Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1122 - Donnie Vincent
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1122 - Donnie Vincent' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-05-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1122 - Donnie Vincent

Five, four, three, two, one.
Donnie Vincent.
What's going on?
How are you, buddy?
Good.
Really good.
I'm very excited that you didn't know about floating at all.
You didn't know about float tanks even remotely until you came here.
Yeah.
And it's wicked looking.
It's fun, man.
If you got time after the show, you could float.
If you want to do it.
I might have to do it just to say that I've done it.
Yeah.
But yeah, I didn't know the science behind it.
Other than, obviously, floating would be, you know.
Just feels good.
Just to meditate and just to sit there in a quiet.
Like, you know, when you're a little kid and you go in a swimming pool or
something,
you put your ears just under the water and you get that kind of.
Yeah.
And everything's just peaceful and you can just sit there and you can't hear
your mother
or you can't hear your girlfriend or whatever.
And it's just quiet.
I assume it's a lot like that.
It's very telling that you said two women.
You didn't say your dad.
You didn't say your grandpa.
Well, my dad never talked to me.
Maybe that's a whole other subject matter.
That's another part of the problem, probably.
Yeah.
But yeah, I am trying to get floating spread across the world.
I think it's the best way for people to relax.
There's nothing like it.
Because first of all, physically you relax because the water has so much Epsom
salts in it.
It's just really good for your muscles.
It's good for sore, you know, anything.
Sore muscles, overworked.
It's great for that.
But it's also great in the environment where you're in that tank with total
darkness, total silence.
Oh, total darkness.
Oh, yeah.
It's pitch black in there.
You close the door.
You don't see a ray of light.
And then your ears are underwater.
And then I have to get some earplugs for guests.
I don't mind having the salt in my ears, but some people get a little weirded
out by the salt.
Some in there.
Do we have some in there?
There's a whole bunch of, like, yeah.
Did I buy?
I bought a big thing of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I did.
My memory's fucked up, dude.
What's wrong with me?
I bought a whole giant jug of it, right?
But the other thing is that it just gives you alone time in a way that you don't
ever get.
When you're floating in there, you're not thinking about your body.
You're not thinking about anything.
You're just floating.
And then it's just very peaceful.
It makes you have a real moment to consider things.
I've made some of my best decisions in that thing.
And I don't think, I mean, obviously, we all know the rat race right now.
None of us.
I mean, it's why I go to the mountains.
It's the same thing.
You're sitting there in peace.
And my mind has been doing this for years where early on and when I would go in
the Arctic
or early on when I'd go into the mountains or something like that, everything
was frantic.
Like, I had to do things really quickly.
I wanted to cover a lot of ground.
I wanted to, everything, packing, moving, everything was so frantic.
And then when I started realizing that if I would just stop and slow down and
look at the very
tiniest details around me, no matter where I was or who I was with,
then I started having a great appreciation of my presence.
Yeah.
And so I'm sure something like that is just because of the darkness and because
of the floating,
it's just hyper extended into that presence of you can trick yourself into real
and thinking
that nothing else is going on in your life.
Right.
Yeah, no, I agree with you.
I think that we take this attitude that we have in the city when you're dealing
with traffic
and massive amounts of people and you sort of have that same momentum when you
go into
the mountains.
And if you do do that, you're not going to appreciate it the same way.
Yeah, for sure.
You've got to look around.
Yeah.
I did that for a few years.
I would go, I thought I had to accomplish something.
So I'd go to site A and hunt there.
And I'd try to, as horrible as this sentence is to say, I'd try to kill as fast
as I could
so I could get out of there and go to site B and site C.
And then I started realizing, I actually had a friend of mine.
He's like, man, I think you're hunting too much.
I think this is going to catch up with you and you're going to, the experience
is going
to start to degrade for you.
But it was almost like I was trying to accomplish really fast goals.
And when I started slowing that down and saying, hey, I don't want to go to the
Arctic for seven
days and try to knock all of these things off my list in seven days.
I want to go to the Arctic for 30 days and now let the Arctic come to me.
Now I just want to sit still and be quiet and not chase the Arctic down, but I
want it
just now, I want it to come to me.
Well, I think people who don't have any experience in the outdoors and
certainly people who don't
hunt don't understand it and their version of it, they're getting either from
movies where
hunters are always portrayed as villains or they're getting it from these
outdoor TV shows,
which I don't think do a good job of representing what it actually is.
Even the really good ones like Rinella's show, which I think is the best show
out there.
It's still 22 minutes with commercials.
And I just don't think that you get a real sense of what it's like.
What I think you did that's really interesting.
And one of the reasons why I wanted to have you on is you're doing films, like
you're doing
an hour-long film about a hunt.
And in that, you really get an understanding of the environment.
You take great shots or whoever your cameraman is, great shots of the
environment and close-ups
on leaves floating down a river.
And you just get a real sense of it, which is missing.
I mean, you're still getting a blink of multiple weeks in the wilderness, but
at least you get
a feel like, oh, this is something very different than what's being portrayed.
This is like this intense, almost spiritual experience in this very bizarre
environment
that surrounds civilization.
And we think of it in these weird terms, but when you're out there in it, it's
very difficult
to capture what that's like.
