Joe Rogan Experience #1080 — David Goggins Transcript

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0:00 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Oh, okay. so a lot of people put a title on me they want to uh they see me now they see me now as the guy that Like the real me was like this very scared, insecure, stuttering, and at one point in time you were a legit terrified person yes Yes. So what was the process? Like, how did you step forth? My dad was a big-time pimp, big-time.

3:01 And beat the shit out of me, the shit out of my mom. So this went on for several years. we cleaned the whole skating rink up and then then my dad had an office, and my brother and myself would sleep in the office. And then we would travel to the ghetto of Buffalo, New York, where the skating rink was at. And Brazil, Indiana is a small town, great people, a lot of great people.

5:37 i showed it didn't hurt me it was jacking me up so all the insecurities i have when i was a kid want to get in the military i'm going to join the air force and the guy gave me an asvab test it's And my score was so horribly low that we take it again. I was going to take the ASCII test three times. You know, all of our lives we've been breathing. but this water was kicking my ass and

8:46 from this small town, from everything so no quitting for me But I went back to the CO and the command officer of the program. It wasn't sickle cell. I went from 175 to almost 300, and watched this discovery channel show, class 224. and that's where everything changed for me. and stuff like that but they get over them but a lot of us have these fears that you just don't

12:03 rolling out, a lot of guys just leaving. had to man up and I said, the first thing I started doing is facing every fucking fear I have, i'm gonna go be a fucking navy seal and every recruiter so there's a weight and height limit to get in the military. to get into the class I had to get into I had to lose 106 pounds in less than three months and i went home and i started working out like somebody i was i became the most obsessed person

15:53 inhumane to most people I had to go do it and I started callous in my mind at this point in my is what you created and I started and I created Goggins. Are you happy? And that's what you see. Right, but then when you went back the second time you decided you're gonna lose all that weight and you quit that job somebody pregnant my life was this fucking i was I was making $1,000 a month.

19:02 Rocky 1, in particular. And Rocky beat the shit, or Apollo beat the shit out of him. Rocky had taken his soul, had literally taken his soul his head goes down he looks I'm like who what the fuck are you And that going the distance pushed me to a point of where now I go way past the distance. get mad at me it's fucking true just get over it and so i was like man what story would it be if my

22:36 And how would that feel if I'm graduating? different things but that's for a different day but I just believe that you know my whole mind I get terrified of seeing that in myself, and I get mad at them. I was big time in Rocky and Platoon. Why Platoon? I love to see people who were getting beat down. There's a scene in Platoon when Elias, when Barnes shoots Elias,

25:06 He's getting shot in his back. He's getting up. He's getting shot in his back he's getting up he's getting shot in the back he's getting up and you see this guy just fighting I love the fucking guy who just maybe tomorrow I'm going to go.75. So it's how I started talking to myself and putting myself in a whole different category. Yeah, the second day

26:56 So I never, And I learned to get over that also. one with the water. So going to the pool used to scare me. So I went to the pool an awful, And that was my goal. I'm just not good enough. I made myself good enough. and grinding is not even a good word for it like loose skin my workout routine the gym became sick it became sick I was would fuck you up i didn't did it fuck you up oh yeah yeah that's one reason why i went through three whole weeks so

30:50 muscles were like five foot nine because I just started just the muscle tightness from my psoas Stress on my stress on my shins and so I would put duct tape And for the first 30 45 That's good. on me. My organs were pretty much shutting down. And I went from a guy who could run 205 miles to And doctors put me on all kind of medication. Thyroid medicine.

34:25 never taken time to reflect on the kid I was to the man I am now so honestly the time I wasn't You need 50,000 hours of stretching. I read some article. And stretching and doing that. of my fucking head i started realizing it was shrinking for some fucking reason i don't know It's so much worse than others. He said, Yoga is a martial art you do against yourself.

37:33 was just I didn't have the energy I didn't have anything I mean nothing was processing right for You know, there's a lot of things that. And I knew a lot of guys that died in the operation. That's all I did i fucked that cardio stuff i was never about it until this happened so that happened and i was I didn't know people could run 135 miles at one time.

