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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
If you want to learn more aboutstop drinking coaching, then
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
No drinking for like two plus months now.
I'm never going back.
I feel stupid for waiting thislong.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
No way rogan's quit drinking.
Let's count how many reasons hegives us for stopping no
drinking anymore no drinking forlike two plus months.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Now I'm never going back.
I feel stupid for waiting thislong because, like I would have
these days like go to the clubor do some shows, have a couple
of cocktails with the boys, havea bunch, bunch of laughs.
Do a podcast, have some whiskey, have some laughs, and then the
next day like ugh.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, and I don't know about you, but I can relate
to that so much Waking up justfeeling like, oh, why did I even
do that?
What did I say?
Who have I upset?
Why did I drink so much?
I could be feeling fresh rightnow.
And here's a big one who's everdrank and then woken up and
thought that was the best ideaever?
No one, nobody wakes up thenext morning after drinking
thinking that was a good idea.
(01:10):
But do you know how many peoplewake up the morning after not
drinking thinking that was agood idea?
Everybody.
And we often make this linkbetween alcohol and socialising.
We think that alcohol helps ussocialise, yet when we really
unpack it, does it actually helpyou socialise at all?
Have you ever spoke to somebodywho's had five cocktails?
Because I certainly have.
(01:31):
And guess what?
It's the worst thing everListening to somebody slur their
words, give me all theseopinions on how the world should
be ran, and I mean I'm sureyou've heard it a thousand times
, but when I drank, when I drankand I spoke to people, I didn't
realise how stupid I soundeduntil I started listening to
other people who had drank starttalking to me.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And I'd be going through my workouts going oh you
fucking moron, what have youdone?
If you're concentrating onimproving your health and your
fitness, why are you poisoningyourself?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, sabotaging yourself.
The next point he brings up ishow his workouts suck.
So I don't know if you're intotraining, into exercise, but
listen, I don't even know how heworked out when he was drunk.
When I used to drink alcohol, Ididn't even go to the gym.
I'd skip workouts.
I might go once or twice a weekif I was lucky.
And he's saying that the actualquality of the workout sucked.
You're kind of draggingyourself through it, aren't you?
(02:19):
Now, since I stopped drinkingalcohol just not to boast, but
just to kind of give you anexample of what can happen is I
got into the best shape of mylife.
I went from this fat, lethargic, bloated individual into being
able to squat 200 kilograms,deadlift 210 kilograms, bench
press 130 kilograms.
I couldn't do that stuff when Iwas drinking.
And hey, listen, those numbersmight not mean anything to you,
but to me these were big goalsthat I had.
(02:40):
But then he says that if youare concentrating on health and
fitness, he basically says thatyou're just poisoning yourself
and sabotaging yourself.
And I mean, he's literally hitthe nail on the head.
You are literally poisoningyourself.
And I'm so happy that he usedthat very colorful vocabulary
pulling alcohol poison, becausethat's what it is.
It's ethanol.
(03:01):
It's a highly addictive,poisonous substance that does
nothing for you.
So I'm so glad he used thatvocabulary, but that's what
you're doing Now.
This is by no means endorsed byJoe Rogan.
But if you want to access afree video training that shows
you how to get control of yourdrinking quickly we've had
clients get results in under 24hours then just go ahead and
click the link in thedescription.
It's going to show you atotally new method.
(03:23):
It's scientifically validated.
You're going to be able tolearn about the findings of this
scientific report.
That was written by an academicpsychologist who has
peer-reviewed publishedaddiction research, formerly
affiliated with the Universityof Oxford.
We've commissioned him to goand analyse my programme, go
through all the scientificliterature and understand why
the heck we get such goodresults.
But if you want a free videotraining showing you how this
brand new method works, justclick the link in the
(03:48):
description, stick in your nameand email address and watch that
.
But again, that's no link toJoe Rogan.
I just want to help you.
