Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1080 - David Goggins
Uploaded: 2018-02-19T22:53:57.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1080 - David Goggins' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-02-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1080 - David Goggins' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-02-19. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1080 - David Goggins

five four three two one boom and we're live thanks for doing this man i
appreciate it hey
thank you for having me i appreciate that you're the only guy i've ever had in
the studio where
when i showed up you were working out that's what i do man that's my life that's
my life
it's pretty crazy though i mean how much time did you have when you got here
i got here about an hour early oh okay yeah okay we got a little early so i got
here shirt off
doing chin-ups it was hilarious i didn't get my camera out in time before you
saw me i wanted to
take some pictures well maybe next time next time well i'll catch you after the
show um you are a guy
that for a lot of people you sort of embody the idea of hardening your mind
right and figuring out a way
to do things that most people think are impossible right that's you've sort of
become that guy over
your life and you've become that guy for a lot of people including me online we've
talked about you
on the podcast a ton of times so having you in here has been uh it's very
exciting to me i appreciate
that thank you how'd you become that guy you know what i i grew up not that guy
yeah so a lot of people
put a title on me they want to uh they see me now they see me now as the guy
that with his shirt off
who can do 4 000 30 pull-ups in 17 hours you can run 205 miles in 39 hours who
can do all this crazy
shit but what they don't understand is they don't understand the journey that
it took me to get to
this point and what got me to this point was i was just the opposite of what i
am today i was that guy who
ran away from absolutely everything that got in front of me but not many people
knew that i had two people
had the like the real me was like this very scared insecure stuttering got beat
up by his dad all this
kind of stuff and i built this fake person that walked around like my didn't
stink you know you know
right yeah so that was that's kind of how i did it and i through a process of
time i realized that i was
lying to myself and lying to people but that it's a fascinating journey though
because you are that guy
now right i mean you genuinely are legit badass right at one point in time you
were a legit terrified
person yes so what was the process like how did how did you step forth well it's
a it's a long process right
um i my dad beat the shit out of me when i was growing up we i was the first
black baby born in this hospital
called miller fillmore in buffalo new york my dad owned skating rinks he owned
bars he ran prostitutes
from canada to buffalo new york my dad was a big time pimp big time anything
bad about a person big time hustler
he was american you know that i'm with them danza washington he was that but
not that bad right you
know he wasn't that big but that's what it reminds me of he was that kind of
guy and um beat the out of
me the you know out of my mom there was an incident one time when my mom got
knocked out on top of the
stairs and he drug her down the stairs by her hair and at six years old i'll
never forget this in my mind i was
always afraid my whole life i was afraid but i had this voice this this
conscience that would always
be battling me saying hey you got to get up and do something i didn't want to
do you know i was just
afraid but i would that that voice would force me to get up and my dad you know
i try to beat him up
whatever at six and i get my ass kicked so this went on for several years and i
have a big time learning
disability okay my dad didn't believe in us going to school so my dad it was
about the business the
skating rink and the bar so the skating rink opened about seven o'clock at
night and this is the time
i was able to walk so about five you know four five six years old eight nine
and i go to this you know
skating rink seven o'clock at night and i worked the skating rink until 10 at
night and then we would
scrape the gum off the floors and we cleaned the whole skating rink up and then
my dad had an office
and my brother and myself would sleep in the office my mom would go upstairs
and work the bar until
three o'clock in the morning and then they cleaned the bar up so after all that
shit was done with
going to school rarely happened so when i went to school i was all kind of you
know my my learning
disability i had social anxiety i was just a jacked up kid from living in this
tortured home from the
outside looking in we lived in the all-white neighborhood and then we would
travel to the ghetto of
buffalo new york with the skating rink was at so we you know we worked around
mostly blacks and i lived
around mostly whites but no one knew what was going on in that house on 201
paradise road you know it's
crazy but um my mom got courage to finally leave him when i was about eight
years old we moved to a small
town in brazil indiana and that's when the real war started for me and brazil
indiana is a small town
great people a lot of great people and i say that because a lot of people get
offended and i'm going
to get to the point why they get offended there was about maybe 10 black
families at about 10 000
people in the town and in 1995 the kkk marched in the fourth july parade so
this was a not everybody
was racist there's a lot of good people some of the best people i knew was
there but there's also a lot of
racism there so me being one of the few black kids in that you know in that
area you know it kind of
haunts you i had stuff on my notebook you know nigger we're going to kill you
on my spanish notebook
they had that on my car nigger we're going to kill you this is early 90s and um
so even though
i showed it didn't hurt me it was jacking me up so all the insecurities i had
when i was a kid
with my father i moved into this area here and it just got worse and worse and
worse and the
