Latest / The MeatEater Podcast / Ep. 001
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Meat Eater podcast. We're recording out of Ketchikan, Alaska,
- 0:05Speaker 1: along the famed Inside Passage. We're actually specifically recording in
- 0:12Speaker 1: what I considered to be my favorite hotel in the
- 0:14Speaker 1: United States of America, the Super Eight of ketch Can, Alaska,
- 0:18Speaker 1: in which Dan Doty, who's here, we'll get to him
- 0:21Speaker 1: in a minute.
- 0:22Speaker 2: It's actually the worst hotel ever.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I had no idea. I've been staying here for
- 0:27Speaker 1: a decade and then Dan Doty and staying here with
- 0:29Speaker 1: Dan Doty different rooms for a decade, and he just
- 0:31Speaker 1: revealed me that it is least favorite hotel in the
- 0:34Speaker 1: whole place. This, however you feel about the Super eight,
- 0:37Speaker 1: Ketchcan is a rough, rough town. If you like feeling
- 0:42Speaker 1: like you if you like going out and then coming
- 0:44Speaker 1: home and feeling like you almost just got your ass kicked,
- 0:48Speaker 1: ketch Caan' is a good place to go, I think
- 0:50Speaker 1: because the town has walled in, Like if you back up,
- 0:55Speaker 1: you're in the mountains. You go forward, you're in the ocean.
- 0:58Speaker 1: The road here doesn't connect any hihighway system, and people
- 1:01Speaker 1: feel like real uh like they get the feeling a
- 1:04Speaker 1: little cooped up and catch a can and they all
- 1:07Speaker 1: are like ambush hunters waiting for something new to roll
- 1:12Speaker 1: into town to pounce on them. It goes fast. Like
- 1:20Speaker 1: one of the guys who worked with MO one time
- 1:23Speaker 1: got you know, a woman came up to him to
- 1:25Speaker 1: criticize him about how much his rain jacket costs, you know,
- 1:29Speaker 1: and that was like she was like nagging him. It
- 1:31Speaker 1: was like her way of picking him up would be
- 1:33Speaker 1: to go ridicule him. But usually you go to the
- 1:35Speaker 1: bar and a guy will come up like he wants
- 1:39Speaker 1: to hang out, but in fact he wants to beat
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- 1:50Speaker 1: is this guy the designer, still the designer now, this guy,
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- 2:01Speaker 1: like their combat knife, And he started doing that and
- 2:04Speaker 1: it slowly built this company out. So he has it's
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- 2:11Speaker 1: super popular with military and law enforcement personnel. And now
- 2:15Speaker 1: they've got like a great line of hunting knives and
- 2:17Speaker 1: tools out. I mean, they got everything from hatchets to machetes.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Brian Cowen, who's here? How do you say that?
- 2:24Speaker 3: In Spanish?
- 2:27Speaker 4: I have a souvenir Meat Eater hunting knife. You don't have.
- 2:34Speaker 1: It's only there's only two or three of those in exist.
- 2:36Speaker 3: I have a I was given on the first Yeah.
- 2:38Speaker 4: Yeah, I have one of those too. I have one
- 2:40Speaker 4: of those two, but I have one with the meat
- 2:41Speaker 4: Eater logo. You don't have one of those. You know
- 2:44Speaker 4: how I know because he gave it to me. You
- 2:46Speaker 4: got really sad you were there?
- 2:47Speaker 5: Okay, obviously you've been in my knife chest. That's interesting
- 2:50Speaker 5: because I don't don't remember you ever being in my mind.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Do something rude you. I should have saved it for
- 2:59Speaker 1: ketch a can. Yeah, well I would have done something
- 3:02Speaker 1: rude to you in a bar and catch game.
- 3:03Speaker 5: You whether you don't know whether I went to the
- 3:06Speaker 5: offices and the head brass at Meat Eater and they
- 3:09Speaker 5: made one specially, you don't know that for sure.
- 3:12Speaker 3: Excuse me?
- 3:13Speaker 4: What's the name of the production company? Production company? Yeah,
- 3:15Speaker 4: the name of the production Is this a court of law?
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- 3:42Speaker 1: mad for me to really get into. But just the
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- 3:48Speaker 1: can actually take like just regular household tools and disassemble
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- 4:39Speaker 1: It is now our special guest here today we have
- 4:42Speaker 1: the beautiful and Lovely Brian, the Kid Count, and the
- 4:52Speaker 1: wonderful Joe Rogan. If Joe Rogan did not exist, you
- 4:55Speaker 1: would not be listening to this podcast right now because
- 4:58Speaker 1: Joe Rogan was my inspiration.
- 5:02Speaker 3: He's a pioneer.
- 5:03Speaker 1: He's a pioneer in podcasting. Were you doing podcasting before
- 5:07Speaker 1: they called it podcasting?
- 5:08Speaker 4: No, they've been. I think they started calling it podcasting
- 5:11Speaker 4: when the iPod was invented. I believe the term was
- 5:16Speaker 4: invented by Adam Curry, the guy who is the MTV
- 5:19Speaker 4: VJ who has a show now called No Agenda that
- 5:23Speaker 4: he does. I'm pretty sure he invented the term podcasting.
- 5:27Speaker 4: He might have invented podcasting itself.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Is he the guy that's now? Is there like a thing?
- 5:32Speaker 1: I remember you were involved, like someone was trying to.
- 5:36Speaker 4: Lawsuit?
- 5:36Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 5:37Speaker 4: Did that ever get resolved favorably? It's a podcaster, Yes
- 5:39Speaker 4: it did. It's called their patent trolls. They essentially wanted
- 5:44Speaker 4: to get a patent. This is the paraphrase version of
- 5:47Speaker 4: it that they they had a patent on things put
- 5:51Speaker 4: online in a serialized form, which is so ambiguous and vague.
- 5:56Speaker 4: But they were patent trolls. They had done this before
- 6:00Speaker 4: sued Apple for a lot of money. I think they
- 6:02Speaker 4: won several million dollars from Apple. But a company like
- 6:05Speaker 4: Apple just says, fuck it, I'll just give you the
- 6:07Speaker 4: money to shut your whole. Like it's worth more to
- 6:10Speaker 4: give them seven million dollars than it is to get
- 6:12Speaker 4: Tim Cook and all these guys to go to court somewhere.
- 6:15Speaker 1: But they must have I mean, I don't want to
- 6:17Speaker 1: get into this. It's you grade detail as I mean,
- 6:20Speaker 1: it's interesting to us. But they must have had some
- 6:22Speaker 1: kind of argument.
- 6:22Speaker 4: Doubt.
- 6:22Speaker 1: Apple just hands out money to anyone who comes up.
- 6:24Speaker 1: Like if I came up and said, hey man, my
- 6:26Speaker 1: iPod kind of burnt my hand, They're not going to
- 6:29Speaker 1: give me seven million dollars.
- 6:30Speaker 4: I don't know what they had what they had with Apple.
- 6:33Speaker 4: I don't know what the lawsuit was based on. But
- 6:35Speaker 4: the lawsuit that they were suing Adam Carola and several
- 6:38Speaker 4: other podcasters was unbelievably ridiculous. And the judges were you know,
- 6:44Speaker 4: they have they go through some before they have the
- 6:48Speaker 4: actual trial, They go through some sort of a meeting
- 6:50Speaker 4: when they sit down with legal representatives. They explained their case,
- 6:55Speaker 4: and you know, the judges reviewed it, so there's nothing here.
- 6:59Speaker 4: Was that right? And yeah?
- 7:00Speaker 1: And then they and then still still done it.
- 7:02Speaker 4: They still well, I don't know about Apple, this is
- 7:04Speaker 4: with Adam Corolla, and they still wanted to press forward. There.
- 7:07Speaker 4: What they do essentially is they forced people to spend
- 7:11Speaker 4: exhorbitant amounts of money in legal fees. Adam Carolla spent
- 7:15Speaker 4: more than half a million dollars fighting this and there
- 7:18Speaker 4: was almost no case. But that's the idea. It's like,
- 7:20Speaker 4: do you want to spend this or do you want
- 7:22Speaker 4: to just pay us twenty bucks a month? And then
- 7:24Speaker 4: everybody has to pay twenty bucks a month, so every part,
- 7:26Speaker 4: you know, whatever the number is, they choose. So that's
- 7:29Speaker 4: how they do it. But they in part of the
- 7:32Speaker 4: agreement that they signed when they abandoned the case, they
- 7:36Speaker 4: agreed to settle with Adam Kroller and they agreed to
- 7:38Speaker 4: not go after any other podcast. Specifically my podcast was listed.
- 7:43Speaker 4: There's like a bunch that they listed they will not
- 7:46Speaker 4: pursue legal action. So really, yeah, but I would have
- 7:50Speaker 4: had to do the same thing. I would have had
- 7:51Speaker 4: to spend fuck a loos of money. So I helped
- 7:53Speaker 4: Adam Croll raise some money for it.
- 7:55Speaker 1: That's what I remember seeing that.
- 7:56Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole thing is ridiculous.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Also joined by the labbyan lover. You guys know what
- 8:04Speaker 1: Jannis used to go by, Janni's long tongue.
- 8:06Speaker 4: Who tell us from from when he worked at a
- 8:11Speaker 4: long tom.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Do you wish you had told me that story? Because
- 8:16Speaker 1: he worked at at what you work at.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Long tongue Italian restaurant.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Beaver Creek, Colorado, and then and then got fired from
- 8:27Speaker 1: that and had a long illustrious career as a as
- 8:30Speaker 1: an elk guide before getting swept up into show business.
- 8:33Speaker 3: Got good length of bone and.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Has a labban power ring.
- 8:40Speaker 4: Mean, look at his power ring.
- 8:43Speaker 1: His brother wears one too. If they touch him as sparks,
- 8:46Speaker 1: it's a Jann just to prove. Just say say if
- 8:53Speaker 1: you say we're going across the strait to hunt black
- 8:56Speaker 1: tailed deer on that island over there in Laban's.
- 9:00Speaker 6: Eat, Uh leaders and lead machine pot a wooden scubble, uh,
- 9:07Speaker 6: mount steering us and mount i'm ustin black taired deal.
- 9:15Speaker 6: Black tailed deer is a tough one.
- 9:16Speaker 4: We don't have to let you said black tail deer.
- 9:21Speaker 1: And and joined by.
- 9:24Speaker 5: It was fake.
- 9:24Speaker 3: It was a fake language.
- 9:27Speaker 4: You can't do that.
- 9:29Speaker 1: Super eight hate and Dan, who's also been on jokes.
- 9:36Speaker 3: It's been negative about Dan.
- 9:37Speaker 5: It's been like, uh, this place is terrible and by
- 9:39Speaker 5: the way, where we're going, it's going to be really
- 9:41Speaker 5: cold and wet and miserable.
- 9:43Speaker 3: This whole thing.
- 9:43Speaker 4: So well, judging by that, this is fine. This is fine.
- 9:50Speaker 4: If I mean, if this is terrible, then and I
- 9:52Speaker 4: put it on a scale and compelled this to the
- 9:55Speaker 4: the mountain that we're going to.
- 9:57Speaker 2: I'm aware I've been a little negative about this, and
- 9:59Speaker 2: I'm I don't want to be that way.
- 10:01Speaker 4: But there's something, there is something first class. You're sitting
- 10:05Speaker 4: up there with all the kings and queens and royalty,
- 10:08Speaker 4: and we're back there with the peasants code.
