Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1644 - Ethan Suplee
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1644 - Ethan Suplee' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-04. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1644 - Ethan Suplee

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So what's up man dude you if I didn't know who you were and I ran in you I
would have no idea
That you're the same guy. It's crazy. You're a fucking completely different
human
Yeah, you went from this guy that looked like you were really in bad shape
To a guy who looks like a guy out of void in jiu-jitsu. I'm like fuck that guy.
Let me get away from him
He's too big. You look fucking great. That's awesome. This is the greatest
compliment. I've ever gotten
Thank you very much. By the way, all I want is to look like a big dude. Who's
not
Just gigantic and fat. That's all I want - you look like a gorilla. You look
like a dangerous human being like how did you do it?
Well over the past 20 years I've
Gone back and forth with dieting. I've I've lost a shit little weight. I've
gained a shit little weight back
How did I do it? I think that the the thing that I've done that has been
sustainable is
Undoing kind of look a lot of diets come in and say just do this and you'll
lose weight
But we're not focused at all on how we got to whatever point we were at that we
consider non-optimal that we want to change and so
Undoing the bad habits that I had that I would associate with allowing myself
to get up to 550 pounds
Is really more important than anything that I could say this is what I did to
lose weight. Does that make sense? Yes. Yes
so
When did the process start so you kind of went back and forth, but you've
obviously been on a very steady course for how long now 20 years?
19 years
2002 was the first time I
Thought I really want to change my life and I started then and how much weight
have you lost since then?
2002 I went from 550 I did a liquid diet for two months and lost 80 pounds that
80 pounds
I've never dipped back into but so I was 450 and
I went down to
Close to just under 300 then went back up to 400
then went down to 200 then back up to 350 and
For the past five years, I've been around the weight. I'm at now
So I've I've really gotten that under control
And what are you at right now?
That is incredible
That is that's so incredible. So
You've lost more than 200 pounds. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean solid I've lost 200
pounds a couple of times
But you've also put on muscle like you're a different you're you're different
all like you're unrecognizable
Yeah, I think listen the other strange thing about weight loss is
When you're building fat and you're storing fat
Your body is naturally building lean tissue to just to support that fat so
under every obese person
There's a person with more than average muscle
Mmm, so because they have to carry around all that way. Yeah, you're you're
naturally building muscle just by like raising your heavier arm
I used to say that to Ralphie May yes, Ralphie May was so heavy and I was like
look at your legs, dude
I go you'd be able to kick someone through a fucking wall if you just lost
weight
Yeah, like is the that just to be able to carry around I have gnarly calves
I bet you do. Yeah, I that's one of the few things that like I I trained
sometimes with bodybuilders now
And my coach is a professional bodybuilder
Jared shot Jared feather shout out to him
Um, and he has a lot of calf emphasis and I'm like, I don't really need to do
that bro. My calves are good
Yeah, you could carried around 500 pounds for years. Yeah, let's go to it. Can
you show me a photo of Ethan when he was at his heaviest?
So finally so has this affected your work because you know, you were getting
roles
For so long as an actor when you were large. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it has
there was a time
If we go back to like 2015
And I had been really thin and when I say really thin, I mean 200 pounds, but
for me that was
Extraordinarily thin. That's what I weigh. It was just crazy. You're a lot
bigger than me. It's crazy to see I looked I thought I looked
Gaunt God
That's since look at those two fucking pictures like like if a girl broke up
with you
When you were on the left and then ran into you, you know at the fucking
airport when you were on the right
I mean that is bonkers man. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah, I mean truly truly
incredible
That's my favorite picture and that's not even down lighting
I I was an idiot and I'm not super thrilled with my hair and my head and I
I wouldn't shave my head because I thought the hat looked better with a little
bit of hair poking out and then it got in the way of down
Lighting, so that's not even as good a picture that could have downed lighting.
That's what everybody wants for abs. Yeah
They want down lighting. Yeah, see the guns
so
Your your training regimen must be like pretty strict. Look at that fucking
picture. That is so bananas, dude
Yeah
Yeah, what what movies everyone remember the Titans Wow
Yeah, that that that wasn't even the heaviest that that's not the heavy
I mean, I was probably close to 500 there, but no, that's that's not even the
heaviest
I don't know what to point to like this picture down here is I believe after
remember the Titans and I'm certainly a little bit heavier
Yeah
Wow
When you look at that and you know how far you've come, I mean it has to be
incredibly satisfying
It's incredibly satisfying, but you know look the reality is that I don't I
I have mental illness and I can't I don't look at myself and think like god. I
look great
I see nothing but negative stuff every day and I try to convince myself
I try to find something that I'm happy with usually it's my traps
I can look at my traps because it's lean. There's not a bunch of loose skin
hanging there
They're not all scarred up from surgeries and I look at my trap and I go like
okay
That looks good and based on that I can then start to feel okay about myself
Looking at those pictures, you know, that's also a long time ago
And I just don't I cannot relate to how I lived then Wow
It it's it's it's very bizarre now when you say you have mental illness meaning
that
You're aware of this right? So you're aware you have a distorted perception of
yourself. Yeah
Very much so and it what it what do you think is what's fueling that distorted
perception I?
