Name: David Goggins Thought He'd Never Run Again
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'David Goggins Thought He'd Never Run Again' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-06. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience people think that my knees are bad from a lot of
running and they're
wrong I wasn't born healthy I wasn't born with some great body alignment some
great note I have
sickle cell I have all kind of shit I have all kind of health issues you know
all kind of I'm
fucked up so I had a choice to make and the choice was you know growing up you
know okay this hurts
that hurts we can just sit down and do nothing or we can see how far we can
push the human body
so on that journey as I started getting more and more into my mind and start
realizing
that while what I'm capable of doing my mind got stronger so the so the pain in
my knees
while it sucked I've been doing it for so long it was like it became my new
norm like okay my knees
hurt fuck it stop you know and I call it like I'm stop feeling sorry for
yourself but you sometimes
have to ignore your feelings I'm missing Jamie a picture you need oh no do I
think Jamie has some
do you have a picture of his knee Jamie did I ever send it to you Jamie I have
it here hold on let
me just but keep going no so it's like for me I I made decision and my decision
was to be the best
person I could and I basically a lot more as I wake up and say fuck your
feelings and that doesn't mean
like you know don't take it literally fuck your feelings but sometimes you have
to go beyond what
you're feeling and my knees were fucked but guess what I wanted to run and I
knew that okay you can get
knee replacements this and that like I said it wasn't because of I ran too much
people always
want to say oh my you ran so much so you fucked up your body you know you don't
want to be like
David Goggins I hear it all the time you don't be like David Goggins but so
there's your knee yeah
there it is first of all look look at the fact that there's zero space between
those bones yes sir
from the top from your your your tibia to your femur there's zero space it's
just kneecap
covering two bones that are rubbing against each other and so this is after
surgery where they had a cut
your knee slice your shin like in half and then take a chunk out of it because
it had deformed so much
from you running with bone on bone that it was starting to like swell out in
one direction and it was
changing the alignment of your leg right and this happened back in 2000 2001 I
was going through buds
so this happened for a long this is this right here has been going on for a
long time so and it got to a
point where it's like okay I'm done and that's the plate that's in there right
now so as you see the wedge
that part of the bone that's opened up yeah so they had to cut it realign it
and then um now the alignments
that's in there but this is now about 17 months ago 17 18 months ago when this
happened so
couldn't get some screws that fit go back to that real quick
that one sticks right out of the fucking bone hey cut that shit off yeah that
shit down is that thing sticking
into your leg no I don't well I feel the plate every single time I move yeah so
everything so because it's
like connected to the hamstring so whenever I fucking whenever I move that
plate is very irritating so
every step even like when I walk when I run it's just it's this very irritating
thing and then you
gotta wait for so long for that leg to start getting back into place and if you
see that other picture I
sent of the foam my my foam leg that put my hand in I think Jennifer sent it to
you Jamie with the foam
leg you'll see this in a second this is fucked up so like the swelling in that
leg was fucking nuts
oh when you had edema yeah you showed it to me in Vegas yeah you were sticking
your thumb into your
I grabbed it yeah yeah so it was it was pretty nuts but um you know once again
it's just things you uh
things I was willing to endure to get yeah that's it right there so that's just
all post-surgery swelling
yeah so when the doctor said this to you and he he said look this is how fucked
up your knee is
did he say you need a replacement what was he saying basically I had two
options so I went to
the first guy had the surgery done that's in the book I talked about that but
then the second guy so
after the first surgery I was done so this is the first surgery after buds no
so this is like back in
uh looking at 2000 so me and Cameron this is recently so I didn't have any
surgery going through buds
really I didn't have any surgery at all so I went through in 2001 I fucked it
2000 2001 whatever it
was I messed up my leg real bad and hell we kept on going on it just kept on
going what did you do to
it in hell week it was like I i it up somehow like running or whatever I have
it and can't hurt me
but um it was uh I think the boat I fell it twisted but over a period of time
just got worse and worse
and worse so I was getting like toward all shots every day and then this got
worse but I'm like
it i'm good so I kept going on it so it kind of healed all up so just kept
going
kept going kept going years later years later just kept going on it so I
stopped squatting
so it became like okay my knees up my alignment's messed up my hips are messed
