Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1559 - Steven Rinella
Uploaded: 2020-11-05T00:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1559 - Steven Rinella' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-11-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1559 - Steven Rinella

I wish he was my friend still it was um when I was younger I don't know how I
came into his orbit
but there was a fur buyer and taxidermist and muskrat trapper and
muskegon county um where I grew up in Michigan and he had amassed a very
impressive collection of
baculums and you brought this up because Frank von Hippel had given us this uh
fossilized walrus
ancient walrus dick bone pecker bone swizzle stick yeah a friend of mine clay
newcomb he uh
he he he uses them for very like the he saves the black bear ones and people
use them as drink stirrers
stuff the first deer I ever killed you gave me one and I was using it as a
coffee stirrer for a while
oh like no it's not like an actual bone bone in there isn't there bone bone in
there no well you
gave me one you may might not have given me one from that you gave me one from
something else maybe a rat
maybe a raccoon or a bear or something I have to look at it I don't know but
you gave me a dick bone
and I had it in my backpack for a long time oh huh yeah so yeah how often you
give away dick bones
you don't even remember that well I wish I had I wish I had more to share this
guy this Bob Ferris guy
we used to laugh because he looked like Bob Ferris looked exactly like Bob
Dylan um and he's gotta be
around still I remember being over his house one day and him advising someone
over the phone
with an earshot of me I remember this guy was going out to set muskrat traps
and I remember
uh Bob Ferris advising him uh if anybody fucks with you shoot him and uh I was
young enough that I
didn't like get that that was a humor thing you know the whatever just like a
thing you'd say to
your body to have a laugh and I remember being like man these guys are serious
about muskrats
I was like I hope I don't run into that dude in the marsh
and now I'm like oh yeah I could totally see saying that to somebody and then
we'd have a laugh and get
off the phone how many animals have that bone man I you know I wish I knew and
I don't even know what
um uh yeah that's not universal no no it'd be interesting look up I never until
right now I
never gave it any thought to like what classification of things has like what
classification of things has
like a an actual baculum an actual pecker bone um you know although all the weasels
have it I think
chimps have it we don't yeah weasels do uh here it goes oh it's absent human
ungulates uh elephants
what is that mono trims mono tremis what is that word mono tree oh the platypus
okay and echidna
marsupials lagomorphs hyenas binoturongs sirenians and cetaceans among others
evidence suggests that the
baculum was independently evolved nine times and lost in ten separate lineages
it just keeps coming up man
yeah just it just keeps coming up yeah they need to have one of those they need
to yeah a built-in hard-on
uh that's a really nice one I like that one um there are some that are big
enough I don't know what
they're off there's some that are big enough to be used as a cane really yeah
what animal is that I
thought it was like certain walrus ones people used to use them as canes well
that's not small that one
right there and it's interesting because because of the fact that it's fossilized
it's so heavy
imagine carrying that between your legs I wish I had uh I feel like I want to
challenge you on
I feel like I want to challenge you on that being fossilized well he said it
was fossilized you don't
think it is you think by the appearance because it's too so light but doesn't
it feel yeah I don't
want to I don't want to get in over my waders here but I
I want to I want to challenge that but I don't but I would need to scrape into
it with a pocket knife
and I don't want to do that to your baculum that's okay you can do that here
but see even that I don't do it because well who am I to tell I mean you might
scrape into it and
I don't would they curve that but god damn dude this is so no there are there
are that that I don't
know they might but there are some that have a hook in them it keeps it keeps
your mate from getting
away jamie that'd be a hell of a pimp stick you walking around with one of
those lil pimp should
have one of those lil pimp did you hear that the thing with trump he called lil
pump there's a rapper
named lil pump and he called him little pimp no i didn't um yeah yeah he did it
the other day at a
rally and everybody was upset tim's new character i was going for yeah this has
got to be fossilized man how
else could it be that heavy what kind of bone would be that heavy steve that's
so heavy here come on
man you want me to put a little get in there you know what i'm gonna give a
little scraper down here
on the end it's great but tell me what's up
god that does it is it's fossilized well i now i want to say that um just like
we were
talking a minute ago about how betters are betting like it's trump it's biden
yeah i'm like
back to it's fossilized but it's so heavy i'm a flim flopper when i picked my
convictions my
convictions are weakly held but now poking it with your knife makes me think
that it's a um
poking it with your knife but this is way outside of my area of expertise
poking with
your knife makes me a believer i think von hippel is a biologist right
he's a man you got a really good fact checker over here it's like having it's
like having doug
durn around yeah it is very similar yeah doug's a very good fact checker that's
all he does he
doesn't he doesn't he only like when you're talking to him he just looks at his
phone
because he's like no matter what you say he's like uh-uh uh-uh
yeah yeah yeah yeah biology ecology yeah yeah okay yeah so there you go there's
another one
that's a physicist uh when it comes to the reason i have become interested in
things being fossilized
is uh you know if you're out on national forest land not notice i'm not saying
national parks but
