Name: Joe Rogan Experience #790 - Steve Maxwell
Uploaded: 2016-04-25T23:05:42.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #790 - Steve Maxwell' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-04-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #790 - Steve Maxwell' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-04-25. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #790 - Steve Maxwell

and we're live mr. Maxwell how are you sir mr. Rogan always good to see you
brother yeah and
you brought your bag of all your belongings all my goodies man everything I own
in this world I'll
show it to you yeah this is always curious about this this always comes up with
my wife whenever
I say Steve Maxwell's gonna be on the podcast that's that guy that lives out of
the bag look
at him pretty crazy this is everything I own in this world that's insane it's
right in my
back back he has a I mean that's not even a really large backpack like if you
brought
that elk hunting people would be upset with you and then a little man purse
yeah so a man purse
I carry my cords and my iPad and stuff like that wow and I travel all over the
world wow pack really
carefully as you can imagine yeah three t-shirts three pair of pants three pair
of shorts a rain
jacket two lightweight hoodies a long sleeve t-shirt I could pretty much recite
I never felt more
liberated than when I got rid of all my stuff Wow and I'm in a different
country I have a couple
weeks a lot of people say hey why not the roller bag Steve if you travel in any
kind of third-world
country down cobblestones I actually had a roller bag but I ditched it my first
trip to London I changed
trains like four times going up and down those damn stairs with a clunk clunk
clunk roller bag I said
you know what this really sucks I'm going to carry it on my body so that's I
don't get any money from
these guys but it's a Tom bin B-I-H-N fantastic travel bags so well configured
you wouldn't believe the
stuff I get in there I even have my whole workout gym in that thing man really
yeah what kind of stuff's in
there that you carry around with you everywhere now this Tom bin is this for
hiking or is this just
primarily a travel bag I want to take a serious hike with it but it looks like
it's pretty sturdy very sturdy I use packing cubes there's different packing
ways a good resource for your
your listeners that travel full-time go to one bag calm he has many
recommendations for various bags and where you can just basically one carry-on
bag and travel anywhere in the world for several weeks at a time if you want to
smell
one bag a lot of this stuff is high tech I just wash my t-shirts right in the
sink you know very high tech well if you if you wear one of the things that I
found from hiking and camping for long periods of times wool
wool is great there's a great company called first light first l-i-t-e that um
a buddy mine's a part of my friend Ryan Callahan um out of uh Montana and
actually catch them Idaho uh met him in Montana but they make wool outer gear
and inner gear like um um long johns stuff along those lines
wool is fantastic a lot of a lot of hunting gear and you can wear that stuff
for days days days and it doesn't smell because it's natural
a lot of this stuff is this stretch polyamide it's like a little elastane uh a
nylon type material which real stretchy it's uh silver impregnated silver uh
helps stop the the bacteria from
oh okay so you can get like three or four days out of this t-shirt really yeah
and doesn't stink maybe you could well I stink
I'm a stinky person here's my gym check this out I can train rubber band okay
doing isometrics I can do good mornings what is the amount of tension on that
rubber band
they just say heavy duty but remember the further you stretch it the you know
the harder it gets it gives this old man plenty of uh stretch maybe not you
I have a bowling ball bag that I bought just so that I could take on the road
with me so I could throw a 50 pound kettlebell in it
yeah that works that although I try not to check but I never use it once this
is uh my cardio obviously a little jump rope jump rope any time any place
anywhere if you can't run I like to still do a little running best self defense
ever
right sprint the hell away man yeah if you could run further than the person
trying to kill you
yeah I don't want to be I don't want to be like one of these old guys that can't
run so right comes in handy that's great
and this is a little homemade uh suspension device I can set this any length
a suspension device yeah I use it for isometrics body weight rows chin-ups
basically do you know your knots not really I used to be a boy scout back in
the day
I know a couple fishing knots bowline right you should know that one pvc
and then uh this is called a uh a prusik knot so I can slide this right up and
down the handle but
if you would grab that handle and put weight on it see it doesn't move oh I see
so it's instantly
adjustable huh that's interesting yeah prusik knot it's uh climbers use how do
you spell that
prusik uh prusik okay uh if you go to animated knots it's like a little app you
can throw on your
iphone it shows you how to do it what's the app called what is it animated
animated knots yeah you
can uh you uh shows you every kind of knot so I can just uh throw this over a
tree do chin-ups
body weight rows oh wow but if I want I can stand on it and I can do isometrics
I'm really into
isometrics these days yeah you showed me a lot of those the last time we worked
out together and it was
really interesting what you're trying to do now isolation type movements I
could do deadlifts
uh just absolutely incredible what it the kind of work that you can get like 15
20 minutes great for
you you're on the road doing your comedy act all the time going the ufc's and I'll
tell you kettlebell
it's it's good but it is a pain in the ass to to lug around yeah and you can
just in your hotel room
literally in 20 minutes your tongue will be hanging out shockingly metabolic
amazing cardio at the same time you get every every muscle from your head to
your feet really good
stuff I knew about isometrics back in the 60s when uh as a young wrestler our