- 10:11Speaker 3: You're a natural.
- 10:12Speaker 4: Understand I understand where you're coming from.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Now, there's something hard.
- 10:16Speaker 2: There is something about this place that just has been
- 10:19Speaker 2: here a bunch. We've been here a bunch. It's been
- 10:21Speaker 2: four years now, we've been coming.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been kind of more more than suddenly trying
- 10:26Speaker 1: to put the put the end to this trip. No, no, no,
- 10:30Speaker 1: it's just like he's like, we kind of I think Dan,
- 10:33Speaker 1: we've got something online and we've filmed the piss out
- 10:35Speaker 1: of that place?
- 10:39Speaker 4: Is it because it's your not you have your cabin
- 10:41Speaker 4: up here? Not this?
- 10:42Speaker 1: Also? I just love it. I love it because I
- 10:46Speaker 1: honestly I feel like it feels really nice weather I
- 10:48Speaker 1: wouldn't like as much as I like it.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Yeah, you're a weirdo like that.
- 10:51Speaker 1: I love it and not enjoy bad weather. I just
- 10:53Speaker 1: love it because there's something about there's just there's something
- 10:59Speaker 1: about just like a place that just is probably just
- 11:01Speaker 1: gonna kick your ass.
- 11:02Speaker 4: You like struggle, you know. And it was highlighted in
- 11:06Speaker 4: that recent Elk episode that I watched. This is fucking
- 11:09Speaker 4: giant beautiful? Am I allowed to swear on your podcast? Okay,
- 11:12Speaker 4: we'll make an exception. Are you gonna beep beep it?
- 11:15Speaker 1: Or this isn't like this isn't like the like a tube.
- 11:19Speaker 4: Like a TV. You you had this beautiful Elk in
- 11:23Speaker 4: your sights and you decided not to shoot it because
- 11:26Speaker 4: you wanted to see what else was out there and
- 11:27Speaker 4: you felt like it came too easy shoot. I would
- 11:30Speaker 4: have shot that.
- 11:33Speaker 1: I had opposite of you, I had just shot at Elk.
- 11:36Speaker 1: What I didn't get into is I had just shot
- 11:38Speaker 1: at elk not the Kentucky I had just shot out.
- 11:42Speaker 4: Whatever, so fucking ended that thing. Right there, ladies and gentlemen,
- 11:49Speaker 4: this show is four. I would have sack opposite. I
- 11:54Speaker 4: never think like this is too easy. When things come
- 11:56Speaker 4: along to eas I go, fucking great, let's wrap this up,
- 12:00Speaker 4: get out of here. I love it when things come easy.
- 12:03Speaker 4: I don't ever feel like I have to work extra hard.
- 12:05Speaker 5: For I hope I nailed two deers in the first
- 12:07Speaker 5: five minutes tomorrow.
- 12:08Speaker 4: I hope they line up. I hope both my tags
- 12:11Speaker 4: line up where they're both eating grass at the same time,
- 12:13Speaker 4: and I get one headshot and take both of them.
- 12:16Speaker 1: Out right from the tent.
- 12:18Speaker 4: Just boom, get up in the morning.
- 12:20Speaker 3: Sh let's go crabbing.
- 12:22Speaker 4: Boom. Let's eat trimp.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Let's eat some trimp and crab.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:26Speaker 4: I don't.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you're saying, because I do like
- 12:28Speaker 1: I want it to be. I never go somewhere to
- 12:30Speaker 1: thinking like, oh I want it to be bad, Like
- 12:33Speaker 1: I don't go honey, like like I hope it's really
- 12:35Speaker 1: hard and it's bad. I always hope it's good. And
- 12:37Speaker 1: there's tons of animals everywhere, but you like to earn
- 12:39Speaker 1: it after the fact.
- 12:42Speaker 2: You're a bit of a monsochist.
- 12:43Speaker 4: You are a maist. Well, I think what you are
- 12:48Speaker 4: is someone who appreciates hard work and effort, and you
- 12:51Speaker 4: also appreciate going to places that are difficult to hunt.
- 12:55Speaker 4: You like going in to high mountain areas that are
- 12:57Speaker 4: difficult to hike. You know, there's there's a lot that
- 12:59Speaker 4: you you have an ethic, and I think that ethic
- 13:04Speaker 4: it's it's a good thing. It's a good thing that
- 13:06Speaker 4: you have this. But you're you're very extreme with your ethics,
- 13:10Speaker 4: your morals, your ideals and these things. It's a very
- 13:12Speaker 4: romanticized version of it.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Me.
- 13:15Speaker 4: I'm looking to kill ship and need it.
- 13:17Speaker 5: I will say, though, I will say that that that
- 13:22Speaker 5: I got more. I had a really good time in Wisconsin,
- 13:25Speaker 5: but I got I had a much more satisfying feeling
- 13:28Speaker 5: at the end of the Montana trip because of the cold,
- 13:33Speaker 5: the discomfort, the tent, the hiking, the pack in that meet.
- 13:37Speaker 4: Out and you got that idea in the last day
- 13:39Speaker 4: and I got.
- 13:41Speaker 5: Everything felt like a struggle and I didn't really I
- 13:43Speaker 5: wasn't too vocal about it.
- 13:44Speaker 3: I froze my ass off because.
- 13:46Speaker 5: I hadn't learned how to I couldn't.
- 13:51Speaker 3: Layer up enough.
- 13:52Speaker 1: And finally, Ryan Collins, you never brought this up YouTube video.
- 13:56Speaker 2: You just complained about the cold.
- 13:58Speaker 4: Oh is that right?
- 13:58Speaker 5: Okay, well, maybe I'm just a whiner, but I remember
- 14:01Speaker 5: being so cold and Ryan told me take a hot
- 14:04Speaker 5: water bottle, put it in your botom and your sleeping bag.
- 14:06Speaker 5: Changed everything. But for the first two nights I was
- 14:08Speaker 5: not sleeping.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Man. If you put his Mustang an extra warm, no question,
- 14:15Speaker 1: he just shot it. Speaking to him, bless his heart,
- 14:17Speaker 1: he just shot an elk with his uh, with his
- 14:21Speaker 1: his old timing. I mistakenly called it like I always
- 14:25Speaker 1: think of everything besides the compound, a stickball, A couple
- 14:27Speaker 1: of guys.
- 14:28Speaker 3: He's a great guy. Sorry he's not here.
- 14:32Speaker 6: Quick note though, on enjoying hard hunts, I think it's
- 14:36Speaker 6: a part of the progression of all hunters. And you
- 14:39Speaker 6: might get there one day too. And I know a
- 14:42Speaker 6: lot of old guys that would love to every season
- 14:45Speaker 6: hunt every single day of the season because they enjoyed
- 14:48Speaker 6: the hunt and to sit in there, stand to be cold,
- 14:51Speaker 6: to watch birds and all that, and to kill their
- 14:53Speaker 6: deer on the last day. That would be their perfect season.
- 14:56Speaker 1: Yeah. I appreciate it. Tough hunt, and I appreciate you
- 14:57Speaker 1: guys coming on again because I you know, I realized
- 15:01Speaker 1: this the other day without even really trying to. We're
- 15:05Speaker 1: sort of doing be honest. Is there a thing? Is
- 15:07Speaker 1: there a Grand Slam version for deer? So people like
- 15:09Speaker 1: people aren't familiar with the whole Grand Slam concept, which
- 15:12Speaker 1: isn't a difficult concept to understand. All these different animals
- 15:17Speaker 1: have like like a Grand Slam type thing. So with turkeys,
- 15:22Speaker 1: you would do a grand A Grand Slam for turkeys
- 15:27Speaker 1: would be you choot an Eastern turkey, a Ostiola turkey,
- 15:35Speaker 1: a Rio grand, and a Miriam's. It's a Grand Slam. Now,
- 15:41Speaker 1: then there's the soup. Do you know how these go?
- 15:44Speaker 2: Super Slam then World.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Slam Super Slam for turkeys, which I which I like
- 15:51Speaker 1: almost accidentally completed up till the end is you add
- 15:55Speaker 1: a Goulds turkey and you hunt Goulds in Arizona and
- 15:59Speaker 1: in mac most people who do it going down to Mexico,
- 16:01Speaker 1: and then you got the World Slam, which is when
- 16:04Speaker 1: you step outside of turkeiness, outside of the like, here's
- 16:08Speaker 1: the thing. All those turkeys, all those turkeys are the
- 16:13Speaker 1: like North American turkey, you know, and geneticists don't even
- 16:16Speaker 1: really acknowledge the differences between all these things. But then
- 16:19Speaker 1: there's another one, the oscillated, which is a whole different species.
- 16:22Speaker 1: It's like the second turkey species is the oscillated, which
- 16:26Speaker 1: is down in Yucatan. So you go kill him and
- 16:30Speaker 1: you got the turkey world slam. Having done this, when
- 16:33Speaker 1: I explain this to some of my friends, they think
- 16:35Speaker 1: it's the stupidest thing on the planet, you know. But
- 16:38Speaker 1: for sheep, it's like it's doll sheep, stone sheep, rocky mountain,
- 16:46Speaker 1: big horn, desert, binghorn is the sheep whatever slam is
- 16:51Speaker 1: there a dear one?
- 16:53Speaker 6: I think.
- 16:53Speaker 1: So what I'm getting at is you boys, you're getting
- 16:56Speaker 1: terribly close. If we have a successful hunt when we
- 17:00Speaker 1: cross the strait and go out to the island, then
- 17:02Speaker 1: we go for cous Yeah, because then you got like
- 17:05Speaker 1: a white tail. So you got a white tail, muleer,
- 17:09Speaker 1: white tail. Sick of black tail. I think you gotta
- 17:11Speaker 1: do Columbia black tail and maybe a coups deer.
- 17:13Speaker 4: Yeah, Columbia black tail in my yard.
- 17:16Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll get that whenever you want. What they think
- 17:19Speaker 1: had like again, geneticists kind of like rewrite all this stuff.
- 17:26Speaker 1: But now they think that like that that all these
- 17:30Speaker 1: things like the Columbia black tail, the sick of black tail,
- 17:32Speaker 1: the mule deer all I mean, they're they're listed as
- 17:34Speaker 1: one species. A lot of people don't recognize them as subspecies,
- 17:37Speaker 1: which is totally bizarre because he's deer out here when
- 17:38Speaker 1: you walk up to be stunned how small they are?
- 17:41Speaker 3: Oh, you mean the ones in Alaska the.
- 17:42Speaker 1: Sick of black tails are small? Why they so.
- 17:45Speaker 3: Small they can serve heat better or what?
- 17:47Speaker 4: No, it's weird. Yeah, the big deer, like the big
- 17:52Speaker 4: deer from the north, like the ones in like Saskatchewan.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Giants el bird. Yeah, that's your big white tails. Bergman's principle.
- 18:01Speaker 1: But there's a couple of things about Bergman's rule or
- 18:02Speaker 1: Bergman's principle. So, yeah, mammals tend to be larger at
- 18:08Speaker 1: the northern extreme of their range in the northern hemisphere,
- 18:10Speaker 1: then to be larger because it has the heat dissipation
- 18:13Speaker 1: heat retention. But they find that mule deer tend to
- 18:18Speaker 1: not adhere to that quite as strictly as white tails do.
