Joe Rogan on Accidentally Influencing People

I think you read too many comments. That's what I'm saying. I think you read so many comments too. What do you think I read? You've only said that. I think you do. You never catch me reading them though, do you? You've mentioned comments before too. I catch them if they're in the top. And I look- You said the comment the other day and it said, I always wanted- Oh, that was because my wife sent it to me. It was hilarious. Oh, yeah. That was after the video of you and I where we're celebrating and there you go, I love this man. Yeah. And someone said, I always wonder what it would look like if Cameron Haynes and Joe Rogan had a baby and we almost found out. That was a good one. Every once in a while you get a gym. Yeah, dude, the internet is filled with funny fucking people, man. Oh my God. That's hilarious. There's a lot of frustrated comedians out there. There is. That get to express themselves occasionally in comments. Yeah. I sometimes answer because I feel like I'm let off the hook a little bit because it's not like I'm making a post calling somebody a dipshit, but I can sit in a comment and it kind of sneaks through. But why do you want to? Or just be funny. You're so busy. That's what I don't understand. How do you have the time? With a full-time job, I mean, it's normal that you run a marathon in a day. So how the fuck do you have the time to be commenting? I don't know. Well, like waiting out here right now on the plane. I don't know. The times of boredom. I guess so. Yeah, it's all good. It's fun. Hey, man, I know a lot of people that read their comments. You know, and Eric Weinstein was making an argument that you probably should read some of them. That there's like, and you know, he's a genius. He was saying like, you don't want to be cut off completely from feedback. So you have to find that sweet spot between reading some. And I'm like, I feel like other people read them. I'll get them. They'll come to me. Yeah, yeah. No, the good ones people share with you. Yeah. Or yeah. But I know some people who go crazy, they read their comments and then they become obsessed. Yeah. And then they read them all day long and then they go and they have these little Twitter wars with people back and forth. Yeah, yeah. And they just argue all the time. Yeah. There's sometimes where, I mean, like I posted a couple times yesterday and I don't think I read any till maybe this morning, you know, or just, so it's like, I don't post and then just like totally check them every second, you know, refresh, refresh, but. But every now and then there's something nice. Like I saw this dude that we were talking about in the last podcast. I reached out to him. He lost, how much weight did that guy lose Jamie? Two hundred and something. He went from like 417 to 198. So I sent him a DM. I'm like, I'm sending this guy a DM. That's fucking amazing, man. It is. It's amazing. Congratulations. So you do see people because like when you reach, okay, you're going to reach millions of people, there's going to be a few dipshits, but there's also going to be a few like that. Or it's just like, oh my God, this is, I mean, how impactful is that? That's like, it affects your life. Yeah. You know, because it's so positive. Well, one of the things that you do online that I think is super important is you provide inspiration. You know, we were talking yesterday when I had Dakota Meyer on, we were talking about Goggins and Jocko and you do the same thing. It's like you provide something where people, they can see you working hard and they see you smiling and getting after it. And it makes people want to do things. And when they know that you're doing these hundred mile races and all this crazy shit that you do, they, they, it gives them like, they're just enough of a push to get off the couch and get going. And sometimes that's all someone needs to change their whole life. You need a day, a good day, a good day where you get moving and you get your legs pumping and you, you know, you get huffing and puffing and you get your heart rate up and you sweat and then afterwards you feel great and you go, okay, tomorrow I'm going to do it again. And the next thing you know, you got 15 days in a row and the next thing you know, you're down 10 pounds. That's right. The next thing you know, you're cutting off on the booze and you're eating good. And now you're joining a gym and you started to do chin ups and shit and you're getting in shape and you look way better and you feel better. That's it. You make better choices. Yeah. Your life moves smoother. It's yeah. It builds that momentum and it, you know, the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step and that one step is one day or maybe the first, first step on your first run. But you know, I see that all the time too because I genuinely, genuinely enjoy working hard and so I am smiling and, and it's like people say, okay, enough's enough. I'm going to, I've been watching you for whatever. I'm going to do it. Yeah. It's like, I don't know if you beat them into submission finally, but whatever the case is whatever, for whatever reason people get out there, they do. And then it starts that journey. Like, like you said, towards a different life, essentially. I joke around about it on stage about accidentally influencing dudes and I apologize to the girlfriends, but there is a certain amount of responsibility that you have to assume when that starts happening, when you do have a positive impact on people and you realize like, Hey, you know, this, this show, having people like you and Jaco and Andy Stumpf and all kinds of interesting, fascinating people on directly influences people's lives for the better and changes the way they view things for the better, gives them a positive outlook. And it also gives them the opportunity to hear from people the way people think that maybe they, they would never get to meet these people in real life. Right. They would never get to know these people. But they feel like they know you or them or who, you know, that's the one thing I love about Jaco too is, you know, just the shot of his watch every day. I mean, you know, he's up at 430 and he's getting it done. Yeah. No excuses. None. Yeah. And he's done. And that's, I think that accountability is probably accountability for him, but also it's like the people know, okay, this is what we need to expect of ourselves. Yeah. And then a guy said, I don't like following Jaco because all it does is take pictures of his watch. I'm like, you're missing the point, man. That's a new picture. Yeah. It's a new picture every goddamn day of a new day with his fucking watch getting up and getting after it. And then afterwards, it's a puddle of sweat in the ground. Yeah. And he's doing it every day. Yeah. Yeah. And that's good for you. It's like, and that was, I'd never met him until our Elkan, Utah. And man, people ask, hey, so how is Jaco? And I'm like, exactly like what he says and how he portrays himself. That's how he is. That's how he is. And he's like, they had that day, they were expecting a long day of blood trailing or just covering miles in the mountains. And he's like, he couldn't wait. Yeah. He was looking forward to it. He couldn't wait. He ate three plates of meatloaf. He did. He carved load. I mean, he's like, hey, I'm going to need these. Big old, big old plates of food. But he said, and I remember this specifically, he said, what sucks is when it doesn't suck. He wants the challenge. Yeah. If something without a challenge, it's like, what's the point? Yeah. He's turned his mind into this like challenge seeking missile. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.