The Joe Rogan Experience - January 26, 2022


Joe Rogan Experience #1770 - Valentine Thomas


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 33 minutes

Words per Minute

181.2455

Word Count

27,794

Sentence Count

2,955

Misogynist Sentences

63


Summary

On this episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the boys talk about a bunch of crazy things, including a guy who got tased at his birthday party, a Canadian trucker who got shot in the head with a stun gun, and a woman who tried to shoot fish in the face with a spear gun in the middle of the night in her underwear. Also, the guys talk about Jordan Peterson's new podcast, and how he's doing a great job as a podcaster. Joe also talks about his new business venture, a new job he's been working on for a few years, and why he doesn't want to be locked in a cubicle anymore. They also talk about the new Star Wars movie Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, which is out now. And, of course, there's a special guest appearance from Joe's good friend Jordan Peterson, who's been on the pod for the past few years and is now living the life of his dreams of being a full-time podcaster! Joe and Jordan talk about how they met and how they got into the podcaster business, and what it's like to be a full time podcaster and how it's been a lot of fun doing it. Thanks to Jordan for coming on the show, and thanks to everyone who sent in their thoughts and stories about the crazy things that happened on the podcast. Cheers, and Cheers! -Joe Rogan and the boys! Check it out, Cheers. -The Joe Rogans Experience -Jon and the Podcast by Night podcast by Night, all day, by day, all night, by night, and all day by night by day. -Jon & Night by day by day! -Jon by Night by night. Jon and Night by Day by night - by night all day all day. by night all day and day, every day, by day and night by night and night, all by night... with all day long by day in the morning and by night? Jon and Sons of God, by the night, the only day of the day, the whole thing by day? - by the sea, by sea, the moon and the sky, the sky and the moon, the stars by the sky by the river, the sun and the stars and everything in between it s all a dreamy sky, by God?


Transcript

00:00:01.000 Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
00:00:03.000 The Joe Rogan Experience.
00:00:06.000 Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
00:00:12.000 Cheers.
00:00:13.000 Cheers.
00:00:14.000 Hey.
00:00:15.000 Must be Canadian week.
00:00:16.000 Two Canadians in a row.
00:00:17.000 Salute, my friend.
00:00:19.000 Where's the other one?
00:00:20.000 Oh yeah.
00:00:20.000 Jordan Peterson.
00:00:21.000 Yeah, Jordan was on yesterday.
00:00:23.000 Your country's in revolt.
00:00:25.000 Do you know about this?
00:00:25.000 Show this video.
00:00:27.000 Look at this video that I sent Jamie.
00:00:36.000 It's a giant convoy of trucks that's apparently some insane amount of people like 50,000 trucks that are headed to Ottawa to protest the vaccine mandates by Trudeau.
00:00:55.000 And they're all coming from Canada.
00:00:56.000 They're all in Canada.
00:00:58.000 It's all Canadian truckers.
00:01:00.000 Because apparently they're all being mandated that they have to get vaccinated.
00:01:03.000 And they're like, hey, we don't even contact anybody.
00:01:06.000 We're in our truck.
00:01:07.000 Yeah, that's true.
00:01:08.000 We just drive.
00:01:10.000 And, you know.
00:01:11.000 Okay, there's another one that I sent, Jamie.
00:01:13.000 Watch this one.
00:01:14.000 This girl is like at a bar and she, I don't know if she's a stripper or what, but this is this guy's birthday.
00:01:21.000 Don't you hear it?
00:01:21.000 Where's the volume?
00:01:22.000 Here we go.
00:01:23.000 So watch this.
00:01:26.000 She pours water on him and then check this out.
00:01:34.000 All fun and games, right?
00:01:36.000 It's all fun, right?
00:01:38.000 I have a feeling it's going to be bad on her.
00:01:40.000 She tases him.
00:01:44.000 Oh my god.
00:01:46.000 Not good.
00:01:48.000 Yeah.
00:01:50.000 Fucking tased him and lit him on fire.
00:01:52.000 I saw that video the other day.
00:01:52.000 You saw it too?
00:01:53.000 Yeah.
00:01:54.000 Whoops.
00:01:54.000 Yeah.
00:01:55.000 First of all, who gets tased at their birthday party?
00:02:00.000 Good point.
00:02:02.000 That seems...
00:02:03.000 What kind of friends?
00:02:04.000 Just sitting at the bar?
00:02:05.000 There's just a stun gun ready to go?
00:02:07.000 I mean, when you get that burnt, like, how long was that?
00:02:13.000 Ten seconds he was on fire for?
00:02:14.000 Five seconds, maybe?
00:02:15.000 Yeah, you could probably recover from that.
00:02:17.000 Like, Stevo does wild shit like that.
00:02:19.000 That's what I'm saying.
00:02:19.000 But he had to get, like, serious skin transplants.
00:02:23.000 Remember?
00:02:24.000 Last time we saw him, he had, like, bandages all over his arms.
00:02:27.000 Yeah.
00:02:27.000 That guy.
00:02:28.000 That guy goes...
00:02:29.000 How do you explain that to your wife, though?
00:02:31.000 Well, she knows.
00:02:32.000 Well, now she knows.
00:02:33.000 I don't know if he's...
00:02:34.000 Is he married?
00:02:35.000 Stevo's, but I don't know about this guy.
00:02:36.000 Oh, that guy.
00:02:37.000 Yeah, that's going to be a problem.
00:02:38.000 Well, the video is out, so he's going to have to explain that.
00:02:41.000 But Stevo's wife is fully aware that he's out of his fucking mind.
00:02:45.000 But that poor guy.
00:02:46.000 So my friend, for people who don't know you, it's been a few years since you've been on the podcast.
00:02:51.000 You were once a lawyer in Montreal or on your way to becoming a lawyer and you were like, fuck this life.
00:02:58.000 And now you're a spearfisher person.
00:03:00.000 Which seems to be, if you looked at that on paper, you're like, how?
00:03:06.000 No, that's a recreational activity.
00:03:08.000 That's not something that you...
00:03:09.000 But you figured out a way...
00:03:12.000 With your smart brain to actually monetize it.
00:03:15.000 I did.
00:03:16.000 And promote it.
00:03:17.000 And it's very positive.
00:03:19.000 Because it's like you're promoting...
00:03:20.000 First of all, you're promoting freedom to choose to live your life the way you want to live.
00:03:25.000 Which in your case was like, I don't want to be locked in a cubicle.
00:03:28.000 I don't want to be in an office.
00:03:29.000 I don't want to do this.
00:03:31.000 And this diving in the water, holding your breath and shooting fish.
00:03:38.000 How's that working out?
00:03:39.000 How many years has it been now?
00:03:40.000 It's been, well, it's been about, what, three years and a half now since I was on the podcast?
00:03:45.000 Yeah.
00:03:45.000 And I've been doing this for a good maybe five years.
00:03:50.000 Have your parents settled into it yet?
00:04:02.000 Yeah.
00:04:03.000 Yeah.
00:04:06.000 Yeah.
00:04:11.000 But it's like they must realize that you're like a social media success now.
00:04:17.000 It's like the whole thing is, it's actually got weight of its own.
00:04:20.000 It's got some momentum.
00:04:21.000 You know, I see your posts and they're very exciting and you're deep, deep, deep in the water with a spear gun in your underwear like swimming around.
00:04:30.000 It's all very exciting, right?
00:04:32.000 I'm way too cold to be wearing underwear underwater.
00:04:34.000 I wish I was, but...
00:04:36.000 Well, sometimes you are, aren't you?
00:04:39.000 Even when the water is 80, 90 degrees, I always have a wetsuit.
00:04:44.000 That's because your body is 95, right?
00:04:47.000 What's the human body normally?
00:04:50.000 37 Celsius.
00:04:51.000 Oh, you Canadians.
00:04:53.000 98.6.
00:04:54.000 98.6?
00:04:55.000 Right, 98.6.
00:04:56.000 So, like, anything under that.
00:04:57.000 Like, when I had a waterbed at one point in time, and if you're ever in a waterbed and the heat element goes out, you can't sleep in a waterbed.
00:05:07.000 Like, you can't sleep in a cold waterbed.
00:05:09.000 It freezes you.
00:05:11.000 It sucks water from your body.
00:05:13.000 Like, if you're in a waterbed and it's 70 degrees, it's not like being on a 70-degree mattress.
00:05:17.000 It's brutal.
00:05:19.000 I had no clue.
00:05:20.000 Yeah, you would think that it wouldn't be like being in the water, but it feels just like being in the water.
00:05:24.000 It's like, ugh!
00:05:25.000 I had to sleep on the ground.
00:05:27.000 Yeah, I had to sleep on my carpet.
00:05:31.000 That's crazy.
00:05:32.000 No, but that's not the main reason why I wear wetsuits, because there's a lot of creepy stuff out there, and I don't want fire crawl, a bunch of different things, so I just want to make sure that my skin is protected.
00:05:44.000 Does anybody make a wetsuit that's like Kevlar?
00:05:50.000 That I know of.
00:05:51.000 Would that work?
00:05:53.000 Because Kevlar stops knives and bullets.
00:05:56.000 Wouldn't it stop shark bites?
00:05:58.000 The problem is that it has to be flexible.
00:06:01.000 Because a freediving wetsuit is literally painted on your body.
00:06:06.000 Super flexible.
00:06:07.000 It's pretty uncomfortable to put on.
00:06:12.000 Does it chafe your skin up too?
00:06:15.000 It's like, firstly, you can't put it on dry, so you have to put some soapy water in it.
00:06:20.000 Oh, okay.
00:06:21.000 So just that part.
00:06:21.000 If it's cold outside, it's just...
00:06:23.000 That's a process.
00:06:25.000 Yeah.
00:06:26.000 Just in itself.
00:06:27.000 And so, I know they make Kevlar clothes.
00:06:33.000 Is it possible that they can make...
00:06:34.000 See if they make Kevlar wetsuits.
00:06:36.000 Oh, look at that.
00:06:37.000 Kevlar and neoprene.
00:06:39.000 See, you don't want to die.
00:06:40.000 I'm trying to help you.
00:06:41.000 Don't get eaten.
00:06:42.000 Okay, I will start a company of Kevlar wetsuits tomorrow.
00:06:45.000 I think they already have one.
00:06:46.000 Jamie's already found one.
00:06:48.000 I at least have articles talking about it.
00:06:51.000 Let me see.
00:06:54.000 Pretty great idea.
00:06:55.000 There's pictures, but I don't know if it doesn't really help a lot.
00:06:57.000 Oh, you got to look like a Martian.
00:06:58.000 Yeah.
00:06:59.000 Let me see.
00:07:00.000 It says like they got...
00:07:02.000 Scientists got sharks to bite into Kevlar.
00:07:05.000 This is what they found.
00:07:06.000 What the fuck did you find?
00:07:08.000 Goddammit, head blocker.
00:07:11.000 That would be so cool because then you could make like a cool shark design.
00:07:14.000 Yeah.
00:07:14.000 Where like you're white at bottom and dark red at top so like fish can't see you from under and then you can't see from the top either.
00:07:21.000 That's why sharks are white on the bottom, huh?
00:07:24.000 Yeah, so basically if you look up white, you can't see it.
00:07:27.000 And if you look down darker, you kind of blend in.
00:07:31.000 Isn't that fascinating?
00:07:32.000 I mean, you must see this a lot because you're always diving.
00:07:35.000 How animals have figured out a way somehow or another through natural selection and evolution to blend in with their environment, like with coral reefs.
00:07:44.000 It's so interesting how animals figure out a way to camouflage themselves.
00:07:50.000 I mean, the ocean has been around for...
00:07:53.000 Forever.
00:07:54.000 So, I mean, marine animals have way more time to evolve also.
00:07:58.000 Every time I catch a fish, I always spend time looking at it because the design behind any type of seafood is just mind-blowing.
00:08:06.000 What did you show us, Jamie?
00:08:07.000 They said it was, they were testing a material getting bit by a shark.
00:08:12.000 Let me see.
00:08:13.000 Did it work?
00:08:13.000 You can't tell, so.
00:08:15.000 Oh, well, let's see.
00:08:15.000 It just looks like it's getting eaten.
00:08:16.000 So it's like a brick of the material?
00:08:18.000 Yeah.
00:08:18.000 Oh, okay, so they got it on a board just to see if it cuts through.
00:08:21.000 And I guess it didn't.
00:08:22.000 Why did the shark bite it?
00:08:23.000 It's probably meat inside of it or something.
00:08:25.000 Yeah, they probably put like tuna inside of it.
00:08:26.000 They're so creepy.
00:08:28.000 Such a fucking creepy animal.
00:08:30.000 I mean, even if it's better than getting your arm ripped off, but they're definitely going to break it.
00:08:36.000 Yeah, but if it breaks it, wouldn't that be...
00:08:40.000 It's much better.
00:08:41.000 Yeah, you're not going to get massive tissue loss.
00:08:44.000 You have to get to the hospital pretty quick.
00:08:46.000 Plus, the shark will probably be frustrated and swim away, hopefully.
00:08:50.000 I mean, most shark attack is very often, unless it's a rare occasion, they take one bite and they're like, I don't really like that, and they just swim away.
00:08:59.000 Aren't we delicious?
00:09:00.000 Apparently not.
00:09:01.000 Apparently it would taste like shit.
00:09:02.000 That's so weird.
00:09:03.000 Because animals like us.
00:09:05.000 I wonder why sharks don't like us.
00:09:07.000 I'm not sure.
00:09:08.000 Because they love seals.
00:09:09.000 Maybe seals are fucking delicious.
00:09:11.000 Maybe.
00:09:12.000 Oh, I tried it.
00:09:12.000 Yeah, you tried seal?
00:09:14.000 I tried it.
00:09:15.000 Seal is actually very invasive in Canada.
00:09:18.000 It's been for a lot of years.
00:09:20.000 Really?
00:09:21.000 The normal population that it should be should be around like 400, 500,000.
00:09:27.000 And now it is above 4 million.
00:09:29.000 4 million?
00:09:30.000 So it creates a lot of issues on fish stocks, lobsters, things like that.
00:09:34.000 So it creates a...
00:09:36.000 Yeah, a lot of problems.
00:09:37.000 So basically there's different people who use it.
00:09:40.000 You can eat it.
00:09:40.000 You can wear it.
00:09:42.000 You can wear seals?
00:09:43.000 I have seal boots.
00:09:45.000 Oh, you shouldn't tell people that on this podcast.
00:09:47.000 They're going to come for you.
00:09:48.000 Don't you think, Jamie?
00:09:49.000 Seals are cute.
00:09:50.000 The problem with seals is they hit a ball with their nose.
00:09:53.000 Unless you experience minus 40 weather, you can try with your H&M boot.
00:10:01.000 It's the same in Fahrenheit.
00:10:02.000 Oh, that's right.
00:10:03.000 That's the number where it becomes the same.
00:10:06.000 It is.
00:10:07.000 It's minus 40, minus 40. Canada gets really, really cold.
00:10:11.000 I heard about that.
00:10:13.000 It's hard to find clothes that makes you...
00:10:15.000 So seal is the answer?
00:10:17.000 That's the best stuff to wear, really?
00:10:19.000 I mean, when you think about it...
00:10:20.000 Okay, let's see this from a rational, not cute little puppy seal perspective.
00:10:26.000 Right.
00:10:27.000 It's when you're comparing a seal boots or seal jacket that's going to last you for 40 years, 50 years without degrading in the slightest.
00:10:34.000 They're invasive.
00:10:35.000 You can eat the meat.
00:10:36.000 And then if you want to compare that to a Zara jacket that's created a lot of pollution, it created a lot of borderline slaveries and poorer country.
00:10:45.000 What kind of jacket did you say?
00:10:46.000 Like a Zara.
00:10:47.000 What's a Zara?
00:10:48.000 Zara.
00:10:49.000 Zara?
00:10:50.000 Zara.
00:10:50.000 Do you know what that is?
00:10:51.000 My accent is so weird.
00:10:52.000 That's a company.
00:10:52.000 Oh, like a...
00:10:53.000 Yeah, like a clothing, like H&M. Oh, okay.
00:10:55.000 So there are better options out there, but it's, you know, those companies sell a lot of jackets, so sometimes you have much better...
00:11:04.000 Right, I get it.
00:11:05.000 Ideas just by doing that.
00:11:06.000 I see what you're saying.
00:11:07.000 Yeah.
00:11:08.000 We have these weird connect...
00:11:11.000 What is this, Jamie?
00:11:12.000 Seal-skinned boots?
00:11:13.000 That's the ones I have!
00:11:14.000 Those look pretty dope.
00:11:15.000 They actually look pretty dope.
00:11:18.000 Minus 60 degrees, that's where they're rated at?
00:11:20.000 Oh, I've been in minus 57 degrees Celsius in those, and I was not feeling the cold.
00:11:28.000 Why are they so good?
00:11:30.000 Like...
00:11:31.000 I mean, because they live in freezing cold water, so I'm guessing that the skin and the fur is actually really insulating and really made for...
00:11:39.000 So that would be better, even if you were hiking in the mountains, than an insulated boot, wouldn't it?
00:11:47.000 For sure.
00:11:48.000 If I'm going, or when I'm going hunting in Alaska, I'm wearing that.
00:11:51.000 Really?
00:11:52.000 Oh, yeah.
00:11:53.000 Are they built for hunting?
00:11:55.000 Can you side-hill with them?
00:11:57.000 Do they have good stability?
00:11:59.000 I mean, they're pretty good.
00:12:00.000 They have a pretty good gripping type of sole.
00:12:04.000 And the fur is also waterproof.
00:12:08.000 Have you ever seen what a technical hunting boot looks like?
00:12:11.000 No.
00:12:12.000 They make them in...
00:12:14.000 A good company is Crispy.
00:12:16.000 Pull up Crispy.
00:12:17.000 C-R-I-S-P-I. That's a good...
00:12:21.000 Or Schnees.
00:12:21.000 That's another good one.
00:12:23.000 S-H-N-E-E-S. Schnees makes an excellent hunting boot.
00:12:28.000 And they make these boots...
00:12:29.000 They design them to be lightweight, but they also...
00:12:34.000 That's the mid GTX. I have a pair of those.
00:12:37.000 They're really good.
00:12:37.000 But they make them to be lightweight, but they also have the ability to side hill.
00:12:43.000 So they're rigid on the sides.
00:12:45.000 And then they make them in, like, click on that one right there that you had right there.
00:12:48.000 And then they make them in ways where, you know, they have varying levels of insulation.
00:12:54.000 But I wonder if you could wear it like that right there.
00:12:58.000 That's like a serious hunting boot right there.
00:13:02.000 That's very cool.
00:13:03.000 My friends made fun of me because I was kind of wearing sneakers type of thing to go hunting because I didn't have anything else.
00:13:08.000 You were in Texas though?
00:13:09.000 No, I was in Alabama.
00:13:12.000 Alabama?
00:13:13.000 Yeah.
00:13:13.000 Was it warm?
00:13:14.000 No, it was 30 degrees.
00:13:15.000 It's freezing.
00:13:16.000 Oh really?
00:13:16.000 What did you hunt in Alabama?
00:13:18.000 I went for whitetail and then we did a quail hunt on horses.
00:13:22.000 So when did you start hunting?
00:13:24.000 Because you're all about, your whole message is like sustainability, right?
00:13:28.000 Yes.
00:13:29.000 And this is the knock on fishing, is that people have an idea that fishing is not sustainable.
00:13:36.000 And Jordan Peterson actually talked about this yesterday, and he said what they've figured out is that if you take large blocks of the ocean and make them off limits to fishing, because all the fish live within 40 miles of the shore,
00:13:51.000 most of the fish do.
00:13:52.000 You said if you take large blocks of these areas and designate them as off-limits to fishing, then the fish grow and thrive in those areas, and then they venture out into other areas, and it's like, it helps.
00:14:04.000 It's a win-win.
00:14:05.000 Well, actually, that study was retracted in October.
00:14:10.000 Damn it, Jordan, you fucked up.
00:14:12.000 Sorry, Jordan.
00:14:15.000 It's so basically what they call MPAs, which is marine protected areas.
00:14:19.000 And there was a study who came to the conclusion of the fact that if you increase by something like 4-5% the amount of marine protected areas, you would increase a fish stock by 20%.
00:14:32.000 The story was retracted because the doctor who was in charge of the study, apparently the study, the result was, or the study was depending on the result of this one, and it was a bunch of stuff that was just, like, kind of not okay at all.
00:14:47.000 And, like, the other guy who co-authors the paper with her was her brother-in-law, so she broke a bunch of rules when it comes to etiquette kind of scientists.
00:14:54.000 The guy who wrote the paper was her brother-in-law?
00:14:56.000 Yeah, there was some weird things going on, and so the paper was retracted.
00:15:01.000 The paper being retracted in the scientific industry is pretty intense.
00:15:06.000 Here it is.
00:15:07.000 Retraction of flawed MPA study implicates larger problems in MPA science.
00:15:13.000 Goddammit, Jordan.
00:15:14.000 They not only found that out, but they also found it out that basically she had vested interests in governmental policies.
00:15:22.000 So there was also a political meddling into all of this.
00:15:27.000 So she had a bias in what she was trying to achieve from that study.
00:15:31.000 This is also a pretty good website.
00:15:33.000 I'm a partner with them and they're University of Washington and they talk about a lot of sustainable seafood and things like that.
00:15:40.000 You partner with them?
00:15:41.000 Yeah, we just built up a blog basically together to talk about sustainable seafood.
00:15:46.000 People are interested in seafood, which is about six people in the world, but we're a great little community.
00:15:51.000 People are interested in seafood.
00:15:53.000 A lot of people are interested in seafood.
00:15:55.000 So what's the best way to keep ocean fish and ocean wildlife sustainable?
00:16:05.000 It's such a complex topic.
00:16:06.000 It's very, very complicated because there's a lot of assets to it, right?
00:16:11.000 But the thing that I tell people is, tell me what you believe in and I'll tell you what to eat.
00:16:15.000 Because there's not one answer.
00:16:17.000 You know, you can think about protecting the ocean, you can think about carbon footprint, you can think about modern slavery, you can think about...
00:16:24.000 Modern slavery?
00:16:25.000 Oh, there's a lot of people who work on boats in different countries that are barely paid.
00:16:30.000 Really?
00:16:30.000 So if you're buying fish, you might be buying fish that was caught by slaves?
00:16:34.000 Yes, so there was a big documentary called Fish...
00:16:38.000 Okay, so just to clarify on that point, though, is that CIS previously talked about that a lot, but...
00:16:43.000 Okay, you have a French accent and sometimes when you talk...
00:16:48.000 It's fine.
00:16:49.000 English is your second language.
00:16:50.000 I only have one.
00:16:51.000 You're better than me.
00:16:52.000 But when you say Seaspiracy, nobody knows what the fuck you're talking about.
00:16:56.000 You meant Seaspiracy.
00:16:58.000 It's a film.
00:16:59.000 It's a documentary.
00:17:01.000 Yes.
00:17:02.000 Seaspiracy.
00:17:02.000 So it was on Netflix, and they kind of portrayed a pretty doom and gloom situation of fisheries around the world.
00:17:09.000 And it's...
00:17:11.000 There's about 80% of the seafood being consumed around the world that is still sustainable.
00:17:17.000 There is issues.
00:17:18.000 There's issues in third world countries and remote places.
00:17:21.000 The United States is the best country in the world when it comes to sustainable seafood.
00:17:26.000 Really?
00:17:26.000 It's about 99% of the seafood being consumed that's coming from the US that is sustainable.
00:17:34.000 Oh, well that's good.
00:17:35.000 So when you say sustainable, how do they do that?
00:17:38.000 Are they doing that with offshore farms?
00:17:41.000 Because I know they have some of those because I was in Hawaii and we were, shout out to my friends at Strike Zone, We were on a boat and we were catching these yellowfin tuna and this guy was telling me, one of the gentlemen that I was fishing with,
00:17:59.000 that these fish are not even native to that area.
00:18:03.000 That they were a part of like a farm.
00:18:06.000 They have this enormous like kind of roped off area where they had left, like I don't know how they do it, they have like a large net or something like that.
00:18:15.000 Enormous area.
00:18:17.000 And they would feed these fish and they were using them for sushi.
00:18:20.000 And they were capturing them.
00:18:21.000 So they live in the ocean.
00:18:23.000 They would feed them little fish and shit like that and plump them up.
00:18:26.000 And then a storm came and fucked up their net.
00:18:29.000 And then they got out into the ocean and we were catching them.
00:18:32.000 And apparently there was one area where you could catch a lot of them.
