Joe Rogan Experience #566 — Sue Aikens Transcript

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0:00 you don't play the music okay which is one of my favorite shows. You're told what you're going to be doing. remote. You're the gangster of the gangsters. Yeah, I'm the queen of the badassery when it For me, it was a lighthouse keeper. script so it's just this attraction to isolation is almost like a natural part of your personality him running because within a mile or two he's used up all of his calories and there's no way he's

4:11 I don't know if they're going to come around and come back inside. Yeah, well, my son is going to set for the last time this next week. a little bit and even when the moon is out it lights up it's an all-white landscape it lights And so i know something I've got other things. And you're living in these houses that you're living in. And you have to stop right there.

7:36 open to the outside world you you have to get your life down to all of the doors my final door going You're not allowed to have a permanent structure. And so you're in these tents. i did not aggressively go get bears i waited hey Five and a half inches long. So, you know, I mean, this was a bear that was probably getting closer to the end of his shelf life and was going to attack anything.

10:54 Yep. used to get it in the river and start it up and i had a juvenile bear that had been every night he'd come and he'd go You can still feel here and here where I ended up having to sew my head together. doing other things and i called some other people i didn't i don't remember that i tried to get a they flew me to Fairbanks, lifestyle when that happened i you know it it became because i was working for the company

14:42 before i do get charged again. So that's my test. But, you know, there's how many injuries do you have? There's more work to do, but as, you know, not to diss the workman's compensation thing, There's one that spit out uh You know, you beat up your body so much, It's just such a strange life to be drawn to. I would imagine it's for like one of the smallest percentages of people on the planet.

17:36 case you know i run to a lifestyle that i enjoy and i really enjoy being social but i'd like to There may be people that you are quote-unquote friends with, but they're toxic. Right, right. Let's up the amount that people can harvest. And so their main food group left the North Slope. I, by law, have to take all of the garbage and even human waste,

20:30 And now, you know, my goal is to, I want to be the first 100% green camp in the middle of the oil field. The dollars that it takes for me to be there, even to heat, there is no wood. but like for example when i first got there working for the other company they used a 100 So there's a theory that you don't need to be more efficient. I don't like electricity, but I have to learn how to do it.

23:31 When you say Internet system, how does that work? It's still not going to reach me. and I bounce a signal off the bedrock, and I haven't lost signal yet. the geologist in i had an idea i'm great with ideas but i don't know if they're bonehead ideas come up with a Sue fix. to do this you know i work very closely with the kids um we have a loving relationship

26:22 I had to get it figured out. I throw up ten fingers, ten toes, they know I'm okay. a bad storm. And my original flight out was Saturday. And they're like, well, we got days. And we just hit it right and i got out now could be can you go to google earth and look at your camp um i suppose you could but you're Oh yeah I see him almost daily It's only And he's just being a wolverine.

29:45 so what i've done is i've tied a little piece of angle iron down there and he takes that and I mean, do you have, like, a connection with these animals where it's almost like a part of your drama? So what I can do is hopefully I'll just keep dissuading him and he'll go, wow, she's crabby, and he leaves. She's tagged, and her name is Marty. you're you're watching them play well you know and even to do the lifestyle at all

33:05 and I'm okay with that. That's, you know, roll of the dice, I'm willing to accept. really rewarding to be out in this incredibly wild environment like when you come to a city like you Know yourself, better yourself, you know? I'm always checking things. he's going to pull a gun out of his pocket shake your hand pinch your ass or wave goodbye you don't

35:53 Oh, yeah. So you're married. So we stayed the best of friends until he passed away, Like, how did you meet it? three feet so what made her decide to go from chicago to alaska and then leave us and and uh You know, I mean, you have to move forward. after getting almost killed by a bear. currently am enjoying the hell out of the challenges and thriving with what i'm doing

39:51 make it safe for people. sending your trips 400 miles down checking them all by yourself yeah and then i thought you know He turned around and married somebody else, and I'm like, well, a real man would have made it. There's nobody saying, oh, you can't wear, like in the winter, Because when I get stuck So I go in being Just eat a lot of cake and pie?

42:00 niacin so go grab it do you ever have any vegetarians try to stay up there with you? I do Really? It has to, like, commit fruiticide or something and then the bear comes up and tears it apart. that warm yeah how do you keep that warm um sometimes you're just going to have to put on I do this thing called cryotherapy where I step into this chamber. But that's just three minutes.

