't have effects on the
body. Yeah.
Whereas also too, when when talking about the can, like
those drugs do affect, you know,the the mind of the the brain is

(01:31:00):
altered. Yeah, he had brain swelling.
So it's possible that that had something to do with it.
Yeah. It's possible, yeah.
So I'm just, I just think he took it overboard.
He took it over the. Training with the drugs, with
the all the things, hydration, everything.
Even in in the girl, you know, all the things combined, Yeah,

(01:31:21):
you know, and it's just. Well, the thing, the thing to to
make your exponent too is like, imagine the amount of stress
that you have when you're havingan affair.
Yeah, yeah, it's got to be the most stressful thing ever.
Like, Oh my God, are my kids going to find out or am I going
to lose my fucking family? Like it's got to be super
stressful. So you just kind of mix all
those things together and then and then then it pushes it over

(01:31:42):
with there's a drug and a chemical reaction, you know what
I mean? And he has almost a semi, not a
heart attack, but a semi brain aneurysm kind of thing, you
know? Yeah, yeah.
OK. There was one that I didn't go
over and that was the CIA theory.
And it is known that they even today, like they the government

(01:32:06):
has their hand in Hollywood and they portray certain things, you
know, the way that makes us lookgood or, you know, protects them
in in certain ways or whatever. So one of the theories was like,
maybe they were involved and they took them out because of
his, you know, fame and, and he was not well, I mean, he was

(01:32:28):
American, but like most people thought of him as.
As a Chinese, Chinese. Chinese.
Yeah. So yeah, they just didn't want
him making movies over here and them not being able to control
the narrative. But my question on it is, is
what was he doing that was so? Bad.
For bad and or groundbreaking. And he's making like, Kung Fu
movies. It's like.

(01:32:50):
It's about influencing, it's about influence.
They couldn't influence him. They couldn't control him and
they were giving more power. But.
If you have a message that was against any sort of.
Establishment. It wasn't like.
It's true. It wasn't like he was like, oh,
peace, brother. Yeah, that's true.
It was all. He didn't say anything about the
war. He was not.
Political. No, he all.
Honestly, it was his own game. Yeah.

(01:33:11):
Like it was to be a movie star. Yeah, yeah.
And it was like his movies weren't really like, you know,
in the grand scheme. If you look at the movies like,
you watch them and it's not, there's nothing.
Yeah. You're not like, it's not, like,
profound. Yeah.
Like, oh, I had an epiphany about my life, and now I'm going
to change my life. It's like, damn, that dude
kicked ass. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a good point, yeah. I don't know.

(01:33:33):
What do you guys think? This is one that's your.
I want, I want to like, I want to believe there's inferiority.
I mean, I'm actually, I'm drawn to like maybe Betty, Betty,
Betty, Betty Ting had a little had a little hand in this like I
think may, you know, maybe. Jealousy.

(01:33:53):
I think, I think there was, you know, like if she was the
mistress, like, you know, you don't want it could have.
Been a basic mistress scenario. You don't.
Want to be the mistress? You want to be the number one
the. Big, big, big.
Mistress The classic. The classic.
Current one it is. With the with the piper.
No, the classic mistress thing is, is like you're going to

(01:34:14):
leave your wife. Yeah, yeah.
He's like, I'm like, what? I'm like, yeah.
He's like, he's like, I'm gonna leave my wife.
And you're like, OK, Wolf, I love you so much.
That she's like, take a echo, Jesse.
I don't. Know like yeah.
Happens to me all the time. I'm like, you know, happens to
me. All kidding, I'm just joking.

(01:34:36):
On today's news, Eric was found.Dead.
Of a brain bleed. Ain't a leakage.
It was by all accounts, he had ADV and 2%.
No, I, I think that I I do thinkit was, it wasn't, it wasn't

(01:34:57):
like the CIA. Yeah, I don't think it was the
CIA. There's nothing that shows that
right? There's not like maybe that's.
Not even maybe. That's how good of a job they
did. Though yeah, they would have.
To do like a really good job, like a really good job.
I I think that Eric's got a goodpoint with like he was creating,
he created a persona of like theultimate human, like just super

(01:35:22):
elite and he was constantly training for, for most of his
life he was all this stuff. And I also think too, it could
be like he was a fighter. Let's call a spade a spade.
He was a fighter. And so there's a thing like CTE,
it's like you could have brain issues that, you know, that

(01:35:45):
could have developed in the past.
And then when they do the autopsy, they're like, oh, we
don't see any signs of trauma because there weren't like
trauma that happened. That night.
Trauma that happened like withinlike the last month, it could
have been past trauma that caused this issue to occur.
And then it gets exacerbated by,you know, doing drugs and and

(01:36:06):
whatever, and then it leads to this brain swelling thing.
So I. Yeah, and we didn't really have.
Like the technology that we havenow to be able to detect that.
Well, the thing with the thing with CTE is, you know, the CTE
is caused by brain trauma. They don't, you can't actually
test for it. Oh, really?
You don't know until you test the, the cadaver they used to
take the dead brain to the, you take the dead body.

