Joe Rogan Experience #1321 — Robert Oberst Transcript

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0:00 And... You're looking rather large. Try to keep this like a fist from your face. you pull it for 100 feet with a harness restraining your chest like That's what we did last year, which was fucking brutal. It's just kind of something we made up. literally get like i'll brag a little bit i've got side abs in the morning sometimes you know that's all it comes up is just me i think i invented it i appreciate it it was a very nice

3:46 There you go. then you're like, oh, right, right. You're like asking. seem like it goes together right they're trying to combine styles they don't understand what the quad. I love those, man. ripped so many jeans just getting sitting down you know i think with your size like it must be That's true. He does not have a problem with it. Yeah. It's like, what's his name?

6:30 Burt wanted us to do some dance contests Ooh. want it to be regulated not someone's's opinion. Especially last year, because last year we literally were killing ourselves. This is not going to happen. He can fuck off. It's like learning how to dance. i just wanted to film the scene so i could fucking relax yeah you know move on yeah so i don't know

9:15 supposed to want any attention not draw any attention towards yourself really it's like Yeah, it's fun. And win or lose, he also took that on the chin. And Masvidal said, fucking fastest ever ko in ufc history and he's promising you that if you're looking for brussels fuck out of here if you got a problem with it stop them winners get to do what they want he's ice

11:41 And then it's two quick steps on the knee. Yeah. It seems like two seconds You ever thought about fighting? as big as you are? I've got a lot of friends in the industry, but I'm fucking. You have to earn your stripes. One of my buddies right now, a guy who was a strong man with me, his name's Braun Strowman, who was a former UFC heavyweight champion,

14:24 He's definitely in his 40s. I don't know. How old is Tim now? How long has he been out of the game? He's definitely in his 40s. I can't cut both my legs off to make 265. Yeah, but he was big, man. Oh yeah 195 pounds growing up like he was like my first real hero and um i knew a lot of guys who had known him i Yeah. He was awesome. for strongmen throughout history.

17:08 So one of the episodes next season we're hoping to do is Andre the Giant, which we're going to talk about. There we go. You know, a lot of people don't realize Jack Johnson, He fought 6 foot tall Taller than that Yeah, everybody's struggling. I think Marciano was 5 was 510 five times believe is five i think marciano is 510 185 pounds Like he's giant

19:37 For Right You know like Joshua Would be towering Or Deontay Wilder Who was 6 Was he 6'7 But, I mean, in comparison to a real heavyweight today, like if you put him next to Anthony Joshua, Insane. for him. ran out of bullets and then as he goes marching up towards weight and thrown things around it's like that sounds pretty crazy because cannons can go from

21:44 So we're in the squashing around the mud and you got this giant cannon you're trying to throw on your I played football for a long time. No, it's a terrible way to live. I convinced one of my best friends to quit his job and come with me to China for a week. Like I was talking to a friend of mine today about Thailand. and the lady's behind him and she's she's holding on to the guy's waist and he's like got one hand

24:18 Yeah, just watch it. Jamie's the fastest You see him put his foot down Like he's done He probably landed right on an alligator. Of course It's Florida They just issued florida she's probably listening to this laura get out of there run run for your lives it's a Yeah. but like i lived in playa del rey and in sherman oaks for two and a half years and i was like i

26:54 Those are people. They're not the norm. that right you get regular people you go to colorado well colorado is now filled with stoners Well, they brought in wolves in the 90s to Yellowstone. And, you know, in some places they've lost more than 50% of their populations. you know, like a thousand elk in a field. were killed by European disease. Right. It's fucking nuts, man.

30:07 a mountain lion ate my fucking dog. She might be a little crazy. That worked out great for Siegfried and Roy, right? And they also make a lot of money off of their hunting, like the tags and all the economy that comes from people that hunt there. But they're just wolves. Like a big male is like a 300 pound deer, which is crazy. They're more than double the size,, it's cold as fuck. Those deer are like 300 pounds when they're fully grown. Right.

31:53 Yeah, it's nice. Oh, that's great. But like, if you want to have a good time, just let me know when you come to Texas. But if it's like Hollywood, they'll say California, you know? A lot of fun. They've got hundreds of animals that basically some redneck was like, oh, I'm going to have a white lion. And they had the police come and rescue this fucking tiger.

