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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 29, 20192h 0mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:001:08

    Sober October catch-up and Santino’s “no booze” reality check

    1. JR

      ... yeah. (glasses clinking) Two, one. (grunts) (drinks splashing)

    2. AS

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      Hi, Andrew Santino.

    4. AS

      (laughs) What's up, Mr. Rogan? This is great, huh?

    5. JR

      It's still Sober October.

    6. AS

      Still sober.

    7. JR

      You can't have real drinks.

    8. AS

      No, I'm gonna have s-... I'm gonna... not gonna have real drinks. I'm gonna have this.

    9. JR

      You can have some of this.

    10. AS

      Cheers. I'll have some of this.

    11. JR

      Pineken 0-0. Mm. (swallowing) Ah. It's good, right?

    12. AS

      Oh, yeah, it's pretty good.

    13. JR

      (grunts) (glass thudding) I know you wanna get fucked up, but you can't. How about that?

    14. AS

      (sighs) I'm not gonna, man.

    15. JR

      How about that?

    16. AS

      I'm not gonna. I need n-... I need time for my stomach to clear out.

    17. JR

      Do you think you could do Sober October?

    18. AS

      No. You know I can't do that shit.

    19. JR

      You can't do it?

    20. AS

      No. A month?

    21. JR

      A week? How about a week?

    22. AS

      I could do a wee-... I could do sober week.

    23. JR

      So you could do the first week of Sober October?

    24. AS

      Yeah, I could do the v-... The reason-

    25. JR

      Maybe, like, the first week this year, and next week-... next year, you do two weeks.

    26. AS

      If... I'll do... I could do so-... I could do a sober... I could do a sober month, but October sucks for me. It's my birthday in October.

    27. JR

      Oh.

    28. AS

      So I don't wanna take it off. You know?

    29. JR

      Mm.

    30. AS

      Also-

  2. 1:083:18

    The Cleveland late-night meal that turned into in-flight food poisoning

    1. JR

      (laughs) So, uh, n- no, uh, offense to Hilarities, which is a great comedy club, we stopped there-

    2. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    3. JR

      ... uh, Saturday night after our show in Cleveland. We went over to say hi to our friend, Jessie Mae Peluso, who was headlining there. And what was he... the dude's name?

    4. AS

      (sighs) Andrew.

    5. JR

      Andrew... Don't... Remember.

    6. AS

      I don't remember.

    7. JR

      Funny guy.

    8. AS

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      Anyway, um, so we say hi to them, and they, they graciously, the owners of the club, uh, graciously asked if we were hungry and we said, "Sure, we could eat." They have a nice menu.

    10. AS

      Why not?

    11. JR

      So I had, uh, the prime rib. It was excellent. And you had a steak with some, uh, vegetables.

    12. AS

      That's right. I had a bunch of vegetables on the side.

    13. JR

      This is probably around midnight.

    14. AS

      Uh-huh.

    15. JR

      And then, uh, we get on a plane at, like, 6:00 in the morning. We are, uh, flying back home-

    16. AS

      (laughs)

    17. JR

      ... and, uh, I pass out. And then the lady wakes me up. It's like a movie. The lady wakes me up. And then I look over at you, you're like, "Dude, I'm not good. I'm not good. I'm not doing good." I'm like-

    18. AS

      I was tripping.

    19. JR

      ... "What's the matter? What happened?" Like, we, we had walked through the airport, cracking jokes like we always do.

    20. AS

      Yep.

    21. JR

      Having a great old time. Everything seemed normal. He didn't seem sick at all.

    22. AS

      Uh-uh.

    23. JR

      He fell asleep. Tell everybody what happened.

    24. AS

      I fall asleep. I woke up like in Fight Club, when you're like... when y-... when he wakes up, he's like, "Gah," on the plane. Like, my breath caught myself, and I sprinted to the bathroom. And I was, like, so out of it. And I think the head rush had got me all fucked up. And I sat down, and I blacked out and passed out for a second. And I woke up and I'm throwing up. I mean, I am hurling, dude.

