#798 - Alison Rosen

Joe Rogan (0:29)

I didn't admit them, whatever. How old are you, for real? Are you allowed to say?

Are you one of those people?

Alison Rosen (0:34)

No, it's obscene, it's obscene how old I've become. 41

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Whoa, that's not obscene. I'm 48

Alison Rosen (0:42)

It feels, really?

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Yes, that's obscene. I'm almost 49

Alison Rosen (0:44)

It feels obscene.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

I'm almost 50

Alison Rosen (0:46)

Happy almost birthday.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

Yeah, I'll be 50 in a couple months and a year.

Alison Rosen (0:51)

Whoa. How do you feel about that?

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Sexy as fuck.

SPEAKER_3 (0:54)

I feel great.

Alison Rosen (0:56)

I feel like you're making almost 50 look good. I also feel like there's a hair stuck to my lip, So for anyone who's watching, and if there's like a fuzzball on my face, I'm sorry. It's just a 41-year-old thing.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

I don't think we have, our HD is not that strong.

Alison Rosen (1:08)

Oh, really? I should have just left it there then. Whatever it is, the lint that I've collected since arriving deep in the valley.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

One thing I do realize, though, as I get older, is like maintaining health is like an effort. You have to be a lot more aware of making sure you eat the right stuff, making sure you, you know, make sure you exercise on a regular basis. Don't get out of shape because you get out of shape.

Alison Rosen (1:33)

You can't get back in.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

It's way harder to get back in.

Alison Rosen (1:37)

Now, you are such a healthy guy. Did you ever go through a phase when you were younger of being unhealthy?

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Not really, no. I never went through like a binge drinking or fat phase. I mean, I've gotten overweight slightly before, but even then, I'd look at myself, I'm like, you fucking disgusting slob. Like, get it together, I just, it's, you know, there's two schools of thought on it. One school of thought is that if you spend too much time on your body, that you're vain, and it's as a frivolous pursuit, because you're gonna die anyway, and it's all pointless.

But I feel like that's kind of a cop-out, because I think that you only have this one meat vehicle to get you through this life. And if it was a car, you'd maintain it. If you have a nice car, what do you do? You take care of the oil.

You get it serviced. You deal with all the stuff that makes it run nice. And I think that you've got to do that with your body, at least for me. I have to do that with my body. If I don't, I feel like I'm slacking off in a way that's lazy and irresponsible and stupid. I just see too many people with health consequences because they don't take care of their bodies.

Alison Rosen (2:49)

I think it depends. I think if you're saying it's self-absorbed and it's vain and it's shallow to care about your body, and if you're saying that as an excuse to allow yourself to not get into shape, then I think that you're not really facing what's going on. And that thing where you're like, oh, it's just shallow, that's just, you're not really addressing what the actual resistance is. I don't know. I think for me, I got into a phase where I was going to a personal trainer, and I got really into it. And for the first time, all this stuff that I'd heard my whole life about how sport, because I'm not a sports person, so about how sports can affect the rest of your life. I never understood that. I never understood the mental part of it.

But for that time, and I'm not really in that place anymore, but for the time that I was super into it, I felt better, I definitely did. And I felt like I can put in effort in the gym and the effects, not in terms of what you see on my body, but how I feel are immediate.

And also that thing of like, this is a challenge for me, but I'm gonna dig deep and I'm gonna do it. And it set these little goals for myself almost every day that I could overcome. And that was kind of insane, that feeling, how good I felt when I did something that I didn't think I could do. And it was happening multiple times a week.

Joe Rogan (4:16)

I just think it's almost, I mean, it's not overlooked with a lot of people, but with some people it is overlooked. And I think it's unfortunate because it's thought of as like a vain pursuit, a pursuit of vanity.