When I go back to like my childhood
I was put on a diet when I was five and
Prior to that I had no sense of self there
I existed and clearly I I had fun and I played but I was not aware of my body
as a
Thing kind of if it is external to me as a separate component to me or or just
as a thing itself
It just was and at five I was put on this diet and all these
Parts of me were pointed out as being super negative and so I just have five
years old
Yeah, and and I really and by the way in fairness if you look at the average
five-year-old today
I wasn't like I wasn't obese at five
I was a chubby five-year-old, but I was super active and I wasn't eating junk
food all day long and you're growing in your body, too
Yeah, that's the thing about five-year-olds. It's like I've seen
Kids that look kind of chubby and then you run into him a few years later like
look at you. You're a beanstalk. Yeah
Yes, I have four kids myself and and you watch them they kind of go in
different directions
Wide and then tall and yeah, there isn't a sad thing
But I I spent most of my life feeling
Wrong like literally that I was wrong or bad or there was some some
Just super negative about myself and so I still have to fight through that
today like no matter what I've done I
2012
I went and rode every stage of the tour de France or 2011 maybe just for just
for fun
And I could do that on a bicycle. That's not fucking easy
That's thousands of miles on a bicycle in a very short period of time. I was
much thinner than I am now and I was miserable
I was not happy. Why were you miserable? I didn't like the way I looked I
Still thought I was fat and I was 70 pounds lighter than I am now
so
It's body dysmorphia. Yeah, something like that, but I think being aware of it.
I can talk myself through it
It's not like I'm hung up on it every day walking around feeling like a piece
of shit, right, but I do catch
certain glimpses of myself and
Feel bad and feel negative see this is the argument against fat shaming and I've
always said that
You know, I've had more like I've never I've never I mean, I
I've never been really overweight, but I've been fatter than I am now. I've had
a belly
I bet I got fat for a little bit but not
But it's a joke like I would you know, I should be slapped for saying that
right couple pounds on you
I mean week yes, I I don't think so whatever you want for yourself
I think is what you should do but I looked at it and I was like, oh fuck
I gotta lose some weight and I went on this carnivore diet and I lost like 12
pounds and but the point is that
That work for me, but I'm not in this mental state where I'm constantly judging
myself
And some people are and it's not their fault, you know, you know determined and
determinism is sure
Yeah, some people don't that some there's a there's an argument of free will
versus determinism
And I think there's a real good argument for both
But the argument for determinism is you are who you are. I should explain this
The idea is determinism is essentially based on the idea that you are
You're a product of all of your life experiences and the idea that you're
responsible for everything you do at every step of the day
That's not entirely
plausible because
There's childhood trauma. There's life experiences. There's emotions. There's
genetics. There's
there's
What you've had from all all these life experiences that you've tried to assimilate
and those are different than my life experiences
And everybody's are different and who you are right now like someone said to me
one day
And it was kind of a compliment. I could never do what you did what you do
Like I could never do what you do. I go you could if you were me, right?
It's not it's not like I'm not saying that there's nothing special about me
I am just who I am because of my life experiences and my genetics and all the
things I've done and
you are who you are for all your life experiences and who you've done and
to expect someone who has had bad input and
bad emotional guidance and
bad
perceptions of their own physical health and their identity to accept them to
just get their shit together is
Is ridiculous? Yeah, it really is and but they can do it. Some people can do it.
Yeah, you obviously did it
You know and that's
Probably the best piece of fuel and inspiration for anyone out there
That's looking to get their life together physically metabolically healthy
How what's the best be the best is someone who is at rock bottom who is 500
plus pounds and work their way back to like?
I said a guy would I would avoid in jiu-jitsu class
It's really what it is like fuck that big guy get away from me, dude. Yeah, but
that's
What you did and I think um in that you can help so many fucking people
But you are a gift in in so many ways because what you've done is so
extraordinary
The accomplishment is so it's magnificent. I mean it really is it's an amazing
accomplishment not just because of your own
personal health and what you've done and the way you look which is incredible
incredible achievement, but you
You're a fuel man. You're a rocket fuel for all these other people. Yeah,
because they look at you and go I can do that
Yeah, I can do that if I just can they can yeah
Certainly, I think um, I think you had him on the show to Robert Sapolsky makes
a great argument for determinism
He does he's the guy who I read and I go. Oh shit. I don't have free will right
but I think that as my perspective shifts I
Do today feel as though I have free will I have to battle through
Everything that makes me me still but I can do that and I can win. Yeah
There was certainly a point where the momentum was such in the other direction
That I failed time and time again and and again
It kind of always came down to I wasn't addressing how I arrived in the state.
I arrived at I was addressing
How