The Joe Rogan Experience - #2426 - Cameron Hanes & Adam Greentree

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

Cameron Hanes is a master bowhunter, outdoorsman, elite athlete, author, and a host of the podcasts “Keep Hammering Collective," "Sh*t Talkers Weekly," and "Lift. Run. Shoot." His most recent book is "Undeniable: How to Reach the Top and Stay There." www.cameronhanes.com www.youtube.com/@cameronhaneshttps://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250365941/undeniable/ Adam Greentree is an Australian bowhunter, photographer, outdoorsman, and entrepreneur.www.youtube.com/@adamgreentree9135www.atlaswild.com.au Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Go to https://ExpressVPN.com/ROGAN to get 4 months free! Don’t miss out on all the action - Download the DraftKings app today! Sign-up at https://dkng.co/rogan or with my promo code ROGAN GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, [phone] or visit gamblinghelplinema.org (MA). Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), or visit www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD). 21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT/OR/NH. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). Pass-thru of per wager tax may apply in IL. 1 per new customer. Must register new account to receive reward Token. Must select Token BEFORE placing min. $5 bet to receive $200 in Bonus Bets if your bet wins. Min. -500 odds req. Token and Bonus Bets are single-use and non-withdrawable. Token expires 1/11/26. Bonus Bets expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout. Terms: sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 1/4/26 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bo hunting brothers. Yeah, we're just talking about the mountain line that we have in the lobby and how insane that thing is. So, Adam, you shot that mountain line when? I think it was about six or seven years ago now. And you ate it, and I ate some of it. You sent some to me. It's really good, believe it or not, ladies and gentlemen. You wouldn't think so, but it's incredible.

Everybody says it's like, the way they describe it is like a, I think Ronella said this, a superior pork. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, I think of it as a cross between venison and chicken. And I only did it quick on the barbecue and I'm not a great cook, but it was that tender and that tasty. But the story behind the mountain line's nuts. Like that was like a murderous mountain line. It was, I felt a bit funny about it at the start with because like the dogs do all

hunting, right? The dogs smell that dogs find it. They put it up in a tree. But the further I looked into it, I'm like, well, you need the tree because you want to sex it and you want to age it. You know, you want to make sure it's a lion that's, you know, old and it has to be a male to shoot it in Colorado, or at least at the time you had to anyway. So it was actually the perfect way to hunt. But then seeing how destructive that individual.

line was at least. I was telling Cam about this when we got here that it must have grabbed the cow, like a beef cow. It must have grabbed it on the neck and the cow couldn't move but it was still fully alive internally and vocally

it was still alive and when we got there the mountain lion was like eating it from its rear in and it'd been there for at least an hour or two because there was quite a lot of meat that had been eaten out from the cow's ass and kicking its hooves yeah and it's just but the cow couldn't get up so it was it was literally eating it while it was still alive and as the dogs are running down there you could hear

this cow off in the distance just like screaming like mooing flat out and you could tell something was wrong the dogs got there the line ran off we end up calling the rancher in the rancher come out put the cow out of its misery still screaming on the ground right in front of me oh hey i was teared up like you know like i don't like suffering like the next person um so it was a very horrible moment so then it was like now i'm into it like now i'm into fine in this line it's like a werewolf's loose in your town you know having that how much did that cat weigh by the way i by the way i i held it up for size and um i could hold it for maybe 30 seconds and i literally couldn't hold it up anymore and i was trying to show the

eyes of, you know, how big that line was. It looks like it's at least 150 pounds. Yeah, it's giant. So it's like 170. 170? That's what you think it would be on the, on the paw, I guess, as it were. Yeah. Yeah. That's a big animal. We were standing out in front of it, like going,

imagine if this thing jumped on you. It's a living monster. It is a monster. It's a real monster. And he's like, oh, they kill their animal, their prey first. No, they don't just make sure it doesn't move anymore. Yeah, just whatever's good for eating. They'll just start eating it. Whatever's good for eating.

on we're the only thing that has compassion in the wild you know like the putting out of the misery like the rancher did you know that's one thing about hunters ranchers we do appreciate life and death and there is a time where hey let's put out of its misery but it's uh yeah it's man is the only one who thinks about that an animal they'll just start eating they could care less about they don't even know about pain really or no being merciful or anything like that it's just what we do yeah i always say like the line in africa like it stripes a zebra across the back end and the zebra gets away and it's just got like blood pouring out of it and it's got this horrible wound that it's going to have to live with that line has not lost

any sleep over that ever in its life it's just it's not even a thought you know it's just fascinating that all these different creatures exist with us because we're so insulated for the most part like most people are so insulated living in cities traveling on buses and planes and and never, never seeing a thing like this in real life. And you realize, like, at the same time where you're going to Starbucks and, you know, you're picking out the new iPhone, there's a lion running full speed at a herd of zebras right now. Like, right now in the world, there's a lion full speed at the zebra, and it's going to tackle it, it's going to grab it by its face. And all these animals exist to keep each other in check. That's the real beauty of nature

And you really see it when We saw that We were out yesterday Cam and I were We were hunting for pigs And we saw a feral cat Make a pounce on a mouse Like we were in the perfect

It was one of the coolest things Because even though Like it's a kitty cat Like a little tiny kitty cat It was fluffy too It was kind of cute We watched a predator In the rare moment

When you see him executing a kill I mean it was only a feral cat But it was still We saw We saw his little butt wiggle. We saw that thing that they do with a get, and then up in the air, he went. We're like, that is cool. It was so wild.

And that's going on multiple places throughout on our planet, right now, as you said. Everywhere. Yeah. It's like if you could have like zoom in on a little camera, all these little interactions of predator prey or, I mean, that's happening. Well, if you could see it all at once. Like if there was a camera on every single predator prey encounter simultaneously in the world, And it was broadcast on a screen that was like 700 feet high. You would think, oh, my God, we're at war.

There's a war in the natural world. We live on a murderous planet. Just cats alone. Have you ever seen the numbers of what feral cats alone, just house cats kill? It's literally in the billions in North America. Billions every year. But imagine how many rats there would be if the cats weren't out there. Oh, yeah, 100%.

Like, it's all, there's a balance to it. Oh, my God, these cats are killing everything. Right. Imagine how many fucking mice would be out there if there weren't cats. Yeah, that's true. It's all balance. Yeah. But to Adam's point about his lion in Colorado, it's so

managed. That animal actually probably could have been killed off, like, because it was killing livestock. Yeah. But when you kill a lion in Colorado, it's very detailed, very

documented and tracked. It's like you can only take like in the unit I was hunting lion I didn't kill one but you could only kill 35 in the year and every time a lion comes in they they catalog it check it um get it you know all the information in there and then that's one of the 35 once you reach 35 quota you're done you're done so let's put this in perspective because if that doesn't happen and by the way all that money goes back to the state goes to game wardens it helps everybody helps conservation if you don't have that you know what you have you have what's going on in Japan where Japan is having massive brown bear attacks.

So just last year, they had a kill. I think it was 1,000, it's at least 1,000. I think it was more than 1,000 bears last year. Right. And this year is projected to be even higher than last year. So the bears at the fucking military has to go in and they're having a war on giant brown bears. That are killing, I don't know how many people already this year. A shit ton.

Yeah. A shit ton. Jamie, put that into perplexity, our sponsor. How many people have been killed in Japan by grizzly bears? Well, they're not grizzly bears, but they're essentially brown bears. They're a type of brown bear, yeah. Brown bear. Record surge of brown bear attacks in 2025 with at least 13 fatalities and over 200 injuries.

Holy fuck. Making it the deadliest year for bear attacks in recent history. Majority of fatal attacks have occurred in Hokkaido, Hokkaido, where brown bears are more prevalent. the number of attacks has prompted emergency responses, including the deployment of military personnel in some regions. Dude, I've been hearing people in Montana and people in Wyoming that have been saying, we're seeing more brown bears than ever before. Guys are going on elk hunts and get it freaked out.

And they have to delist these fucking things. They're totally fearless. They've never been hunted. So they have no fear of humans. How many guys have you heard where the gun goes off and the bear shows up? and the bear shows up after the gun goes off because it knows that the elk is down or the moose is down?

Like a dinner bell. Like a dinner bell. I flew into high kido. Japan had a period where they would let foreigners hunt and it had to be of a bow and I was chasing seeker stags over there

and I had no idea that I had a brown bear at all and I was going through these big reedy area like you know the reeds are up above your head and there was just a game trail going in there like that the deer had been using. And as I was going through there,

I could see that it was starting to open up a little bit more like a flattened out section, maybe like where the deer had been bedded. And I got in there and there was a seeker deer just like the rib cage all chewed out. And it was just a big muddy clearing where this brown bear had got in there and just like rolled around with this carcass.

But the prints in the mud were like that. I had no idea there was even bears there. So I'm getting... What years? It'd have to be 10 or 11 years ago now But Google was still around, right? Yeah You didn't check

You didn't go, hey, what's in the area? I didn't even have thought about it I started messaging the outfitter And been like, dude, there's bears here Look at that bear Yeah, and then he started telling me That some of the biggest brown bears there is Bro, that bear fucked up that guy's good

That's a big bear But the police force Because I believe there was an unarmed police force at the time. They had an issue with a bear where it had killed two hunters there and he had to go in and shoot this bear. He had photos on a tractor

and I don't do the gruesome photos but he's just flicking through his phone and the next photo is a guy with his face missing from this brown bear attack and another photo the bear when he went in the shoot the bear the bear was in a stream

holding the guy down in the water eating him in the water. And it's like So, yeah, pretty gruesome. So it's pretty full on. But up until that point, I'd never even knew there was a brown bear in Japan. Right, before you go someplace with a bow.

That makes sense. Do a cursory internet search. I'm from Australia, like, come on. You guys have the internet? Shut the fuck up. You were telling me some of Starlink things going by. They're way behind in Australia, though. Let's not talk about that one.

They just got the internet. This guy is a traveling bow hunter, and he doesn't check to see if there's enormous monsters living in the same neighborhood. Of the unknown. Oh, that's cute. That's cute. Look, there's plenty of unknown out there. You know, you don't need to add to it. It's all disappearing.

All unknowns disappear because of the internet. A little bit. Another layer to that Japan story is the reason why they have to deploy the military is because all the hunters are aging out. So there was hunters there, but because hunting is kind of like this dying thing for this next generation, there's not enough hunters. So they have to get the military involved. otherwise it would be hunters like you know you going over there and they've talked about like

I mean I know there's Americans who would volunteer to do it but that's another part of it is this next generation just isn't hunting I have another question Jamie put this into perplexity please how many mountain lions were killed with depredation tags in 2024 in California because what I had read on a forum so it has to be correct because those guys are all experts oh yeah I had read that an equal number of mountain lions had been killed with depredation tags by like experts, with dogs, like to bring them in, then if they'd given tags out. So if they'd given tags out and let people mountain line hunt, you would have the exact same

amount of mountain lions that they had to kill. And instead of that, you would have revenue. Yeah. Money going. Instead of paying. Instead of the opposite. Right. Instead of paying.

And the collection of the meat. All right. California's not yet published a full 2025 total, but the best available data as of July, 2025 shows at least 167 mountain lines reported taken under depredation permits in 2020 and 166 in 2022 with annual totals of over 100 in recent years. So every year they have to kill at least 100 mountain lines. Yeah. Probably quite a bit more.

It looks like 67 more, 66 more. And I would say it's only went up since then. Yeah. Well, the thing is, like, they're doing nothing to curb the population. And this is the thing is like people go, oh, it's okay let nature do its thing no it doesn't do its thing it kills your dog okay one of the things they found out in san francisco in the bay area was when they do shoot these mountain lines they've done an analysis of their diet it's 50% dogs and cats wow 50% of their diet is eating people's pets

so they're hunting people's pets that means you are if you're a dog lover you're allowing a monster to eat your dog because you think that's the right thing to do and to be kind with nature he Wee, we. No, you have to hunt them. You have to get them the fuck away from you and keep a healthy population of them. And if you don't do that, it comes back to bite you in the dick. Here's one other search, Jamie. Can you see how many mountain lines were taken in Oregon legally?

Because that would be like Oregon's, of course, just right north of California. Let's compare the legal harvest in an estate that hunt. We can't use dogs, but you can kill them when you see them. You can buy a tag in the seasons. That it's very difficult to kill. them, right? If you can't use dogs? To do that, they have to have the season open all year, and they just hope enough for getting killed, but then they still have to kill deprivation.

And is that a situation where you buy like a mountain lion tag, like just an extra tag, and you just have it just in case you run into one? So if you're out in the wilderness and you're hunting elk, but you have a mountain line tag. Yeah, that's it. So we were hoping, you know, if you see one, basically I have a bear tag, lion tag, deer and elk. It says Oregon kills far more cougars each year than California, but those Oregon numbers can come mainly from sport hunting and agency control, not from depredation tags. Oh, wait a minute. Agency controls what we're looking at, not depredation.

So what is the numbers here? Reward the question. Yeah, let's reword the question and ask how many were killed in California from agency control. Put that in there. How many mountain lions were killed in California? through agency control because we were just looking at deprivation tax which is like what a hunter

or excuse me a farmer gets so it says in Oregon that we could kill 970 but they never kill that many okay they did not publish a clean state white tally labeled specifically as agency control mountain line kills and current official tables

group most lethal removals under depredation permits rather than separate agency control category. As a result, there's no single publicly available number that states how many mountain lines were killed through agency control alone. Let's just put this in. How many mountain lines were killed in California in 2024? Just period. Let's just ask that question. Yeah. I don't even know where we'd get this data. I don't know. It'd have to be fishing game. That doesn't make any sense. Mm-hmm.

That doesn't make any sense. Oh, so they're saying this figure does not include deaths from vehicles, but that's not true. Because they just said earlier that it was 100 and, okay. 480 depredation incidents. And 222 depredation permits. Okay. those permits, 52 authorized lethal take and 20 mountain lines were actually

reported as lethally taken on depredation permits. That's weird. This is totally different numbers than it was given us before. So now it's only saying it was 52 authorized lethal ones. Yeah. Huh. I don't know. The holidays are in full swing and so

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A lot of the depredations, though, that they might be listing is what we were talking about with San Francisco, where they found that they're eating people's cats and dogs. So maybe they get depredations. It's not like, but you can't give it out to the fucking homeowner. No. Yeah. So you only give those tags out to ranchers, it seems like. Yeah, to people that have livestock. And the rest of the depredation is probably done by some sort of a government guy.

Yeah, they would call it, they would call it something other than depredation. Do you think he uses dogs? How do you think they get them? Yeah, or snare. Like in Oregon, Wayne has done this where people, they're losing their goats, their calves, something like sheep, something like that. And then they'll let you snare it. So you can go in there. you take pictures of the animals that are killed.

And another... Snaring it, it's brutal. Yeah. Oof. Or trap. Trap, basically. It's a foothold. Yeah. In Texas, they treat them like coyotes.

Yeah. You just whack them. Yeah, well... I think that's the way to go. Because I think they're so hard to see. They're so hard to find. Different politics. I've seen maybe two in all the hunting that I've done,

just naturally in the wild. And you would have seen more, but it's not a big number. But they're just so sneaky, right? Oh, they're so fucking sneaky. We saw one, I told you the story. We saw the one in Utah with Colton. Yeah, a huge one. Like that one.

He was like as big as yours. It was fucking terrifying. Inside of a car, 30 yards away, and I'm shit in my pants. I'm not even, and we're armed. Yeah. And we have bows. We have, you know. The difference between Oregon and California and Texas, you know, Texas being able to shoot

them like coyotes is that's politics, you know. Yeah. Of course, West Coast is liberal. Well, Utah changed. it, though. Utah has it now like coyotes. Perfect. Yeah. That's how it should. I think there has to be like management behind it. I don't even know if you

have to have a tag in Utah anymore. Let's find out it out. Put that search in. Do you need a tag to get to hunt mountain line in Utah? Maybe they just give out over the counter tax anybody wants them and they're still collecting revenue, which is ideal. That's the best way to do it. And if the

numbers are great enough, yeah. But Texas doesn't even do that. They go, no, we don't want to get involved. You go ahead and shoot them. And it's a fucking monster in your backyard. Yeah. The business is coming from someone who loves them. Yeah.

I love them. I love them. Yeah, I'm the fine. They're amazing. Okay, yes, you must have a valid Utah hunting or combination hunting fishing license to hunt mountain lines, but you do not need a separate cougar tag. Okay, so it is like a coyote. Yeah, so it's year-round harvest for license hunters, and you just have to get it checked in after you kill. Right.

Which is also smart. Yeah. Because they want to know what it's been eating. Now, that's how you do it. That's how you do it. That's how you do it. Utah, way to go. Good job.

That's the right way to do it. And, of course, you should have a hunting license. Yeah. I think you have to have one in Texas as well to hunt anything. You know, talking about this. Actually, that's not true, right? What? No, I'm thinking that.

No, I think in Texas, you don't even need a hunting license to hunt exotics. No, not if they're on a private. Right. I think you could just go hunt them. Yeah. Right. Okay. Talking about politics in different areas, it reminds me of in B.C., they outlawed grizzly hunting, and just

just recently, maybe last week, you know, a grizzly attacked a school group. Oh, I read about that. You see that? Yeah. That's another thing. So we're in the cities who control a lot of the voting power of the, that's a province,

but states here is that the city's determinate, and people living in the cities don't know what the fuck's going on in the wilderness. So they vote, oh, I love lions, I love grizzly bear, I love wolves, we need to have more of them. Meanwhile, the people out in the mountains are actually dealing with this shit. Yeah. And so Vancouver, you know, if we're talking to B.C., specifically, Vancouver pretty much makes the decisions for British Columbia. Yeah.

They said no more grizzly hunting. And now it's just, you know, grizzly bear out of control. Did you ever meet my friend Mike Hawkridge? Yeah, we went to dinner after a fight once. That's right. That's right. One of those steakhouses in Vegas, right? Mike's great. And he and Ben O'Brien took me on a moose hunt once.

And he was telling me that this was before the grizzly bear ban. He was like, there are so many of them. And he had to shoot one from six feet away. One was breaking into a cabin, and he had to shoot it from six feet away. Dude, like, they're terrifying up there. Yeah. They have so many of them, and they have wolves everywhere. We stumbled on a wolf kill.

We got there, you know, it was probably a day old, I don't know, but it was nothing but hair. That was the thing that shocked me. What was it? Or what did it used to be? A moose calf. Oh, okay. And it was, there was nothing but hair. That was what was weird.

