Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1514 - Joe De Sena
Uploaded: 2020-07-24T19:00:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1514 - Joe De Sena' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-07-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1514 - Joe De Sena' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-07-24. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1514 - Joe De Sena

thanks for doing this my pleasure hello joe how are you we're rolling what's
going on man
all right nice to meet you thanks for having me so uh the kettlebell you bring
this fucking thing
everywhere you go literally everywhere i do i i lived overseas and i started it
you know why i
started it i had a um 696 pound guy come to the farm uh six years ago and he
wanted he wanted
help losing weight and i i helped him over 18 months get down to 265 pounds wow
and one of the
methods i used to motivate him was i said as you lose weight i'll carry weight
and eventually i was
carrying a hundred pound sandbag fast forward and and we can get into it i
moved overseas with my
family and i tried to carry that hundred pound sandbag because i had made that
commitment to them
and they wouldn't let it through tsa so when i landed in in uh asia i asked my
wife i said hey
could you order a 20 pound it's stupid that i'm carrying a sandbag can you
order a 20 pound kettle
bell i'll just carry a 20 pounder around so i'm not a complete fraud and she
confused pounds with
kilograms and i ended up with a 44 pounder and it just became my shtick my
thing
so when you say you carry it everywhere when you go everywhere with it i go
everywhere with it so i'm
pan that during the pandemic i haven't i wouldn't carry it if we were going to
a grocery store but
if if i'm traveling to see you or i'm going anywhere in the world kettlebells
come with me
vegas anywhere do you take it as a carry-on like depends on the country um we
operate in a lot of
countries and and every country treats it differently so some u.s flights they'll
let me carry it on which
is strange uh others they they ask me to check it you know they won't let you
bring a pool cue on a plane
yeah they say it's like a weapon well how is that not like a weapon well my
answer to them is you'd
have to be pretty fucking strong you're pretty fucking strong i'm not that
strong you could smash
somebody with one of those things no but they've let me bring it on planes
china doesn't mind at
all india in india you're gonna love this they asked me to put it in someone
else's luggage
so in other words somebody had just dropped off their luggage i'm checking the
kettlebell stick it in
that blue suitcase get it when you get to the other end you don't even know who
the person i don't even
know who the person is so that's insane so i get there and i have to explain to
this person in india
why i'm opening their suitcase to get to get my kettlebell out do they speak
english the person you're
speaking to this particular case no this was like so what did they say when you
pull a fucking
they were like confused they don't know like but if you act with authority like
they just assume
maybe i work for the airline or who knows oh my god that's hilarious yeah that's
so ridiculous
that's is just that's that standard behavior in india well uh how many times
you've been over
there i've been to india twice it's happened twice in india same thing same
thing put it in somebody
else's bag somebody else's bag in the middle east they give me a sentence which
i for i can't recall
but it basically says it's going to be up to god if this comes out the other
end
really for real um they've lost a dozen of them in the united states in the
united states once you're
going to love this i get to um jfk and there are two stories um in in the
baggage claim so i go to
the large luggage area because i'm hoping that's where the kettlebell is where
it should be
but i hear some noise on the conveyor belt above me sure enough the fucking
kettlebell comes flying
down the steep ramp oh my god almost takes out a tsa you know a customs officer
dents all i'm
embarrassed say dents all the stainless steel right but um i walk over
embarrassed pick up the kettlebell
and walk out i bought a uh bowling ball bag like when that's what i need with a
roller on it i bought
one of those for a kettlebell but i was like what am i doing i stopped i
stopped it's just too much of
a pain in the ass because i don't like to check luggage i don't like to carry
my shit i like to carry
it japan they the woman will wrap it perfectly as if it's like godiva chocolate
wrap it and and cardboard
tape it put a little handle and then in high heel shoes she'll carry it 100
yards like she's sweating
and carefully place it you know in location so they're very detail oriented
that's a different
culture over different culture yeah yeah they're uh they have like one of the
lowest death rates and
lowest uh problems with covid like they're one of the countries that handled it
the best and we're
trying to figure out why and i think it's probably they're really good at
following rules very
disciplined and they wear masks all the time when they're sick they weren't so
i lived there for a
year and and um during covid i put together this phone call that happened every
morning i called it
the warrior call 5 27 a.m and i had all our teams from 40 plus countries get on
the call 30 minutes
give me an update from japan give me an update from china give me an update
from france just very quick
and they shut down japan right away i mean they did not about and and you know
they're not shaking hands
in japan right they've got the bow uh taxi drivers are wearing gloves they don't
mess around so no no
surprise that uh they killed it right away it's so interesting how human beings
that you know basically
not much different other than they're from a different climate you know
different genes but
it's just amazing how differently they live it's it's amazing how they all have
like when i was in
japan i've only been once but when i was in tokyo i was like everyone is so
polite like you're walking
down the street and it's like there's no garbage anywhere it's very clean but
