Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1341 - Steven Rinella
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1341 - Steven Rinella' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-27. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1341 - Steven Rinella

What's going on with all the cigars?
Which cigars?
Those are not cigars.
Those are marijuana.
Oh, okay.
I figured it might be something like that.
It's marijuana on the outside.
It's called a blunt.
That's what the youngins call it.
Oh, no, I know the term blunt, but that looks like a legit...
I thought it was like some kind.
But you're younger than me.
Of course you know it.
Yeah, I'm not as schooled as you.
I'm not as schooled as you and the illicits.
Even though that's not...
It's not an illicit now.
Speaking of illicit, we've got some meat-eater bourbon.
Some elk shank bourbon.
Yeah, pears with.
It's a good name.
Pears with beaver tail.
Pears with beaver tail.
Elk shank.
I've had both of those things, thanks to you.
Elk shank's a great name for it because that is like one of the rare foods.
Like if you talk to most hunters, like I said, have you ever had elk shank, ossobuko?
They'd be like, what?
Most hunters have never eaten that.
No, and it was revelatory to find out about it.
And then it's the thing that I became, I started to proselytize, you know.
I found out about eating it because my brother found out about eating it
because he has this
old cookbook called the L.L. Bean.
It's like the L.L. Bean wild game cookbook by a guy named Angus.
First name of Angus, if I remember right.
And he's got a shank, like he's got a shank recipe in his book for antelope shank.
And so we started making it.
That's the funny thing about wild game cooking that you've probably picked up
on is that you
could have a thing where you could say like, hey, here's a recipe for a whitetail
deer heart,
right?
And someone would be like, but do you have one for a mule deer heart?
Have I explained this to you before?
No.
Well, they're interchangeable, aren't they?
Yeah, that's the thing.
So like when we did our cookbook, I tried really hard to steer away from things
that would
be elk recipes, deer recipes, and just take it from a cut basis.
The cookbook is excellent.
Have you messed around with it?
Many times.
Oh, that's good.
Many times.
That's great.
Quite a few things from it.
It's really great.
We got away from saying that like, here's an antelope recipe or whatever,
because it's
just like the cut is more important, especially with all these ungulates, like
horned and antlered
game.
What it is is more important than what it came from.
So by putting elk shank on that bottle, I'm kind of like going against my own
advice.
But if I just put shank, people might not know what you're talking about.
Well, it could be like lamb shank, but it's just a cool name.
We're going to do a limited run of those where we write all kinds of weird
stuff in there
that it pairs well with.
Is it good?
Is this good stuff?
Should we try it?
It's five years old.
Should we get a taste?
Yeah.
Let's get some ice and some glasses.
Because you know, I took a long break from drinking.
Ooh, how long?
Well, I just slowed way down on it when my kids were born, started to be born.
And then gradually, me and my wife have gotten back into it.
Gradually.
You know what she's...
Clink?
Yeah.
You know, we haven't toasted...
Well, you guys are working together.
Yeah.
Right?
Which is really crazy.
I know.
We haven't toasted.
Giannis took a year off booze.
Wow.
For no...
Just for like, whatever Giannis...
Reasons.
Whatever Giannis.
I can't remember.
He had some reason for it.
He had a birthday once and took a month off.
Then he had a birthday and took a year off.
He's got four months to go.
For the end of the year and then he's going to drink?
Yeah, but he says his family...
I think his wife was explaining to me, there's a lot more disposable income
around the house
now because she's like, I never realized...
How much boozing takes up.
How much all those fancy beers they had.
What all those fancy beers adds up to.
That's an interesting thing.
Yeah.
People don't think about that.
When you run your tab at the end of the week and then add that times four and
then add
that times 12, that's real money.
Yeah.
And I don't know if you remember...
You probably liked this when you were younger where it was impossible that you'd
have leftover
booze in your house.
You know, because everybody just drank so much.
Right, right, right.
Like now, we're like such grown-ups.
In our pantry, we have like a little liquor section.
Right.
And you have like, oh, there's, you know...
Yeah, I have a wine fridge.
Yeah.
But in the old days, you couldn't because you just drank it and it was gone.
Right.
You know?
Yeah.
I want to interview you for a minute.
Okay.
Go ahead.
How comfortable.
How comfortable.
Do you ever tell your listeners about the comedy stuff you're working on?
Yeah.
Or do you like to keep it big secret?
Yeah.
I tell them some things.
I don't like to give up premises.
Cheers, sir.
You don't like to give up premises?
I mean, punchlines.
Oh.
I'll say like a subject I'm working on.
You do or don't give up subjects.
Well, I...
I want to engage you about a subject that we were texting about.
Oh, about the missionary?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure.
I just don't understand.
This is good.
I know that you will.
I like it.
I know that you will have...
Knowing you and how good you are at what you do, I know you'll have done it,
but I don't
understand how you could have had a novel thought about the missionary who got
killed.
Just to refresh people's memory, there's an island, East Sentinel.
What's funny, by my fish shack, there's an island called Sentinel Island.
Really?
Yeah.
No one lives on it.
I've been past it many times and have yet been shot at.
It's North Sentinel Island.
Oh, it's North...
Sorry.
North Sentinel Island.
It's the middle of the Indian Ocean.
And my shack is East Sentinel.
Sorry.
North Sentinel Island.
I want to go to your shack.
You know it better, so you should tell people what it is.
I want to go to your shack.
