Are Vegan Strongmen for Real? | Joe Rogan and Robert Oberst

Now, what about food? Like, what kind of diet are you guys on? We all basically eat the exact same thing. We all just a ton of meat and rice and we do a lot of peppers and stuff like that. No one's vegan? No, no, no. Not any of us top up in the world. Isn't that one guy, that Patrick, what the fuck's his name? There's a vegan strong man I've heard of. I don't remember his name, but he's not like, he's never been the world's strongest man. Well there's a documentary they're doing with James Cameron where they're trying to promote him as being, James Cameron is on this vegan kick. His wife has a school and they feed the kids all vegan food and Arnold's a part of this too and they're, yeah, that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know who that is. He's not one of the strongest men in the world. He's a strong man and he's strong and I've, and no disrespect. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not saying anything bad about him. He's just... Put that back up again, Jamie. He's just, I don't, and from what I recall, he's never even been invited to World's Strongest Man. So it's bullshit. Yeah, I mean you can say a lot of things like this guy say, say he broke a record in like some powerlifting competition that was in a guy's backyard, right? And they call that a world record. And then all of a sudden now he's a world record strength athlete because his buddy in his backyard said so. A lot of that happens. I don't know specifically about him. I have no clue where he's getting his credentials from. One meal a day. See, this is ridiculous. One meal a day and vegan. Vegan professional powerlifter 2013 set the deadlift world record for his weight class. Oh, it's only 672 pounds. For how much does he weigh though? 672 isn't even big for guys that are like 115 pounds. Well, he's only 5'7. So he's smaller than me. So they're talking about powerlifting too. Once you get into powerlifting, there's so many little federations and stuff. They and their mother has world records and just this and that. So his documentary is touting because that's why I was confused. All the strongmen that I've seen are giants. Right. How can a 5'7 guy compete? I've never seen them anywhere on the circuit or anywhere. And there is a circuit, like a confirmed circuit with guys like you who brine a shaw. Eddie Hall and Nick Best. Huge giant humans. We have Giants Live. Giants Live is the qualifying tour for World's Strongest Man. So to get to Giants Live, you either there's like a bunch of little federations that you could possibly do well in and they'll invite you or, you know, like getting invited is kind of like the only tricky thing, getting in. But once you get there, if you prove yourself, you get top three or if like say you go to my first Giants Live I went to, it was like stacked. Like it was 10 of the strongest men on the planet. And normally Giants Live has like three of the top 10 and then a few of other guys trying to get in. And so when I went, it was top, all the top 10 guys and I got a sixth place, I believe, but I still got invited to World's Strongest Man because it was the top 10 strongest men in the world there when I did that. So normally you have to go to a Giants Live, prove yourself there, and then you get invited to World's Strongest Man. Because like we've had years where World's Strongest Man got pushed and was filmed early, so they had to invite other guys. But you can always tell who's strong. Like you can see when a guy shows up and he's ready to go or if he's just got show muscles or if he's just a big chubby dude, you know, and it's, I mean, you strap a guy to a truck and tell him to pull it 30 meters, you're going to figure that shit out real quick. Yeah, I can only imagine. It's a shit show for some people. Well, because the James Cameron thing, they're pulling this guy out as if he's some world record power lifter, strong man guy. He probably has a world record. He probably has some type of world record. I've seen him because I've posted videos talking about my meals and stuff before, and a lot of people give me that like, this guy does this and he's vegan. But I mean, if the biggest pollies ever pulled a 627, then that wouldn't even do like, that would get last place at an amateur heavyweight show in America. And also the other thing is, is America, we have the strongest man in the world too. Like everyone, it's weird. In America, we have these people like have this love for other countries. Everyone wants to be like, well, I hear in Iceland, they're really strong. Or, oh, in Poland, they're this. And it's like, motherfucker, we're strong here. Like we're fucking strong. If you're an American, getting into the world is the hardest way to get in. If you go to another country, it's much easier, much easier because here we've got out of the top 10, we've probably got four or five guys, four or five guys that are top 10 in the world at any given time. And only like three or four, maybe five guys get invited every year from America. So if you're getting into worlds, you got to be a bad motherfucker or go move to Poland or actually Poland's got a bad dude right now. Go move to Lithuania or go somewhere else. It would be easier because you would represent a country with a smaller town pool. Much easier. We bang out here. I believe. Yes, sir.