Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1410 - Ash Dykes
Uploaded: 2020-01-14T20:00:04.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1410 - Ash Dykes' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-14. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1410 - Ash Dykes

do you think assault lamps real do you think that thing does anything I don't
know how much you'd
need hey well it keeps it's got a hat on it yeah so it's not being taken too
seriously and that's
actually a big one you get a lot smaller than that don't you yeah I saw that
one that was the biggest
one you could find on Amazon yeah I got that yeah because I'm a glutton I like
big things big salt
rocks why the hell not yeah why not I'm like I want a big one do it it's very
very flashy
do you think that does anything though I don't know good question it's um what's
it it just lets
the the air off and just breathing in the natural salts on you helps with the
sleep as well how is
it doing that it's just but by being in the room hmm maybe I should have them
everywhere well isn't
it the light underneath as well just so the light off the heat and the light
sets off the air I believe
so it sounds like horseshit I did it could be could be a little bit yeah it
looks good though right so
you asked me before if uh if you were the first Welshman yes I think you are is
that the case Jamie do
you know if that's the case somebody might have snuck in and didn't tell us
there we go yeah yeah what is
this uh thing that you brought I thought if I'm the first Welsh person I've got
to keep this try to keep
sure there we go I've got to bring a Welsh dragon for you a Welsh dragon a
Welsh dragon so this is on our
flag in in Wales goes back a long time ago since we were like protecting
ourselves and pride wow it's
cool don't really know the history but there we go so this is a classic Welsh
dragon Welsh dragon yeah
I think it was named like one of the coolest flags in the world you just got
this big big raging dragon on
a flag that is pretty cool so I thought if I'm the first Welsh but I got it I
gotta bring you a uh
the red dragon look at it right there there's some some images there we go yeah
have you been to Wales
before no no no how badass is it should I go yeah beautiful it is a good place
lots of mountains
right on the coast there as well of course forests lakes good for training that's
where I do all my
training yeah yeah hardcore elements speaking of training Ash tell everybody
what you've done
so I've recently only five months ago now five and a half months came back from
achieving my third
world first record in walking the entire length of the Yangtze River in China
so it's the third
longest river in the world the longest to run through a single nation so it's 4,000
miles it took 352 days
and it's from the Tibetan plateau in the west of China so you're talking 5,100
meters above sea level
which is equivalent to Everest base camp and and yeah 4,000 miles later 352
days you end up near the near
Shanghai where it pours out into the East China Sea you know what I thought
when I heard that you did
this I thought two things one I thought this guy's insane like what kind of
willpower does it take to
walk and hike 4,000 plus miles but the other thing I thought is this kind of
validates a lot of the ideas
that people have always had about human beings migrating from Africa and
through Siberia and through the Bering
Strait like if you can do that what you did what you did is not dissimilar you
know that's it yeah
you've got trails all over the world and you're just doing it for a world
record imagine if you're doing
it because you're trying to stay alive you're trying to keep your family alive
yeah yeah I'll tell you
what yeah we would have had oh there's so much so much history in journeys that
mankind kind of
taken on since wow I'm reading um Sapien at the minute oh it's great it just
started yeah but that's
just mind-boggling with the numbers you know it takes you right back and it's
whoa whoa but um yeah so the
source of the Yangtze it was actually only discovered in 2009 the true and
scientific source
really yeah that gives us we had to do two it took over two years of planning
so it was a case of
working heavily in China um finding out whether this had ever been done before
it took we had to get
different teams involved globally um and then we discovered that I was always I
was always preparing
to go from the traditional source which is most famous for for the source of
the Yangtze River being
there but then we only discovered about a year into the planning that actually
there's a true and
scientific source found by the same guy who mapped the traditional source yet
he partnered up with
NASA used all the satellite technology was able to correct his wrong it's
slightly longer than the
traditional source and that was it we're like right it's got to be the true and
scientific source how
much longer is it it's probably only a distance of 20 to 30 miles which that's
only really a day's
trek but it was more close to Tibet it was more south uh southwest of China so
it was closer to the
Tibetan border which means it's a little bit more sensitive so it was tougher
to go from from the true
and scientific source for sure but it's the longer one if you're going to walk
that distance you've got to
do it the proper way yeah I agree with you I'm glad you think that way but
obviously a person that's
willing to walk 4 000 miles would think that way yeah you wouldn't you wouldn't
skip 20 miles imagine
if you skipped on 20 miles and everybody's like well you did a pretty good job
but actually Mike over
here just did the whole thing exactly the actual scientific he's the real one
well that's how that
happened towards the end as well so coming up near Shanghai there's an official
uh point of where the
Yangtze pulls into the east china sea and they're like you know you only have
to go to this this
point I'm like no I'm walking to where the land ends so that took me an extra
only an extra couple
of days but can you imagine finishing it's like oh you didn't quite make it did
you you were close
