Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1105 - Michael Hunter
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1105 - Michael Hunter' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-04-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1105 - Michael Hunter

four three two one hello michael welcome thanks man thanks for doing this
thanks for coming in
100 man uh if people don't know the story we'll give them the brief synopsis i
found out about
your story online because there was this viral thing that was going on about a
chef who was
getting protested by a bunch of animal rights activists and vegans who decided
to camp out in
front of your business and try to the restaurant called antler in toronto try
to i don't know what
the fuck they were trying to do but you decided to butcher uh a leg of deer in
front of them and it
became this horrific thing like how could you do that in a place that serves
meat how could you prepare
the meat right in front of them like how did this all get started how did it
become such a crazy
viral story and why why were they mad at you when there's a million other
restaurants around you
all right so it started in about december about uh about clue number one
possibly canadian the crazy
canadian besides being nice well that's why it went viral because i wasn't
being nice i wasn't the
stereotypical canadian no well you weren't even being mean you were just doing
your job and doing my
thing so they started in december and they really keep this right in front of
your face they they
really got pissed off with our we have a little chalkboard sign out front um i'll
give you the
we have a 45 seat restaurant so we're a small uh have one business partner who's
a my best friend
and family friend and um we had a little chalkboard sign out front that said
venison is the new kale
and you know we get cute with our sign we we tease other restaurants around us
like we have fun with
the sign and it's fun and uh the cyclist vegan uh rode by and took huge offense
to our sign and
all of a sudden one day these protesters just showed up so um originally i was
just kind of frustrated
because they're totally misguided because um we take a lot of pride in where
our food comes from
we have vegan and vegetarian dishes on the menu uh and i really respect that
type of diet
so we were just totally floored with why this was happening and um so this
started to go on they
started to come every week and they went from like two or three people being
kind of peaceful
to being like 10 15 people not so peaceful so uh it's when it turned not so
peaceful they were
shouting at our at our guests and shouting in our door and really trying to
harm our business that
uh i just kind of got fed up last resort went down we get a whole deer a couple
times a month and we
we butchered ourselves and uh i just said screw it screw it i'm like i'm gonna
get these people to get
out of here so i thought that that would make them go away how did you think
that was gonna make
them go away not escalate it uh i don't know i was it was just totally like
last resort uh totally fed up
um i wanted to defend myself defend our customers you know you could see people
walking in visibly
upset um you know they're being shouted at being screamed at called a murderer
as they're walking in
for dinner like you're going on a date you want to have this time and then
people are screaming at you
uh you know just for eating so uh i was just fed up and i just kind of thought
like you know buzz off
and why so just one sign venison is the new kale one sign set this whole thing
off yeah and you're
surrounded by restaurants i mean i know where you are so we're surrounded by
restaurants there's an
actual butcher shop across the street and if you go in there's like whole
cattle hanging that's okay
in their butcher shop but you're a problem with your comparison to kale you
attack their sacred kale
god we're promoting uh meat i don't know that's totally bizarre because you
were promoting it we
were promoting it or on the sign yeah so you just didn't promote anything yeah
and they were allowed
to cycle by and dream of broccoli yeah without any interference yeah man i have
no idea it's totally
bizarre i'm sorry how many times did they protest you um i think it's about
eight now eight they're
coming weekly they still do they still do there's one this friday oh jesus so
they organize them
they organize them there's like facebook groups there's uh they're they're
basically giving us
an ultimatum we have to put their slogan in our window and they'll go away what
yeah what's their
slogan um we are cunts there's there's like i can't remember it you know word
for word but it's
you know like killing animals is wrong they have feelings what yeah do you have
to put that in your
window we don't we're not going to there's no way but that's what they want
that's what they want
yeah so it's like eco terrorism extortion whatever you want to call it wow well
the part
the part of this that drives you the most crazy is the fact that you're
surrounded by restaurants
we're surrounded by restaurants you're surrounded by like you said you're
across the street from a
butcher shop 97 of the people in the world eat meat it's something something
crazy like that i mean i'm
sure everyone hasn't really been polled i'm sure it's not that accurate but it's
somewhere between
95 and 97 it's big it's big and i think we know we're an easy target you know
our name is antler
we were i think they're mad because um you know their their thing is that we're
promoting ethical
farming and their beliefs is there is no such thing as ethical farming that all
meat is murder
and um you know if you look at murder in the dictionary it has to do with
humans you know
it has nothing to do with animals and um there is such a thing as ethical
farming and sustainable
farming and we work really hard to make sure that where we get our meat from is
uh from the best
possible place we can and it's local so it's supporting our local farmers that
are you know
within hours of our restaurant now when you say that they started out nice like
