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Nov. 25, 2023 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #2068 - Cameron Hanes
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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joe rogan
You're all juiced up with stem cells, you feel any different?
cameron hanes
Are we live yet?
joe rogan
Yeah, we're live.
cameron hanes
Oh, we are?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah, I feel...
I don't know, you said I can't do anything for a few days, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, you really should be taking time off.
Like, we were talking about how Shane Dorian went down to Tijuana, and he got, like, this full-body stem cell treatment, and they injected his discs, and they did all this jazz, and they told him, don't do anything for eight weeks.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You, like, walk, but, you know, just let it heal.
Let it heal.
cameron hanes
Eight weeks.
joe rogan
I know it's hard.
cameron hanes
Hey, can I get a little more volume?
joe rogan
Oh, you can turn it right there.
cameron hanes
Oh, wait.
joe rogan
On that little thing.
Yeah.
We're like a radio station now.
We got like real equipment.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
You got a cough button too if you have to cough.
Oh, there you go.
unidentified
See?
joe rogan
Pretty cool.
cameron hanes
See, I don't have this.
See, I'm bare bones.
I'm like, you know, Mattel version podcast.
You're like...
joe rogan
You're way ahead of me when I started.
I started with a webcam.
cameron hanes
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
I know, but you're the godfather.
joe rogan
You're the OG. I definitely am not.
No, Adam Curry's the godfather.
He's the podfather.
He was doing it like five years before me?
At least.
At least five years before me.
cameron hanes
Well, you caught up.
joe rogan
Yeah, caught up.
But he does it, like, much more underground.
Like, he stays...
He's got everything...
How does he have his setup?
Everything is, like, subscription-based.
I don't think he even has advertisers.
jamie vernon
They have it tied into crypto, so everything's...
You can tip with bits and stuff, and it's distributed.
joe rogan
But he's a, like, super nerd.
He's into all that crypto shit.
unidentified
I just...
joe rogan
It's too much for me.
cameron hanes
I like bow hunting.
That's all I'm into.
joe rogan
I don't have time for this crypto stuff.
jamie vernon
Right.
joe rogan
I believe in it.
I think it holds promise.
Every now and then, one of those FTX things happens where everybody loses billions, and I'm like, yeah, exactly.
cameron hanes
See?
joe rogan
That's why I didn't get involved in any of that shit.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
There's a few of those companies that try to get me involved in sponsors and stuff like that and do ads, and I was like, what are you doing?
What is this?
cameron hanes
Coins?
And also, what about those card things?
joe rogan
Oh, you mean an NFT? Yeah.
Yeah, see, that is not real.
I guess it's sort of an NFT, but that's really just an art gift from this guy Beeple.
And Beeple, who's this really cool artist who puts up a new piece of art every day, 365 days a year, he does stuff like that.
And it's all...
Have you ever seen his stuff?
cameron hanes
I think maybe.
joe rogan
Pull up Beeple's Instagram.
It's wild, wild shit.
But he actually has a gallery and in his gallery he has things like this but enormous ones like big giant things that he's made and all these like it's really cool stuff.
So that's A different kind of an NFT. Yeah, that's pretty sick.
His NFTs are, you're getting digital, actual digital art, and it actually comes like this thing that he sent us.
It's like, it moves.
It's got like a little QR code, and you can scan that.
cameron hanes
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a different sort of experience.
But for the most part, I think the NFT shit, that's Sam Bank from Freedom Jail.
Whacking off some pictures of his ex.
That's him.
cameron hanes
Put that picture up.
joe rogan
That's his cell.
He's got the other guy on the wall with his eyes crossed out.
That's the guy that ratted him out.
An iHeart.
cameron hanes
See, there's a lot.
Look at this.
joe rogan
That's his ex-girlfriend.
cameron hanes
See his lotion there?
joe rogan
Yes.
cameron hanes
Luberderm?
joe rogan
Hilarious.
I mean, this is the kind of shit this guy does, and he does it every day.
unidentified
That is funny.
joe rogan
Hilarious.
unidentified
That is funny.
joe rogan
He's a super cool guy, too.
We had him in.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was a lot of fun.
So that, I understand.
That is digital art.
I understand that.
But there's a lot of the NFTs, like the Bored Ape Yacht Club.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
I was like, what is it?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
For a while there, it seemed like everybody was making millions.
I'm like, what do I got to do here?
And so, can I make a hunting photo, an NFT, and just make a bunch of money?
Or how does this work?
joe rogan
I think a lot of people thought that at first.
And maybe if you hopped on the bandwagon at the very beginning before everybody kind of woke up.
There's no there there, right?
So, like, here's the thing.
Like, people are like, well, it's yours, and you own it, and nobody gets it.
Yeah, but I could take a screenshot of it, and I have it on my phone.
And where are you going to look at it other than your phone?
Like, I literally have what someone paid a million dollars for if I wanted to get a screenshot of it.
I could get that, and then it's on my phone.
It's not even a different resolution.
Like, what?
Oh, but it's not your crypto wallet.
Okay.
I guess you win.
jamie vernon
I love this argument.
It's fun.
But that's the same.
Do you have a screenshot of the Mona Lisa on your phone?
You don't own the Mona Lisa.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
It's very different because the Mona Lisa is a physical painting made by a master artist that's in a frame, and you could look at it, and you could ponder the thought behind it, the artistic expression, the technique in brush strokes and painting.
Hundreds and hundreds of years ago created this masterpiece that endures today.
cameron hanes
Couldn't you do that on your phone, too?
joe rogan
Yeah, but if you had a copy of the Mona Lisa, a print, and you put that on your wall, that still has merit.
That's still a piece of art.
But the Bored Ape Yacht Club?
Pull up one of them bored apes.
jamie vernon
With this, with the Salvatore Monday, it would solve a lot of the problem with this because you would have known that Leonardo made it because when it was first printed and he made it for sale, ideally 500 years ago, it would have been on the blockchain and the history of that would have been known.
And there was only one of them made and all of that.
joe rogan
If it was an NFT 500 years ago?
jamie vernon
I'm saying if it was equivalent to what NFTs are now, the problem that existed with that whole documentary on who made it, was it repainted, and all that kind of stuff, that whole thing would have never existed.
joe rogan
Okay, but this...
That's not the best example, I see what you're saying.
jamie vernon
That's an example though, I'm trying to say.
joe rogan
Yeah, this is a way more complicated story.
Do you know about that thing?
Go back to that image again, please?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
That thing is wild, because that is supposedly a lost Leonardo da Vinci.
Supposedly.
But the problem is, there's a whole documentary on it.
Is it called The Lost Leonardo?
Is that the documentary?
jamie vernon
It sounds right.
I mean, the picture is called Salvatore Mundi.
joe rogan
Right.
What is the documentary about?
But that painting was the most expensive painting, I believe, ever sold.
Or one of the most expensive.
And they auctioned it at Christie's and it sold for $450 million.
jamie vernon
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Now here's the problem with it.
Most of that painting has been recreated.
Most of that painting has been touched up by a modern artist.
It's this woman and they show her doing it over like, I think it was over a decade of working just on this one, you know, like 36 by 24 or whatever the size painting is.
It's not a very big painting.
This lady worked on this one painting.
So I think some...
cameron hanes
So she influenced it?
joe rogan
Not just influenced it.
Most of the work is her work.
Show the original.
This is what happened.
Someone found it somewhere at some sale, and they bought it for really cheap.
And then as they're starting to go over this, it's all documentary in this Lost Leonardo movie.
As they're starting to go over it, they start thinking, I think this is Leonardo da Vinci's work.
And so then it sells for quite a bit more, but then they have it brought to this lady who's an art restorer, and she retouches it.
There's a lot of problems with it, and some of the problems are that it seems like it was multiple times it was painted over, and it seems like more than one artist painted it, and what they had originally versus what it is now looks very different.
jamie vernon
I'm trying to find the correct example that you're describing, but here's one example of it.
This was a 1913 version of it, and then it got cleaned up in 2005. Wow.
joe rogan
Right, but there was a way worse version of it that they bought.
jamie vernon
So that was two years later, here's the restored version where they took everything off of it.
joe rogan
Yeah, so is that what that is?
david grusch
Like all those white stripes is the restored version?
jamie vernon
It says clean state.
joe rogan
Clean state.
Okay, so they had to take off the paint that was put on to clean it up after they restored it in 19, what was it?
jamie vernon
I mean, this was found in a collection in the early 1900s, I think.
joe rogan
That was the other one that was restored?
jamie vernon
Like the pencil one.
joe rogan
Yeah, that one right there.
So the one on the left, they were saying, like, maybe this is a Leonardo, and so they cleaned it up, but then this lady goes and paints over it.
So, like, go back up, please.
Go back up to that.
So that image is kind of fucked up.
Like, if you're gonna buy that, how much is that worth?
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
I mean, it's beautiful.
Like, look at the hand.
It's incredible.
You would think, well, maybe this is Leonardo da Vinci.
But so then this lady goes over the whole thing and then show the final version.
jamie vernon
I think it's at the bottom.
joe rogan
Okay.
And the final version is pretty stunning.
jamie vernon
This is the after restorations on the right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
During restoration on the left.
joe rogan
It's so much more detailed than the original one that was all fucked up.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So like, is that a Leonardo or is it that lady who did it?
It seems like it's that lady.
cameron hanes
It's a collab.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a collab, but that's not how it's being sold at.
If you get the Mona Lisa, that's the fucking Mona Lisa.
cameron hanes
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
That is Leonardo da Vinci's work, and they kept it in pristine condition for all these years.
This is like some weird shit.
So MBS, the ruler of Saudi Arabia, owns it, and he just keeps it on a yacht.
cameron hanes
The Mona Lisa?
joe rogan
No, that thing.
unidentified
Oh, that one.
joe rogan
The Lost Leonardo.
He tried to make a deal, apparently they talk about this in the documentary, that he wanted to put it at the Louvre in Paris next to the original Mona Lisa.
And the people in Paris were like, yeah, we don't even know what this is.
Take four of those.
cameron hanes
Four?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'd take four or six, if you want to be smart.
cameron hanes
I need to take your whole bottle.
joe rogan
Come on, we're shooting you up with stem cells.
We're giving you alpha brain.
You're having the full Austin experience here, Cam Haynes.
jamie vernon
Here's these goofy apes.
I don't know if that's why we brought it up.
joe rogan
Well, those are worth millions.
cameron hanes
Jamie bought these.
jamie vernon
I have one.
cameron hanes
Did you know the last time we mentioned his t-shirts and he made...
jamie vernon
It was a nice little pop.
cameron hanes
$3,000.
joe rogan
Which ones?
Pull that up, Jamie t-shirts?
unidentified
Which t-shirts?
jamie vernon
Yeah, mostly I think.
cameron hanes
We just did a little mention at the end of the podcast because he said he had this big spike in sales and he's like, what the hell happened on this day?
And it was like us talking because I mentioned something about young Jamie.
joe rogan
The best one is the I looked into it, the rainbow.
unidentified
That's a fun one.
jamie vernon
I was thinking of giving that to Grush.
I didn't have it in my head on time.
He's looked into it the most.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's looked into it the most.
So you were saying that you're on the fence, off the fence about Grush.
jamie vernon
The story I was hearing, it's a lot.
I'm going to skip a lot of it, but what I was reading and slash what they were saying is that one possibility that could be going on is there is an...
I think we're taking in some of Graham Hancock's stuff, too.
If people were around on Earth 500,000 years ago, in some way, there was some split in...
A second set of humans continued on.
And we're like in this inter-dimension space where they're both happening simultaneously.
And that's where like if...
joe rogan
He was saying this?
jamie vernon
No, no, no, no.
This is from the...
I'm gathering this all from like that video.
I'm adding in some of Graham Hancock stuff too because this kid also interviewed him, Jesse Michaels, on his podcast.
joe rogan
Okay.
jamie vernon
And they're talking about some of the same stuff.
But something they said in the Grush interview on his podcast was that an idea would be that these people exist on like a split.
Timeline from us.
We had cataclysms and died and repopulated and whatnot.
Now we've ended in this place in 2023 with combustion engines and we're flying around.
These people would have been in a different anti-gravity.
Who knows what they figured out?
joe rogan
And they went somewhere else?
jamie vernon
I think...
They're not even saying that.
This is where they're not going to talk...
They haven't talked about that, but I think what they're saying or getting at maybe is that they're here, and that's why the nuclear thing is so important to them.
They're on the same planet as us, and if we blow up the planet, it goes away from them too.
joe rogan
So they're here.
We just don't know where they are?
jamie vernon
And that's where the interdimension thing comes in.
That's what I'm gathering out of what I've heard.
joe rogan
How high were you when you came up with this?
jamie vernon
I don't think I'm saying it's my theory.
This is what they're sort of saying.
And Gresh is sort of like, that's an interesting thing you're saying.
He's not confirming it with them or anything, but it's a lot to take in.
That's definitely for sure.
joe rogan
It's all a lot to take in.
David Grush is that UFO whistleblower that testified in front of Congress.
It's hard to say, man.
The thing about it is I believe he's telling the truth as far as what he's experienced and the documents that he uncovered and the people that he talked to.
But how do you know whether or not they're just using him as a useful idiot to just get out some silly story because they're covering up for the fact that there's some very advanced drone system that the United States government has that they're trying to keep under wraps.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
It might be both.
I think it's probably both things.
Here's the thing.
You're out in the woods all the time.
You ever see a UFO? No.
Ever see Bigfoot?
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
Ever talked to a hunter that's seen a UFO? No.
Ever talked to a hunter that's seen Bigfoot?
cameron hanes
I talked to...
Really?
The guys down at San Carlos, the Apache Reservation, they said they've seen stuff.
joe rogan
Okay, were they on peyote?
cameron hanes
I don't know.
joe rogan
Because I know a lot of those Indians like to get down.
cameron hanes
I don't think so.
And it's been like multiple times.
joe rogan
What kind of stuff?
cameron hanes
Like something square flying.
joe rogan
Oh, interesting.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because that is the thing that they describe, right?
It's a square with a sphere inside of it.
No, the opposite.
A sphere with a black square inside of it.
jamie vernon
Yeah, like a force field or something.
cameron hanes
I don't know anybody other than that.
That's the first story I've heard from somebody who I have talked to.
joe rogan
Well, that kind of makes sense.
That thing they do spot, that's a common one.
Some flying square inside a sphere, like a translucent sphere.
And that's like legitimate pilots have seen that.
That's a weird one.
My theory, and this is totally unfounded without any research whatsoever.
cameron hanes
Those are the best kind.
joe rogan
My theory is that they have this ability to make something move in this insane way with gravity, but they can't put a body in it and they can't put weapons in it.
It's just an object that they can get to move at insane rates of speed.
That's what I think.
I think the military applications of this thing have yet to be figured out.
But I think they do have something that can do things that we have no knowledge of.
But the United States government is probably...
They probably have in their possession something that was either back-engineered from something from somewhere else or something that they developed in a completely top-secret environment with the top research scientists probably during the wars, during World War II and III, or III, Vietnam.
cameron hanes
That's impending.
joe rogan
And in Iraq and Afghanistan, you think about the amount of money that gets funneled through the government.
Didn't the Pentagon just, for the sixth year in a row, fail their audit?
Imagine if you failed your audit six years in a row.
Boy, they would crawl up your ass with a fucking microscope.
Is that what it was?
jamie vernon
They've ever passed it?
But yeah, you have to correct it to say fail six audit with number passing grades.
joe rogan
So there's a lot of money flowing around is my point.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And who knows how much of that money is going to these secret programs that we don't know about.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
And if they did that, and they did have the top scientists, and if I was the fucking president, and I was the chief of staff, and I was running the Pentagon, I would want the best scientists.
So I'd recruit the best scientists, and I'd say, hey, you know, this is national security.
We're working on this project.
It uses gravity propulsion.
Shut the fuck up.
Don't tell anybody, but you get to work on some cool shit.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and you get paid a lot of money.
joe rogan
You get paid a lot of money, and you get to be a part of one of the most insane discoveries in human history.
So this is what we're working on.
I think that's likely too.
But then you got to go back to like the Foo Fighters from the 1940s and the crash at Roswell.
And you also have to be open to the possibility that like, look, there's a lot of planets out there.
A lot of planets out there.
It's very possible that we're not alone.
cameron hanes
Yeah, it seems like we would have found something by now.
joe rogan
If you could go to another planet and bow hunt...
cameron hanes
That'd be sick.
joe rogan
I wouldn't do it.
cameron hanes
No?
joe rogan
Imagine if you'd be the first guy to eat a deer from another planet and you'd just fucking die instantly.
cameron hanes
That's a good way to go.
No, it's not.
joe rogan
It's a dumb way to go.
The good way to go is to send some fucking prisoners over there.
Send some murderers.
Send some school shooters.
Send them over there to eat a space deer.
cameron hanes
I guess you could, yeah, test them out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Just say either you kill this and eat it or you die because there's no food, so good luck.
And then see what happens.
joe rogan
Exactly.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
So, but some housekeeping real quick.
Thank you for getting me down here for the stem cells.
joe rogan
My pleasure.
cameron hanes
So, ways to well.
joe rogan
Shout out to Ways to Well.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's good.
I like that I had blokes coming on too.
Ways to Well offers the same thing, but it seems like those type of outfits are really going to gain popularity because of the distrust in the medical, whatever.
Your regular doctor That was telling you, oh, yeah, you got to get this vaccine, this and that.
And now it's, you know, obviously there's distrust there.
So I think people are thinking, do I need a doctor?
What's a doctor for?
Just pushing prescriptions on me?