39:32 And he said, are you an ultra runner? He didn't give a shit. But I like your cause. First thing I've been in my entire life was this race. I would say I was at least 230. At least it may have been more. Than jacked? Yeah, I was ripped what to do i was drinking mild plex for my nutrition because i couldn't eat these rich and the bathroom was like 20 feet away from me, if that,

42:37 that wasn't my thing i wanted to be like jack you i i didn't want to be cardio guy i wanted to be ripped big navy seal Because I knew he was going to come watch me in this race. I started reaching the cookie jars, man. thing I did. I didn't panic on i had 30 more miles to go to get 100 around anymore it knew I wasn't going And I used all these different dark places to start bringing out light and just fucking going deeper and deeper.

46:05 shit on myself literally like i like a fucking log up my fucking back pissed so much blood down And I had this poncho on it So we lived on the second story, I'm not sadistic. Anybody. And I sat shit like this. Anybody. I said, I fucking did it. And it was the most to overcome such the Hurt 100. It's a 100 mile race he didn't say no, I was broken bad.

50:09 I went on deployment and me and my wife and my mom signed up for the first Las Vegas marathon down the strip of Las Vegas. And that incident happened. So I ran a hundred miles before 2005, 14 days after, I broke myself off. listen to your joe rogan's podcast i heard some black dude from fucking brazilian talking about posted up so that's when I started training for the hurt. So basically what happened was

52:39 Afterwards, I did. But I was jacked up, you know. what if you can qualify for Boston, man? because my feet were pretty bad off and i would run 70 80 100 mile weeks and then I went to the Hurt 100 2 months So you lost quite a bit from your bodybuilding time. I was on this stuff called Nitrotech. Now, when you say you were using compression tape on your feet and that your feet were jacked up, what was the extent of the injuries?

55:47 you'll see me crossing the finish line with this compression tape, you know how it should have been so my alignment is pretty good it's not perfect so now i just See the tape? kind of unbelievable, Oh, man. Yeah, I've had quite a few people on, Heard about her When you talk to her, she seems so normal. I'm like waiting to meet a demon. It's there. Oh, 100%.

58:48 And all this is in a very short amount of time. You want to see something crazy? I don't know if you can pull it up or not, but if you can pull up We're going to show it to you in a second. just look at the dates of these races and we're going to show 50-miler a month later. 100 was what 13 days after that hundred miler she's and then I ran the 200 in it

1:00:54 No. And I went through the first hell week, got messed up. scopp it cold as fuck hell week the pacific ocean is never warm and it rained the whole time the And I was like, I don't know what's going on. what everybody sees on TV over a period of time could squat before Hell Week or before my first time going to Bud's. After Bud's, And then with the weight pushing me down and then trying to push up, the pain was just too much.

1:03:53 dude yeah support man yeah well especially if you're working that hard right if you're doing about because most people don't push themselves past that pain that stretch pain all right people that he just you know he was all tense everything was just like this super powerful right but all Not at all. It's like, you got to do it, man. It's push, push, push.

1:06:28 I read that. it might mirror the observed It's proof positive. It changed my life. you out in a weird way. 100%. You're in there with a bunch of housewives and shit, and you're like, this is like the You're like, well, once you get done with all that hard work, you'll go over to that yoga studio. hole in it so you know you're not supposed to have a hole in your heart and be a seal

1:08:51 Because they had two helix patches. I'm like, that's To go through your artery? They went and they took this helix patch they placed it in there and then they found Okay, so here's it. Yeah, atrial septum defect that I had. that's that was my life for three years so they put that patch in yep and now your heart's 100% So I'm in there getting echocardiogram just chilling out in in there. And the guy's talking to me, has his little wand in my heart. We're bullshitting about stuff. And

1:11:54 it's a big deal so they come back in and all this stuff because basically the hole in your heart if it gets plugged with something like anything like you know let's say you get a bubble from diving or After six months, when it should have been healed up, the bubble went through. So they knew I had a hole because of the heart surgery. can't jump you pretty much wasn't a seal anymore so i was a recruiter for a period of time um so

1:14:12 And you run with that on? last one in dude jesus christ so all i could do i have i have my training log so after my second bubble test was how long after? A year? It was so the first bubble test after the first surgery Wow. Holy shit, man. the best shape my 43 years old just turned 43 februaryth. I am in the best shape of my life. I've had them all.

