Joe Rogan - Jesse Itzler Tells Hilarious David Goggins Stories

I mean when Goggins live with me his rule is we had to do something every day that sucked That was his rule. He's a master at that. Yeah, tell me about it and what did he make you do? Every day sucked he didn't tell me that we're gonna do that five times a day that you know No, I mean I remember one day. Well, if the first thing we did was he came in and he He wanted to see how many pull-ups I could do so he can map out the month He lived with me for a month and I went to the pull-up bar and I got like maybe eight pull-ups Which is an exaggeration and probably got like four pull-ups a Lot of people are listening so And then he said I wait 30 seconds go and do it again And I went up on the pull-up bar and I did maybe like three or four he said I wait 30 seconds I want you to do it again And I got up on the pull-up bar and I did maybe like one kipping, you know getting my damn chin over the bar Barely and I dropped down. I was all jacked up and I said, all right. Well, what's what's next? He said well, what's next is we're not leaving here until you do a hundred more We're not leaving the gym till you do a hundred more that day now like right now right now So you know, I was like seven I did like probably seven or ten and I was like man goggles That's impossible and he said, you know, I already I already know what your biggest problem is And he's like the limitations you're putting on yourself or self-imposed get the fuck back on the bar And you know Roger that man and I got up on the bar and I over over the course of an hour or two I did them and that started our journey of like you're about to go in a place where you've never been motherfucker, you know and you know, we went I remember one day I was sitting on the couch and In Connecticut where I was living at the time and on the ticker on the on the TV the emergency broadcast system came up stay inside Freezing rain icy conditions high winds stay inside like beeping stay inside and Goggins like this is amazing man Let's go for a run And I'm like They're telling us the exact opposite there. They're they're broadcasting to the whole community to stay inside Right, so we go for a 10 mile run in the blizzard and we come home and I lived on a lake and kids are playing hockey On the lake so we go down and he takes his hand. He moves all the snow off the ice It gets a boulder and he breaks the ice a little hole in the ice with the boulder and then he takes his hand He makes the hole a little bit bigger and then he jumps in and then he points at me and he takes his finger And he singles for me to jump in I'm not going in the fucking freezing cold water because my mother told me as a kid in Long Island Don't go anywhere near the frozen water. You fall in you have like a minute, you know, right? He's bathing in it so of course I go in and He looks at me is like man you got about him about four two two two to four minutes gonna get hypothermia We just went on a run. We got to get you out of the lake and I go to get out he goes you can't get out He goes if your skin touches the ice it's gonna stick to the ice like the kid in Christmas story is tongue that sticks to The pole, you know so he puts my shoes back on my hands and picks my ass up and puts my sock I put my socks on whatever and I I bear crawl out of the ice and I run up and I see my wife Looking out the window as I'm running into the house and we come in she says to Goggins, you know Like what's the medical benefit of jumping in a frozen lake and he said to her there's no medical benefit She's like this is what your husband signed up for You know, it's like I want to see how far he's willing to go to get to his goals And I was like fuck this is gonna be some 30 days Jesus what was the toughest thing you made you do? It was just the consistency of it, you know, it's just like It was just like it was just really he went everywhere. I went he shadowed me for 30 days He went to every business meeting. We flew together. He lived it, you know with my wife and I did you think like what the fuck? Did I sign up for this is back in 2010? So this is uh, you know Yes, I did I was and the book came out two years ago. No. Okay. Yeah, I waited five years I didn't I didn't you know and expect it to ever be a book. It was just like, you know at all There was no book being discussed. I I kept a little blog about it, you know, so why'd you do it? I just felt like there was so much in it. There's so many lessons and it was funny fish out of water Like he's coming into our house. My wife owned Spanx. I mean like the dull dynamic of this shit was crazy and I just felt there were a lot of lessons that could be learned through it and You know took a shot at it Jesus Christ. Yeah, he's a maniac when he did the podcast I got here He showed up super early and when I got here, he was already with a shirt off doing chin-ups I was like I walked into the back where the gym is and he's he's in there I'm like look at this motherfucker amazing. He's a savage. Yeah Yeah, he's legit But these are all the lessons, you know as you're talking about, you know And you don't know where the nuggets come from you put yourself in a position Mm-hmm