It's like I didn't anticipate seeing so much hair Like the moose hair was everywhere Just everywhere I thought it'd be like a dead animal But it was just basically bones And there was like a tiny bit of meat On you know corners of the bones And hair

Everywhere It was just like they're like pah Just tearing into this moose cap And coughing up hair Yeah I didn't see one when I was up there Although I think we did see one in the distance when we were at John and Jen's place.

We saw one we thought it was a bear, or we thought it was a wolf run across the road. I was either with you or I was with Ben. Yeah. I don't remember who it was, but I've never seen a wolf in the wild. Like, a real, like, absolute, like, look at them. Holy shit, it's a wolf.

Yeah. Yeah. They look at you in a certain way, eh? Oh, bro. One of the first trips I ever did to Canada was up in Northwest Territories. And I actually thought it was caribou coming down the river, like just the color of the wolves,

similar to a caribou. And then I worked out there were wolves, and the guy that I was with, he's like, oh, it's a pack of wolves. And I'm like, can I call them in? Oh, God. And he's... Adam Green Tree.

What's wrong with you? He's like, yeah, and then I got up against a tree. And I just started doing, like, a call that I'd do for, like, a fox or a wild dog back in Australia. And this whole pack come in. Like a wounded rabbit call? You'd never seen them come in. They were like up in our vision up there. Yeah, like a rabbit called Distressed Rabbit.

And the next minute, they were just like... Right there. They were fully surrounding us and just come in. Yeah, it was freaking cool. But I just remember. they could fully see me at that point and they were still just like looking through me eh and i was like yeah that's sick but you ever hear a dudley story when dudley dudley um and some guy that he was with in bc i think it was bc i'm pretty sure um or no it was Alberta they

killed a i think it was a i think it was an elk but when they killed it they killed it essentially on top of where the wolves den like right there and wolves started circling around them and the guide had like one round in his rifle and Dudley had like two arrows or three arrows left and they're surrounded by wolves and Dudley shot two of them with a bow and arrow and the the guide shot one with a rifle. They shot three wolves, three wolves. He said there was like they were surrounding him. He said it was the freakyest fucking thing he's ever experienced. It wouldn't have been a great feeling. He told the story on the podcast and it was like fuck that man.

You only have two bullets, you fucking asshole? Like, what is wrong with you? Two bullets in one life. Like, what do you, what the fuck are you doing, man? I killed a bull in New Mexico one year, and I killed it late in the afternoon. So we did a pack out. This is just going back to the mountain line story. We did a pack out with meat, went back in, in the dark with head torches.

And as we're walking in, I seen a couple of eyes or whatever, and it was just like deer, meal deer or something. that. And then I'm like, oh, there's another deer up in front of us. And as we got closer, the eyes were too high. And it's just like, no, that's not a deer. And it was a mountain lion up in the tree. Like, it was right up in the tree. There was the kill there. That line stayed in the tree while we grabbed more meat and packed it out. You grab his meat? Yeah. The mountain lion's meat? Well, it was his kill. It was your kill. And I was going back in for it and just thinking it was a set of deer eyes and as we're walking up the eyes were like up in a tree and um that's like so i've only seen two that's one of them and it was in the dark and i swear if it was daylight i would

have seen one in my whole entire hunting did you see cam's brother's story on on instagram oh my god cam's brother was running late at night in californ or at night in california and should we play it yeah did we ever play it on the show i think we might have we might have did you yeah yeah I know you mentioned it. Fucking terrifying. Yeah, yeah. It's terrifying. I've never seen that in Australia, by the way.

What's your brother's name again? Taylor. Taylor, it's like T. Spike. Yeah. Yeah, Taylor. So it's, it's, my stepdad and mom had two kids, Taylor and Megan. Oh, okay. So those are my brothers, or brother and sister.

And then he does Ultras too, right? Yeah, he's actually really good. Yeah. He seemed like one of them dudes who had to get it in. No, he's just. He had to get it in at night. He did a 300-mile race just last year. He got, he's competing, trying to win the thing, of course, but got second.

Wow. The Arizona Monster 300. That's insane. Oh, my God. That hurts my hips and my joints. That's the level he's at. 300 miles or 300 kilometers? Miles.

That makes it so much worse. You were thinking about kilometers. I thought you're an American now. Didn't we convert you? We were trying to teach you inches the other night. my lip for some reason. It's an American thing. You guys don't have pouches?

It's probably illegal over there. Probably. Yeah, they'll take it away. Government's going to control it. Yeah, how's that working out? You can do that, but you have to wear a mask. Did you find Taylor's video? I think it's on his Instagram.

Yeah, it is. It's definitely. Did I send it to you at one point in time, maybe? I just found a video of you talking about it. Ah. Unless he took it down. I don't think he took it down. What is his Instagram handle?

It's T. Spike, something like that. T spike something I'll find it T spike 300 miles Coming in second place In 300 miles It's bananas Yeah

And meanwhile how much difference Was there between him and number one I think a couple hours probably Oh God Wow that's insane But it took Oh God I think he did it in 88 hours

That is nuts man That's a serious effort That is a serious effort There's some freaks out there for sure I'll do it one day He's one of them Are you going to do it one day for real? Yeah.

T-Spike 2. A couple more business away as well. It'll be good. What, Jamie? I don't know where the video is. Okay, I'll find it. I'll find it. Yeah, he's, oh, it's me talking about it.

That's what. Oh, he must have re-shared that or something. Yeah, here it is. I found it right away. It's just his face. When you see his face staring at the camera, it says line. Oh, you got it? Okay.

It says the line update. Yeah, this is it. Give me some volume. For a restless night of this reoccurring dream of these green eyes hot on my tail. I was coming down the trail last night. just after dark, and I see these green eyes off to the side of the trail. I mean, right on the side of the trail. What I thought was a coyote, I just kind of yelled, and then when it stood up, I realized

it was a fucking mountain lion. I took off running as hard as I could, and I looked over my shoulder, and it was right behind me. I ran for probably 100 yards and realized it wasn't given up, and I turned around, and I kicked rocks, and I jumped up and down, and I screamed to the top of my lungs. and this thing did not care. I did that a few times to the point that at one point I almost thought I'm just going to lay down here and die because I'm not going to outrun this fucking thing. Another time it got really close to me and I thought I had no choice but to try to scare it.

And I turned and I screamed and I kicked rocks. I mean, to the point it was, I mean, it was right, right there. and I finally decided, well, you just got to run, run for your fucking life. I've done some crazy shit in my life. I've been pretty scared, but this, this was next level. This was next level. It terrified me. You know, I think maybe if I'd had a gun, I could have done something, pepper spray.

I don't think that it was so close that I would have probably pepper spray myself. So, I don't know. I was a half mile from the city in Lake Forest, California. I mean, like, straight up, I can hear dogs barking. And at one point, I thought maybe that's what kind of detoured it, but I said, didn't care. So this morning I'm going to ride the bike. Probably won't go back out there in the dark. I did weigh around for the sheriff's department and fishing game because there was other hikers on the trail that were above me

that what I had to have come down and I just don't know how other people would have responded like I said I've done some scary shit I've been in the woods my whole life but this this was next level it was terrifying but I'm all good

back at it right I guess if this only happens one time in your life I got it out of the way I'm a lucky fucker have good day all keep at it doesn't work like that that That is the consequences of letting monsters live in your neighborhood.

Yeah. That's real. And all these wilderness loving people, I guarantee you, you're not out there as much as that guy is. I guarantee you're not out there as much as you are, you are. That's the difference between people that really understand what we're talking about and people that are looking at this from this knee-jerk, love and compassion for nature perspective. Well, back to what Cam said, it's like the majority of votes are people that don't get in that environment. And it's not just about hunting

That's for farmers anywhere as well There's people in the city that are making votes For people that live in the country And the lifestyle is completely different And they don't understand what they're talking about Especially the BC band Like we're gonna ban trophy hunting Truffy hunting's bad

But what about monster control Isn't that good? I'm on fucking team people Okay I love animals But I am on team people Imagine if they knew How soft we were They don't have to spit out hair

Like, the flesh is right here. It's soft. It's so easy to get into it. Because they usually go in at the stomach, you know, or the ass. It's like our stomach, how soft those are. Straight for the organs. Yeah, it's right, right to the good stuff. Yeah.

Not good. And it's like, even, I don't think people, like, even a dog can turn into, like, I killed a buck, you know, before we went on that last time, I killed a buck. And like for the treat for the dog, you cut off the nuts, give them the nuts. So it's got hide on it. It's got the bucks, nuts, basically. Dog takes off, they're just, like, ripping into it. It's like delicacy, right?

That's just a normal dog. So a lion who's born and bred to kill, I mean, that's just the level of what animals do. Your liver is a rib-eye, and they have an eating in a week. You're like, oh, baby. Look at that liver. It's right there. Yeah. And those...

The dogs there at that deer camp, you give them like a part of the, I don't know, there's some skin. It's not the flank steak, but it's just some skin there that sometimes you cut off that goes over the stomach and run off, eat pounds and pounds of meat, a regular dog. So a lion, yeah, they'll eat. What they do is they just eat as much meat as they can and they just kind of lay around. So that's the time to actually run from a lion is after a big meal. You know what I mean? because their stomachs are full of meat. Maybe that's why Taylor,

maybe that lion that chased him had just killed a deer and was full of protein, but, you know, they still hunt. That's what they do. It's their instinct. But sometimes you can time it right and maybe that saves your life.

Yeah, geez. That's not a risk we should be taken. No. If you can avoid it, it's always better. It's like they're so hard to find. People don't understand. You're not going to put a dent in their population. This is not like any other,

it's not like deer. You can depopopopoeia. a deer, like an environment of deer. If you went crazy and hunted them all and you said, what's eradicate all the deer? Every hunter, you could shoot as many deer as you want. Just let's go do it right now. You can get rid of all the deer.

You ain't ever doing that with cats. Yeah. They're too sneaky. Not now. Not now. Even in Australia with buffalo, you can fly and eliminate a lot of stuff. Pigs here, deer, buffalo down there,

the water buffalo. But you're not doing helicopter. killing of lions. Yeah. No. You can do wolves. They'll lower wolf populations that way. And they do.

They do in some parts of the world. They do in Alaska, right? Yeah. They do wolf kills from helicopters. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, lions are just tough. But I did, I didn't even realize this, but Oregon, as we're looking

at those numbers that Jamie pulled up, Oregon, the goal is 970 lions a year, but we never get to it. Right. So what that means is we're not meeting our objective of lion kills, that means there's more and more lions every year. Don't they factor that into the

amount of tags they give, though, that there's going to be a limited amount of success, so they'll give more tags than they will be, like, then they actually need to kill? For lions or for lions to do that? Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm not sure how they do it. It's supposed to be like a balance, you know? I mean, if if, but the, what

happens is not enough lions are getting killed, so there's too many lions, so that means the lions are killing too many deer note because there's the line number is too high and that's what's kind of happening there's areas in oregon that were great hunting at one time that are terrible now well here's a perfect example where i used to live in californ you guys been in my house a lot of land a lot of woods a lot of like there's a lot of like wildlife out there good luck finding a deer oh yeah you might find two three in a month in a month i see deer every fucking day out here i see them every day you know

why? No mountain lions and you could shoot them. California has a mountain lion problem. Like, it's a real problem. The place, the Tahone Ranch, that place, they had a camera out in front of one of their ponds and they got 16 different mountain lions on that camera. 16. Yeah. And what the people in L.A., they have no idea what's going, but they're voting. Right. That's who controls what's... And voting with their hearts. And so, yeah, they're vote. Well, and they're good people. And I would have voted with them, right? Okay? If I had never been hunting and I'd never been in the woods, I would have voted with them. Maybe not. Maybe not because I'm a little fucking skeptical of people's wisdom. And I probably would have looked into it a little bit and thought about what it

would be like to get eaten by a mountain line and go, what the fuck are we talking about? Kill these goddamn things. You're fucking crazy. Don't kill them all. You don't have to kill them all. They're going to exist in the woods where they're supposed to be. They're not supposed to be in Pasadena. Right. Okay. They're not supposed to be wandering around the fucking Hollywood Hills. Like that one that I have the big picture of. No. That one's crazy. That lion. That picture is insane. Insane. The Hollywood sign behind him and he's wearing a collar. That picture to me embodies like everything that's wrong with California. Like you know where he is and he's in the neighborhood where people live and you just put a collar on him. Yeah. So you could track him when he's

fucking killing dogs. Like what are you saying? You know how many, look at that photo. Yeah. It is a sick photo. That is an amazing. That's one of the most amazing photos. Ever taken. As soon as I saw that photo, I'm like, oh, my God, we have to buy a print. What do you think he's thinking? Ordered it from the photographer. What is he thinking? What am I going to kill next?

And why is this fucking thing on my neck? That's the most tastiest. That's right above where Huberman used to live. Oh, it's dude, it's right there. By the way, that's like, we filmed Fear Factor out there a punch of times. Yeah. Look at that fucker. Oh, I know.

Oh, my God. Look at his face. I'm just wandering into that. The thing is so big. How's sick of a photo? that amazing yeah and it's all camera traps yeah so but here's what's so critical and you know hunters we can be our own worst enemies but part of what discussions like this and talking about how it actually works is so important it's not for other hunters it's for people who don't hunt who do vote you know

it's like hey let's just educate yeah people who don't understand it's not it's not your fault you don't understand you haven't hunted your whole life that's okay but just listen to what we're saying and just say like hey, when that vote comes up, and it's like we're talking about, you know, being able to hunt lions with dogs or black bear with bait, let's think about, hey, there's repercussions if we don't allow this, you know? They just don't know what it is. It sounds cruel. Lions with dogs.

Like, oh, that's not even fair. Yeah. You want to hunt it with a spear. If you want to hunt it like we used to hunt him, hunt it with a spear. Your bare hand. No, bare hands is what I see. Kill with your bare hands. That's the dumbest argument.

That's the dumbest. How do you think we got to the point where we don't have fangs, you fucking dolt? We got there. We evolved past that because we figured out weapons, okay? And that's why we can have cities. Never kills shit with their hands. At least they had a fucking wooden spear. So what are you talking about, bare hands?

It's the dumbest fucking argument of all time. And it's also people that don't understand that we would have never had civilization if we didn't do this. Exactly. It wouldn't exist. The conversation doesn't come from a want perspective from me. I've got no desire to hunt a mountain lion again. I don't. But as someone that's in the know, because I have before, you know,

and I wanted to educate myself prior to that hunt, I was doing as much reading as I could to find out, do I feel good about this? Is, yeah, so it's not like I want them still on the list to hunt because I want to go and do it again. I don't have a desire to do that again myself, but I do see that it's good management. You know, and instead of them being cold and not utilized,

you know, and it's actually costing money, you know, there's money going into conservation at that point from the hunter, and the meat utilized, you know, and as you mentioned, in that case, I gave that meat to a lot of people because I wanted people to see it as a food source as well, you know, as in, because you do, you sort of think of the mountain line, you're like, ugh, the meat was amazing, some of the most incredible meat I've ever had. I mean, even if, so just say they didn't require you to take the meat and you didn't, and you didn't eat it. still they need to be killed. Yeah. It's all there's to it. Just to make the deer and elk population, just to make it work like it has to work because humans, people will always say, well, mother nature will take care of itself.

It's like, no, humans have encroached on this habitat. That's why we need to control this. This isn't like the wide open West that it once was where, yeah, maybe it would work out eventually. It's not going to work out. They were here first. They were here first. We're part of the system, 100%. And Adam, you know, he said he's killed one.

He doesn't plan on killing another. I've never killed one. I've never killed a lion in my entire life, but I know it's important. So it's not like I'm this big lion hunter that I just have this passion for doing and I want to kill as many as possible. Never even killed one, but I know that we have to kill them. And in Colorado there, that's one thing. You know, you talk about sex and the animal up on, up in the tree because you can see

what it is, male, female. You don't, when I hunted them, I did hunt them. I didn't kill, but you could kill any lion, essentially if it didn't have, you know, it couldn't be a female with cubs. but uh or kittens but um you look at them in the tree and you can decide oh that's a female probably not the best to kill let's kill an old male because it's just that's how it just works better that way taking old males out and uh but you can do that and same thing with baiting bear a bear comes in a bear is really tough to tell whether it's a bore or a sow that's male or female

for those that don't know but at a bait when you're looking very closely you can see oh that's an old male that's one i want to take so that's why that's why there's not just trying to random like I'm rifle hunting is 400 yards away running and you kill like a bear and it has cubs you didn't realize it had cubs because the cubs are in a tree somewhere that the sow left so that's where baiting is actually the best way to manage these numbers and it might seem like oh you just throw out donuts and this and that and the bear comes in I mean yeah you could term like that or you could say no we're targeting the right animal to make this work the best way it can well people need to understand that wildlife biologists and the numbers that

put up and the rules that they apply, especially the rational rules like that, they exist because it's the only effective way to hunt these things. Like, you don't use dogs to hunt elk, you know what I'm saying? It's like, because it doesn't seem right, right? There's one effective way to get these mountain lions and you've got to tree them. You know, if you don't have that option and you're bow hunting, you have to stumble upon one. And they're not going to, they're going to know you're coming forever before you know they're there.

forever hundreds of yards away they're going to smell you they'll hear something they'll turn and look at it they have amazing eyesight you know like you're you're not finding them and if you want to keep the populations in check there's like california's got a bear problem too and part of their bear problem is you you can't use dogs anymore yeah it was the only way they could really control populations in a lot of these places dogs are bait or baiting um hey jama i got another project so cam canaday you start spelled with a k As we were talking about, he had a deer tag. He was deer hunting in Oregon. This is what you do. You just buy a bear and a lion tag just to have with you. But he killed this giant lion. He was deer hunting. This lion came up, sat on this rock 40 yards away.

And he's just like, I got a lion tag. Perfect. Boom. Put a perfect arrow in this giant lion. But look at this thing. And he's a big dude. There's a slob. He played for the Steelers for like six years in the NFL.

And yeah, so that was just like a happen chance. That's how you get him in Oregon because you can't use dogs. You can't do anything else. So that lion just just jumped up there and he made a perfect shot on it. That's crazy. But look at that big thing. God. Yeah, pretty nuts.

And like I said, Cam's like six, four, I don't know, two-thirty. You ever see the one Derek Wolf killed? Yeah, that was a giant one too. Giant one. So the Derek Wolf story is a great one too because he took so much. cheat online about it. People were so angry in him that he did that. And it's just people that don't understand why

it's necessary. And first of all, if you know Derek, Derek's a fucking legit Viking. He's a legit Viking. That guy's a giant human being. So for him to be holding, is there another picture where you see like the full length picture? That's it. There's the full length picture.

