#2510 - Devon Larratt

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

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

**Joe Rogan** (0:12)
Check, check, what's happening, my man?

**Devon Larratt** (0:14)
I'm so happy.

**Joe Rogan** (0:15)
I'm so happy to see you.

**Devon Larratt** (0:16)
Wow.

**Joe Rogan** (0:17)
What's going on?

**Devon Larratt** (0:17)
Joe, thank you so much, first of all.

**Joe Rogan** (0:19)
My pleasure.

**Devon Larratt** (0:20)
I feel like, you know, you are the loud speaker of the planet, man, and I'm so honored to be here.

**Joe Rogan** (0:26)
That's a very uncomfortable position to be in, I'll tell you that.

**Devon Larratt** (0:29)
That's very weird. Yeah, I bet. I bet.
But look, I mean, you've talked to everybody in the planet, and I think I'm honored to be your first arm wrestler.

**Joe Rogan** (0:38)
Well, if I'm going to have an arm wrestler, it has to be the goat.

**Devon Larratt** (0:40)
Oh, highly debated, highly debated. But I'll take it.

**Joe Rogan** (0:45)
You're in the conversation.

**Devon Larratt** (0:46)
Yeah, I'm in the conversation. There's a couple of us, I think, John Brzenk. I don't know, how close do you follow arm wrestling?

**Joe Rogan** (0:53)
Very little.

**Devon Larratt** (0:54)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (0:54)
I follow you. Well, I'm most fascinated by the fact that you can't extend your arm.

**Devon Larratt** (1:00)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (1:01)
His arms don't straighten out.

**Devon Larratt** (1:03)
No, they don't, unfortunately. That's crazy. Yeah.
It didn't work when I was trying to fight Thor either. It kind of limited the extension.

**Joe Rogan** (1:13)
When did that start happening?

**Devon Larratt** (1:16)
So, I got into club arm wrestling. I arm wrestled with my... when I was a kid, but I got into club arm wrestling around like 18 By the time I was 20 or so, we have this champion called Crazy George. Okay. He's like a very old, very decorated champion. And he famously, at the time for me, he couldn't straighten his elbows.
And I was like, oh, man, I can't wait till my elbows.

**Joe Rogan** (1:45)
Straighten.

**Devon Larratt** (1:46)
Like a silly wish, right? So it started early. Like I think I was like, probably like in my late 20s. And it just, the range started to shrink.

**Joe Rogan** (1:58)
And how, what is that from?

**Devon Larratt** (2:00)
It's just pressure mostly, like just the constant pressure on the elbow joint causes, you know, osteophytes potentially like, and it doesn't happen to all the arm wrestlers.

**Joe Rogan** (2:11)
Have you got an MRI on it?

**Devon Larratt** (2:12)
I've had three surgeries.

**Joe Rogan** (2:14)
To straighten them out?

**Devon Larratt** (2:15)
To remove bone and scar tissue.

**Joe Rogan** (2:19)
Just chip bones and stuff?

**Devon Larratt** (2:20)
Chip bones.
Dr. Pollack, bless his soul, at the Ottawa Hospital, has extended my career till this age. You know, yeah, it can, that's probably one of the worst chronic conditions that arm wrestlers get is, you know, if the bone growth gets bad enough, it can start to constrict your nerves or blood flow. And that's when it becomes a problem.

**Joe Rogan** (2:44)
Has that happened to you? 100%.
Yeah?

**Devon Larratt** (2:46)
Yeah. So I was, what, I was probably, it was like 2013, so like 13 years ago was when I had my first surgery.
And at that point, like trying to move forward, trying to move forward and...

**Joe Rogan** (2:59)
Pull it out as far as you can go. That's it?

**Devon Larratt** (3:02)
That's it, buddy. That's it, wow. Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (3:04)
The left is a little more than the right, it looks like.

**Devon Larratt** (3:07)
Probably a little bit.

**Joe Rogan** (3:08)
Yeah.

**Devon Larratt** (3:09)
Yeah. And I've had two surgeries on the right, one on the left, but in my mind, it's a small price to pay.
I'm as all in in arm wrestling as you can possibly be. And this is our cost of admission for some of us.

**Joe Rogan** (3:26)
Does that happen to every arm wrestler?

**Devon Larratt** (3:27)
No.

**Joe Rogan** (3:27)
No?

**Devon Larratt** (3:28)
No. There's lots of arm wrestlers. It's a style thing, it's a genetic predisposition, I rolled the dice wrong one day and had a bad match.
You know, I think what happens is it's really, it's the pressure, it's the bones over time. If you're, and then it's, if you're a dummy, and you know, keep on doing it when you should probably rest, that probably doesn't help. And I'm, I'm guilty, you know, so.

**Joe Rogan** (3:56)
Most of the greats.