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Enjoyed this very much! Hey Matthew! How about an addendum to the audio or revised version of Bruce Lee a life with the 50 drug letters (which fetched over a half million at auction!) as the main topic? Cocaine was only one of several drugs he asked Bob baker for. He requested cocaine, weed, LSD, hash oil, magic mushrooms, M pills-morphine?. I’m sure you can connect the dots when Bruce was using drugs for example when he pulled a knife on Lo Wei. No matter what he did he still managed to star in 4 films with ETD still revered by most as the greatest martial arts film of all time! In my opinion Bruce Lee is still the greatest martial artist the world has ever seen. ✌️☮️
@@alifuller1658Disrespecting Bruce? I have been a huge Bruce fan since 1975. Question, Have you researched the authenticity of all 50 drug letters? I did. Did you read them? I have. Maybe I was a little pissed off finding out that he took that much blow and Molly etc which could have contributed to his death! He’s still the greatest. My feelings were raw.
I am not a troll, but just my humble opinion, you get too "clever" in your interview. Comes across like you are showing off your cleverness and your ability to be intelligent too much. The focus should be to get this man to speak a lot about Bruce Lee, instead you are being "clever" and directing the conversation too much into human psychology/dynamics. Even though you and him seem to be having a fun, stimulating time, the audience is at a distance because of your "cleverness" because there is a lack of solid emphasis on Bruce Lee, instead things get too scattered. Not what a Bruce Lee fan is looking for when listening to Polly. Just my opinion, you're free to do whatever you want. Hopefully you can humble yourself and take in constructive criticism. I suggest you get the opinion from others thatll be honest with you.
Thank you for the feedback. In terms of my being "clever," there's no level of calculated cleverness or seriousness when I go into a podcast conversation. I do hours of research, sit for more hours thinking about questions, and then two brains mesh, meld, play, think, and push back for 2-3 hours. I could record a thousand conversations with Polly and they'd all have varying levels of emotional input, and a lot of it is out of our control or comes from things we don't understand. I realize that answer seems like a cop-out, but that's the way I genuinely think about podcasting. It is what it is on that day, and what makes some people love a podcast may make others hate it the same. Hardcore Bruce Lee fans (which I am not, though I admire his work and have a deep curiosity) will certainly react differently to this conversation than a casual observer of some of his work. Again, thanks for the well-thought-out feedback. Cheers.
@@auxoro yes, I understand you are saying that you are just "going with the flow on where your impulses take you", but there is a SCIENCE to interviewing people, it's not just based on impulse. An amazing interviewer is a humble facilitator. It's mostly humbly asking intelligent questions to help open the person up and feed the public's desire to learn about the person or subject. For example, look at Charlie Rose or more recently Mikhaila Peterson. She does an amazing job of calmly asking very intelligent questions and the interviewee is doing like 80% of the talking. In your case you are speaking almost 45% of the time in the Polly interview. The idea is, you have to train and mold yourself into a good interviewer, not just excuse it because it's just your "unplanned impulses" lol Anyway, you do have excellent potential. I hope you'll look into those people like Rose and Peterson and take some of these ideas into consideration. Youll see that you'll reach new heights of excellence. 😀💫
No disrespect to the interviewer but I can see where you're coming from. It was a 50/50 interview. I felt the interviewer spoke too much. He should of stuck to asking questions and let Matt speak. Unfortunately he seem to cut him off too much. It kinda felt like they were both being interviewed by the camera 😂😊
I'm not trying to be judgmental or mean toward you but you did use the Lord's name in vain. I'm Catholic and you said you were catholic so you should know better and be a better example whether it's on TV, podcast or whatever.
I can see that. This is my first time viewing your channel, so maybe it's just the approach. The interviewer seems to want to speak more than listen. Almost looking a little disinterested at times (looking away), then going 'yeh.... (proceeds to speak....) . Kinda distracting. No disrespect, but I'm here to hear Polly speak.
Why do that when you can muck up history create even more controversy and pretend you know better than people who've been around far longer than 50 yrs
I agree. Many claims had, Dan Inosanto had made corrections. Even in a video interview, Dan stated people said Bruce not a fighter. But Dan said he had been at the end of Bruce Lee’s punches, and Bruce’s punches were devastating.
I own Bruce's Diary, and he has an entry of that rooftop fight, including mentioning the black eye! There is also a beautiful poem Bruce writes about his girlfriend at the time! Matthew uses many accurate word for word entries in his book!!
@@axelstone3131 I won it at an auction in Los Angeles. It was Bruce Lees diary from his last year in High School in HK, right before he came to the US. The diary was sent to be auctioned by Linda Lee.
never? that's a bold faced lie statement. there is always a bigger tougher guy. weight classes exist for a reason. They even say this in the interview. I agree with the initial statement that he was portrayed in negative light in that Tarantino movie, he wasn't arrogant like he was shown to be but he definitely had a temper and could be provoked easily and delighted in provoking others he knew he could beat up..
It's funny how some people want to get their 2 minutes of fame on some body else account, Bruce Lee was human just like every body else,he did take drugs just like any other celebrity ,he did it because he wanted to achieve his work as a martial artist, poet,director, actor ect.,he accomplished his goal in life in a ten year span which is amazing, not to many people do that, he was an amazing martial artist in my opinion.
This got painful after an hour with the ramble about Brad Pitt and Depp and Heard nonsense. It was infuriating. Polly did a good job and shutting it down and wrapping him up.
@@Dad_Brad Yes, the drug letters were discussed! I really appreciated Matt's perspective on the way he approached that aspect of the convo. Thanks for tuning in.
@@auxoro 👍👍 If only the letters had been discovered while Mr. Polly was still doing the research for the book. I feel there might be a correlation between the cocaine use and heat stroke.
@ray h. I can’t remember, I watched this so long ago. I don’t think the host was that great otherwise I would have subscribed or actually remembered him. I stick to the Kung Fu Genius channel for Bruce Lee info mostly. He talks a lot abkit Bruce, but when he does I’m stunned - he could easily write his own biography on Bruce Lee.
