Joe Rogan Experience #1069 - Ben Greenfield

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Pack oats are supposed…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      Pack oats are supposed to be amazing.

   2. BGBen Greenfield0:01

      So he's, like, getting- Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      They hang out with you.

   4. BGBen Greenfield0:02

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:03

      Five, four, three, two... Ben Greenfield, ladies and gentlemen. Joe Rogan Live.

   6. BGBen Greenfield0:11

      Bo-boom.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:11

      Hey.

   8. BGBen Greenfield0:11

      Yo.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      So it's been a lot of fun hanging out with you for the last 44 minutes.

   10. BGBen Greenfield0:14

       And that's a sick game you have out there.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:16

       Yeah, it's pretty fun, right? It's very addictive.

   12. BGBen Greenfield0:17

       I need to build a really, really big, like, 67-yard-long living room to-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       (laughs)

   14. BGBen Greenfield0:21

       ... to put my big screen in now.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       Yeah, that thing is crazy. This, we were talking about this game called Techno Hunt that we were just playing.

   16. BGBen Greenfield0:27

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       So dude, you, you are an interesting fucking guy. You do a lot of weird shit.

   18. BGBen Greenfield0:31

       Uh, th- uh, no- uh, thank you, I think.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       Yeah. No, it's good.

   20. BGBen Greenfield0:34

       I don't know.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       Yes. It's, it's a compliment when I say-

   22. BGBen Greenfield0:36

       I'll take it.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Yeah, interesting is a good thing. But your, um, like, y- your background, you were just telling me, this is very fascinating. Like, you, you live way the fuck out in the middle of nowhere, right?

   24. BGBen Greenfield0:49

       Well, it's ki- it's kinda ... I mean, it's Spokane.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Right.

   26. BGBen Greenfield0:51

       Spokane ha- I mean, we have, like, a theater.

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       But you're off the grid.

   28. BGBen Greenfield0:53

       And we have restaurants.

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       You have a theater.

   30. BGBen Greenfield0:55

       Like, there, there are actual people there.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   It's so confusing. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      can't win.

   2. BGBen Greenfield15:00

      It's so confusing.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      God damn it, Doug Greenfield.

   4. BGBen Greenfield15:02

      Yeah, yeah. No, that's why I was telling you about this, this ring. Uh, I bought this in Finland, like, three years ago 'cause I wanted, like, a body tracking device. I want to track my HRV and I wanna track my sleep cycles, but I don't like sleeping all night 'cause, like, I sleep with my, kinda like my hand tucked down by my dick, you know, like in, in by my cri- I don't want something just, like-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:20

      You sleep like this?

   6. BGBen Greenfield15:21

      I kinda s- I sleep on my side-

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:23

      Like, you can't stop dreaming of-

   8. BGBen Greenfield15:23

      ... with my hands tucked, like, underneath me. And they're, uh, and literally, like, my right hand is right down around my balls basically while I'm sleeping, and I didn't want something just, like, blasting me-

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:34

      That makes sense.

   10. BGBen Greenfield15:35

       ... the whole time I was sleeping.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:35

       Yeah.

   12. BGBen Greenfield15:36

       So, so, 'cause if it w- if it was on my wrist or on my finger, wherever. So this has, like, a built-in computer and you can put it in airplane mode and it'll still collect all the HRV data and everything else, then when you wanna take it out of airplane mode and sync it to your phone and upload all your sleep data or your HRV data or anything else, you can do it.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Oh.

   14. BGBen Greenfield15:51

       So, th- so that's, that's why I wear this ring instead of, like, a Fitbit or a Jawbone or, or, or Jamie's stupid-

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:57

       Yeah, I-

   16. BGBen Greenfield15:58

       ... Apple Watch.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       (laughs)

   18. BGBen Greenfield15:59

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:59

       I never know whether or not I'm being ridiculous with this stuff, like with worrying-

   20. BGBen Greenfield16:03

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:03

       ... about phones being in your pocket-

   22. BGBen Greenfield16:04

       I mean, like-

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:05

       ... if you get butt cancer.

   24. BGBen Greenfield16:07

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:07

       You know, 'cause if someone, some dude told me that once, that he got cancer, I think it was testicle cancer-

   26. BGBen Greenfield16:10

       Yep, uh, cancer.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       ... on his right side and the, the, the guy-

   28. BGBen Greenfield16:13

       Uh.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       ... was saying, "Do you keep your phone in your right pocket?" He's like, "Yes, I do." And the doctor was telling him that, and I was like, "How the fuck does the doctor know?" Like, this is not proven stuff, like, this is all real speculation, right?

