#875 - Shannon Briggs

Joe Rogan (0:01)

One, two, one, boom, and we're live.

Shannon Briggs (0:05)

Let's go, champ.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

The champ.

Shannon Briggs (0:06)

Let's go, champ.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

If you said anything else other than let's go, champ, is the first thing you said in the podcast, it would be a giant disappointment.

Shannon Briggs (0:13)

We had to start it off right.

It's the champ, Shannon the Cannon. Let's go, champ.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

How did you get started doing this, man? That is the, you would think that that, something like as simple as let's go, champ, like that would catch on. How would that be so inspirational?

I see your videos every day. I get pumped up.

Shannon Briggs (0:32)

Thank you, brother. Thank you. I appreciate it. By the way, pleasure meeting you finally.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Pleasure meeting you too, man.

Shannon Briggs (0:35)

You too as well, champ. Let's go, champ. I appreciate this.

I made it. I'm here with you.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Your videos on Instagram get me fired up.

You're positive, they're exciting. They're fun.

Shannon Briggs (0:46)

They're real.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

It's infectious.

Shannon Briggs (0:47)

It's real. It's real.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

It is real.

Shannon Briggs (0:49)

It's real to me. It's me.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

I've been a fan of yours as a boxer for a long time, but I love how you kind of reinvented yourself over the last few years.

You know what I mean? Like, you reinvented yourself with social media. Is this something you've always been doing privately? You've been talking like this privately?

Shannon Briggs (1:09)

Like, you know, honestly, like, this is the first time in my life, I'm 44, I'll be 45 on December 4th in a few weeks. This is the first time in my life, honestly, that I'm really being myself.

I'm not putting on a show for anybody. I'm just showing my real personality, which I'm silly, I'm goofy. I'm serious at times, I'm political at times, I'm a family man.

I'm diverse, you know, I love hip hop, but I don't like listening to rap lyrics. So I just listen to beats. So this is who I am, and thanks to social media, I'm able to just show it to the world. And I let my guard down, to be honest with you. I'm finally being like, I'm not trying to be a tough guy because I'm a boxer. I'm just being who I am.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

Well, it's fun, man. You could tell because there's no other forum where you would just have a camera pointed at you. You're just saying, Champ!

Champ! And you're like mixing smoothies and talking about organic blueberries and all the healthy shit you eat.

Shannon Briggs (2:06)

That's it, champ.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

It's very exciting, man. I mean, like, you'll do a video just telling people to drink water. And you're like, fuck, man, I'm gonna go out and drink some water.

Shannon Briggs (2:14)

I'm serious. You gotta stay hydrated, champ.

I listen to you as well. You have a war on sugar. They say war on sugar. And I'm totally for that because it destroys you, man. It destroys you at every level, mentally, physically. It just takes away from you. So I try to tell people, eating right and changing my diet changed my life. I was like finished. I was like gone. I was at 403 pounds. I was out of boxing. I was financially in ruin.

And changing my diet just totally made my life different.

Joe Rogan (2:46)

Well, I love your story because I love a guy, I love a success story, but almost more than a success story. I love a success, then fuck your life up, then get it back together again story. I like that because there's a certain amount of enthusiasm that you have that you know that you've seen dark days, but now you're back. And that's part of the fun of what you're doing.

Shannon Briggs (3:11)

Thanks brother, thank you, thank you.

Joe Rogan (3:13)

The sugar thing is a fucked up thing, isn't it? Like most people don't know.

Shannon Briggs (3:17)

That's what screwed me up. I told you, I was like every day McDonald's, and this is after years of eating right, and just letting myself go. And that's a whole nother story, but I fell into like deep depression. I was just eating junk food all the time, and Krispy Kreme, and you know, sugar was just part of my diet, and it was making me crazy mentally. I wasn't suffering from depression. I wanted to off myself for over two years. I was contemplating suicide, champ. I was just like to the point, I didn't have a clue what to do, you know? Although financially I was doing well, I had got out of box and I had got a job.