Look at the size of that fucking thing. Yeah, so you, and I don't know what the numbers are, but you think a lion kills a especially a lion that big, has to basically kill a deer every week, right? So that's 365 deer a year that thing is killed. Or no, not, no, that's 52 deer a year. Imagine there's a deer a day. No, but...

Do you know the wolf thing? Possibly. They say lions are killing more deer now than ever in places where there's wolves, because the wolves scare a lion off the kill. The wolves steal them. They steal them all the time. So the lions just give up and they go kill another one. Right.

They can kill way easier than the deer can. They're way more effective killers. So think about, say, 50 lion or 50 deer a year for each lion. How many lions are in Colorado? A lot. A lot. You know? Yeah, a lot.

That's a lot of fucking deer or elk calves or something's being killed. Yeah. Australia's got a real bad problem with shark population now. And it's like, and I'm taking it there because what's happening is for like a really good eaten fish, like a red emperor. you'll only get like five Red Emperor that's your quota for the day you can only catch five and what the sharks are doing now is

you'll hook a Red Emperor and the sharks will just take it off the line so you don't have a Red Emperor in the boat anymore but one's dead because the sharks got it so you keep fishing and then so now the Red Emperor numbers are declining because sharks that's like their favourite fish to jump to grab off a line

you can catch a cod you'll get it to the boat because the sharks aren't going for it but if it's a red fish the sharks are taking it constantly and then so what's happened is because there's been a ban on shark fishing shark numbers have gotten out of control so now red emperor numbers have plummeted because the sharks are just eating them constantly how many people in australia you could kill by sharks every year there's been a few this year already yeah i actually just had i had my girlfriend out a couple of maybe a month or two ago and i took it to this beautiful beach and it was it was awesome as soon as we got there there's dolphins jumping out of the water and

whatnot anyway we never went for a swim just because of how the conditions were and a week later a lady was taken from that beach and her partner may have died as well i didn't follow up on the story but a partner got attacked as well but got out of the water um and it's great why it's mostly on the east coast they seem to be running pretty rampant at the moment Again, kill them. It's the bleeding hearts that are making the votes. Four confirmed fatal shark attacks in 2025 so far, with some trackers listing four or five deaths

depending on how many incidents are classified. But think about how much less people are out there in the water than on the ground. That's the thing. It's like people go, there's only four shark attacks a year. Right, but how many people are in the water? Yeah, out of 500 people. Yeah, it's not a lot of people in the water, swimming out there.

A horrible way to go. Oh, good Lord. No, it's an absolute monster of the ocean. Oh. Yeah, isn't it weird to think that, I mean, most society doesn't know anything about the wild these days. You know what I mean? Yeah, we're domesticated. Yeah, so it's, but even like, I don't know, I always say that, I mean, we talked about this.

I'm pretty sure because I talk about it all the time. but like I always think that society like this regular life here is fake it's like it's not even not even real it's not even how humans were designed to to live and survive where the wild is actually where that's how that's what we're designed to do live in the mountains or hunt and survive things like that and so the fake life I don't know it's just crazy to me to think about that the fake life is what we think of is a real life and it's not it's not real real it's like what we're doing yeah it's just not real life yeah we're made to live in a society that's not by mine or your design right you know and it's sort of like and that's I always feel out of it in society

because I just feel like it's not for me but it is it's here and we've got to live in it I do like go on the waste of wells and getting a good injection so but I just want to go when I want to go that's the way to do it attack it from the outside

yeah go in go go to a nice restaurant and get back out to the country and just fucking relax it's better for people you ever see that um the old days of vice when vice used to do really cool stuff they had vice guide to travel and uh there's this one guy who lives in the arctic circle and this dude is he's been there since the 1970s he got a job up there and got permitted where he's like grandfathered in to allow to live in a small cabin up there like the last guy there he has like a permit on his door and this guy has been living up there ever since he saw 9-11 in a photograph like a year after it happened had no idea what was going on very smart guy like intelligent interesting guy and lives up there with his wife and all he does is hunt caribou and fish and he talks about it and he's like this is how people are supposed to live like when you he's not like he's a very intelligent guy so like when he's talking about he's talking it from like an internal program like this is like this feeling that you get living like this is how people are supposed to live and when you live like this you're very fulfilled and it feels normal whereas most people don't feel normal most people are depressed they have anxiety they're worried about their career they're worried about all this stuff that is like human created they're worried about our are their social status when they're ostracized from the neighborhood or people like them anymore because they're political beliefs or whatever the fuck it is there's none of that out there's none of that because it's

It's the way we were designed, but if we want all the things that we enjoy, like fucking Starlink and cell phones, like, you have to have this weird fake world that we've created, the human created world. But it's not conducive to like a healthy mindset for most people. It's not normal. And so all the, I have this thought about why exercise is so important for people's mental health. because I think at the very least what it does is it gives you like the physical exertion that your body requires but I think your body requires

a connection as well and that's what we're missing. We're missing the natural world connection and you can get some of that out of the physical exercise. You can get some of that out of like doing but your body's literally designed to have to move and to complete tasks in order to survive. And that task could be like that guy out there hunting caribou, building a house, surviving, like making a homestead, growing a garden.

Like this is a normal way we are. But we're moving into this abnormal way. And along the way, people are losing their fucking marbles. Everyone's crazy. No one knows what a woman is anymore. Like everyone literally out of their fucking mind. Out of their mind with a, if the left wind, the democracy will, if the right win, we're all going to be Nazis. And it's just chaos.

And none of it is normal, none of it is natural. And the reason why it's so incompatible with most people is because we're not designed for it. I feel it. I know cams the same, but like it's just like time doing those things that are usually in a quieter environment, in a more natural environment. Like I mentally feel better every time. And then I almost feel myself slipping when I come back to the city, you know, and it's just like you sort of start letting your guard down. You just slip back into it. You're like, this is, I'm not enjoying this.

And then you go back out hunting for us or camping or whatever it is. And then I do. I feel revitalized. I feel healthier mentally and physically I feel healthier. And then, but adding all the other things to it, you know, like you talk about like, you know, exercise and yeah, it does touch on it. And I think all those little things help. But to really get out in fresh air is the big one for me where it's just, I do. I feel more flow state.

I wonder if like, I'm sure Nate, like, a. primitive man felt emotions for sure but do you think they felt depressed no i mean you know what i mean i feel like they're too busy i think that survive eight i think people i think this is part of this fake society is like are you happy are you happy it's like happy what the fuck is happy i want to be useful out there i want to do do something i'm not happy set i'm nothing right what is happy I'm content just being Right I feel

Can you be contentious being Yeah When you're in the mountains carrying your bow Glassing, looking drinking eating looking for a place to sleep

What is that That's what I want I don't know what it's happening I don't know what it is But that's like Purpose I have a purpose I'm trying to kill something

That is that happy Yeah you're trying to find food To me that feels Because I don't know what happy is. I see people, they laugh and they're fucking around. Sometimes it's, it's alcohol induced or drug induced. It's like, is that supposed to be happy? What is how? I don't know. I don't know what, what are we, what are we calling happy? Because that's not like a little kid laughing at a birthday party, but are those both, are they both happy? The fight no one saw coming.

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you do fun stupid shit like you go play uh like sandbox games you pretend you're shooting zombies with vr that's happy it's fun it's silly you get it out of it everyone has a smile You had a good time. That was wild. That's happy too. There's a bunch of different kinds of happy. Some of it we've created, but there's content. Like, are you content?

Like, are you enjoying your existence? Yeah. And I think that's a real struggle for a lot of people. Right. Because there's a giant percentage of the people that are listening to this right now that are forced to do something they don't enjoy doing most of the time. Most of the time, most of their day, they're doing something they don't enjoy doing because they have to do it in order to do the things that they do enjoy.

So if you want to go on vacation, you've got to make enough money to afford the trip to Hawaii. If you want to do this, you got to do that. If you want to do this, you got to do that. You're like, and so you're just working in some stupid cubicle punching keys, just planning all the fun stuff you're going to do with the money that you make doing this thing you hate doing. It's pretty nuts. It's pretty nuts. I've never felt happy in that. That's what I'm saying.

But having to do something to get to somewhere, sometimes you have to be unhappy. That's true too. wrong person to be commenting on this because you're extreme you're never going to be happy because you're going to continue to chase bigger and better yeah that's what i say i good that's awesome i don't know i mean and i i mentioned this before i'm happiest when i'm suffering yeah that's ridiculous no but like doesn't it doesn't it feel like adam and i we just looked at each other he's fucking crazy because when i'm suffering it's because i'm doing something that matters to me right yeah you like that and you know what's on the other side that's what makes it better too yeah you've sort

of programmed yourself to be like that too you know this is like similar to gagan's right gongans always wants people to know that he wasn't always like this that he used to be fat and lazy and he shows pictures of himself at 300 pounds he always talks about it you know it's like it's like this isn't i wasn't born like this like i turn myself into this and i think one of the reasons why you've been able to struggle so much is that you've figured out a way to enjoy struggle and a lot of people avoid struggle at all cost they want the couch oh I want to relax it's cold out I don't want to get in that fucking cold plunge

are you crazy what's wrong with you you know I love struggle because you know what's on the other side yeah the growth so it's like once you've done that and I think that's where a lot of people struggle if they quit or they don't get to the other side then you don't know the reward on it what you just said is perfect that's why they struggle

because they don't struggle it's like the thing you're avoiding It's causing you to have the exact same thing. It's just a, you're getting a slow dose of that poison and you never get out of it. Whereas if you voluntarily struggle, then you get this beautiful feeling when it's over. But you're not doing that. So you're just getting the same amount of struggle in these weird little slow doses all day long. So you're never getting like, oh my God, I'm in agony.

I can't breathe. But if you did, then the rest of the day would be easy. Yeah. Instead, you're getting, oh, my God, the worst. world is closing in on me and I don't know why I'm so freaked out and I'm riddled with anxiety all day long for no fucking reason I'm having a panic attack and there's nothing wrong that's what's going on like you're you're getting your suffering in like little doses all day long and it's driving you fucking crazy yeah and that's why you get on SSRIs and that's why

you do this and that's why you do that and you join a cult and everyone's just trying to figure out a way to feel better everyone's just trying to figure out a way to feel better and one of the ways to feel better is voluntary struggling yeah you got to volunteer to put yourself in stressful situations difficult situations do it on purpose if you do that then the regular world is easier yeah it's uh i think like i'm always of course biased towards hunting in the mountains but also think that men um men specifically you know where i grew up and in the environment i grew up hunters were respected and if you killed a big buck you're like that meant something in a small town i was because it's very difficult to do right and it's like for men respect is such an important

thing yeah it's like we say like women need love men need if you have to choose men love doesn't mean shit really but respect does yeah and like hunting was a way to earn respect from the community and that's why for men like when i as hunters i think that's appealing for people for people who don't hunt because they see that image and they're like I'm missing that yeah because they see that there's there's respect earned there and that's what men whether they want to admit it or not that's a big driving force like you even at work and whatever job you have you want to be respected here's a perfect example that story you were telling me about shooting that bull in the Oregon backcountry and you it's terrible place to

kill a bull and you called up that dude yeah Cal Halliday Which sounds like a fake name We're talking about that A gun slinger Cal Halliday sounds like such a fake name It's a perfect badass name You call this dude to ask him to help you

Dude drove through You told him Okay he said I'll see you there at 8 a.m. Yeah This guy drives through the night He shows up Like how many hours did it take him to get there He had to hike in

So he had to round up three other guys So he brought four of Like him and three guys And they live God, how far away. I mean, at least a couple hours, I think. And so they had to get together, drive a couple hours, get up on this old, like, logging road, essentially into the, get to the access point of the wilderness, to the trailhead. Pack in miles, right?

So this is like nine or ten at night. They said they'd be there at eight in the morning. So that's what it took. Like to get there and then miles back to this remote, middle of the wilderness, hellhole area. by 8 a.m. So, yeah, it was, it was hours and hours and hours just to get there. And you can't time that.

You can't time that, but he did. But the way you talked about him, that's what every man wants. Yeah. Like, that was a fucking man. Yes. But he earned it, too. You know, that's, and you're talking about, you know,

respect so important. But you do have to earn respect. Right, right. And that, when, so in that moment, so there was me, Wayne, Tanner, my son, James, my camera guy Gideon, and then he brought four guys. So we had eight guys

in that moment there's not eight other men I'd rather have, or seven other men besides me that I'd rather have there because those to do that is special. That's not everybody can do that shit. But those

guys, that was their purpose, they could probably never be, quote, happier than in that moment, elk meat on our back, Miles to get to the trail head out and hundreds of pounds of meat yeah a 300 pounds of meat So we waited at the at the butcher when I took the to get processed 300 pounds of boned out meat That's not not a bone on there so not including your camp not including everything's on your back And the head I took the head out so 300 pounds of meat plus everything else that we had

But eight of us packed it out and it was a great the greatest day I can remember probably this season you know I mean it was that was that was real that's what i say that that's real yeah all this other shit i don't know what this is but that was fucking real i killed a bull we have to get it out to take care of this meat here's some badass mountain men who can help me does it get any better no yeah i think i've known you for 13 or 14 years now and you've always been like that i yeah you've never changed in that sense like those things are important to you those things are meaningful to you all right it's incredible. No, it's a, thank you. But yeah, it's, it's, yeah, I mean, that's all that

fucking matters. It's, most people never experience that. That's what's wrong. What's wrong is most people never experienced the, that insane, challenging experience where your, your character's tested, your will is tested, your commitment is tested. Just think. So, the video on this hunt came out last night and it's called The Bow Hunter, but there's a moment there, After we had called, after we'd got my bull process. So at that time, it was just me, Wayne, Tanner, and James. And we're just sitting there. We had our tent set up.

The meat's all hanging up. Middle of the night, sitting there talking. Eating, we're eating peak meals. I'm like, why are we eating peak meals when you're happy? Why didn't you eat the elk? We didn't have a fire. The meat was processed. It wasn't time to eat or like to break down the,

the bull, but that would have been great. Tenderloins over fire would have been amazing. We just didn't do it. But the point is, in that moment, there's no other place on earth, no other time in my life that I would rather be. That is, that was the pinnacle of life for me. That's a normal, natural experience for primitive man. Yes. That's what it is. And it's how we stayed alive. And the way I describe it to people. There's a feeling. Most people have caught a fish. There's a feeling when someone catches a fish, like even a child, when I took my daughter bass fishing, she was like six, I think. She caught a bunch of bass. And the feeling that she got when she hooked it, like, oh, her eyes light up. It is built in us. It's inside of us. But catching a fish,

bow hunting and in the mountains, killing an animal, cooking it over a fire with your boys, is that times a thousand It's a crazy built-in We did what we have to do And we're looking forward to doing it again So that that The intense experience The difficulty, all of it

You're sitting there relax, you're eating And you have no doubt You can't wait to do that again You're not like man, I don't want to do this again This is nuts You're like yeah I'm fucking tired But that was awesome Yeah that was awesome

You take the pack off like Woo dude He's sitting there by the fire You're drenched and sweat your legs are gone everybody's around smiling like we fucking did it we did it i just don't know how i mean you hope the films can show that and and but gives you a peek to feel it oh yeah it's i would i wish everybody could feel it just so they'd know yeah it'll never happen but it's it's so It's life-changing.

Do you remember Israel Adasanya's speech after he knocked out Pereira? Yes. What did he say? He goes, I wish, he goes, people of the world. Play it, let's play it because it's fucking amazing. It's fucking amazing. So this is Alex Pereira.

This is a guy that had beaten him three times. Three times, yeah. Knocked him out in kickboxing, knocked him out in MMA, and then finally he knocked him out. Yeah. And this was like, everybody was like terrified of him taking this rematch. Pereira can't be stopped. Pereira's a destroyer.

He's the scariest guy. ever but he asked me to give him the microphone what a human yeah I love style bender oh he's the best he's the best he's the best is it Okay, one time, let me just hold the microphone. Yes, sir.

Hey, sure, sure, listen up. I want to say something. People, Earth, I need to say something. Listen to me. I hope every one of you behind your screens on this arena can feel this level of happiness just one time in your life. I hope all of you can feel how happy I am

just one time in your life. But guess what? you will never feel this level of happiness if you don't go for something in your own life when they knock you down where they're trying to on you when they talk about you and they try to put their foot on your neck if you stay down you will never ever get that resolve fortify your mind and feel this level of happiness as you rise one time of your life but i'm blessed to be able to feel this again and again and again and again and again The greatest post-fight speech of all time.

You know what I love, too, is, like, even in that moment, like, there's a little bit of blood starting to trickle out of his nose. You know, I mean, because he looks really good for just fighting, but it's like there's little, you know, the sweat, the blood trickling. Oh, man. He's getting hit, man. He's getting hit. And his left leg was already destroyed.

He didn't take many of those. No, he was talking to me about it afterwards. He's like, that motherfucker got me again. I was thinking that before that. He got my fucking leg again, because that was the part of the problem. problem with the first fight. Yeah. First MMA fight.

His left leg was destroyed. He couldn't move his left leg. So even though he's like bobby, he's like, I was okay. He goes, but I couldn't get out of there. He goes, I couldn't move my fucking leg, man. He goes, I was getting hit, but I was still there. I was moving, like, he was still moving around, but he couldn't go away. Like, his leg was destroyed.

And that's what people don't think about when you, like, especially those goddamn calf kicks. Yeah. He probably knew after the first one. He was like, fuck, he got me again. Fuck. He destroys people's legs, and then you're a sitting duck in front of the scariest puncher in the history of the division. Hands of stone there.

Oh, my God. He's fucking terrifying. And for him to catch him with that perfect right hand, off the cage like that, oh, my God. And then shoot the arrows into him when he was down. Greatest post-fight celebration, greatest post-fight speech of all time. Of all time. There's not even a second place that really, except Rosenoma Eunice, that one time when she was saying, I'm the best. Oh, yeah.

That was pretty powerful. that was pretty powerful too Jamie could you find that tent scene at the end of that video so but here's what I was curious about is oh he did find it yeah like right here

so the difference between Israel's happiness and this happiness I'll do anything you want to do but you know you go until you're just sick of the weight and you get it under the tree of the shade and you get all kind of energized

come back drink some water grab it and then mentally you're not coming back to here. Right. I mean, you get it all across the creek and that flat. I mean, it doesn't get any more in the bottom. That was a pack out, but I wouldn't want it any other way. Wayne, he had a horse packer set up. And then I had also talked to Calhalla. And when I was in there by myself on an opening weekend, he said, hey, if you kill a bull in here by yourself, he goes, let me know, send me a text or something. I'll have, you know, four or five guys here within five hours

to help pack. So no, it wasn't opening weekend, but I'm like, I told Wayne that, and I said, he goes, well, who do you want to, who do you want to get a hold of? You want to get a hold of a cow, or do you want to get hold of the horse packer? And I'm like, I think I'd rather have cow with some other badass, you know,

mountain guys and just share this pack out with them. Yeah, but I told him, we go less of a jungle, too. So these guys right here, bro, there is. You don't want any other people and Tanner's got so much weight on this. True form. Cal, they got up, I don't know what time, three in the morning, made it all the way there. They said they'd be there at 8 a.m.

