Name: Steven Rinella on What Makes a Place Dangerous
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Steven Rinella on What Makes a Place Dangerous' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Steven Rinella on What Makes a Place Dangerous' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-12. Transcript available.

Do you have a part of, I know you've traveled extensively.
Do you have a place that you feel like is the most dangerous for people to go?
Is that really a fair question?
I mean, I guess every place is dangerous depending on what your behaviors are.
Yeah, there's, it's, this is something I think about and talk about a fair bit.
There's a lot of, like, there's places where there's a high level of perceived
danger.
Okay.
The thing I always try to point out, if my wife thinks I'm doing, like, my wife
often
thinks I'm putting a lot of risk on my kids or doing too risky as shit with my
kids.
Because they're going to try to do it?
No, that I'm going to hurt them or drown them or whatever, you know?
Oh, yeah.
Like, she's always afraid I'm going to, something like, that I, my recklessness
will lead to my
kids getting messed up.
Right.
Why do they need safety gear for Christmas every year if you're not trying to
do something
bad to them, Steve?
Oh, there's one of my little kids.
No, that's not my little kid.
That's my friend's kid.
Yeah, if you don't even know whose kid it is.
That's my kid.
Okay.
Well, she's 12 now.
Daddy's future hunting buddy.
She has much, she has much more hair now.
I believe that.
I'm just saying this shirt is lobbying for a certain type of behavior in the
future.
She is my hunting buddy now, dude.
Oh, that's awesome.
We don't, yeah, we don't show pictures of our kids much anymore, but at all
really, except
my older one.
Anyhow, what the hell was I talking about?
Oh, she's always afraid I'm going to drown them or whatever.
Oh, yeah.
Reasonably so.
But, but I'm always like, man, the most important, like, or the most dangerous
thing, this
is me, like, you're my wife and I'm me.
All right.
The most dangerous thing that's going to happen is us driving to the airport.
Sure, Steve.
Look, sign the papers.
Okay.
Sign the papers and you can do whatever you want.
Okay.
That's what my attorney said.
It's, uh.
Sorry.
I was trying to role play a little, but.
No, that was good rope.
Okay.
But you, you, you, you'd have to have more time with her, you know?
Yeah.
I should have also went into it a little bit more.
You didn't hit it at all, dude.
All right.
Let's try it again.
But I understand she just didn't meet her.
Let's try it again.
She brings, she brings up.
So there's like high levels of perceived danger, but like, but then there's
like reality, meaning
driving down, driving down a highway is hazardous.
Yeah.
Like, like highway travels, has it's flying in single engine.
We do a lot of flying in single engine aircraft.
That's hazardous.
Flying in single engine aircraft is like a legitimate occupational hazard, but
where people's minds
go, people's minds go to getting attacked by wild animals.
Right.
Because you, the people don't want to, like, they're not thinking about that.
You're going to go in, like when you go into a remote environment, um, uh,
exposure,
hypothermia, yeah.
Exposure is like far more dangerous than wild animals, but it's not falling
into a hole.
Sure.
It's not fun to think about.
Right.
Right.
It doesn't, it doesn't occupy any, there's no intellectual energy.
You can't put like intellectual or emotional energy into you thinking about
exposure.
It doesn't have the same PR.
Instead, you're like, well, shit, there's wild animals lurking in the bushes.
Right.
And so people are afraid of things.
Um, let's see.
I feel like I'm, I don't want to seem like I'm hacking.
I'm hacking out my, my wife.
I love her.
My wife carries pepper spray.
My wife will sometimes carry pepper spray.
Of course.
Because there's black bears around.
Oh yeah.
I've been in some neighborhoods.
But you, anyone in this country, most people in the major cities of this
country, they're
all within a 40 to hour drive of a black bear.
Right.
You're much closer to black bears right now.
Yeah.
Okay.
But you're not sitting here with pepper spray.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
So why, when you go walk, like, why, when you, why does she feel, I'm like, you
know,
like you have black bears that come into the outskirts of New York.
Right.
New Jersey has the densest black bear population in the country.
Yes.
And the densest human population in the country.
New Jersey does?
Yeah.
So like, they don't all, when they're golfing, they don't carry pepper spray.
Right.
It's not like you see Trump out there with pepper spray in a fucking pocket
full of.
Why does she, why does my wife want to have pepper spray?
Yeah.
For black bears.
Like, black bears don't matter.
They're not dangerous, but they're perceived as dangerous.
And certain environments make people feel like now they're in danger.
Golfers in New Jersey aren't carrying pepper spray.
Right.
Though they have probably have bears.
If you're golfing in some semi-rural New Jersey environment, you're within
hundreds of yards
of bears.
Right.
But they're not giving their energy to thinking about bears, but you put
someone at like a
trailhead in the woods and all of a sudden they got bears on their mind.
Yeah.
So we see this, we see these different critters running around and then like,
you're not going
to get killed by a snake.
It's just like, like, it doesn't happen.
Right.
But it feels like it's going to happen.
All of a sudden, instead of me thinking like, oh, I might get like some amoeba
from drinking
the water or like, who knows?
Or a mosquito-borne pathogen.
All that's out the window.
Instead, everywhere I look, all of us, me and my other guys I was with, we didn't
take a
step due without being like, because all of a sudden in our head was the
perceived danger.
Meanwhile, you're with all these people that are born and raised there.
None of them's dead.
Right.
Yeah.
They're doing fine.
Some of them have some emotional issues or whatever, but they're doing overall,
they're
well.
They're not all dead from snakes.
It's just, that's where as humans, like that's where the head, your head goes
to like.
Whatever's had the best advertising and probably whatever's most recently been
seen, those sorts
of things.
So when you say like the most dangerous place, like to an outsider, the Tanzanian
bush felt
dangerous for a reason that's probably not true, right?
It felt dangerous because one day we saw a black mama and then, you know, the
Tasmanian
devil too.
Well, he doesn't live there, but sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tasmanian tiger.
Right.
Yeah.
Tasmanian devils.
Yep.
I'm thinking of Tanzania, I think, or something.
I don't know what I'm thinking.
Oh, no, no, no.
You're right.
Yeah.
But no, Tanzania and the Tasmanian, that's the island of Tasmania.
Yeah.
You know, Tanzania comes from Zanzibar combining with Tanganyika.
Oh, yeah.
When those two countries came together, they were called Tanzania.
So Tanganyika doesn't exist anymore.
It's now Tanzania.
Tanganyika doesn't.
Zanzibar does.
But the Zanzibar archipelago was rolled into Tanganyika to become Tanzania.
I'm a subject matter expert.
I spent a month there.
Did you really?
A lot of women will go to Zanzibar to meet men, kind of African men, a lot of
women in
their 40s and 50s.
Is that true?
Yeah.
That's what I know about the migration or whatever it's called.
But I, or it's for, I don't want to say it's for sex, but I think people say it
is.
I don't think that you're going there for that.
It's pretty buttoned up there.
Is it?
It's pretty buttoned up.
No, I don't think it's like illegal.
I think it's, they go there and it's sort of a popular space for a courting of
those,
of African men and women who were kind of divorcees.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause my buddy went there and he was like, dude, it's not for me.
It wasn't for him.
See, my subject matter expertise is crumbling, but I'll point out I was only
there one week.
Yeah.
So I only absorb so much.
And you don't fit either one of the parties that were, that are mating there.
So I think.
I brought my own mate with me, man.
Oh, there you go then.