    25. JR

      You woke up throwing up.

    26. AS

      Throwing up just like (gargling) like spit.

    27. JR

      (laughs)

    28. AS

      As I wake up, I'm spitting. And I cou-... and I'm, like, holding onto the sides, like, "I can't believe what's..." Like, "I ca-"... I'm so disoriented. And I walk out and I grab the flight attendant, and I was like, "D-... I-S-S there a doctor on the plane?" Like, "I'm... S-something's fucking wrong." Like, "I don't feel good." And my... Right then, my stomach was, like, burbling again. And she's like, "Oh my God, you're, like, pale as a fucking ghost." And I was like-

    29. JR

      Well, you're always pale as a ghost.

    30. AS

      ... "I'm, like, I'm like this, bitch. This is what I look like."

  3. 3:186:38

    Food poisoning forensics: undigested food, salad risks, and past horror stories

    1. JR

      And then he saw undigested food in there.

    2. AS

      Tons of undigested food in there.

    3. JR

      And I was pretty sure it was food poisoning 'cause I've had a food poisoning before. And there... sometimes it comes on pretty quick.

    4. AS

      You knocked it on the nose. Well, that's what he thought it was too. He goes... He was asking me, he's like, "What did you have last night?" I said, "I had two drinks at the show, and I had a couple of beers after with Jessie Mae and her friend." And, uh, he was like, "Did you take any street drugs?" (laughs)

    5. JR

      Yeah, that's what he said.

    6. AS

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      He said, "Street drugs."

    8. AS

      "Street drugs."

    9. JR

      (laughs)

    10. AS

      "Did you take any back alley drugs?"

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. AS

      I said, "No, man, I swear to God." He thought I was lying.

    13. JR

      "What about ditch? Any ditch drugs?"

    14. AS

      "Did you take any ditch drugs?"

    15. JR

      "Any forest drugs?"

    16. AS

      "Any sewer shit?" So I told him the truth. I said, "Dude, I didn't take any drugs last night." And he was like, "Okay." And when he told me, he looked in there and he goes, "Oh, you have undigested food, which means your body's rejecting it without processing it, so it must be... You got a bug of some kind." 'Cause dude, I was... I d-... when I talked... when I grabbed you and I go, "Bro, something's wrong. Like, this is not..." It hit me-

    17. JR

      It was very nerve-wracking 'cause I was out of it.

    18. AS

      Yeah, you were totally asleep.

    19. JR

      'Cause I was... I had passed out, and I was so confused. I was like, "How? But you were okay."

    20. AS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      I'm like, "Did he have a stroke?"

    22. AS

      Dude, it was creepy.

    23. JR

      Like, what's up?

    24. AS

      I'd... I f-... I felt for a second in the bathroom like something medically was really, really wr-... If... My instinct was, "Oh, I must be, like, sick, or something's wrong." But then when I kept, like, having this urge to, to f-... yargh, I was like-

    25. JR

      Mm.

    26. AS

      ... "Mm-mm, something's really going on." Like-

    27. JR

      I was assuming that it was the vegetables because, uh, a lot of times people get it from p-... poorly handled salad.

    28. AS

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      Yeah. People get-

    30. AS

      It was bad.

  4. 6:3813:12

    Processed food rabbit hole: fake butter, seed oils, and the Impossible Burger controversy

    1. JR

      Doesn't mean it's fucking horrible for you, but, but all the processed oils. You know what they're finding out from those fake meat burgers? They fed 'em to rats-

    2. AS

      The Impossible Burger?

    3. JR

      ... and they're giving 'em liver cancer.

    4. AS

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Pull up what, what it, what it, what the study was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, um, uh, one of those, Beyond Meat or Impossible Meat, or not really meat, whatever the fuck it is.

