Name: Joe Rogan Experience #826 - Justin Wren
Uploaded: 2016-07-28T02:58:20.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #826 - Justin Wren' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-07-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #826 - Justin Wren' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-07-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #826 - Justin Wren

two one and we're live justin wren how are you sir i'm great what's going on
brother
man i'm excited to be back here out there kicking ass digging wells all the
above trying yeah how
many fights have you had now back in bellator only uh two two uh but i haven't
been back since uh
the first or second one so this is what are you yeah you were here before your
first one
right which was like you had a long break yeah it was five five years and two
months wow and i
hadn't even really trained any um at that point like uh i was i was uh just
doing the wells and
going to congo and then uh got back into fighting and only had a little bit of
time to train but it
it was uh it was okay but how much time did you have before your first fight um
i think actually
whenever i was here with you i uh i i fibbed a little where i said uh it was a
little longer
because i didn't know if my opponent was going to watch or or whatever but uh
my my fight camp got
cut in half um i was traveling traveling traveling the book was getting ready
to come out and other
stuff and trying to write the book and prepare and trying to figure all that
out where we're just
talking before we got on about just life stuff and scheduling it and everything
and i had the
book and then congo and then um telling people about it and then also training
for a fight and i didn't
know how to balance those real well but uh i planned 12 weeks all of a sudden
congo corruption took me to
for for three weeks at the beginning so i cut it down to nine weeks and then
whenever i got back or while
i was there i found out they were moving the fight up on me three weeks um and
so it cut my camp down to
about six seven weeks so six seven weeks after being off for more than five
years yeah and i had trained
a few times before that uh i mean like within the few months before but um but
i i i think it was
probably tops two months uh nine weeks well plus weren't you just like just
getting over malaria yeah and
i was uh that's that's that's the tough stuff that's uh that's tougher than you
fight i feel like
fuck man we have one of our guys in congo that's got had malaria one of our
drillers uh just recently
got real sick and it's kind of like constant like it's just part of life there
jesus and it doesn't
matter what kind of medication you take before you go out there i was actually
taking uh actually our
director at water for was taking um malarone it's like the best anti-malaria
pill i think it's something
like seven eight dollars every pill so uh it's it's the creme de la creme of
malaria meds and it
didn't work on him and then i was actually going into congo um actually i
stopped in london did one
of those ted talks at a university called warwick university and the day of the
talk i was at a 103 degree
temperature 103.2 and um and i thought i was pulling out they thought i was
pulling out we were at the
hospital um for four five six hours um oh and dude even the the opportunity to
go speak at that is
because their team uh was all fans of jre wow yeah that's awesome yeah that was
the opportunity i got
because of because of this and i mean it was it was uh it was tough doing the
talk and then um whenever i
got into congo they told me i had the flu in london um the doctor's there and
that's what i feel like
here too there can be tropical medical medicine specialists here and they're
probably really great
but i i would trust a doctor that's lived in the climate the tropical climate
around malaria that's
seen it that's yeah that knows all the symptoms well knows to look for it
because no one gets it over
here yeah and so whenever i got into congo i flew from yeah from work to congo
and whenever i landed
instead of going straight to the forest uh they took me to like a airstrip at a
kind of hospital
out in the middle of nowhere um so i landed went straight to the hospital and
then right there
they're like you don't have the flu you have malaria and i'm like but i i've
been i've been in the
states i just fought and then i've uh and then in europe like there's no no
malaria really there
but it was because it's still living inside me there's like um i think there's
three strands
one will live in your body for three years five years i think the other is like
30 to life or
something what yeah and so so it just comes back yeah it can like when your
body's really run down
when you're really tired your immune system's low like training for a fight
yeah like training for a
fight or right after the fight uh right after the fight went to london spoke
then i went to congo
so so but right after the fight so you you're recovering from malaria you go
through your six
week fight camp you have your fight you run down and then after the fight you
got malaria again
yes uh now the sickness yeah i've had it now three times oh my god so at least
confirmed twice the
third time they're like yeah you have it for sure but they you with malaria you
have to get the test
the blood test while you have a certain degree temperature like fever whenever
it's cycling out of
your liver i mean coming out um they have to draw the blood at that exact time
to get it and so that's
why i was misdiagnosed four times in the congo and um what a sneaky fucking
disease yeah it's nuts
it's great they're crazy because they'll they'll hide in your liver and then
they send them out in
your bloodstream like a like a platoon they go and wreck havoc and then they
retreat right back to the
liver really yeah they live in your liver yeah that's where they're hiding away
for three or five or
30 years oh my god and what is there any solution is there anything they could
do um i don't think so
and i had a couple things that happened where um you know i i started trying to
take the anti-malaria
