Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1244 - Colin O'Brady
Uploaded: 2019-02-12T03:01:08.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1244 - Colin O'Brady' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1244 - Colin O'Brady' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1244 - Colin O'Brady

four three two one all right we're live what's up man what's up dude nice what's
hilarious folks i
have to tell you this i did a podcast earlier today and he said wow it's your
second for the
day he goes impressive endurance do you know how fucking ridiculous that is for
you to say
this is a guy who walked across antarctica how many days did it take you 54
days by yourself by
myself trekking across the frozen tundra that was an endurance feat of its own
yeah just that's a real
endurance feat i'm just sitting down talking to people oh my god you talked
already for two hours
how do you do it two more hours here we go yeah crazy yep yep dude what the
fuck were you doing
just just getting back actually still uh still practically have the snow on my
shoes yeah i got
back about a month ago 54 day journey first person in history to uh cross the
entire continent solo
unsupported so no resupplies throughout the thing no no aid no wind kites
nothing just me dragging a
375 pound sled across antarctica i can't believe it only took you 54 days yeah
yeah that's it's so big
like look at antarctica on a map like how long do you think it would take you
to walk across america
well you got so we usually look at antarctica on a map this hilarious i have
shown people a picture
of antarctica you're a smart guy you probably noticed but usually people see it
on a uh a map
projection because i think it's flat right right it's actually circular yeah um
so i went from the
edge of the ron ice shelf to the raw uh via the south pole to the ross ice
shelf so basically
kind of a diagonal across through the center and then back to the other ice
shelf what do the flat
earthers think about you're traversing this this area look this is what you did
this is how you
there it is exactly yeah so you went to the center of the fucking earth
basically there it is to the
top of the pole yep bottom of the earth you know standing down there holding
everyone up on my shoulders
wow so you were at the south pole and then you trekked over to the to the ice
shelf on their side
it's funny you say about the flat earthers though because all jokes aside i've
been getting a lot
of trolling on my instagram page from the flat earthers i've got guys going
like oh i was doing
this speech the other day people are super nice come up in the q a afterwards
want to shake my hand
take a picture whatever and this guy walks up in this real earnest look on his
face and he's like
so i really wanted to ask you how was the hole and i was like excuse me he was
like you know the
hole at the center and i was like um give me a little more he was like you know
like when you got to
the edge and i was like oh man like you're really asking me this question right
now like we were
talking about it i didn't quite know where to go with it i was like yeah there
was actually at least
i didn't see the edge and the curvature kept going and i made it to the other
side it is such a strange
thing to believe but people do and that people think people are trolling about
that and you know
what it actually started out it's another 4chan thing you know did you know
that it's well i'm sure
there was probably somebody believed it before that but it started off people
were trolling on
4chan then eventually people just started actually going hey yeah i bet it is
flat and then they
started believing it and videos youtube videos popped up there's another
youtube video someone
linked to me the other day and i thought it had like i thought it had like a
few hundred views but
28 000 views there was these all these guys debating like colin proved that
there's not a wall
like the wall like there would be like game of thrones at the edge of the world
there's this whole
conversation i bet there's another 28 000 people it's proved that colin never
actually went
because we know he's a new world order shill well the other the other funny one
was that we got a
bunch on the instagram page i'm out there alone completely by myself but i want
to share the
whole story through my instagram to like share the journey with people inspire
others to do whatever
they want to do and i kept being like well i mean he's not out there alone he's
taking pictures
i was like the film crew it's like guys have you never heard of a tripod and a
timer
i've never watched survivor man exactly so it's some funny comments along those
lines so your
your sled was 300 and how many pounds 375 pounds to start so basically uh food
and fuel was the main
the main weight so people i called my project the impossible first that's sort
of what i named the
project because several people had tried it right there yeah there it is so not
only you walking
you're dragging this big ass heavy sled yeah yeah and fuck dude people so
people have tried this uh you
know going back a hundred years to earn a shackleton saying if it was possible
and then the last few
years some really experienced polar explorers have given it a shot and one guy
actually died less than
100 miles from the finish line um because of you know lack of nutrition and
some challenges with the
weather and things like that um but people called it you know people after that
were like it's impossible
and the reason people thought it was impossible was because you can't get resupplies
meaning if you
fill your sled with food at a certain amount you actually can't drag the sled
anymore so the whole
math equation really was figuring out just how much food and fuel i could put
in the sled the fuel
melts the water so melts the ice into water essentially and that equaled to 375
pounds and to be
i could barely pull it on the first day like i uh one hour into getting dropped
off i'm dropped off
completely alone out there in antarctica i planned this project for a year you
know uh and uh i get