So now they can kind of take their health into their own hands, get their blood panels done, see where they are, you know, on a bunch of different markers.
And that's what Ways2Well and Blokes does.
And I think a lot of people are going to be doing that instead of calling their...
They're a great family doctor.
joe rogan
Well, a lot of family doctors, unfortunately, just don't have that knowledge base.
They don't understand peptides.
They'll tell you not to take things, and they don't have any knowledge of it themselves, and you talk to them, and they have a potbelly.
You know, well, you don't need any vitamins.
You can get everything you want from a balanced diet while they're eating cheeseburgers.
cameron hanes
Well, and they do your markers, and they're saying, well, this is, say, with tests.
They'll say, well, your testosterone is within...
joe rogan
A normal range.
cameron hanes
Normal range.
Yeah, normal compared to another fucking normal guy.
You see the normal American these days?
I don't want to be anywhere near that guy.
I want to be like my own category.
joe rogan
Optimized.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so optimized, built for performance, get your body at the highest level, not compared to the average American.
So that's where, I don't know.
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of peptides that are very beneficial, and some of them they've even pulled from the market because they're beneficial.
It's one of the things they did with thymosin.
Thymosin was used during COVID. A lot of people were using it to help them recover from COVID, so they pulled it.
So you can't access thymosin.
cameron hanes
Because they're trying to make money off of it.
joe rogan
Exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And these compounding pharmacies can make it, and they make it fairly cheaply.
It's not expensive.
And they're doing that with BPC-157 as well because so many athletes use BPC-157.
It's a very common one for helping heal injuries, and it works.
It works really well.
I know a lot of people that use it.
A lot of fighters can't use it, unfortunately, but a lot of jiu-jitsu guys use it.
MMA fighters in the UFC at least can't use it.
cameron hanes
So they test for it?
joe rogan
Yeah, unfortunately, I don't think they should because I think what it does is help you heal.
And I think if you're in a sport that literally most of the time you're getting smashed, most of the time you're getting kicked and punched and you're always dealing with injuries, wouldn't we want to help these guys get to the finish line?
Like, get to the fight.
Because a lot of injuries, like Gordon Ryan was supposed to compete...
The beginning of December and then the end of December in Jiu Jitsu and he just fucked his rib up.
It just tore his rib.
This is a normal thing that happens with jiu-jitsu guys.
It's a normal thing that happens with UFC guys.
But Gordon will have access to ways to well, and they'll give him all the best peptides.
They'll figure out what's the best protocol in order to help heal that.
And he'll get back on track much quicker than someone if they were fighting in the UFC who had no access to those things because they're being constantly tested.
Yeah, I don't think they should test for that.
You know, I think they should figure out like what's cheating and what's just helping you heal.
And let's, you know, let's not let guys take trend and fucking D ball and all this crazy shit.
Yeah, let's not do that.
But I don't see any problem with things like BBC 157 that are just all it's going to do is help your body heal quicker.
That's what we want.
We want to get better quicker.
You're in the business of breaking bodies.
You're in the business of literally kicking guys' legs out from under them and punching them in the stomach.
We should have some shit that makes you heal quicker.
cameron hanes
Right.
Just be healthy.
It's not gaining an advantage over another fighter.
joe rogan
The only advantage is you won't be injured as long, which is a very good thing that we should apply to everyone.
And it's not dangerous.
It doesn't have horrible side effects.
It's not something that's scary and it's gonna fuck up your reproductive system.
It doesn't do any of those things.
It just helps you heal faster.
And I think these organizations, UFC and all the other ones as well, they should embrace all these different things and just stop treating it like...
The problem is...
Really, it was baseball.
This is the problem.
This is where everybody got it in their head that it's cheating.
It was Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa.
And when those guys were on that fucking home run competition, and they were cracking them out of the park, and they both looked like superheroes.
cameron hanes
It was awesome.
joe rogan
It was awesome.
cameron hanes
Don't forget Barry Bonds.
joe rogan
Barry Bonds, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Barry Bonds as well.
cameron hanes
But yeah, that was a heyday of baseball.
joe rogan
Oh.
cameron hanes
So you're trying to make people not care?
joe rogan
Yeah, but those guys were juiced to the tits.
And baseball, which is the American pastime, we associated steroids in baseball with cheating.
He's a cheater.
We're not cheaters, we're Americans.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You know, but listen, if you could get a hold of any NFL player in between camp, like, what...
unidentified
What are the odds?
joe rogan
Sportsman of the Year!
What year was that?
unidentified
Why are they wearing togas?
cameron hanes
Because they're gladiators.
joe rogan
Do gladiators wear togas?
cameron hanes
I don't know.
joe rogan
Who wears togas?
cameron hanes
Oh, Animal House?
joe rogan
Yeah, I guess.
cameron hanes
They were with John Belushi?
joe rogan
Yeah, look at Mark McGuire with the glass of milk and the baseball bat.
That's hilarious.
I see if milk gave him those guns.
Besides those guns!
Going, going, gone.
I'm drinking milk.
cameron hanes
Let's see Barry Bonds.
I want to see him.
joe rogan
Oh, Barry Bonds got super jacked.
cameron hanes
I know.
He was so good just naturally, and then he added all that muscle.
Oh, look at this.
joe rogan
Yeah, if they could allow those guys to do the sauce, look how skinny he was at first, and then boom!
cameron hanes
But he was so good when he was skinny.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, he was great in the beginning and then got that extra horsepower from all that clear, the stuff they were rubbing on him.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
I had that guy on, the guy from Balco.
cameron hanes
Victor?
joe rogan
What was his name?
Victor Conte?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He explained it all and how it's all done and what they did.
Very fascinating.
cameron hanes
Yeah, because I remember McGuire said he was taking like Androl or it was some supplement you could buy.
joe rogan
Androstenedione.
cameron hanes
Oh, and it just skyrocketed off the shelves.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He probably took that too.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, I know that stuff did work.
It gave you a little bump.
cameron hanes
I couldn't tell you what I take that works because I take 30 different things.
unidentified
Right.
cameron hanes
So he probably wasn't lying.
He's like, yeah, I take this and here's the results.
But I take a handful of who knows what.
joe rogan
I take a lot more stuff now after that Gary Brekka podcast.
I started taking methylated B vitamins and all sorts of other stuff that he...
cameron hanes
Was that a good one?
I didn't listen to that one.
Was it good?
joe rogan
That's a fucking great one.
That's a great one.
Holy shit, he goes deep.
Yeah, that's an amazing one.
He changed Dana White's life.
I mean, Dana White was basically on Death's Door.
And he put him on a ketogenic diet.
Now Dana looks fucking 15 years younger.
cameron hanes
He does, yeah.
joe rogan
He looks amazing.
Well, he's in this light bed.
He got this red light bed every day.
And his face just looked better.
One of the things that happens when you lose fat, and this definitely happened to me recently, you lose fat in your face, so your face starts to sink in around here.
It kind of looks like shit.
cameron hanes
You need Botox.
joe rogan
No.
That's not going to help because you're losing face fat.
It's also collagen.
You don't have as much collagen as you're older as you do when you're younger.
So if you're a younger person, you have a lean face.
It doesn't look as bad as when you're an older person.
You know who said that once?
William Shachner.
He was like 80 years old.
He was talking about how he gains weight because it keeps the wrinkles away.
Because it keeps a fat face and you don't have as many wrinkles.
cameron hanes
My daughter watches all these before and after things.
So it's like, I think, buckle fat removal.
I think buckle fat is somewhere on your face.
joe rogan
Buckle?
cameron hanes
I don't know.
Jamie, what's buckle fat?
joe rogan
Buckle fat.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I think it's like what you're talking about maybe.
joe rogan
Well, what I'm talking about is if you're a fat person, you're not going to have a gaunt face.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
But if you're a person who loses weight, here it is, B-U-C-C-A-L, fat removal.
cameron hanes
Yeah, oh, so they take that out so they have more like the high cheekbones.
joe rogan
Oh, I see.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
So it's like sculpting.
cameron hanes
Yeah, see like that on the left there.
joe rogan
So you're making your face sculpting.
cameron hanes
Right.
So you're just doing that naturally.
You're more sculpted.
joe rogan
Yeah, I lost a lot of face fat, for sure.
I lost a lot of body fat.
But that's all from carnivore diet.
That changed everything for me.
cameron hanes
How come...
Has Dana ever been on the podcast?
unidentified
Yeah, he's been on.
He has?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's been on.
cameron hanes
When?
joe rogan
A while back.
He'll do it again.
I'm sure he'll do it again.
cameron hanes
I don't...
Man, I never remembered him being on.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was just at the club the other night.
He came to the club Thursday night?
Wednesday night?
Wednesday night.
Yeah, just a couple nights ago.
cameron hanes
Oh, good.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was coming to hang out.
He's great.
I love that dude.
He looks fucking amazing.
cameron hanes
He does, I know.
joe rogan
He looks so good.
He looks so much...
cameron hanes
He looks like a different person.
joe rogan
But at first, his face was looking kind of like mine does, where your cheeks sunk in.
But it's like, if you want a six-pack or you want a fat face.
You know?
You don't get both.
If you got a fat face, you don't get a six pack.
cameron hanes
No.
Yeah, it's a give and take.
joe rogan
If you want a six pack, your face gets thinner.
But this red light thing is like plumped up his face with collagen and it just looks so healthy.
His skin looks so healthy.
I'm really impressed.
But his energy level is so different.
It's amazing.
But he doesn't need any sugar anymore.
He doesn't drink alcohol anymore.
And he's just fucking super healthy.
cameron hanes
No alcohol, huh?
joe rogan
No alcohol.
I mean, I'm sure occasionally maybe he'll have a drink, but he does not drink regularly.
cameron hanes
What's the next big fight?
joe rogan
Well, there's a nice card this next weekend in Austin that we're going to go see.
Pumped about that.
That should be fun.
But then the big one is Colby versus Leon Edwards in Vegas.
So for the welterweight title.
And that's a couple weeks from now.
That's a big one.
That's a big one.
That one's big.
That one's exciting.
Ooh, that's a good one.
What else is that card?
Pull up that card, Jamie.
cameron hanes
Tony.
joe rogan
Oh, that's alright.
Tony and Patti Pimblett.
Tony's training with David Goggins, which is crazy.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
Oh, Pantoja versus Brandon Royval for the flyweight world title.
And Shavkat Rachmanov versus Wonderboy.
Woo!
cameron hanes
That's gonna be a good one.
joe rogan
And Vicente Lukey versus Ian Gary.
unidentified
Woo!
joe rogan
Those are good fights.
That's a good fight.
I'm very interested to see Tony after he's been training with David Goggins.
There's a lot of very mixed reviews.
About whether or not that would be a good thing or a bad thing for him.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I see.
I read a bunch of those comments.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's interesting.
It's like, who else is on it?
Oh, Josh Emmett's on that fight against Giga.
Oh, Giga Chikadze's on that fight, too.
cameron hanes
Look at this card.
joe rogan
Carter Garbrandt and Brian Kelleher.
Oh, shit.
cameron hanes
This is all on the...
joe rogan
Dustin Jacoby and Alonzo Mennefield.
Wow, this is a good fucking card, son.
unidentified
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
This is a good card.
Holy shit.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Go all the way back down there again, please?
That card is fucking stacked.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that Cody fight will be good with Brian.
joe rogan
Yeah, and Randy Brown versus Muslim Salikoff is a fucking killer fight, too.
These are good fights, man.
Holy shit.
cameron hanes
That's a card from top to bottom.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a really good card.
How many fights is that?
13 fights.
cameron hanes
14?
14. That's a long day for you.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a long day.
It was fun though.
cameron hanes
Who's going to win this one right there?
joe rogan
Very interesting fight.
Very interesting fight.
You know, how is Colby doing?
Because he was pretty fucked up by that sucker punch, right?
cameron hanes
Yeah, I think he's doing better now.
Yeah.
joe rogan
What was the extent of the damage that...
cameron hanes
I don't know what it amounted to.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
joe rogan
Because he was suing them and did they settle that?
cameron hanes
I think they settled.
Did I read that they settled?
Did you see that?
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he just said, pay me a bitch.
cameron hanes
I think it was just, you know, proven a point.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can't be going around sucker punching people that just kicked your ass.
You had your chance to punch him.
cameron hanes
He had five rounds.
joe rogan
And it didn't work out at all.
cameron hanes
I think it's just on principle, I think Colby was just like, no.
I'm going to make you pay.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, you can't just let people get away with that.
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
Because then they're going to do it more often.
And it's going to really muddy up the sport.
It's going to be a real problem.
It's a crime.
I mean, you're literally committing crime.
Don't do that.
cameron hanes
I think, yeah, I think that, I think Colby's going to get that one.
joe rogan
You think so?
cameron hanes
I want him to.
joe rogan
I know you do, because you like him.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I like Leon too.
It's a good fight, I'll tell you that, because if you were going to pick someone, Jorge Masvidal pleads no contest to charge from altercation.
This is November 6th.
Oh, so this just happened.
So they haven't settled it yet.
If he pleaded no contest, okay, it says- The plea deal.
Said that two felony charges of aggravated assault and criminal mischief were dropped as part of the plea agreement.
There is a no stay away order in the agreement.
Also a no stay away order.
What does that mean?
What's a no-stay-away?
I can understand a stay-away order.
cameron hanes
Like a restraining order, I think.
joe rogan
But not a no-stay-away.
jamie vernon
There is no stay-away order, is what it's saying.
joe rogan
But it says there's also no stay-away order in the agreement.
jamie vernon
Right.
There isn't a stay-away order.
cameron hanes
So he doesn't have to stay away.
joe rogan
So they can hang out with each other.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
The 38-year-old has been facing over 10 years in prison.
The case stems from altercation, punched him twice, breaking his tooth, even caused an alleged brain injury.
The incident occurred just a few weeks after Covington defeated Masvidal by unanimous decision in the main event.
Masvidal says, I just beat the case.
I want to thank God.
I also want to thank my attorney because I'm a free fucking man.
Fuck you, Colby.
It's gonna be a fucking movie now.
All these orders, all these restraining orders, all these things have been lifted off.
It's gonna be a fucking movie.
cameron hanes
I don't know what that means.
joe rogan
Who's gonna play Jorge?
That'd be a boring ass movie.
Like a guy sucker punches a guy and then gets off.
cameron hanes
That's a movie?
joe rogan
Thank you.
Thank you, Jesus.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't know if it's going to be a movie.
unidentified
Yeah.
cameron hanes
I think that brain injury, that's just maybe he had a concussion.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
He probably had a concussion.
joe rogan
I mean, if he got sucker punched, most likely he got a concussion.
The thing is, you can only get so many of those in your life.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And if you get a big one right before you're going to fight Leon Edwards, it's good that he took a lot of time off because he did take a lot of time off.
cameron hanes
Yeah, he did.
joe rogan
It was like two years, right?
cameron hanes
Yeah, almost.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Be pretty close.
joe rogan
Leon is fucking good, man.
That's a good fight.
But if you wanted to pick someone who'd have a really good shot at Leon, it would be someone who's an elite grappler, who has an incredible gas tank, who can push a ferocious pace.
That's Colby.
And Colby wades right into the fire.
cameron hanes
He starts it off like that, just to, I think, keep him honest.
You know, he'll come in throwing bombs, because they know he wants to take him down.
So he's got to keep that honest, I think, and just get him thinking about the big punches, too.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got to get them thinking that this isn't just takedowns.
And if you just think about takedowns, I'm throwing haymakers your way.
He's fucking good, man.
I mean, everybody other than Usman got fucked up by Colby.
Everybody.
And the Usman that faced Leon Edwards, man, I don't want to make excuses for Usman, but there is a reality of that guy's knees.
It's an inescapable reality that I know firsthand.
I've talked to him about it.
I know people that have treated him.
I know his knees are so fucked up.
It is just his mind that allows him to compete at that level.
We were talking about it during the last fight.
When you see the difference between his upper body and his legs, his legs are like smooth and they're not that muscular.
And then you look at his upper body, he's a fucking superhero.
His upper body is so much bigger because he can't do much with his legs, man, which is so crazy.
This guy is one of the greatest UFC welterweight champions in history.
cameron hanes
And compromised.
joe rogan
He did it with fucked up knees.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
He has to walk backwards downstairs.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
That's insane what he did.
Insane.
But how old is he now?
joe rogan
36, 37. Yeah.
And then he just lost to Hamzat.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is, it's just, boy, look, when that fight was announced, I was like, ooh, that's a great fight.
But if I was in Kamaru's ear.
cameron hanes
It was on short notice, too.
joe rogan
If I was in Kamaru's ear, I'm like, dude.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
No.
And I would have said that same thing to Volkanovski.
I would have said, no.
cameron hanes
Not on short notice.
joe rogan
Not 10 days.
You're the world champion.
You're not just the world champion.
You're one of the best ever.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you have a real opportunity to go down in history as the greatest of all time.
Then he gets head kicked with a 10-day camp and he gets knocked out.
Like, that counts.
cameron hanes
Well, and it also can change your career.
joe rogan
A hundred percent.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And a head kick like that could change your life.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, I don't know what the extent of the damage is, but there's been some head kicks where...
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like Terry Edom, when Terry Edom fought Edson Barboza, Edson Barboza wheel kicked Terry Edom in the head, and we kind of never saw Terry Edom fight at that level ever again.
It was a devastating kick.
He wheel kicked him and just shut him off, and it was like...
I believe it was the first wheel kick knockout in the history of the UFC. I'm pretty sure.
And it was perfect.
It was just like the perfect example of how devastating that kick is when applied properly.
