Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1637 - Action Bronson
Uploaded: 2021-04-20T00:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1637 - Action Bronson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1637 - Action Bronson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-20. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1637 - Action Bronson

the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day
dude first of all before we even get started congratulations i just want to
congratulate
you publicly what you've done is amazing it's amazing i've been following you
on instagram
it's super inspiring man it touches me man it really does i love when someone
gets
a positive path going in their life and sticks with it and you see real
progress
and you're so dedicated man it's really inspiring it's beautiful thank you man
listen it was a long
time coming it's it's just i'm happy that it happened now because if i if it
didn't happen
it would have been something else i would have been in a grave yeah or
somewhere else who the
hell knows where they would have put me when did you start i've been i've been
fat my whole life
i've been thinking about losing weight for a long time for probably about 30
years but when did you
start losing weight when last march last march so right around the pandemic
literally right when it
hit my brand new baby and my wife they were going to go to columbia to show the
child you know you have
to show the child to the family and it was around march 10th we get to the
airport some state they
wouldn't let my dog get on the plane because they didn't have the air
conditioning didn't work in
the in the galley or whatever that is so we turned right back around and went
home and that's the day
shit hit the fan i was supposed to go on tour a week right after that
everything done i knew it was
all gonna be done i was talking to my agent he was like yeah this shit's gonna
be fine don't worry
they're gonna still do the show in hawaii i was like nah watch this shit's
gonna be fucking done
so bottom line why did you think everything was gonna get shut down i don't
know i had a feeling
i just had a i had a feeling that this was just bigger than what it was
you know than just it just seemed fishy just seemed fishy yeah so pretty much i
mean to get
the dog onto the plane we had to put her on the scale because she was a little
overweight
what's overweight for a dog i'm not really sure i think she looks great what is
overweight for a dog
though how do they decide that like i used to have a dog that was 140 pounds is
he overweight i don't
think so it's just jacked this isn't that's all i think if you're at a certain
weight just jack this
dog is an english setter supposed to have a little waist and listen she lost it
a little bit she lost
herself she's living in brooklyn now you know she's not back where she's from
exercising that's
different yeah she's eating different foods right her metabolism changed so i
don't blame her so
i i dealt with it better i feel her and then i started losing weight because of
her
because we both got on the scale and i was like what the fuck is going on what
was the highest
380 something oh yeah it was despicable i didn't look it though i looked about
350
a fucking round ball of fucking meatball yeah i was a fucking meatball well
what was your health like
like what did you what did it feel like walking around like that because that's
this is the thing man
um people love to talk about like fat shaming yeah and i know it's not good to
make people feel bad
but you have to but that you have to shame me i was shamed into this for sure
it's unfortunate that
you have to make people feel bad to start getting them to change but sometimes
whether it's a person
doing that to you or you just looking in the mirror and you're feeling bad that
that feeling is just
reality that's what that feeling is like you can't fat shame a skinny you can't
fat shame jamie no he's
not fat right so if you said hey jamie you're fat like it doesn't work doesn't
mean anything it only
means something when it's real and it's an indulgence thing it's not it's it's
not a thing that you can't
control it's a hard thing to control it's a hard thing to bounce back from and
that's what i'm most
impressed with you you've you really bounced back you've lost 130 pounds man
and we we had a good
workout today we went over to the honor gym shout out to my man john wolf john
wolf's the master i love
him how good is he i mean i i've watched him and now that i met him it's like
all the pieces came
together today for me he's one of the most knowledgeable trainers i've ever
worked with in
my life he's amazing he and it's not just like meathead stuff it's all about
mobility and flexibility
no nothing needed nothing i mean you can obviously lift a lot of weight yeah he
showed us he could do
the 106 overhead press with not like nothing yeah but it ain't about that it's
about being able to
it's fluidity it's about to be it's about using your body and using your
muscles in a functional manner
yeah not just he's all about longevity and he's all about range of motion his
whole thing is about
having you have like the full mobility of your body it's all these flexibility
things we did the hip
things that we did all that stuff and it's all to strengthen the joints
stabilize your shoulders
stabilize all your joints and he's he's just so good so amazing pre-workout
that we did yeah i was
soaked i was soaked before we started it was great it was unbelievable you're
very strong though man
you're really strong it was it was interesting to watch you do it like i can
see like over this past
year you know you've gotten your body to a really good place where you know you
haven't just lost
weight by dieting you've been lifting weights you've been exercising and
pushing sleds and i watch your
instagram man you're doing some wild shit for sure i mean i these are the
things that i always wanted
to do i always knew i could do this i played football in high school and i
actually i excelled in
practice like i liked doing that shit i like drills i like having an aim the
