Joe Rogan on Finishing Sober October

Really? Because he was talking about we ended up getting off on this whole, I don't know how we got there, but we started off on this whole tangent about just sobriety and stuff. And he's like, man, back in my day. And he was, I can't remember the exact dialogue, but it was just, yeah, I mean, those guys were all, it was all just a blur. I learned something from Argus. Because, you know, Argus runs like insane numbers of miles every day, like 12 miles, 15 miles a day. The addict in him, the guy that loved getting wasted, that's his high now. He talks about it all the time. His runner's high. It's real, dude. It's real. I know now, because of this month, this month, the sober October month, dude, I've worked out no less than at least two hours. That's a small workout, a small workout. That's all I could get in was two hours. The longest I did, I did six hours one day. Good Lord. Six hours of insane cardio. It's like both kill bills, dude. I did seven hours of cardio in the last two days. Between yesterday and the day before, seven hours of hard cardio, different stuff, riding the hills with a dog, elliptical machine or the rowing machine. You know you're competing with fat people, right? No, I'm competing with myself. First of all, my main competition is Ari Shafir. And whether you realize it or not, Ari Shafir, even though he doesn't exercise, Ari has a strong mind. He's a very strong mind. Ari ran 15 miles the other day, 15 miles. He rode five kilometers. And then after he rode five kilometers, he did something else. He rode his bike. He rode a bike for a certain amount of miles. How long did it take him to run 15 miles? The whole thing, his whole workout was I think four hours. My goodness. He's got that power joo jean. He's got that escape from concentration camp jeans. You saw how fucking hard he was going on the rowing machine. He goes hard, dude. He stayed in the 80% on the rowing machine for an hour. I mean, he really did. I saw him. I was out there with him. I filmed it. I put it up on Instagram. That's that point. When Burt was making fun of him for being at 75 for just walking, isn't that him being out of shape? It's not because when Burt and him went walking, he was in way better shape than Burt. See Ari rides his bike in New York and he walks a lot in New York. And even though he's not in great shape, like in terms of like a guy who runs in comparison to Burt, he's in fantastic shape. When they went hiking together, Burt had a stop, like a bunch of times. Like, we're going to stop. We're going to stop. And Ari was pissed off. He's like, why do I have to stop because you're fat? Like he's like yelling at him. So like he wanted to see what would happen if the two of them went out together and did the exact same hiking, who's because Burt was saying, oh, it's because you're not in shape. So your heart is always at 80%. No. And a week is in way better shape than Burt is in his whole life of working out and drinking vodka every night. Compared to Burt. But compared to Burt. But my point is, he was my real competition. I was very, very much worried about him. So up until two days ago, everything seemed to be going good. I was working out really hard. And I was put it was hard. It's hard to do three hours a day. It's three and a half hours a day. Two days in a row is three and a half hours a day. But I started peeing and it started coming out dark. Oh no. Like iced tea. Oh shit. This sounds like a guy at a porta potty's dream. Oh, give me that sweet tea. Oh, that sweet tea. What does he say at the end? Oh, bless you goddess. Oh, bless you goddess for your sweet tea. I was famished. Um, yeah. Um, it didn't look good. Today I had to go to something in my kid's school. I had some Halloween thing and I had to go up three flights of stairs, three long flights of stairs. I got to the top. First of all, I barely made it upstairs. I got to the top. I was out of breath. My legs were shaking. Whoa. Three flights of stairs. And I was like, okay, I might have fucked something up. Oh man. That was today? That was today. What does it mean? Um, I think my body's breaking down. I think I've got like serious muscle breakdown to the point like my muscles are so sore that I'm, I'm ignoring that they're sore. And even though they're really, really sore, I'm still doing like three hours of cardio. Like I limped up to the, uh, to the trail when I ran with my dog yesterday and then I ran two miles. And then after I ran two miles, I did an hour and a half on the elliptical machine. And after I did an hour and a half on the elliptical machine, I did 45 minutes of kicking the bag, punching and kicking the bag. I took two naps yesterday. Two separate naps. My point is Argus taught me something by telling me about this high that you get from all this cardio. And I was like, what kind of fucking nonsense is that? I knew that there's like an endorphin high, but I didn't, I didn't think it was really specific, but there's a very specific high that you get. And it's like, if you could take a pill that puts you in the state of mind that I am when I work out this much, everybody would take it and the world would be a better place because you don't give a fuck. Right. You don't give a fuck about anything. I mean, not that you don't care about people and friends and loved ones, but there's no anxiety. There's no, all the chatter, all the negative chatter that you get in your brain that you have to like push off and ignore. That shuts off. Right. Gone, non-existent. And I wonder how much of that is there because your, your brain is almost trying to create problems and conflict because you're not getting enough exercise. Yeah. Because your, your body is supposed to get a specific amount of exercise. My dog is, uh, I think like eight months old or something now. And I've learned a lot from having this dog this time. Like I didn't notice a lot of stuff with the other dog stuff, but you know, just being weird little things by nibbling at your finger a different way with just your little front teeth, like sort of like telling you something like, Hey dude, I need to fucking get some exercise in and we're all that we're, we are that same way. So our brain is going to make more complex ways for us to be freaked out, basically run for our lives. Right. Yeah. Like if I don't just, I mean, again, I barely do cardio, but I do do it pretty consistently, but it's short. It's a mile or two. That's all you need. Really. Yeah. But, and it cleanses the palette. It's like ginger between sushi slices and, and if I go without it, absolutely it compiles. I'll wake up bitter and angry about something. I'll see something on, you know, somewhere or something or your work walks and you know, doing things that he's not supposed to do. You know, he, he just, you know, it's just a ball of energy, but at least he doesn't have like anxiety and negative chatter, the complex human mind when it doesn't have enough energy output. I always think of the brain as almost like a battery that has a lid on it and it's like energy's like flowing out of the battery and spilling over the sides and causing a mess because you got to expand or expend a certain amount of energy every day in order to keep it clean. Just keep everything going well. Yeah. Did I feel fucking great other than the fact that I can't walk good. Yeah. But it's just, I went too hard. It's just too hard. But I wanted to get so far ahead. My goal was to get so far ahead that no one could catch up.