up I can't squat
so but I can still run so okay I started running because running doesn't
require you to bend down
and so i'm running a lot and it got to um 20 years later pretty much and it was
2020 or I don't get
this right Cameron Haynes came down we went for a 20 mile run my knees were up
for like 10 years
long story short it was like okay man I got to get this thing looked at so when
guy looked at
the doc was like oh we can go in there and just do a quick little you know
cleanup job
and the cleanup job went so quick guy was breaking tools and up like literally
broke tools and I have it in there he was breaking tools I talked to him I know
he told me your meniscus
was the hardest meniscus he's ever experienced in his life he's like dude he
goes I didn't know that
meniscus could get that way he goes like he's not human he goes when I was
cutting into meniscus it
broke the scalpel yep Wolf Lawson you know he said Wolf Law something yeah he
said normally when
you cut into meniscus it just slices right through like butter he's like I
couldn't cut it yeah mine
went butter mine went butter so all those motherfuckers who think I'm putting
them hundred hour weeks
go yourself bitch you don't get no like that baby by sitting on the couch
no I mean that's the craziest thing I've ever heard like you've hardened your
meniscus just through
constant pressure and pounding yeah so he went in there to clean it up and then
what happened
so basically that little meniscus that whatever the was in there so my so my
alignment was so bad
the only thing that was keeping me able to do anything was that little up
messed up
meniscus it was all jarred up and jacked up but the second that thing got out
dude it was
like I was have you seen star wars those those storm things those those those
big um things that what
they called um they have wobbly legs and they hit like logs robot things yeah
robot things that's how
my leg was it was it had nothing it was just like a little dangling fucking
like so from my knee down
the shin the tip fib it just dangled like there was nothing and I was like okay
man this
so it was worse after the cleanup much worse like I was done I went from
running 200 miles to I did 240
mile race in 2020 October 2020 it was moab went out there got second place 62
hours knee was
up getting it drained before the race but I still ran 240 miles literally five
or six days before the
race I'm getting it drained and it was a baseball size um it's called a baker's
assist so they drained
it and I went in there did the race finished it and I was like okay here we go
went on to do some
more races I did like another 200 miler did a couple more races and then like I
said cam came down
right after that I went and got this surgery done and I went from running every
day to now I have some
fucking legs that just dangles and after that surgery it just dangled and I was
like okay man I'm
fucked it's just from that little piece of meniscus just that little piece of
meniscus and I'm sitting
there thinking okay man this is not this doesn't make any sense to me this
there's something
fucked I don't understand why I can't I can't put any pressure on my leg the
the amount of blood
they were taken out was was unbelievable so there's the blood right there Jesus
Christ that's the blood
dude oh my god it's one two three four and you see the black blood yeah that is
de-oxygenated blood so
whatever was going on whatever the fuck was going on that's why it looks
different color so the red blood
is the blood that has oxygen that's right and that was just like coagulated
just fucked up blood
yep Jesus yeah so that so after surgery I'm like I'm like seven seven days out
or whatever the
fuck it was like it once again I don't know the exact times but I have them in
the book I have everything
fucking dialed in um I went back and I was like man I'm I'm fucked up I mean it's
a simple meniscus
surgery man like people go back a week later they're playing two weeks three
weeks tops I'm like
man I'm never gonna run again I'm gonna walk with a limp so I'm going back I'm
getting
fucking like I'm literally getting my knee drained every week getting PRP I'm
like man but in the back
of my mind I I know how far I can push myself I know my body so fucking well so
well and I'm like
this is um this is wrong I'm gonna I'm never gonna run again I'm never gonna
run again I walk with a
limp so this went off about six six months so I had the surgery done in
February it was uh February March
April May June about four months four months after the surgery four or five
months I'm like hey Jennifer
um I gotta find another you know somebody else look at my fucking knee so I try
to keep my
together but imagine when you go from every day of your fucking life grinding
and you go to nothing
like literally like 90 minute surgery done that's crazy that it was just a
little meniscus scope 90
minute surgery done and I was like okay man this is anyway so I found this guy
named Dr. Gamal out of
New York and we fly there but I'm like he can't fix this man because I knew it
was a lot more than
knees it was just it was all kind of this fucked up body and I am I walk in the
office and he decides to
see me and me and Jennifer in there Jennifer's happy she's happy as shit it's