yes yet it's very packed
there's a lot of people and everyone is very friendly like it's like the way
they handle everything
everything is very polite very orderly one thing i found interesting i couldn't
go to the gym unless
i went back to my hotel room and put a long sleeve shirt on yeah they wouldn't
let me out i'm like
i'm not yakuza you're you're you're a mafia yeah they wouldn't let me show you
cannot have any visible
at least in the gym that i was working out at no it's everywhere it's
everywhere and and um you know
there's simple little things they did to affect human behavior like we couldn't
find garbage cans
on the street like you would in new york or somewhere else so you find yourself
in a situation
where you can't dispose of the garbage right so now you're sticking in your
pocket so within a month
you're not creating garbage anymore because it's a pain in the ass right you're
figuring out how to
um use less and get rid of less like so they've changed behavior subways spotless
yeah i didn't
watch uh i didn't actually get on any of the subways but i everything was spotless
it was weird and
people are thin yeah right fit yeah smoke they smoke a little too much they
smoke a lot they drink a lot
too which is weird but they don't really get fat wow yeah it's a very unusual
culture and if you follow
back to you know the warrior culture the samurai and their i mean their long
history of martial arts it's
really kind of amazing that this just this island had so much innovation and so
much
so much mastery of uh of hand-to-hand combat of of swordsmanship of sword
making i mean it's pretty
incredible culture they're they're the germans we like to say of asia oh that's
a good way of putting
it they are tight yeah so what were you doing over there why were there for a
year so um after i helped
that that uh guy lose that weight uh how did you do that by the way he lost 400
pounds uh yeah close
to it close to it so in a year 18 months that's amazing it was amazing you're
not going to be
we may be at odds on this but i went um and i'll tell you why we went raw
fruits and vegetables only
and um here's a guy that was eating eight eight egg mcmuffins a day for
breakfast and two two liter
sprites right so he gets he balloons to 696 pounds how long did it take him to
get that big
to get back to no as big as he was oh um he you know when he always big when he
yeah when he left
he said he was crying he said to me this is the first time as far as i can
remember where i fit in
one airplane seat oh wow so this was this was over a long period of time but he
um we did raw fruits and
vegetables and then we did we started with a 10 mile hike every day 10 miles
every day every day and
then and then it went to 20. it went to 10 in the morning 10 at night raw
fruits and vegetables we got
to a point where he was losing two to three pounds a day that 10 and 10 is that
is a that's a long hike
and a lot of time like how much time was that taking him every day he gave up
work he he worked for
comcast they were kind enough to say you're on leave um i covered the expenses
which was like
two stalks of celery and a glass of water every day there was not you know it
wasn't much of an
expense and um and he spent the whole day basically hiking so he hiked all day
and what kept him
motivated just this idea that he was gonna lose weight to the other end i took
his keys i took his
wallet and he had no plan like what was he gonna do how was he gonna get out so
where was this and we have
a farm in vermont so we we basically had him on lock and key how did you know
this guy before this
i got a phone call that somebody had just finished one of our spartan events
that was extremely
overweight and showed me the photo and i said get in touch with this guy right
away this is our jared
this is our subway uh star i don't want to say yeah that's right yeah right let's
let that go you remember
yes so so um got in touch with him and he and he and he said game on wow that's
amazing it was amazing
so he completed the race at 600 pounds he was tricked he was told that it was a
a 5k walk with uh
so so normally that 5k spartan would take let's say 90 minutes for the average
person he took seven
hours wow so uh tricked into it fought through it probably would have never
come back but then i
found out about him called him and said hey you're invited to the farm i want
to help you do that we
documented it we actually found wow so you didn't know this guy at all before
this didn't know that's
incredible so you just looked at it as okay this is a project yeah i i tend to
um i like broken wingers
i like uh helping folks that you know i had um i grew up in queens and and howard
beach and it was uh
for whatever reason organized crime capital of the world and this is going to
sound crazy but my
neighbor was one of the big bosses and one day when i was pre-teens he said to
me you know the best
thing we could do on this earth i said what he said help people there's a guy
that killed people for
a living and um because that that was his perspective was he he was a protector
right he would help people
even though from the outside we know what they really do but um but it stuck
with me gotta help
people so this was one of those people i helped isn't it crazy that sometimes
even people that are
just you would look at them they're like they're bad people they have some good
advice like even morons
can occasionally say something like huh all right i got that you know like
every now and then like even
even a real fool will say something that makes a whole lot of sense he changed
my life this guy he
he um he said to me my parents were going through a divorce i'm 12 years old
and he he wants to help
me so he says come over you're gonna clean our swimming pool for us i'm gonna
pay you 35 a week
so um i come over on saturday morning he says all right the first lesson he
sent me down for lessons
first lesson is uh if you're gonna come at 8 a.m you show up 7 45 right on time
is late great lesson
for life second lesson is uh if i'm paying you to clean the pool i want you to
straighten up the shed
straighten up all the lawn furniture clean the windows do whatever the you h