Joe Rogan Experience #1598 - The Undertaker

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 27, 2024

Duration

2h 43m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer Mark "The Undertaker" Calaway is a thirty-year veteran of the sports entertainment industry, and widely considered one of the best professional wrestlers of all time. Now retired from the ring, his story is the subject of the wrestling retrospective "Undertaker: The Last Ride". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Tony Hinchcliffe

  guest

• Narrator

  other

• Joe Rogan

  host

• Mark "The Undertaker" Calaway

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Tony Hinchcliffe and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #1598 - The Undertaker explores undertaker Reflects On Pain, Grit, And Wrestling’s Softer New Era Mark Calaway, The Undertaker, sits with Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe to unpack a 33‑year pro wrestling career filled with brutal injuries, evolving drug policies, and nonstop travel. He details major surgeries—including double hip resurfacings, multiple reconstructed eye sockets, and shoulder rebuilds—that enabled him to keep performing far beyond typical limits. The conversation traces his unlikely break into wrestling, the creation of The Undertaker character, and his obsessive commitment to protecting its mystique. Calaway also critiques today’s WWE product as “soft,” contrasts past and present locker room cultures, and discusses life after retirement—particularly hunting, fitness, and his admiration for military veterans and mental-toughness figures like David Goggins.

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