if you're out of national forest land or blm land various land designations uh
you know if you find
like an antler a deer antler you can keep it right or if you find a chunk of
bone you can keep it um
but not a not an arrowhead right no no because that's an artifact what do you
suppose but that's
weird you're supposed to leave it there dude does anybody that's an interesting
i'd like to talk about
because no no they do i remember so let me let me finish my thing about okay
fossilized real quick
just because it'll uh the reason i start to think about it is if but you're
allowed to pick up a bone
okay if you're just out on depends on the land designation let's say you're on
a national forest
and you find a piece of bone you can keep it if it's fossilized you can't keep
it okay so you could
find a like i found a few buffalo skulls that are old but still bone so here
you have this thing that
could be like 300 years old eroding out of a riverbed and if it's not fossilized
you can have it and keep it um if it's just bone the thing is if that thing has
cultural markings on it then it becomes an artifact so say you found a a friend
of mine
i don't know where they might have got it off i don't know where they got it
they had had like
the grandfather found it they had a buffalo skull that had been axed open and
it was so
clearly hit open with a tool to get the brain out which would make it an
artifact and then you can't
touch it or if it's fossilized you can't touch it the private land is totally
different but um
yeah it would be that uh so now when i like look at stuff i'm always picking it
up i'm always like
wishing i had a better sense because i don't want to grab i don't want to like
find something to bring
home and then be in violation because i brought home a fossilized thing are you
under any obligation
to report it like say if you found a skull that had obviously been opened up by
like uh ancient native
americans are you under any obligation if you can't take it to like point
archaeologists like
you know drop a pen point archaeologists to the spot where you found it i don't
i can't imagine no i i
i want i'm virtually certainly not under any obligation i did one time find a bison
skull
on national forest land and did a site report where i cooperated with the
forest the administrative unit
of that national forest because i had gone and and did some work on and had a
radiocarbon date so i was
able to supply them with a piece of information they didn't have and so we
cooperated and did a site
report and i had also kind of like called a little bit to make sure i wasn't in
the wrong and this is
in your book yeah that's that yeah that i wrote like which is really good i
listened to the audio
version it's so nice to hear your voice that you you got a chance to do it
because i know the first
version of it they hired some actor to do it yeah it was it was it's kind of a
funny thing about the
the book businesses you know audio as you know because you've kind of like in
some ways helped be at the
vanguard of pioneering this but um audio is more and more important it's more
and more valuable now
when i sold that my first couple books um a publisher would you know buy your
book and they
would buy they buy just kind of like all rights to it right and they would then
go sell the audio
off for sometimes next to nothing and someone would buy the audio rights for a
certain specified amount
of time so my first couple books um my publisher buys my book and then my
publisher basically turns around
um publisher then in this case random house turned around and sold the audio
rights
to i think brilliance audio whatever it is and they got it for 10 years and at
first i thought
that they didn't invite me to read it because i didn't think i was like up to
it right uh but i
just wasn't invited to read my own book they hired a soap opera actor of some
sort to read it i now
think it's just an efficiency thing like they have sort of a stable this
company was based in in michigan
my home state just totally coincidentally but happened to be based there they
have like a stable of
talent that comes in and they're clean they do clean work they do fast work um
and and they produce an
audio book like working with an author it might take four or five days to
record an audio book but they
can just get a guy that comes in nails it hammers it whatever i get the i get
the product and i turn it on
and he starts talking and i couldn't get across the room fast enough to turn it
off it was the mo it
was like it was like watching uh it was like watching my wife have sex with
another man whoa it's like
to see to hear i'm like that is not what that book sounds like you know right
and oh my god was a
defensive and then 10 years goes by because i wrote that book a decade ago 10
years goes by um and we
get the rights back so then now random house has them back and i got to go in
and record my own thing
and i got to update some of the science and stuff you know it was it was kind
of like one of those little
it was one of those career uh like a little career highlight for me like like
something looking from
the outside in wouldn't see um wouldn't like see it as anything but to me it
was like it was richly
symbolic that that i had whatever got to like be in a position to be like i
want to do it i go in
and record my book it's how it wants to be and that something could still kind
of have life after
a decade yeah my friend god saad who is a uh he's a professor out of montreal
he wrote a book he's an
evolutionary biologist and he wrote a book on uh they called the parasitic mind
about just very be
bizarre behaviors and the the way people are uh the weird thought viruses that
people are falling into
today like woke culture and all that kind of and they hired can you give me
another example
another example of a thought virus well thought virus is probably not even i
mean he's used that term
before but it's basically like woke thinking okay like uh what's problematic
about it now it's not
not very objective and not rational and that people are expected to think and
behave a certain way
becaus