Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1200 - Ross Edgley
Uploaded: 2018-11-13T10:12:41.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1200 - Ross Edgley' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-11-13. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1200 - Ross Edgley

four three two one dude
first of all what possessed you to want to swim around the entire uk how many
thousands of miles
is that yeah uh two thousand miles altogether two thousand miles of swimming
yeah yeah it seemed
like a good idea at the time and then halfway around i realized how big great
britain was
but you you've done some long swims before but not like nothing even remotely
like what's the
longest swim you did before this yeah i did um this is a bit of a strange story
i did um i tried
to swim between saint lucia and martinique uh two caribbean islands um it's
only 40 kilometers from
point to point um and and for charity i was trying to swim uh from point to
point with with a hundred
pound tree attached to my trunks um so i was pulling the hundred pound tree uh
six foot waves
crashing down and i actually didn't make it from point to point i was like five
kilometers from the
end and um when i didn't make it i decided to swim back the other way so i
ended up swimming over a
hundred kilometers with a hundred pound tree took me 32 hours um but still didn't
make it so so what
what what went wrong where you didn't make it tides currents you know and i
know you just got swept
away yeah yeah and especially attached to a tree right how big was this tree uh
so 100 pounds but i
mean it floats but it was more the drag right so if if there's any influence
from tides or currents and
it's pulling you in one direction i mean i was basically gonna miss martinique
so i i don't know i was
heading to cuba you know somewhere like that and then on the way back down you
know i was they turned to me
again and they said like you're gonna miss saint lucia you're gonna end up in i
don't know whatever's
further south than saint lucia um and i think i realized as physically fit as
you are um the ocean
just just doesn't care you know it doesn't care and so after that this was last
year this was november
last year um kind of felt i had unfinished business with with the ocean um came
but came back to england
uh rung up friends of mine at the royal marines i said guys look this is going
to sound so so strange
i said but i just i need to get out my system i just need to see how far i can
swim in 48 hours so
i swam 48 hours um i can't remember what it was in there i think it was 160
kilometers something
something like that and i finished and and i had basically trench foot so where
your your feet and
your hands are so kind of i've got so much water in there it's almost going
moldy you know yeah so i had
trench foot i'm sort of sitting there nursing nursing my feet and uh one of the
one of the officers uh a
a good friend of mine and they came over and they just said uh they went you
know real english raw
marine they said you boy and i said yes and they said oh what are you training
for i said uh oh i'm
training for uh potentially attempting the world's longest current neutral swim
and then just paused and
he he sipped his cup of tea and he looked me up and down he just goes that just
sounds a bit lame
i was like okay what what do you want me to do and he pauses and he says you
just need to man up
you need to man up and swim around great britain and i was like whoa and i can't
i can't i couldn't
say no once the idea said why don't you swim with me bitch i'll do it if you do
it motherfucker
that's a crazy thing for somebody to be asking you to do no i know right you
know so i said fine
once the idea stuck with me i mean you know we've got this real history and
heritage of british
eccentric explorers and for me growing up there's a story of captain webb so
the first guy to swim
across the english channel and for those who don't know english channel uh you
know the tides they
believed were too strong the water was too cold they said you just can't make
it across the english
channel it's impossible but captain webb refused to listen and uh 1875 august
uh crossed the english
channel and this is the part i love on a diet of beef broth and brandy in a
woolen wetsuit he swam i
think it was 23 hours breaststroke with his head out the water because and i
quote front crawl was
ungentlemanly like and and there was that element that i just thought that's
amazing front crawl
what is the front crawl so so basically that's front the regular one yeah but
way back in 1875 it was
like no that he thought it was ungentlemanly yeah it was the movements itself
themselves yeah it was
still being developed as a technique whereas you know if you were a gentleman
and you were a swimmer
you swim breaststroke you know wow exactly head out of the water the whole time
the whole way 23 hours
and again like the the the support boat was saying you know get out you're not
going to make you're not
going to make it and he just refused and 23 hours so you know that's part of a
night swim as well
head out the water just all the way why brandy is he getting up or just a
little bit of brandy
you know i don't know maybe it might have been a bit of dutch courage but i
think there was
you know certainly back then sports nutrition isn't what it is today right so i
think there was an
element he was even like uh lubing himself up in in goose fat you know this is
way back make
himself slicker slicker and i think there was an element of warmth or that was
certainly the belief
right so it was the tour de france guys didn't they drink wine that was like a
big thing back in the
day way back yeah i mean it wasn't too long ago i mean me and jamie were just
just talking now about
football back in england and it wasn't until you know too long ago i think
maybe 100 years ago they
used to just keep brandy in the dressing room in case you needed to warm
yourself up really yeah wow so
they would play soccer drunk yeah kind of just like with a little bit in there
but like you said just
