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Joe Rogan Experience #2316 - Cameron Hanes

Cameron Hanes is a master bowhunter, outdoorsman, elite athlete, author, and a host of the podcasts “Keep Hammering Collective," and "Sh*t Talkers Weekly." His new book, "Undeniable: How to Reach the Top and Stay There," will be released on May 6.  ⁠https://www.cameronhanes.com⁠ This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://⁠BetterHelp.com/JRE⁠ Don’t miss out on all the action - Download the DraftKings app today! Sign-up using ⁠https://dkng.co/rogan⁠ or with my promo code ROGAN.  GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, (800) 327-5050 or visit ⁠https://gamblinghelplinema.org⁠ (MA). Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit ⁠https://ccpg.org⁠ (CT), or visit ⁠https://www.mdgamblinghelp.org⁠ (MD). 21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT/OR/NH. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). 1 per new customer. $5+ first-time bet req. Max. $200 issued as non-withdrawable Bonus Bets that expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout. Terms: ⁠https://sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos⁠. Ends 5/18/25 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK.

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  1. 0:005:51

    Broken foot vs. Cocodona 250: why run 250 miles injured?

    1. JR

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

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. NA

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) What's going on? (laughs)

    4. CH

      Not much. Hello, Joe Rogan.

    5. JR

      Hello, Cameron Hanes.

    6. CH

      Welcome to the podcast.

    7. JR

      Thank you. Uh, this is my first time trying one of these, uh, new energy drinks that Black Rifle came out. Have you tried them? They're good?

    8. CH

      I have.

    9. JR

      They're legit?

    10. NA

      Really good.

    11. JR

      Everything they do is legit.

    12. NA

      Yeah, really good.

    13. JR

      Has to be legit. Ah, mango.

    14. CH

      What do you think?

    15. JR

      So, this is the part of the podcast where I try to talk you out of running a 250-mile race with a broken foot, you fucking maniac. (laughs)

    16. CH

      We're talking about my book.

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. CH

      This is, the whole point of this was, undeniable now.

    19. JR

      (laughs) Well, you'll definitely be undeniable when you run 250 miles with a broken foot.

    20. CH

      Yeah, it's, uh...

    21. JR

      Why are you doing that? That's seems like a not a good idea. But what am I, a doctor?

    22. CH

      (laughs)

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. CH

      Okay. So, so real talk, let's just, we'll break it down. So, if I was a professional athlete in my prime-

    25. JR

      (clicks tongue) Right.

    26. CH

      ... right, it would obviously make sense to say, and I need to get surgery, my foot's broke, I can't perform, whatever. But since I'm, we know how old I am, almost 60, it's just like, there's no guarantees. And I'm like, if I can fight this off and still whatever, still perform, then I'm going to do that.

    27. JR

      Wow. Um, I don't-

    28. CH

      I can't afford to play the long game. Can I?

    29. JR

      (sighs) Fix your foot. It's like, I don't understand. Like, this is what I've always said with people with jujitsu injuries, 'cause I've had a bunch of surgeries.

    30. CH

      Yeah.

  2. 5:519:44

    Why podcasts beat mainstream media: authenticity, incentives, and trust

    1. CH

      Oh, you say that all the time. But man, you, you have so many good conversations and it's like, it's definitely changed... Here's what's crazy, is-... you know, mainstream media, with all the money that the advertisers had to pay or whatever-

    2. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    3. CH

      ... it's like that was, that was their thing. Now, that, it feels like that money's coming to the podcast realm because of you. I mean, you've shown the power of podcasts, and I think all the podcast hosts are benefiting from that. What do you think?

    4. JR

      Well, I think we are all benefiting from all of our work. I mean, I don't think it's me. Um, you know, I just have been doing it longer than most. You know, but there's guys like Carolla and a few other guys that have been doing it longer than me. You know? It's just, uh, podcasting is just better because there's less people involved. It's really that simple. The problem with stuff like Fox News and CNN is there's too many people involved and too many interests, right? You have the interests of the network, you have the interests of the censors. You have a bunch of people that, you know, don't want you talking about certain things, or want you talking about certain other things. Like, they want you to push certain narratives. There's too many people. And so it feels curated, and so when you're listening, it doesn't resonate. But when you're listening to two people just shoot the shit, you're like, "Oh, I know what that's like." Like, that make, that's, like if someone came over to your house and started talking like a CNN anchor, you'd be like, "What the fuck is this guy doing in my house?"