shit haunted me and that voice that i talked about it kept talking louder and
louder and louder but i
was doing nothing about it and i decided to make moves and i cheated all
through school and it's kind
of humbling to talk about my story sometimes and it's um it's also embarrassing
but um it's real it's who
the fuck i am it's what i am it's what created me and copy from the fourth
grade to the to my junior
year in high school on every assignment and i want to get in the military i
want to join the air force
and the guy gave me an asvap test it's like a watered down sat and i couldn't
copy on it because
the guy beside me had a test a i had test b the guy on my right had test c so i
looked to copy on this
test and i couldn't copy on it so i got like a 20 and i wanted to be an air
force pararescueman
it's guys that jump out of airplanes and save down pilots it's a it's a special
operator in the air
force and my score was so horribly low that we take it again and he said hey i
got like an 18 the
second time even worse i need to get a 50 out of a 99 and so my mom and i for a
while we lived in the
government subsidized apartments seven dollars a month and also food stamps and
we slowly moved up to a
230 a month place but at the time you know we were you know pretty poor but um
my mom afforded enough
money for me to go to see a tutor one one hour a week so for four hours a month
i had six months to
study for my last test i was going to take the acid test you know the acid test
three times and i
studied my ass off and passed it and i got in the air force and realized there
was more things in front of
me i was afraid of the water terrify the water and um i learned how to swim but
what gets everybody in
this training in all special ops training is the water confidence where they
try to pretty much drown
your ass you know all of our lives we've been breathing and they take that from
you and they want
to see how comfortable you are in the water and there's only one percent african
americans in special
operations and i didn't know anything about african like a lot of them are
negative buoyant which i am
because of the bone density i struggled but um six weeks into the program there
was about 25 guys left
out of about 150 i was there and i was never i didn't go to sleep for six weeks
of the program
and i wanted to quit so badly but i quit everything in my life i copied through
school
i wanted to prove people wrong and so here i am in this air force program
starting to get a little
more confidence but this water was kicking my ass and six weeks in the program
the doctor gave me a
blood test and was i have sickle cell sickle cell trait not the anemia but it
still killed people
but so they put me out of training for a week and when you go from being very
uncomfortable in that
water situation and then now you're comfortable and i'm sitting back watching
the guys drown i'm not
you know i'm not part of the activities anymore for this week i didn't want to
get back in that damn
water again so the fear overcame me and all my insecurities from my dad from
this small town from
everything started coming back and even though no one knew how fucked up i was
kind of create this
other person who was tough i live with this shit all the time so me not wanting
to go back in that
water the doctor called me back up i thought i'd get like a like a medical kick
out of the military so
no quitting for me they'll kick me out so i can have some pride the doctor said
no man you know we
could put you back in the training and i was like fuck but after a week i'm
like you know what i missed
one week there's only three weeks left there's a good chance you know i could
tough this out and go
on but i went back to the co and the command officer of the program and the
sergeant said hey you got
to start from day one because you missed you know that that week of training
and i broke i broke i i
couldn't imagine going back through that again so i made up a lie and i said
man the sickle cell thing
is really scaring me it was the water it wasn't sickle cell and and i pretty
much quit even though
they gave me a medical it i quit so um from the age of 19 to the age of 22 i
went and did a job called
tag p where you control fast movers behind enemy lines cool job but there's no
water i was afraid
of the water so i avoided it and um i gained 125 pounds in that time frame i
went from 175 to almost 300
to 297 was my heaviest and i started finding things that was comfortable and
the more things i found
comfortable the more uncomfortable my mind was because that voice i was telling
you about it always
was there i was just trying to avoid that conscience i i wanted to be left
alone from that conscience and
it wouldn't leave me alone so i got out of the air force and i started working
for a job called eco lab
where he sprayed for cockroaches at 24 and um spraying at different steak and
shakes red lobster
whatever from 11 o'clock at night seven o'clock in the morning and what changed
i came home and watched
this discovery channel show um class 224 i came home from steak and shake i
sprayed it down last get a big
old large 42 ounce shake walk across the street and get a box of mini donuts
from 7 11 and i would drive home for 45 minutes
this big old fat guy who yeah i worked out but i was fat i didn't run didn't pt
i just hit the gym
so um driving home turn the tv on and what comes on discovery channel so and
that's where everything
changed for me i uh was taking a shower i walked out heard these guys and i
watched the show and it made
me reflect big time on the piece of that i am and i'm exactly what people said
i was going to be
so so what was on this show that really struck home it was um i saw these guys
going into water so i was
terrified of it i mean i can't even express have you ever had a big fear and i
know a lot of fighters
have fears and stuff like that but they get over them but a lot of us have
these fears that you just
don't want to face and um i have a lot of them had a lot of them and that's
what created the person
who's in front of you today and we'll get into that but um just a scared bitch
is what i was and
but i was watching these guys going through hell week clas