for the nuggets to appear and they don't be radical positions like I'm gonna go get Goggins I'm gonna go live with them up right be radical But you put yourself out there like you were saying and you live a life where those lessons find you Yeah, and then and seek them you seek them. Yeah. Well Goggins story is so fascinating because he wasn't that guy He was fat and out of shape and unmotivated and lazy and you know talked openly about the first time He ran like he quit he was supposed to you know ran about three-quarters of a mile I think he said and quit and he was exhausted and just drinking milkshakes and all fucked up and Somehow or another decided he's not going to be that guy anymore and went a hundred and eighty degrees Yeah, became this intensely motivated Iron Man. Yeah. Yeah, I was at the race I saw him at the race where he broke all the bones in his feet, you know I saw him I was at the I participated in that race the first time I saw him. It's how I met him and 2007 and You know, he broke all the bones in his feet. He broke. Yeah, he was running a hundred. I was running this race It was a 24-hour race as a relay team. I was with four friends and The format of the races, you know, you run a mile. I run a mile mother Whatever team runs the most amount of miles right wins the race. He had no teammates That sounds like where's the rest of the team that sounds like him and he weighed a lot at the time So and I watched him wait a lot was he bodybuilding at the time? He was just being it probably 260 70 pounds Maybe when he's deadlifting and maybe maybe even more So was this the one where he ran 24 hours all around the rich and just to show that he could run a hundred miles Yeah, and he wound up shitting himself. Yeah. Yeah. He told me about that. I saw it I didn't know he broke all the bones in his feet. He broke some bones. Yeah He didn't even tell me about that and then he ran a marathon a month later Yeah, he's a fucking animal. Yeah. Yeah, I mean he really is Yeah, he's just telling me also that he's playing that to your wife when you say he's coming to live with you You know my wife Just kick us both out. I just said it really fat told Sarah cuz I flew out I flew out to meet Goggins after the race, you know, I'm a cold called them and My wife asked me how the meeting went and in the meeting, you know I realized like I kind of wanted to get the secret sauce like what the fuck right? Right? Yeah, and Was that the idea like yeah, I was like like by being around some such an intensely motivated guy That you would get the rub get the rub and I'd fallen into routine I couldn't get out of hmm I just you know, like I was like just get me out of my routine man you know and I want to learn from you and that kind of thing and My wife asked me have a lunch meeting went and I told her that you know, he's come live with us She was like what lunch meeting with him and did you were you gonna propose this before the meeting? I went to what happened was I went to the meeting and I With no real agenda other than like I want to meet this guy man, you know, it's 2007 I want to meet him 2008 something around around there was 10 years ago and I was just so like drawn to him, you know and I Actually went home and then and then asked him to come, you know live with me and and he said yes And then I told my wife after like this guy's coming in two days. Now. Why did he say yes? I mean, isn't he busy? Did you offer him money? Like how did this know he was um, he was uh he was active still in the military at the time and Yeah, I think I Don't know exactly what triggered I remember asking him to come and I remember him saying to me if you're crazy enough to ask A guy like me to come live with you motherfucker. I'm crazy enough to come hahahahaha Three days later he shows up with one bag knowing him that is exactly what it would sound like if he said it with those crazy eyes Jesus Christ Sweetie, this is David. Wow. Did you give him an objective? You say did you say why you wanted him to come or what what you're trying to get out of that time in my life I had uh, I was I had a Just left I have my timeline, right? I think I just left the my private this private jet car company I had marquee jet. I was just starting out in the Zico this coconut water business and I was in a routine, you know, I was in a rut now that I was just doing the same stuff, man I was so comfortable and I was just like this come shake it up man. You know, you can travel with me I got some meetings coming up. We'll live together. There's no book. There was no anything right the book happened years later and and He said he said he would do it. That's crazy that he just I loved it. By the way It was one of the best months of my life. I love being around him. He's an amazing guy. I loved You know, we were watching games we were working out I was going out midnight three in the morning We were running in the blizzards. We were three in the morning We won one day he was like we're gonna run four miles every four hours for 48 hours Joe I was like I gotta work. He's like no you don't Know you don't you can work for two in 48 hours. Well, I would wake up at midnight We started at midnight. We would run let's say it took