00:18:35.000 And that's where we caught them.
00:18:35.000 And I was like, this is really interesting because...
00:18:38.000 Could they do this all the time?
00:18:40.000 Is this a way to reintroduce fish into the ocean?
00:18:45.000 Because they behave like wild fish.
00:18:47.000 It's not like any other animal that you raise in captivity and they become domesticated.
00:18:51.000 Fish just have that little robotic go eat kill switch in their brain.
00:18:57.000 You don't have to teach them how to do it.
00:18:59.000 I mean, farming is a pretty touchy subject because there's good farming, there's bad farming, you know, same thing.
00:19:05.000 Right, like things with animals, same thing, right?
00:19:08.000 Yeah, but when you think about fish farming, it's the same thing as cattle.
00:19:11.000 It's basically the exact same thing.
00:19:13.000 So there's a good way to raise it and there's a bad way to raise it.
00:19:16.000 Right.
00:19:17.000 I think it's just about finding that species.
00:19:19.000 Tuna's a bit tough because they're pelagic, so it means that they're migratory fish?
00:19:24.000 Yeah, migratory.
00:19:27.000 What they often do, especially with bluefin tuna, like tuna that have very high value, is they're going to catch it in the wild, they're going to put it in the pans and just fad them up, making sure they're nice and chubby and then they can sell it too.
00:19:40.000 How do they catch them in a net?
00:19:42.000 Yeah, normally Persane is probably one of the, it accounts for a lot of, I think over 65% of the tuna catch around the world.
00:19:51.000 It's a great way to catch tuna because it's basically you throw a net around a skull of tuna.
00:19:58.000 So there's very little bycatch because you just grab that skull and then that's it.
00:20:01.000 Okay, so you don't have to worry about dolphins.
00:20:04.000 Yeah, so the problem becomes when you use what you call a FAD. So FAD is the fishing or grading device.
00:20:09.000 And what it does is it creates like a little habitat.
00:20:12.000 Normally it's like some stuff hanging and then you have a small fish, then the medium fish, then the big fish, and the predators around.
00:20:19.000 So what a lot of people do is they put those fads in the middle of nowhere, create an ecosystem, throw a gigantic net around it, pick up everything.
00:20:28.000 That's when the buycash gets terrible.
00:20:30.000 But per se, when you're cashing a score without fads, the buycash is very, very low.
00:20:35.000 So bycatch is what they call a collateral damage.
00:20:39.000 So it's a bunch of fish that you don't want.
00:20:41.000 What do they do with the fish that they don't want?
00:20:43.000 Like what if they do that and they throw a net and they get like manta rays or something that they're not looking for?
00:20:51.000 They throw them overboard.
00:20:52.000 Most of the time they're dead.
00:20:56.000 A lot of people try to say like, why don't we just keep the bycatch when it comes to fish?
00:21:00.000 Obviously nobody wants to eat dolphin apart.
00:21:04.000 On other parts of the world.
00:21:06.000 What parts of the world eat dolphin?
00:21:08.000 Japan, I think.
00:21:09.000 Do they eat dolphin?
00:21:09.000 I think so.
00:21:10.000 I know they kill them.
00:21:11.000 That Cove documentary is horrible.
00:21:15.000 So you can buy it at the store.
00:21:18.000 Really?
00:21:18.000 Yes.
00:21:19.000 I want to see dolphin meat on a shelf.
00:21:21.000 Let me see that.
00:21:22.000 That's like, to me, that's like people meat.
00:21:24.000 It's pretty intense.
00:21:26.000 They're very, very smart.
00:21:28.000 That's the thing.
00:21:29.000 Isn't it funny how we categorize animals in terms of their intelligence?
00:21:33.000 Like what you're willing to kill.
00:21:36.000 Like elk, they are very highly tuned into their environment.
00:21:41.000 Like they smell you, they run.
00:21:43.000 They see a mountain lion, they run.
00:21:45.000 If there's anything going on, they run.
00:21:48.000 But they're not smart.
00:21:52.000 If they're horny, and you have camo on, you could be standing with your back to a tree, and you catch them on the right day, and if you've got a guy who has a cow call, it's like, meh, meh!
00:22:04.000 They'll look right at you like, for real?
00:22:06.000 Where is she?
00:22:07.000 Where the fuck is she?
00:22:09.000 If you stand totally still, they recognize they're not an animal that sees things like we see things.
00:22:19.000 They have edge detection.
00:22:22.000 So they recognize movement.
00:22:24.000 So what they recognize is anything that might be a threat, anything movement.
00:22:27.000 So when you have camo, Like a Sitka camo.
00:22:33.000 It's like very broken up.
00:22:34.000 It's excellent camo.
00:22:35.000 So if you're standing dead still, that elk or a deer sees you.
00:22:40.000 It's just like blocks of images.
00:22:43.000 They don't know what the fuck you are.
00:22:45.000 Are they colorblind too?
00:22:47.000 I think so.
00:22:48.000 I think they are.
00:22:49.000 Deer is definitely colorblind.
00:22:51.000 Yeah, I think elk are colorblind too.
00:22:53.000 But my god, their sense of smell is insanity.
00:22:57.000 They'd be like 150 yards away like, see ya!
00:23:00.000 That's crazy.
00:23:01.000 They just fucking take off.
00:23:01.000 What level of picture do you want to see?
00:23:04.000 Because it gets kind of dark in here.
00:23:07.000 Okay, let's see the most sanitized version of dolphin.
00:23:11.000 Alright, that's what I thought.
00:23:12.000 Let's see the most sanitized.
00:23:13.000 Okay.
00:23:13.000 Let's see what it looks like.
00:23:17.000 Oh, Jesus.
00:23:19.000 They have dolphin sushi.
00:23:20.000 Okay, that's mahi-mahi, buddy.
00:23:22.000 Well, it says dolphin sushi.
00:23:23.000 That's dolphin fish.
00:23:24.000 Oh, yeah.
00:23:24.000 Dolphin in Florida is mahi-mahi.
00:23:26.000 Yeah, they call it dolphin fish.
00:23:28.000 That is mahi-mahi.
00:23:29.000 Thank God.
00:23:30.000 Now I feel like...
00:23:32.000 I was nervous.
00:23:33.000 I was like, I'm going to eat looking at a person's leg.
00:23:35.000 Okay, now that stuff on the left, that's dolphin.
00:23:38.000 That's different.
00:23:39.000 Okay, Jesus Christ.
00:23:40.000 So that's dolphin.
00:23:41.000 Meat trade dolphin project.
00:23:43.000 So click on that.
00:23:44.000 International killing of whales and dolphins.
00:23:46.000 Below that, right there.
00:23:47.000 God damn.
00:23:49.000 That's so obviously.
00:23:50.000 It's so red.
00:23:51.000 Look how bloody it is.
00:23:53.000 Yeah, well, it's red meat.
00:23:56.000 Dolphin is a mammal.
00:23:58.000 You know, I mean, that's what we have to recognize.
00:24:00.000 When you look at them, you're not looking at a fish.
00:24:02.000 You're looking at a mammal that, for whatever fucking weird reason, decided to live in the ocean.
00:24:07.000 Yeah.
00:24:08.000 That's crazy.
00:24:09.000 Isn't it weird though?
00:24:10.000 All of our instincts are to pull away from that.
00:24:12.000 There's even some packaged stuff too.
00:24:14.000 Funny enough, I've killed deers and a bunch of fish and the only thing that I ever killed that felt very, very wrong to me, that I felt really bad inside, was an octopus.
00:24:30.000 Because they're smart.
00:24:31.000 Yes.
00:24:32.000 And I don't know.
00:24:33.000 It was just a weird feeling after it.
00:24:35.000 Really?
00:24:36.000 I was just like, I don't want to do that again.
00:24:38.000 I don't feel comfortable.
00:24:39.000 Really?
00:24:39.000 I have no other explanation than emotions.
00:24:43.000 There's no rational behind it.
00:24:46.000 You can find octopus in most restaurants.
00:24:48.000 Right.
00:24:49.000 Yeah, so octopus sushi is super common.
00:24:51.000 Yeah.
00:24:51.000 I had octopus last night, actually.
00:24:53.000 No, I didn't.
00:24:54.000 No, that's not true.
00:24:56.000 I had octopus two nights ago.
00:24:58.000 I don't want to lie.
00:24:59.000 But yeah, if I saw them in the wild, I probably would not want to kill them.
00:25:05.000 But if it's convenient, I'll order them.
00:25:08.000 Like veal.
00:25:09.000 I don't want to kill a baby cow.
00:25:11.000 If somebody serves me veal, I guess I'll eat it.
00:25:13.000 It's a weird thing.
00:25:15.000 It's like, why is it okay to kill the cow when it's...
00:25:18.000 A baby?
00:25:19.000 Eight years old and not okay to kill the cow when it's one years old.
00:25:23.000 It's weird.
00:25:25.000 I get it.
00:25:26.000 I get it.
00:25:27.000 They're cute.
00:25:28.000 I get it.
00:25:29.000 Cute things are awesome.
00:25:30.000 I like cute things.
00:25:32.000 You'd never buy lamb if you saw what lamb is.
00:25:37.000 I was with some friends last night and they ordered lamb.
00:25:40.000 Apparently lamb is easier for some folks to digest.
00:25:44.000 Jordan's wife and his daughter, they all eat lamb.
00:25:47.000 But Lamb's a baby sheep.
00:25:49.000 Yeah.
00:25:50.000 Yeah.
00:25:51.000 You ever seen a blanket octopus?
00:25:53.000 Whoa.
00:25:54.000 Watch this.
00:25:54.000 Oh, that's so cute.
00:25:55.000 Watch what happens.
00:25:57.000 What is that?
00:25:58.000 What is that?
00:26:00.000 Whoa.
00:26:02.000 Whoa.
00:26:03.000 Oh, my God.
00:26:04.000 That's a cape.
00:26:04.000 That's amazing.
00:26:06.000 Yeah.
00:26:07.000 What?
00:26:08.000 It's fucking cool.
00:26:08.000 I saw it online the other day.
00:26:10.000 That's real?
00:26:11.000 Yeah.
00:26:12.000 Holy shit.
00:26:13.000 They're real rare.
00:26:14.000 Really?
00:26:14.000 When I've done like superhuman thingy.
00:26:16.000 Can you play that again?
00:26:17.000 It's in the Philippines.
00:26:18.000 Put it back in.
00:26:19.000 Look at that thing.
00:26:20.000 So cool.
00:26:21.000 Wow.
00:26:21.000 For folks just listening, this thing is white and it has like little tiny tentacles.
00:26:27.000 Looks like an octopus, but like little short tentacles.
00:26:29.000 And then it spreads this thing out behind it and it's like a magic carpet.
00:26:35.000 It's almost like Superman.
00:26:38.000 That's wild!
00:26:40.000 And the thing is all colored like a fish too.
00:26:43.000 Like you look at the sides of it, it almost looks like a fish.
00:26:47.000 Like it's camouflaged.
00:26:48.000 God, look at that!
00:26:50.000 That's amazing!
00:26:51.000 That's one of the coolest things I've ever seen in the ocean.
00:26:55.000 I can't imagine that's real.
00:26:58.000 Wow!
00:27:00.000 Must be really deep, too.
00:27:01.000 Thank you, Jamie.
00:27:02.000 I did not know about that one.
00:27:03.000 I did not know either.
00:27:04.000 There's so much cool shit in the ocean.
00:27:06.000 Like, whenever they do these, like, deep dives in the ocean and they find creatures that they've never discovered before, it just makes you wonder, like, what is down there?
00:27:15.000 What the fuck is down there?
00:27:16.000 Have you ever seen a telescope fish?
00:27:19.000 Oh, my God.
00:27:20.000 I don't think so.
00:27:20.000 Telescope fish is amazing.
00:27:22.000 It doesn't look real.
00:27:23.000 And it swallows things bigger than it.
00:27:27.000 So its mouth is like unhinged, like...
00:27:30.000 Oh yeah, a weird thing with other mouths inside of it?
00:27:33.000 No.
00:27:34.000 No?
00:27:34.000 It was on my Instagram.
00:27:35.000 I had it on my Instagram a while back, because the first time I saw it, I was like, how the fuck is that real?
00:27:40.000 Is that it?
00:27:41.000 I don't know, man.
00:27:42.000 No, that's not it.
00:27:43.000 Is that even real?
00:27:44.000 Fish with a transparent head.
00:27:46.000 What the fuck is that?
00:27:46.000 Yeah, it's got a transparent head.
00:27:47.000 That's crazy.
00:27:47.000 You can see into its brain.
00:27:50.000 Okay, look at that.
00:27:51.000 That looks like some CGI shit, but no, it just went way too real.
00:27:53.000 That looks totally fake.
00:27:54.000 That looks totally fake.
00:27:55.000 I think it was a top nine.
00:27:57.000 Somebody sent me a meme that said when your friends tell you that there's plenty of fish in the sea and they send like nine the ugliest fish in the ocean and it says that's the fish in the sea.
00:28:09.000 That's funny.
00:28:10.000 See if you can find a telescope fish.
00:28:12.000 That's it.
00:28:13.000 That little sucker.
00:28:14.000 So that little sucker, his mouth, it like, it opens up bigger than his whole body.
00:28:21.000 Like, the opening.
00:28:22.000 And then it can swallow things bigger than its body.
00:28:25.000 Like, if you saw that in a movie, you'd be like, get the fuck out of here.
00:28:29.000 That's not real.
00:28:30.000 Like, if you saw that in Avatar, and it was swimming around, and it was like eight feet long, and it was swallowing things that are ten feet long, you'd be like, what the fuck?
00:28:40.000 Doesn't look real.
00:28:41.000 But that's the ocean.
00:28:42.000 The ocean's amazing.
00:28:43.000 Like, if the ocean existed on another planet, we would be so much more excited about it.
00:28:48.000 For sure.
00:28:49.000 Isn't that weird?
00:28:50.000 But again, it's those species that have been evolving for way longer than we have.
00:28:53.000 But they are alien.
00:28:55.000 They're alien to terrestrial life.
00:28:58.000 Like, if you saw them on another planet, we would be fascinated.
00:29:03.000 But they exist, and you could watch them on YouTube, and barely anybody gives a shit.
00:29:07.000 Like, how many videos were the octopus with the cape?
00:29:11.000 How many views did it have?
00:29:13.000 I mean, like I said, I'd just heard of it, and you'd never heard of it.
00:29:16.000 Right.
00:29:16.000 Let's see how many views it has, though.
00:29:18.000 Maybe we're just idiots.
00:29:19.000 Maybe the rest of the world's well aware, and it's got 45 million views.
00:29:23.000 The little tiny one had 31,000 views.
00:29:25.000 That ain't shit.
00:29:26.000 That's nothing.
00:29:27.000 And the one I showed, the other one had maybe 300,000.
00:29:30.000 Mr. Beast gets that within the first three seconds of his uploads.
00:29:33.000 Yeah.
00:29:34.000 That's crazy.
00:29:37.000 That should be millions and millions.
00:29:39.000 But if you go to some fucking TikTok house party video, that's like 100 million views.
00:29:50.000 We should be much more fascinated by it, but we're not for whatever reason.
00:29:54.000 It's not something that's compelling to people where they reach out and try to look at as much underwater life as possible.
00:30:01.000 I mean, especially at those depths when it's getting really dark, that's where the real creepy stuff really lives.
00:30:06.000 I think that's like 500 plus meters.
00:30:11.000 What depth does that little sucker live in?
00:30:14.000 I think it's something crazy.
00:30:17.000 Yeah, I think my diving capability don't go below really like 100 feet.
00:30:23.000 Well, you don't scuba for the most part, right?
00:30:26.000 No, I free dive.
00:30:26.000 You free dive, so you just hold your breath.
00:30:28.000 Yeah.
00:30:29.000 How long can you hold your breath for?
00:30:31.000 5 minutes 45. I don't train for free diving, pure free diving.
00:30:36.000 I like to get in the water, I like to grab dinner and enjoy the view.
00:30:40.000 Free diving is a very special sport.
00:30:43.000 It's like you go down a line and you go down as deep as you can.
00:30:47.000 You hold your breath, you have to stay calm and compose in your head, and you have to be mentally super strong.
00:30:54.000 It's interesting.
00:30:55.000 You can get into it, but I guess I have too much of an attention deficit to do that.
00:31:00.000 I'm like, ooh, fish!
00:31:02.000 Well, you're in it for a different thing.
00:31:05.000 You're in it to enjoy the life of being underwater.
00:31:09.000 When you're down there, do you think, like, I escaped?
00:31:12.000 Do you ever think like you escaped?
00:31:15.000 Because you could have been in that corporate world.
00:31:18.000 You could have been, like right now, how old do you now?
00:31:21.000 34. You don't want to tell people?
00:31:23.000 Yeah.
00:31:24.000 34. Right now, you could have been like working towards, you know, like moving up in the company and you'd have to go on those stupid dinners and deal with all the company politics and instead you're in the ocean.
00:31:39.000 Yes.
00:31:40.000 Yes.
00:31:40.000 It's actually the only time and place where I couldn't care less about my phone, about anything.
00:31:47.000 I mean, the president could be calling me, I'll be like, sorry, I'm busy and fishing.
00:31:52.000 So that's what I like.
00:31:53.000 There's no other place that I can actually feel this free about everything else.
00:32:00.000 Is there a concern that you eat so much fish that you could get mercury poisoning?
00:32:04.000 Not really, because mercury poisoning is really more into bigger species.
00:32:10.000 So swordfish, by example, shark, some very, very big tuna.
00:32:14.000 So I don't really eat enough of those fish that that would become a problem.
00:32:19.000 How can I say does?
00:32:21.000 Does what?
00:32:21.000 Does fish.
00:32:22.000 Does fish.
00:32:23.000 Does bigger fish.
00:32:24.000 Does bigger fish.
00:32:25.000 Yeah, like swordfish.
00:32:26.000 I have a friend who got mercury poisoning from eating too much swordfish.
00:32:31.000 Oh, so did they kill a swordfish and just eat the whole thing and get sick?
00:32:34.000 No, it was a charting guide.
00:32:36.000 So, you know, he just had a lot of fish all the time.
00:32:39.000 Oh, so he's eaten a lot.
00:32:40.000 It fucks you up pretty badly.
00:32:41.000 Like, you can start crying for no reason.
00:32:43.000 Oh, shit.
00:32:44.000 Yeah, it's pretty odd.
00:32:47.000 Yeah, I'd heard about a guy who was a, I heard about on my friend Steve Rinella's podcast, where the guy was a professional fisherman, like you would go in the lakes and they would compete in tournaments, and he would eat a lot of fish.
00:33:02.000 And those apparently are the ones that have the most heavy metal toxins, is a lot of freshwater fish.
00:33:09.000 Freshwater fish?
00:33:09.000 Yeah.
00:33:10.000 I'm not too familiar with that type.
00:33:11.000 I very rarely fish in freshwater.
00:33:15.000 Well, I had arsenic levels in my blood that were detected at one point in time.
00:33:21.000 And I went to this doctor, and, you know, I get blood work done regularly.
00:33:24.000 So I get this blood work done, and the doctor goes, this is concerning.
00:33:28.000 He goes, you have arsenic levels in your blood.
00:33:30.000 And I go, hmm.
00:33:32.000 And I was like, oh, she has my wife trying to poison me.
00:33:35.000 This bitch trying to slowly poison me.
00:33:39.000 No, and then he said, it's very low levels though.
00:33:42.000 He goes, do you eat a lot of seafood?
00:33:44.000 I go, I eat a lot of anchovies.
00:33:45.000 He goes, how often?
00:33:47.000 Or not anchovies, excuse me, sardines.
00:33:49.000 He goes, how often?
00:33:50.000 I go, every day.
00:33:50.000 He goes, how much do you eat?
00:33:52.000 I go, three, four cans.
00:33:53.000 He goes, stop doing that.
00:33:55.000 That's a lot.
00:33:56.000 Stop doing that and then come back in a few months.
00:34:01.000 I'm an obsessive, and one of the things that I'll do is I'll buy two cases of sardines.
00:34:08.000 If I like a sardine company, I'm like, these are good.
00:34:11.000 So I'll just buy two fucking cases, and then I'll come home from a comedy club at midnight, and I don't feel like cooking, But I want to watch a little YouTube or sit in front of the TV. So I'll eat three or four cans of sardines.
00:34:24.000 And I was doing it all the fucking time.
00:34:27.000 And so I was developing an arsenic problem.
00:34:32.000 But it cleared up very quickly.
00:34:34.000 I stopped doing it.
00:34:35.000 I stopped eating them.
00:34:36.000 And then I came back to him in three months.
00:34:37.000 And he's like, there's none.
00:34:38.000 It's all gone.
00:34:39.000 So it was all good.
00:34:40.000 That's crazy, though.
00:34:41.000 Yeah.
00:34:42.000 Well, it lets you know.
00:34:43.000 You know, those little fuckers, you know, they have to swim around in our bullshit.
00:34:49.000 That's true.
00:34:50.000 That's what it is.
00:34:51.000 It's our bullshit.
00:34:52.000 It's our toxins and whatever we're dumping into the ocean.
00:34:57.000 I'll give you a little fucking thing you might not know.
00:34:59.000 Do you know how the Somalis, you know, Somalis are known for being pirates, right?
00:35:04.000 Do you know why?
00:35:07.000 I think it's because we took pretty much all of our fish close to shore and now they got pissed off and decided to become pirates and kill us all or actually steal our money worse worse worse than that they started Europeans and other countries started dumping their toxic waste off this the shore of Somalia and They killed all the fish and so these Somali fishermen they call themselves I think they call themselves the people's
00:35:38.000 something...
00:35:40.000 God damn it, I forget what they call themselves initially.
00:35:45.000 It was like a militia idea.
00:35:48.000 They were going to go and stop these people who were destroying their livelihood.
00:35:52.000 I mean, it's a very poor country.
00:35:54.000 So they started kidnapping these people that were the captains of these boats that were dumping this toxic waste, and they would demand a ransom.
00:36:04.000 And then once they did that, they go, you know what?
00:36:06.000 Fuck fishing.
00:36:07.000 They just started kidnapping people.
00:36:09.000 When one went into this business.
00:36:11.000 And then on top of that, they were doing a drug called CAT. It's a narcotic, like a natural narcotic.
00:36:19.000 And this CAT is like a leaf that you chew.
00:36:22.000 And it makes your teeth rot out of your head.
00:36:25.000 Like, it's fucking disgusting.
00:36:27.000 Like, they get black teeth.
00:36:28.000 See if you can find K-H-A-T. CAT. Kind of.
00:36:51.000 Yeah.
00:36:52.000 I mean, it might be just like, they're not brushing, but...
00:36:57.000 I think there's a lot more to it, but this cat stuff, they chew, and it makes their teeth like fucking black and nasty.
00:37:05.000 So they're cranked out of their mind, and then they got these nasty teeth.
00:37:09.000 Look at that.
00:37:10.000 That's what it looks like when they chew that stuff.
00:37:12.000 Fucking wild, right?
00:37:15.000 Yeah.
00:37:17.000 K-H-A-T, chewing and dental staining.
00:37:21.000 Yeah.
00:37:21.000 Yeah.
00:37:22.000 It's weird.
00:37:24.000 That's pretty bad.
00:37:25.000 So these guys would get cranked up on this cat stuff, and then they didn't give a fuck, and then they would go after these boats.
00:37:33.000 What is the effect?
00:37:35.000 It is like a stimulant, right, Jamie?
00:37:37.000 Does it say?
00:37:38.000 Yeah, I believe...
00:37:39.000 The effect of cat, K-H-A-T? Let me just take that off of there.
00:37:47.000 Yeah, I think it is...
00:37:50.000 I don't know about full meth, but probably a lot like coke or something.
00:37:55.000 It's a big difference between coke and meth.
00:37:57.000 Yeah, big difference, right?
00:38:00.000 Well, coke is what you do when you have money.
00:38:03.000 That's a good point.
00:38:04.000 Meth is what you do when you're in a truck stop.
00:38:07.000 Alkaloid stimulant.
00:38:08.000 Yeah, so it's some alkaloid cathinone, a stimulant which is said to cause excitement, loss of appetite, and euphoria.
00:38:16.000 It's meth.
00:38:18.000 It's like a meth-y thing.
00:38:20.000 So these guys would get whacked out on this stuff, and then they'd go and fucking kidnap boats.
00:38:25.000 Look at me.
00:38:25.000 Look at me.
00:38:26.000 I'm the captain now.
00:38:28.000 That's what that is.