    6. AS

      Just, yeah. Not meat, but looks like meat, we're trying to make it look like meat.

    7. JR

      It's processed oils.

    8. AS

      With grill marks on it. Why do they do that shit?

    9. JR

      The weird, the weird shit, it's mostly oils.

    10. AS

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      It's, like, oils from vegetables. It's very strange.

    12. AS

      A lot of soy and shit like that.

    13. JR

      Vegi-... Like, those processed vegetable oils are terrible for you.

    14. AS

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      You know what's good for you? Olive oil. That's a good vegetable oil. Avocado oil is good for you. But, like, all that other shit, like canola and... uh, all that stuff's fucking terrible for you.

    16. AS

      Well, he- so here's my question. Is it because it's not naturally occurring?

    17. JR

      Here it is. "Rat feeding studies suggest the Impossible Burger may not be safe to eat." Scroll down. This is GMO Science. It says... Hold on a second, make that a little larger. "Rats fed ge-"... Rats... What are you doing? (laughs) What's going on with your finger?

    18. JV

      (laughs) I'm trying to make it bigger and it's just going up.

    19. JR

      Rats-

    20. JV

      It's not doing that.

    21. JR

      Stop. Stop moving. Go back. Jesus, Jamie. Stop. Go back.

    22. JV

      (laughs)

    23. JR

      Go back.

    24. JV

      It's on back. This is it.

    25. AS

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      No. No, it's not.

    27. AS

      There it is.

    28. JR

      Thank you, thank you.

    29. JV

      Oh, it's the, for the picture.

    30. JR

      "Rats fed the geneti-"... No, the fucking text there, buddy. "Rats fed the genetically modified yeast-derived protein soy..." Whoa. Say that word.

  5. 13:1216:52

    World Series politics and stadium chaos: boos, chants, and viral moments

    1. AS

      ... at this World Series game the, the other day? Did you see the news?

    2. JR

      No.

    3. AS

      They introduced Trump and, uh, the First Lady and they got booed. Do you know this?

    4. JR

      Yeah, yeah. Last N-... It's going around last night.

    5. AS

      It-

    6. JR

      Last night.

    7. AS

      He fucking-

    8. JR

      It's, there's two different versions of the story I saw.

    9. AS

      Yeah. What?

    10. JR

      CNN was saying that they were yelling out, "Lock her up," but then-

    11. AS

      No, I didn't hear that. I just saw the boo clip.

    12. JR

      ... another thing was saying that they were saying, "Lock him up." Yeah, I saw lock him up is what I saw.

    13. AS

      I think it was lock him up is what they were chanting.

    14. JR

      But CNN had it where they were saying people were chanting, "Lock her up." Well, I'll just tell you the other thing too is he was... Generally, the president throws out the first pitch.

    15. AS

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      And he didn't do that because he's already thrown one out somewhere and it's been... It's, didn't look very good.

    17. AS

      Terrible.

    18. JR

      Yeah. Unathletic fuck.

    19. AS

      You wanna talk about those, we got some clips in the vault-

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. AS

      ... of people that can't throw baseballs on the first pitch.

    22. JR

      Oh, you mean Judd Apatow? (laughs)

    23. AS

      (laughs) That's, that's my favorite fucking clip.

    24. JR

      Him and Gary Delabate.

    25. AS

      Him, 50 Cent. There's a few people-

    26. JR

      Wanna scar?

    27. AS

      ... that have fucking... No, I can't right now. I'm good.

    28. JR

      Want your stomach?

    29. AS

      Yeah, I'm... I don't wanna fucking, I don't wanna fuck with it.

    30. JR

      Really?

  6. 16:5219:41

    Flashing behind home plate and the economics of online adult content

    1. AS

      See, sometimes there's good stuff at sporting events, so the other funny thing that happened was the, uh, those girls showed their tits. Did you see that? That was hilarious. These two girls are behind home plate and they're both flashing their tits. They both got banned from Major League Baseball for life and she, she tweeted it and she was, like, "Worth it." (laughs)

    2. JR

      It is worth it.

