Joe Rogan Experience #1819 - Cameron Hanes
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #1819 - Cameron Hanes explores cameron Hanes, Joe Rogan Explore Endurance, Hunting, Fighting, American Grit Joe Rogan and Cameron Hanes use Hanes’ new book *Endure* as a springboard to talk about bowhunting, endurance, mindset, and the value of doing hard things. They swap intense backcountry hunting stories—grizzlies, mountain lions, Kodiak nights—and connect wild game, nutrition, and health to a more primal, resilient way of living.
Cameron Hanes, Joe Rogan Explore Endurance, Hunting, Fighting, American Grit
Joe Rogan and Cameron Hanes use Hanes’ new book *Endure* as a springboard to talk about bowhunting, endurance, mindset, and the value of doing hard things. They swap intense backcountry hunting stories—grizzlies, mountain lions, Kodiak nights—and connect wild game, nutrition, and health to a more primal, resilient way of living.
The conversation repeatedly returns to the idea of pushing physical and mental limits: ultra-running, daily training, UFC wars, boxing legends, and how elite performers like Tyson, Canelo, Usman, Chandler, and Goggins think and operate. They argue that the body and mind adapt to whatever demands you consistently place on them.
Hanes and Rogan also dig into ego, haters, and the difference between envy and inspiration, advocating gratitude, honesty, and learning from others’ excellence instead of resenting it. They close by discussing American-made companies like Origin and Montana Knife Co., tying craftsmanship and domestic manufacturing to pride, work ethic, and community impact.
Key Takeaways
Endurance is built by saying “no” to comfort every single day.
Hanes frames *Endure* as a manual for ordinary people to see what’s possible if they repeatedly reject the urge to quit—on runs, in the gym, at work—and instead stack small, consistent efforts over years.
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Your body will adapt to whatever you consistently demand from it.
From English longbowmen whose bones changed shape, to David Goggins’ rebuilt knees, to Hanes’ mountain conditioning, they stress that strength, stamina, and resilience are not fixed traits but responses to long-term stress and training.
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Wild game isn’t just “meat”; it’s superior nutrition and meaning.
They describe elk, bear, and bison as nutritionally denser and more “alive” than most store-bought beef, and note that eating an animal you hunted personally reconnects you to that experience and to the ecosystem it came from.
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Elite performance requires ruthless honesty about your limits and skills.
Using fighters like Usman, Oliveira, Chandler, and Tyson as examples, Rogan argues you can’t fake excellence: you must objectively assess what you’re good at, where you’re weak, and then deliberately train those gaps instead of believing your own hype.
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Jealousy and online hate hurt the hater more than the target.
Both men describe how resenting successful people traps you in bitterness, while choosing to study and appreciate their strengths turns them into fuel you can use to improve your own life.
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Hard physical challenges make everyday problems feel smaller.
Hanes and Rogan explain that ultra-runs, brutal lifts, cold plunges, and tough hunts recalibrate your sense of difficulty, so routine stressors—office politics, minor setbacks—lose their power over you.
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Supporting American-made products supports communities and resilience.
Their enthusiasm for Origin, Montana Knife Co. ...
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Notable Quotes
“If I did it, who couldn’t do it? Everybody could.”
— Cameron Hanes
“You can’t do to me what I do to myself.”
— Joe Rogan
“Your body will give what you ask of it. If you don’t ask much, it won’t give you much.”
— Cameron Hanes
“Nobody who reaches the top of anything got there through bullshit.”
— Joe Rogan
“Life is all of these creatures that we call human beings existing for this very short amount of time. You could spend that 100 years being a creep, or you could just forgive people and be as nice as you can.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
In your own life, where are you choosing comfort today over long-term endurance, and what small daily change could you make to reverse that?
Joe Rogan and Cameron Hanes use Hanes’ new book *Endure* as a springboard to talk about bowhunting, endurance, mindset, and the value of doing hard things. ...
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How would your relationship to food and health change if you had to obtain a significant portion of your meat yourself, the way Hanes and Rogan describe?
The conversation repeatedly returns to the idea of pushing physical and mental limits: ultra-running, daily training, UFC wars, boxing legends, and how elite performers like Tyson, Canelo, Usman, Chandler, and Goggins think and operate. ...
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When you see someone highly successful, do you instinctively lean toward envy or curiosity—and how might that be limiting or empowering you?
Hanes and Rogan also dig into ego, haters, and the difference between envy and inspiration, advocating gratitude, honesty, and learning from others’ excellence instead of resenting it. ...
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What “hard thing” could you commit to—physical or otherwise—that would recalibrate your sense of what’s actually difficult in your day-to-day life?
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Given the tradeoffs Rogan and Hanes discuss, how important is it to you that your gear, clothes, or tools are made domestically, and what would you be willing to pay or sacrifice for that?
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music) And we're up. Cameron Hanes, author.
Yeah.
How's it feel to be an author? You've been... You've actually been an author for a long time now.
Yeah, but-
You've ... Backcountry Bowhunting. When did you write that?
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.
This is a real book.
Yeah.
Endure. It's from a real publisher.
Yeah, exactly. So-
It's legit.
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.
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-
Yeah, that's, uh-
... 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."
No.
"'Cause it's pretty fucking manly."
I was-
(laughs)
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."
Yeah.
You know, that would have been great. But it just did that, and uh-
There it is. Come on, man. That's probably one of the most badass pictures a person's ever taken.
So I got, I got up. Thank you. Selfie. And I got up there-
(laughs)
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.
Did you, like, look at it in a selfie to, to-
Yeah.
... find the blood?
I had my phone. I looked. I was like, "Oh, okay, cool."
Sample shot of that.
(laughs)
Impress all the fellas back home. (laughs)
Yeah. Well, it turned in... It's meaningful because it was an amazing hunt. It was a hard hunt, and it was... Roy and I had... You know, it was a hunt we always... It's what we love to do, hard, cold, miserable, grizzly bears, long pack, killed a good bull. Um, just loved it.
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