Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE Review of 1247 with Andy Stumpf

Episode Date: February 20, 2019

Andy Stumpf holds a world record for wing suit competition and is a former US Navy SEAL. He has known Joe for many years and even has his own podcast. Check out this conversation with Joe it’s very inspiring. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

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times and those are you that know Joe's podcast while you know that he was I think one of the first seals or special forces guys that started repeating, you know, on his show and showing up. And he's not just known for being a Navy seal, but also he's a world record holder for wearing one of those squirrel suits, which is insane. And he's obviously very brave, a little a little nothing and a pretty badass dude and I have to say I really always like his style on this podcast He's well thought out speaks clearly. He's an excellent guest Generally and even has his own podcast because of Joe. So, anyway, let's start this review.

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Review! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ So, as I was saying in the intro, Andy has a world record for the squirrel suit, skydiving,

and he's big in the skydiving. During that conversation, Joe talked a little bit about the safety aspects of skydiving, and I think he was saying that it's very safe, relatively speaking, and it's almost unheard of that both your primary and back out shoe would not open and that's something that I didn't know. I didn't know that the stats on skydiving were quite as safe as they are. You can even look them up. It's very rare that people crash and get injured and die. Surprising. I once did it in Vegas, pretty scary. I didn't even like flying at the time.

I'm a lot better with that now. In fact, I think thanks to Skydiving, but I hated it. And going up was awful, and the idea of jumping out was terrifying. I think if I had known the stats on, really how safe it is these days, I would have felt a lot better.

But Andy was saying that when he was talking to Joe that most of the pioneers of the squirrel suits as they're called or the wing suits, you may have seen those, or they're all dead, all of them. They all died in some way I think while skydiving. You know, there's some great videos of these guys really close to the cliffs, just like flying close to cliffs and just, I mean, it's unbelievable, but also terrifying and just to think that you, Augusta win could just, you know, knock you into

one of those cliffs. And I mean, you're gonna smash into that thing. I don't know how fast they're going. 200 miles an hour, I don't know. They're going incredibly quick. Obviously, not even quite a terminal velocity because they're using those suits to kind of keep them up. But Andy loves it. He said those suits have come a long way. They were very dangerous back in the day, but now, excuse me, there's a lot more structural support on there.

They seem to hold themselves together better, which really makes a lot of sense. During Andy's conversation with Joe, he obviously does go back quite a bit into his time in the military and what ultimately got him to stop being a seal, which is always really fascinating to hear. I mean, this is why these conversations with Joe and say special forces guys, are really anyone at the very top of their field. I mean, just understanding how they think,

you know, how they move, how they perceive the world, how they get through tough things, how they perform on the day, it just hearing how they do it is so important. And at least to me when I have enjoyed Robyn's podcast and a lot of the time what I like is they're very normal people even though they do abnormal things. They just have a mantra like, well you got to get it done or you just got to get yourself up, you just got to get going. It seems there's nothing magical. Like obviously a lot of these guys were born with specific talents but

they weren't superhuman compared to anyone else. A lot of the time it's just hard work and putting it in. And also the tragedy of that event being over. When something like the seals, you can't do it for long, you can't do it for ever. Even if you're still a badass, like Jocco will, you've got to stop, you know, you just, you can't do that job forever. And in Andy's case, sounds like he got shot along with some other injuries at different points and he had to get done and there's certain surgeries he can't go in for and check up, he can't do, like he can't get an MRI because he has metal fragments still in his body and they could get ripped out due to the giant magnets or all they can move around and mess with

his nerves and cause some real issues. So it's not all just bad ass shooting like the movies. I mean, it's these guys get out of these situations oftentimes with really pretty horrific injuries. I mean, they put their life into that thing. And you know, it makes a lot of sense, like a high level athlete in a way, but these missions go on and they affect people's lives. Like if somebody's kind of injured playing football, they can take some time, they still get paid, heal up, come back in, get their stats, whatever. Seals, you know, they're not, they're probably not in the game of the business of saying, oh,

my knee hurts. I can't do this. I'm hurt. I want to go home. You know, I need a week off. I mean, unless a doctor like absolutely forces them, I would assume that they just take some pain meds and get home with it. And you know, that's going to make an injury worse. And tough guys do that shit. That's why they're tough guys. I mean, you know, it's probably even a little difficult for super tough dudes like seals to even identify that they have a significant injury in the sense of like they know they can power through almost anything, but you know what's the long term repercussions of that and so on. But you know, these guys, you read those seal books, they don't want to go out on missions

or like stay injured when the rest of the team goes on mission not support their guys, you know, their dive body or whatever. I mean, it's just unheard of to them so that they work through it. It's what it is. Andy talks a little bit about how he's not really an adrenaline junkie. It's hard to believe when you want to see or and now you do like base jumping with squirrel suits on. But I mean he's still the individual saying and he's always seemed like a very truthful guy. He kind of describes it as in a it's a way to like slow everything down for him almost. And I kind of like that idea, you know, maybe, maybe there is an aspect of us and you know, this is just the thought experiment, like, I don't know what you guys think, but

