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Joe Rogan Experience #1819 - Cameron Hanes

Cameron Hanes is a master bowhunter, outdoorsman, elite athlete, and host of the podcast “Keep Hammering with Cameron Hanes.” His latest book, “Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering,” is out on May 17. http://www.cameronhanes.com/

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    (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast,…

    1. NA

      (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music) And we're up. Cameron Hanes, author.

    4. CH

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      How's it feel to be an author? You've been... You've actually been an author for a long time now.

    6. CH

      Yeah, but-

    7. JR

      You've ... Backcountry Bowhunting. When did you write that?

    8. CH

      Not really ... Those didn't really count. Those were, like, bowhunting books, so it's like ... I mean, I guess it counts, but it's different than ... This is an actual book book.

    9. JR

      This is a real book.

    10. CH

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      Endure. It's from a real publisher.

    12. CH

      Yeah, exactly. So-

    13. JR

      It's legit.

    14. CH

      The other ones weren't really like that. I've had two other books. Backcountry Bow Trophy... Or wait, Bowhunting Trophy Blacktail was in 1999, and Backcountry Bowhunting was in 2006.

    15. JR

      And then this one is tomorrow, which is today. If you're listening to this, it's coming out today. It's Endure, and, uh, it's got... You've got that face of you from when you were moose hunting. You have that-

    16. CH

      Yeah, that's, uh-

    17. JR

      ... manliest, manliest photo with the cheek cut and the blood trickling down your face. When you had that, when that... when the ch- blood was trickling down your face, were you like, "Ooh, get some pictures."

    18. CH

      No.

    19. JR

      "'Cause it's pretty fucking manly."

    20. CH

      I was-

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. CH

      So, Roy wasn't up there. That was, that was Roy and I's last hunt, but he wasn't up there yet, and I was going through these alders, snow-covered, pretty foggy. And all... It was weird, um, when you're fighting through alders, they're slapping you in the face and things like that, and I slipped, and there's one that was broke, and it was kind of sharp, and I slipped, and it went right on my cheek. And I was thinking to myself at the time, I'm like, "Could have taken out an eye."

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. CH

      You know, that would have been great. But it just did that, and uh-

    25. JR

      There it is. Come on, man. That's probably one of the most badass pictures a person's ever taken.

    26. CH

      So I got, I got up. Thank you. Selfie. And I got up there-

    27. JR

      (laughs)

    28. CH

      And then I got to the top and was kind of looking around, and you can see it's kind of foggy back there. And then I didn't know m- my... I actually had blood. And then, yeah, selfie.

    29. JR

      Did you, like, look at it in a selfie to, to-

    30. CH

      Yeah.

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    Yeah. …

    1. JR

      all the guys that we know, Remy, that eat wild game all the time, they look pretty damn good.

    2. CH

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Healthy folks.

    4. CH

      Definitely.

    5. JR

      There's something to that. And there's something f- a- again, for m- a guy who, you know, for 40 plus years of my life didn't eat wild game and then-

    6. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JR

      ... I eat it all the time.

    8. CH

      Right.

    9. JR

      So it's different. It's different.

    10. CH

      Yeah. I, I, I get beat up for this too, because I guess, you know, vegans can say whatever they want about hunters and it's good to go. I put up... I remember I put up one thing about a vegan. I can't remember what it was. It was like someb- their diet and it's like they went from this healthy person to looking pretty sickly.

    11. JR

      Oh, there's a lot of those people.

    12. CH

      And it's kind of a, a meme joke thing and I'm just like, "Oh no, actually..." God, and this is... I'm probably stepping in. I know you can't get canceled, but maybe I can. But I put up, uh, something about Canelo, 'cause I guess-

    13. JR

      Yes.

    14. CH

      ... I guess he went vegan.

    15. JR

      Yeah, he went vegan for his last fight.

    16. CH

      And all I put up was, "That worked well."

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. CH

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      I reposted it.

    20. CH

      Okay. (laughs) So-

    21. JR

      (laughs) I reposted in my Instagram stories.

    22. CH

      I got so much hate for that.

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. CH

      You know? And it's like, we get crucified for being, you know, killers and meat eaters and all this. I put up one joke meme about Canelo, who looked awful compared to how he... And with the one thing that changed was his diet, and then I'll, all of a sudden I'm the bad guy. But anyway.

    25. JR

      Well, there's two things going on there. One, Bivol is a real legit light heavyweight, and that's only the second light heavyweight that Canelo had fought. The first one was Kovalev, but Kovalev was at the end of his career.

    26. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      Kovalev had lost a bunch of times, he'd been stopped, and he wasn't the same guy as he was like when he fought Andre Ward the first time.

    28. CH

      Right.

    29. JR

      But Kovalev when he was the man, when he was a light heavyweight champion, was a real savage.

    30. CH

      Mm-hmm.

