Joe Rogan Experience #1099 - Christopher Ryan

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Three, two, one. …

   1. CRChristopher Ryan0:04

      Three, two, one.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:10

      Is that a, is that a gun? (laughs)

   3. CRChristopher Ryan0:12

      (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:13

      That was, that was a weird point. That was not a- I wasn't sure if that was the gun. Chris Ryan. How are you, buddy?

   5. CRChristopher Ryan0:18

      Hi, we're here. Hey, I'm good.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      Dude, the van.

   7. CRChristopher Ryan0:20

      Vanthropology.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      Right out there, man. What are you doing?

   9. CRChristopher Ryan0:22

      Scarlett Jo Vance, and I call her.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:23

       Are you just traveling in that thing? Just-

   11. CRChristopher Ryan0:24

       I just got back from a month on the road, yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       Wow.

   13. CRChristopher Ryan0:27

       To New Orleans and back.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       W- I was just New Orleans too, but it only took three hours.

   15. CRChristopher Ryan0:31

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       (laughs)

   17. CRChristopher Ryan0:32

       I took a scenic route.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       How many days did it take to drive to New Orleans?

   19. CRChristopher Ryan0:36

       Uh, you know, we stopped a lot along the way.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Yeah, yeah.

   21. CRChristopher Ryan0:39

       Uh, but, uh, s- I don't know, it's 10, 12 days, something like that.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       You wanna stop.

   23. CRChristopher Ryan0:45

       We actually, we went down along the border. We, we were in Bisbee. Uh, Stanhope was in A-

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Oh, did you visit?

   25. CRChristopher Ryan0:49

       No, he was in Asia.

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Oh.

   27. CRChristopher Ryan0:51

       He was on, you know, Southeast Asia, something like that.

   28. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       That's how i- like, when you think of Bisbee, you think of Stanhope.

   29. CRChristopher Ryan0:58

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       They're inexorable at this point. Like, if you said Bisbee-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Oh. …

   1. CRChristopher Ryan15:00

      and at 16, they'd get a driver's license, and then they'd go back to Spain and say, "Hey, give me the license. You gotta do it. It's the law."

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:06

      Oh.

   3. CRChristopher Ryan15:07

      And so Spain, they talked to the American government, like, "Hey, stop giving Spanish kids licenses," and the US is like, "Fuck you, we do it the way we do it. We're number one."

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:15

      (laughs)

   5. CRChristopher Ryan15:15

      And so Spain was like, "All right. Then fuck Americans."

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:19

      Wow.

   7. CRChristopher Ryan15:19

      And so now it's this giant pain in the ass if you're an American living in Spain.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:24

      Oh, man. So, what happens if you get caught and you don't have a license, if you're driving around? They pull you over?

   9. CRChristopher Ryan15:27

      You get a fine.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:28

       How much?

   11. CRChristopher Ryan15:29

       A few hundred euros.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       That seems like a bargain.

   13. CRChristopher Ryan15:31

       That's what I figured.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:32

       That means you, you get paid over 10 times to get pulled over?

   15. CRChristopher Ryan15:35

       (laughs) That's what I figured.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:35

       In order to-

   17. CRChristopher Ryan15:35

       I was like, uh, what you do is-

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       Make the payment?

   19. CRChristopher Ryan15:37

       ... you pretend you're a tourist.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       Right. Just in town traveling?

   21. CRChristopher Ryan15:40

       Have your passport.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       Right.

   23. CRChristopher Ryan15:41

       You know? Don't have a vehicle registered in your name. Not that I would ever do any of these things, but-

   24. JRJoe Rogan15:47

       Yeah, I was reading about, uh, expats and about people who just decide to just, like, go and move over to Europe for a while.

   25. CRChristopher Ryan15:55

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       That sounds like a, such an adventuresome thing to do if you really think about it. As an American, 'cause Americans are, for sure, locked into our way of thinking. Like, there's a g- ... Now, I don't want to speak for the whole group-

   27. CRChristopher Ryan16:08

       Mm-hmm.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       ... but, uh, when you think of the typical American, you think of someone who just, they w- like things the way they have them here.

   29. CRChristopher Ryan16:15

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:15

       This is the best. We're number one, you know?
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Guys, here, what happened…

   1. CRChristopher Ryan30:24

      to the Puerto Rican.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:28

      Guys, here, what happened today at the airport... and people put 'em in old Mustangs.

   3. CRChristopher Ryan30:40

      Mm.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:40

      It's amazing.

   5. CRChristopher Ryan30:41

      I love those old Mustangs.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:43

      Oh, they're the best-

   7. CRChristopher Ryan30:43

      Split rear window.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:44

      ... dude.

   9. CRChristopher Ryan30:44

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       Some of those cars are just, you look at 'em and you're like, "Goddamn, like, what, what, how did they do it so good then?"

   11. CRChristopher Ryan30:51

       And why ... Like, you look at those old Mustangs or old Corvettes-

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:54

       Mm-hmm.

