Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1429 - Colin O'Brady
Uploaded: 2020-02-20T20:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1429 - Colin O'Brady' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-02-20. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1429 - Colin O'Brady

three two one boom hello colin welcome back what's up man good to see you i
brought a book i wrote
it i wrote this book last time since i saw you last the impossible first indeed
indeed yeah about
my uh solo journey across antarctica and kind of diving deep through my whole
life and kind of what
brought me there and other expeditions and the ups and downs of it all and you're
coming back
from another crazy trip right i am indeed what is that nonsense that you did on
a kayak
what did you do so uh after i got back from the impossible first the antarctica
crossing right
about time i saw you last year um i got a funny phone call actually of all
things people were
asking me you know what's the next expedition gonna be what are you gonna do
and i said you
know i just walked 54 days by myself across antarctica give me give me a minute
give me a
minute to uh right relax and uh i get a phone call via a buddy of mine from
college connects me to this
uh this guy uh this icelandic guy i've never met him before his name's fion paul
don't know his story
i do now he's an absolute legend um and he says hey man you were just in antarctica
right and i was
like yeah and he's like i think we should go back to antarctica and i was like
all right well what are
you thinking he's like in a rowboat i think we should row a boat from the
southern tip of south america
antarctica to the peninsula of antarctica across drake passage how far is that
about 700 miles
can i see what that looks like i don't know um and i said please delete my
phone number 700 miles
rowing a boat uh yeah so drake passage is known to be um you know in seafaring
one of the most
treacherous if not the most treacherous kind of passageway in the world you
know you've got
the atlantic and the pacific and the southern ocean kind of all converging
between the antarctic
peninsula on the southern tip of south america so you got 40 foot swells you
got you know crazy
waves icebergs as you get close to antarctica um and the uh the mission or the
goal was to see if
we could uh there it is right there that's it that whole area that whole area
yeah right there from
there to there um all the way down yeah the main the main peninsula there so
ultimately uh it took us
just less than two weeks to do the entire row but it was a long journey in the
planning from that phone
call all the way through to that year but it was uh it was a two week or 12 12
day crossing so in
the two weeks you had to have two weeks worth of food two weeks worth of
drinking water
uh on the boat yeah so well water actually we have a desalinator so off of um
really off of uh
solar panels everything's you know solar there's no you know engine no sail
nothing like that it's
just completely human powered rowing we have a portable desalinator yeah how
big is it um it fits
inside one of the tiny looks so the boat's tiny the boat's like 20 25 feet long
three guys rowing
at a time so six of us total in the team ultimately um you know barely anywhere
to sleep in this tiny
little compartments like the size of like you know sleeping in the back of a
you know hatchback of a
honda civic or something like that um but uh but yeah so you've got this desalinator
that's basically
kind of in one of the central compartments so it's probably like i don't know
maybe two feet by two
feet square something like that um and i mean doesn't doesn't make a water real
fast you can make 10
liters of water in like you know an hour or two depending on this how hot the
sun is good but i
mean it gets it done yeah it gets it done does it taste like whale dicks what
does the water taste
like it was weird as we got closer to antarctica i think it started messing up
because it got real
salty like it wasn't doing quite as good of a job the water near antarctica was
like one degree celsius
so 33 fahrenheit i mean practically froze in cold water and i think that was
kind of starting to tweak
out the system um but uh drinking salt water as we got closer it was like it
was still potable but it
was like this isn't working as well but early on i mean it worked just fine
like it was pretty much
you know cold cold drinking water like bottled water yeah exactly but then does
it only do it for a
certain amount of time does the filter get filled up or anything um it worked
for the entire uh 12
days that we were out there there's guys who have gone on longer you know rowing
expeditions across the
pacific or the atlantic or longer stretches of ocean um that you know works the
entire time um but it is
one of the things that breaks down so we had extra spare parts fortunately we
didn't have to use any
of that but uh but yeah no it uh it worked and then yeah of course we had to
bring food for the entire
time as well um on on there so that was you know a key part of it how much food
so there were six of
us like i said um pretty much all the compartments were full um you know there's
a tiny little
compartments but we basically ate two things so we uh we had freeze-dried meals
so like mountain
house freeze-dried meals and we had this little jet boil that we were kind of
as crazy as the waters
like it's 40 you know 40 foot waves are bouncing around on this trying to hold
a jet boil to try
to boil some water it was pretty tough but um some close calls with that but we
also um had these bars
so last time i think we talked about last time i was on here had these uh kind
of custom nutrition
bars uh that that were made um and so that worked really well for me in the antarctica
crossing
we had done all this kind of blood work explain that again like how you made
how those made yeah
so um when i was doing my antarctica crossing one of the kind of challenges is
basically can you take
enough food with you because what i was doing was called unsupported so no resupplies
of food or
