Name: Mike Posner | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #241
Uploaded: 2019-10-31T13:00:00.000Z
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Mike Posner | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #241

I was in Colorado and I met this guy named Stevie and he's running across
America the opposite way
right and we cross it's a beautiful day and he actually I mean god god bless
Stevie but
he turned around and walked the wrong way to talk with me all day oh wow I
wouldn't have done
I love Stevie but bro I'm not going east bro sorry bro sorry dude
were you guys like grilling out in the evening doing any fresh veggies or did
you have a
yeah like a certain caloric intake yeah a stupid one really yeah I was wearing
this thing this
whoop thing at the beginning I lost the battery for it halfway through but it
would basically tell me
my output caloric output so just trying to match it at the beginning it was
like it was spitting out
crazy you know like 8,000 10,000 but um I think NASA kind of I think as I as I
walked more at my
I started getting more used to it and I was eating a little less but yeah just
eating a lot of food man
and uh man you had to stop and shit a lot too because you're eating so much
yeah yeah I guess
you got a lot of shit in your body that was the worst part not the worst part
but it's just I
a lot of times be like just pooping on the side of it I'm like man I want to
keep walking but it's
like I hate that I gotta stop again you know I can't poop if I see broken glass
near me you know
so I think some of that kind of outdoor kind of stuff I don't have as much
strength when it comes to
that why broken glass oh it makes me nervous dude why not you know what I'm
saying bro I'm not
letting my asshole open up if there's broken glass nearby you know what I'm
saying like I'm no Roman
warrior but I know that you know um Mike thanks for being here today man uh
yeah so you have and
you have two of your buddies that are here today too I just want you I want to
acknowledge them I
want to acknowledge them too yeah man will you let us know uh just let the
listeners know who they are
in case they hear some yeah my my buddy Julian's here who was one of my walk
managers basically I
walked supported uh which means that um I wasn't backpacking as I walked uh we
had support vehicle
that Julian drove and uh he basically sort out a lot of navigation and and the
food basically all I had
to do was the miles wow I didn't have to carry everything on my back and I
always try to make
that clear because there are people out there right now and every year who do
it unsupported
um is there beef is there a lot of street beef between people no mostly
everyone's very uh very
supportive of each other every once in a while I got a little bit I think you
know just because
I was more you know I was more of a public figure when I started so I think a
few people kind of get
their their feathers ruffled but that's like one percent most of the people
were just really
supportive of each other and uh so Julian when he would take turns there was
another guy Colin
basically Julian go home for a few months and Colin would come they'd switch on
and off wow that's
amazing to have that much support we were talking about it when you were in the
restroom but
just to have that much like yeah to have somebody that's just so patient to be
there
dude he was the best man he never really got flustered or nothing just would
you get pretty
flustered and I'm like would it be the end of the day and you're like fuck yeah
sometimes you're
just tired at the end of the day yeah but I'm I'm like I go up and down you
know I go up and down
for sure sometimes you know I'm like bouncing off the walls I'd be very goofy
guy yeah other times
there's like a dog in me too you know that's like the sports guy okay let's
fucking get it and I'm not
fucking around yeah that guy comes out and so and then it's everything in
between and that's like
yeah I might touch both of those two three times and during the day yeah I
noticed you said like yeah
you take in the calories and um and you would start to learn okay I have this
input and this output
you know that's you were kind of monitoring in the beginning did you start to
feel like a
like a machine I mean it the total you went 2800 miles in the beginning did you
feel more like a
human and by the end did you feel like more like a machine or did your humanity
kind of grow I know
that's kind of a big question but it just had me kind of thinking about that no
it was more the second
one uh it just became my normal life you know it's just what we do uh wake up 5
a.m and uh excuse me
wake up 4 a.m we walk at at 5 and uh were you guys go for a pre-walk before the
walk or any like
jog or anything before to like get heated up uh the first thing I do at 4 is I
meditate for
20-30 minutes and then um Julian you have like a little fruit out you know I
have a couple
a couple bananas and some peanut butter throw that throw that down the hole and
and then uh
that Filipino thanksgiving right there bro you feel me and we have a lot of
Filipino listeners too man
beautiful and uh yeah I just stretch out a little bit and then I just try to
get out the door as soon
as possible uh and that that's really because uh it's it's seasonal you know
you're walking in the
summer you know you got to get those miles in before you know it's 3 p.m and it's
95 with
95 percent humidity you want to you want to already have 20 done then you don't
want to be on mile eight
then you know yeah wow so were there some days where you started late and you're
like man you got in a
jam like it was that something you kind of learned early like how to the
learning curve must have been
pretty pretty steep huh yeah I figured it out you know it just just worked best
for me I think there's
other guys I talked to that either running or walking across and uh they have
more loosey-goosey thing
where they would um and I don't use that in a bad way they're just able to wake
up and kind of do what
they felt like doing that day but I don't really work that way um I got to wake