And Terry Edom was like a world-class contender.
And he kind of never was the same again, and he disappeared.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's a risk.
I mean, everybody likes somebody who will go out on their shield and take any fight and like always game, but man.
joe rogan
10 days is not enough.
cameron hanes
What's the risk?
Because obviously he wasn't in shape, so he's having to lose all that weight, you know, 30 pounds or whatever he had to lose.
You're not going to be your best.
joe rogan
No way.
No way you're going to be your best.
cameron hanes
You're fighting the champion.
joe rogan
But then you have the opposite, which is Tom Aspinall.
Tom Aspinall fights Pavlich and takes that fight on two weeks' notice and becomes the interim champion and fucks his back up and can't train at all.
That is crazy.
Also, though, he's a heavyweight and he doesn't have to cut weight.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's what I'm just going to say.
The bigger guys, I think, it's not quite the same.
joe rogan
He's not quite the same.
Doesn't have to cut weight, which is a giant factor.
So he doesn't have to do massive amounts of cardio.
And he could literally just let his body heal.
And I don't know what he was even able to do.
His back apparently was pretty fucked up.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But the other good thing was that Pavlic is not a grappler.
In fact, his lone loss was to Alistair over him.
And Alistair got him down the ground and ground and bounded him.
That was very early in his career.
But Aspinall, that guy, he's something special.
He really is something special.
He's a very unusual example.
Because he's a heavyweight, and he's a big guy, a really big guy, but he moves so fast.
And his coach, I think it's Colin, I forget how to say his last name.
How do you say his last name?
Colin Hewn?
I forget, it's from Cabal, this gym that he trains at in the UK. From the time he was young, emphasized his speed.
So you knew he was going to be a big guy.
You're always going to be a big guy.
Yeah.
Colin Heron.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's it.
Breaks down Curtis Blades Challenge.
Okay, so this guy, he trained Darren Till.
cameron hanes
He looks tough himself.
joe rogan
I'm sure he's tough.
You don't train those guys unless you're tough.
No.
But the point is that Colin, from the early days of the career, was emphasizing his speed.
And so his speed has always been extraordinary compared to other heavyweights.
He just fucking moves in.
It's all like fast, explosive movements.
So he's got natural speed, but then he's also got a lot of training to execute quickly.
So when he moves in, he closed the gap.
You can see, like, fuck, he's fast for a big guy.
cameron hanes
Right.
Yeah, it's...
Yeah.
I don't know.
When I think of Volk, that fight was very close.
He lost the first time.
That was at the full camp at his best.
joe rogan
Yep.
cameron hanes
I think part of it was he said he needed something to do, too.
Wasn't he like that idle time was killing him?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was killing him.
cameron hanes
Mentally.
joe rogan
But he's got a fight with Ilya Topuria, who is a fucking killer.
cameron hanes
Oh my god, that guy punches so hard.
joe rogan
Oh, he does everything so good.
Ilya Topuria is, that guy is, he is fucking special.
He's a real challenge.
cameron hanes
When he fought Mitchell, because I thought Bryce Mitchell, I mean, he's good.
joe rogan
Bryce Mitchell's very good.
cameron hanes
And he beat the shit out of him.
joe rogan
He beat the shit out of him.
But also Bryce Mitchell apparently was recovered from the flu.
cameron hanes
Oh, he was sick.
That's right.
He said he wasn't making excuses.
So, I mean...
joe rogan
He wasn't making excuses, but here's an excuse.
unidentified
Maybe...
cameron hanes
I mean, I get it.
joe rogan
I'm sure he's telling the truth.
cameron hanes
That was a freaking...
joe rogan
It's a normal thing to happen in camp.
cameron hanes
But that impressed me how good...
Yeah.
What's his name?
unidentified
To...
joe rogan
Teporia.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, then the Josh Emmett fight was really impressive.
He beat the fuck out of Josh Emmett.
And Josh Emmett is a hammer.
He's a scary dude.
And I think Teporia's special.
cameron hanes
So Volk's fighting him next.
joe rogan
Yes.
And he's fighting him after getting knocked unconscious.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
I mean, look.
All fair play to Islam because Makachev looked fucking fantastic.
He made all the adjustments between the first fight and the second fight.
One of the first things he did was like heavy kicks to the body from the left side, which set up that high kick.
Threw a lot of front kicks down the middle.
I mean, he was hammering Volk from the outside.
Volk did a lot of things in the first fight that he just could not do in the second fight because Makachev had improved so much.
And I think...
The embarrassment of having a very close fight with a guy that you're supposed to steamroll, you know, and a guy who's the 145-pound champion, you're the 155-pound champion, you're talking about going to 170, and you have this incredibly close fight with this guy, and you're not able to submit him, and he's laughing at you and talking shit, and at the end of the fight, he's beating you up.
unidentified
He's on top, yeah.
joe rogan
He's on top beating you up.
I think that was a...
Very, very strong, motivating factor.
And Makachev just trained like a fucking monster for the second fight.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which was supposed to be not...
Who was it supposed to be?
Olivera.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Supposed to be Olivera.
Olivera gets injured.
You know, but the point is like...
cameron hanes
He was at his very best.
joe rogan
He's at his very best.
cameron hanes
Very best.
joe rogan
And he's always getting better.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world now.
And I'm telling you, that argument could have been, before that fight, it could have been Volkanovski.
You could have said Volkanovski's the best.
Even though he lost that fight, He's going up in weight, extremely close.
I kind of thought he won the fight.
I gave him the nod, but very close.
It's not a robbery, but very close.
But now you've got to say, well, Makachev, he's better.
He's better than he was the first fight.
And we don't really get a chance to see if Volkanovski was better.
Because Volkanovski didn't have a camp.
You have to have a camp.
The difference between these guys, with a camp and without a camp, is giant.
It's like the difference between fighting at 40% and 100%.
cameron hanes
I couldn't imagine.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
cameron hanes
I mean, mentally you'd have to...
I don't know.
How could you believe in yourself?
joe rogan
That's what Camaro said.
Camaro said he kept wondering whether or not he had the gas to go.
cameron hanes
Okay, yeah.
joe rogan
Didn't know if he had the gas to step on the gas.
And at the end of the fight, he started tuning...
cameron hanes
He did.
joe rogan
He calms out up.
cameron hanes
He looked good in the third round.
I was wishing that fight was two more rounds.
joe rogan
I was wishing they just fucking figured out some shit for his knees.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
If that guy didn't have bad knees, who's gonna touch him?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was so good in his prime.
Goddamn.
cameron hanes
Especially when he got that power.
You know, at first he didn't have it.
It didn't seem like.
He was, you know, hardcore wrestling.
But then, I mean, he hit Colby a couple times.
joe rogan
We stopped Colby when he knocked out Masvidal with one shot.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that was brutal.
unidentified
Power.
cameron hanes
Lights out.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a real warrior, man.
But the thing that impresses me the most is his mind.
The fact that he can overcome that pain.
The fucking guy's in pain walking.
It's like Goggins.
People know now, because we've talked about it, Goggins just got another fucking knee surgery.
cameron hanes
After Tony or before Tony?
joe rogan
Before Tony.
His knees are destroyed.
They're destroyed.
It's bone on bone.
There's nothing going on there other than two bones Banging into each other and he's running thousands of miles.
The doctor looked at David's knees and he said, I don't understand how you could walk, never mind run a thousand miles.
How the fuck are you doing this?
And it's just the mind.
And that's the same thing with Camaro.
Camaro just, he just like puts that shit aside.
cameron hanes
What do you think about Tony training with David?
What do you think he's going to do?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't know because we've never seen anybody train with David before.
You could say on one hand, clearly when the two of them are training together, David's not struggling at all.
And Tony is struggling.
So there is definitely some ground to gain when it comes to endurance.
cameron hanes
And mental strength.
joe rogan
Yes.
But endurance.
I mean, Dave is not even fucking tired.
They're going side by side with each other.
He's like, who's going to carry the boats?
And he's not even fucking tired.
Because he can go for days.
He can just go for days.
cameron hanes
He's an endurance athlete.
joe rogan
Right.
There's without a doubt some benefit in that.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So look at the two of them are doing that.
And they're doing the workouts together.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And David looks like he's like hanging out at fucking Planet Fitness.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, trying to pick up a chick.
You know, like he's like, so what are you doing after this?
You know what I mean?
cameron hanes
Yeah, look at Tony standing up.
joe rogan
Tony's dying.
Tony's dying.
cameron hanes
I think he pukes here in one of these videos.
joe rogan
I'm sure he puked a ton.
David said that Tony was the first guy to get through Hell Week with.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is incredible.
So they're doing miles of lunges.
Miles.
And David's doing all this.
Look at his knees.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Destroyed knees.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And this is just a few weeks after another fucking surgery.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
They opened up his knee like a fish and sewed that bitch back up together.
I don't know what the fuck they did to it.
cameron hanes
He's such a stud.
joe rogan
He's an animal.
Just a fucking pure machine.
cameron hanes
You know who hates him?
joe rogan
Who?
cameron hanes
Weak men.
joe rogan
Yeah, weak men hate him.
Weak men and jealous men and people who don't know him.
He gets misunderstood, unfortunately, by some people that I like.
They don't look into it hard enough.
And then there's also a natural inclination to try to find someone who's Just excelling above and beyond everyone and find shortcomings in them.
Pick them apart.
Find something.
Instead of just look at the message that guy's saying.
What is he saying?
He's saying, take control.
Take control.
Use your fucking mind.
Take control of your life and be better at everything.
And you can do this.
And I used to be a fat fuck and look at me now.
That's a great message, man.
cameron hanes
That is.
joe rogan
That message resonates with me.
It resonates with you.
It resonates with all the people that we know.
That is a fucking message and a half.
And he's living it.
He's not just saying it.
He's living it.
I think he's a national treasure.
cameron hanes
Oh, so do I. You have this quote.
I see it's been going around on Reels talking about God, there's a certain set of men that are just...
I can't remember how you say it.
It's so good.
I've been seeing people put it on their own reels, but they're just built for...
I don't know if it's chaos or something.
Do you remember this spiel you had?
joe rogan
I've said a lot of things.
Yes, I know.
cameron hanes
But it's a good one that's really popular right now, but it describes people like David to a T. There are.
There's a certain group of men who...
A lot of people aren't going to understand.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
Because it's so different.
But to those people, it's like, those are the national treasure.
They're the beacon.
It's like, okay, that's the goal.
joe rogan
Well, most people, they don't understand what it's like to really test yourself and to really do something that's difficult all the time.
I'm doing this thing now where I'm running this boot camp for comedians.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I've heard you talk about it.
joe rogan
So I did it today.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And so...
Derek Poston just joined today.
Shout out to my man, Derek.
So Asana Ma, Derek, Brian Simpson, Duncan Trussell when he's in town, he wasn't in town today, and Shane Gillis.
And we get after it.
These guys are getting after it.
cameron hanes
That's awesome.
joe rogan
And they start every day with 100 push-ups, 100 bodyweight squats.
We do five sets.
And I tell them, you can't do 100, don't do 100. You can do five push-ups in a row and you're struggling, stop at five.
I'm trying to build a base.
So I said, I don't want you to kill yourself.
The whole idea here is we're just building a base.
And we're gonna keep going, and they've been doing it consistently.
This week was four times a week.
unidentified
For how long?
joe rogan
We did it four times this week.
When we were at The Rock, we worked out for three hours.
cameron hanes
No, but when did you start this?
The boot camp, how long ago?
joe rogan
Four weeks.
Four weeks now.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
So they're four weeks in.
cameron hanes
Yeah, nice.
joe rogan
And we're very consistent.
cameron hanes
They should be seeing results then.
joe rogan
They're seeing results.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But they're seeing results in how they feel, like almost immediately.
unidentified
I bet.
joe rogan
Because I'm not killing them.
I'm not killing them, but when The Rock was here, I killed them.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
When The Rock was here, I was like, dude, we're gonna get after it today.
cameron hanes
How'd that big fucker do?
joe rogan
He did pretty good, except for the mobility stuff, like windmills.
He struggled with windmills, and he struggled with a couple of things.
cameron hanes
Windmills?
Is that the thing where you do those?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Nobody can do those.
joe rogan
Yeah, I can do those.
You can do them.
People can do them.
unidentified
I can't do them.
joe rogan
Well, they require flexibility, but they require range of motion and core strength.
That's a real core strength thing, but that is a thing.
Those in Turkish get-ups, they're not sexy.
They don't give you big biceps, but those apply very well to functional strength, like martial arts and things like that.
If you've got to carry a fucking elk quarter up a hill, they really work for that, because you can throw stuff around, like your core.
It can manipulate heavy things.
I do it with 70 pounds, right?
So I clean and press 70 pounds and then I have this motion where I'm going all the way down like that and then all the way back up.
It works those lower back muscles.
It works your abdominals.
It works the strength and stability of your shoulder.
It works everything.
cameron hanes
But that's not Turkish get-ups.
joe rogan
No, Turkish get-ups, that's even harder.
cameron hanes
Yeah, what do you do that with?
joe rogan
Those guys are going to start that next week.
Now they know.
So, Turkish get-ups is...
cameron hanes
They should be doing it with no weight, right?
joe rogan
Well, I'm going to start them with 10 pounds.
cameron hanes
I mean, just doing it is hard.
joe rogan
Yeah, especially when you're doing reps.
They're going to do it with 10 pounds.
What Turkish get-ups is you lie on your back, you know what it is, right?
You lie on your back, you press it, and then you get up, you get up to one leg, you lift it overhead, stand up, and then slowly lower yourself back down, lie back down on the ground again, switch hands.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Get up, all one leg, stand up, lower yourself down.
And I'm going to show them the technique, how to hike your hips up, pop your hips up when you get one leg up.
So you put one leg up, you pop your hips up, you get the other leg underneath you, and then you stand up.
But it's not sexy.
But it's very, very, very functional.
And it just breaks you down.
cameron hanes
There was this guy back in this gym that I trained.
It's closed down now.
It was international fitness, but his name is Will Dinwiddie.
And he was the strongest guy I've ever seen, but he used to do that with 135. Like he'd put the Olympic bar with the 45s on it and do Turkish get-ups with 145. Oh my God.
joe rogan
That's an animal.
cameron hanes
Oh, he also squatted 225 a hundred times without stopping, just like a hundred reps.
I gave him a t-shirt.
joe rogan
Just body weight.
cameron hanes
Doing a hundred reps is hard.
I gave him one of my t-shirts.
This was like 10 years ago.
And I'm like, you earned that.
I mean, just took him seven minutes or something like that.
joe rogan
Was it a keep hammering shirt or was it nobody cares, try harder?
cameron hanes
No, I think it was a...
The greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward or something like that.
joe rogan
God damn, that's powerful.
cameron hanes
Yeah, he's a beast.
unidentified
That's nuts.
cameron hanes
But anyway, that's where I first saw Turkish getup.
Because he'd be yelling and screaming and putting on a show over there.
I told my boys they were just starting lifting.
And I'm like, that's the strongest guy in Springfield.
And nobody knows him really other than in this gym, but he's just a freak.
joe rogan
Have you ever heard of Tom Havilland?
Okay.
cameron hanes
Who's that?
joe rogan
This guy's a real weirdo.
He's a freak that lives in Australia, and he does these insane workouts, and he puts them on Instagram.
Go to his Instagram.
And he wears like fucking flannel shirts and jeans and shit.
unidentified
Private account.
joe rogan
Private account.
unidentified
Is it?
jamie vernon
I don't know why.
I mean...
joe rogan
Join it.
jamie vernon
Well, I can't get access to it until you approve it.
joe rogan
Oh, shit.
Hmm.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
Why is he private, Tom?
I think because he doesn't want to be bothered because all he does is this guy's out in the outback fucking lifting homemade weights.
He's 6'5", I think, and he's 300 pounds.
God.
unidentified
And just gigantic.
joe rogan
I want to see him.
Holy shit.
And the fucking workouts that this guy does, there's not a goddamn chance in hell he passed the piss test.
I bet his piss melts styrofoam.
But this guy, it's jailhouse strong.
I don't even know if he's been in jail, but...
He looks like a guy that you wouldn't want to go to jail with.
But I mean, he's just absolutely freakishly powerful.
cameron hanes
Yeah, he is.
joe rogan
This is like normal conventional stuff, but the stuff that he does like on his property, he does all this stuff outside.
So he's got like fucking dogs running around and shit.
He's dead lifting 600 pounds and walking around with it.
He does like freakish shit.
cameron hanes
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And he documents it all on Instagram.
I wish I could show you.
I wish I could stream it to you, Jamie.
cameron hanes
Man.
Yeah, he's a stud.
I love following guys like that.
joe rogan
But it's definitely private.
So look at the kind of shit he does.
So this is how he works out.
He works out with a fucking lumberjack shirt on and pants.
cameron hanes
I've seen this guy.
joe rogan
He's got the most freakish physique ever, and he's got it covered up.
cameron hanes
I don't even know how much weight that is.
joe rogan
What does that say?
Most of the videos, are you seeing him- 749. 749, yeah.
cameron hanes
Zurcher.
joe rogan
Zurcher swats.
Which is insane.
And you see him from behind when he's doing all these things.
Yeah, so here he's pressing 612. He's benching 612. Like, what the fuck, dude?
And he's just throwing it up there for reps.
For five reps.
cameron hanes
612. And just wants to be a freak.
joe rogan
Just a freak.
cameron hanes
That's the goal.
joe rogan
Just a freak.
I mean, I don't know what his goals are other than that.
But I mean, some of the shit that he does is just fucking insanity.
Look at this deadlift.
