#2540 - Travis Barker

“would just check them off one by one. Oh, you're not going to run again. Oh, you're not going to play the drums again. Oh, you're not. You're not going to do this again. And the one that I gave myself, the restriction I gave myself is I'd never fly again, you know? And I broke it and I fly again.”

“That's what I do now. And it's like, go. Where I would just train every day, play drums four hours a day, run two hours a day. By the time I got ready, you know, to where I was going, I'm like, I'm so ready for tour. It's like, whatever, whatever life throws at me, I'm good.”

“Like, yo, if you want to go skateboarding, you want to go ride BMX bikes, go whatever, fuck off with your friends, you got to go play drums for three hours. Wow. I'm so thankful they did that. Can you imagine if they didn't, you know? Because the one thing also in my doc is like, every time like my mom dies, what do I do?”

“literally eat, sleep, and breathe it. Same thing after my accident. What did I do? Day I got home. I'm outside with scabs all over my body and I'm playing the fucking drums because it's like what I know. And also I think for kids even that don't have to hopefully endure anything I encountered.”

“Honestly, after I read his book, I'm like, oh, I'm not alone. There's a bunch of fucking psychopaths like me that just I love the fucking drums. I love to make music. I could stay in the studio for 25 hours, you know? And I don't feel burnt out and it makes me feel alive and it's therapeutic.”

“But that's how I play the drums. And that's going to help me once I go back to what I do and it's functional for what I do. I like that. But when I wasn't doing that and I was just throwing around heavy weights and I was putting on muscle, I got behind a kit and I remember I hadn't really tested it out and it was the worst feeling in the world.”

“Yeah, the fight game is crazy. It's the craziest. I'm happy my drums don't hit me back straight up, you know? I'm like. Yeah. It's also, you can do what you do for a long time.”

“You know, it's like that, I don't know. I came up like lugging my own gear around, setting up my drums, and then waiting for the show to start. And I don't, I can't just watch a movie before I play or wake up from a nap. It's just, it's just not in me.”

“I'll get a call and they'll say, hey, hey, can we come by the studio? I want to make this with you. I want you to play drums on this. I'll see Game walking in my neighborhood, Trav, I need you on this record. Blah, blah, blah. There's so much that happens right there for me.”

“He said, I'd rather you not have a blood thinner in your system if you're playing drums and you cut yourself open, or if you're boxing or light sparring. So, yeah, I mean, knock on wood.”

“The last thing my mom said to me was just play drums. The drums are literally the heartbeat of the musical body. A lot of people came just to watch him. He just had this, oh, you're going to get picked up by a band and you will be a star attraction.”

“I don't take Advil, Tylenol. Good for you. Anything. That stuff, the thing about Tylenol or Advil, I should say, for people that take non-steroidal anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen, that stuff is terrible for your gut.”

“And then we became friends. He's one of my best friends. Yeah, he's good. I love him to death. Such a good guy. What I was getting at was that he was taking ibuprofen. He was taking 800 milligrams a day. And I didn't know he was taking that much. And I was talking to him on the phone once and he was telling me, yeah, I take 800 milligrams a day.”

“And so then I sent him some information that Rhonda Patrick, Dr. Ronda Patrick, put out about the problem with ibuprofen, the problem with taking large doses of it on a regular basis and what it does to your gut biome. So he stopped taking it.”

“He said, well, fuck, I don't want to ruin my body. Let me just stop taking it. The pain that he was experiencing went away after he stopped taking 800 milligrams of ibuprofen a day. And he realized that the pain that he was experiencing was accentuated by the fact that he was causing inflammation in his body by taking anti-inflammatories that were destroying his gut biome.”

“So he's taking it. Exactly. Exactly. So he's taking all this 800 milligrams of ibuprofen every day. It's torching his gut biome. That's causing this cascade of inflammatory responses in his body.”

“lots of sprints, quick explosive energy. I love boxing, love jump roping. And then a few days is more like slow strength training, but only followed by, like I have to finish with something fast, whether it's 10 rounds on the bag or whatever else.”

“It's just, it's just not in me. I'm up jump roping. I'm up like watching fights. I'm up going for a run, practicing, learning something new. That's the best headspace for me to be in. Well, I would imagine the difference between drumming and I think any other kind of musical instrument is that it's so physical.”

“Like, do I have enough energy? Have I, you know what I mean? Yeah. And just jump roping. Well, this is right before I play. Dialing it in, right? And knowing what you need because of the experiences that you've had. You've had so many experiences, so many performances that you can just dial it in.”

“different triggers, different things that fuck with them, different things that calm them down. Yeah. Also, I have all these weird, whatever, where I'm jump roping, running, practicing for hours before I go on stage. And then there's the times where everything, I get thrown a curveball and I get to the venue five minutes before and”

“lungs. Wow. Do you have to take any kind of medication for this? Just blood thinner when I, when I fly. Only when you fly? Just because I know, because I know I clot, or if I'm, if I'm on a tour bus for long, long periods of time, I got to take a blood thinner, but then I don't take them every day because it's also a risk to be on blood thinners and if you get in a car accident or whatever.”

“He said I'd rather you not have a blood thinner in your system if you're playing drums and you cut yourself open or if you're boxing or light sparring.”

“Like a natural blood thinner is beet juice or, like, beet shots. So I pretty much have one every day. Baby aspirin. Beet juice is supposed to aid also in, like, oxygen utilization, right?”

“Yeah, so I wasn't vegan until 20 years ago. So I would have dairy. But do you ever eat eggs? Never. No? You know, if you have your own chickens, it's a pretty karma-free food. Yeah. It's like I have chickens. I have 19 chickens, and they're pets.”

