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Joe Rogan Experience #2100 - Steven Rinella & Cameron Hanes

Steven Rinella is an outdoorsman, conservationist, writer, and host of "MeatEater." Cameron Hanes is a master bowhunter, outdoorsman, elite athlete, author, and host of the podcast “Keep Hammering with Cameron Hanes.”  www.themeateater.com www.cameronhanes.com

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Jun 27, 20243h 25mWatch on YouTube ↗

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    (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

    1. SR

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

    2. CH

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) You're good to go.

    3. JR

      All right. Steve Rinella, Cam Hanes, what's happening? Good to see you guys.

    4. SR

      Yeah, thanks for having me out, man.

    5. JR

      My pleasure. Cam, explain that ridiculous thing around your neck. (laughs)

    6. SR

      What? What are you talking about?

    7. JR

      (laughs)

    8. CH

      (claps) Oh, this?

    9. JR

      That thing.

    10. CH

      Oh. Oh.

    11. SR

      (laughs)

    12. CH

      What, what cam- where am I? What camera am I on?

    13. JR

      Uh, right there.

    14. CH

      Yeah. So this is, uh, how badass is this? Solid gold mold of-

    15. JR

      (laughs)

    16. CH

      ... this is my first brown bear I killed with Roy. So they made a mold off this claw. I had this just tanned hide laying around, I'm like, "I gotta, we gotta... I don't know, what's it gonna do, just lay there?" So I'm like, "I gotta have something." And I took it to Skee's jewe- jeweler, which has been in Eugene for 104 years, so it's kind of a cool little story. And they came up with this crazy necklace. So it's... Oh, they wanted me to tell you, it's, uh, it's r- re- uh, what is it? It's not d- not newly mined gold. It's-

    17. SR

      Recl- oh, reclaimed?

    18. CH

      Reclaimed, yeah. Yeah.

    19. SR

      Oh, okay.

    20. CH

      So they're not ruining the planet to get it.

    21. SR

      (laughs)

    22. CH

      So they wanted me to- this is, like, reclaimed gold. But it's solid, and then there's six carats of rubies on there and black diamonds, so.

    23. JR

      So the rubies, if- if people can't see it-

    24. CH

      If this is a ridiculous thing you're talking about-

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. CH

      ... yeah.

    27. JR

      Okay.

    28. CH

      That was it.

    29. JR

      Yeah. So the rubies, though-

    30. SR

      That's a lot of pawn shop wedding rings laid up in there, man.

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    (laughs) …

    1. JR

      live near a fucking power line? Like, there's like-

    2. SR

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      ... there's so-

    4. SR

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      ... there's so many factors that lead you to ... If it was just, like, it ... I want to see a study on people who eat wild game or grass-fed beef and just fucking vegetables.

    6. SR

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      Like, are those studies ... Like, I bet those folks aren't getting, like, high instances of cancer.

    8. SR

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      You know, cancer is, like, there's a lot of environmental factors. There's a lot of, a lot of genetic factors. There's a lot of things that lead people to get cancer. It's not just what you eat. But when they say meat, like, what else are you eating? Why are you blaming meat?

    10. SR

      Well, what I used to do is go to McDonald's. So yeah, it had red meat, 'cause in the burger, two plain hamburgers, large fry, apple pie, uh, Diet Coke, and a milkshake.

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. SR

      Just think about all the bullshit in there.

    13. So, yeah.

    14. And they're like, "Do you eat a lot of meat?" Uh-huh.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. SR

      Blame the meat.

    17. Right. And it was like, look at ... To, to your point, look at all that other shit-

    18. Yeah.

    19. ... sugar and carbs and-

    20. JR

      Exactly.

    21. SR

      ... all that oil in that meal right there would probably kill you.

    22. JR

      Yeah.

    23. SR

      And some people, it's the same people going through McDonald's or Burger King or Wendy's-

    24. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    25. SR

      ... every single day getting their go-to ... Yeah, so those are the people that you're asking about, "Do you eat red meat?"

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. SR

      And of course they are, but look at all ... But yeah, I just got my blood test yesterday from my ... Get it tested every once in a while, and my numbers are phenomenal. I eat meat (laughs) five times a day.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. SR

      I mean, I'm eating meat all day, all wild game meat, though. So- I found that people also have ... I was talking about this the other day with my buddy, Seth, where people also have a tendency to, um, find ... Th- they, they, there, there's so much conflicting dietary information that people also will find something that aligns with their aesthetic-

    30. JR

      Yeah.

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    Yeah, that's him. …

    1. JR

      and that's our Montana mule deer right there.

    2. CH

      Yeah, that's him.

    3. SR

      That's him.

    4. JR

      That's him. That's the one we shot.

    5. SR

      Someone lost the nose bones.

    6. JR

      Oh, the ones out there?

    7. CH

      Yeah.

    8. SR

      Well, he's missing his too.

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. SR

      You need to shake Jamie down. He might have a pocket full of those nose bones. (laughs)

    11. CH

      I think they, I think they-

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. CH

      ... they boil it out too long. I think-

    14. JR

      Is that what it is?

    15. CH

      Yeah.

    16. SR

      Yeah, yeah.

    17. CH

      I always glue, I always glue them back in. But anyways, sorry.

    18. JR

      That guy is very special to me.

    19. SR

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      That guy's very special to me.

    21. CH

      First kill.

    22. JR

      And I remember when we were eating him over the fire-... I was re-sorting my schedule. I was like, "Okay, how many times a year can I hunt now?"

