Name: Bill Burr & Joe Rogan - Dark Side Of The Fitness Industry!
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr & Joe Rogan - Dark Side Of The Fitness Industry!' from Comedy University on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-08. Transcript available.

I know you like conspiracy theories. You like a good conspiracy theory that's
been proven.
I like a good one. I don't like silly ones. I don't like being lumped in with
people who have
silly ones. I understand that. Here's a real one that was just proven. It was
in the New York
Times. They proved that scientists were paid off by the sugar industry in the
1960s. They were
paid off to make saturated fat the culprit for all these diseases and fat
people and heart
attacks when it was actually sugar. They were trying to take the blame away
from sugar and
pin it on saturated fat. Bacon is actually not bad for you. Saturated fat is
actually not
bad for you. There's a giant illusion that cholesterol, everybody thinks, oh,
your cholesterol is high.
Dietary cholesterol barely moves the needle on blood lipids. Blood lipids, like
when they
measure your diet, when you measure cholesterol in your blood, has to do with a
lot of things.
This sounds great to me, but you're also a stand-up comedian. You don't have a
white lab
coat on. I'm sitting here like, okay, Dr. Rogan, I read these things.
What gives people high cholesterol is, first of all, the LDL cholesterol, HDL
cholesterol,
good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. And you can have high of one, but if you
have high of the
other one, it balances each other out. I'll send you a podcast if you have the
time to listen to it.
You can say it if you can sit there long enough, you ferret.
It's hard. It's hard. It's hard to sit down and listen to this stuff. But there's
a guy,
Chris Kresher, who's on my podcast, who explained it all and did it in a
scientific way.
One of the great names of all time.
Chris Kresser.
Chris Kresser.
Chris Kresser.
Chris Kresser.
Coming out in a second period.
Chris Kresser.
Scott!
Oh!
But anyway, it's not cholesterol. A lot of it is hereditary. Like if you have
high blood
pressure or dietary cholesterol or high cholesterol.
It's like David Letterman. David Letterman, he did an ounce of fat on him and
he needed open
heart surgery.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of that's hereditary. Some people just get a shit roll
of the dice.
It's like some kids are born with leukemia. I mean, it's just a, it's not
something you
did. It's not like they've been smoking since they were a fetus.
You know, my big fitness thing is I'm big time into body weight.
Oh, yeah.
Body weight exercises.
So I'm trying to get myself strong enough to do a front lever at 48 years of
age.
What's a front lever?
Front lever is basically you hang from the chin up bar, you bring your legs
straight up and
you hang in there like a table and you got to put part of your weight behind
the bar. So there's all
of these exercises to explain that. Okay. So you just imagine, do you remember
planking?
Yes. Just imagine if you did it on your back, you're laying on your back in the
air, but you're
hanging from the chin up bar and your legs are straight out like that. Okay.
Yeah. So I've been
with that for like months, trying to build up the strength. And I got myself to
the point
because the whole thing is you've got to be behind the bar. Right. And what's
great is I got
this big head. So it kind of, you know, there's a lot of weight already behind
the bar. But
so I've got him a point now where I can actually like, I used to be almost
hanging upside down
and then gradually you can kind of bring, you have your legs in a ball. So like
the weight
is basically underneath it. And I've gotten to the point now where I can just
start to extend
one leg and then I fall to the ground. It ain't bad. I'm going to get there
though.
You'll get there. I just want to bust that out one time. Cause I got a buddy
with mine.
He has a bet with me that when I'm 70, I can't do 10 pull-ups.
So just to 70. No, when I turn 70, 70 to cash the bed in. As long as you just
keep going,
you'll, you'll get there. That's the thing. Stallone's in his seventies. Yeah.
But if I
don't, he could do 10 pushups, right? So chin-ups, if I don't have that bet, I
don't have that.
So it's a great carrot that I'm chasing there. I understand. Yeah. You could do
that though.
It has nothing to do with age. You can do that move. Does it have to do with
butter?
Do bacon and like that lifting. Just get a, you know, the best way to do it.
Honestly,
start doing body weight exercises, do a lot of chin-ups and stuff like that,
but do them really
slowly. That's one of the best ways to really develop like serious strength.
Like a lot of
people like to do chin-ups and they like to do those like kipping chin-ups you
see in CrossFit.
What I like to do is... What's kipping? Like you go, like you kind of like kick
up and you kick up.
Have you ever seen people do that? I always think that's like cheating.
