Joe Rogan Experience #1060 — Remi Warren Transcript

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0:00 Five, four, three, two... because I wanted to save it. Oh, it was, that was just nuts. survive a bear attack. It scratched up a little bit. Like what are the odds that that happens? You don't, I just remember it was, They are big brown bears. once, is it because, like Rinella back at them fondly. Yeah, that's exactly and it's so steep that it takes forever to go somewhere so to put it in perspective to go say

4:17 So you've got all that kind And then I put it on my Instagram story. vegetation and literal monsters yeah i mean giant bears and then big um the elk are probably That's a big animal. Somebody went in there, same place, bear attacked him. Same area. Probably had taken over that area. We hang it in a tree. we're filming and there was six of us all together.

7:57 It was that scattering of things just going everywhere that caused confusion for the bear. We decided, oh, we'll have lunch before we hike back And when I sat down, I took my pack off. you don't want to be that guy. Like, Oh yeah. The guy that needs a pistol all the time. Yeah, So Steve was between me and the bear. I mean, I see it coming in the whole way, just beady eyes locked in on me,

10:45 as i remember it and so i start to go for the gun and realize fuck i don't have time to get to my He grabbed a trekking pole. I guess I yelled count off. So Garrett, aka Dirt Myth, like if that was in a movie you'd be like get the fuck out of here you're not riding a bear And we only had the two pistols, Giannis and I. So you've got to circle around the tree the other way.

13:31 We don't know. It knew the carcass that was hanging in the tree and it had probably claimed that carcass we don't know it knew the carcass was there i i assume now the the weird thing was is it came in with the wind so the wind was blowing pretty stiff and say into our face and the bear came wouldn't i would never opt to just have nothing and have this weird scatter effect yeah but i

15:04 It wasn't just a bear attack but had maybe someone would say yeah we'd Yeah. Smaller, but still. up and it was crazy i've never seen anything blow away like that it just went flying so then we get We take all the camp down, relocate behind the spruce, It's a battery-operated deal. So I think they just, I don't like that feeling, you guys eventually set camp back up so we there was a spruce that we were using and we got behind

18:45 So that was good. So what was it? For me, it was kind of, I was thinking, that was awesome. takes five six hours seven hours something like that it was crazy but yeah and after it happened This is it. I think I'd rather just not see it coming because those thoughts are the worst part. It's the worst. She bluff charged him within 15 yards. Yeah, I remember.

22:14 Hilarious. That's it. But he was, you know, cuddled up. But he got destroyed. I'm going to do something with it. And the bear, like, attacked him. No? That's not a big knife. Every time he would attack, it would be less and and less and then i think he actually grabbed his rifle and shot it the last time Whoa. Exactly. You know what I'm going to do?

26:27 even think it ever made the air i think it got edited out but we had a baby chimp it was a tiny Like its body was hard like wood. And they ain't shit compared to a bear. Oh, for sure. Yeah. It's all covered in hair. but they weighed 200 pounds. That's crazy. understand it in our society of having these natural predators be actual threats to you in It's out near Bakersfield.

30:09 I'm all for that. Oh, my God. like Adam said, he's like, mate, he goes, it's a fucking monster. That was exactly like him. And he was saying, is this it? Yeah, that wouldn't work too well. Alberta and it wasn't a big one. Through you, yeah. eyes yep yeah it's nuts they uh well all well, all the videos you see of bears, too, are in that Katmai Preserve where they're

32:59 Yeah, we showed a video of that. But now you have to get permits because it's just such a popular place. Oof, yeah. Look at the fucking arms on that thing. What is the name of this video, Jamie, so you can see it, hear it breathing. Look at that thing. The fucking arms on that thing. What is the name of this video, Jamie, so we can give the people credit?

34:42 And they just look so peaceful and nice. You would never think. That's so crazy. There's literally They were like, look, people are getting fucking killed at a regular basis. Fuck that. You know, I didn't see one when I was up there, but you could hear them off in the distance. He's got the wolf mounted in the same position it was in when it was trying to eat him.

37:28 Hey! And it ran off. Because I had this. He talked to, he told it on the podcast, but there's a video. Shot an elk and didn't realize that where the elk went down was literally right in a wolf's den. four arrow quiver, right? They're trying to take this elk out He shoots it with the rifle. On the on the wolf the wolf looked at him and bolted and took off and the rest of them took off. Really?