coach used to use a lot
of this stuff so anyway that's the workout gym wow now bruce lee was really
into isometrics he was uh
he was into what they would call dynamic tension which is essentially the same
thing the great charles atlas
uh charles bronson well charles atlas those comic book ads they used to have in
the back like becoming
you were a 98 pound weakling becoming like a big stud that was like what he was
advertising a lot of
different dynamic tension exercises uh the father of modern uh isometrics was
the guy by the name of
alexander zass who was a russian circus performer and he was traveling around
doing wrestling and bending
steel breaking chains over his chest he's just a little guy about my size and
he was captured by the
germans during world war one and imprisoned and zass uh in order to get a
little extra food because he's
worried about losing his physique he offered to train the commandant's dog for
extra food
so meanwhile he's practicing his isometrics on the cell bars every day and he
eventually bent the bars
and escaped went back to the circus got recaptured this time they put him in in
in chains he bent the
he broke the chains and bent the bars and escaped not just twice four times he
escaped from the germans
what it's it's all written in his biography um has that been verified has
anyone ever wikipedia'd this
gentleman uh back then they couldn't you couldn't verify you might have told a
bunch of goofy stories
but uh there's no doubt that this guy was strong there's actually an old old
old black and white
youtube of him breaking chains and stuff jesus alexander's ass another proponent
of isometrics was the fame
henry wittenberg pull up see if you can pull up a picture of that guy yeah help
z-a-s-s his
biography is how big was he uh probably 160 pounds 165. how the did he bend
chains well he started as a kid
in the forest he actually went to that's him right there yeah there we go when
he was when he was a
young boy he was really really uh well i'll tell you something i've lifted
beams like that that that
that beam is really heavy he's got a beam wrapped around his neck uh actually
he's lifting it with his
teeth oh my god that's what that is yeah it's a a teeth lift he has a special
mouthpiece where he's
gripping it with his jaws oh my god and using his neck imagine how hard it'd be
to choke that guy out
yeah with that kind of neck that's insane and uh he he would bend saplings in
the forest because he
couldn't afford steel obviously and he would bend trees to get his strength wow
these guys were the real
deal back in the day man they were uh pretty amazing and it's funny too no
supplements you know
yeah no designer whey protein or bcas you know it was none of this like uh dude
i'm going to anabolic
yeah catabolic it's been 15 minutes after my workout you know they just ate
good food and just trained
you know a lot of meat they were also closer to monkeys because it was like it
was a long time ago a long
time ago they hadn't evolved yet hadn't evolved yet but these these people back
then they also didn't
really understand like the modern principles of strength and conditioning like
i i don't even think
they knew exactly sure no i mean i'm not saying it in a bad way at all but i
don't i don't think they
necessarily had like an understanding of all the mechanisms involved they just
knew you train hard
cause you get stronger yeah train hard get stronger this guy knows what he's
doing go visit him you
could actually buy uh his book on amazon it's a pretty interesting biography
and uh yeah i found it
fascinating it was translated from uh russian to english it translates kind of
funny the one of the
confusing things is uh in russia they use different names for the same person
so they keep yeah i know
it's weird man and like how so um he they just called him by four different
names it was like are they
nicknames or yeah like nicknames like christie's a uh you from the ukrainian
right don't they use
different names yeah yeah you use your father's unfortunately you're off camera
so we're not going
to be able to hear you yeah no they uh they they use different names like
little pet pet names huh
and so as i'm reading i'm thinking who the hell are they talking about right
and then i'm reading
back oh they're talking about alexander but they referred him with four
different names in in the
text it's it was just a kind of a weird translation but absolutely fascinating
about his life that's so
weird you know it's it's really interesting when you see those old school
strongman type characters
in because there's there's some people that were doing things back in the day
like
you want to one i always bring up is the catch wrestling pioneer uh farmer
burns farmer burns who
used to do these he used to hang himself by his neck like pull this up jamie
because there's there's
actually photos of this guy this guy had a neck like my waist and he only
weighed about 165 pounds
and he used to drop like a hangman's drop and catch himself by his neck look at
him here and he was he
was actually uh beating heavyweights back in the day this is a this is a day
where i wasn't just for the
pin right you could do submissions in order to force it got into the shoulders
and uh people could also
tap and this is rough tough american martial art yeah this is what what's now
known as catch wrestling or
catches catch can and when you would get someone in a submission hold they
would call it a catch and there
were a lot of submission holes that they had back in those days that are still
super effective today
and if you go back over the old rule over old uh depictions and old images of
submission moves from
farmer burns there's stuff that's still completely applicable today stuff is
awesome man i actually
had his original mail order course back in the day when i was a householder
collecting stuff i actually
had his original uh hum training course wow that's amazing i had to keep it in
plastic and stuff like that yeah like
look at this uh neck crank he's got going on here he had a lot that's the old
quarter nelson man
there's a lot of moves that they had that they used to use back then that are
absolutely