Joe Rogan is a stand-up comic, comedian, motivational speaker, keynote speaker, bestselling author, podcaster, and entrepreneur. In this episode, we talk about how he got his start in comedy, why he started his own business, and why he is one of the most influential people in the world. We also talk about the importance of being a professional motivator and how important it is to know that you can do anything you put your mind to it. You can do it. You can win the struggle. You don t have to settle for mediocrity. You have to go out there and do something amazing. Joe Rogan and I talk about that and much more in this episode of the podcast. I hope you enjoy this one, it's a must listen! If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review on iTunes. I'll be watching you in the next episode! Timestamps: 3:00 - How much money does it take to be a comedian? 4:30 - How important is it to have a good friend? 5:00 6:15 - What's the most important thing a comedian can do? 7:40 - What are you looking for in your life? 8:20 - What do you want to know? 9:00 | How do you think you can be a better person? 10:40 | What is the best? 11:30 | What are your biggest superpower? 12:30 13:40 15: What are some of your biggest weaknesses? 16: What is your biggest weakness? 17:20 | What s your biggest takeaway from this guy? 18:00 Is it a good day? 19:00 // 15:00 / 16:20 21: Is it possible to be more than one person you can have it better than someone else? 22:30 // 17:10 | What do they have to do better than another? 23:10 25:00 +16: What s a good thing you can learn from someone else is a better than you can help you? 26:40 / 17: What have you have done? 27:30 Is there a better way to help someone else do something better than I can do more than I have a better life than I do it?
00:05:09.000So at, say, 15,000 feet, the acclimatization, the adaptation is not as fast in human bodies.
00:05:17.000Now, we found this breathing techniques and using the mind, and that enables us to accelerate what science is thinking, that it is arranged autonomically.
00:05:31.000So outside of our will and we cannot interfere.
00:06:10.000So, the standard model of what someone can do as far as how much red blood cells they can generate is observed, and they thought that it was at 15,000 feet, it became too difficult, but you've shown that with your exercises and with your deep breathing techniques that you can actually accelerate red blood cell count Consciously,
00:06:33.000or at least not consciously, through conscious action.
00:06:55.000And the first sign is headache and that means a lack of oxygen inside the brain.
00:07:00.000Normally we are not able to get oxygen then at that moment inside the brain to equal the balance, the disbalance, the lack of oxygen and I've learned just to do that.
00:07:12.000So we tackle the problem and keep on able to perform in the extreme conditions even.
00:07:19.000So through this technique of taking these enormous deep breaths, letting some of it out, and then trying to refill, and then letting some of it out, trying to refill, letting some of it out, and then you're forcing your lungs to constantly carry air.
00:08:55.000Yeah, Professor Fly, Professor Mosquito.
00:08:59.000This biochemical professor, and he tells, looking at the results, what you have produced with the university, regarding to the immune system and influencing into the autonomic nervous system, we can say you guys have found a way to tap into the tissue into the lymphatic system and take away the acidity over there.
00:09:25.000And the storage capacity of the lymphatic system at that deeper level than the blood is actually a storage capacity to have chemistry which is wrong stored up over there so it doesn't mess with the rest of the physiology to maintain functionality.
00:09:46.000So but in time you got to deal with it.
00:09:49.000It's like garbage and that garbage we could not tap into that.
00:11:09.000So diet, like inflammation stress, stress as far as pressure, daily life?
00:11:15.000Any stress we are not able to deal with will be translated into chemistry.
00:11:21.000And as you are not dealing with it, it will be stored.
00:11:25.000I'm gonna stop you right here because for a lot of people that are listening to this like what the fuck is Joe Rogan doing on this podcast?
00:11:33.000You are very unique in that your claims are incredibly unusual but substantiated by science and this is not It's not woo-woo science that this is real legitimate researchers have what they injected you with what was it they injected you with?
00:11:50.000With an E. coli bacteria, an endotoxemia.
00:11:54.000An endotoxin, and then they monitored your immune system and saw that you could actively force your immune system to fight off this injection.
00:12:05.000Very specifically within a quarter of an hour.
00:12:08.000And this is something they did not think was possible until you performed this?
00:12:12.000They saw that I was influencing into the so-called autonomic nervous system.
00:12:19.000And then also for people that did not hear the first podcast, you have achieved, I believe it's, correct me if I'm wrong, 26 world records?
