In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, I sit down with my brother, Tommy, to talk about how he's been able to stay on track with his fitness and mental health goals. We talk about the importance of being consistent with your goals and how important it is to take care of your body and mind. I hope you enjoy this episode and know that you're not alone in your struggles with your health and mental well-being. I know that I've had my own struggles with mental health and anxiety, and I'm here to tell you that you don't have to go through the same struggles to be able to achieve your goals. You can do it, and you deserve to have a good day to day life, no matter what you're going through. I hope this episode inspires you to keep going and keep going, and that it gives you a little bit of perspective on what it means to be a good human being. I'm not here to make you feel good, I am here to help you do good, and help you be the best you you can be. I love you, and thank you for being a part of this journey with me. I appreciate you, I really appreciate you! -Tommy and I hope that you have a great day, and keep coming back for more! -Joe Rogan Podcast (The Joe Rogans Experience Podcast by night, by day, by night. All day, all day, in the morning, by evening, by the night, and all day all day by day. ) Check it out! - Tweet Me Outroof the podcast with your thoughts, opinions, thoughts, feelings, and anything else you're thinking about it? or anything you can do to help me out! or have a question, tweet me and I'll get back to you know what you think of it :) Timestamps: 5:00 - 5:15 - 5:30 - 6:00 - What's up? 7:00 | 6:30 | 7:15 | 8:00 / 8: What do you think about it?! 9: What's good? - How do you feel about it?? 11: What is it better? 12:30 / 11:30 13: What does it mean to you? 14:00/15:00 + 15:15 16:40 17:10
00:00:40.000I think I had this, I don't know if I told you, this mentality before where I would go, if I got to a number on the scale, I thought of it as like a finish line.
00:00:52.000I didn't realize I was doing it, but I was.
00:02:20.000There's the I feel like a loser thing, but there's also this even another layer to it where on days when I don't do anything physical and it's towards the end of the day, I kind of go like, what's wrong with me?
00:02:36.000And Christina might be like, what's going on with you?
00:02:40.000And then sometimes it takes me a moment and I'll be like, I didn't work out today.
00:05:41.000It's just like working out in a sauna.
00:05:43.000Like, the sauna actually gives you cardiovascular benefit just sitting there because your heart's beating faster because it's trying to, your body's trying to cool you off.
00:08:22.000I guess it's a little bit of everything.
00:08:24.000I think actually getting severely injured and just being like, first of all, I think hearing people being like, oh, you're really going to fall apart now.
00:08:35.000Now that you've been injured, you're going to be a mess.
00:09:17.000And then what happened was my PT, we were doing all the rehab stuff, and she was the one who was like, are people telling you you're going to get way out of shape?
00:09:49.000We got to fucking, we should hit him with a bus.
00:09:52.000You know what, do you remember the moment of reflection after this last Sober October, we were all out there, we were all going to go do a show, and I said, come do the show with us.
00:19:58.000And for that to heal and be able to use it again, it takes, just for it to heal takes about two months.
00:20:05.000Then your muscle has atrophied completely, like your quad is completely atrophied.
00:20:09.000So then you have to learn how to walk and learn how to do steps again.
00:20:14.000It's a complete, complete debilitating type of injury.
00:20:20.000They're both at the same time, so when I got injured, All the people in the hospital, doctors, PTs, they all looked at my arm and they're like, that's not going to be a problem, right?
00:20:31.000And you think about it, you're like, yeah, you see people in casts all the time.
00:20:33.000They're like, you'll be fine with that.
00:20:35.000That leg, that's going to be your problem.
00:24:09.000If I am eating, say, a steak and mashed potatoes and french fries and other stuff and bread, bread and butter, I'll just keep eating the mashed potatoes.
00:24:22.000Even after I'm done eating steak, I'll keep eating fries.
00:24:59.000Neil Guy's a very lean animal, and if you're in a fat-burning state, which is the one I'm in right now, you have to have some sort of fats.
00:27:27.000You know, there's a better way to do it and they don't want to do it the better way because it's more expensive and it's difficult, you know, like to do a regenerative farm.
00:27:35.000But if you do it this way with Roundup and they use it everywhere, there's like...
00:28:04.000If I give myself like, and also it's like there's this thing where you realize that you can really kind of fall into peer pressure kind of situations.