like oh my god man
this guy's gonna be able to get you a a meniscus replacement he was all kind of
guru'd out
but I'm a realist bro I will push myself and I will go as far as I can but I
also am a realist I also
knew in the back of my mind I'm not gonna try to ruin your party Jennifer that's
what I'm saying to myself
but this shit's done it's over so but I went just to pretty much appease her
and just see you know if there's anything left so I walk in the office and the
doc's like uh
yeah I'm looking at your x-rays and that's the doctor who's like I don't know
how this is when the
Dr. Gamal look him up world-renowned dude and when this guy looked at me
straight faced
he said man I don't know how you did anything with those knees anything let
alone run 200 miles back
to back 240 miles where the you did I don't know how you did it and so I'm like
okay
whatever can we get it fixed and he didn't want to get there because he knew I
was he's like no you
know we we can maybe you know try and in a loader brace maybe an unloader brace
will help you out
what's an unloader brace so basically my knee went in on the meniscus side on
the inside so it was
like jamming on the inside so this brace kind of like it kind of helps realign
the knee a little bit
so then you cannot have so much pressure on the inside your leg
so that's it right there one side yeah so basically I'm like man I'm like okay
I'm not
so this is all you have for me I'm like you can't do for me and he was like um
no and he was walking out of the office and he could tell I was like I wasn't
too up
but I was like because I kind of was preparing myself for the next part of my
journey I don't
like to lay in my too long and I gave myself a couple of minutes okay we got a
man to up
we gotta get back in this like what's next you know let's go let's go see what
you know let's
let's go back to college let's let's do something because you're you're running
and your athletic
career is done so he got to the door he opened it and as he was literally he
was shouldered out the
door and I'm looking at Jennifer I'm like well you know we'll go back to
fucking you know go back to Nevada and fucking start again and he was like
try the unloader brace out and there's one more thing we could possibly do for
you
and I'm like motherfucker like get your little monkey fucking ass back in here
bro like
what is it like like like what the fuck's going on so he was like yeah there's
this surgery called hto
and he was like you can go in we can fucking you know pretty much break your tibia
it's called high
tibia osteotomy they go in and they break your tibia they they they like slice
into it and they
they wedge it to the point where they realign your leg back up it's a very
painful surgery it's very
painful afterwards painful as afterwards and they put that plate the plate you
saw back on and then
your leg is so so your knee is still where it was because this doesn't get
fixed so it takes several
months for that knee to start working that way back into where that alignment
is so now my leg is just
now so here it is see it on the image yeah so they take a slice out of it
because it's deformed yep and
that slice lowers the part that's deformed and tries to make it a more natural
shape
but you're still dealing with bone on bone
so you're still deal you're still dealing with the pain of arthritis
essentially because you do you
have any cartilage in your knees not much not much at all if any so the thing
about it it takes
that pressure off of that so it was complete bone on bone right what that
surgery does is it
that surgery takes it over to the lateral side
that surgery takes it over to the lateral side
that surgery takes it over to the lateral side
that surgery takes it over to the lateral side
that surgery takes it over to the lateral side
that surgery takes it over to the lateral side

David Goggins Thought He'd Never Run Again

the Joe Rogan experience people think that my knees are bad from a lot of
running and they're
wrong I wasn't born healthy I wasn't born with some great body alignment some
great note I have
sickle cell I have all kind of shit I have all kind of health issues you know
all kind of I'm
fucked up so I had a choice to make and the choice was you know growing up you
know okay this hurts
that hurts we can just sit down and do nothing or we can see how far we can
push the human body
so on that journey as I started getting more and more into my mind and start
realizing
that while what I'm capable of doing my mind got stronger so the so the pain in
my knees
while it sucked I've been doing it for so long it was like it became my new
norm like okay my knees
hurt fuck it stop you know and I call it like I'm stop feeling sorry for
yourself but you sometimes
have to ignore your feelings I'm missing Jamie a picture you need oh no do I
think Jamie has some
do you have a picture of his knee Jamie did I ever send it to you Jamie I have
it here hold on let
me just but keep going no so it's like for me I I made decision and my decision
was to be the best
person I could and I basically a lot more as I wake up and say fuck your
feelings and that doesn't mean
like you know don't take it literally fuck your feelings but sometimes you have
to go beyond what