Look at the size of that motherfucker.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
Now imagine, also, he's 6'5".
cameron hanes
God!
joe rogan
6'5", 300 pounds, and just deadlifting.
What's he deadlifting there?
1,003 pounds.
cameron hanes
Imagine how good, like, back in the first UFCs.
joe rogan
Look at that!
Look at his neck shit!
cameron hanes
He'd be a perfect guy for, remember when UFC started?
joe rogan
Yeah, but not really.
Hoist would have strangled him.
cameron hanes
I know, but it would have been fun to see him.
joe rogan
What the size of this motherfucker.
cameron hanes
Holy shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, does all this Atlas Stone stuff.
And a lot of the stuff he does is he carries things around a lot, which is very interesting.
He does a lot of explosive training and a lot of just carrying things.
See how he's dragging?
And he drags them off so he's got weight on one side.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then they'll switch it to the other side.
Oh, he's 6'7".
Excuse me.
6'7".
Fucking gigantic.
The guy's so big.
cameron hanes
Yeah, but, you know, that's a freak show that, like, Pride would have liked.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Yeah, they would have thrown some money on him.
I mean, if you could teach that guy how to fight.
cameron hanes
Yeah, him versus who is that?
The big black guy?
joe rogan
Oh, Bob Sapp.
Bob Sapp was 75 pounds heavier than him.
Actually, what does he weigh?
I think he was actually trying to weigh 400 pounds, Tom Haviland.
Wasn't he trying to get up to 400?
cameron hanes
That's a good weight.
joe rogan
I think he's pushing.
I think he's heavier than 300 pounds now that I'm thinking about it.
Yeah.
385?
unidentified
360. 360. What?
joe rogan
What?
I think that was the thing.
That's right, now that I'm thinking about it, is the road to 400 pounds.
So he's trying to build himself up to 400 pounds.
cameron hanes
I want to see him versus Bob Sapp.
joe rogan
But what he does a lot of, which is very interesting, is unconventional type workouts where he attaches a chain to his right arm and he's dragging behind all these weights while he's carrying a log with his two arms.
cameron hanes
I saw that.
joe rogan
He does a lot of interesting stuff like that that he thinks that's important.
cameron hanes
Of course.
joe rogan
Yeah, like farmers' carries and shit with insane amounts of weight.
I've heard that before from many people, that not just pushing things and pressing things, but carrying them around is where you get real strength.
Yeah, you rock.
unidentified
See?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's right.
That rock that you guys take up to Pixka.
cameron hanes
It works.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's something to that.
There's something to unconventional movements.
cameron hanes
No, because your body has to hold and correct.
Your core just gets hammered.
joe rogan
Just like the Turkish get-ups.
Same kind of thing.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and that's what it's all about.
A lot of people can be strong straight, just doing pretty uniform movements.
But when you can be strong, out of position, awkward things, that's real strength.
joe rogan
That's real strength.
And I think that real strength also applies to conventional lifts.
And that's why guys like this Tom Havlon guy can lift insane amounts of weight.
Also, a little bit of Mexican supplements, if you know what I'm saying.
Maybe.
cameron hanes
Creatine.
joe rogan
Yeah, and branched chain amino acids.
They're very important.
cameron hanes
And milk, like Mark McGuire.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's probably eating wild boar milk.
unidentified
I don't know what the fuck that guy eats, but that's a huge fella.
cameron hanes
Oh my god.
That's the greatest thing about social media, is finding freaks like that.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
And this freak, I mean, I think that's all he's doing.
I mean, he's not, like, selling things.
He's not, like, telling people, like, hey, get a part of my workout program 20% off with code BEAFREAK, you know?
No, he's just fucking...
cameron hanes
Just a beast.
joe rogan
And his photos, it's very unflattering, because everything he's doing is from behind.
You only see his back, and he's covered up.
Everything's covered up.
He's wearing, like, a lumberjack shirt.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
That's where...
It's kind of that Sam Solek does that too.
You know who that kid is?
joe rogan
Who's Sam Solek?
cameron hanes
Dude, Jamie, you gotta look him up.
He's like 21. Just a fucking freak.
But he wears all this big shit and will do the hardest squats.
Like...
So much weight, deep, just freak.
But then when he takes his shit off, I can't remember what they call it.
Like when you're all covered up.
And then the reveal?
Yeah, then you never let anybody really see what a freak you are.
jamie vernon
Yeah, actually, I think I've seen this guy before, too.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sam Sulek.
cameron hanes
Yeah, you gotta look at him.
jamie vernon
Sulek.
S-U-L-E-K. Oh, Jesus.
cameron hanes
Look at this kid, dude.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
cameron hanes
He is like young 20s.
joe rogan
Oh, I have heard about him because he used to be a lot smaller and then got saucy.
cameron hanes
He used to be a diver.
joe rogan
Whoa.
cameron hanes
Yeah, like a, you know, into a pool type thing.
jamie vernon
Really?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
I bet he makes a hell of a fucking splash.
cameron hanes
Well now, there is like an old one.
joe rogan
Okay, so it was 183 pounds in 2000 and...
unidentified
In 2019. And now, what does he weigh now?
joe rogan
237 in 2023. That's crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
That's so much weight.
cameron hanes
And I don't know how...
I think he's super young.
joe rogan
He looks young.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, so he covers himself up like that when he works?
cameron hanes
Yeah, show some squats, Jamie.
There's some good...
jamie vernon
I don't know if he had it on this...
I'm looking behind the video.
There's not a lot of video.
cameron hanes
Oh, I see.
joe rogan
Interesting.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I think it's on YouTube.
joe rogan
3.6 million followers.
cameron hanes
See his YouTube?
Yeah, he's got a lot of...
That's where he gets all his videos.
joe rogan
Hmm.
cameron hanes
Well, like, what does he have?
Yeah, 2.3 million subscribers on YouTube.
joe rogan
Just from being jacked.
cameron hanes
Yeah, just a freak, though.
joe rogan
Isn't it crazy that just being jacked could get you millions of subscribers now?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
I mean, right.
So this is what he'll do.
But he trains frickin' hard.
joe rogan
So he's doing all kinds of crazy lifts.
cameron hanes
Yeah, let's watch this one.
joe rogan
A little bit of a mental battle before this set of squats.
I think it's worth discussing.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
Bro, you can hear the steroids in his voice.
It's like he's gargling in steroids.
The guy's jacked!
cameron hanes
I know.
But they're...
I don't know.
joe rogan
Look at the fucking legs on him!
Holy shit!
Look at his fucking thighs!
Bro, that guy must chafe like a motherfucker.
He needs some good me undies.
The kind that go all the way down.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those boxer briefs.
Keep your legs from rubbing in the center.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I don't really know what his goal is, but...
joe rogan
Be massiver.
More massive.
Maybe it's Tom Havilland.
Maybe that's his goal.
cameron hanes
These guys, you know, they want to be, when you walk in a room, they want people to be like, like, pointing.
Like, holy shit, look at this freak.
joe rogan
Well, he gained 50 pounds in, what, four years?
cameron hanes
And he's shredded.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't do that with oatmeal.
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
You need some help.
Need a little help.
cameron hanes
Step away, USADA. Right.
Nothing to see here.
It's fun to see guys like that.
I don't know.
joe rogan
It is fun.
I don't want to do it, but it's fun to see.
Like that Tom Haviland guy, I'm obsessed with watching him.
I think Brian Callen was the first guy to tell me about him.
cameron hanes
But isn't Brian gay?
I'm sure he was attracted to him.
joe rogan
No, he's attracted to some men, but he's not gay at all.
He's attracted spiritually.
Yeah, he's not sexually attracted to them.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah, to their...
joe rogan
You know, he imagines if he was in prison that he would do it with that guy and that guy would protect him.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you wouldn't snuggle with them, keep them warm.
cameron hanes
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Spooky dudes.
There's some people out there doing freaky shit, but man, that's a great way to get hurt too.
Try emulating that.
I mean, when you're lifting like very, very heavy.
I don't lift heavy, obviously.
I'm not big like that.
The heaviest thing I lift is like 90 pounds.
I occasionally do 90 pound kettlebells.
cameron hanes
I think it's good, though, because he...
Yeah, you're not going to do that, but you see how hard he's working?
I mean, he's soaked with sweat doing squats.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
cameron hanes
That's...
I think people can be inspired by that and be like...
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
cameron hanes
Hey, I need to...
I'm not going to be a freak, but I can push harder.
joe rogan
Also, it might make them take a road trip to Mexico to fill up the trunk.
unidentified
I don't know.
cameron hanes
I know.
You know, here for a good time, not a long time.
joe rogan
Well, that's definitely the case with folks like that.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, because a lot of those guys, you know, those really big guys, they have real problems.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
I know.
Love that guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, that guy was ridiculous.
cameron hanes
I still share his, like, he's got so many good reels, too.
Yeah.
Like, he just says crazy stuff.
Because he's like, the one, my favorite is that he's sitting with this girl, and he's like, kind of a serious question.
He's like, he goes, would you rather have the dick hang lower than the balls, or the balls hang lower than the dick?
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
That was his concern?
cameron hanes
That was his question to her.
joe rogan
Interesting.
Well, some people worry about stars and asteroids and black holes and aliens, and some people worry about balls and dicks.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so he has so many funny ones like that.
joe rogan
He was so freakishly huge.
cameron hanes
No, he's giant.
joe rogan
He was so stupid.
He had an eight-hour arm workout.
cameron hanes
I know.
Look at this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, but he was like super open about his steroid use, and you know, he died from it.
He died at like, I think he was like in his early 40s or mid 40s.
cameron hanes
I think, I thought he...
joe rogan
Look at the size of his neck.
His neck looks like there's a tumor below his ear.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look at the fucking neck muscles.
That's so preposterous.
cameron hanes
Look at those arms, dude.
joe rogan
Ridiculous.
He used to do an eight-hour arm workout.
Insane.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
Insane.
cameron hanes
But I guarantee you, no matter where he walked in, people noticed him.
And that was the goal.
joe rogan
Well, that's what he wanted.
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, to each their own.
I mean, I love the fact that it's freedom.
You can do whatever you want.
If you want to be that guy, you can be that guy.
I don't want to be that guy, but...
You know, he obviously, that's what he enjoyed.
unidentified
Gold 22-inch calves.
Jesus Christ.
cameron hanes
I didn't know he did legs at all.
joe rogan
That's like a waist.
Oh, he did legs.
He had giant legs.
His legs are huge.
cameron hanes
I know, I was just so focused on the arms.
joe rogan
They're preposterous, but they're probably useless.
Didn't he have like an MMA fight?
I feel like he had an MMA fight.
cameron hanes
I thought he died from he passed out and hit his head when he's getting a haircut.
joe rogan
Really?
cameron hanes
I think so.
unidentified
Really?
I thought so.
joe rogan
Are you just putting that out there?
Did you do any research?
cameron hanes
No, I don't do much research.
joe rogan
I thought he had like a massive heart attack or something.
cameron hanes
No, I don't.
joe rogan
It's a lot of how those guys go.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like everything gets bigger.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
When you're taking...
cameron hanes
His heart was probably this big too.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was probably basketball.
Superhuman levels of everything.
Is this how he died?
jamie vernon
Collapsed in early August and died after being in a coma for two weeks.
Drug involvement could not be ruled out.
46 years old.
joe rogan
Drug involvement couldn't be ruled out.
Crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
I don't know.
I was pretty young to die, but I didn't know he was...
joe rogan
I bet if he got vaccinated, they'd rule that out.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Heart disease reported in the history of drug use.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, not good.
Probably never touched cardio.
cameron hanes
No, because that burns muscle.
joe rogan
Fuck out of here with your cardio.
jamie vernon
20 bottles of steroids found at his house.
joe rogan
Only 20?
Must have been in between orders.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
cameron hanes
Bottles of steroids.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ, buddy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
cameron hanes
Oh.
That's a lot.
Have you shot your new bow yet?
joe rogan
I have not.
No.
Your Alpha X? No, I've been too busy, unfortunately.
I'm going to take it today, but obviously I had some stuff we had to do today.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I'm going to take it on Monday.
cameron hanes
It's a good bow.
joe rogan
Archery country.
Yeah, I'm very excited.
Look, if it's better than last year's, last year's models were better than the year before, which I don't know how they keep doing it.
cameron hanes
I don't either.
joe rogan
But Hoyt keeps making better bows every year.
They're just smoother and more accurate.
Like, I shot my...
Not this past year's bow, but the year before, I shot it one day just for goof.
I said, let me just pick up my old bow and see how that shoots.
It wasn't out of tune.
But it was significant.
I could see the difference in accuracy and the feel in the hand.
It was like a little more vibration in the hand, a little more clunky in the draw cycle.
And then I picked up last year's bow and I was like, wow.
You feel the smoothness of the draw cycle and then it's just I was more confident with it.
It felt more accurate.
It's crazy how they just keep making them better.
cameron hanes
I think when you're so dialed in with with your bow and you shoot as much as it doesn't take much of a difference to feel it.
unidentified
Right.
cameron hanes
You know what I mean?
You shoot so much.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
A little change you're gonna be like whoa it feels like a lot even though it's a little.
joe rogan
But can you imagine being those engineers and you've got to like Fine-tune every single aspect of these cams and the limbs and the limb pockets and the riser.
cameron hanes
One little thing they did, which is pretty cool, because you know how you have those little kickstand things, the go sticks?
Yeah.
Last year, the cam would sit in the dirt or whatever.
Now they have a little shelf that it sits on.
Even that little tiny thing, that's an improvement.
joe rogan
That's an improvement.
cameron hanes
But that's a big one, because I would be looking at...
Where my cam was sitting and where the string was kind of rubbing on rocks and dirt and be like, God, is that wearing through?
So they pretty much come up, think of everything to make it better, to tweak, to fine tune, and then you feel it.
I mean, the Bose this year, that one I just set up, They say, you know, who knows how they, I'm sure they measure it, but it's 25% quieter, I believe.
And it's, I don't know what percent, but it's quiet.
Very quiet.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't know how they're doing all that.
cameron hanes
I don't either.
joe rogan
And then there's the factor of heavy arrows versus lighter arrows.
Lighter arrows make more noise.
Heavier arrows are a little quieter.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But probably not 25%.
That's a lot.
cameron hanes
No, you are obsessed with art.
You're always sending me, hey, have you seen this?
Have you seen these?
Have you seen these heads?
Have you seen these?
I mean, it's so cool.
That's kind of the best part about archery is all the options.
It's just, how can I tweak this, make it a little better, give you a little more confidence?
Is this going to perform better?
That's the chase every day.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm excited about those broadheads that I showed you, those tooth-of-the-arrow broadheads.
I like those because they're American-made, and they've figured out some way.
First of all, they cut them out of one solid piece of steel, and they figured out a way to have most of the mass in the ferrule.
So apparently they fly really good.
So Jordan over at Archery Country was shooting them out to 100. He's like, dude, these are incredible.
They shoot so good.
And it's a four-blade head.
Yeah, that's good.
cameron hanes
He said four inches of cut.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
That's with the XLs.
The smaller ones are a little bit less, but it's still more than three inches of cut.
cameron hanes
Does the XLs weigh more than 100 grains?
joe rogan
No.
You can get them in 100 grains, 125, I think 150, 175. And all they're doing is just putting more mass in the ferrule.
It's not a bigger thing.
So it's still like a heavy field point.
And so the mass goes deep into the arrow and into the front point.
It's not in the heads.
And especially with the vented ones, they probably won't plane or won't plane much.
But then you don't have to think about mechanicals, whether they open or not open or shooting them through grass or any of that kind of stuff.
So I've got to hunt with Rinella.
We're going to hunt for whitetails in South Texas for Meat Eater.
cameron hanes
That'll be fun.
joe rogan
In a couple weeks, yeah.
So I'm going to use those heads.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
I'm going to try them out.
cameron hanes
Did you stay with the FMJs or the Axis, or are you trying those pro comps?
joe rogan
I do not know.
We were trying to figure out what arrows to use.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
We're going to sort that out, actually, this weekend.
cameron hanes
Didn't I? Okay.
joe rogan
Because I'm trying to go a little lighter.
cameron hanes
Those pro comps, I think, would be...
joe rogan
Because mine are 484. The problem is, like, there's not the best options for lighted knocks with 4mm arrows.
cameron hanes
I sent you, like, from Gary at Easton, that whatever brand he said.
unidentified
Halos.
joe rogan
Yeah, he says Halos are the move.
Yeah, so I'll give those a try.
There's also Fire Knocks.
Have you ever seen that guy?
cameron hanes
I don't use Lighted Knocks.
joe rogan
That guy is a fucking mad scientist.
There's this gentleman who was a—I think he was a physicist or some kind of a— He's got some sort of background in science and he created this like very high-end lighted knock called the fire knock and you have to it's more difficult to install you have to kind of glue in an insert and then screw it into the insert but they're supposed to be super legit and very very tight tolerances so I might try those out too.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
So fun.
joe rogan
There's so much to tinker with.
cameron hanes
I know.
It's so fun.
joe rogan
But you've got to make sure that you're done tinkering a couple weeks out.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
So I'll tinker up until a certain point, and I'm like, I'm locked in.
This is what I'm using.
Now it's time to just practice with that and let's get it all locked in.
I had to give up on, like, I'm a big fan of Garmin.
I love all their stuff.
You know, I have this Garmin watch that I love this.
I just love that it's got GPS on it.
I can put maps on it.
I can literally take phone calls, listen to music.
It's got a stopwatch, barometer, altitude.
It's so functional.
