Joe Rogan Experience #2041 - Steve Strope

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience. (drumbeats)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music plays)

   4. SSSteve Strope0:12

      Just had a set of these on at band rehearsal-

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      Uh-oh.

   6. SSSteve Strope0:16

      ... on Sunday. (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      You look, you look like you just had band rehearsal.

   8. SSSteve Strope0:19

      That's right. (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      (laughs) I hate to make you feel old-

   10. SSSteve Strope0:22

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:23

       ... but we've known each other for 20 years.

   12. SSSteve Strope0:26

       Okay.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       Dude.

   14. SSSteve Strope0:27

       Thanks. (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       How wild is that? How... Does time fly or what?

   16. SSSteve Strope0:31

       Yeah, that's-

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       We've been friends for 20 years.

   18. SSSteve Strope0:33

       That's pretty ter... Really?

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       20 years.

   20. SSSteve Strope0:35

       I've been... Uh, you know what I did? I, I also experienced the odd time continuum to brief myself for this. I'm like, "I should probably look back when I did this, this, and this, and this, that, and the other thing I'm going." I'm like, "Crap, I forgot all..." (laughs) Then now that was like 2004. Are you kidding me?

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       2004 seems so long ago.

   22. SSSteve Strope0:57

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       That was the Fear Factor days.

   24. SSSteve Strope0:59

       Yeah. And that's-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00

       That's, that's like right around when I met you, when, uh, when I brought the, the Barracuda to you.

   26. SSSteve Strope1:06

       Fish.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       Yeah.

   28. SSSteve Strope1:07

       Yeah. It, it, like... 'Cause you... Yeah, 'cause it was... Well, I have my handy cheat sheet here (laughs) because there's-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:16

       You, you actually made a cheat sheet to prepare for this?

   30. SSSteve Strope1:18

       Well, there's, there's... Uh, dude, I got pa-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Oof. …

   1. SSSteve Strope15:00

      I remember before we went into, uh, into the operating room, he goes, "Look (laughs) ... I, I, I don't think I can... I'm gonna go try to save your eye."

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      Oof.

   3. SSSteve Strope15:13

      "I'm not gonna save your sight."

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:15

      Wow.

   5. SSSteve Strope15:15

      Because... And he, he, he did it this way, which I thought was cool. He went and did a little research to speak in my language. And he goes, "When you're trying to weld metal, if, uh, both the pieces are kinda rusty and beat up or whatever, that it won't weld very good, right?" I'm like, I go, "True." He goes, "So you gotta have clean metal to clean metal to weld." And I go, "Yes, that's true." He goes, "Well, all the attempts have just-"

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:41

      Taken away the clean-

   7. SSSteve Strope15:42

      "... frayed the living-"

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:43

      Oh, Jesus.

   9. SSSteve Strope15:43

      "... shit out of the, um, retina, so I'm gonna cut away the yucky stuff."

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Ugh.

   11. SSSteve Strope15:51

       "And I'm gonna have a new edge to..." They, they use a laser. They basically, the only thing they know how to do is tack weld it up.

   12. JRJoe Rogan16:00

       Oof.

   13. SSSteve Strope16:00

       That's what they do, right? So he goes, "I'm gonna make new clean edges."

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:05

       Ooh.

   15. SSSteve Strope16:05

       "I'm gonna weld it up. You're gonna lose some sight at least, 'cause I'm taking away part of the retina. But I'm gonna save your eye, 'cause if the eye... If we can't get something going on in there, then your body will kill off your eye, it shrinks back, it's painful. Pop it out, put a glass eye in." I go, "Yeah, let's... Yeah, let's not." So, he did that. And, uh, he goes, "I cut away about a third of the retina," and I had a visual, like a vertical rectangle of sight, right? Not all the way over to here to here. Here to here. But, uh, fast forwarding, scar tissue moved over and pretty much just eliminated. And they're like, "We can go in and sc-" I'm like, "No, no, no."

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:45

       Oh, Jesus.

   17. SSSteve Strope16:46

       "No. We're not gonna go in and do (laughs) anything."

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:48

       Oh, Jesus.

