What the FDA Doesn't Want You to Know About What You're Eating
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & Organic Gorilla
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Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Thomas Edwards — a surfer and snowboarder who got tired of eating garbage on the mountain and in the water, became a certified trainer, and eventually turned a home kitchen recipe into Organic Gorilla, a San Diego-based nutrition brand built from scratch with zero outside funding.
Thomas breaks down why the modern food industry is slowly poisoning you, how the FDA's labeling requirements are designed to confuse — not protect — and why his date-based, seed-oil-free, USDA organic nutrition bar exists to fix what every other bar gets wrong. He also gets into XRP, cold wallets, why banks don't want you understanding crypto, and the case for holding while everyone else panics.
This guy built his brand on real ingredients, real money, and a real conviction that most people don't know what they're actually eating. After this conversation, you will.
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| 0:00.0 | Nobody's telling us the truth about food in general. The FDA lobbying that exists, right, |
| 0:05.3 | okaying so many of these ingredients that are only helping somebody's pockets. They're not doing |
| 0:09.7 | anything good for us. We got to wake some people up. Those are whole foods in this stuff. |
| 0:15.0 | Exactly. Like it's what it was innately intended to be. I'm just an everyday person that |
| 0:20.1 | started something to try and benefit all of us because I wish this existed. |
| 0:24.7 | I've tried them all and I got to tell you. |
| 0:29.8 | What it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of Drop and Bombs today in the studio, folks. |
| 0:35.2 | I got a real treat for you, entrepreneur extraordinaire, Mr. Thomas Edwards in the house. |
| 0:41.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:41.7 | What's up, bro? |
| 0:42.8 | Do good to have you here. |
| 0:43.7 | Folks, you guys can follow this dude at the OG Gorilla. |
| 0:48.0 | The OG Gorilla. |
| 0:49.9 | Why the OG Gorilla? |
| 0:51.4 | Well, he's got a company that's sweeping the nation right now, |
| 0:54.7 | OrganicGarilla.com. |
| 0:56.9 | And it's actually a, is this the only products you focus on? |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah, right now it's just these three flagship flavors, right? |
| 1:05.2 | There'll be more stuff on the way. |
| 1:06.7 | So he's got basically, I would say healthy, real healthy, you know, seed free, oil-free, |
| 1:16.2 | you know, just like seriously healthy. What are they? Protein bars? Yeah, we call them a nutrition |
| 1:22.1 | bar really, though, just because of like even what we were just talking about with most protein |
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