#1321 - Robert Oberst

Joe Rogan (0:02)

And boom, and we're live. What's happening, baby?

Robert Oberst (0:06)

What's up, Joe?

Joe Rogan (0:06)

How are you, brother?

Robert Oberst (0:07)

I'm feeling great, man, thanks for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

You're looking great.

Robert Oberst (0:10)

Thanks, brother.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

You're looking rather large.

Robert Oberst (0:11)

I threatened Joe before the show. I said, you need to start off and tell me how beautiful I am.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Strong and pretty. Is that your T-shirt company?

Robert Oberst (0:19)

Yeah, that's my clothing company. It's all through Bunker Branding, and basically, that's basically the way I'm paid.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Try to keep this like a fist from your face.

Robert Oberst (0:27)

I'm just afraid everyone's gonna hear me breathe like a fat guy, like, ah! You know?

Joe Rogan (0:32)

How much, do you do any cardio?

Robert Oberst (0:34)

I do, most definitely. Have you watched Strong Man on ESPN? So, like, when you pull a truck, that's 70,000 pounds, you pull it for 100 feet, with a harness restraining your chest, like, not expulsion, but your chest expansion.

That's the hardest cardio I've ever done. I played football for a long time, so I mean.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Yo, I could only imagine. But I was thinking that, like, you have to have some cardiovascular strength to do some of those routines, some of the different challenges that you guys have to do.

Robert Oberst (1:01)

For sure. And normally, like, worlds will start with, like, what we call a load medley.

So you'll have, normally, like, four implements. Like, you'll have two kegs and two sandbags. And the kegs will both weigh 265 pounds, and the sandbags will be 330 That's what we did last year, which was fucking brutal. But you'll have to load each one of them onto a platform that's about 60 feet away.

So, you know, if you get going, it's not just cardio. You have to have diaphragm strength, too. Like, if you've got a weak diaphragm, you're just gonna fold. I've seen guys black out, and I've seen guys black out at World's Strongest Man.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

So, how does one strengthen their diaphragm?

Robert Oberst (1:41)

What we do, the normal exercise we did, it doesn't really have a name. It's just kind of something we made up.

You'll lay on your back, and you take, like, a sandbag and put it over your upper abdomen, and you'll expand, you'll push out really hard, and you try and hold it for, like, say, like two minutes, and you learn to take tight little breaths while flexing your upper abdominals. Whoa. I can spoke.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

So, you've got the weight on you.

Robert Oberst (2:10)

Right.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

And you just...

Robert Oberst (2:11)

Shhh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. And you stay flexed. And it's like, you know how you see fighters taking punches, like, just to keep tight? Yeah. Same, similar thing. And so, like me, I have a big barrel gut, like a big chest and gut, but like, it's solid. I literally get, like, I'll brag a little bit. I've got side abs in the morning sometimes, you know?

Actually, I gotta say this. The best compliment I was ever given, I put up a post and it was me drinking coffee in the morning, just naked, but like from like the hip up.

And somebody gave me a compliment that actually comes from something you said. They said, damn, Robert's got a really good dick root.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

I think I invented dick root. Dick root is when those dudes, I don't understand why dudes do that. They wear their shorts so low that you basically see the top of their cock.

Jamie (3:00)

You see the root.

Robert Oberst (3:00)

They've got nothing else to show.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

So that's a weird, weird move.

Jamie (3:04)

If you Google dick root, that's all it comes up. Is it just me?

Robert Oberst (3:08)

I appreciate it. It was a very nice compliment.

Joe Rogan (3:11)

Congrats on the dick root, bro.

It's just a weird thing. I mean, when did guys start doing it? I get girls doing it. I get it. I just don't get guys pulling their shorts all the way down low like that. It seems like you're just asking to get pantsed. Like, I don't understand, like, the sagging.

I guess it comes out of prison culture.

Robert Oberst (3:32)

From what I heard, but I hate it now, but I feel like an old man because I used to do it as a kid.

Joe Rogan (3:37)

Used to sag?

Robert Oberst (3:38)