dropped off and after about one hour pulling 375 pound sled through the snow it's
minus 25 degrees out
i'm crying i'm literally crying and the tears in my goggles are starting to
freeze and i'm like oh my god
so i pick up my satellite phone i call home to my wife jenna who also creates
and plans all these
projects with me and i'm like babe uh i think we named the project the right
thing uh the impossible
verse yep uh it looks like it might be impossible to keep going so i'm one hour
into a thousand mile
journey pulling a sled told everyone i'm going to do this and i'm already
having those doubts pull up
but you know fortunately i was able to get a little bit further that day and 54
days later made it to the
end how far did you get in the first day well it's funny because we show just
show the map i actually
you know it starts on the ice shelf which is basically the frozen sea ice and
there's an edge of that
that's where the continent starts and so i have a waypoint on my gps that marks
that so the plane
that drops me off actually dropped me off on the ice shelf before the continent
starts and my first
waypoint was kind of like the actual start and so one hour in i haven't even
hit the real start
so when i call her on the phone she's like because she knows the route and she's
like well how far
are you from the first waypoint which is where the actual start is and i'm like
it's 0.63 more miles
she's like it's half a mile you have a thousand more to go like get to the
first waypoint you know
and i was like okay okay so i you know rallied myself got to the first waypoint
and then finally got in
my tent that night and just kind of took a deep breath i think i was just
overwhelmed by the magnitude
of it i mean imagine being a speck in the middle of antarctica alone these
crazy temperatures
you know all the excitement but fears of the journey ahead um and 375 pounds on
my back when the sleds
you know when the snow is deep too loose snow makes 375 pounds even even
heavier than if it's like
light you know icier consolidated so yeah it was it was a rough start to say
the least did you do any
sort of test run pulling the sled anywhere else yeah so the training element of
it was pretty cool so
um this i actually set a few other world records previous to this in the
mountains and things we
could talk about if you want but the uh the last year as i really committed to
this project i um yeah
decided to obviously start training specifically for this um i needed to put on
about 20 pounds of
muscle i'm usually six foot 165 pretty lean i'd raised triathlon professionally
for a number of years
and realized i needed to be a bit bigger because i was going to lose so much
weight
um and i found an amazing coach in portland oregon where i live this guy named
mike mccassle i don't
know if you've ever heard of him but i know you've had you've had david goggins
on your show i take it
so um mike actually surpassed david's pull-up record mike did 5804 pull-ups in
20 hours um i think
goggins did about 4 000 which are both insane to me because i can do like
another thousand and he was
mike was wearing a 30 pound weight vest no yes just to add insult to injury uh
mike mccassle
absolute absolute legend so anyways wait a minute wait a minute he did 5 000
fucking chin-ups with a
weight vest on dude i barely can do 10 i'm right there with you man like pull-ups
are not i've got
some other physical strengths but the pull-up department is not not my strong
suit that is
fucking insane get this too just just because i gotta i gotta big up my band
for a second that's
his fourth road right he also pulled a f-250 truck 20 miles across death valley
uh in a harness so i'm
trying to look for the best guy to teach me how to pull heavy shit oh my god
you got the guy i found
the guy i was like fuck this is the guy i just love that there's people like
that out there that just
make you feel like such a pussy uh oh my god and the greatest thing about mike
you know big strong
jacked dude but like super soft-spoken she's like he's like yeah i did those
pull-ups it was cool
like so anyways i went basically it's fucked with that record so hard he could
die and like come back
to life and live a whole nother life and no one's ever gonna do it yeah so
anyways my training he was
the guy i went to him train out of this gym in portland uh where he trains out
of and he just he got me
bigger he got me stronger but he also did all sorts of badass crazy stuff i
mean there's a physical
challenge but it's more of a mental challenge than anything so he had me you
know my hands in ice
buckets doing planks to get my heart rate jacked up and then he'd be like get
out of the water then i
pull my hands out of the ice buckets do you know i'd be a seated squat against
the wall but then he
would hand me legos and so my hands are frozen my feet are in ice buckets now
in a plank my heart rate's
190 and he's like put this lego set together so the dexterity of my fingers the
mental acuity to
pull this out there he is look at this guy what a fucking savage this guy is
yeah and he did that
for veteran suicides yeah exactly so he he's got really really important
missions behind all of his
projects he calls them 12 labors and over his life he's trying to set 12 world
records and various
things christ there's people that are just they're just designed different yeah
yeah so he's the man but
like this crazy training he came up with for me that was like the ice the the
water the mental acuity
all of this was like he was like yo you're gonna be in antarctica if your tent
blows away when you're
pulling it up you're dead like the stakes are that high 50 60 mile per hour
winds like absolutely
crazy um so did you ever have an issue like that where you thought the tent
could blow away
um i think i don't know if you have there's a clip on my instagram i posted a
few days ago of me
of me setting up the tent in a minus 80 degrees out 60 mile per hour winds um
it's pretty gnarly but
yeah i mean there was one time when the tent almost did blow away from me yeah
there's this one there's
one other one this is me getting in the tent looking like an absolute disaster
when i get help with