00:12:27.000Yes, 26. Including, you have the longest time of holding your breath and swimming under Ocean ice?
00:13:33.000Yeah, and a good friend of mine and a really interesting guy.
00:13:36.000He loves your stuff, and he's fascinated by it.
00:13:40.000I know a lot of other people that are fascinated by it, too.
00:13:42.000A lot of people that I know that are taking your course and trying your stuff since the last time you were on.
00:13:46.000So anybody who's listened to this podcast for the first time, you might want to go back and listen to the first one, and we go into great detail about all the different accomplishments that you've made with your method, the Wim Hof breathing method.
00:13:57.000So in case you're listening to this for the first time, you're like, what the fuck is this?
00:14:18.000What we perceive as being possible, we go past it because we pioneer.
00:14:23.000We go past our fear created by our conditioning.
00:14:27.000Whatever we think, It's possible, and we do not dare to go pause that.
00:14:33.000Well, it's funny that you're teaming up with Anthony Robbins, because you hear that Anthony Robbins, you know, Anthony Robbins loves to do those walking on fire things, but lately it's been causing problems because people pause in the middle, take selfies, and then they wind up burning their feet.
00:15:50.000But sometimes, moreover because of all these devices, radiation, we get into the nervous system and we Charge it with negative ions.
00:16:02.000And for that, you know, any electricity you need to ground if you got big charge.
00:16:08.000So it accumulates in the body and therefore I suggest people walk sometimes just inside of nature, not all day, but release those negative ions.
00:16:21.000I gotta write something down because I keep forgetting it.
00:16:27.000As far as negative ions and doing negative things to your body, have they ever found any correlation between the use of electronics and negative aspects?
00:17:03.000And he went to Bolivia, and he lived with the Chumani for a couple weeks, and they brought them shoes, like, hey, try these shoes on.
00:17:12.000They didn't want to have nothing to do with those shoes.
00:17:13.000They're like, get those stupid things out of here.
00:17:15.000Because those people walk barefoot everywhere, and their feet, he said their feet don't look like anybody's feet.
00:17:20.000He's like, they're all splayed out, like their toes are splayed out, and there's like a thick, thick padding underneath, you know, where they basically have their own shoes.
00:17:30.000Like the calluses in the bottom of their feet act as shoes.
00:17:34.000Hey, that doesn't sound too attractive for me to have, you know.
00:18:21.000Beyond the polar circles in temperatures even far more below than the Kilimanjaro is in.
00:18:28.000Do you think that there's any benefit from the fact that you're walking so much or running and then your body's heating up and maybe that has a positive effect on your skin?
00:18:39.000The thing is I'm very able to go in, to tap into the hormonal system, creating...
00:19:00.000Staring directly into the reptilian mode, the reptilian brain, which is the primitive brain, and there you have direct access to pure adrenaline.
00:19:12.000Makes you able to do almost inconceivable feats and accomplish it.
00:19:20.000Now, because I have been so much into the cold, Cold is cold.
00:19:25.000It's a real power force impact upon you.
00:19:29.000So you need to learn how to connect within with your mind and your breathing into the brainstem, into this adrenaline, to withstand this force, the cold impact.
00:19:41.000So you're tapping into your brain, you're causing your body to produce more adrenaline, and you're focusing on the areas of your body that are contacting the snow.
00:19:50.000Like you're focusing on the bottom of your feet?
00:20:37.000We could not suppress the cytokines, the inflammatory markers.
00:20:40.000And we showed very effectively, not me only, a whole group of persons which I trained just in four days to be able to go into the DNA and create the right chemistry consciously by breathing and using the mind.
00:20:56.000To fend off inflammatory markers caused by, say, bacteria inside.
00:21:04.000So we are actually able to tap into the deepest of ours, create, have control over adrenaline, stress hormone, and go up to, not only in the deepest part of the brain, but also in the DNA. I got interesting things since the last time.
00:21:44.000So, if you are able to oxygenize the cells more than we do normally, because we talked about the lymphatic system and the tissue, and actually the body is able to store up more oxygen than the 100% we presumed possible.
00:22:04.000Scientifically, we are able to store up more oxygen.
00:22:08.000So, if a breathing technique, whatever breathing technique, is able to store up more oxygen in the cell, that means going into the tissue, going into the lymphatic system, then suddenly the chemistry becomes alkaline.
