Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A Review of Episode 1215 Ben O’Brian

Episode Date: December 28, 2018

Ben is a hunter, podcaster and works on the show Meat Eater. He’s a great guy to listen to and someone that represents the world of hunting in a very articulate way. His conversation with Joe was very funny and educational in respects to hunting. Make sure to check it out! Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews:                                                                        [e-mail]

Hello and welcome to another episode of the JRE review coming up to the new year almost 2019. Crazy. This year flew by and Rogan had so many great guests. It was really fantastic. I can't wait to see what we have in store for next year. I can't imagine the guest he's gonna get on. He's, his podcast now is just so beyond massive that he really can just get anyone in the world to come on. And, you know, it's not a question now that the podcast is not big enough for these guests to come on

as much as some of them are just, you know, whether they're congressman or other people, they're just old, they don't know about it, they're not hip enough, they even know it exists, but this is definitely a platform that they need to be a part of. And, you know, anytime you get three hours to talk, you're going to learn a lot and Joe pulls it out of them. Great podcast, the other day, podcast 1215, Ben O'Brien. He's a hunter, podcaster of the hunting collective and TV director for the show Meetita. So without further ado, let's review this podcast. Well they start the conversation. Ben Ben O'Brien has been on

before, knows Joe, they've hunted together, he's a really great dude to listen to. I love how calm a lot of these hunters are, they really are, they just have this really calm demeanor and they speak quietly and clearly and they just seem really like introspective and chill, and it's probably part of the fact that they do this incredible job most of the time. I think it just makes, I think it's something that that a lot of men really desire. You know, not everybody, but I think if more people got out

and just maybe getting out into nature, maybe it's not as much the hunting, it's just being a part of nature and having that space. I think it does a lot for you, but he's a great guest Recently was moving into a new house So slept in a storage unit. He was telling Joe for a while I guess he just kind of put everything in there in order to stay in there He was working away from home

slept in a storage unit, which I think is kind of hilarious, but you know, if the people that could do that, it would be a hunter, right? I mean, they're tough, tough guys. So storage, you know, is probably pretty comfortable for them, at least they had a bed. Right, then we're talking about how on that show, Storage Wars, which is one of those shows that if you see on, it kind of does pull you in sometimes because of the way they do with the cliffhangers before the commercials they're like oh my god what is in that storage unit usually nothing but somehow it just keeps you

keep your boat you know watching but I guess some guy found seven million dollars in a safe in us on storage wars and I don't know through through the legal things Joe was saying that he or somebody was saying he still got to keep a million of it, but it just imagine that what the hell like that's unbelievable like winning the lottery you be so addicted to buying storage units after that would be ridiculous. One thing I quite like to spend a lot of writing talked about Hugh Jackman in the greatest showman, and you know Ben being a hunter, seeing this type of tough guy, but really, really said he loved that movie. Said he loved it, it's fantastic, he could watch it all the time. I mean, it's similar to a tweet that Joe had recently where he talks about liking the new Mary Poppins movies. You know, I don't watch a lot of movies that have singing in, kind of get some of my nerves, but you know, it's alright. These guys can be tough and watch these

movies. I don't know, it doesn't bother me. I think that I think there's a lot of other reasons why, I don't know, it's just a silly judgment anyway. Why not? You know, you can be into it. You can like lots of different things. It's just kind of how it is. And I think Joe even says he says, there's so much violence in the world. Why not have a little bit of musical in your life, which I think is quite funny. Then they move on to other movies. They do talk about how there weren't any superhero movies in the 80s. There were probably a few but they didn't really stand out. Then Michael Keaton kind of set it off with Batman. I think that was late 80s, like 87. He set it off and he was a great Batman. I mean he really was, it was dark, but it was twisted, it was funny, it was comic book-y, you know, they

really did a good job. And then they went through a whole range of Batman, who else was it, Val Kilmer, He was okay and then George Clooney did it which wasn't great and Now we have Ben Affleck who I don't know it I don't know what I think about the new Ben Affleck Batman. It's like it's fine. It's whatever I think he's he's a decent actor, you know, could be doing other things, then play Batman, but there's probably a lot of money in it. You know, he jaded J-Lo for a while and she's super hot, so what can I say about that?

He's obviously making some good choices. They still also say how the rock could not be Batman or Superman because his disguise would never work. Clearly, it would still be the rock. He's massive. He's too big. And then they're saying that the Superman movies are really done. They've just made so many, you know, he's so powerful. How do you make a plot out of it? It's almost like he's too perfect. It just doesn't work, which is a shame because he's such a fascinating superhero, but it's like you've got to have flaws. Flores bigger than kryptonite, otherwise it gets a bit old. Then they get back to the meat and potatoes

or what Ben really knows a lot about and they get onto the federal land ownership controversy. So I don't know a ton about this, but I've heard about it here and there. You know, there was some talk about Obama, give it away federal lands and, you know, the Republican sometimes want to sell some. And basically, Teddy Roosevelt works hard to get a lot of federal land. So it was for the

people all the time. But there's energy to chip away at that and take that land, sell it, to frack on it, or to use it for resources resources or you name it. And it causes some issues. And it's something that people need to pay attention to. And the hunters are obviously on this and conservationists and so on. And it's just a dialogue that needs to be talked about because it will be a terrible thing for lands to just be chipped away. I mean, the more people that we have, you know, the more land is needed and then they want to build on it and just tear it down and we lose these like beautiful habitats for animals and just to go spend some time in it. So yeah, it's very complicated, it's kind of annoying, but it is what it is.

And yeah, they talk a little bit about the hunting controversies and how bear baiting kind of it sounds cool it's an issue but at the end of the day they get into it and they say look there's a specific type of bear that you want to kill on all the male and bears are hard to identify even the sex of you, and hunting bears is incredibly difficult. So maybe you'll get up on a bear, but you've shot it before you've really been able to identify. And they're obviously very dangerous too. And in some ways, you know, if the numbers get too high, you should responsibly take these

animals out. And really the best way to do it is to bait them, put some food down, sit in a tree, wait till they come, be able to clearly identify them before you take a shot. So in a way it sounds unethical but once you hear this podcast and how Ben talks about it, it has a bit more ethics to it. Now if you're completely anti hunting, you're going to hate the whole thing and not like it any of it at all, which is fair enough. But if you're a bit of a hunter or you're curious about it, but that's one portion of it you don't agree with, it's just one of those things where it's nice to get a bit more information. You can still make whatever judgment of the end, but it helped me understand,

you know, because I think it is important for all the males, which is the ones that they go for to be taken out. It's sadder to me that they would kill a young mother or maybe a pregnant mother or just bears that are needed really for that environment. Then they talk about how bears are, how they are brutal killing machines, cannibals a lot of times, the males will kill the bear cubs, chase them down, tear them apart to get the women back in the estra and if the women chase the male away the women will eat the baby cub. Left over because it's food and they're desperate and it's tough out there and you know just

another reminder the nature and what goes on is crazy. It's hard. But it's a great podcast, good conversation, especially if you're one of the hunting fans. It's always good to have these meaty to guys on and any of the hunting folks just to learn and hear about what they've been up to. And it's such a different world that they live in. It's really cool. But yeah.

So anyway, thanks for listening guys. Really appreciate it's really cool. But yeah. So anyway, thanks for listening guys, really appreciate it and peace.