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Joe Rogan Experience #1371 - Andrew Santino

Andrew Santino is a stand up comedian and actor. Check out his podcast “Whiskey Ginger” available on Apple Podcasts & YouTube.

Joe RoganhostAndrew SantinoguestJamie Vernonguest
Oct 28, 20192h 0mWatch on YouTube ↗

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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino Swap Food Poisoning, Fights, and Fame Stories

  1. Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino spend a long-form hang talking about Santino’s brutal food poisoning episode on a plane, using it as a launchpad into health, diet, food safety, and processed products like Impossible Burgers. They veer into stand-up life, travel hassles, sports injuries, and the physical toll of activities like wrestling, jiu-jitsu, skiing, and calisthenics. The conversation also hits contemporary culture: Trump, political polarization, sex work platforms, cult-like fandoms, social media fakery, and internet conspiracy thinking. Throughout, they mix personal anecdotes, dark humor, and casual health skepticism while repeatedly circling back to discipline, vices, and how comics manage their bodies and careers.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Food poisoning can escalate fast, especially while traveling.

Santino goes from feeling normal to blacking out and vomiting uncontrollably on a 5‑hour flight, likely from mishandled vegetables; Rogan notes salad and buttered foods are common food-poisoning vectors and that undigested food in vomit suggests acute rejection.

Highly processed “plant-based meats” aren’t automatically healthier than real meat.

They discuss a rat study on Impossible Burger’s soy leghemoglobin showing weight and blood toxicity changes, plus the heavy use of processed vegetable oils; Rogan emphasizes that whole foods and simple fats (olive, avocado, coconut oil) are generally safer bets.

Online sex work platforms are normalizing a safer alternative to street prostitution.

OnlyFans-style services let creators monetize nudity or explicit content directly from home; Rogan and Santino frame this as legally protected, less physically dangerous, and something society will increasingly have to accept rather than moralize away.

Closed, identity-based groups easily slide into cult-like behavior.

Their hypothetical “Red Boys” example and talk of Proud Boys and influencer ‘Nations/Armies’ show how loyalty, branding, and shared grievance can radicalize members and implicate founders in actions they never directly endorsed.

Infections from gyms, mats, and shared spaces can be lethal if ignored.

Stories of staph, MRSA, and meningitis—from jiu-jitsu mats, dirty gyms, and water parks—underscore how minor-looking cuts can become systemic infections; they stress immediate medical attention and criticize extreme “only homeopathic” responses.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

Food poisoning on a five-hour flight is as bad as you think—it's a horror movie in a metal tube.

Andrew Santino (paraphrased from his plane vomiting story)

You wanna be on a plant-based diet? Eat real foods. The problems start when you try to make it look like meat.

Joe Rogan

The only people that answer polls are assholes.

Joe Rogan

It’s kind of easy to start a cult these days.

Andrew Santino

Out of all the things in nature to have sex with, vagina’s number one.

Joe Rogan

Andrew Santino’s severe food poisoning on a flight and food safetyProcessed foods, Impossible Burger rat study, and vegetable oilsSex work, OnlyFans, social media nudity, and censorship differences (Twitter vs Instagram)Cults, fandoms, influencer culture, and online group dynamicsInfections and health risks: staph, MRSA, meningitis, gym hygieneAthlete bodies: pro wrestling damage, DDP yoga, calisthenics, skiing/snowboarding risksPolitics and media: Trump’s reception, impeachment polls, culture-war reactions to MAGA hats

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