00:38:29.000 I mean, that's why that dude was so skinny.
00:38:31.000 He obviously probably didn't have a lot to eat either, but also probably whacked out on that cat stuff.
00:38:37.000 Oh, that's crazy.
00:38:37.000 Yeah, it's interesting.
00:38:39.000 So that's what happened.
00:38:40.000 Those fucking assholes from other countries came and dumped all their toxic waste.
00:38:45.000 You know, if they don't know what to do with their toxic waste, they're like, what are we going to do?
00:38:47.000 Just dump it over here.
00:38:48.000 So they were dumping it off the shore where these guys would fish.
00:38:51.000 Just destroyed the habitat of the fishing.
00:38:54.000 What did they call themselves?
00:38:55.000 Like the People's Navy of Somalia or something?
00:38:58.000 So I was digging through an article about it and I didn't find that first.
00:39:05.000 It's interesting because, you know, by other people being assholes, they force these, you know, pleasant, kind fishermen into becoming pirates.
00:39:16.000 And nobody probably talks about it.
00:39:18.000 They don't want to take responsibility.
00:39:20.000 Yeah, probably not.
00:39:21.000 Also, it's like they don't have a voice.
00:39:24.000 All everybody knows is Somalis are pirates.
00:39:27.000 You hear Somali pirates, you go, I've heard that before.
00:39:29.000 Yeah, for sure.
00:39:30.000 But if you hear Somalis got fucked over, they used to be fishermen, and people were dumping toxic waste overseas, and it forced them into becoming pirates, you're like...
00:39:37.000 Ah, that makes more sense.
00:39:39.000 Like, how else would they just become pirates?
00:39:41.000 Like, why would they, like, you know, what's that?
00:39:44.000 Why are they becoming pirates?
00:39:45.000 I mean, it's a bunch of pirates also off the coast of Brazil.
00:39:49.000 Oh, really?
00:39:50.000 So my dad retired and he bought a sailboat and he ran across the Atlantic.
00:39:55.000 Whoa.
00:39:55.000 For like three years.
00:39:57.000 And he had a couple of friends who went somewhere that were not really supposed to go.
00:40:04.000 And they got...
00:40:06.000 Kind of the boat got taken over by Paris.
00:40:09.000 They got like duct taped and everything and they stole everything they had on a boat.
00:40:12.000 Wow.
00:40:13.000 With guns and everything.
00:40:14.000 Like an older couple in their 60s.
00:40:16.000 Holy shit.
00:40:17.000 How'd they get out?
00:40:18.000 What happened?
00:40:19.000 How'd they survive?
00:40:20.000 I guess they just stole everything and they just left.
00:40:23.000 Left them there?
00:40:24.000 They left them duct taped?
00:40:25.000 Yeah.
00:40:25.000 But it's storied about ransoms, about asking the family for money and different things like that.
00:40:30.000 Yeah.
00:40:31.000 The ocean can be a pretty scary place if you don't know where to go.
00:40:34.000 Well, it's kind of lawless.
00:40:37.000 There's a thing about the ocean.
00:40:38.000 It's like when you're out in the middle of nowhere and then you see a boat.
00:40:42.000 Like if you're on a boat in the middle of nowhere and then you see another boat in the middle of nowhere, you're like, oh, fuck.
00:40:48.000 Right?
00:40:48.000 It's like the woods.
00:40:50.000 Like things are scary in the woods.
00:40:52.000 Like if you see a man at the mall, that's not scary.
00:40:57.000 Right?
00:40:57.000 But if you're like 14, 15 miles into the woods and you see a man and he looks at you in the eye like, oh Jesus, this guy gonna eat me?
00:41:07.000 Like, what the fuck?
00:41:08.000 When people are separated from everything, we think of the worst possible thing that they could do to us, whether it's in the ocean or in the fall, like even a baby in the woods.
00:41:20.000 If you saw a baby in the woods looking at you, you'd be like, ah, it's a fucking baby!
00:41:24.000 You don't want to run away.
00:41:26.000 Like, everything's scary in the woods.
00:41:29.000 That's true, because I actually did it from Brazil all the way to the top of the Caribbean with my dad on a sailboat.
00:41:35.000 Really?
00:41:36.000 And it was my dad, one of his friends, and me.
00:41:39.000 Did you guys have a gun?
00:41:41.000 So, my dad didn't answer me when I asked that question.
00:41:45.000 Oh, so he had a gun.
00:41:46.000 I guess the answer was yes.
00:41:48.000 Yeah, he had a gun.
00:41:50.000 We were like 400 miles away offshore.
00:41:53.000 400?
00:41:54.000 Yeah.
00:41:54.000 So, I had to work a two-hour shift every four hours for about three weeks.
00:42:00.000 Whoa.
00:42:00.000 What do you have to do?
00:42:02.000 So because, especially even if you're far away, you know, they have small fishing boats that don't show on the radar.
00:42:09.000 So you kind of have to be on the lookout and look every five minutes on both sides of the boat to see if you see lights to make sure you don't kill somebody at the end of the night.
00:42:17.000 Have you seen the video that just got out recently of these guys that are fishing on this boat?
00:42:22.000 They're just sitting there with their rods fishing, and this boat is coming straight towards them, and they wave, and then they realize, oh my god, this boat's not going to stop, and they jump into the water.
00:42:31.000 Did you see that?
00:42:31.000 I did see that, and I would like to say that this is an isolated incident.
00:42:37.000 It's not.
00:42:38.000 What scares me the most in the water, it's boats.
00:42:41.000 Oh yeah.
00:42:41.000 It's not sharks, it's not anything, it's boats.
00:42:44.000 Because, actually, it happened to me once, I was with friends, and the boat was literally on top of us.
00:42:49.000 Here it is.
00:42:50.000 This is it, this is it.
00:42:51.000 Okay, it's a couple years old, just so you know.
00:42:54.000 Oh shit.
00:42:55.000 Boom!
00:42:56.000 Watch this.
00:42:58.000 Fuck!
00:43:08.000 How bad did the boat get fucked up?
00:43:11.000 Jesus.
00:43:13.000 That's what you call a Sunday boat driver.
00:43:15.000 Well, oh my god, they just mangled their boat.
00:43:18.000 Wow, that's crazy.
00:43:19.000 That's so insane.
00:43:21.000 Well, my friend got a boat of his fin chopped up by a prop.
00:43:24.000 He saw the boat coming and he dove down straight away and the prop chopped both of his fin off.
00:43:29.000 The fins of his swimming fins?
00:43:32.000 Both fins.
00:43:33.000 So it could have been his legs!
00:43:34.000 It could have been a disaster.
00:43:36.000 Could have been his head!
00:43:37.000 Could have been any of them.
00:43:39.000 And the funny thing is he dove down because I was showing something in the bottom.
00:43:43.000 Well, I've been on the lake before on a boat and I've seen a lot of people drinking.
00:43:49.000 That's a weird one.
00:43:50.000 When people are drinking on the lake and you're like, hmm, I don't know if I want to be on this lake.
00:43:55.000 You know?
00:43:56.000 Did you ever remember that Trump rally?
00:43:58.000 That's what you do out there.
00:44:00.000 It is kind of what you do, but...
00:44:02.000 I know you're supposed to be responsible.
00:44:03.000 I got a boat that goes fast.
00:44:06.000 Yeah.
00:44:07.000 If you're hammered and you want to gun it, you're dead.
00:44:10.000 Everyone's going to die.
00:44:12.000 It goes fast.
00:44:13.000 Yeah, but also, you're wakeboarding and then at some point you let go of the rope and then you fall down the board and then you're in the middle of the lake.
00:44:17.000 And then you have to look out for other people.
00:44:18.000 Yeah, because other people...
00:44:19.000 Yeah, that's dangerous.
00:44:20.000 I have drunk Steven or his four girlfriends coming full speed at you.
00:44:23.000 He's not going to see you.
00:44:24.000 There's accidents like that all the time.
00:44:26.000 That's sketchy.
00:44:27.000 It must be.
00:44:27.000 I don't do that shit, though.
00:44:29.000 You know what I like more than anything is jet skiing.
00:44:32.000 Oh my God, it's so much fun.
00:44:33.000 They're so fast.
00:44:35.000 The jet skis they have now, they're so fast.
00:44:38.000 I bought this house and it had jet skis, like it came with jet skis, and we bought that jet skis from the people, and then my wife wanted to get better ones, so we got these.
00:44:46.000 I'm like, why wouldn't these be so fine?
00:44:48.000 Then she got these new jet skis, and they're fucking preposterous.
00:44:52.000 The jet skis they make today are so goddamn fast.
00:44:56.000 They're like zero to 60 in a couple of seconds, like a car.
00:44:58.000 That's crazy.
00:44:59.000 Like, whoosh!
00:45:01.000 They make those super cool new fishing ones too.
00:45:04.000 But the good thing about jet ski...
00:45:06.000 So you have like a live bait box and like a cooler.
00:45:07.000 Oh really?
00:45:07.000 And a jet ski?
00:45:08.000 Yeah, like they're all set up so you can just go out at sea and just go fish off that.
00:45:12.000 Oh, I haven't seen that.
00:45:13.000 It's pretty cool.
00:45:13.000 So it's like an attachment that you put on the end of your jet ski?
00:45:16.000 I think so.
00:45:17.000 I think that they made like fishing jet ski.
00:45:19.000 The thing about the jet ski is like they're so maneuverable.
00:45:23.000 It's so much more maneuverable than a boat.
00:45:24.000 Like boats are awkward.
00:45:26.000 Like you're like backing up and moving.
00:45:29.000 It's like you're subject to the waves.
00:45:32.000 With a jet ski, you're just fucking...
00:45:33.000 You're just doing whatever you want to do.
00:45:35.000 You want to take a left and take a left.
00:45:37.000 It's like a motorcycle that's on the water.
00:45:38.000 So if you fall, it's like no big deal.
00:45:41.000 But you're going like, I mean, I guess it's not really motorcycle speeds, but they're pretty preposterous.
00:45:47.000 Oh my God, that's wild.
00:45:50.000 So it's a fishing jet ski, intentionally versatile, ready for any adventure.
00:45:54.000 So it's got a fishing seat.
00:45:57.000 That's crazy.
00:46:00.000 That's smart.
00:46:00.000 And room for cooler in the back and everything.
00:46:02.000 That is actually very smart.
00:46:04.000 That's very smart.
00:46:05.000 Fish Pro Sport.
00:46:08.000 Let me see it.
00:46:08.000 Scroll back up again.
00:46:09.000 So there's different models.
00:46:11.000 I wonder what's different about them.
00:46:13.000 Fish Pro...
00:46:14.000 Let me see them.
00:46:15.000 Oh, that's like an extra seat on the back compared to even the...
00:46:18.000 Yeah, it's got a fishing seat.
00:46:20.000 That's so cool.
00:46:21.000 Yeah, so it's like a boat, like a bass boat.
00:46:23.000 Oh, so it pops up there.
00:46:26.000 Go back up to that photo.
00:46:31.000 Yeah, so that's pretty dope.
00:46:33.000 That is ideal.
00:46:35.000 And look, it's got a little cooler in the back.
00:46:37.000 So you could just pull up to a little area and start casting and then zip off.
00:46:43.000 Oh, that's great.
00:46:45.000 That's amazing.
00:46:47.000 I like it.
00:46:48.000 Sea-doos, huh?
00:46:49.000 Yeah.
00:46:50.000 Yeah, they make dope shit.
00:46:55.000 I think mine's a Sea-Doo.
00:46:57.000 I definitely used that.
00:46:58.000 Oh, you fucked up.
00:46:59.000 I think that's the ad.
00:47:02.000 It's like saying, you're going to be silly.
00:47:04.000 Jump in the water, you wacky fuck.
00:47:07.000 Yeah, there's a lot of fishing out here in Texas because they grow big bass out here.
00:47:11.000 Oh, really?
00:47:12.000 Yeah, huge.
00:47:13.000 Yeah, big ass fat boys.
00:47:16.000 I went off the coast, mostly.
00:47:17.000 The oil rigs are pretty cool.
00:47:19.000 Oh, oil rigs are probably cool, right?
00:47:21.000 Because the little fish are attracted to the oil rigs.
00:47:24.000 So the big fish come around looking for the little fish.
00:47:27.000 So the structure.
00:47:29.000 One of the most hardcore spearfishing you can also do, which can also be qualified as a bit dumb, you basically jump off the back of a shrimper.
00:47:43.000 So, of course, a lot of shrimp getting loose into the water, and then you have thousands of sharks circling around.
00:47:51.000 And you have basically, you get in the water, you pass the sharks, and tunas are below, getting the scraps from the shark.
00:47:57.000 What?
00:47:57.000 It's pretty cool.
00:47:58.000 Have you done that?
00:47:59.000 I've done it once, and I didn't feel too comfortable doing it.
00:48:03.000 The fuck, girl?
00:48:04.000 Are you crazy?
00:48:05.000 You can find some footage of that for sure.
00:48:07.000 Yeah, find some footage of that.
00:48:09.000 So the shrimp boats are catching the shrimp, and how are the sharks there?
00:48:13.000 Because they smell the shrimp?
00:48:15.000 So basically, yeah, they're eating the shrimp off the back of the boat.
00:48:19.000 So because the nets, they're always falling off, falling off the boat, falling off the nets and stuff like that.
00:48:24.000 So the sharks are eating the scraps, and then they eat sloppy.
00:48:28.000 So below them, the tunas.
00:48:30.000 So there's tunas and sharks all together, but normally the tuna stays below the sharks.
00:48:34.000 Why don't the sharks just kill the tunas?
00:48:35.000 Can they?
00:48:36.000 I don't know.
00:48:37.000 Do sharks eat tunas?
00:48:38.000 Or are the tuna too fast?
00:48:40.000 The shark is pretty much anything in the water.
00:48:41.000 But tunas are way faster than sharks, right?
00:48:44.000 Aren't they?
00:48:45.000 I'd say so.
00:48:46.000 So a tuna has to be slipping.
00:48:48.000 Yeah.
00:48:49.000 The shark has to catch a tuna slipping.
00:48:51.000 Yeah.
00:48:52.000 But also sharks, you know, I like to compare it to dogs a lot.
00:48:56.000 Maybe it sounds weird, but they're like an easy meal.
00:49:00.000 That's why when they hear spewishing bands popping in the water, normally they know what's happening.
00:49:05.000 And sometimes they like to come around because they know a free, easy meal is probably going to be around soon.
00:49:10.000 You know, that's what happens with grizzlies.
00:49:13.000 Oh, really?
00:49:14.000 Grizzlies hear gunshots and they run towards the gunshot because they assume the gunshot means an animal, like a deer or an elk.
00:49:20.000 So sometimes...
00:49:21.000 And I believe it's Montana.
00:49:23.000 If you shoot a...
00:49:26.000 We'll find that in a moment here.
00:49:27.000 Let's see.
00:49:28.000 They caught some tunas?
00:49:30.000 Yeah, they're right.
00:49:31.000 I'll show you that.
00:49:31.000 No, I'd put like spearfishing, shrimp boat.
00:49:34.000 Oh, okay.
00:49:35.000 Go spear.
00:49:36.000 My bad.
00:49:36.000 Oh, what were you saying?
00:49:37.000 This was just, these guys were behind a boat.
00:49:42.000 That's blackfin also.
00:49:44.000 Oh, so they're fishing behind a shrimp boat.
00:49:48.000 Oh, that's smart.
00:49:51.000 But you have to reel it really fast because once the tuna's hooked, the shark is going to go for it.
00:49:55.000 Oh, wow.
00:49:56.000 Yeah.
00:49:57.000 And then you have half a tuna.
00:50:00.000 Yeah, I've got to check this beer.
00:50:00.000 Hold on a second.
00:50:03.000 I think it's in Wyoming where you have to leave the elk.
00:50:07.000 You have to give it up.
00:50:09.000 Really?
00:50:09.000 Yeah, you're not even allowed to chase the grizzly off.
00:50:12.000 I'm pretty sure it's Montana.
00:50:13.000 Or, excuse me, not Montana, Wyoming.
00:50:16.000 Let's find that out in a moment.
00:50:17.000 How do you even chase a grizzly up?
00:50:20.000 Good luck, bitch!
00:50:22.000 I'm not trying!
00:50:24.000 Have you seen that craziest documentary about that guy who was...
00:50:29.000 Grizzly Man.
00:50:30.000 Yeah.
00:50:30.000 And he ended up being eaten with his girlfriend.
00:50:32.000 One of my favorite documentaries ever.
00:50:34.000 Have you seen it?
00:50:35.000 Yeah, I've seen it.
00:50:36.000 It's an unintentional comedy.
00:50:38.000 I think it's an on-purpose comedy.
00:50:39.000 I think Werner Herzog is brilliant.
00:50:42.000 And I think that's different than any of his other movies, where it's so funny that I gotta think that he made it funny on purpose.
00:50:49.000 That it has to be.
00:50:50.000 It has to be.
00:50:51.000 Wyoming rules when it comes to a downed animal claimed by a grizzly.
00:50:58.000 Fish and game rules.
00:51:01.000 Because I believe the idea is they're trying to discourage grizzly encounters with people.
00:51:10.000 They don't want people to try to chase off a grizzly and get killed.
00:51:13.000 So I think they just have decided, listen, you shoot an elk and a grizzly claims it, that's not your elk anymore.
00:51:23.000 I don't know if that means you get to shoot another one, which would be pretty cool, or if it means that's a wrap.
00:51:30.000 Is your tag forefoot bite in or not?
00:51:32.000 Exactly, because if you have a big hunting trip, and you shoot an elk, and say you're out there for a week and a half, you're in the backcountry, and maybe this is something you've been planning for for years, You budgeted.
00:51:46.000 You put in for a tag.
00:51:48.000 You spent all your money on this.
00:51:51.000 This is a big deal.
00:51:52.000 And you're looking to have a freezer full of meat for the winter.
00:51:54.000 Boom!
00:51:55.000 You drop this elk from 300 yards.
00:51:57.000 And then by the time you get over there, you see a fucking grizzly coming down the hill towards your elk.
00:52:01.000 You're like, no!
00:52:03.000 You son of a bitch!
00:52:05.000 Because that's what happens.
00:52:06.000 They hear a gunshot in some areas where they're habituated to the sound of gunshots equaling gut piles in particular.
00:52:15.000 Yeah, you're talking about gun because I'm like 300 yards.
00:52:17.000 I'm like, what's your poundage in your bow?
00:52:19.000 No, no, no.
00:52:20.000 I'm talking a gun.
00:52:21.000 Boom.
00:52:21.000 Okay.
00:52:21.000 Guns.
00:52:22.000 Yeah.
00:52:22.000 No, 300 yards.
00:52:23.000 By the way, your friend, so Tyler set me up with my bow this week.
00:52:26.000 Tyler from archery country?
00:52:28.000 Yeah.
00:52:28.000 Archery country's the shit.
00:52:29.000 So I'm a little tiny little 35 now.
00:52:31.000 If you're in Austin, Texas.
00:52:31.000 I'm like, eek.
00:52:32.000 35 pounds?
00:52:33.000 Well, if you're in Austin, Texas, and you're looking for archery equipment, you want to get set up, they're a fucking amazing shop, Archery Country.
00:52:42.000 That's where I get all my shit done.
00:52:43.000 It's so nice having a real bow shop in town, because there wasn't one in California.
00:52:50.000 He knows everything.
00:52:51.000 It's crazy.
00:52:52.000 I have this big trip coming up.
00:52:55.000 I'm supposed to go to Alaska, I think, next October.
00:52:58.000 What are you doing in Alaska?
00:53:00.000 I'm supposed to go bow hunting with Donnie Vincent.
00:53:04.000 Oh!
00:53:06.000 Didn't you go somewhere other hunting with him?
00:53:08.000 No, so basically that's going to be that shit.
00:53:10.000 COVID kind of pushed everything up.
00:53:12.000 Oh, I see, I see.
00:53:13.000 I mean, my chances of shooting an elk with my bow, eh, not that great.
00:53:17.000 When is this supposed to happen?
00:53:18.000 When is this supposed to happen?
00:53:19.000 October.
00:53:19.000 October.
00:53:20.000 Yeah.
00:53:20.000 Okay.
00:53:21.000 You have time.
00:53:22.000 Okay, so here we are.
00:53:24.000 Yeah, what do I do?
00:53:25.000 Well, first of all, let me see your guns.
00:53:27.000 Pull the guns out.
00:53:29.000 Okay, we're going to have to work on that.
00:53:30.000 Because 35 pounds is not enough.
00:53:32.000 It's just not enough.
00:53:33.000 I mean, Ted Nugent and Shemaine Nugent would probably argue with me.
00:53:36.000 She showed me a zebra she shot with a 35-pound ball.
00:53:39.000 Well, I could pull out about 45. For now.
00:53:43.000 For now.
00:53:43.000 We've got to get you on steroids.
00:53:44.000 We're going to get you on steroids.
00:53:46.000 So no hot yoga anymore, but steroids and steroids.
00:53:48.000 Yeah, steroids and weights.
00:53:50.000 And you're going to wrestle Gordon Ryan every day.
00:53:53.000 We need to get you strong.
00:53:55.000 It's pulling motion.
00:53:57.000 And it's also a stability motion for the front arm.
00:54:00.000 So you need shoulder.
00:54:01.000 You know what's really good?
00:54:02.000 Have you ever done clubs, club bells?
00:54:04.000 You ever done those?
00:54:06.000 You know what those are?
00:54:07.000 I don't even know what those are.
00:54:08.000 It looks like a bowling pin almost, but it's made out of iron.
00:54:13.000 We sell them at Onnit.
00:54:14.000 They're awesome.
00:54:15.000 And what it is is a really good exercise for shoulder stability and strength.
00:54:21.000 I do a bunch of exercises with them, but one of them I really like for archery is called shield casting.
00:54:27.000 Okay, it's perfect.
00:54:29.000 So if this was...
00:54:30.000 I actually have some out here.
00:54:31.000 I'll show them.
00:54:32.000 So if this was this iron thing, you go around the shoulder like that and then put it in front of you and around like that and put it in front of you.
00:54:38.000 So the whole idea is like you're strengthening all these muscles in your shoulder and then you're also strengthening your ability to hold it out less.
00:54:46.000 And there's a bunch of other exercises I do with them, a bunch of different kinds of exercises.
00:54:50.000 I do them where...
00:54:51.000 So there you go.
00:54:52.000 You see them there.
00:54:54.000 That's my boy John Wolf right there, the one with the arms sticking straight out.
00:54:57.000 That's my buddy.
00:54:58.000 He's actually a guy I train with all the time.
00:54:59.000 Kind of make between a bowling pin and a baseball bat.
00:55:01.000 Yes, very similar.
00:55:03.000 And John, he's just an awesome trainer all around.
00:55:06.000 He's the head trainer over at Onnit, and he has a bunch of different...
00:55:10.000 Workout programs that he's devised.
00:55:12.000 Onnit has a thing called Onnit 6. It's all these different workouts, bodyweight workouts, kettlebell workouts, all kinds of stuff that you can do at home that they devised during COVID to help people.
00:55:24.000 If they couldn't get to a gym, you could just buy a couple of pieces of equipment like a steel club, and they'll set you through all of these different exercises and workouts.
00:55:35.000 But clubs are really good for bows.
00:55:37.000 I really like it.
00:55:38.000 And so does my friend John Dudley.
00:55:39.000 We'll have to get him to help you.
00:55:41.000 That would be great for both of you guys.
00:55:42.000 Yeah, I mean, I travel so much.
00:55:43.000 It's so hard to get consistency when it comes to training because, you know, you want to always train in the same place.
00:55:49.000 Can you make it out to Iowa?
00:55:50.000 Can you make it to Iowa?
00:55:52.000 I could go anywhere.
00:55:52.000 Okay.
00:55:53.000 I'll set you up.
00:55:54.000 John Dudley is like legitimately the best archery coach in the world.
00:55:58.000 Oh, fun.
00:55:58.000 Yeah, he's one of my best friends.
00:56:00.000 We'll send you out to him.
00:56:01.000 Yeah, that'd be great.
00:56:02.000 He'll coach you.
00:56:03.000 He'll show you how to do it.
00:56:04.000 He does it all the time.
00:56:05.000 Like, this is literally what he does.
00:56:07.000 And he's, you know, he's also one of the guys that, he's like a top pro at PSE, which is a bow company.
00:56:14.000 So they'll set you up.
00:56:15.000 That's the bow I use.
00:56:17.000 But what kind of bow do you have?
00:56:19.000 I got a Hoyt eclips.
00:56:23.000 Those are great.