- 18:21Speaker 1: So you look at a key like a deer, A
- 18:23Speaker 1: white tailed deer in the keys very very small, you know,
- 18:27Speaker 1: one hundred pounds of these Lucky Florida keys. Yeah. White
- 18:30Speaker 1: tail deer in Alberta two hundred and fifty pounds is giants.
- 18:33Speaker 3: So so is that same.
- 18:35Speaker 5: The bigger the person, the better they are conserving heat.
- 18:39Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why a bigger person, bigger person conservative.
- 18:44Speaker 4: Why is it that those Mexican deer that you see
- 18:47Speaker 4: on television all the time, blacktail or white tail, and
- 18:50Speaker 4: those and mule deer, they're giant? Are they bringing America?
- 18:55Speaker 1: Can the white tails from Mexico small?
- 18:57Speaker 4: Okay, I'm just seeing ones on television shows.
- 19:00Speaker 1: No, they're like but they're small bodied. And the mule
- 19:04Speaker 1: deer down there get big antlers. And that's what I'm saying. Muleier.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Some muleier don't conform to that rule quite as strictly
- 19:10Speaker 1: as other things do. But what you do find is
- 19:12Speaker 1: the mule deer, like what you say, the desert mule
- 19:14Speaker 1: deer is gonna have bigger ears, and the ears are
- 19:17Speaker 1: great for heat retention dissipation. Like you look at the
- 19:19Speaker 1: wooly mammoth. Wooly mammoth like a big elephant, right, little
- 19:23Speaker 1: shit in ears, like barely any ear on that thing.
- 19:25Speaker 1: The Africa's he's a cold climate elephant. You look at
- 19:28Speaker 1: the African elephant, I mean giant ears for that. Another
- 19:31Speaker 1: place animals lose a lot of heat is inside of
- 19:33Speaker 1: their legs, so you always know the hairs thin there.
- 19:36Speaker 1: You can stand up to dissipate heat, lay down to
- 19:39Speaker 1: collect to retain heat.
- 19:41Speaker 4: Huh.
- 19:41Speaker 1: But yet another principle plays in. It's like sick of
- 19:44Speaker 1: black tails are a coastal and often predominantly the island critter,
- 19:50Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, mammals on islands tend to tend
- 19:54Speaker 1: toward dwarf ism, reptails on islands tend toward gargantuanism.
- 19:59Speaker 4: Well then what what happens with those giant bears?
- 20:02Speaker 1: The Kodiak bear, Yeah, that's an exception for sure, except.
- 20:06Speaker 5: He just had so much access to to salmon, I
- 20:08Speaker 5: would imagine, yeah, me, whereas a highland bear like brown bears,
- 20:13Speaker 5: and you know, the mountainous regions are like six hundred
- 20:15Speaker 5: pounds to live on barries and stuff. That's what I heard.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Yeah, And the grizzlies that you get in the fire
- 20:20Speaker 1: North are small. Yeah, there's exceptions all over place. Anyways,
- 20:23Speaker 1: he's just some dinky ass deers.
- 20:25Speaker 4: Like, what's a big one? What's a big sick of
- 20:27Speaker 4: black tail? One hundred pounds.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Bigger than that?
- 20:31Speaker 2: You?
- 20:31Speaker 1: I don't think you'll get it. I don't think a
- 20:33Speaker 1: big box going one hundred fifty pounds.
- 20:35Speaker 4: Wow.
- 20:35Speaker 1: I mean a lot of them weigh Like I said, man,
- 20:37Speaker 1: they're like sub one hundred pounds. You walk up and
- 20:39Speaker 1: you're like, wow, that's not what I thought I was
- 20:41Speaker 1: looking at. Oh right, right, But you know, but it's
- 20:45Speaker 1: like in the antlers are you have to They're just
- 20:49Speaker 1: not as big as white tails. It's like, imagine that
- 20:52Speaker 1: like the only let's say, the only woman dudes knew
- 20:55Speaker 1: about was like Pamela Anderson, like the white tails years
- 21:00Speaker 1: to pant like the Pamela Anderson deer. You know, it's
- 21:04Speaker 1: just like souped up and a lot of work been
- 21:07Speaker 1: done on it. It's just like this thing, you know,
- 21:11Speaker 1: and they get and you look at the cover magazines,
- 21:13Speaker 1: you look at these giants on farms. So when you
- 21:16Speaker 1: go out, if everyone knew that woman and only that woman,
- 21:20Speaker 1: they're gonna have a harder time appreciating someone of a
- 21:23Speaker 1: more subtle, refined beauty.
- 21:25Speaker 5: Because the the the deer you're talking about, what you
- 21:26Speaker 5: see on the cover of those hunting magazines are corn fed.
- 21:29Speaker 1: Basically, they're more than that, man, they're injected even you know,
- 21:33Speaker 1: like magazines like I've talked, I don't want a name
- 21:34Speaker 1: in the magazine. I got friends, worked, and I right
- 21:36Speaker 1: there now and then. But in the fall, they always
- 21:39Speaker 1: put a big giant buck on the cover of the magazine.
- 21:42Speaker 1: And the magazine has a has a editorial standpoint standpoint
- 21:46Speaker 1: where they're not four fence hunting, so they don't like
- 21:49Speaker 1: cover fence hunting in the magazine, don't write about fence
- 21:51Speaker 1: hunting in the magazine. But all their bucks got names, man,
- 21:54Speaker 1: you know, I mean they got bucks that just the
- 21:56Speaker 1: bucks on the cover of the magazine are just farm bucks.
- 22:00Speaker 1: It's like buck you're not going to see in the wild.
- 22:01Speaker 1: It's like Larry the Buck. You know, it won't say that.
- 22:04Speaker 1: It was like a Pennsylvania giant, you know. And the
- 22:07Speaker 1: photographer took them an hour to try to get a
- 22:09Speaker 1: shot where it wasn't like a.
- 22:11Speaker 5: Why why are the wolves in Yellowstone? And I don't
- 22:14Speaker 5: know if these are doctored photographs?
- 22:17Speaker 4: Sorry?
- 22:18Speaker 5: Why are they so welcome?
- 22:20Speaker 1: To the podcast.
- 22:22Speaker 3: Sorry, Brian, back back.
- 22:26Speaker 5: Why are the wolves and Yellowstone so so giant, like
- 22:30Speaker 5: these guys who've shot them and they're holding them up
- 22:32Speaker 5: and they're literally bigger than by farther person. Is that
- 22:35Speaker 5: because they have so much access to elk and they're just.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Killing I think they're big, well fed. There's there's conspiracy
- 22:41Speaker 1: theories that many, like the Forest Service somehow wanted to
- 22:49Speaker 1: really stick it to really screw over Montans and whelming people,
- 22:55Speaker 1: and so they're like, well, I know what I'll do
- 22:57Speaker 1: to them. I'll go get super wools, which is what
- 23:01Speaker 1: they call them. I'll go get super wolves from elsewhere
- 23:05Speaker 1: Canada and bring them down and let them go. And
- 23:09Speaker 1: these wolves are way bigger than the wolves that were
- 23:12Speaker 1: here at the time of European contact, and that'll show
- 23:14Speaker 1: them and they'll know not I don't really know what
- 23:17Speaker 1: they're like if they're trying to stick it to them,
- 23:19Speaker 1: I don't know what they're sticking it to them about.
- 23:21Speaker 1: But that's one theory. Is that Another thing would be
- 23:24Speaker 1: that they right now are expanding their range. They have
- 23:32Speaker 1: in many areas low like low competition with other wolves
- 23:36Speaker 1: because they're still in an expansion phase, like the energy
- 23:39Speaker 1: moves outward, you know, to new territory, and there's a
- 23:42Speaker 1: lot to eat and they're healthy.
- 23:44Speaker 5: How much does weigh? How much is a big timber wolf?
- 23:47Speaker 1: What they can weigh? A couple hundred pounds? But people
- 23:49Speaker 1: say that that's like one of those numbers we've thought
- 23:51Speaker 1: this was before. There's certain numbers that always get thrown around,
- 23:53Speaker 1: like you know, you know, like mountain lion. Yeah, yeah,
- 23:57Speaker 1: all that stuff, and so like the wolves are that big,
- 23:59Speaker 1: but I mean they're giants. They're giants, they're huge.
- 24:03Speaker 6: We did hear that story from a fairly credible source
- 24:06Speaker 6: about the guy that knew the trapper that supposedly trapped
- 24:09Speaker 6: live trapped some of these wolves from the first introduction.
- 24:12Speaker 1: The ninety seven introduction or whatever, Yeah.
- 24:14Speaker 6: Yeah, into Yellowstone, and that he had trapped like sixteen
- 24:18Speaker 6: or seventeen wolves and he had them and he picked
- 24:21Speaker 6: like hand picked the biggest, baddest, meanest wolves, like the
- 24:25Speaker 6: wolves that all the rest of the wolves in the
- 24:27Speaker 6: pens were like like scared of and coward. He's like
- 24:31Speaker 6: those stupid bastards down the states, Let's send in these three.
- 24:34Speaker 1: He's like, you want wolves? Do you hear wolves? I
- 24:38Speaker 1: don't know what you're thinking.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Here, you go. It seems like a crazy idea. It
- 24:42Speaker 4: seems like a crazy idea that's kind of backfiring in
- 24:44Speaker 4: a lot of places.
- 24:45Speaker 1: I don't know, man. Yeah, the numbers are high, really high. Right, Well,
- 24:51Speaker 1: they got they start. They feel like they maybe when
- 24:55Speaker 1: the hunts were running, you know, they felt like they
- 24:56Speaker 1: turned the corner in Montana a little bit. I know,
- 24:59Speaker 1: my brother was just and you know, the one that
- 25:01Speaker 1: just lost the significant portion of elk to bears. He
- 25:06Speaker 1: was up and saw seven of them. You know, I
- 25:08Speaker 1: mean nothing. I mean that's like totally anecdotal, but they're out.
- 25:11Speaker 1: Like it's funny because the area, the area we hunt
- 25:14Speaker 1: elk in me past as him. Still, we started hunting
- 25:19Speaker 1: elk in this area, hunt there for ten years. We
- 25:21Speaker 1: started hunting elk there in ninety six. So it's for
- 25:23Speaker 1: the wolf thing hit that elk herd that we've hunted
- 25:28Speaker 1: has been greatly reduced. You know, it's like the elk
- 25:32Speaker 1: numbers have declined in that specific herd. They had declined
- 25:36Speaker 1: by you know, fifty percent.
- 25:37Speaker 2: Wow.
- 25:38Speaker 1: But my brother kills an elk every year. His success
- 25:41Speaker 1: rate has maintained, has gone the same and I think
- 25:45Speaker 1: it's like elk go down, but his knowledge level of
- 25:48Speaker 1: the area, you know, has kept pace. He's sort of
- 25:51Speaker 1: made up for it now. I can only imagine because
- 25:55Speaker 1: before wolves came in, this is like, this sounds totally
- 25:58Speaker 1: just like one guy's experience. It's by other people say
- 26:00Speaker 1: this too. When wolves came in hard, we're kind of
- 26:07Speaker 1: like ladies and gentlemen. We're kind of talking about what
- 26:09Speaker 1: they call the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, or the area around
- 26:12Speaker 1: Yellowstone where the wolves are now wombing Idaho, Montana. But
- 26:16Speaker 1: when those wolves came in and really start hammering those elk,
- 26:20Speaker 1: the elk got paranoid in a way that they weren't before.
- 26:24Speaker 1: You know. I think they just got like a mentality
- 26:27Speaker 1: of just being like hunted all the time.
