Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1716 - Steven Rinella
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Joe Rogan Experience #1716 - Steven Rinella

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Do you eat meat tobacco? We're up in the middle one.
Oh, well I was just telling this story the other day.
How do you swallow it?
I was just telling this story.
We had a bunch of the guys I work with,
and this other dude, Jared Outlaw,
who were all big dip guys,
we were having a conversation about dip.
Is Jared the flip-flop flesher?
No, no, no.
No, that's Seth.
That's a guy named Seth.
A lot of the guys I used to work with,
or not, a lot of the guys I work with
did and do, you know,
they're horrible tobacco addicts, dip.
Yeah.
Because they're all workers,
so they don't smoke because it keeps their hands free.
But I was explaining to them my version,
and I feel like it traces to,
when I was in fifth grade,
we had to make agricultural maps
of the United States of America,
and you had to glue the product,
so you get to South Dakota
and you glue a little corn kernel.
Right, I remember those.
Yeah, put some wheat, you know?
Yeah.
And for whatever reason, like for Virginia,
we had tobacco and someone had brought in,
I can't even remember what it was,
like must have been loose leaf or plug.
And me and my buddy,
I don't even know if this dude remembers,
me and my buddy, Stanley Johnson,
ate, we took it out in the playground
and ate something.
Dude, I was,
I was,
I hallucinated twice as a child.
Once on,
once when I had to get a root canal.
And once when we ate that tobacco.
I mean,
I was,
I was,
I was hallucinating.
What were you seeing?
I can't remember.
My mom had to come get me.
She had to come fetch me from school.
How old were you?
Fifth grade.
Oh, wow.
Unbelievably sick.
When I was in,
I guess it was seventh grade,
sixth or seventh grade,
I really got into Tom Sawyer.
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Yeah.
I read all his books.
And they were always chewing tobacco,
so I bought some.
And I tried it,
and I got very sick.
Just like drool pouring out of my mouth.
You know,
like you get that,
that drool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That set me off
from chewing tobacco.
I didn't know,
so you were a Mark Twain fan.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Have you had your kids read Mark Twain?
No, I haven't.
No, no.
I would, though.
It's a conversation starter.
It certainly is.
Yeah, I mean,
when you find out about,
I mean,
I don't know how into history they are,
but when you just get into the,
just the history of people
and the history of people
in the United States,
those books are fascinating books
in that regard.
You know,
Mark Twain is like widely regarded
as the first stand-up comedian.
Oh, I'd buy that.
Yeah,
because he used to read his books
that were humorous
in front of people.
Oh.
And people think
that that kind of started out
the idea of stand-up comedy.
Yeah,
and he was quick-witted too.
Yeah.
That's good.
And then there's the name,
Mark Twain,
which I learned from you
what it meant.
Yeah,
we covered this all the time.
Yeah.
Should I share?
Yeah,
sure,
share it for folks.
So,
well,
recently there's been
some controversy
introduced into this,
but Mark Twain
had worked as a riverboat pilot
on the Mississippi,
so he had a very informed
perspective for all
of his characters.
A riverboat required
12 feet of water.
You know,
the big paddle wheel riverboats
required 12 feet of water
for safe passage.
So,
there would be a guy
up on the front of the boat
who'd have a rope
with a weight on the end
and every fathom,
a fathom is a nautical
term for six feet,
he'd have a knot
tied in the rope
every fathom
and he'd throw the weight out
the weight hits the bottom
and you see how deep
the water is.
So,
Mark Twain
is second Mark.
Which is 12 feet.
12 feet.
So,
he describes like
you're going
through the fog
or in the dark
and there's some guy
up front going
Mark Twain.
Some other guy,
we recently,
someone sent in to us
because we were discussing
this on our podcast
and a guy sent us
in this book,
I can't remember
who the hell
wrote the book,
but he was saying
the real thing is
Mark Twain,
when he was out,
I think when he was out
visiting one of the silver mines
in Nevada maybe,
he took to go into a bar
and the bar would log
how many drinks you had
on a chalkboard.