00:56:24.000 Yeah, Hoyt's awesome.
00:56:25.000 They're all awesome.
00:56:26.000 When you get to Matthews, Hoyt, PSE, there's a bear that makes awesome bows.
00:56:33.000 There's a level of bow when you get to a certain level.
00:56:37.000 They're all really good.
00:56:39.000 I just want to be able to draw it and work on my form and try to become better at it.
00:56:44.000 You've got to get stronger though.
00:56:46.000 I do.
00:56:47.000 You've got to pump those guns up.
00:56:48.000 I know you're doing jujitsu because I saw on your Instagram when George came to town and that was fun, right?
00:56:54.000 We all went out and had cheeseburgers.
00:56:56.000 It was really fun.
00:56:57.000 It was really fun.
00:56:57.000 And I was like, oh, these Canadians can all talk to each other in their foreign tongue now.
00:57:01.000 You and George can speak...
00:57:02.000 We speak very differently.
00:57:04.000 Yes, you guys speak French.
00:57:06.000 But then I saw that you went and trained with Gordon and Gordon's girlfriend and you were at the gym.
00:57:14.000 How was that?
00:57:15.000 It was really good.
00:57:16.000 So I've started my...
00:57:18.000 So I do MMA stuff on Tuesday and then grappling on Thursday.
00:57:22.000 It really came up from the fact that, you know, I'm a girl, I'm traveling by myself, so I just really wanted to have kind of a base of when it comes to self-defense type of stuff.
00:57:31.000 So it's a funny story.
00:57:33.000 I got knocked out by a 14-year-old during my class, but we can talk about it later.
00:57:35.000 A 14-year-old girl knocked you out?
00:57:37.000 Yeah.
00:57:38.000 Wow.
00:57:38.000 Out cold?
00:57:40.000 I fell on the floor.
00:57:42.000 I was standing up and I fell.
00:57:43.000 What'd she hit you with?
00:57:44.000 So, I mean, she had gloves on.
00:57:46.000 The thing is, it was like her first or second class or something, and I had headgear on, and she didn't.
00:57:54.000 So I was only allowed to hit her in her body, and my coach kept telling her, like, you know, just use maybe like 10-50% of your strength, and she keeps hitting me as hard as she could in her face.
00:58:04.000 And I was like...
00:58:05.000 You know, like, take it easy.
00:58:07.000 Like, you know, we're here to have fun.
00:58:09.000 And then I was not looking, and she just hit me in the side of the temple as hard as she could.
00:58:15.000 And I fell on the ground, and my coach looked at me, and he was like, please don't do this.
00:58:21.000 Please just, like, just smile and get up.
00:58:24.000 I looked at him and was like, fine.
00:58:25.000 Please don't do this, meaning don't be out cold.
00:58:27.000 He knew.
00:58:27.000 He saw my face.
00:58:29.000 He was like, just be nice.
00:58:32.000 Were you angry?
00:58:33.000 I was very angry.
00:58:34.000 Did you talk to the 14-year-old?
00:58:36.000 Did she apologize?
00:58:37.000 She didn't.
00:58:38.000 She didn't apologize?
00:58:40.000 No.
00:58:40.000 I mean, she just felt a little bit...
00:58:41.000 I mean, she kind of did, but she was like, eh, sorry, but then we kept sparring, and she just kept, like, hating as hard as...
00:58:48.000 You kept sparring after she dropped you?
00:58:49.000 You kept sparring?
00:58:50.000 I mean, a little bit.
00:58:51.000 I took it easy after.
00:58:52.000 The coach told her, look, go very freaking easy from now on.
00:58:57.000 You're not supposed to spar after you get hit like that.
00:59:00.000 What kind of coach do you have?
00:59:02.000 He's nice.
00:59:03.000 He's a really nice guy.
00:59:04.000 Yeah, and that's nice.
00:59:04.000 Listen, when you get hit in the head and you fall down and you're almost out cold, you might have a concussion.
00:59:11.000 She just did foot kicks and stuff after, so it wasn't that bad.
00:59:14.000 Oh, kick in the head.
00:59:15.000 Not to my head.
00:59:17.000 Yeah, but still.
00:59:18.000 My head was off limit.
00:59:18.000 You don't know what's going on.
00:59:20.000 You're still sparring, though.
00:59:21.000 You don't know what's going on after you get hit in the head like that.
00:59:24.000 I've seen it so many times where guys get dropped and then they want to go back and spar.
00:59:29.000 And you got to go, hey, this is over.
00:59:31.000 You can't do this anymore.
00:59:33.000 And most of the time, it's an accident.
00:59:35.000 Most of the time, it's like sometimes...
00:59:39.000 You're trying to touch people.
00:59:41.000 You're not trying to hit them hard.
00:59:42.000 But sometimes a guy will rush forward right when you're doing something and you just collide and you get hit.
00:59:49.000 It happens.
00:59:51.000 There's a video that I just saw the other day of Donald Cerrone accidentally knocking this guy out.
00:59:55.000 Clearly accidentally.
00:59:56.000 He did not hit him full blast.
00:59:58.000 He just set up a punch and threw a kick and the kid turned towards the kick and whack!
01:00:04.000 I think also when you're starting, I think it's, you know, a bit of instinctual to just try to hit as hard as you can.
01:00:10.000 Yeah.
01:00:10.000 Not like it's, you know, you just want to not prove yourself a little bit, but...
01:00:14.000 You know the solution to that, though, is to do drills first.
01:00:17.000 Like my friend Dwayne Ludwig, he teaches at Bang Muay Thai, which is like...
01:00:23.000 Dwayne, he was a world-class kickboxer, awesome MMA fighter.
01:00:28.000 He held the record at one point in time with the fastest knockout in the UFC. But what he really excels at, maybe even more than fighting, which he was really awesome at fighting, but he's a fantastic coach.
01:00:37.000 And one of the things he's done is he's broken down his system.
01:00:40.000 All of his martial arts techniques he's got written in books.
01:00:46.000 I've never seen anybody more thorough.
01:00:49.000 And he's in Arvada, Colorado, I believe.
01:00:52.000 outside of denver and uh what duane does is before you don't just start sparring with duane with duane everybody is working on combinations like you would throw like one two left hook to the body right low kick and then my job would be to block block step check And then we would do it again.
01:01:13.000 And you would do it back and forth.
01:01:15.000 So you would get accustomed to the idea of hitting each other.
01:01:19.000 And then he would make it really clear that you guys are working together, you know, trying to hurt each other.
01:01:25.000 You're just touching each other.
01:01:26.000 So you get used to touching each other.
01:01:28.000 Just touching and sparring.
01:01:29.000 Just tap, tap, tap.
01:01:30.000 In these drills.
01:01:32.000 And then you move to sparring.
01:01:33.000 So you have the same sort of mentality of just touching each other and then that's how you get good.
01:01:39.000 That's how you get good.
01:01:40.000 And then when it comes to hitting hard, you hit the pads or you hit a heavy bag.
01:01:44.000 But when I was coming up, everybody hit everybody hard.
01:01:49.000 No one exercised any restraint.
01:01:53.000 When we sparred, there were wars.
01:01:55.000 It was terrifying.
01:01:56.000 It was so bad.
01:01:57.000 So that was the early days of MMA, too.
01:01:59.000 If you go back to the early days of the UFC, all those fighters would have gym wars.
01:02:05.000 And sometimes they would ruin their careers in the gym because they would get knocked out so often.
01:02:10.000 Everyone would get knocked out all the time.
01:02:12.000 But I think that's what's really, really cool about this sport that is even like anything that's MMA related or jiu-jitsu.
01:02:18.000 For me, it really...
01:02:20.000 I got into it thinking it was just about defending myself and just hitting something and getting some pressure release and stuff like that.
01:02:27.000 It's not at all.
01:02:28.000 It's very cool.
01:02:29.000 Especially from jiu-jitsu, I really enjoyed the whole mental aspect of it, of trying to find what your next move is going to be and that type of stuff.
01:02:37.000 So it's...
01:02:37.000 I'll see.
01:02:38.000 Jiu-Jitsu is very intellectually challenging.
01:02:41.000 It is.
01:02:42.000 100%.
01:02:42.000 I have a whole thing on my phone that I have saved up of all these different moves that I've seen guys do that I've never seen anybody do before.
01:02:56.000 I have a whole folder of these moves where I'll review them.
01:03:00.000 I'm like, how the fuck is he doing that?
01:03:01.000 And I'll have to watch it like three, four times.
01:03:03.000 The way this person's setting up like an omoplata to the back control.
01:03:08.000 And then I'm like, okay, is that real?
01:03:09.000 And then I'll send it to Eddie Bravo and I'll say, hey, is this legit?
01:03:13.000 And he'll go, that looks pretty legit.
01:03:15.000 And then he'll try it or he'll go, that's not legit because of this.
01:03:18.000 And it's like there's so many techniques.
01:03:21.000 It's almost like language.
01:03:23.000 There's so many words you can use.
01:03:25.000 There's so many phrases you can say.
01:03:27.000 And there's so many sort of attacks you can have in jujitsu.
01:03:30.000 It's so different than...
01:03:32.000 Any other martial art in that regard because there's like an infinite number of possibilities that the human body can kind of engage in these entanglements with.
01:03:41.000 For sure.
01:03:41.000 And I mean, when I joined that class, it was just like, it was professional training.
01:03:47.000 And so it was obviously ridiculously out of my league.
01:03:50.000 You mean Gordon's class?
01:03:50.000 Yeah.
01:03:51.000 Yeah.
01:03:51.000 Well, that's the top of the food chain.
01:03:53.000 And she was really, the girl who was training with me was really telling me like, okay, so how do you get out of this?
01:03:58.000 And she's like, there's like thousands of ways, but now we're only going to work about like this one or this one.
01:04:02.000 And it says...
01:04:04.000 Yeah.
01:04:04.000 It was nice.
01:04:06.000 It was cool to see really, really good people just training together.
01:04:09.000 Yeah.
01:04:10.000 It's very inspiring, right?
01:04:12.000 It was really nice.
01:04:13.000 Even to see George Champier training, I was like, it's so nice to see you training in Austin, Texas.
01:04:22.000 Isn't that funny?
01:04:23.000 You doing a mocking French accent is hilarious.
01:04:27.000 That is hilarious.
01:04:29.000 He's down here.
01:04:29.000 There you guys are.
01:04:30.000 John Donahue, that guy's the master.
01:04:32.000 That guy in the middle, that might be the best jujitsu coach on the planet Earth.
01:04:36.000 He's a fucking genius.
01:04:37.000 You know his whole story?
01:04:38.000 I do not.
01:04:40.000 He was a philosophy professor at Columbia.
01:04:42.000 Really?
01:04:43.000 He's a PhD in philosophy.
01:04:44.000 That's great.
01:04:45.000 Got obsessed with Jiu Jitsu.
01:04:47.000 Quit everything.
01:04:48.000 Was living at Henzo Gracie's Academy in New York City.
01:04:51.000 Was sleeping on the mats.
01:04:53.000 Like literally would teach all day and take a nap in between classes.
01:04:56.000 You'd see John Donaher in the corner over there taking a nap.
01:04:59.000 Then he'd get up and teach.
01:05:00.000 Teach privates, teach classes.
01:05:02.000 And it's like, without a doubt, if not the most respected, one of the, I think he's the most respected jujitsu coach in the world.
01:05:10.000 So having him move to Austin is gigantic for all of us.
01:05:14.000 Like, everybody's very, very excited about that.
01:05:16.000 Oh, so you moved here recently?
01:05:17.000 Yeah, I talked him into it.
01:05:19.000 Oh, good.
01:05:21.000 That's my move.
01:05:22.000 Talk people into moving to Austin.
01:05:24.000 It was such a humbling experience just to see those great people just training together.
01:05:28.000 Can you imagine any other sport?
01:05:32.000 Imagine if you can go to a place and watch Michael Jordan train basketball.
01:05:36.000 That would be crazy.
01:05:37.000 Well, that's what George St. Pierre is like.
01:05:39.000 George St. Pierre is one of the greatest of all time.
01:05:42.000 You never know that talking to him, though.
01:05:44.000 He's so humble.
01:05:45.000 He is.
01:05:46.000 He's a really, really nice guy.
01:05:47.000 He's so nice.
01:05:48.000 He's very loved in Quebec.
01:05:49.000 He's very, very, very loved in Quebec.
01:05:50.000 Of course.
01:05:51.000 Of course.
01:05:53.000 You know, I was in the UFC in the Rogers Center.
01:05:58.000 I don't even know what they called the Rogers Center then.
01:06:00.000 I forget what it was called.
01:06:01.000 But it was 60,000 people.
01:06:03.000 Bell Center then.
01:06:04.000 Was it the Bell Center?
01:06:05.000 Probably.
01:06:05.000 I think George fought...
01:06:07.000 I think he fought Josh Kosciuk.
01:06:09.000 I forget who he fought.
01:06:10.000 But it was bananas.
01:06:13.000 When you see 60,000 people, when George walked to the Octagon, the roar that they got when they introduced George's name, it was fucking crazy.
01:06:25.000 I mean, like to this day, like I took my earphones off and I looked around and I was like, holy shit!
01:06:31.000 Sometimes I do that.
01:06:33.000 I'll take my earphones off when someone's cheering.
01:06:37.000 This weekend I did it for Brandon Moreno, because Brandon Moreno's from Mexico, from Tijuana, and we were in Southern California.
01:06:45.000 So it's like a couple hour drive, and they all came up to see him.
01:06:49.000 So the weigh-ins on Friday were just filled with Mexican flags.
01:06:54.000 And then Saturday night, Brandon goes out to the octagon.
01:06:57.000 And when he walks into that octagon, the roar was so loud.
01:07:03.000 I don't hear it perfect with my headphones on.
01:07:05.000 Because the headphones is just to pick up voices.
01:07:08.000 So I hear a little bit of an ambient.
01:07:10.000 So I had to take it off.
01:07:12.000 So I took my headphones off.
01:07:13.000 I was like, holy shit!
01:07:16.000 It was just, yeah!
01:07:22.000 Is that George?
01:07:23.000 Okay, that's 2008. Oh, no, that's a different one.
01:07:27.000 That's in Montreal.
01:07:28.000 Oh, I thought you meant Montreal earlier.
01:07:30.000 No, no.
01:07:31.000 Rogers Center was in Toronto.
01:07:32.000 But it must be a crazy feeling.
01:07:33.000 Is this something that you get also when you get on stage?
01:07:36.000 Like, you know, I want to see you in Tampa in that gigantic...
01:07:39.000 Arena.
01:07:40.000 Arena, and it's...
01:07:41.000 It must be just insane to be cheered on by that many people.
01:07:46.000 Yeah, I try to black it out.
01:07:49.000 I try to block it out.
01:07:51.000 It's too weird.
01:07:54.000 Yeah.
01:07:55.000 That was the revenge fight.
01:07:57.000 That was when George got his revenge against Matt Serra.
01:08:01.000 Because Matt Serra had knocked him out in probably the greatest upset of all time, at that moment at least.
01:08:08.000 Up until Juliana Pena just knocked out Amanda Nunes, or strangled Amanda Nunes, I think that this was the biggest upset of all time.
01:08:16.000 The first fight between them.
01:08:19.000 So this was George getting his revenge In Montreal.
01:08:24.000 And he just took Matt Serra very lightly for the first fight.
01:08:28.000 Didn't train hard enough.
01:08:30.000 Thought he was just going to kick his ass.
01:08:32.000 And then Matt Serra clipped him and hurt him and wound up stopping him.
01:08:36.000 But it's just the thing about UFC that I didn't know.
01:08:39.000 I've never watched UFC in my entire life and I started kind of watching it a little bit recently.
01:08:44.000 And what I got into was the fact that there's always a weird story behind.
01:08:48.000 There's always like rivalry and things happening and stories and it's way more drowning than I thought it would be.
01:08:55.000 Well, there's a lot of drama.
01:08:57.000 When guys are beating the shit out of each other, there's a lot of drama.
01:09:00.000 Now that makes sense.
01:09:02.000 Also, the UFC is really good at marketing this story behind these fighters and what makes it exciting, what their motivation is.
01:09:12.000 Every time I watch it, I cannot stop myself being like, I should train and try this shit.
01:09:16.000 Really?
01:09:17.000 You want to fight?
01:09:18.000 You better get to it now.
01:09:20.000 Is it realistic?
01:09:22.000 Probably not.
01:09:23.000 I don't know why I get this fired up every time I watch it.
01:09:26.000 But every time I see something cool and new, I'm like, I want to try this.
01:09:29.000 I want to be as best as I can at it.
01:09:31.000 Well, one thing you could do for sure is jiu-jitsu.
01:09:34.000 I would recommend you doing that before I would recommend you fighting in MMA. You don't want to mess your face up, too.
01:09:40.000 Yeah, no, probably not.
01:09:41.000 You got a very nice face.
01:09:42.000 I would think what you should do is do a jiu-jitsu tournament.
01:09:47.000 I would love that.
01:09:48.000 Yeah, that's what you should do.
01:09:51.000 Bourdain did that.
01:09:52.000 Anthony Bourdain.
01:09:53.000 Did he?
01:09:54.000 Yeah.
01:09:58.000 That guy makes me sad.
01:10:02.000 He fought in a jiu-jitsu tournament when he was like, I think he was like 59. 58 or 59. That's crazy.
01:10:10.000 He got so into it that he wanted to compete.
01:10:14.000 And he won.
01:10:15.000 Yeah, he competed and won.
01:10:17.000 That's crazy.
01:10:18.000 Yeah, and I don't even think he started Jiu-Jitsu until he was like 58. It's like somewhere in that range.
01:10:24.000 So I was like, this is crazy.
01:10:25.000 And watching him go from being like this party guy who just drank all the time to being a guy who was like not eating carbs anymore.
01:10:33.000 He got lean and ripped.
01:10:35.000 That's him competing.
01:10:38.000 So crazy.
01:10:39.000 Isn't that a girl also?
01:10:40.000 She became like a black belt recently.
01:10:42.000 She was pretty old.
01:10:44.000 Yes.
01:10:45.000 Her name is Betty.
01:10:47.000 I put her on my Instagram page because it was so crazy to see.
01:10:51.000 I met her at one of the Who's Number One events.
01:10:54.000 Look at Anthony Bourdain.
01:10:57.000 Shut this off.
01:10:58.000 I'm going to get sad.
01:10:59.000 That's his ex-wife.
01:11:08.000 That one makes me sad.
01:11:10.000 That's a rough one.
01:11:12.000 He was such a good guy.
01:11:14.000 Yeah.
01:11:15.000 But the point is, he got really into Jiu-Jitsu later in life, and one of the things that he decided he wanted to do is he wanted to work his way up to training and then competing in a tournament.
01:11:26.000 So he was training basically every day.
01:11:32.000 He would do two training sessions a day.
01:11:35.000 He would have a private class for over an hour, and then he would do the group class and spar with people every fucking day.
01:11:42.000 So he got good really quick.
01:11:44.000 He got his blue belt in like a year, year and a half or so.
01:11:48.000 Oh, wow.
01:11:49.000 Yeah.
01:11:49.000 But he was fucking obsessed.
01:11:52.000 Like, I remember he sent me a message because he was in some like Eastern Bloc European country and he trained with this Carlson Gracie school.
01:12:03.000 And Carlson Gracie, their team was always known as like Top game, pressure, smash-passing, really brutal, old-school power jujitsu.
01:12:14.000 And he's like, I'm shitting out bone chips.
01:12:18.000 Because he was just getting smushed by these fucking animals.
01:12:22.000 It's like super tough guys that were just crushing him.
01:12:25.000 I mean, he's a very inspiring person in general.
01:12:29.000 Yeah, he was.
01:12:30.000 Every time I'm like, okay, I'm 34. You got plenty of time.
01:12:36.000 I know much.
01:12:37.000 Like, I've changed my life recently.
01:12:38.000 There she is.
01:12:39.000 This is this lady, Betty.
01:12:40.000 And I'm like...
01:12:41.000 So she didn't start jujitsu until she was 54. 54. Yeah, 54. And then she just recently achieved her black belt.
01:12:55.000 Which is wild.
01:12:56.000 How old is she now?
01:12:58.000 11 years.
01:12:59.000 So she's 65 years old and she got her black belt.
01:13:02.000 I mean, think how many people at 65 are just done with everything.
01:13:08.000 Or even, even 54. You know, they're just not interested in challenges.
01:13:14.000 They're getting tired.
01:13:15.000 And this lady just had the fortitude and the courage to try something completely brand new.
01:13:20.000 Not just brand new, but very intimate.
01:13:23.000 It's like people are trying to strangle you and, you know, women are grabbing your leg.
01:13:29.000 What the fuck?
01:13:30.000 And you're old!
01:13:30.000 You're old!
01:13:31.000 She probably has kids and shit.
01:13:33.000 She's like, Jesus Christ, what am I doing with myself?
01:13:35.000 And then 11 years later, she's a black belt.
01:13:38.000 That's amazing.
01:13:39.000 That's amazing.
01:13:40.000 It's fascinating.
01:13:41.000 I think that it's too...
01:13:44.000 Keep trying new things and pushing yourself.
01:13:47.000 It's such a great way to stay alive.
01:13:49.000 It can be anything.
01:13:50.000 Well, I think it's...
01:13:52.000 Look, we're all going to die.
01:13:54.000 There's no way around it.
01:13:55.000 But I think while you're alive, the way to make life interesting is to challenge yourself.
01:14:00.000 And I don't mean challenge.
01:14:01.000 You don't have to challenge yourself in some crazy way like you're going to fucking climb Mount Everest in your underwear.
01:14:05.000 You don't have to try to die.
01:14:07.000 But do things that are stimulating and interesting.
01:14:11.000 And for this lady, it was jujitsu.
01:14:13.000 And, you know, for you, it's like you decided at one point in time you didn't want to be a lawyer anymore.
01:14:18.000 You're going to just figure out how to make a living off of spearfishing, which is such a crazy proposition.
01:14:24.000 If you were my daughter, I'd be like, oh, Jesus Christ.
01:14:27.000 I would think, all the money I fucking spent for college, this bitch wants to jump in the water and stab fish with a pointy stick.
01:14:33.000 But that's for people that want to enrich their lives.
01:14:37.000 How do you want to enrich your life?
01:14:38.000 This is a great way to enrich your life.
01:14:41.000 Go do something new.
01:14:43.000 Do something challenging.
01:14:44.000 And it doesn't have to be It could be physically challenging.
01:14:47.000 It could be learn to play guitar.
01:14:49.000 It could be learn to paint.
01:14:52.000 Anything.
01:14:52.000 Do something cool.
01:14:53.000 Take a yoga class.
01:14:54.000 You've never taken yoga?
01:14:55.000 Go take a yoga class.
01:14:56.000 But do stuff that you haven't done before that's so good for your head.
01:15:00.000 It really is.
01:15:03.000 For me, when I started archery and I started bow hunting, it was so good for my head.
01:15:08.000 I remember thinking, like, today I shot before I came here.
01:15:12.000 I spent a half an hour just practicing.
01:15:14.000 I practice constantly, consistently.
01:15:17.000 If you don't, you don't.
01:15:19.000 You're just not accurate.
01:15:20.000 And when I was shooting, I wasn't thinking about jack shit.
01:15:24.000 When I'm at full draw and I'm just thinking of that target, just watch that arrow sink right into that bullseye.
01:15:30.000 It's so satisfying.
01:15:32.000 And you're not thinking about anything else.
01:15:34.000 You're just thinking about your form.
01:15:35.000 Is your elbow high enough?
01:15:37.000 Am I pulling with my back muscles?
01:15:39.000 Is my stance correct?
01:15:40.000 Am I twerking my wrist?
01:15:42.000 There's all these little things.
01:15:43.000 But while you're thinking of all those little things, it's like a mental release.
01:15:47.000 It's like a moving meditation.
01:15:51.000 It's like you're not thinking about anything else.
01:15:52.000 All your troubles go away.
01:15:55.000 And that could be anything.
01:15:57.000 It doesn't have to be archery.
01:15:59.000 There's a lot of things you could learn.
01:16:01.000 You could be surfing.
01:16:02.000 Just do stuff.
01:16:04.000 Do new stuff.
01:16:05.000 Don't get stagnant.
01:16:06.000 When people get bored, I'm like, what are you talking about, man?
01:16:10.000 Oh, I'm fucking bored.
01:16:11.000 Dude, how are you bored?
01:16:12.000 I wish I had 10 lives.
01:16:14.000 If I had 10 lives that I could run simultaneously, I'd have 10 different careers.
