Joe Rogan Experience #2059 - Adam Greentree

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. AGAdam Greentree0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music) Hello, Adam Greentree.

   4. AGAdam Greentree0:13

      Hello, Joe Rogan.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      What the fuck's happening?

   6. AGAdam Greentree0:15

      (laughs) Everything.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      How are you enjoying my country?

   8. AGAdam Greentree0:17

      I'm loving your country, yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      (laughs)

   10. AGAdam Greentree0:19

       It was good, um, it's good to be back.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       Yeah, you were here, uh, you did another one of those wild backcountry elk hunts, which you haven't been able to do because of COVID, for three years?

   12. AGAdam Greentree0:29

       Four years.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:30

       Four years.

   14. AGAdam Greentree0:30

       Yep.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Wow.

   16. AGAdam Greentree0:31

       And five years since the last podcast.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       Did you document the whole thing like you did the last time in your internet stories?

   18. AGAdam Greentree0:37

       (laughs) I did, yeah. Yeah, I tried to capture as much as I could. Sometimes it's hard 'cause you're stuck in the moment, so the last-

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       Yeah.

   20. AGAdam Greentree0:44

       ... thing you want is, like, a phone in your face, right?

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       Yeah, it does fuck with it, right?

   22. AGAdam Greentree0:47

       Yeah. So I couldn't capture it all, but I tried to at least mention everything that I was going through. But there was, like, one stage I just felt like I was in the war and, and I actually slipped between two fallen down trees and it f- I nearly broke me legs, like, straight across the front of me shins.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       Oh, shit.

   24. AGAdam Greentree1:04

       And it's like, I didn't capture it and I'm sort of hurting, so it's, you don't get to see the whole story, but I reckon I at least give the people 80% of the story, you know?

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:14

       What happened where you almost broke your legs?

   26. AGAdam Greentree1:16

       (laughs) Well, I was fucking rooted, for starters, like stuffed. Like, this is day 26 or something like that.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:21

       What does rooted mean to your people?

   28. AGAdam Greentree1:23

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:24

       You do- you do know what it means, right?

   30. NANarrator1:26

       No.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Mm. …

   1. AGAdam Greentree15:00

      into Australia from New Zealand, but it has to be commercially processed and packaged.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:05

      Mm.

   3. AGAdam Greentree15:06

      So, which isn't a bad thing still, but look-

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      Right.

   5. AGAdam Greentree15:08

      ... there's that many people with their hand up to take meat.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:10

      Right.

   7. AGAdam Greentree15:11

      So it's, it's like nothing goes to waste when we harvest it.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      Well, it's the best meat.

   9. AGAdam Greentree15:14

      Oh, uh, it's amazing.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:15

       Yeah.

   11. AGAdam Greentree15:16

       Once, and once you get a taste for it, and, like, I don't even taste the gaminess to any meat anymore 'cause that, that's pretty much all we eat at home. But once you've eaten game meat and then you go and buy store meat and eat it, it's the blandest shit going. (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       I don't understand-

   13. AGAdam Greentree15:29

       And no one knows it.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       ... that term, gamey. I mean, I think when people say gamey meat and they're thinking about that, they're thinking about someone who has handled meat incorrectly.

   15. AGAdam Greentree15:39

       That's spot on. Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       Yeah, if they let it sit out in the sun, they didn't cool the meat off-

   17. AGAdam Greentree15:44

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:44

       ... quickly enough, they didn't hang it.

   19. AGAdam Greentree15:46

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:46

       They did something wrong.

   21. AGAdam Greentree15:47

       Yeah, it's not prepared correctly.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       Yeah, there has to be something wrong. B- unless you're eating something like a bear that's been eating a rotten animal, or I've, I've heard people catch, uh, they've eaten bear that have been eating nothing but fish and they're nasty.

   23. AGAdam Greentree16:03

       Yeah, okay. Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:04

       That makes sense.