00:22:23.000The acid gets out of the body at will.
00:22:27.000And then the mind, the mind is little electrical charges, neurotransmitters, and they are suddenly able to connect in the body.
00:22:39.000And enabling you to have control, direct, all the systems in the body.
00:22:47.000So the mind's condition to be effective in the body is making the body, by breath, the right breathing, profound breathing, in an alkaline state.
00:23:00.000Then these electrical signals are able to travel throughout.
00:23:04.000And the way nature meant it to be is that we are able to direct Any part of the body.
00:23:11.000So the immune system, endocrine system, the lymphatic system, vascular system, all the systems.
00:23:18.000We told a little bit last time, but I got more direct evidence now.
00:23:23.000Right now we are working with the universities on the brain, on say emotional reactivity, and they see Incredible things that we actually are able to get into those places where emotion exists.
00:23:38.000And we think, yeah, emotion, where is it?
00:24:04.000Now, if you are able to oxygenize those parts and to pressurize with breathing techniques into those parts, then suddenly you begin to cry.
00:25:01.000Well, it makes sense because your blood is carrying oxygen, right?
00:25:06.000So the more oxygen you provide your blood, and you are definitely providing it more with these big, long, deep breaths and these techniques that you pursue.
00:25:35.000It's very promising for the next round because you get more and more oxygen.
00:25:40.000It's only to show that you are able to store up oxygen far more than you ever used before.
00:25:48.000So in case when you need it to regulate the chemistry inside the body, Then it needs oxygen.
00:25:54.000Then we are all able, with these breathing exercises, to get it anywhere where the chemistry is messed up.
00:26:02.000And a chemistry messed up will send off a signal But we are mostly not listening because we got our worries and we need to do the deadline and this and that.
00:26:15.000And then this chemistry stays over there and will deregulate the system.
00:26:22.000And then we become sick and we don't know what's happening.
00:26:25.000We go to the doctor or the psychiatrist because we become depressed and all.
00:26:32.000But we are very able to get into any place in the body, and in this case, the brain.
00:26:42.000We do all these studies now with the university.
00:26:45.000They say cognitive therapy, just talking to each other in the psychology and psychotherapy, that's not enough.
00:26:54.000That was a conference with 200 experts, and they did this breathing.
00:27:52.000We don't know where it is in the brain.
00:27:55.000Just get all the brain full of oxygen, get the alkalinity up, and you are able to steer by going through the spine, up in your head, And do it all.
00:28:07.000Is that why, do you believe, is that why some studies have shown that rigorous exercise, particularly cardio, like running, elliptical machines, things along those lines, are just as good for depression as medication?
00:28:31.000When you do those things, you actually create the body to be effective with the oxygen.
00:28:40.000Then suddenly different mechanisms are at work, more oxygen is coming in and the chemistry is balancing out.
00:28:49.000Depression is caused by a wrong chemistry creating inflammation.
00:28:55.000You know, I'm a regular exerciser, but sometimes I just get real busy and I take a couple of days off and sometimes I take a couple days off and I just don't feel right.
00:29:04.000Maybe, I mean, I'm not a self-indulgent person, but sometimes I'll just feel like, ah, God, I just feel kind of shitty today or whatever.
00:29:13.000I go, look, I'm going to get up an hour early or I'm going to do whatever I have to do and I'm going to, you know, before I go to bed, whatever it is, I'm going to make sure that the day will not end until I exercise.
00:30:01.000If I didn't have a fun life and that happened, it would just be compounding all the other issues that I have.
00:30:06.000Now, tack on that if I was overweight.
00:30:09.000Tack on that if I was hooked on pills, or I was an alcoholic, or cigarette smoking, or one of the other things that are really terrible for you that so many people suffer from.
00:32:58.000developing a method and finding it out because I... I was in this quest to go deeper within myself, finding the cold as the right teacher to bring me into the depth of my physiology,
00:33:14.000finally finding the way nature meant me to be, to feel strong and in control of myself.
00:33:22.000I brought this now to science, and now it is a matter of time that we will resolve what we have lost.
00:33:32.000The connection with the depth of ourselves.
00:33:35.000And that means for people, maybe not for you, because you are able to handle your mood and your physical strength and your health, that's good.
00:33:46.000But for those who have PTSD, trauma, anxiety, fear, depression, autoimmune diseases, cancer, all these things, I think nature knows.