40:20 Fuck. Huh. World War I or II? there's a lot of wolves. It's World War I, yeah. Yeah, I've seen it. And then the wolf would come in and bite its back legs. And that, that wolf was so fast. It could Yeah. and slammed it on the moose's back and broke its back really yeah that's how strong a fucking grizzly Boom. That's not happening. But black bear is eaten by a lot of people.

44:10 well, that doesn't make any sense because people you're, I understand that they would want the And they based it on a really small sampling. Right. But it's just that not as many people live in proximity to them. them almost to the brink of extinction. And now through conservation, they've brought them back Right. But the way that humans have affected the landscape between obviously taking up habitat.

47:53 they've lost their winter range because of developments and other things. And then if Not even close. Mostly mule deer. Yeah, the grasses, most of the grasses that we have around aren't from the regions. Yeah. Yesterday. Yeah, a lot of lava, a lot of rock and cliffs and some other stuff that goes to the ocean. Yeah. never eradicate them same with because just like the pigs and everything they just can't get them out of there yeah well the good news is they've instituted a um hunters for the hungry type program in in maui right yeah correct yeah so one of my one of my buddies that i hunt with over

50:50 It's some of the best tasting meat there is. Which is another invasive species which is isn't that similar to what they tried to do in Australia? So they just hammer the native species and then the invasive rats and mice still just take a toll on everything. And it doesn't discriminate. that? And if you think hunting's bad, in oahu or maui and they could have a lot of amazing meals for people oh yeah why not and

53:36 So by leaving one thing, you're killing something else. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was great. she's watching this big old grizzly just tear her elk cat and it's going making weird noises The amount of people that are hunting for food and managing wildlife and controlling populations, it's a smaller thing than the amount of people that actually eat meat. native type grasses on the tundra and it's completely wild and healthy and my body even

56:37 Most people are just, they're not going to do that. So she's been with you before when you were hunting? She has always, you you know when we first started this is you provided this meal for us this is your animal now you're a part of it it's not you didn't You know, you go to a restaurant, you have even less because you're not even cooking it. But when you do it yourself, you know, when you described you described it once, I think in a great way like that, when you

58:40 Like you understand this, when you're eating that meal meal that meal has a memory attached to it It's glorifying it. And I walk by that thing all the time. It's like vivid, like super you're like, you're going to eat this thing. Like there, it's very, it's very interesting. craziness is fishing yeah when you catch a fish like oh we like, oh, we got it. Excited. We got it. Oh, Jesus. There's this weird sort of excitement to it.

1:01:23 It's in a different, yeah, it's a in the water it's in a different world yeah there's something that we Well, it's funny because today on my Instagram page, well, because I was doing some spear It's where their, I guess, their brain is. So everybody does it that way you always fight That's what a brine is, mate. Yeah, we've talked about that before

1:03:26 you traveled all over the place and tried to learn from the way different animals would hunt things. Yeah, they're weird. If you're an octopus, you are a savory dish for every fish, I guess. They are quite delicious. It's like hunting underwater, right? It's weird. Just a minute? When your heart rate starts, And so this guy, is he giving you like techniques to relax? Techniques to breathe, slow your heart rate,

1:06:20 tell you like exhale and breathe because i got up like oh yeah and then i'm like oh yeah shit yeah take all their clothes off. Wow. Just hold that. Really? Not a few seconds, but maybe a minute. You know what I mean? Yeah, some people are incredible. incredible i mean they can go five How old are you? That's kind of crazy. Oh, who told you that? One of my friends was into it.

1:09:38 Yeah. That is not anywhere close. That's hilarious. which is my version is extremely white and bad, but could do like a few no head spins but maybe some windmills and some No, I think the first time I saw you was on Steve's show. You have to go into the woods with Brian Callahan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. where he would jerk off in ravines. He pulls his pants halfway down like he's jacking off into a canyon.

1:12:36 there's certain things that are just extra funny. Yeah, he just it's so silly that I knew to go to Montana That's awesome. Yeah, he is. Coos. Nevada. I have to be alone without you influencing me. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's one of the reasons why I'm so gung-ho for public lands. with texas but it's all it's all private yeah it's weird it's probably some public land where

1:15:43 He just went, see if you can find that. waters to drilling. there's a lot of That's why we're The whole thing is quite, it seems surreal. the things you experience because your life is so You're passionate about it. Somebody didn't come along and introduce them to something. Cause I think that's cool when people are passionate about something. That's it.

