The Chris Cuomo Project - Listener Calls (with David Goggins)

Episode Date: February 9, 2023

In a special episode of The Chris Cuomo Project, guest David Goggins (author, “Never Finished”) responds to listener questions about finding the strength to do what others consider impossible, Ozempic as a weight loss tool, and more.  Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everybody, I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to another episode of the Chris Cuomo Project. David Goggins, this is the reason to subscribe and follow. What an amazing guest we have on here. Don't forget the free agent merch. David Goggins, the man, stay hard, the hardest man in the world. David Goggins, the man, stay hard, the hardest man in the world. People mistake him for just an athlete or just a special forces warrior, a Navy SEAL. He's more than that.

He's a philosopher. And he is somebody who can help you and has certainly helped me figure out strategies to be your best self. Not that it's going to be easy, but it can be made more simple because you don't affect your own feelings, okay? You're going to feel certain ways, but you can affect how you think and how you behave. So listen to the master, David Goggins. Listen, if you know anything about me, you know I've been doing AG1 for over five years, okay?

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subscription plan. All right, if you're looking for a way to kind of get on your game and find yourself a path to a better place, here's what I did. Everybody wants resources. I read Can't Hurt Me when it first came out a few years ago. I read Never Finished, which just came out, and it comes with a workbook also to kind of help you go through some of the exercises that Goggins has, and it absolutely gave me a framework of accountability of what I can do. It doesn't mean I don't mess up all the time, but that's part of it. While Dusty, my EP, is teeing up the calls. You ready, Dusty? All right.

She's like, shut up, Cuomo. Nobody wants to hear you. You got Goggins. All right. Who do you got on the phone? Okay. We have Andrew from Detroit, Michigan. A ton of people calling tonight.

Andrew, thank you for calling. What do you got for Mr. Goggins? Hey, what's up, brother? When I was in college in 2018, and I was inspired to start running. Since then, I've run four marathons and I'm training for an ultra marathon. First of all, thank you.

Two quick questions. Thank you. Did you have one key moment when you realized you could do what others considered impossible, or is it still something you have to prove every time? second more important question who's going to carry the boats well you're going to carry the boats my friend um so yeah the uh so the first question that's that's a very easy thing man if you really can't hurt me i I go into detail about my first 100-mile race, the race I wasn't trained for at all. And I ran 100 miles on a one-mile track.

When I got to mile 70 and everything went south, I mean, it went south. I had been through three whole weeks, major school, some of the world's hardest training in the world, and this was the most pain I'd been in my entire life. When I sat down in that chair and went to the bathroom myself and everything went south, when I had 30 miles to go, and I was in the worst shape of my life, and I won't get too deep into it, but when I was able to go 30 more miles in the worst shape of my life. That's when I talk about it in the, you know, you can't hurt me, the whole mental governor,

the whole mental governor got removed. And that's when I realized that a human being is able to do some of the most, you know, horrific things out there. We are built very different. Like a lot of us, you know, we're taught everything, how to read, how to write,

how to drive a car, how to cook, how to clean. But very few of us, you know, we're taught everything, how to read, how to write, how to drive a car, how to cook, how to clean. But very few of us are taught how to survive when the rug gets pulled from our nittas and we have to find more. Very few of us are taught how to fight. And at that moment, that 30 miles was about 10 years of life that I lived in 30 miles. And I learned how to fight in the hardest of times, in the worst shape of my life. And so, yeah, it was that moment. Who's going to carry the boats is a reference to your SEAL training. And it's your reminder that people are going to have to do the work, right?

Exactly. Yep. Look, no shame in my game. I've been using AG1 for over five years. Why? It works, it's easier, and it's less expensive. That's why. Since 2010, they've been getting their formulations right and tweaking their formulas. Why?

Because the science changes, okay? It's not like politics where people decide to believe one thing and no matter what happens with the facts, they never shift. This is the opposite. Oh, prebiotics work with probiotics, but in this way, D works with K and this type of B works with that. They have the scientists doing it. So I don't need all the bottles. I don't have to spend all the money and I don't have to figure out when to take what and why. More importantly, it's not just the regular list of vitamins. It's the extras, okay?

The adaptogens, the prebiotics, the probiotics that support your body's universal needs. Gut optimization, immune support, stress management. That's what foundational nutrition is about. And these are the people at AG1 who've been doing the work to get it right, okay? I tell friends, I tell family, I get no complaints, okay? If you want to take ownership of your health, it starts with AG1.

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David, great to see you here with Chris. How you doing, bud? Doing great. Like many others, you've been an inspiration to help me through some seriously difficult times. I read your book, and you've blaming your dad, and maybe not for Gabe, but when you stopped giving him the power away for why you were the way you were, what did that do for you as a person and as a father? Well, it did a lot for me as a person. It did a lot for me as a person, as a man, as everything. So once you realize where you come from, so I went back and I faced that. I faced my father. And by facing my father, it allowed me to realize, because as you're growing up,

you may look at your dad or your mom or whoever it may be as like, they're not human or they're just evil. No, they are human. And they also came from maybe a bad childhood. So I was able to really go through and really dissect my father. And by me dissecting my father, I got a lot of answers on why I was so weak, why I was so pathetic, why I didn't want to go be better. But that said, though, my father's demons had to go somewhere. So they went to me and my brother, and they went to a lot of other people. You have to realize that you have to now solve for your demons and solve for his for you to move on.

So when you get that kind of strength, when you're able to look at these demons eye to eye and say, I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to face you every single day. What happens is you start to callous that mind. You start to realize that all the bad things you went through, it doesn't matter anymore. I know where I'm going and I'm focused on getting there. So it just starts to, and once you stop caring about what people think about you, and once you stop caring about where you came from, if it was a bad place, you become very, very dangerous, very dangerous. Let's get one more call to him, Dusty. Okay. One more call from DeeDee from Staten Island. Quickly. DeeDee, how are you doing? Hi, Chris. Hi, David. What do you think about people who are using a Zempik

for weight loss? You know what? I'm all about people doing what they need to do in life. That said, I think that they're missing a big part of weight loss. For me, you know, I lost 106 pounds. I was almost three years. I was 297 pounds. And the weight loss journey itself, it's a journey. It takes you through this maze. It's not a straight line. It takes you to this maze of emotions. One day you may lose a pound. One day you may gain a pound. It's a fight. And the only way you get better is through the fight, through the struggle. If you do things like that, oh, I lost it real quick, you're not getting the full benefit of the hard work that it took to get there. And through that hard work, you don't forget that. You don't forget

those months, those years it took, all those workouts, all those diets, drinking tons of water, going to bed early. When people go out to dinner, you got to ask the chef to make your damn meal special. All those things are not fun. And that is where you grow. So when you take these weight loss pills, do what you want. I don't give a damn. But what happens is you miss the biggest part. The biggest part of the weight loss is what happens to your mind along that horrible journey.

So I got stronger, I got better. If you want to take the weight loss pills, do you. So that's what I think about it. David Goggins, so nice. We ran with it twice. And I hope that you look up his books, Can't Hurt Me, Never Finished, and really try to adapt some of the lessons to your own life.

You don't have to be him. You're not going to run 100 miles. You're not going to be that kind of athlete. You know, he is extraordinary. But there is something that we can take for the ordinary, me, you, our lives, from someone who isn't extraordinary. And the philosophy is great. So thank you.

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