   13. CRChristopher Ryan30:54

       ... like there are a few years where Corvettes just couldn't have been more beautiful.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:58

       Have you ever seen my 1965?

   15. CRChristopher Ryan31:00

       I don't think so.

   16. JRJoe Rogan31:01

       Dude, it's the-

   17. CRChristopher Ryan31:03

       A Corvette?

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:03

       ... greatest car I've ever seen in my life. I have a 1965 silver 1965 Corvette convertible.

   19. CRChristopher Ryan31:09

       Wow.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:09

       And I, I just sit, stand, I just sit in front of it and stare at it.

   21. CRChristopher Ryan31:11

       I think I may have seen it. Did you and Jay Leno drive around in that?

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:14

       Yes, exactly.

   23. CRChristopher Ryan31:15

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       Exactly.

   25. CRChristopher Ryan31:15

       Were you in Topanga?

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:18

       (inhales deeply) No.

   27. CRChristopher Ryan31:19

       I remember watching that clip-

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:20

       There it is right there.

   29. CRChristopher Ryan31:20

       ... and thinking, "They're dri-" Oh, yeah, look at that.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:22

       No, we went to the-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      to see if the guy was still awake.

   2. CRChristopher Ryan45:01

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:01

      Like, they would pick the arm and the guy would be like, "Aah."

   4. CRChristopher Ryan45:04

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      And the crowd would go nuts.

   6. CRChristopher Ryan45:05

      Come back.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      'Cause it's... Yeah, he was about to make his comeback.

   8. CRChristopher Ryan45:07

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      But it, they do do that sometimes, ref re-... I've seen referees pick a guy's arm up to see if the-

   10. CRChristopher Ryan45:11

       Hmm.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:11

       ... guy responds, or girl. I've seen girls get choked out a bunch. Um, but, you know, people are tough, they don't wanna tap, and then-

   12. CRChristopher Ryan45:17

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:17

       ... they wind up going to sleep.

   14. CRChristopher Ryan45:18

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:18

       Holly Holm, when she fought Miesha Tate, Miesha Tate choked her unconscious, and before Holly went out, she was throwing punches in the air and she went unconscious.

   16. CRChristopher Ryan45:26

       Wow, it's crazy.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:27

       (laughs) It's-

   18. CRChristopher Ryan45:29

       (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:29

       It was crazy, it was-

   20. CRChristopher Ryan45:29

       That's deep.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       ... it was primal.

   22. CRChristopher Ryan45:31

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:31

       It was like drowning, it was like watching someone drown.

   24. CRChristopher Ryan45:33

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan45:33

       You know? Um, so it's just, you know...

   26. CRChristopher Ryan45:37

       You have a preference for how you die?

   27. JRJoe Rogan45:40

       Ooh.

   28. CRChristopher Ryan45:40

       Drowning, drowning's my, one of my least favorite.

   29. JRJoe Rogan45:43

       Seems like it would suck.

   30. CRChristopher Ryan45:44

       Yeah.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:06:40

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      in the womb, if your mother's around horrible situations and people screaming and fighting and... Yeah, that cortisol and all those, adrenaline and all those-

   2. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:08

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      All those hormones are flowing through that baby-

   4. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:09

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:09

      ... preparing that baby for a violent world.

   6. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:12

      Well, and you... I'm sure you know about the epigenetics that show that that can pass several generations.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:17

      Yes, yes.

   8. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:17

      Your grandfather was in a famine, you're more likely to be obese.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:21

      Isn't that crazy?

   10. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:22

       It's nuts, yeah. Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

       They also live longer though. Isn't that weird?

   12. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:26

       A-

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:26

       Like the people that were, um, that were in fa- The famine people, their kids lived longer for some strange reason.

   14. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:32

       Interesting.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:32

       Yeah, like your body's preparing you-

   16. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:34

       Mm-hmm.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       ... to be extra durable, like we were talking about before the podcast started.

   18. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:38

       You could, really? Right. And fasting is the only intervention that's ever been shown to extend lifespan.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:44

       Mm, nut nuts.

   20. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:45

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       I do it because it makes me, um, just function better. I do it every 16 hours i, um, I eat. So, uh, I'll eat and then I don't eat for 16 hours. So I'll eat for eight hours of the day.

   22. CRChristopher Ryan1:00:58

       Uh-huh.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:58

       That's it. When that's over, that's over. I don't eat again for 16 hours.

   24. CRChristopher Ryan1:01:01

       So you... So what is it, like 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM or something?

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       Whatever it is. I just figure out what the time is and then add, add 16 to it.

   26. CRChristopher Ryan1:01:08

       If you have-

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

       If I'm cheating, I add 14, but I never add less than 14.

   28. CRChristopher Ryan1:01:12

       Ah, I see. Yeah. I, I was talking to a guy recently about this, um, Bryan Freisinger in, in Austin. Really, really smart guy. And we were talking about this and he's like, "I only eat when the sun's up."

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:23

       Ooh.

   30. CRChristopher Ryan1:01:23

       It's easy to keep track of.

Episode duration: 3:17:12