Name: Joe Rogan Experience #798 - Alison Rosen
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #798 - Alison Rosen' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #798 - Alison Rosen

do do do do do do do do allison rosen joe rogan we made it happen finally years
down years in the
making here i am i know it's one of those things we talked about it like 30
times i know well thank
you so much for having me it's my birthday no less oh happy birthday thank you
21 now right
that's right finally i'm gonna have my first drink wow legal so much to explain
well i've
been drinking for years illegally come on you shouldn't admit that how old are
you for real
are you allowed to say are you one of those people no i i it's obscene it's
obscene how old i've become
how old are you 41. whoa that's not obscene i'm 48. really yes that's obscene i'm
almost 49. i'm almost
50. happy almost birthday yeah i'll be 50 in a couple months in a year whoa how
do you feel about that
sexy as fuck i feel great i feel like you're making almost 50 look good i also
feel like there's a
hair stuck to my lip so for anyone who's watching and if there's like a fuzzball
on my face i'm sorry
it's just a 41 year old thing i don't think we have uh our hd is not that
strong oh really i don't
think i should have just left it there then whatever it is that the lint that i've
collected since
arriving deep in the valley one thing i do realize though as i get older is
like maintaining health is
like an effort yeah you have to be a lot more aware of making sure you eat the
right stuff making sure
you you know make sure you exercise on a regular basis don't get out of shape
because you get out
of shape it's you can't get back in it's way harder to get back in right now
did you are such a healthy
guy did you ever go through a phase when you were younger of being unhealthy
not really no i never went
through like a binge drinking or fat phase i mean like i've gotten overweight
slightly before but
even then i'd look at myself i'm like you disgusting slob like get it together
i just um it's you know
there's there's two schools of thought on it one school of thought is that if
you spend too much time
on your body that you're vain and it's as a frivolous pursuit because you're
gonna die anyway and it's all
pointless but i feel like that's kind of a cop out because i think that you
only have this one meat
vehicle to get you through this life and if it was a car you'd maintain it if
you have a nice car what
do you do you take care of the oil you know you you know you get it serviced
you deal with all the
stuff that makes it run nice right and i think that you've got to do that with
your body at least for
me i have to do that with my body if i don't i don't feel i feel like i'm slacking
off in a way
that's lazy and irresponsible and stupid i just i just see too many people with
health consequences
because they don't take care of their bodies i think it depends i think if you're
saying it's
self-absorbed and it's vain and it's shallow to care about your body and if you're
saying that as an
excuse to allow yourself to not get into shape then i think that you're not
really facing what's going
on and like that thing where you're like oh it's just shallow that's just that's
not you're not really
addressing what the actual resistance is i don't know i think for me um i got
into a phase where i was
going to a personal trainer and i got really into it and for the first time all
this stuff that i'd heard
my whole life about how sport because i'm not a sports person so about how like
sports can affect
the rest of your life i never understood that i never understood the mental
part of it but but for
that time and i'm not really uh in that place anymore but for the time that i
was super into it
i felt better i definitely did and i felt like i can put in effort in the gym
and it's the effects
not in terms of how what you see on my body but how i feel are immediate and uh
and also that thing of
like this is a challenge for me but i'm gonna dig deep and i'm gonna do it and
i it like set these
little goals for myself every almost every day that i could overcome and that
was kind of insane that
feeling how good i felt when i did something that i didn't think i could do and
it was happening you
know multiple times a week i just think it's it's almost i mean it's not
overlooked with a lot of
people but with some people it is overlooked and i think it's unfortunate
because it's thought of as
like a vain pursuit or pursuit of vanity and it's uh it it really restructures
the way your brain
functions when you when you regularly exercise and your body pumps out all
those endorphins and you
release all that stress and your body sweats and it just it just feels like it's
flowing better like
everything's going like your your decisions are better the way you feel about
things is better you
leave the gym you have a smile on your face you're like you're driving your car
the sun feels better
right well and that thing where it's like i did something healthy for me today
can i ask a question
about something that you said earlier that actually kind of ties into all of
this you said that when the
times of your life where you would get a tiny bit overweight you'd look in the
mirror and you'd think
like oh you i forget exactly what you said but like oh you disgusting fat slob
or something
i've been thinking a lot lately about the ways that we talk to ourselves
because i can be so
so brutal on myself and i've really as i've gotten older and i think we've made
it clear i'm very old
um i've i've tried to go more gentle on myself because it's like i don't speak
to anyone the way i speak
to myself right but i do well here's the question do you think there's good
that comes out of being
really shitty to yourself the good is the reaction to that where you don't like
that feeling and then
you do something different because i think if you just look at yourself and you
look in the mirror go
fucking awesome and you tuck your gut into your shirt and tuck your shirt into
your pants and you just go