1:16:51 Yeah, hands out. What in the fuck is going on? And I weighed 207 pounds at the time. I have another 4,015 pull-ups to go right there. What did it feel like on the last chin-up? I'm coming after you. in training for a record for 4,000. It was like, I ain't got to do more fucking pull-ups anymore. I don't like doing them, so we're going to knock some out.

1:20:06 It hurts. I mean, people put me in this category of, you must be some crazy guy who loves it. You got to put yourself in a hellacious situation. mind down the self-talk will help all that stuff will help but usually we react we have pain we I went through three of them we don't think that mind is why the fuck did i quit so what keeps me going i've quit several things i know what's on

1:22:24 What is the thing? he was like the top head head guy old white guy you know all all geniused out and we were on this that's the only time you can figure out how the fuck to get through that motherfucker. All this crazy shit is still said and found out a way to get through it. You may forget it for a second, but you can go back in the cookie jar, I call it.

1:25:11 And then remind yourself, I'm a bad motherfucker. He said how we can't do something. gift i forget what set me off but it was like we had to be to to be somewhere you had to be born You can. But you have to go into those dark The easy highway. It has fucking signs. It has restaurants. We all love this four lane highway. The easy highway. It has fucking signs.

1:27:22 But going through this path of life, this journey over here that you make yourself, it's easier to accept the fact And most human beings, there's certain people that are born with certain gifts like a that is true at the very highest levels of the winners right but it doesn't mean that you can't And it's how you get through that. You start to believe this shit.

1:30:16 people period uncommon amongst uncommon people is one of the greatest ways to put it that's it You're fucking common again. I'm a warrior. was looking for in the military where i saw is in the training these people get their ass handed to And they go, why did you go? Getting soft. to somehow or another diminish that person. Alpha males eat their own. i love that shit let's fucking go man i want to eat hey man i'm all about that kind

1:33:52 me get there no one paid my fucking bills no one did shit for me no one ran those fucking miles depending upon what people want from them. is the thing right and that's one of the things that i've gotten from paying attention to you That's the fucking weakest shit in the world. That's why on my Facebook page, That's easy shit. Trust me. you ain't facing some shit.

1:36:13 When I say fuck, It ain't fun today. Look what I overcame. what this is in the same use of the word that you used, the warrior's mentality, the warrior's life. warrior and it's a true quote to life i saw it going through training i saw it everywhere i went I get up every morning. So I try hard to continue to grow that. Missing who the fuck you are temporary shit to me I want to be forever proud of who I was as a man and change who I used to be

1:40:44 o'clock in the fucking morning say hey you gotta get your shit in I had no trainer If you don't have it, I don't look at you right, Fuck that shit. We count on people too much to get us through shit. fucking far you can go and that's all it's about to be better. They're trying to say things that they think people are going to go yeah double high five right you know there's a

1:43:31 There's a lot of people that I follow online, and you're one of them, that I can get something out of that. That's good. And I try to be as real as I can because we're all fucking suffering in this world. This is all about, you know, I speak to a lot of people, and that's what I do now. Like, a lot of people have these great quotes and they mass produce.

1:45:17 Are you really getting the fuck after? People can see. God, you're so calm right now. If it's cold somewhere where they're at, a lot of motherfuckers will shut that door, go back inside. you're unstoppable this commitment that you have to authenticity is one of the reasons why people are connected to what your message is that's one Yeah, it does it doesn't doesn't connect at all

1:48:13 Give me a backpack, So it's, It's out there. It's not about me. It must be enriching to you. and discovered the people in the water source job it's my duty to share the story as much as I'm not really fond of it I I'm not I'm the kind And wow. Someone calls you dumb, it's mean, but you might be fucking dumb. Period. and it's that most people quit at 40%. That's it.

1:52:06 I thought I'd given 100%. man, I want to fucking floor it, we stop. No one has ever. I guarantee it. I write these that doesn't fire people