Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A review of Episode 1194 Sober October 2 Recap

Episode Date: November 11, 2018

One of the longest and most fun podcasts of the year. Joe is joined by Bert, Tom and Ari to talk about their sober workout challenge for the month. It was such a fun podcast and a pleasure to review. Enjoy the review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows : [e-mail]

Hello and welcome to another episode of the JRE Review. For those of you that are new to this podcast, this podcast really is a review of the Joe Rogan Experience for the week. In a sense, I am what the news is to events. There's no affiliation with Joe's podcast, but I listen to it and as the news does with events, it just reports on it. So I report on the parts of the week that I enjoy the most. And often I have guests on and guests will be fans or they would have particularly liked a certain podcast

of the week so they come and talk about it with me. And if you've been listening to Joe Rogan for a while, these three hour conversations will often bring up you know other questions interesting points things that you've found fascinating or I did and things I want to expand upon or found kind of like motivating or enlightening so yeah this podcast is a doozy it's one of the best ones of the year. Really, it's definitely one of the most fun ones. It's the Soba Octobar recap. Okay, so, Fanz and Frogon, which I assume you all will know, that each year, at least since last year, Joe Rogan has done a sober October kind of competition with Bert Kreyscher, Erie Schaffer, Tom Segura, and of course Joe Rogan

where they where they challenge themselves to a different kind of set of events in terms. Now the fundamental portion of it is that they don't drink all the drugs for the month of October. Last year they put in a challenge to do 15 hot yoga sessions which is brutal if you've ever done hot yoga but they all completed it and now it's pretty awesome. This year they had a thing like a fitness competition using this company called MyZone and I just picked up my MyZone strap which is like a heart rate monitor that goes around your chest

and then you get scores for it. Now, these guys did fantastic. They all did incredible work and here they are to kind of just celebrate it and go on it, go over it and like I said it's such a fun podcast. To give you an idea of how hard they worked out when they were talking and this is a very long podcast but it's so worth listening to and it's really very fun. Joe did five and a half hours on an electrical.

He's 51 years old and that is insane. It doesn't make any sense how that's possible. Really so impressive. I can't even imagine even attempting that. When he was talking about that with the guys, he was like, how long can you keep going? Was this question? And he just, he got tired, got worn out, got to the point where he'd usually stop and just

told to himself, well, how long can you continue going? Can I do one more? Can I do one more? And that just kept going until all he was doing is just thinking about his breathing. In fact, he did this so much in his gym that the sweat alone set off his fire alarms. I didn't even know that was a thing. I honestly didn't know that humidity in a room could set off fire alarms.

I mean, I can't even imagine the type of exertion that he put in, but it wasn't just him. The other guys were doing the same thing and it's really impressive that they work so hard for this and also so many other people are behind it, and it's really inspiring. You know, I, I did think about a sober October this year. I didn't partake. You know, I'm not as disciplined as these guys or part of that competition, but it's made me think about it. It's made me think about the idea of wanting to do it and just give yourself a month off, but also give yourself like an insane challenge as well. Joe won the competition with something like 11,000 my-zone points, which are all based on kind of like your

heart rate in different zones. And yeah, and he said that he used different distractions to kind of get himself through it. He would watch fights, UFC, he would watch action movies like Gladiator and notice that he would get spikes during the action scenes, which is quite kind of cool. Also a lot of books on tape for the more mundane exercises. And I really think that the key there is just, you know, taking your mind off the activity, so you're not thinking about the time or the exertion, but you've got something to do. One of the really cool things that they came out of it with is zero anxiety, very little anxiety. And I think it's, I

think it's all part of the idea of just doing difficult things is that the anxiety, you only have so much anxiety for any day, right, or any month or week or whatever. And maybe if you put it towards these insane kind of like exercise challenges, you have none left to just worry about regular bullshit, so they just kind of got through it all. Now my zone as a company is something that it's new to me and the standing only know it from their podcast, but they have a million registered users and one of the guys and I think it was Joe emailed them, message them, to find out where they ended up in the ranks and all of them, Eri Shafir, Tom Segero, Berkkreicher and Joe Rogan finished