(01:36:28):
And then they, they, they bisectthe brain and they, they, they
look, they look at the, the, they look at the brain
afterwards. And they're like, OK, then, then
they can test it, but you can't test it while they're alive.
But but then again, they didn't have that back then.
No, they no, they couldn't. They couldn't do they weren't
they weren't like doing that shit.
They didn't know that was a realthing.
So I think that is is a possiblebecause we have to look at like,

(01:36:49):
if you really just look at it and you're like, OK, the dude
was a fighter. He's been fighting his whole
life. Motherfucker had to get hit in
the head at least a few times. Like hard training everything.
You're getting hit. Like no one's not getting hit.
Except Bruce Lee. I mean, maybe in the end, sure,

(01:37:10):
but like, not in the beginning. Yeah, You're gonna think Hitman
was like he. Grew up.
He grew up fighting. So Hitman was like bitch
slapping him in the fucking headache, but I'm like come on.
Oh loser. Yeah, fucking Hitman.
Like fucking. So the the death punch came from
it hitman. I mean, maybe it was.
Maybe it was like you'll never whatever.
You'll never be the grandmaster.Yeah, I'm the grandmaster.

(01:37:31):
No, I mean, I think I would agree with Eric.
And it's just, yeah, you know, here we go again.
This makes me not want to do thepodcast.
That's why Eric wanted to go first.
Yes, because he knew. It like the things like I'll go
first. We did talk about it before now,
yeah. So I'm usually paying you.

(01:37:54):
I get to. No, but it makes sense.
It makes sense. It does.
It does make sense because I just.
Especially because he had that incident a couple months before.
So it just. Yeah, like, there's, there's
like a, there's a track record of this happening.
Yeah. And it's not like he was like,
clearly not afraid. He didn't, like, call the
authorities. Someone's after me.
Yeah, and if they're I. Don't think he got into a fight

(01:38:15):
or something like that. Like, is that what you're saying
or? What, no meaning?
Like he there wasn't like a figure.
Oh, I'm being poisoned. Or like.
Someone's like just trying to kill me.
Like if there is a conspiracy it's it's probably related to
how they handled it. Yeah, no, for sure.
I think the handling was weird. That's why I think maybe she was
asked. To get involved or what?
Well, no, just like the PR side of it all and like covering up

(01:38:39):
the maybe the affair or that whatever.
You see, that's why I think withwith Betty Ting calling the
producer, you're like, he's not moving and he's unresponsible.
Well, but I'm going to call the producer.
But this guy is the biggest fucking movie star at that point
and I panic. She so she called like it's
like. I'm sorry, but like if you.

(01:39:00):
If something came to me, would you panic?
Dude, I would call the fucking ambulance.
I would call Sean and be like, what the fuck I'd be.
Like why are you? Calling me it's not like what
the fuck? I just wouldn't answer.
I'm asleep. I'd be like Sean the podcast.
So if I if I keeled over at Jorge's house, would you call
him? Yeah, I'd be like the fucking

(01:39:21):
podcast. What?
Are we going to do I'm? Going to spin this I'm.
Going to spin this for the for the media.
He was that. He went dinner.
Well, it was an hour and a half later, at least according to the
story. I just think that that is always
weird. Unless he was there with the
girl in the. Other room, it doesn't matter
how it doesn't matter how famoussomeone is.

(01:39:43):
Like I don't, I just don't. I maybe I don't know, maybe I'm
weird. Maybe I'm, I'm the odd one out
where it's like, oh, well, I'm gonna I just didn't.
I don't understand why you wouldcall the producer.
It's clearly a medical situationand she knows that, so I'm going
to call the producer because that's the right.
Thing to do, I know, but I mean,I guess I like, like play this

(01:40:05):
scenario. I keel over right now.
Yeah, and Katie's not here. Call the ambulance.
Nobody's here you would call theambulance.
One fucking 1000%. You wouldn't call Katie.
No, I'd call Katie from the ambulance, Yeah.
So there's therein lies the. That's why I think it's SUS.
That's why I think it's SUS that.

(01:40:26):
That's why I think they were having an affair.
Yeah, I don't think, I think that she well, that that's the
only thing that actually makes sense because she's freaked out
covering. Oh, I don't want to.
I don't want to be caught in thecrossfire.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
All right. There you go.
Solved. Solved.
Put this on the old solved column boys.

(01:40:48):
You. Sucks with this.
I wanted, I wanted like a I don't want it to be like.
I know. No, I know.
Rival and you know Jikkun, wee fucking man, then this guy's
like yeah, I know, no, I know. Fucking kills him yeah, he's
very like active. Active.
Yeah, he's like, he's like trying to like.
He knew what he wanted. He knew what he wanted.

(01:41:08):
Yeah, he knew what he wanted to be and what he wanted to be seen
as. Yeah, OK.
All right, well, well, there yougo, guys.
Bruce Lee and. I feel it's anticlimactic.
Yeah. Oh, and it's like regular death.
They're like, well. I mean, sometimes they that's
how it works out. That's how a shake sucks, you

(01:41:31):
know what I mean? It's Bruce's podcast, God damn
it, it's me off. I don't know.
Let us know what you guys think.Bruce Lee.
We love him, honestly. Oh, dude, that's a legend.
Yeah, this didn't change anything in my mind.
Nope. Of how fucking boss he was.
Oh dude, for sure He was Brad. We'll catch you guys next time

(01:41:52):
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