I Took My Wife To My Film Premiere When I Was 24. It Was A Vampire Film I Started In And Directed. It Was A Low Budget Production, But It's Funny How Many Girls and people Wanna Know you When You Do Something Special Or Different. I Love Bruce Lee He's A Great Hero Of Mine. Whenever I Have A Problem I Always Try And Look At How Things Could Be Better If I Be The Best I Could Be. I Try To Take My Failures As They Come And Walk On As Bruce Lee Would Say!
@@kevnev007 idk if that's true but Bruce did cheat with a few women when they're married which I think is way worse than his drug use. What he achieved as a martial artist and athlete is still extraordinary nevertheless.
@@kevnev007 Probably its could happen, even more after enter the dragon success. He would sink more and more in the Hollywood lifestyle. Drugs, Womans, cars and etc...
My show is a recorded conversation, not a strict Q&A interview. I go into each conversation with prepared topics and questions the guest and I respond in the moment to what they're saying. If you'd like a more question-answer-question-answer style interview that's just not something I find exciting or appealing. Thank you for tuning in.
Bruce lee was very amazing i have known thru Ru danny inosanto my teacher and great friend and sifu larry hartzell who passed away. And. Sifu richard .bistillio. Who passed away recently one of my chinese students brothers.was bruce lees.bestfriends and students in hong kong he has some great stories about. Bruce and himself getting in many fights i met tony. After my studied dies. We met at a chinese.resturant in las vegas. He gave mea.young picture of bruce lee. That i hold on to. Sifu jack usmc. Tibetan Lama. Kung fu jkd kali las vegas nv. Bruce lee changed my life because.of hos philosophies his movies. His concepts on fighting and his motivating character Which i made.part.of my life.. to this day. My teacher Grand master wai lun chois excepted me in an all chinese school. 1973. He was abare knuckle champion. Of south.east asia fought 8 days out of 13 days including thai boxers.waswas very blessed to be excepted by him before that i was turned down by 3 chinese masters. My teacher teaches. Sifu inosanto when ever he visits. Chicago for seminars. He considers wai lun chois from 1 to 5 in the world.as an amazing kung fu master. Plus Grand master wai lun chois studied many arts . if it wasn't for bruce lee i would have never studied kung fu. Since 1973 to this day. I wish back then i studied with bruce. I never met him but i was loyal. Sifu jack usmc. Create develop and flow. 702 764- 9256. For interview or my teacher .
Bruce Lee knew what he was doing to get ahead in life and knew people who can help him and everything was going great until Raymond chow and Betty found out that he was going to do enter the dragon and do a movie for shaw brothers that made them to want to get rid of him and they were hoping that the may 10th would make him change his mind and when he made up his mind to work for other people and move back to the United States that they can not do anything and be that people knew of the first attack that they can use it to kill him to get him to come to her apartment give some thing that would make him feel sick to get him in her bed that made Raymond chow live her apartment and all Betty had to make sure that he died and then get Raymond chow to come back to the apartment
It's because we didn't know hardly anything about hard drugs back then like we do now. everyone experimented. and a lot didn't make it. like your famous musicians, movie stars. but I think Bruce only experimented for how he was feeling. or needed a little extra energy to go extremely long hours. and that's exactly what coke does. but I don't think he was an excessive addict. I'm sure he would stop, and eat and drink water, your addicts forget to.. and get really bad off. and I know people that's only done coke like twice in their life back then... and never did it again as long as they lived. doesn't make them an addict.
@@MM-ig1iv You should check out the the Kung-Fu Genius' deep dive on the letters and you might have a different opinion. Bruce was hard core into cocaine during the last few months of his life. At some points his letters get even more desperate sounding. It was/did catch up with him.
Polly has got a real good observation of what Bruce was all about from my observation, for me I never judge people for what they put in their own bodies and however they choose to live their lives as long as they don’t break the universal laws it’s their business. Bruce was exactly as I thought he was. Dedicated,fearless,loved women,getting high and creative, hot tempered constantly growing. But I don’t think like most people for one I think the masses should have more sex and less fights and more leisure relaxing time then running around going nowhere.
I was hoping to hear Mathew but 20 minutes in I’ve switched off. It’s all about the podcaster . Wish it would have been about Mathew’s take on Bruce. Hope I never come across this guy again.
I thought many times about Matt's comparation of Lee with Macaulay Culkin, and i think you cant compare them. Just imagine if Macaulay had left the USA in early 1999 at the age of 18.5 years, and would have come back one month before his 31th birtday in September 2011, you can be sure all people in the USA would remember him from "Home Alone" as Kevin McCalister. But when Bruce came back to HK in October 1971 with "The Big Boss", only people in the movie indutry remembered him as a child and teeny actor, but not the ordinary people from the street who were not in the movie business. I think you can compare Bruce with Thomas Wilson Brown. Tom starred in the 1989 Walt Disney classic "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" with Rick Moranis, when he played "Littel Russ Thompson", and he played the lover of the young Wyona Rider 1990 in "Knots Landing." If Tom had left the USA at the age of 18 after Knots Landing and would have come back with an action movie when he was almost 31, you can be sure only movie people would recognize him, but not all americans. My point is Culkin was a national superstar as a child actor, anyone knew him back then in the USA. This wasnt's the case with Brown or Lee.
Bruce never did anything comparable to today’s Hollywood stars. The difference is he is a pop culture icon… something 99.99% of stars will never be. You’re Living off the corpse of a legend to try and monetize his flaws. He had plenty of them and they have been on display since he passed. This is sorely lacking what he did to cross boundaries for martial arts. Today’s combat isn’t cookie cutter because of him. He brought the martial arts to everyone not just army brats from Japan or Europe. This was for everyone not just a cult you can’t break from. Just being honest about what seeing the difference between martial arts movies and culture before during and after Bruce Lee. 💯 By the way Chuck Norris looks under his bed for Bruce Lee!!! I said it!!!