34:06 Oh, you got these God damn pop up ads Texas man Hallucinating what does it say it was secured only with a screwdriver and a nylon strap jesus christ do is that the lions knew it was happening so they would uh People got pissed, I'm sure. more um people getting publicity not publicity but there's a lot more people showing that side They take all kinds of stuff down for virtually no reason.

37:34 you're offensive and then just start like make a targeted campaign to complain about your content What the fuck are we doing? It's not different because she's wildlife. What, are you a communist? Let's just guess. More than that? Yeah. Does that include the Russians? It doesn't even some government protections they need to be watching out for the minors that are online and

40:30 Duncan said it's too real Looking at a 17 foot tall vagina in front of him oh my god a haptic suit would be the next step and Nice. You walk into a room where there's fire and you feel the heat. holding it it looks like a stormtrooper weapon yeah you know like a star wars weapon that's cool so wrecked my body wasn't accepting because i i went from football to strongman and in football

43:32 They're hand cleaning and power cleaning. Bro. Yeah. It's just like that, and it's fucking brutal. No. It's a really cool bar slash concert venue. Yeah, we're working on getting him here. Dude, and he does the best ones. Yeah. I love his horror movies, man. They're wild. I'm sure he is. He's really into horror movies, man. Dude, and he does the best ones.

45:31 It's awesome. Oh, wow. And from high school on, we didn't have electricity. mean it wasn't i mean as a kid But the first day, I hit 330 pounds and just put it down. So is it the log thing is it the awkwardness of like holding on to a log and yeah, like, Neutral grip is much better much and then what's the pro record right now, the American record's been mine for four years,

48:59 Jesus Christ. This was a hard log to use And that was this moment Who's the world record? to texas uh uh what do you call texas pride and texas powerlifting for sure wow i'm strongman there isn't any and there really wasn't there wasn't like there was no money in strongman until i made money in strongman like really brought It's crazy. Yeah, exactly. That's the must be rich. Yeah, exactly.

51:44 Yeah. I see guys just pouring honey in their mouth, like the Russian guys. There's a lot of that because we compete with people from all around the world. always taught and it kind of worked with being broke but like a warrior goes to war hungry hungry right hunters do that too the best hunters they hunt hungry yeah see and then but what happened to me was i lost 80 pounds that was 440 i lost 80 pounds

54:25 holds true to static lifting like kind of it's not necessary all the time but it kind of holds true I got hurt, and I felt like I was done. I didn't. stretching. And also, I smoke weed. I've seen guys throw away their lives, their families, their career over a bunch of pills Are they making sure you're on steroids? It sounds familiar. that guy's got so much energy i know exactly he's another one he gets censored off of instagram all

56:55 Right, right. He's red. Chest day the sleeves of his medium deep v-neck tees and he's nailing hoes from different area codes like a boss problem is what if i call them up saying she's pregnant now he's blaming me for Oh my god. It's funny shit, man. muscle yeah i mean well you can do it because you're not making fun of things he's making fun you're having people dictate what you can and can't see or what isn't is val isn't isn't valid

59:47 which was great and um my first time i ever got to see a show i came in i move into la and a buddy I'll come check him out. It was like we were uncomfortable. Well, I met you in the belly room, which is one of the best places to do stand-up. I went up there and did, it was story time. I didn't know what the lights meant. We got done with World's Strongest Man

1:02:10 You see people all wearing like the communist uniform like that they have. And I'm drunk. kind of stuff we get on the bus and uh we're setting up and the camera crew left all their And he was like, you're moving. And the guy and the cops are getting really worked up about the fact that he touched his equipment and that Nick called him an arrogant American, all this stuff, like freaking out.

1:04:23 And Nick best, like kind of sits back in his seat and puts his head down. china no no no no not there and especially that spot because like it was it was their vacation They just stop, pull their pants down, and shit on the ground. It's so crazy. All over the place and it smells like it. It was nasty, man. And these motherfuckers want us to switch to electric

1:06:37 My girl actually, she rides horses it's a really big show it's a lot of fun a few like in certain areas Lock that motherfucker up forever yep yep and when we were there like it was craziness going Burj Khalifa. who's who's also in the in the show with me it's me eddie hall nick best and brian shaw first of He would laugh. He doesn't do it anymore, though.