we didn't quite make it so what is the feeling like when you know you only have
two days left
oh man well we were hit by storm storm lakima so it was one of the biggest
storms they've had in the
past 30 years uh and that put me into hiding you know how to shelter up after
everything that I faced
over 350 days you know um and that stopped me only a couple of days before I
crossed into the east china
sea before the finish but at that point it's almost I had visualized the
completion over and over again in
my head I played it so many times of what it would be like what it would feel
like it's you know
everything to to cross the finish line that almost when that day happened and I
did cross the finish
line I almost over visualized I didn't feel anything it's just like well so it's
about damn time you
know wow yeah and I believe you know the law of attraction visualization I've
always been a big believer in
that and same with Mongolia and Madagascar which were my previous expeditions I
almost lost my life
on both of those trips by the time that I'm suffering I'm just constantly
visualizing you know I was
focusing on recovering getting better visualizing the finish keep getting up
keep pushing on I want
to get to that I want to get to those but I want to I want to ask you when you
decide to plan this trip
yeah so how much had you learned from the first two crazy trips that you had
and how did you calculate
like how much food you're going to need where are you going to meet neat pit
stops were you going to
be able to like how did you do it so with that we're always looking for
communities along on a long
route you know if there's a community there's food and so and actually that
brings me back to the
traditional and then the true scientific source if we went from the traditional
we'd go maybe one week or
one and a half weeks without coming across any locals so we'd have to carry a
week and a half
worth of ration packs in our backpack but that's true and scientific source
sent us back I think
it was two or three weeks we couldn't find um any community along the way via
satellite and via the
people that we were they are my logistics managers so that meant we need to
carry craziest way to try to
visit people yeah find them through satellite as you're trekking through a
forest yeah and then try
to get food that's it and we're always maximizing it as well so we're saying
okay that's three weeks
so let's carry food for three and a half or four weeks because if that
community is now empty or
abandoned then we're out of food what what are you carrying for food i would
carry uh ration packs
so and the ration packs were pretty good we had like chicken tikka masala
spaghetti bolognese
um carbonara and each ration pack was around 800 kilocalories and are you using
like hot are these
dehydrated yeah that's okay so you just boil the water and you pour it in there
you wait about 15
minutes like a mountain house like that kind of a deal yeah yeah similar that's
it so wow you must be
so looking forward to regular food by the time that's over yeah oh what's the
first thing you
ate um you know the the one that i was protein uh the one i was craving was
just protein so i was
thinking of peanut butter i was thinking of cheese on toast because you had
just mostly carbohydrates
yeah exactly so i was like chicken as well was a big thing i was just craving
all of this big time
that's i don't know what the first thing i it's funny how your body knows what
you need exactly
yeah you've got to listen to your body you've got to listen it's hard to listen
i mean it's hard to
know well i don't i'm not really sure what i hear yeah you know you had an odd
craving sometimes i'm
craving ice creams that's what i'm supposed to listen just have ice cream that's
it yeah exactly seems
weird yeah it seems weird just listening to your cravings that seems ridiculous
yeah and i think
yeah no you're right it does i think almost listening to you've got to be
stripped of all the
all of the protein and what not running for you your body currently haven't you
i think if you're full
you're craving ice cream you know if you're full you want a dessert but i think
if you're
now at the point of not starvation but if you're really hungry and you know
what's good what's not
good you i think your body gives a good tail sign of what you can at the last
month of mission
yangtze i was really bad i was coming across cities every day because you can
imagine like towards
shanghai you're coming across cities coming across towns communities and so i
was just
craving protein i was craving fats and a lot of the time for that last month i
was just eating really
unhealthily just getting in stodgy foods dodgy fats protein you know there was
fast food chains along
the way kfc you know that sort of really yes i was out of the wire the
wilderness was like six months
worth once i'd finished the first half it was gradual for then another two or
three months but the last
three months you're going through city after city all really built up high
population there
um and i found that my body was crazy so i was listening to my body scraping
fats craving protein
and yeah you're right it did get ridiculous i was going to these you know fast
food and i i the
translation i could speak chinese a little bit i was just gonna ask i could get
by but when you say
chinese like which dialect oh there's over a hundred dialects yeah so that's
where it got difficult oh no
uh so even yeah um it was nails it was nails really difficult so you speak mandarin
what do you speak
your basic mandarin basis yeah yeah okay enough to just about get by but i
skipped all of the basics
and went straight into the sentences where are where are there bears here are
there bears where are the
wolves uh where are the wolves water food and shelter so yeah skipped a lot of
the basics went straight
into those are two questions i don't ever want to hear yeah are there bears
here and where are the
wolves yeah not not are there wolves here where are they where are they and you're
out there walking
yeah for a year yeah that's it and for the first six mo