#1416 - Rob Kearney

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Two, you are the first ever person with a mohawk on this podcast.

Rob Kearney (0:05)

Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Congratulations.

I think, right? Is that accurate?

Rob Kearney (0:10)

Just say yes. Make me feel good.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Definitely the first with a purple and blue mohawk.

Rob Kearney (0:16)

It's a full rainbow, man.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Oh, yeah, that's right, all the way down the back. Very, very nice. Absolutely. Very nice. Now, first of all, I love your fucking handle.

World's Strongest Gay.

Rob Kearney (0:26)

That's me.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

That's hilarious.

Is there in that community, is there acceptance? Is there open? Is it just about like they don't give a fuck just as long as you're a real power lifter? Yeah.

Rob Kearney (0:37)

Oh, yeah. Yeah, when I came out, it was super cool. Nobody really gave me any shit.

That's the best part about Strongman. I know you had Rob Oberst in here not too long ago, and he even mentioned, yeah, he's something, but I love him. He mentioned just like the community of Strongman is awesome because we all realize what we have to do to get to this level of sport, and we all have to be a little bit sick and twisted in the head to look at a truck and get excited to pull it.

So yeah, when I came out, nobody really gave a shit. They were just like, all right, as long as you can still lift weights, we don't care.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

Yeah, it mirrors the comedy community in that way.

Rob Kearney (1:14)

For sure.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Like stand up comedy community, nobody gives a shit.

Rob Kearney (1:18)

No. As long as you're funny and you're doing your job, that's all that really matters.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

And we know some that are in the closet, and we're like, come on, man.

Because no one cares. Come out. No one gives a shit.

Rob Kearney (1:30)

It'll probably be funnier.

Joe Rogan (1:31)

Right. It's more subject matter, for sure.

Rob Kearney (1:33)

You know, not holding on to as much. It's easier to talk. Like, you know, when I came out, just like, you know, the weight off my shoulders was unbelievable.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

How long ago was this?

Rob Kearney (1:44)

That was 2014 So I was 22 years old.

Oh, okay. So I was a late bloomer in the gay world.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

Was it like when you were in high school? And like, first of all, when do you know?

Rob Kearney (1:57)

You know, I don't know that I have like I don't remember. Like I never had like an aha moment per se.

For me, it was going through high school. Like I was involved in a bunch of stuff. You know, I was a cheerleader, actually. Also played football, was doing the weightlifting thing, like was class president. So I had my hands in a bunch of different pots. College super into everything as well.

And really just focused on school and actually dated a girl for like a year and a half.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

In college?

Rob Kearney (2:25)

In college, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Did you ever date a boy?

Rob Kearney (2:29)

No.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

But did you like, oh damn, I wish she was a boy. She's cool.

Rob Kearney (2:33)

But it was, yeah, pretty much, you know, it was more like a friendship than a relationship, I guess is the way to put it. You know, like we were cool and everything and everything's going well, but like nothing else was really going on.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

When you came out, was she like, ah-ha?

Rob Kearney (2:52)

That was the reason I broke up with her.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

Oh, you came out.

Rob Kearney (2:55)

Because you know, meanwhile, you know, I'm dating this girl, but I'm watching gay porn when she's not around. I'm like, this isn't right. There's something else going on here.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

So did you like, was it gay porn, like finding gay porn? You're like, that's what I like.

Rob Kearney (3:08)

Pretty much.

Joe Rogan (3:09)

Really?

Gay porn is thought of very differently than straight porn, because like straight porn, here's the rub in the straight community. You look at straight porn, you're like, especially someone like me who has daughters, you're like, fuck, somebody probably did something awful to those girls when they were young. That's like nine out of ten times. And that's why they turned to porn. But when you see gay porn, it's like, a couple of dudes like to fuck.

Rob Kearney (3:38)