00:32:03.000The lawyer cited a video reported to be of the incident circulating online that shows two police officers leaning into the driver's side window of a yellow car before the vehicle pulls away and one officer fires towards the driver.
00:32:15.000The car is later seen crashed into a post nearby.
00:32:18.000So they tried to take off and he shot them.
00:32:22.000So is this what prompted these riots, though?
00:33:04.000There's a reason why they get road rage.
00:33:06.000And the reason why they get road rage is when you're on the road and you're driving, you're in a heightened state because your car is going 60 miles an hour.
00:33:13.000So you're ready at any time to hit the brakes, to change lanes.
00:35:15.000But some people, you know, first you have the people that are, like, the legal scholars who want to lecture the police officer on his rights.
00:42:59.000If something's losing money, people don't just go, well, I guess we'll just lose money forever.
00:43:04.000So there is going to be a point, and maybe it's happening now, where you're going to start seeing something done with this commercial property.
00:43:14.000If things stay vacant, they're not just going to hold onto that for 15 years.
00:43:19.000They're going to turn that into something.
00:43:21.000I was reading some dipshit comedian on Twitter saying that they should turn all that into housing for homeless people.
00:43:33.000I mean, I got to say, that also reminds me of this, and I know this will be unpopular for a lot of people to hear, But the idea of forgiving student loans, it's a fantastic theory.
00:43:47.000But one thing that nobody considers who is a huge advocate of that is, OK, so somebody owns that debt.
00:45:07.000What's the collective student loan debt in the United States as of 20?
00:45:11.000I do know there is a differentiation in this conversation that it's federal student loan debt, not private student loan debt, which is a big difference.
00:45:46.000See, this statement, I don't know if this is differentiating that either.
00:45:49.000It says it's $1.78 trillion in student loan debt.
00:45:52.000That's a lot, dude, to the U.S. That's more than people owe on any other type of debt in the U.S. except for mortgages, though the Biden administration is trying to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan balances.
00:46:03.000That's more than people owe on any other type of debt in the U.S. Well, except for mortgages.
00:49:51.000But they get worse, they extend when you fight them.
00:49:54.000When you resist, I don't want to feel it.
00:49:55.000And you don't want to actually process the feeling and deal with it.
00:49:59.000I mean, having that understanding that all those emotions are natural to have, it's like it really is something that could serve you so much better to learn younger.
00:50:08.000I don't want to learn that at 40. Teach me that at 13. It would make high school a lot easier to deal with.
00:51:19.000It's like people who share information, whatever it is, are the people who don't have that insecurity that like, well, if you have it, then it's no longer mine.
00:52:12.000But it also comes from being around groups of people that think that way.
00:52:15.000If you get fortunate enough to be around someone who doesn't think that—and I'm very fortunate in martial arts, because in martial arts, it's a very meritocracy-based thing.
00:52:26.000And it's also you need really good people to get good.
00:52:29.000So everybody, like, cherishes and also respects and celebrates people that are really good.
00:52:54.000And it makes you go, like, I mean, I think I told you this, that, like, when I was at the club and Attell was in town, it was just a great reminder.
00:53:02.000Not just watching him on stage, which was fantastic, but just hanging out with him.
00:53:07.000It just took me, like, it actually took me back to, like, oh, yes, like, Hanging out with somebody like this in the green room reminds you of all the things you love about doing stand-up.
00:53:17.000The green room at that club has been the greatest thing that I've ever experienced.
00:56:58.000He's the sweetest guy in the world, man.
00:57:00.000The funny thing is he's probably done what I just described to you so many times, and if you brought it up to him, he'd be like, oh yeah, you know, I'm out there killing.
00:57:08.000But it's that guy that has a total lack of promotion.
00:57:12.000He doesn't promote, he has zero promotion in him.
00:57:54.000But, you know, it's like that's the beautiful thing about this business is you will run into those guys that are much more talented than they are popular.
00:58:13.000That is only relevant in the internet age, in the age of this, where there are people who always have that thing of they know how to get people talking about them and juiced up about them.
00:58:27.000And it becomes the thing that they actually worked on.
00:58:32.000You go, what have you been working on?
01:04:51.000And old people, that's one of the major reasons why they fall down, is just they're feeble.
