David Goggins is Gomer's Therapist

Episode 482 · September 15th, 2026 · 58 mins 43 secs

About this Episode

"I'm like wildly obese, right?" Gomer says about eight minutes in, somewhere between defending his protein shake and bringing up David Goggins. He's down thirty pounds. Luke's question, which takes him forty-five minutes to ask outright, is why a guy who'll do all this won't call a therapist.

In This Episode:

  • Gomer's actual answer for why he hasn't gone to therapy — he wants the story to be that he white-knuckled it and everything was fine. He calls that a tool of the devil.
  • A listener with an eating disorder background once wrote in to say that picking a diet can just be the disorder wearing different clothes. Gomer calls it a brilliant way of looking at it and then applies it to himself.
  • Why Gomer does mobility work now. His dad's cartilage wore down to bone on bone, walking got hard so he walked less, and the hip replacement in March was followed by death in June.
  • 75 Hard, laid out rule by rule: two forty-five-minute workouts three hours apart with one outdoors in whatever the weather is, ten pages of a nonfiction book, a gallon of water, daily progress photos, no snacks or dessert or alcohol, and back to day one if you miss anything.
  • The book Luke handed him fifteen years ago, which argues that a man who doesn't brush his teeth isn't making a statement about conformity. He's hurting himself on purpose.

Chapters:

  • 00:00: Intro
  • 00:25: His father's ashes, and the song he tried to write with AI
  • 05:11: Three kinds of protein in one glass, and whether that counts as extreme
  • 10:30: Neglect as a form of self-hatred
  • 13:56: What a fall after sixty-five actually means
  • 16:42: Dante's circles, and how small things become big ones
  • 21:24: ADHD, water, and why extremes come easier than habits
  • 24:24: 75 Hard, explained in full
  • 31:53: Mobility work, and his father's hip
  • 38:01: Finding the parts of it you actually like
  • 45:54: Why he still hasn't gone to therapy
  • 51:49: The box downstairs he cannot make himself open

Resources Mentioned:

Catching Foxes on Substack: https://catchingfoxes.substack.com/

No More Mr. Nice Guy by Dr. Robert Glover: https://nomoremrniceguy.com/

75 Hard: https://andyfrisella.com/pages/75hard-info

Exodus 90: https://exodus90.com/

Pray More Retreat: https://praymoreretreat.org/

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