It even has a fucking light.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
If you're out in the woods, you double tap this bitch.
unidentified
Bam!
cameron hanes
It's actually pretty bright.
joe rogan
That's pretty bright.
I love this thing.
cameron hanes
How long does a battery last?
joe rogan
Fucking weeks.
cameron hanes
Really?
unidentified
Weeks.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Weeks.
cameron hanes
That's impressive.
joe rogan
Like a month.
Like, it'll tell you.
I think I've got like 25 days of battery life.
cameron hanes
I'm blind from that light right now.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
But I was running that Garmin site that they have a range-finding site.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
I was having a problem with it though.
Like sometimes at distance, I was getting multiple ranges on like that foam elk target that I have in my yard.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like I'd be at full draw and I know that it's 74 yards away, but I would be getting 82, 71, 65. And I'm like, what is going on here?
cameron hanes
And holding right on it.
joe rogan
I'm trying to hold right on it.
Maybe I'm moving a little bit, but how much am I moving and why isn't it...
I don't think it's totally...
I think, look, I used it last year and I had a perfect shot on two white-tailed deer and a Neil guy with that.
I liked it.
But that scared me that I'm getting different ranges.
So what if I'm at full draw on an animal and it says 67 but it's really 74?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's not good.
That's a problem.
cameron hanes
That's not good.
joe rogan
And with a 522 grain arrow at that much distance, you're going to have a lot of drop.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
Not a lot of room for it.
joe rogan
So I switched.
Before Utah, I went back to the Spot Hog, and I went to just using that loophole full draw, which I really like because it shows you the height of your arrow.
cameron hanes
Trajectory.
joe rogan
That's giant, man.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's giant.
If you have a gap that you're shooting through, and you're like, I don't know what the fuck is going to happen here.
That thing is so dialed in, it measures the speed of your arrow.
You put in all these different things, like how fast your arrow is, what your arrow weighs.
And it'll tell you exactly what's the height of the arrow trajectory at the arc.
So when you range it, and I used it in California because there was a gap that I was shooting through and I ranged it and I knew I had full confidence I was going to get through that gap because I had that line that showed me the line was like four or five inches below where I needed to pass through.
cameron hanes
And that's perfect too because without that assurance, Sometimes you're picking a spot, but you're still thinking about that, where's this arrow going?
And that can cause that focus to falter, and that results in a bad shot.
joe rogan
With so much confidence.
When you're executing a shot, you have to say, I know I'm going to hit that thing.
If you can't say, I hope.
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
If you say, I hope it...
Oh, you're fucked!
It's like pool.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
I was talking to Joel Turner about that, that there's real parallels between archery and pool.
Is that you have to have a shot process that you go through.
Like, when I play pool, I have a very specific shot process I go through with every shot.
And before the shot, when I'm playing well especially, I'll take my practice strokes and then I pause at the back end and drive through with like a I try to use a perfect stroke where it's just the weight of the pull cue and there's the forward motion of the arm is perfectly timed, and I'm kind of like allowing that cue to do all the work with the weight of my arm and the stroke.
And if you don't have that thing in your head, like, I am going to make this shot, if you say, I hope I don't miss, you're gonna fucking miss.
Every time!
Archery, you have more of a window because you could put your pin on the target and go, I hope I don't miss.
But as long as your pin's on the target, maybe it'll be like three inches here or four inches there.
But in pool, I'm shooting into a four-inch pocket from nine feet away.
There's no room for fucking around.
cameron hanes
If you're off that much or more, the cue's hitting.
joe rogan
Exactly.
And then as the distance goes, like if you're shooting a seven-foot shot, as the distance goes, if you're off like...
Half of a millimeter over the distance is going to be two inches.
You're going to be fucked.
Very precise.
But that's what I love about archery and that's what I love about pool.
It's like the arrows don't give a fuck who you are.
They don't give a fuck where you live, what kind of car you drive.
Are you doing it right?
There's no room for fuckery.
You've got to be dialed in.
You've got to be prepared.
unidentified
You have to have thousands of arrows downrange.
cameron hanes
Thousands.
joe rogan
Thousands where you know, you know what that feels like when that shot breaks and you watch that and you practice.
You know better than anybody, we practice in camp.
We don't just get to camp and say, we're done.
No, every time you get a chance, we're lined up at the targets and we're shooting at 90 yards.
cameron hanes
It's so hard to gain that confidence.
You said, do I know I'm going to hit it perfect or do I hope I'm going to hit it perfect?
So getting that confidence like, no, I know I'm going to hit it perfect, is so freaking hard and can go away like that.
unidentified
Like that.
cameron hanes
I mean, one fucking shitty shot and you're just like, oh my God.
Yeah.
I mean, that's where archery can be brutal because once you're confident and you start doubting something...
That takes on a life of its own.
unidentified
And archery has so many factors.
joe rogan
You have your release.
You have the sight.
You have the rest.
Maybe your arrows are touching the rest.
Maybe you've got the way your pins are set up.
When you have your furthest distance pin, maybe your fletchings are touching the bottom of the housing.
cameron hanes
String stretch.
joe rogan
String stretch.
Your string over time.
You have to make sure that before you go on a hunt, you've got to bring it in and check the chronograph.
Is it still at 273 feet a second?
Oh shit, it's at 265 now.
My string stretched.
So now you have to put some twists in the strings.
cameron hanes
Or you have to add a couple yards to shooting.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's so much going on.
And then just the preciseness of these sight tapes.
It's so amazing how much goes on.
Like when you use Archer's Advantage, you're entering in the weight of the arrow, the length of the arrow, like what is the poundage of the bow, what's the speed per second that you're shooting.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's so much.
cameron hanes
There's a lot of data going in there.
joe rogan
But when you execute a perfect shot, not even just on an arrow, just on a target, you're shooting at like 75 yards and the shot breaks and you watch that go.
Right in the center.
cameron hanes
It's a beautiful moment.
joe rogan
I wish everybody could feel that.
You do.
The world goes away.
The world goes away when you execute a perfect shot.
cameron hanes
That's what...
I had Huberman down, and he was...
You know, he's so intelligent, obviously, but like in analytical and everything, but it's like we're, and he's focusing so hard at the bow rack, just doing everything, focusing so hard.
And I'm like, how great is this?
I said, what are you thinking about other than shooting this bow right now?
And he's like, nothing.
I'm like, that's it.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can't.
cameron hanes
That's what's so beautiful about it.
It's like people say therapeutic and all this, but it is because you can't be, if you're distracted, you're not going to hit anywhere close to what you want or not consistently.
You might get lucky, but it's one of those sayings that takes all your focus, which is so freeing because then you're not worried about all the other BS of life.
joe rogan
It cleans your mind.
It's like jujitsu does that too.
When you're doing jujitsu, it cleans your mind because you can't think of anything else because someone's on top of you trying to yank your arm off.
It's like you have to be completely engaged in the moment.
And that's very hard for people to do, to find things that keep them in the moment.
We are so constantly distracted by mostly things that aren't even important.
I can't tell you how many times I'm up at night worried about—I mean, it is a concern, but I'm worried about Ukraine, and I'm worried about Israel and Palestine.
I worry about nuclear war.
I worry about chaos.
I worry about the fact they're sending these young men to go and die in these wars, and some people are so— Flippant about it.
It's so easy for them and I freak out about these things and sometimes it like it fucks me up because I go to bed with that in my head and I'm like yeah I'm just lying in bed going am I like is this the verge of World War three like if you were Living in some place like right before a war broke out the day before that happens everything's normal yeah October 6th in Israel everything's normal right then all sudden everything fucking changes and then the world is chaos like a world's upside down I think you need something.
You certainly need to be aware of the world, but everyone needs something that can take them out of that.
And for some people it's golf, for some people it's pool, whatever the fuck it is.
It's running, whatever it is.
But you need something that takes you out of that and allows you to be in the moment.
cameron hanes
What I like, this is another part to it, but what I like, so like with the Huberman or with somebody, like people say intellectuals, but people who operate up here all the time.
I'm never up there so I don't have to fucking worry about it.
But it's like operating at this highest level of intelligence of whatever they're at.
But what I like about archery and hunting is like, this is a basic.
So you can't get up here unless you're down here figuring out what you're going to eat and how to do it.
So it's either you can get it all figured out and say, well, I'm not going to kill shit myself, but I'm going to, could I pay somebody?
Could you kill something for me?
And then here's some money, right?
unidentified
Right.
cameron hanes
Somebody still has to do the bottom shit.
But I think I told Andrew, I'm like...
God, if you could...
Obviously, you're up here all the time.
But if you could also understand the bottom, what it takes to kill and get out there, carry a rock up a fucking mountain, do that hard, gritty, lower-level shit, and...
Imagine what you could, because I always say, I would love for you to have your perspective to be able to explain what hunting is in your way.
Because I can't.
I can do it like what I've been doing my whole life.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
But somebody who operates up here all the time could also understand the basics of survival.
God, imagine what enlightenment he might be able to shine on while we hunt.
joe rogan
Yeah, he would definitely be able to have a very unique perspective with his mind.
And that's what Peter Atiyah brings to the table.
You know, because Peter has become obsessed with bow hunting over the last few years.
And he's so fucking fascinating because he and I will have these conversations where we'll talk about broadheads and this and that, all these different things.
He'll shoot an animal and then he will make a video where he does an autopsy.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
And he breaks it down and uses terms, I don't even understand what the fuck he's talking about.
All these different types of hemorrhaging and this and that and the area of the lung it hit and this is why it took so long for it to die and this is why it died quickly because it severed these arteries and caused massive hemorrhaging.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
That's super interesting.
I don't get any of that shit.
I mean, I get the major organs, and I know what happens if an arrow goes through there.
But within those organs, like you were saying, different parts of the lungs, yeah, it's who knows what.
joe rogan
He's breaking it down as a surgeon.
cameron hanes
Even like with Huberman, we're in the Borac, and he's like talking about...
We had it on the Lift, Run, Shoot episode, but he's like...
He says something like, oh, like on skateboarding, you can switch stance, like left foot forward, right foot forward type thing.
He goes, can you do that with a bow?
Like left hand, right hand.
And I was like, no, that's your dominant eye.
You know, you got to use your dominant eye.
And so he starts to explain why prey animals with their eyes on the side, they, if you're not moving, they can't, you're basically invisible because they have to be able to see that movement.
And sometimes they'll go like this to like use both eyes Whereas we're like depth perception because our eyes on the front, we can see movement like this.
A prey animal can't.
Anyway, he's explaining this whole thing.
It's like you could talk about anything with hunting where I would be like, this is black and white.
Oh, you do this because of that.
And then he would have some crazy explanation with amazing detail on why it's this way or that way.
It's pretty fascinating.
So I'm like...
God dang, if you could bow hunt and get out there and understand what it means to be, you know, we're a predator hunting prey, and just, what is that about?
I just want to hear his take on it.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
That's his, like, his superpower is he's 20 times smarter than anybody but can talk where I can understand it.
joe rogan
Yes.
cameron hanes
Not all those smart guys can't do that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
But he can.
joe rogan
He's gone through an interesting journey with broadheads, too.
You know, because he...
cameron hanes
Oh, Peter?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because he shot a two-blade single bevel head, and...
Did you ever see it?
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
Okay, I'm going to show it to you because it's kind of crazy.
When you see it, you're not going to believe it.
He had to make a follow-up shot, but you wouldn't imagine it when you see this.
And now...
So we had this conversation, and he was saying, you know, like...
There's this thing, whether or not you want to have a big cut, like you have been using over the last few years with the ones that you like, the Grim Reaper Carnifores, which is a big cut, or would you want to get penetration, right?
cameron hanes
I want both.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, that's why you shoot a really powerful bow.
Now, look at the shot placement.
cameron hanes
That looks perfect.
joe rogan
Perfect, right?
Yeah, he had to make a follow-up shot.
cameron hanes
And was it perfectly broadside?
Yep.
joe rogan
Crazy.
cameron hanes
That's right where you want it.
It's in the crease.
joe rogan
It's perfect.
cameron hanes
Perfect height.
joe rogan
Now, imagine if you hit that thing with a carnivore.
unidentified
Chaos.
joe rogan
No, it's not going anywhere, right?
So that's the benefit.
cameron hanes
That doesn't make sense.
joe rogan
Right, but he went right through it.
cameron hanes
Through the lungs?
joe rogan
Both lungs.
cameron hanes
That is weird.
joe rogan
Yeah, crazy.
You look at it, you're like, how?
But I think that's the thing about a small cut, a very small single blade, or, you know, a two blade, rather, that slices right through.
And you just get an inch and a half slice.
cameron hanes
Right.
andy stumpf
That's it.
joe rogan
And maybe it can seal up.
Maybe it takes a long time for it to bleed out.
I mean, whatever it is.
But when you have something, like one of the things we were talking about was these tooth of the arrows.
So I sent him these images that I got from this guy named John Lusk.
And he has these very interesting videos where he does all these tests on broadheads, everything.
He's got like a whole system to it.
He's very scientific about it.
Look at the fucking holes that those tooth of the arrows make.
That's the XL four blade.
Is this through steel?
Through steel.
Four inches of cut.
And it makes a canal.
cameron hanes
This wound channel is not sealing up.
You're going to get blood out of that thing.
joe rogan
People don't see it.
That's what it looks like.
cameron hanes
And that's the goal is, you know, to kill with an arrow, you need hemorrhage.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
And that type of wound channel is going to allow that animal to expire quick.
I mean, it's going to die fast in seconds.
That's what we want.
joe rogan
And also, one of the things that he showed in his explanations or his videos, John Lush did, which I'm very interested about with his tooth of the arrow broadhead, is that it got incredible penetration, too.
So he does this test where he shoots them into layers of cardboard.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
And I think...
The 125 grain one had the record.
It went through 75 layers or 73 layers of cardboard, which is insane.
That's a lot of layers.
cameron hanes
I wonder how heavy is Aero?
unidentified
I'm not sure.
joe rogan
I'm not sure.
cameron hanes
Yeah, because that makes a big difference.
joe rogan
Makes a big difference.
Yeah, but he uses a standard setup.
He uses a 72-pound bow.
cameron hanes
If it's the same with every head and one's outpenetrating the other, that means something.
joe rogan
Exactly.
cameron hanes
Regardless of what?
joe rogan
And it has four blades as opposed to two.
So you're getting double the cut at least.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I always think that...
So if you have a two-blade and the animal is, say, two foot wide...
That's 48 inches of cut.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
If you got four, that's 96 inches of hemorrhage.
joe rogan
Big difference.
cameron hanes
Imagine a 96 inch cut, how much that's going to bleed.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And it's a channel through the body.
So if you get a pass through, that thing's spraying off both sides.
And then maybe even more importantly, what you do and what I do is we lift weights.
So we're strong.
So we can pull back a heavy bow.
And so now you're shooting a really powerful 80 plus pound bow that is launching this 520 grain arrow at 300 feet a second.
So when it does hit, it's a tremendous amount of momentum and force.
And it's just...
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
Blowing through everything.
So when people say, you don't need that kind of pull back that kind of weight.
I've heard that stupid shit so many times.
It drives me nuts.
And it's just people that are trying to make an excuse for why they're not strong.
Well, you don't need 60 pounds then.
Because why do you need 60 pounds?
And by the way, 60 pounds for you is probably harder than 90 pounds is for me.
Because you don't work out.
cameron hanes
And what I always say is, yeah, I shoot 90, you shoot 60, 70. I will kill every animal you'll kill if you hit it the same place.
You won't kill every animal I'll kill.
joe rogan
Yes.
cameron hanes
That's all there is to it.
joe rogan
That's all there is to it.
cameron hanes
I'll go through more shit and still kill it than you will, but every arrow that you shoot that kills, mine would do the same thing.
joe rogan
There's no argument that having less power is good.
It doesn't make any sense.
The whole idea is maximum lethality and the maximum amount of you want a humane kill where it kills it quickly and ethically.
So that means you have to be fucking super dedicated to your practice and I think you should be super dedicated to your fitness.
And you should be doing rows every fucking day, building those back muscles so that when you do pull back 70 pounds, 80 pounds, whatever, it's not hard.
It seems pretty simple.
There's a video of me pulling back that 95-pound bow that Dudley made me, that squirrely bow that I had a couple years ago.
That thing was ridiculous.
But I pull that fucker back easy.
I lift a lot of weights.
I lift all the time.
I'm constantly doing chin-ups.
I do weighted chin-ups.
I do chin-ups with a 25-pound vest.
I do all these things.
unidentified
You train.
joe rogan
Yeah, so I get ready for it.
cameron hanes
You train to be at your best.
joe rogan
Oh, you don't need that.
Shut the fuck up, pussy.
I know what you're doing.
I know why you're saying it.
The only reason why anyone would say that is to try to make up for the fact that they're not strong.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's all it is.
cameron hanes
That's it.
You know, hunters love them.
Love bow hunters.
Love this whole community.
But God, we are so judgmental.
joe rogan
Some are.
cameron hanes
I mean...
joe rogan
And they're a loud voice.
unidentified
They...
cameron hanes
It's...
joe rogan
But it's a small percentage.
cameron hanes
It is.
But it's like...
Yeah.
It just doesn't make any sense.
And it's hard, too, because when you're so passionate about something, people do talk shit about you.
You take it, like, it means something.
Because, like, God, I'm pouring fucking everything I have into this.
And you're talking...
It's still not good enough?
unidentified
Right.
cameron hanes
So it's...
I had this guy the other day.
He's like...
Why don't you go into the Eagle Cap and pack in and kill a bull by yourself?
joe rogan
Oh, like you did for 20 years?
cameron hanes
Oh, I mean, it got me thinking.