fuel you know crossing the landmass of antarctica 54 days and so i wanted to
get like the most optimized
nutrition um and so i work with this company called standard process who's all
like a whole food
supplement company and they've got all these sort of doctors um food scientists
and this and i went in
their lab for a year and they did all this kind of custom blood work on my body
um trying to figure
out you know basically my exact sort of physiology and they created these bars
based on all of the
research that they did um that basically were these really high calorie bars
because it was the most
high calories that i needed to optimize space um and they were kind of they
were all they're all
plant-based and ended up and then i know there's what's in them again you know
coconut oil nuts seeds you
know sort of uh different phytonutrients in a particular macronutrient blend
that i needed it
was about 45 fat because i needed the high fat um about 40 protein um and then
15 what's the math on
that uh 15 uh carbs um and so uh excuse me sorry i re-alternated the protein
carb quotient there but
um but yeah it worked really well for that and so when i was doing the row i
called up standard process
again they've been an amazing partner of mine they were like we're like hey i'm
doing this row um those bars
worked so good last time like i just said with you know trying to boil water
and you know all this
stuff is really challenging on the rowboat the best would be to have this
really kind of high
optimized nutrition that we could use again for the project like this but the
parameters are different
you know the humidity is different the temperature is different there's six of
us now there's not just
one of me you know can we optimize it for that so they kind of made a specialty
blend um of the bars
again um but they've called the column bars they probably come up with a better
name um but uh it worked
really well those online anywhere they're they're not for sale um we've talked
about uh doing that
so maybe in the future but uh you can you can see online on their website like
all the different
supplements and stuff that went into it so you can kind of buy the component
parts but yeah one
day we might might make them but they've been kind of just custom for these two
projects but they've
worked really really well particularly in the rowing so i mean they worked
amazing in the antarctic
crossing as well but in the rowing it was 90 minutes of rowing on 90 minutes of
rowing off
continuous 24 hours a day so there's we're kind of in two sets of three six of
us total three people
rowing three people resting and in that 90 minutes that you're off that's also
when you gotta you know eat drink
sleep it's your only time to rest basically and so as much time as you can kind
of optimize eating and
stuff meant more sleeping and so to have these bars get done with a 90-minute
rowing shift be able to
eat you know a thousand calorie bar highest you know quality nutrition in your
body um i mean standard
process nailed it again it was amazing to you know have these bars and have it
work really well for all
of us to kind of optimize not just the food but also the efficiency of sleep
because the sleep got
crazy out there like i can imagine yeah yeah so you're you're basically
sleeping every 90 minutes
for you know one hour or so yeah exactly ish like if you can get it and like
when once the swells start
cranking up like you're in this tiny compartment like i don't know if we can
pull up a picture of the boat
for a visual or some on my instagram is it covered at all um not covered like
really not covered at all
like so well there's covered in the tiny compartment so the rowing part's not
covered at all so when you're
rowing waves are splashing up like over top of you i mean you're getting
completely soaked like you're
getting you know completely soaked the entire time and then the tiny
compartment you know it's like
it's like lower than this table like you'd be like kind of crouched down like
in there um yeah this is
the robot right here so that's us so that's the floor is that where all the
food is stored underneath
yeah underneath there's compartments so you can see that tiny little kind of
compartment on either
side one's smaller and one's bigger than that's where you guys would sleep that's
where you'd sleep
well the bigger one that's the way it's hard to believe that there's 12 people
three no six people
six people six people yeah yeah but still um so you got you know three people
in the three people
rowing and three people in the compartment saying in time i think if you kind
of scroll up to the top
maybe there's one of just it shows like the whole boat um or like what it looks
like maybe there there's
kind of a shot of it um so yeah so you can see in there like the back little
compartment that's
where i was um i was alternating with this guy fion who i mentioned the icelandic
guy who was the
captain of the boat really experienced ocean rower um and we alternated inside
this little cabin and
then the other four guys they alternated two people because that one's a little
bit bigger in the front
that's the bow cabin in the front but they're like you're like head to toe in
there or you're crouched
into a little ball it's not it's not glamorous at all did you know these guys
at all before you did this
so uh not really uh not really uh yeah it was a deep dive into the team and
after doing something
solo i was pretty excited to do something you know as a team and doing
something in a completely you know
exploring a completely different kind of avenue um of exploration in the ocean
something i'd never done
before and i had actually not only did i not know these guys um a couple of
them went to college with
but we like really loosely knew each other like i kind of like maybe like i
recognized their face a
little bit but it didn't we weren't like good friends or anything like that
three of them i'd never
met in my entire life um and i had also have never rode a boat in my life ever
before um and so when fion
uh he called me up and told me about the project he's one of the most world's
most renowned 