Name: Joe Rogan Experience #907 - Mike Baker
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #907 - Mike Baker' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #907 - Mike Baker

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
Boom.
Mike Baker, ladies and gentlemen.
Boom.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing good, thank you.
I'm doing well.
You know, it seems like the year's going well so far.
Not much to report.
Hey, is that sarcasm?
Are you guys allowed to use that?
I know, I know.
We're supposed to have that removed when we join.
But, yeah.
No, it's going good.
Going good, thank you.
Family's great.
Beautiful.
Kids are doing very well.
Business is going very well.
I know everybody was most concerned about my family and my kids.
Absolutely.
That's how people start off a podcast.
Well, we just want to hear you're having a good time up there in God's country.
Oh, yeah.
Idaho.
Idaho.
Beautiful place.
We were just talking about how awesome it is up there.
Yeah, and we're getting a lot of snow.
I mean, you guys are getting a ton of snow up in the north particular here in
California,
but we're getting just hammered with snow.
Yeah, they got like five feet up in Big Bear.
Yeah.
Big Bear apparently just got covered in snow, which is awesome.
We had like 330 inches of snow up.
We've got a place up in about two hours outside of Boise, up in the mountains,
where we go skiing and fishing, and not at the same time.
Well, that'd be a hell of a sport.
Someone's probably done that.
Well, you know, I do know that guys are cross-country skiing into hunting spots
now.
Yeah.
That's a thing that guys are doing.
There's actually these foldable skis, and you strap these things on,
and they can stuff in your pack when you're done,
and apparently it's way better than snowshoes.
So when guys are trying to traverse like really fresh snow, no path, thick
stuff,
they're doing cross-country skiing.
I mean, that's tough.
That's tough work, but it's not as tough as snowshoeing.
Snowshoeing is a grind for any distance.
Right.
But, yeah, you know what?
You do see.
I mean, we were skiing fresh tracks off the backside of one of the mountains
that we ski.
It was two weeks ago, and, you know, the snow was falling.
There was no wind.
It was just beautiful.
There was nobody.
I think we saw two other skiers the whole time that we were out,
and you stop constantly and just stare and look around,
and you think how beautiful this is.
And then I do what everybody does.
I take out my phone because I'm going to capture the moment on my phone camera
and somehow get the grandeur of this scene on my iPhone.
And I always do the same thing.
I go back to the – you know, I sit in the cabin, and I look, and I go,
oh, that's a stupid photo.
It just looks like white.
Yeah, exactly.
Is that you?
That's the picture you took?
That's one of them, yeah.
It's pretty goddamn beautiful still.
Yeah, yeah.
Pretty beautiful.
It's good.
I have some buddies that live up in Ketchum.
They run First Light.
My friend Ryan Callahan, shout-out to Ryan Callahan.
He runs First Light.
It's a hunting clothing company, and they're up in Ketchum,
and he's always just raving about it.
Yeah, Ketchum's great.
That's where Sun Valley is.
And it gets more crowded up there, you know, but it's –
That's kind of like a high-end.
It's a great town.
It is a high-end, yeah.
Fancy pants.
Yeah, I mean, if you look at Idaho,
there's two blue spots in Idaho.
One is Boise, a very Democrat, you know, heavy city,
and the other is Ketchum in that particular county
because of Sun Valley being there.
And so we get a lot of wealthy folks.
But it's a beautiful town.
It's a great community.
It's a year-round community.
But there's some other towns.
There's a place up there in Idaho called McCall,
which, again, is a couple hours outside of Boise, up in the mountains.
And it's a real town, right?
I mean, there's nothing fancy about it.
But it's a great place.
It sits right on this beautiful lake, Payette Lake.
And, you know, fishing's fantastic.
And then the skiing is great there in the winter.
It's – you know, I sound like I'm on the Chamber of Commerce.
Well, listen, man, we were saying right before,
people from Idaho don't like to talk about how beautiful Idaho is
because they're trying to keep people out.
I know.
I know I shouldn't do that.
I have some friends that have a house on Coeur d'Alene,
and they send me pictures, and you just go, holy shit.
Yeah.
You get to look at that?
Like, they're on this lake, and it's about 100 feet deep,
and you can see the ground like it's glass.
You can see the bottom of that lake.
You can see the logs that are down there, the sticks.
I'm like, that is crazy.
It's crystal clear.
Wildlife up there is fantastic.
It's just – yeah, it is.
And there's places like that all around the state, you know,
and the nice thing about Idaho is, I mean, again, everybody says,
oh, what do we turn into the PBS Idaho Hour?
It's a great place.
Yeah, it gives you a different look everywhere you go.
Eastern Idaho, west, you know, up north.
It's – yeah, so there's a lot going for it.
The hunting's great.
The fishing's fantastic.
Fly fishing's amazing.
Whitewater.
Whitewater's going to be insane this year because of the snow.
Oh, yeah.
So it's a great place to be.
The climbing is good.
And a giant chunk of that is public land, folks.
That's your land.
And this is something that I put on my Instagram yesterday and the day before
as well because
there's a bill that got introduced that's being proposed to sell off public
lands.
And there's this one representative.
What's that fellow's name?
Jason Chavitz.
Jason Chavitz from Utah.
He introduced this bill.
How dare you, Jason, to try to sell – look, he's a young fellow.
He doesn't fucking know what he's doing.
Look, he looks like he's in his 30s.
Just – people don't realize how lucky we have it to have so much of this
country, public
land like that where you can – and it's not just hunting, folks.
