Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2381 - Taylor Kitsch
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Joe Rogan Experience #2381 - Taylor Kitsch

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
No?
85?
Yeah.
Drop some headphones on, what's wrong?
Damn.
Yeah, you have to, well, see, if you're ever going to shoot something at 45,
you really
want to be comfortable at twice that.
Okay.
So I'll shoot 90, I'll shoot 100 yards.
Yeah, because that way, when you get into 40, it seems normal.
Yeah, right.
It seems easy.
Easy day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's all just about, like, effective distance.
Would you take a shot at 85?
No.
Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's far.
You might take a follow-up shot.
Oh, yeah.
Like, you know the animal's already going to go down.
Yeah.
And you can, if you can, you should always get a second shot of them.
Yeah.
So I'll take a second shot at 85, but I would never.
Have you had one, and it just fucking ran, just gone?
Oh, yeah.
Like, 200, 300 yards.
What do you mean?
Like, if you shoot it, and you know how.
If you hit it?
Yeah, hit it, and it just goes into the bush, and you've got to track it, find
it.
Yeah, you can track them, though.
Yeah, just leaking all over the place.
Yeah, blood trails.
Yeah.
Especially if you use a large mechanical broadhead.
So I've shot one deer in my life, and it was after Lone, and I was on Latrell's.
After Lone's survival.
Yeah.
And I was with Latrell and a couple other seals on his ranch.
And, you know, you're surrounded by seals, so it's like, he's like, let's get
you one.
I'm like, yeah, let's go.
And so we're on the ranch.
Have you been there?
No.
Oh, it's great.
And I don't know how many acres, but he used to have, like, giraffes on the
ranch and shit.
It was crazy.
You would literally just be out there, and there's a couple giraffes.
And I think they're gone now.
But we pull into this, like, opening, and he's like, there's going to be some
deer on the right.
Lo and behold, a couple deer.
He's like, okay, take that one.
Pull out the M4.
We're pretty far, but not crazy.
And I'm nervous, man.
Like, of course, I've trained with the M4 for Lone and all this stuff, but I've
never, like, shot shot.
And so I hit it, and he's like, fucking great shot.
Let's roll up.
Roll up, no deer.
And you can hear it, though.
And it's like, just losing his fucking mind.
Oh, no.
And I'm like, oh, fuck.
And so the other seal, he's like, let's go.
So we walk and walk and walk and finally get around this corner, and we have to
put him down with a pistol.
And I was like.
Why'd you have to put him down with a pistol?
Just because we walked right up on it.
Oh, just dying.
Yeah.
And so I was just like, okay, this is part of it.
Yeah.
And then we, you know, ate it and all that kind of stuff.
But it was.
That's the good part.
Yeah, it really is.
But that was my one experience.
But I did go with my bro loves hunting.
And we went out in Montana, and there's on a friend's ranch in any of the back
country.
And he was Beau.
And I love tracking animals for photography.
So it's the same thing.
Watching the wind.
Getting up fucking before light hits.
Just getting deep.
You're way up there, too.
Calling, all that kind of stuff.
And it's just so fun.
And once you get in tight, your adrenaline's just buzzing.
And we had eyes on this, like, big boy.
And so then I'm doing the, he's, like, working his way up the mountain, up this
pass.
And I'm doing the antlers against the tree, and then the antlers, and getting
it angry,
getting it worked up, and it starts bugling even more.
And you're like, I'm not even taking the shot.
And I'm like, this is fucking legit.
And he, like, he pulls his fucking mask down, and he's, like, getting into it.
I see him, like, army crawling up there.
Missed.
But we had a blast.
It's more of, like, a bonding experience, man, than anything for us.
It's a very intense experience, especially elk.
It really is.
Because they scream.
Truly.
And the sound, like, gives you goosebumps.
It does.
Especially when you're close to them.
Yeah.
And it just goes through your body.
It shakes you.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, there's nothing like elk.
I know.
I know.
It's really fun.
Yeah.
But it takes a lot of work.
It is.
You earn it.
Yeah.
It's a different hunt, right?
Yeah.
Than just rifle.
It's just rifle up there, at least in that area.
It's, like, sometimes your hunt's under an hour.
Mm-hmm.
You know?
With bow, you're in one.
Yeah.
This is days, possibly.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Especially if you want to get within 50.
Yeah.
And then if the wind swirls.
It's the magic.
Wind swirls.
Yeah.
Yes, yes.
Yeah.
Throwing up the grass, checking it all the time.
Mm-hmm.
Fuck, it's so fun.
You live in Montana now?
I do, yeah.
How long have you been out there?
Five, just over five years now.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
What made you choose that?
Man, flying into Austin, I was here 16-plus years.
So, it's just memory fucking lane.
It's crazy.
Oh.
Crazy.
This is where it all started, man.
Really?
Yeah.
Like, Friday Night Lights.
We were, like, school for the deaf just down the street.
Land in the airport.
Dylan Field was just across the airport.
So, so many memories of Pete and I.
We were staying at the Four Seasons, shooting the pilot.
Learned to box here at Richard Lord's.
If you don't know this guy, he's fucking amazing.
Richard Lord?
Yeah, Richard Lord.
There's a doc on him, actually.
He's up.
I don't even know if he's still around.
He was pretty old when he taught me how to box.
But wicked dude.
Just zenned out.
He was probably in his mid-60s, so he'd be up there now.
But, yeah, Pete literally was, like, before we hit camera, it was, like,
hey, you want to go box?
And I was, like, all right.
And I loved it.
I loved it.
And I still box.
When you say Pete, you mean Peter Berg?
Pete Berg, yeah.