01:04:57.000There's an interesting photography series of cross-sections of people's anatomy done through MRI. So they show a 70-year-old sedentary person next to a 70-year-old triathlete.
01:05:15.000They show a 40-year-old sedentary person next to a 40-year-old triathlete.
01:05:21.000And there's all these, I mean, obviously, I'm not saying you have to be a triathlete, but just being strong, being strong enough to do stuff is so important.
01:05:31.000The only way you get that way is lifting weights and working out.
01:05:33.000The only thing I keep preaching to my friends and my family circle of people I'm around, especially guys, guys and women, I want to make that point too, women too, is you have to have resistance, weight resistance.
01:05:47.000People get into their, when they hear that, they keep thinking like tremendously heavyweight.
01:05:52.000Like, oh, I'm not going to be a power lifter.
01:06:22.000When you're in the hotel gyms, And sometimes you see these dudes, of all ages, but I would say starting at like 40 into the 70s, is the guy who walks in kind of like the beginning of dropped head syndrome, like this, and immediately you know this guy's going to the elliptical or treadmill.
01:06:43.000Because that guy doesn't lift weights.
01:06:45.000And all you have to do, like not all you have to do, but if you want to avoid that path, Weight training.
01:07:42.000I think if you're doing something else like Jiu Jitsu, you can get by with a couple of workouts in the morning and a couple of workouts in the afternoon where you're not even killing yourself.
01:07:54.000You're just doing some kettlebells, doing some chin-ups, doing some push-ups, but you're making your body do these things.
01:08:00.000Even if you do only one set of chin-ups, you do 10 chin-ups, do 20 dips, do 20 push-ups, do 20 body weight squats, just do that!
01:10:15.000Yeah, and you guys who are in their 50s are just going to, you're going to be the guys that in your 60s and 70s people go like, you're fucking 65?
01:12:18.000I think one of my favorite, like when you talk about your favorite things to eat, for me, like an Italian sub, like a German Italian one with all the meats.
01:12:26.000This guy, Giovanni, from G&R Deli in the Bronx.
01:13:13.000I ate and they gave us, they're so generous, they gave us like a tray of sandwiches and we brought them to the UFC. So I was telling all the other on-air guys, I'm like, you know, DC, DC loves his food.
01:19:10.000The wildest trick your body does to you, especially with a big, heavy sugar meal, your body tricks you into thinking it's good while you're doing it.
01:20:03.000I'll do the shit where I see them at the grocery store, and I start grabbing, and then all of a sudden, the next day, Christine will be like, are there six different pints of ice cream in there?
01:20:30.000Yeah, that shit's my, that is my absolute favorite.
01:20:32.000I remember the first time I got high with Eddie, he took me to, we went to Baskin Robbins and I had an ice cream sundae and I was like, this is the greatest thing the world has ever invented.
01:24:40.000McDonald's has this thing, too, where there's a temperature swing where it goes from being the best thing you can eat at that moment to, like, this is dog food.
01:25:24.000That's the thing I think you really notice about certain foods when you stay away from them for a while, is that when you reintroduce them, you go, oh, I didn't realize that I was...
01:27:00.000Yeah, somebody told me about it the first time and then I googled it and it's much more extensive than you, it's not like two or three things.
01:28:51.000I don't know which place is going to really know about them, but I've seen people ask, like, they follow through with a video and go ask for some of this stuff.
01:31:05.000You see it on social media where they'll grab a Twitter handle and the company hasn't locked it down yet.
01:31:12.000People will tweet like they're from that company.
01:31:14.000Well, people are tweeting like they're from Bud Light now because, you know, there's Bud Light.
01:31:19.000If you go Bud Light underscore, so they're making these very subtle commercials that are like almost as like nothing goes with wieners like Bud Light.
01:32:25.000Because they felt like Bud Light didn't back them up.
01:32:28.000And then there was video footage of them sponsoring a pride parade So it's like a Bud Light parade truck with a bunch of people dancing around like, we like to fuck guys too.
01:34:58.000Such a weird time because unfortunately because of social media, now anything that you do, you can form an identity around it and then it can be like your identity in terms of like your source of like how you view yourself in the world.
01:35:14.000You no longer view yourself in the world as just a human being.