01:16:18.000 I would like to do 10 different things.
01:16:21.000 I really would.
01:16:22.000 I really would.
01:16:23.000 If I could have enough time, I would just fucking immerse myself in different things.
01:16:32.000 Yeah, I think that it's also you discovering new aspect of your personality.
01:16:37.000 Yes.
01:16:38.000 It's like, do you ever thought that, you know, born and raised in downtown Montreal that I had a hunting instinct?
01:16:43.000 Right.
01:16:44.000 I'm in the shape of a stick and I was scared of my own shadow growing up.
01:16:49.000 What was the first animal you hunted?
01:16:54.000 Those are leeches.
01:16:55.000 I salted them when I was four count.
01:16:57.000 Leeches?
01:16:57.000 Yeah.
01:16:58.000 No, that's the hunting.
01:16:59.000 You salted them?
01:17:00.000 Is that what you're saying?
01:17:01.000 How do you salt a leech?
01:17:02.000 Like when it gets on you?
01:17:03.000 So you get it out in the water and you put salt on it and then it kind of slowly...
01:17:07.000 Yeah, maybe it was a psychopath.
01:17:08.000 That's torture.
01:17:09.000 You're a psycho.
01:17:10.000 That's not hunting.
01:17:14.000 What was the first, like, hunting, hunting with, like, a gun?
01:17:17.000 So, that was in New Caledonia.
01:17:20.000 So, that's close to Fiji.
01:17:22.000 And that was, I'd say, about five years ago.
01:17:24.000 Oh, what did you...
01:17:25.000 Close to Fiji?
01:17:27.000 Yeah.
01:17:27.000 What did you hunt?
01:17:29.000 Deer.
01:17:29.000 It was a very cool day because we went...
01:17:31.000 We went spearfishing in the morning for Wahoos and we went hunting in the afternoon.
01:17:38.000 Oh, surf and turf.
01:17:39.000 So, it was so awesome.
01:17:40.000 Surf and turf day.
01:17:41.000 Wow.
01:17:42.000 And I just remember...
01:17:44.000 I was bawling.
01:17:46.000 When you shot the deer?
01:17:47.000 I don't cry.
01:17:49.000 I very rarely cry.
01:17:51.000 I could see the deer tumbling down the hill and I was like, I just can't take it.
01:18:00.000 And then when I walked all the way to the deer and I saw it on the ground, I just remember putting my hand on it and I stopped crying at that point.
01:18:09.000 And it's kind of, the emotion shifted.
01:18:13.000 Hmm.
01:18:14.000 And I just like carry it back to camp and it shifted to the me processing aspect of it.
01:18:22.000 I've never cried after that, hunting.
01:18:25.000 That was the first one, huh?
01:18:26.000 And that was the only one you ever cried at?
01:18:28.000 Yeah.
01:18:30.000 I always have a feeling of loss when I walk up on an animal.
01:18:34.000 There's always a feeling of loss.
01:18:36.000 But I don't cry.
01:18:39.000 But I remember the first one.
01:18:40.000 The first one I ever shot was on camera.
01:18:42.000 Because the first animal I ever shot was on Meat Eater.
01:18:45.000 I shot a mule deer.
01:18:47.000 And I shot it at like, I think it was 200 yards, and dropped it with a rifle.
01:18:53.000 And then I had to finish it off.
01:18:54.000 We walked up to it, and it was still alive.
01:18:57.000 Ugh.
01:18:58.000 Yeah, so then I had to shoot it again.
01:19:00.000 And so when I shot it again, there's a video of me taking it in.
01:19:06.000 It's a video of me just like going...
01:19:11.000 It was heavy.
01:19:12.000 It's heavy.
01:19:13.000 Yeah, it's tough.
01:19:14.000 Because it's like, that's a living creature.
01:19:17.000 And it's also, it's oddly, I hate to use this word, but I don't have another word.
01:19:25.000 Psychedelic.
01:19:26.000 It's oddly psychedelic.
01:19:28.000 Because the moment where I was...
01:19:33.000 I locked eyes with that deer.
01:19:36.000 And I saw it in its natural habitat.
01:19:39.000 And it was like at 100 yards when we first spotted it.
01:19:42.000 And then it went around this rock formation and it came out and then it was at like 200 yards.
01:19:46.000 But it was...
01:19:49.000 This big, wild animal that was in its world.
01:19:54.000 And it was probably like four or five years old, so it had been living in this area for its whole life and moving around and avoiding mountain lions and getting around.
01:20:05.000 And it just...
01:20:06.000 It probably didn't even know what the fuck I was.
01:20:10.000 Like, I don't even know if it had ever seen a person.
01:20:14.000 I mean, this is Montana.
01:20:15.000 It's a vast wilderness.
01:20:16.000 Maybe it's seen a person before.
01:20:18.000 Maybe.
01:20:19.000 Yeah.
01:20:19.000 But it might not have.
01:20:20.000 And so when I lined up to take that shot, the first time you do anything is weird, right?
01:20:28.000 But the first time you take an animal's life is really weird.
01:20:32.000 Yeah, it's pretty tough.
01:20:33.000 And I remember being, like, real nervous.
01:20:35.000 Like, my...
01:20:36.000 I wasn't, like, holding steady.
01:20:39.000 And I had a...
01:20:40.000 I had to take a deep breath.
01:20:43.000 And then I had to, like, get back down.
01:20:45.000 And then, boom!
01:20:46.000 And I dropped him.
01:20:47.000 And then there was a bit of a relief.
01:20:49.000 But then when I went up to it and I'm still alive, I was like, oh, fuck.
01:20:52.000 And then I had to put it away.
01:20:54.000 And then when I put it away, there was this weird feeling of loss.
01:20:59.000 This weird feeling of...
01:21:01.000 It's just heavy.
01:21:03.000 It's just heavy.
01:21:04.000 And then also, it's like, I knew I have responsibilities.
01:21:08.000 Like, what do I have to do?
01:21:09.000 Like, what do I do now?
01:21:11.000 And then we, you know, took it.
01:21:14.000 We took the organs out of it.
01:21:16.000 We were pretty deep away from camp.
01:21:19.000 So what we decided to do was hang the deer up, because it was almost dark, hang the deer up on a tree, take the organs.
01:21:27.000 We were going to cook the heart and the liver for dinner.
01:21:30.000 And so as we're cooking over this fire, I was thinking to myself, like, I'm gonna do this for the rest of my life.
01:21:36.000 I'm like, this is...
01:21:38.000 I'm eating this thing now.
01:21:39.000 It's so delicious.
01:21:40.000 And then later, we're cooking the meat the next day.
01:21:43.000 We had a bonfire, and I was with Brian Callan, and he shot a deer, too.
01:21:48.000 So we're cooking deer meat over this fire, and it was the most, like, primal, satisfying thing because...
01:21:58.000 I love cooking a nice ribeye steak over a fire.
01:22:03.000 It's nice.
01:22:03.000 It's like your barbecue.
01:22:05.000 There's some weird caveman DNA that gets excited when you barbecue.
01:22:08.000 But when you're barbecuing over a fire from some logs that you found when you're in the woods, there's no one around you for miles away.
01:22:20.000 It's nine degrees outside and you're laying down these back straps over this little tiny grill that we brought with us that sits over the fire.
01:22:30.000 And you're eating this meat from an animal that you just shot.
01:22:34.000 And then you're all sitting around eating it.
01:22:36.000 It's like it's the most prime.
01:22:38.000 There's like a door that opens up like, hey, you didn't know about this room in your brain.
01:22:43.000 Like, come on into the caveman room.
01:22:45.000 And it's like, I don't mean caveman like mean.
01:22:50.000 It's like, wow, it's so stimulating and exciting and I was like, well this is definitely the best way to get meat.
01:22:56.000 Any other kind of meat that you would get from a grocery store, as delicious as it is, it doesn't come with this element.
01:23:03.000 It's not a wild animal that you don't ever have to worry about being mistreated or, you know, factory farming.
01:23:08.000 There's none of that.
01:23:09.000 This is wild.
01:23:10.000 But also, like, what are the possible deaths of a wild animal?
01:23:15.000 Yeah.
01:23:16.000 A gunshot to the head is probably the kindest one.
01:23:19.000 It's the best one.
01:23:19.000 A gunshot is the best one.
01:23:21.000 Or an arrow is the best one.
01:23:22.000 Because otherwise they just get torn apart by predators.
01:23:25.000 Eating alive.
01:23:27.000 Parasites.
01:23:28.000 I have a very similar experience and I was actually in South Texas.
01:23:32.000 And it's my...
01:23:34.000 It was very odd because it was my friend Chas, who lives in Austin, and he took me with his kids hunting.
01:23:40.000 So I met with those kids, you know, much younger than me, and they're helping me up, setting up and everything.
01:23:47.000 I shot a deer.
01:23:48.000 I shot too quickly, and it was my fault, and I did a gut shot, which was pretty bad.
01:23:53.000 So, of course, the deer was not dead.
01:23:56.000 And so his son Callan is handing his dad to the pistol.
01:24:01.000 I'm like, no, I want to do it.
01:24:03.000 I'm the one who did the bad shot, so I should be the one finishing this.
01:24:07.000 Do you want to do this?
01:24:09.000 Absolutely fucking not.
01:24:11.000 I've never done anything like that before.
01:24:14.000 My stomach is in my throat at this point.
01:24:16.000 I'm not feeling well at all.
01:24:17.000 And it's...
01:24:19.000 Like, you know what?
01:24:20.000 I'm going to do this because next time I'm pulling a trigger, I'm going to make sure that I'm careful and that I'm slow and I'm taking my time.
01:24:27.000 And so, you know, like I remember so vividly just putting the gun on the end of the deer and finishing it.
01:24:35.000 Then I was shaking and I was just like...
01:24:38.000 And when it was over, I just closed my eyes and I was like, okay, that's done.
01:24:43.000 And then we got back to camp and then he was like, oh, this guy is going to take care of processing.
01:24:47.000 I was like, no, not even a little bit.
01:24:51.000 So that island came and we together, we just cut it.
01:24:55.000 He showed me how to process everything.
01:24:59.000 And even then, I went to bed that night and I was not feeling that great.
01:25:03.000 I was like, we still haven't eaten it.
01:25:06.000 And then the following day, so we processed the whole thing.
01:25:10.000 I went with a butcher, I cut everything, you know, made like ground beef.
01:25:15.000 I got a nail guy.
01:25:17.000 We did sausages with a bunch of stuff, and then the second it became pure meat, and then it looked like meat, and then I kind of hated that night.
01:25:26.000 For me, the circle was closed, and this is when the guilt went away.
01:25:30.000 So it took like a few days, but it's like the whole process of doing everything, and I would never go hunting without doing the whole thing.
01:25:40.000 The whole thing.
01:25:41.000 I have to, otherwise I would find a hard struggle at night.
01:25:46.000 Also, like you said, I don't buy meat in a grocery store anymore.
01:25:49.000 I just don't.
01:25:50.000 Well, without a doubt, it's the healthiest meat you could ever get.
01:25:53.000 It is, 100%.
01:25:54.000 Doesn't it feel different when you eat it?
01:25:56.000 For sure.
01:25:57.000 I cooked burgers for the kids this week, and I did beef burgers, and I did Nail Guy burgers.
01:26:02.000 And the beef burger pan was full of grease and a bunch of stuff that came out of the burgers.
01:26:07.000 And the Nail Guy pan was nice, beautiful, cereal patty.
01:26:10.000 Nothing was around it.
01:26:11.000 Yeah.
01:26:12.000 Well, it's very lean.
01:26:13.000 It's very lean.
01:26:14.000 But it's also so rich in protein.
01:26:16.000 That's so good.
01:26:16.000 Yeah, I've had Neil Guy at, there's a restaurant in town called Dai Due, and they serve Neil Guy.
01:26:22.000 Neil Guy is a rare game animal in that it's an invasive species to Texas, so you can sell it in restaurants.
01:26:30.000 Oh, really?
01:26:31.000 Yeah, that's good.
01:26:32.000 It's pretty awesome.
01:26:32.000 Yeah, you can buy a bunch of things here.
01:26:34.000 They sell different types of antelope and neilgai and different stuff.
01:26:40.000 Whatever is not native, exotic.
01:26:43.000 They call them exotics.
01:26:44.000 So neilgai, I think, is from India.
01:26:48.000 I think so too, yeah.
01:26:50.000 It's a wild looking creature.
01:26:51.000 Such an interesting animal.
01:26:53.000 Well, I have nail guy jerky if you want to.
01:26:56.000 All right.
01:26:56.000 Nice.
01:26:57.000 Thank you.
01:26:58.000 Well, I got some elk jerky for you.
01:27:01.000 We'll trade.
01:27:02.000 Oh, okay.
01:27:03.000 Fine.
01:27:03.000 There you go.
01:27:04.000 Nice.
01:27:05.000 I have never eaten like a Neil guy steak though.
01:27:09.000 I've only had a Dai Due.
01:27:11.000 I had a Neil guy ceviche.
01:27:14.000 It makes it like a raw Neil guy.
01:27:16.000 Oh, I thought it was amazing.
01:27:17.000 It's really good.
01:27:18.000 Well, Jesse Griffiths, he's the head chef and owner of Dai Due, which is this amazing restaurant in Austin.
01:27:26.000 And he's a great guy.
01:27:27.000 He's been on my podcast too.
01:27:28.000 He's a really interesting guy.
01:27:30.000 I think I'm going Thursday.
01:27:31.000 Oh, did I do it?
01:27:32.000 I think so.
01:27:33.000 Yeah, you'll love it.
01:27:33.000 It's great.
01:27:34.000 It's really good.
01:27:35.000 It's really good.
01:27:36.000 I'm excited.
01:27:37.000 If he has the fish and chips, it's fantastic.
01:27:40.000 They use redfish, like Texas redfish, and it's just...
01:27:44.000 That's awesome.
01:27:44.000 You know, fish and chips is one of those things where it's so simple.
01:27:48.000 It's just batter fried fish and french fries, but if you fucking nail it...
01:27:53.000 Oh!
01:27:54.000 You know?
01:27:55.000 And he nails everything.
01:27:57.000 So when you have a guy who's a really great chef who also knows how to hunt and process his own game and it's like there's an attention to detail and like a respect and a love that he puts into those meals.
01:28:14.000 Yeah.
01:28:15.000 Because it's like he's responsible for the actual...
01:28:17.000 And there it is.
01:28:18.000 That's that fish and chips, baby!
01:28:21.000 That's Dai Due.
01:28:22.000 Oh my god, I'm telling you.
01:28:24.000 Is that recent?
01:28:25.000 January 5th?
01:28:27.000 Oh my god, I'm gonna have to go down there as soon as my fucking diet's over.
01:28:30.000 Or I can have some batter.
01:28:33.000 I mean, it's the best way of living.
01:28:35.000 And then sadly, I don't post anything that's hunting related.
01:28:38.000 Very rarely.
01:28:40.000 Because if you do, they'll come for you.
01:28:42.000 It's so bad.
01:28:43.000 I mean, social media is such a...
01:28:46.000 It's a shit show.
01:28:48.000 It is a shit show.
01:28:49.000 It's a shit show.
01:28:51.000 It has some good aspects of it, actually.
01:28:53.000 A few years ago, I did an open invite on Instagram and I had a bunch of people.
01:29:00.000 I invited strangers off Instagram to come have a barbecue at my house.
01:29:05.000 What?
01:29:05.000 And there's about 50 people that showed up.
01:29:07.000 I don't know how to convince my roommate to accept this.
01:29:10.000 Do you want some more ice?
01:29:11.000 Why would you let people know where you live?
01:29:16.000 Don't do that again.
01:29:17.000 It's Florida.
01:29:18.000 It's Florida?
01:29:19.000 It's okay?
01:29:22.000 Very weirdly, my roommate Austin was very open about this and he said yes.
01:29:29.000 And honestly, I made friends that night.
01:29:32.000 It was one of the best nights of my life.
01:29:34.000 Really?
01:29:34.000 It was just a girl who drove nine hours to come to the barbecue.
01:29:37.000 Oh, that bitch is crazy.
01:29:38.000 I wouldn't let her in.
01:29:40.000 I'll tell that girl she's got to stay home.
01:29:41.000 And everybody's just got like their special spice mix and special this and special that.
01:29:46.000 That's a cool thing about social media.
01:29:48.000 There's a shit part of it, though.
01:29:50.000 There's a very shit part of it.
01:29:51.000 Yeah, well, there's a lot of crazy people, but it seems like you've cultivated a nice little group of people.
01:29:55.000 But still, don't do that again.
01:29:57.000 My parents were not too happy.
01:29:59.000 Don't invite random wackos over for a barbecue.
01:30:01.000 The crazy thing is sometimes it'll work out.
01:30:04.000 Sometimes you just meet random people and you have the best time of your life.
01:30:08.000 For sure.
01:30:09.000 Yeah, it's fun.
01:30:10.000 Most people are cool.
01:30:11.000 Most people are fun.
01:30:12.000 It is.
01:30:13.000 Most people are fun most of the time, too.
01:30:15.000 True.
01:30:16.000 But I'm more worried about...
01:30:18.000 Younger girls, you know, like people of your daughter's generation, by example.
01:30:23.000 It's already so hard being a teenager in this world that if you add social media to it, it's bad.
01:30:33.000 Well, what's gone up a lot is self-harm and suicide.
01:30:36.000 They've gone up dramatically.
01:30:39.000 I can understand why.
01:30:42.000 Because I had no friends in school.
01:30:46.000 I was bullied to a point that was bad.
01:30:52.000 Like, bad, bad.
01:30:55.000 The school had to make me go in through the janitor's entrance because I was spit on and threw rocks at.
01:31:02.000 Why'd they bully you?
01:31:03.000 For three years in a row.
01:31:04.000 Why?
01:31:06.000 I don't know.
01:31:07.000 I managed to pick up, piss off a popular girl in school because a guy invited me to go to a movie and it just became a shit show from them on.
01:31:18.000 If social media were added to that situation, I don't think I would have made it.
01:31:27.000 I just don't.
01:31:30.000 When you reach an age where you don't know who you are, you don't know what to do, you don't know what person you want to become.
01:31:38.000 When you add bullying into this, it's very hard not to feel fragile about it.
01:31:44.000 I really want to try to find a way to help younger girls in that generation to try to feel better about themselves.
01:31:51.000 Well, we have to explain to people what bullying someone online is like.
01:31:57.000 The thing is, like, bullying in real life is horrible.
01:32:02.000 But at least you can go home.
01:32:04.000 At least you have a break.
01:32:05.000 These kids don't even have a break.
01:32:07.000 Because then they go on their phone, they're bullied online.
01:32:09.000 They're bullied all day long.
01:32:12.000 And for some people, it's just like it's too much.
01:32:15.000 And suicide is way up with girls.
01:32:18.000 Suicide is way up.
01:32:19.000 Self-harm is way up.
01:32:20.000 And there's a guy named Jonathan Haidt and he wrote a book called The Coddling of the American Mind and it's all about that.
01:32:27.000 It's all about the impact of social media and the ones who take it the worst are young girls.
01:32:33.000 It's the worst.
01:32:34.000 Social media is the worst for them for whatever reason.
01:32:37.000 For sure.
01:32:37.000 It's even about images.
01:32:39.000 As a teenager, I was seeing hot models in a magazine and then, you know, whatever.
01:32:46.000 You feel a certain way by yourself because you don't look like that.
01:32:49.000 But now it's influencers and people using filters and creating this fake image.
01:32:56.000 Kind of image that people are supposed to look like.
01:32:59.000 It's just added an extra level of hardness for young girls that are just trying to get by and reach adult life.
01:33:10.000 I'm happy I went through it because now I'm a million times stronger human being than I ever could be without that.
01:33:19.000 I don't know.
01:33:20.000 Yeah.
01:33:21.000 Even to this day, when somebody send me an insult on social media, I'm like...
01:33:25.000 You shouldn't read it.
01:33:28.000 Yeah, for sure.
01:33:29.000 Definitely shouldn't read it.
01:33:31.000 Definitely shouldn't read it.
01:33:32.000 Do you read comments on social media?
01:33:35.000 Sometimes.
01:33:36.000 It depends, but it kind of made me develop these different mechanisms, and I'm like, well, your mommy didn't love you enough, clearly, because if you're losing your entire day, insulting people online, it's kind of trying to realize that if you're being negative on social media,
01:33:53.000 it's because you're miserable.
01:33:56.000 Yeah.
01:33:56.000 Nobody's happy and be like, you know what?
01:33:58.000 I'm going to go and solve that bitch online today because my shit is so much together.
01:34:02.000 But it's also, it's like people do it because it's a game.
01:34:06.000 It is a game.
01:34:08.000 They do it to hurt someone's feelings because it's, for whatever reason, it's fun.
01:34:12.000 That's what it is.
01:34:13.000 It's like, it's not just like they're miserable.
01:34:16.000 Yeah.
01:34:19.000 A lot of them are miserable, but that's not all it is.
01:34:22.000 A lot of them are just having fun being assholes.
01:34:26.000 See, the thing about social media is if you're being cruel to someone in real life, you see their face.
01:34:32.000 You feel what it's like.
01:34:33.000 It's like you have to be a real sociopath to be mean to someone in real life and not feel anything.
01:34:40.000 But online, they don't feel shit because you're not even there.
01:34:43.000 So they'll say horrible things about you.
01:34:45.000 This fucking bitch, I hope she gets killed by a tuna.
01:34:47.000 And you're like, what the fuck did I do to you?
01:34:52.000 Yeah, the internet is definitely a funny place.
01:34:56.000 But also, I think people need to remember that everybody has their shit going on in their life, and everybody has crap happening, and just always remember that.
01:35:04.000 That's true.
01:35:05.000 Everybody has crap happening.
01:35:07.000 But again, the more followers you have means you're giving...
01:35:11.000 The right to that amount of people to have an opinion on you and in your life and what you're doing.
01:35:16.000 Yeah, for sure.
01:35:17.000 But you shouldn't be reading that.
01:35:18.000 The thing is, how many followers do you have now on Instagram?
01:35:22.000 I don't know, like 280, 280,000, I think, something like that.
01:35:27.000 Okay.
01:35:28.000 I want you to think about that.
01:35:30.000 Think about how many fucking people that is.
01:35:32.000 How crazy that is.
01:35:33.000 Think about what you saw me in Tampa.
01:35:37.000 That was 14,000 people.
01:35:43.000 I never thought about it like that.
01:35:44.000 Now, think of an extra 260,000 plus.
01:35:51.000 And those are all the people commenting on you.
01:35:54.000 How many of them are going to be idiots?
01:35:56.000 A lot.
01:35:57.000 Like imagine you go to a crowd, right?
01:35:59.000 You've been to a couple comedy shows, right?
01:36:00.000 You go to a comedy show, there's always like...
01:36:02.000 One is heckling.
01:36:04.000 That's people in your comments.
01:36:05.000 So you're reading that person's comment.
01:36:08.000 And so if you go to a comedy show like at Vulcan in Austin, it's like 270 people.
01:36:13.000 And we'll still have one or two idiots.
01:36:15.000 But if you go to that place in Tampa, my God, how many idiots were there?
01:36:18.000 They're probably like a thousand idiots.
01:36:19.000 You know, you have 14,000 people.
01:36:22.000 The chances of being a thousand idiots are strong.
01:36:25.000 At least 400 idiots.
01:36:27.000 That's a very good point.
01:36:28.000 Yeah, they're everywhere.
01:36:29.000 So, like, now think of 280,000 followers and how many of them are just broken dummies that are just, you know, they're just dorks.
01:36:42.000 That's how you have to look at it.
01:36:43.000 And if you let those people affect you, it's like it's not good for anybody.
01:36:47.000 Not good for them.
01:36:49.000 Not good for you.
01:36:50.000 For sure.
01:36:51.000 I mean, the best advice somebody ever gave me is, they told me, you could be the Swedish most amazing tasting peach in the world, nobody's gonna like fucking peaches.
01:37:02.000 Yeah, some people don't like peaches.
01:37:04.000 Yeah.
01:37:06.000 Yeah, I mean, but that's how life is.
01:37:08.000 That's one of the cool things about people, honestly.
01:37:10.000 Not that they hate you, but one of the cool things is the variety of tastes.
01:37:14.000 Like, I don't get jazz.
01:37:16.000 I don't get it.
01:37:17.000 But, like, my friend Lonzo loves it.
01:37:19.000 He goes on jazz cruises.
01:37:21.000 He does stand-up on jazz cruises.
01:37:23.000 And he fucking loved jazz.
