#2491 - Brian Simpson

**Joe Rogan** (0:01)
Joe Rogan Podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Jamie** (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Joe Rogan** (0:12)
Do you have to get new glasses?

**Brian Simpson** (0:14)
No, I just have a different pair for different stuff.

**Joe Rogan** (0:17)
Did they get stronger?

**Brian Simpson** (0:18)
No.

**Joe Rogan** (0:19)
No?

**Brian Simpson** (0:19)
I just have a...

**Joe Rogan** (0:20)
Did you always have glasses? Like, do you have an eyeball issue?

**Brian Simpson** (0:23)
Yeah, I got a stigmatism.

**Joe Rogan** (0:25)
Okay.

**Brian Simpson** (0:26)
But I got one for driving and one for my computer.

**Joe Rogan** (0:29)
I used to have to use reading glasses.
Then I started using red light, red light therapy. And I think that... The first thing I started doing is taking this company, Pure Encapsulation has this...
It's called Macular Support. It's like a combination of nutrients that help your eyeballs. I don't know how. But I explained it to Huberman. He read it off to me and he's like, this makes sense. But then the big one was red light. I started using red light therapy. I don't need glasses anymore.

**Brian Simpson** (1:02)
What?

**Joe Rogan** (1:03)
Yeah, my eyes aren't perfect. Like in low light, they're not so good. Like in a dark restaurant, I have to use the flashlight on my thing to read a menu. But I don't need glasses anymore.

**Brian Simpson** (1:13)
So I've been wondering that. Is it that I'm getting older or are they just using darker light in the restaurant?

**Joe Rogan** (1:18)
They definitely use dark light in restaurants. I mean, young people can still read it. Like I've gone to restaurants with my kids and they can read in the dark. I'm like, you can read that? I can't read it.
But like small print, like on my phone, like reading an email, I didn't use to be able to read it. And now I can read it perfectly.

**Brian Simpson** (1:37)
See now, I'm hitting that age now where I've got to start switching.

**Joe Rogan** (1:40)
Switching glasses.

**Brian Simpson** (1:41)
For different, yeah. Here we go, here we go.

**Joe Rogan** (1:45)
Listen dude, I'm just happy you're alive.

**Brian Simpson** (1:47)
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know. You know, man, I've always.

**Joe Rogan** (1:52)
For people who don't know what we're talking about, you had a heart attack.

**Brian Simpson** (1:54)
Yes, I had a heart attack three months ago. Yeah. Super Bowl weekend.

**Joe Rogan** (1:59)
Yeah.

**Brian Simpson** (1:59)
In Atlanta.
Out of nowhere. Well, was it really out of nowhere? Not really.

**Joe Rogan** (2:13)
It's not like you were a marathon runner. Right, right, exactly.

**Brian Simpson** (2:16)
But I was sitting there, honestly, I was sitting there thinking, because I remember the doctor, because we really are, we've set ourselves up, we kind of deal with trauma in a not, I mean, you can argue about whether it's healthy or not, but our first go-to is humor. And I remember the doctor getting upset with me.
The surgeon, the lady that was about to, she was like, hey, something very serious just happened to you. You know, because I was just talking, you know, I was, but it was just how I was just coping, you know. Right, right. She was not happy about it.

**Joe Rogan** (2:57)
Did you tell her that's how I deal with things?

**Brian Simpson** (2:59)
No, I was already all drugged up and shit. Because it was one of the things where I think like you can't, they can't put you out completely, like it's not that kind of anesthesia.
But I think they need you to be conscious kind of in case something goes wrong. But whatever the fuck they put me on, I don't remember any of it.

**Joe Rogan** (3:18)
And you were joking around and she was upset.

**Brian Simpson** (3:20)
Yeah, what happened was when I got to the hospital, the doctor that first saw me was like, I forget his name, but he was like, hey, I'm Doug and don't worry about anything. I'm gonna be with you the whole time. And then maybe 20 minutes later, they wheeled me in, they drugged me up. And I'm like, hey, where the fuck is Doug?
You know, and they're like, who's Doug? I was like, he promised me that he wasn't gonna leave. Obviously, I was just joking. I know like he was just saying that, so I would calm down or whatever. I don't know why Doug thought he would be bringing me comfort, but I just, but I fake made a big deal of the fact that I felt abandoned by Doug and she didn't think it was funny.