- 26:29Speaker 4: You know.
- 26:30Speaker 1: So it used to it felt for a while like
- 26:32Speaker 1: when you went on an opening day and that they
- 26:34Speaker 1: hadn't been harassed by hunters. They were just relaxed in
- 26:37Speaker 1: the way, and they were in vulnerable locations. And I
- 26:40Speaker 1: think that and many people agree with this, that that
- 26:43Speaker 1: hurt has adjusted its behavior so much it'll eventually have
- 26:46Speaker 1: to adjust its behavior a lot in order to learn
- 26:49Speaker 1: how to cope with the new threat. But think of
- 26:51Speaker 1: it in the reverse. If you think about taking a
- 26:54Speaker 1: drive for the Yellstone National Park, you're going to Yellowstone now,
- 26:58Speaker 1: and the elk and Yellowstone are scared shitless of wolves.
- 27:02Speaker 1: They're scared shitless of grizzlies. What they don't care about
- 27:06Speaker 1: are human beings. Okay, so you'll have elk feeding ten
- 27:11Speaker 1: twenty thirty feet from your car, oblivious to your presence.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Not oblivious. They know you're there, they just don't care.
- 27:17Speaker 4: Right.
- 27:18Speaker 1: Yellowstone has them been actively hunted for over one hundred years. Okay,
- 27:22Speaker 1: so on that chunk of property, they have ruled out
- 27:26Speaker 1: humans as being something to be worried about. So when
- 27:29Speaker 1: they're out they can go feed in the area where
- 27:33Speaker 1: maybe they're safe from wolves or safer from wolves, where
- 27:36Speaker 1: they can see around or whatever. But also at the
- 27:38Speaker 1: same time they don't have to worry all about their
- 27:40Speaker 1: proximity to people. If all of a sudden tomorrow you
- 27:43Speaker 1: start saying that, you know, I'm gonna let a handful
- 27:46Speaker 1: of hunters every year come into Yellstone National Park and
- 27:50Speaker 1: just start taking potshots at these elk, someone would come
- 27:54Speaker 1: in and stay like these elk are stupid. They just
- 27:56Speaker 1: stand there and let you shoot them. But it'll be yeah,
- 28:00Speaker 1: because they haven't adjusted to the threat yet, you know, right,
- 28:04Speaker 1: And so with wolves they will eventually, hopefully they will
- 28:11Speaker 1: reach some kind of like technological stalemate with the wolves
- 28:15Speaker 1: where they seem like a little bit better to withstand
- 28:17Speaker 1: the kind of pressure. One hope is that's starting to
- 28:20Speaker 1: happen at the same time. You know, I'm an advocate
- 28:23Speaker 1: of continuing to whittle down the wolf numbers, just managing
- 28:26Speaker 1: like you would anything else, you know.
- 28:28Speaker 3: Just because they're still devastating, not so.
- 28:31Speaker 1: Much because it's so devastating because they're renewable resource, you know,
- 28:34Speaker 1: are they like they're renewable resource. There's hunter interest in them.
- 28:38Speaker 1: It's been proven by most people who don't have a
- 28:40Speaker 1: political as to grind believe that we can maintain a
- 28:46Speaker 1: harvest on wolves without destroying the resource or damaging the resource,
- 28:51Speaker 1: like you maintain a viable population of them, the same
- 28:53Speaker 1: way we try to maintain a viable population of mountain lions.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Viable population of black bears.
- 28:58Speaker 5: We rebuilt on line are so incredibly plentiful in Utah,
- 29:02Speaker 5: for example, that when you get your fishing license, it
- 29:05Speaker 5: comes automatically with a mountain lion tag?
- 29:07Speaker 1: Is that true?
- 29:08Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so. I was amazed at that. When you
- 29:11Speaker 5: apply for a fishing license, look.
- 29:12Speaker 1: It up whether you have a hunt license or not.
- 29:14Speaker 5: When you apply for a fishing license, you get an
- 29:16Speaker 5: automatic tag for a for a mountain lion license.
- 29:19Speaker 3: I was amazed.
- 29:20Speaker 1: What do you think of that?
- 29:22Speaker 6: California?
- 29:23Speaker 1: No, no, Utah hunt lines of California, Utah thought?
- 29:26Speaker 4: While one just attacked a kid in Silicon Valley? Do
- 29:29Speaker 4: you hear about that? Cooper Tino. Six year old kid
- 29:32Speaker 4: got attacked by a mountain lion. His father had a
- 29:34Speaker 4: fucking scream and yelled the mountainline to get it off
- 29:37Speaker 4: the kid. The cops did. Cops found the mountain line,
- 29:41Speaker 4: killed it. They got the DNA from the kid's jacket.
- 29:43Speaker 4: So when they shot the mountain line they did, they
- 29:46Speaker 4: knew they had the right one.
- 29:47Speaker 5: In Colorado, six year old was walking between her family
- 29:50Speaker 5: or parents, and mountain liin just came down, took her.
- 29:53Speaker 1: Took her off, not dead though, no kill her.
- 29:57Speaker 4: Took her off. Yeah. I'm not a big fan of
- 29:59Speaker 4: When was that four or five years old? Okay, I'm
- 30:02Speaker 4: not a big fan of casts.
- 30:03Speaker 3: That's a terrible tragedy. I mean, that's like, what in
- 30:05Speaker 3: the world.
- 30:06Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 30:07Speaker 1: I mean, is it worse than a car?
- 30:08Speaker 5: I mean well, I mean in all respect, no, I
- 30:10Speaker 5: mean it's so rare, like how many how many people
- 30:13Speaker 5: have really been killed by bound lines?
- 30:15Speaker 1: One every twenty years? Man, Yeah, it's that's why I
- 30:18Speaker 1: can't That's why. That's why it's No, it's like what
- 30:21Speaker 1: there's like one mountain lion fatality every twenty years.
- 30:24Speaker 4: So rare.
- 30:24Speaker 3: Man, it's so rare.
- 30:27Speaker 1: You know. What I heard recently was the number of
- 30:29Speaker 1: years I was saying, did you see this the last
- 30:32Speaker 1: time a bow hunter was killed by a grit? Like
- 30:35Speaker 1: as much as both, Like, when you're hunting bow hunting
- 30:38Speaker 1: for elk, you're cow calling, you're making you're mimicking the
- 30:41Speaker 1: sound of a cow out hit it, you honest, hit
- 30:44Speaker 1: a nice cow call.
- 30:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:46Speaker 1: Yeah. Grizzlies hear that. Yeah, they hear that, and they
- 30:52Speaker 1: hunt the sound. So bow hunters are frequently, like just
- 30:57Speaker 1: in my own extended circle, like friends of friends, every
- 31:01Speaker 1: there's like guys that are calling in grizzlies while trying
- 31:04Speaker 1: to call out Not I couldn't believe this. Not a
- 31:08Speaker 1: bowl hunter's been killed in the Rocky Mountains at least
- 31:11Speaker 1: twenty five years by grizzlies.
- 31:14Speaker 6: Yeah, I forget what it was. Someone wrote a statement
- 31:17Speaker 6: saying that it was happening Chuck Adams.
- 31:20Speaker 1: Yeah, all due respect to Chuck Adams. I mean he's
- 31:23Speaker 1: like a like a great hunter, has been writing a
- 31:26Speaker 1: lot more about a lot more stuff than I ever
- 31:28Speaker 1: have in my life. Uh, when it comes to hunting.
- 31:32Speaker 1: Made the mistake of saying, like how sometimes bowl hunters
- 31:35Speaker 1: do get killed or unfortunately they do get killed, and
- 31:37Speaker 1: then someone did the research said no, in fact, they don't.
- 31:40Speaker 1: There's no record of a ballner.
- 31:42Speaker 6: I think it's been long from.
- 31:43Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben long from back huntry hunters and anglers was
- 31:45Speaker 1: the one that wound up saying that, no, it doesn't
- 31:47Speaker 1: have but anyways, yeah, once every twenty years. I think
- 31:50Speaker 1: it's once every twenty years. Kids are more vulnerable, the
- 31:52Speaker 1: kids and ladies, joggers particularly. I think you look like
- 31:56Speaker 1: something the lion wants to snack on.
- 31:58Speaker 4: It looks like something's running away too, Probably something scared.
- 32:01Speaker 3: Not the way I run.
- 32:02Speaker 1: I've seen bought to.
- 32:06Speaker 6: Fishing licenses and I didn't see that on my fishing license.
- 32:09Speaker 3: Look it up. I was just told that by my father.
- 32:12Speaker 1: Does I mean there's like a handful of reasons why
- 32:15Speaker 1: that wouldn't be right.
- 32:15Speaker 4: It doesn't seem to make sense.
- 32:17Speaker 5: You don't, Now, I'm curious. My father told me that
- 32:20Speaker 5: my father did. He just got he just gotta. He
- 32:23Speaker 5: lives in Utah and he and he got a fishing
- 32:25Speaker 5: license and he said that you get an automatic tag
- 32:28Speaker 5: from you.
- 32:28Speaker 1: I think I think he maybe got fishing line. Yeah,
- 32:32Speaker 1: we're talking about something that we're not able to resolve,
- 32:34Speaker 1: which is like one of the.
- 32:37Speaker 4: Right.
- 32:37Speaker 1: So what he probably got is they probably sent him
- 32:40Speaker 1: because they had his name and everything, they probably maybe
- 32:42Speaker 1: sent him a lion application of permit application. Regardless, I've
- 32:46Speaker 1: seen three lions. He used to seem like a lot,
- 32:49Speaker 1: and I feel like it's only three lions. Jay Scott,
- 32:53Speaker 1: who Janice guided for it for a long time. Colbert
- 32:57Speaker 1: and Scott Outfitters, they guide what they got. Elk Arizona,
- 33:01Speaker 1: the guy.
- 33:01Speaker 2: In Mexico, Colorado, Muleier, Colorado.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Mulder. I said to Jaz said, hey, many how many
- 33:06Speaker 1: lines you've seen? And he spends a lot of time
- 33:11Speaker 1: behind his binoculars. He said, I'm looking for number thirty five, right,
- 33:14Speaker 1: now whoa hunt.
- 33:17Speaker 4: He's seen.
- 33:17Speaker 1: He's glassed up thirty five lions hunt, but he.
- 33:21Speaker 6: Does live behind his binoculars for a great of the year.
- 33:25Speaker 5: The guy who was I think the head of the
- 33:28Speaker 5: fishing game or Wildlife Service or whatever, I remember he
- 33:31Speaker 5: had to step down. He was in California, yep. And
- 33:34Speaker 5: he hunted him outain line very legally.
- 33:36Speaker 1: In another state.
- 33:37Speaker 5: Yeah, And and they flipped out on him.
- 33:39Speaker 1: You can't hunt lines of coat.
- 33:40Speaker 5: While people were like, listen, the the amount of money
- 33:44Speaker 5: that the parks make on hunting licenses and stuff, that's
- 33:47Speaker 5: what supports you know, the habitat and to maintain the
- 33:52Speaker 5: maintenance of the habitat attata and all the other things.
- 33:54Speaker 4: Well, that's a real problem with California, right. It's ideologically driven.
- 33:57Speaker 4: It doesn't really have anything to do with matching wildlife.
- 33:59Speaker 1: Yeah, they have like California actually have some like outsfolks
- 34:03Speaker 1: anti hunting people who were on their you know, fishing
- 34:08Speaker 1: Wildlife Commission.