Okay?
So,
it's like your tab.
In this book,
this guy was saying
what happened was
Twain,
whose name was,
whose birth name
was Samuel Clemens,
Twain would come in
and order two drinks
by saying
Mark Twain.
Meaning,
put me down
for two marks.
Hmm.
So Twain,
Twain means two?
Two.
I'm gonna start
throwing that around.
Yeah,
I've never heard that
used as two.
Have you ever heard
anybody use it as two?
Is that like a
forgotten terminology?
I don't know,
but I bet Jamie's
looking it up right now.
Here it goes.
That second one came out,
that rumor came out,
I guess he was still alive,
so I guess he responded to it
according to this article.
What did he say?
It's the nom de plume
of Captain Isaiah Sellers
who used to write
river news
for the New Orleans
McCain
and he died in 1963
and he could no longer,
he no longer needed
that signature.
1863.
So Twain sold it
from Twain,
from Captain Isaiah Sellers.
He said,
I laid violent hands
upon it
without asking permission
of the proprietor's remains.
That is the history
of the nom de plume I bear.
So he stole it.
Interesting.
He no longer needed it
because the guy was dead.
So he took it
from a dead guy.
If you die,
I'm gonna be like,
my name is Joe Rogan.
Interesting.
Interesting.
So I wanted to tell you,
I had a legitimate
real life mountain lion
encounter.
A big one.
A huge one.
I saw a real huge
mountain lion up close.
It was about 30 yards away.
We were in a truck
and we were driving.
It was right by a creek
and on the other side
of the creek,
there was a tree
and underneath that tree
was a fucking giant cat.
Yeah, the guy I was with,
my friend Colton,
he saw it first.
He goes,
holy shit,
look at that cat.
Look at the size
of that mountain lion.
We stopped the truck
and I see the eyes glowing
because it's about 7 p.m.
It's just starting to get dark
and I get the binos out
and I got him like close up,
big old pumpkin head,
giant paws,
terrifying,
staring at us.
Well, just staring at the truck.
We knew that there was
things inside the truck,
I'm sure, moving,
but enormous.
That's cool.
Enormous.
Because I told you
I'd seen one before
but it was small.
The one I'd seen before
was like 60, 70 pounds
or like a dog size.
This thing was fucking giant.
That's great.
It was terrifying.
See, if you've had two sightings,
that's a lot.
That's a lot.
They're few and far between, man.
Yeah, this was the first time
I saw one clearly.
Like, not moving, stationary,
looking right at us.
The whole encounter
lasted 30 seconds.
It was like a real view of one.
Like, holy shit.
It was so big, man.
That's good.
It hit enormous forearms.
That was the crazy.
I was looking at its arms.
It's standing there
with big-ass paws
and this giant fucking head.
All I was thinking
is like,
if I wasn't in this truck,
if I was out on the road,
if I was out walking
and I saw that thing
from that close.
It scared the shit out of you.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
In Utah,
you can get a tag for them
over-the-counter,
spot and stalk,
for 50 bucks.
Yeah?
Yeah, it's hard
to get a tag with hounds.
Oh, it is?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, it's draw.
It takes a while.
Yeah, I think they,
even the states that,
the states that,
like Washington,
used to have a hound season
and they lost it
to the animal rights activists,
but they still maintain
their regular hunting season.
Texas treats them
like coyotes.
Yeah.
You just whack them.
There's a heavy middle ground.
Yeah.
There's a heavy middle ground.
I think that,
I think the states
that manage them
as a,
I think the states
that manage them
as a big game animal
are on the right track.
You know?
Yeah, the states
that don't do anything
about them,
like California,
then you get a case
like a couple weeks ago,
a five-year-old kid
got bitten by a mountain lion
in Calabasas.
His mom had to punch
the thing in the face.
And, you know,
kids in the hospital,
the thing bit his fucking head.
Yeah.
It was weird.
90-pound cat.