Now let's get into the topics.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But you also start thinking, well, that's the only
way to have fun.
You have to have fun too.
But no, it's not changing myfun.
Fun is a prerequisite, like asa comedian, like you have to be
having fun.
Yeah, it's part of the fun ofcomedy is like enjoying it.
I thought like maybe it wouldbe less fun if I was sober.
It's not.
It's not any less fun sober,it's just as fun and it's just I
feel better.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The fourth thing he said is that he had this idea
that the only way to have funwas with alcohol, and that is a
belief that a lot of people haveNow.
How this works is and becauseup until this point is, if
you've drank alcohol for manyyears, anytime that you've had
(04:33):
fun, like at a big social event,a wedding, a party or whatever
we often make this false linkthat it was alcohol causing the
fun.
But this is all to do withreference experiences.
Right, you could have gonethrough all of those things
without drinking and had anequal amount of fun.
But the problem is is that ifyou've drank for years, you
never can relate not drinking tohaving fun, because most of
your memories have had alcoholin them.
(04:53):
So that's what he's saying, ishe thought this, but then he
moves on to the next point wherehe says that he's actually
reframed this and now he haseven more fun.
See, fun and alcohol like.
This idea that we have less funwhen we don't drink alcohol is a
myth.
And once you finally stop,that's when you start realising
that it was never fun in thefirst place.
There's nothing fun about what?
Look, start realizing that itwas never fun in the first place
(05:14):
.
There's nothing fun about what.
Look, how is this having anyfun at all?
I mean, that's all you do whenyou drink alcohol, right?
Is you drink something?
There's nothing fun at allabout that.
But I think the only way thatyou can experience this is
through stopping, and I thinkthat's why he's kind of talking
about this, because he said hestopped for like a month, so
he's kind of getting thesereference experiences.
Now.
This guy is clearly anextremely sociable person doing
all sorts of stuff, and he'ssaying he's having more fun.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
How cool is that and this is one of the things that
I've always tried to tell allthese comedians If you have more
energy, you will have moreenergy on stage.
If you have more energy, youcould do more shows.
You could do multiple shows anight and you don't get fatigued
.
It carries over into comedy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The next thing he brings up is he just feels
better.
And I mean, who doesn't feelbetter after stopping drinking?
Right, everybody feels better.
You're not poisoning yourselfanymore.
Then he starts talking aboutenergy levels and he starts
explaining how, when he talks tocomedians, you know if you're
healthy and you're fit, you'reable to do more.
You're able to do more shows,which probably means more money,
which probably means makingpeople laugh more.
And now he is also talkingabout fitness.
(06:12):
In the video he's not justtalking about stopping drinking
entirely, he's talking abouthealth in general, but I'm just
so happy that alcohol came up inthis conversation.
But he's saying when you've gotmore energy, when you're
healthy, when you're notdrinking, you can do more stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And, of course you can.
Your body and your brain areinexorably connected.
If your body functions better,your brain will function better.
It's like it's not rocketscience, it's real simple.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You know, I love the way he puts it.
He said it's not rocket science, right?
If your body's healthy andyou're feeling good, of course
you're going to do more, butwhat he was saying is that it
carries over into comedy.
That was his specific example.
But it isn't just comedy.
It's every area of your lifeyour marriage, your business,
just whatever it is.
Everything gets better when youdon't drink.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And if you drink, you will notice a big dip.
If you have one cocktail, onecocktail will be a big dip in
the amount of recovery you haveand you won't even notice it.
You'll be like, ah, I wasn'teven drunk.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He notices that even if he has just one drink, he
will notice a dip in hisrecovery.
I'm not sure if he was talkingabout the data that he gets on
his whoop band.
It might be to do with HRV, Ican't actually remember.
But either way, he says thatjust one drink and he can feel
the difference.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, if you're not trying to perform and do
something, you won't notice it.
