Joe Rogan Experience #1924 - Andrew Santino
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #1924 - Andrew Santino explores joe Rogan and Andrew Santino Swap Stories On Risk, Skill, And Insanity Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino spend a long, freewheeling conversation bouncing between extreme hobbies, elite performance, and darkly funny human behavior. They talk about the dangers and seduction of motorcycles, jetpacks, wingsuits, skiing, and big-wave surfing, and how risk intersects with aging bodies and responsibility. A major thread is obsessive mastery—golf, pool, darts, UFC, music, and stand-up—how many unseen hours it takes and how different true elites are from ‘good’ amateurs. They also detour into cults, the Catholic Church scandals, body brokering, weird historical punishments, and the psychology of religion and death, all filtered through their comic sensibility.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino Swap Stories On Risk, Skill, And Insanity
Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino spend a long, freewheeling conversation bouncing between extreme hobbies, elite performance, and darkly funny human behavior. They talk about the dangers and seduction of motorcycles, jetpacks, wingsuits, skiing, and big-wave surfing, and how risk intersects with aging bodies and responsibility. A major thread is obsessive mastery—golf, pool, darts, UFC, music, and stand-up—how many unseen hours it takes and how different true elites are from ‘good’ amateurs. They also detour into cults, the Catholic Church scandals, body brokering, weird historical punishments, and the psychology of religion and death, all filtered through their comic sensibility.
Key Takeaways
High-risk hobbies become harder to justify as real injuries accumulate.
Stories of friends maimed or killed on motorcycles, skis, or in big-wave surfing underscore how age, family, and seeing consequences firsthand shift your risk tolerance, even if the thrill remains appealing.
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True mastery is the result of obsessive, focused repetition far beyond what most ‘good’ amateurs do.
Whether it’s a pool champion running racks, a long-drive golfer hitting 400+ yards, or Nas constructing complex lyrics, they emphasize that pros often practice 8–10 hours a day on tiny details like a break shot or swing speed.
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Format and crowd behavior can radically change how a sport feels and who it appeals to.
Examples like the raucous Waste Management Open in golf or the Mosconi Cup in pool show that loud, party-style crowds create a very different, more accessible spectacle than traditional quiet, ‘respectful’ audiences.
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Institutions often protect themselves at the expense of individuals, sometimes in monstrous ways.
They revisit Catholic Church abuse coverups, the Vatican missing girl case, and cult leaders who use spirituality for sex and control, highlighting how reputational risk often outweighs concern for victims.
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Our relationship to bodies after death is culturally constructed and often inconsistent.
They contrast embalming, cemeteries, cremation, Tibetan sky burials, and the body-parts market, noting how people can be sentimental about graves yet indifferent to how donated bodies are dissected and sold for research.
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Elite mental toughness is about performing the same under intense pressure as in practice.
From Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan to UFC fighters and stand-ups, they frame pressure as the real test—can you execute your technique identically when stakes are high and adrenaline is spiking.
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Personal reinvention often requires physically changing environments.
Rogan moving to Austin and building a club, and Santino planning a stint in New York, reflect their belief that new cities, scenes, and challenges force growth in ways staying comfortable does not.
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Notable Quotes
“The gap between a good amateur and an elite pro is humiliating.”
— Joe Rogan
“I love when a guy can put on a clinic in something I don’t even do—so I don’t have to get obsessed trying to learn it.”
— Andrew Santino
“Humans are capable of some horrific shit, man. It’s not that long ago people were getting cut to pieces for fun.”
— Joe Rogan
“Land is for the living. You don’t need me around when I’m gone.”
— Andrew Santino (quoting his grandfather)
“Sometimes starting something new is just uncomfortable—but it’s good for you. Moving to Austin, building the club, it upends you in a way you need.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How much personal risk is ‘worth it’ for the kinds of peak experiences Rogan and Santino describe (wingsuits, jetpacks, big-wave surfing)?
Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino spend a long, freewheeling conversation bouncing between extreme hobbies, elite performance, and darkly funny human behavior. ...
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Does adding noise, alcohol, and spectacle to traditionally quiet sports (golf, pool) improve them, or destroy something essential?
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Where should we draw the ethical line on taking money from regimes or institutions with serious human-rights issues, as in the LIV Golf debate?
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What does it actually take for a ‘good’ amateur in any field—golf, pool, music, comedy—to realistically close the gap toward elite level?
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How do our burial and body-handling customs reflect (or conflict with) what we say we believe about the soul and the afterlife?
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Transcript Preview
(drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) Hello, Andrew Santino.
Hello, Mr. Joseph Rogan. How are you, sir?
I'm good, brother. What's crackalackin'?
Nothing, man. Had so much fun last night. Thank you. (bell rings) Appreciate it.
Well-
Had a fun show.
Welcome to God's country.
It was wonderful.
(laughs)
Me, you, Brian Simpson, Tony.
Fun times.
So fun, dude. Cheers, brother.
Cheers, my friend.
Cheers to you. (glasses clink)
Hans Kim.
Yeah, Hans Kim. That was the first time I've seen him live.
He's a funny motherfucker. (glasses clink)
Dude, I thought when he walked in there-
Ooh, what is that?
Little bit of Balcones, uh-
Ah. (slurps)
... 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."
He goes-
But he's-
... "It's very fuel efficient."
(laughs)
That's how he thinks.
Dude, he's got the getup though. He has the helmet, the jacket matched his shoes. I was like, "For sure-"
We need to get him a motorcycle.
He's gotta get a bike.
Right.
Well, there was a bike out back, and I was like, "Oh, is that Hans' bike? That's a nice bike."
You know what he should have? A Harley.
Mm-hmm.
Hans should have a Harley. (laughs) Yeah, with those big handlebars? No. No, though, those are stupid. (laughs) Those, you can't steer. Why would you drive around on a bike that's, like, very important to get the fuck out of the way of stuff- Yeah. And your arms are up like this? Like, you, you don't, you do not have good leverage.
Although if you're lanky, it looks cool. Like, lanky dudes, it's kinda like a vibe for them to... You know what I mean? It's like a style choice. It's, it's, it's-
I have a real problem with those handlebars.
Yeah, well, you're not the, you're not the tallest guy.
I love those bikes.
That's, you know, that's tough.
That's true, too.
(laughs)
But even if I was, I mean, even if you made it to my body, like-
Yeah, like here, yeah.
... yeah, it's still stupid.
It still looks dumb. You know-
I, like, this, this you could steer.
(laughs)
Right there. Like, the racecar-
This is fun.
... the, the racing bike guys?
Yeah.
Why do they have their handlebars down there? Why? Because that's the best way to steer.
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