up the same time
every day we got a had a rule on the walk no snooze button damn no snooze
button uh no snooze
nation bro that's crazy yeah it's a p diddy quote yeah he says two types of
people in the world those
that hit the snooze and those that don't and then there's this is david goggins
quote I love about
he said you don't hit the snooze button because if you do you wake up and
already failing damn and uh
it's just it's just real so that thing would go off you know four in the
morning and I never wanted to
wake up and walk zero days that I go oh yes 4 a.m let's get none but the big
part of me you know the
big part of me that I actually wanted to right to accomplish this goal at the
you know it got me got
my ass out of bed every day and uh I thought you know when I set out in this
walk I was going to
have kind of like a a hippy dippy free-flowing walk across America I meet you
meet somebody and I
stay there in their town four or five days catch the vibe but I start this
thing you know and at the
beginning I couldn't walk as many miles as I could at the end obviously so the
first day I only walked
eight miles you know on the second day I think I got 10 or something like that
yeah so I started doing
the math and the whole thing you know the whole the whole like scheduling navigational
part is really
based around the mountain ranges you don't want to be in the rocky mountains in
winter right you're
fucked yeah so I'm starting to do the math yeah you're gonna write one of those
books where you die
at the end like what's that boy somebody else is gonna write that book yeah
Chris McCandless or
whatever I don't know who you ate some bad berries or something a fruit oh you
tell what the incident
wild yeah so at least you got you only when covering your fruit you know I'm
saying tasting your fruit
for you first in the morning and if he's still alive at 6 15 you're like let's
fucking rock bro
because that boy died at some bad berries or something but that's right
question so I don't
forget did you have a music that was on your alarm every day that you would
wake up to was it just uh
no it's just my watch oh just your watch okay it's just a watch alarm yeah
right just a bump or yeah
well it's interesting you know when I first started the walk um because I was
removed from
uh basically all my friends and family uh I noticed I was actually on my phone
more you know I always
thought like I'll be out in nature and then here lo and behold I'm out walking
across America walking
across New Jersey and Pennsylvania and I'm on my phone like all the time like I'm
taking pictures
of every fucking flower and put them on Instagram all this shit and I realized
like I don't know a
couple weeks in or a month in like what the fuck are you doing dude yeah like
you could play on your
phone anywhere man you're missing yeah it started to come back even if we look
at your chart like on
the post I mean we have your um you know uh mikeposner.com and it's it shows
your your walk
across and the path that you took yeah it shows where you had social media
posts and there's a lot
in the beginning and then the second half it's an eighth as much but I mean it's
interesting yes
something happened in there where you're like oh man I'm well I started off
yeah just realizing I was
fucking missing it I was on it too much and then uh um I was in Colorado and I
met this guy named Stevie
and he's running across America the opposite way right and we cross it's a
beautiful day and he
actually I mean God God bless Stevie but he turned around and walked the wrong
way to talk with me all
day oh wow I wouldn't have done I love Stevie but bro I'm not going east bro
keep sorry bro
sorry dude yeah bro so grab your east Stevie so he walked that's east Stevie
dude we ain't messing with
that guy he walked he walked we had a guy like that growing up dude this boy
yeah Shane and he would
only go one direction yeah yeah that was which way huh which direction it was
kind of like that
every time you saw him dude he was coming at an angle and he walked shoulder
first like he was a
shark this dude was baffling bro but you would see him you'd just be hanging
out around town and
you'd fucking see Shane go by bro looking one direction Shane's shoulder first
dude out of
control you know yeah just looking for I don't know what he was looking for
dude pirate ships I
don't know what he was looking for a fucking hot current that dude was like he
it was almost
like he was caught in an air current just fucking cruising the world but uh I
don't know what
happened to him something I think something probably happened to him he left
school once and never
came home dude shoulder first boy you know what I'm saying that human shark bro
you're just moving
was it hard to start to separate yourself from from social media I mean because
there's
there's this must be weeks where you don't do a post where you don't have a
social media post
I actually don't know if that's exactly what the fuck those stars mean
oh I'm not sure but no I would definitely became less like you're saying I
would uh I stopped using
my phone when I was walking that so anyway I met Stevie here's the thing I met
Stevie and this guy blew at
the time I'm walking supported 24 miles a day and he is running unsupported 30
to 40 miles per day
and not only that he looks at me he goes yeah man I didn't bring headphones on
purpose because I wanted
to I wanted to face all my demons and just be there and so basically the two
days after I met him I got
bit by a rattlesnake and I thought it wasn't a big deal I thought I was going
to get the antiven and
I'd be back walking the next day turns out it's a bigger deal and I thought I
was in the ICU I'm in
the hospital five days takes me three weeks to get back I start up at my spot
that I got bit at did
you walk out to the same exact same exact spot Julian took me there man I was
scared I was scared
yeah what was that like having a commit was what happened during that three
weeks that was I mean
I definitely went back and saw some posts and stuff but what was um 