1:09:31 I just draw way too many weird eyes. Actually, I saw a lot of the transition I wasn't there for seven years. So if you're waiting to audition for a commercial It's not like I'm better than you. It's like we can all talk shit we're all on the same level you know I really want to support them. like when he stopped taking coke and all that stuff yeah that helped but even when he was doing

1:12:19 same way like whenever i do something well and someone tells me i'm like nah i mean i should that i only got six hours with this guy. Those guys are fuel. see you see that 4 30 watch and it's like fuck gotta go i gotta get going what am i doing with Get up and start running. I mean, think about before the internet and podcasts and social media and stuff like that was you had to find that inspiration it was hard to find yeah

1:14:57 Okay. kick that have never taken a martial arts class in their life and if you see him throw a kick The guy's grabbing your arm. And I'm like, he has nothing. Back then it was like, he was barely, he was like in the UFOs and deep deep deep deep deep into conspiracies back then it was like he Most of these people are liars. We have no idea how these things are doing this.

1:17:07 When they see things like that, you got to go, they know what the fuck they're seeing. You know what I'm saying? And that was like the whole time I was shitting myself. Yeah. It was awesome. None. Yeah. I really honestly don't know. believe in it are foolish and so many people who tell stories there's their stories are foolish Right. There might be some shit that they're working on that they've never really perfected so they've never actually implemented in the battlefield or

1:21:00 a russian thing it could have been something that the Germans figured out. I don't know. Just talking about it before we even got out here. would say like what do you think about this he's like maybe i don't know right he wasn't a a few concussions right oh yeah sure same here yeah i i have horrible memory but from football to me do you listen to dan carlin oh yeah yeah yeah of course the best hardcore history i wish

1:23:58 put a sock on your cock yeah dan carlin is uh he's he's a fucking man he really is his podcast is was always a history buff and he even says he's not a historian he's like very time radio guy you know and he did radio and then was always a history buff and I think if you say it on this show, it's official. an episode in england we were in london for most of it and um this guy thomas topham and he was

1:26:06 Yes, yes. story and talk about like that my favorite i'm my favorite thing we did for the whole season was He picked one of those up with him inside, carried it down the street, and threw him into an open grave at the graveyard. Basically dragged a cop down the street and threw him into a graveyard. So this woman came out, and she broke a world record driving through.

1:28:22 I can't remember her name right now. Yeah. She's putting her face through boards? See, that's the boards there. 13 of them. And he just kept coming back. I wonder if he would take something before he would go. Yeah. It's like And femur Came back I did Just making a joke. Yeah. Yeah. man yeah yeah they had that wind up back end that would just shoot them forward so you have to look at a lift similar to the way they would look at a stunt like it's a there's a

1:32:36 And the other thing is once the whistle blows and it's on and we're racing or you're playing in a sport and the fight starts or the game starts, when the whistle blows, all that shit's gone. going to take me a little bit longer i'll be loose on this corner because it's a little bit of a dip that's the kind of stuff i really like i can't wait till like i'm done with the sport and i can

1:34:33 It was like maybe two months after I started deadlifting, maybe three months. had for that first rep but like a meathead i was like i'll pull the second one you know the time no chairs we just had a bed and so i would sleep in But I've been really careful about how I rehab stuff like that. Oh, okay. the finals i kind of just was like you know fucking you know it's whatever i don't have to work for this i am

1:37:50 just like, they don't want you that once you get hurt, But the judge for the show was like, hey, we're doing what's called the Hercules hold, as well leave some fucking blood on the bar. Did you tape it up or anything? i let go it was almost like being baptized, man. there's no reason i should have to take an hour to to be able to walk in the morning. Yeah. You know, like there's no reason why my back should hurt from walking from the front door

1:40:33 I was told it was my last time I was getting invited because at this point, you're done. Like, it just felt like somebody had just washed all that away. body back into condition tons of core work tons of stretching and uh like basically just digging want to train and figure out like, what's a safe way to start out. Or like, if I want to train like warm up before it chases a gazelle i've heard that nonsense before it's ridiculous hamilton

1:43:11 Yes With Freddie Roach Yeah. a lot of stiff leg stuff i avoid deadlifts as much as possible but i i mean i still compete i can't I pulled it up, and it was fucking easy. I was in my groups, and I was cruising. What does zero the deadlift at World's Strongest Man. I pulled it up, and it was fucking easy. I was still thinking that I was close to retiring even though I was feeling better.