A regular person at a regularjob maybe you'll feel like a
little sluggish, but it's whenyou start to like work out and
perform and run and you're likelooking at these times, or
you're on the scale and you'relike what the is going on yeah,
crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And what his guest said I think was the best part
of this whole clip.
If you're trying to perform, ifyou're trying to work out, if
you're trying to do things, bigthings, that's when you can
notice it.
And I don't think he was beingjudgmental.
I mean, there's nothing wrongwith being a regular person with
a regular job.
But I think what he was tryingto get at is that if you do want
to get to the next level inyour life, if you do want to be
(07:56):
a peak performer, if you do wantto train hard and do well in
business and do well in a careerand raise an amazing family,
then what the heck are youdrinking alcohol for?
Yeah, sure, listen.
If you've got no goals, noambition, no motivation, then
you probably won't notice thatmuch of a difference.
But if you're somebody whoneeds to be on their A-game,
that needs to be performing at ahigh level, then of course
alcohol is going to slow youdown.
(08:17):
And I think that was personallymy favourite point of the whole
video and I'm so glad that heinterjected at that point.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, most people are just used to feeling like
garbage.
Well, think about most people'sdiet, and if they just cleaned
up their diet and then just cutout all the nonsense, you would
feel so much better.
But most people aren't doingthat, so they're accustomed.
They think this is what you'resupposed to feel like this is
life.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You know most people they just feel like garbage and
they think that that's just howthey're supposed to feel.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, it's like having water in your ear and you
forget and then pops like oh Ican hear now, right like they're
walking through life with waterin their ear and they think
this is what it sounds like.
But it's just, you're poisoningyourself.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But then I just love the metaphor that he finishes
the video off with.
It's like having water in yourear and then all of a sudden
it's out and it's like thisrelief of like oh, I didn't even
notice it, but it's got nothingto do with water in your ear.
He puts it best you're justpoisoning yourself.
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking podcast by Sober
Clear.
If you want to learn more abouthow we work with people to help
(09:15):
them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit
wwwsoberclearcom.
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
If you want to learn more aboutstop drinking coaching, then
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
No drinking for like two plus months now.
I'm never going back.
I feel stupid for waiting thislong.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
No way rogan's quit drinking.
Let's count how many reasons hegives us for stopping no
drinking anymore no drinking forlike two plus months.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Now I'm never going back.
I feel stupid for waiting thislong because, like I would have
these days like go to the clubor do some shows, have a couple
of cocktails with the boys, havea bunch, bunch of laughs.
Do a podcast, have some whiskey, have some laughs, and then the
next day like ugh.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, and I don't know about you, but I can relate
to that so much Waking up justfeeling like, oh, why did I even
do that?
What did I say?
Who have I upset?
Why did I drink so much?
I could be feeling fresh rightnow.
And here's a big one who's everdrank and then woken up and
thought that was the best ideaever?
No one, nobody wakes up thenext morning after drinking
thinking that was a good idea.
(01:10):
But do you know how many peoplewake up the morning after not
drinking thinking that was agood idea?
Everybody.
And we often make this linkbetween alcohol and socialising.
We think that alcohol helps ussocialise, yet when we really
unpack it, does it actually helpyou socialise at all?
Have you ever spoke to somebodywho's had five cocktails?
Because I certainly have.
(01:31):
And guess what?
It's the worst thing everListening to somebody slur their
words, give me all theseopinions on how the world should
be ran, and I mean I'm sureyou've heard it a thousand times
, but when I drank, when I drankand I spoke to people, I didn't
realise how stupid I soundeduntil I started listening to
other people who had drank starttalking to me.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And I'd be going through my workouts going oh you
fucking moron, what have youdone?
If you're concentrating onimproving your health and your
fitness, why are you poisoningyourself?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, sabotaging yourself.
The next point he brings up ishow his workouts suck.
So I don't know if you're intotraining, into exercise, but
listen, I don't even know how heworked out when he was drunk.
When I used to drink alcohol, Ididn't even go to the gym.
