Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2426 - Cameron Hanes & Adam Greentree
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Joe Rogan Experience #2426 - Cameron Hanes & Adam Greentree

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Gentlemen, what's happening?
What is going on?
Good to see you.
Good to see you guys again.
Bowhunting Brothers.
Yeah, we were just talking about the mountain lion that we have in the lobby
and how insane
that thing is.
So, Adam, you shot that mountain lion 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, I think Rinello
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 lion's nuts.
It's like, that was like a murderous mountain lion.
It was, I felt a bit funny about it at the start with, because like the dogs do
all the
hunting, right?
The dogs smell it.
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, 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
lion was, at least.
I was telling Cam about this when we got here, that it must have grabbed the
cow, like a beef
cow, must have grabbed it on the neck.
And the cow couldn't move, you know, 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 had 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 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 ended 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.
I was, hey, I was teared up, like, you know, like I don't like suffering like
the next person.
So it was a very horrible moment.
So then it was like, now I'm into it.
Like now I'm into finding this lion.
It's like a werewolf's loose in your town, you know, having a, 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 size of, you know, how big that lion was.
It looks like it's at least 150 pounds.
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.
Yeah.
Live.
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 it's, it's like, oh, they, 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.
It's like, 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 it 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 being
merciful or
anything like that.
It's just, it's 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 not even a thought, you know?
It's just fascinating that all these different creatures exist with us.
Cause we're so insulated for the most part.
Like most people are so insulated, living in cities, traveling on buses and
planes and cars.
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,
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 and 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're 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.
Cause even though like it's a kitty cat, like a little tiny kitty cat, little,
it was fluffy
too.
It was kind of cute.
Like 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 where they get ding and then up in the air.
We're like, that is cool.
It was so wild.
And that's going on multiple places throughout on our planet right now, you
know, 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.
It's a constant war.
We live on a murderous planet, right?
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.
Nonstop killing.
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 all.
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.
That, 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.
You know, 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.
Yeah.
And every time a lion comes in, they catalog it, check it, 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.
It 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.
They're a 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, where brown bears are more
prevalent
and 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 freaked out.
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 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 Hokkaido.
Japan had a period where they would let foreigners hunt, and it had to be with
a bow.
And I was chasing seeker stags over there.
And I had no idea they had a brown bear at all.
And I was going through this 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.
Wait a minute.
What year is this?
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 started messaging the outfitter and being 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 hood.
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 to shoot the bear, the bear was in
a stream
holding the guy down in the water, eating him in the water.
Oh.
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.
Bro, 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 you saw the Starlink things going by.
They're way behind in Australia, though.
Let's not talk about that one.
Come on.
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 hu