Name: Joe Rogan Experience #815 - Cameron Hanes
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #815 - Cameron Hanes' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-06-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #815 - Cameron Hanes' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-06-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #815 - Cameron Hanes

We're back world I used to say America, but foreign people get upset poor
bastards living in other countries
Sad enough. They can't be graced on our patch of dirt
I just had to explain to Cameron Haynes that when your iPhone when you use a
bunch of apps
You double click on that bottom button and then you it shows you all the apps
that are running in the background
Most people don't know this most people just use their phone, right?
But that's a fucking resource robber right there, buddy. Yeah to be careful. I
learned something today
Yeah, I have to show people things now when I'm showing you tech tips
You know, you know, you're tech retarded. I'm a little bit behind the curve
So what's happening brother? How you feeling man? You just ran a hundred miles
like a week ago
Yeah, I did was it was about a week ago, right? It was yeah, it was last
Saturday and Sunday
So ended on father's day all in preparation for a 200-mile run in August. That's
right
God damn dude
Yeah, we were talking about today like the mental games that your brain starts
playing on you
Yeah, and you were describing all the shit that your brain starts doing to you
while you're running
Yeah, I was there's so many peaks and valleys when you push yourself like that
and it's a
You know, I was thinking about all the ways I could quit how I could come up
with an excuse to how I could get out of this
race and
Really I could come I could say anything because who's gonna who's gonna ever
question it because it's like, okay
How many people have ever run for 24 straight hours, right? So you can you can't
really question me, but it's just I push myself
So, I mean I couldn't live with myself if I quit the race, but I'm not saying I
wasn't thinking about how nice it would have been to stop running
Well, anytime you're working out
I mean if you just think about a yoga class which is only 90 minutes
Yeah, those last 20 minutes you're totally thinking about it'd be so nice
Just get the fuck out of this hot room drink some cold water, but you just
power through now multiply that times
54 yeah, and way harder. Yeah, because you're running you're exhausted. You're
in pain. I can't even imagine
I'm saying all these things and I'm just guessing what it's like
Well, it's you know, I teamed up with a pretty good runner Joe you hon to start
the race
He was getting a workout in he was pacing at the Western States 100, which was
this last weekend and
So he he wanted to get a good workout. So I was like, oh cool
I can knock off a bunch of miles with him. So we were running pretty fast
pretty fast for you know
when you have to run for 24 straight hours, but we knocked off 10 miles quickly
and I remember I was running with him as you know
After you run 10 miles, you know, you've done something and I think to myself I
Got 90 more miles
I
Felt like it already got a pretty good workout and I hadn't even got started
really so
Felt like you were done and you had
90 miles
Yeah, yeah, so it's uh, it's you know
You talk about mental strength and just keeping
Keep hammering. Yeah, exactly. You just gotta keep hammering
daunting
Mm-hmm
And what is it like when it's over?
What is the feeling like when you cross when it's 24 hours the time's up?
You look at your your distance 102 miles like what does that feel like feels
good?
Um most days and this is just me
I can't expect anybody to be able to relate to my
screwed up mind, but I mean me personally I can go run
15 miles
get a good workout
Go home
And an hour later i'm thinking
I could have done more i'm not satisfied
So the big thing for me is when i've done something like that for the one of
the few times
Throughout the year. I feel satisfied that I gave what I had
wow
So it's just so brutal that you never feel like you could have done more
No, no, no, no. I always think I could have done. No, i'm disappointed with
myself
um, just because in that race and I can I can
Try to have it make sense
I can be logical about it and I could say
Well, I went out really fast because I wanted to be as miserable as possible
for as long as possible to prepare myself for the bigfoot 200
So I can say well
I ran super hard for four hours hoping I was gonna be miserable for 20 and I
knew my pace would would have been
Would be slower and it'd be more painful, but in the big picture. It'll help me
But that's just words to me. I'm thinking I had you know
I was in first place through 50 miles
I was you know did 50 miles and in eight hours
And so I was on pace for a lot of miles I was second place at
62 miles and I was or no at 12 hours I had run
I think 65 miles so i'm on pace for 130 so I really died
And yeah, you I can I can use words and say well is it it was a plan
It was it was part of being miserable and preparing myself for a greater
challenge, but I
also feel like
You know I gave up
Miles and I could have got my most miles ever and I should have got 120 plus
miles
And so yeah, there's always the feeling I could and more even even though but i'm
a little bit satisfied
god
Now what at the end of it?
So you're you're you're killing it at 50 miles
You're in first place
And then is it just simply a matter of you just muscle fatigue and pain
And you just pain for me can only push so far
Yeah, I can't speak for anybody else probably for some people it's fatigue some
people. It's uh just mental exhaustion
For me. It's pain. It's just i've run you know, I did my first marathon in 2002.
So i've been doing this for
whatever 14 years
Multiple marathons every year back to back sometimes my body is not a hundred
percent so
I can push I have a high high pain tolerance, but eventually
It adds up and so it's pain for me
Is so is it joint pain knees everything is it just the whole body?