how many people
were there in the beginning two three four and they had signs they had signs
and they were just kind
of you know promoting their message but they weren't really yelling and
screaming and what escalated it
um so we would call the police we kind of got wind of it on their facebook
groups so we would call the
police and have the police there to make sure everyone's safe because one thing
like customers are scared our staff are scared like no one's dealt with this
before i've never dealt
with this before um so we would have the police there you know they were the
police were amazing
um and then you know one time we kind of okay let's not call the police let's
see what happens
like maybe they'll just they'll go away and uh so then like a megaphone came
out uh our neighbors
were coming down and getting in fights with them and it was it was ugly so we
called the police
to come and jesus christ keep the peace yeah a megaphone yeah
part of the problem with these kind of things is it becomes a contest becomes a
battle you know
trying to see who's going to win and they're absolutely on a team i mean this
that's one of
the things that happens with veganism and i think it happens with hunters too
excuse me people become
very tribal you know and you know it's us versus them and they want to win and
then it becomes this
thing where you know look the reality is a lot of people are idiots and they
don't have a lot going
on in their life and so when something comes up where it becomes a primary
focus of their life
one restaurant as illogical as it might be that becomes the battleground and it's
an ideological
battleground for you know don't eat meat ever versus sustainable farming you
know this the look i'm
sure i know you're a hunter i'm sure you feel a certain amount of remorse when
an animal dies
100 and you know that's a big part of sort of my beliefs and my philosophy and
uh why i'm working
on this cookbook right now is because uh i think that you know if you do eat
meat you should be able
to kill an animal and experience that and i i think that if if people were to
actually kill an animal
they would see you know what goes into that and i don't think people would
consume as much meat and
i don't think people would definitely you know they certainly wouldn't waste as
much meat um as they do
and it's it's just really upsetting and i think it's totally misguided you know
why we were targeted
well i mean like i said i think it just becomes a game yeah it becomes a the
big tribal game
you know there's there's a real argument a real argument that i support against
factory farming
and factory farming is the way most people are getting their meat in terms of
like
in terms of like cheeseburgers and fast food and stuff along those lines i mean
you're not getting
it from the most ethical sources it's just it's not financially sustainable to
do it that way
everything would cost more money yeah and uh that's a real problem that we as a
society it's not
obviously not you or i that has set up this system but that this system is a
system that we find
ourselves a part of it's a real problem i've removed myself from it for the
most part but occasionally
i'm on the road and i'm hungry and you know i'll eat some meat that's just
whatever totally it's it's a
necessary evil you know and sort of sort of but really necessary it's not
really necessary at all
that maybe that's the wrong way to describe it but it's how the system's been
set up and it's it's
actually why i started hunting and and doing what i do because i watched these
documentaries like food
inc and these things that kind of shone a light on you know the system and how
this stuff is actually
being produced and it's horrible it's uh it's terrifying it really is yeah and
i think that's the real
number one problem and you know and this vegan activist message to go after you
know these types
of farming you know we support as well we agree with so the fact that we were
targeted for this
um was really really frustrating yeah i think vegans um i understand where they're
coming from
but i don't think that they have seen the big picture and the big picture is
there's some animals
animals that need to be harvested they they're not sustainable wild pigs is the
best example
yeah there is no way you are going to stop wild pigs without killing them no
there's no way you're
not going to give them birth control you're not going to unless you're going to
let loose
fucking packs of wolves and i mean packs to deal with like what's going on in
texas
i mean they they're forced to shoot them out of helicopters they hire crazy
they hire people
to come in with helicopters and shoot them from the sky it's that bad and this
is farmers there's
companies called hella hunting where they have it on the side like they have a
wild boar and a
fucking helicopter blade on their logo it's crazy they have to do it yeah no
and i i don't i don't have
a lot of experience with that because where i am we don't have that wild boar
problem but uh i hunt
with these guys from from mossy oak and i've gone down there and done one of
these pig hunts and
they've shown me their fields and like one third of their cornfield is just
destroyed destroyed and
they have to hunt them at night or they hunt them uh with dogs and uh it's a
huge problem for farmers
trying to make a living it is a huge problem and vegans themselves need to
understand that's your food
supply totally you're not growing your own food mostly most people listening to
this that are vegan
are not growing their own food you're getting your own food from a farm that
farm is being attacked by
pigs that's only one animal another one is deer i mean there's a shitload of
deer in north america
what's interesting is california has a very weird way of handling it and i kind
of get it in some ways
the weird way that we handle it in california is we don't hunt mountain lions
okay there's no mountain lion hunting this is very few deer i mean i see deer
in my neighborhood
you know i live in a fairly rural area yeah i see deer you know a couple times
a week
but it's nothi