You know, people say, oh, you care about hunting.
No, listen to me.
You could hike this.
You could fish.
You can camp.
You could just go lie down and stare at the stars.
It's your land.
This is all ours.
And it's unprecedented in this world.
There's no other country that has anything remotely like our public land system.
We can't let them give it away.
We can't let them sell it.
And if anybody wants to, like, you know, give a kick in the ass to hunting, I
don't understand
that either because, you know what, a lot of the land is maintained by hunting,
you know,
and, you know, both in the fees and also just the, you know, hunting itself is
doing a
great service, you know.
So I don't quite get that.
I mean, I understand it, I suppose, under the motive level.
It's like, yeah, how could you kill that thing?
I think, because he's tasty, because I like to eat.
Well, it's – I get it.
It's a kind way to think.
Go to the RMEF page.
You want to see money for conservation, for hunting.
You want to see some staggering numbers.
The Twitter page, Rocky Mountain Elk Federation, RMEF, and they post these
charts that show
the billions and billions of dollars that go towards conservation every year,
all because
of people who fish and hunt.
It's – the numbers are staggering.
You go to Cabela's, and, you know, I always wondered about this.
You go to Cabela's, you buy something at Cabela's or, you know, Bass Pro,
wherever
you got in your local area, and, you know, routinely they're saying, well,
would you like
to donate a dollar to, you know, conservation fund?
Would you like to donate a dollar to, you know – of course you would, you
know, because
– Plus, the percentage of your sale goes directly to it anyway.
If you buy hunting equipment, a certain percentage – I forget what the number
is – but it's
a good, healthy percentage that turns out to be millions and millions of
dollars every
year.
There we go.
Just Minnesota.
Look at this.
More people hunt or fish in Minnesota, 1.65 million, than double the combined
populations
of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, and Duluth.
And 3.17 billion is the amount spent by 1,649,000 hunters and anglers in a
single year
in Minnesota.
That's an incredibly large part of the economy, folks.
And a giant chunk of that goes to preserving wildlife habitat, to preserving
wetlands, to
making sure that animal populations are kept healthy, to make sure that
predator populations
are kept in balance, and that ranchers aren't, you know, impeded upon by
mountain lions and
wolves and shit like that.
That's an incredible number.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
That's just for Minnesota, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just Minnesota.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
You know, and then you think of the other states all combining together, you
know, it's
the reason why we have more white-tailed deer in America today than when
Columbus landed.
That's a fact.
Look at this.
Michigan, $576 million in state and local tax revenue.
Enough to support the average salaries of nearly 11,000 police and sheriff's
officers.
And by the way, I didn't know we could still mention Columbus.
I didn't know that was allowed anymore.
It's allowed.
It's allowed.
We can still talk about Columbus.
Yeah, we can still talk about them.
It's kind of crazy, Columbus Day, when you find out what a savage he was.
Yeah.
What a terrible person Columbus was.
Yay, Columbus Day!
What?
Do we have any stevia, Jeremy?
This tastes like shit.
This together.
I'm not a fan of this, the way it is with the butter.
I like that emulsified MCT oil, but I don't want to get blended into the...
It's just I'm expecting the other kind of coffee, and it comes out like this.
I'm like, what is this?
It's all right.
It's all right.
It's not the best.
I like it.
What do I know?
I'm going back to the old way.
You know what I'm saying?
What do you think?
I think it's okay.
It tastes pretty good.
It's just a little different taste.
It's kind of sweeter or something.
Yeah.
Maybe we need less of it or something.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just a bitch.
How much do you drink a day?
How much coffee?
Yeah.
I don't even count it.
I just keep going.
I really don't.
I used to.
I used to worry about it.
I used to say, man, maybe I should back up off the coffee.
But coffee's an excellent source of antioxidants.
If you're not dehydrated, if you're drinking plenty of water on top of that.
I always drink water with it.
I don't see any negative effects when I go get my health stuff done and get
blood work done.
So I don't fucking back off it at all.
But sometimes I do get a little too jazzed up.
There's this company that we have that sponsors us, my friend's company, Caveman
Coffee.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they make these nitros.
They're these little tiny things.
They're nitrogenated coffee that's 270 milligrams of caffeine in one little can.
Holy shit.
Get Mr. Baker a nitro.
Show him all these things.
I got a busy day tomorrow.
They'll pop that in the morning first thing.
These little fuckers.
I take these before I lift weights and I want to throw things through the
fucking walls.
And I do.
They're so good.
It's so good.
That little tiny thing is 270 milligrams of caffeine.
And it's nitrogenated, which I don't know why that's good.
Well, you know, I'm going to start.
I'm serious.
I got an early call in the morning.
I got an early start.
Got a lot of activity going on.
I'm just going to pop this in the morning and see how it feels.
Take that with you.
We'll give you a few of them.
Yeah.
See what you can do.
I'll give them to the team.
Yeah.
That'll be good.
If you like the taste of actual coffee, it's really good coffee.
It's like there's a whole story behind the company, but it's this one farm in
Columbia, single
source, single family.
It is Columbia, right?
I know.
I have too much information in my brain.
It's in Columbia.
Yeah.
Even things that I know for a fact, I'll say them and I'll go, are you sure?
Like right away, I question myself.
I think I've got to erase some of my data.
I've done that.
I've pared it down.
I'm streamlining now.
I'm simplifying.
I'm thinking of starting to spar again.
Maybe just do a little kickboxing sparring, just trim down some of my memories.
There's just a few too many in there.
I might have to take a couple of jabs.
It's m