warm yourself just a little bit of something exactly get the old engine turn it
over exactly yeah wow wow
and i think you know people don't understand that it's taken you know people
like captain webb
maybe me to a smaller extent to just raise the bar push the boundaries and and
you know you've seen
that i think our generation have seen that um with the ufc with mixed martial
arts that has evolved so
fast um i always remember forrest griffin used to kind of liken himself to the
basketball players just
shooting three pointers with the ball between the legs you know and that always
resonated with me
because i was like yeah the the evolution that we've seen and what sort of bruce
lee had the the
foresight to predict is amazing and i think in a much much much smaller way
again to go back to sort
of british athletes and adventurers um roger bannister you know first guy to
run under a four minute mile
right and people said couldn't be done and he was a medical student at the time
leading physician said
you can't do it your lungs will explode your legs will fall off all sorts um
but no he said you know
oxford uh laced up his trainers and and ran a four minute mile similar right
now to what i think we're
seeing with kipchoge you know and the two hour marathon and so that's why in
again in a much much
smaller way when i had that conversation about swimming around great britain
everybody said it can't be done
um yes it's 2 000 miles but there's giant whirlpools in scotland called the korea
veckern penland firth
renowned around the world if you get that wrong you're disappearing backwards
at 10 knots you there's
no way you're swimming against that and 10 knots that's that's a dolphin speed
jesus yeah so what is
10 knots in miles per hour basically 10 miles per hour yeah oh my god 10 miles
per hour backwards as
you're trying to go forwards basically yeah penland first at the top of scotland
the currents that go
across there so it's running in a good clip but yo yeah backwards yeah i mean
we got it good we we
we managed to basically predict it so well that i i think that was probably my
top speed which i did uh
8.7 knots to 8.7 miles per hour i was basically cruising along the top which is
wow which is like a
dolphin so you were having the waves behind you pushing you almost and see now
that's what's interesting
because i had the tides and currents with me not necessarily the waves yeah i
said it wrong and
when you get but but actually you made a good point in terms of when you get
wind over tide
so if you've got 10 knots going this way but you've even got a little bit of
wind and waves going this
way it can get choppy oh okay and and again sort of looking at west scotland
wind over tide you can get
40 knots coming straight down the barrel but you're trying to swim with the
tide whoa yeah so the wind is
coming at you but the tide is going the opposite and as you can imagine that oh
my god yeah yeah
yeah so how do you predict this this this tide that you have to get right yeah
i mean it's it's
in completely in theory and this is what i realized when i when i sat down and
we started
sort of plotting the great what is it called again what is the the issue that'll
push you back
oh just the title yes what is it called that area oh you say you got to get
right oh so penland
firth pendant firth uh the penland uh pendland firth yeah yeah and that's that
like i said renowned
around the world but but equally if you imagine the shape of great britain
there's all sorts of
kind of compression where the water will just come rushing through and as well
as the penland firth you
can get you know six knots around wales there's an island called skoma and if
you get that right
you are disappearing up you know and you're winning you get it wrong again you're
going backwards and
for me for me to do a continuous stage swim if i'm going backwards i've got to
start where i was going
backwards so for me getting every single tide right and that's why i was so for
the team were amazing
there was a uh the captain uh matt was just incredible that every night the
homework we okay
here no did we crash all right folks if you're listening or watching we had a
little technical
difficulty so this is not streaming live will be uploaded later we were just
going over how you
predicted you had to and your team had to predict how the tide was coming
because if it went wrong you'd
get pushed backwards at like 10 miles an hour yeah basically and and this is
the thing i think with
the great british swim we were kind of taking swimming as most people
understand it and we were we were
removing it and putting in in an arena that was so different so and i think
that's why it was it did so
well kind of online as well the community around it because obviously swimmers
were interested but
you know surfers started to get involved because they understood the waves um
sailors fishermen you know all
sorts of people started to say you know sometimes in great britain it's not
safe to take a boat
around the top of scotland you know for instance never mind a swimmer um so
that's that's why it was
amazing that that on the entire series it became a a melting pot an exchange of
ideas because nobody knew
how to get a human body around the coast of great britain it wasn't just about
swimming and and that was
what was really cool how how do they know like when the tides are going one way
or the other how how do
they predict that yeah i mean tides are so predictable so in theory um they
change every six hours so in
theory when we sat down and we looked and we know that if you do six hours on
six hours off for 157 days
you'll make it around the coast of great brit you know and and that was the
theory so you do this by
phasic sleep and you swim for 12 hours a day but that's all theory there's
times when as i mentioned uh giant
or or the tides might not necessarily if you imagine sort of that's great britain
there the tides don't
necessarily go always like this so they're not that predictable sometimes if
there's kind of like
this like that's kind of whales there the tides will do this so you're kind of
you're doing all these
different things that people ar