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    Mm-hmm. …

    1. JR

      disciplined. Chandler is a berserker.

    2. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    3. JR

      He's just a wild man, you know, and that knockout of Tony Ferguson was the most intense head kick knockout I think I've ever seen, because it's rare that a guy is at a level of Tony Ferguson that just gets flat-lined with a head kick like that.

    4. CH

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      And to have it be a front kick...... like, DC said it best, he said it wasn't even like a regular front kick, it was like he kicked a soccer ball.

    6. CH

      Oh, God. And-

    7. JR

      Like, he just swung his leg up and just-

    8. CH

      Yeah. I heard him-

    9. JR

      ... almost decapitated him.

    10. CH

      I heard him say that Tony comes in wide.

    11. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    12. CH

      You know?

    13. JR

      Yes.

    14. CH

      And so there, they felt like there was that channel up the middle.

    15. JR

      Right. And he took-

    16. CH

      But he said he didn't even plan that.

    17. JR

      No, I know. But I, I guess just plan, thinking of strikes in your head, up the middle strikes?

    18. CH

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      And that's one of 'em. Landed.

    20. CH

      My God. I thought, I was actually worried for Tony. He was down for a while.

    21. JR

      He was out unconscious for several minutes.

    22. CH

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      It was-

    24. CH

      That was scary.

    25. JR

      It was scary. It was scary to be there. Because, you know, (knocks on table) knock on wood, there's never been a real death or seri- I don't want, a real death. There's never been a death-

    26. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      ... or serious injury inside the Octagon.

    28. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    29. JR

      You know, like, r- I mean, there's been break, broken bones.

    30. CH

      Right.

  4. 45:001:00:00

    Yeah. …

    1. JR

      if you are a athlete, especially if you're in a combat sport, you need to have everything dialed i- dialed in.

    2. CH

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Your recovery, you need to be doing the sauna every day, ice bath. You need to be eating all the right food, drinking all the white water. They should hydration test you every day. You got hundreds of millions of dollars on the line.

    4. CH

      I know.

    5. JR

      That's Canelo Alvarez.

    6. CH

      (laughs) I know.

    7. JR

      He shouldn't be eating fucking plants.

    8. CH

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      The fuck are you doing, bro? You're eating celery?

    10. CH

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      We gotta get a steak in you.

    12. CH

      Yeah, well, that's what I was saying is, like, his approach, where he'll eat, you know, greens and salads most the time and every once in a while have meat? That-

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. CH

      I do all meat, and every once in a while have a salad.

    15. JR

      (laughs) You know, when Mike Tyson was in here, he was thanking me for turning him on to wild game.

    16. CH

      Really?

    17. JR

      Yes.

    18. CH

      He's been getting wild game?

    19. JR

      Yes.

    20. CH

      From bison?

    21. JR

      But I, I offered to get him some elk.

    22. CH

      Oh.

    23. JR

      But I never got it to him. He, we never connected after that.

    24. CH

      Oh, okay.

    25. JR

      But he went to, uh, somewhere and got a lot of bison. He got, uh, uh-

    26. CH

      Oh.

    27. JR

      He was eating a lot of bison-

    28. CH

      Yeah, okay.

    29. JR

      ... before, uh, he started training again. He's like, "Oh, my God, it made such a difference."

    30. CH

      Mm-hmm.

  5. 1:00:001:08:20

    ... Fury. Oh my…

    1. CH

    2. JR

      ... Fury. Oh my God.

    3. CH

      What are you doing?

    4. JR

      Oh my God.

    5. CH

      That would be crazy. That would be. What are you doing? That would be crazy. Yeah, sign him, put him in Africa. M- a huge fight.

    6. JR

      What if they both get malaria? (laughs)

    7. CH

      (laughs) I don't know. But it'd be a hell of a fight 'cause they'd be equal then if they both had malaria.

    8. NA

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      (laughs) Um, like, if they did fight in Africa, I wonder where they would do it. I wonder if they would do it at, like, Rumble in the Jungle, right where they're-

    10. CH

      I know.

    11. JR

      ... where Ali fought, where he fought Cuellar.

    12. CH

      Yeah, I mean, something of their d- ... It would be insane. They could probably get a million people there.

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. CH

      I mean, you gotta do that.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. CH

      Right?

    17. JR

      That would be incredible. If he fought in Ca- ... I mean, I hope Cameroon has a venue.

    18. CH

      Probably not.

    19. JR

      Well, it's not just that. It's also like you have to have a fighter hotel where all the fighters can stay-

    20. CH

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... and you'd have to have world-class facilities-

    22. CH

      I don't-

    23. JR

      ... for them to train at.

    24. CH

      I don't know. I mean, South Africa's, you know, probably ... They probably have that.

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. CH

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      Yeah, I'm sure they do-

    28. CH

      Do-

    29. JR

      ... in South Africa.

    30. CH

      Do- Cape, Cape Town.

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