They were down at my bowl at 801. And I don't, I mean, this is miles and miles and miles just studs. Yeah. And so, yeah, it's like I'll never forget that. I'll never forget the whole, obviously the whole hunt, but that morning was a special one. Cal, Eric, Keith, and Ryan. Brother, that bull is massive. Yeah, so thankful for them.

That bull is massive. So it's like, here's it, but that's a juxtaposition is to me, that was my Israel Adasania moment about I will never be happier. But look how, look how different those moments are. One's in front of a huge crowd, millions of people watching, being, you know, getting all that attention from all those people. And then I'm, I guarantee just as happy or happier right there. Isn't that crazy?

It is crazy. Yeah, that's your thing And you've found your thing Yeah I always talk about that Like people just trying to find their thing Yeah My thing's the outdoors and bowing

So Israel's thing Is fighting So for him That's the pinnacle For us Whatever your thing is Get to the pinnacle Right?

That's a lesson Find Find happiness in that Do you think Whatever it is Whatever it is for you That you're talking about Your daughter

Catching that fish and it's like this primal instinct inside of her that just flares up that fighters have that same feeling like it's a primal feeling oh 100% yeah it's a little more conflicted though depending upon how bad you hurt your opponent when you hurt them really bad it's a very it's a very conflicting moment because you know that could have been you some guys don't get that feeling some guys they do like good fuck him but a lot of guys it's like there's some guys that knock a guy out real bad and then they almost want to retire afterwards They're just like, I don't want to do that to anybody anymore, you know,

especially guys that have killed guys. Like Ray Mancini, when he killed Dukku Kim, I don't think he was ever the same again. There's a few guys like that in history that have had boxing matches where they killed a guy, and then they were kind of never the same after that. Yeah, that's some scary shit. Yeah, because you realize, like, this is what you're doing. Yeah, mortality. This could lead to that happening to you.

And you think about your kids watching on TV and crying or even worse there while you're getting beat out. I always freak out when guys bring their kids. I'm like, oh, man. Bringing a kid to a fight, you know? Yeah. I've seen guys get knocked out in front of their kids, and it's particularly devastating, particularly devastating, especially when you really like the guy.

Mm-hmm. It's rough. It's a rough way to make a living. But those guys, when they get that belt strapped around them, when their hands get raised, and the whole audience screams and cheers, it's like, whew, that's a special moment. That's a special moment that very few people ever get the experience.

Unless they kill a bull in the wilderness. I don't even know if it's the same. They're all, it's a different kind of happiness. I think yours is more sustained. Yours lasts longer. That's what I say. It's like,

I don't know. Like Israel said he was happy. Is that, I guess that's what it is. But you know what the reality is? After the happiness dies off for a couple of days, then you start thinking about your next fight. And you immediately start getting that anxiety again.

I think that's a good drive in life though, right? Because you don't just do that elk hunt and be like, I'm done now. Right. You know, it's like not, what's the next one? And it's like that constant pursuit. And it's also like constantly recognizing that you're always going to be at least trying to get better.

You're always trying to get better. Anything that is going to give you like real happiness is going to be very difficult because you're not really going to ever be able to master it. Whatever it is. It's like that's where it is. The real, it's in the pursuit of it. And along the way, recognizing that you consistently keep getting better. but it's like a there's a dream that you're chasing that you're never going to get to you're never going to get to bow hunting perfection it doesn't exist right you can get really

close you've gotten really really close but we're human and it's the wild and there's all sorts of weird variables that happen there's branches and sticks and wind and this and that and it's impossible to be perfect yeah and that's part of the magic of it yeah part of the magic of it is that when you're in the moment and it's all happening it's all so open-ended like any result can take place you really do not know how this is all going to go down you haven't seen it all play out and you might imagine how it's going to play out but it's going to play out in unique situations some of them will be similar some of them will be completely different yeah and you've got to figure it out like you were telling me that crazy story that it was talking to you

about the podcast where you're shooting down at this bowl like from like a cliff yeah straight down yeah san carlos this year it was uh so i arranged the bowl it was a huge cliff and what I thought is I'd get up there and I'd be able to see the flat and there was some bulls down there's a tough year in Arizona's the drought but from that cliff I thought that'd be a great vantage point to see where these bulls weren't plan a stock so get way up there actually they're sheep right above us too it's like crazy rugged country but get it there on that cliff and I'm look kind of looking out over the expanse there and then I look straight

down below me there's this big bull and I straight down and I'm like it's like If you're hunting mule deer, you know, they always bet up against the cliffs. So their backs protected. The wind's coming up. They can monitor the down below them with their nose. They know nothing's coming from the back. That's how mule deer bed to survive. Well, this bull had done that same thing.

And it had just stood up from the base of the cliff. And I look down, I range it 42 yards, which people who know, if the range finder's telling you to shoot for 42, that means straight down. that means it's probably close to 60 yards, you know, because the range finder does a calculation. If you shoot flat, that's the gravity affects one thing. If you shoot straight down, gravity has less effect. So it's saying even though it's further, you would shoot for less distance is how that works. So it told me to shoot for 42. That means it's probably 60 straight down.

And that's a long shot with a bow. And then I had to shooting straight down. I thought that I was like going to go straight through his spine because I was straight above him. I'm like, well, you're going to come right behind the shoulders, straight through his spine into his vitals. I thought that should do it. So I shoot, I hit that bowl like about, I would say an inch off the spine. I show it, there's a video of it on that, the video we just watched for people who were interested. But about an inch off that spine into his chest and the bull went about 100 yards.

But yeah, it was, I've never, I've never done a shot like. that before in my life. You know, you think about different scenarios. I had never even thought about one like that on a bull elk at that distance at that angle. So that is even, so where? Yeah, it's, it's back. This is the, that's the Winnihaw Bowl, but it's back, Jamie, about, I was talking about getting ready for this hunt. And it shows like a few clips of the bull I killed in Colorado, then the Arizona Bull. Then I did another hunt in Utah. And I killed a bull there to get prepared for for the the Oregon hunt but uh yeah it was just I'd never even really thought that that shot would be a potential one the Oregon hunt is crazy because of the wilderness is so

dense yeah it's Oregon is nuts it's a forest hunt it's a it's like a rainforest it's like Jurassic Park and that's in eastern Oregon that's the dry part of the state that's crazy but it's such such a hole there so much water moisture down there that it turned into like Jurassic Park with that bull coming in bugling it was like I like a dinosaur kind of. There's nothing that matches that. That aspect of elk hunting makes it so much cooler. It's the sound they make when they're coming in.

Oh, it's just like all of your fucking pores pop up. It's like you get goosebumps all over your body. You back your neck, the hair stands up. It's like the scream is like, whoa. It's so, it is my favorite sound. It's amazing. Oh, they're incredible animal. When you hear, when you're close and there's an elk screaming

through the woods and he's coming close towards you the thrill of that is like nothing else like nothing else no and people who haven't heard it they hear that and they're like what the fuck is that right it's it's weird that there's an animal on this planet that makes that noise

if we hadn't done this our whole lives and we heard that would be like what is going on yeah if you had done what Adam did in Japan and not research like what what kind of animals are in the area and you were camping out and you heard that scream you'd be like oh my god we're surrounded by demons no i've had people tell me stories like there's something really weird in the woods there and then but you find out it's like fellow deer or red deer are living in there and it's like

just their breeding period and they're just roaring and just people like what the fuck is that oh yeah it's like actually it's just a deer stag have the craziest roar it's such a weird The milker actually make a real pussy sound. Compared to a... Yeah, for their size. Yeah. Well, like an African lion, because I heard those when I was hunting over there, like they're by the river.

And so we're like an African lion in the middle of the night, they're... Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, oh my God. It just like reverberates through the whatever we were. Jumbles. If there's anything that lights up your DNA, the sound of the lion must just chill your fucking selves. Nothing like that either. Nothing like that either. But, you know, here's one,

here's an exciting thing. So for people listening, that maybe didn't grow up hunting. What we're talking about this in the green room last night when we're getting high off all the smoke. We weren't smoking, but but uh, we got high. It's, um, what's crazy is nowadays, you know, we're 58, you're 45, right? But we're just getting even better physically. So, so you say you can't master bowhunt. Because you only had a certain window, like normally how hunting works is you're young and strong, all the endurance in the world, but you don't know shit, right? You don't have the experience. So by the time you get the experience and you're old and broke down, you can't take advantage of the experience. So you have to have wisdom. The wisdom you gained when you're young, you utilize when you're old to kill. Well, now we can gain all that experience and wisdom. Like I've been, you know, hunting for 40-some years. And I'm also at the best I've ever been, physically you marry those two up look out that's what's nuts is that didn't exist before right so like we goes to ways to well today and get stem cell and get you know the IV treatments and get everything else to build a operate at our absolute prime at 58 years old with 40 years of experience yeah that's that's tough that's you're going to have success if you do it right so yeah not everybody's going to be in that situation where they grew up hunting like me but even think about jelly roll at 40 years old. So he just started bow hunting. You started bow hunting in your 40s and now you've been

doing it for 15 years and you're getting better. So there's hope for even people 40, 50 or whatever with this new science and treatment and supplements and things like that, you can still be very active and still take on new intense endeavors like bow hunting or just hunting in general and have success. And it might change your entire life. Like jelly roll is a different fucking person yeah yeah in two years he's a different person yeah a different human a totally that should be exciting for people listening yeah they should learn that you could do too and it's that and having more energy like say if you're not into bow hunting you say if you're not you know like I don't want to be a marathon runner whatever whatever it is if your body is healthier

whatever the thing you do you can be better you'll have more energy you'll be better you're going to be better at it you're going to have like why do people like cognitively decline when they get older. Well, a big part of it is you're declining overall. Everything's declining. Everything about you is declining. Of course, your brain is declining as well. Like your entire existence is fading.

But the more you can have energy, the more you have vitality, the more you can do what, I don't care if you play chess, whatever the fuck it is that you like to do, paint, whatever it is you like to do. The more energy you have, the more energy you'll be able to apply to that thing you do. The more enjoyable it is. The better quality of life, the happier you are. Including all the other stuff, you know, just being with your family. You'll have more energy to do stuff.

You'll be more, you'll have more life. You'll have more life energy. Here's one mindset I've tried to take on with, especially with hunting, because that's all I really fucking care about is improving and learning on every time. And I could even think about like, I was telling somebody, I don't know who, but. on every, I try to learn something on every stock. And when I think about when you killed the sable the other day, so we're there, and you have to weigh out so many things on a stock when you're getting ready to kill an animal or potentially kill an animal.

But we're thinking about, okay, we have the wind. The wind is, that's the biggest thing with balantin. So I knew where the wind was. But then also it's like, well, do we go, stay in the shade, so the sun wouldn't blind you as it was going down. But if we stay in the shade, we're not perfectly downwind. So I'm like, well, the sun's going to set. The winds change because thermals change.

If we're to the side in the shade so you don't have to deal with the sun, then when that wind becomes unstable, it's more likely to smell us. So we should be all the way downwind, but that means we're going to have to shoot before the sun gets too low to where it's not blinding you. To get to the side, then you have to figure out what's the path to get there to where we're not making noise for the animal to hear. Well, it's straight to the, I don't know if you remember that tree. And I said head straight to that tree.

And from that tree, then I was thinking, you should have a lane because there was brush all around, but it looked to me like from that tree, you would have a lane to shoot at 28 yards, but you're still factoring all these, the wind, the sun, the everything else, what's the animal going to do? It's just so fascinating to think about. But I know some people hunt, and I don't think they think about it in those details. You know what I mean? They're just kind of like, oh, there's an animal. What do I do? But like, that's not how you master the moment. You master the moment by, and I said this a lot of times too on many of these hunts. I was telling jelly roll this. I was like, everything matters. Everything. The little thing matters. The big things obviously matter. But everything matters. And that's what hunting teaches us. And in life, You can make it through regular life on this fake world that I keep talking about by ignoring a lot of things, not on a hunt.

Yeah, we had to think about a lot of things on that stock. On a hunt, everything matters. And one of the big ones that we had to think about was as that sun was dropping. So we were standing there waiting for this sable to get up. It had bedded. And it didn't know we were there. And we creeped into the spot. We were slowly got it.

So do you remember that tactic? Yeah. Remember what I said? Yeah. If you move slow enough, they won't pick it up. Right, because they look for movement. So we were moving like, you know, like an inch every 30 seconds. We were like barely moving.

Because what I've found is animals, I've been in the wide open on a caribou, went right at it. But so slow, it was just like, that can't be anything. Nothing does that. No sideways movement. No, and just, but steady and slow, and they just won't spook. Yeah. And we had to figure out where to stand. And then when we got where we were, as we're standing there, we're standing there for quite a while, I realized, oh, this sun is going to be impossible because it's slowly lowering in the sky.

And it's literally above this Sable's head now. And I'm like, okay, we don't get this thing to stand up. I'm not going to be able to see it because I had my hat on, right? So I blocked myself from the hat. And then I was trying to train my eyes to just look at it through, you know, just like the haze of the sun. I was like, this is going to be a real problem. So we decided, let's get them to stand up. So Cam took his arrow out of his quiver and started tapping on this branch and then started, like, moving towards it.

And Sable are beasts, bro. Yeah. First of all, those motherfuckers, they, they kill lions occasionally. Like, they get attacked and they're fierce. Like, they're not, so it wasn't exactly easy to spook. Right. So you had to kind of like move towards a little bit. And then it started grunting at you.

Like, fuck off. Fuck off, bitch. And then finally it stood up. And when it stood up, we got them. Yeah. But it was, you know, it was a shot where I was like, I got to do this real soon because otherwise I'm not going to be able to see. Fortunately, I could and I can get the pin right where it needed to be, but it was like, I was telling you afterwards, I was like, I avoid shooting into the sun. Yeah.

When I have my targets, I always put a target in the other way. And I'm like, I can't do that anymore. Now I have to start shooting into the sun sometimes. You got to get that feeling because that had happened also on a hunt with Tom Land. we were up in Utah and this bull was a nice bull it was about 60 yards

and it was coming across this ridge the sun was right in my eyes and he's like why didn't you shoot I was like I just couldn't it was too blurry it was too the sun was right fucking there and I remember thinking that at that time this was years ago

thinking at that time I need to shoot into the sun and I never did I never did I just won't come up I just won't take the shot I'll do what I did that I won't take the shot

and if you're not comfortable you don't have to take In this situation, I was like, it's not a long shot. It's only 28 yards, and it's a big animal. And I'm pretty confident I got this. I was like, I got to factor all these things in and then not let doubt creep into my head. You know, stay totally calm. So there's all these things going on simultaneously.

It's a lot. It's a lot to manage. It's a lot. But also a lot of factors to consider and then learn from. Yeah. Oh, I learned a lot from that hunt. I learned a lot. First of all, I learned how fucking tough sable are.

That's the same experience like I told you I had with Neil Guy that I shot that Neil guy in South Texas and it ran like I didn't even hit it. I hit it perfect. The arrow went right through him. It was the arrow. We found the arrow 30 yards past where I hit. It was covered in blood. So we knew he was dead.

But he ran like he never even got hit. He ran full speed like a cheetah. It was crazy. And the guide I was with was like, yeah, man, they grew up around tigers. Like these things evolved. around tigers. Like, they don't just take getting hit and go, oh, no, I'm in trouble.

They fucking run. They're so tough, and they barely bleed. That's the other thing about these animals that grow up around big predators, boy, they clog up their holes really quick. They don't leave much of a blood trail. It's not like an elk or a deer. It's different.

Yeah. I think Adam, that explains this well. Sometimes you talk about when you hit them, if they're stretched out, then when they're not stretched out, you know, it's like, It just changes that the entrance wound and the exit wound, if there is one. It just changes.

There's different layers of muscle and hide over it where it just blocks up that blood. It seems like they clog up quicker, too, just period. Like whatever their anatomy is, the difference is when you hit them, they just don't bleed much. Yeah, I got a buddy that always, you know, someone's like, it was the perfect shot. And it's like, well, actually it wasn't because it'd be dead already. So it's like, and I know what you're saying, but the truth is double lungs is. double lungs and there's so many variations like that reaction they close up the gap

or what broader do you use and if the animal's breathing out when the arrow shoots it through the lungs or whether it's just taking a bunch of oxygen in you know there's a larger target yeah and there's all those different plus just more energy to run on right and then

you know you'll see certain hunters that shoot something it's not even dead yet and they're like yeah and start yahoo and it's like what shut the fuck up because that brings on an adrenaline rush animal can run further, whereas you just want a nice, relaxed setup, you know, and it's just a hit, they don't know what's going on,

the beauty of the bow, because it's so quiet, there's not a loud gunshot behind it or anything. And then, you know, just, so they're relaxed. They don't want to run as fast. They want to give up earlier because they've got nothing to spook from or fight from. And they don't know what happened. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes they think they got jabbed by another bull or something. Yeah. Like, what happened? Yeah. Because everything's crazy. They're all rutting and screaming at each other and clashing antlers.

and then all of a sudden, whack. Like, what the fuck is that? Right. Utah this year, the bull that I shot, he'd just been in the fight of another bull, so he was all revved up from that other bull. So I literally hit him, and he thought he got poked by an antler from another bull, you know, and he went 20 yards,

was standing for 14 seconds, drop dead, nice, beautiful, peaceful, right in front of me. They don't all happen like that, but that's what we're after, you know. That's what you're after. That's why you practice. That's why you shoot so many arrows. To have it drop right in front is the greatest thing ever.

And I think that does impact the taste of the meat, too, if you don't have them shoot that adrenaline back through their body where it's a peaceful death. I think it does impact the taste. That's what they say. Yeah. Yeah. It makes sense. I mean, don't they do that with when they want to call animals, like, or if they want to shoot animals, rather not call them, shoot them for commercial purposes? They shoot them in the head, right?

