Joe Rogan Experience #1317 - Andrew Santino
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino, Joe Rogan Experience #1317 - Andrew Santino explores joe Rogan and Andrew Santino Freewheel From Food Coma To Cancel Culture Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino riff for hours on food, overeating, fitness, hunting, wild animals, and the mental ‘diet’ of modern life, using personal stories and comedy to ground the conversation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino Freewheel From Food Coma To Cancel Culture
Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino riff for hours on food, overeating, fitness, hunting, wild animals, and the mental ‘diet’ of modern life, using personal stories and comedy to ground the conversation.
They move into UFOs and the Bob Lazar case, institutional cover‑ups, and the ethics of compartmentalized secret projects, comparing them to real-world psychological experiments and corporate scandals.
A long mid-section dissects social media, texting, male friendship dynamics, and the impact of constant negative information consumption, framing it as junk food for the brain.
The final stretch dives into MeToo, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, forgiveness vs. irredeemability, and how society draws (or fails to draw) lines between different kinds of wrongdoing.
Key Takeaways
Overeating dramatically degrades performance and cognition.
They describe post-pasta and post-lasagna ‘food comas’ as feeling drunk or losing 80 IQ points, and both agree that eating big meals before performing leads to sluggish shows—reinforcing that meal timing and portion control matter for mental clarity.
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Discipline often means acting against your immediate feelings.
Rogan explains he rarely actually wants to work out, but he forces himself by ‘calling his own bluff’ and pushing through resistance, linking it to Steven Pressfield’s idea of ‘resistance’ in The War of Art and applying it to everything from workouts to cleaning your room.
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Your information diet is as critical as your food diet.
They argue that a constant stream of negative news, outrage, and catastrophes functions like eating only candy—addictive but corrosive—suggesting people should curate inputs toward interesting, constructive content instead of nonstop doom-scrolling.
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Wild animals’ senses and behavior show how mismatched humans are to nature.
Stories about deer smelling hunters from far away, bears detecting carcasses underwater, and polar bears smelling seals through three feet of ice highlight how limited human senses are and why overconfidence in wilderness environments is dangerous.
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Institutions can and do erase or manipulate records for self-protection.
The Bob Lazar segment plus the ‘Three Identical Strangers’ adoption experiment and the Teflon/3M documentary discussion underscore that labs, adoption agencies, and corporations have hidden data and altered histories, which should make people more skeptical and evidence-seeking.
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Constant texting and digital contact can be a crutch for loneliness and neediness.
They joke about people double-texting ‘Hello? ...
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Not all misconduct is equal, and punishment vs. forgiveness is a spectrum.
In contrasting Louis C. ...
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Notable Quotes
“Take care of your fucking meat vehicle.”
— Joe Rogan
“People that only ingest negative, they're like people who only eat candy.”
— Joe Rogan
“You only get one [body]. It doesn’t make you dumber if you work out.”
— Joe Rogan
“We have classes of crimes. You’re not going to say they’re all the same.”
— Joe Rogan (on Louis C.K. vs. Cosby/Weinstein)
“If you stop and think about what their life is, everything is just white and frozen… occasionally you catch something slipping.”
— Andrew Santino (on polar bears’ brutal survival)
Questions Answered in This Episode
Where should society draw the line between unforgivable crimes and mistakes that allow for growth and eventual forgiveness?
Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino riff for hours on food, overeating, fitness, hunting, wild animals, and the mental ‘diet’ of modern life, using personal stories and comedy to ground the conversation.
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How can individuals practically improve their ‘information diet’ in an always-online world without becoming uninformed or disengaged?
They move into UFOs and the Bob Lazar case, institutional cover‑ups, and the ethics of compartmentalized secret projects, comparing them to real-world psychological experiments and corporate scandals.
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What responsibilities do institutions have to prevent and reveal unethical experiments or abuses, and how should they be held accountable when cover-ups are exposed?
A long mid-section dissects social media, texting, male friendship dynamics, and the impact of constant negative information consumption, framing it as junk food for the brain.
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In what ways does digital communication—texts, group chats, social media—change the way friendships and romantic relationships function compared with in-person contact?
The final stretch dives into MeToo, Louis C. ...
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How much should we trust testimony like Bob Lazar’s when it seems consistent yet sits at the edge of what’s scientifically and institutionally acknowledged?
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Transcript Preview
(humming) Hey, Santino. (laughing) My man. Good to see you, brother.
Good to see you, brother. How are you?
Good, man. Um, the charcoal, it's you.
That's me.
I sent, I sent Santino a picture. I'll send it to you, Jamie.
I saw it.
You seen it? (laughs)
So fucking funny. I want residuals on that shit.
Yeah.
What is it called? Lucky dev- or...
Bro, it's you.
(laughs) It's me. What's it called?
It's you with a steak.
Devil something.
Something.
I put it up online, I was like, "This is so fucking funny." This is me with my own charcoal company called, uh ...
(laughs)
I you're in the market for some charcoal, man. Oh, Jealous Devil, that's what it is.
(laughs) See?
(laughs) That's so me.
With that beard.
Fucking steak down there with a, with a knife. Jealous Devil.
Bar- barbecue is the only truly manly way of cooking.
Yes.
Like, nobody brags about having a baker's hat on.
Yeah, there, there it is.
Right? There it is.
(laughs) Jealous Devil.
Just Jealous Devil. All natural hardwood.
Hardwood.
Hard charcoal.
Hardwood charcoal, bitch.
Mm. Lump.
There is nothing-
It's a manly thing.
Do you do the, uh ... Do you smoke? You smoke or just, just-
I use a Traeger. You know what that is?
No.
It's like a pellet grill.
Oh, yeah, yeah, a pellet grill, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pellet grills are the shit, man. They're so easy.
And then do you finish in a skillet or no?
Yeah.
That's the way to go, right baby?
With beef tallow.
Ooh.
Ooh.
What is that? What is that?
And you know what else I use?
Huh?
Minced garlic and, uh, rosemary. I, I put rosemary in the, in the, like, cast iron skillet with the beef tallow.
Oh, shit.
It gives like an extra (sniffs) yeah. An extra ... I learned that in an Italian restaurant.
I was gonna say.
I was like, "What are you guys doing?" And he's like, "We use a rosemary."
Rosemary.
Rosemary on the ribeye.
From the back we use the rosemary.
It's a wonderful ribeye. If I go to an Italian restaurant and the dude talks like that, I am excited.
Yeah, stoked.
I'm more pumped.
Yeah.
If it's just a regular person, even if they're nice, I'm disappointed.
Yeah. (laughs)
(laughs) You know?
Yeah.
Even if it's, like, the nicest waiter ever. I'm like, "Dude, you seem like a great guy, but damn, I wish you were from Italy."
Yeah, he's like, "I'm just whipping you guys up some fettuccine Alfredo." And you're like, "Ah, fuck."
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