He loves boxing.
Yeah, yeah.
He's got his own gym.
Of course.
L.A.
Yeah.
Of course.
I do not spar with him anymore.
He's, it's Dirty Pete is his fucking boxing name.
I bet you he didn't fucking tell you that, did he?
Why is it Dirty Pete?
Because he's earned that, man.
He's, so, you know, you'll do body shots only or stuff like that and spar.
Keep each other honest.
Right.
But, fuck, you get him once, it's, there's no rules.
There's no rules.
And it's like, you're on camera in, like, a week or something like that.
He's trying to give you a flag on it.
And then you, like, take it and you're kind of shocked at first.
It just goes from, like, 2 to 11 so quick.
That's funny.
But, yeah.
It's the best workout.
We have a gym connected here.
So, the last time I was here.
No way.
Here?
Yeah, it's right next door.
We have a big gym.
No shit smart.
So, we worked out together and cold plunge, the whole deal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He gets after it.
He does.
He does.
He pushes.
I mean, even when we shot American Primeval, he was, his little garage set up,
man.
Cold plunge, steam room, like, it's, he's got to have it.
Yeah.
He's got to have it for that brain of his.
Yeah.
Yeah.
American Primeval was fucking awesome, dude.
Thanks, man.
That show's so good.
I started watching it with my wife, but she's like, nope, gotta go.
My, shut up, man.
She can't handle.
It's a lie.
Things get intense.
That's a fucking intense, but also probably super accurate.
Yes.
Like, one of the most accurate representations of what life was probably like
in the West back
then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I learned so much on that, man.
I mean, living in Montana, I got to, this cowgirl friend of mine who I met at
that ranch.
I had been working with this shaman just outside of Livingston.
And I was telling her, I'm playing a guy that kind of raised by Shoshone and
all this.
And like, that was kind of where I hung my hat of like, if this guy lost his
family at
six or seven and then adopted or sold to the Shoshone, this is who he is.
He's more Shoshone than he is white.
So I started working with this shaman, which was incredible.
And then went down to the Shoshone reservation, Wind River, worked with the
elders there.
It's tough, man.
Because obviously going there, you're like, and they knew I was coming, but it's
like,
you're talking to these elders and it's like, we meet five minutes in and I'm
like, so what
do you, what do you guys do when you bury your wife?
And you're asking these heavy, heavy questions.
Cultural questions.
Yes.
That is true meaning behind it all.
So she took a long beat and she's like, I'll get back to you on that.
I'll get back to you on that.
And then I went into this other room at the school there and this other elderly
woman comes
in a wheelchair and she sits there and she's like, what do you want to know?
And so we just sat there for hours and she was incredibly transparent and just
really open.
And I would take all this and go to Pete and be like, listen, if we're going to,
we got to
honor these guys, so let's do it right.
And he was all ears and the Shoshone was very tough to learn.
When you say working with a shaman, like what did you do?
Yeah.
So we'll do like two hour sweats.
Like a sweat lodge?
Yeah.
Yeah.
How do they have that set up?
Like a fire in the middle of it or something?
Yeah.
So it's a fire is always burning before you start the sweat and then he'll grab
river rocks
from Yellowstone River and then the fire's going and he'll bring these rocks
that are in
the fire into the middle of the sweat lodge.
And there's four doors to this one.
And you'll talk, you'll fast the day before and you'll, he'll put the river
rocks in the
middle and they're smoking hot.
Right.
And then he brings river water from a spring or whatever.
And then you have, you fast and then you have your intention ties.
So you would sit down with them for an hour or two and talk about what you want
out of
this.
Sometimes it's like, do I want to have a kid or a buddy of mine was using
heroin for something.
So I would bring him and have a sweat and just give him my energy in this sweat
to help
him.
Or my dad passed or something or some, it can be light too.
It doesn't have to be so heavy.
Um, but he's been amazing.
Like before, like I start a movie in a couple of weeks and I'm just going to go
do a sweat
and get ready for that.
And I just, whatever he's going to energy, he's going to give me to go into
this shoot.
Um, and then for the, for primeval, it was fucking beautiful.
Like I wasn't a good rider.
I'm still not on horses.
And, uh, he gave me like, my horse has a feather.
If you really watch, he's, I have four horses in it, but my first horse has a
feather in
him and I wanted to do all these in honor of the horses, uh, which obviously
the Shoshone
do.
Um, so he, he just taught me a shit ton about just to honor that tribe and
honor what, what
they do and, and to be as authentic as possible.
So that helped me root Isaac so much.
But yeah, that's a, such an intense character.
I'd imagine like you're playing a guy who's a white guy who's like deeply ingrained
with
native American life.
And so it's like, it's all, it's very conflicted.
There's a lot going on there, but you want, you, you want.
You want to kind of embody what this guy would be like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you're, you meet him when he's mourning.
Right.
And he's lost his wife and his son and he married into the tribe.
Uh, so the, the female chief, I married her daughter and had a son.
And, um, so when you meet Isaac, he's just in mourning and everything is full
circle.
Everything is circular with them.
So the only way he could reunite with his family is to, is to die honorably.
So that influences the way I fight.
So the way Isaac fights is all in wild, wild, like biting.
I had, I just got chills thinking about this.
There's a fight, I think in episode two, which was fucking insane.
And we didn't rehearse.
This is very Berg.
And we have these one guy's black feet, unbelievable guy.
And I kept using them because he's a great stunt man.
And, um, so Pete's like, you guys are going to fucking roll down this hill and
I want you
to fight your way to the river and then we'll cut.
And then I want you to fight in the river.
This is like maybe 28 degrees in that river.
The safety