Yeah. They put a bolt in our head. But, yeah, I mean. No, I mean, like in Linnae. shoot like when they shoot like access deer for me they shoot them in the head definitely no but like even like when they kill cattle they're not getting those things wow right of course of course you want them to be as calm as possible the opposite of what that mountain line did to that cow yeah imagine eating that yeah imagine you ate that cow that would be like yeah i got anxiety probably it's probably in the meat

itself i got issues um taking it back to the health journey how you were saying like you know where we are now with, you know, modern treatments and wellness is, is incredible. Like, I feel like my, I feel like my body's the best that's ever been, you know, and I'm obviously the oldest I've ever been, which is crazy to think of. Like, how can I feel better than I do, how can I feel better now than I did in my early 20s? You know, we've probably out any injuries and stuff like that. So it's quite, and I've got you to thank for that by introducing me to Brigham and Waste the well, so. Oh, my pleasure. I want more people to know about it. I want everybody to be healthy. It's possible you can get healthier like look at jelly roll the guy was 500 plus pounds and now he's

running now that's such an incredible story 10k the day before he came to the studio and then when we went to the gym together and he ran 2.6 miles on the treadmill while he was talking we're laughing he's joked around they don't know me son he's having a good old time and you know he just seemed so happy we got in the sauna together we're laughing it's like he's just a different guy He's got so much, and he's so excited about this journey that he's on, this journey of self-improvement, his journey of health. You know, he's going to be there for his kids. He's going to be there for his wife now.

He's worried about dying before. You know, he told a story about laying on his arm, and he couldn't get up. He was trapped, and he didn't have... In bed. In bed. He couldn't get up. He couldn't, and he thought he was going to die. He's like, I'm so big that I'm laid on my arm, and I don't have that strength to

get out of this position because I'm so big. What a change. And now he's running and bow hunting. Yeah. He's substance now. Like that substance will just keep him going, you know, to find those things and what makes him happy. And, you know, the problem is a lot of people oftentimes compare themselves to other people

that are already on that path. This is another thing that we talked about. You just get on the path. Don't worry about how people are ahead of you. Just you be ahead of yourself. Next week, you're ahead of where you were this week. The week after that, you'll be ahead of you. It's just a path.

Yeah. Just get, so what if other people have been on the path further than you? Like, that's how you get better at stuff. And that is what's exciting about life, is this path of improvement. And whatever you do, and actually being a human being, be a better human. You can do that. Everybody can get on that path. Yeah.

Yeah, it's just, that's what I told Joey is that, you know, you can wander around off the path for your whole life and never really have like fucking never never really figured it out but once you make it like like where he's on you know being healthy uh eating better exercising he you know the mountains have given him um i always say the mountains heal or nature heals um so he's there now it's like yeah of course there's people who are way ahead because they've been on it longer there's people not quite on it maybe they're going to be faster than him and they pass him but all on the right right path heading the right direction that's a beautiful place to be and that's where he's at It is. And one of the things that I said to Jelly, when we're on the podcast, I was like, what you're doing is inspiring millions of people to live a better life. 100%. What you're doing is so beneficial to human beings all over the world. Because now millions of people have seen that podcast. Millions of people have heard that story. Millions of people have seen those clips that have been shared all throughout social media. And how many people got excited by that and it gave them fuel and energy to want. to go do something. It gave them that inspiration that we all desperately crave to want to go out and take those first fucking steps. And then once you do that, then you're operating on momentum and it's so much easier. This is another thing that people have to understand. The first steps are the hardest. It's so hard to move. It's so hard to get going. But once you get going, then you operate on momentum. Once you have a good day, then you go, I did it. I had a good day. Let's do it

again tomorrow and then you get excited about it and you look forward to waking up and then you get through it that day like we fucking did it again and now I'm looking forward to now I'm eating healthier now I cut off the sugar and now I'm drinking water with electrolytes and now I'm feeling better I have more in it and just keep going yeah just keep going and momentum is so much easier than that first step the first step of changing your life is so hard because we're just so afraid of pain. We're so afraid of suffering. We're so afraid of like just the discomfort. We've been programmed to think that discomfort is a bad thing. It's not. Yeah. It's not. It's necessary. I think that Jilly Roll might, I mean, I think we've talked about this, but could he impact more

people than anyone ever has in that regard? A hundred percent. We were talking about that today. A hundred percent. Because it's like, it's not like, you know, even Israel. or your favorite NFL guy or NBA, they're elite, right? So when they succeed, you're like, well, fuck, of course. You know, he's 6-8-2-60. Of course he's going to be great. But when you see somebody like Jolly Roll who came from 540 pounds, that's like he's already at the furthest end of like, you know,

like what you'd have to overcome. Yes. And for him to do that, anybody else is closer to the goal than he was at that time. So it's like nobody's in worse shape, really. Right. You know, you hardly morbidly obese. You can't be in worse shape, you know. Right.

And if he's doing it, everyone can do it. Everyone who has, who has that something inside him. And maybe he's going to give them that something. 100%. And he's way more famous than anybody who's ever done this before. Right. That's the most important aspect of it. He's loved by so many people.

So how many jelly roll fans loved him because he was, like them. He was big like them. Super talented, amazing guy who was also big. Like, oh my God, I thought I was a big slob and no one's going to love me. Meanwhile, everybody loves jelly roll. So they love jelly. And then all of a sudden, jelly rolls changed his life. Like, how many people are sitting there watching him and listening to him going, I think I could do it. He did it, I think I can do it. Yeah. And he just do it the way he, you know, like he didn't start out running marathons. He tried to go for a walk. Yeah. You know, I mean. He would call his walk, his run, because he couldn't run right but he'd say tell his family's wife and that he's going to go out on his run there's not

one step of running but the the mindset the uh um story he told himself was he was running so it's that self-talk you know how we talk to ourselves is important so he would tell himself i'm going to go run even though there's no not a step of running involved but that led to running that mindset that that approach of like i'm winning today i'm winning that it's not a run It's a walk, but it's going to be a run. That's going to be a massive mental achievement for him too because I'm sure that he had a lot of mind weight to lose as well because he was in jail, right?

Substance abuse, no doubt. Probably a lot of, like, that's a lot of negative stuff in someone's head. So to lose that as well, and you told me that he's such a positive person. So, like, you know, he lost a bunch of weight, which is incredible, but what he's done to his mind, which we may never know, is really incredible too. Like, that's why I was saying to you this morning. This might be one of the best modern day stories

of a person changing their life when you look at Jellar, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and it couldn't be a better representative of someone who has gone through the struggle and then come out this amazing person. Like, he's an amazing guy. Like, there's very few humans that are so kind

and friendly and warm, And when he hugs you, he hugs you with his soul. Like, he hugs you with his whole body and his soul. He's like a perfect person to be the inspiration for people to improve their life. Well, and that was so touching. Like when you shared the Grand Ole Opry inclusion for Jelly Roll from Craig Morgan, and he said, Joe, can I get a hug? I mean, two men.

And to me, that was like so endearing, but also. so important to show that it's okay for men to say yeah yeah can I get a hug I mean it was a man crying it was one of the most inspirational things you could ever watch I mean but it takes a certain type or it's one of one who does stuff like that like him hit his heart that's what I say his he's a big man but he's got the biggest heart of anybody I've ever met and that was an example of it like he just wanted love yeah Yeah. He's a very important figure in our culture. It really is. It really is.

You know, especially now. He always was. His music just alone is important because it's beautiful music. But the beautiful music is the expression of a beautiful soul. You know, and now he's also on this path of self-improvement, and it's amazing. Yeah, that title of his album, Beautifully Broken. I mean, it's just so perfect. Yeah, it is.

And he's, he was broken, probably will always be broken in some ways. We all are, but he's putting himself back together. And man, he's, I'm, are we all broken or do we all have negative thoughts from the past? Are we telling ourselves we're broken? Yeah. Maybe that's it. Maybe that's our self-talk. Obviously, we're functional, so we're not broken.

You know, it's not that we're broken. Maybe it's a doubt, the self-doubt? Well, everyone's going to, you're, it's like you're a human being. The only way you figure out how to get good at something is you have to, it has to be a puzzle. Puzzles include doubt. Yeah. It's always going to be there. There's no getting around it.

No, it's not. But it's fun. It ends up being the beauty of it, right? Yes, that's it. That's the beauty of it. And then whatever you do, it doesn't, you don't have to be on it. It's like, you probably should. But you don't have to.

It could be anything else. But yeah, just any struggle in life. You know, that's how I look at anything like that, that's testing or trialing or. And it should be, it should be interesting for you, too. It would be an interesting thing. That's the people also have this weird habit of looking at the mind in terms of only being valuable in human created endeavors. Like the mind only being valuable in mathematics. The mind only being valuable in your ability to recite literature and your knowledge that you've gained through schooling.

Like, no, no. The mind, the mind manages stressful situations, too. That's an important aspect of intelligence is your intelligence in being able to navigate difficult things. That is all your mind. You're using your mind. Like bow hunting has so much, so many elements of intelligence that are woven into it. And the difference between a successful person who bo hunts and an unsuccessful person is experience and practice, but also the mind being able to learn

from each individual situation and experience and get better and accumulate all this knowledge over time. You know, it's got a deep, deep learning curve. It's very deep. And the people that don't experience it and then have this classification in their head of what intelligence is, intelligence means you got a PhD.

I know a lot of people with PhD that are fools. They're fools. They're emotional children. They're filled with ego. and resentment and they're shitty and nasty to people they're fools so they're not smart they're just they have a functional mind that they've applied to human endeavors only right and they've never never done the big thing never done the whole package never put it all together yeah and i think i think another key to being um intelligent i don't know if it's the key but having kids i think is a

a big part of growth and to me it's like I I lump like intelligence just just life experience into the the package we'd call intelligence but like hunting teaches us that of course but also raising kids and being responsible for a family oh yeah I think that's another it's like yeah school doesn't teach you that shit and like the the degree you got doesn't doesn't signify that but I don't know I think that's a big part of it too It's a giant learning experience. That's for damn sure. And it also teaches you way more compassion.

It just teaches you way more loving and kind. And you also just, you understand from watching a baby become an amazing adult human being, you get to understand all the elements that are involved in this child's development and all the trials and tribulations and how you've got to let them fall sometimes. And then help them pick themselves back up and talk to them. through it and when they're down, explain like, I run down too. I'm always down. I've fucked up everything. Whenever my kids are doing anything wrong, one of the things I'd always say to them, if I was upset at them, I said, listen, I did everything that you did. I've done all this stuff.

It's okay, but you can't do it and this is why. I've screwed up everything. I've done things I shouldn't have done. I'm doing exactly what you're doing right now. I've done it even worse. You're a better kid than I was. I always say that. So they don't think that, like, I'm without fault. I always say, I've done it all, but I got through it on the other side. Now I'm your dad. And the reason why I'm telling you this is because I love you. And I'm not trying to like be upset at you because I'm mean, like I'm trying to help you live a better life. And that's how I try to communicate with them about it. So in my head, that perspective opens up other lanes of intelligence. That's that's what I'm saying. It's like you have you can't be the your highest form without that. Right.

You're challenged. You're challenged by it. And you're also challenged by the discipline of it. You know, you have people that rely on you. And that is, you can't fuck that off. You can't just, like, not show up for work. You can't just, you know, I just feel like sleeping in today and fucking, I'm taking a month off. Like, you can't do that.

You have people that rely on you. And also, you're setting an example for them that they're going to learn from. The people that, and your kids are a great example of that, the children of people that are very disciplined, almost always have a higher threshold of discipline. I notice it. I see it in your kids, for sure. I see it in my kids. They have more of an understanding of what's necessary

in order to get things done and to be successful. Now, if you're a person who's a parent and you shirk every responsibility, you lie, you steal, you do things, you're not supposed, you take shortcuts, you're not truthful, whatever you're doing where your kids get to see like oh my parent is a kind of a fuckhead you know my parent is kind of a one of two things happens either you emulate your parents and you be kind of a fuckhead or you go I don't like that and I'm never going to be like that

like some of my friends that grew up with alcoholic parents they've never had a drink in their fucking life and they never will they're like I am never touching that shit I see what that's like because I saw my dad lose his fucking job lose his house lose this lose this lose that get arrested for DWI getting a bar fight my dad's a fucking loser and I'm not going to be that guy but it's it's a toss up or some might emulate that some might emulate that yeah yeah I mean some you see your dad's a drug addict like let me try it I grew up like that with a couple of closer friends and these closer friends were like I'm never going to be like my dad like we'll we'll to the core we'll like that we're never going to be like our fathers and and that's one of the

reasons I don't drink because my father was a horrible alcoholic and even though when I drink I'm happy I'm just turned off it so I don't want to do it and I guess I've gone long enough now that doesn't interest me and then I had another friend that I cut off because he turned out to be exactly like his dad and even though he the whole time he was like me I'm never going to be like my father I'm going to be the opposite for some reason some people just go down the same path I think it's also the stress of life it's sometimes it's overwhelming you know You know, this thing that we look forward to in bow hunting, this, like, not knowing what's going to happen. Like, you get out there, it's early in the morning, you put your pack on, you don't know what's going to happen today.

Who knows? Some people hate that feeling. Right. They hate that feeling of not knowing what's going to happen. And the uncertainty about your career and job is a weird uncertainty. It depends on so many factors that are sometimes out of your control. And people just, they get overwhelmed, and they just want to escape. They just want to escape.

And maybe they're doing a job they don't enjoy doing. And then the only time they feel good is when they're drunk. So they just get off work and they can't wait to meet their boys and have a laugh. And next thing you know you're drinking, and one day turns into a month. And that's your... It's just... That's distraction. They want to be distracted off their life or whatever.

In this world, will give you a lot of distractions. You can play video games and fucking get hammered and do heroin. Yeah, whatever it is. Fill in the blank, man. You could find a lot of stuff that's not going to be beneficial for you. Yeah, it's a one thing. thing that um i i think the well so drinking and whatever but i think the biggest uh negative thing a parent can offer their kids is blaming other like all it's always somebody else's

fault right so it's like this discuss discussion at the house you know because kids hear everything right so when the dad's coming home and he's bitching about his boss or the guy at work or he's getting fucked over for this or i could do that too but that guy kissed asses and That's why he got that or the must be nice whatever like these excuse makers Oh, you're just fucking sabotaging your kids. It's just that you never get anywhere by blaming other people for where you're at And so many people do that because they won't accept personal responsibility for their actions or for their place in life And I don't even think it necessarily it's their fault. I think a lot of them have never seen an example of an extraordinary person who doesn't do that they're not there's it's rare to find a person unfortunately in this world especially in society it's

rare to find a person of great character a person who's just got impeccable character and is always truthful and his work works really hard and is loved by a lot of people it's rare it's rare and so they've never experienced it they never been around it yeah and so they don't even know what it is right they don't know that they're sabotaging yeah and sometimes that's one of the the real places where a guy like jelly roll can change people's lives. It's because he does talk about all of the negative shit that he's experienced and all the negative influences and all the bad people that he was around

and how he was living that life. He was trapped in that way. Yeah. And now he's not anymore. And he's so the big things, substance, criminal, lie, overweight. All those, those are usually the big things. and he overcame all of them. All of them.

So it's like that's where that power comes from where to influence so many people. It's because, so what was your issue again? Yeah, well, jelly rolled. Yeah, he overcame that. Yeah. Wait, was there something else? Oh, that too?

I mean, it's everything. All the big things he's overcome. So what else is there? What else are you going to blame? You just got to find a thing. Find a thing. Get on the path. Yeah.

Just get moving. On the path, baby. I went to the guy to the ball for him. Sorry. All right. See, I told you. It's got that Australian bladder. It's upside down.

No, it's an IV. I told him, I said, hey, put all that shit in like this much whatever fluid because I don't want to have to take a piss. I wonder if it works is good that way. They made it super concentrated. Did they really? Yeah, they did. That's hilarious. Why don't you just like wait and pee?

I don't mind pee. But every time I've done that when I come here after an IV, I do the same thing after pee. Yeah, I know. Or after the sauna, because after the sauna, I always drink this giant 60s. four ounce, the thing of water and electrolytes, and then like an hour and a half in the podcast. I'm like, oh, no. That hits. Jelly Roll had, he learned that lesson in the blind because we were sitting for hours.

And like, if you haven't ever been in a position where, you know, you can't just get out and go pee or whatever, then you're like, ooh, I didn't know what this is holding, you know, he said he was going to piss his pants. He's like, had to make a hole in the blind and pee into and cover. up, because I was like, okay, just make a whole covered up a dirt, whatever, and that's what he did. But, yeah, it's pretty, when you got to piss, it can be miserable. Well, there's a mental challenge of sitting still for long periods of time. Like, I've only tree stand hunted once. I did it at Dudley's place in Iowa. Yeah.

And the thing about Iowa is, first of all, it's in November that you're hunting, and it's so fucking cold. It's so cold. And you have to sit still. Right. You can't fucking move a muscle. and you're out there for hours and hours and hours just hoping a deer gets it within bow range and the only reason why they do

is just they just happen to be wandering and it's total luck it's complete luck I mean that's why those guys like a lot of those like real psycho Lee Lukoski guys they're out there for months at a time yeah they'll hunt a single buck for like 38 days or however long the season is

and they're in that damn blind every day or they're in that tree stand every day Just freezing their dick off, just huddling up with mittens and shit. And then when the – and sometimes when – if you have a powerful bowl, like you pull back, like when it's zero degrees outside and you go to pull that thing back, you're like – Tough. You might not get it back. Like, oh, no. Yeah.

Oh, no. And that's a helpless feeling. Oh, no. So back in the day, back when I used to – you know, I still tree stand hunt, you know, for Blacktail sometimes. but phones have changed like how long you can stay because you can just fuck around on your phone now

oh that's true and then also there's heated vests heated socks yeah so you can have like it's still just standing in a tree

or sitting in a tree for 14 hours terrible still terrible terrible even with all that stuff it's a little easier but pretty terrible well thankfully

gears a lot better too like layering systems and you could stay like You could stay alive. Let me put it that way. You're not going to be comfortable. But you could stay alive out there.

Oh, yeah. Sitting still. Dude, I didn't. So I, you know, signed on with Sitka now. But I hadn't other things. I was, you know, underarm or different whatever. And I guess I had never had good gear my entire life because I didn't fucking know. I didn't have to be miserable in a tree stand.

And so Sitka, Semi, I don't know what it is. it's like some sideways zip jacket or, yeah, it's a jacket. It's, I can't remember what it's called, but it's polar fleece. And I was like up there going, I fucking feel good. I'm not freezing. And I had never, so like I said, I've bonded my whole life, I guess I always just had like shit that wasn't the best and just thought, ah, it's part of the deal. Not just that.

