#1281 - Tom Papa

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Four, three, two, one. And we're live, Tom Papa.

Tom Papa (0:08)

Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Good to see you, buddy.

Tom Papa (0:11)

Good to see you.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

Cracking, lacking.

Tom Papa (0:12)

I know, not too much. Cruising around.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

We're talking about old bodies falling apart. I got a stem cell shot in my shoulder that's killing me right now.

Tom Papa (0:20)

Yeah, I can tell you're in pain. One shot.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Well, I got several in both shoulders.

And this is not anything like a serious injury, but they've been annoying me lately, so I said, fuck it, let me just go in there. Every time I've done it, it's made me feel better.

Tom Papa (0:36)

How often do you have to go?

Joe Rogan (0:37)

I've been doing it once every six months. Yeah, that's what I have been doing.

Tom Papa (0:41)

And then it kind of is OK for a while.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

Yeah. And once every six months seems to keep me in, but it's expensive.

Tom Papa (0:47)

So is it not curing whatever it has to be?

Joe Rogan (0:50)

It's healing it, but then I'm being a moron. And going back to working out hard.

Tom Papa (0:54)

Right.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

But what we were just saying is that soft tissue heals. Like this is a soft tissue issue. Yeah. Soft tissue is one of the best things for things like stem cell therapy, because you can actually regenerate tissue. And it can heal things. Where it gets a real problem, my friend Miriam Nakamoto, she brought over those snacks, those bags of snacks that were there. She's a little snack company.

She's a multiple time world Muay Thai champion.

Muay Thai.

Tom Papa (1:22)

Muay Thai.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Muay Thai boxing, you don't even know what that is?

Tom Papa (1:24)

Muay Thai, no.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Never heard of that?

Tom Papa (1:26)

Nope.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

You're so, you're so, what are you?

Tom Papa (1:29)

White.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Yeah, you're white, but you're also like a non-jock.

Tom Papa (1:34)

Well, I was a jock my whole life.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

What would you do?

Tom Papa (1:36)

I played football.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Oh, that's right.

Tom Papa (1:39)

I played football forever and track and a bunch of stuff.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Did you fuck your?

Tom Papa (1:41)

But then I stopped.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Did you fuck your body up at all?

Tom Papa (1:44)

No, not too bad. My shoulders a little bit. My shoulders a little, but that's pretty much it. My knees, you know, like I run a lot now. I've been running a lot for the last couple of months. And what brought that on? I just want to be in better shape. I want to feel better.

I dropped like 15 pounds.

Yeah. Cook off some of that sourdough. Exactly. I was like, maybe, maybe.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

Yeah, your face looks thinner, man.

Tom Papa (2:09)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:10)

It looks good.

Tom Papa (2:10)

Yeah, I've dropped a bunch.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

That's awesome.

Tom Papa (2:12)

Thanks, man.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

That's a cool thing. Once you get going, right, you get that momentum. That's what's up.

Tom Papa (2:16)

Well, you know, what really was up was I was kind of cruising along and just like, we lost five pounds, just kind of like hanging around.

And then I realized, I'm working out like this workout that I'm doing is would have been a warm up when I was an athlete. Right. Like this wouldn't even have been a warm up. And I'm like, oh, that was pretty good. And I was like, I have to stop being a sissy and try and really push it a little more.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

Once you get a trainer.

Tom Papa (2:42)

I don't like intimacy.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

Oh, that's real. Well, you know what else you can do? There's actually apps.

Where you can follow an app and the app will put you through a workout.

Tom Papa (2:52)

Oh, yeah?

Joe Rogan (2:53)

There's several of them now. They're really good. A bunch of really good ones. I don't have any affiliation with any of them, so I'm not naming any of them.

But you can even get a yoga one. You can get a 90-minute yoga one where you just do yoga and it talks you through the poses.

Tom Papa (3:08)

That's great. I used to do yoga all the time, but I feel like I have to shift into lifting weights again.