01:37:25.000 He loves it.
01:37:26.000 Like, he'll talk about jazz.
01:37:28.000 He's into, like, he'll tell you different kinds of jazz he's into.
01:37:31.000 I mean, I don't mind if it's in the background, if I go to a bar and jazz is playing.
01:37:34.000 That's cool.
01:37:35.000 But, I mean, if I'm going to choose to listen to music, that's not what I choose to.
01:37:39.000 But, obviously, there's a percentage of our population that likes it.
01:37:43.000 Yeah.
01:37:44.000 I think it's about just, you know, you don't like jazz, you just don't listen to it.
01:37:49.000 Yeah, but that's the cool thing is that humans vary so much that something that is completely uninteresting to you, like opera, completely uninteresting, to someone else...
01:38:01.000 It's everything.
01:38:02.000 It is life.
01:38:03.000 It's life.
01:38:04.000 They cannot wait for the next opera.
01:38:07.000 They cannot wait to hear someone.
01:38:11.000 They can't wait.
01:38:13.000 They can't wait for a symphony.
01:38:14.000 They can't wait for a play.
01:38:16.000 They can't wait to go to a museum and see modern art, which I find at least 34% repulsive.
01:38:24.000 You know what I mean?
01:38:26.000 That's one of the cool things about people is how much we vary in what we like.
01:38:31.000 Oh, I know all about that.
01:38:33.000 I mean, it's like I fit in zero freaking boxes in life.
01:38:38.000 Neither do I. Yeah.
01:38:41.000 Well, it's like I get this all the time with my podcast because people get mad at this podcast.
01:38:46.000 Yeah.
01:38:46.000 I'm like, hey, don't listen.
01:38:49.000 Yeah.
01:38:50.000 I don't want you to listen.
01:38:51.000 I don't want to hurt your feelings.
01:38:53.000 I don't want you to be upset.
01:38:54.000 Like that shows like someone wrote some article apparently the same with just they always say toxic masculinity.
01:39:01.000 Guess what?
01:39:02.000 This is what guys like to hear.
01:39:04.000 This is what guys like to say.
01:39:06.000 We like to talk shit.
01:39:07.000 Okay, you don't have to listen.
01:39:08.000 I get it.
01:39:09.000 It's not for you.
01:39:09.000 I get it.
01:39:10.000 Well, don't listen.
01:39:11.000 It's that simple to focus on what you don't like versus focusing on what you do like That's you That's on you.
01:39:21.000 If you're there writing articles about what you don't like and focusing on what you don't like, that's your problem.
01:39:29.000 It's your problem.
01:39:30.000 It's not the problem of the person who you don't like, because obviously people like me.
01:39:36.000 I don't know what to tell you.
01:39:38.000 Somebody likes the show.
01:39:40.000 So if they didn't like it, no one would listen and all the problems would go away.
01:39:43.000 But you know the surefire way to have more people like it?
01:39:48.000 Keep talking shit about it.
01:39:50.000 You fucking idiots.
01:39:51.000 Because the more you talk shit about it, the more people are going to know about it.
01:39:53.000 And they're going to go, well, he's getting people really riled up.
01:39:56.000 Let me see what the fuss is all about.
01:39:57.000 And then they listen and they go, hey, he's not like that at all.
01:40:01.000 This is not like that at all.
01:40:02.000 It's just like people want to have something to say about things.
01:40:07.000 So sometimes they'll create a narrative.
01:40:09.000 So they'll look at you and they're like, this dumb bitch out there fishing and killing all the fish.
01:40:14.000 I hope a fucking fish eats her.
01:40:16.000 But why are they doing that?
01:40:18.000 Pretty big.
01:40:19.000 That'd be a big fish, right?
01:40:21.000 What's the biggest fish you've ever speared?
01:40:23.000 A marlin.
01:40:24.000 It was about 400 pounds.
01:40:25.000 Holy shit!
01:40:27.000 Was it attached to a rope?
01:40:28.000 Yeah, it was like...
01:40:29.000 So you're holding onto them?
01:40:30.000 Like an elastic...
01:40:31.000 The spear is attached to a bungee, which is attached to a buoy.
01:40:35.000 So the buoy...
01:40:36.000 When a fish takes off, the buoy takes off.
01:40:38.000 So you knew you were going for marlin at the time?
01:40:40.000 No, not at all.
01:40:42.000 Wow.
01:40:43.000 I was going for tuna, actually.
01:40:45.000 400 pounds.
01:40:46.000 I was very scared that he would spear me back, which, you know, would have been kind of fair enough.
01:40:51.000 Sort of.
01:40:52.000 Yeah.
01:40:54.000 Damn, is that possible?
01:40:55.000 Would he attack you?
01:40:57.000 That's him?
01:40:57.000 Holy shit!
01:40:59.000 I was just guessing.
01:41:00.000 I don't know that that's it officially.
01:41:01.000 Is that it?
01:41:01.000 You would know.
01:41:02.000 Holy fuck!
01:41:04.000 That thing is huge!
01:41:06.000 What did that taste like?
01:41:07.000 I've never had marlin.
01:41:08.000 It's pretty good.
01:41:09.000 It's kind of similar to swordfish.
01:41:11.000 Yeah?
01:41:11.000 It's awesome meat.
01:41:14.000 Wow, look at the size of that fucker.
01:41:16.000 Because most of the time they don't eat them.
01:41:19.000 Why is that?
01:41:21.000 They can have high level of mercury, so you just don't eat the old thing, I guess.
01:41:25.000 Oh, okay.
01:41:26.000 But it's amazing tasting.
01:41:28.000 Really?
01:41:29.000 I gave away a big part of it in Mexico when I was, and I took back home about 50 pounds with me.
01:41:36.000 Do you smoke it?
01:41:37.000 How do you cook it?
01:41:39.000 I only kept just not too much.
01:41:41.000 I probably kept like 10 pounds of it, not even.
01:41:44.000 So you brought 50 pounds home, so you just give away the other 40?
01:41:48.000 Yeah, I actually put on my Instagram that I was giving away Marlin at the grocery store, corner of that street and that street, and I just gave away all of it.
01:41:56.000 And people just showed up?
01:41:57.000 Yeah.
01:41:57.000 Really?
01:41:58.000 I like meeting people.
01:42:00.000 Wow, that's really nice.
01:42:02.000 That's very cool of you.
01:42:04.000 Wow.
01:42:05.000 It was fun.
01:42:05.000 Nobody killed me yet, so let's see.
01:42:07.000 Jesus, don't put that out there.
01:42:09.000 So when you shot this Marlin, how long before you could actually get it in the boat?
01:42:15.000 Like, how much time does it take after you shoot a Marlin?
01:42:17.000 It took me about two hours, so the fish basically just took off and it was...
01:42:25.000 As soon as I shot it, so basically I was in the water and I saw this marlin coming from the deep.
01:42:32.000 And of course when I tried going towards it, it was swimming away.
01:42:35.000 So I kind of just turned around and looking from the corner of my eye and he just turned away because I was like, what's that thing not even looking at me?
01:42:43.000 And he turned around and gave me a complete broad shot.
01:42:48.000 How far away?
01:42:50.000 Pretty close.
01:42:51.000 Probably from me, Jamie.
01:42:53.000 So I said that's...
01:42:54.000 Really?
01:42:54.000 I don't know.
01:42:55.000 How's that?
01:42:55.000 15 feet?
01:42:57.000 Whatever you guys are using.
01:42:58.000 Like about 4 meters.
01:43:00.000 In America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, it's called feet, not meters.
01:43:05.000 4 meters.
01:43:06.000 The fuck's...
01:43:08.000 And so I was like, okay, my gun was pretty small, so I thought I can either shoot it in the gills, but then I would risk to just not go all the way through it, and you really want the spear to go all the way through it.
01:43:19.000 So I shot it mid-body, and the spear went through it, and I went back to the surface, grabbed onto the buoy.
01:43:26.000 One buoy is not a lot for fish that's that big.
01:43:28.000 And you just hung onto the buoy and went for a ride?
01:43:31.000 So I like bear hugged the buoy, and I was yelling at the boat, bring me that buoy to have a big fish on!
01:43:38.000 Wow!
01:43:39.000 And the boat comes, like, super quickly.
01:43:41.000 Basically, it was another guy in the water, so, like, I have to take the other people out of the water, making sure everything is clear.
01:43:48.000 Meanwhile, I'm, like, hanging onto the buoy.
01:43:50.000 The boat comes in, throws me into the buoy.
01:43:53.000 I'm clipping.
01:43:53.000 The fish is, like, swimming.
01:43:55.000 Like, it's my snorkel.
01:43:56.000 It's, like, with the wind in the water.
01:43:59.000 That thing is going.
01:44:00.000 And then I had the second buoy in.
01:44:03.000 I'm like, okay, this is more pressure.
01:44:04.000 So now the fish is dragging an elastic rope that's, like, you know, creating pressure, two buries, and me.
01:44:10.000 Wow.
01:44:10.000 So I'm kind of waiting for it to slow down and to tire it up.
01:44:14.000 When I feel there's no pressure anymore, so there's, like, a clip, and then the bungee cord, I, like, I put it up, I put it up, and then when the fish come close enough, so I had a second, smaller gun to give it, like, a last shot, basically, and...
01:44:27.000 The first seven to eight times, the fish that Sunnis was seeing me was going back down.
01:44:32.000 And I'm like, oh, for fuck's sakes.
01:44:35.000 I'm like, Jesus Christ.
01:44:36.000 And I keep pulling the fish up.
01:44:37.000 I'm not feeling good.
01:44:39.000 I'm feeling so bad.
01:44:41.000 I puked after it.
01:44:42.000 I used so much adrenaline, and you're using all your energy.
01:44:45.000 And the last time, he had no energy left, so I managed to give a second shot.
01:44:51.000 Then I brained it.
01:44:52.000 Oh, and the brain?
01:44:53.000 So I went back to the surface.
01:44:54.000 Where do you shoot to get the brain?
01:44:57.000 So most of the time, it's basically right behind the eye.
01:45:01.000 So kind of behind the top of the head and the eye, that's kind of where the fish brain is.
01:45:05.000 So I bled it.
01:45:07.000 When your brain, did it just stiffen up?
01:45:10.000 They just stop.
01:45:11.000 They kind of like either like shake it a little bit and just stop moving.
01:45:16.000 Then you just bleed it and put it back on the boat.
01:45:20.000 Wow.
01:45:21.000 I didn't talk the entire way.
01:45:23.000 Really?
01:45:23.000 I was just like with my mat open and people were talking to me.
01:45:26.000 I was like, I can't right now.
01:45:28.000 I don't even know what just happened.
01:45:30.000 That's so big.
01:45:32.000 400 pounds is so big to shoot with a spear gun.
01:45:35.000 We get back to the dock and there's a bunch of Mexicans gathering and they're like, oh nice, who got that?
01:45:41.000 And they point at the girl in the background and I'm like, me?
01:45:44.000 That's hilarious.
01:45:46.000 Do you like that?
01:45:47.000 That you are like this thin girl that's killing these giants?
01:45:53.000 Look at the size of that thing!
01:45:56.000 My god!
01:45:58.000 That is huge.
01:45:59.000 That is a nice fish.
01:46:01.000 It's so wide.
01:46:03.000 Wow, that is cool.
01:46:06.000 Is that the spear that's laying on top of it there?
01:46:09.000 Yeah, that's the spear, yeah.
01:46:10.000 Wow.
01:46:11.000 That's massive.
01:46:12.000 It was so great.
01:46:13.000 I was so in shock.
01:46:15.000 I could barely speak.
01:46:17.000 How long is it?
01:46:18.000 How long is the fish?
01:46:20.000 Yeah.
01:46:21.000 Don't give me meters either.
01:46:22.000 Good question.
01:46:24.000 It looks like it's nine or ten feet long.
01:46:27.000 Is that right?
01:46:28.000 Yeah, it's probably something like that.
01:46:31.000 Wow, that's awesome.
01:46:35.000 Were you thinking at any point in time, like, oh my god, I bit off more than I could chew?
01:46:39.000 Yeah, definitely.
01:46:41.000 After I showed it, I was like, oh shit.
01:46:43.000 What have I done?
01:46:45.000 I'm going to get dragged to the bottom of the ocean hanging out of this buoy.
01:46:48.000 It's like, this may be my last day, but it will be a fun one.
01:46:51.000 Have you shot anything big other than that?
01:46:54.000 Is that by far the biggest thing you've ever shot?
01:46:56.000 Yeah, that's by far the biggest one I've ever shot.
01:46:58.000 What have you shot before that's like, have you shot like a 50-pound fish?
01:47:02.000 I shot like a 100-pound black tuna.
01:47:05.000 I got big fish, but this was like, I was like, this fish can take me down.
01:47:11.000 That's the first time that I was like, There's a possibility that do not win this battle.
01:47:16.000 I caught a tuna that was probably like 25 pounds or 30 pounds once.
01:47:21.000 In Hawaii?
01:47:22.000 Yeah, in Hawaii.
01:47:23.000 And it was so strong.
01:47:26.000 When I hooked him, I was like, holy shit, what is this?
01:47:30.000 And the guy was like, I think that's a tuna.
01:47:32.000 I think that's a tuna.
01:47:33.000 Because he was so powerful.
01:47:35.000 I couldn't imagine a 100-pound one.
01:47:38.000 They're so strong.
01:47:38.000 They're like muscle.
01:47:39.000 If you put your hand, that sounds maybe creepy, but if you fillet a fish when you've just got to run off the boat, it's warm inside.
01:47:46.000 It has warm body temperature.
01:47:49.000 Yeah.
01:47:49.000 Because they never stop moving.
01:47:51.000 So a tuna doesn't stop.
01:47:53.000 So if you shoot at a tuna, you would aim at the tip of the nose because by the time you shoot, even if the fish looks like he's not moving, he's moving.
01:48:04.000 He's always in movement.
01:48:05.000 Really?
01:48:06.000 Yeah.
01:48:06.000 So you have to lead them?
01:48:07.000 Yeah.
01:48:08.000 So they're pretty, they're just like big ball of muscle and constant movement.
01:48:13.000 How fast does a spear gun go?
01:48:15.000 Like what's the feet per second of the spear itself?
01:48:18.000 I have no clue.
01:48:19.000 You really?
01:48:20.000 No.
01:48:21.000 Oh, that's the difference between spear gunners and archers.
01:48:24.000 You ask an archer, they'll tell you, 285 feet per second at 425 grains, I'm shooting a 70 pound hoi!
01:48:31.000 I know how far I can shoot.
01:48:33.000 Yeah?
01:48:33.000 How far can you shoot?
01:48:35.000 A good 25 feet.
01:48:36.000 Well, my biggest gun, a good 25 feet.
01:48:37.000 25 feet, is it?
01:48:38.000 Well, that's super intimate.
01:48:40.000 See, the way people have described it to me, they said you would love spearfishing to me, because they said it's basically like bow hunting in the water.
01:48:48.000 Yeah.
01:48:48.000 Yeah.
01:48:49.000 It is.
01:48:49.000 It's not like fishing.
01:48:51.000 It really almost shouldn't be called spearfishing.
01:48:54.000 It's not even fishing a little bit.
01:48:55.000 Water hunting.
01:48:56.000 It's water hunting.
01:48:56.000 Yeah.
01:48:57.000 Yeah.
01:48:58.000 Because you go down, so you breed up at the surface, so you're calming your heartbeat and everything.
01:49:04.000 You're slowing everything down, and then you take a drop.
01:49:07.000 And this is when the hunting starts.
01:49:09.000 So you get it by ambush or curiosity.
01:49:14.000 So there's different ways.
01:49:16.000 It depends on the species.
01:49:17.000 Different species react differently.
01:49:19.000 Which species are curious?
01:49:21.000 Snapper, I guess that would be a really curious one.
01:49:23.000 There's a lot of fish that can be curious.
01:49:25.000 Snappers are curious?
01:49:26.000 That marlin got curious.
01:49:27.000 Really?
01:49:27.000 Whoops.
01:49:28.000 Yeah.
01:49:30.000 Snappers are curious?
01:49:31.000 That's weird because they're so delicious.
01:49:33.000 It really depends.
01:49:36.000 Especially that's the beauty of free diving is you don't make any noises.
01:49:39.000 You steal.
01:49:40.000 You're just there.
01:49:44.000 When you're not good at spearfishing, normally it's because you move around and you're very gently in the water and this is when the fish is like, eat it once and like, I'm just going to go do my thing.
01:49:53.000 That's the same with hunting.
01:49:54.000 You can't make big movements.
01:49:56.000 Like, you can look at an animal with binoculars, but if you do, you've got to go like this.
01:50:02.000 If you're going to look at an elk and binoculars, you've got to go like this.
01:50:09.000 Oh, wow.
01:50:10.000 Yeah.
01:50:11.000 This is me slowly lifting my hands up to my head.
01:50:15.000 But if you do that, you could lift those binoculars and eventually you get to here.
01:50:22.000 But it takes.
01:50:23.000 That's how you have to do it.
01:50:24.000 You can't just go like that.
01:50:26.000 They'll go, fuck this!
01:50:27.000 And they can see you.
01:50:29.000 Yeah.
01:50:29.000 But even if they see you, you can kind of go like this.
01:50:34.000 So if the movement is very slow, they don't really mind.
01:50:37.000 It's got to be very slow.
01:50:39.000 They're looking out for fast twitch predator movements.
01:50:44.000 So if you are holding something and you're just going like this, or I'm just looking through these binoculars.
01:50:51.000 So you enter the slow dump category.
01:50:53.000 Well, you enter into This category where it's like, what is that?
01:50:57.000 The thing is looking at you like, what the fuck is that tree doing over there?
01:51:00.000 It's almost like, I mean, they don't understand wind, right?
01:51:03.000 So they see movement.
01:51:05.000 They might think it's like blowing in the wind.
01:51:07.000 But it's not this.
01:51:09.000 If you lift your binos up to your face real quick, they just fucking jet.
01:51:12.000 Like, oh, that's it.
01:51:13.000 That's a person or that's a thing.
01:51:15.000 That's a predator.
01:51:16.000 Okay.
01:51:17.000 Did I tell you about the mountain lion I saw in Utah?
01:51:19.000 No.
01:51:20.000 Oh, boy.
01:51:23.000 I've seen two mountain lions before this one.
01:51:25.000 One of them I saw in Colorado.
01:51:28.000 One of them I saw in Montecito, which is outside of Santa Barbara in California, which is weird because it's like this beautiful suburban community.
01:51:36.000 It's gorgeous.
01:51:37.000 And I see this thing that I thought was a coyote running across the road, and then I notice its tail.
01:51:43.000 It has this flowing, bouncing mountain lion tail.
01:51:46.000 I was like, oh, shit, that's a cat!
01:51:49.000 And I was like, that's a fucking mountain lion.
01:51:51.000 It was wild.
01:51:53.000 But it was nothing like what I saw in Utah.
01:51:56.000 What I saw in Utah was enormous.
01:51:58.000 The one I saw in Montecito was probably like 60 pounds, 70 pounds, something like that.
01:52:03.000 Not that big.
01:52:04.000 This one was 170 pounds.
01:52:06.000 Easy.
01:52:07.000 It might have been more.
01:52:08.000 Oh wow.
01:52:08.000 It was huge.
01:52:09.000 It had a big ol' pumpkin head and giant forearms.
01:52:13.000 And I was only 30 yards from it.
01:52:15.000 It was really close.
01:52:16.000 And we were in a truck.
01:52:18.000 Luckily we were in a truck.
01:52:19.000 Because if I was out on foot, I would be shitting my pants.
01:52:22.000 Because it was very different.
01:52:26.000 It would attack you?
01:52:28.000 Perhaps.
01:52:29.000 There was two of us.
01:52:30.000 Probably not.
01:52:31.000 And my buddy did have a gun with him.
01:52:33.000 In the truck.
01:52:35.000 I mean, I would imagine not, but fucking you never know.
01:52:39.000 It's like if you catch one hungry, like, you don't know.
01:52:43.000 Like, if a mountain lion just thinks he can get away with it, they might do it.
01:52:48.000 They've killed people for hundreds and hundreds of years.
01:52:52.000 They've killed people.
01:52:53.000 I mean, they tried not to be around people because they associate people with danger.
01:52:57.000 But if you're a hiker and you're, like, out there by yourself in the mountain lions, like...
01:53:07.000 There's nobody with this motherfucker.
01:53:09.000 They might just kill you.
01:53:10.000 I mean, it happens.
01:53:11.000 It happened two times last year.
01:53:13.000 Someone got killed in Washington State and someone got killed in Portland, outside of Portland by mountain lions.
01:53:21.000 Just hiking?
01:53:22.000 Yeah, just hiking.
01:53:24.000 Yeah, and there's another one recently where a guy shot a mountain lion in the face.
01:53:30.000 He was bow hunting, and a mountain lion was like 10 yards away from him, creeping up on him.
01:53:35.000 He was like, get out of here!
01:53:36.000 Fuck off!
01:53:37.000 Get out of here!
01:53:37.000 And the thing's like looking at him, and then he just like pulls out his gun and whacks it in the face, but it's so intense.
01:53:45.000 I'm going to see that.
01:53:46.000 Find that video.
01:53:47.000 It's so intense because you could see the guy shitting his pants.
01:53:52.000 Like, look at this.
01:53:53.000 Go full screen.
01:53:57.000 And give me from the beginning.
01:53:59.000 You get back.
01:54:00.000 Look at that.
01:54:01.000 Look how close.
01:54:01.000 I mean, that literally might be 10 feet.
01:54:04.000 That's so close.
01:54:06.000 Look at it.
01:54:06.000 You get back.
01:54:07.000 The guy's freaking out.
01:54:09.000 You get back.
01:54:11.000 Back.
01:54:14.000 No.
01:54:16.000 No.
01:54:24.000 Would he have filmed that so people believe him?
01:54:27.000 Could be.
01:54:29.000 Could be.
01:54:32.000 Well, you show that to the game ward and the game ward is going to go, okay.
01:54:37.000 You alright, buddy?
01:54:38.000 Because sometimes people do shoot mountain lions and they're just assholes.
01:54:42.000 Maybe it's trying to get away.
01:54:44.000 Maybe it's just looking at you and you don't have to shoot it.
01:54:47.000 But that is so goddamn close.
01:54:49.000 That guy had to shoot it.
01:54:51.000 Just to get to that, do you think he had his phone already filming?
01:54:54.000 It was probably closing in on him.
01:54:57.000 If I had to guess.
01:54:59.000 Because the way it's so close to him, I mean, I think that's a juvenile.
01:55:04.000 And sometimes the juvenile ones are the most dangerous because they don't know what they can kill and what they can't kill yet.
01:55:09.000 Shark is the same.
01:55:10.000 Oh, really?
01:55:10.000 And it's like when people...
01:55:12.000 I'm guessing that if you posted that video, people would go crazy on it.
01:55:17.000 Like, you're in the Lion Martin habitat, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:55:20.000 You shouldn't be here anyways, blah, blah, blah.
01:55:22.000 Those people need to go eat shit.
01:55:24.000 That whole, that, like, you're in the mountain lions neighborhood.
01:55:27.000 It's the same with sharks.
01:55:28.000 Like, when the turfer got attacked by a shark during a competition.
01:55:32.000 Yeah.
01:55:33.000 It's, and people are like, well, he's in a shark habitat.
01:55:35.000 Okay.
01:55:35.000 Put your mom, who's going on a swim, and Cuba, whatever.
01:55:41.000 You guys are not allowed to go there.
01:55:42.000 You can go to Cuba, can't you?
01:55:44.000 Can you go to Cuba?
01:55:47.000 I know what you're saying.
01:55:48.000 Anyway, so like, and a shark comes in.
01:55:51.000 Who do you pick?
01:55:52.000 Right.
01:55:53.000 Mr. Like, my mummy is in a shark habitat.
01:55:56.000 Yeah.
01:55:57.000 Come on.
01:55:57.000 Come on.
01:55:58.000 It's just a thing people say.
01:56:00.000 And it's usually a thing people say when they have no experience at all with wildlife.
01:56:04.000 Yeah, probably.
01:56:06.000 We're so insulated.
01:56:07.000 That's one of the more unique things about the path that you've chosen because you were not a person who grew up hunting and fishing and living in the wild and you chose that life.
01:56:18.000 So you had to kind of integrate yourself and you had to become a part of that world and figure out the rules of that world and understand There's a lot of people that don't.
01:56:28.000 They don't ever understand that world.
01:56:30.000 But as you know, because it was the same situation for you, right?
01:56:34.000 You didn't grow up into it.