- 34:09Speaker 4: It's hilarious.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Usually called fishing game, and there's a lot of states
- 34:12Speaker 1: where it's not fishing game, but California was fishing game
- 34:14Speaker 1: in California just became not fishing game. They became like
- 34:17Speaker 1: fishing wildlife to sort of disassociate with the term game,
- 34:21Speaker 1: which is sort of like objectification of animals. I feel
- 34:24Speaker 1: bad for people in California. They get hammered all the time.
- 34:27Speaker 1: Like it was first that you can't hunt lions with
- 34:30Speaker 1: a dog, then you can't hunt lions at all. Now
- 34:33Speaker 1: it is a big thing to have, like no dog
- 34:34Speaker 1: hunting whatsoever, like no dog hunting mammals or something of anything.
- 34:38Speaker 4: They still have bear hunting, but they don't have bear
- 34:40Speaker 4: with dogs. And so I just got rid of that.
- 34:43Speaker 4: When we were at the Hone ranch, they were saying,
- 34:45Speaker 4: it's pointless to hunt bears without dogs. You can't bait,
- 34:48Speaker 4: you can't use dogs. Then you can't find bears.
- 34:50Speaker 1: Like in that area'd be tough, man, it'd be tough
- 34:53Speaker 1: other states like Montana, you can't run bears with a dog,
- 34:57Speaker 1: you can't bait for bears. But it's still but the
- 34:59Speaker 1: topography warrants itself to spot and start bear hunting, which
- 35:02Speaker 1: is really good, you know. And if it's like like Maine,
- 35:06Speaker 1: is November very likely through the Humane Society, Maine will
- 35:10Speaker 1: very likely November vote down bear baiting. Okay, pushed entirely
- 35:15Speaker 1: funded entirely by Humane Society. But they put it to
- 35:17Speaker 1: a referendum. They had it up before and it lost
- 35:18Speaker 1: by a few points. It's coming back up now. A
- 35:21Speaker 1: lot of people think that it'll pass and they'll like
- 35:23Speaker 1: do a baiting ban on bears and Maine, but Maine's
- 35:28Speaker 1: largely flat, heavily vegetated. To ban baiting for bears is
- 35:32Speaker 1: essentially to ban bear hunting, and they know this, you know,
- 35:36Speaker 1: And so that's how people like go after hunting stuff
- 35:38Speaker 1: is they try to like isolate out little like what
- 35:41Speaker 1: they consider fringe activities. Because I was reading his poll
- 35:43Speaker 1: on time. They did this poll in Arizona saying to people,
- 35:46Speaker 1: do you support a person's right to hunt?
- 35:50Speaker 4: You know?
- 35:50Speaker 1: And you wind up getting this whatever it is, I
- 35:53Speaker 1: can't remember exactly what seventy six percent of the population is. Like, Yes,
- 35:56Speaker 1: you do the same poll and ask people specific questions
- 36:01Speaker 1: and it starts going down, down, down and out, like
- 36:03Speaker 1: do you support someone's right to hunt?
- 36:05Speaker 4: Blank?
- 36:06Speaker 1: And it drops. So it's like they like the idea
- 36:09Speaker 1: of it, but the specificity of.
- 36:11Speaker 5: It, especially things like baiting. You know, whatever it is,
- 36:14Speaker 5: it feels like it's trophy. It feels like you're not.
- 36:17Speaker 5: Really there's no skill involved. That's what it feels like, right,
- 36:21Speaker 5: So if you say we're going to bait the bear
- 36:23Speaker 5: in and shoot it, it feels like target.
- 36:25Speaker 4: Well, most people are against hunting bears at all. I
- 36:28Speaker 4: would imagine if you just put an online poll on
- 36:31Speaker 4: Facebook saying how many people are pro bear hunting, it
- 36:35Speaker 4: would be a giant number would be against it.
- 36:37Speaker 1: When I first proposed it to you, I remember you
- 36:39Speaker 1: were really uneasy about the idea. Yeah, but you wanted
- 36:41Speaker 1: something was gonna be good to eat.
- 36:43Speaker 4: Yeah, I wanted to hunt deer. The first time I
- 36:45Speaker 4: wanted a hunt, I was like, man, bear, I don't
- 36:47Speaker 4: know about all that. But having shot a bear now
- 36:50Speaker 4: and eating a bear, they're great to eat. Yeah, they
- 36:54Speaker 4: taste good. They mean they taste good. It's not like
- 36:57Speaker 4: you have to convince yourself. And I had to argue
- 36:59Speaker 4: with people online that were giving me a hard time
- 37:02Speaker 4: that were actually hunters, that were telling me you can't
- 37:05Speaker 4: tell me bear is good to eat. It's ridiculous. You know,
- 37:08Speaker 4: I've been hunting my whole life. You know, everyone I
- 37:11Speaker 4: know says bear tastes off. I'm like, you're crazy, you know,
- 37:14Speaker 4: I've eaten it. I'm telling you from the flesh in
- 37:18Speaker 4: my mouth chewing it down. It tastes good, doesn't taste
- 37:22Speaker 4: bad at all. That there's good depends upon.
- 37:26Speaker 6: Just because someone is a great hunter does not make
- 37:28Speaker 6: them a good cook of wild game.
- 37:31Speaker 4: True too, right, But it's also people have attitudes about
- 37:35Speaker 4: certain animals where they just discard the meat. You know,
- 37:38Speaker 4: there's some people that have no part. When we were
- 37:40Speaker 4: in camp, we were in Honty camp, there's this one
- 37:43Speaker 4: guy that was with us who would not eat the
- 37:46Speaker 4: bear meat. He just wouldn't eat the beer. He shot
- 37:47Speaker 4: a big ass seven foot bear.
- 37:49Speaker 5: That might also because like there's always been a history
- 37:52Speaker 5: of you know, certain things you don't eat, right, So
- 37:55Speaker 5: so mountain lion or a bear especially.
- 37:59Speaker 4: Apparently tastes really good.
- 38:00Speaker 2: It's really good.
- 38:01Speaker 1: It is good.
- 38:02Speaker 3: Mountain is good.
- 38:02Speaker 1: It's really like pork, really white flesh, white flesh.
- 38:07Speaker 2: I ate some mountain lion burgers once, and then that
- 38:09Speaker 2: night I had a dream that a mountain lion was
- 38:11Speaker 2: eating me. Is that true?
- 38:14Speaker 5: Mountain lion bird?
- 38:15Speaker 4: That's dark?
- 38:16Speaker 1: It was laced with the aahwascar For.
- 38:18Speaker 5: Some reason, I would imagine though animal.
- 38:24Speaker 4: Roof. My wife said, I smelled different when I came home,
- 38:30Speaker 4: I've been eaten bear. She actually saw that you smelled different.
- 38:34Speaker 4: She said, I smelled like a killer.
- 38:35Speaker 1: First time she ever smelled a man.
- 38:37Speaker 4: She said it was weird because you smell like like threatening.
- 38:41Speaker 4: Really yeah, because he was like, I wonder, I wonder if, like,
- 38:45Speaker 4: if you need predators.
- 38:46Speaker 3: Do it do a grizzly thing.
- 38:49Speaker 4: Incredible.
- 38:52Speaker 5: It's the greatest bear bear call I've ever heard.
- 38:55Speaker 1: My man, I know you're making I just want to
- 38:57Speaker 1: add real quick about that whole smell thing.
- 38:59Speaker 4: My man.
- 39:00Speaker 1: I was a kid, had a friend who during during
- 39:02Speaker 1: deer season would only eat like leafy greens and carrots
- 39:06Speaker 1: and stuff.
- 39:07Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes sense. Your breath.
- 39:11Speaker 1: He really felt that.
- 39:12Speaker 4: You know, well, I've seen on hunting shows guys eat
- 39:15Speaker 4: spruce tree needles. They chew the because your breath. Apparently
- 39:20Speaker 4: that's that's the thing that the animals really smell.
- 39:23Speaker 1: That was one of the big things about all the
- 39:24Speaker 1: charcoal infused clothing and like sand control of clothing. Wow,
- 39:28Speaker 1: you put it all on. But people say, but dude,
- 39:30Speaker 1: your whole your whole like smell factory. Man, this is
- 39:34Speaker 1: you exhaling. I think they probably.
- 39:39Speaker 5: Something smell people's breath from like five hundred yards away.
- 39:44Speaker 4: Tim Burnett said that he was hunting once and I
- 39:46Speaker 4: think he said two hundred yards. He said he was
- 39:50Speaker 4: down wind to two hundred yards and he saw an
- 39:52Speaker 4: animal go like that. He knew the animal winded him
- 39:55Speaker 4: and he ran off.
- 39:55Speaker 1: Dude, absolutely, absolutely, that's nothing.
- 39:58Speaker 4: Two hundred yards nothing, that's incredible. It is incredible to animals. Yes,
- 40:05Speaker 4: the wind came from him to the animal two hundred
- 40:07Speaker 4: yards away. He might have said three. I think you
- 40:10Speaker 4: might have said yeah, but he was like, I can't
- 40:13Speaker 4: believe that thing can.
- 40:14Speaker 3: Smell that smell particles would travel that quickly.
- 40:18Speaker 4: Well. Tim was also talking about some new product. It's
- 40:21Speaker 4: like a nose blocker or nose jammer, scent jammer. It's
- 40:24Speaker 4: called you've heard of that. It does something confuses the
- 40:30Speaker 4: hell out of the deer. Like he used it on you,
- 40:35Speaker 4: put it on you, and like that. You could see
- 40:37Speaker 4: the deer like going like what is that? The deer
- 40:41Speaker 4: was like putting its nose up in the air but
- 40:43Speaker 4: stayed there, didn't run off, but it was like what
- 40:46Speaker 4: is this? Like it was just confusing it. I think
- 40:52Speaker 4: it's called bomb no no, no, So I think it's
- 40:56Speaker 4: called scent Jammer. Yeah.
- 41:00Speaker 5: Call me the buck Bomb. They call me the buck Bomb,
- 41:03Speaker 5: they called me the fucker. The kid, game Kid yep,
- 41:09Speaker 5: game id Killer, yep.
- 41:10Speaker 4: The casual beer killer is the best. He was wearing
- 41:13Speaker 4: casual beer. Yep.
- 41:16Speaker 2: Did you bring some this time?
- 41:17Speaker 4: Yeah? Brought.
- 41:18Speaker 3: I got two pieces of cashmere.
- 41:20Speaker 1: Would you bring your scarf?
- 41:21Speaker 4: I brought a beautiful.
- 41:23Speaker 5: Lightweight cashmere sweater James purse and uh and then a
- 41:27Speaker 5: lovely V neck, a lovely hunter green V neck by
- 41:30Speaker 5: James James. J Crew really brings out my bring brings
- 41:36Speaker 5: out my James Crew. It's the higher level of j Crew.
- 41:40Speaker 5: It brings out my autumn brown eyes. So you'll have
- 41:43Speaker 5: a good time, all right.
- 41:44Speaker 1: So I feel like we're like on a tangent.
- 41:47Speaker 4: On the tangent we were what podcasts were all. Yeah,
- 41:50Speaker 4: I don't know, but I was credit. I was interested
- 41:53Speaker 4: in the main line eating bear the first bear firste Yeah.
- 41:59Speaker 4: And the guy that did eat the bear yeah yeah.
- 42:01Speaker 4: Well this guy he shot two of them, didn't need
- 42:04Speaker 4: any of it.