    23. CH

      (laughs)

    24. SR

      Okay, how much, how long is it gonna take to eat a, a deer-

    25. CH

      After the first, first time.

    26. JR

      Uh-huh, right away.

    27. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    28. JR

      Eating it over the fire, like right away.

    29. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    30. JR

      I was like, "Oh, I'm doing this forever. This is what I do now."

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    Right, you gotta sort…

    1. JR

    2. SR

      Right, you gotta sort of put that out of your head, right?

    3. JR

      Right.

    4. SR

      You're like, you don't-

    5. JR

      Yes.

    6. SR

      ... be like, "Hang tight, let me get his interview."

    7. CH

      (laughs)

    8. SR

      "Then I'll come, let me get his autograph, then I'll come back and then I'll tackle him." (laughs)

    9. CH

      Yeah, like, uh, yeah, I mean the GOAT. You've heard how, you know, he's the best to ever do it.

    10. SR

      Yeah.

    11. CH

      And then all of a sudden, it's like almost like, you know, "I'm a big fan."

    12. SR

      (laughs)

    13. CH

      "Nice to meet you. Sorry for having to do this."

    14. JR

      But isn't that also the case with bow hunters, where like you've been hunting your whole life hoping to see a two, uh, 200-inch buck?

    15. SR

      Mm-hmm.

    16. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    17. JR

      And then one day you're in the mountains and this mule deer steps out. You're like, "Oh!"

    18. SR

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      Like, "This is it!" As you're imagining taking the photo, smiling on Instagram. You imagine, you see this wide mule deer buck, like, "This is crazy. This is a real one. I can make this happen." You're like, "Er, er, er, er, er, er, er, er."

    20. CH

      (laughs)

    21. JR

      Everything is just full panic. I w-

    22. SR

      Cla- Clay Newcomb just did a Bear Grease episode about a guy, a, a poacher, and he interviews the guy at length, and this, this guy played softball on a army base. They had like a athletic complex. And a couple times he sees this giant buck, and the people were aware of this giant buck, and he was trying to figure out if it was possible to kill it, as he calls it, kill it right or kill it legal. And one day he just happens to have his bow in his car and sees it not anywhere he's supposed to hunt. And the way he describes it, he describes it like, he was out of his ma, out of his body, and he shoots it. And the minute it falls over, he thinks, "You'll never get away with this."

    23. JR

      Oh God.

    24. SR

      But he lo- not only like-

    25. JR

      Where was he?

    26. SR

      ... not only lost... I can't... I think he was in Missouri. Yeah, Missouri.

    27. JR

      So was he in the wrong unit, or was he on private land?

    28. SR

      No, he was on a milit- he was on a military base where you're not even s- you can't hunt.

    29. JR

      Oh, wow.

    30. SR

      And not only like losing, not only losing your mind as you're drawing back, he lost his mind in the whole thing, getting his bow out of his thing.

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    I was living in…

    1. CH

    2. SR

      I was living in Seattle for a while, and there's, uh ... We would fish smallmouth and, and perch and stuff in this thing, Lake Washington, which is, like, right downtown. And there's this ... I was in this neighborhood where they have these apartment buildings that are on pilings. So there's just full-on apartment buildings out over the water, built on piers. And they would cast shadows and fish would collect there, and you'd (laughs) , you'd be in a boat, man. I mean, you're like, like ... Besides being out in some dude's front yard under their dock, you're fishing where you're (laughs) , you're ... Right here, I was looking into the window, you know, of someone eating breakfast.

    3. CH

      (laughs)

    4. SR

      But your (laughs) , your cast right there, which felt much more intimate and kind of creepy (laughs) .

    5. JR

      Yeah, that's weird.

    6. SR

      That, that felt weird. Way, l- weirder than, you know, like I said, where you got a house, then a yard, then a dock. Like, that's not weird, but you could get where you could basically, like, awkwardly wave at someone in their bathroom (laughs) -

    7. JR

      (laughs)

    8. CH

      Yeah.

    9. SR

      ... you know, while you're trying to fish (laughs) .

    10. CH

      Yeah, just don't make eye contact.

    11. SR

      (laughs)

    12. CH

      ... they're sitting there taking a shit, looking out the window.

    13. SR

      (laughs)

    14. JR

      Yeah. The, the, the, the, the, the dock thing is a weird one, man. It's a weird one, because I, I get it if you're not a fisherman and you're just some asshole that just doesn't want anybody near your house.

    15. SR

      What they're going to tell you, what they always tell you, is that some guy's gonna take a lead head jig and chip the paint, chip the paint on the boat, ding the dock. Like, that's their claim.

    16. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    17. CH

      Okay.

    18. SR

      Is that they're, they're gonna whack your, whack your stuff with a lead head jig.

    19. CH

      I feel like that's the same as if you're driving off-road, like, and you, you're worried about pebbles. "We gotta get these fucking pebbles out of here."

    20. SR

      (laughs)

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. CH

      Like, it's your... You're driving off-road.

    23. SR

      Yeah, it'd be like-

    24. CH

      Yeah.

    25. SR

      ... "Well, don't put your stuff out over the public water."

    26. CH

      Yeah. And it... What are you doing?

    27. SR

      Yeah.

    28. CH

      It's... A boat's not a car, man. Like, it's a boat. It's supposed to get scratched up a little.

    29. SR

      Mm-hmm.

    30. CH

      Like, you don't want your boat scratched up a little? Like, what- Some people don't, no. What the fuck?

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