meds but i started getting it's the only medicine i've ever really reacted to
where
get nauseous start dragging i've heard it's awful yeah even uh even um no i'm
pasty white and i i
get real sun sensitive um i know another medicine called mefequin um which is
uh i think it's developed
in switzerland or sweden supposed to be an awesome new malaria medicine it's
actually the one thing my
body kind of responds to but um but it's actually really dangerous because uh i've
seen people that
are there for aid work and different stuff and dude they have to they have to
retreat if they're there
with kids and stuff they've moved there to the country they're taking off
because um because kiddos
or even adults have mental breaks that they can't come back from like you can
have psychotic episodes
for i think they said like if it lasts longer than a week it's probably gonna
last like three months
it'll last longer than three months it's probably gonna last forever wow yeah
so um so this is from
the medication yeah it's just the medication and it gives you terrible terrible
nightmares i almost went
to tanzania this summer i was gonna go uh on safari and uh too many people
scared the out of me
with malaria talk yeah i was gonna take my whole family and i'm like look i'll
take some malaria medication
and feel like i'm not giving it to my six-year-old yeah it's just it's not
happening that would be i'm not
doing it tough one yeah yeah but that's a real concern right tanzania has
malaria as well right
yeah they do it's it because it's more of a is that arid climate more um it's
they have less
there it's not so tropical there i've been to tanzania a couple times and out
in sanzibar i mean
it's just um i mean it wasn't there but i was saw it and it was uh i don't know
man it's it's a crazy
crazy place because you go from congo where they have all these tropical
diseases and you go i don't
know the same continent you just go over a little bit and there's all these
other kinds of parasites
like in congo they have very little of uh i believe they're called um jiggers
with a j and um
be very careful when you say that word yeah i will but jiggers with a j um
sounds wrong yeah
sounds like you should stop well but they they they're these crazy parasites
that burrow in your
feet and um and especially kids and elderly um and especially why kids and
elderly um well honestly i
think one reason with poverty uh the kids don't get shoes until they can work
and buy them and uh the
elderly if they're not able to work and provide for themselves and you know it's
harder for them to
to get shoes and stuff but also it's just where they live um because on the
sandy or it's either
sandy or the clayish um or silty soil that's real red in uganda man it just wreaks
havoc on
those kids to where they're having to have people come in every week to
different villages sit there with uh
safety pins and all sorts of these little hooks that they dig into the people's
feet
and um oh god dude it's it's painful whenever i've seen people getting it done
they're literally
putting their and i've had one in my foot and it kind of came and gone it's not
that bad when it's
just one but whenever your whole foot or your whole heel or all the you know
the balls of your feet are
just covered in i mean i'm talking 20 30 40 50 of these parasites and they're
just brutal so every step
you see them when they're walking they're grimacing when you're taking it out
they're screaming
god damn africa yeah africa is just it's such a strange strange continent
strange but man the people
are are beautiful in their hearts you know they're awesome they're uh half or
probably more than half
if you're not a good one you're very terrible yeah that's it's simple obviously
from the outside that's
what it looks like someone like me who tries to pay attention as much as i can
but i don't there's
only so much you could actually know about it without being there i think right
yeah i i think so i think
whenever you get there i don't know fall in love with the people and develop
the relationships um
that's why you can i don't know see past all the the garbage all the discomfort
you said that you
were held up with uh corruption congo corruption what happened so they they
called me and said um
my team is actually papa why i call him papa why because like a father figure
to me he's the one that
had this vision i came alongside him and it's just been it's been awesome to
see what's happened and
um whenever i went to him uh actually what what was the question you're just
asking i don't even
remember what i say i said about the corruption oh corruption yeah yeah he
called me and said fa you
got to get back here in like three weeks and i'm like what i'm training for the
fight like it's coming
up and i can't leave now he says if you don't come back now like i don't know
when you can come
back they'll they're going to revoke your visa they're going to and i'm like
what for and so
they said check your passport they said your visa's expiring in three weeks and
i'm like it shouldn't
be expiring i have a five-year visa but then you have to come in and out of the
country every 11
months because if you don't you lose that five-year visa and so whenever i left
with my wife literally
they just so that they can get money out of us and steal and um be able to ask
for 1400 sometimes
twenty five hundred dollars to get a visa like this um you know they they write
down on your visa when
they stamp it the date they write it in and so now i know look every single
time they're writing to
make sure they write the right date because she backdated it like six months or
something like
that or maybe nine months and then all of a sudden i had to get back there
because they're like nope it's
going to expire and they thought they gave them actually it might have been
less than three weeks
i think i had to go for three weeks is what happened because i had like a week
notice i just took off
went it's actually the cheapest trip i've ever got there because it was like
the last seat i was
by the toilets in the back the whole time but it was only like 800 round trip
which was incredible
that's pretty crazy yeah you can go to africa for 800 bucks y