Joe Rogan Experience #1810 - Remi Warren

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) And we're up, Remy Warren. How are you, brother?

   4. RWRemi Warren0:17

      Yeah, pretty good, man. How are you?

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      What's going on? So we were talking, uh, last night when we were hanging out about your hand. So, t- tell me what's going on with that.

   6. RWRemi Warren0:24

      Yeah, I just actually had a, a wrist surgery. And, um, just doing something stupid ... (laughs) I don't even know if I wanna tell the story of how I did it. It's so dumb. But, uh, I tore the like, d- I guess, tendons in, in there, stuff that kind of controls all that. So they went in, took some out of my forearm-

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:40

      You're gonna have to tell everybody now.

   8. RWRemi Warren0:41

      Yeah, I know. (laughs) I was like-

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:42

      (laughs) Like, "What did you do?"

   10. RWRemi Warren0:43

       Well okay, this is, this is, this is the tru- well, I don't even actually 100% know. Um, but it was like, uh, you know when you just, I don't know, you get an injury?

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       Mm-hmm.

   12. RWRemi Warren0:52

       And you think like, you don't even think about it, you just keep doing your shit-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       Right.

   14. RWRemi Warren0:56

       And, um, it was like last September. I was, uh, I shot a pretty good bull elk in New Mexico and I'm like skinning it out and I couldn't use my hand very well, so I like taped the knife in my hand and do the whole thing. And the guys that are with me are looking at me like, "That's not right, man. You should probably get that checked out." (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:12

       (laughs)

   16. RWRemi Warren1:12

       And I was thinking about it, I was like, "Yeah, I probably should." So I went to the doctor and I was just thinking like, they're gonna say, "Ah, it's, you know, nothing." And they're like, "This is a major injury." Like, "How, how long has it been like this?" I was like, "I don't know, three months or so." And they're like, "Oh yeah, this is ... How'd you do it?" I was like, "I don't know." They said it was consistent with like a fall from maybe 10 feet straight onto your wrist. And I couldn't think of ... I was like, "I, I would remember that." They were like, "You would remember it." And I started thinking back (laughs) and like the following January I was duck hunting and these, these mallards are coming in and like pretty high up, so I shoot one and it was like, probably like, I don't know, 30 feet up, flying 30 miles an hour, and it's coming right at me. And I think, "Oh, I'll j- reach up and try (laughs) to catch it out of the air so it doesn't hit me in the face," and bent my f- hand back and I think that that's what tore it. And then just never, I just taped the fingers up and never like healed right. And then a combination of that, when I was in ... And then I was in BC th- this last year, like hiking across a mountain, had the trekking pole and my wrist just gave out, slammed into the hill, and that was kind of, I think the last straw. It finally probably tore everything.

   17. JRJoe Rogan2:15

       Oh, so you probably had it hurt-

   18. RWRemi Warren2:17

       Hurt.

   19. JRJoe Rogan2:17

       ... from the mallard-

   20. RWRemi Warren2:18

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan2:18

       ... and then ...

   22. RWRemi Warren2:19

       And then, you know, a combination, like falling, like ... And then just overuse and, and gave it the rest. And so they just went in, opened it up on both sides, took that, drilled holes through everything, and then screwed it to my f- t- there's a bone in my arm, I guess. (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan2:34

       So do they use other tendons? Do they r- m- m-

   24. RWRemi Warren2:38

       Yeah, they ... There's like these two cuts here. I don't know h- how I ... You know, one of the things I didn't want to do is research it too much (laughs) 'cause I was like-

   25. JRJoe Rogan2:45

       (laughs) Freak you out. (laughs)

   26. RWRemi Warren2:46

       Yeah. (laughs) Like I don't really wanna know what's going on. I was like sometimes the oblivious thing is a little bit better. But they took them out of my forearm here.

   27. JRJoe Rogan2:53

       Wow.

   28. RWRemi Warren2:53

       And then used those. They drilled ... There's like a bunch of little bones in here, so there's like the, uh, it's like an SL reconstruction kind of thing, so there's a bunch of little bones in there, and they just opened it up on both sides, essentially drilled through, so there's holes all the way through. Then they took those tendons, wrapped it around, and then screwed it to my forearm. But I guess when they were screwing it in, they broke a drill bit (laughs) and then they had to, um, and then they tried to get it out with another drill bit and then broke that, and then they used-

   29. JRJoe Rogan3:22

       Whoa.