01:35:18.000That's just accepted for whatever you're interested in.
01:35:21.000Now you're in, like, a very specific category or group.
01:35:24.000And then there's other people in that group, and you think there's people that are opposed to you, and there are people that are opposed to them.
01:39:18.000How reckless Hunter Biden photographed himself driving, and he's photographing it while he's going 172. God.
01:39:25.000While behind the wheel of his Porsche en route to the days-long Vegas Bender with prostitution, pictured himself smoking crack while behind the wheel.
01:42:04.000He said, crack, people that are completely fine trying this and trying that, he said, that's the one where you can do it and just everything, forever your brain has changed and will be basically in the pursuit of crack.
01:42:21.000The next Sober October we should do...
01:48:06.000They don't give a fuck who's watching.
01:48:08.000They don't give a fuck how cool you are.
01:48:10.000They don't give a fuck what you're dressed like.
01:48:12.000They don't give a fuck if somebody likes you.
01:48:14.000If you make that shot, you make that shot.
01:48:17.000And to keep your nerves together and navigate around the table was a puzzle to me.
01:48:24.000I was fascinated by it because it's just this You're in tune with these balls colliding with these other balls and trying to find the proper angle and plotting out the table in advance to get the good angle on the next ball, to get the good angle on the next ball.
01:50:05.000So when someone makes eight, that means they've made more than half so they won the game.
01:50:12.000And then to make handicaps, like say if you and I were playing and you don't play as good as me, I'd say, okay, I have to make ten balls and you only have to make five.
01:50:45.000Which is a little complicated because bar, table, eight ball, you have to have really good cue ball control because you're dealing with a lot of clusters, so you have to know how to move the ball around.
01:50:52.000It seems easier because you don't have long shots because the table's small, and it is.
01:50:57.000It's easier for that, but it's harder for position play because you have very small room for error.
01:51:02.000And so you develop a real good sense of where the cue ball's going.
01:51:06.000A lot of bar table players have a real solid cue ball.
01:51:50.000And the way you get lucky, say if you call that corner pocket and you miss, but it bounces off the rail, hits the other rail, and comes back in that corner pocket, it still counts.
01:56:57.000I think it's a more efficient form of energy than carbohydrates are.
01:57:01.000I did find that I'd have joint pain and when I was at the house and I'd feel that way, that was another benefit of that feeling after cold plunging was alleviated.
01:57:17.000My knees would be sore from hitting the bike for a while or squats and then you're like, damn, it really does feel alleviated.
02:01:05.000The fact that Kill Tony started out in the belly room at the Comedy Store to a half-filled crowd where they were just kind of finding their legs, and I remember doing it back then, to seeing it now where they did it in front of that sold-out movie theater.
02:02:58.000And, you know, finally he feels like he has a place where he can go up and he has big crowds and he's appreciated and he's having a great time.
02:04:35.000First time I was watching Nate Bargatze's first one on there, I paused it at like 15 minutes, and I was like, you're about to go do Big Rooms.
02:06:24.000He put it on Twitter now because that's really the only place you could put something like that if it gets pulled from YouTube, which is...
02:06:30.000So they pulled the whole episode, though?
02:06:31.000They pulled the whole episode for this.
02:07:42.000Like, for the real truth that, you know, and I'm glad that they did set up all these guidelines so that we only are allowed to speak the truth.
02:07:50.000And the truth is that Biden got 81 million votes by winning 36 counties.
02:08:02.000Of these 81 million supporters who gave him more votes than any president has ever gotten before, he came with a mandate from these 81 million voters.
02:09:15.000And don't you dare say anything against it or you'll be off YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and all the other ones because there's such a thing as the truth and facts and we have to stick to it.
02:10:24.000But, you know, and people should be glad that it's Jewish too because if Jews were not controlling Hollywood, all you'd have was fucking fishing shows.
02:10:55.000It's also obvious if you're listening that when she says that the Holocaust, and that like that many Jews should die.
02:11:02.000And that she said it after she said this thing where she's clearly poking fun at Biden saying, but by the way, I think you can I don't know the math.
02:11:44.000But it's also, if you do all the research that you can, the valid studies and reports, even from hardcore pro-Republican counties, It's like fractional voter fraud.