   25. AGAdam Greentree16:05

       Yeah, it does make sense, yeah, 'cause I, like everyone's always said, like, like the tahr in New Zealand, "Oh, it's a smelly goat." You know? Or the pronghorn here in, here in America.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       Right.

   27. AGAdam Greentree16:14

       'Cause they do have that smell to 'em. But once it's prepared, prepared correctly-

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:19

       Yeah.

   29. AGAdam Greentree16:19

       ... oh, it's delicious. Amazing.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:20

       I think the thing about the pronghorn too is that you hunt them in the summer and it's very hot.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. AGAdam Greentree30:00

      big expandable broadhead."

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      Mm-hmm.

   3. AGAdam Greentree30:02

      But I don't wanna change, you know?

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:03

      I get it.

   5. AGAdam Greentree30:04

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:05

      Yeah. It's that six-in-one-

   7. AGAdam Greentree30:07

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:07

      ... half a dozen in the other.

   9. AGAdam Greentree30:07

      And it's like, that's, like, nearly American hunting culture-

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:11

       Mm-hmm.

   11. AGAdam Greentree30:11

       ... and the two-blade fixed broadhead's like Australian hunting culture.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:14

       That's why I asked, because everybody over there uses those.

   13. AGAdam Greentree30:16

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:17

       Yeah.

   15. AGAdam Greentree30:17

       Yeah. You got, uh, we're getting that way. There's a lot of people shooting those broadheads now. But, like, you guys had release aids and sights, like, 10 years before Australia would go to it.

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:26

       Mm.

   17. AGAdam Greentree30:26

       And if you shot sights in a release aid, you're a fucking pussy.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:29

       Really?

   19. AGAdam Greentree30:29

       Like, in Australia. Oh, shit, yeah. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:31

       You're a pussy?

   21. AGAdam Greentree30:31

       Yeah. (laughs) You're a pussy, yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:31

       To know where you're shooting, to be able to shoot accurately?

   23. AGAdam Greentree30:33

       Exactly. And then I was hunting with an old friend of mine, John, and he had a release aid, and I'm like, "What's the big deal about those release aids, dude?" And he's like, "Well, have a shot of my bow." And, like, we're just sitting around camp-

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       ... you were shooting fingers.

   25. AGAdam Greentree30:46

       Shooting fingers, like, always shooting fingers.

   26. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       With a compound?

   27. AGAdam Greentree30:49

       With a compound, yeah. And open sights. Like, that's all you, that's all anyone done.

   28. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       Right, just instinctive.

   29. AGAdam Greentree30:53

       Timber arrows, dude. It was insane. Like, you had to spine test and check all your arrows and, like, twist broadheads to get 'em right-

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:00

       Mm-hmm.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   You just gotta go…

   1. AGAdam Greentree45:00

      and there's 30 other cars there. Most of those cars have multiple people in them, so there's that many people, you know, sort of walking around in the wilderness.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:08

      You just gotta go deeper.

   3. AGAdam Greentree45:10

      You do. (laughs) You, like, like-

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      Or find spots that they don't know about, but that's the thing about you coming over from Australia. That's not really an option.

   5. AGAdam Greentree45:16

      That's not, yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      Like, there's a lot of guys that spend so much time scouting.

   7. AGAdam Greentree45:21

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:22

      And so much time e-scouting.

   9. AGAdam Greentree45:23

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:24

       Like, they're, they're looking on, you know-

   11. AGAdam Greentree45:25

       I'd be, I'd be-

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:25

       ... Onyx Hunt.

   13. AGAdam Greentree45:26

       I'd be better next year, if that makes sense, 'cause I already done so much land and walking this year that it's sort of-

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:32

       Mm-hmm.

   15. AGAdam Greentree45:32

       ... "Oh, there's no sign there. There's no sign there. There's no sign."

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:35

       Right.

