Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1425 - Garrett Reisman
Uploaded: 2020-02-07T20:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1425 - Garrett Reisman' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-02-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1425 - Garrett Reisman

three two one welcome thanks for doing this man i really appreciate it thanks
for inviting me this
is awesome i've seen a bunch of videos online of you talking about space and
your you know your
dream of being an astronaut as a young man and what what is it like just to see
the earth from
above and to be you lived up there for like what 95 days 95 days which actually
is kind of a bummer
to be honest with you because uh you know this if you saw that video maybe yeah
the thing is if you
stay for 100 days they give you a patch right and i'm at day 95 and the space
shuttle discovery shows
up to bring me home and mark kelly was a commander he goes garrett it's time to
hop in and come home
and i'm like man i just need five more days to get that patch can't we just
like go around a few more
times or something and it didn't work it seems like 95 days should be enough
man give the man a patch
right right you know how much does a patch cost what's the longest anybody
stayed up there
the longest um for an american was scott kelly's uh nearly a year in space as
longest uh in in a row
basically uh but it was a russian uh that stayed up there for longer than a
year and he has the all-time
record how and they when they come back like what is 90 days like coming back
because i've talked to
people who've gone there when they come back their balance is all off the
equilibrium's all
yeah you're kind of it's you're kind of messed up and in your vestibular system
is what's affected
the most at least that's what's most noticeable when you first get back um
actually the first thing i
noticed let me back up is uh how heavy things were again you know so like i
took off my helmet and i
was holding it in my hand and it felt like i was holding the anchor to the uss
nimitz you know it's
like i'm like how am i ever going to brush my teeth it'd be like too arduous
you know does your body
severely weaken in 95 days well back in the day back when i was going there so
that mission my my long
term mission was back in uh 2008 and back then we were still losing bone
density and muscle mass
uh as we're going up there to long about you lost about one percent of bone
every month so i was about
three percent low they don't anymore they don't anymore because we found out we
came up with better
countermeasures to prevent that what are the countermeasures it's basically
working out
and it's resistive exercise that that does it for you which we knew back when i
was going but the
problem was we had a uh we had this machine that was kind of a um a first
generation of the workout
machine and it could do large reps but but low load so you're doing like a lot
of reps at low weight
and and that helped but but what helps it turns out we didn't we found this out
kind of by happenstance
but it turns out that high load low reps works much better and so we got this
new machine that you
could really crank it up to 11 and the guys now that are that are working out
on that thing are
coming home with no bustle muscle or or bone loss at all wow that's that's
because who what's the
canadian gentleman that we had on yes chris hadfield when when commander hadfield
came back he i believe
he said it took him a whole year to recover yeah i mean that was still like in
the early still kind
of in the early days so he i don't know which machine he used he probably did
use a new one but
overall it does take to get everything back to get your full vestibular system
back your sense of balance to
get your all your bone all your muscle back to baseline it took me a year to
get all that back
too wow it's kind of like rehabbing from a major sports injury that's gotta be
so strange
your body just wants to shrivel up when you're up there because there's no
gravity
yeah it's really interesting because you're it's it's an adaptation and the
body is is incredible
so what it's doing is it's realizing hey you know i don't have to carry my own
weight anymore
why do i need this big bulky skeleton right wow it's like you're becoming kind
of like a fish
where you're you're just you're shedding all the bone density uh because you
don't have to your body
realizes i don't need it it's like it's like a fish in water you know they have
fish have very slender
bones that's an interesting way to look at it like a fish yeah wow and we fight
it by working out and how
often do you have to work out every day every day every day how often like how
much time they schedule two
hours now you're not on the machine for two hours so that's also prepping you
know you're getting
changed and uh you know cleaning up afterwards but um so you're working out a
good hour every day what
is it like to sweat in space it's weird because because what happens is uh it
if you don't notice
like in the beginning you don't even realize it but it's all building up
and even without like if you have no hair to soak it up it just builds up like
this thin film of water on
your head like a coating of water oh and you don't even notice it because it
doesn't run down
and then and then somebody calls your name and you're like yeah and then
oh that's crazy i never even thought of that so it just kind of floats off your
body yeah it's like a
dog shaking itself you know and it just goes everywhere so if you have it on
your arm you can
kind of just go and the the sweat will go flying you know your crewmates won't
be too happy with you
if you do this a lot but yeah wow oh that's is there video of people doing that
in space there's
got to be there should be we've shot so much video somebody's got to have done
that but so are you
basically doing like compound movements like deadlifts and squats and things
along those lines yeah
functional fitness kind of stuff where um but and you're focusing on certain
areas so the bone loss
comes mostly from your legs because you're not loading so so basically our