you're feeling and my knees were fucked but guess what I wanted to run and I
knew that okay you can get
knee replacements this and that like I said it wasn't because of I ran too much
people always
want to say oh my you ran so much so you fucked up your body you know you don't
want to be like
David Goggins I hear it all the time you don't be like David Goggins but so
there's your knee yeah
there it is first of all look look at the fact that there's zero space between
those bones yes sir
from the top from your your your tibia to your femur there's zero space it's
just kneecap
covering two bones that are rubbing against each other and so this is after
surgery where they had a cut
your knee slice your shin like in half and then take a chunk out of it because
it had deformed so much
from you running with bone on bone that it was starting to like swell out in
one direction and it was
changing the alignment of your leg right and this happened back in 2000 2001 I
was going through buds
so this happened for a long this is this right here has been going on for a
long time so and it got to a
point where it's like okay I'm done and that's the plate that's in there right
now so as you see the wedge
that part of the bone that's opened up yeah so they had to cut it realign it
and then um now the alignments
that's in there but this is now about 17 months ago 17 18 months ago when this
happened so
couldn't get some screws that fit go back to that real quick
that one sticks right out of the fucking bone hey cut that shit off yeah that
shit down is that thing sticking
into your leg no I don't well I feel the plate every single time I move yeah so
everything so because it's
like connected to the hamstring so whenever I fucking whenever I move that
plate is very irritating so
every step even like when I walk when I run it's just it's this very irritating
thing and then you
gotta wait for so long for that leg to start getting back into place and if you
see that other picture I
sent of the foam my my foam leg that put my hand in I think Jennifer sent it to
you Jamie with the foam
leg you'll see this in a second this is fucked up so like the swelling in that
leg was fucking nuts
oh when you had edema yeah you showed it to me in Vegas yeah you were sticking
your thumb into your
I grabbed it yeah yeah so it was it was pretty nuts but um you know once again
it's just things you uh
things I was willing to endure to get yeah that's it right there so that's just
all post-surgery swelling
yeah so when the doctor said this to you and he he said look this is how fucked
up your knee is
did he say you need a replacement what was he saying basically I had two
options so I went to
the first guy had the surgery done that's in the book I talked about that but
then the second guy so
after the first surgery I was done so this is the first surgery after buds no
so this is like back in
uh looking at 2000 so me and Cameron this is recently so I didn't have any
surgery going through buds
really I didn't have any surgery at all so I went through in 2001 I fucked it
2000 2001 whatever it
was I messed up my leg real bad and hell we kept on going on it just kept on
going what did you do to
it in hell week it was like I i it up somehow like running or whatever I have
it and can't hurt me
but um it was uh I think the boat I fell it twisted but over a period of time
just got worse and worse
and worse so I was getting like toward all shots every day and then this got
worse but I'm like
it i'm good so I kept going on it so it kind of healed all up so just kept
going
kept going kept going years later years later just kept going on it so I
stopped squatting
so it became like okay my knees up my alignment's messed up my hips are messed
up I can't squat
so but I can still run so okay I started running because running doesn't
require you to bend down
and so i'm running a lot and it got to um 20 years later pretty much and it was
2020 or I don't get
this right Cameron Haynes came down we went for a 20 mile run my knees were up
for like 10 years
long story short it was like okay man I got to get this thing looked at so when
guy looked at
the doc was like oh we can go in there and just do a quick little you know
cleanup job
and the cleanup job went so quick guy was breaking tools and up like literally
broke tools and I have it in there he was breaking tools I talked to him I know
he told me your meniscus
was the hardest meniscus he's ever experienced in his life he's like dude he
goes I didn't know that
meniscus could get that way he goes like he's not human he goes when I was
cutting into meniscus it
broke the scalpel yep Wolf Lawson you know he said Wolf Law something yeah he
said normally when
you cut into meniscus it just slices right through like butter he's like I
couldn't cut it yeah mine
went butter mine went butter so all those motherfuckers who think I'm putting
them hundred hour weeks
go yourself bitch you don't get no like that baby by sitting on the couch
no I mean that's the craziest thing I've ever heard like you've hardened your
meniscus just through
constant pressure and pounding yeah so he went in there to clean it up and then
what happened
so basically that little meniscus that whatever the was in there so my so my
alignment was so bad
the only thing that was keeping me able to do anything was that little up
