Joe Rogan - Powerlifting with Fake Hips!

The Bill Ross. Yeah, thanks. The Bill Ron. How are you, fuckers? Doing great, man. Great to be on the show again. Great to have you guys here. You know, I was watching your Instagram the other day and I was looking at you with fake hips doing crazy fucking heavy deadlifts, man. That's amazing. I am starting to deadlift a little bit more because I've been doing this carnivore diet and I feel great. And there's no reason not to, right? So I just figured if I can do it and it doesn't hurt, then why not? So I was going up to about 400 pounds, but I think I can still – I think I can even get stronger now. So what I am so happy about is this is something – squatting and deadlifting is something that was part of my life all growing up. I was a powerlifter all growing up. You're the one who got me into this shit. And it got taken away from me and I was really sad and disappointed, became a drug addict and an alcoholic because of it, and now I can lift again. So I feel good. Is that unusual for someone who's got artificial hips to be able to do something like that? Do you know? How many people do you know that have artificial hips? Well, I do know that Ed Cohen, who is the greatest powerlifter of all time, he has two fake hips now, right? Yeah, I think so. And I think he still squats 600. Jeez. Yeah, he can still listen to me. With fake hips? Yeah, at Eddy Cohen. Check him out. He's a beast. Holy shit. Fake hips squatting 600 pounds. They say that is like one of the most effective replacement surgeries that they do, is replacing people's hips. Yeah, I think it's a great – I think it's been a big deal. I think it's a great surgery. Before I got it done, I mean, I couldn't even get up out of a chair. I'd be stuck. You know, I would stick places. And before I got it done, I couldn't really move at all. And then after I got it done, they had botched one side. So one side went perfect. The other side, for two years, was all screwed up and the doctors didn't know it. What was screwed up about it? The cup. There's a cup, and then there's the ball that goes into the cup. The cup came loose. And it would shift around. Now, they think the cup comes loose because when you do both hips at the same time, they hammer one hip into one side. And then you're completely like a dead body almost, and they flip you over. It's really violent, actually. When they flip you over, they think that's when the hip might – that socket may come out. So they're starting to question doing them both on the same day now. Yeah, I've heard of people getting one done a couple months later. I would recommend getting one done because then when I got my other – when I got the one that was messed up redone, and I had one good leg and one – you know, one leg to recover on, it was so much easier. I didn't have to have the special toilet and all the other stupid things you had. You could be on crutches instead of being a wheelchair, probably, right, if you only had one day at a time? I actually wasn't even on crutches. I came home from the hospital, and that day that I came home from the hospital, I was walking. I even climbed a ladder, and our mom yelled at us – yelled at me because I climbed a ladder, and she's like, what are you doing? You just got a hip surgery, and I'm like, I've got to change this light bulb. Now, I would think that one good benefit about weightlifting would be increasing bone density, and that you would want that if you have artificial hips, especially because you've got that bar that goes down deep into the bone of the hip. We just got a DEXA scan done. We got weird shit going on. We got really weird shit going on. We had a DEXA scan done, and Dr. Jacob Wilson told us that our bone – was it bone mineral density? Density, yeah. Mine was off the charts, but his was way off the charts. Yeah, and then we also got a muscle biopsy done by Dr. Andy Galpin, and he's just like, dude – Love that guy. He's like, I don't know what the fuck's going on with my muscle and his muscle. He's like, but we need to talk about this more. It's called steroids. Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he said he wanted to interview me more and talk to me more about what I've taken over the years and all those different things. It works. It fucking works fantastic. This is what people do. It's so crazy. I just think I heard you talking the other day about throwing a roundhouse kick, and he said it's a second nature to you. And I think for us, we've been lifting for so long. Sure. And a lot of this stuff – even when I was a drug addict and alcoholic, the entire time, I still trained every day. I wasn't doing as good of a job, but I still would make it to the gym every day. It's ingrained in us. It's something that we've been doing forever. So your body's just designed for it? I don't know if it's designed for it. Well, not designed, but you've sort of designed it. I think it's something that found us. Really? Like we did kind of stumble upon it, but I think it's something that found us. And it's – I was strong right out of the gate. He was strong right out of the gate. I mean, I remember my friends benching in the garage, and they were benching the bar, maybe a tent on each side. And I was doing a plate, doing 185, 12 years old. He was an animal when he was young. There was just something there. There was some sort of strength by our mom. Bench – what did she bench? 135. Yeah, she bench. Your mom can bench 135? Like right off – you know, like without ever lifting. I want to say I think she benched 185. She might have. On the same day. That's what Joey Diaz would say, immigrant mentality. Where's your mother from? Yeah. Where's she from? She's Polish, right? There you go. Yeah, I just got some of my shit done. Hard fucking people. I'm just white. Yeah, we're like a mutt mix. Did you get 23andMe done? He did it. I got one of those things done and I'm like Irish and – I'm like only 4% Italian. I thought we were more but – It makes no sense. Our grandmother was directly from Sicily so I don't understand how that happened. Yeah, we don't know what's going on. Yeah, well even if she's from Sicily, who knows like how what happened when she was over there. Yeah, where she came from.