Shaolin was kinda was destroyed a century ago. Seems like now it’s just a whole bunch of different Kung fu schools and very few actual Buddhist monks. Gone the way of Damo. To much noise and lots of fake masters. Government support to make sure it stays open for tourists. I know there is still some Abbots there and some practiced students. But I feel like the mystique and truth is watered away when it’s become ‘a place where people can pay to live and practice Kung fu’ and that’s it. I see a parallel in modern western Martial Arts. Kinda. Used to be many traditional schools that taught self defense and offense. But also philosophy and self discipline, Decision making, how to overcome adversity, community awareness and understanding. Humility was pounded into students relentlessly. Many indeed were not teaching very effective actual fight techniques. Overblown after school programs at their worst. But helpful community growth, outreach and youth instruction sometimes too. But now you can lean MMA. Just the most pure and fastest way to learn to defend yourself and damage and hurt someone trained in a fairly similar way imaginable. Honed and sculpted for efficiency. You can become an extremely effective fighter in a couple of years. I just always feel they are missing something. Maybe that’s why they have such a high rate of incarceration for fighters. The humility part completely gone. We all know boys trained from a young age feel almost superhuman at the other side of puberty. It takes extreme self restraint for trained 19 year olds not to hurt people. Just seems like something might have been overlooked now. BJJ seems like the only school successfully living in both worlds. ( random thoughts…)
NOBODY is perfect except Jesus Christ so lets focus on bruces awesome martial arts abilities and great acting & that he loved his children versus his flaws - which we ALL have alot of 👍☝️✝️👊
I dont see bruce was so skinny when he maid enter the dragon look at bruce real good he was much more ripper in enter the dragon then any one of his movies and he still had that thick neck aswell
He was very thin when he made ETD. Look at him in ETD , then look at him in BIG BOSS his first movie. There's a big noticeable difference in his appearance.
@@waltersimmons946totally agreed. In ETD, he looked like a different person. Sunken cheek, big eye bags and losing of muscles. Looked 10 years older than in the movie Big Boss. It's very noticeable in the scene when Bruce is talking to the monk,he looked so haggard
the house was in Bel Air area (not Brentwood) in Roscomare Road ....out of the 405 freeway/Mulholland Drive. Steve McQueen paid the downpayment on that house. $10.000...Bruce had not enough money. :) Bruce was spending a lot of time training and doing "his" stuff....while Linda was actually working on a regular job. I will leave it there. Linda should get a lot of recognition for allowing the "dragon" to live his kicking and punching journey and play with "his toys" while carrying on her back a lot of the house responsibilities.
Bruce was a phenomenal Martial artist / actor. But there’s no real film evidence of Bruce as a real fighter. Hard sparing, not the demonstration footage. Bruce wasn’t about to get his Hollywood face busted up just to prove his fighting skills..so no footage, no proof.
Bruce Lee trained Full Contact Heavyweight Champion of World Joe Lewis and Joe Lewis win on to win 5 world titles. Bruce Lee also spared with him and rocked him hard. Bruce had the power of a strong heavy weight puncher. Bruce also trained International karate Champion Jim Kelly and workout with Chuck Norris. Bruce trained with judo champion wrestling with Gene L bell. Bruce speed could not be captured on screen in Enter the Dragon Bruce Lee if fought in today's UFC Championship say his weight division he would dominate it. Ask Connor McGregor. Yes Bruce underated. Bruce also a boxer in youth and studied the footwork of Mohammed Ali. In the streets he would be very deadly no rules. But who knows Bruce Lee Verses Mike Tyson or verses other greats hard to say. Though he never fought in tournament but let's just say he had the potential to dominate today's UFC for his weight division. Very debatable.
As much as I love Bruce lee Tyson is 100 pounds heavier (fighting weight) than Lee. It’s hard to beat a man that much heavier than you if they get you on the ground. Maybe in a street fight with weapons
They make it sound like 95% of his activities literally the week before dying was cheating on linda & cocaine = i have a hard time believing that, after all he loved martial arts & acting👊
Out of curiosity, did you read Tom Bleecker's book? "Unsettled Matters"? That's the only biography I read on Lee. I would like to read a couple more in the future, which would you recommend? I prefer accuracy, strict documentation and facts over well-written or entertaining.
@@sunwukong7567 Hi, yes I have the Tom bleecker book & it’s very interesting & has no hero worship which is good . The trouble with lee books is that they are made up with bullshit & myth especially those by Linda the liar lee & John little .
@@sunwukong7567 if you dig deep in the internet there are many interviews about lee by people who associated with him & it proves Lee was never a fighter & that those that were champions like Joe Lewis Bob wall Chuck Norris etc hooked up with Lee for the main reason in the hope of getting on TV as lee had showbiz friends . Lee was known as Kato & they all wanted a slice of the pie ..and lee hooked up with them to get recognition as a trainer.
Thank you!! Most of these people in the comment section who are looking at this book as the ultimate "Go-to" biography on Bruce Lee have most-likely never read: "The Man Only I Knew" by Linda Lee Cadwell. How could they?!! A used copy of the book is very expensive. So what do these people do? They go to the next and cheapest book they could find. And this speculative and inaccurate concoction of a book by Matthew Polly is it. At least this very irresponsible author admitted in his book that his biography was an UNAUTHORIZED biography that was not approved of by the Lee family and the Bruce Lee Estate. So people.... take the book with a HUGE grain of salt.
Johnny Depp had suffered years of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of a narcissist - Amber Heard. He divorced her amicably, but she defamed him with a bruise painted on with a bruise kit and an op-ed claiming she was the victim of domestic violence. Johnny was cancelled for 6 years due to this and lost his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean. He had no choice but to sue her for defamation and clear his name. She threw a vodka bottle at him which sliced off the top off his finger during one of her onslaughts. She weaponized the Me Too Movement against an innocent man. A year on from the trial Johnny's career has risen while hers has sunk. So I don't agree with your analysis that they were both as bad as each other.
Umm ok he lost me when he compared Mike Tyson, and Bruce Lee to the aryan brotherhood....? In hand to hand combat bruce or Tyson would kick their ass....maybe if they have weapons sure....stupid comparison....