in the top 1% of the world, which is pretty incredible. But to get there, Joe did say that he was pissing really dark yellow by the end and he had pretty severe kidney pain. He kept calling it like phantom pains. Yeah, I mean if you're working out five hours on elliptical, you probably put your body through maybe too much and a lot of the guys were saying that their body just felt like really all in all, it was just breaking down through the hell of, you know, that's a hell of a challenge. But by the end of it, they all felt in great shape. Now, Tom Segura, Burt Croixia and Eri Shafir don't work out too much, generally, as far as I understand, of a challenge. But by the end of it, they all felt in great shape. Now Tom Segura, Boatcroisha and Erishiefeer don't work out too much. Generally, as

far as I understand, they do different things. They work out a bit. I'm not trying to take anything away from them, but I know Erry doesn't really work out. But by the end of this, yeah, they felt incredible shape. At some point, Tom Segura had ran 12 miles in one day, and he was on antibiotics at that time for some sort of illness. So, incredible that they were putting in that kind of work. Later on in the podcast they started talking about great comedians, people that have opened for them and opened for Joe like Ian Edwards. You know, if you know Joe Rogan's podcast, you've heard of Ian Edwards before. Ian Edwards is one of the most amazing comics out today, but has been a writer for a long time, so people don't really know his name, so it's really cool that these guys give him

an opportunity to kind of step out and come, you know, perform, and open and get his name out there and do those sorts of things. And then later, talking about their comedy, they suggested doing some sort of a stadium tour. Because all four of them could sell out a really massive area. And I love the idea of a stadium tour. I think it would be epic. It would be so good for them to get to go and watch half an hour of each of them, if you don't live anywhere near the comedy school, you know, if you're like in New York or somewhere else,

I mean it would be a real treat and such an amazing event. These four guys are really some of the funniest stand-up comedians in the world at the moment and they need to do it. They need to get out there. They were talking about podcast now, so they were talking about podcast and where they came from. They were trying to figure out who the first Podcast that ever was. They came up the name, I think Adam Curry. I've never heard of this guy. They were also saying that Rick Javace had a really old podcast and then Adam Corolla also has, but I guess Adam Curry is like the first the first person to really have a podcast in its state which was I think back in as early as like 2005 I don't know it seems

seems like a long time ago I certainly didn't know what podcast were back then. They get into, by this time in the podcast, they've all drank a lot and they're being quite silly, so a lot of the conversations are just hilarious but also nonsense. And at one point they talk about who can be trusted with secrets. They decided that Tom Seguro is the most trustworthy. Then it's probably, I think it was Erie, then Joe, but Bert is last. Bert can't be trusted with secrets. And they kept calling Bert 53 years old, even though he's a lot younger. And I think somebody's changed his age on Wikipedia to be 53

which I find absolutely hilarious. You know they're always messing with Bert and Easy Target and they love to fuck with him but he's a big shit talker so it's it's worth it. You know it's good for him. Erie awarded Joe with the belt and then they started kind of bust in his balls a little bit for being on steroids or testosterone or whatever Joe takes But he also explains the look when your body gets older you got a few choices you either Eat super well and work out a lot and get a little bit of your testosterone back or you supplement it With medical science using a doctor and I'm all for it. He's not out there just being a me-head, a winning weightlifting competition.

He's just trying to keep his body together. After I think he finished like 300th best in the world, Joe Rogan did on this MyZone Challenge. So if you pump it a little test in yourself for that, all the more power to you, I think fair enough. But yeah, just a lot of people are getting into sober October, people were messaging each of them talking to that Joe when he got to his kids school and saying good job. People were like, you know, motivating Tom, Sigerra and just other people and it's cool that this is one of those things that really gets people excited and

gets people thinking about health and getting into the process and you know a lot of people like to drink and have a good time through the year and and it never hurts you know to take a month off. But overall, this is really one of the most fun podcasts of the year. It's a long one, so strap yourself in, but I'm telling you, it's so funny. They are constantly busting each other's balls. Birds like squeaky little laugh and comments are worth it alone. And you guys should definitely check it out.

So that's it. It's a great podcast. Thank you all for listening. I love you guys. Peace.