bones um need a stimulus uh uh to
regenerate and it happens to us every day so as you walk as you go upstairs
that load that the bones
feel the compressive load is telling the bone hey make some more now you take
that away and the bone
stops making more and that's the problem people say like can't you just take
like calcium pills but it's
not a mineral deficiency it's just there's no load that's interesting the the
body adapts so quickly
yeah that 90 days has such and if you didn't do anything for 90 days at all you'd
be in real trouble
right yeah that's what's really kind of freaky is thinking about like well what
if we don't fight
this because all these adaptations you go through are not a problem when you're
in space it's only a
problem if you want to come home right right losing that bone um even like not
using your vestibular
organs anymore your semicircular canals your otolith organs you're not making
use of those for your balance
you're just going purely on the visual what that does initially is it make you
kind of sick you get kind of
it's like being air sick or seasick but once your body adapts you're fine so
the question is like
what would we become if we didn't fight it what if we just went with it and
stayed up there like a
water balloon what would you become right you'd become actually the the place i
think in science
fiction that gets it the most correct is if you watch the the expanse you ever
watch that show no i
heard it's a really good show i never got into it though it's good and and they
get it right because
they show people like these belters that live in partial gravity like their
whole lives and they
have much more slender bones oh and like they catch this like terrorist guy and
they want to torture
him and all they do is they make them stand up in gravity and on earth and that
it's incredibly painful
for them and oh wow yeah that would probably be what would happen and it must
take a long ass time to
get everything back if you went from earth gravity to the space station and you
lived up there for a year and
didn't do anything about it and then came back to earth you'd basically be like
it would be hard to
crawl right yeah you would you're um you all all your if you don't try to fight
it um you you the
vestibular stuff would come back probably about the same rate but you would be
really hurting with your
muscle atrophy and your bone so you would you would lose a lot of your skeleton
if you're up there for
a year and did nothing and you would also your all your muscles that you don't
use like in your legs and your
postural muscles so in your lower back you're not using those anymore so they
would just like
waste away to nothing you'd be okay in your arms because you're doing
everything you're everything
you do is with your arms that's how you move that's how you get around is by
pulling and pushing but
you don't you don't there's no walking there's no stairs there's nothing does
it affect the way you
think at all you know some people describe a kind of an issue with short-term
memory they call it like
space brain and boy is that a small group of people that would understand what
you're talking about
there yeah i got space brain bro i got that too oh yeah
so it's it's uh something that um i never really noticed it but um i don't know
how much of that is
real and how much is that's like like you're freaking out because you're in
space right so it's distracting
and maybe you forget like what that number was you're supposed to remember but
you know like if you're
really in the middle of something and and you're all excited and or uh and and
and you kind of can't
remember somebody's phone number it's kind of like kind of like that oh okay so
it's just well i would
imagine that just being up there breathing that recirculated air it's got to be
odd right yeah and it
might stink but i don't know because the other thing that happens is you have
this big fluid shift
so right now we have a lot of blood pooling up in our legs and our our heart
its most important job
of course is to feed the brain oxygenated blood and then when you take the
gravity vector out of the
picture the heart sends too much up to the brain and the stuff doesn't collect
in our legs anymore
and it all shoots up here and you get the shift of all that blood volume to
your upper body and your
head gets all puffed up whoa yeah like my so my first night in space i i uh
went to sleep which
was kind of hard to do because you're in space you don't want to go to sleep
right yeah um and on
that first night um i i woke up in the middle of the night and i could have
sworn i was standing on
my head doing a headstand or a handstand i'm like why am i up standing on my
head in my sleep this is
strange right and then i looked at the one i saw the earth i'm like oh that's
right i'm in space
so all the blood was just kind of pooling in your head yeah is if you're like
hanging by gravity
boots or something it feels exactly like that wow and then after a day or two
you get used to
it and it doesn't bother you anymore but you feel congested because you still
have all this volume up
here so your sense of smell and your sense of taste are all deadened wow it's
kind of like yeah so it's
kind of like when you have a cold and you and your sense of smell and your
sense of taste are like not as
strong so it's like that all the time that's why we take we cover we have every
hot sauce known to
humankind up on the space station like sriracha we got uh you know louisiana cajun
fire sauce and all
whatever we got like a whole stockpile of it because you you pour that on
everything so you
can get some taste because otherwise everything tastes really bland oh wow now
what are you eating up
there oh it's terrible is it freeze-dried foods mostly or yeah you don't go for
the food all right
there's not like a foodie holiday you know it's like uh so you get basically
two choices you have
the american food which is essentially mres like military freeze-dried irradiated
uh you know infinite
shelf life kind of stuff and uh and then the russian food is also based on
their mili