Joe Rogan Experience #1924 - Andrew Santino

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) Hello, Andrew Santino.

   4. ASAndrew Santino0:15

      Hello, Mr. Joseph Rogan. How are you, sir?

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      I'm good, brother. What's crackalackin'?

   6. ASAndrew Santino0:18

      Nothing, man. Had so much fun last night. Thank you. (bell rings) Appreciate it.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      Well-

   8. ASAndrew Santino0:22

      Had a fun show.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:23

      Welcome to God's country.

   10. ASAndrew Santino0:24

       It was wonderful.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       (laughs)

   12. ASAndrew Santino0:25

       Me, you, Brian Simpson, Tony.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       Fun times.

   14. ASAndrew Santino0:29

       So fun, dude. Cheers, brother.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:30

       Cheers, my friend.

   16. ASAndrew Santino0:30

       Cheers to you. (glasses clink)

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       Hans Kim.

   18. ASAndrew Santino0:32

       Yeah, Hans Kim. That was the first time I've seen him live.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       He's a funny motherfucker. (glasses clink)

   20. ASAndrew Santino0:36

       Dude, I thought when he walked in there-

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       Ooh, what is that?

   22. ASAndrew Santino0:39

       Little bit of Balcones, uh-

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:40

       Ah. (slurps)

   24. ASAndrew Santino0:41

       ... uh, when he walked in the room, he took off his helmet, and he had a jacket on, and I was like, "This dude bought a bike, huh?" I was like, "What kind of bike do you have?" He's like, "It, it's a scooter." I was like, "Oh."

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       He goes-

   26. ASAndrew Santino0:51

       But he's-

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       ... "It's very fuel efficient."

   28. ASAndrew Santino0:53

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       That's how he thinks.

   30. ASAndrew Santino0:54

       Dude, he's got the getup though. He has the helmet, the jacket matched his shoes. I was like, "For sure-"
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   At pool? …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      could be a shitty pro at-

   2. ASAndrew Santino15:02

      At pool?

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Yeah.

   4. ASAndrew Santino15:02

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:03

      Like, I'd go to tournaments and, you know, get knocked out and l- like, the... I'd be in, like, the top 32 of a 50-man tournament.

   6. ASAndrew Santino15:11

      But you do good enough to keep up.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:12

      Yeah, but, like, I could never keep up with those guys. To keep up with guys like Fedor, first of all, you have to be practicing eight hours a day for years.

   8. ASAndrew Santino15:21

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:21

      It's not just that I could pick up and go eight hours a day and be as good as he is. It's not going to happen. Um, the gap is so far.

   10. ASAndrew Santino15:29

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       I would have to be, like, fully dedicated to being a professional pool player, 'cause all those guys, they're the top of the top. They play eight, 10 hours a day. Shane van Boening, who is one of the best, if not the best in the world. He's right there with Fedor. I wanna have a challenge match with him and Fedor here, uh, on that table.

   12. ASAndrew Santino15:45

       Mm-hmm.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       And just stream it. When, when he... He would practice his break for five, six hours in a row, just rack the balls like a robot. Ba-blam. Rack the balls like a robot. Ba-blam. Rack the balls, uh, just over and over and o-... And he has a hearing aid, is... He's deaf. He was born deaf. He just shuts his hearing aid off, so he can't hear anything.

   14. ASAndrew Santino16:06

       Oh, wow.

   15. JRJoe Rogan16:07

       All he does is, like, focus on the task.

   16. ASAndrew Santino16:09

       That's fucking wild.

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:10

       And he's a monster. He's the, the most evil breaker in the world, 'cause he'll play 10-ball, and he'll break and make six balls in the break. So you're playing 10-ball, but he's playing four-ball 'cause his... It's... And it's... He's not, like, a big giant guy either. It's just a smooth e-... Is the way you're driving the golf ball, that smooth-

   18. ASAndrew Santino16:29

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:29

       ... perfect technique, that's what he has when he drives the cue ball. It's amazing.