I'd skip workouts.
I might go once or twice a weekif I was lucky.
And he's saying that the actualquality of the workout sucked.
You're kind of draggingyourself through it, aren't you?
(02:19):
Now, since I stopped drinkingalcohol just not to boast, but
just to kind of give you anexample of what can happen is I
got into the best shape of mylife.
I went from this fat, lethargic, bloated individual into being
able to squat 200 kilograms,deadlift 210 kilograms, bench
press 130 kilograms.
I couldn't do that stuff when Iwas drinking.
And hey, listen, those numbersmight not mean anything to you,
but to me these were big goalsthat I had.
(02:40):
But then he says that if youare concentrating on health and
fitness, he basically says thatyou're just poisoning yourself
and sabotaging yourself.
And I mean, he's literally hitthe nail on the head.
You are literally poisoningyourself.
And I'm so happy that he usedthat very colorful vocabulary
pulling alcohol poison, becausethat's what it is.
It's ethanol.
(03:01):
It's a highly addictive,poisonous substance that does
nothing for you.
So I'm so glad he used thatvocabulary, but that's what
you're doing Now.
This is by no means endorsed byJoe Rogan.
But if you want to access afree video training that shows
you how to get control of yourdrinking quickly we've had
clients get results in under 24hours then just go ahead and
click the link in thedescription.
It's going to show you atotally new method.
(03:23):
It's scientifically validated.
You're going to be able tolearn about the findings of this
scientific report.
That was written by an academicpsychologist who has
peer-reviewed publishedaddiction research, formerly
affiliated with the Universityof Oxford.
We've commissioned him to goand analyse my programme, go
through all the scientificliterature and understand why
the heck we get such goodresults.
But if you want a free videotraining showing you how this
brand new method works, justclick the link in the
(03:48):
description, stick in your nameand email address and watch that
.
But again, that's no link toJoe Rogan.
I just want to help you.
Now let's get into the topics.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But you also start thinking, well, that's the only
way to have fun.
You have to have fun too.
But no, it's not changing myfun.
Fun is a prerequisite, like asa comedian, like you have to be
having fun.
Yeah, it's part of the fun ofcomedy is like enjoying it.
I thought like maybe it wouldbe less fun if I was sober.
It's not.
It's not any less fun sober,it's just as fun and it's just I
feel better.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The fourth thing he said is that he had this idea
that the only way to have funwas with alcohol, and that is a
belief that a lot of people haveNow.
How this works is and becauseup until this point is, if
you've drank alcohol for manyyears, anytime that you've had
(04:33):
fun, like at a big social event,a wedding, a party or whatever
we often make this false linkthat it was alcohol causing the
fun.
But this is all to do withreference experiences.
Right, you could have gonethrough all of those things
without drinking and had anequal amount of fun.
But the problem is is that ifyou've drank for years, you
never can relate not drinking tohaving fun, because most of
your memories have had alcoholin them.
(04:53):
So that's what he's saying, ishe thought this, but then he
moves on to the next point wherehe says that he's actually
reframed this and now he haseven more fun.
See, fun and alcohol like.
This idea that we have less funwhen we don't drink alcohol is a
myth.
And once you finally stop,that's when you start realising
that it was never fun in thefirst place.
There's nothing fun about what?
Look, start realizing that itwas never fun in the first place
(05:14):
.
There's nothing fun about what.
Look, how is this having anyfun at all?
I mean, that's all you do whenyou drink alcohol, right?
Is you drink something?
There's nothing fun at allabout that.
But I think the only way thatyou can experience this is
through stopping, and I thinkthat's why he's kind of talking
about this, because he said hestopped for like a month, so
he's kind of getting thesereference experiences.
Now.
This guy is clearly anextremely sociable person doing
all sorts of stuff, and he'ssaying he's having more fun.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
How cool is that and this is one of the things that
I've always tried to tell allthese comedians If you have more
energy, you will have moreenergy on stage.