It doesn't restrict any of your movement. No, I used to have to wear like fucking seven hoodies, right? trying to pull a bow with seven hoodies on but that's how I had to stay warm so with the Sitka stuff with John Barclothes and he's kind of in design and he's a bow hunter himself but I can have the shit on

and it's not restrictive I can pull my bow and you know it's not this isn't like a fucking ad for Sitka if there's other stuff out there that does that too great I just don't know about it because I'd never had it but man that that shit works good there's a bunch of high level gear that's out there

but it's like whatever they've done with Sitka they've made it so that everything works perfectly. They've dialed it in perfectly. The pants, they have the built-in knee pads, which is fucking huge. I love those pants. So when you're crawling on, they're a perfect knee pads. They're super lightweight, but you could sneak around on stuff on your knees and not be in fucking agony. Right.

And it doesn't restrict your movement at all. The level of detail they have now on these clothes is nuts. And it's more fitted, you know. I remember, like, stuff that we used to use, we used to complain about it together. But it's like, who are they making these pants for when the legs are that wide at the bottom still? So you're walking along hunting and it's just like, shh, bell bottoms. And they get wet. They're fucking flopping around and shit.

It makes me so pissed. I would take pictures and send a kid when he was an underarmor or like at the pocket or something. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? But, yeah, this stuff fits good. Yeah. Well, it's just, I mean, that's one of the reasons to give them props so that they stay open, stay alive. because it's like that that kind of gear

is so fucking important you know to have gear that doesn't restrict your movement totally keeps you comfortable and warm makes you like so you can move around very quietly

the whatever fabrics they're using they got it dialed in man when you're walking if your fabric rubs together you don't hear a fucking thing yeah and again time's precious and we're doing stuff in this time we want to enjoy it

so we're in gear that makes us enjoy it's great but it's just the the market for this this is like one of the things that really is i think important like the market for these things that are so impactful and important to us is not a whole did i just touch the microphone that i fucked something up sounded weird on my end um that it's not a big market there's not a lot of us out there you know so it's like god i'm so thankful that someone put so much research and

development into these products, whether it's Hoyt Bowes or whatever you're using, that you've got to think, like, how many people had to work tirelessly to figure out how to make this thing that is so critical to your success, you know, fill in the blank, binos, like, whatever it is, whatever you're using. Who fucking figured out how to make binoculars? How about the Sig ones that have image stabilizing now? Who figure that out? What wizard, what wizard scientists? I got a pair of those 16 power sigs, the Zulus, you hit that switch and turn on the image stabilization. And normally, if you're holding, for people that don't know, if you're holding 16 power binos in your hand, your image that you're getting on the other end is all wiggly.

Because it's 16 times larger than what you actually see. So every micro movement is a giant jiggle in your eyesight, in your eye picture. But with those things, it's like you're watching a movie. It's like fully locked in Like it's on a tripod It's crazy Yeah I was looking for our friends And I'm like

And I was like Look the glass isn't as good in them And I'm saying that to him You know And then because I'm looking through mine I'm crystal clear And maybe the glass isn't as good in them But because the image is dead still

So I'm doing this I'm putting mine up And I'm like It's better And then I put that up And I'm like they're not as clear No you have to turn the button on And then I press the button on

And I was like Oh fuck They're better Because the image is still, so you're really getting the look at what you're going to be, it's the future. Swarovsky's now doing it with spotting scopes. So they have a handheld spotting scope that completely stabilizes the image. And it's just, you know what they just can't. No tributt.

I mean, you hold like a 65 power spotting scope and you can look around like this, which is crazy. Crazy. And the reason why that's so critical to a hunter is we look for movement, just like, an animal looks for us moving too quickly, but we look for movement like an earflick or a tail wag or something like, or they'll sometimes they're at high just if they got a fly lands on them. So you're looking for like a small little bit of movement. You can't do that if you're but not if you got movement in your optics. But with that stabilization, it's dead solid so you can see when that ear flicks. Yeah. Where you, where it'd be flicking before you just

didn't notice it. So that's where it's like so critical. But if you think, think about all this stuff, this top-of-the-line stuff that we talked about with the bows, the camo, the binoes, bow hunting, fucking still is so hard. Still is so hard. That's what's so beautiful about it, is it so challenging. I don't care about it. All this stuff is great. No matter what you do, you're going to stink.

Yeah. And if the wind catches the back of your neck and you see that animal's head pop up, it's a wrap. Yeah. They're designed to get the fuck away from any funky smells of things that eat meat. Yeah. Not interested. I'm out of here.

They smell us, bribe. We must stink. We must fucking smell like hot death to them. Oh, yeah. Because when you see an elk or a deer catches a whiff for you and their head is like, oh, no. What is this fucking? They don't even have to think that long about it. And, you know, they keep making these rules to try to make bow hunting harder, like eliminating certain things like that Garmin site.

I used to love using that Garmin range finding site. And then they made it outlawed in Utah. I'm like, oh, guys, come on. Like, this doesn't make it any easier. It just makes it so that you're going to wound less things and have more effective shots. But, you know, when you get to that, like, it used to be there was no range finders, right? When you started out, was there any range finders at all? Nothing.

There was no sites when I started out. No peep site, no fixed site. Crazy. That's crazy. We shot fingers with compound. That's crazy. So I'd have a little glove, three tab gloves. thing and you shoot that uh what year did they invent the archery release well i got one

in 89 finally when did they first come out like who who's the first guy that invent who's the first guy that goes you know what this is bullshit the first one thing that i can i like how cams like i got one in 89 i was nine years old well at least you were born i didn't know the word elk um but you knew the word cunt because they say it all the time down there. They say when you're a baby. What a cute cut. A little cunt.

Who was the guy that figured out the archer release? That guy's a wizard. Jim Fletcher was, the Fletcher release was the first one I had. And I had a little rope in it. I remember you'd have to put the rope around and it'd hook on the trigger on the clasp and then you'd hit the trigger and release it.

And I didn't get, I had to replace that rope because it started to wear off. So you'd have to have the right knot. And then you'd kind of burn it to get it to hold in there. I didn't have a good enough. So I didn't do that not right. I'd go to pull the bow back. The release comes off, hit myself in the face.

When I first started buying releases, they would come with a little string. Did they? Yeah. Some releases would come with a little rope. And I was like, what the fuck is this for? And it must be for guys who had kind of always done it that way and didn't want to not do it that way anymore because that was like a part of their thing. Maybe. Did you find a Fletcher release?

Wow. 71. Oh, yeah, okay. Look at that. Stanislavski. Yeah. Still, they make awesome releases today. Look at that.

That is awesome. That's crazy. Yeah. Oh, so that was just like a thing that went around your fingers. Yeah, and it just turns to let it go. Like a hinge. Yeah. Wow.

May revolutionize, look at that image. May revolutionize archery. Look at that. Go back to that. Look at that. May revolutionize archie by contributing to unprecedented accuracy. I mean, that's essentially like a hinge. Yeah, it is.

Wow. Wow. Was there a fight back on it at the time? 66! Wow. Wow. I never touched a bow before 64. It was like, I got some, I got an idea for you guys. Wow. Using the six gold bow string release to improve their speed and accuracy. Wow. Oh, his two sons. Glenn and his two sons use this release. I never even heard of this guy's name.

Clarence. Look how it works, too. You hook it with your index finger, and then you pull your index finger through, and it pops off. That's crazy. So when you draw it, you have it like that, and then you release it, you let it go. You just let it up with your index finger. Yeah, like a hinge. And it turns.

A lot of guys shoot a hinge that way. You know, some guys shoot a hinge by pulling down with their pinky finger. See that piece of rope, yeah. Hand released from 1950. Whoa. So there's certain release. That's crazy. Look at that thing.

Wow. Look at that thing. It looks like a gun handle. Yeah. That's so weird. Yeah. Huh. $5.95.

$5.95. Some things have changed. They paper posted. That's shipping right now. I mean, you can't even ship for that. That's, what a cool looking release. Imagine what a gangster you'd have to be to use that today. Yeah.

I love all this stuff, though. Look at that one up there in 1977, a sear-type release. Go up. I was look at the guy with all the girls. Yeah. That's what did you get. Bo-Honey. Look at this.

This is the first hinge-style release. Yeah. So this is in the 70s. Huh. Look how weird that thing looks. Yeah. Wow. It was always hard to get a consistent release with fingers, right?

Of course. Three fingers in a way. No, your fingers get cold and shit's wet. Totally makes sense. Yeah. Wow. I'll also get the other ones real quick. There was always a big fight in Australia whenever something new come in, like sites on a boat.

Go to that image of that guy. Terry Ragged. The girls. Yeah, he was, he shot PSE. Yeah, he was a legend. PSE, baby. Look at the girls are on their knees. Oh, my God.

You shoot that stick so good. See, and that's still how it is pretty much. That happens all the time. That's how it goes. They can't wait. They hop out of the trees. They're there. He was a stud.

Terry and Michelle Ragsdale. Look at that weird looking one. Dee Wild, yeah. He was the wild thing. When I first started, he was the man. That one has a trigger. That might be one of the first ones with a trigger. Wow.

See, that one's with a string. Like, if you would buy old Carter releases, they would come, some of the releases would come with, like, a little string. Yeah. It was weird. I was like, what is this fucking stupid string for? I never get it. I never even asked anybody.

Oh, really? No, it just, like, didn't make sense. See, that, I remember that. That was 2000, so that's getting newer. Look at the wind release. That's nuts. Yeah. There's an overdraw up there.

Yeah. Overdraw, right. Wow. Yeah. 1990 look at that funky looking one with wood that's kind of cool looking that does so it gets this the thumb button it must be yeah right yeah wow wow and see some of them have strings yeah so in case people were like old school yeah pretty cool wow archery so how would you when you first started how would you measure distance which was it all just in

your mind instinct instinct so just like throwing a ball yeah yeah So you just have to, you know, it's just like now they have unmarked 3D tournaments where they don't have it. You just have to get out there and kind of judge. It was definitely harder back then because the bows weren't as fast. So you could only be off by like a yard or two or you'd miss. Now with a faster, flatter shooting bow, you can be off. You can't be out by five yards. Right.

For people who don't know what we're talking about, the slower the bow is the more it's going to drop by the time it gets to target, the faster the bow is the flatter it's going to shoot. you'd learn your cast on the bow too so you never wanted to get rid of that bow because you would literally learn the cast of an arrow and that's what Adam's talking about is the trajectory

so we used to practice this all the time like you'd have a target out there at 60 yards but halfway in between you and the target you couldn't even see the target so you put like you could put a car and so you're looking through the car window because you can see through the glass and line of sight

you're going to go right through break the windows and everything else, but you just know that at 60 yards, that arrow is going to be 10 yards above that car halfway there. So at 30 yards, arrow has to go up to come down at 60, so you could just aim right at a car, arrows going right over it. So we

do stuff like that just for fun. To figure out the arc of the arrow. Right, but not even, that was like just an elementary example just so people could get what I'm saying, but when we'd get in the woods, then there'd be a branch. Like I said, I shot with Levi Morgan, he came

out and did lift run shoot. I'm like, okay, I'm going to beat this fucker. He's 16, 17-time world champion. So I had all these shots where it's like, okay, this branch, is he going to know this one shot was like, I think it was 90-some yards at a deer up on the hill, but there's this big branch halfway in between it. And I knew it was kind of hard to tell, is your arrow going to go over it or under it, right? because you didn't know

that I think it was about 25 yards away I knew what my arrow was going to do because I practiced over and over and over and I'm going to be like oh Levi's going to fuck this one up for sure I'll beat him on this target sure shit he knew exactly

what his arrow was going to do but that's he practices that all the time and done his whole life and this and that but just fun games like that and it was only just to make us because when you're hunting that shit happens

all the time. But where I would kind of screw myself up is I loved the challenge of shot so much. And I shot between trees so often because that was like my thing. I could just like, even it was just like four inches. I'd be like, oh, I can pull through there. So when I was hunting, if I'd see a challenging shot on an animal, I'd be like, where I could have maybe taken a step to the right and got wide open, I'd be like, I can make this shot. and like, fucking, like, making my hunting shot more challenging

because I was just a young and an idiot. Now I'd be like, I'd be stupid. I can just go right here and shoot. But I would do that, but we'd practice that all the time because it was fun. And then you'd like have, you'd want your, I mean, I had so much confidence in shooting. I would shoot hours and hours and hours every day.

I remember one time we were at this Hinson's, these guys who used to bell hunt with us. Me and Roy were there. and there's a bail out there at 70 some yards and then a piece of foam that was like a broadhead target used to be just a square piece of foam like two inches maybe maybe three inches wide but like by two foot by two foot and that was your broadhead target and that would stop an arrow with a broadhead aureate just that two or three inches of foam well the foam target the broadhead target was laying flat on the bail at 70 yards so it was only like two inches and we would like have these competition all the time and I'm like, I said, see that broadhead target on the cedar bale? Yeah, I'm going to hit that broadhead target. And I would hit it. So we were the best shots ever with no range finders.

So then Bushnell finally came up with the rangefinder. And it was like a kind of like a. I remember like a cassette. Yeah, kind of longer, like an eight track tape almost, like sort of size. And then it had a dial on it. And the images, it'd be off. And then if you lined up the image like this, that would, be you look at the, then you'd look at it wherever that image lined up, that'd be the yardage.

So then you'd be like, okay, that's, it's close to 50 yards. Then you'd know to shoot for 50. But it wasn't very accurate. It was close. And did you have a site tape? You had pins. You had pins. Yeah, the sites didn't move at that time.

So your pins would be set up at like 20, 30, 40, 50, something like that. Yeah. And they just had like, we called them T.DOT. So it was like a little plastic. Sort of like fiber, but it's like red plastic that would sort of like have light on it, like a little, just a little light up. No fiber optics or anything. No, it wasn't fiber, but it would light up a little because it's red plastic. Yeah, I heard people talking about this the other day. They were talking about Josh Jones and Josh and Tim's fireside chat. Yeah. It's a great podcast. Yeah. They were talking about how a site that you buy today for like 25 bucks is so, superior to anything that existed in like 1990 yeah like it's fiber objects enjoyable it still made it a lot more successful you know it's like it was still a big advance at that time yeah yeah but to think about where it is now well the garment site like I was telling you about that that that I it had a few

flaws one of I had one that worked perfectly and then I had a second one you know when you get you want to things you said when you get a new bow you don't want to put old shit on the yeah you want to put new shit I like new stuff I did that too but I did that too but But unfortunately, my first garment site worked perfectly, my second one didn't work so good. Like, there would be times where it worked perfectly and then times where I couldn't get a range. I'd press it, it wouldn't go. I'd have full draw. Press it, won't go.

Press it, won't go. Press it, finally. But when it does work, you get this, like, a red dot. You get a clear screen, and on that screen is a red dot. No pins, no wires, no nothing. And, oh, I loved it. When it worked perfect, because then say if you hit an elk, it's... 50 yards, and then he stands out at 80, and he's still standing at broadside. You don't have to

rearrange. You just press a button on your grip, and it instantly gives you a new range. Yeah. I think we talked about this before, and I think I mentioned that the goal is to try to protect their integrity of archery, like keeping it primitive. So it's like, where's that line? Right. Where is the line? In Utah, they decided that that, that garment site was past a line of primitive. You know, so we want to, we want to honor archery in the history. of archery and yes there's been advancements but it's always it's a moving target on where the line is to keep it primitive I get it but if you've ever I don't think I think it's ignorant because I think if you use one of those things you realize like all it's doing is taking a step

away it's still the same exact thing your range finding either way and then you're dialing to 50 yards and whatever you know you have to do to execute the shot then but this way you're a full draw, and the range finding is a part of that. It's just smarter. If it worked perfectly, it's smarter. And I think they're going to get better, and I'm sure the software is better. I haven't used it in two years. But when it worked, it was amazing.

It's like, this is really what you want. What you want is to absolutely know the exact distance so you can make an ethical shot. So if you range at 50, and then it takes a few steps, and then you're guessing because you can't rearrange. Look, we already have less than 10% success rate anyway. It's not like everyone who gets a tag is going to get an elk. It's a small number of people that are really successful all the time. But that would keep you from wounding, and that should be our goal. Always.

I don't think it's any easier. It's just more effective. I think there's more room for error in it, though, isn't there? Because, like, my binoculars are the range finder, so I can definitely get the dot 100% on the animal. Right. Whereas I think with those sites, it's a little bit more difficult to definitely be ranging that animal and not a branch, five yards behind it or five yards in front of it? No, they're really good. So when you're at full draw, when it worked at full draw, you're steady, like your pin, right?

So you have a target. And the target is like this little red thing. And when you put it on there and then you press the button, then it gives you your pin. Yeah, but what if you're not on it? What if you're like, because you said it would eliminate. wounding, which it wouldn't. No, no, I didn't say to eliminate wounding. If I did, I misspoke.

What I meant was you're going to get less of that because you're going to have more effective exact ranges. Right, but you said, like, if you needed a follow-up shot, that's where people, we know adrenaline goes crazy is for sure after the first shot. So if they're wound up and they're shooting too quickly because that site allows it, would that, could that be a negative? But it's a follow-up shot. Yeah.

And why are you shooting too quickly? That's a mind management thing, you know, you should figure out how to manage your mind and calm yourself down and make that shot. You wouldn't freak out on a second shot if you had that. Right, that's what I'm saying. And if you had that and you 100% could count on it the same way you'd count on your range finder, that would be the best thing for everybody. Best thing for the animal, best thing for you, best thing for everybody. This is a more, and it's a way better sight picture. The site picture is amazing. It's a red dot. It's just like a red dot on a pistol. You know, like a red dot on a pistol? It's what it looks like. That dot is just sitting there. and you're not you just can put it right on the vitals and it's a beautiful feeling when you watch through that range through that range finding site and you put that pin on and then the arrow releases then you watch that arrow soar and bink right in there oh yeah hunting oh it's nice i don't doubt that it's like i'm just devil's advocate but i get it look i'm a fan of like a company that does something like that i'm a fan of garb i mean i got a garmin watch on right now yeah i'm a fan of garmin period they make awesome shit they make awesome shit they make

awesome range finding, I mean, awesome GPS equipment. They make awesome watches. They make great shit. They make great, the chest straps, the workout things. Yeah. They make awesome stuff. So I'm just happy that someone put the research and development and the money that must have taken to put together a fucking range finding binocular, range finding site rather, that actually works. Yeah.

I agree. I mean. I just want a better one. I want it perfect. I'll get there. I want it like my. Look, I have that one of the things that I fucking love, I have a loophole full draw five.