00:34:02.000I just bring it to the science and we forgot about the nature.
00:34:07.000This is where I made a couple of notes.
00:34:13.000And I think, you know, if we are able not only to show that the autonomic nervous system, the hormonal system, the immune system can be influenced deeply, That means, hormonal system, that is the melatonin, serotonin,
00:34:28.000dopamine, any feel-good hormone within us and the ability to tap into that system and create those hormones when necessary.
00:34:38.000When you feel bad, you just get a shot naturally by breathing and believing of the right hormones and you feel great.
00:34:48.000Okay, and then you got the strength, which is also based on hormones.
00:34:53.000Hormonal secretions like adrenaline, epinephrine, cortisol, those.
00:35:01.000And we show people lying in bed, as I told last time, in bed producing more adrenaline, controlled stress hormone.
00:35:11.000Than somebody going into, in fear, going into its first bunker jump.
00:35:16.000That means controlled stress among adrenaline.
00:35:19.000Adrenaline, which is controlled, is stress among, works like a medicine.
00:36:17.000And that, you know, that's the strength part, and then you got the health part.
00:36:23.000That's the immune system and all its layers.
00:36:26.000Well, let me ask you this, because adrenaline with fighting is considered to be a very dangerous thing to manage, because there's a thing called an adrenaline dump that happens to a lot of fighters, where they get so worked up, they're so jazzed up before a fight,
00:36:42.000and then they're in the fight, and then somewhere around the first round, The adrenaline goes away.
00:37:28.000It's all very interesting, you know, the fighting modus of ours, which is related to the fight modus, fight, flight, food, freeze, and fuck.
00:39:32.000And in general, when they do the breathing exercises and the cold exposures, They become just more energetic and they have a lot more connection with their own body, creating confidence within themselves and then they are able to build up this connection mind to body and then their cardio increases,
00:40:01.000Well, you had some great results with Alistair, let me tell you that, because he was on a downward spiral before he started working with you.
00:40:07.000He's going to come to Kilimanjaro, too, because I need to train him again.
00:40:11.000I think he lost track a little bit on the breathing exercises, and he thought he was already there.
00:42:00.000But still, there you will compete with people who also condition their bodies.
00:42:08.000So it's an equal thing going up, and what makes the difference?
00:42:12.000That's the connection of your mind with your body, of your brainstem with your conscious will, and the body controlling the adrenaline.
00:42:23.000Not only, also epinephrine, noradrenaline, dopamine, anything.
00:42:29.000Now when you're watching someone like Alistair fight and he just fought for the UFC heavyweight title and came very close to winning a couple times in that first round and wound up losing, what makes you think that breathing could have helped him in that?
00:43:33.000What I do all the time with people or women who are not able to do push-ups, I make them do the breathing, influence muscle tissue, making it alkaline, so the neurotransmitter, the performance neurotransmitter suddenly is able to keep on because it's not becoming acidic.
00:43:54.000When you say acidic and alkaline, what are you measuring?
00:44:19.000We just completed new studies with 48 people, and it showed that all the people got to very, very high alkaline levels in the blood, like 7.8.
00:44:50.000If you pee on it, and then you will see, with a pH strip, yellow to blue, and green in the middle, and all these variations, then you see most of the people are just yellow in the morning.
00:45:02.000They do the breathing 20 minutes, and they become blue.
00:45:08.000And that's where you want to have it, because the neurotransmitters, the electrical signals in the body, they travel a lot faster when it's alkaline.
00:45:19.000So your same punch will be faster if it is alkaline than when it's acidic.
00:45:26.000If I'm going to train with this and become acidic at a certain moment, you know, I get to my limit, then I'm not punching as fast than when I'm alkaline.
00:46:47.000I'm just saying, like, when I look at that, and I look at the way he was performing, he wasn't performing the way he performed against Junior Dos Santos.
00:49:03.000And that you do with the right breathing exercises, along with the fighting and the conditioning and the muscle training and all.
00:49:11.000And if it is not there, then you can have the muscles of the world, but very soon you will be exhausted.
00:49:18.000Now, when you work with a guy like Alistair, with all due respect to him and to you, He's been knocked out four times in the UFC alone.
00:49:27.000And he's been knocked out many times outside of the UFC. Do you have any concern about the amount of damage that he's taking?
00:49:35.000And do you think that in any way this kind of training and the breathing method could in some way help mitigate some of that damage he's taking?
