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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2099 - Aaron Rodgers' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2099 - Aaron Rodgers

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
And we're up, yeah, if you have to pee, that's the key to this.
You can't talk when you have to pee, because if you do, you're not going to,
nothing's
going to come out right.
Yeah.
You're just going to be concentrating on peeing.
It's such a good conversation.
It's like, God, I'm going to pee so bad.
If I stop, what's going to happen?
I've learned, I've just got to let it go.
Did Ari really pee in the fucking-
Oh, always.
Yeah, he pees in everything.
He pees in whiskey jugs.
He pees in kombucha bottles.
He's a psychopath.
It's like my buddy, AJ Hawk, he'll be doing the podcast, and he's just pissing
in a Gatorade
bottle.
I'm like, how many of those you got up in the fucking attic?
He's like, oh, I stopped doing that.
I'm like, yeah, right.
When Matt Serra was fighting in the UFC, he used to drink so much water that he
would have
to get up in the middle of the night to pee all the time, so he put a bucket by
the side
of his bed.
And just leaned off?
Yeah, he just leaned off and pissed in something.
I think maybe he had a jug, like a one-gallon empty jug.
I had a teammate who would piss himself in practice and games, and then spray a
bunch of water to
make it like he didn't piss himself.
What?
What a psycho.
That's a guy committed to winning.
I was like, oh, hey, Max is doing it again.
Max is doing it.
I was like, fuck, what is he doing?
Did he let you guys know he was doing it?
At one point, somebody's like, what the fuck is that?
Did you piss yourself?
Yeah.
Like, how long have you been doing that since college?
Jesus Christ.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
He just throws water on it?
He just sprays it, like takes the water and puts it in his mouth and sprays it
down.
Like, we know, Max.
We know.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Fucking athletes.
You have to be a fucking crazy person.
Yeah.
I mean, especially, I mean, your line of work.
You're playing, like, other than fighting, it's the most dangerous game.
Yeah, fighting's a little more dangerous.
Yeah, fighting's more dangerous.
But not necessarily, you know, like overall impacts.
The kind of impacts.
More concussions, though.
In fighting?
Yeah.
Yeah, I would imagine.
Just the sparring and training.
That's the thing that people don't really take into consideration, how many
times guys get hit in the head training.
Depending on what gym they're from and how the gym operates, some guys, they go
really hard in the gym.
That's a lot of micro concussions over and over.
And then if you got one, then you get another hit.
Do you ever spend any time in hyperbaric chambers?
Yeah.
Do you do that?
I did a bunch.
Yeah.
I did a bunch for my rehab.
It was awesome.
It helps a lot.
Yeah.
I think so.
I mean, a lot of it's, I think, anecdotal, but I know there's research.
But it wasn't like I felt like, oh, my God, I feel fucking incredible.
It's like, no, I think it's helping.
Everything's helping.
Yeah.
There was some research that was done in Israel about lengthening of telomeres,
where they put people on this protocol.
I think it was like a 90-day protocol where they did 60 sessions in 90 days,
and it showed that their telomere length increased, which was consistent to a
change in age, a biological age of 20 years.
20?
Yeah.
I'm going to jump in that thing when you're at home.
I know.
Jesus.
I don't know whether that, I mean, I've talked to Peter Atti about that.
He's like, that doesn't necessarily mean you're 20 years younger.
It's probably beneficial, but there's like, you know, but Peter's like very
hard-nosed, like, by-the-books science.
He doesn't leave any room for fuckery.
He was late on the bandwagon for peptides.
He's like, I don't know.
But now he's in.
Okay.
He's very willing to accept information, but he just wants to make sure that it's
absolutely accurate before he talks.
I respect that.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
He's rock solid.
Yeah.
So, you are how many months out since your injury?
Almost five.
Yeah.
My wife was just here, and we were talking about how we went to see your game.
We set it up.
We're going to go see Aaron play.
He's going to be playing the Cowboys in Dallas.
Let's go.
We got all pumped up.
Four plays later.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How is it now?
It feels good.
It feels good.
I can do everything except sprint at a top speed.
The cool thing is I really attacked the rehab the first few months and kind of
wanted to go as hard as I could for two months to see where I was at and also
see where the team was at because my goal was to come back.
Nobody has come back really quick from that injury.
Most of the time when it happens, especially during season, there's no need to
push a rehab because it happened the first week of the season.
I said, you know, let's push this as hard as I can and see if I can come back
in December at some point.
So I kind of in my mind had circled Christmas Eve, which would have been 14
weeks post-surgery.
And, yeah, I worked really, really hard.
I had a great surgeon who did, you know, a newer process where they kind of
attach, anchor the sutures through the tendon back into your heel.
So it allows you to get on your feet quicker.
I did a lot of, you know, other things to speed up the rehab.
I did hyperbaric chamber, worked with Brigham at Ways to Will, who I know you're
very good friends with and saw him on the podcast here, and he's amazing.
I did some stem cells, did, you know, full-time rehab up to eight hours a day
with, you know, an incredible spot in L.A.
and also at home doing extra stuff.
My diet was rock solid, a lot of bone broth to increase the collagen levels, to
increase healing.
And so I felt, you know, I felt really, really good.
I made it back on the practice field at 11 weeks.