01:56:38.000 I think sometimes people kind of...
01:56:44.000 Not giving enough credibility to the passion you can develop when you get that.
01:56:48.000 Like the story you were telling about hunting earlier, you can fall in love with this lifestyle and this way of living so hard, even though it was not...
01:57:00.000 Like I told you earlier, as I was a kid, I was scared of my own fucking shadow when growing up.
01:57:05.000 It's like, you know, I can barely lift like a five pounder.
01:57:10.000 You change and you evolve and that's just the way you become and I think it's not that different and I don't think you get less either credibility or you're allowed to love it as much as somebody who's been doing it since they were four.
01:57:26.000 Yeah, you're certainly allowed to.
01:57:28.000 But that's the thing about everything.
01:57:30.000 People like to claim things as being like, this is our thing, this is my world, this is my...
01:57:37.000 No, come on.
01:57:41.000 Life is open-ended.
01:57:43.000 There's a lot of things you can do.
01:57:44.000 And when someone decides to become a spearfisher person at 28 years old, like, why not?
01:57:51.000 Why not?
01:57:52.000 Who gives a shit?
01:57:53.000 Why not?
01:57:53.000 You know, whether you want to do jujitsu at 54, like that lady Betty.
01:57:57.000 Why not?
01:57:58.000 Why not?
01:57:59.000 Fucking, there's no rules.
01:58:00.000 Just go do it.
01:58:01.000 You know?
01:58:03.000 Don't think you're going to be, like, the best at it.
01:58:05.000 You know?
01:58:06.000 Things take time and energy and respect that.
01:58:09.000 Respect the people that have already put in that time and energy.
01:58:11.000 That's very important.
01:58:12.000 Sure.
01:58:12.000 I mean, but you can get good.
01:58:13.000 This lady got, she got to a black belt.
01:58:15.000 In 11 years at 54 years old.
01:58:17.000 That's wild.
01:58:18.000 It's crazy.
01:58:19.000 It's wild.
01:58:20.000 So 65, she gets her black belt.
01:58:22.000 It's crazy.
01:58:23.000 It's about working education, but anything that you do, and I hear that a lot from people, like, oh, no, I'm too old to try this.
01:58:29.000 I'm too old.
01:58:30.000 Like, eh.
01:58:31.000 Not even a little bit.
01:58:32.000 You can try anything at any age.
01:58:34.000 Yeah, that kind of talk is silly.
01:58:36.000 Or like being scared of looking stupid.
01:58:38.000 Yeah, they're scared of looking stupid.
01:58:39.000 But looking stupid is good for you.
01:58:42.000 100%.
01:58:44.000 You have to look stupid.
01:58:45.000 Yeah.
01:58:46.000 Being, like, humbled is good for you.
01:58:49.000 It's like, that's how you learn, and then next time you get better, or eventually you get better, and then you look back at that time where you sucked.
01:58:57.000 Like, one of the things that led me to excel in jiu-jitsu was thinking how badly I got abused when I was a white belt.
01:59:06.000 I got tortured.
01:59:08.000 Guys beat the shit out of me.
01:59:09.000 And I remember thinking, I can't believe how easy it is for these guys to mangle me.
01:59:14.000 I was not by any stretch of the imagination like an overnight success in jiu-jitsu.
01:59:21.000 Not by any stretch of the imagination.
01:59:22.000 I was a brown belt for eight fucking years.
01:59:24.000 So it's like, when I remember my white belt days, I think about it and I was like, that is probably one of the biggest motivating factors for me to keep going.
01:59:34.000 It's like, I realized I was so bad.
01:59:38.000 I couldn't believe it, because I was a really good martial artist.
01:59:42.000 Like, I was a Taekwondo champion, I had kickboxed, and I had good striking skills.
01:59:48.000 So, for me to just get humiliated like that, I was like, what?
01:59:52.000 Like, this is crazy!
01:59:53.000 I thought I would have...
01:59:55.000 I thought it would be like boxing.
01:59:57.000 Like when I went from Taekwondo to boxing, I wasn't good at boxing at all, but I was definitely way ahead of someone who had never done striking before.
02:00:09.000 Yeah.
02:00:09.000 So I figured I would be like that.
02:00:11.000 Like when I got into kickboxing, I was pretty good pretty quick because I had already gotten good at kicking things and I had done some punching in Taekwondo and I'm like, I'm just going to learn some fundamentals and I'm going to excel at this.
02:00:22.000 But then when I got into Jiu Jitsu, I was like, oh my God, I'm on the ground floor.
02:00:27.000 Like, I'm literally, I thought I was on, like, the fourth floor.
02:00:29.000 Uh-uh.
02:00:29.000 No, fourth floor, bitch.
02:00:31.000 You're on the ground.
02:00:31.000 I'm in the basement, just getting mangled.
02:00:34.000 It was humiliating.
02:00:35.000 But I always remember thinking, like, this is incredible because the guy who, several people humiliated me, but I always remember this one purple belt one day just brutalized me.
02:00:45.000 And I would think, this guy wasn't bigger than me.
02:00:47.000 He wasn't stronger than me.
02:00:49.000 There wasn't anything about him that was physically imposing.
02:00:52.000 He was just way better than me.
02:00:54.000 So part of me was like, I want to be like that one day.
02:00:57.000 Where when I roll with someone, I know that I'm just going to strangle them.
02:01:02.000 Because I've gone through the gauntlet.
02:01:04.000 I've gone through...
02:01:04.000 But the only way you get there is by looking like an idiot.
02:01:08.000 For sure.
02:01:09.000 Yeah.
02:01:10.000 100%.
02:01:10.000 I think it works for everything.
02:01:13.000 When I picked up spearfishing, I went, I went around the world and I went diving.
02:01:18.000 We're the best professional in the world.
02:01:20.000 I shut the fuck up when I listen.
02:01:22.000 That's the only thing you had to do.
02:01:24.000 I was feeling out of place.
02:01:26.000 I was feeling out.
02:01:27.000 I suck and that's okay.
02:01:30.000 Sucking is good.
02:01:31.000 It's good to ask questions.
02:01:33.000 There's always somebody who's going to be better than you.
02:01:37.000 You have to learn that.
02:01:39.000 I've been raised that way, so I've been used to that since I'm a kid.
02:01:43.000 Everybody takes the piss out of each other in my family.
02:01:45.000 It's like the biggest activity is making fun of each other.
02:01:48.000 Ah, that's fine.
02:01:49.000 I remember for my third year birthday, I sent a photo of my mom.
02:01:53.000 I was in Key West, and I fell off the bicycle that I rented there, so I fucked up all my knee, and it's bleeding.
02:01:58.000 So I sent a photo of my mom.
02:01:58.000 I was like, I hurt myself.
02:02:00.000 Thinking that she's going to be like, oh, are you okay?
02:02:03.000 She went into the album of my childhood, digged up a photo of me who just fell off my bicycle crying, took a photo, sent it to me and said like, looks like you haven't got much better.
02:02:14.000 That's hilarious.
02:02:18.000 I've been raised by a savage woman.
02:02:20.000 Have you ever thought about taking your mom spearfishing?
02:02:24.000 She would be good at it.
02:02:25.000 I took my sister.
02:02:26.000 Did she?
02:02:27.000 And she was going like 30 feet and being fearless and everything.
02:02:31.000 And I was like, my first day I had a freaking panic attack.
02:02:34.000 And here you are being super good and free diving.
02:02:37.000 I've taught you nothing yet.
02:02:38.000 Well, maybe it's because she knows that you can do it.
02:02:40.000 It's like, if this bitch can do it, I can do it.
02:02:43.000 Yes, that would definitely sound like my sister.
02:02:44.000 Really?
02:02:45.000 Is that what it is?
02:02:46.000 She always was better than me in sports, so I don't think it changed much.
02:02:49.000 She's younger than me, and she's always been stronger and better at sport.
02:02:53.000 So maybe she saw that you could do it and gave her courage to do it.
02:02:56.000 Oh yeah, for sure.
02:02:57.000 Well, there's something to be said about that.
02:02:58.000 She was like, that more I can do it, for sure.
02:03:01.000 What was your first day like when you first did it?
02:03:03.000 How did you do it?
02:03:05.000 Did you have a friend?
02:03:08.000 Yes.
02:03:08.000 So I made friends in London who were super into it and they took me.
02:03:13.000 I didn't really want to go.
02:03:15.000 But yeah, I kind of have, you know, a little bit of FOMO happening here.
02:03:19.000 So I was like, fine, I'll try it once because, you know, I'm going to try with England.
02:03:23.000 In London?
02:03:23.000 In London.
02:03:24.000 So they were going in the ocean outside of England?
02:03:27.000 So basically we flew to Egypt to take a free dive class.
02:03:30.000 Egypt?
02:03:31.000 And I got there and I was like, eh, it's cool.
02:03:33.000 You know, I liked it.
02:03:34.000 What kind of fish are in Egypt?
02:03:37.000 There's no fishing.
02:03:38.000 It was just freediving.
02:03:39.000 Because you have to freedive before you spearfish.
02:03:40.000 Okay.
02:03:41.000 Freediving is like the base.
02:03:43.000 Right, of course.
02:03:44.000 Otherwise, it's a bit dangerous.
02:03:45.000 And they're like, good, because in three months, we're going to this big trip.
02:03:49.000 We're going to this island called Ascension Islands, middle of nowhere.
02:03:53.000 Three months.
02:03:54.000 Yeah.
02:03:54.000 And I'm like, okay, so what is pit fishing?
02:03:56.000 Explain to me what we're going to do.
02:03:58.000 Oh, it's cool!
02:03:59.000 So we're going to go like 100 miles away from shore.
02:04:02.000 I don't know my miles, so that's probably like 20 miles away from shore.
02:04:08.000 I don't know.
02:04:08.000 100 miles is like, how many kilometers is that?
02:04:11.000 It's a lot, I think.
02:04:13.000 What is it?
02:04:16.000 I don't have to do it the other way.
02:04:18.000 Maybe that's like 100 kilometers is really more.
02:04:20.000 100 kilometers, isn't that 60 miles?
02:04:24.000 No.
02:04:26.000 I literally have no idea.
02:04:28.000 62. Okay.
02:04:29.000 62. Okay.
02:04:30.000 Okay.
02:04:30.000 So we went maybe probably about like 20 miles, 30 miles away if I'm sure.
02:04:34.000 And so they explained to me that this is going to be like about like 150 feet deep of water and I'm not going to see the bottom and have to jump in the water and just do drops and just like take a dive, look around, come back up.
02:04:47.000 I'm like, I'm going to do what now?
02:04:50.000 I'm like, it's no, I'm just like, no, I'm not fucking doing that.
02:04:53.000 It's like, yeah, you'll be fine.
02:04:54.000 The boat is going to drift.
02:04:55.000 The boat is going to follow you.
02:04:57.000 I'm like, no.
02:04:59.000 What?
02:05:00.000 Are you insane?
02:05:01.000 And I just...
02:05:02.000 I did it.
02:05:04.000 Then I was just jumping in.
02:05:05.000 The water was so fucking awesome.
02:05:06.000 And I caught my first fish that day.
02:05:08.000 And it's...
02:05:09.000 What did you catch?
02:05:10.000 What was it?
02:05:10.000 I got a blackjack.
02:05:12.000 It's not a good fish to eat.
02:05:13.000 It's not?
02:05:14.000 No.
02:05:15.000 What's a blackjack?
02:05:16.000 What does it look like?
02:05:17.000 It's a jack type of fish.
02:05:19.000 Like a dracqueval?
02:05:21.000 Yeah, same family.
02:05:22.000 It's just completely black.
02:05:23.000 It's not good to eat?
02:05:25.000 It's not great.
02:05:26.000 It's edible, but it's not great.
02:05:29.000 It's kind of like...
02:05:30.000 It's just a bit...
02:05:32.000 It's kind of chicken that tastes a bit fishy.
02:05:36.000 Chicken that tastes fishy.
02:05:37.000 Yeah.
02:05:37.000 Interesting.
02:05:39.000 It was odd.
02:05:40.000 Can it be treated with, like, certain spices or something?
02:05:43.000 Yeah, you can if you make it good.
02:05:44.000 I mean, just the fact that it was my first fish made it taste freaking awesome.
02:05:48.000 Right.
02:05:48.000 But it was...
02:05:49.000 So, of course, my friends were like, well, like, you shot a fish, good for you, but now you have to bring it back to the boat.
02:05:55.000 And it's...
02:05:56.000 I've never had friends who've given me, like, hands-outs, like, like, oh, I'm going to do this for you, I'm going to help you, and blah, blah, blah.
02:06:02.000 I was always very much, like...
02:06:06.000 Do it for yourself.
02:06:07.000 You do it.
02:06:08.000 Right.
02:06:08.000 Which is good, because now in situations when I don't know what to do, so thanks to your friends, Cameron Haynes.
02:06:14.000 Yes.
02:06:15.000 So I was in Alabama, I shot a deer, got dark, nobody's coming to pick me up yet because there's other people with deer, so I'm like, I've seen Cameron Haynes do that, I'm gonna put that fucking deer on my back.
02:06:26.000 So I'm like...
02:06:27.000 Really?
02:06:27.000 I'm like, oh yeah.
02:06:28.000 So there's like little hill things.
02:06:30.000 I'm dragging the deer up the hill.
02:06:33.000 So I'm like, perfect.
02:06:33.000 Putting like the legs, going down the hill.
02:06:36.000 So I'm like, great.
02:06:37.000 Put myself on the ground, put my back on the ground with like my knees up.
02:06:40.000 And I'm like sliding behind it, grabbing like both set of legs at each side.
02:06:43.000 So I'm like, I'm just like carrying back to the path and then the quad is going to come pick me up.
02:06:47.000 Right.
02:06:48.000 So I'm like grabbing two legs, like, I didn't lift the fucking thing an inch.
02:06:54.000 How much did it weigh?
02:06:57.000 Something like 85 pounds.
02:07:00.000 That's it?
02:07:02.000 85 pounds of dead weight is a lot to carry around.
02:07:06.000 I didn't live that freaking thing up, so I was like, Jesus fucking Christ, I'm like cursing it in my beard.
02:07:10.000 You know what you have to do?
02:07:12.000 Dragging the thing by the legs at night, holding my phone.
02:07:15.000 You have to keep hammering.
02:07:21.000 That's what Cam would say.
02:07:23.000 Gotta keep hammering.
02:07:27.000 Gotta get the guns bigger.
02:07:28.000 He loves carrying the heavy shit.
02:07:30.000 He does one workout he does.
02:07:33.000 One of the ways I met him is he had YouTube videos of different ways he trained for bow hunting.
02:07:38.000 And that was the first time I'd ever heard of anybody training for hunting.
02:07:42.000 I was like, why does he train for hunting?
02:07:43.000 I don't even get it.
02:07:44.000 I'd never done any bow hunting.
02:07:45.000 And I didn't understand what it was like to be in the mountains.
02:07:48.000 Like the amount of cardiovascular energy you need and the amount of endurance you need and the amount of physical strength you need just to carry things up the mountain.
02:07:57.000 Like if you have to bring an animal down, if you have to pack an animal out.
02:08:01.000 He had a rock that weighed like 130 pounds and he would carry it on his shoulder.
02:08:06.000 He'd put it in a backpack.
02:08:07.000 He would carry it a bunch of different ways and go up this mountain.
02:08:10.000 And he was, like, doing these YouTube videos where he was talking while he was carrying this fucking 135-pound rock up a mountain.
02:08:16.000 I was like, what is this guy doing?
02:08:18.000 Like, what's this guy all about?
02:08:20.000 Like, this is weird.
02:08:21.000 And then I got to know him and try to understand, like, and then I had him on a podcast, and he gave me a bow, took me bow hunting.
02:08:28.000 It was very interesting.
02:08:30.000 That's how I became friends with him.
02:08:31.000 Well, next time you can take me and you can carry me, like you guys can just carry me in a backpack at least and just stick my head out and just look at the landscape around.
02:08:40.000 Don't you want to carry yourself?
02:08:42.000 You do.
02:08:43.000 You'd be upset if people were carrying you around.
02:08:45.000 You'd want to carry yourself.
02:08:47.000 We've got to get you to more than 35 pounds of pull.
02:08:50.000 When you pull 35 pounds back, is it hard?
02:08:53.000 Up to 45, I can pull back.
02:08:55.000 Did you do 45?
02:08:56.000 I did 45. It's 50. I was like 50, I'm just like...
02:09:01.000 A lot of it's technique, though, because you're not pulling just with this one arm.
02:09:05.000 You're pushing and pulling at the same time.
02:09:07.000 So 50 is really only 25. Because it's 25 pounds of pull, 25 pounds of push.
02:09:13.000 And it's a small window because it's a cam.
02:09:16.000 So as the cam rotates over, it gets easier.
02:09:18.000 So as you're right here, then it's 50. But then it goes like this.
02:09:22.000 Boom.
02:09:22.000 Yeah.
02:09:23.000 And then it's easy.
02:09:24.000 50 was...
02:09:26.000 We've got to help you with your technique, though.
02:09:29.000 Tyler told me to keep 35 for a little while just to get my technique really dialed in and get really good at it.
02:09:36.000 Did you shoot at his range?
02:09:37.000 The range they have in Archery Country?
02:09:38.000 That's nice.
02:09:40.000 Beautiful.
02:09:40.000 I had a really good time.
02:09:41.000 It's a fun thing to do, right?
02:09:43.000 Even if you don't ever plan on hunting, it's a very fun thing to do.
02:09:46.000 Yeah, I really found myself falling in love with the whole hunting thing.
02:09:51.000 It was kind of a natural progression of spearfishing anyways.
02:09:55.000 Yes, totally.
02:09:57.000 Seems to me.
02:09:57.000 And it's just...
02:09:59.000 I like the idea of being self-sufficient just in general.
02:10:03.000 I don't like being dependent on anybody.
02:10:06.000 That might be one of the reasons.
02:10:12.000 A rifle though, when you get a rest, all you have to do is just keep your shit together and BOOM! Rifles are the best.
02:10:22.000 I love hunting with rifles.
02:10:24.000 If you want to shoot something and you want to kill it and eat it, rifles are the best.
02:10:27.000 That's the way to go.
02:10:28.000 The thing about a bow is it's more challenging.
02:10:31.000 It's a different thing.
02:10:32.000 But I shot a pig this year with a rifle.
02:10:33.000 It was awesome.
02:10:35.000 I loved it.
02:10:36.000 I think also you need to know what you're doing.
02:10:38.000 So a lot of people are like, why don't you go into bow hunting?
02:10:40.000 And like, firstly, if I'm going to shoot something with a rifle, I'm going to probably hurt it if I take my time.
02:10:48.000 If I'm hunting something with a bow, the chance of me hurting it and the thing suffering for a very long time is probably very high.
02:10:56.000 It is very high when you have a 35-pound bow.
02:10:58.000 In a lot of places, you're not even legally allowed to hunt with a 35-pound bow.
02:11:03.000 Okay.
02:11:03.000 I don't know if that's the case of Texas, but there's many states where I think the limit for a lot of states is 45 pounds.
02:11:11.000 Because the idea is you're not going to get enough energy to go through ribcages and stuff like that and hit vital organs.
02:11:17.000 I could do 45 now.
02:11:20.000 I just want to be good at 35, then move up my way through a food chain.
02:11:24.000 Well, listen, when you're in Florida, just find a trainer.
02:11:28.000 Just start doing some rows.
02:11:30.000 Just start doing something where you, you know, like cable rows are the best.
02:11:33.000 Because here's the thing with cable rows, Cam does these.
02:11:35.000 You could take a weight, like a 25-pound dumbbell or a 10-pound dumbbell, whatever, and just hold it straight out like this, and then grab a cable, like a cable machine, and pull back like that.
02:11:46.000 And just practice pulling back, and you'll develop all those muscles that you use to pull back a bow.
02:11:53.000 Yeah, I think a training plan is probably a good thing.
02:11:56.000 I like training for shit.
02:11:57.000 Like, I like having a goal and like, tell me, try to do that.
02:12:02.000 You gotta get after it now, though.
02:12:04.000 Yeah, I do.
02:12:04.000 Because you have, right now, we're almost February.
02:12:07.000 So you have nine months.
02:12:09.000 Nine months to October.
02:12:11.000 And you guys are gonna hunt, where'd you say, Alaska?
02:12:13.000 I think so.
02:12:15.000 What are you hunting in Alaska?
02:12:16.000 Elk.
02:12:17.000 Elk in Alaska.
02:12:18.000 Interesting.
02:12:22.000 Donnie Vincent knows his shit.
02:12:24.000 That'll be good for you.
02:12:25.000 I don't know him.
02:12:26.000 It's for a documentary.
02:12:27.000 Oh, you haven't met him yet?
02:12:29.000 No, I haven't met him.
02:12:30.000 He's great.
02:12:30.000 Great guy.
02:12:31.000 Very smart.
02:12:32.000 Was a wildlife biologist.
02:12:34.000 He had a great story on the podcast I did with him about wolves.
02:12:37.000 It was really interesting.
02:12:39.000 But he's had a super cool, badass photo where he's carrying a mountain lion, actually?
02:12:44.000 Is that what it is?
02:12:45.000 Yeah, he shot a mountain lion.
02:12:46.000 Which are delicious, by the way.
02:12:48.000 Two people who delusioned me into thinking I could carry my deer back to camp.
02:12:53.000 You know, Donnie Vincent's a big brawny man.
02:12:56.000 Big, handsome, scrappy man.
02:12:58.000 He's got a great image, too.
02:12:59.000 He just looks good.
02:13:01.000 He's a good-looking guy.
02:13:02.000 Oh, he's handsome.
02:13:02.000 He's got the flowing white hair, and he's got the fucking wool hat on.
02:13:07.000 He's so handsome.
02:13:10.000 But he's also interesting.
02:13:12.000 He's an interesting character.
02:13:14.000 He's a very smart guy.
02:13:16.000 And a guy who really deeply respects wildlife, too.
02:13:21.000 He's got a weird path, and unfortunately, I don't think the path is the best way.
02:13:25.000 He makes these movies, and you have to pay on Vimeo to watch the movie.
02:13:32.000 But this is the internet, son.
02:13:34.000 You know, I try to...
02:13:35.000 I mean, I can only give so much advice, but my advice is always make shit free.
02:13:40.000 It's hard to get people to pay for stuff.
02:13:42.000 They don't want to pay for shit.
02:13:44.000 Like, if you want to keep your audience small, like, this podcast might get to a point where I might, like, put up a paywall just so nobody listens.
02:13:53.000 Just get to a point where you could slide into obscurity.
02:14:02.000 You could slide away.
02:14:05.000 Is that your retirement plan?
02:14:06.000 Yeah, that's my retirement plan.
02:14:07.000 Put up a paywall and then donate a lot of money to charity so people don't get mad at me about the money.
02:14:14.000 But just to make it so that it's harder to get.
02:14:16.000 But it's good to have people that know what they're doing and that are very knowledgeable because you know that it's spear fishermen or hunters.
02:14:26.000 We have a very big reputation of being a dumbass who just likes to kill stuff.
02:14:30.000 Yeah, that's not true.
02:14:31.000 You know, it's hard to do, but it's like everything else, like jujitsu.
02:14:35.000 Like a lot, you know, if you asked the average person, like, what is jujitsu about?
02:14:40.000 They're like, oh, a bunch of idiots choking each other.
02:14:42.000 But then you meet people like, you know, really brilliant jujitsu people.
02:14:48.000 Like John Donaher, the guy who's a fucking, one of the most brilliant people I've ever talked to in my life.
02:14:55.000 And he's a jujitsu professor.
02:14:57.000 These people that are looking at it from the outside, it's an honest mistake.
02:15:04.000 It's a normal mistake.
02:15:05.000 But it's the same thing with hunting.
02:15:07.000 It's the same thing with everything.
02:15:08.000 You think it's easier than it is.
02:15:11.000 You think it's simpler than it is.
02:15:13.000 Human beings are complex.
02:15:14.000 And all the different things that we do, all the different things that we do, whether it's race car driving or ballet or yoga, they're harder than you think they are.
02:15:23.000 All those things.
02:15:24.000 Do you want to get good at something?
02:15:25.000 It's hard.
02:15:26.000 You want to be a good poet?
02:15:27.000 It's hard.
02:15:28.000 You want to write songs?
02:15:29.000 It's hard.
02:15:30.000 You want to do stand-up comedy?
02:15:32.000 It's fucking hard.
02:15:33.000 All these things are hard.
02:15:34.000 Everything's hard.
02:15:35.000 Everything worth doing is hard.