It's like, it's never enough.
It doesn't matter.
joe rogan
You wrote a book about that, though.
That's what's hilarious.
cameron hanes
You literally wrote a book.
I told the guy, I said, yeah, I've heard of that area.
I said, I read about it in a book called Backcountry Bowhunting.
I can't remember who wrote it, but it's a pretty good book.
So the point is, I've been doing this my whole life.
I started doing that.
I don't know how many bulls I've killed, from backcountry, do-it-yourself, to now some of the best elk, you know, 400-inch bulls, done the whole thing.
That's still not enough?
Still, there's people saying, well, why don't you do this?
It's like, well, what the fuck?
Is it ever going to be enough?
joe rogan
You're going to always hear that, though.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're going to hear that from everybody, no matter what it is.
And, you know, imagine if I read the comments on this podcast, on any of my podcasts.
Like, why do you have her on?
She's fucking stupid.
Why do you have him on?
He sucks.
Like, this is boring.
cameron hanes
We'll talk too much.
Don't read this one, because it'd be like, oh, this fucking redneck again?
unidentified
Ah!
cameron hanes
I'm like, hey, guys, I didn't ask.
I've never asked to be on here, have I? No, you're my friend.
joe rogan
I want you to come on.
Plus, we had to get you stem cells.
cameron hanes
I didn't ask.
It's not my fault.
If it was up to me, I wouldn't be here.
joe rogan
Oh, shut the fuck up.
You like being here.
Come on, man.
unidentified
It's fine.
joe rogan
We have a good time.
cameron hanes
No, I'm just not good at podcasting.
joe rogan
You are great at podcasting.
You're full of shit, and now you do your own.
You lying son of a bitch.
unidentified
Not good at it.
joe rogan
You're good at it, man.
cameron hanes
No, I'm not good.
joe rogan
You're good at it.
You are good at it.
It's a fun thing to do.
And look, it's not for everybody, but this podcast isn't for everybody either.
It can't be.
You can't make something for everybody.
You have to do your best, and I think the best way to do your best is to not listen to all the criticism.
You are also as well.
You're very self-critical.
We're both very self-critical.
And I think that's important.
But that's also why criticism hurts, because you take it to heart, and then you get upset, and you're like, I do so much.
You can't make everybody happy.
cameron hanes
You're like, guys, I'm trying my best.
joe rogan
I'm trying my best, guys.
I really am trying my best, and I know you are too.
I try my best at everything I do, and I fuck up all the time at everything.
And that is just something you get from sticking your neck out.
I mean, I started bow hunting in my 40s, you know, and I'm obsessed with it.
I mean, also as a famous person, you know, like it's fucking, you know, if you're going to fuck something up.
cameron hanes
That's right.
I mean, it's so impressive because most people don't like they've had success in their whole life.
You know, you earned, of course, but you've been at the highest level to start all the way over at something with no experience.
joe rogan
But it's so exciting.
That's the best thing to do.
cameron hanes
Most people wouldn't do that.
joe rogan
Yeah, but they should.
I know that most people don't like to do that because they like to be impressive at things because it makes them feel good.
But what makes me feel good is getting better at things I suck at.
And learning new things that I suck at is very exciting.
I don't have any room for any more.
Right now, I'm all full.
And I'm decent at bow hunting now.
I've gotten to the point where I'm very accurate.
I practice constantly.
I put in a ton of work.
I put in thousands and thousands and thousands of arrows every year.
But because of that, I'm confident and I'm good at it.
I'm pretty good at it now.
But I'm still not an expert.
I'm like a purple belt.
I would say if bow hunting had belts, I'd be like a purple belt now.
I'm years away from a black belt.
It's a long fucking road.
But I did all that in jujitsu.
The reason why I started jujitsu is...
Look, when I started jujitsu, I was a good kickboxer.
I was a very high-level taekwondo fighter.
And then I got into kickboxing.
I was good at kickboxing.
I was good at stand-up striking.
There's plenty of videos you can see of me kicking things.
I'm good at it.
I was helpless at jiu-jitsu.
I could have easily said, fuck this.
I'm just go back to kickboxing where I feed my ego and I feel good.
But I was like, oh my god, I'm helpless.
Like, I remember I was training with this guy.
I had just started out.
I was a white belt and I think he was a purple belt.
And this dude mauled me.
I mean mauled me.
This Brazilian kid.
And he wasn't being mean.
It wasn't like he was like...
cameron hanes
He was...
joe rogan
Destroying me!
I mean, it was so humiliating.
cameron hanes
Just one night?
joe rogan
It was one specific training session.
Because what happens when you first start training is, initially, you will spar with other white belts, and you're both kind of clunky, you don't really know what you're doing, and you're trying to choke people, and you don't exactly know how to do it, and you get tapped, and you tap them, and it's like, you know, it's like, you're learning.
But then...
As you start to progress, you're in a couple weeks or a couple months, they'll start putting you in with blue belts, or occasionally they'll even put you in a brown belt.
And generally, the brown belts and the black belts are pretty gentle with the beginners.
They'll tap you, and they'll give you pointers, like, you can't put your arm here, it's vulnerable, you've got to keep yourself like this, don't extend, because that doesn't get you in trouble.
And they'll give you tips, and it's very valuable, because you can learn from, oh, that's why he did this, but This fucking dude just ran through me and it was like one of the first times I had trained with someone who was really pretty good and my initial feeling was I'm so shocked at how helpless I am.
Like I was really delusional.
I had this idea because I thought I knew how to fight so that would kind of apply to jujitsu.
It didn't apply at all.
And so I realized at some point in time I mean, during this training session, okay, this is a long road and I'm on it now.
And this is what I'm going to do now.
And even though, you know, I was on a television show and, you know, I was doing stand-up comedy and I had things that I was good at that I could just stick with those.
I was like, I got to get good at this.
I can't live knowing that guys can do this to me.
It turns out, they could always do it to me.
Like, even at the highest level.
But also, as time went on, even when I became a black belt, I'll still get mauled by the elite black belts.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
Like, if I went and rolled with Marcelo Garcia, or whenever I would roll with John Jock Machado, you just feel kind of helpless.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like, because their level is so much higher than your level, that even at black belts, there's...
Look at what Gordon Ryan does to everybody.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
He takes the best black belts and make them look like they don't belong there with him.
And he talks shit about it before he does it.
Even writes down on a piece of paper how he's going to tap them.
And then he seals the envelope and hands it to the...
So he has in his mind, I'm going to get him in a triangle.
And this is the only way I'm going to tap him.
So all these other things he has to pass up on.
All these other opportunities he passes up on just to set up a triangle.
So he's setting it up two, three, four, five steps ahead of them.
So they think they're doing good.
And all of a sudden, stop!
Do you ever see him roll with Bo Nickel?
cameron hanes
Yeah, I do.
joe rogan
It's a great match.
Bo Nickel's a bad man.
But he caught him too.
He caught Bo Nickel, triangled him.
That's how good Gordon is.
But that's the levels and levels and levels and levels and levels.
But the only way you get that good is time.
Time and effort.
It's got to be so rewarding to be Gordon Ryan.
I mean, it must be amazing.
cameron hanes
I bet.
joe rogan
It must be amazing to be that guy who stands head and shoulders above all the others.
He gave us the Abu Dhabi belt, by the way.
That's his Abu Dhabi belt.
It's up in our studio.
Pretty badass.
cameron hanes
I love his confidence.
He's awesome.
I mean, he drives people crazy, but I just love that part.
joe rogan
Well, that's also psychological warfare, too, because you're so upset that you think, I can't lose to this guy, but guess what?
You don't have a choice.
Because he trains 365 days a year.
cameron hanes
Yeah, his coach is, I love, I don't even know him.
joe rogan
John Donner.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I've listened to you talk about him and listened to him on here, and it's like, that is an unbreakable mindset.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Basically.
joe rogan
Well, Donaher is like a character from a movie.
He doesn't exist in the real world.
Because John Donaher was a philosophy professor at Columbia.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
Who became obsessed with jiu-jitsu.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
Incredible.
joe rogan
And then was like literally sleeping on the mats and teaching people.
And so he's operating mentally from...
He's probably got 150 IQ. And he's operating at this insane level mentally, also just completely obsessed What is the best way to progress in jiu-jitsu?
What is the best way?
What are the roadblocks?
What's holding people up?
What's holding people back?
What they decided at some point in time is that it's not just about training.
It's about Analyzing things.
It's about breaking down technical aspects of things, watching video, discussing techniques.
Not just training hard, but thinking.
So the amount of hours they put in a day, even though they're training 365 days a year, they're going at jujitsu five, six hours a day.
cameron hanes
Well, and he watches tape too, right?
joe rogan
That's all he does.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
He wears rash guards everywhere.
John Donahue, I don't even know if he has regular clothes.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's a freak.
cameron hanes
I love that.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
cameron hanes
I mean, that's an outlier.
I mean, one of one.
That's what makes this world so interesting, is people like that, characters like that.
joe rogan
One of ones.
Yeah.
There's a Japanese term, it's called kaizen.
Can you look that up, what the actual term means?
But it's about the pursuit of excellence in one specific place, one specific avenue, one specific discipline.
The constant pursuit of excellence.
cameron hanes
That's, I mean, I don't know.
joe rogan
Here it is.
Kaizen is a Japanese term meaning change for the better or continuous improvement.
It is a Japanese business philosophy that concerns the process that continuously improve operations and involve all employees.
Kaizen sees improvement in productivity as a gradual and methodical process.
There's other names for it that don't just apply to jujitsu.
I think it's old, or rather...
Oh, let's hear him say it.
Well, let's just hear what he says.
unidentified
Just see what he says. - Your Instagram description said, "Living in the spirit of Kaizen." And I was wondering why-- - Look, he's got a rash guard on. - You always thought about it. - You never know. - Fucking freak. - I'm a huge believer in the idea of small progressive movements towards goals.
john danaher
If you look at the course of an average day that we all go through, Every so often, maybe two or three times in your life, there's one day which changes the direction of your life.
But the vast majority of our days are unexceptional.
They're just a boring mundane day.
You come home at the end of the day and if someone asked you, what happened today?
You would literally have to think back and be like, I'm not sure.
That's probably a description of 95% of our days.
So there's a chance in which you could drift through your life where only about 1-5% of your days have any real meaning.
And that 95% of your life was a waste of time.
And that's a tragedy.
So we have to be very, very Set on this idea that we have to maximize the use of all of our days if we're going to amount to anything in life and That means at the end of every day there has to be a concerted Look on your part.
What was the most significant thing that happened to me today?
And how will it influence my life tomorrow?
and if we can do this your days become progressive and Most people live day to day where the events of yesterday have no bearing on the events of today and the events of today have no bearing on the events of tomorrow.
And this means your life will simply run in a flat line until the day you die.
But if we make a concerted effort to build one day upon another, even if it's just a very small thing, and in most cases it will be a small thing, it's rare that we have a day where something monumental happens.
Most days are not monumental, they're mundane.
So on every one of these mundane days we have to take one small little gem that happened, it may not be very big, something small, And add that to your performance tomorrow.
And if we can do this over 10 years, something truly remarkable can happen.
It's so easy just to let a day go and then say, I'll try again tomorrow.
But until we get a sense of one day building upon another towards a goal, you'll never achieve anything.
You'll just melt on and 10 years will go by and you'll look back and say, what do I do?
And what did I do?
And There may not be anything significant behind you.
unidentified
So be intentional about doing something that's going to make your life better.
john danaher
Yeah.
The whole notion of Kaizen is this crystallizes this idea that if I can improve my performance in any given area of my life by even a very small percentage point and then add day by day, you get this compounding interest effect where at the end of five years something quite remarkable may have happened.
You may have literally reinvented yourself in five years.
You may have an entirely new skill set which you didn't have previously.
And so it's up to us to do this because the natural tendency is for days just to run into each other until by the end of the week you're looking back and say, what happened this week?
unidentified
I don't know.
john danaher
It's just gone.
It's so easy to let that happen.
There's so many distractions in life.
There's so many things looking to grab your attention that you can lose a day, a week, a month, and even a year, even a decade.
And it's up to us to ask, okay, well, what was significant?
And how is it going to be built into my life tomorrow?
And how does this relate to the goals that I have?
And if you can do this, this is the basic idea behind Kaizen.
You can do remarkable things and you can reinvent yourself many times over the period of your life.
It's my belief that it takes around five years of full-time training to develop world-class skills and most athletic endeavors.
There are many, many examples of people beginning training and somewhere between five to seven years after the onset of their training competing at the highest levels of their given sport and getting within the top five athletes in the world.
There are many, many examples of this.
That's a clear signal that it takes around five to seven years of full-time training to get to world-class level in sports.
You could extend that into other areas of life.
You can become, in the same time it takes you to win an Olympic bronze medal, you could have become an outstanding day trader.
So we, you know, think about five years is not a long time.
That means we all have within us this ability to reinvent ourselves many times in the course of our life.
If you start off at 20 years old, there's a lot of opportunities for you to change and adapt.
joe rogan
That's it.
cameron hanes
That guy's a treasure.
Introspective, and with that perspective, and then coupled with somebody like Gordon Ryan, this incredible driven athlete, no wonder.
joe rogan
Exactly.
cameron hanes
I mean, that combination, that's going to be tough to beat.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
And the crazy thing is, they put it out there for the whole world.
Like, this is what we're doing.
Like, you could do it too.
And the thing is, it's so difficult...
cameron hanes
The dedication.
joe rogan
It's also...
The focus.
To maintain that focus constantly and to have this idea that I need to review all the things I'm doing to make sure I'm doing them better.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that mindset, that's...
joe rogan
Very difficult.
cameron hanes
I mean, he's like, yeah, on such a higher level than most people.
That's what I keep thinking about, like, with Huberman talking about hunting.
It's like, because I want...
I always think about what I'm passionate about is hunting, right?
How can I understand...
My place in the mountains and as a predator and a bow hunter, how can I get better?
How can I get more in tune?
And I'm always like, because it's so easy to be out there and I mean, you are immersed in it and you're in it and you're trying to feel the wind, the ground under your feet.
You're trying to be so in tune, but I'm like, God, is there another level of consciousness that maybe I just don't understand, and I want to.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
Because I want to be, I want to continue, I learn something every time, and I'm sure you do too out there, but it's like, I mean, I don't know.
I want to be the best I can be.
joe rogan
Yeah, and I think that also comes with many, many days hunting.
And this is a thing that becomes controversial.
But people say, oh, you should only hunt what you eat.
But I think you should hunt as much as you can, and there's plenty of people that you could give that meat to.
As long as it's legal.
unidentified
That's what I do.
joe rogan
And I agree with what you do.
And I know it's controversial, but I don't think they're right.
I think you're right.
Because your success in the field is unparalleled.
And I think there's a reason for that.
And it's because of this intense dedication and drive.
You've been doing it for so long, but you're still so focused on it.
You're not...
Relaxed about it at all.
Like, you and I have had so many conversations about hunting.
And you've been hunting for, what, 35, 40 years, whatever it is?
When you and I talk, it's like you're fucking locked in all the time about this.
I'm gonna try this.
I'm doing this now.
I've decided that this is a new thing.
I've found this improvement.
I made this small adjustment in this and that.
And then I learned this in this last hunt.
And this was a thing that came up.
The elk that you shot in Utah, perfect example.
What people need to understand is, even if you're right up close with an elk, and say, if you have a 20-yard pin, So a 20-yard pin, really the arrow's not dropping very far in 20 yards because these arrows are going very fast.
It's only a couple of seconds to get to 20 yards.
It's not dropping very far.
So you would think that you can shoot an elk that's six feet away, but it comes up.
That's the thing.
It goes off the bow and reaches a peak.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
So that's what happens when it's that close is your eye is here and the arrow's here.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
So...
You're looking at where you want to hit with that 20, but the arrow's still down here.
joe rogan
Right.
It hasn't lifted up yet.
cameron hanes
Right.
So to hit where you want at, like, where that bull was, which was from here to the door, I'd aim up high with the 50-yard pin, and then the arrow's going to hit...
Where you want it to.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
If you hold 20, it's still low.
It's going to go off the brisket off the bottom of the chest.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I wouldn't have known that.
I don't know that.
You needed to learn that.
And that's just years and years in the field.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
And the hardest thing was it happened like that.
joe rogan
Like that.
cameron hanes
Because I thought that bull, he was coming in.
So I had my sight set on 20 because I knew, oh, he's coming hot and heavy.
He was bugling, crashing down through.
So I set it on 20 real quick.
And I'm sitting there.
I made a mistake.
Of sitting in the trail.
But I thought he was coming straight down the ridge.
And so I was going to draw back when he was like at 10 yards, stop him, whack.
But he hit that trail, came right to me.
And I'm sitting there on my knees in the trail.
And I was a full draw, luckily, because I never wait for them to get close.
I always draw early.
joe rogan
He was where I am.
cameron hanes
We're right.
Yeah, where you are.
And so I'm like, all that happened in a split second.
And then he was like looking over, looking for the, you know, he heard the cow call, looking over, and then he's like, look down, whack.
joe rogan
He saw you.
cameron hanes
It was second, like fractions of a second.
joe rogan
See if you find that video because it's but this is a perfect example of this is something that you learn from many many many many many many many many many hunts.
Yeah.
cameron hanes
The hard thing there is not getting caught up in the moment because it's so emotional and adrenaline.
So much adrenaline.
A giant bull looking...
He's seven foot tall right there, basically, and I'm on my knees.
Not getting...
joe rogan
So here it is.
jamie vernon
Before I get too far.
cameron hanes
Let me see.