00:50:08.000That means with his weight getting up there, that means breathing, really breathing, really getting into it and using your mind and focus totally.
00:50:20.000And not thinking that you are able to do it, but doing it.
00:50:25.000One thing that does happen to fighters, though, and it happens inevitably in a fighter's career if they've taken a lot of fights where there were real wars, is they lose their ability to take a punch.
00:50:35.000It's a physiological response the brain has to the amount of punishment that you've been taking, and it knows the punishment's coming and it shuts off prematurely.
00:50:43.000Shuts off much quicker than it did when you were younger.
00:50:46.000And in the fight game, they call it getting chinny, or his chin is gone, you know, where you take a shot and you can see that you just can't take it anymore.
00:50:54.000And doctors take that almost universally as a sign that you should probably start thinking about hanging it up.
00:53:36.000No, but now America is beginning to do the basic course, advanced module, and then we have the instructors' week, and it goes up to bachelor level.
00:54:00.000Tomorrow, for example, I got a scientific sort of lecture together with Professor Huberman from Stanford University in front of IDEO. In IDEO, there comes a guy who is the Google healthcare hat of it all.
00:54:19.000And he was the former man in charge of the healthcare in America, in US. I mean, big people.
00:54:52.000Go back into the depth of your own physiology and know that it is there.
00:54:57.000You are able to awaken that and get it into your control, preventing you from disease, from depression, or becoming happy.
00:55:06.000So you're essentially, in some ways, tapping into the same force that creates the placebo effect.
00:55:12.000Because there's an effect when your mind thinks that it has a drug that's going to heal it, even if it's a sugar pill.
00:55:18.000You see a visible improvement on many people because of that belief.
00:55:22.000So through your belief system, plus the oxygen, plus the deep breathing exercise and the increasing blood flow to the brain, it has all these positive benefits.
00:55:30.000And then the cold trains, gradual cold exposure trains the transportation system.
00:55:36.00075,000 miles of capillaries, arteries and veins within us.
00:57:40.000And it's two and a half years ago that we proved the autonomic nervous system, up till then, never been proven in scientific history to be influenced by humans.
00:57:52.000Now, not a little bit to be influenced, being able to be influenced, big time, people enabling within a quarter of an hour to tap into the specific immune system, which normally takes five to seven days.
00:58:56.000But don't you think it takes time for people and their opinions to shift when it comes to things along these lines?
00:59:03.000Apparently that's the psychology of the people and I'm finding this out.
00:59:09.000I got in the beginning very frustrated.
00:59:12.000Now I begin to understand this is the way it all comes top down and it takes some time.
00:59:18.000When Galileo found out that we are not the center of the universe, but it is the sun and we are turning around, he was first almost banned from the church and almost sent us to death as a heretic.
01:00:11.000I started doing it after our podcast together.
01:00:13.000I take these big, giant, deep breaths and I let some out and big, giant, deep breaths and I let some out and I do it for several minutes before my shows and I feel like I'm high.
01:00:21.000Like, I'm just filled with everything.
01:00:58.000We found out, first time in scientific history now, and not me, the university, doing this, doing this, say, I was worried that it got on the machinery.
01:01:17.000For the first time in scientific history, they found out that 100% saturation or oxygen in the blood It's not really 100%.
01:03:21.000Have you ever worked with cancer patients?
01:03:23.000I want to now with the universities, but it's very, you know, a very difficult, complicated matter, and everybody thinks it's not able to be questioned or researched.
01:03:38.000Well, it's also imperative that these people get medication because their life's on the line, they could die, they don't want to take a chance.
01:05:11.000And now it appears to be that 48 hours, 35% less of oxygen in a cell makes a cell cancerous.
01:05:22.000So, I told you just now that the molecules, we can influence the engines of the cell and make much more molecules by implementing, just by breathing good.
01:06:30.000And on the Kilimanjaro, then after I did a successful attempt in 28 hours and in shorts and everything, got to tell something about Scott Carnitune, an investigative journalist who came to get me...
01:06:48.000Disguised as a guru and with lies and everything.
01:07:28.000But he came to Poland and two days later he was doing the same shit I'm doing.
01:07:37.000On the outside, though, people do see someone like you that makes all these crazy claims and talks about love and breathing and go, oh, this guy's trying to fuck everybody's wives and make a lot of money.