    3. AS

      It's awesome too. (laughs)

    4. JR

      Sure. She's InstaFamous now.

    5. AS

      Yeah. Two of... To her and this other girlfriend of hers. I think somebody told me they're starting a smut magazine or something.

    6. JR

      Good.

    7. AS

      That was their promo.

    8. JR

      Good for them. Get a nice sponsor- This is their promotion, uh, breast, uh-

    9. AS

      Cancer awareness?

    10. JR

      Cancer, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    11. AS

      Yeah, somebody said they started a magazine or something though.

    12. JR

      Yeah. Okay.

    13. AS

      That they got a company on the rise. (laughs)

    14. JR

      Good for them.

    15. AS

      Yeah. They show their tits-

    16. JR

      Good for them.

    17. AS

      ... behind home plate.

    18. JR

      How many girls make a living just showing their body to, like, Patreon?

    19. AS

      I- Instagram is all, is all dancing, dancing on the line of, like, legal picture prostitution.

    20. JR

      Well, the best case of it is Twitter.

    21. AS

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      'Cause Twitter, they allow you-

    23. AS

      You can be-

    24. JR

      ... you can take it in the ass-

    25. AS

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      ... on Twitter.

    27. AS

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      There's a lot of gals-

    29. AS

      Yep.

    30. JR

      ... that I have to be real careful if I hand my kids one of my phones, they don't open up that fucking (laughs) Twitter app because in the feed there's-

  7. 19:4128:44

    Kanye’s ‘church’ era, modern cults, and how online followings radicalize

    1. JR

      I think Kanye West would have an issue with it. He doesn't like, uh, porn anymore.

    2. AS

      Well, he doesn't like cuss words now, too.

    3. JR

      Yeah, he's done with that.

    4. AS

      No cuss words now on the albums.

    5. JR

      Well, he, uh, he's starting a new cult.

    6. AS

      Yeah, he is.

    7. JR

      It's, it's clear. He's, he's on his way. It's probably gonna be huge.

    8. AS

      You think it's gonna be, like, a Scientology-sized thing at some point? Where it's gonna be like people go to a place-

    9. JR

      If he wants it to be.

    10. AS

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      I mean, uh, it seems like he's doing it for free, though. You know? I mean, he's got a shit ton of money and so does his gal-

    12. AS

      Yeah, but-

    13. JR

      So, I mean, if-

    14. AS

      He likes business opportunities.

    15. JR

      He does, but, I mean, I think it probably opens up the doors for his other businesses, like his Yeezys and his clothes and all that shit.

    16. NA

      Like I said, that merch wasn't free. The show was free.

    17. JR

      Right. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

    18. NA

      Was, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

    19. JR

      It opens up the opportunities for that stuff. So, so he does the show, and then people are like, uh, "You know, what do I have to do to be in the cult?"

    20. AS

      Right.

    21. JR

      "Get yourself a pair of '11 Yeezys."

    22. AS

      "Just gotta show up with Yeezys, we'll let you in."

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. AS

      "That's all it is. You buy your way in." You'd get in. He love that shit.

    25. NA

      I could get a few, I could get a few people in, I think. (laughs)

    26. AS

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      That's-

    28. AS

      You support all that shit so much.

    29. JR

      But see, the thing is-

    30. AS

      You love it.

  8. 28:4447:57

    Health scares in real life: staph, MRSA, meningitis, and ignoring doctors

    1. JR

      Who'd you win, who would win that fight? Bert or Ari?

    2. AS

      It'd be a fun fight to watch 'cause Early's a- a early... Ari's squirrely. He's got that like, he's like lanky and long and fucking... He could put up a good fight. Bert's got the, Bert's got probably the, Bert's got probably b- you know, the maybe a reach on him. I don't know how much taller he is.