   19. SSSteve Strope16:49

       Um, so this one's basically gone. You know? That's that, for now. Uh, we'll see if science-

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:55

       Do you know-

   21. SSSteve Strope16:55

       ... checks in.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:55

       Do you know who Michael Bisping is?

   23. SSSteve Strope16:57

       No, sir.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:58

       Michael Bisping is one of the toughest human beings that's ever walked the face of the earth.

   25. SSSteve Strope17:02

       Fair enough.

   26. JRJoe Rogan17:02

       This is what I s- And not just because he was a UFC middleweight champion, but because Michael Bisping fought the last 10 fights of his UFC career, including winning the title, blind in one eye, and he didn't tell them. He hid it.

   27. SSSteve Strope17:16

       Oh, I heard about that.

   28. JRJoe Rogan17:17

       Yeah. He hid it.

   29. SSSteve Strope17:18

       He didn't tell anybody.

   30. JRJoe Rogan17:20

       So, do you know how gangster you have to be to wanna be fighting the best fighters in the world? Dan Henderson.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Hmm. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      do it to themselves all the time. If they want something and they maybe wanna draw it and they're very skilled.

   2. SSSteve Strope30:04

      Hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:05

      You know, maybe they want, like, a specific kind of flower somewhere.

   4. SSSteve Strope30:08

      Fair enough.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      And they can reach it. Okay.

   6. SSSteve Strope30:10

      Stem cells from-

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:10

      Stem cells from one eye show promise in healing injuries in the other. Interesting.

   8. GUGuest30:16

      There's another story too, where a kid had a v- he had a very specific eye injury that was covered by stem cells.

   9. SSSteve Strope30:20

      See, my, my problem... It's not my problem. Well, it is my problem, but my situation is, there's stuff they do on the outside, like cadaver stuff. But the inside, like the retina, as lo- what I've been told is, like, no man's land. It's like, "Well, good luck." You know?

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:35

       Mm-hmm.

   11. SSSteve Strope30:36

       It's like, "Well, you can get that from a dead body." No, no, you can't.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       Oh.

   13. SSSteve Strope30:39

       They can't replace a retina. Uh, uh, and if I'm wrong, great, bring it on.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       Maybe they just can't do it now.

   15. SSSteve Strope30:46

       Well, yeah, that's the thing.

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       But then, it's also someone else's organ, so you're gonna have to take all these drugs to keep your body from rejecting it.

   17. SSSteve Strope30:52

       (inhales deeply) Yeah, I'm sure there's no...

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:54

       My friend, uh, CT Fletcher had a heart transplant a few years back. He's a amazing person.

   19. SSSteve Strope31:00

       Mm-hmm.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:00

       Like he's a super, super inspirational person. And, uh, had a heart transplant, and now he has to... He has someone else's heart inside of him. Now he has to take medication.

   21. SSSteve Strope31:10

       That's so trippy.

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:11

       It's crazy. See, your body... When you have someone else's organ in your body, your body knows it's not yours.

   23. SSSteve Strope31:17

       Sure.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:17

       So your body tries to reject it.

   25. SSSteve Strope31:19

       Right.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:19

       So I imagine that does wreck havoc with your immune system, but it's keeping him alive, and it's amazing, man. This guy's so full of love. He was like this crazy wild, like, powerlifter dude, who was like real, like... Uh, like, just real motivational, aggressive, you know. And now he's like this, like real peaceful, interesting, like, wise person, who's enjoying his last moments alive, you know. But it's, it's heavy. It's heavy. I mean, the heart is obviously the big one, right?

   27. SSSteve Strope31:52

       Ta- yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:52

       That's the big one.

   29. SSSteve Strope31:53

       Probably really important.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:54

       We're, we're fucking 10 years, 20 years away, max, from them being able to suck your brain out of your head and put it in a robot.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah, so you could…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      does, what's the ... First of all, let's look at ... First one is tuna. Are there levels, high levels of mercury in tuna?

   2. GUGuest45:07

      Yeah, so you could get, uh, mercury poisoning from one serving. There's ... Uh, sorry, let me re- rephrase that. The amount of mercury you're allowed to have in a week, you could get in one serving of tuna.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:18

      Jesus.

