Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1635 - Katie Spotz
Uploaded: 2021-04-15T00:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1635 - Katie Spotz' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1635 - Katie Spotz' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-15. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1635 - Katie Spotz

Joe Rogan podcast check it out. The Joe Rogan experience. Train by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day. Okay hello Katie how are you what's happening not much not much
at all this is very
uneventful for you it's funny that you're nervous to do this but yet you're not
nervous to row a
boat well you might have been nervous were you nervous to row across the
Atlantic? I definitely
was nervous and I think like that is a good thing to be able to channel that
energy to you know make
sure bad things don't happen but that was definitely more of my comfort zone
than doing something like
this. Is that the great well obviously it's the craziest thing you've ever done
right I shouldn't
say obviously. Well I think that like the last endurance challenge it was like
running 33 hours
straight and I think that hit my physical limit more than the row did like
after the row I felt
like my body could probably continue going um but it was just yeah more
mentally challenging.
How did you get started doing these kind of things? Um so I would definitely
consider myself more like an
accidental adventurer so um I had to take a gym class to get my um high school
diploma and through
process of elimination I wanted to find like the easiest A because at that
point I was like a
bench warmer and I didn't really excel in in those team sports so the easy A
was a walking running class
and um I did the I signed up just like trying to do the bare minimum and it was
during that class where I was
like okay I'm already forced to be here I might as well try to run and I set
that target of running one
mile straight and um I never thought I could do that and so when I did run one
mile straight it was
probably equivalent to people who run a marathon you know like just feeling
like really elated and
and that's the seed that planted all the adventures to come it's really just
that one mile and realizing
that I was limiting myself by um what what I thought was possible and one mile
turned into two two into
three and that was really how I did my first marathon and every every event was
like started from really that place that one mile.
So you were sort of an athletic underachiever or a not interested in athletics
person?
So in middle school I like most people did all the sports all the team sports
and it was the focus was like oh hey let's
hang out let's make friends and and it my priority was definitely like just
hanging out with friends I didn't have that like competitive
sense about it and um once it got too competitive I kind of checked out because
I was like why are you
guys making a big deal about this do you know what I mean like when when you
see it when like the parents
are more invested and you're like settle down um so when it became stressful
and not fun that's when I checked
out and I didn't really have interest in that and so um when it became my own
when it became something that
was very internally driven and not anything other than the pure curiosity I I
would say that um people
who do athletic things like they could be driven by many things and I would say
at the core one of the
driving factors is just like a kid like wonder of like can I climb a tree can I
do this can I do that
and it's like I think curiosity is very underrated in that like it could really
propel you to see what's
possible and so curiosity time and time and again has like brought me to do
things that I never imagined
doing. Do you still think back to that first mile like completing that first
mile and that elation
the feeling of elation where you were like oh my god like a new door's opened?
All the time like
some of my friends now that like I'm more in ultra running it's like we'll we'll
hear ourselves I mean
I'm I'm not exempt from this but saying things like oh it's just a mile or just
five mile or just a
marathon or just whatever you want to adjust it but like I still don't feel
like I've lost sight of that
because I mean I know this is kind of harsh but like sometimes I say to my
friends like we'll tell
that to someone who can't walk like it really is worthy of celebrating every
step every mile and so
um I I mean yeah I think there's like it's just one achievement opens the door
to other ones and
so yeah I definitely um don't feel like I've lost that sense and I think that's
important to keep just
so it I don't know it keeps you in that humble state rather than expecting that
just because you did it you can
yeah it really is interesting how people are limited by their own their
previous experiences
and what they've sort of established as their boundaries yeah and then you see
them expand
past those boundaries and then it changes them changes who you are I mean like
one of the things
that I'll get now is like oh I could never run a marathon and my first thing is
like oh which ones
have you tried and of course they're like no I've never tried and I'm like well
there you go you
actually have to try and if you haven't tried then you really don't know if
that's truthful that you
can't run a marathon so um yeah I think we get in our own ways more than than
anything else and I'm not
saying like you know there it was my first mile running was very like not graceful
it was like
basically I was like I want to get this over with as fast as possible so I was
completely winded
I didn't know how to pace myself and like um I don't know the whole like reason
behind it but
it's like you have that metal mouth you know about that yeah it's like when
something I don't do you
know the science behind that I don't but I know it's like there's like a
metallic exactly in your mouth
yeah it almost tastes yeah and it's because like you're pushing almost like too
hard and it's like
bursting something in your your your lungs but yeah so so clearly really it's
bursting something