I think that Bruce thought.. it was more important to stop teach them guys a lesson than to shrug it off. He probably saved their life by doing that. they would've eventually mouthed off to the even more wrong person and end up dead. so.. he helped them. and didn't ruin his career by doing so. Kinda the same thing Mike Tyson did for that very stupid immature kid! it taught him a lesson. I bet he don't do it again!?
@veddar10… this is where your problem began…. Assumptions. Considering I never mentioned the word physician in my above comment, you had. Does not take intelligence to do research veddar10. By the way is the number 10, your mental age or is that your assumed waist size? (Just an observation). End of conversation, over and out. If you roger this, you’ll roger anything V10.
I love Bruce Lee, no disrespect. However, he was a man who talked the talk but didn't walk the walk. He was a cocaine addict, and he had multiple affairs. He died of a cannabis (hashish) overdose in an actress's apartment with whom he was having an affair. His producer, Raymond Chow, and his wife, Linda, lied, stating he died at home. That is why the initial obituaries erroneously reported he died at home. If he lived what he preached, he would have had a long life and become the greatest movie-action star of all time. Because of his hubris, he died at the age of 32 and we all lost out on some incredible movies never to be made.
Why do people assume it's totally fine to drop the F_ bomb anywhere and anytime they want?.....things were going fine till that sewer mouth started to speak...not everyone wants to here that word...it just ruined the whole program for me and I left immediately after that and unsubscribed.....sad.
To leave Princeton for Shoalin Kung Fu/China---who knows what MP's real reason was. It's too drastic a decision to make for most people ...who've reached that plateau of learning. You work all your childhood life to get straight A's to get to any good college...then if you make it to one of the Ivy League coleges...most won't give it up unless there's something equally as "prestigious ....e.g. you got signed to play MLB....4 yr 100M contract. But to just study Kung Fu?? With no pay off at the end?? To just write a book about a MA movie star that has a limited audience?? Umm..parents couldn't have been too happy.... NOt to judge but...my thoughts. on leaving Princeton. A few actors left their Ivy League schools to be actors and made it...maybe that was worth the decsion...Henry Winkler (Happy Days "Fonz"), Brooke Shields (went to Princeton), Cindy Crawford (left Mechanical Engineering after the first yr to be a Supermodel...worth it I guess)....but the reason nees to be another almost "unattainable achievment"...IMHO...to turn your back on something you worked most of your life for...e.g. you make it into Med school and quit after 3 years....??? Better be a DAMN GOOD reason..."something better"...
Bruce lee's theories such as " you should find your own martial arts" , "no-style martial art", "style without style" are empty words because what is effective in the fight is bjj, freestlye wrestling. It's proved. There are no jkd followers survived in the cage of fights without rules in 90s. Period.
But this don't let me down... everyone experimented back then. they didn't know any better. like we do now. so it don't surprise me.. and I think Bruce would've conquered any addictions he might have picked up.. if he could have lived longer. so many celebs didn't make it.
And I'm not so sure exactly how he died? I mean.. no one really knows the truth now that there's so many theories. I'll remain skeptical. Some of Chinese were really really pissed at him.
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0:00 - Auxoro Podcast Preview
2:16 - Being drawn to Kung Fu
12:25 - Being in the Shaolin Temple
18:54 - Are Monks really Peaceful?
27:51 - Bruce Lee as a Street Fighter
40:46 - Rooftop Fight between Bruce Lee & Chung
54:02 - Submissive Aspect of Bruce Lee's Nature
1:06:26 - Bruce Lee being a Ladies Man
1:12:53 - Thoughts on Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial
1:18:07 - Bruce Lee's Marriage with Linda Lee
1:23:11 - Bruce Lee Encountering Early Feminists
1:26:41 - Bruce Lee's Relationship with the Stuntman
1:33:23 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
1:40:30 - Criticizable Aspects of Bruce Lee
1:44:03 - The Cocaine Letters
1:51:03 - Bruce Lee's Martial Arts Philosophy
1:58:19 - Going against the Traditional Ways of Life
2:05:06 - Living an Interesting Life
2:08:42 - Outro
Enjoyed this very much! Hey Matthew! How about an addendum to the audio or revised version of Bruce Lee a life with the 50 drug letters (which fetched over a half million at auction!) as the main topic? Cocaine was only one of several drugs he asked Bob baker for. He requested cocaine, weed, LSD, hash oil, magic mushrooms, M pills-morphine?. I’m sure you can connect the dots when Bruce was using drugs for example when he pulled a knife on Lo Wei. No matter what he did he still managed to star in 4 films with ETD still revered by most as the greatest martial arts film of all time! In my opinion Bruce Lee is still the greatest martial artist the world has ever seen. ✌️☮️
it looks like you are missing the point about the drugs and Lee and his films
how hell do you know was you there what about that Elvis Presley don't be disrespecting Bruce Lee 👊
@@Maximilian0011really what point?
@@alifuller1658Disrespecting Bruce? I have been a huge Bruce fan since 1975. Question, Have you researched the authenticity of all 50 drug letters? I did. Did you read them? I have. Maybe I was a little pissed off finding out that he took that much blow and Molly etc which could have contributed to his death! He’s still the greatest. My feelings were raw.
I am not a troll, but just my humble opinion, you get too "clever" in your interview. Comes across like you are showing off your cleverness and your ability to be intelligent too much. The focus should be to get this man to speak a lot about Bruce Lee, instead you are being "clever" and directing the conversation too much into human psychology/dynamics.
Even though you and him seem to be having a fun, stimulating time, the audience is at a distance because of your "cleverness" because there is a lack of solid emphasis on Bruce Lee, instead things get too scattered. Not what a Bruce Lee fan is looking for when listening to Polly.
Just my opinion, you're free to do whatever you want. Hopefully you can humble yourself and take in constructive criticism. I suggest you get the opinion from others thatll be honest with you.