   4. GUGuest45:19

      Mercury levels.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:19

      So if you're eating sushi every day ... 'Cause I've heard of people actually getting sick from eating sushi every day. Like, they literally get mercury poisoning. Yeah.

   6. NANarrator45:31

      Oh. Not, not good.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:34

      No. Um. What is that shit that I had?

   8. GUGuest45:38

      Arsenic?

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:39

      Yes. I ... Wh- I was eating, um, sardines, like, every day.

   10. NANarrator45:44

       Good.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:44

       I love sardines.

   12. NANarrator45:45

       Okay.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:45

       I love them. So I would eat, like, three cans of sardines a day. And I go to my doctor, I get my blood work done. He goes, "Um ..."

   14. NANarrator45:51

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:52

       He goes, "You have arsenic in your body."

   16. NANarrator45:54

       Arsenic?

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       Arsenic. Yeah, trace levels of arsenic. And I said, "How much? Like someone's trying to poison me?" He goes, "I don't think so." He goes, "Are you eating a lot of seafood?" I go, "I eat three cans of sardines a day." He goes, "Don't do that."

   18. NANarrator46:04

       (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:05

       "Don't do that."

   20. GUGuest46:05

       Don't do that.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:06

       And he explains to me that these are bottom-feeders, and that they live, a lot of times, in areas that are polluted by humans. So we've fucking polluted the ocean to the point where if you eat too much fish, you get sick.

   22. NANarrator46:19

       Right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       You know all these people that are worried about the weather warming up and climate change? What are we doing-

   24. NANarrator46:24

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:25

       ... to the ocean? What are we doing? I mean-

   26. NANarrator46:28

       Well-

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       ... how many ... What's the number, uh, in terms of depopulation? How much fish are missing from the ocean than, than 50 years ago?

   28. NANarrator46:35

       I, I'm thinking large amount.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:37

       Let's ask: The population, the, the fish population in the ocean now versus 50 years ago. Let's find that out. Let's guess.

   30. GUGuest46:46

       Uh.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:11:23

   Mm. …

   1. SSSteve Strope1:00:00

      wagons with the top pulled off.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      Mm.

   3. SSSteve Strope1:00:02

      The, the floor pan, but on the, if, under, in the bed-

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:06

      So it's the same frame?

   5. SSSteve Strope1:00:06

      ... at the very front of the bed where it kisses the back of the cab-

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:09

      Mm-hmm.

   7. SSSteve Strope1:00:10

      ... they have a bolt-in piece of metal. When you take that out, that's the floor pan for the rear seat in, in the station wagon.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:16

      Ah, wow.

   9. SSSteve Strope1:00:17

      So it's a station wagon with the back taken off and a bed put in.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:20

       It's just like, who was like, "I want a car, but I also want a pickup truck"?

   11. SSSteve Strope1:00:22

       "I want a Tar."

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:24

       That kind of stopped happening. They gave up on that.

   13. SSSteve Strope1:00:26

       Yeah. They did. By the, by the-

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:27

       Like, if they tried to bring back the El Camino today, people would be like, "What the fuck are you doing with it?"

   15. SSSteve Strope1:00:31

       The GM still had one for a while down in Australia.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       They did?

   17. SSSteve Strope1:00:34

       Yeah, they had, like, they called it a-

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

       Up until when?

   19. SSSteve Strope1:00:36

       ... Ute. Um, they, they, you base it off, uh, the Mondeo, which was like their GTO of the Chevelle. They had it for a while.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:00:42

       Really?

   21. SSSteve Strope1:00:42

       Yeah. And they-

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       They like different stuff down there, though.

   23. SSSteve Strope1:00:45

       They do. They do.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       Australia has different tastes. They love, uh, they like a lot of utility vehicles.

   25. SSSteve Strope1:00:50

       Yeah, there you go.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:00:51

       Oh, God.

   27. SSSteve Strope1:00:52

       What? (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       That looks really recent.

   29. SSSteve Strope1:00:53

       I love his reaction. "Oh, God."

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:00:55

       Well, a lot of those folks, they like to fucking Crocodile Dundee it up and go out in the backwoods.

Episode duration: 2:30:02