- 42:05Speaker 1: I wonder when people are uneasy with bear hunting. I
- 42:07Speaker 1: think there's the charismatic MegaFon a thing at play where
- 42:11Speaker 1: I mean, there's charas right, they're like they stand up
- 42:13Speaker 1: on their back feet or the writer Jim Harrison wrote,
- 42:17Speaker 1: I can't remember which one was books, but he saw
- 42:19Speaker 1: a guy, a guy had skinned out a bear and
- 42:22Speaker 1: he had a hanging and he commented that it just
- 42:26Speaker 1: looked like a dude hanging there. It looked like a
- 42:28Speaker 1: skinned out dude hanging there, and he didn't want anything
- 42:31Speaker 1: to do with it, you know. So I think there's that,
- 42:36Speaker 1: and then there's also probably just the legacy that the
- 42:39Speaker 1: bear hunters have kind of created for themselves about all
- 42:43Speaker 1: that the meat is no good or I don't want
- 42:45Speaker 1: to eat the meat. That certainly doesn't help the case.
- 42:47Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty prevalent. I was amazed at how much
- 42:50Speaker 4: backlash I got online, not just from non hunters, which
- 42:54Speaker 4: I expected, but from hunters who said, you know, hunters
- 42:58Speaker 4: wouldn't hunt, predators didn't hunt, and said, you know, it's
- 43:01Speaker 4: ridiculous that you hunt bear because you don't even eat it,
- 43:03Speaker 4: And I'm like, what are you talking about? I'm smoking
- 43:06Speaker 4: at bear ham right now.
- 43:08Speaker 1: There's a reasonbitz on opportunities, man. I think when people
- 43:11Speaker 1: say that, oftentimes what they're really saying is because of
- 43:15Speaker 1: my personal situation how I was brought up where I live.
- 43:19Speaker 1: I don't hunt bears. I told this story one hundred
- 43:22Speaker 1: times where I was sitting. I know this guy in
- 43:23Speaker 1: South Carolina that has a deer blind. He calls the
- 43:27Speaker 1: condo okay, And he built a heated structure with windows
- 43:33Speaker 1: all the way around it, and he has office chairs
- 43:35Speaker 1: in it and lead sleds set up in it. And
- 43:38Speaker 1: this is his hunting blind, in a bunk bed, in
- 43:41Speaker 1: a microwave. All this stuff is in his hunting blind,
- 43:44Speaker 1: and radiating out from the condo are shooting lanes that
- 43:49Speaker 1: he's got planted in clover and lfl for the runout
- 43:52Speaker 1: like spokes of a wheel. Okay, so he can sit
- 43:55Speaker 1: up there and rove around in a rolling off his chair.
- 43:58Speaker 3: I mean that's like here is just farm.
- 44:00Speaker 1: Well, he said, she does where you live, and you
- 44:02Speaker 1: know you would have the best time over there hunting
- 44:09Speaker 1: in this thing. But anyways, I'm up in this thing
- 44:13Speaker 1: with him and we're waiting for deer to come out,
- 44:16Speaker 1: and I'm telling him how I'm gonna go out to
- 44:22Speaker 1: hunt dry ground lions, which means not gonna go out
- 44:24Speaker 1: with a friend who runs lions with hounds in the desert,
- 44:29Speaker 1: and it's much more difficult to run lions in the
- 44:32Speaker 1: snow because one thing the dogs can't tell is what
- 44:34Speaker 1: way the lion went. So when you have snow, you
- 44:37Speaker 1: can at least deduce the direction of the lion's travel.
- 44:40Speaker 1: If the dogs lose the track, you can pick the
- 44:42Speaker 1: track back up again because it's there in the snow,
- 44:44Speaker 1: and you can tell a lot about the antiquity of
- 44:47Speaker 1: the track, the age of the track, just based on
- 44:49Speaker 1: when the snow fell, what it looks like like. Snow
- 44:51Speaker 1: holds tracks in different ways than our stuff. Hunt them
- 44:54Speaker 1: in the desert. Your dogs might be running a line
- 44:56Speaker 1: you're just never gonna see a track from, you know.
- 45:00Speaker 1: And then part of the skill is just being able
- 45:02Speaker 1: to read sign find the track, judge from the dog's
- 45:06Speaker 1: behavior whether they think the track's hot or not hot,
- 45:11Speaker 1: all these things playing to it's the most difficulty I've
- 45:13Speaker 1: ever been involved with hunt, or one of the most
- 45:14Speaker 1: difficult things I've ever been involved with hunting. It I'm
- 45:16Speaker 1: telling him how I want to go do this, and
- 45:18Speaker 1: he's up in his rolling office chair and the condo
- 45:22Speaker 1: turns me. It's like, I just don't see the challenge
- 45:24Speaker 1: and something like that.
- 45:26Speaker 4: So it's like.
- 45:29Speaker 1: People like when they're like, oh, I don't hunt bears,
- 45:31Speaker 1: It's like, you know why you don't humt bearers, dude,
- 45:32Speaker 1: because your dad probably didn't hunt bears. You probably don't
- 45:34Speaker 1: live in a bear hunting.
- 45:35Speaker 4: Area, right you. Or if you did get a hold
- 45:38Speaker 4: of some bear meat, somebody cooked it poorly.
- 45:40Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like you build up. It's like you
- 45:43Speaker 1: build up what you do and don't do based on
- 45:47Speaker 1: a bunch of things, and after a while, a bunch
- 45:49Speaker 1: of arbitrary things, and after a while, I think it
- 45:51Speaker 1: starts to feel like a code of ethics to you,
- 45:54Speaker 1: when in fact it's just like you just do what
- 45:56Speaker 1: you were brought up doing.
- 45:57Speaker 5: Then there is a difference, though, I mean, I think
- 45:59Speaker 5: that when you when you see somebody and you walk
- 46:01Speaker 5: in and you say, I'm a trophy hunter, and they
- 46:04Speaker 5: have no one says that no, no. But I'm just
- 46:08Speaker 5: saying that that in people's minds. I think when you
- 46:11Speaker 5: hunt deer, I notice. I just notice that when you
- 46:14Speaker 5: hunt deer, they go people go, well, dear, you're obviously
- 46:17Speaker 5: hunting it for the meat. It's a little bit like
- 46:19Speaker 5: a cow. It's like a forest cow, whereas I call
- 46:22Speaker 5: them forest cows when you hunt.
- 46:26Speaker 3: When you go kill an elephant.
- 46:27Speaker 5: Let's just take the extreme, a noble animal like an elephant,
- 46:30Speaker 5: or we we always put those kind of words on
- 46:32Speaker 5: that kind of thing, a pachyderm. They got family structures
- 46:35Speaker 5: and stuff viscerally for people like their kids. Yeah, man,
- 46:40Speaker 5: so viscerally there's a very different field, you know, lions,
- 46:44Speaker 5: those kinds of things. There's a very different reaction. And
- 46:47Speaker 5: I think it's it's primarily a positive one in terms
- 46:51Speaker 5: of the fact that I think people just go, you're
- 46:53Speaker 5: doing that. You're killing this noble, beautiful animal for your
- 46:58Speaker 5: own sort of either ego or because you want its
- 47:02Speaker 5: head on your wall. And I think that that's where
- 47:04Speaker 5: people kind of and I think that's a very human thing.
- 47:07Speaker 4: You know what's really ironic. The same guy who wouldn't
- 47:10Speaker 4: eat the bear told me the most delicious meat he
- 47:13Speaker 4: ever had was elephant.
- 47:15Speaker 1: Wow, he is the contrarian man.
- 47:18Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, he's a very nice guy.
- 47:20Speaker 4: It wasn't a contrary and at all. He just was saying,
- 47:22Speaker 4: like he went elephant hunting and they knew the exact
- 47:26Speaker 4: spot to cut out a steak and it was like
- 47:29Speaker 4: from inside the arm, like inside the leg. And he said,
- 47:33Speaker 4: I am telling you it was delicious. It's delicious meat.
- 47:38Speaker 4: And I was like, wow. I would have never First
- 47:40Speaker 4: of all, I knew that the villagers ate the meat,
- 47:42Speaker 4: but I would never assume.
- 47:43Speaker 1: That it was so good that like they cook it
- 47:46Speaker 1: for the client.
- 47:47Speaker 4: Yeah, especially a guy who won't even eat a bear.
- 47:50Speaker 5: Or were elephants hunted by like in that area of Africa?
- 47:53Speaker 5: I wonder, I don't know, difficult bring.
- 47:58Speaker 1: The kill like you know they like historically they would
- 48:01Speaker 1: kill drafts, those poisoned darts. Yeah, the fifties. Yeah, this
- 48:07Speaker 1: old dude from the fifties where they hit a draft
- 48:08Speaker 1: of the poison dart.
- 48:09Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 48:10Speaker 1: I can't remember how many. They followed for three or
- 48:11Speaker 1: four days till finally starts vomiting and then dies and
- 48:14Speaker 1: they chop it up.
- 48:15Speaker 4: Have you ever seen that video? There's an old school
- 48:17Speaker 4: bow hunter. It wasn't Fred Bear, but it was one
- 48:19Speaker 4: of those guys like that. Who was some of you know,
- 48:22Speaker 4: like Tom Moranda type adventure bowhunter from like the nineteen
- 48:26Speaker 4: forties or whatever. It was.
- 48:27Speaker 1: It's like black and white lahab, But who's that dude,
- 48:30Speaker 1: you know who you know? The guy he uh it
- 48:34Speaker 1: was his name, like shot the killed the elp phone
- 48:37Speaker 1: with the long bow man.
- 48:38Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he shot an elphie. I mean he's young.
- 48:42Speaker 1: It was it was either Pope, it was sax and
- 48:43Speaker 1: Pope or are young? Was it one of those guys?
- 48:46Speaker 4: Do not remember that with a bow? Dude, not only
- 48:49Speaker 4: did you kill an elphone in a bow, but he
- 48:51Speaker 4: stuck that thing full of arrows. I mean he had
- 48:54Speaker 4: to shoot it a bunch of times. He's pulling a boat.
- 48:56Speaker 4: It's a bowbo like, not like a compound bow from
- 48:59Speaker 4: a Yeah. Yeah, it was a regular bow and the
- 49:04Speaker 4: guy just kept shooting it and the elephants like And
- 49:07Speaker 4: it was a screwy video because it was very clear
- 49:10Speaker 4: that the sound in the video was not the actual
- 49:13Speaker 4: sound of the encounter. They had added it in in
- 49:15Speaker 4: post like a movie shop would.
- 49:18Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a there's a video of Massai warriors throwing
- 49:21Speaker 5: like five or six of them just throwing these you know,
- 49:26Speaker 5: I don't know if you know Massi the Bantu Massie
- 49:28Speaker 5: from from Kenya tall yeah sixty six. We were, and
- 49:32Speaker 5: they traditionally used to live essentially total carnivores. They live
- 49:35Speaker 5: on about seven quarts of high fat milk a day,
- 49:38Speaker 5: and they would tap the vein of their cattle and
- 49:42Speaker 5: drink the blood and that was primarily their diet, and
- 49:45Speaker 5: then they would eat meat when they could afford it.
- 49:48Speaker 5: And you see these massi, five or six of them,
- 49:50Speaker 5: with those long spears throwing them into a male lion. Really,
- 49:55Speaker 5: oh dude, they're just coming up and going running woom.
