Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2312 - Jeremy Renner
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2312 - Jeremy Renner' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2312 - Jeremy Renner

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
What's happening, man?
What's going on?
It's great to see you.
Yeah, good to be seen.
Boy, what a journey you've been on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I started listening to your audio book.
It was giving me anxiety.
It gets better, right?
It takes a minute, but there's a relief for the reader.
Well, the relief is seeing you healthy, walking around.
Well, the relief is also you kind of know the end of the story, right, before
you go into it.
Right.
So then you can really kind of dive into the actual detailed narrative that I
put out.
Yeah.
There's no other way to do it.
But, yeah, it's tough for a minute.
It's like, wow, my sister, it took her a while to read, and anybody that was
kind of involved in the incident takes a minute.
But, you know, it took me a long time to kind of get through it, right?
Yeah.
It's anxious for me, too.
So how long was the actual recovery?
Because you don't even walk with a limp.
Yeah, yeah.
It's quite – there's a lot – some things are pretty miraculous.
Some things can be explained.
And I tried to figure it out as I was writing the book, you know.
A lot of people ask questions.
I ask myself questions.
Some things were on my own will.
Some things were otherworldly of some sort.
But, yeah, I was given, you know, I was supposed to walk with a limp because
pretty much a lot of titanium.
And then it was certainly not running.
And I'm doing far beyond all those things.
Don't know exactly why.
I can pontificate on why, you know.
What do you think of those?
I think it's – will is a really special thing.
And the love and fuel to fuel your will, I had in spades.
I can – I feel like I can pretty much do anything if I set my mind to it.
When it was my essential part of my life, my recovery, was a 24-hour day job.
When typically I do many, many other things, right, as we all do in our lives.
But when all my focus, like even parenting, was out the window until I can get
better.
So I had to do that first.
So that being the central part of every thought, every fiber, every cell in my
body was geared towards a one-way street recovery.
Oh, I'm getting fucking better.
So I just got better.
And there's no – what's the alternative?
Wow.
You know, I was brought back somehow, someway.
And it would be a disservice to not do all the things I'm supposed to be doing
and want to be doing.
So it just took a lot of effort.
And it looked a lot of support.
It took – heck, dude.
I mean, there's hundreds of people involved in helping me not die again.
You know, but then it was – but at the end of the day, the recovery, as you
know, everybody's injured in some sort of way.
It's a lonely road.
It's only you.
No matter how much help you have or PT you have, if your tendons go or whatever
the heck happens, you still have to put in the work every day and endure the
pain and manage the pain and mitigate it.
And it can be quite lonely, but I always found that my daughter and my family,
as I see their faces, when I get better, I could stand up, let's say, or not
pee in a jar.
I could get in a wheelchair and go – any sort of milestone, I'd see their
faces get a little bit less horrified, even relieved, even quite joyful even.
So as much damage as I did to my family and their hearts, me getting better can
relieve them of that burden.
So it was an easy one-way road to recover, and that's why I recovered fast, and
I attribute it to my love for my family.
Wow.
So let's bring it back to the day of the accident.
When exactly was it?
It was New Year's Day.
New Year's Day.
New Year's Day, 2023.
Yeah, and I host my family at my house up there, like 25 people every post-Christmas
to New Year's all the time.
Family, friends, whoever, just kind of come up, and we can celebrate the
holidays together, go skiing, all these type of things.
But we had a big kind of snowmageddon-type snow event that, you know, shut down
the mountain that I live on at the top of Lake Tahoe at about 8,000 feet
elevation,
and we got just tons and tons of snow.
But it happens often, maybe not that intense of a storm.
But so much so where we were cut off from anywhere else, we're snowed in, fine.
I'm prepared for that stuff.
Three days without power, prepared for it.
It's fine.
We can have fun.
It's actually a relief.
All the cell phones go off.
All the iPads go away, computers, and everybody's just playing card games with
headlamps on.
And, I mean, it's a riot.
So we had a good time.
You know, the food supply was still good.
But, you know, it's New Year's Day, and we're getting a break in the weather.
So I decided I needed to clear the roads and see, come out for air, essentially.
And in doing so, that's when the accident sort of transpired.
And it's not, it's more of a routine type of thing to have a half-mile-long
driveway up there.
And I have to maintain it myself, so I have a snowcat and a bunch of other snow
removal type equipment.
There's a bunch of vehicles, snowmobiles even, things that got stuck in the
driveway because it was a lot of extra snow.
And some of it was very light, and then it got very icy and hard.
So you're sinking down like three or four feet into it, and it was a hot mess.
So I had to try to dig all that stuff out using the snowcat, pulling this stuff
out.
This thing, a snowcat, to describe it in words, is pretty difficult, but it's
like a tank.
It's probably, I don't know, 12 feet wide, the tracks on each side, so it spins
like a tank, like a skid steer.
There it is.
Yeah, there we go.
That's a small, tiny version of one.
But, yeah, it's something kind of like a Star Wars, you know.
But this minor or metal track, it's more like that one right there.
Oh, you got one like that?
Yeah, that's it.
It's exactly like the one I have.
So it's about like 16,000 pounds or so.
And it's very nimble on the snow.
On the snow.
Just to see it physically, put it back up, see it physically and to know that
that's what ran over your leg?
