#2482 - Andy Stumpf
4/14/20262 hr 40 min
Andy Stumpf is a retired Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, record-holding wingsuiter, and host of “Cleared Hot” and “Change Agents.” His new book, “Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water,” is available now.https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250379610/drownproofwww.youtube.com/@ClearedHotPodcastwww.youtube.com/@thisisironcladwww.andystumpf.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Get 30% off + 2 free gifts at https://ARMRA.com/rogan This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/JRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJoe Rogan· Host0:02
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day.
Andy Stumpf· Guest0:09
[upbeat music] Being a pacifist is the way. Avoid violence at all costs, you know what I mean, Joe?
Joe Rogan· Host0:15
Eventually. [laughs] Look at you, dog, you're a fucking author.
Andy Stumpf· Guest0:18
Let's take it easy. I'm not an author until tomorrow, technically.
Joe Rogan· Host0:21
[laughs] [laughs] No, you're an author once it's wr- I can read it, which makes you an author. I have a book in my hand- Yeah ... which makes you an author.
Andy Stumpf· Guest0:29
I tell you what, man, you had more of a, you had more of a hand in that book than you would think.
Joe Rogan· Host0:33
Really?
Andy Stumpf· Guest0:35
Um, every... You know, before we started, I had you sign one of the copies because I'm gonna keep it for myself, and the people's names who associated themself with that, who took a chance on me in supporting me, they have just as much as hands as the monkey who may or may not have been sitting in front of the computer writing out the words, very slowly.
Joe Rogan· Host0:53
Well, isn't that the case with everything in life, though? I mean- Yeah ... it's, it's really who you know and, like, the people that you associate, associate with and what you learn from them, and their examples, with everything. And then there's no individuals that are responsible entirely for their own life.
Andy Stumpf· Guest1:08
There are individuals, though, that would tell you that they are.
Joe Rogan· Host1:12
[laughs] [laughs] Yeah, but you... Those are the, those are the people that I don't hang out with.
Andy Stumpf· Guest1:17
Yeah. I can't, I can't suffer being in the presence of somebody who thinks that they had every idea and every right decision was theirs. Because I look at my own life, one, I can't compete with that because my life is defined by its mistakes and idiotic things I've done.