- 49:59Speaker 5: And that line just basically has five long.
- 50:02Speaker 3: Spears in it. It starts to bucket, it just dies.
- 50:06Speaker 3: And lion lion in that.
- 50:08Speaker 5: Part of Africa are very aware of humans. They will
- 50:11Speaker 5: run away from you. They do not they even when
- 50:14Speaker 5: they hunt lion on horseback, lions give chase.
- 50:16Speaker 4: They don't. We We've talked about this many times on
- 50:20Speaker 4: other podcasts. It's the hunting in Africa controversy. And I
- 50:24Speaker 4: really liked that piece that you wrote about about hunting
- 50:27Speaker 4: in Africa, like this whole thing about what this controversy
- 50:31Speaker 4: involving this young girl who's going there, and that you were,
- 50:36Speaker 4: you know, essentially saying that a lot of the differences
- 50:39Speaker 4: the way people were approaching her, it's sexist. If it
- 50:44Speaker 4: was a man, that it was that was doing the
- 50:47Speaker 4: same thing. There would be some blowback, but not as
- 50:50Speaker 4: much he would there were.
- 50:51Speaker 1: If some dude, you know, some guy like worked at
- 50:54Speaker 1: the phone company his whole life and say something goes
- 50:57Speaker 1: to Africa and shot a couple el elf and a
- 51:00Speaker 1: leopard and put up on his Facebook page, you would
- 51:03Speaker 1: have got zero visits or a lot.
- 51:07Speaker 4: No one would have cared very little, very.
- 51:11Speaker 6: Like you were saying, how they kind of attacked the
- 51:13Speaker 6: little you know, pieces of oh yeah.
- 51:16Speaker 4: History. It's a beautiful girl from Texas who's a cheerleader
- 51:20Speaker 4: and she wants to be she wants to be Steve Renella.
- 51:23Speaker 4: She wants to be a female version of Steve Renella.
- 51:25Speaker 4: So she's trying to like be a part of the
- 51:27Speaker 4: hunting you know, professional hunting community.
- 51:30Speaker 3: So that is rare because women have traditionally never been hunters.
- 51:33Speaker 1: Men have right, well, I point out, except for they
- 51:37Speaker 1: think that there was very low sexual dimorphism in Neanderthals,
- 51:40Speaker 1: and they think that maybe Neanderthal women hunt right along
- 51:42Speaker 1: everybody starts.
- 51:43Speaker 4: While they died off, nobody wants to. They had a
- 51:48Speaker 4: way built like you, they had a way longer run
- 51:55Speaker 4: than we'll have you think.
- 51:56Speaker 1: They were in Europe five hundred thousand years before we were.
- 52:00Speaker 4: Yeah, but we'll be here for millions of years. No,
- 52:02Speaker 4: we won't, I predict you want to bet. Really, I'd
- 52:05Speaker 4: rather be there to collect the world's only six thousand
- 52:09Speaker 4: years olds. I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
- 52:12Speaker 3: Correct.
- 52:13Speaker 4: But one of the things that I find disturbing about
- 52:17Speaker 4: the whole Africa thing is, uh, there's a lot of these,
- 52:21Speaker 4: like these bow hunting shows. These people go over there
- 52:24Speaker 4: to collect like I'm gonna get one of these and
- 52:27Speaker 4: one of those, and they're doing it, and these high
- 52:29Speaker 4: fence joints, and it's it's just it's weird. Man.
- 52:33Speaker 1: In Africa, Yeah, South Africa. When someone goes to South Africa,
- 52:37Speaker 1: they're hunting. Like say, like, if you go to South Africa,
- 52:39Speaker 1: you're hunting fence property. It's just like if you go
- 52:42Speaker 1: to New Zealand and shoot a large red deer, you
- 52:44Speaker 1: shot it on fence ground, you know, like these three
- 52:48Speaker 1: hundred inches red deer to come out on New Zealand, buddy.
- 52:52Speaker 4: But here, but hold on, here's the important part. Those
- 52:54Speaker 4: animals were literally on the verge of extinction before these
- 52:57Speaker 4: high fence operations came into play. So it's such as
- 53:00Speaker 4: twenty two. On one hand, you see, well, it's a
- 53:04Speaker 4: renewable resource and now these animals are actually very plentiful
- 53:07Speaker 4: and they're no longer worried about extinct being extinct. But
- 53:10Speaker 4: on the other hand, during a yard, it's essentially a yard.
- 53:14Speaker 4: It maybe it's ten thousand acres, but it's a ten
- 53:16Speaker 4: thousand acre fenced in yard.
- 53:19Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, that was always the argument.
- 53:21Speaker 5: If you want to save the animals, make it profitable
- 53:24Speaker 5: to hunt them, you know, the best the argument for Texas,
- 53:27Speaker 5: But the biggest uh, the biggest threat that was more habitat.
- 53:32Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's habitat. But it definitely pays to
- 53:34Speaker 1: have hunt. It definitely pays to have hunter interest. I mean,
- 53:37Speaker 1: if you look at like you look at all these
- 53:38Speaker 1: things that have you know, you got these organizations National
- 53:43Speaker 1: Wild Turkey Federation, Rocky Mountain out Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, Trot Unlimited.
- 53:49Speaker 1: These are things that these are powerful political organizations or
- 53:53Speaker 1: have political impact. They have a lot of money, and
- 53:56Speaker 1: they're based around people's love of hunting for or fishing
- 54:01Speaker 1: for these species. And it winds up being that like
- 54:04Speaker 1: you can't really get away with messing with these animals
- 54:11Speaker 1: because these people are gonna come after you and make
- 54:13Speaker 1: your life help you know, if you're gonna destroy habitat
- 54:16Speaker 1: or whatever. So it does not on the individual sense.
- 54:20Speaker 1: Like on an individual sens it's like you just got shot.
- 54:22Speaker 1: That sucks. But I don't think about animals and the
- 54:24Speaker 1: individual sense. I think a mind like a population level
- 54:27Speaker 1: kind of thing. And if you are concerned about the
- 54:30Speaker 1: long term viability of a population of animals in this
- 54:33Speaker 1: country and apparently in many countries in Africa and certainly
- 54:37Speaker 1: in Canada, it pays if people want to kill you.
- 54:41Speaker 1: It's like advantageous if people have If people are motivated
- 54:46Speaker 1: through desires for trophies, meet whatever to hunt for you,
- 54:49Speaker 1: you have you have more political clout as a species exact.
- 54:52Speaker 4: People do worry about the populations of elephants, right, even rhinos.
- 54:57Speaker 4: But if you want to shoot an elephant, you can pay.
- 55:00Speaker 4: I think it's like thirty thousand dollars and you can
- 55:03Speaker 4: shoot a fucking an elephant. I mean, I watched his show,
- 55:05Speaker 4: and this is where it was really really bothered me
- 55:08Speaker 4: because they were calling it a bow hunt. So this
- 55:10Speaker 4: guy gets out there, he sticks this bow. I mean
- 55:13Speaker 4: he sticks an arrow into this elephant. The elephant charges him,
- 55:17Speaker 4: and then the guide blows one through the elephant's brain,
- 55:20Speaker 4: and the elephants down. The arrow hit look fatal probably eventually,
- 55:25Speaker 4: maybe it's hard to tell.
- 55:28Speaker 1: You don't think it would have bled out, or it
- 55:29Speaker 1: might have led out.
- 55:30Speaker 4: I don't think the guy was pulling a hard enough bow.
- 55:33Speaker 4: I mean, I think you know, if you're gonna kill
- 55:35Speaker 4: an elephant, you got a lot of animal.
- 55:38Speaker 3: How much they weighed ten thousand pounds something crazy?
- 55:41Speaker 4: It was an enormous elephant though they weigh about ten
- 55:45Speaker 4: thousand pounds, So the guy's only about thirty yards away.
- 55:49Speaker 4: He hits the elephant with the arrow. The elephant recognizes
- 55:52Speaker 4: immediately that this guy with the bow is the one
- 55:55Speaker 4: who shot him, starts running towards him, and the guide
- 55:58Speaker 4: boom blows the elephant through the brain, and then there's
- 56:01Speaker 4: congratulating him on his kill, and I'm like, what what?
- 56:05Speaker 4: What is this? This is weird.
- 56:07Speaker 5: I think that the alternative if you don't make hunting profitable,
- 56:12Speaker 5: then what happens with people are anti hunting. The alternative
- 56:15Speaker 5: is what to enforce a bannon hunting with laws That
- 56:20Speaker 5: doesn't work well?
- 56:22Speaker 4: But you have massive poaching problems. Yeah, but look at
- 56:25Speaker 4: it this way. How many people are going to donate
- 56:28Speaker 4: thirty thousand dollars to keep an elephant populations healthy? Exactly?
- 56:32Speaker 4: If it is it even one? I mean, how many people?
- 56:36Speaker 4: Maybe you have to run some kind of drive good luck. Yeah,
- 56:39Speaker 4: you're not going to have you too.
- 56:41Speaker 1: What's his name?
- 56:42Speaker 4: He will? But you're right.
- 56:44Speaker 3: I mean that's a very good point.
- 56:46Speaker 4: It's a very good point because there's no other way
- 56:48Speaker 4: to generate that amount of money. I mean, think about
- 56:51Speaker 4: how many people get hunting tags. I mean, how many
- 56:55Speaker 4: people get whitel deer tags?
- 56:58Speaker 5: Exactly what you were saying about California's ideological and I
- 57:02Speaker 5: think any kind of ideology, you know, that's the enemy.
- 57:05Speaker 5: That's where, that's where rationality and figuring out what's best
- 57:09Speaker 5: for the animal.
- 57:09Speaker 3: Actually, you know, it's interesting, but.
- 57:12Speaker 4: It's even to someone like me who enjoys hunting, it's disturbing.
- 57:15Speaker 4: I don't like it. I don't like seeing it. I
- 57:17Speaker 4: don't like it. I don't like the idea behind it.
- 57:19Speaker 4: I don't like seeing these sloppy, goofy fucks just hop
- 57:25Speaker 4: on planes and go shoot these animals in someone's yard.
- 57:28Speaker 4: It just seems weird to me. The whole thing seems off.
- 57:31Speaker 4: It doesn't seem legit. You know, there's some like, WHI look,
- 57:36Speaker 4: there's nothing wrong with farming. I enjoy a nice steak.
- 57:39Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything wrong with farming. But when
- 57:42Speaker 4: you take these wild animals and you're pretending that you're hunting,
- 57:46Speaker 4: but really you're kind of doing some pseudo farming type thing,
- 57:50Speaker 4: that's really what's going on. It's like you're shooting fish
- 57:52Speaker 4: in a barrel, literally literally shooting fish in a barrel.
- 57:56Speaker 4: That's really what you're doing. Who was it?
- 57:57Speaker 1: I feel like you cracked me when I mentioned this before.
- 58:00Speaker 1: But was it Jesse Helms or someone who's like, I know,
- 58:05Speaker 1: I can't tell you what pornography is, but no, that was.
- 58:08Speaker 3: A Supreme Justice that was That was when it came
- 58:11Speaker 3: to the Supreme Court.
- 58:12Speaker 4: What guy was? I can't.
- 58:17Speaker 5: It was, oh, gosh, Parence Thomas. Nope, but he said
- 58:21Speaker 5: Michael Jackson. Might have been Robert bork Uh might have said.
- 58:25Speaker 1: It wasn't Elms.