Thank you for the feedback. In terms of my being "clever," there's no level of calculated cleverness or seriousness when I go into a podcast conversation. I do hours of research, sit for more hours thinking about questions, and then two brains mesh, meld, play, think, and push back for 2-3 hours. I could record a thousand conversations with Polly and they'd all have varying levels of emotional input, and a lot of it is out of our control or comes from things we don't understand. I realize that answer seems like a cop-out, but that's the way I genuinely think about podcasting. It is what it is on that day, and what makes some people love a podcast may make others hate it the same. Hardcore Bruce Lee fans (which I am not, though I admire his work and have a deep curiosity) will certainly react differently to this conversation than a casual observer of some of his work. Again, thanks for the well-thought-out feedback. Cheers.
@@auxoro yes, I understand you are saying that you are just "going with the flow on where your impulses take you", but there is a SCIENCE to interviewing people, it's not just based on impulse. An amazing interviewer is a humble facilitator. It's mostly humbly asking intelligent questions to help open the person up and feed the public's desire to learn about the person or subject. For example, look at Charlie Rose or more recently Mikhaila Peterson. She does an amazing job of calmly asking very intelligent questions and the interviewee is doing like 80% of the talking. In your case you are speaking almost 45% of the time in the Polly interview.
The idea is, you have to train and mold yourself into a good interviewer, not just excuse it because it's just your "unplanned impulses" lol
Anyway, you do have excellent potential. I hope you'll look into those people like Rose and Peterson and take some of these ideas into consideration. Youll see that you'll reach new heights of excellence.
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No disrespect to the interviewer but I can see where you're coming from. It was a 50/50 interview. I felt the interviewer spoke too much. He should of stuck to asking questions and let Matt speak. Unfortunately he seem to cut him off too much. It kinda felt like they were both being interviewed by the camera 😂😊
I'm not trying to be judgmental or mean toward you but you did use the Lord's name in vain. I'm Catholic and you said you were catholic so you should know better and be a better example whether it's on TV, podcast or whatever.
I can see that. This is my first time viewing your channel, so maybe it's just the approach. The interviewer seems to want to speak more than listen. Almost looking a little disinterested at times (looking away), then going 'yeh.... (proceeds to speak....) . Kinda distracting. No disrespect, but I'm here to hear Polly speak.
Two guys playing around with stories … ? If you want to know anything about Bruce Lee , ask Dan Inosanto
Why do that when you can muck up history create even more controversy and pretend you know better than people who've been around far longer than 50 yrs
Yes. I think John Little has done some good work too. Always respectful, but has gone quite deep into the source materials.
I agree. Many claims had, Dan Inosanto had made corrections. Even in a video interview, Dan stated people said Bruce not a fighter. But Dan said he had been at the end of Bruce Lee’s punches, and Bruce’s punches were devastating.
I own Bruce's Diary, and he has an entry of that rooftop fight, including mentioning the black eye!
There is also a beautiful poem Bruce writes about his girlfriend at the time!
Matthew uses many accurate word for word entries in his book!!
How could you own Bruce’s diary? What are you talking about? That’s not available to anyone.
@@axelstone3131 I won it at an auction in Los Angeles. It was Bruce Lees diary from his last year in High School in HK, right before he came to the US. The diary was sent to be auctioned by Linda Lee.
@@topsecret4791 hmm. I find that hard to believe but perhaps you’re being honest.
@@topsecret4791 would you ever sell it 😂
How much did that cost ?
I do believe that Bruce Lee was treated disrespectfully in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. For one thing, he would never have lost a fight.
F Tarantino for that. Any last respect for him was gone after that. Bruce deserves better.
never? that's a bold faced lie statement. there is always a bigger tougher guy. weight classes exist for a reason. They even say this in the interview. I agree with the initial statement that he was portrayed in negative light in that Tarantino movie, he wasn't arrogant like he was shown to be but he definitely had a temper and could be provoked easily and delighted in provoking others he knew he could beat up..
This is a tremendous long forum conversation. I found this from searching Matthew Polly.
Appreciate it! Thanks for tuning in brotha.
It's funny how some people want to get their 2 minutes of fame on some body else account, Bruce Lee was human just like every body else,he did take drugs just like any other celebrity ,he did it because he wanted to achieve his work as a martial artist, poet,director, actor ect.,he accomplished his goal in life in a ten year span which is amazing, not to many people do that, he was an amazing martial artist in my opinion.
physical violence is not the only kind of violence.. this is the most profound statement of this interview.
This got painful after an hour with the ramble about Brad Pitt and Depp and Heard nonsense. It was infuriating. Polly did a good job and shutting it down and wrapping him up.
1 hr. 10 minutes in and I’m hoping we hear Mathew Polly’s take on the drug letters.
Yes! Thanks for talking about the letters.
@@Dad_Brad Yes, the drug letters were discussed! I really appreciated Matt's perspective on the way he approached that aspect of the convo. Thanks for tuning in.
@@auxoro 👍👍 If only the letters had been discovered while Mr. Polly was still doing the research for the book. I feel there might be a correlation between the cocaine use and heat stroke.
@ray h. I can’t remember, I watched this so long ago. I don’t think the host was that great otherwise I would have subscribed or actually remembered him. I stick to the Kung Fu Genius channel for Bruce Lee info mostly. He talks a lot abkit Bruce, but when he does I’m stunned - he could easily write his own biography on Bruce Lee.
I Took My Wife To My Film Premiere When I Was 24. It Was A Vampire Film I Started In And Directed. It Was A Low Budget Production, But It's Funny How Many Girls and people Wanna Know you When You Do Something Special Or Different. I Love Bruce Lee He's A Great Hero Of Mine. Whenever I Have A Problem I Always Try And Look At How Things Could Be Better If I Be The Best I Could Be. I Try To Take My Failures As They Come And Walk On As Bruce Lee Would Say!
This was delightful to listen to. Thank you guys.
Thanks for tuning in. Cheers!
Linda Lee is an amazing person and is very underrated
If Bruce had lived longer, they would have split up. Bruce told his closest friend that he wanted someone else.