game yeah it's fun but i like
the practice stuff right you know what i mean yeah and i started losing weight
by myself in my house
literally during the pandemic just eating different my wife she was shaming me
because yes she was
because we have a brand new child say what the fuck you doing you want to be
around here for our baby
like you want to take yourself away from us right and that shit hit that's real
it hit hard that's a real
thing and not only that like i love life there's no doubt about it i've i've
been going so fast for
the past 10 years that i haven't really enjoyed myself so this force this
forced stoppage allowed
me to really reassess my happiness and i've regained everything you know it's
not just fucking
work work work next thing next thing next thing of course i'm an artist and my
mind is always all over
the place i'm always thinking about something you know but this slowed me down
it allowed me to spend
every moment with my brand new child you know yeah it's it's fucking it it was
something that i didn't
know i needed but i needed that yeah i needed it and and to regain my health
like in this in this manner
man it's like you said i wasn't i don't want to just lose weight people could
get the surgeries
and all that shit that ain't for me i'm a worker the problem with the side hard
work the surgery can
help people but it also it messes you up and here one of the things that
happens it diminishes your
ability to absorb food you can't have as much food and it's harder for you to
absorb nutrients i would
never do that that was just never in my cards that was never for me good for
you yeah i don't know
that because i knew i did this to myself yeah i have to fix it yeah and i'm
dedicated you know
like i was talking to my boy like me and cc sabathia were friends and i was
talking to him for a while
we would just text back and forth because he was a fat bastard too and he
changed his shit up
and we would just talk about how we want to be fucking jacked we just want to
be but we want to
get you know strong and shit and he put me on to my trainer that i was working
with dave paladino
and dave is kind of you know he's like an old school meathead from the jersey
shore and i fucking love that
so we clicked yeah because it could have met somebody else and it wouldn't have
clicked
right you know like i've worked out with other people but it just wasn't i
almost don't want to
let him down you know right like he's a fuck like he's in the sopranos or some
shit i swear
maybe it's in my mind but i have to but it works that way right i know what you
mean yeah he was
showing me all he's like fucking joey diaz but jacked i swear that's who he is
that's what i was
thinking about i was like yo that's who this fucking guy is exactly him he has
the stories of the shore
he used to bounce all the clubs with the fucking fanny pack and the fucking i
don't want to mention
what else but you know listen he he put me on to different types of training he
didn't just start
me off with meathead stuff we did the sleds we did the torturous shit the skier
the fucking all that
the stepper oh my god the fucking that shit is torture but i love it that's
awesome man yeah it's
so beautiful i'm i it's one of the things that makes me most happy in life i
love people succeeding
i really do it makes me so happy i don't know why you know i think when i was a
kid uh when i was
really young when i was i started teaching taekwondo when i was probably like
16 16 ish somewhere around
then when i started teaching and i really got into it because it helped me get
better but i also had a
few students that went from white belt and they graduated and got higher belts
and i took them to
tournaments and i had them win tournaments and my god it made me so happy my
feeling is more
more happy than myself because with myself it would make i would have conflicted
feelings
like hurting people is a weird thing like it gives you conflicted feelings like
you're happy
but you also feel real weird because that could have been you and you see this
dude writhing in agony
it's it's very strange but when someone else that you train goes and succeeds
it feels good it feels
really good when you watch them improve so like i i maybe that was that's where
the seed got planted
but i fucking love when people succeed i love it it makes me so happy man it's
because you're that type
of guy you know you're not a fucking hater there's haters out there that don't
want to see anyone
succeed they just want all the success for themselves no i'm the opposite of a
hater exactly i'm a lover
yeah me too i seem like a hater sometimes because i say hater shit but i just
do it because it's funny
yeah i'm like my my you're amusing yourself yes my soul is a positive i'm i'm
very much a person who
wants to see people do well it means a lot to me it really does when i see
someone like you that i
know how hard it is to lose 130 pounds i mean i've never had to but i could
only imagine it's fucking
hard it's fucking hard and it's a long road it's not an easy road it's not like
just hold your breath
for an hour no it's it's fucking it's a long road it's a grind and it's hard to
see success
because it comes in these little tiny little steps you get these little tiny
increments but i've
watched those tiny increments of yours on instagram i've watched it and i'm and
i was like look at him
go look at him go and then i saw you shrinking i'm like look at him go and i'm
and it's every
fucking day man you know one of my favorite videos of yours you had this crazy
workout and then you cook
steaks at the park i loved it that's my favorite shit that that's how i reward
yourself that's my
life yes you know i bring i always have the barbecue in the trunk of the cherokee
always the jeep grand
cherokee is my car i've been driving that fucking thing forever i love that car
you got the yeti thing
in the back pack all the stuff that i need i got the japanese hardwood charcoal
yes i got my torch to
light it yes and i got my my little weber grill i'm good to go yeah you know
and i just right after
the workout in the parking lot or wherever i just pull up in the park because i
don't just do 