#1996 - Andy Stumpf

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Andy Stumpf, good to see you.

Andy Stumpf (0:15)

What's going on, man?

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Good to see you, brother. We were just talking about your Cleared Hot podcast t-shirt.

Andy Stumpf (0:20)

It was more the Joe Rogan Got In Trouble t-shirt. It did great things for sales every time the Fox News would clear. Did it, really? Yeah, I remember texting with you, and you're like, it would be better if it said podcast, so people would know what it was.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Yeah. So now, if I get caught saying like, trans women aren't women, and they, yeah.

Andy Stumpf (0:43)

The number of times during the pandemic that they used that picture.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

Well, it's because they use photos of me at the UFC weigh-ins.

Andy Stumpf (0:50)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

And I wore your shirt at the weigh-ins a couple times.

Andy Stumpf (0:53)

I'm here for it. It did great things for sales.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Well, that is generally the idea, genuinely the idea of why I wear it at the, I mean, whenever I wear someone's shirt at the UFC weigh-ins, I know it's gonna be on ESPN, and people are gonna watch it.

So I put it on. Trying to give my man some love.

Andy Stumpf (1:08)

I think it was probably a three-week time period where at least once a day, somebody would send me that picture.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

One of the problems is, in some of the photos of me at the weigh-ins, I'm holding on to the wait list of all the different fighters, what they weighed in at.

Andy Stumpf (1:26)

Yeah, because it's ceremonial, right? They've already... Yes, exactly.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

So I have this piece of paper, and I have a microphone, and I'm addressing the crowd. And when I address the crowd, I do it like this. Like I raise my hand up, I'm doing this, like, what's up? It's moving. It's not a Hitler.

But in the photos, it certainly looks like a Hitler.

Andy Stumpf (1:44)

Today is certainly an awkward day for a photo like that.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

I got a Henzo shirt on there.

So I've worn a bunch of them with John Jock shirts.

But it's just different stuff. Yeah, there's a, what is that one? Oh, that's an honored shirt. Yeah, I wore a bunch of honored shirts. But the whole idea is just, you know, help your friends. But that was the one they found.

Andy Stumpf (2:07)

Have they had the chance to, how far after the actual weigh-in is that ceremonial one?

Joe Rogan (2:14)

They have about, I think it starts in the morning and I think it cuts off at 10 a.m. I think they have a certain amount of time where they have to make the weight.

So like, it's not like they can make weight at the weigh-in, at the ceremonial weigh-in. They don't have that amount of time.

Andy Stumpf (2:29)

But is it hours later? So I'm asking because I'm assuming they start hydrating the second they get off the scale.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

Yeah, usually we do it at 4 p.m. Sometimes it's a little later. So you gotta think, they have at least six hours.

Andy Stumpf (2:41)

Okay, so they're back on the liquids or however they can.

Joe Rogan (2:45)

They can't IV it, unfortunately.

Because IVs can mask any sort of PED use, I guess, somehow or another. I guess if you like super, super hydrate, when you piss and they do a piss test, you're just only going to get the fluid.

Andy Stumpf (3:00)

Couldn't they test them before the weigh-in?

Joe Rogan (3:02)

They could, yeah, they could. They could test them before the weigh-in.

But the thing is, when someone's weighing in, drawing blood, these people are on death's door.

Andy Stumpf (3:11)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:11)

It's really fucked. I hate weigh-ins.

I hate the fact that these guys make weight.

Not always, but like 50% of the time. Because some guys do it very intelligently. Like some guys are really only cutting a few amount, a percentage of their body weight. But some guys are cutting extraordinary amounts of weight. And it's very dangerous. It's very dangerous. They seem great because they look healthy. But it's very dangerous. It's bad for your organs. It's bad for your kidneys.

There's been fighters that have died from cutting weight. And it's also, I've seen these guys on Death's Door 24 hours before the most savage competition that's currently available that's legal. I mean, that's what it is. It's like you're engaging in a fucking cage fight and maybe for 25 minutes, 24 hours after you were on Death's Door.