No, no, this isn't it.
No, this is a Roosevelt in Oregon.
joe rogan
God, listen to that sound.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
It sounds so amazing.
cameron hanes
Hey, look at Jelly Roll right there.
joe rogan
Hey, Jelly Roll and Nelly.
cameron hanes
I know.
That's awesome.
joe rogan
Well, it's certainly on YouTube.
Is it in your Instagram?
cameron hanes
Yeah, it's on...
I think it's on YouTube.
joe rogan
It's not in your Instagram?
cameron hanes
God, I don't think the shot was.
joe rogan
So, it's a very unusual situation.
cameron hanes
But you guys pulled it out, too.
It's like the two-yard Utah bull.
joe rogan
The thing is, it's like...
What happened?
cameron hanes
That's my theme song.
That's Cam Haynes by Schaefer.
joe rogan
You have a song?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Shut the fuck up!
cameron hanes
No, it's a bowhunting song.
joe rogan
Oh my god, I gotta hear this.
cameron hanes
Play Schaefer Cam Haynes.
joe rogan
Who's Schaefer?
cameron hanes
An artist.
He wrote the song for me.
joe rogan
Do you know him?
cameron hanes
I don't...
I think I did meet him at the...
I think at Utah Hunting Expo.
But he wrote this song and I said...
I go...
I said something about it and I'm like, well, man, if it's good, I could just have it on to start my lift run or the month in the mountains or my videos.
Oh, the podcast.
That's what it was.
An example of how your passion can change your life, even if that passion is something as obscure as bow hunting.
Bowhunting changed my life.
your passion, whatever that may be, can change yours.
unidentified
The mountain that raised me, they call me crazy cause I can't handle the way that I live.
I am the apex, I am a monster, when I am hammering I do not quit.
I got it from Kim, I made up my mind, I'm about to be better than I've ever been.
What is the difference between me and you?
I'll die a legend before I give in, it's like.
cameron hanes
Every step I take, I move my truth.
unidentified
Every time they tell me stop, I use.
Every comment hate that makes my feel, gather up my energy and boom.
I hear them talking, saying the way that I move is so reckless.
That is a part of my mind I've been blessed with, giving my blood so I am relentless.
My fault, they want someone to blame.
They said that hate, it fuels my pace.
I am Roy Tuff, I am the change, the fuel in dirt.
Feeling like Cam Hanks.
That's pretty badass. - Yeah.
joe rogan
You got your own song, son.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so anyway, I have it on to start my podcast.
joe rogan
Nice!
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
cameron hanes
But Schaefer, and he had the Roy Tuff in there.
I love that.
But, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, one of the cool things about Texas is that you can hunt pigs any day of the year.
And they actually need you to do it.
And it's important.
Oh, it's so important.
cameron hanes
So that's what...
joe rogan
Oh, here it is.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
No, that's not the...
See if you can find that shot, because the shot's crazy.
Oh, it said it?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, maybe it'll show you.
Maybe it'll show it to you.
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Yeah, this is it.
jamie vernon
This is the most watched part of the video.
joe rogan
Is the song playing?
jamie vernon
No, that's why I was stopping.
I had to stop the song.
joe rogan
Okay, so here it is.
So was Rihanna doing the cow calling?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
She was behind you.
cameron hanes
In the filming.
She's trying to film.
There's a bull.
There's me.
unidentified
There he comes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's literally as close as you are to me.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
That was...
joe rogan
And then the arrow.
cameron hanes
I mean, he's down.
He's already dead.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
You can hear him like his last breaths right here.
unidentified
I like this part.
cameron hanes
She's so excited.
unidentified
She's like, I called you in a bowl, and I'm like, what?
cameron hanes
I called you in a boat and I'm like, okay.
Can you see him?
unidentified
Yes.
You good?
joe rogan
He went down like instantly.
cameron hanes
Yeah, 30 yards.
joe rogan
Which in a bull's pace is like literally three or four seconds.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
I mean, it was crazy how fast he died.
But that went right through his heart.
joe rogan
The shot, when you pull the arrow out, let's see if you can find the image on Instagram.
You can see the heart.
cameron hanes
Yeah, this is where it was.
And I saw him coming right here and I saw I went down and I drew like this and then he came and he's running right at me.
I was right here and you see I hit him right here and you see there's blood.
This went all the way to right there in the front of his chest.
Self-defense, basically, because there's no other trail.
He was looking over the top.
Rihanna was down there filming and cow calling him.
joe rogan
You could've got trampled easily.
cameron hanes
I shot from there to right here.
Look at this blood right here.
I had to hold my 20 up here to hit him right in the chest, almost full penetration.
Then he started bleeding right there, and you see on that tree?
I mean, he just gushed and he went right to where Truett is.
joe rogan
Perfect shot.
Like when you want to talk about lethality and a quick ethical kill?
Seconds.
See if you can find the image on Instagram.
It shows the heart with the arrow poking out of it, which is wild.
Because it's got this Grim Reaper carnivore, which is this massive four-blade broadhead that just goes through the...
There it is right there.
Isn't it?
jamie vernon
Yeah, I can't control that.
joe rogan
Oh, it's okay.
You can play it and he's holding up the heart.
cameron hanes
I think that's right here.
joe rogan
There it is.
You can literally see the arrow poking out of the heart right there.
That is wild.
I mean, that was a perfect shot.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so that arrow broke.
You saw us holding it broke, but that was left in the heart right there.
joe rogan
Crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I mean, that's what we want.
We want those animals, you know, we're trying to offer a merciful death.
That one in seconds, 30 yards, he didn't know.
He didn't know anything.
You know, he just lost blood pressure, done.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was as merciful a shot as you could ever give.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and as you mentioned earlier about the meat, I killed four bulls this year, and I don't want anybody to ever think that any of that meat is going to waste.
I mean, there's so many people who love wild game meat, especially now when people are more conscious about where their meat's coming from.
And to get something that I killed, I took care of myself, you know, it's We know exactly where it came from.
That's like, that's valuable.
That means something.
And it's also, it means something, you know, when people, you know, as we say, people go order a burger or a steak or whatever, They get full and they say, ah, I'm stuffed, had too much bread.
I'm done with this.
So half that steak goes back to the kitchen.
That was a fucking life.
That life doesn't mean shit to you, but that bull right there, that means a lot to me.
And when I give that meat to somebody, that means something.
This is like, oh yeah, this is a bull I killed in Utah.
I hope you like it.
That fucking means something.
You're not going to throw that shit in the garbage because you're full.
It means too much.
There's reverence to it.
So, yeah, I kill multiple bulls, but that is the greatest part of being a hunter and a provider is sharing that with your community.
joe rogan
I love giving it to people.
unidentified
Love it.
joe rogan
I give meat to a lot of people.
And I love seeing the images.
They send me pictures of like, hey, look, I cooked this.
It's awesome.
cameron hanes
It's the best.
unidentified
It's cool.
joe rogan
And then, you know, it's so delicious, too.
I mean, wild game.
I've said it so many times.
But if you can try some of the elk that I cook, you'd be like, oh, my God, where can I get this?
Well, you got to go hiking.
You gotta learn how to shoot a bow or a rifle.
You have to find someone who's willing to teach you.
You have to put in work.
cameron hanes
What I love about...
I mean, there's so much I love about sharing our lifestyle, but when I have people come in for the Lift Run shoot is they train with me, they learn how to shoot a bow and everything, but then we always have elk chili.
joe rogan
Oh, nice.
cameron hanes
And, like, Huberman came in.
I think he had three bowls of it.
And I'm like, yeah, this shit is fucking fuel.
This is real fuel.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
You know, and this is a bowl I killed.
You know, I think that was from the Arizona bowl that I... This is actually...
Oh, the last time I had my bling on, Tanner made this.
joe rogan
Oh, that's from the ivories.
cameron hanes
So he filmed that bull I killed.
And it was the biggest bull he's ever seen, you know, a giant bull.
And so he made a necklace for himself and made me one.
Last time I had the CH gold bling.
So now I'm like, well, we'll offset that with an ivory.
joe rogan
Well, you know, Elks used to have, they used to have tusks.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah, I think they did.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's where it comes from.
That ivory at one point in time was a massive tusk that elks used to have and then they evolved.
It's so cool.
cameron hanes
It's so cool.
Just like, I mean, you know, bow hunting, especially, well, not just elk, anything, but it means so much.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And it's just like, it's It's who I am.
So when it's something that is that meaningful and you can share that.
Another example of that was I took Kat Bradley.
She's an elite ultra runner and she killed her first buck.
And it's like the most special part.
I haven't made a film on that yet.
We had to run.
We had to do the stock in the rain, hustle.
She made a perfect shot.
We had to pack that.
She had some weight on her back, packed out of this steep hole, worked her ass off.
It was just like the perfect hunt.
Then we took care of the meat, did everything, got up the next morning.
We're in this little cabin and made...
Tenderloins, cut that up, cook the tenderloins, eggs, hash browns, and bacon.
And it's just like, can you...
I mean, after working your ass off on a hunt, killing a buck, having a meal like that, listening to old country music radio, just like crackling on this AM radio that was in that cabin, it's like...
I don't know if there's anything I'd rather do in life.
I swear to God, people could offer me anything and I'd say, I'd just rather have this morning right here, this experience.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's because it's earned.
It's earned and it's real.
cameron hanes
And when we were out there in the mountain and standing and we were fucking soaked, it was pouring, she killed this buck.
And I had, you know, me and my buddy Kevin broke it all down, gutted it.
We had to actually skinned it and quartered it up right there to pack it out because it's such a hole.
But I'm like looking and we're just soaked and freezing and I'm just like, this is life.
This is how life is supposed to be.
All this other bullshit, all this around here, that's not fucking real.
This is real.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
Out hunting.
joe rogan
Primal.
cameron hanes
Killing what you're going to eat and packing it out of the mountains.
That's fucking real.
joe rogan
And earning it.
cameron hanes
You earn that.
And everything else is like a distraction over real life.
joe rogan
That's why that buck's on the table.
That's the first animal I killed.
cameron hanes
With Steve in Montana.
I remember that just from hearing you talk about it and how meaningful it is.
Your first buck in Montana and you...
You didn't make a great shot, did you?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It was a good shot, but I had to do a follow-up shot.
He went down, but he was spined.
cameron hanes
Oh, okay.
That's what it was.
joe rogan
And I made a follow-up shot.
And you could see the follow-up shot on the video where it's like the intensity and the emotions of the moment.
cameron hanes
I haven't seen that show, but I remember...
Now that's stories you remember.
Because that's real.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's real.
cameron hanes
And you ate that.
Didn't you guys cook it and eat it out there?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, we ate it that night.
We ate the liver with onions that night while Brian Callen pulled thorns out of my thigh.
Because I... When I got down prone to make the shot, I laid down right on a cactus.
And I had just cactus thorns all over my leg.
I had like fucking 40 thorns in my leg.
And it was hilarious because we're by the campfire and I'm going like this.
I got my pants down and Callan's got fucking pliers and he's pulling thorns out of my legs.
We cooked the liver.
We ate the liver that night.
And then we went back because we shot it late in the afternoon.
So we gutted it, hung it.
Got the organs out and then brought the organs back to the campfire and cooked the liver that night and then we went back the next day, cut the buck down in the morning and then ate it for dinner that night and then when we were eating it I was like, this is what I'm doing now.
cameron hanes
That changed your life, didn't it?
unidentified
100%.
joe rogan
100%.
But it's so hard to get someone to get you to do that.
First of all, it's so hard to find someone who has the knowledge, who's willing to take you and teach you, and I'm forever in debt to Steve and to you for doing that, but to also want to do that.
We were camping, it was 9 degrees outside.
It's fucking freezing in Montana.
We're on the Missouri breaks.
You're just walking through these intense canyons.
But it was so difficult that when we did have success, the feeling of elation and joy, it's very difficult to describe.
A lot of people, they see these videos of a hunter making a shot and then going like, yeah!
And they go, where's the spirituality?
You don't understand how hard it is to do that.
And the joy is in the fact that you made an ethical shot and the animal is down.
Like I had a hard hunt in California.
We went like five, six days, put in tons of miles every day, you know, 10 miles, 8 miles, 11 miles, going through the mountains.
And then when I finally shot that bull and he dropped, he was dead in 10 seconds.
It was like a perfect shot.
I fucking cheered so loud that Evan and Cody, the guys, like Evan Hafer from Black Rifle Coffee, who was hunting with me, they were on the other side of the mountain, and they heard it.
Because I just went, whoa!
And then, you know, me and my friend Biscuit, we hugged, and it was like, holy shit, man.
We did it.
We did it.
And it wasn't like, I'm happy that this animal is dead now.
It was like, No, we were successful.
I know how hard it is to do, difficult to do.
There was so much adrenaline and tension involved, and I had to make a great shot, and I did it.
And so all that hard work all paid off at the end.
cameron hanes
All the reps all year.
It wasn't just that hunt.
It was like all the reps, the thinking about it, the envisioning that moment.
joe rogan
I think about it all the time.
All the time, dude.
I think about it when I'm at the UFC. I'm at the UFC, I'm about to call a fight, and I'm thinking about perfect shots.
I'm thinking about shooting in between branches of trees.
I'm thinking about wind and fucking angles.
cameron hanes
I mean, it means so much to me.
So on that deer hunt that I took Cat on, there's access to this timber company land.
I pay for that, right?
So I'm paying $4,500 each, and I take two people.
And it's just like, I don't even care.
I don't even tell them it costs money.
unidentified
Right.
cameron hanes
I just want to do it because I just want to be out there with somebody, a new hunter, and share my world with them.
And I pay just so I'm like, no, I can take them.
I can expose them to the hunting lifestyle the way I want to on this Weyerhaeuser land, this Timber Company land.
And maybe it'll change our life.
Maybe it won't, but I know I'm going to gain from sharing that with somebody, and that means everything to me.
joe rogan
And you filmed it too, which is awesome.
cameron hanes
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Which is great.
So people can watch it and see the real moments that you guys had together.
And even if she never does that again, that experience she will keep with her forever.
If that hunt that I had with Ronell was the last hunt I ever had, I would still be telling people about that today.
Oh, it was awesome.
We're in the campfire, we're freezing our asses off, like eating this animal that we had just shot and eating it, cooking it over a fire, a campfire, and it was so satisfying.
It ignites a part of your DNA that you didn't know existed.
There's a hunter-gatherer aspect to whatever it means to be a human that kept us alive for thousands and thousands of years, and that's inside you.
And you don't know it's inside you until you put an animal on the ground and you eat it.
And you're like, oh my god.
It's like, the way I describe it to people, most people have been fishing.
There's a feeling you get when you catch a fish.
When you hook the line, like, whoa!
cameron hanes
When you feel it fighting.
joe rogan
It is inside of you that, like, this is going to feed me and my family now.
This is going to feed my loved ones.
We're going to survive.
And that's why it's so exciting.
Because it ignites this thing that was imperative for human beings to make it to 2023. You might be able to go to fucking HEB and just buy a ribeye.
That's great.
Nothing wrong with that.
But the reality is, that was not always the case.
And for us to get to 2023, it had to be people that were doing that shit with bows and arrows that they made themselves.
They had to knock rocks to make this.
Where's that front?
cameron hanes
Right there.
joe rogan
Right here.
This is a real fucking arrowhead that the Comanches used.
From right here.
This is from right here.
cameron hanes
I love this.
I love the history of archery.
joe rogan
Someone probably sent that arrow into a whitetail.
And then it probably passed through and dug into the dirt and then someone dug it out of the dirt hundreds of years later.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's incredible.
joe rogan
And it's in pristine condition and this was made by some person who painstakingly crafted this so that they could eat.
cameron hanes
That is a perfect head, too.
joe rogan
It's fucking amazing.
This thing's amazing.
cameron hanes
But it's like when you...
I don't know.
People who might not think hunting's for them.
Maybe it's not.
But when that happens and you do kill, there is almost like the curtain's pulled back.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And you're just like, holy shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
This is...
This is survival.
And you didn't know it.
Because that curtain's been closed.
That's why it's so meaningful to me.
I buy those two hunts every year.
And my goal is to always take somebody new.
Just because it's for me.
It's not for them.
But I can twist it into it'll help both of us.
But I just...
joe rogan
Enjoying the process of seeing someone experience it for the first time.
unidentified
I love it.
joe rogan
Because you only experience it for the first time once.
cameron hanes
I love it.
unidentified
Once.
cameron hanes
And Kat was perfect for that because she got it.
It meant so much and that's what you want.
joe rogan
Well, obviously she's someone who understands sacrifice and hard work.
cameron hanes
Yes, definitely.
joe rogan
More than anybody.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and it was...
I'll never forget it.
I seriously think it was the best hunt of my fall.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
cameron hanes
I mean, I had some great hunts, but that's just what hunting...
That's the power of hunting.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And being part of a...
I don't want to say tribe because people throw it around, but...
joe rogan
That's a good word.
I think bow hunters, the ones who aren't cunty, they are part of a tribe.
Even the ones who are cunty, they're in the tribe.
They just have ego problems.
It's just wasted energy.
It's wasted energy.
If you want to be upset at someone, be upset at the people that litter.
Be upset at the people that leave garbage at their camp.
Be upset at those people, because that's not cool.
cameron hanes
Don't be upset at fellow hunters.
joe rogan
Right.
Don't be upset at someone who's trying to spread this message.
And then there's the dumbest fucking people that don't like the fact that the trailheads are getting crowded now because so many people are getting into this.
Well, find another trailhead, stupid.
There's a lot of trailheads.
You can go all over the place.