@@kevnev007 idk if that's true but Bruce did cheat with a few women when they're married which I think is way worse than his drug use. What he achieved as a martial artist and athlete is still extraordinary nevertheless.
@@kevnev007 Probably its could happen, even more after enter the dragon success. He would sink more and more in the Hollywood lifestyle. Drugs, Womans, cars and etc...
@@kevnev007 where did you get this information from?
@@axelstone3131 From the person, that Bruce spoke to.
Why don't you let the person you are interviewing talk.
My show is a recorded conversation, not a strict Q&A interview. I go into each conversation with prepared topics and questions the guest and I respond in the moment to what they're saying. If you'd like a more question-answer-question-answer style interview that's just not something I find exciting or appealing. Thank you for tuning in.
@@auxoro I tuned into the video to hear Mathew Polly but had to turn it off as you kept talking about yourself.
Bruce lee was very amazing i have known thru
Ru danny inosanto my teacher and great friend and sifu larry hartzell who passed away. And. Sifu richard .bistillio. Who passed away recently one of my chinese students brothers.was bruce lees.bestfriends and students in hong kong he has some great stories about. Bruce and himself getting in many fights i met tony. After my studied dies. We met at a chinese.resturant in las vegas. He gave mea.young picture of bruce lee. That i hold on to. Sifu jack usmc. Tibetan Lama. Kung fu jkd kali las vegas nv. Bruce lee changed my life because.of hos philosophies his movies. His concepts on fighting and his motivating character Which i made.part.of my life.. to this day. My teacher Grand master wai lun chois excepted me in an all chinese school. 1973. He was abare knuckle champion. Of south.east asia fought 8 days out of 13 days including thai boxers.waswas very blessed to be excepted by him before that i was turned down by 3 chinese masters. My teacher teaches. Sifu inosanto when ever he visits. Chicago for seminars. He considers wai lun chois from 1 to 5 in the world.as an amazing kung fu master. Plus Grand master wai lun chois studied many arts . if it wasn't for bruce lee i would have never studied kung fu. Since 1973 to this day. I wish back then i studied with bruce. I never met him but i was loyal. Sifu jack usmc. Create develop and flow. 702 764- 9256. For interview or my teacher .
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Bruce Lee knew what he was doing to get ahead in life and knew people who can help him and everything was going great until Raymond chow and Betty found out that he was going to do enter the dragon and do a movie for shaw brothers that made them to want to get rid of him and they were hoping that the may 10th would make him change his mind and when he made up his mind to work for other people and move back to the United States that they can not do anything and be that people knew of the first attack that they can use it to kill him to get him to come to her apartment give some thing that would make him feel sick to get him in her bed that made Raymond chow live her apartment and all Betty had to make sure that he died and then get Raymond chow to come back to the apartment
At 5:10 Mr. Polly says he felt he would never come home again if he stayed with the temple life in China. I’m curious what he meant by that?
It’s hard to believe Bruce experimented with different drugs being how obsessed he is with health and fitness
Not really.
He used "speed" to improve his alertness and _speed._
It's because we didn't know hardly anything about hard drugs back then like we do now. everyone experimented. and a lot didn't make it. like your famous musicians, movie stars. but I think Bruce only experimented for how he was feeling. or needed a little extra energy to go extremely long hours. and that's exactly what coke does. but I don't think he was an excessive addict. I'm sure he would stop, and eat and drink water, your addicts forget to.. and get really bad off. and I know people that's only done coke like twice in their life back then... and never did it again as long as they lived. doesn't make them an addict.
@@MM-ig1iv You should check out the the Kung-Fu Genius' deep dive on the letters and you might have a different opinion. Bruce was hard core into cocaine during the last few months of his life. At some points his letters get even more desperate sounding. It was/did catch up with him.
I think he realized he was getting shredded and was feeling enlightened (high)....to a point of being The One!
@@MM-ig1ivPaul McCartney has said drugs back then were NOT as powerful as they are today
Good evening to everyone!
Polly has got a real good observation of what Bruce was all about from my observation, for me I never judge people for what they put in their own bodies and however they choose to live their lives as long as they don’t break the universal laws it’s their business. Bruce was exactly as I thought he was. Dedicated,fearless,loved women,getting high and creative, hot tempered constantly growing. But I don’t think like most people for one I think the masses should have more sex and less fights and more leisure relaxing time then running around going nowhere.
Even Kareem voiced his opinion on OUTIH.
What does LINDA LEE His Wife think about this? Just curious.
Linda Lee and Bruce was yin and yang
We all lead 3 lives,personal,public and secret.
I was hoping to hear Mathew but 20 minutes in I’ve switched off. It’s all about the podcaster .
Wish it would have been about Mathew’s take on Bruce.
Hope I never come across this guy again.
Tarantino should have used the controversies filled persona of Steve McQueen, who was the Tom Cruise of the 60's, in his Once upon..
Yeah but McQueen was actually cool on camera.
I thought many times about Matt's comparation of Lee with Macaulay Culkin, and i think you cant compare them. Just imagine if Macaulay had left the USA in early 1999 at the age of 18.5 years, and would have come back one month before his 31th birtday in September 2011, you can be sure all people in the USA would remember him from "Home Alone" as Kevin McCalister.
But when Bruce came back to HK in October 1971 with "The Big Boss", only people in the movie indutry remembered him as a child and teeny actor, but not the ordinary people from the street who were not in the movie business.
I think you can compare Bruce with Thomas Wilson Brown. Tom starred in the 1989 Walt Disney classic "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" with Rick Moranis, when he played "Littel Russ Thompson", and he played the lover of the young Wyona Rider 1990 in "Knots Landing."
If Tom had left the USA at the age of 18 after Knots Landing and would have come back with an action movie when he was almost 31, you can be sure only movie people would recognize him, but not all americans.
My point is Culkin was a national superstar as a child actor, anyone knew him back then in the USA. This wasnt's the case with Brown or Lee.