   20. ASAndrew Santino16:33

       'Cause you don't need to be... I've noticed some of those guys. I mean, I, I know almost nothing about pool, but anytime I've sh- seen it, like either you've shown me, is they don't... Not all these guys are big boys, but they hit the fucking shit out of it, even if they're smaller guys.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:46

       And that's the cue ball do the, the, the, the cue stick, rather, do the work for them, though.

   22. ASAndrew Santino16:49

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:50

       When they're doing it, they're not, like, muscling it. It's like a s- acceleration of the arm, and there's a thing called a slip stroke where you actually let the cue go, and you kinda catch it at the bottom of the cue. And a l- and a l- a lot of these old-time, really smooth players, they would play with a slip stroke. And when you watch the guy with a slip stroke, you're like, "Oh, my God." Like, you have to be so advanced to be able to play smooth and effortless with a slip stroke.

   24. ASAndrew Santino17:16

       You let go of it for a fraction of a second?

   25. JRJoe Rogan17:18

       You let go of it.

   26. ASAndrew Santino17:18

       Fuck outta here. (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan17:18

       You let go of it. It slips-

   28. ASAndrew Santino17:19

       I've done that on accident.

   29. JRJoe Rogan17:20

       It slips out of your hand, you catch it, but it's because they're cradling that stick. They're not gripping it.

   30. ASAndrew Santino17:25

       Right.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      really good pool players. A lot of those guys come over and start playing pool and dominate 'cause they're so accurate, 'cause they're used to these little tiny balls and th- they're used to having this perfect stroke. But pool players, they do all kinds of different shit. Like, some guys, you got, like, the guys who, like, have that slip-stroke thing going on.

   2. ASAndrew Santino30:17

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:17

      You got guys who are like Keith McCready, who's the, the rarest of the rare, who's totally sideways with his arm. Like, his arm would be like this while he's playing. He wouldn't be playing like this.

   4. ASAndrew Santino30:25

      But it's out here.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:26

      It's out, out on the side.

   6. ASAndrew Santino30:27

      But it works.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:27

      'Cause he learned how to play when he was a little kid and he couldn't reach the table.

   8. ASAndrew Santino30:31

      Oh, wow. That's-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:31

      So he had to have his arm up there like this.

   10. ASAndrew Santino30:33

       So he was up like this.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       So he's-

   12. ASAndrew Santino30:34

       Oh, that's genius.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       ... 'cause his... You know, the table's where his chin is.

   14. ASAndrew Santino30:36

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:36

       So he's learning how to play with his arm sideways.

   16. ASAndrew Santino30:38

       That's like the guy... Jamie, what's the Korean guy that swings out of his shoes?You know the little Korean guy who literally-

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       (laughs) Flies out of his shoes?

   18. ASAndrew Santino30:44

       Dude, you shou- you should see this guy. It's the funniest shit you've ever seen. It's- he is a pro golfer who has a swing like a guy who started a month ago.

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       (laughs)

   20. ASAndrew Santino30:53

       And he literally will swing so hard, his body will turn, he'll drop shit. Watch this guy. (laughs) That's an easy one. This is, this, this is- (laughs)

   21. GUGuest31:02

       That's just a 7-iron. He doesn't even-

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:04

       But is he good?

   23. ASAndrew Santino31:05

       Yeah, he's good.

   24. GUGuest31:06

       If you're the PGA or-

   25. ASAndrew Santino31:06

       Look at that. (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:06

       Oh my God.

   27. ASAndrew Santino31:07

       Look at, he falls down-

   28. GUGuest31:09

       That's hilarious.

   29. ASAndrew Santino31:10

       ... after he fucking- (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:10

       That's hilarious. That's hilarious.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yokoto- (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

   2. ASAndrew Santino45:00

      Yokoto- (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      Came in, fucked it all up.

   4. ASAndrew Santino45:01

      I know, that's my Bobby Lee, dude, came in and fucked it all up.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      Did you ever read the, um... (laughs) Did you ever read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers?

   6. ASAndrew Santino45:10

      No, but I've heard you talk about it.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:11

      It's a great book.