    3. JR

      Well, Ari is very tall.

    4. AS

      Yeah, he's tall.

    5. JR

      He's, what is Ari, like 6'3"?

    6. JV

      Yeah, he has a jujitsu background too, a little bit, right?

    7. JR

      A little bit.

    8. JV

      A little bit?

    9. JR

      A little bit.

    10. JV

      (laughs)

    11. JR

      A little bit. I bought him a year. He probably went... He went until he got staph, and that was about basically the end of his career.

    12. AS

      That's when most people would quit.

    13. JR

      He got a bad staph infection on his knee, man. It was horrible. Swole up. It looked like he was walking with a limp.

    14. AS

      That shit can kill you.

    15. JR

      Oh, yeah. He didn't even know he had it. He thought it was a mosqui- or a, a, a spider bite.

    16. AS

      And he just let it go for a while?

    17. JR

      Bro, we, we were playing pool and he was walking around with a limp. I'm like, "What's wrong with your leg?" And he goes, "I got a spider bite." And, you know, obviously I've done jujitsu forever and I know that sometimes people think it's a spider bite and it's staph. So, I said, "Let me see." He pulls his knee up. I go, "Dude." And I unscrew my pool cue, I go, "Go to the emergency room right now." I go, "You have a bad staph infection."

    18. AS

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      He thought I was fucking with him. He's like, "Are you serious?" I'm like, "I am dead serious. This can kill you. I'm not kidding." His fucking knee was all swollen.

    20. AS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      He had a, like, a real clear staph infection. I'm like, "But dude, you got... I'm, uh, I'm telling you, I'm not a doctor, but that is fucking staph." And then he was angry and he had a really good point. He's like, "Why don't they have signs in the gym?"

    22. AS

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      Like, you take jujitsu and it's up to everybody to tell you what staph is. 'Cause, um, m- um, Junior dos Santos just pulled out of his fight. He was supposed to fight Alexander Volkov.... but, uh, he got nasty staph in his leg. Like his, uh, lower, uh, leg, like his calf area-

    24. AS

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      ... all swollen and red and funky 'cause he got a staph infection. The same thing, like, he was like, "Why is it ... It hurts. It's, like, painful." Like, he thought, like, maybe, like, you know, sometimes you clash shins.

    26. AS

      Sure.

    27. JR

      Him, he would do it a lot, man.

    28. AS

      But you get a cut and then it just gets infected.

    29. JR

      Yeah, yeah. It could be-

    30. AS

      Like my cousin had-

  9. 47:5751:00

    California on fire, where to live, and why LA keeps comedians anchored

    1. JR

      I'm checked out because it's on fire.

    2. AS

      I know.

    3. JR

      It's on fire. The whole fucking place is on fire. Bel Air is on fire right now.

    4. AS

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Bel Air.

    6. AS

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      Yeah. What do we got? Girl dressed as a cat. "I'm almost 30. This Halloween is my last chance to fuck a guy dressed as Harry Potter." (laughs)

    8. AS

      (laughs) That's great. See? That shit's fucking great.

    9. JR

      Overheard in LA. How much, uh, are those writers, though, that are writing that kinda stuff?

    10. AS

      It's gotta be, of course.

    11. JR

      Probably.

    12. AS

      I'm sure it, I'm sure it was birthed organically. I'm sure some, some dude started it for fun and then it just, you know, kept going. Yeah, I'd like to fucking, I'd like to go away from the fires. Northern California is even worse than we are. I think we complain, but they're really lit up.

    13. JR

      Sonoma's on fire.

    14. AS

      Bad. Yeah, it's bad.

    15. JR

      Yeah, they get it bad.

    16. AS

      Yeah, it's bad up there.

    17. JR

      Yeah, that's where Henry Cejudo almost burnt, fucking burnt to death. You can catch fires, man, everywhere that's dry and LA is dry as fuck.