in your lung I think maybe it's blood because blood does have sort of a
metallic copper like taste
to it anyways I didn't know how to pace myself because stuff like that would
happen and be like oh okay
so you went too hard too fast yeah and that's not what endurance is about so no
it's about steady
yeah right totally like um yeah like understanding aerobic and anaerobic and
like just basically being
able to talk the whole time and right so you start off with this first mile and
then eventually work
your way up to all these challenges yes yes and then eventually you decide I am
gonna row across the
Atlantic Ocean by myself yeah so okay so the row um I was on a bus right and I
was like talking to someone
sitting next to me and we were talking about endurance challenges and um I was
a stubborn know-it-all 19
year old so of course I was like oh I've heard it all I know people climb Mount
Everest I know people
sail around the world I know about all these things and then he mentioned his
friend rode across the
Atlantic and that was like that just stopped me in my tracks like what like
people can do that like
I never it was so far beyond anything I ever imagined and um I think like with
endurance what's so cool about
endurance is like at a certain point everyone's body hurts right so what makes
endurance like a really
cool experience is seeing how the human will and how like determination how a
strong mind like you
it's a requirement because everyone no matter how fast or slow you are is going
through that that mental
wall and so um yeah I found out about ocean rowing and I was really captivated
not only by um that mental
component because like if you do a marathon you go home you take your shower
you um you have people
cheering you on but but ocean rowing you're stripped raw of that and and
something about that
was intriguing to me because it's like okay how can you dig deep internally
when you don't have the you
know the finish line um you know whatever uh party and like the swag and the
people and the nice cozy bed
and I just kind of I liked that idea of like being so stripped raw that you
have to dig deeper than you
ever would if you didn't have all those other externals so yeah I found out
about it on a bus
I went home and went and googled everything I could about ocean rowing and it
was at a time where I did my
first ultra marathon so it was like 100 kilometer run or 62 miles and it was
again one of those moments
where I was like I never thought I could do that and my body proved otherwise
so what are all the other
things that I'm saying I can't do but maybe I can so it was really that
information at that particular
time where I was like really open to the idea of wow maybe it is possible but
um it was a matter of
like researching everything it wasn't like oh I got to do this it was oh I got
to find out everything
because I mean if someone told you someone rode across the Atlantic wouldn't
the first thing be like
is that really true like so I mean that was the first place I I look like are
people legitimately doing
that how much time was it between you finding out about it and you actually
doing it two years that's
not that long no did what kind of training did you do um so like physical
training like compared to
doing like I've trained for like Ironmans and then train for adventures like
physical purely physical to
like these more adventure type things and like training for an Ironman 90 is
like what you're
doing in the gym for ocean rowing and for like the more adventure type um
athletic pursuits I would
say that like 90 was like the logistics like you could be the most fit person
in the world but if you
don't have a boat what does it matter like so I spent most of my time just like
sorting out through all the
logistics the sponsorship getting the gear training with the gear but um yeah
like my training priorities
for rowing and ocean were um injury prevention so I did a lot with like
strengthening my core and
my lower back and then on the weekends is when I would do like a six to eight
hour row training
row just to get more to get used to the boat and the equipment more than
anything else but you would go
on a lake lake lake erie yeah yeah now how fast do you go on this boat uh like
maybe I would go like 30
miles a day no no how fast like per hour uh three two or three miles two or
three miles per hour yeah
basically like the speed of walking yeah so um my boat was a 19 foot rowboat it
was like 400 pounds but
once it was fully loaded it was a thousand pounds so it did have like a sliding
seat yes okay so um
i i had a sliding seat so that meant that like my legs and my back were the
main source of like
power but um i think the best like you mean a sliding seat seat like a rowing
machine exactly so like so that
helps you it it means that like the power was coming from the most powerful
parts of my body not in my
arms so some people assume like oh it's just your upper body it's just your
arms but in fact it's more
your legs and back but um so this thing's going two or three miles an hour
correct and how many miles
is the atlantic ocean how many miles yeah three thousand so oh my god don't
think about it just
don't even think about it oh my god that's so far
that's so far it was the worst reaching the halfway point just because like how
long did it take you the
whole trip 70 days 70 days that's not that bad when you think about it how far
you went yeah i would say
so yeah i i anticipated it would be 70 or 100 days oh my god that's a big gap i
had 30 days of extra
food and oh that's good yeah yeah was anybody monitoring you uh i had like a
tracker so people
could like look online and see where i was um but there wasn't like a follow
boat or anything like
that oof what were those nights like it was pretty amazing yeah so of course
the stars were amazing like
shooting stars and just like yeah breathtaking and then what surprised me like
i thought it was like
wait is this real am i hallucinating but the the i think the most stunning part
was actually looking
in the water because they had like um this type of glowing plankton so it was
like a phosphorescence so
sometimes i would see th