Name: Joe Rogan Experience #646 - Dr. Dan Engle & Aubrey Marcus
Uploaded: 2015-05-12T02:32:44.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #646 - Dr. Dan Engle & Aubrey Marcus' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-05-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #646 - Dr. Dan Engle & Aubrey Marcus' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-05-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #646 - Dr. Dan Engle & Aubrey Marcus

we're live like just like that seems like there should be some sort of like a
chime we ring
it's a big gong a five-footer not a big gong big gongs are obnoxious it's
because you're
just gonna talk be a big gong if you're gonna have like a fucking cirque de
soleil experience
and a bunch of dudes come out flipping with fire and do fucking juggle flames
or a kumite
a good kumite yes a good kumite dr dan you got a notebook over there dude what
are you going on here
well i saw you guys with uh all these notepads i just wanted to make sure i'm
prepared is that
what's going on man well 27 years of school i get used to taking notes
uh dr dan engel here with uh aubrey motherfucking marcus in the house and uh we
started to sit down
don't talk shoot the shit we just got done doing 200 and some fucking degrees
below zero
cryotherapy sessions your first time ever in the full body one full head
immersion yeah it's the real
one right real deal yeah you can only get those in a couple places right now
that's that's ultimately
going to be what it is it's going to be um the difference being the other ones
they pour it's like
nitrogen all over your skin like a frozen nitrogen sort of thing but you can't
breathe it that's why
your head is above but this what they do is they freeze the air instead and you
go in there and
it's just fucking ungodly insanely cold and you wear a mouth like a surgeon's
mask over your face and
earmuffs and gloves and those rubber cloth it's the only time we were allowed
to wear rubber crocs
those croc clog things and not feel like an asshole yeah but um what'd you
experience with that
you know i think for me a key part is getting that upper half of my body in in
the tank you know we
haven't wanted on it that's awesome for any kind of inflammation of my legs my
knees my you know my
hips is really good but then getting that like so that's colds getting into
your eye sockets and the
colds getting into your the temples of your head if i found it really relaxing
actually a lot of people
think it gives a lot of energy i found it like deeply relaxing after you got
out you were really
relaxed that's interesting yeah yeah everybody seems to have a different
reaction to it robin was
talking about that after it was over he was saying that some people feel like a
an endorphin crash at
the end of the day like you have this big rush when you get out of there in the
end of the day you're
very tired which i found really weird because i don't get that at all i get out
of there and i'm
like i feel fucking great i'm addicted to that thing yeah i bet your first time
doing it ever have
you done this time have you done the one that they have it on it nope today was
my debut would you
guys do two and a half minutes like pussies is that what happened i mean two
and a half hours at
least i don't know it's a long time i think
yeah it's um three minutes in a few minutes out and then three minutes back in
it's a great way to start the day it's very addictive though if you had one
near your house man
you get addicted it's more addictive than the one with your head above it for
whatever reason
because there's something about like you survive it you know and like there's
like this weird like
once you get out of there it's like yes i got i'm back yes yes i did it yes yes
yes yes yes yes
you know you start fucking hot footing around the room you know it just you
feel like you survived
and you want to go back and do it again yeah there's a crucible element to it
where it's like
this is something i accomplished for sure i feel that what'd you get out of it
dan
i watched my system go into the survival mode yeah like that last minute well
as a doctor like must
have been interesting knowing the functions of the body intimately yeah i'm
always curious about
uh health recovery the crucible experience putting ourselves in these really
extreme situations
um and then that last minute the first one was pretty much a piece of cake the
second one i was cold
straight off and in that last minute i went in these involuntary shakes and i'm
watching my body just jump
around like a little race car inside i'm like maybe i can just work on tuning
this down a little bit and
doing whatever jimmy hendrix was playing in the background and nothing was
working and it was just
like hyperdrive so i'm just watching this thing going like trippy so it was
like significant mind body
separation i had no control over that experience so as far as being put in the
crucible like this
survival experience like when i came out that i definitely felt a like uh i had
crossed a some
kind of threshold of an experience that i wouldn't have had otherwise
have you ever done the ice bath you know those those things where you climb
into the the thing that's
filled with ice and water those are miserable yeah those are miserable more
miserable right
i think they're more miserable yeah because your toes get to another level of
frozen as well
it's a wet cold it just soaks it really soaks in it gets deep into your bones
yeah it feels good
though too you pop out of that and you actually feel warmer i think when you
come out of that
for some real there's like a numbness that happens that makes you feel weirdly
warm whereas the cryo
you still feel a little cold have you ever gone in the pacific ocean in like
january i used to live
out here yeah yeah we'd go out there yeah that's chilly but you know that
feeling like you really
shouldn't be warm when you get outside because it's only like 70 degrees
outside but you're like
oh air that's 70 feels so good yeah totally there's something about we were
discussing this about
forcing the body to react to uh the sauna dr ronda patrick who wrote that
really um really