1:45:41 That's the big issue, right? try or ACL injuries and they try to not have surgery. happens and while it's happening you know you'll realize like hey i gotta i gotta keep my fucking i fucking believe in them they're not expensive it's real simple super easy to use i put them Yeah, I saw a video where this guy was doing the outside of his legs and everything with it.

1:47:20 Yeah. right i was that guy though i was and you you. I mean, when I needed, when this ripped, it was the full tear finally. That was after. But this, basically what I'm saying is exactly what you're saying, just a different time period. So like one of those little row boats, we had to flip it like a tire. this like uh an arm brace that would like, And it was,

1:50:14 IT company. oh shit like he couldn't like hold a jug of milk in his arm and extend his arm But the thing is, like, in the early days, Bas didn't understand submissions either. And you each hold the ends of the stick and try and take it from each other. I'm like upper body heavy. I fucking love this guy. to that kind of stuff and if you make it to the top echelon so that you're saying at the top level

1:53:28 He doesn't care about how much it costs or what it takes. Yeah, 55. 500-kilo deadlift. If you go to talk to Brian Shaw about the trajectory of a sandbag or how you want to put your hand placement or where you want to do this or that or anything that has has to do with the science of lifting he can dissect now where i feel comfortable calling myself like not a rookie. I wouldn't say I'm a vet.

1:56:21 do you roll out with a lacrosse ball yes do. Or do you use one of those WOD balls? And I actually do a lot of, you just roll your stomach over that and just relax and just let it sit there and it kind of No one's vegan? His wife has a school, and they feed the kids all vegan food, and Arnold's a part of this too. a world record and then all of a sudden now he's a world record strength athlete because his buddy

1:58:41 For how much does he weigh, though? I've never seen him anywhere on the circuit or anywhere at a big show. But once you get there, if you prove yourself, you get top three. Or if, pushed and was filmed early so they had to invite other guys but you can you can always tell who's strong like you you can see when a guy shows up and and like this guy does this and he's vegan.

2:01:22 And also the other thing is, to get in if you go to another country it's much easier much easier because here we've got out of Yeah, much easier. Yeah, yeah. Say it again? he got third place this year he's uh you know isn't he fighting off bell's palsy or something You're not a doctor? Meat and rice, potatoes. Where'd you go? Those Roosevelt elk in Oregon, they're bigger bodied, too.

2:04:42 venison is gamey like first of all just because someone hasn't prepared it correctly, and they didn't take care of it after they killed it. It's the reason why wolves are chasing those motherfuckers. and then anything else, everything else. but you just, World's strongest man is normally, You're doing the event. And then you immediately try and find someplace cold

2:06:10 But I mean, it's part of what pays for everything. I got a question for you. extra stress this year like they literally wouldn't even let me bend over to tie my own shoes like It's just, if you and I were walking to the door, I'd try and get there faster, you know? to but they they you have to if you're training with these guys you have to they're not gonna

2:09:07 And you know filming is fucking exhausting. we would do like like uh two hours or so and i don't maybe that's too long maybe maybe but um you know for us that's Yeah. Always. Your body is like, what are you doing, bro? Do you drink just water? the body armor all that shit like this is what you this is the moment you worked for like you No. Is a million times

2:12:12 It's wrong Like this is If you go out there P. Terry's They are the fucking shit. Five Guys. Oh, they do have shakes. With the jalapenos Better buns too Pete and Terry's Damn. And they're only in that area too man really yep they need hemp's nice. have we ever sent you any of the on it stuff? Hemp? It's always nice to go back to the hemp. No problem.

2:15:04 And it's basically i'm gonna working with me i think i'm the only athlete he works with he's a small company and um we've been There we go. Didn't I say that? Nobody knows about it I thought it was turmeric Yeah, exactly. Everybody has to be on steroids. like you're on amphetamines. If you're acting like you're on amphetamines. about cock and sock and all that,

2:18:48 That's hilarious. Fucking A. Yeah, that makes sense. Did you help get it switched? None of that. hillary that was saying it was she was gonna do her best to keep it illegal yeah she had some Just show up. hillary head inside the body that was so badass who is that guy let's give that guy some props underscore C-R-A-P It's so dope. Because it bothers him.