    5. CH

      (laughs)

    6. JR

      "Get him out of here."

    7. CH

      Yeah.

    8. JR

      "I can't relax. You're trying to have a class I want."

    9. CH

      Like, how would he talk? How would he talk?

    10. JR

      "What we, what we've learned today is that climate change is the most important..."

    11. CH

      (laughs)

    12. JR

      And you'd be like, "Oh, God."

    13. CH

      (laughs)

    14. JR

      "Get this guy out of the fucking house."

    15. CH

      (laughs)

    16. JR

      Like, "What are you saying? Why do you talk like that?"

    17. CH

      So Douglas Murray's gonna come over to my house, it sounds like?

    18. JR

      Have you ever been...

    19. CH

      (laughs)

    20. JR

      Yeah, I mean, it's just, there's people that are professional talking heads.

    21. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    22. JR

      Do you know, like, there's, there's people that are professional sportscasters. You know, they talk like a sportscaster voice.

    23. CH

      Right.

    24. JR

      Like Howard Cosell. Why know-

    25. CH

      Radio DJ voice.

    26. JR

      Yeah, radio DJ voice.

    27. CH

      Right.

    28. JR

      Exactly. Top 40 DJ voices. Like, they're all the same.

    29. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    30. JR

      "Coming up next." "All right."

  3. 9:4413:09

    Social pressure, hot-button topics, and the free-speech clampdown debate

    1. CH

      Yeah, I wonder if, uh, I, I don't even know how to word it, but people are so used to, like, the fake stuff. Like, even, even if somebody says, if you talk about being transgender and say, "Oh, well, you know, this boy felt like a girl," whatever, it's like you're almost programmed to be like, "Oh, oh, hmm, okay." Just like-

    2. JR

      Yeah, you're programmed to not have an opinion about it. Yeah.

    3. CH

      Right, and so, and that, and, 'cause normally how, as guys work, you talk, we talk about radio DJ voice or the fake or whatever, like, that's not how people talk. But guys can be around a certain group of people, and there'll be, like, one guy. You'd be like, "That guy seemed off."

    4. JR

      (laughs) Yes. Yes.

    5. CH

      "What the fuck's wrong with that guy?"

    6. JR

      Right, some guy will infiltrate your group.

    7. CH

      And that's like, that's like, that's like a subtle little thing.

    8. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    9. CH

      That's not like the things we're talking about, (clicks fingers) like the big things.

    10. JR

      Right.

    11. CH

      That's like, this, guys have these, this radar, and you're just like, "Who the fuck is this guy?"

    12. JR

      Right, right, right, right.

    13. CH

      But, and then you go to the complete other realm, where it's so pres- preposterous.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. CH

      And we're supposed to be like, "Oh, okay."

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. CH

      "Hm, that makes sense."

    18. JR

      I actually heard a psychologist discussing this, and he said that there's an issue with talking about things publicly, especially with social media, because there's so much backlash on social media whenever you hit any hot button topic. Immigration, politics, anything that's like a real highly, hotly contended topic. People will say things just so they don't get attacked, and they, they distort their opinions based on how much they think they're going to get attacked.

    19. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      So all that social media stuff is super effective. People attacking people is super effective for people to, like... This is how transgender people in sports got through.

    21. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    22. JR

      The only way it got through is 'cause people were calling people bigots.

    23. CH

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      Every parent, every fucking parent who's not a complete psychopath-

    25. CH

      (laughs) Yeah.

    26. JR

      ... doesn't want their daughter wrestling with some boy who thinks he's a girl.

    27. CH

      Right.

    28. JR

      That's crazy. Playing rugby with some boy who thinks he's a girl. That's crazy. Have a six-foot-six, 50-year-old man who identifies as being 17-year-old girl. That's fucking crazy.

    29. CH

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      But you can't say that's crazy, or your feed will be bombarded with a bunch of sociopaths attacking you-

  4. 13:0917:51

    Elon Musk, Twitter/X, government influence, and ‘debanking’ fears

    1. JR

      ... is 'cause Twitter was complete nonsense. It was just a psyop. The whole thing was just a psyop. We all owe Elon Musk a huge debt. When he bought Twitter, he changed the conversations in the country.