   30. RWRemi Warren3:22

       ... the chuck key to d- and a hammer to get it all out so they wouldn't leave it in there. So it was ... Yeah, it's like-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Right. …

   1. RWRemi Warren15:00

      hunting is, is making sure she had the right shot, making sure everything was steady, making sure that it was gonna go right.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:05

      Right.

   3. RWRemi Warren15:06

      Because, yeah, e- it... I didn't want her to have, like, a really bad experience. But also, when we're hunting, that's what we're doing. We... You just have more experience in deciding what's going to be a good shot or a bad shot.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:15

      Right.

   5. RWRemi Warren15:16

      And-

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:16

      Right.

   7. RWRemi Warren15:16

      ... sometimes, you know, there, there are those times where you have to e- maybe you didn't s- do something right and you have to learn from that.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:22

      Yeah, no one cares if you have a dead fish on Instagram.

   9. RWRemi Warren15:25

      No.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:25

       No one cares. It's so weird. It's r- it's a really fascinating exercise in the value of life because I, I did a post a long time ago, like a series of posts, like, uh, the hierarchy of dead animals on social media. And I said, like, lowest rung is a filet of fish. Like, s- looking down at a fish, a piece of fish.

   11. RWRemi Warren15:46

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:47

       No one cares. The... Well, a little above that is a dead fish. Like, okay. A little above that's a dead bird. Like, I was holding a dead turkey. Nobody really cared. No one's angry.

   13. RWRemi Warren15:57

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       I go, "Well, let's kick things up a bit." And then I showed a picture of bear meat and I'm like, "Is this bear loin?" And it was in, you know, like, Saran wrap. And like, okay, now things are getting weird.

   15. RWRemi Warren16:09

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:09

       Like, you can show bear meat. This is a bear steak.

   17. RWRemi Warren16:12

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:12

       And people don't get mad. But if you have an actual dead bear, people will lose their fucking shit and wanna kill you. "You should die, you vile piece of shit." And they'll get so angry.

   19. RWRemi Warren16:23

       Yeah. Yeah, I, I... We just... We, we put value on certain things, and fish are at the bottom of that.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:28

       The bottom. It's wi- I g- I guess it's just because we don't relate to the fact that they don't really love their kids, you know?

   21. RWRemi Warren16:35

       Something.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:35

       Like, they don't take care of their children. They shut 'em out, and they just keep moving.

   23. RWRemi Warren16:38

       Yeah, and... I mean, outside of, like, a- an aquarium. You don't really see them as, like, on your level. They're-

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:44

       Right.

   25. RWRemi Warren16:44

       ... just below the surface. They're-

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:45

       Yeah.

   27. RWRemi Warren16:46

       ... they're fast-growing. They come and go.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:48

       There's no connection with the person. Like-

   29. RWRemi Warren16:50

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:50

       ... I think I connect more with plants than I do with a fish.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      they served us horse. I was like, "Oh." Like, "I don't know how I feel about this."

   2. RWRemi Warren30:05

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:06

      But it looked like a piece of elk. It was delicious.

   4. RWRemi Warren30:09

      Yeah, I've, I mean, I've had it in a couple... O- Outside of the US, obviously, and yeah, for the most part, you don't even know what it is-

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:16

      Right.

   6. RWRemi Warren30:16

      ... till somebody tells you. I, I think it kind of tastes a little sweeter than beef or something, but it is-

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:20

      Yeah.

   8. RWRemi Warren30:21

      ... pretty lean, too. So, yeah-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:22

      It's very lean.

   10. RWRemi Warren30:23

       ... it's kind of more like elk meat, something like that.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:25

       Yeah, some, some kind of game-type animal-

   12. RWRemi Warren30:27

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       ... but it's, uh...It's so emotional. We did an episode of Fear Factor once where people had to eat horse rectum.

   14. RWRemi Warren30:34

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       And, uh, people were so angry. The horse people were furious.

   16. RWRemi Warren30:38

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       They called up.

   18. RWRemi Warren30:40

       I'm more worried about it being a horse than a rectum, right?

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       Yeah.

   20. RWRemi Warren30:43

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       They didn't care about rectums.

   22. RWRemi Warren30:44

       Yeah, it's like-

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       You know?

   24. RWRemi Warren30:44

       ... yeah, that's normal.

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       Well, it just looks like a organ.

   26. RWRemi Warren30:47

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       You know, it just looks like a tube. It doesn't look like where shit comes out of.

   28. RWRemi Warren30:51

       Right.

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       You know?