about your day and then have a heart attack i don't think you're gonna get the
results that you really
want i think if you if you want your body to work well you have to be honest
and if you have slacked
off and you have gained weight or you have eaten a bunch of shitty food and you
feel like really just
slow and sludgy and you know that feeling that you get if you just indulge too
much or drink too much
that oh that just that the drinking too much is a bad one like last time we did
that podcast here with stanhope
i fucking tried to brush my teeth with deodorant i had deodorant out and i had
my toothbrush i'm like
what the fuck am i doing like my brain was so scrambled yeah i'm just getting
hammered like that's just a bad
feeling it's fun while you're doing it i believe there's an expression i forget
who was it oscar
wild uh all things in moderation including moderation yes i think it's a great
expression i think you gotta
enjoy your life but man that feeling after indulging is uh well your body is
just wrecked it's a terrible
feeling and i think the only way to for me at least to move past that is to go
all right face no more
of that stupid and then get on the right track see i would find back when i
used to indulge in everything
more the feeling of indulging and the feeling of i'm doing something that i don't
think i'm
really okay with the fact that i'm doing it made me feel estranged from myself
and then it's like i
want to keep the party going i there were so many nights because i don't i'm i'm
i don't i don't
indulge in much anymore because i it was kind of getting out of hand and this
is many years ago that
i'm talking about because i've been on the planet a lot of years um i'll stop
with that
i like you call yourself that's a true podcaster like oh some people might find
this annoying
i'm not sure when i'll stop with it but i think i'll stop with it um but you
know i would be out and
it would be 1 30 2 30. the time when most people would just go home and i didn't
i didn't want to
go home because i didn't want to be with myself i just wanted to go home with
whatever guy i was
talking to in the moment okay so you just wanted to escape yes yes i wanted to
escape and then i wanted
to escape myself wow that's interesting that's a very honest way of looking at
it i think a lot of
people feel like that like like a lot of what the partying is is distraction
from their own problems
or their own the goals that they haven't tried to go after those sort of nagging
problems in their life
they're not working on totally does distract the mind works in such a weird way
where you chase after
distractions sometimes with all this vigor but you don't do the same with the
actual real
issues in your life you don't chase after them right because it doesn't there's
no immediate
gratification in doing so yeah but there's not i mean even the immediate gratification
and chasing
after distractions it's it's so obvious what you're doing while you're doing it
not always to yourself
though no well i guess not it is if you're paying attention but most times you're
not yeah it's weird how
many different sort of like mechanisms the brain has in place to protect you
from all the blind spots
right from discomfort yeah and all the things that are wrong with your approach
yeah yeah i mean i sort
of feel like well now tell me is this an a self-absorbed way to go through the
world i kind of feel like
the point of being on this earth one of the points is self-awareness and to
figure out what you're doing
and why you're doing it and to kind of become self-actualized it certainly
helps you be more
efficient at what you're doing and also realize what it is you actually enjoy
yeah i think at the
end of the day it's an experience and it's an experience that restarts every
day you know you
go to bed it shuts off you wake up and you go here we go again and you assume
that this is the same life
and you assume that you're not just waking up in some sort of computer program
that pretends that you
have 41 years of memories you you go about your day and if you want to make the
most out of it you have
to be aware of these mistakes that you keep repeating right and sort of just
try to not do that anymore
and try to get better and you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna start eating
vegan you know what i'm
gonna do i'm gonna start taking yoga you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna start
and you look at like
these things as like positive sort of directions that you could get on that
maybe will change and then
you like fall off the vegan wagon or you fall off the yoga wagon you start
drinking again and and it's
like this constant cycle with a lot of people of like you know going on diets
and then
fucking up and you know eating cake starting an exercise program then getting
fat again
and it's i think being self-aware helps you to have moments of reflection and i
think
meditation is really important too that's a big one that a lot of people don't
like to do
spend time alone by yourself doing nothing do it 20 minutes a day just sit down
and breathe sit down
and think and it will help you tremendously because we're on momentum all the
time yes i actually
yesterday i began to feel overwhelmed um just from just a bunch of stuff going
on and in the moment i
was just like i felt kind of shaky and i'm happy to say i did not go to the
kitchen and try to find
something to eat to just you know like sort of my old things that i would have
done i just
i made myself take some deep breaths and tried to calm down i don't know how
well it worked but at
least i felt like that was a healthy way to deal with it in the moment well i
think it definitely
worked right because you're talking about it so that's true well i'm here today
so you made it
but you know what i mean like you you you you're aware that you wanted to reset
your thinking
so you spent some time and you took some deep breaths and you reset your
thinking i think
that's real important for people because how many times do you just get in like
a moment you just
react i state this gir