And I think you've done an amazing job in doing that.
And here's, Jamie's put some of your stuff up online here where you get a
chance to see
it, but...
And I appreciate that.
It's hunting.
It drives me nuts.
Go ahead.
No, no, I'm just going to say, I mean, whoever's doing your editing, he's
fantastic.
Yeah, he's really talented.
He does a really, really good job of just picking good shots and just the
overall experience
is relayed very well.
Like, you get a chance to see, like, oh, this is an adventure.
This isn't just as simple as, you know, someone's going out there trying to
fill a freezer
with wild game meat.
No, you're on an adventure, and then the wild game meat is a part of it.
Yeah.
It's all...
Absolutely.
A lot of shit going on.
And this piece right here was specifically done for Nat Geo because they have
the National
Geographic Society, which is the magazine, and then they have National Geographic,
which
is the TV show.
And so they wanted to do...
They hit me up for a bunch of TV shows.
They wanted me to, you know, come and find Bigfoot.
They wanted me to...
Those motherfuckers.
They called me for everything.
They would call me and say, oh, where are you right now?
Where's your cabin?
And I'd say, I don't have a cabin.
And they'd say, well, surely you're skinning a beaver out right now.
And I'd say, no, no, no.
I live in Wisconsin, just out of Minneapolis, and I'm walking my Labrador down
the street
in shorts.
And so they said, well, they really want to do a TV show, and they wanted it to
encapsulate
hunting to some degree.
But the society, the magazine, was against hunting.
The TV show would allow it.
So they wanted me to do a no bullshit sermon, if you will, download, looking
down the barrel
of the camera and just said, this isn't going to go public.
This doesn't have to be pretty.
It's not going to be edited well.
But just please tell us why you hunt.
Try to explain it so that we can bring it to our producers and say, this is why
he hunts.
And so I did this, had my little temper tantrum there.
And in doing it, realized it made me really question, I'd say, okay, so you
want to know
why I hunt?
And then it made me take a step back and say, man, for the love of God, I
really don't even
know.
I don't know why I hunt, but I can explain some of the areas.
It doesn't explain why I'm a hunter.
It doesn't explain exactly why I hunt.
But I can tell you, I love the adventure.
I can tell you, I love the really clean protein that I get for me and my family.
I can tell you that our ancestry unequivocally comes from 100% groups of
hunters and gatherers.
It's around the world.
I can tell you all of these points.
I can tell you that I love seeing antlers of all sizes and the hides.
And I can tell you, I love watching grizzly bears eat blueberries and watching
salmon come
up a river to spawn.
I can tell you all of these things.
But I don't know if all of those things make me a hunter or if I'm just
experiencing all
those things because I am a hunter.
It's just very difficult to articulate.
It's very difficult to articulate how much you love something, yet you're
willing to engage
it in such a heavy way, such a violent way that you're willing to step in, kill
it, cut
it up, get your hands bloody.
Because really, that's what it is.
We love it so much that we're willing to expose ourselves to the elements, put
ourselves
in these places, let the arrow or the bullet go, watch an animal die, which is
never, never
an interesting thing to watch.
I say interesting, but it's just not a pleasurable thing to watch.
But this is how we engage as hunters into these environments.
And so I was trying to convey that to Nat Geo in a seven-minute piece.
And Kyle, after he put it together, he's like, I think we should release this.
And I said, hell no.
Hell no.
I talk about PETA in it.
I talk about being a vegetarian in it, which I'm not against vegetarianism.
PETA's a joke.
But he insisted.
So he finally won the argument.
Well, PETA, the idea behind ethical treatment of animals is amazing.
Of course.
I mean, like you were saying, you have a Labrador.
The idea that hunters hate animals, too, is also a very confusing thing.
Hunters love animals.
There's a lot of hunters that have dogs and cats.
But ethical treatment of animals is imperative.
It's very important.
I mean, if we are really the stewards of nature, if we're really the top of the
food chain, and we most certainly are, and we're conscious, and we have a
conscience, we absolutely should be ethical in our treatment of animals and
take care of them and be kind to them.
Which, the problem with PETA is, that's not really what they're about.
They're the animal liberation organization.
That's what they really are.
What they're about, they don't want any animals to be pets.
They don't want people to have pets.
Like, this is, I mean, this sounds radical, but it's absolutely true.
In fact, PETA euthanizes thousands of pets a year.
They kill pets, and they kill them quickly.
They don't keep them alive very long.
And the idea being is that, for the critics, the idea that's been bandied about
is they don't want these animals to live and breed and stay pets.
They want animals to only be wild, and that's fine, but there's thousands and
thousands of years of domesticated animals, and if you want to let those
animals loose and have them wild, you have a whole, another series of problems.
Unless you want to kill all the golden retrievers and all the chihuahuas, they're
not going to survive in the wild.
Yeah, we've perpetuated past that a long time ago.
Yeah, they're not wild animals.
They're just not.
No.
Yeah, like a little fat kid's not a wild animal either.
You leave him in the woods, he's going to die just as quickly as your fucking
chihuahua.
He's going to be food.
Yeah, they're not going to make it.
Yeah.
This is not, you know, so there's a weird ideology that they're