   30. BGBen Greenfield16:23

       I mean, eh-
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   What, what body part…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      Kevin Randleman.

   2. BGBen Greenfield30:00

      What, what body part is that?

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      That's his underarm.

   4. BGBen Greenfield30:02

      Oh, my goodness.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:03

      Yeah, look at that.

   6. BGBen Greenfield30:04

      Oh, my goodness.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      Yeah. That's how bad it was. He-

   8. BGBen Greenfield30:06

      That looks like he got shot.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      He does. Yeah. He was rotting away. And I don't know if he didn't treat it quick enough or, uh, y- I don't know if it was just really aggressive, but-

   10. BGBen Greenfield30:16

       Oh, my gosh.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:16

       ... it's a real common thing in gyms, and-

   12. BGBen Greenfield30:19

       And once you get it, it stays with you.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:20

       Yeah.

   14. BGBen Greenfield30:21

       Like it stays in your bloodstream.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:22

       Yeah.

   16. BGBen Greenfield30:22

       Like I still, like I have an essential oil diffuser on my desk, and I put Thieves in it every day and I just diffuse essential oils.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:29

       In the air?

   18. BGBen Greenfield30:29

       While, while I'm working, into the air.

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:30

       Wow.

   20. BGBen Greenfield30:30

       Yeah. It's like a nebulizing essential oil diffuser. And I j- just, just to play it safe, right? I just wanna be breathing that in during the day.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       Right.

   22. BGBen Greenfield30:37

       Just in case.

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       Fuck.

   24. BGBen Greenfield30:38

       That's, um... And that's the other thing is I stand in front of this light, this infrared light, and, uh, this-

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       What's this?

   26. BGBen Greenfield30:44

       ... this is that- that-

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       Dick light again?

   28. BGBen Greenfield30:45

       That Joovv ... It's the dick light. Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       What's it called?

   30. BGBen Greenfield30:46

       It's, it's, it's called a Joovv. And, um-
4. 45:00 – 58:19

   Yes. …

   1. BGBen Greenfield45:00

      company that makes it, but it's like a, a neck traction device.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:02

      Yes.

   3. BGBen Greenfield45:03

      I have one hanging in my-

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      I have one of those.

   5. BGBen Greenfield45:04

      So I have a, I have that-

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      Yeah.

   7. BGBen Greenfield45:05

      ... and a yoga trapeze.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:06

      Mm-hmm.

   9. BGBen Greenfield45:07

      And so I'll hang-

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:07

       I saw the yoga trapeze in your Instagram.

   11. BGBen Greenfield45:08

       Yeah, I'll hang by the nec-... I do this when I get up, right? I get up and I put, like, a bunch of magnesium on my neck and my back to relax all the tissue and once you get really relaxed and I have this, uh, this, this vibrator. It's, uh, it's like a car buffer for your body so you can vibrate your neck and your back and y- and you get really, really relaxed and it's, it's perfect for, you know, for like doing your own deep tissue therapy.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       Mm-hmm.

   13. BGBen Greenfield45:30

       But it, but it vibrates, so I'll do that on my body then I go hang from this neck thing-

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:34

       Yeah.

   15. BGBen Greenfield45:34

       ... and you get all these pops up and down your neck and it, and it apparently realigns the atlas and the axis and some of the cervical vertebrae and there's probably a bunch of chiropractic docs who are, who are, uh, really, uh, uh, pissed off right now because I'm describing this incorrectly, but it, it feels amazing, like it just adjusts everything and then I hang from the yoga trapeze.

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:52

       Well what it definitely does-

   17. BGBen Greenfield45:53

       And just hangs like five minutes.

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:53

       ... is decompress.

   19. BGBen Greenfield45:54

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:54

       It definitely decompresses your-

   21. BGBen Greenfield45:56

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       ... you know, I don't know about all that other nonsense but it definitely-

   23. BGBen Greenfield45:58

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan45:58

       ... it's stretching out those muscles and alleviating some of the stress that comes from bad posture.

   25. BGBen Greenfield46:03

       Mm-hmm.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:03

       And for me, it was a lot of grappling-

   27. BGBen Greenfield46:05

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:05

       ... getting your neck cranked and squished and-

   29. BGBen Greenfield46:08

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:08

       ... you know, resisting things all the time.

Episode duration: 2:24:47