45:02 I have a Bobcat. A hundred below zero in a Bobcat. So I'm not a big fan of polypro. everything got stolen um a lot of my things got taken, too. So I am in the process of making new outfits. So I'm going to spend four times as much to get back a little bit of money. they do that why would they steal oil from you like that just because it was there and they could

47:45 I don't have to pay for anything But in the end, because of the caribou migration yeah three of the major herds migrate right through camp valley so they want to migrate through no guarantees implied because like this year they It may be 80 degrees outside, but the plant is telling me to get the hell ready. How the fuck do they know? and when the water starts to rise, it comes in and wakes them up.

51:12 And I was like, oh, shit. How they figure it, who knows. That's the time? Pretty much. Eat the back straps? i i shoot the bear i make sure he's gone it was a it was an emotional thing but i start skinning him You know, I'm sure they don't look and say, oh, wow, that was Marty. But, I mean, it's a sure bet. it's a little creepy but from an animal perspective if you want to survive you're

55:16 There's some disease that hamsters get. and they actually as you said they actually go out looking for the cubs yeah the boars that wake I've never seen one eat their own cub. seen a wolverine now and when i say wolverine yeah they're uh they're like a badger mine are You know, they are shih tzu things. dude and he says yeah they've actually dug a permanent den now which is unusual they follow

59:25 for work and you just had a feeling something was behind you and i turn around and i'm nose now you know am i on that food group probably do they normally go oh yeah let's find a there and here's a wolf track about this big and i have a picture of her hand next to it and it was right in her footprint and i said okay and she says he is stalking me and i said yeah

1:01:18 You know, I helped him prepare the meat, and he took it back down south. She says, but I'm going to go visit Uncle Jesse and Aunt Megan, big ass sunglasses drink virgin mai tais and go shopping for dresses and get mani pedis so i have So it's just, it's not a climate that trees can grow in. Who knows? When you can choose an isolation more like in an area where you maybe have more trees.

1:03:56 And so I appeared on a couple of those episodes. he called and he says, I've got this idea. Do you want to do it? So anyways, they did the sizzle reel and asked me, and I said, all right, as long as you don't ever ask me to do something stupid. get to meet my great-grandchildren but if they want to know who i was pop in a dvd they see who there's going to be a certain amount of shitheads that are going to do things like that.

1:06:42 in a place where there's like woods and they have a house and like you like i said you're the gangster of the gangsters incredibly happy they're always joking around and smiling and laughing and that's one thing Yeah, yeah. Well, I turn around. So I have this whole thing. Where are they found? On the shelf. hens and uh you know what kind of a trail do they leave you know big sludge and the thing so i i have

1:09:18 they have a passion for what they're doing. And is that the fault of the government and punch a clock for somebody else anymore you know i don't even well i know i own a watch i What do you do to entertain yourself all throughout the dead of the winter? of a mile away from a mile away from my door that's insane so every time you go you have to is collected which i then have to separate the solids and the liquids and burn it to its lowest

1:12:33 Well, a quarter of a mile is 5,000 and chump change, pistol so with a chest harness there's something i'm going to be doing here in the near future profitable business if that turns around or the state or anybody else says look there's been a What if I break another couple bones in my body? The tendons reacted poorly. I have to, whether I like it or hate it, I have to keep fueling my heat tank.

1:15:43 And it was not pleasant, and I didn't enjoy it, So you have to be able to make a path. don't get to pick what you're wearing well how do you get through eight foot deep of snow though Now, some people, I don't have a lot of people that come in just because of the show. long yellow and filled with goodness right so i come in and here's this dude laying in my bed

1:18:28 fuck that no no well all of the knife yeah all of the bush companies have a no-no list Yeah. I'll tell you that much. How many wives? He and I belong together And I'm like Yeah You know You're just such a very rare human. personality that's attached i know you probably don't like to think about yourself that way but But I just think you obviously enjoy some aspects of being on the show.

1:21:53 only come in the summer are they only there for a couple months out of the year no throughout the And I'll go, no, I want to do this by myself because I might bonehead it. I'm way up there. really enjoy you on the show and i just think you're awesome thank you so much love talking