02:12:15.000Okay, so with over 81 million votes, Biden received the most votes of any presidential candidate in history.
02:12:20.000It's also true that he won a record low number of counties, but counties vary by population size from those with a few hundred people to others with millions of residents.
02:12:30.000So, county wins don't correlate with popular vote.
02:14:29.000There's something about the software being vulnerable.
02:14:31.000This is on CNN. Georgia election officials have been aware of existing vulnerabilities in the state's voting software for more than two years but continue to insist the system is safe and won't be updated until after 2024, according to a report that was unsealed this week.
02:14:44.000As part of a controversial court case in Georgia, the report's findings focus on weaknesses in software for certain Dominion voting machines.
02:14:52.000Those weaknesses were previously verified by federal cybersecurity officials who urged election officials across the country to update their systems.
02:15:00.000A lawyer for Georgia's top election official, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Recently told a federal court that officials would forego installing Dominion security patches until after the 2024 presidential election.
02:15:19.000The Georgia election officials insist that it's highly unlikely that the vulnerabilities will be exploited in real attacks.
02:15:26.000Well, when you fucking write about it on CNN, doesn't that make it more likely?
02:15:29.000I mean, yeah, why are you sharing this?
02:15:32.000Upgrading the system would be a massive undertaking, and our election officials are evaluating the scope of and time required for the project.
02:15:39.000Mike Hassinger, a spokesperson for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, told CNN when asked about the delay.
02:15:55.000Gabriel Sterling, a top election official in the Georgia Secretary of State's office, said in a press release from earlier this month, adding that safeguards are already in place to mitigate these hypothetical scenarios from happening.
02:17:29.000In 2006, Ohio became the poster child for bad election administration when two lengthy reports examining, say that word, Cuyahoga County's election procedures uncovered multiple serious problems The county lost 812 voter access cards that allowed a voter to cast a ballot on machines.
02:17:50.000It also lost 313 keys to the memory card compartments where the votes are stored on the machines.
02:18:55.000We don't have widespread abuse of this in the last election.
02:19:00.000I mean, from everything that I've read and seen, it's not been reported that this is, even from, like I'm saying, from Republican counties.
02:19:07.000It's not something that I've heard where it's compelling enough for me to say that I know that that's what happened.
02:19:12.000U.S. finds no evidence flaws in Dominion voting machines were ever exploited.
02:19:18.000Well, if they're really good at exploiting it, would you know that you got exploited?
02:19:21.000And if you were exploited, would you tell everybody they were exploited and Trump should have actually won when that guy's been screaming like a maniac for four years?
02:21:22.000And if we don't follow the rules because we don't like somebody, and we break the law because we don't like somebody, we don't want them to win.
02:21:47.000Well, he was, I mean, you remember there was a time where Chuck Schumer was on one of those shows talking about how stupid it is to attack the intelligence community.
02:21:57.000I mean he was openly saying it like they have 18 ways to Sunday to get you.
02:22:04.000Yeah, you know and but the fact that they did it like It's not good because it's the same thing that I feel about like the censorship thing with social media if someone is spreading some sort of fake information on purpose to hurt other people that's one thing and But if someone is just saying something that you don't like them to say or something that's disputed or something that seems to not be agreed upon by certain people
02:22:34.000but then there are also experts in the field that do agree.
02:22:38.000You've got to let people talk that through, because if you don't, and you silence debate, and it turns out you were wrong, like the Hunter Biden laptop story, or like Russia, if you were wrong, and you were ruining people's social media channels, ruining people's YouTube channels, ruining public discourse,
02:22:55.000changing the way people think about something, well, you have a responsibility to not do that again.
02:22:59.000Now you know you did that, and this is why that is dangerous.
02:23:16.000It's gross and they don't understand that it undermines something that is already a problem.
02:23:21.000And that's public belief in mainstream media.
02:23:25.000The general public has lost a tremendous amount of faith in the news and what they're saying and what's true and experts and all sorts of things.
02:23:35.000And then it was all exaggerated greatly by the pandemic.
02:24:03.000You just got to get good people that really actually do care and aren't bought and paid for and actually have a fucking plan to unite people and not strengthen this one side to fight against the other side, but bring everybody together and make everybody realize our differences are so small in comparison to the things we have in common and the things we want and the things that will help everyone's life.