    2. CH

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Because all of a sudden, people were free. They were-

    4. CH

      Could say what you want.

    5. JR

      You were free to say whatever you wanted.

    6. CH

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      Before, you couldn't say anything bad about Biden, or the liberals, or COVID vaccines, or anything.

    8. CH

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      You would be banned.

    10. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    11. JR

      You'd be banned.

    12. CH

      Yeah, that's... You know, that Elon coming, doing what he's done, has cha- has definitely changed the world, right?

    13. JR

      Without a doubt.

    14. CH

      I mean, has to. And how much credit does he deserve? Because he did not des- have to do that. I mean, he had s- more money than anybody. Why would he do... Why would he put himself out there like that, other than to make a positive change for humanity, essentially?

    15. JR

      Well, in talking with him both publicly and privately, he was genuinely concerned that we were losing free speech. He was genuinely concerned that it was being hijacked. It was being hijacked under the guise of safety. Safety. Like, "We have to, we have to protect people. We have to protect marginalized people."

    16. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    17. JR

      Like marginalized male perverts who want to wear dresses and pretend-

    18. CH

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      ... they're a girl and go to the bathroom.

    20. CH

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      Literally.

    22. CH

      Right.

    23. JR

      Literally.

    24. CH

      Right.

    25. JR

      You know? And that's, that's dangerous with that, but it's also dangerous with everything else. It's also dangerous, like if you're a person who's a progressive person who believes in gay rights or, you know, f- any of, anything... Welfare, universal basic... Whatever it is. Imagine living in a world where there's no free speech, but the Republicans are in control. Or like super religious conservative people are in control, or Muslims are in control.

    26. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      Let's imagine, like the, the Muslim population in this country is expanding all the time. They've got Muslim-run cities now. They have call to prayer in certain cities in this country. Imagine that goes everywhere. They're in control of social media, and they institute Sharia law on social media, and they want to throw gay people off the roof.

    28. CH

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      This is where it goes.

    30. CH

      Yeah, right.

  5. 17:5123:56

    Politicians on podcasts, gatekeeping guests, and the Douglas Murray controversy

    1. JR

      ... I offered to have that Pierre guy come on the podcast.

    2. CH

      Really?

    3. JR

      And he didn't do it, wouldn't do it. Thought it was too problematic.

    4. CH

      Hmm.

    5. JR

      Or whatever. Jordan told me. I forget what he said. But they, they were telling him not to do it. Like his advisors were telling him not to do it.

    6. CH

      What did... Which-

    7. JR

      Like, "Hey-

    8. CH

      "Hey."

    9. JR

      ... hey, dumbass." (laughs)

    10. CH

      If they can't talk to you and have a conversation hold up, it's not... You're not grilling pe- you're not attacking people.

    11. JR

      Of course not.

    12. CH

      This is like a safe s- you know, the friend zone type thing. It's like no. And I heard you talk about Kamala, saying just want to get to know her, just want to talk to her.

    13. JR

      100%. I said if there's certain things they didn't want to talk about, I don't need to talk about them.

    14. CH

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      I don't care. I'm like, "I could talk to you about fucking AI."

    16. CH

      You've never been the gotcha guy.

    17. JR

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    18. CH

      No.

    19. JR

      I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. If like, if someone, if I disagree with someone, I just say I disagree with them. I'm not, I don't attack people. As I've gotten older and wiser in life, I want less conflict. I mean, sometimes you have to be able to disagree in a way that's forceful, but I don't want, I'm never insulting or attack people.

    20. CH

      Right.

    21. JR

      And I, especially this Pierre Poilievre guy, 'cause he, I don't know how to say his name. How do you say it?

    22. NA

      No idea.

    23. JR

      It's a weird way of saying it.

    24. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    25. JR

      Poilievre. Um, I would just ask him questions, like, "What's wrong? What's wrong with Canada? Like, how did this happen? Why did it go this way?"

    26. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      "Uh, what can be done to reverse some of these things that have been put into place? Like, how did you feel about this? What did, what would you have done differently?"

    28. CH

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      Real simple stuff.

    30. CH

      Yeah.