   17. AGAdam Greentree45:35

       Even older sign, you know, like, I've constantly taken note of, like, the trees that have been nibbled at by the elk in the winter, so they winter there. Or where there's a shed antler, you know, you're sort of taking all that sort of thing in and, "Oh, there was heaps of hunters there, so I stay away from that. Oh, there was bugger all hunters there." So as long as I get to follow it up next year, I think I'm better off.

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       Right.

   19. AGAdam Greentree45:56

       You know?

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       So next year you'll try to do the same sort of situation?

   21. AGAdam Greentree45:58

       Yeah, but it's that whole, "I'm trying to make it harder. I don't wanna go backwards." So, like, I...

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:04

       So you'd rather have less information and make it harder?

   23. AGAdam Greentree46:07

       Sort of.

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:08

       'Cause you wanna learn on the spot?

   25. AGAdam Greentree46:09

       Yeah, yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:11

       You're just like punishment.

   27. AGAdam Greentree46:12

       The, the big thing-

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:12

       You're a glutton for punishment.

   29. AGAdam Greentree46:13

       The big thing I wanna do next year is walk from the very start of the season to the end of the season, so just walk one way. And it's hard to find a mountain range that you can do that, because if there's no elk, you keep traveling.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:26

       Right.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:06:47

   Hmm. …

   1. AGAdam Greentree1:00:00

      on that crossing, and people come unstuck there all the time because it's tidal, right? So they'll try and drive across there with a car and get, their car will get washed off, and they've got to swim back to the bank with all these crocodiles in the water, so-

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:11

      Hmm.

   3. AGAdam Greentree1:00:11

      ... it's pretty sketchy. But I still feel like Australia's safer than hunting bloody Wyoming or somewhere or Montana-

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:18

      With the grizzlies.

   5. AGAdam Greentree1:00:19

      ... because of the grizzlies. And they're actually on land and can come to your tent anytime they like.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:22

      Yeah. Yeah, there's been-

   7. AGAdam Greentree1:00:23

      You know, it's like-

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

      ... a lot of discussion about removing them from the endangered list.

   9. AGAdam Greentree1:00:28

      Yeah. Okay.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:28

       And putting tags on them, which they really should do.

   11. AGAdam Greentree1:00:31

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

       There's- there's a lot of places where they're overpopulated. I know they're talking about that in Wyoming, and there's places in Montana where they're trying to have that discussion. But again, you deal with these wildlife activist groups that don't want you doing that.

   13. AGAdam Greentree1:00:44

       Mmm.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:44

       And so there's litigations and lawsuits and...

   15. AGAdam Greentree1:00:46

       It's a hard push, isn't it? 'Cause you don't want it the other way where everything's just getting slaughtered.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       Of course.

   17. AGAdam Greentree1:00:51

       So there has to be a bit of a fight back, but there needs to be some sort of middle ground where it's like, "Oh shit, this is actually gonna be better for the elk and deer population and people population," you know?

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:01

       Yeah.

   19. AGAdam Greentree1:01:02

       And- and probably better for the bears as well. You know, you, the grizzly just wipe out the black bears.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:07

       The problem is that these- these people that are the wildlife activists, they do not like hunting in any way, shape, or form. And they don't want to give up any ground.

   21. AGAdam Greentree1:01:16

       Mm-hmm.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:17

       You know, I have a- I'm gonna send you this, Jamie, 'cause this is pretty crazy. A friend of mine filmed this in, um, in California, a wolf that is near Bakersfield.

   23. AGAdam Greentree1:01:28

       Oh, wow.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:29

       Yeah. And he doesn't know how it got there, and he suspects that someone released it there. But this was, uh, you know, (sighs) this was right off of- you know, a mile or two off of, uh, Highway 5.

   25. AGAdam Greentree1:01:45

       Mm-hmm.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:46

       Which is just bananas, like, that this thing was there. I'm-

   27. AGAdam Greentree1:01:48

       Not a husky, is it? (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:50

       No, it's a fucking wolf.

   29. AGAdam Greentree1:01:52

       (laughs) Oh.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:52

       I'm gonna send you this, Jamie.

Episode duration: 2:43:43