Oh, my whole body.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
It was, so you have to step on the tracks, you see, to get into the cab to
operate it.
So stepping on the tracks is a normal thing to do.
You just don't do it while the things, you're operating it, right?
You're in the thing, you drive it, and it's just easy.
The thumb go forward, reverse, and you're neutral, and that's it.
It's really easy to operate.
But it was just, the accident happened because you have to get in and out off
on those tracks.
And I hit the thumb thing, and it threw me off, and it was going towards my
nephew.
So I had to jump back on it and try to stop it from killing him because it was
going to crush him between the truck and that big blade that I have.
You see that thing?
Yeah.
It's a few thousand pounds, that thing.
It's gnarly.
But, so, my instinct was to jump back on it and try to stop it.
You know, obviously, it didn't work out.
And it got ran over, and there you go.
How much of your body did it run over?
The entire, all of it.
Oh, my God.
I was, because I went, if the tracks were here to jump in the cab, I leaped up
and over to try to grab onto it and got sucked under the whole thing.
So the whole length of it just kind of, so there's like a set of wheels.
That turn these tracks, you see?
And there's like six wheels.
So it, so it undulates.
So I felt all the undulate.
The first one was the worst, like the pressure and the skull crush and all that
stuff.
And then it releases because then the undulation of the tire and the track.
And you're awake for that.
Just like, by the sixth undulation, just like, all right, all right, just kind
of finished already.
And you're just like, it's almost like, you know, you're like you're drowning
and being struck by lightning and bleeding out.
It's like all the things all at once, man.
It's like immense pressure and a movable object.
And, you know, my skull kind of lost out but still survived.
Your skull kind of run over.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like, it's like, you know, yeah, it's everything.
It's like, it's 38 broken bones and eyeballs out.
Oh, my God.
And it's a...
Shout out to medical science.
I know, right?
And, yeah, I mean, all the doctors were like, dude, I don't know how your eyes
still operating or still working.
But I think because I was on ice, because I did see it.
I'm like, well, maybe I'm going to put this eye on ice and just kind of rolled
into it.
You know, because I saw my eye with my other eye, right?
And I'm like, I'm going to be able to keep that thing.
Because I'm on, like, an icy asphalt driveway that's off of my driveway, right,
at the top of the road.
So it wasn't really great for impact and getting ran over.
I wish I was on a snowpack.
It would have been maybe a little bit easier.
It would push me into snow, right?
But it wasn't.
So I just kind of rolled onto it, just like maybe I could kind of put the eye
on ice until I could figure out how to breathe.
Oh, my God.
And I said, you know, I had to sort of laugh at it, because it's weird to sort
of think about that, you know?
Wow.
So 38 bones?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was like a lot of ribs and all my spiral fracture and my legs.
All my joints were broken, all my ankles, my lees, none of my spine.
And I only got a laceration of my liver from one of the ribs breaking in a
couple spots, and I went down and kind of stabbed it.
But it didn't really mess it up too bad, so that's okay.
But all my organs, my brain, I don't think there's any brain damage.
I'll use that excuse later, I guess.
You know, yeah, and my spine, that's the miracle.
It's like, how did I break 14 ribs, right?
And I crack my skull and every arm and leg and finger and thing, but my spine
was spared.
Oh, my God.
And all my organs were spared in my brain.
So, like, it's kind of almost no harm, no foul at the end of the day, even
though there's, you know, probably 20% titanium in my body at this point.
So, how many pieces of titanium are in here?
Well, the guy that invented this procedure worked at the hospital in Reno
because there's a lot of crushing injuries that happened to all the ski resorts
and mines that are in the area.
So, I got really lucky to get this doctor.
But it took four doctors to get to this guy.
So, it says my family.
I was out in a coma.
But once they found this guy, he was on vacation.
The mayor of Reno actually called him and said, you've got to get back and help
my friend out.
And so, he rushed out and he's just like, this is what he does for a living.
He's like, oh, this is easy.
I can't wait to do this for this guy.
You know?
So, relieved on my family.
They were such relieved because they were like, oh, he's going to lose his eye.
We're going to cut off his leg.
I mean, all this kind of tragic sort of prognosis, whatever you want to call it,
right?
So, this guy comes in.
No, no, it's fine.
We're going to hammer this thing in.
We're going to do this.
We're going to do his face plate and do a thing.
We're going to do this.
And just lucky that the orbital bone that broke and the cheekbone that broke,
they only wanted to do that because my face as an actor made me want to save my
cheekbone, I guess.
Not that I cared about it, but yeah, he fixed up all my ribs and they used like
this mesh and he has this sort of weird way to kind of handle.
If you fix one or two of the ribs that are all broken, the rest will kind of
fall into place.
The body's pretty miraculous.
Just give it a little direction and then it heals on itself and it'll grow the
bone.
So, it's not as much titanium in my ribs as one might think for all those
breaks.
It's only, you know, it looks like rebar, right?
You get a scan.
A lot of my body's like, what's that?
Do you have an x-ray of your body?
Yeah, somewhere.
Yeah, yeah, somewhere.
Is it online anywhere?
Well, we can see it?
I don't know.
Do you have it on your phone or anything?
No, I don't think so.
I could ask my sister for it.
She's been showing everybody that thing.
It's pretty remedial looking, you know?
It looks like, 