   30. RWRemi Warren30:52

       Yeah. (laughs) What sausage is stuffed in.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   What? …

   1. RWRemi Warren45:00

      like, "Oh, I'm gonna be a lot smarter than just standing there," but they call it bolts over the blue, and I think the majority of people that actually get struck are, are ... there's not actually clouds above them.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:09

      What?

   3. RWRemi Warren45:10

      Yeah, because you, you think about it, you're like, "Oh, I'm safe here, right? I'm, I'm a mile or whatever." It just looks off in the distance.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:15

      Right.

   5. RWRemi Warren45:15

      And then the bolt reaches out and hammers you.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:18

      So, there was blue skies above your head and a bolt went sideways and hit you?

   7. RWRemi Warren45:23

      Yeah, pretty much.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:25

      Holy fuck.

   9. RWRemi Warren45:25

      So we, we ... He'd been putting up the basketball hoop. I think he'd just finished it and, uh, we were just like ... This lightning storm came in and they come in pretty quick and we were just, like, watching it, and the bolt reached out, probably attracted to, you know, the, the-

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:37

       The pole.

   11. RWRemi Warren45:37

       ... uh, the pole, yeah, and, um, hit me in my right leg just above my knee, and then came out below my knee. And then my dad ... I don't remember exactly where my dad was hit, but it threw me ... uh, we had, like, these three steps going down and it threw me, I don't even know, 20 yard, uh, a, a long ways.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       20 yards?

   13. RWRemi Warren45:56

       Maybe it wasn't that far- ... 15 yards. Everything was small-

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       Wow.

   15. RWRemi Warren45:59

       ... so it probably seemed a lot bigger. Um, yeah, I mean, it threw me, like, all the way up three steps and across the yard. When my dad came to, he came to before me and he was actually, um, temporarily paralyzed. Like, he wanted to crawl to me but he couldn't move.

   16. JRJoe Rogan46:13

       Wow.

   17. RWRemi Warren46:13

       And I was out for a while and then, um ... Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:16

       So you were unconscious, you probably thought you were dead.

   19. RWRemi Warren46:19

       Yeah, he thought ... He was like th- ... prob- ... thought I was dead.

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:21

       And you can't ... And he can't move.

   21. RWRemi Warren46:22

       And he can't move, no.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:24

       Fuck.

   23. RWRemi Warren46:24

       Yeah. And then he, he actually, um ... He was, like, temporarily paralyzed for a little while and then everything just came back.

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:33

       Like how long is a little while?

   25. RWRemi Warren46:34

       Uh, a couple weeks.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:35

       Holy shit.

   27. RWRemi Warren46:36

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:38

       Holy shit.

   29. RWRemi Warren46:39

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:40

       That must have been terrifying.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:05:55

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      and I'm glad they're around-

   2. RWRemi Warren1:00:01

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      ... but they scare the shit out of me.

   4. RWRemi Warren1:00:03

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      Mostly-

   6. RWRemi Warren1:00:04

      You do.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      ... p- mostly brown bears.

   8. RWRemi Warren1:00:05

      Brown bears. Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:06

      Yeah. But, but, you know, Rinella d- was telling me a story once about this guy who was on his first hunt ever and, uh, a 500-pound predatory black bear broke into his tent.

   10. RWRemi Warren1:00:17

       Oh, yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:17

       And his buddy shot the bear and the bullet went through and hit his wrist and, you know, it was a cluster fuck-

   12. RWRemi Warren1:00:23

       Oh, really?

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

       ... because the bear was trying to eat his friend in his fucking tent. First ever hunt, he's getting mauled-

   14. RWRemi Warren1:00:30

       That's-

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

       ... in his tent by a 500-pound-

   16. RWRemi Warren1:00:31

       That's just-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

       ... black bear.

   18. RWRemi Warren1:00:32

       That's really bad odds.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       Bad odds.

   20. RWRemi Warren1:00:34

       Yeah. That's just bad luck.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

       I mean, it does happen, but like-

   22. RWRemi Warren1:00:38

       It does.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:38

       ... one in a million?

   24. RWRemi Warren1:00:39

       There's actually, there's actually a lot of black bear attacks, but most of them are in almost what I'd consider like a residential experience where they're-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       Mm-hmm.

   26. RWRemi Warren1:00:46

       They're... They've got food and it's, like, a lot of older people or women mostly.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       Ugh.

   28. RWRemi Warren1:00:51

       Um, and it's... There's times that you're caught off guard, like you walk out and it's in your trash can and maybe it's got cubs and then-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:00:57

       Right.

   30. RWRemi Warren1:00:57

       ... freaks out. Or people walking their dogs and the dogs fuck with the bear and then they go-

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