    18. AS

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      And last year, we got a lot of rain in the winter and everybody predicted that all the spring was gonna dry out as soon as the rainy season was over, the grass was gonna grow really high because of all the nutrients and all the water. And then boom, because the nutrient- when, when you have fires and then water, it's a terrible combination because apparently all the carbon from the fire actually helps all these plants grow.

    20. AS

      Right.

    21. JR

      And then it just gets-

    22. AS

      So it's overgrown and then now it's overgrown-

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. AS

      ... there's all this dead shit now.

    25. JR

      Dude, it's so overgrown.

    26. AS

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      It's so- when the, the areas where I run, weeds were higher than I'd ever seen them before.

    28. AS

      Right.

    29. JR

      Like fucking six-foot-tall weeds and all that, um, uh, mustard grass shit.

    30. AS

      Yeah.

  10. 51:001:06:14

    On the road comedy life: Detroit’s Fox Theatre awe and club quirks (the piano rant)

    1. AS

      Well, you, you know what you ought to talk about is how fucking we were taken back by the Fox Theater was fucking insane in Detroit, huh?

    2. JR

      Yeah, people, you could see it on my Instagram. I took, uh, videos of it and some photos, and it's the most beautiful theater. And I've worked in a lot of beautiful theaters-

    3. AS

      Yeah.

    4. JR

      This is the most beautiful theater I've ever seen.

    5. AS

      It was stunning, man. When they, they, the, the staff was so cool. They took us out afterwards. The show was done, we had chilled for a while. Me and Ian Edwards, um, and Joe had gone back down to the stage and holy shit.

    6. JR

      Yeah, look at that.

    7. AS

      Look at how fucking incredible that is.

    8. JR

      It's crazy. And this is from the 1920s and they restored it, did he say in the '80s?

    9. AS

      '80s, yeah, in the '80s it got restored.

    10. JR

      Fucking A, this place is beautiful. And the staff there is proud.

    11. AS

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      Like, like that dude that... I forget, I don't remember his name, unfortunately. Really nice guy that-

    13. AS

      Look at that.

    14. JR

      ... that gave us all the, uh, and then they took, turned the lights down for us so we could see, um, what it really looks like. And then turned the, uh, the, the roof light on. 'Cause they had all these spotlights on so they could clean and get everything ready. And they turned those down for us and then turned the house lights on so we could see all the ornate gilded woodwork. And just like, you can't build a place like this anymore.

    15. AS

      And the way, and you can, you can kind of see on the top row there's faces carved up there.

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. AS

      And he said they're all hand-done. I mean, it's just, it was fucking unreal. Oh, he said, uh, he said they redid it in the '80s and five guys died while building it.

    18. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    19. AS

      While, while fixing it. And he had said when they had a guy up there f- cleaning, they found a helmet and like a, like a pickax almost, um, that was like placed in the... The helmet was on the pickax.

    20. JR

      Oh.

    21. AS

      And this bozo comes down and he's like, "Hey Mick, look at the, look at this shit." And the guy was like, "Hey put that back, that was a, in memory of one of the builders that died during the dif- original construction of it."

    22. JR

      Oh.

    23. AS

      Like they had put it deep in the rafters. They found, he found it while he was cleaning.

    24. JR

      Oh.

    25. AS

      It was awesome. He was like, "This place is..." And he, and then right away, of course I knew it was gonna go there, after me and Joe were like, "Oh yeah, fucking yeah. This is amazing." And then he goes, then he goes, "And you know it's haunted." I was like, "I knew that was coming." I could tell from that face.

    26. JR

      (laughs) Everything's haunted.

    27. AS

      I could just l- I could look from his face, he wanted to tell us that so bad.

    28. JR

      Your mother's pussy's haunted.

    29. AS

      Your mother's pussy's... He, he said somebody-

    30. JR

      So haunted.

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