  6. 23:5641:41

    Experts vs. real expertise: credentials, incentives, and lifelong learning

    1. CH

      Yeah. And also, what is learning? I mean, what is learning?

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. CH

      So you said he, he read. He did all this research.

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. CH

      Douglas Murray has a problem with I don't know who, but what is, how is that different than going to school essentially?

    6. JR

      Right.

    7. CH

      I mean...

    8. JR

      It's no different. It's no different. I mean, there are experts that stop learning the moment they get their degree. And that's real.

    9. CH

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      And it's a real problem. It's a real problem in medicine. You know, I had an argument with Bryan Callen years ago because his doctor was telling him, "You don't need supplements. You, you just, you just need a balanced diet." That's what his doctor was saying. I go, "Your doctor looks like shit."

    11. CH

      (laughs)

    12. JR

      Like, "What are you talk- Your doctor's fat. He's got a big pot belly."

    13. CH

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      "He's got a big doughy face."

    15. CH

      (laughs)

    16. JR

      "He probably can't run around the block. Shut the fuck up. Don't listen to that guy."

    17. CH

      Right.

    18. JR

      "There's plenty of peer-reviewed papers that talk about the efficacy of vitamins."

    19. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      "They're super beneficial for you. This is crazy talk."

    21. CH

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      This appeal to experts, just because you have a degree, you're not always right.

    23. CH

      No, no.

    24. JR

      You're wrong all the time.

    25. CH

      Yeah, that was, that was pretty disappointing because I, I thought Douglas Murray, I liked listening to him. I thought he was super smart, obviously very articulate-

    26. JR

      But he sounds so good with that accent.

    27. CH

      Yeah. And, and that... But then on that one, I think I told you, is like... Or I texted you something about, "Man, he seemed pompous." It's like, that seemed like a... That took a big... For me, it was a loss for him big time.

    28. JR

      Well, he used tactics rather than facts.

    29. CH

      Hmm.

    30. JR

      So, the tactic was an appeal to experts like that, and there was also saying that the coverage was imbalanced because they didn't have enough people that were pro-Israel. But then I thought about it afterwards, I'm like, "Oh, quite a few."

  7. 41:4149:26

    Bowhunting, stem cells, and training inspiration from fight legends

    1. CH

      How awesome is bowhunting, though?

    2. JR

      It's the best.

    3. CH

      Yeah.

    4. JR

      Best way to get food.

    5. CH

      Yeah. I love it.

    6. JR

      There's no better way to get food.

    7. CH

      Have, have you been shooting much?

    8. JR

      Yeah. Shot this morning. Before I-

    9. CH

      Did you?

    10. JR

      ... went to Ways to Well. Yeah.

    11. CH

      Are we gonna shoot?

    12. JR

      Uh, I don't know if I have time today, unfortunately, because we spent so much time at Ways to Well, and I gotta, I gotta head home after this.

    13. CH

      Getting healthy?

    14. JR

      Yeah, we were getting stem cells today, and the... What's the mask, the infusion, the lung stuff?

    15. CH

      Yeah, that was, uh... Well, it's stem cell nebulizer, basically.

    16. JR

      Oh, yeah, so you breathe it in. So you breathe it in like vape.

    17. CH

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      You're vaping stem cells. (laughs)

    19. CH

      It's gotta be. Hey, all I know, and, and I said this when I was there, but I did that last time, and then I ran a five-mile race. It was 8K, but my fastest five miles I've ever run at-

    20. JR

      Really? With a broken foot?

    21. CH

      (laughs) Yeah.

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. CH

      At 57. So it's like, I don't know what it... If it didn't hurt-

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. CH

      ... it didn't hurt me, obviously.

    26. JR

      Well, they've d- done-... so many amazing things with me that I'm, you know, when they say something is really great, you should try it. I'm like, "Okay."

    27. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    28. JR

      So I put the mask on. I'm sitting here with you, we're talking about Rocky Marciano. (laughs)

    29. CH

      Oh, man.

    30. JR

      Where I got into these old, uh, videos on YouTube of fighters training. And I got into this, uh, one video that I sent you about Rocky Marciano and how insane his training was. And it was seven days a week. He would spar sometimes 30, 40 rounds in a day. He would run ten miles in the morning and then five more miles at night, and then he would swim two miles in the lake.