maybe there is an aspect of us that we get wrapped up and overwhelmed in our daily lives, you know, whether it be our boss or bills or, you know, an expensive vacation is coming and you got to pay for that and then you've got this and then you've got these things and your taxes and it's all, you know, a lot of times for people that are struggling at any given time in their life, that's too much. It's all too much. But if you throw in something like, oh, and also next Wednesday on base jumping, maybe just the idea of an event like that, put those other forces, those other things into perspective. You know, I'm sure you're the same as me. Like you overhear people at a coffee shop talking

some bullshit about, oh I've had such a terrible day because the nail salon closed at 630 and my appointment was at 6 and I just felt rushed and they're just talking about how terrible that is. Alright yeah that sucks but is it really that bad? No and if you put it in perspective if you get you know if you come at it from a different angle I think you realize that most of all the problems don't matter at all. Maybe this is what Andy's talking about you know., I, he also discusses Jiu Jitsu a little bit in this. How much he loves it. Now he's new to it, you know,

but Joe brings up some great points and just says, listen, Jiu Jitsu, you know, it's just drill. Drill, drill, drill, the on bar, the triangle, the all the different moves, just drill those. Don't worry too much about rolling when you're new. Work off your back, learn strong defense, keep yourself safe, and then when you get a big better, get good by choking out blue belts. That's all good understanding from Jozen, but just the fact that Andy is taking forward his like Navy seal mindset into this new discipline that's very difficult

Takes a long time and has to learn the process of it You know shows that he's gonna be very good, but in the same way Jiu Jitsu it's one of those things that I mean it it's tough, right? There's a reason a lot of people don't join it even though I'm sure a ton of Joe Rogan fans want to join Jiu-Jitsu because of how much Rogan talks about Jiu-Jitsu so but why don't they all just join then? Probably more people have Probably more people have, I don't know, started going to float tanks than have joined your Jitsu because of your Rogen. Maybe not, right?

Maybe that's an exact, but I would say have stuck with it because it's very hard. A lot of people quit and they quit because it is tough. It's tougher than anything else in your life you can do, which also makes the other shit that you worry about in your life less stressful. It really does seem to do that because you're not going to worry anywhere the same when you're kind of scrapping for your life and Andy's talking about this. He's a new convert to it, but I think he sees parallels in what he was doing when he was kind of on his missions and doing those sorts of things. One part of this conversation I especially enjoyed

was when Andy talked about how the very first Joe Rogan, Jerry one, should be put in a time capsule and save forever. And he's saying that it's valuable, because of what that podcast has become. And Joe was just like, wow, a sucked, it was terrible, but I've learned a lot. And I'm especially enjoyed that comment because just last week, I reviewed my first classic J.R.E. and of course, I picked the very first one. And it's been a while since I listened to and watched that one. And it was really cool to go over it again and see how far

the podcast has developed. But Joe even brings that up. And Joe says, look, I've learned a lot from this, right? And in a sense, obviously that inspires me greatly because this podcast is not that old, it's less than a year. And I still do it. And you know, I think I suck at it. I mean, I am for sure a white belt, you know, of podcasting, right? It'd be like a white belt in Jiu-Jitsu, showing up to a class. Of course, he's gonna suck, and of course everyone's gonna kick his ass, right? But I'm not gonna quit at this and I'm gonna keep getting better, and hopefully it will be you know decent enough in time, but it will be decent enough in telling. But, you know, everyone has kind of come from that angle.

And these stories are really important to hear for a lot of different regions. I mean, I would say always try and find a parallel in your life with something you want to do better at. Here, you know, talk to people that are really good at what you want to be good at, as best you can, or listen to them, or learn from them, and hear that dialogue that they want sucked at this, and they got a lot better, you know? I mean, it's the same with a black belt at Jiu-Jitsu. You get there, these guys can just sit on your head, like you don't know how to use your body.

If you've never trained, they will destroy you every time it's amazing But they've been that you know, they're not gonna hurt you I'm not trying to turn anyone off to jitsu, but the point is they started where you were once and They eventually learned it and if you really stick out of you learn I think you can get to a black belt in like 10 years But I mean you'd be you'd be doing really well in a couple of years. So yeah, I love those inspirational stories. They really kind of rev me up for getting stuff done.

So oftentimes that's why I love these like seal type guys coming on. Because they're very motivating people for sure. They just are. And then lastly in that conversation they just get into some funny bits about kind of shitty wall movies and how unrealistic they are. Things like infinite bullets and guns and all the rest of it. And that's cooler here because even me and I don't know nothing about what it would be like to be a seal and running around shooting and actually know what real life is like out there in combat but there are plenty of action movies that I watch and I'm like this is absolutely bullshit I mean some of them are unwatchable rubbish it just cracks me up but anyway that aside guys thanks for listening make sure

you check this conversation out with Andy Sump, especially if you need a motivational pick me up. And thanks for downloading. We're talking again soon. you