02:15:37.000 And that's okay, too.
02:15:39.000 But it's like this dismissal of it.
02:15:40.000 Like, oh, these fucking people are just idiots who like to kill things.
02:15:44.000 Are there people like that out there?
02:15:46.000 Yes, there are.
02:15:47.000 Just like, are there people that, you know, they're painters and they suck?
02:15:52.000 Yeah, of course.
02:15:53.000 Because there's a limited, you know, like, the barrier to entry for fishing is very easy.
02:16:00.000 Go buy a fishing license, go get a rod, get some hooks, get some line, get some bait or get some lures and figure it out.
02:16:09.000 Go do it.
02:16:09.000 It's the barrier to entry.
02:16:10.000 So any moron, like remember our story about the 14,000 people in the arena?
02:16:14.000 How many of those people are morons?
02:16:16.000 Like hundreds, right?
02:16:18.000 So that's the same thing with fishing.
02:16:19.000 It's with everything else, with hunting, with everything else.
02:16:21.000 Like if you look at the moron that goes hunting and say, oh, that's what a hunter is.
02:16:26.000 Or the moron that does jujitsu or the 14-year-old girl punched you in the face.
02:16:30.000 And you go, that's whatever.
02:16:31.000 They're just all punching each other in the face.
02:16:32.000 Now, that's rare.
02:16:35.000 That's a young child.
02:16:37.000 That's part of it.
02:16:38.000 Someone doesn't have control.
02:16:39.000 That's part of it.
02:16:40.000 They don't understand yet.
02:16:41.000 That's part of it.
02:16:44.000 So there's a wide variety.
02:16:46.000 But the thing is, if you see like George St. Pierre training, you go, oh, wow, this is wild.
02:16:52.000 You get to see it at a super high level and all the exchanges and all the positions and all the different transitions that they're going through.
02:16:59.000 You go, oh, this is complex.
02:17:01.000 Yeah.
02:17:01.000 Yeah, very complex.
02:17:03.000 Like I said, I've been doing it forever, and I still watch new things that people do, and I'll go, oh, how did he do that?
02:17:11.000 Like, I'll show you.
02:17:11.000 I have a bunch saved on my phone.
02:17:13.000 Well, I'll go over them, and I'll go, oh, look at that.
02:17:17.000 And then I'll think, can I do that?
02:17:19.000 I don't even know how to get my fucking leg up there like that.
02:17:22.000 It's cool.
02:17:24.000 I think there's a stigma, too, about the fact that it's, you know, what society often doesn't understand, it's easier to critique, in a way, and it's easier for people to understand a vegan who says, I love animals and I don't want to eat it,
02:17:41.000 and that's a better, that's a statement that's It's easier to understand that, like, yeah, I go out there, I train, I actually harvest, like, protein, then I bring it back home.
02:17:52.000 I bet if that vegan was staring down one of those grizzly bears in Wyoming, or that mountain lion that that guy shot, I think they'd have a completely different thought about what wildlife is.
02:18:03.000 For sure.
02:18:04.000 You would look at that demon where it's looking at you in the eye like this.
02:18:11.000 Just thinking of eating you.
02:18:13.000 But it's all bullshit in the end because it's, you know, if you look at Beyond Me, by example, you know, like that Seaspiracy.
02:18:22.000 Seaspiracy.
02:18:22.000 What is it?
02:18:24.000 Seaspiracy.
02:18:25.000 Seaspiracy?
02:18:29.000 Can you just imagine me speaking French, how bad I would be at it, so feel free to mock me.
02:18:34.000 So basically, when I came out, I got pretty pissed, and I was like, I'm going to do some digging, because this is an outrage to...
02:18:40.000 Freaking people have been dedicating their lives to sustainable...
02:18:43.000 Not me, but people are underpaid, undervalued, everything they can take off.
02:18:47.000 Right.
02:18:49.000 You know, Beyond Meat, by example, or even the fake shrimp they're promoting at the end of the documentary?
02:18:57.000 They have fake shrimp?
02:18:58.000 Oh, yeah.
02:18:59.000 For 15 minutes, they made up this vegan fake shrimp, and people should buy it.
02:19:05.000 It's made with palm oil.
02:19:07.000 That shit's so bad for you.
02:19:09.000 First of all.
02:19:10.000 And then guess who's a lead investor in the company?
02:19:13.000 The people who made the documentary?
02:19:14.000 Tyson Meats.
02:19:15.000 Oh.
02:19:17.000 Tyson Meats was also one of the biggest investors.
02:19:19.000 Are you saying Tyson Meats?
02:19:20.000 Is that what you're saying?
02:19:21.000 Do you understand what you're saying?
02:19:22.000 I kind of get it.
02:19:24.000 Tyson Meats.
02:19:25.000 Tyson Meats.
02:19:28.000 It's crazy.
02:19:29.000 It's like now the meat industry is actually funding the vegan stuff.
02:19:33.000 Of course they are.
02:19:33.000 They're trying to make money.
02:19:35.000 They're trying to get paid.
02:19:35.000 It's insane to me.
02:19:36.000 If the pharmaceutical companies could sell weed, they would sell weed.
02:19:40.000 Don't they do that in Canada already?
02:19:41.000 I think they do.
02:19:42.000 They probably do.
02:19:44.000 Yeah, I mean, they're trying to make money.
02:19:46.000 They're companies that try to make money.
02:19:48.000 You know?
02:19:49.000 I mean, I get it.
02:19:50.000 It's just, the reality is, those processed seed oils are fucking terrible for you.
02:19:55.000 They're terrible for you.
02:19:56.000 If you want to be a vegan, you should eat vegetables.
02:19:59.000 For sure.
02:19:59.000 And stop making them look like cheeseburgers.
02:20:01.000 Just get the fuck out of here.
02:20:02.000 You should grow them, too.
02:20:04.000 God, that looks like rat turds.
02:20:06.000 That looks awful.
02:20:07.000 That looks so bad.
02:20:09.000 That looks like a bloody rat turd.
02:20:11.000 It's just, that can't be good.
02:20:13.000 It can't be good for you if it's filled with palm oils and shit.
02:20:16.000 It's because you have to do a lot of weird processed stuff to make a lot of those fake vegan foods.
02:20:21.000 But if you want to make, like, Indian food, you know, like, there was a great vegetarian restaurant near my house in California that was an Indian place.
02:20:30.000 And, I mean, it was fucking straight from India.
02:20:34.000 Like, these people were, you know, they spoke Indian.
02:20:37.000 They all had, or what is it, Hindi?
02:20:40.000 Hindi.
02:20:41.000 I think it was a few dialects.
02:20:43.000 A few dialects?
02:20:44.000 I think so.
02:20:44.000 Either way, they spoke whatever they speak in India and they had, I mean, there was everyone there that was eating there was Indian.
02:20:53.000 They were just Indian immigrants.
02:20:54.000 And so I would go there and I didn't even know what the stuff was.
02:20:57.000 I'd just pick up, pick that one, that one looks good.
02:21:00.000 I'll have something that's like a cafeteria style and you just point to what you'd like and they make you a plate.
02:21:03.000 It was amazing.
02:21:05.000 But it was all lentils and curry.
02:21:09.000 It wasn't fake chicken or a fake shrimp or a fake cheeseburger.
02:21:14.000 Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense.
02:21:16.000 And it was healthy.
02:21:17.000 It's healthy vegetarian food.
02:21:19.000 You can eat healthy vegetarian food.
02:21:21.000 There's a lot of it.
02:21:22.000 But it's beans and rice and different ways of preparing it that taste delicious.
02:21:28.000 There's a lot of cultures that excel in making vegetarian dishes.
02:21:33.000 But we've got this weird thing where people are trying to trick people into like...
02:21:38.000 Fake stuff.
02:21:38.000 Yeah.
02:21:39.000 That's crazy.
02:21:40.000 But when you're eating that, you're going to feel like shit.
02:21:42.000 That's why their stock has plummeted.
02:21:46.000 Make sure that's true.
02:21:48.000 The stock has plummeted for Beyond Meat.
02:21:50.000 I think they started out of the gate really strong.
02:21:52.000 I don't think they're doing so good right now.
02:21:54.000 There was a photo of when the hurricane was hitting, and they showed these shelves in Louisiana where all the meat was gone, but all the Beyond Meat was still sitting there.
02:22:04.000 It's definitely way lower over the year.
02:22:06.000 Yeah, because people tried it.
02:22:08.000 All my friends who are vegans are like, you've got to try it.
02:22:10.000 It's really amazing.
02:22:11.000 It tastes exactly like a cheeseburger.
02:22:13.000 I'm like, fuck you.
02:22:14.000 It does not.
02:22:15.000 It does not.
02:22:16.000 It just doesn't.
02:22:17.000 It might taste like a cheeseburger if you get Thousand Island dressing on it and pickles and onions and you put it in a bun and you're confused by all the corresponding flavors.
02:22:27.000 But if you cut me a piece of cheeseburgers, because when I eat cheeseburgers, most of the time I don't eat bread.
02:22:34.000 I just eat...
02:22:34.000 I take the bread off and I just eat the bread.
02:22:36.000 Oh, I saw that.
02:22:37.000 Yeah, that's how I eat it.
02:22:38.000 So when you eat like that, you know it's meat.
02:22:43.000 Yeah.
02:22:43.000 I'm not getting tricked.
02:22:45.000 If I eat your bullshit soybean oil fucking canola seed oil burger.
02:22:51.000 It's a new McDonald's.
02:22:52.000 Plant, lettuce, tomato.
02:22:53.000 McPlant.
02:22:53.000 Fuck off.
02:22:55.000 Fuck off, McDonald's.
02:22:56.000 I'm not coming to you for health, McDonald's.
02:22:59.000 I'm coming to you because I hate myself.
02:23:02.000 I'm coming to you for horrible food at 1.30 in the morning when I'm starving and I'm coming home from a comedy club or something.
02:23:11.000 I'm eating filet of fishes.
02:23:13.000 Or if I'm really getting crazy, I'm eating.
02:23:15.000 I had a quarter pounder.
02:23:18.000 Fish fillets?
02:23:19.000 Fillet of fish?
02:23:19.000 McDonald's, yeah.
02:23:20.000 How is it?
02:23:21.000 It's good, and it's actually good fish.
02:23:23.000 Is it really fish?
02:23:24.000 Yeah, it's really fish.
02:23:25.000 I didn't even think it was fish.
02:23:26.000 It's really fish, and it's actually sustainably caught, brilliant.
02:23:29.000 Really?
02:23:29.000 Yeah.
02:23:29.000 What do they catch?
02:23:30.000 What is it?
02:23:31.000 Cod, I think, obviously.
02:23:32.000 Cod?
02:23:33.000 I think so.
02:23:33.000 I don't remember.
02:23:34.000 No, pollock.
02:23:35.000 Pollock has to be pollock, yeah.
02:23:36.000 Really?
02:23:37.000 It's sustainable?
02:23:38.000 It is sustainable.
02:23:39.000 How is it sustainable?
02:23:40.000 What's in our fillet of fish?
02:23:42.000 Okay, it says, fillet of fish sandwich is made with 100% wild-caught Alaskan pollock.
02:23:47.000 So it's certified by DMSE. Healthy as fuck, son.
02:23:51.000 That's what it is.
02:23:52.000 Told you.
02:23:52.000 What's the new one there?
02:23:54.000 What do you mean?
02:23:55.000 There's a new one.
02:23:55.000 What is that?
02:23:56.000 What's that big fat one?
02:23:57.000 It's a homemade one.
02:23:58.000 Someone, I think, made a YouTube video to say, like, I can make a flavor.
02:24:02.000 That looks way better.
02:24:03.000 Their homemade one was goddamn delicious.
02:24:05.000 I'm all in.
02:24:06.000 But I had a quarter pounder with cheese recently.
02:24:09.000 Not recently, like six months ago.
02:24:11.000 And it was sweet.
02:24:14.000 I was eating it.
02:24:15.000 I was like, there's, like, sugar in this goddamn thing.
02:24:17.000 I was just going to ask if you guys had heard of, because I worked at a restaurant that served imitation crab meat, but this was a long time ago, so it couldn't have been plant-based.
02:24:25.000 Oh, lettuce.
02:24:26.000 No, lettuce sushi.
02:24:26.000 No, it's not.
02:24:28.000 It's fish.
02:24:28.000 Yeah, it's pollock, apparently.
02:24:29.000 It's a type of fish.
02:24:30.000 I just kind of looked it up.
02:24:31.000 It's brown and it looks like shit.
02:24:32.000 Same kind of fish.
02:24:33.000 Is it pollock?
02:24:34.000 That's what it said.
02:24:34.000 I mean, I looked it up.
02:24:35.000 Not all imitation crab meat is, but...
02:24:37.000 Does pollock taste good on its own, or do they have to fuck with it?
02:24:40.000 I don't name it in French.
02:24:41.000 I don't name it in English.
02:24:43.000 It's a brown ugly fish.
02:24:44.000 What's the name in French?
02:24:45.000 Queberge.
02:24:46.000 Queberge?
02:24:47.000 Did I say it good?
02:24:48.000 Does that sound like you doing it?
02:24:50.000 No, you said it terrible.
02:24:52.000 You said it terrible.
02:24:53.000 You said it terrible.
02:24:54.000 I'm terrible.
02:24:57.000 How do you say terrible in French?
02:24:59.000 Terrible.
02:25:00.000 Terrible.
02:25:02.000 That's what I would do.
02:25:03.000 If I spoke French, I would just go way overboard.
02:25:10.000 I couldn't imagine.
02:25:14.000 That would be the wildest thing to do.
02:25:16.000 Move to another country and learn the language.
02:25:18.000 Like move to France and learn French.
02:25:20.000 I was 22 when I moved to London.
02:25:22.000 I didn't speak English.
02:25:24.000 What?
02:25:24.000 I was so bad.
02:25:26.000 That's incredible.
02:25:27.000 It's very close to garbage, but it's not.
02:25:30.000 Goberge d'Alaska.
02:25:31.000 Alaska Pollock.
02:25:33.000 How do you say it?
02:25:34.000 Say it again.
02:25:35.000 Goberge.
02:25:36.000 Goberge.
02:25:37.000 De l'Alaska.
02:25:39.000 How do you say De l'Alaska?
02:25:40.000 De l'Alaska.
02:25:41.000 Oh, you say an L and then Alaska.
02:25:44.000 Yes.
02:25:44.000 You fuck it up.
02:25:46.000 So it's like, it's Pollock from De l'Alaska.
02:25:50.000 You know that is an American name.
02:25:52.000 You should say it the way we say it.
02:25:53.000 Don't be rude.
02:25:54.000 Gobert de l'Alaska.
02:25:59.000 Go Bird J. You're rude.
02:26:02.000 You're ruining our word because our word sounds better when you say Alaska.
02:26:06.000 Don't you understand?
02:26:09.000 That's fine.
02:26:10.000 Okay.
02:26:10.000 So I will never call you Joseph from now on, right?
02:26:13.000 Joseph.
02:26:14.000 Call me Giuseppe.
02:26:16.000 But you guys say France.
02:26:20.000 We don't say France.
02:26:21.000 We don't say France.
02:26:22.000 We say France.
02:26:23.000 France!
02:26:25.000 French fries!
02:26:26.000 Remember when, after like 9-11, we started calling them Freedom Fries?
02:26:30.000 People got upset.
02:26:31.000 Freedom Fries.
02:26:32.000 France didn't support the United States for some reason, so all the knuckleheads started calling French Fries Freedom Fries.
02:26:39.000 These are Freedom Fries!
02:26:45.000 It was one of the dumbest things about being an American.
02:26:48.000 There's something adorable about real stupidity.
02:26:52.000 Like, real, like, patriotic stupidity, where it's like, it's so dumb.
02:26:56.000 These are fuckin' freedom fries.
02:26:58.000 No, they're french fries.
02:26:59.000 They've been french fries our whole life, Bob.
02:27:01.000 You can't change the name now, because someone who's a politician in France made a choice that you don't agree with.
02:27:08.000 It's a fuckin' french fry, okay?
02:27:10.000 I don't even dare making jokes about those.
02:27:13.000 Oh.
02:27:14.000 Yeah.
02:27:15.000 I live in Florida too.
02:27:16.000 Is Montreal still locked down or do they open things back up?
02:27:20.000 There's a curfew.
02:27:21.000 There's a 10 p.m.
02:27:21.000 curfew.
02:27:22.000 10 p.m.
02:27:23.000 curfew still.
02:27:24.000 Still.
02:27:24.000 Does the coronavirus go home until 10 p.m.
02:27:28.000 and then it comes out?
02:27:30.000 Yeah.
02:27:30.000 I mean, the same as it doesn't exist when you sit down.
02:27:33.000 It only lives below like five foot up.
02:27:35.000 Yeah.
02:27:35.000 When you sit down at a restaurant, it goes away.
02:27:38.000 You know, CNN is now saying that the fucking masks don't do anything.
02:27:42.000 I've been saying this forever.
02:27:44.000 I'm like, how are you breathing?
02:27:45.000 You're breathing in air.
02:27:47.000 Air's getting in the sides.
02:27:48.000 It can't be working.
02:27:50.000 It's a tough situation.
02:27:51.000 The healthcare system, I've been a freaking shit show for so many years.
02:27:55.000 I know people are paying for it.
02:27:56.000 So it has...
02:27:58.000 Yeah, it's bad.
02:28:00.000 Yeah, it's bad.
02:28:00.000 Like, our system is terrible.
02:28:01.000 But it's also, people are so scared.
02:28:04.000 They're so terrified.
02:28:05.000 There's so many wacky fucking people out there that are just running around like a chicken with their head cut off.
02:28:11.000 Well, they created this whole...
02:28:14.000 So there's been like a very strong media campaign for the last two years that it's basically there's two groups of people.
02:28:21.000 Either you're a caring person who's smart, who knows what's good.
02:28:26.000 Right.
02:28:26.000 Or you're a conspiracy dumbass who's like selfish and a piece of shit.
02:28:30.000 Piece of shit.
02:28:31.000 And there's like, there's no in between.
02:28:33.000 Right.
02:28:33.000 So it's the second...
02:28:34.000 It's sad because I had a fight with my own dad.
02:28:38.000 And he was like, well, now you live in the States and you became like a Trumpist.
02:28:43.000 I was like, what are you talking about?
02:28:45.000 Because I'm against a lockdown?
02:28:46.000 Because I don't like it.
02:28:47.000 I'm like, what?
02:28:48.000 I was like, no, no, no.
02:28:50.000 What is wrong with you?
02:28:51.000 I just don't understand the logic behind a 10 p.m.
02:28:55.000 curfew.
02:28:56.000 I don't understand the lockdown.
02:28:57.000 It doesn't make any sense, especially in a place where everyone's vaccinated.
02:29:00.000 Like, everyone has to be vaccinated up there.
02:29:02.000 Just 80% vaccination rate.
02:29:04.000 So does it work?
02:29:05.000 So if it does work, why does everybody have to stay home?
02:29:07.000 Like, what are you doing?
02:29:08.000 This doesn't make sense.
02:29:09.000 It's not a logical approach.
02:29:11.000 Is there a risk?
02:29:12.000 Yes, there's a risk.
02:29:14.000 There's a way to mitigate that risk, and they're trying to figure out a way, and their way is to tell people to stay home.
02:29:21.000 But that's fucked, because then, who's gonna pay the bills that those restaurants have?
02:29:27.000 Who's gonna hire all those people when their business goes under?
02:29:31.000 You're gonna fuck your economy up.
02:29:34.000 Understand this.
02:29:35.000 You gotta let people take their own risks.
02:29:37.000 We're two years into this thing.
02:29:39.000 This is not a new thing.
02:29:41.000 This is a thing that's two years old now.
02:29:43.000 We're January of 2022. Come on.
02:29:48.000 Like, enough already.
02:29:49.000 I feel so bad for a lot of people.
02:29:52.000 I understand that hospitals are overwhelmed.
02:29:57.000 I get it.
02:29:59.000 I get that you don't have beds.
02:30:00.000 I know friends with cancer that haven't been able to get treatments in over two years because there's no room for them.
02:30:06.000 Well, you got some wacky fucking socialized medicine up there, too.
02:30:10.000 My friend Jen, she had to wait a whole year before she'd get her knee surgery up there.
02:30:13.000 She was walking with a horrible limp for a whole year.
02:30:17.000 I mean, there's upsides and downsides, I guess.
02:30:20.000 Yeah, sure.
02:30:20.000 The upsides is you get treated for free.
02:30:23.000 It's great.
02:30:24.000 I feel terrible saying this.
02:30:26.000 Like, I feel absolutely awful saying this.
02:30:28.000 But if I had a serious disease and my life was in danger, I would leave.
02:30:35.000 You wouldn't go to Alaska.
02:30:36.000 I would not go to Alaska.
02:30:39.000 Land of the free.
02:30:40.000 Home of the brave.
02:30:42.000 But the problem is that I would be in debt for the rest of my life.
02:30:46.000 Yeah, well, you could crowdfund it.
02:30:48.000 True, I can crowdfund it.
02:30:49.000 Have a little barbecue at your house and go fund me.
02:30:52.000 Well, listen, my friend, let's wrap this up.
02:30:54.000 I gotta get out of here.
02:30:56.000 But tell people your social media, where they can find you.
02:30:59.000 So you can follow me on ValentineThombas on Instagram.
02:31:05.000 And also, if you suffer from stress and anxiety or insomnia or any other stuff, I just launched today a breathwork company.
02:31:15.000 Oh!
02:31:15.000 Breathwork?
02:31:16.000 Am I saying this right?
02:31:17.000 Breathwork.
02:31:18.000 Breathwork.
02:31:18.000 Breathwork.
02:31:19.000 Breathwork.
02:31:19.000 Pretty good.
02:31:20.000 Say Alaska again.
02:31:21.000 Alaska?
02:31:22.000 Yes, good job.
02:31:24.000 Okay, this is your superhuman...
02:31:26.000 Yes, the superhuman co.
02:31:28.000 And it's...
02:31:28.000 Breathwork exercises.
02:31:30.000 So we have breath-hold training for just free dive and spearfishing and just breath-hold, again, stress and anxiety.
02:31:38.000 I had anxiety since I was 18. I don't have it anymore.
02:31:42.000 And you've broken through with breathwork?
02:31:45.000 Yes.
02:31:46.000 So basically, the company is called Superhumans, and we have SuperCalm, SuperSleep, SuperMind, and SuperHole, and different type of breathing exercises because, as you know, bread fork is so freaking powerful, right?
02:32:00.000 Yeah.
02:32:02.000 Compared to like Wernhof, there's a lot of like boosting immune system and boost adrenaline.
02:32:06.000 We do a lot of the opposite.
02:32:07.000 So it's breathing to sleep better, to control like your stress in everyday life and like holding your breath.
02:32:14.000 You shouldn't hyperventilate to hold your breath.
02:32:16.000 Like never do that, especially if you're underwater.
02:32:18.000 It's the most dangerous thing you can ever do.
02:32:21.000 So yeah, it's really great.
02:32:23.000 And there's also, so supermind is about breathing to be focused.
02:32:27.000 And I think in UFC you see that a lot, right?
02:32:29.000 It's how do you, like the way you breathe before you would enter the hexagon, by example.
02:32:34.000 You want to be focused or you want to be calm at the same time.
02:32:36.000 And it's this whole, yeah, that's a very, very powerful thing.
02:32:39.000 And so that superhuman CO? Yeah, and it's not about counting down to our science-based.
02:32:47.000 It's not about chakras and things like that.
02:32:51.000 No crystals?
02:32:51.000 No crystals.
02:32:54.000 All right, my friend.
02:32:55.000 Well, thank you very much for coming.
02:32:56.000 I appreciate you.
02:32:57.000 Oh, and then this documentary you're filming with Donnie Vincent, that'll be available?
02:33:01.000 That's going to be a long time, yeah.
02:33:02.000 My fantastic cookbook will be out before that.
02:33:04.000 Okay, well, when your cookbook comes out and then that comes out, come back on.
02:33:08.000 We'll talk about that.
02:33:09.000 And hopefully your English will be better.
02:33:10.000 Uh-huh.
02:33:11.000 Probably never.
02:33:13.000 I mean, let's see about your French.
02:33:14.000 It's terrible.
02:33:15.000 So the next podcast is going to be in French.
02:33:16.000 Touje.
02:33:18.000 All right.
02:33:19.000 Thank you.
02:33:20.000 Thank you for having me.
02:33:20.000 Bye, everybody.
02:33:20.000 My pleasure.
02:33:21.000 Bye.