us 40 minutes and then we would come back We'd have you know, what three hours and 20 minutes of rest and then at 4 a.m. We go again four miles Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom 48 hours Jesus Christ One time I fucking a million stories. I mean we went in the sauna and He's like, all right. We're gonna stay in the sauna for and I'm a sauna guy I thought I was a sauna guy by the way And Actually, this was the steam and he's like we're gonna stay in here for 30 30 minutes eight ounces of water Okay, we jack it up. It's fucking cooking in there It's I walk in I'm like, holy fuck. It's so hot in here. He sits down. He's whistling Dixie You're like sitting in the corner doing his shit. I'm like, you know eight minutes in and my water's gone I've already drank my eight ounces of water and about 19 minutes in I'm like Goggins. I gotta get out. He's like you can't get out I'm like, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna pass out. I gotta get out. He's like you can't get out I'm like, no, no, and I just I couldn't I didn't even wait for him to say no again Cuz I'm about to I'm about to pass out. I can feel myself about to pass out I open up the door all the smoke from the steam room goes flying out of the door I sit right in the chair. He comes storming out and he looks at me. He's like, oh fuck you don't look good I go. No, I'm gonna pass out. He goes we got to abort Abort the mission like we're not doing the rest of the 30 minutes like I got a pass That was the only pass I got because you almost died in the sauna or the steam I was fucked steam room is different because it's moisture and you're taking it in I was taking in like the eucalyptus You're getting cooked cooked. Yeah, I mean you're really getting cooked. It's not like it was sauna. You're getting like kind of dry roasted But in the the moisture is different like you can't get as hot in a steam room as you can in a sauna, correct? Yeah, yeah, so this is a series of these system, you know getting poached throughout the yeah God no, he would just make these up like come up with these ideas. It was just constant man like I mean we go to work we'd be sitting at work and I'd have like a 30-minute break and he'd be like burpee test But what I'm at work. He'd be like I want to see how many burpees you can do in 10 minutes I'd be like burpee tests and I was like in the middle of work I would like get down take off like, you know, whatever I was wearing I've given like my boxers or whatever like just to get and I would do as many burpees as I could in 10 minutes and Be soaking wet and I'd walk into my next meeting and everybody knew he would you know, like he was That was part of the thing. So you explained all these people here Wow closed every deal. I Close every deal because you're so amped up if I put she was there who's gonna say no is fat people were fascinated I Walk in and maybe like at the end of the at the end of the meeting I'm like, do you want to talk? It's like whatever the fuck you guys are in we're in We're in Wow That sounds so much better than living with a monk Yeah, it's you keep in touch, yeah, we go I haven't spoken to in a while but Yeah, man known of since 2007 now, it's been ten years Wow. Yeah, I would think that That would be hard but exciting Whereas the monk thing seems like the drone of it all Would just get to you Yeah, and like I couldn't go back to my room and my surroundings right in the monk thing I was like in their world Forever forever and they live in the same way that you did. They have a little cell as well. Yeah, I Actually didn't see their rooms but yeah from what I understand even smaller than when I was in I was in smaller smaller than this table My room was about the size of this table the way theirs was smaller from what I understand. Yeah, how's it even possible? Bed cool foot. There's no position. It's like just a little bed and just go into a space with good Black out back up start all over again drone drone Yeah, no, I think the the four miles every 40 minutes or whatever the fuck it is or four miles every four hours That sounds way better. Yeah, that sounds crazy. I did it at the time, but yeah, how'd you end it? How did he end the 30 days? I left me a note on a post it Thanks That's it. That's it Jesus That's intense. Yeah. Thanks Jesus Christ, Mike abides are like long hogs right changing exchanging shit planning Thanks That would be an incredible service Like if he wanted to do that and just go to like billionaires and just say you have to Do what I tell you to do for a month. I Mean a lot of people would do that. I'm sure just charge charge some fucking stupid amount of money and Have him live with you for a month You know, that's hard and anybody personality wise over time having roommates. It's hard, you know, yeah 24-7. Yeah, I mean it's hard Do you ever wake you up every day every day? He woke you up Yeah, come in and tap me on the shoulder time to get up. Let's do with my wife right next to me. Jesus Christ It wasn't a tap time to do this it was get up motherfucker does it say? Well, at least he was courteous whispered it so it didn't wake your wife up Yeah, was your wife like what in the fuck love you doing she loved them Wow