01:07:55.000But there's a lot of people, like you can understand why he would think that a lot of people who make these grand claims turn out to be, you know, there's a lot of people that can claim miracle claims and they're usually crazy, right?
01:09:18.000And they suddenly see that they are capable of doing so much more because they begin to learn to control the acidity, that what becomes acidic in their bodies.
01:11:52.000Because we control the inflammatory markers in the blood, suppressing them, and suddenly they are able, and with the extra oxygen, making it alkaline, the muscle tissue keeps on throwing these acetylcholinus,
01:12:07.000the neurotransmitter, performance neurotransmitter, and they surprise themselves, astonish themselves.
01:12:15.000That just seems like a lot of push-ups to do with no air in your lungs.
01:20:53.000Of course, but people are full of shit.
01:20:55.000They're out there living by themselves, just doing weird shit to themselves, out there screaming in the night, no one answers, alone, wolves howl.
01:21:17.000There was a guy that used to have this television show way back in the day before the internet.
01:21:20.000I remember he had this episode on where he was talking to this guy who was a trapper.
01:21:26.000And he would live in the bush in Alaska.
01:21:29.000And he would live there and not talk to a single person for months and months at a time.
01:21:35.000And what he would say is that after a while, when he was out there by himself, he would develop this very bizarre feeling of telepathy with animals, and that he could read animals' minds.
01:21:50.000He could almost predict their behavior and movements, and he was getting signals from them.
01:22:21.000We are social mammals, mammalian behavior, like families and things like that.
01:22:26.000But I've read that they have found one thing that they're pretty sure that people can tell.
01:22:33.000It was Rupert Sheldrake's podcast he was talking about.
01:22:36.000He was saying that one thing that they have studied beyond statistical probability, it shows that when people are stared at, like say if I turn my back and you either would look down at your lap or look at the back of my head,
01:22:54.000that I could tell, or someone, maybe some people can tell, Whether or not you're looking at them more than half the time.
01:23:02.000They were more accurate than guessing.
01:24:08.000And what he believes is that when one member of the species attempts to learn something or learn something, it becomes far easier for other members of the species, even that are separated by vast distances, to learn that.
01:24:23.000He said that occurred with rats in a very particular maze, that they would teach rats how to get through a particular maze in one part of the world, and then rats in the other part of the world navigated it much quicker.
01:24:35.000There's some interesting stuff when it comes to that stuff.
01:25:31.000I abuse it to get my goals done, my mission done, which is bringing belief, confidence, love, but now scientifically endorsed, showing that we are able to tap into all those systems and we should actually get it in school,
01:25:51.000in primary school to begin with, And not only learn history and geography and things like that, but now learn at a very young age how to influence into this hormonal system and immune system or say happiness,
01:26:20.000With arthritis, they come and they are very able to do breathing exercises, going into the cold.
01:26:28.000Actually, children, we teach them to have coats on and therefore taking away the stimulation of the natural elements, thus decreasing the affectivity of their systems inside.
01:26:41.000We make them sick instead of We are protecting them.
01:26:53.000And now it's getting together with the existing healthcare and with universities more and more.
01:27:02.000I think we got to go back to say nature and if a mother It's able to guarantee, endorsed by scientific evidence, that we are able to tap into all these systems, guaranteeing, hey,
01:27:17.000if you just breathe better and take a cold shower and believe, connect with your body, that you are able to tap into your health, your happiness, and your strength, then that's something that We'll bring Mother Nature back in us and the awareness there from will make this world value the nature
01:34:14.000I think I'm going to give him back a shiny coin because he doesn't know about the significance of money.
01:34:22.000And he gives him the shiny coin and he takes the hundred dollar bill and I don't know where he puts it because he's got no pockets, but he puts it somewhere.
01:38:11.000After taking a five minute breathing exercise and then no breaths and he did 72. A couple of people said they did like 40 or 50. Breathing would have helped a similar method to this, but they weren't talking about that at all.
01:38:22.000Yeah, I have a feeling your friend might be a little full of shit.
01:38:25.000It just doesn't As an athlete, as someone who understands the potential of the human body, you have to be extraordinary.
01:38:33.000You have to be pretty extraordinary to do 80 push-ups on your own.
01:38:55.000You're essentially, I mean, it's not like you're bench pressing 175 pounds, but it's probably like you're bench pressing 140. Like, how much would you think it would be?