- 58:27Speaker 3: I can't remember. He said, I don't.
- 58:29Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 58:32Speaker 3: I know it when I see it.
- 58:33Speaker 1: Yeah, So that is one like that's one thing I
- 58:38Speaker 1: feel about as far as fair chase, it's difficult to define.
- 58:42Speaker 1: It's difficult to define down fair chase because I'll say, like,
- 58:46Speaker 1: I don't agree with fence honey. Like, to me, it
- 58:49Speaker 1: just feels like farming, and you're bullshitting yourself and others
- 58:52Speaker 1: when you act like it's hunting. People Like, what if
- 58:54Speaker 1: I'm hunting a fence place that's like twelve thousand acres,
- 58:59Speaker 1: you know, way bigger than an individual animals home.
- 59:03Speaker 4: Range start under you know who that is? He was
- 59:08Speaker 4: a Supreme Court I believe whatever, So fuck that guy.
- 59:12Speaker 1: They'll put out something like that and you're like, okay, yeah,
- 59:15Speaker 1: in that case, maybe that's whatever. So it's like it's
- 59:18Speaker 1: like it's so hard for me to sit down and say,
- 59:20Speaker 1: like fair chase hunting is blank. But some stuff's just
- 59:23Speaker 1: not right, you know, it's just not We'll tell you
- 59:26Speaker 1: what is fair chase hunting black tailed deer Prince Wales
- 59:31Speaker 1: island in the rain and fog.
- 59:33Speaker 4: Yeah, climb so fair.
- 59:35Speaker 1: Chase in fact that I really have no idea. I
- 59:40Speaker 1: feel like if we hunt hard and keep a good
- 59:41Speaker 1: attitude and and and really get out there and pound it,
- 59:46Speaker 1: even if the weather's bad. I think we'll do good.
- 59:48Speaker 1: If we were going there and the weather was going
- 59:50Speaker 1: to be good and it's not. If we're going to
- 59:51Speaker 1: the weather would be good, I think that we would
- 59:53Speaker 1: have just a fantastic hunt. I think we'd be coming
- 59:55Speaker 1: back every night.
- 59:55Speaker 4: With with deer.
- 59:57Speaker 1: But it's just you know, you get the when the fog,
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: the rain, things get hard, things get miserable. Yeah, fair, chase, Yeah,
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: anything you want to add.
- 1:00:13Speaker 4: You try to keep this to an hour. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:00:19Speaker 4: not doing anything you want to sleep.
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: Because our audience we don't have the amount of drug
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: takers that your audience does.
- 1:00:26Speaker 4: That's not what it is. You know what it is.
- 1:00:28Speaker 4: It's commuters. It's like you by imposing a time, you know, like, look,
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: if someone downloads a podcast, most people have enough room
- 1:00:37Speaker 4: on their phone or on the whatever, the computer wherever
- 1:00:40Speaker 4: they put it. They have enough room for three hours
- 1:00:43Speaker 4: or five hours or whatever, and they delete the old
- 1:00:45Speaker 4: ones when they run out of time. But when someone's
- 1:00:47Speaker 4: on a plane or when someone's like driving, that's when
- 1:00:51Speaker 4: I think they appreciate long podcasts.
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: I'm sure.
- 1:00:54Speaker 4: Yeah, but you don't have to listen to all of it.
- 1:00:56Speaker 4: Everybody was telling me when I first started doing podcasts,
- 1:00:58Speaker 4: you got to dedit this. That's one of the earliest complaints.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: The ear piece of advice they have was the even
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: Ari was.
- 1:01:05Speaker 4: One of my best friends.
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: Three hours.
- 1:01:08Speaker 4: What was the idea? Just because I wanted to do
- 1:01:10Speaker 4: three hours?
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: You wanted to feel as long as a really good movie? Man.
- 1:01:15Speaker 4: No, My my personal instinct was I enjoy talking to
- 1:01:22Speaker 4: people for long periods of time because I think the
- 1:01:24Speaker 4: conversations they make, they take turns, and as long as
- 1:01:27Speaker 4: my attention span is there while I'm having a conversation,
- 1:01:31Speaker 4: why stop it, keep it rolling? Are you tired? You
- 1:01:34Speaker 4: tired of talking? If you're not tired of talking, let's
- 1:01:36Speaker 4: keep talking. That's always been my feeling because I think
- 1:01:38Speaker 4: that the deeper you get into a conversation, a conversation
- 1:01:41Speaker 4: is uh, it plays out not you know. I mean,
- 1:01:45Speaker 4: it's not like a movie. Obviously a movie is far
- 1:01:47Speaker 4: more difficult to make. But there's turns and twists, and
- 1:01:50Speaker 4: you find out more about a person, and you get
- 1:01:52Speaker 4: to understand a person's style of communicating, and while while
- 1:01:56Speaker 4: you're talking to someone, when you're doing a podcast, especially
- 1:01:59Speaker 4: when you're the host of a podcast, because you're kind
- 1:02:00Speaker 4: of thinking about the entertainment value of it or how
- 1:02:03Speaker 4: it should be. I'm constantly thinking at it, about it,
- 1:02:07Speaker 4: not just as a person who's engaged in a conversation,
- 1:02:10Speaker 4: but as a person who might be listening to this.
- 1:02:13Speaker 4: I want to try to play Devil's advocate as much
- 1:02:15Speaker 4: as possible. I want to try to cover as many
- 1:02:17Speaker 4: points of view as possible. And I also I'm kind
- 1:02:20Speaker 4: of understanding this person's style of communicating, and I'm trying
- 1:02:23Speaker 4: to figure out a way to not talk over them
- 1:02:27Speaker 4: or pause as much as possible, or give them as
- 1:02:31Speaker 4: much of an opportunity to expound on their ideas. That
- 1:02:34Speaker 4: takes time, you know, I think that you know some podcasts.
- 1:02:38Speaker 4: I bailed on something the other day after two hours?
- 1:02:40Speaker 4: Did this guy's bar? Really? Thanks a lot? Man? And
- 1:02:46Speaker 4: I tell you say they can kind of tell remember that.
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: Mitch Hedberg joke about taking attention deficit disorder drugs even
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: though he's not afflicted.
- 1:02:53Speaker 4: How did it go? He said?
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: He runs around saying, man, there's gotta be more to
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: that story.
- 1:03:00Speaker 4: Kind of hilarious, That's hilarious.
- 1:03:03Speaker 5: Some people are just like, you know what with Dimitri
- 1:03:05Speaker 5: Martin was like he said he was doing a joke
- 1:03:07Speaker 5: and he goes. One thing you never hear is somebody say, God,
- 1:03:10Speaker 5: wish that guy had talked more about himself at that party,
- 1:03:18Speaker 5: or Wow, I wish that.
- 1:03:19Speaker 4: Guy would drop more names.
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't really get a strong sense of his
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: professional connections.
- 1:03:27Speaker 4: Do you know that way? You know that way?
- 1:03:28Speaker 5: And I think I can say it Nick Nolty, because
- 1:03:31Speaker 5: he's been such a product of Hollywood for so long.
- 1:03:34Speaker 5: He literally I spent a long time with him. I
- 1:03:38Speaker 5: never yeah, I never. I spent enough time with him,
- 1:03:41Speaker 5: like in the background the scenes in that movie Warrior.
- 1:03:43Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time.
- 1:03:44Speaker 5: I did a reading with him, went to his house,
- 1:03:46Speaker 5: and one of the fascinating two things that I noticed
- 1:03:49Speaker 5: One he had no story that didn't involve Hollywood and
- 1:03:52Speaker 5: a star, and two ibbly spent I don't know how
- 1:03:55Speaker 5: many hours he never asked me one question about myself,
- 1:03:58Speaker 5: Like just not one thing.
- 1:04:00Speaker 4: You see, when I talked to him, all he wanted
- 1:04:02Speaker 4: to talk to about is me? Is that right?
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: Is Joe talking about that? Because I was going to
- 1:04:08Speaker 1: your mind when he killed that.
- 1:04:09Speaker 5: Yeah, Well he was like, you're like a rich man's
- 1:04:11Speaker 5: Joe Rogan Brian killing I want to spend time with you.
- 1:04:13Speaker 4: I saw him in Fries once. He was buying a
- 1:04:16Speaker 4: computer for his kid, and he was just totally normal, like,
- 1:04:20Speaker 4: oh hey, Joe, you're buying a computer trying to figure
- 1:04:24Speaker 4: out which one. My boy, that was good.
- 1:04:27Speaker 3: He's a great guy, very good.
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: And then Michael who's that guy Mo used to work for?
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: Talk about name drop Michael Man and then Michael Man
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: show they were doing or Nick Noldy was in it
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: as the horse guy.
- 1:04:38Speaker 4: What movies that? What shows?
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: That was like a series? He got cancer because they
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: kept killing horses. Oh, I don't know what the Southern
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: One game was a horse game. It got canceled because
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: they were killing all the horses kept all dying. Yeah luck.
- 1:04:50Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it's just also not veryck.
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: Noldy was in it. No, man, I like that show.
- 1:04:55Speaker 4: So it was the show about horse racing and the
- 1:04:57Speaker 4: horses were dying during production.
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was like one died, it was a
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: big deal. Another one died and they just ended the show.
- 1:05:04Speaker 4: Oh wow.
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: Because people weren't watching it.
- 1:05:07Speaker 4: On a related.
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: Man, it was hard to follow. But Nick Nolty was
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: cool in it, and he was the only cool thing
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: about that recent uh, the Robert Red for one. It
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: was kind of like based off The Weather Weather Underground.
- 1:05:22Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he comes out and does a role. He's
- 1:05:24Speaker 4: he's like good, he was great and warrior. He was
- 1:05:28Speaker 4: fucking that's a lot of people didn't see that movie.
- 1:05:30Speaker 4: That movie was not a well received movie, but Nick
- 1:05:33Speaker 4: Nolty's role in it was fucking incredible and you were
- 1:05:36Speaker 4: in it. He played this alcoholic dad who was a
- 1:05:39Speaker 4: trainer who just missed as somebody. He has this one
- 1:05:42Speaker 4: breakdown scene. It's fucking incredible. It's hard to believe the
- 1:05:47Speaker 4: guy's not really breaking down while the scene's going. It's incredible.
- 1:05:50Speaker 3: And he got sober for that movie.
- 1:05:52Speaker 4: Man, I mean that was He's amazing. Yeah, that guy
- 1:05:55Speaker 4: can act his ass off. He's a real artist, all right.
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: So you can catch Brian callon the movie wore Yeah.
- 1:06:00Speaker 4: That's right, good plays me.
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: You can catch play Play Joe Roker. You can catch
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: Brian Kallen on that true.
- 1:06:06Speaker 4: I tried to get Joe to do it and he
- 1:06:09Speaker 4: plays like he does my role that I do with
- 1:06:11Speaker 4: the UFC. He did that in My Name is that movie.
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: Brian Callen on the show.
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: And you can catch Brian Callen is it really Yeah?
- 1:06:18Speaker 5: You can see me in everything you guys, you ever
- 1:06:20Speaker 5: heard of the movie you heard not to make it
- 1:06:22Speaker 5: about me, The hangover of Matt TVs first two years
- 1:06:26Speaker 5: of MA TV. Guys, go get those DVDs. Huh, I'll
- 1:06:28Speaker 5: make I can feel I can finally get that operation.
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: All right, Thank you, Joe, Thanks many to doing this.
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: It's awesome. Steve Raellen