#790 - Steve Maxwell

Joe Rogan (0:03)

And we're live, Mr. Maxwell, how are you, sir?

Steve Maxwell (0:06)

Mr. Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

Oh, it's good to see you, brother.

Steve Maxwell (0:08)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:08)

And you brought your bag of all your belongings.

Steve Maxwell (0:10)

All my goodies, man. Everything I own in this world, I'll show it to you. People are always curious about this.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

This always comes up with my wife whenever I say, Steve Maxwell is going to be on the podcast. That's that guy that lives out of the bag.

Steve Maxwell (0:21)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Look at him.

Steve Maxwell (0:22)

Pretty crazy. This is everything I own in this world.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

That's insane.

Steve Maxwell (0:25)

Fits right in my back.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

He has a, I mean, that's not even a really large backpack. Like if you brought that elk hunting, people would be upset with you.

Steve Maxwell (0:36)

And then a little man purse, you know?

Joe Rogan (0:38)

So a man purse in a backpack?

Steve Maxwell (0:40)

I carry my cords and my iPad and stuff like that. Stuff I need in a plant. And I travel all over the world.

And pack really carefully, as you can imagine.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Yeah.

Steve Maxwell (0:51)

Three t-shirts, three pair of pants, three pair of shorts, a rain jacket, two lightweight hoodies, a long-sleeve t-shirt. I can pretty much recite.

I never felt more liberated than when I got rid of all my stuff.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

Wow.

Steve Maxwell (1:06)

And I'm in a different country over a couple weeks. A lot of people say, hey, why not the roller bag, Steve?

If you travel in any kind of third world country, down cobblestones, I actually had a roller bag, but I ditched it my first trip to London. I changed trains like four times, going up and down those damn stairs with a clunk, clunk, clunk of roller bag. I said, you know what? This really sucks. I'm gonna carry it on my body. So that's, I don't get any money from these guys, but it's a Tom Binn B-I-H-N. Fantastic travel bags.

So well configured. You wouldn't believe the stuff I get in there. I even have my whole workout gym in that thing, man.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Really? What kind of stuff's in there that you carry around with you everywhere?

Now this Tom Binn, is this for hiking, or is this just primarily a travel bag?

Steve Maxwell (1:49)

This is a travel bag. I wouldn't want to take a serious hike with it, but...

Joe Rogan (1:53)

Looks like it's pretty sturdy.

Steve Maxwell (1:55)

Very sturdy.

I use packing cubes. There's different packing ways. A good resource for your listeners that travel full-time, go to onebag.com. He has many recommendations for various bags and where you can just basically one carry-on bag and travel anywhere in the world for several weeks at a time.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

If you want to smell.

Steve Maxwell (2:17)

onebag.com.

Well, a lot of this stuff is high-tech. I just wash my t-shirts out in the sink, you know?

Joe Rogan (2:23)

Very high-tech. Well, if you wear one of the things that I found from hiking and camping for long periods of times, wool.

Steve Maxwell (2:31)

Wool was great?

Joe Rogan (2:32)

There's a great company called First Light, First L-I-T-E, that a buddy of mine is a part of, my friend Ryan Callahan, out of Montana, and actually, Ketchamido, met him in Montana, but they make wool outer gear and inner gear, like long johns, stuff along those lines.

Steve Maxwell (2:51)

Wool was fantastic.

Joe Rogan (2:52)

A lot of hunting gear. And you can wear that stuff for days.

Steve Maxwell (2:55)

Days.

Joe Rogan (2:56)

Days, and it doesn't smell.

Steve Maxwell (2:57)

Well, see, a lot of this stuff is this stretch polyamide.

It's like a little last name, a nylon-type material, which is real stretchy. It's silver impregnated. The silver helps stop the bacteria from moving. So you can get like three or four days out of this T-shirt. Really? Yeah, and it doesn't stink.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

Maybe you could. I stink.

I'm a stinky person.

Steve Maxwell (3:21)

Here's my gym. Check this out.

I can train rubber band for doing isometrics. I can do good mornings.

Joe Rogan (3:30)

What is the amount of tension on that rubber band?

Steve Maxwell (3:32)

They just say heavy duty. But remember, the further you stretch it, the harder it gets.

It gives this old man plenty of stretch. Maybe not you.

Joe Rogan (3:41)

I have a bowling ball bag that I bought just so I could take on the road with me so I could throw a 50 pound kettlebell in it.