That's people who arc their back on the bench press. Exactly. But it's a hard
workout if you do a
bunch of them, but it's just, there's a lot of criticism. Why does CrossFit
have to be done in
front of everybody? Why can't they just stay in their gym? Why are they always
running up and down
the street? Like, look at us, we're working out. Because it's like, look at us,
we're working out.
Should I be more mature about that? Nope. Nope. You should rub it in their face.
They're like vegans in a lot of
ways. They want you to know what they're doing. You know, it's like, like that's,
that's part of
the whole thing. It's like you become, there's a whole article about that,
about it's replacing
religion for a lot of people. You become tribal and you get involved in these
group, uh, like group
activities and you, you identify with that group. Like you become a CrossFitter
or you become a
vegan or you become a lot. I mean, not there's anything wrong with being either
one of those things.
It was like the gym is like a garage door and it's wide open and they're making
all this
noise. And it's like, yeah, I work out too. You know, I, I have the door closed.
Listen to a little Iron Maiden lately, but that's part of the fun of it. They
want everybody to know
they're doing it. So you walk by, you go, wow, Billy's in shape. You know, look
at him, look at
him. He's lifting. He's doing cleans and presses. Well, I've been like, I've
been out having breakfast
and like outside cafe and all of a sudden 20 of these maniacs just run by, get
to the corner and then
they run back the other way. You just want to throw your pancakes at them. Well,
it's worse if you're
walking and they, they almost run you over. You're like, Hey, this is not a gym.
Okay.
This is a sidewalk. Like, don't, this is not, this is not a place for you to
conduct your
class. Maybe it's like a green thing. Like they think that treadmills take up
too much
energy. No, I think you were right. They want people to know what they're doing
and they don't
have the space to, you know, they don't have a track. So they decided to use a
sidewalk.
You know, I've seen that. I've seen like groups of people run up and down
streets.
It's stupid. I saw when I was in Santa Monica, I was laughing my ass off.
It's stupid. I was sitting there running with fucking accountants.
But CrossFit itself, what it does is it gets people to get competitive. And
when they get
competitive, the good thing about it is like, there's a bunch of people around
you. You're
all pushing each other. The bad thing about it is a lot of people, they, they,
their form
falls apart when they start doing high repetitions and they get competitive
with it. And then
they start getting injured. I know a lot of fucking people that have hurt
themselves doing
CrossFit. A lot. Kettlebells, people always fuck themselves up right behind in
there, baby.
Yeah, I don't fuck with those things. They're just going to do them slowly and
do them with
correct form. The beautiful thing about kettlebells is you can get a great
workout with a light
kettlebell. I could get a great workout with a 35-pound kettlebell. It's a
light kettlebell,
moving it slowly, controlling it every step of the way. And you can do all
sorts of exercises.
Go from one to the other, one to the other, and you give a, you get a full body
workout that works.
It's actual functional strength. Like it'll apply to athletics.
I'm leaving the reservation with the, I'm going all old school. I got those
atomic holds,
you know, like that American Ninja, those little look like little cannonballs.
Those are great.
I got those hanging from my ceiling and I'm trying to get the ones that look
like the
nunchuck handles. And I went to order the thing and then he never came. And
then they sent me an
email going like, did you, do you still want them? It's like, yeah, I ordered
them.
Go to rogue fitness, rogue fitness.com. They have all that crazy.
They got that. Well, that's what I, I bought my rack through those guys.
Okay. And I got a speed bag and then I'm going to get those Swedish buzz and
see if I can get it
myself up to be able to do a Q and flag. Oh shit.
Well, I like the shit where I'm working towards something. I can't just get on
an elliptical
every day. Like I'm doing a half hour. And the big thing is what's my new
playlist? Cause I will get
bored shitless with that. But I feel like with the speed bag, you know, I suck
at that, but I'm
getting a little bit better at it. I'm like, I'm like learning something. You
know, it's funny.
My wife wanted it. I wasn't mad enough. I didn't want to have a thing, but it's
something cool about
doing it. But do you know, like Julio Cesar Chavez didn't even know how to do
that. It's kind of
useless for boxing. I mean, it gives you a little bit of endurance for your
shoulders, but when the
last time you punched somebody like this, imagine someone stood in front of you
and you punched
them like this. Well, I think it was to build up. It was supposed to be timing.
Then also build up
your arms. You can keep your arms up and protect your head. Yeah. Right. But
Julio Cesar Chavez,
it's hilarious. He's one of the greatest boxers of all time. And he always used
to laugh because
he would like try to do it and he couldn't do it. Like he would knock everybody
out in the
fucking gym.