fascinating paper on the effects of thought of sauna and she's a huge proponent
of sauna and the the
reaction that your body has to this extreme heat of the sauna so your body
compensates in some
way for that and then when it realizes it's just temporary situation you get
the benefit of that
compensation without actually being in some life-threatening position where
your body has to
you know fire up all these protection systems yeah all kinds of things going on
you got creation of
heat shock proteins you got all of these biochemical processes going on plus
just that general thing that
the body needs body needs resistance you know it needs you know germs when you're
a kid it needs to
squeeze through the vaginal canal and pick up all the goo when you're young to
get acclimatized it needs
you know workouts when you're old and and bigger things to stress the muscles
it needs things to
stress the system all the way across the board it's just the way humans are
built we're not built for
a cakewalk yeah we're built to deal with whatever the fuck we have to deal with
and if you make your
body deal with almost nothing what you get is like a spoiled child right that
can't handle any sort of
you know any any negative or any any any conflict any any problems anything
that's offline where it
requires character or resolve yeah like you meet those people who grew up in
the wilderness and they're
like they can eat more foods than you can they can they don't get sick as often
they're just more
resilient you know like my friend bode who grew up in new hampshire you know it's
like what he can put his
body through from just growing up on a farm with no running water and hardly
any electricity and just
kind of cruising around from a young age climbing mountains and skiing down
even when he was freezing
like he can deal with shit in a different way than someone who's just been put
your coat on sweetie
make sure your scarf is all tied up you know it's like a different level of savagery
that has actually
allowed him to train harder for his sport and you know be better because his
body was used to dealing
with tough shit from an early age yeah that's uh it's fascinating because
people and you know i'm guilty
of it we want to protect our children from adversity yeah but adversity is what
builds character
so it's like you know you want your kids to be safe but the only way to make
them safe is to put them
in danger right you know like everybody that i know that'll be fine they're all
dudes who've gone
through some horrific shit in their life you know i know i'll leave that dude
he'll be fine you know
right well the people that can't handle it the one that'll the ones that'll
fall apart they're the
ones that their mom wipe their ass until they're 11 years old fucked they're
fucked it doesn't work
humans are just a flawed thing well i mean we're kind of designed in that sort
of weird way well
we're designed for this savage world i mean this world is not it's beautiful
and i'd love it but it's
not easy and it was never intended to be easy you know and so we're designed to
have to learn from
these and get stronger because of our environment we separate ourselves from
the environment the human
ceases to be what it was originally designed to be which is a being that reacts
to the pressures of
its environment you isolate it and then we don't have that resistance anymore
and we turn out like
a blob well there was a study that i tweeted yesterday about that um sort of in
direct relation to that
about young men today that are addicted to pornography and video games and they
they're going through
this masculinity crisis so it's this uh psychological breakdown of young men in
our society today
because they're not going through any real adversity they're not going through
any real rites of passage
pushing themselves physically no what they're doing is they're just beating off
and playing video games
it's like this weird world that they live in where they're kind of like their
symbiotic relationship
with a couch and an xbox controller right yeah what do you think what do you
think's gonna happen with that
what what are the downstream effects there dr dan yeah yeah i think they're
seen that study
i haven't seen the study you're talking about but that makes perfect sense um
we're having like two
divergent populations where some people are are really seeking these kinds of
experiences where
they're able to stress their system grow their grow their potential become
their best selves and you
have another people that because they don't have a connection to what's
happening they don't have a connection
to purpose passion drive inspiration they're not mentored they're not going
through these rites of
pastors they're not going through any kind of um uh supportive exploration of
themselves in the world
they're just finding ways to distract themselves and and find some kind of
pleasure in the big
craziness of it all so in the midst of that you're going to have this uh this
massive widening
between these two divergent populations it's so seductive on the video game
though because you
think you're improving yourself because you have these characters that are avatars
that are you
to an actual real population of people who identify you as that character and
then the more work you put
into that character the more you improve it it improves their skills they get
richer they get badass shit
like the equivalent of rims that spin you know on their weapons and then they
get level 40 50 60 and then
you're really swinging a big dick out there you know when you're that big so it's
this seductive
thing of they do feel like they're improving but they're not actually yeah how
do you actualize
that in the world well is it is that the case or is it this are we in some sort
of a transitionary
period between uh a physical biological carbon-based cellular life and a
digital life because once
if we really do transition to a digital life which there's a lot of speculation
from legitimate
scientists and people that are looking at the curve of learning and the
exponential growth of
technology they're like look this is inevitable we're not going to be physical
beings for that much
longer like it's pretty obvious that we're goi