01:39:37.000Yeah, because it's definitely not 100. Let's analyze it.
01:39:42.000And I really began with these push-ups and now everybody is of course copying and I know what it that's all okay, but I like to I like research I like to investigate what we are really doing.
01:39:55.000Yeah, here we go 49% okay regular push-up you lift 64% of your body weight whereas with the knee push-up you okay no need to push up so a regular push-up 64% of your body weight so for me it's a little over a hundred was a 110 something like that yeah 114 right 64 is that right 128 okay so that's pretty close 64%.
01:43:42.000You can see it actively decompresses the spine.
01:43:45.000See, that's the lifting up, but on the lifting down, It goes under, the weight goes underneath that bench, and it actually pulls apart your spine.
01:43:55.000It decompresses the spine, so all the gravity and the stress and all the different...
01:47:29.000But you see, a situation, another situation, people go in the jeep through the safari and see the lions, about 12 of them lying there, and you go with the jeep,
01:47:45.000and then suddenly comes a Messiah kid on his bike, and all the lions see him, and they...
01:48:41.000The thing is, I want them, you know, to create an agency with the Maasai together and then have people walk through a reserve instead of...
01:48:55.000a car under guidance of under guidance of the Maasai under guidance of Navy SEALs armed to the tits yeah fucking missile launchers and shit yeah yeah you think so that that helps but it is something definitely helps that's the only way I'm going More important is to help the homeless.
01:50:29.000Now, I want these homeless people not only to have a soup kitchen like that, but also work on the land.
01:50:38.000And providing, say, vegetables and all that for the restaurant and distribute as well in the city.
01:50:46.000I think this way we could, it's very making them active, not just donating and giving food, but to get them back into the infrastructure, the system, the civilization among people.
01:51:12.000Poverty and despair and I think for some people they're just like on the edge and maybe just a little bit of help or bring them back off the edge and Bring them back into circulation, you know, I mean yeah Many people become homeless over time and they weren't before and then it just things don't go well and I know a bunch of I have a bunch of comedian friends that lived in their cars and You know lived on people's couches and were real close to homeless but made it through and So there's various levels.
01:51:40.000Strange thing, a thing called civilization.
01:51:43.000Yes, I mean, homeless is a very strange thing, right?
01:51:46.000Like, you don't have a regular place to go.
01:51:48.000And that, in our mind, is one of the saddest things.
01:51:52.000Like, oh, you don't have a place for your shit.
01:51:55.000How do you watch TV? How do you get online?
01:52:07.000Meanwhile, the homeless person or this person who's like a backpacker or some, you know, person who's like a traveler, they might be way happier and healthier than a lot of people that you see trapped in these homes that are sitting there smoking cigarettes.
01:52:48.000Don't you think it's maybe a little bit of our society is so competitive and that that competitive nature sort of alienates us from the other people around us?
01:52:57.000We think of them as competitors rather than think of them as our brothers and sisters.
01:57:45.000That can truly, truly change lives because you can give a child, instead of this horrible thing where they feel terrible about themselves, you give them a reset.
01:57:56.000We need more out-of-the-box thinking because the standard thinking of raising kids, I mean, I don't know what school's like in Holland, where you're from, but here in America, where I went to school, It was terribly confining.
01:58:42.000Embracing creativity as an option for you doing something with your life.
01:58:46.000No one ever tells you that you could be creative for a living, that you could be a sculptor, a painter, an artist, or a musician, or a stand-up comedian, or an author.
01:59:29.000Your GPA is not so good, so you're going to have to go here, and that's going to suck because then your job option is going to be limited.
01:59:35.000Or you can go to a community college and try to bring it up, and you're like, oh my god, all this fucking work, and then I'm going to take a job that's going to suck, and it's just soul-sucking for me.
01:59:44.000I mean, for some people, those options seem like a wonderful idea.
02:00:27.000But creativity, expressing your being, makes the world so beautiful, actually, and now it's becoming like a grey area, feeding a system, and nobody knows how to stop this.
02:00:43.000This system needs to turn around and begin to look, how can we serve your happiness, strength and health?
02:00:51.000Because strong, healthy and happy people will make up a great system.
02:01:09.000Simply that we are able to do so much more therein.
02:01:12.000Well, I think there's just a lot of momentum that's...
02:01:15.000That is attached to our education system and to our job options once we graduate from school.