If you have more energy, youcould do more shows.
You could do multiple shows anight and you don't get fatigued
.
It carries over into comedy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The next thing he brings up is he just feels
better.
And I mean, who doesn't feelbetter after stopping drinking?
Right, everybody feels better.
You're not poisoning yourselfanymore.
Then he starts talking aboutenergy levels and he starts
explaining how, when he talks tocomedians, you know if you're
healthy and you're fit, you'reable to do more.
You're able to do more shows,which probably means more money,
which probably means makingpeople laugh more.
And now he is also talkingabout fitness.
(06:12):
In the video he's not justtalking about stopping drinking
entirely, he's talking abouthealth in general, but I'm just
so happy that alcohol came up inthis conversation.
But he's saying when you've gotmore energy, when you're
healthy, when you're notdrinking, you can do more stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And, of course you can.
Your body and your brain areinexorably connected.
If your body functions better,your brain will function better.
It's like it's not rocketscience, it's real simple.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You know, I love the way he puts it.
He said it's not rocket science, right?
If your body's healthy andyou're feeling good, of course
you're going to do more, butwhat he was saying is that it
carries over into comedy.
That was his specific example.
But it isn't just comedy.
It's every area of your lifeyour marriage, your business,
just whatever it is.
Everything gets better when youdon't drink.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And if you drink, you will notice a big dip.
If you have one cocktail, onecocktail will be a big dip in
the amount of recovery you haveand you won't even notice it.
You'll be like, ah, I wasn'teven drunk.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He notices that even if he has just one drink, he
will notice a dip in hisrecovery.
I'm not sure if he was talkingabout the data that he gets on
his whoop band.
It might be to do with HRV, Ican't actually remember.
But either way, he says thatjust one drink and he can feel
the difference.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, if you're not trying to perform and do
something, you won't notice it.
A regular person at a regularjob maybe you'll feel like a
little sluggish, but it's whenyou start to like work out and
perform and run and you're likelooking at these times, or
you're on the scale and you'relike what the is going on yeah,
crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And what his guest said I think was the best part
of this whole clip.
If you're trying to perform, ifyou're trying to work out, if
you're trying to do things, bigthings, that's when you can
notice it.
And I don't think he was beingjudgmental.
I mean, there's nothing wrongwith being a regular person with
a regular job.
But I think what he was tryingto get at is that if you do want
to get to the next level inyour life, if you do want to be
(07:56):
a peak performer, if you do wantto train hard and do well in
business and do well in a careerand raise an amazing family,
then what the heck are youdrinking alcohol for?
Yeah, sure, listen.
If you've got no goals, noambition, no motivation, then
you probably won't notice thatmuch of a difference.
But if you're somebody whoneeds to be on their A-game,
that needs to be performing at ahigh level, then of course
alcohol is going to slow youdown.
(08:17):
And I think that was personallymy favourite point of the whole
video and I'm so glad that heinterjected at that point.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, most people are just used to feeling like
garbage.
Well, think about most people'sdiet, and if they just cleaned
up their diet and then just cutout all the nonsense, you would
feel so much better.
But most people aren't doingthat, so they're accustomed.
They think this is what you'resupposed to feel like this is
life.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You know most people they just feel like garbage and
they think that that's just howthey're supposed to feel.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, it's like having water in your ear and you
forget and then pops like oh Ican hear now, right like they're
walking through life with waterin their ear and they think
this is what it sounds like.
But it's just, you're poisoningyourself.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But then I just love the metaphor that he finishes
the video off with.
It's like having water in yourear and then all of a sudden
it's out and it's like thisrelief of like oh, I didn't even
notice it, but it's got nothingto do with water in your ear.
He puts it best you're justpoisoning yourself.
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking podcast by Sober
Clear.
If you want to learn more abouthow we work with people to help
(09:15):
them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit
wwwsoberclearcom.
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