I want to catch some halibut.
I want to catch some halibut.
Really?
Yeah.
Next one, instead of a hunting trip, let's do a fishing trip.
I would love to have you have there.
Have Callan come out there and we'll catch some halibut.
So you're not interested in bringing your family?
Yeah.
We could do that, too.
We kind of take a family approach up there more and more now.
Well, are you done for this?
Your kid's like flipping rocks and seeing what's under the rock?
My youngest loves fishing.
Loves it.
Rock flipping?
She loves everything.
Okay.
She's really big in that.
How young's the youngest?
Nine.
Oh, yeah.
Perfect.
But no, I want to get like, I just can't, I can't, I've thought about it and
thought about
it and I can't think, not that I don't have faith in you, I just can't think of
what the
take would be.
The problem is if I explained it, what the take is, it would fuck up the bit
for people
that haven't seen the bit.
I'll show it tonight.
Tonight you'll see.
No, I'm going tonight.
I can't wait to go see.
You'll see.
I'll explain off air.
I'll explain off air.
Okay.
Yeah.
Are you feeling good about the bit?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It's a fascinating subject.
You know, the guy, Commander Maurice Vidal Portman, you know who that guy is?
No.
He was the pervert that traveled around from island to island measuring guys
and taking
weird photos with them, dressing them up like Roman soldiers.
I read the, I read a big piece about this, which I actually sent to you to see
if you'd
read it too.
Yeah, I'd read.
You said you'd read everything about it.
Yeah, I'd read quite a few things about it because there was a guy on Twitter,
his name
is Respectable Law at Respectable Law, and he posted a whole series of things.
He had actually been studying this case or this place before because of this
pervert guy.
And so when this man, this missionary showed up on that island and got murdered,
like he
knew all about the history of this island.
So he made like a chain of posts on Twitter, which were really interesting and
formative.
And then I started going deep into it.
And I read the guy's journals.
The journals were hilarious, man.
The kid that got killed.
No, the guy.
Oh, the guy.
Who was the pervert.
The English pervert in the 1800s probably wrecked like that whole area for
those people
because they had this idea of what white men are.
Now, these people don't have a written language and they just have stories.
So they probably still have stories of these white men that come carrying
diseases and want
to touch your dick and measure them.
Yeah, so this is a guy, he was into, I just want to make sure I remember this
right, he
was into like skull morphology, but with sexual organs.
Well, he was, it's hard to tell what he was into, but it was, it's so obviously
perverted.
Like it seems like he was doing sexual stuff with these people.
Trying to legitimize it by.
Yeah, I mean like, yeah, just measuring them and doing detailed descriptions of
their sex organs.
He was really into that.
That seemed very important to him.
And he survived the island.
I can't decide where to go with my new Laird Hamilton turmeric coffee.
Or the whiskey.
Mix it up back and forth.
Yeah, it's really interesting.
It's like soup.
Yes.
With coffee in it.
It's very good for you too.
Like I said, that turmeric, you know, people think of it as curry because it's
a great spice
for food, but it's a potent anti-inflammatory.
Very, very good for you.
No, it's good.
So I'll have to wait and see what your take on it is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Are you, I'm almost done interviewing you.
Are you drawn to that, are you drawn to that idea?
I certainly am.
Which idea?
That you'd go and hang out and spend time with uncontacted people.
Well, you've done it in, what part of South America were you at?
Well, yeah.
They're not uncontacted.
They're definitely not uncontacted.
But, yeah, some tribes that, like the Chimane and the Mikushi and Wapashan are
all tribes
in Northern South America who have a long, long history of contact and
engagement with the
outside world, but individuals who can still very much, like hanging out with
individuals who
aren't that old, who in their youth were very much like living a hunter-gatherer
lifestyle
with a mix of native materials and also some Western materials.
And this was Guyana?
Guyana and Bolivia.
People that, you know, people that would still make their bows from native
materials, people
that grew up using canoes that were made, like hand dug dugouts, using plant
toxins to kill
fish, but also like, you know, also other very modern stuff.
Like one of these guys that I really appreciate hanging out with, I mean, these
guys got an
email address, but I might have told you this story before.
He's got an email address, but he also told us about, we interviewed him on our
show, on
our podcast, and he's telling me about how their peccaries, their white-lip peccaries
aren't
around right now, because there's a shaman in another village who's jealous of
their village
for being so prosperous, and has locked their peccaries up inside of a mountain,
and that
they're training their own shaman to free the peccaries from the mountain, and
you can
shoot this dude an email.
So, right?
Explain a peccary to people.
Oh, people here are familiar with a javelina.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A javelina is a collared peccary, and then there's a, and they'll run in little
troops
of, you might see anywhere from 1 to 13 or 14.
White-lip peccaries are a bit bigger, and they'll run in groups of 200.
Wow.
Yeah.
They'll ravage, like these people have a somewhat agrarian lifestyle.
They hunt, fish, and also have farms scattered throughout the jungle, and they'll
just come
in and ravage farms in groups of, you know, like I said, groups of 100, 200.
I should be honest here and say I've never laid eyes on a white-lipped peccary.
There's a third peccary, a chocoan or chocoan peccary that is much more rare
than the collared
and white-lipped.
You got a picture of this, Jamie?
There it is.
The white-lipped.
Look at these fuckers.
Yeah.
Wow.
Those supposedly taste a lot better than collared peccaries.
I've hunted collared peccaries 