2:22:23 I don't know. But they're the ones who say you don't body shame. sorry bro you're dead but i'm jacked in town with you put a sock on your cock That's really cool. Was it Miley Cyrus? Fuck. man but the scene when he's just drawing dicks. Just like relaxed humor. rated r and it seems like it's right along that same vein of like yeah humor and comedy and thank

2:25:21 Right. want to fucking hammer nails with a saw right but but if you use marijuana correctly and you have discipline and Right, you're going to kill people and all that stuff. know if i'll be a part of that because i'm trying to there's it's so available now i just i'd rather She was autistic and nonverbal, didn't speak, but imagine all day feeling like you're falling.

2:28:16 She would walk around the house normally. Oh, that's awesome. It's just ignorance. There's these little rules that you don't understand. He would, he would, and then he learned that if he didn't want to do something, he basically would stay in his room all day. taking this pill what does that look like or if we're picking this boy up off the ground what does

2:30:54 sat second row in the end zone and like would get all excited every time anybody came by like the You could see in his eyes he was So he'll lay there and he'll be like, well, this one time? people now because i think of other people now as babies that grew up yeah where i used to think way but it's rough to live like that yeah well it's it's it's so hard when you look at all the

2:33:33 And then the other side of it, the one that gets me a lot is like when you see parents or you hear about parents. I just couldn't imagine that. And the guy's there, no house. that poor girl who kept punching herself in the face because she thought she was falling like It's hard to say that and accept it, but it is. i think it's a whole new thing to it like Like, it adds an element that I really like. Like, being able to see Miss Pat.

2:36:19 You know who I love is Ari. so i was around it like i i even i thought about doing it for a while i just i know i'd have to Tate tried it for a little bit This badass poncho We were just chilling. Yeah. That's one of the things you do see saying i'm not a doctor for oh for them yeah but for the aliens um what do you think and explains it and that motherfucker knew about Element 115 in the 1990s.

2:39:24 I do, man. every time i'm in out the fucking zippers yeah it's weird man he's a hundred percent believer now and he does scientists they're saying no one can breathe underwater not yet they don't know shit trust Just fucking trying to get out, looking around at people. No, not cage, though. For sure. if i was in the woods and i was camping and i saw a fucking nine foot tall gorilla

2:41:57 Yeah, because primates don't live that long. Well, there's some dense-ass thick forests in the Pacific Northwest, which is one of the reasons why I think it's so attractive. St. Helens is the one that blew, but there's another one that, anyway. like what if you saw something 30 yards away it could disappear instantly left right you wouldn't And they said, we found these.

2:44:05 was enormous some enormous fucking eight to ten foot tall bipedal ape yeah so stories that build That's what it looked like. Up. That's the one Orangutan looking desire for something to to be real so strong like ufos yep the same thing people want to believe africa they forget about egypt right and egypt is one of the most fascinating and absolutely

2:46:55 So those people had boats, and we don't even know how long – I mean, Graham Hancock believes, and so does Robert Shock and John Anthony West when he was alive, believes that those people were building those things tens of thousands of years ago. they don't have the information about that because they all got wiped out well it certainly makes sense when you look at the olmecs those those

2:48:07 That's like 3,500 years old. they don't even know what it is. Oh, yeah, it is in Iraq. That's the Epic of Gilgamesh. they don't even know when it was built. is a thousand years old right you know it's like what and we're working off information that's No pictures, no video. We are the champions, my friends. all over the world yeah yeah huge such an icon yeah john jones came

2:51:11 His legs were fucked up. That's fucking crazy. Out for the rest of 2019. and all his ligaments are completely torn wow The meniscus and all the ligaments. So he doesn't even know if he might need tests on his right knee as well. but he said that it was pride. gave it to tiago i'd have to watch it and see how they thought it and because when you when you're

2:53:47 Oh, he's strong as fuck, man. Yeah. You think more and more he's getting more love? Nice. Pettis versus Diaz is on that card, too. Isn't that crazy? Brian Shaw, Nick Best A lot of fun