#1122 - Donnie Vincent

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Five, four, three, two, one. Donnie Vincent.

Donnie Vincent (0:07)

What's going on?

Joe Rogan (0:08)

How are you, buddy?

Donnie Vincent (0:09)

Good. Really good.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

I'm very excited that you didn't know about floating at all. You didn't know about float tanks even remotely until you came here.

Donnie Vincent (0:15)

Yeah. And it's wicked looking.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

It's fun, man. If you got time after the show, you could float. If you want to do it.

Donnie Vincent (0:22)

I might have to do it just to say that I've done it.

Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know the signs behind it, other than obviously, floating would be, you know.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Just feels good.

Donnie Vincent (0:34)

Just to meditate, and just to sit there in a quiet, like, you know, when you're a little kid and you go in a swimming pool or something, you put your ears just under the water and you get that kind of, Yeah. And everything's just peaceful and you can just sit there and you can't hear your mother or you can't hear your girlfriend or whatever, and it's just quiet.

I assume it's a lot like that.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

It's very telling that you said two women. You didn't say your dad, you didn't say your grandpa.

Donnie Vincent (0:53)

Well, my dad never talked to me, and maybe that's a whole other subject matter.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

That's another part of the problem, probably. But yeah, I am trying to get floating spread across the world. I think it's the best way for people to relax. There's nothing like it, because first of all, physically you relax because the water has so much epsom salts in it. It's just really good for your muscles. It's good for sore, anything, sore muscles, overworked.

It's great for that, but it's also great in the environment where you're in that tank with total darkness, total silence, you don't feel anything. Oh yeah, it's pitch black in there. You close the door, you don't see a ray of light. And then your ears are underwater.

And I have to get some earplugs for guests. I don't mind having the salt in my ears, but some people get a little weirded out by the salt in there. Do we have some in there?

Donnie Vincent (1:42)

There's a whole bunch there.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

I bought a big thing of it. I did. My memory's fucked up, dude.

What's wrong with me? I bought a whole giant jug of it, right?

But the other thing is that it just gives you alone time in a way that you don't ever get. When you're floating in there, you're not thinking about your body. You're not thinking about anything. You're just floating. And then it's just very peaceful. It makes you have a real moment to consider things. I've made some of my best decisions in that thing.

Donnie Vincent (2:11)

And I don't think, obviously, we all know the rat race right now. None of us.

I mean, it's why I go to the mountains. It's the same thing, like sitting there in peace. And my mind has been doing this for years, where early on, and when I would go in the Arctic, or early on when I go into the mountains, or something like that, everything was frantic. Like I had to do things really quickly. I wanted to cover a lot of ground. I wanted to...

Everything, packing, moving, everything was so frantic. And then when I started realizing that if I would just stop and slow down and look at the very tiniest details around me, no matter where I was or who I was with, then I started having a great appreciation of my presence.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

Yeah.

Donnie Vincent (2:50)

And so I'm sure something like that is just because of the darkness and because of the floating, it's just hyper extended into that presence of... You can trick yourself into thinking that nothing else is going on in your life.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Yeah, no, I agree with you. I think that we take this attitude that we have in the city when you're dealing with traffic and massive amounts of people, and you sort of have that same momentum when you go into the mountains.

And if you do do that, you're not going to appreciate it the same way.

Donnie Vincent (3:18)

Yeah, for sure.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

Just gotta look around.

Donnie Vincent (3:19)

Yeah. I did that for a few years. I would go... I thought I had to accomplish something. So I'd go to site A and hunt there. And I tried to, as horrible as this sentence is to say, I tried to kill as fast as I could so I could get out of there and go to site B and site C. And then I started realizing... I actually had a friend of mine, he's like, Man, I think you're hunting too much, I think this is going to catch up with you and the experience is going to start to degrade for you. But it was almost like I was trying to accomplish really fast goals. And when I started slowing that down and saying, Hey, I don't want to go to the Arctic for seven days and try to knock all these things off my list in seven days. I want to go to the Arctic for 30 days. And now let the Arctic come to me.