Bruce never did anything comparable to today’s Hollywood stars. The difference is he is a pop culture icon… something 99.99% of stars will never be. You’re Living off the corpse of a legend to try and monetize his flaws. He had plenty of them and they have been on display since he passed. This is sorely lacking what he did to cross boundaries for martial arts. Today’s combat isn’t cookie cutter because of him. He brought the martial arts to everyone not just army brats from Japan or Europe. This was for everyone not just a cult you can’t break from. Just being honest about what seeing the difference between martial arts movies and culture before during and after Bruce Lee. 💯 By the way Chuck Norris looks under his bed for Bruce Lee!!! I said it!!!
Bruce was 5.7 and was probably around 145 to 150 lb when he made Green Hornet, not 130lbs. Polly should know better.
Yeh totally. I was surprised he got this wrong as well. I’m pretty sure he was closer to 5 ft 8 than 5 ft 6.
You are right about the weight too
Bruce was 5'7 he weighed 130 pound
@Charles Harper obviously you don't know much about Lee
@@charlesharper9694yeah when he died
Great writing
Shaolin was kinda was destroyed a century ago. Seems like now it’s just a whole bunch of different Kung fu schools and very few actual Buddhist monks. Gone the way of Damo. To much noise and lots of fake masters. Government support to make sure it stays open for tourists.
I know there is still some Abbots there and some practiced students. But I feel like the mystique and truth is watered away when it’s become ‘a place where people can pay to live and practice Kung fu’ and that’s it.
I see a parallel in modern western Martial Arts. Kinda. Used to be many traditional schools that taught self defense and offense. But also philosophy and self discipline, Decision making, how to overcome adversity, community awareness and understanding. Humility was pounded into students relentlessly. Many indeed were not teaching very effective actual fight techniques. Overblown after school programs at their worst. But helpful community growth, outreach and youth instruction sometimes too.
But now you can lean MMA. Just the most pure and fastest way to learn to defend yourself and damage and hurt someone trained in a fairly similar way imaginable. Honed and sculpted for efficiency. You can become an extremely effective fighter in a couple of years. I just always feel they are missing something. Maybe that’s why they have such a high rate of incarceration for fighters. The humility part completely gone. We all know boys trained from a young age feel almost superhuman at the other side of puberty. It takes extreme self restraint for trained 19 year olds not to hurt people. Just seems like something might have been overlooked now. BJJ seems like the only school successfully living in both worlds. ( random thoughts…)
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Yessir! Thanks for tuning in.
NOBODY is perfect except Jesus Christ so lets focus on bruces awesome martial arts abilities and great acting & that he loved his children versus his flaws - which we ALL have alot of 👍☝️✝️👊
I dont see bruce was so skinny when he maid enter the dragon look at bruce real good he was much more ripper in enter the dragon then any one of his movies and he still had that thick neck aswell
He was very thin when he made ETD. Look at him in ETD , then look at him in BIG BOSS his first movie. There's a big noticeable difference in his appearance.
@@waltersimmons946massively almost like a different person
@@BAKEDPOTATOLARDYASS Agreed 👍
@@waltersimmons946totally agreed. In ETD, he looked like a different person. Sunken cheek, big eye bags and losing of muscles. Looked 10 years older than in the movie Big Boss. It's very noticeable in the scene when Bruce is talking to the monk,he looked so haggard
@rtong11 Lee really had the weight of his ambition on his shoulders. It finally wore him out.
Who's Mathew Polly?
the house was in Bel Air area (not Brentwood) in Roscomare Road ....out of the 405 freeway/Mulholland Drive. Steve McQueen paid the downpayment on that house. $10.000...Bruce had not enough money. :) Bruce was spending a lot of time training and doing "his" stuff....while Linda was actually working on a regular job. I will leave it there. Linda should get a lot of recognition for allowing the "dragon" to live his kicking and punching journey and play with "his toys" while carrying on her back a lot of the house responsibilities.
Behind every great man there is a great woman
And she actually had to hide the fact from his peers that she took on extra work to save face for Bruce
Lee was an actor
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@@johncarroll772 So you think lee wasn’t an actor ?
@TheRay0072 so what does it mean when an actor who is only known by being an actor …is called an actor !!?
Bruce Lee was a actor and director and a very very good fighter two he was not a fake fighter he was the real deal believe that
@@charlesharper9694 He was a movie fighter so I take it John Wayne was a real gun fighter..lees theories only worked in fantasy movie fights
Mocking Bruce Lee in OUATIH is uncalled for.
Bruce was a phenomenal Martial artist / actor. But there’s no real film evidence of Bruce as a real fighter. Hard sparing, not the demonstration footage. Bruce wasn’t about to get his Hollywood face busted up just to prove his fighting skills..so no footage, no proof.
Bruce Lee trained Full Contact Heavyweight Champion of World Joe Lewis and Joe Lewis win on to win 5 world titles. Bruce Lee also spared with him and rocked him hard. Bruce had the power of a strong heavy weight puncher. Bruce also trained International karate Champion Jim Kelly and workout with Chuck Norris. Bruce trained with judo champion wrestling with Gene L bell. Bruce speed could not be captured on screen in Enter the Dragon Bruce Lee if fought in today's UFC Championship say his weight division he would dominate it. Ask Connor McGregor. Yes Bruce underated. Bruce also a boxer in youth and studied the footwork of Mohammed Ali. In the streets he would be very deadly no rules. But who knows Bruce Lee Verses Mike Tyson or verses other greats hard to say. Though he never fought in tournament but let's just say he had the potential to dominate today's UFC for his weight division. Very debatable.
As much as I love Bruce lee Tyson is 100 pounds heavier (fighting weight) than Lee. It’s hard to beat a man that much heavier than you if they get you on the ground. Maybe in a street fight with weapons
They make it sound like 95% of his activities literally the week before dying was cheating on linda & cocaine = i have a hard time believing that, after all he loved martial arts & acting👊
Pollys book on lee is absolute crap a rehash of previous books with fictional made up crap …it’s has the odd love affair but it’s nothing new
Out of curiosity, did you read Tom Bleecker's book? "Unsettled Matters"? That's the only biography I read on Lee.
I would like to read a couple more in the future, which would you recommend?
