Strongman Rob Kearney Pulled 2 Monster Trucks | Joe Rogan

Now, when you train, do you train doing strongman stuff? Like, do you pull trucks and shit like that in training? Yeah, so leading up to World's Strongest Man, I knew we had a truck pull. We actually got to pull the Gravedigger and the Monster Jam fire truck. Really? The Monster Trucks at Worlds this year, which is pretty cool. How much does a Gravedigger weigh? Well, so the funny thing is it only weighs 15,000 pounds, so they had to grab a second one and attach them, so we were playing two of them at one time. How does one ever say it only weighs 15,000 pounds? That's what I want to know, because I suck at that event, so I would like it if it was only one of them, but... That's an event where it must help to be 450 pounds, right? Huge, huge advantage. You look at guys like me, again, only 5'10", about 285, competing against... In my qualifying group at Worlds was Thor Bjornsson, the mountain from Game of Thrones. Yeah, how much does that fucker weigh? 6'9", 440. Jesus! And that bitch has a six-pack. 6'9", 440. Yeah, so that's Thor doing the event right there, and you can see Gravedigger right behind him, and then behind that they attached with a metal pole to the Monster Jam. Oh, so you use a rope to pull you as well? Yeah, so it's like kind of... You get a little bit of a lever. Yeah, there's a second truck right behind. Two trucks. That is ridiculous. Yeah, so leading up to World's Strongest Man, I actually became really good friends with the firefighters in my local town, and I just... I talked to the fire chief. I was like, hey, can I borrow one of your trucks to pull? What are you doing for fire breaks out? Hey, we got our friend. He's out there pulling it. They can wait. Yeah, his responses. Are you shitting me? I was like, I'm actually serious. So I actually... I was pulling that... I was pulling that fire truck like once or twice a week for like six weeks leading up to World's Strongest Man. How much is a fire truck weigh? Depends if the water's in it or not. I found that out. The first time it wasn't, so it was only about 28,000 pounds, and it was actually... Oh, only 28,000? Yeah, casual. That ain't shit. The second time the water was in it, so it was 40,000. Oh, no. That was a little bit harder, and it made me look like an ass because like I had told my friends that I was doing this this time, thinking that it was the same truck and it was as light as it was the first time, I was like, all right, I'll look pretty cool in front of everybody. And then I go to pull it. I'm like, fuck. This is heavier. Yeah. That's a lot different. So it's an extra 12,000 fucking pounds. Yeah. And so like I was training in a 50 foot course and like that 40,000 pound truck, it was taking me like almost 90 seconds to pull. And that's like 90 seconds of just nonstop work. That hurts. Jesus Christ. What does that do to your knees? The knees aren't too bad. Honestly, it's just like a full body like burning, like everything hurts. Like nothing feels like your arms are pumped because you're pulling on the rope in front of you. Your quads and your calves are just, you know, pumped to the max at that point. I'd be worried about like knees and ankles. Am I wrong? The biggest injury that you see with like a truck pull is like the Achilles tendon rupture. Right. So the Achilles tendon will just like pop off when you're trying to pull it. That makes sense because you just pushing off with your foot and all that pressure. Oh, fucker. Yeah. God damn. What? The sport's really great. It's a sadistic sport. It's just so crazy to watch people pull two trucks, like a human being pulling two trucks. It's prepa. I wish I would see you with the fire truck. That's, that's more ridiculous. So you're pulling a fucking fire truck. It was pretty fun. Yeah. Sure. If you could do it. Yeah, exactly. If you do, it's fun. Just that's a weird thing with people, right? They just love to be able to do something that's hard to do. And I think that's why like all of us are attracted like strong man. That's why we compete. Yeah. Like I said in the beginning of the show, like it's, we all have to be a little bit fucked up in the head to look at a truck and get excited to pull it. Yeah. Look at that. There it is. That's so crazy. There you are. Pull the truck. That's my coach behind it. Yeah. Damn. Have you ever seen the video of the strong man who throws the barrel up and hits the bar and fall back and hits the back of the head? That was on him. Is that guy dead? No, he lived. Whoa. Yeah. What kind of a human can survive that? I don't know. I think it was an empty cake. That makes it any better. It was. Even if it was a fucking aluminum barrel bouncing off your skull. Yeah. Yeah. And he was knocked out cold for a little while.