#2005 - Tom Segura

SPEAKER_2 (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

How are you, my brother? What's crackhead?

Tom Segura (0:16)

I'm super stoked, man. Thanks for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Looking good, looking lean. You fucking stuck with it, man. You fucking stuck with it.

Tom Segura (0:24)

Tried to. Yeah, I've been working hard at it, actually.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

It's crazy. I mean, you've been so consistent. It's amazing.

Tom Segura (0:30)

Isn't it weird how that works?

That's what I've said to a few people, and they're like, yeah, that's what happened. I mean, I don't know. I just keep... I think I had this, I don't know if I told you, like this mentality before where I would go, if I got to a number on the scale, I thought of it as like a finish line. I didn't realize I was doing it, but I was. I was going, oh, I got there.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Right.

Tom Segura (0:56)

And then you just kind of go, well, if you're done, you're done. And then you just kind of regress.

SPEAKER_4 (1:02)

Mm-hmm.

Tom Segura (1:02)

So I just realized now that it's just, it is every day.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

It is life.

Tom Segura (1:07)

It's life. It's part of life.

SPEAKER_4 (1:08)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

If you can think about it that way, also, you got to think about it like delayed gratitude. Delayed gratitude is a very important concept if you want to have a happy life.

You can't just have gratitude in front of your face all the time.

Tom Segura (1:21)

No.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

You'll just be a mess. You want delayed gratitude. And specifically for your physical health, because you don't feel good in the end of the day. Like, unless you've...

When I don't work out, if I have a day that I blow it off, which is rare, but it does happen. If I blow it off, at the end of the day, I feel like a loser. I know that's stupid. I know it's stupid, but it's that feeling inside of you that you didn't get ahead. You didn't...

It's one thing if it's like I need a rest day. Rest days, I love them. Let me watch TV or watch a movie.

Tom Segura (1:50)

Sure.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

I indulge in those two.

Tom Segura (1:51)

You got to listen to your body on that, for sure.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

And also your mind. Yeah, I think your mind needs rest days. Yeah, I enjoy a rest day now. Really, I fucking...

But if you don't do the things you know you're supposed to do, you have that fucking nagging thing in your head. And that thing in your head, that nagging thing, that's hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of your day.

Tom Segura (2:13)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

Whereas the workout, you could just get 20 minutes in.

Tom Segura (2:16)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

And that feeling's gone.

Tom Segura (2:18)

Totally.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

Just get 20 minutes in.

Tom Segura (2:20)

There's the... I feel like a loser thing that also... But there's also this even, like, another layer to it where, on days when I don't do anything physical and it's, like, it's towards the end of the day, I kind of go, like, what's wrong with me?

And like other... Like, Christina might be like, what's going on with you?

Joe Rogan (2:39)

Mm-hmm.

Tom Segura (2:40)

And then sometimes it takes me a moment and I'll be like, I didn't work out today.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

Yep.

Tom Segura (2:44)

That's what it is. Oh, I go, yeah, so I have, like, this...

Joe Rogan (2:46)

Mental health.

Tom Segura (2:47)

Yeah. It's fucking with my head. I also have this, like, the anxiety has manifested itself physically. So I just have this, like, oh, I didn't exert myself. So it's all together. And I go, that's what it is. So I go, tomorrow morning, I just got to get it in right away.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

Yeah, it's just one of those things, like brushing your teeth. You got to fucking do it. You don't want to do it. You do it, and then you feel better afterwards. Like, in little bursts of that's how I feel every time I get in that stupid cold plunge. Every time I want to do it, every time I do it, I don't want to do it.

Tom Segura (3:17)

It always sucks.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

It sucks. It never feels good.

Tom Segura (3:19)

We had this thing where we were doing, we had to bank episodes of our podcasts. So that means we were going into the studio at like, I don't know, nine or ten, and then just spending the day there, right? And I knew that when I got home, I'd be wiped. And we got, you know, we'd be with the kids and we got to do dinner and get them ready for it. So I was like, I'm just going to get up. And so every day, I just got up a little earlier, cold plunge first.