Joe Rogan Further Investigates Chris Cuomo's Fake Weights

So one thing that I wanted to bring up, we talked about before the podcast, that I actually read a whole article about. We were talking about on the podcast whether or not Chris Cuomo was really lifting a 100-pound barbell. Now, I had completely forgot we even talked about this until I stumbled upon an article online about it. And in the article, it actually referenced us talking about it on the podcast. And apparently- He wasn't. They think I'm quite stupid for believing that Chris Cuomo really had this 100-pound dumbbell that he was lifting up. It looked very light. It did look very light. But so my thought was how big is Chris Cuomo? Oh, that's a good point. I thought he was bigger than he is. So I Googled it. He's only 182 pounds, which says he's 6'2", 182 pounds. I don't know if that's accurate. 6'2", 180? He doesn't look that lean. He doesn't look that lean. But anyway, that makes him 20 pounds lighter than me. So very unlikely that he's carrying that dumbbell like that. So then I'm like, okay, I got to ask some people who would actually know. So I sought out some people online, and one of them was Rob Kearney. He's been on the podcast before. He's World Strongest Gay. Oh yeah, I know that guy. He's awesome. I follow him. Love that dude. And I think he won recently a pound for pound strongman title. I believe it. He's not a big guy. He's a tank. Tank. But he's only about 5'10", maybe. But fucking Gorilla Strong. So he says to me, so I say to him, have you ever seen the thing? And he says, I just watched the video. I think it's fake. LOL. He doesn't look to be bracing hard enough for it to be actually 100 pounds. Good point. He is kind of wishy-washy in his seat. He's a real expert, right? So he's an actual strongman. So I'm pretty convinced. So then I asked Robert Oberst, who's also... Robert is fucking enormous. Absolutely one of the strongest men in the world. He's a Goliath. And you sit next to him, 300 plus pounds. So he says, the picture looks possible because his elbow's up and stable. But the video where he's at his desk showing the weight off, he moves it around out at an angle that would be the smallest head of the top of the bicep taking all the weight and it doesn't even faze him. He said, if it's real, he's stronger than anyone I've ever seen use a dumbbell. Wow. I'd say it's a 40 pound weight with 100 pounds written on it. He said lots of insta-famous lifters have fake dumbbells and plates. Ah, interesting. So two experts, Rob Kearney and Robert Oberst, both of them call bullshit. So I refer to them. Wow. It does. When he's sitting in the chair at the desk there, it looks very light. When I saw he's 182 pounds, that might not be true. Because I bet if you Google what my weight is, they probably don't know what my weight is either. 100 pounds is a lot. But 182 pounds for a man who's six foot two is not a gorilla. Like Brendan Schaub. Okay, if Brendan Schaub was doing that, I'd go, I bet he could do that. Brendan Schaub is 270 pounds, 260 plus pounds. He's huge. He's huge. But even then, it seems like it wiggles. I obviously didn't look at it close enough. And also, I'm not a lifter in that sense. I don't lift heavy weights. The heaviest shit I ever lift is I might squat a couple of hundred pounds for reps. But most of the shit I do is kettlebells. So I'm doing like, the heaviest ones I do are like 90 pounds. Or maybe, and that's rare. Usually I use like a 70 pound kettlebell or 50 pound kettlebell depending upon the exercise. They're not heavy. I'm doing functional movements that use your full body. So I'm not in that lifting world. But if you wanted to talk to like, you'd have to talk to like CT Fletcher. You'd have to talk to those power lifter dudes who really understand. Those are the ones that so- It's a little uncomfortable that I'm sitting right in front of you and I'm not in the list of people that you're asking. Because on my Peloton, there are three and a half pound weights that sit on the back of the seat. And once in a while, you have to take those out and curl them. Sometimes two in one hand, mind you. And it is quite a workout. Okay, so he's 200 pounds. He says he went from 218 pounds to a pretty lean 200 pounds. He cut out, said he cut out about bullshit. But dairy and bad sugar, 2014 cutback booze. So he's 200 pounds. His body fat plummeted to 12%. Okay. Well, he's pretty dialed in on his stuff though. Right, but he's taller than me. And he's my weight. There's no way he's handling that weight like that. I can't handle that weight like that. Can we see the video? I'm a fucking jackson. Oh man, I wish I didn't have my jacket on. I would be showing you my biceps. Show me what's up. Show me what's up. Roy Jones Jr. flexed his arm in that chair. He has two of mine. Does he really? On his left. It's crazy. His left arm is so much bigger than his right because he's got probably one of the best left hooks, not probably, one of the best left hooks a human being's ever thrown. Oh my God. So his left bicep is gigantic. It's so much bigger than his right. He was joking around about it. But when he flexed, you're like, Jesus. Good Lord. Just like an alien head in there. Yeah, see, there it is. He does have shoulders. Yeah. Well, that move, when he does that. Well, that's not, that's kind of braced. That's 100 pounds. That's so heavy. Yeah. 100 pounds is so heavy. This is where I'm less, go back to that. When he's doing the little hammer curls, this is where I'm less likely to believe this one right here when he's doing that. He's not even straining. There's no strain at all in his back. Everything looks too light. Yeah. And look, again, I don't know shit. This is not my world. I can show you a video of a guy like Bradley Martin. I do that for YouTube. Right. He's like 120 pound dumbbells. Oh, go real. Right. Right. Right. And Brad, he's a giant. Who is Bradley Martin? Show Bradley Martin. Bradley Martin takes girls. He puts like weights on bars and then has girls hang on the bars and he fucking presses them. I love that move. He's a YouTube famous lifter. Right. But all completely. Look at this. He's cleaning and pressing a girl. But the dude is like, what is it, like six, three, six, four, 270 easy. Oh my God. Enormous. Look at his arms. He's a huge, legitimately huge man. Yeah. So he's struggling. There's a video of him on there with a hundred pound dumbbells. Well, I get my feeling. Look at that one. Look at that bar bending. Look at that when he's doing deadlifts. Oh my God. Besides this motherfucker. There's so much weight on the bar that you look at him and you go, oh, okay. Oh, that shit's real as fuck. As people always say, it's fake. We have a bar bending. This guy doesn't have to fake anything. Listen, there ain't no faking going on right there. That's you look at the way that weight is moving. When you see the size of him too, he's, it all makes sense. But his tricep doesn't wiggle when he points at something like mine. Episodes of the Joe Rogan experience are now free on Spotify. That's right. They're free from September 1st to December 1st. They're going to be available everywhere. But after December 1st, they will only be available on Spotify, but they will be free. That includes the video. The video will also be there. It'll also be free. That's all we're asking. Just go download Spotify. Much love. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye.