Name: Joe Rogan Experience #266 - Rich Roll
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #266 - Rich Roll' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-06-03. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #266 - Rich Roll

This is our new band, he meows, and I do a fucking really shitty beatbox.
I'm feeling that money coming in already, brain.
We got a winning combination.
We need to put this shit on wax, ready?
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It takes a long time to hook something like that up.
Is it because they're all blind?
No.
That's just a scientific method, Brian.
It's not for blind people.
It seems like it takes a long time for those double blinds.
Take those blindfolds off and probably take it faster.
Yeah.
I don't think you understand what the fuck it means, son.
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And all the money goes to support the deskwad podcast network, which is on
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All right, you dirty bitches.
Which is the only place where you can see the Ice House Chronicles.
This weekend.
This week.
This Wednesday, rather.
Yeah, this weekend we'll be in Toronto.
Holla!
But this Wednesday, we have a fucking gnarly show here at the Ice House.
We've got Doug Benson.
We've got Duncan Trussell.
We've got Brian Redband.
We've got Joey Diaz.
We've got Dom Irrera.
Is that it?
Greg Fitzsimmons too.
It's going to be fucking crazy.
And we also have one Friday if you're in town in LA.
Yeah.
And who's on Friday?
We've got Clownvis, which is Clown Elvis.
I like how you lead strong.
Gareth from that new MTV show.
And Francisco Ramos, who was confused by Francisco.
Remember?
We had him on a podcast.
Oh, that's right.
You had the wrong guy.
It was supposed to be Pablo.
You thought it was Pablo Francisco.
That's right.
But now we're friends.
Dude, sometimes shit just works out.
Yeah.
Anyway, go to deskwad.tv and all the information is there, right?
Yeah.
All the posters for shows and all the information for t-shirt sales.
You fucking freaks.
Rich Roll is here.
We're finna get busy.
Finna get down to the bottom of this thing.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day.
Joe Rogan podcast by night.
All day.
Well, when I did a podcast with Rob Wolf, who is the paleo diet guy, one of the
first things
that happened was that I got an immediate influx of vegans who had to set Rob
Wolf straight.
Because Rob Wolf said some crazy shit.
I told him I drank a kale shake every morning and it makes me feel great.
It gives me a lot of energy.
He's like, no, you got to eat bacon and eggs.
And cigarettes and coffee.
You got to get your dick sucked by truckers.
He was my superhero.
Yeah.
He said some awesome shit that you should have bacon, eggs and coffee in the
morning.
And that's a good way to get your day started.
A lot of people didn't want to hear that.
A lot of people felt that was silly.
And you were one of the people that contacted me.
And then I looked up your story and it's pretty fascinating, man.
You were like around 40 and you were out of shape.
Yeah.
I mean, I had been an athlete in college.
I was a swimmer in college, but it kind of got away from me after that.
You know, when college is over, that was kind of the end of that athletic
chapter.
And, you know, life goes on.
And, you know, I went to law school and then it's just about the job and
getting married
and having kids and, you know, climbing the corporate ladder and all that kind
of stuff.
And, you know, in the wake of that, you know, lost sight of being fit and being
healthy.
And, you know, it was pretty much a couch potato.
Depressed, lethargic, a little bit lost in life.
You know how it goes.
So I decided I had to take it back.
I had a little bit of a health scare that kind of triggered me to, you know, to
do something about it.
And so what action did you take specifically?
Well, I mean, I wish I could, you know, say I ran off to the library and got a
bunch of books and, you know, read all the paleo books and read all the vegan
books and did a double blind study with people with double blindfolds on and,
you know, figured out the right way to do it.
And, you know, that's not what happened.
I mean, I fumbled around for a while trying to figure out what would work for
me.
But the first thing I did, my wife is like she's big into yoga and healing and
meditation.
And she's like, you know, she's constantly reading like crazy spiritual texts.
And, you know, she's pretty well schooled in alternative thinking and lifestyle
and all that kind of stuff.
And, you know, if you were to open the refrigerator, it's pretty clear, like
kind of food she was eating and what I was eating, which was essentially crap.
So but she would do like a juice cleanse pretty much every year, you know, and
that was fine for her.
But that was definitely not something that I was ever interested in doing.
But, you know, I was kind of desperate and I thought, you know, maybe I'll
maybe I'll try that.
And so I just sort of reached out to her and I said, yeah, I think I want to do
that.