Two summers ago,
well, you and I
might have talked about this.
Two summers ago,
Oregon,
Washington had its first
mountain lion fatality
in state history
in the same summer.
Oregon had its first
mountain lion fatality
in like 98 years.
Yeah.
In the same summer.
And how were they
managed up there?
Like I said,
Washington used to have,
they had a hound season,
but you can still
just get a tag.
I was communicating
with a guy
who is developing
a mountain lion
hunting strategy
that's pretty ingenious.
He goes out the same way,
he goes out the same way
a hound hunter will go out.
When there's a fresh snow,
he'll go out
and drive roads,
drive logging roads,
whatever,
and cut a track.
But instead of
setting his dogs
out on the track,
he'll just start
tracking the lion.
Just walking.
Yep.
And every time
he gets to like
a good piece of bedding
cover,
like a grown-up
clear-cut
or a canyon,
he gets to a good
piece of bedding cover,
he stops,
and turns his
predator collar on.
Oh, Jesus.
And calls.
And he was,
he was let,
he was writing us in
saying how he's been
trying it.
I'm like,
that's a pretty genius
idea, right?
Explain to people
what a predator
collar is.
Oh, so you can,
a predator collar
is a pretty broad term.
just, it just,
you can do it,
a mouth-blown
predator call,
which mimics the
sound typically
of a dying animal.
So, so the most,
if you just went
into a sporting
goods store
and walked up
to a shelf
and bought a
mouth-blown
predator call,
it would probably
mimic the sound
of a dying rabbit.
You can get like
jackrabbit,
cottontail rabbit,
and it's,
it's just a horrific
sound.
It's like,
whee, whee, whee,
you know.
Then they have
electronic callers
that have these
massive libraries.
So I have an
electronic caller.
I think my,
I have a Lucky Duck
electronic caller
and it's got a library
of dozens and
dozens of sounds.
So it's like,
you can have it
play woodpeckers
in distress.
I mean,
anything imaginable.
Oh yeah,
it's like house
cat noises,
which is attractive
to urban coyotes.
Oh wow.
Yeah,
vast library of sounds.
So he would go
and turn a predator
caller on
and a lot of times
like fawn distress
calls.
It's just like
loud,
excitable noises
that are attractive
to predators.
And eventually
he wrote in
that he,
he said he sat down,
turned his caller on
and,
you know,
I actually say
turned his caller on.
I don't know
if he's using
an electronic
or like a battery
powered caller
or a mouth-blown call,
but either way
he said,
you know,
within a minute
there's the lion
and he got him.
Did you see the guy
who was trying
to scare a mountain lion
off and tell him
get the fuck out of here,
fuck you,
and he's got a Glock
pointed at it
and then he shoots it?
Uh-uh.
You didn't see that?
No.
Nor did I see
something that's floating
around of a dude
with a machete
killing one off his dog.
Oh my God.
I haven't seen that one.
Well,
we were going to publish it.
We were going to publish it
on our website
because it hadn't been
widely distributed.
Is it brutal?
I guess it's just too much.
I never saw it.
I was away.
I just came back
and heard that we had decided
not to do it
because it's just like,
yeah.
And you didn't
immediately watch it?
I still haven't gotten
around to watching it.
Wow.
Your willpower
is better than mine.
Yeah.
So,
well,
so one of my colleagues,
Spencer,
he's got a,
he and I share
an appreciation
for those kind of
sordid videos
and yeah,
I got to ask him for it.
Watch this
because this is pretty crazy.
Oh.
Look at it.
I mean.
You get back.
You get back.
Back.
He's practicing
a lot of restraint.
Yeah.
No.
Oh.
Motherfucker.
I just had to shoot
this mountain lion.
They f***ing pounced at me
and I popped it
in the f***ing face.
Hmm.
Holy s***.
That's wild.
Holy s***.
I mean,
that is close.
What do you think that is?
10 yards?
If that.
It was close.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
See,
he'll report himself
probably
and he'll do
