#1894 - Suzanne Santo

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

You look lovely. Oh, thanks. You look invigorated.

Suzanne Santo (0:19)

Thank you. Well, I went to the gym and, you know, been eating well, I don't know.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

Nice.

Suzanne Santo (0:26)

Trying to take care of the vessel.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Yesterday was my first day that I didn't work out for a whole month because we did that sober October thing.

Suzanne Santo (0:32)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Worked out every day of the week.

Suzanne Santo (0:34)

So do you, is that not your usual, your norm?

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Not usually, but I kind of did it in September to get ready for October to just like get my body conditioned to this idea that we're going at it every day.

Suzanne Santo (0:46)

Do you, and do you guys have like a contest of like who burns the most calories or something? We didn't.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

We can't have a contest because we just get too stupid because Burt drives me crazy and then I go psycho. So we've decided no more contests because we did a contest that one year and we went insane. I was doing cardio like seven hours a day.

Suzanne Santo (1:04)

Oh my God.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

Yeah, because it was a contest.

Suzanne Santo (1:07)

How did you do? And you did a podcast and you have a family?

Joe Rogan (1:11)

I'll just get up in the morning and bang out seven hours of cardio.

Suzanne Santo (1:14)

What time do you get up?

Joe Rogan (1:16)

Then I was getting up at like seven. So seven and I was just going straight, just have some caffeine and go straight to the gym.

Suzanne Santo (1:24)

That's impressive.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Well, it was just, it was psychotic.

We were just in competition with each other. It was totally unsustainable.

Suzanne Santo (1:33)

I don't have that edge of like, I mean, I can power through some stuff. Like I was actually working out on it for a little bit and I liked it. But after like the two hour workout and then like we didn't stretch, you know, and then I'd like go home and stretch. And I was like, I just didn't have that much time in my day to dedicate to it. But like, it's impressive that you can just power through your discomfort. If like if you don't want to go, you still go.

I'm not good at that. No, no. That's the key.

I know.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

The key is to like not have a way out. And one of the things about this contest thing, or well, this Sober October thing wasn't a contest, but we had to do a 500 calorie workout every day. So you had to burn 500 calories, which is, if you do sprints on the Airdine machine, it takes about 45 minutes to hit 500 calories. So it's 45 minutes of 20 second sprints, 10 second rest, 20 second sprint, 10 second rest.

Or you could lift weights, which is way easier, but that's more like an hour and a half.

Suzanne Santo (2:38)

That's my favorite mode.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

Lifting weights? Yeah.

Suzanne Santo (2:42)

Yeah. And it's the best results for me too. Like, I hate running, but if something happens in my life and I'm like enraged, I'll just run five miles without even blinking.

I will just like blackout run, because I'm so mad.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

Well, running is like one of the best things to alleviate anxiety.

Suzanne Santo (3:00)

Yeah. Yeah, okay. I can see that.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Yeah, you just get that. Because if you really push really hard, it sort of rings out all the shit in your body. It's all the fucking tension. It's like a washcloth just rings it out.

Suzanne Santo (3:12)

Do we ever talk about Dr. John Sarno's healing back pain?

Joe Rogan (3:17)

Yeah.

Suzanne Santo (3:18)

There's some of it is very applicable and some of it is like, all right, I could probably also have a back problem. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

I think both of those things are true. I heard people talking about it in a very factual way. Your back pain is all mental, no.

Some people have bulging discs and they push against their nerves and they have real problems.

Suzanne Santo (3:39)

Sure, sure, sure. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:41)

And then some people do have some weird sort of psychological thing where they're like tensed up and their back is fucked up and it's all in their mind.

Suzanne Santo (3:48)

Well, I've definitely had like in the middle of like an argument with a family member, like all of a sudden my neck just starts locking and like down my shoulder blade, it's like a specific area with a specific familial wound.