  8. 49:2658:24

    Marvin Hagler, John Mugabi, and the cost of greatness in combat sports

    1. JR

      You know who else trained like that forever? Marvin Hagler.

    2. CH

      Oh, I- I thought you were gonna say Floyd.

    3. JR

      Marvin Hagler trained like a fucking warrior.

    4. CH

      Right.

    5. JR

      He used to run in... He used to train on the sand dunes in the cape, of Cape Cod in the middle of the winter. And he would just be running, screaming, "War."

    6. CH

      (laughs) Love that.

    7. JR

      "War!" Just throwing punches. He would run in combat boots.

    8. CH

      Dude.

    9. JR

      He was an animal.

    10. CH

      I love that.

    11. JR

      He was an animal, just spartan. He would go to this Provincetown Inn, no fucking phones. He would tell his wife and family, "I'm gone. I don't exist. I'm gone." For two months, he would just vanish. And every day, it would be the same thing. And he would spar, he would spar a lot.

    12. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    13. JR

      Hagler was sparring 100 rounds a week, so he was sparring 20 rounds a day for five days in a row.

    14. CH

      So...

    15. JR

      And he would bring in fresh sparring partners too.

    16. CH

      Right.

    17. JR

      It's not like one guy he's beating up for 20 rounds.

    18. CH

      So...

    19. JR

      No, he'd bring in... He would rotate-

    20. CH

      (laughs) Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... five different sparring partners, so they would all-

    22. CH

      Did Khabib...

    23. JR

      ... come in and ro- and do four rounds each.

    24. CH

      Did Khabib do that too, kinda?

    25. JR

      Perhaps. Uh, I don't know. I mean, um, I don't know exact-... Khabib out- had unbelievably grueling training sessions. And, you know, that was one of the things that was so apparent, like with his, his endurance and his, his... Their discipline was like second to none.

    26. CH

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      They were like, "No girlfriends, no phones, no bullshit, no video games. Fuck you, we train."

    28. CH

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      And, you know, recover, train, eat, recover, train. And-

    30. CH

      Yeah.

  9. 58:241:25:09

    David Goggins, Izzy training footage, and forging willpower

    1. CH

      It's, it's like, it's... And it's one reason why Goggins is such a draw.

    2. JR

      Yeah, for sure.

    3. CH

      You know, he, he's sort of like that.

    4. JR

      Oh, he's very much like that. But the craziest thing about Goggins is he's not even training for anything.

    5. CH

      (laughs)

    6. JR

      I asked him about it. He goes, "I'm downloading, downloading information." I'm like, "You're downloading? What are you downloading?"

    7. CH

      (laughs)

    8. JR

      "This is so crazy."

    9. CH

      (laughs)

    10. JR

      We were talking about the video that he, that, uh, Stylebender just put out. J- shout out to Stylebender for putting this out, too.

    11. CH

      I know. Respect.

    12. JR

      We were also giving him credit because-

    13. CH

      Respect.

    14. JR

      ... because David broke him.

    15. NA

      The higher we go, uh- 'Cause if they're hurting- See that comment? ... you're hurting, you are willing to go to another level higher, that's when you break. Come off of your feet. Step up. This is awesome. Where your world ends, mine begins.

    16. JR

      Where your world ends-

    17. NA

      Come on.

    18. JR

      ... mine begins.

    19. NA

      Keep going, keep going.

    20. CH

      Ooh.

    21. JR

      And this is one of Goggins' multiple workouts of the day that he took Stylebender through.

    22. CH

      There, Stylebender's off the...

    23. JR

      Yeah, and he's-

    24. NA

      Come on. Come on.

    25. JR

      ... they're helping him back up.

    26. NA

      Come on.

    27. JR

      By the way, this is after they already ran. This is like the second, this is the third thing they did. They ran, then they did the Airdyne bike, and then they're doing this. So they already did sprints on the Airdyne bike, they ran for distance. I don't know how many miles they ran, but he was exhausted after the run, then exhausted after the Airdyne, and then he does this. And then they do it all over again.

    28. CH

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      They start again with the fucking Airdyne machine. They go back and forth and then it goes to sit-ups and then it goes to s-

    30. CH

      (laughs)

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