messed up
meniscus it was all jarred up and jacked up but the second that thing got out
dude it was
like I was have you seen star wars those those storm things those those those
big um things that what
they called um they have wobbly legs and they hit like logs robot things yeah
robot things that's how
my leg was it was it had nothing it was just like a little dangling fucking
like so from my knee down
the shin the tip fib it just dangled like there was nothing and I was like okay
man this
so it was worse after the cleanup much worse like I was done I went from
running 200 miles to I did 240
mile race in 2020 October 2020 it was moab went out there got second place 62
hours knee was
up getting it drained before the race but I still ran 240 miles literally five
or six days before the
race I'm getting it drained and it was a baseball size um it's called a baker's
assist so they drained
it and I went in there did the race finished it and I was like okay here we go
went on to do some
more races I did like another 200 miler did a couple more races and then like I
said cam came down
right after that I went and got this surgery done and I went from running every
day to now I have some
fucking legs that just dangles and after that surgery it just dangled and I was
like okay man I'm
fucked it's just from that little piece of meniscus just that little piece of
meniscus and I'm sitting
there thinking okay man this is not this doesn't make any sense to me this
there's something
fucked I don't understand why I can't I can't put any pressure on my leg the
the amount of blood
they were taken out was was unbelievable so there's the blood right there Jesus
Christ that's the blood
dude oh my god it's one two three four and you see the black blood yeah that is
de-oxygenated blood so
whatever was going on whatever the fuck was going on that's why it looks
different color so the red blood
is the blood that has oxygen that's right and that was just like coagulated
just fucked up blood
yep Jesus yeah so that so after surgery I'm like I'm like seven seven days out
or whatever the
fuck it was like it once again I don't know the exact times but I have them in
the book I have everything
fucking dialed in um I went back and I was like man I'm I'm fucked up I mean it's
a simple meniscus
surgery man like people go back a week later they're playing two weeks three
weeks tops I'm like
man I'm never gonna run again I'm gonna walk with a limp so I'm going back I'm
getting
fucking like I'm literally getting my knee drained every week getting PRP I'm
like man but in the back
of my mind I I know how far I can push myself I know my body so fucking well so
well and I'm like
this is um this is wrong I'm gonna I'm never gonna run again I'm never gonna
run again I walk with a
limp so this went off about six six months so I had the surgery done in
February it was uh February March
April May June about four months four months after the surgery four or five
months I'm like hey Jennifer
um I gotta find another you know somebody else look at my fucking knee so I try
to keep my
together but imagine when you go from every day of your fucking life grinding
and you go to nothing
like literally like 90 minute surgery done that's crazy that it was just a
little meniscus scope 90
minute surgery done and I was like okay man this is anyway so I found this guy
named Dr. Gamal out of
New York and we fly there but I'm like he can't fix this man because I knew it
was a lot more than
knees it was just it was all kind of this fucked up body and I am I walk in the
office and he decides to
see me and me and Jennifer in there Jennifer's happy she's happy as shit it's
like oh my god man
this guy's gonna be able to get you a a meniscus replacement he was all kind of
guru'd out
but I'm a realist bro I will push myself and I will go as far as I can but I
also am a realist I also
knew in the back of my mind I'm not gonna try to ruin your party Jennifer that's
what I'm saying to myself
but this shit's done it's over so but I went just to pretty much appease her
and just see you know if there's anything left so I walk in the office and the
doc's like uh
yeah I'm looking at your x-rays and that's the doctor who's like I don't know
how this is when the
Dr. Gamal look him up world-renowned dude and when this guy looked at me
straight faced
he said man I don't know how you did anything with those knees anything let
alone run 200 miles back
to back 240 miles where the you did I don't know how you did it and so I'm like
okay
whatever can we get it fixed and he didn't want to get there because he knew I
was he's like no you
know we we can maybe you know try and in a loader brace maybe an unloader brace
will help you out
what's an unloader brace so basically my knee went in on the meniscus side on
the inside so it was
like jamming on the inside so this brace kind of like it kind of helps realign
the knee a little bit
so then you cannot have so much pressure on the inside your leg
so that's it right there one side yeah so basically I'm like man I'm like okay
I'm not
so this is all you have for me I'm like you can't do for me and he was like um
no and he was walking out of the office and he could tell I was like I wasn't
too up
but I was like because I kind of