   8. ASAndrew Santino45:12

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      And one of the chapters in the book is about The Beatles, and it's about how The Beatles went to Hamburg, and they were playing in a strip club, and they were playing, like, eight hours a day. So, they were playing so much, and they were so, like, tightly tuned, they went to, back to Liverpool a couple years later, and everybody's like, "What the fuck happened?"

   10. ASAndrew Santino45:30

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:31

       Like, what... They were just so tight and so smooth.

   12. ASAndrew Santino45:34

       Did they go to Hamburg just to get, just to, like, do a run, do a residency?

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:37

       To work.

   14. ASAndrew Santino45:37

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:37

       They went to work, and so they're, they're doing these shows, and they're, they're performing together eight hours a day. And so they're writing all these new songs, and they're performing, and I think they had, had to do covers too, and they're just fucking tightly-

   16. ASAndrew Santino45:52

       Put in... Putting in their work, man.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:53

       Yeah, just, like, tightly coordinated.

   18. ASAndrew Santino45:56

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:57

       Like Cirque du Soleil with music.

   20. ASAndrew Santino45:59

       Watching-

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       You know?

   22. ASAndrew Santino45:59

       Watching Paul, uh, make, like, like, improv, so to speak, Get Back.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:06

       Mm-hmm.

   24. ASAndrew Santino46:07

       Watching that was... I don't think I've ever seen any footage of something so magical happening that they were able to capture when he's like, "Da da, ba da, sa na, ba na." When you hear him-

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:18

       Mm-hmm.

   26. ASAndrew Santino46:18

       ... just humming out what he thinks the words might be.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:20

       Yeah.

   28. ASAndrew Santino46:21

       Dude, (laughs) I, I was like, I can't... You're, we're witnessing, like, little magic go off in his brain.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:27

       Yeah.

   30. ASAndrew Santino46:27

       You're watching his synapses fire into being like, "Get back." What is that? "Get back. Get back." And you see he find... Once he finds it-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:03:42

   He's got a lump…

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      now he's- they don't visit Kong Island for a few years, and they come back, and he-

   2. NANarrator1:00:03

      He's got a lump on his pituitary gland.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:05

      ... gets somebody.

   4. NANarrator1:00:05

      And he just never stop growing.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:07

      Yeah, so this is the regular-sized King Kong. This is the 50-foot King Kong.

   6. NANarrator1:00:11

      See, that looks fucking unreal.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:13

      Smash. Boom. I mean, yeah, the fucking special effects are incredible. It's so amazing what they do with CGI, but at the same time, you know that that's not real.

   8. NANarrator1:00:25

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:25

      Like, you feel it's not real.

   10. NANarrator1:00:26

       Well, yeah. I mean-

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:27

       It just feels fake. That's what's like, people that do, like Rick Baker and those guys that did special effects for like American Werewolf in London, they, they, they say that you can't replace like the physical special effects where an actual object is attacking an actual-

   12. NANarrator1:00:43

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       ... person.

   14. GUGuest1:00:43

       Yeah, it's like that.

   15. NANarrator1:00:44

       Oh-

   16. GUGuest1:00:44

       That's a-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:44

       ... I remember that, too. When I was a kid I thought that was-

   18. GUGuest1:00:47

       ... exercise.

   19. NANarrator1:00:47

       I had nightmares of like stairs. I hated stairs. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       (laughs) Yeah, sure.

   21. ASAndrew Santino1:00:50

       ... talking about this.

   22. NANarrator1:00:51

       Yeah, it just freaked me out so much when I was a kid.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:54

       Dude, back then, man, this movie freaked people out, dude. They were so scared that their kids could get-

   24. NANarrator1:00:59

       She was so good.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:00

       ... possessed by a devil.

   26. NANarrator1:01:02

       She was so- I bought it. I bought for- I was like, "That bitch is possessed."

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       I think that movie fucked her up.

   28. NANarrator1:01:07

       Yeah, right? For the rest of her life?

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

       I think so.

   30. NANarrator1:01:09

       Well, 'cause she did it so young. She's a kid in that mo- it's like-

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