The way the NFL works with the IR, you can have a three-week window before they
got to make a decision.
So they designate you to return.
You have three weeks before you get activated.
So I was hoping we'd win those three games.
I could come back.
Now, I couldn't sprint and still can at top speed, but I felt like there's been
times in my career where I played in a small circle and could have been able to
be effective.
That didn't happen.
And so they activated me to the roster.
I just got to practice, but I didn't get to play.
But I feel good.
You know, I had a lot of things working against me, my age being the biggest
one.
But I learned a lot more about health, which I'm sure people will love to hear
about.
Yeah, I mean, if you follow like a ways-to-well protocol, you can pretty
radically speed up recovery for injuries.
You know, and what's interesting is that there's stuff that you can do that you
didn't do because it's not allowed, which is, you know, very admirable on your
part.
But I would have fucking done it.
I would have done everything.
I'm like, let's go.
I would have gone the full Conor McGregor route.
But when you do – how do they determine whether or not you are fully here?
Do they do an MRI and check the tissue?
Yeah, we were doing ultrasounds actually for a while just to see what type of
blood flow we were getting to the area.
We didn't actually do another MRI.
If I had been activated with the intent to play, I think just for safety for
everybody, we probably would have done another MRI just to see the integrity,
structural integrity of the tendon.
But really, it was about how I felt, you know, and I was able to do all the
quarterback stuff, move in the pocket, throw, step into my foot.
I could actually, you know, jog to slightly faster than a jog to move and throw.
All things I kind of showed in practice the last few weeks of the season.
What happens over that if you speed it up a little?
Do you feel pain?
Do you feel –
I don't have the explosion.
I don't have the ability to kind of get up on my toe.
The biggest hurdle was just single leg calf strength, like being able to, from
a standing position, shift my weight onto the single leg and do a heel raise.
That's how you know you're ready to run because you run on – the athletes
play on their toes, you know.
So I need to be able to do that.
Now, I could get around that by subtle movements in the pocket.
But there was multiple times throughout my career where I had lower leg
injuries in 14 and 18 especially where I was able to play in a small circle.
In 14, I ripped my calf up pretty bad and was able to kind of play in the
shotgun and the pistol for a stretch of time and be effective.
In 18, I banged my knee up on the second drive of the game, you know, tore my
MCL, had a, you know, a fracture on the lateral side and was able to play for a
while, mostly in the shotgun until that healed up.
But – so I knew I could do it.
I wanted to show I could play under center, which I did in practice.
But, you know, we just were out of it.
So I didn't come back.
Well, it seems like it's the smartest move at your age to make sure it's 100%.
Like, I've seen a lot of athletes come back, particularly from ACL injuries
with fighters.
They come back too soon and it pops again.
Yeah.
I totally agree with that on many levels.
But then there's the competitor part where I see that window closing.
And there's not many guys who've been – who've played as long as I have.
There's a few.
Obviously, Tom did it for a long time.
But, you know, there's kind of an age where father time is winning.
And I know that, you know, I'm on the last couple holes of my career.
So I didn't want to miss an entire season.
Are you 36 now?
I'm 40.
40.
Thank you, though.
You look 36.
What is – what is like the old – is Tom the oldest that people have played?
I think Tom was 45 his last year.
Oh, wow.
There were some kickers that played about as long.
Yeah, 45s.
45 is crazy.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Because if you hear about a fighter that's 45, you're like –
If you hear about a fighter in their late 30s, it's kind of like –
Mm-hmm.
Except in the juicy days.
The juicy days of the UFC, there were some guys that they competed really well.
Well, there's still some guys that are late 30s.
Yoel Romero is the best example of that.
That's what I was just going to say.
But he's the freak of all freaks.
They need to study that guy in a lab.
I think you've said that before.
Like, I've told the story so many times, people get annoyed if I bring it up.
I don't care.
You bring it up.
The UFC brought him to a doctor, and the doctor's like, where did you get this
guy?
And they're like, he's awesome, right?
They're like, no, no, no.
You don't understand.
Like, I've never seen a human being that's built like him.
They said that the tendon in his eyes were three times larger than a normal
person's.
His eye fracture – he had an orbital fracture.
It was already healing by the time they were bringing him into the doctor.
They're like, this guy is just a freak.
By the way, his neck is completely fused.
So if you see when he runs, his neck is completely stiff.
His neck is totally fused.
And that's some shit they did in Cuba, like when he broke his neck.
So he's got –
This is nice, Jamie.
This is new, huh, this whole setup?
No, no.
It's always been like this.
It's really nice.
I mean, he didn't even get into the UFC.
I think he was like 36 or 37 when he fought his first fights in the UFC.
And he's still fighting at a world-class level.
Didn't he rip his knee up and keep fighting?
I don't know.
I thought he had like a ligament damage and kept fighting.
Maybe that's somebody else.
I don't know.
He's probably one of those guys that if he did, he wouldn't tell you.
Yeah.
You know, that Cuban athletic program that he talked about, it was a fun
podcast because I did it with him and Joey Diaz.
So he would talk in Spanish and Joey Diaz would translate it.
But occasionally he would talk in English.
But he was like, they turn you into a machine.
He was talking about the Cuban program.
Like if you're competing for Cuba, if you're on the elite team, you eat three
times a day.
If you're not on the elite team, you eat twice a d