That's my favorite range finder of all time because it gives you the arc of the arrow at its peak. That is so huge. Yeah, that's cool. And I used it to kill a bull once because, and when I had that garment site, in fact, because I had the garment site, and I arranged this elk and it was at 50 yards,

but there was a hole only like this where I could shoot through. And I was like, oh, I don't know. So then I pull out the loophole and I hit the butt. and I see the exact arc of the arrow where it's going to be at its height. And its height was six inches below those branches. I'm like, we're good.

We're good. So just keep the pin on them and it was perfect. See that thing? Ah, fucking loved that thing. That thing's so huge. So you know exactly, right there is a little sketch, right? Because that could hit it on the way in, right? So that's the height of your arrow, but that doesn't mean where's that tree?

Yeah. Like that tree might be 20 yards ahead of you. You might smack right into that fucking thing. So you have to take that into consideration. But having that extra indication of the height, the high point of the arrow. Huge. On this, you just take a step to the left. Exactly.

Then you, or if you were me when I was younger, you'd just shoot right there. Or would you get on your knees. Yeah, get on your knees. Get on your knees and execute the shot. But it's like having that knowledge, what it's going to keep is that arrow whacking that branch and then sticking in his ass and wounding him, you know, whereas you might have made a perfect release. But because of that high point of the arrow indicates, Now you know and you can make a more educated decision and it's all about making the ethical shot and so for me

Anything that allows you it's still going to be really fucking hard to do it's always hard here's here okay So I'll just do a list real quick the biggest Help in bow hunting has been the laser range finder that that changed the game definitely Now that was back in the day now sight tapes now well some people yeah some some people don't do well with sight tapes in the heat of the moment as far as dialing the site right but it can make it's made me more accurate at longer range for sure to be able to dial the site and hold right on yeah right now the so that a positive has been on X or the mapping system as far as for hunting the mountains that has helped so many people and so much confidence huge that's a giant one it's like that's one reason why the back country definitely has more people in it because more people are confident used to be be like you said have to read a 7.5 minute per angle a topo map you don't have to do that shit anymore so now and you don't have to figure out where your car is anymore yeah put the you mark your car you're good to go that's been huge there's a huge negative not too many

people are talking about and it's um it's uh using optics with uh they pick up heat signature yeah what are those called thermals thermals yeah those dude it's not good for hunting. You don't, so glassing is an art. We've talked about glass and having good glass movement. Glassing is an art. These thermal optics, you don't have to be good at anything. You're like the predator. You put them up and it tells you where the animal is. So I've never even used one, but I've talked to guys who have used them and I know that it's not great because what would take hours to glass and you probably would miss, you know, a bedded mule deer buck five minutes you know where every animal is on that hill that's a good argument there's a good

argument that that's too far that is that is way too far and is that is that legal in most states it hasn't even hardly been covered really it's kind of a new technology that they don't even address really but i'm saying california's outlawed i hope so because it needs to be outlawed everywhere it's it's a good point so many big animals are getting killed that shouldn't be getting killed right now by guys using thermals and is it a loophole or are they doing it when they shouldn't be doing it in some states or is it because to catch people is tough you know hunting is about honor honor and respect is what we talk about we police ourselves we do it right you know i mean yeah there's people who get busted for doing shit but most people are just out there policing ourselves

well it's because they want that same respect yeah we talked about it yeah what's halliday's first name again cal halliday cal holiday yeah yeah When you talk about that guy, they want you to talk about, every man wants you to talk about him like that, but he's not around like that. And they're not going to, if you're cutting corners and you're using some shit, you're not supposed to use. Or, what is the law on that, though? Because like every state has different laws, right?

Like Nevada, you're allowed to use walkie-talkies, or at least you used to be able to. We can tell people, hey, he's right above you. It's a little bit probably like the e-bike thing where it's so fresh that they haven't come up with you can or you can't right now. It's a bicycle. No, it's not. It's a motorcycle. It's optics. No, it's not. It's thermals. Right. Yeah. Let's see what the laws are.

Put that into perplexity. What are the laws? What states allow thermal binoculars for hunting? Thermal scopes are not universally allowed for hunting. Yeah, but not thermal scopes. Thermal binoculars. Yeah. Does it say thermal? It says thermal optics down below right there in Europe. Owning thermal optics is often... Yeah, but what about in America?

In America, what states allow thermal binoculars for hunting? Put that in there. Not scopes. That's the problem. It's the word scope is for a rifle scope. Binoculars. Let's see. How crazy is this AI where it just does this and immediately gives you the answer?

Thermal imaging devices, including binoculars and monoculars, are legal to own in the United States. and many states allow them in some hunting context, especially predators or nuisance species like hogs or coyotes. However, several states either completely ban thermal for any hunting or ban possession, rather, use of thermal devices while taking or locating wildlife. So examples of state rules. Some states explicitly allow thermal optics for night hunting. For example, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, blah, blah, blah, blah, authorized thermal devices for specific predator or invasive species hunts in their 2025. regulations. Other states such as Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, prohibit thermal optics for hunting wildlife altogether or for most game species. Yeah, so a lot of states. So it seems like a few states are on the ball with this. Yeah. I mean, it's a big deal because those animals, to get to trophy status for these animals, they're old. You know, they've survived. They know what it takes. They've done it. They've outwitted hunters for years. And now, in their best bed where a man would never be able to find them by glassing, those...

That bed behind a tree, but a knee is showing up from the tree. It's like, oh, it's not hunting. It's not right. It's not the art of glassing, which is what, you know, how we've developed these skills. It's using technology. That makes sense. It makes sense because it's like you're saying there is a line. Yeah.

You know, and you are actively campaigning for something that's going to make your job easier. to go away to yeah i wanted to i wanted to keep keep the challenge there well it's also what he said when you like you said in the town you grew up if you killed a big buck like people respected you why because that's really hard to do yeah those big old bucks are fucking smart and they are tuned in man they hear branch snap and it's like fuck this yeah they're that big for a reason they're that big for reason yeah yeah it's uh and i know in in utah was going down this creek uh this year and i saw like There's some cedar trees, like a kind of a patch of them there. But basically there's a tunnel in there and then a deer bed.

And like you couldn't see it from anywhere. And I was thinking, man, if a buck was bedded there, you'd have no idea, right? But you would now if you had the thermo optics. And that's like, that was a perfect example of a buck that found that bed. That's really safe. And that's how we survived now that that. Taking that away. There's probably trad guys listening to this podcast.

I'm being like, fuck off, you do kids. Trad for people who don't know what that means. Trad guys are guys who hunt with a regular old school bow and arrow, like a recurve bow. It's a good challenge. They're just guessing where that arrow's going to go, you know? Well, hopefully they're practice. Oh, they're practice, but there is a lot of guessing. You're guessing the yardage.

You're guessing where your arrow's going to hit, you know? I mean, some of those guys that trad boat hunt, do they use rangefinders? No. None of them. So all of them are just guessing. It's instinct. I try and do a couple of tradbo. Instinct, is it?

Because it's like when you throw a rock, is that guessing? No, it's instinct. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like to get good at pitching a baseball. Right. You know, I mean, it's the same.

Some people are really good. Except the pitchers mound and the batters box at the same distance every time. Yeah, that's the difference. Yeah. Well, if you're disciplined, you would know that it's under 20 yards every time and that's where you'd take. Yeah, but there's a lot of guys that can take a poke with a recurve bow. Yeah, you know, and be pretty accurate with it. Like, they have some different ways of measuring, like, where the tip of it is at 40 yards.

They know that that's when it's going to hit dead on. Yeah. They look down the arrow instead of, like, we do through a people. They're looking down the shaft of the arrow. They look all squirrely and shit like this. Some people, yeah. They look so squirly. They put it on their eye or they put it here and they use the point of the arrow, as you said.

But, yeah, it's like most people, though, like you talk about discipline, like, I'm going to shoot if it's 20 yards or less. That's the only time I'm going to shoot, unless it's huge. It all goes down the window. I had to shoot. I had to shoot. Once in a lifetime. It was the biggest thing of the bull I've ever seen. I had to shoot.

Sometimes you think, you see things and you're like, how do I get to that? Yeah. How do I find them? Even if it's far away. Yeah. Yeah. Normally, like you see stuff, here's what would be the technology that would really hurt. Because you see something a mile away.

And you know that animal's there. If I could just get to that tree line. If you could just be there. Yeah. Well, that's where those long-range rifle guys, that's a whole different argument, right? Oh, look. I hate that, too. Some of those guys, they'll take a poke 7, 900 yards, you know, and they're real accurate with it.

These guys are so good. Like, they're shooting, yeah, and that's a whole other thing. They're taking into account the wind across the canyon. I saw this guy. I'm pretty sure the other Tanner was showing me this because, you know, so much waste of time shit on Instagram. But this was kind of cool. He was shooting so far, and he's so good. So he's prone, down, had his long range, all his shit, everything they do.

That's a whole art. But anyway, he shot, and I think he was, if I remember right, he shot and it was so far, he put another shell in, got another bullet on the way. They both hit steel. That's crazy. They both hit steel. At least it was steel and not like some beagle in shape. So he racked another round in the time it took for the bullet to.

get there? Yes. And sent the other one on the way and so it was like a dong dong. That's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. This guy's a machine though. I wish I could remember the fucking page. But guy's a machine because you can see he's down in his gun just like fucking

in and still on that scope. Didn't you move? Boom. That's a whole other art form. You know, that's a whole other keeping your shit together. Crazy long range shooting. I know a lot of guys that get into my friend Justin got really into that. once you get into long range shooting

you start just fucking craving it they just want to like hit that steel at 1,500 yards it's nuts some of these guys they shoot insane like what is the record for the longest shot ever taken

in a competition like those long range competitions what do you think it is? I mean it's 2,000 yards for sure really yeah that's so crazy I would think people are shooting at 2,000

I'll have a crack. Yeah, you tell me. 2.4 miles. Wow. Wait. Really? Did I say yard? What did I mean?

Did I mean yards? Yeah, I meant yards. He almost nailed it. What is it? Actually, yeah. 2.4 miles. Yeah, but I was. How'd you guess?

You motherfucker. You knew. You looked that up somehow. How could he live in Australia? They're not allowed to know this information. I don't even know what miles is. If you even search this online, that please show up at your door.

Holy smile. 4,000. 2,000. four-yard shot at the Clark, this guy, Robert Brantley at the Clark's Knob ELR match in Kansas described as a new world record in long-range shooting achieved under match conditions. That's incredible. That is so crazy. On competition almost double-ed-up.

Look at that. Oh, my God. In 2022 in Wyoming, a team recorded a 4.4-mile 7,744-yard hit on steel after dozens of tries. Wow, but not a standard scored competition stage. Wow. The problem is guys see that? Like 4.4 miles are like, oh, I could shoot it a thousand yards then? Right, look at that thing that's carrying to him.

They never fucking practice. Good Lord. Yeah, these guys, I mean, the amount of no moving you have to have. Oh, my God, dude. It's crazy. But yeah, the guy out there with their bimart 30-a-sick, do they, you guys have bimarts here? We've heard of bimart? What's a Buymart?

It's a store? Oh, no. Like a Sporting goods store, or it's not a sporting goods, but anyway, like they got their, you know, $250 rifle from Bymart, 30-0.6. And they're like, they see that and they're like, oh, shit, then I could shoot it 600 yards. They shoot at 4.4 miles. That's the problem. That is part of the problem. But people say that about me, too, is like, oh, people will say I always talk about shooting animals at 100 yards, which I have never one time.

But yeah, I practice a long range But they try to lump me in like I'm ruining and promoting long range shooting Yeah, no, you're just amplifying if you're off at all You know, or it's good practice Yeah, no, it's great What I always said is Her rifle for the 4.4 miles Whoa, look at that thing

So those fuckers are heavy too Oh yeah, look at it I mean, it looks like a long bow It just needs a string on a barbell It's probably I mean, I bet it's 30, 40 pounds I don't know, does it say the weight on those things God, look at the size of that gun.

Look at the barrel in that thing. That's nuts. Yeah. First confirmed and verified world record. Wow. This isn't the actual one. This is 2018. That shot was taken in 2022.

Oh, so is this a world record before the world record. Wow. I'd get AIDS if I touched a gun. I know those guns are heavy. That's what the government tells you? Do you get AIDS? The Scrying government. You don't want to touch a gun.

You might get AIDS. That's exactly what we say. It's only if you stick it up your ass, I guess. No, you've got to stick it up your ass after somebody's stuck it up their ass. All right, yeah. You got to get a second. It's like dirty needles. I hate when that happens.

Yeah, that's another thing. It's like, you know, like, bow hunters look at rifle hunters, like, oh, that's kind of easy. Traditional hunters look at compound hunters, like, oh, that's easy. And then there's guys out there, oh, I use a fucking spear, you know. That eats their own, too. Yeah. Yeah, for sure, as long as you're ethical. As long as you could do it, I mean, I'm sure there's probably some guy out there that knows how to hit a target with an addle-addle, you know?

Probably. I mean, if I'm using a spear, I don't do anything past three yards. That's like, I'm just, very regimented. We tried to figure out who, did you really? Oh, God. We probably edit that out. We were trying to figure out, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

We were trying to figure out the other day, like, when. the actual bow and arrow was invented and it's kind of difficult to track down but it's seen the weird thing is it seems to have been invented or at least seems to exist simultaneously at many spots all over the world at the same time which is really interesting yeah it makes you think like I wonder we really don't know how much people were traveling back then we really don't no there's a lot of guessing and they keep pushing back maritime travel they keep pushing back like the age of wit when the first maybe even primitive humans were using some sort of a raft to get across lakes and rivers and maybe even oceans but you know sharing that information like

who is the wizard that looked at a stick and goes if I can just put one of these fucking things on the end of that stick oh cool hey why do you have that? I always have that it's always sitting right here oh yeah they had in your pocket I did because I put it in my pocket sometimes I'm fiddling with it yeah I play with that thing. That's a real one. That's from here. Whoa, that's a fucking good one.

Yeah, I found one in New Mexico. Yeah, that's a good one, right? Remy said that one was probably used for fish. He said because it's so big. Okay. That was his guess. But maybe. It might have been used for bison.

Sort of bob. I mean, it's not, I mean, it would cut. I mean, it's sort of sharp. Yeah. I mean, it's sharp as you can get it. Oh, that's cool, though. It's not like modern broadheads. Modern broadheads that you could shave your arm with, you know?

They cut your eyes when you look at them too hard. Bro. Yeah, but that's what you want. You know, that's the other thing. Like, is that too, is that too good? Is that too easy? It's too sharp. We should go back to Flint.

Go back. Maybe you should make your own arrowheads, pussy. No, I like eating. This guy. That's a guy that I, oh, he went to high school with, but he would say his dad would, like, shoot his arrows down the road to make him, he would like want to make the broadhead dollar so it'd go in and a rip a bigger hole what so it's how he thought yeah yeah anyway people come up with some crazy shit well if they

don't know that's the one of the things that's cool about when I got into bow hunting and especially learning it from you I already knew so much just from talking to you you you had so much information I didn't have to like figure it out nearly as much yeah I said to listen you know like so many people have already figured out metal broadheads so like we were having a conversation about lighted knocks this weekend and i'm like damn it i think i'm going to stop using lighted knocks yeah sorry the weight and no i think you got a really good point like that additional 10 grains at the end can't be good for accuracy it just can't be i think you've got to pick the situation though and it's a little bit you know like if i'm going to the arctic and there's no sunlight and i want to see where the arrow

hits okay a lighted knox going to override the little bit of inconsistency because it's a dull environment it's hard to see it's almost like you're dusk all day long yeah and i think like hunting pigs in their beds you know you're under the trees it's dark it might come in the play a little bit more there but if it's not required then yeah why why interrupt even a little bit of accuracy because you get to a certain point in bow hunting where we're talking about the arrow shafts the the better the match grade of arrow shafts you can use you don't notice at the start with because you're just shooting you know and you're not super consistent you're not super accurate

and then all those little things end up bringing a group from that to that and there's the difference and you'll notice that at this point in your archery yeah it makes sense it totally makes sense but it's just again thank God somebody figured all this stuff out

it's like if you had to come along and do it all by yourself like oh it was a hard learning curve like in Australia that we're like we didn't have the the sort of figures and probably knowledge that you guys did because it's like it's part of your pastime, right? I was talking to Evan about this.

It's like part of the American pastime, a bow hunter. Whereas in Australia, it's not, you know, and there's not all the information out there and it seemed like Australia was probably about 10 years behind the US on sites, release aids, the knowledge behind it. And, yeah, I think the fact that, you guys have like we were talking about fred bear you know like paved in the way for bow hunting

in america and you know australia's had its it's um idols as well and people that have paved the way but a lot slower than here um to have all the knowledge for you to have someone like cam is absolutely brilliant because you are you've probably made those mistakes yourself or learn them yourself and then so you go straight to joe and be like this is a good setup this works this doesn't and then in Australia the first things I was sold with target sites for bow hunting you know and it's just like and we didn't know any better so as well as wasting time you wasted a lot of money you wasted a lot of effort you wasted a lot of heartache you know on on finding your way in bow hunting yeah and there's still guys right now that's instinctual with a compound yeah it's it's uh the internet

has definitely helped like educate people you know we just have to learn it all on our own which is I think to Adam's point where it's nice when you have a resource or a mentor, a lot of the times we didn't have that. We had magazines. We didn't have internet, so we just have to figure it out. But when we talk about like the lighted knocks specifically, you mentioned the weight. The weight is one part, but it's also the inconsistency of having those electronics back there on the back of the arrow. And you just can't get as good as a knock. So that's the connection point from the arrow to the string.

It's just not going to be as good with electronics in there. It's trying to serve a different purpose of lighting up that knock. where, in my opinion, that's going to help me maybe decide on when to go after the animal, knowing where I hit it, but it's not going to make me any more lethal. It's going to make me less lethal. I want the most accurate arrow possible. And where that goes, whether I see it or not, doesn't really matter. I'm going to have to get on that blood trail and recover that animal regardless.

So just knowing where the arrow hit isn't making it any more deadly or not, you know. It's just how that might impact how I react to that shot. But I want the most accurate. That's why I shoot those, you know, the X-10s, $50 an arrow, because it's the straightest, most accurate arrows, what they've used in the Olympics since 1996. So you can use other arrows. They're not as straight, not as good.

You can put lighted knocks on. You're giving up accuracy. You can do it if you want. And you can say it's going to help in these other arenas. it's not going to help with accuracy. So all I care about is that arrow going where I want it to go. That's how I look at things. It's the most important.

Yeah. It makes sense. It makes sense. And the amount of times where the lighted knock would help you is dwarfed in comparison to the amount of times where accuracy is critical. Right. Accuracy is always critical. Right.