It's waist down hips
Knees ankles feet and how long does it take you to recover like you were
telling me that your legs are like swollen twice the size of normal
Yeah, last year last year was way worse this year. I had I put in a bunch of
miles
leading up
I was running about a half a marathon a day. So
My body was is pretty fit and pretty used to it
So my recovery was much shorter. I mean, I and again
People aren't going to understand this but
The next the day after I ran 102 I ran 13 miles
And that was just because when I run the bigfoot 200 i'm going to have to be
able to come back after
You know multiple days of being hurt and banged up
And that's the name of the game, you know to cover 200 miles
In a couple days like I want to
I'm not going to be 100 percent. So I thought well
I can't I can't know what it feels like to run after
I run 100 miles unless
One I run 100 miles and two I run the day after so you can't simulate that
there's no way to simulate that
So you ran 13 miles the day after you run 102 miles and what the fuck is that
like?
Uh, it'd be using the running term loosely. It was painful slow. I was hiking
the uphills
Running would be like
It would I probably looked like a 90 year old man trying to run
It freaking hurt and what I did it are your legs totally swollen when you're
doing this yeah
Mm-hmm. Yeah, my uh, my ankles are all swollen and calves and I don't really
have an ankle
it's so same size from my foot up and
Yeah, I mean
It's not good for me. I mean, it's not in anybody who talks about doing
hundreds hundreds aren't good for probably anybody
So it's it's yeah, I know that what I do
Isn't uh in the best interest of
My body, but it's just the name of the game. It's what I do
So what you do is not in the best interest of your body you understand this you're
very aware of this and you're a professional bow hunter essentially
But you have this thing in your head where you have to push yourself
As far and as hard as possible to find out for yourself to set goals
To try to push past this pain and endurance barrier that you have
Is that what it all is?
I'm just trying to make sense of it because it's not like you're getting paid
to do these. No, these are amateur races
No, I'm not getting paid at all. This is just for me
I used to think I was an idiot for competing in martial arts matches for no
money
Yeah, you know, but this is this is crazy like you're you're doing this at 48
years old with a family
With a job. Yeah, and you're still
Yeah, it's just it's just me. It's just what I feel like I need to do and I don't
I don't
You know, do you know how long you're going to continue to do this?
No, but uh, you know
That people have told me
When I you know, I started doing marathons and running the mountain back home
Like I said, I don't know years ago 15 years ago
And people said then well if you keep running like this by the time you're 40
you won't be able to run
And so
Here I am. They always say that. Yeah, I know so I just the point the point to
that is
I don't really care. I don't do it for anybody
I don't do what I do for anybody else just for me and I feel like I need to do
this. I like pushing my limits
um
That's why
You know if I would have listened to people tell me what I shouldn't do or
couldn't do or nobody could do
I wouldn't have done hardly anything in my life. So the point is I don't care.
I don't care what anybody says
I don't care anybody thinks I just this is what I do. I need to do it
Um, I like finding my absolute limit and seeing how much I can withstand and
this is that's all this is
Yeah, that's a weird thing that people always do
Yeah, if you do that
It's gonna kill you if you do that it's gonna break it down. What are you doing
lifting weights?
You know, i've heard the people that lift weights actually live shorter lives,
right?
There's always these people that want to tell you to not do that
You know, like i'm always like why are you doing it, but i'm never gonna tell
you don't do it
I just don't understand that there's there's something to that mentality that
we're kind of talking about this earlier today
I think there's something in some people where they see someone doing something
crazy that they can't do and they want to figure out
There's got to be something wrong with you and they got to figure out a way to
criticize you
Instead of saying wow that guy's fucking crazy
Or wow, that's a crazy commitment. I I don't want to do it, but I
Respect appreciate it instead of doing that they try to like poke holes that
may may not even be there, you know, they try to
You're kind of admitting that it's not good for you. Not kind of you're 100%
admitting those aren't good for you
It's not but it is good for you in one way you're like your mind
Desires this extreme challenge and that keeps you very calm and sane
See as you're you're the kind of guy where I feel like if that didn't exist
You would have like real problems
Like just integrating and relating to regular society probably I mean that's
I don't know. I don't know what I would be like without the challenge that I
take on
If I but part of me feels like if I didn't do it, I would be a shell of myself
as far as
I wouldn't be living up to my ability. My whole thing is like
If i'm able to do it
I need to attempt it. I need to try I need to do it
I mean because I just think that people need to live up to their full potential.
That's all i'm doing
Is there anything else though that you think is interesting like in that way
like this is it's a competitive thing in some ways
Like because you were saying you know hey, I'm first place at 50 miles
But it's some somewhere along the line it becomes more you're pushing yourself
It becomes less of you in you're not really engaging with someone else
Even if you're racing them you're really kind of all in your own mind, right?
Yeah, it's a
Yeah, I look I look at it more of just a competition with myself
Then with another racer or or another person
Um, of course if i'm running it would be cool to be first, you know, I mean,
right
That's just i'm a competitive person. There's no doubt
But what I do my workouts are always by myself
Um, nobody's pushing me. It's just me and you know setting the goals like to
run bigfoot 200 or