02:01:22.000And this momentum is very difficult to someone to step away from because most of the time, by the time someone graduates from college, you're already in debt.
02:01:34.000And you have to make money in order to pay that debt off, and so you immediately go right into the workforce, and then you're tired after working all day, and most people find it very difficult to find a way to break free and to pursue their real dreams, whatever they are, you know, songwriting,
02:02:20.000So, and say mountaineering instructor or going into mountain guide, mountain guiding, canyoning, all those things, postman, working in a harbor,
02:04:12.000Like from 17 years on, I began to go into the cold.
02:04:18.000Being inspired by anthropologists who went into Tibet and talked about the Gudumo discipline, the Buddhist, the esoteric disciplines of Buddhism and what they call Siddhis within the yoga and all those.
02:04:37.000Oh, cities, S-I-T-I, cities of levitation.
02:07:03.000He took up a lot of what I am doing, but I really, in my mind, I go a lot Further than he is able to.
02:07:13.000And that's interesting that you correlate that with your birth, that you were born after him, and that there was some trauma involved and danger.
02:07:53.000That's why I like it in the cold and because I was born in the cold, almost suffocated.
02:08:00.000That's why I do these breathing exercises and feel good.
02:08:04.000Finally, I'm able to tap into that traumatic imprint and change the chemistry at will, controlled.
02:08:13.000And then I found out I was able to do so much more because now I was able to do it consciously.
02:08:20.000And from there, I got into the television, then I got into the science, and it appears to be that I found also a way to tap into what we call, say, trauma, PTSD, emotion, fear, depression, and not only that,
02:09:29.000Chemical deregulation, biochemical deregulation up till the DNA. Bam.
02:09:35.000So epigenetical, not only genetically, but during the life, you talk about epigenetics, we are able to influence into the genome structure of the DNA, but with the existence,
02:09:52.000smog, stress, Negative thoughts and radiation of things.
02:10:48.000And on top of that, we get food which is masked with.
02:10:55.000We create a lot of difficulties for our physiology that works back on our brain because it's a piece of meat inside and it's just working on biochemics and we are messing with that.
02:11:07.000So what I found in nature is It's actually a shortcut to learn to cleanse all the pollution, creating a wrong chemistry, creating deregulation of the DNA, and causing the body not to be able to deal with,
02:11:24.000say, disease, sickness, and depression, and all these things.
02:11:52.000I used to sit as an exercise on the middle of the square, one of the most trafficked squares of a big city in the Netherlands, which is Amsterdam, and just meditate on the square.
02:13:03.000The feeling which derives if we just witness and let go, interfering in the systems, working with the impact of what is going on, which could be stress in any way.
02:13:17.000So you find your own inner peace, myths, all that noise.
02:14:31.000has been discussed has been gotten out and it is life so so interesting so beautiful I thank you for you being a big window for so many and I thank you for being a part of it it means a lot to me to have you come back on it means a lot to me to be able to To share a lot of your ideas with the world and give you a platform.
02:14:57.000And I think what you're doing is amazing.
02:16:46.000It's kind of an interesting thing about podcasts because I couldn't just get you to come here and just sit and talk to me and nobody else would hear for hours and hours.
02:16:54.000The actual mechanism of doing a podcast, the act of doing a podcast allows me to To listen to these people like you and all these other interesting people that I'm so lucky to get to talk to.
02:17:07.000So I benefit from it tremendously, but it wouldn't exist without other people listening.
02:17:13.000So the fact that people are listening is what makes me have these things in the first place.
02:17:17.000We thank the people who are listening right now from our heart.
02:18:36.000It's just like it's completely informal.
02:18:37.000Like we'll do one episode of my podcast and we'll do one episode of Duncan's, one episode of Chris's, and we just sort of rotate back and forth between each other when Chris is in town.
02:18:46.000But Chris was living in Barcelona for a little bit, but now he's back.
02:19:03.000Well, his podcast, for people who want to listen, it's called Tangentially Speaking, and it's available on iTunes, and it's available on, is it chrisryan.com?
02:19:39.000It's so good that my friend's wife threw it in the garbage.
02:19:42.000It's so good my friend's wife threw it in the garbage.
02:19:45.000She started reading and she goes, you are not reading this and she chucked it in the trash.
02:19:49.000Yeah, I do not agree really with this sexual, you know, explanations about how it went and why we have these urges like from the prehistoric.