1:18:23 I can get into that. or their passions. real shitty weather hard hiking and i'm just loving it is you think you'll ever get sick of I like the, it's like a masochistic thing of, I like to struggle. I like to hurt for it. Like if I'm going to kill an animal, I want to have had some kind of struggle where I feel like I've one just to give myself some kind of challenge and that was part of the thing of filming myself

1:20:56 Yeah. I worked all day, worked out hard, come home from the gym. I think it's the way human beings evolved. Yeah. Yeah. And I kind of seek out that struggle part. you feel like shit when you're naked a lot of problems yeah your your experience are you still for most of my year was guiding guiding hunters and that involved packing out You know, and I think when I was doing the yoga more, I didn't get those pains.

1:24:49 what we did was like working out with weights, maybe kettlebells, He's actually an Olympic gold medalist for half-pipe free skiing. it's like and he's when you're moving through the mountains you've got that heavy pack on does it all the time like you need yeah it's very important to have that balance. It's those muscles that you can't lift for. quiet and it's just like it's cool right so from all the surfing yeah um if you do kettlebell

1:27:43 They're so non-glamorous. Yeah, that's what in the off season I'll try to do. It's like the one hour I go do it when I'm not working Yeah. Have you seen that outdoorsman's thing called the Atlas? I've only got one of them. Yeah. You know, I get asked that question a lot and I'll kind of, when I start, when I was at that point where I had to stop, I would just switch the type of muscle and movement that I would do.

1:31:06 If I'm doing kickboxing on a heavy bag and I'm exhausted, That's exactly it. There's no, like, for what I do at a hiking speed, carrying a pack, I'm really good at it's like you know all the hiking every day with the pack i thought oh no this will be no problem Actual stairs, running up flights of stairs. you just have packs at the bottom people get a membership they can just go up the stairs as many

1:33:56 and then they try to go up the mountain. to toe heel to toe humans are supposed to go ball the foot down to the heel ball the foot that's how What if you're in a rocky area? I'll go a couple miles and that stuff. Well, they do get tough if you go as far as that. Yeah. Survivor Man in a way. what do you think we should do? I mean, I guess I take that back.

1:36:46 and they go hiking and they don't they they're not prepared for it and they give these horrible and I'll stop just that and the other thing getting rubbed inside of his shoe and then just keep of some kind I think. he's like just toughen it out so he's probably I mean, you could smell it. How often do you do that every year? and kind of help shape that first experience

1:39:30 there's just certain things that i do that other people might not do but there are a lot of people Like you have to know what you're doing. that you pick up over time. I've noticed even from when I first started hunting until now, go into a new area and i'll be fairly successful for not going into that area. But I've done it enough times to instincts that humans have that we may not even tap into when you say as a father i think you're

1:42:37 Something goes off. And there's some things that are just instinctual. yeah i don't know yeah it's your your almost like your dna yeah your dna is like oh we've And then it works out, and you go, all right, I got to go over this ridge. I, okay, You know, you don't even probably know you have the instinct but it probably didn't even process what he was doing.

1:45:44 And I was like, yeah, I juked it and the bear ran away you know it's just like no dude i hit it in the face down to one moment and that one moment literally might be five seconds holy shit he's coming out I mean, Yeah. so I just try to feel no I probably what should you at this point in time well I was talking to Dudley about that and And then guys would be like, hey, you're shooting wrong.

1:48:32 over and over be the arrow, be the arrow, shoot. But now that I've tried to switch, then I kind of try to – all those bad habits that I had originally, try to creep back in. What's interesting to me is that I've seen a bunch of guys who are, like, And people do not like to get in like shootouts with him. like he set a lighted knock in there and aimed for the lighted knock

1:50:40 Like, guys almost have this thing in their head, like, I don't want to fuck with it. technical archery my thing is being out outdoor skills survival skills hunting being in the woods Okay, so he put a light on it. It's a perfect thing for him. And there's nothing wrong with rifling. But it's easier to get an elk with a bow than a rifle. And mostly across the West, the elk season with a rifle, a general elk season, is the

1:54:15 Missoula. Yeah, correct. Really? It's really interesting. I mean, it seems and they don't really have precautions because i think if you go on a hunt in alaska where we went Correct. So the idea is their populations have reached a steady or maybe even over that level. Very large. we'll just keep going back to bears, Well, salmon are a very large food source, but only in the fall.