I prefer accuracy, strict documentation and facts over well-written or entertaining.
@@sunwukong7567 Hi, yes I have the Tom bleecker book & it’s very interesting & has no hero worship which is good . The trouble with lee books is that they are made up with bullshit & myth especially those by Linda the liar lee & John little .
@@sunwukong7567 if you dig deep in the internet there are many interviews about lee by people who associated with him & it proves Lee was never a fighter & that those that were champions like Joe Lewis Bob wall Chuck Norris etc hooked up with Lee for the main reason in the hope of getting on TV as lee had showbiz friends . Lee was known as Kato & they all wanted a slice of the pie ..and lee hooked up with them to get recognition as a trainer.
@@BAKEDPOTATOLARDYASS Linda the kid Lee!!?? Why would you say such a thing? Do you know her? I’m genuinely asking…
Thank you!!
Most of these people in the comment section who are looking at this book as the ultimate "Go-to" biography on Bruce Lee have most-likely never read: "The Man Only I Knew" by Linda Lee Cadwell.
How could they?!! A used copy of the book is very expensive. So what do these people do? They go to the next and cheapest book they could find.
And this speculative and inaccurate concoction of a book by Matthew Polly is it.
At least this very irresponsible author admitted in his book that his biography was an UNAUTHORIZED biography that was not approved of by the Lee family and the Bruce Lee Estate.
So people.... take the book with a HUGE grain of salt.
Johnny Depp had suffered years of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of a narcissist - Amber Heard. He divorced her amicably, but she defamed him with a bruise painted on with a bruise kit and an op-ed claiming she was the victim of domestic violence. Johnny was cancelled for 6 years due to this and lost his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean. He had no choice but to sue her for defamation and clear his name. She threw a vodka bottle at him which sliced off the top off his finger during one of her onslaughts. She weaponized the Me Too Movement against an innocent man. A year on from the trial Johnny's career has risen while hers has sunk. So I don't agree with your analysis that they were both as bad as each other.
he would have gone to the usa anyway. The lee clan even then would have seen the writing on the wall.
Umm ok he lost me when he compared Mike Tyson, and Bruce Lee to the aryan brotherhood....? In hand to hand combat bruce or Tyson would kick their ass....maybe if they have weapons sure....stupid comparison....
Dam the interviewer never shuts up
Talking with your hand over your mouth is a bit strange. If he has a problem with his teeth, he could have straightened his teeth first.
quit minimizing what killed the man.
He was a druggie it killed jim
I think that Bruce thought.. it was more important to stop teach them guys a lesson than to shrug it off. He probably saved their life by doing that. they would've eventually mouthed off to the even more wrong person and end up dead. so.. he helped them. and didn't ruin his career by doing so. Kinda the same thing Mike Tyson did for that very stupid immature kid! it taught him a lesson. I bet he don't do it again!?
@veddar10… this is where your problem began…. Assumptions. Considering I never mentioned the word physician in my above comment, you had. Does not take intelligence to do research veddar10. By the way is the number 10, your mental age or is that your assumed waist size? (Just an observation). End of conversation, over and out. If you roger this, you’ll roger anything V10.
@veddar10😂
I love Bruce Lee, no disrespect. However, he was a man who talked the talk but didn't walk the walk. He was a cocaine addict, and he had multiple affairs. He died of a cannabis (hashish) overdose in an actress's apartment with whom he was having an affair. His producer, Raymond Chow, and his wife, Linda, lied, stating he died at home. That is why the initial obituaries erroneously reported he died at home. If he lived what he preached, he would have had a long life and become the greatest movie-action star of all time. Because of his hubris, he died at the age of 32 and we all lost out on some incredible movies never to be made.
I one has ever died of hash. He died from low sodium.
Hash didn't kill him & when it came to martial arts he DID walk the walk
Why do people assume it's totally fine to drop the F_ bomb anywhere and anytime they want?.....things were going fine till that sewer mouth started to speak...not everyone wants to here that word...it just ruined the whole program for me and I left immediately after that and unsubscribed.....sad.
Get a grip !
Polly is missing a tooth
I was just about to say it, I see it too.
He has a retainer. He mentioned it at the beginning of the video and removed it.
To leave Princeton for Shoalin Kung Fu/China---who knows what MP's real reason was. It's too drastic a decision to make for most people ...who've reached that plateau of learning. You work all your childhood life to get straight A's to get to any good college...then if you make it to one of the Ivy League coleges...most won't give it up unless there's something equally as "prestigious ....e.g. you got signed to play MLB....4 yr 100M contract. But to just study Kung Fu?? With no pay off at the end?? To just write a book about a MA movie star that has a limited audience?? Umm..parents couldn't have been too happy....
NOt to judge but...my thoughts. on leaving Princeton. A few actors left their Ivy League schools to be actors and made it...maybe that was worth the decsion...Henry Winkler (Happy Days "Fonz"), Brooke Shields (went to Princeton), Cindy Crawford (left Mechanical Engineering after the first yr to be a Supermodel...worth it I guess)....but the reason nees to be another almost "unattainable achievment"...IMHO...to turn your back on something you worked most of your life for...e.g. you make it into Med school and quit after 3 years....??? Better be a DAMN GOOD reason..."something better"...
Bruce lee's theories such as " you should find your own martial arts" , "no-style martial art", "style without style" are empty words because what is effective in the fight is bjj, freestlye wrestling. It's proved. There are no jkd followers survived in the cage of fights without rules in 90s. Period.
Wrong
Se jiu-jitsu apenas fosse necessário, os campeões do UFC lutariam apenas jiu-jitsu
Respect what people do rather than idolise them. There will always be something about them that will let you down...
But this don't let me down... everyone experimented back then. they didn't know any better. like we do now. so it don't surprise me.. and I think Bruce would've conquered any addictions he might have picked up.. if he could have lived longer. so many celebs didn't make it.
And I'm not so sure exactly how he died? I mean.. no one really knows the truth now that there's so many theories. I'll remain skeptical. Some of Chinese were really really pissed at him.