And it's only a small amount of times where that lighted knock is really going to come into play where it really helps you. That's what I, I mean, it's cool and it's nice. Cool. And it looks, I've never used one. So, I mean, or maybe I've, I have you, I guess I have a few times. But I just was like, just thinking about it and like, no, I, it's not helping me. I always think about it when I take the regular knocks off and put the lighted ones on. Like, the regular knocks are solid. Yeah. Yeah.

And the lighted ones, there's a hole in the center of it where you've got electronics and a light bulb and a battery. I know. Like, there's a bunch of shit in there. Yeah. That's got to have some sort of an effect. Right. Yeah. Didn't Tom Miranda used to have something where he had a weight on the back of his arrow?

Didn't he have something crazy, some weird setup? I don't know. Not the breadcrumb like the tracker. Oh, I don't remember what he had. No, it wasn't that. It was like a thing that he did to the back of his arrow was like, that seemed counterintuitive. We had additional weight on the back. I don't know what I'm talking about.

I can't remember. I don't know, but Tom Miranda, that's old school. Old school. I mean, he's still out there getting it done, but that's, I mean, that's history. Is that how we were talking about the other day? With the Tom Miranda. Oh, he's had those TV shows on forever. Yeah.

Adventure bow hunting with Tom Miranda. Yeah, no. I didn't know we were talking about that. Oh, okay, yeah, getting around the world. Bro, that guy went all over the world hunting, all over the world. He was one of the first guys that ever heard about using a sauna to help as hunting. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He felt like, because he was living in Florida, and the guy was like, why do you want a sauna in your house here in Florida? And he's like, because it makes you have more endurance. Yeah, it's better for hunting. I don't know. That's cool. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Like Tom Miranda. Yeah.

Old school. Okay. It's cool to introduce all that stuff in the hunting. Like, if you're that passionate. You know, I did the sauna. I got the ice bath at home. I did the hypoxic wellness, which is, I think I was telling Joe about this, where I decked the home gym out.

So it's basically a gym at altitude now. And that's what I was using before I got to Utah. And it actually made me be able to go from the bottom of the mountain to the top without stopping the take a breath, which is incredible. So it's altitude training. It's altitude training. Is it a tent or? No, it's the whole room. Oh.

but there's a company called Leonics now they make say it could be the size of this and it would have red light therapy in here it would have a sauna in here it would have the hypoxic conditioning in here so basically pumping nitrogen in the room to drop the oxygen levels um and so you could have gym equipment in here you could sit in here and read a book but the way that i've got it set out i'm doing a workout in it now and i've got a target in the corner i literally shoot my bow in there at like 14,500 feet And then to step out of that, like I live at sea level back in Australia, to step out of that at sea level, like you feel absolutely incredible. Yeah, I bet. And then that's, so what was Utah? 8,000. Sometimes, see, seven something? Seven or eight thousand feet. Probably nine at the highest.

Okay. And I'd be training at 14,500. So I felt amazing when I went there. Yeah. It was awesome. Technology. Technology. That is, that is useful.

Because, I mean, that's what athletes. do they go to train high altitude training in the mountains and then they come down to lower elevation where there's more more oxygen and there's more oxygen available to push themselves harder so their bodies used to that it created more red blood cells essentially I think it's like a a natural I think that's what EPO they say does so it's a natural way to do that and yeah I mean so it just doesn't stay very long is that right yeah only stays in your system like your system eventually acclimates to whatever the altitude is but before it does that, you have a nice advantage. Like, there's, that's why they, I think it's like a couple of weeks. Oh, okay. I think that's why they probably put the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs.

You know, they wanted these people to train it. Totally makes sense. Yeah, totally makes sense. Yeah, totally make sense. I found mentally I felt a lot better too. And then, so I've now done a bit of reading up on it and it's like the plasticity of their brain improves under those conditions as well.

And then... Makes sense. Adaptors or die. Yeah. I just feel so happy afterwards. I was sleeping in there in the end because I was trying to fit in as much, which can be detrimental as well. Like you don't want to overdo it. But I was sleeping in there in the end.

And I'd wake up in the morning and I was just like on a high for like four or five hours. Why would they say not to overdo it? Because when they go train at altitude, they're up there the whole time. Just to get acclimated, I bet initially. Yeah. And I do it initially. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. And I also think that a part of the, you know, it would be like overdueing your muscles. if you just kept doing arms every single day, you know. Wait, man, that's what he does. I do. You can't help it, can you? Oh, bloody cut. That bike that you sent me is fucking awesome, by the way.

Oh, the stepper bike's incredible. Because I love the, you know, the Airdine bikes. I love those things. It's like my favorite conditioning thing. And I love the Echo bike from Rogue. But I think that one's even superior to the Echo bike. The Bionic bike. How consistent the drag is.

on it as you turn them up. But even more importantly, it's harder. Yeah. It's harder to pull back. Like, the echo bike is easier to pull back. That one has more resistance. Yeah. And when I, when I first started using that one, I was like, whoa, this one's tough. Like, whatever you're getting out of the echo bike or the Airdine bike, that's that times two. Really? Yeah. What is it called again? Step. It's S-T-P-R, right? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. That thing fucking rules. Yeah. I'll get them the deck out because all their equipment's like that. Well, that, that bike is the shit. Because, and And it's also got different grips, different hand grips and different seat. I'm changing that up.

I'm up the top. Yeah, you can mix it up. You can mix it up where the resistance is coming from. And I actually lift the seat right up. So it's nearly like I'm in the standing position like this. Nice. With the seat up and the legs are right down and it burns me. Yeah.

Absolutely burns me. I love it. Yeah, it's a great low impact cardio too. I mean, really conditions the shit out of your legs and your lungs. And it's, you know, you're not taking any pounding while you're doing it. I think it's hard I'm stoked you like it Oh I love it

Yeah because when it was in there I didn't know when it had gotten delivered And I was like oh what the fuck is this And then when it was in the gym I started trying the moment I got on I was like oh And it's easy to crank up too Like it's right there

There's no reaching down The handles right there Just Wooo It's good There's so many different things you could use now But what you were you saying about earlier It's like you have the opportunity

Now to be better than you've ever been before Yeah Because of all this you know hormone optimization the ways to well stuff peptides nutrition and understanding exercise science and then equipment is you could condition your body and you could be in amazing shape at 58 which is crazy the knowledge of known that's actually out there is i'm grateful for oh yeah just the knowledge and knowing that we can be better every day we can be healthier physically and mentally it's great and i see i do see a lot of doctors who kind of shit on

BPC or shit on stem cell And I'm like Whatever you're saying Cool, but I've never felt better So there's a lot of doctors Hate the proof baby You could say it doesn't work Yeah

There's a lot of doctors I've talked to doctors that shit on it And I had this one conversation with a doctor That is I like he's a nice guy And he's like I think it's a lot of a placebo And I go there's peer reviewed studies on BBC 157 Like you're saying this and you haven't done the research Like this is not debatable Like BPC 157, there's a very clear pathway.

They show why it works. It naturally exists in the human body, and you can enhance your body's ability to recover from soft tissue injuries. It's important. It's good. It's good for you. Like, the idea that somehow I know that this is horseshit. Like, no, you're horseshit. You're spitting out some nonsense.

And the problem is a lot of doctors in particular, a lot of very educated people that are specialists and whatever they're in. Like, you know, you got a doctor. You went to school. You got a, rather, you got a medical degree. You went to school, you did your residency. You want to be the one who has all the information. When someone comes along and says, actually, a better way to do it is through stem cells.

Like, what do you mean, oh, stem cells? How much do you know? There's Neil Reardon has written many papers on stem cells. Like, there's documented efficacy on neurological conditions, soft tissue injuries, joint rehabilitation. It's not guessing. For a doctor to say, I wouldn't mess with stem cells. So it's unproven. The FDA hasn't approved it.

It's because the FDA sucks. It doesn't mean that it doesn't work. Like there's scientists that are studying this stuff and there's people that are using it. You've got shit tons of anecdotal evidence from world-class athletes that'll tell you the benefits of it. It's the reason why the UFC has partnered up with CPI down in Mexico. But they have to go to fucking Mexico to do this stuff, you know, which is crazy.

But now, but Ways to Wells, Brigham in particular, is really working hard to make all that stuff available in the United States. And it's only good. It's good for everybody. It's not bad for medicine. People are always going to need doctors. It's crazy. It's just more advancement.

And the problem is it's going to, for sure, it's going to interfere with people who want to sell your pain pills. It's going to interfere with people that want to do unnecessary surgeries. And unfortunately, that's a real thing. That's where they make their money. And that people like to say that, well, it's not FDA. approved and I'm like have you seen the shit that is FDA approved yeah it's like that that doesn't mean anything to me I might not want to take it if it is something like 30%

of all medications to get approved by the FDA get pulled yeah it's just like that doesn't mean shit to me what is the percentage if I put that in there you look at all the fucking poisonous food they sell us which is FDA approved yeah like so that's your argument and not approved in other countries yeah like other countries have banned it outlawed it and we're like fine it's fine it makes your cheerie I was saying the difference in ingredients between countries. And it's like, crazy. America has so much.

Cherios is a bad example. Fruit loops is the best example. Like the fact that like they were like, oh, we can't do that. Well, you do it in Canada. You sell the fucking the same stuff with different dye, with natural dyes. Yeah, it's not as bright. But it also doesn't kill you. It's not poison.

It's just so gross. I know. They're so bought and paid for. And here's the real problem. A lot of these motherfuckers, they go from working at these. FDA to cushy jobs in these major corporations. Right. It's like they have this golden pal-shoots.

100%. 2.9% of FDA approved new drugs from 1980 to 2021 were withdrawn specifically for safety reasons out of 1,310 total approvals where 210, 16% were discontinued for of all various reasons, including marketing factors. It's that low? I thought it was higher than that. Yeah, but look at down below where it says antibiotics face higher rates at 41%. Whoa.

Okay, so all told, I wonder, what the pharmaceutical drugs that get pulled are. Yeah, and antibiotics, 41% is nuts. Yeah, well, and 23% of oncology, I mean. Indications withdrawn, wow. It's like, what the fuck? I mean, we're just, like, guessing on this shit? Well, it's not guessing. It's like one of the problems with some of these studies is they're getting information from the pharmaceutical drug companies themselves.

Like, I had this lawyer on that was explaining to me how he litigated to kids. case against pharmaceutical drug companies, and that one of the issues that they found was that these guys would run 10 tests, and they would define no efficacy. So they would rig a test in a very biased way to show the smallest amount of statistical significance. And then they would say it's statistically significant, and they would push that. And their only motivation was profit. They weren't saying, this is going to cure cancer.

This is going to stop blindness. No, it's like we can make money on this. And there's even one of the cases with Vioxx where there was emails exchanged with the pharmaceutical drug companies talking about all the problems that it was going to cause, but we think we will do well with this, which is crazy. I remember we looked that one up before. It's like it's, yeah. I mean, it's nuts how this medicine stuff works, but it's like there's still like with the COVID vaccine, still things coming out. I saw last night on TV about in this. in a small number of cases, it can cause heart, some, or whatever the fuck.

But we've seen a number of these announcements, like all these, finally this negative stuff about the vaccine. Did it do any positive? Probably not. But all this fucking negative. And that was just coming out years later. And we were bombarded with propaganda that it was necessary to stay alive. Yeah. Like there was one, I think it was the Atlantic that had one headline that said, if you're unvaccinated, it might be time to make

your end of life will and then the same same magazine years later COVID vaccines may cause heart damage same exact magazine fuck you yeah because you guys only said that because you were being pressured by your advertisers or you were being pressured by culture or society you didn't look at the history of pharmaceutical medication and how much they're full of shit they've paid some of the biggest criminal fines in the U.S. history because they fucking lied. And the same companies are still selling you shit. You think they came to Jesus? Do you think they're different now and they don't just try to make money? And if you question that, you're a conspiracy theorist and a kook and you're taking horse medication. It's so infuriating how many people

buy into stuff. Right. And how they don't even get in trouble for lying to everybody for so long for years just lies and propaganda face no recourse not not financial not social nobody's responsible not reputational no recourse that's disgusting it's I'm still waiting for Fauci to be

strung up it can't be he got a giant pardoned by the auto pen well but what's so frustrating too is that so they basically said hey you have to take this poison or you're going to lose your job yeah or you won't

to do this or you won't be able to do that so take this poison but then something that we've shown works stem cell BPC that's what they'll shit on

shut up down they're just worried about losing control and they're worried about losing profits and they're worried about compounding pharmacies making this stuff

and they want peptize they want all this stuff but they want to be able to market it only under their brand they want to own it they want to have

patents for all this stuff and that's where the real problem comes a lot of these really effective things they can't patent right it's uh yeah all tied to the money i have a code for peptides that weighs well i wish i could remember somebody could so we could use it it's probably cam is it c a m it's probably

dumb fuck you don't know what your code is no really should i call brigham what's that in this podcast well you might not i don't want to bother we'll figure it out figure it out fuckers i'll put it on my instagram story i won't put it on a actual post it's not that important okay Well, put it on whatever. Do whatever the fuck you want to do. I don't care. Well, okay. So here's what I wanted to end the podcast with.

What's one thing you learned this season, bo-hunting? Or wait, is this my call to how we end it? Yeah, you can do it. You can do it. You run the show. What I learned this season? I always learn one thing every year, how important leg conditioning is. So fucking important.

God, is what maybe the most, especially elk hunting, it is the most important thing. leg conditioning is fucking everything. If you can't get up those mountains and be fit and be able to do it over and over and over again over like five days of miles and miles and miles, like no matter what I did, I need to do more. That's what I learned that for sure. That's a big one.

You could never be in too good of shape. Never be in too good of shape. Never be in too, never have your legs conditioned enough and you can overpractice archery. I learned that too because I started developing this low back problem that I've been going to this trigger point massage I went today. Oh, my God.

I get so scared every time I go into this guy's office, he fucking tortures me. It's horrible. Especially when he does the IT band with his fucking knuckles and his elbow, it's horrible. But it's super effective.

I just, I got, essentially, I got tendinitis and my lower back. Overuse injury. Just overuse. Because I'm pulling back an 80-pound bow a hundred times

over and over and over again, days after days after day. And every time it would hurt, I would be an idiot. And I would go, ah, work through it. And you're obsess. Not bad. Yeah, I'm a little obsessive. It got bad.

But that's why you're great at things, too. Yeah, it's a double-edged sword. But you've got to learn, like you were talking about, not overdoing it in the hypoxic thing. You got to learn. And I don't learn always, but I try to. I learn those things. Yeah. Those are huge. So, okay, what are you going to do for your legs then? Continue, not stopping with leg conditioning ever until September. Okay.

Like, there was a lot of times, one thing, it's Waste Wells helped me. I got a fucking weird left knee. But the latest round of stem cells that I had did real, they did a real improvement. Like, I really notice it. And I'm protecting it. I'm not doing anything stupid in the meantime, you know, like no jujitsu, like no getting heel hooked, nothing that's going to aggravate it. Right. And just build up my conditioning and maintain it over the year.

That's a big one. Yeah, that's a good... Would you learn? Camhaines? Me? No, it's Adam's turn. Oh, you go last. I think I learned a lot this season, but just like more about life than just in a bow-hunting scenario.

But I think the biggest thing that I took away from it is health, as in mental and physical, and that you can always, like, step it up and you can always be better. And I think, like, I just, you know, like family life, whatever excuses I can come up with, you know, business and not having the time to put in the extra but finding the extra time because of how valuable it is and what the payoff in that is you know being physically healthy makes it a lot easier to be mentally healthy because you went for a while where you really didn't work out much I didn't I just I bowhunted a lot you know and I was on the tools a lot like being in you know the building game but it's not that's different it's a different sort of health you know

whereas in actually targeting, you know, losing weight, eating clean, you know, because it's not just about the gym, it's like everything that else that goes with it. So I learned to eat a lot more cleaner. I started doing the hypoxic wellness studio. And I think a combination of those things and seeing the payoff in two weeks, you know, not talking months, it was like in two weeks I could see a massive difference when you lined everything up, eating healthy, that made the mountains, lot more easier and a lot more enjoyable i'm not saying i did more of the mountains i think i only

covered the same sort of miles but it was just a lot more enjoyable and that that example that i kept saying to you like going from the bottom of the mountain to the top without having four or five breaks in between when you're like and hurting it was just a lot more enjoyable i'd stop you know and it's just like i wasn't even taking deep breaths i was already scanning the mountains for a bull you know and i think it just become a lot more enjoyable and then get in the headspace from that too, whether it's from me feeling better, whether it's from better plasticity of the mind. I just, overall, I just felt a lot better, a lot more connected, a lot more grateful as well, as in, because you feel good. Yeah. So it's easier to think of things more and be more grateful. I like that. That's,

well, what I took from that is you said climbing the mountain is more enjoyable. To me, that means you're going to make better decisions. Yes. You're going to be when you're hunting, you know, because when we're fatigued, there's this famous saying, fatigue makes cowards of us all. But it also, we make poor decisions when we're fatigued. So you being at a higher level just physically allows you to hunt better is what I always think. Because we're not taking shortcuts.

We're making better decisions. We're reading the animal better. We're instead of like looking for a, because we're gas, so we don't want to kick things, so we're looking at the ground more. Instead, our heads up. and we're reading the situation better. So it results in just better hunting. And you enjoy it more.

Yeah, definitely. But I love that. What I learned is that I think I enjoy the success of others. And this has been reinforced over the years, but this year specifically, I enjoy being part of the success of others and taking others like new hunters and just sharing our lifestyle with them

and just what's important to me And it gives me a chance to share, when you talk to somebody on the phone, you're not like getting deep. But when you're on a hunt, you get that opportunity. And they're more, I don't know if they have to listen because they can't go anywhere or it's just they're more interested in listening. But it allows me to really like share why nature in the mountains and what I do is important. And it seems like it's really resonates with people. And it's just, that has given me so much strength. strength and, I don't know, I just, and purpose, it's just sharing our lifestyle with others.

That's what I've learned that drives me. You've been like that for a long time, too. Like that first buffalo hunt that we went on back in Australia, and you killed a bull, and it was like, I was just happy for you as if I killed it. And then when I killed my bull, it might have been the last day, like, it was the same. It was all like hugs, and that was awesome, and I could see it glowing in your face. you know that you want, you relish in other people's success as well. Gentlemen, this was awesome.

Thank you. Thanks for having a song, Joe. Always great to hang out with you guys. Thank you, Joe. It's a pleasure, brother. Love you too. All right. Bye, everybody.