1:58:10 No, this was a polar bear. And this bear comes up and sees him and starts smelling him and tries to bite through the thing. But there's times where it opens its mouth. It's a snack on the ice right there. No. Yeah, I mean, there's a heartbreaking video. I mean, the last thing you want to see is a polar bear starving to death. Would you be interested in going?

2:00:26 Yeah. Yeah, you know, well, I'm still doing the solo hunter stuff and uh we did i did some cool stuff in australia this and your philosophy and the way you look at things. Yeah, thanks. There's a lot of people that hunt the way that I do, especially out West. You can go on there and just watch anything that we've done. And occasionally something comes along like this podcast where people maybe would have a prejudiced idea of what it is.

2:03:32 This is not like some easy thing where you go into the mountains you might think it's unbelievably difficult it is it's very difficult i mean they smell you hundreds and you just have to adapt and deal with it and be prepared and go off those skills. But there's going to be some point where I'll probably go, yeah, I shouldn't. Terribly stupid. was thinking the amount of times

2:06:13 have been completely useless they'll just run right through it well the wind was blowing so face. He just closed his eyes and then shook his head and then walked right through it. hard to really like when it comes down it's either gonna go down and you're gonna get away it oh yeah what if you like lost half your nose oh dude i'd probably go I'd probably start bear hunting.

2:08:46 it's not like, And, not that I don't know I mean now if his thing was like you to save the species Jennifer Beal. But you did. and in danger of not being able to provide food, an adequate food source for the people He has no other – I mean, I don't know if he gets some kind of – he grows some kind of garden and forages as well. So there's people that live in certain places that the only way that they live is from the animals that live there.

2:11:25 deadlift no he seemed like as normal as somebody that lives off grid is yeah they're all very odd Mm-hmm This guy is living as close to the land as possible, but yet there's some millennial behind a camera. Yeah. Heimo's Arctic Adventure? He has permits to keep this cabin out there. They're hanging from trees. Yeah. So it's like, Rinella was trying to explain it to me and it went in one ear and out the

2:14:46 a bear tried to eat his dog. And then had to skin it But this guy, again, like you're saying, remarkably normal. Yeah. Wow. He didn't say it was terrible, but he said he borrowed a friend's smoker Like the bear ate so much fish that it tasted like fish. Yeah, what it is. So this is this year I got man. I've got charged by a lot of stuff this year Up there was like this weird white dirt up there.

2:18:01 That was great. running downhill so i think my estimation of what happened was i'm sitting there with my hands and it could have grabbed it and just wheeled off the other direction 100 miles away. something it's just coming full tilt so quiet it's just so quiet I see how they can grab stuff Well, in the wash, it's like sand and then a tree and some real tall grass and i'm bent

2:21:24 But I didn't get it when it was close because i got it walking away but i didn't get it probably just so full it had no and they're very fairly shy animals as well but i was very That we were in Nevada. So like me and Dan Doty, we're on a stalk and we're moving through this area That was with all that Bundy stuff up in Oregon was about, right? With Bureau of Land Management.

2:24:05 They just leave them alone in the forest with guns. Refuge. And then it was like a big uproar. See, my whole thought on's when it got real weird. Remember, there's like a big standoff? Yeah. Yeah. So before we wrap this up, do you have any interesting places that you're headed to soon? That's real Mexico, right? cut it really thin and hang it on clotheslines to dry it and make machaca out of it.

2:26:01 and if you just want to get them, you can get the downloads still. Yeah, that's what my buddy was like. And there's a lot of, well, TV networks are dying. Now, is there a way to do something like that for the internet? I'm not really sure on that. Because there was other things that I enjoyed doing. That's a weird place. and got all these permits and everything and we drove out there and went hunting for a week and a half two weeks something like that and uh and then we

2:29:06 Fuck that place pretty good that was very cool. Well, one of the things that I said when we were in Nevada, is that right? Like, there's nothing up there. The top of one of them. Because there are so many places like that that are just fantastic It's not much has changed. It's not a flu virus. That's how the zombie virus starts. And then the Solo Hunter episodes.