And she hooked me up with we got all these crazy herbs and, you know, we got a
juicer and the whole thing and kind of dialed it in.
And, you know, I did that for like five days, kind of a not like the, you know,
Hollywood, a lot of people do like the cayenne pepper thing or whatever.
Yeah, I mean, that's like a starvation thing.
So it wasn't like that.
It was like I kind of weaned myself off food for a couple of days and just did
juice for a couple of days and then kind of lean back into food.
But it was a pretty like eye opening experience.
You know, like the first couple of days I was like, it was like I was in rehab,
man.
It's like buckled over on the couch, like I could barely move.
What was your diet like before that?
Like what was standard cheeseburgers?
Yeah, I mean, cheese, you know, fast food all the time, man.
You know, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, Jack in the Box late at night
coming home from work.
Just it didn't matter.
And, you know, part of that was because when I was in when I was swimming in
college, you know, I'm training like four hours a day and you're, you know, you're
19, 20 years old or whatever.
And just it was just about how many calories can I put down the throat and
trying to fill myself up.
Right.
You know, it didn't really matter.
And, you know, you can get away with that stuff, you know, and I did for a long
time.
But, you know, it catches up to you.
But those habits, you know, you form those habits that carry with you and they're,
you know, they're hard to break.
Yeah, we really are a creature of habit.
That's it's a strange thing that even bad habits like gambling, like people
that become gambling addicts, it really is some sort of like a like a like a
hijacking of your reward systems.
For sure.
And it's giving you this this rush towards something that really doesn't make
any sense.
And there's also the comfort factor that comes in repeating patterns.
It's like your brain knows how to do it.
It's done it before.
Let's stop fucking around.
Just keep doing the same shit you've been doing and just, you know, blow off
the gym and take a nap and go beat off and, you know, just do the same stupid
shit you've been doing.
It's really hard for people to like to move away from that.
Yeah, you get these like cemented pathways in your brain and it's just your
default.
Like I think you, you know, when you, with certain behavior patterns after a
while, you don't even know you're doing it.
You're just like, it's like your program with a computer.
You just follow that pattern every time and change is hard, man.
It is hard.
And it's, it's also, it's hard to find a healthy meal at like fucking Burger
King or Jack in the Box.
It's hard to go in there and really get some nutrients.
Yeah.
It's not gonna happen.
Yeah.
I mean, you like, you look, you like, do you got a salad?
Do you got a salad over there?
And you look at the salad and you're like, Oh Jesus, it's all like iceberg
lettuce.
It's all wilted.
And everything's closed early here in LA.
So if you're working late and coming home, like sometimes it's the only option.
Subway is my life saver.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Subway.
So though that's, you know, all that stuff that they can keep on a shelf for
that long.
Yeah.
None of that is good for you.
There's so much.
It's way better.
I would, you know, imagine if you just got a chicken sandwich or a turkey.
Like on whole wheat or something like that.
Whole wheat.
Yeah.
They need a drive through, more drive through Subways if they even have any at
all, but that
would be perfect.
This dude's talking to you about like some serious fucking vegetable nutrition.
You want to talk about Subway.
You want to talk about awesome.
Subway would be awesome if there was like more Subways.
You want to find the healthier option, you know.
But I mean, you gotta, I mean, I can't imagine the produce that like Subway and
you're such
a huge corporation.
You're getting the low rent shit.
You cannot fuck with In-N-Out Burger, man.
If you had like some like really sexy tofu lettuce wrap thing that you were
selling, but right
next door is In-N-Out Burger, you're doomed, son.
It's tough, man.
It goes back to those pathways, you know, you know, you know, you smell it.
It's like a pheromone.
Yeah.
It's powerful.
It also goes back to the fact that In-N-Out is fucking delicious.
Yeah.
That's a problem too.
You can't deny that shit's delicious.
Hey man, I did it for years and years and years.
Yeah, especially In-N-Out.
Those fresh burgers, so much better than burgers at like, you know, someplace
where they nuke
it.
Didn't they just have like a little bit of a scandal there though with some of
their meat?
Did they?
They screwed up.
Yeah, I thought I remembered reading something about that.
I don't know.
Maybe like a month ago.
This might be vegan propaganda.
Yeah.
It probably wasn't like the Zankou murders.
Remember the Zankou murders?
I don't want the death squad coming down on me like a ton of bricks, man.
My Twitter already exploded.
Your fans are fucking rabid, man.
I mean, it's intense.
It's intense.
You have an inte