“They go in their nest boxes, and they lay eggs. And then you just gather the eggs. The eggs will never be a chicken because they're not fertilized. It's just food. Yeah. It's just free food. I mean, it's not free. You pay for chicken food, and you take care of them and all that stuff. But, I mean, in terms of like it's karma-free.”

“Like literally no one is getting hurt. The chickens will lay an egg almost every day. Yeah. And so we have like baskets of eggs in my house. We always have eggs. I think for whatever – for whatever reason, now it's like anything – and there's this amazing – it's actually – I think they mark it as a protein, a vegan protein, but you make egg whites out of it, and it's phenomenal.”

“Well, because they brainwash us, right? Yeah. I don't take any medicine. I don't take Advil, Tylenol. Good for you. Anything. That stuff, the thing about Tylenol or Advil, I should say, for people that take non-steroidal anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen, that stuff is terrible for your gut.”

“Because Tylenol, which has acetaminophen in it, kills people every year. Like, how many people, I know we've looked this up before, but I don't remember the number. But it's not a small number of people die from acetaminophen poisoning from things like Tylenol every year.”

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“It's quite a few. Damn. Yeah, it's like you would think, oh, Tylenol is not going to kill you. It's just like a pill. And it won't if you just take one or if you take two or whatever you're supposed to take. But if you take a lot, you're fucked.”

“Like a natural blood thinner is beet beet juice or like beet shots. So I pretty much have one every day Baby aspirin beet juice is supposed to aid also in like oxygen utilization, right?”

“Yeah, I mean it was Rich Roll is actually the guy who told me about that. It was the pre-workout before pre-workouts. Really? Yeah. Yeah, people would just slam beet juice or a shot of beet juice. I do it every show. Beet juice. Mm-hmm. Beet juice like an hour before you go on stage.”

“But, but yeah. Jeez, man. Did you ever try using a hyperbaric chamber? I couldn't do it. After you know my my my uh my best friend that was in the the accident with me, A.M.”

“Whatever the fucking science is at the moment, he's on top of it. And they've got hyperbaric chambers. They've got red light therapy. They've got single method of treating injuries and recovery. They're always on top of everything.”

“I had a bunch of clots. And so they put a filter that lives in my body forever. It's like a permanent filter that kind of like funnels the blood so it doesn't get stuck. Where's the filter? It's like between my back and my stomach. Wow. Yeah, to stop anything coming up, like big clots from my leg.”

“Is that it? Yeah. Mine's not removable. IVC filter. Yeah, that's exactly it. They can't take it out and put a new one in that's removable? Mm-mm. You sure? Sure. Positive. That seems crazy. They say the, the surgery to take it out would be more life-threatening than, than leaving it in.”

“Some estimates put it at roughly what does that mean? 458, about 500. Reasonably shorthand. Yeah. Acetaminophen is fucking poisoning. It can get you. You know, if you take a lot of it. And I don't think that's the same with ibuprofen.”

“Well, because they brainwash us, right? Yeah. I don't take any medicine. I don't take Advil, Tylenol. Good for you. Anything. That stuff, the thing about Tylenol or Advil, I should say, for people that take non-steroidal anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen, that stuff is terrible for your gut.”

“Like what you could do with your arms is probably bananas. I bet you could hit a fucking speed bag all day long. I could do battle ropes. I love speed bags. I have one at the at the gym at my magic. Yeah. And it's all tempo. You have to find the rhythm.”

“I don't care what he eats. Like, that's my dog. We eat together. He gave you a bow? He gave me a bow. It was so cool. We shot it at my studio. It was so, he's so cool. And I think likewise, probably a bunch of people are like, why are you homies with a vegan, Cam?”

“And you can, you know, get them from food. Yeah, all the natural stuff. And then I feel like contrast therapy is so helpful too. Yep. Like doing sauna, cold plunge, sauna, cold plunge. Oh, yeah. Anytime I'm injured, that's what I go to. I hit up Cam actually one time and I was like, Cam, I just did a half marathon.”

“Yeah. But you get brainwashed into thinking, I need all these things. Meanwhile, turmeric and curcumin, and there's a bunch of different anti-inflammatories that don't cause any sort of gut disturbance. Then they're much better for you and healthy. And you can, you know, get them from food.”

“Like, I'm continued to be my own person. I've looked the same. I've wore the same Dickie's pants, the same band shoes. I've had the same tattoos that stopped me from getting a real job since I was 16 years old. Fuck you. You know what I mean? Straight up, fuck you.”

“So like sometimes you feel lonely being like that. But yeah, I feel like, have you ever read Relentless by Tim Grover? No. Fuck, it's my Bible. But I just had my premiere in LA and he introduced my doc. What is it?”

“Open-minded. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. I'll try anything. Yeah. For me, personally, what I've tried, I eat more meat than anything. I eat mostly meat. Yeah. Mostly wild game. But I eat a lot of ribeyes and steak, and that just makes me feel the best.”

“I bet you could hit a fucking speed bag all day long. I could do battle ropes. I love speed bags. I have one at the at the gym at my magic. Yeah. And it's all tempo. You have to find the rhythm. If the rhythm's not right, you can't keep the bag going, you know?”

“Yeah. But you get brainwashed into thinking, I need all these things. Meanwhile, turmeric and curcumin, and there's a bunch of different anti-inflammatories that don't cause any sort of gut disturbance. Then they're much better for you and healthy. And you can, you know, get them from food.”

“For me, personally, what I've tried, I eat more meat than anything. I eat mostly meat. Yeah. Mostly wild game. But I eat a lot of ribeyes and steak, and that just makes me feel the best. You know, I don't love animal cruelty. I don't like it. I don't think it's good in any way, shape, or form.”