02:25:04.000But it does because there's these predetermined patterns of thinking and ideas that people adopt.
02:25:11.000When they join an ideology, whether they join a progressive ideology or a conservative ideology, in order to be in the group, you have to espouse a certain amount of things.
02:25:20.000And I see people say it when they might not even believe it.
02:31:38.000Within two years of taking the drug re-equip, he was so addicted to both his vices he sold his children's toys to raise money and advertised himself on the internet for sex.
02:31:47.000He's now been given $160,000 in damages after a court in...
02:32:24.000The court increased the level of damage to $197,468.83 euros after finding out there was serious, precise, and corroborated evidence to blame his transformation on re-equipped.
02:33:17.000He said his family had not understood what was going on at first, but his behavior turned to normal when he stumbled upon a website that made the link between re-equip and addictions in 2005, and he stopped taking the drug.
02:33:37.000It also feels like if you're gay curious, you can blame it on re-equip if you can get your hands on some.
02:33:42.000It said the court had heard warnings that re-equip side effects had been made public in 2006. Mr. Jambert said the GSK should have informed patients earlier.
02:33:50.000He conceded that re-equip was a good medicine and offered undeniable solutions to people with Parkinson's disease.
02:34:33.000It says, Pfizer settles lawsuits tying sex and gambling addictions to dopamine meds.
02:34:38.000Class action litigation brought by patients who claim drugmaker did not adequately warn them of the side effects of drugs they were taking to treat their Parkinson's disease or restless leg syndrome.
02:34:47.000While this kind of litigation is routine, the side effects were not.
02:34:50.000Instead, patients were said the drugs created addictions they didn't previously have, patients said, rather, the drugs created addictions they didn't previously have, causing them to gamble with their life savings or become obsessed with shopping or sex.
02:35:03.000Holy shit, so this is definitely triggering something.
02:35:06.000The confidential settlement with 172 patients, said to be for millions of dollars, was approved by a judge in federal court in Australia.
02:35:14.000The Financial Review reports, although payments were delayed until they were assessed by an independent review, Pfizer had agreed to the settlement late last year ahead of the trial of cases brought by people who took Pfizer's Cabocer and Dostinex between 1996 and 2010 treat tremors associated with Parkinson's disease or RLS. That makes sense if you've got a neural...
02:40:37.000It is funny how a couple times I went to the high limit room, and I'm still, you know, this is not crazy numbers, but I would put like a few hundred down, and you win, you're like, whoa.
02:40:48.000You get that hit, and then you double it, you know, so then you kind of go, you're holding on to the guy next, you're like, ah, and you win again.
02:42:48.000And then you get the confidence to do that come bet.
02:42:51.000But then those side bets is like, I think the problem with it, too, is you're betting against the table a lot, too, because I think it hits if it's 7 or 11, and that's craps, so people don't even want to think about that a lot of times.
02:43:03.000But sometimes you'll find a rebel who comes up to the table and just throws a bunch of money on that come bet, and you're like, hey, what is this fucking guy doing?
02:43:08.000And then it hits, and you're like, well, he's not wrong, but it's going against everybody else on the table.
02:43:13.000It is a silly amount of money, though.
02:43:14.000You can play a come bet only after a point is made on a come-out roll.
02:43:20.000It's more complicated, but you don't have to place a pass line bet.
02:43:26.000You win if the next roll is a 7 or 11, or if the come point is repeated before a 7. You lose if the next roll is a 2, 3, 12, or if a 7 is rolled before the come point is repeated.
02:46:12.000I know about a couple games where people play real money.
02:46:16.000Yeah, Cowan knows some people who do that.
02:46:18.000LA has a number of those underground games.
02:46:22.000And he said the crazy thing is like these guys will just gamble you into a corner where you're talking about so much money you have to fold.
02:49:47.000I realized that on that last show that I was doing...
02:49:51.000I did, you know, I opened with, like, some local stuff, and I did some stuff I wrote in Europe, because I was touring Europe, and then I got into, like, that meat of the hour set, and I was like, yeah, this is when you tour for that long and do this many shows, that you were like, I've, like,
02:50:06.000I just owned it in a way that, and I was aware of it.