Joe Rogan - Why Steve-O Got Sober

Go full screen with that Jesus Christ that causes blindness Smoking causes throat and mouth cancer brand you see Wow Doesn't work dude, it doesn't keep people from by it. That's what does it I mean imagine that I imagine Picking up a new pack every day. That is so fucking biz I think they got straight up they got dead babies. They got causes emphysema grab me a crack of nose Dude, every single one of them is so fucking hilarious. Yeah, I've never seen that I've seen in England They have a big picture of like people that have you know, like lung cancer and shit on the cover And it says smoking will kill you but they don't have this shit. What? it's causes Peripheral vascular disease and makes your feet rot gangrene. There's the most tame picture I saw a pack of cigarettes was um, it was a picture of a toilet with With blood in the water and I forget what the point was on that one but cigarettes make your asshole bleed This is crazy that that doesn't even work Like you're selling someone something that you're showing them all the terrible shit that it could do and everybody's like yeah worth it Right where the for a pie. I know I used to be convinced. I remember Dr. Drew, dr. Drew used to pass for me to try to get me on that celebrity rehab show before I was sober right and he had another project which was trying to It was focused on getting people to quit smoking cigarettes. Were you smoking at the time? I smoked for fucking 17 years started smoking when I was 16 and stopped when I was 33. Whoa Yeah, 17 years. I fucking smoked man. Do you feel any ill effects of it now 43? Mmm Almost 43 and how's your cardio? I think it's pretty good. Well, what fucked up my cardio was all that nitrous oxide, dude Those whippet cartridges, yeah, there's 24 per box and there's 25 boxes per case so per case there's 600 cartridges and it was not unusual for me to go through 600 in like 24 hours 24 to 36 hours What I? Took every measure to try to limit like the fucking air that went into my Lungs to try to make it like all night Like I was the whole time holding I'm holding in a long flow of that shit And I'm just with my fucking can't the the canister from Starbucks and shit I'm which I was like a fucking wizard at like loading up six into while holding the last fucking ones, you know and and That was when all the crazy shit would go down because I would be like awake on cocaine for three days and Inhaling nothing but nitrous oxide At that point is when shit starts popping off and people people are people are walking around my apartment who are never physically there Seeing much shit. Oh dude like actual fucking people man I watched a dude walk through my apartment and fucking pick up pick up my bong and take a hit and blow out smoke And fuck and then like put it down and just the dude walked through the wall. He was never fucking there ever Looked as real as I do or do you know I had fucking like tactile hallucinations I had fucking feel things big time dude Because here's like here's my whole thing and I kind of still believe this to this day's you know that like our little our little Um three-dimensional experience is very small small part of what's going on in the universe, right? There's dimensions there's you know all frequencies everything and That like that if you do enough drugs like that the barriers between these Different compartments of the universe and become eroded somehow, you know, like I started hearing voices and and to an extent I fucking believe Still that that shit was real like these spirits that were fucking talking to me I'm hearing the voices like I had a conversation with a friend of mine who sells weed About a very similar thing where I was saying that I think that something happens when you when you smoke pot It's not just that you get high But that the way you interface with the world changes and then the world changes because of that Not not the world changes like a world change for you or for him, but the world that I'm experiencing sure different Yeah, like in the quantum physics kind of sense. I don't know. I'm too stupid for that right what I'm saying is that my feeling about the world is that When you when you change the way your brain works, which is essentially what you're doing to get really high He changed what you think about the world. I think the world that you experience is different sure It's like, you know, like people think like this is this very simplistic way of looking at it, but it's sort of parallel You know some people think oh the world sucks Everything sucks and their life always sucks and then there's people that are always super positive and super happy and their life is always happy There's something about when you get like really high Like especially marijuana because marijuana is a sensitivity drug It's almost like the opposite of a lot of drugs because a lot of drugs make you insensitive like alcohol makes you blunt Right, you're not aware of people looking at you. You don't give a fuck You get drunk you get loud and you're crazy and your social cues get skewed you don't see marijuana is the opposite Marijuana you get like really aware of other people people will call it paranoid because you start thinking about all these possibilities That you never thought of before but I feel like the way you interface with the world becomes very different You're aware of all these different possibilities you start thinking about things that you fucked up when you were in high school You know you start thinking mushrooms are the worst for that. Oh, yeah. Oh sure God, I made a mistake make you accountable. I get so introspective. I mean I've just been forever since but is it too introspective I got I got to intro but how how to like just start picking myself apart like You know putting myself on trial in a sense You know like just too introspective or I'm just like to determine that I just suck You know, maybe that's just a perspective Like I think the introspective aspect of it one of the reasons why it comes up It feels like to me is because there's a bunch of shit about yourself that you don't like but you don't address So then if it forces you hate in order to truly live in the moment you have to be Balanced you have to be like I've looked at it all and I understand I've made mistakes and here's where I'm at But if you've never looked at yourself and you never looked at those mistakes Then you you you have like this backlog of shit you have to deal with right and I agree with that you're in Yeah, I know I agree with that except when it becomes just a morbid fucking flogging of oneself Right. Oh, yeah, which is which is what it would come to But I feel like that morbid flogging of yourself comes from you like the the debt analogy is a good analogy because if you're in like Massive debt and you go to spend money you like cuz I don't even have any money How am I spending this money? Whereas if you're even and you go to spend the money, you're like no big deal. I'm just spending some money. It's normal, right? I think that when you don't have an accounting of who you are and what you've done and especially I think the big one is your effect on other people, you know That's the one that comes up with me on mushrooms or on pot especially on edibles It's like how I've interacted with other people and even if I thought it was justified And maybe I was justified when when it comes up on pot Especially on edibles the big that's them for me at least that's where I feel like the most accountable I don't have to think about like my behavior the most I always feel like with the edible thing It always feels like could I have done better? Instead of just being like was I okay like the other guy was being a dick to you. Yeah, fuck him It's never that it's always like Maybe I could have caught on Earlier to how he was feeling and right reassessed how I was communicating with him and instead of being defensive or aggressive Right, maybe I could have handled it better Well, hey man, sounds like you're working a great spiritual program with your edibles Why try to do it all the time? When I'm with edibles, like I've said this before people go. Oh, no, but I think pot makes you a better person I really do because I think all that You don't have to look you you don't honestly no one has to do anything I get as much high and as much Mental clarity from yoga as I do from anything. I really do I mean if someone told me I couldn't smoke pot for the rest of my life But I could do yoga or I could just smoke pot for the rest of my life and not do yoga I think I would take the yoga. Wow. I really do because yoga gives me I mean, I love the feeling of pot I really do but yoga gives me a Relaxation when it's over like a there's a clarity that comes from things that is like it's friend Like after like post yoga class Those are like that is the friendliest nicest group of fucking people go stand You want to meet some nice folks stand outside of a yoga class window yoga class is exiting You'll meet like the most balanced nice people because they drained all the bullshit of themselves He created pause so I can take a leak already. I know I told you go not we're not pausing though