With a little bit of research, there's all these maps.
There's Onyx Hunt and Go Hunt and fucking Hunt and Fool.
There's all those places you can get resources to find different places to hunt at.
cameron hanes
The reason why people like that get a little traction is because there's a lot of people who don't kill every year.
Success is, you know, it's most people fail.
So when people fail, they're looking for an excuse.
So if this guy or whoever it is gives them an excuse like, oh yeah, it's too overcrowded because of Joe and Cam talking about it.
All of a sudden they're the victim and like they got other victims who didn't weren't successful So like yeah, we're all the losers we can gang up together and talk shit about these guys.
joe rogan
We get that here in Austin There's a local Austin comics that hate on the mothership because the mothership has brought in 15 world-class comedians to town It's harder for them to get spots now.
Guess what stupid?
This is the greatest opportunity you've ever had in your fucking life if you rise to the occasion We'll put you up and make you famous bitch Yeah.
Like, come on, man.
We want you to be good.
We don't want you to be floundering in this fucking area of mediocrity that you've been existing in for so long.
Like, yeah, the big boys are in town.
cameron hanes
It's good.
joe rogan
It's good for everybody.
cameron hanes
And people with hunting, they like to talk about that everybody should have the same opportunities.
It's almost like hunting socialism.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
And so, well, if you work your ass off, shouldn't you get better opportunities than somebody who doesn't do anything?
joe rogan
Of course.
cameron hanes
The guy who kind of coins this thing about whatever, everybody should have the same opportunities.
It's like, he has a great job, gets tons of vacation.
Doesn't he have an advantage over a guy who works in a mill who gets fucking two days off a year?
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of people that complain.
But yeah, I know what you're talking about.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's just complaining is a normal part of human life when you're looking at other people's success and trying to find flaws in it.
But it's very bad for you.
And that's what people don't understand.
It's not productive.
It doesn't help you.
And you could disagree or agree with people's approaches.
You could think that everyone should only hunt on public land.
You could have all these ideas and you could debate those opinions and you're more than welcome to.
The problem is when you look to criticize instead of look at the good side of things, there's a lot of good to this.
There's a lot of good to what you do.
It's more good than anything.
I see no negatives.
Educating people about the value of this is very good.
And during COVID, that's one of the real times where people realize like, hey, This food chain's kind of fragile.
Like, I went to the supermarket.
There's no fucking food.
Like, Duncan texted me.
He was at a supermarket in North Carolina where he's living, and he's like, dude, there's no meat.
There's no fucking meat.
He goes, I gotta learn how to hunt.
I was like, wow.
That is a moment when you have children, and you have a family, and you start realizing, like, we might not have nutrition.
cameron hanes
And they're looking at you, and you're the leader of the family, and you're like going, what the fuck am I gonna do?
joe rogan
Right, and now you realize, like, oh my god, I need another skill.
cameron hanes
I'm susceptible, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, we're all vulnerable.
And, you know, obviously, for the most part, we're not.
Obviously, for the most part, we do have supermarkets, we do have food, and that's all great and everything.
But we're trying to tell you that there is another way that's vastly more rewarding.
It might not be available to you because you might not have the time.
You might have a job that requires you to work 51 weeks a year, and then you have a family and a lot of obligations.
And I understand.
But don't hate on people that can.
cameron hanes
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
It's stupid.
It's just a waste of your time.
It's a waste of everybody's time.
And you're just going to get a bunch of losers that like you.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because they're going to be like, yeah, socialism's awesome.
cameron hanes
I know.
It's crazy.
Yeah, I don't know.
I feel...
I mean, it's one reason why if we can educate people like when Andrew comes or like the other, quote, outliers I've had on who might not be hunters but can go and take these...
The lessons archery teaches you, and maybe we talk about hunting, and then they go back to their peer groups or whatever it is, their constituents, and they're saying, well, actually, I did learn this about hunting.
And your podcast has done that, obviously, educated so many people who don't know anything about hunting on the benefits to it.
It's, I don't know, it's so important.
And we're not saying everybody needs to hunt, but just have an honest take on it.
joe rogan
Yeah, and I think that there's real value in doing something that's very difficult, whether it's hunting or ultramarathon running or jujitsu or whatever it is that you choose to approach.
There's real value in doing difficult things.
And the thing about bowhunting that makes it so special to me is that it requires so much of you.
And so that when you are successful, it's so rewarding.
It's insanely rewarding.
It's rewarding on a different level that most people don't understand.
And many people never get to experience in life.
They never get to experience that moment where...
You have to make this split-second decision, and you're drawing on an animal, and you have one arrow to make this happen.
You have one arrow, and it might be 65 yards away, and that fucking pin's moving around.
You've got to settle that pin and settle your heart rate.
And you have to be confident in your training and then release that perfect arrow.
And when you watch it, to this day, one of the happiest moments of my life was you and I in Utah.
cameron hanes
I know.
It's the picture right out here.
joe rogan
That photo that we have right out here.
That photo with that elk was 67 yards.
And you're like, draw back, draw back.
Take him, buddy.
And you see that arrow with that lighted knock just sail and shwap and hit perfectly.
cameron hanes
And, you know, if you didn't know how much that meant and how much pressure that was and how much was riding on it, we were, like, smiling and hugging and I love you.
And, like, if you didn't understand, you'd look at that and go, what is wrong with these guys?
Right.
But there's so much riding on it.
And so it's just that...
You know, you achieve this monumental goal with somebody, sharing it with people you care about, because Colton was there too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And it's, I mean, until you've been there, you probably shouldn't criticize, because if you were there, you'd understand.
joe rogan
It's hard for people to understand also because a lot of people's exposure to hunting has been hunting television shows.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So if you watch a television show, basically they're preaching to the converted already.
And they're doing these shows for other hunters who are going to understand this.
And they're condensing a 7, 8, 9 day trip into 22 minutes.
And out of those 22 minutes, there's 35 seconds, 45 seconds of the shot and the animal running away and then dropping and then everybody cheering.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's just a disproportionate experience for people that are watching it.
You're not getting how hard it is.
You're not getting the 8, 10 miles in the mountains with elevated heart rate and how exhausted you are at the end of the day when your legs feel like rubber and you're pounding electrolytes and you're fucking eating like a starving person.
And then you look at your watch like, I better go to bed right now.
I'm going to get four hours of sleep.
Yeah, I got to go to bed right now.
And then you get up and you do it all over again.
You drink some coffee and you get out there and you check your site, you check your bow, let's go.
And people that have never experienced that, they're not going to understand it.
But I think you do an amazing job.
Of relaying it to people where they kind of get a glimpse without actually experiencing it.
They kind of understand it from your passion, from your ability to explain it, your ability to like be like totally honest about the emotions and the feeling and the dedication and the hard work and what's required of it.
It's not a fucking easy thing to do.
And even rifle hunting.
Rifle hunting is not easy.
It's easier than bow hunting, but it is not fucking easy.
It's hard.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
That presentation, especially nowadays, is important.
And I was reminded of this.
I went and trained with Rich Froning in Nashville.
joe rogan
He's bow hunting too now, right?
cameron hanes
He's bow hunting, but he killed a bear with a rifle in Colorado, and he's getting death threats and everything because he's a crossfit, you know, world's fittest man four times.
He's a complete freak, but he's been enamored with hunting now.
And so he killed this bear this year, a big bear in Colorado, a big boar.
And he had a picture because he worked his ass off.
He got, you know, didn't kill a bull, I think the last two years, killed a cow with a rifle, but just, you know, a hard hunting is.
And he's just trying to learn on his own out there.
And so he gets this bear killed.
He's happy.
He's got a picture of this big bear and a big smile.
And I just told them, I said, that is hard.
That's hard for people.
And I learned the hard way.
It's like I made the same mistake too.
So now I build a story.
I share, you know, the animals out there, the country out there.
I don't share the kill shot till after I've shared breaking it down and the meat and what it means.
And then at the end of all that, you'll see the kill shot.
But Because he's a new hunter and he just was fired up.
He's a big smile with that bear and that's the post.
And no fault of his.
Anybody would do that.
But with social media, it's like they'll crucify you if that's all.
And especially with the bear.
And I told him, you know, obviously he knows now.
I didn't have to tell him anything.
But bear and lions...
It's a rough one.
You better be explaining that whole journey before you get to that kill shot.
And I feel bad because nobody wants to read that they want to kill you or kill your family because you killed some animal.
But I've learned over the years that it's...
I mean, you just...
There's so many people, like my page, we'll get to 30 million people in a week.
There's 14 million hunters.
That means most of those people aren't hunters.
I better be explaining part of it to them, too.
You know?
And so that's...
joe rogan
And the odds are that all 14 million hunters are looking at it.
That's small too.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So it's probably only a couple million hunters.
cameron hanes
Right.
Right.
joe rogan
Most of it's probably non-hunters.
cameron hanes
Right.
So it's like we have to think about that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And like his group, a CrossFit group, of course they all eat meat.
You know, you can't have that muscle, but they still don't hunt.
So it's like that dance of explaining.
And now he's so enamored with it.
Like most of his podcasts now are hunting.
So people are like, wait, is this, are you the CrossFit guy or the hunter?
And he just loves hunting now.
It's all he thinks about.
joe rogan
Well, he's a strong man.
He's got a strong mind.
He can navigate this.
cameron hanes
Oh, he's fine with it.
He's fine.
joe rogan
It's a great message, the way you describe the way you have a process for it.
And I've seen your process evolve over the years.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where you realize, like, okay.
Let me lay this out in the best way possible where people are going to really understand as much as they can from social media posts.
Because without a podcast and people talking, without videos of you actually being – and the video literally should be eight days long.
The video literally should be the amount of time.
cameron hanes
To get the inaccurate portrayal, yeah.
joe rogan
Or at least a day.
Like, you should see, like, what's involved in the stock and all that stuff.
Like, nobody would want to watch it because it fucking takes forever.
Everybody wants to cut to the chase.
Like, when does the elk come into the canyon?
When did you see it?
When do you make the stock?
cameron hanes
Yeah, like, even that...
Most people wouldn't show, like, on that Bull I Killed in Arizona...
I hit a little back and I caught the lung and the liver and he went up and I thought he was going to go die right there.
I thought at first it was perfect until I reviewed the footage, but I had to shoot him again.
Most people making hunting TV wouldn't have showed all that.
They would have showed the one shot, went up to the animal, dead.
I wanted to show that it weighed, it was like killing me seeing that animal not dying like that.
And then a bear walked right below him, got him up.
He was on the verge of death.
A bear got his adrenaline jacked up again.
And then he moved off like 30 yards and I'm just like, It was just killing me.
So I took my boost off, snuck up there to 72 and shot him.
But that was real.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And most people don't see real because we've watered down what we show on TV to make it fit this, oh, you know, made a good shot, animal died after 50 yards and seconds.
That doesn't always happen, unfortunately.
joe rogan
Well, and also like just the consumption of meat in general.
Most people have never been to a slaughterhouse.
Most people have never seen it, including me.
I've never seen a cow get a bolt in the head.
cameron hanes
Yeah, it's terrible.
joe rogan
And I've eaten so many cows.
cameron hanes
It's terrible.
joe rogan
It's the process used to be absolutely normal.
If someone saw that you had venison and you described the kill, they're like, yeah, that's what you do.
That is how you get venison.
That is the only way to get our meat.
And everyone did it forever until the last hundred years, which is so crazy that it's become controversial over the last hundred years.
cameron hanes
Only now when we have other options and life's so comfortable.
joe rogan
And places where it's not normal to hunt, but yet the average consumption of meat is very high, like the UK or Brazil.
I have friends that have posted photos that are from all around the world, and they get hate from these people from Brazil, which they're famous for steakhouses.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
Brazilian steakhouse.
Brazilian chulascarias are amazing.
cameron hanes
Yeah, all the meat you want.
joe rogan
Yeah, literally all you can eat meat.
Yeah, yeah.
But they don't have a history of hunting.
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
So because they don't have a history of hunting, they don't understand it.
Why would you do that when you could just go to the supermarket?
cameron hanes
And I say that it's terrible with the cow with the bolt through the head.
I just feel bad.
I don't like watching...
Even the animals I kill, I don't like watching them die.
I don't...
I love animals.
So when I say it's awful for the cow, it's just I feel bad for it.
That's it.
That's it.
I understand it has to happen.
I mean, I kill myself.
But it's like, does it mean that I enjoy the act of killing?
joe rogan
No.
No one enjoys the act of killing.
You enjoy the success and the meat and the fact that it's done quickly and cleanly.
cameron hanes
And, you know, we've been guilty of this before, like kind of mentioning factory farms and not giving credit to ranchers that do it right.
So it's not like every cattle operation is terrible.
joe rogan
I've had a bunch of ranchers on to try to correct that and explain to people.
cameron hanes
So it's not that when I said it's terrible, I don't want any negative because there's some great ranchers out there.
Beef is like the staple of beef.
The meat that we eat here in this country.
So we've got to do it right.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's just a symptom of the culture that we live in that most of the time it's not done right.
That's what's so crazy.
What's so crazy is people like my friend Will Harris who runs White Oak Pastures in Georgia.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I saw that book right there.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's amazing.
I mean that guy really...
Really put in effort.
It took him 20 years to convert his family farm from an industrial farm to a regenerative farm.
It took immense resources and time, and they knew it was going to make them less money, and he still did it.
And he did it, and he's out there preaching the gospel and telling people that this is the way nature is supposed to be handled.
And that what he does at his farm, which is an amazing place, is he recreates nature in a contained environment.
And these animals all live naturally.
The pigs live naturally.
The chickens live naturally.
I mean, he was explaining the entire process of it.
cameron hanes
It's incredible.
joe rogan
It's incredible.
It's very difficult to do what and what he's done is pretty amazing and he has friends that are running These industrial farms that are right next to him and the difference in the impact When you see like the impact that it has on the the river system that he has near him Like the difference between his river with a runoff from his farm Which is nothing to the one next to it just like completely pollutes the river and there's no There's no regulations on that.
There's no regulations on how much herbicides and pesticides and fucking industrial fertilizer just gets washed into the streams and chokes the fish to death.
No one's paying attention to that.
cameron hanes
He's doing it right.
joe rogan
That guy's doing it right.
And kudos to him.
And I try to highlight those people as much as possible.
It's him or Joel Salatin, who runs Polyface Farms.
And there's a bunch of great regenerative ranchers in here in Texas.
Rome Ranch.
We get a lot of our meat.
If we buy steaks, we try to get it from those places.
It's just...
cameron hanes
I'm getting fucking hungry.
joe rogan
I'm getting hungry, too.
cameron hanes
Before we wrap up, I've got to say one more thing.
joe rogan
Okay.
cameron hanes
We've got to give credit to Jelly Roll.
I love that guy.
joe rogan
I love Jelly Roll.
cameron hanes
No, we talked about him last time, and I think we even listened to his songs, but I finally saw him live.
joe rogan
Oh, he's amazing.
cameron hanes
At the Opry.
He was like...
What the fucking...
I mean, I could...
If I think about how nice he is, I could almost...
I don't want to say I'm going to cry, but it's like he is so nice, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a sweetheart.
cameron hanes
It's like he treated me like family.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
I mean, he was...
We went out to dinner, and then even after the show, he was just like...
He goes, what'd you think of my family?
Yeah.
I mean, he cares.
He is such a big-hearted person.
It was amazing how welcoming and kind and thoughtful and puts on an amazing show, talks to the people, makes people cry when he's talking to them in between songs because he's so heartfelt.
He's been through so much, but he's like...
joe rogan
It was you and him and Nellie.
That's awesome.
cameron hanes
And I don't know how he was back in the day, but all I know is I know he made mistakes.
I know he's been in jail.
I know he's whatever, but now I don't know a nicer, I don't know a better person.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's been through a lot.
cameron hanes
He's incredible.
joe rogan
And he came out on the other end an amazing person.
cameron hanes
He's fucking nominated for two Grammys.
joe rogan
I know.
unidentified
Isn't it crazy?
cameron hanes
What a journey.
joe rogan
What a journey.
cameron hanes
I mean, I just...
joe rogan
And just look at him, like, you would never imagine.
Look at that guy.
When you hear him sing, you're like, whoa.
cameron hanes
No, and what, you know, Tanner mentioned this too.
When people first see him, they're like, oh, he's got tattoos on his face.
Tanner says, after you get to talk, he goes, you don't even see the tattoos.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
You see this pure soul and it's like, what tattoos?
I fucking don't see shit.
So you get distracted by that at first, but when you talk to him and realize what a loving person he is, you're like, I don't see anything.
I see this big hearted man.
joe rogan
That's the same thing with Post Malone.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta meet him.
He's amazing.
I love that dude to death.
He's so fucking talented, too.
We saw him perform in Houston.
My wife and I flew to Houston to watch one of his shows.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
And then we were hanging out with him afterwards.
He wants to play Magic the Gathering.
cameron hanes
I don't know.
Those artists, I just...
I don't know.
They're different people, but they're so...
I don't know.
It's pretty inspiring.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's very inspiring.
When he gave me that platinum record and we posted it out there, you saw it.
cameron hanes
I couldn't believe it.
unidentified
It was incredible.
joe rogan
What a great gift.
cameron hanes
And here's another thing, too.
He said when he was a kid, he used to dream about having records like that.
You know, like have it all.
And he goes, now, he goes, now, he goes, what I want.
So we went to the show at the Opry, but then the next day, I had to go, oh, train with Rich.
But then he said, you know, can you meet for lunch at the Soul House or whatever?
And I said, yeah.
So he's like, I want you to sign my book.
He's like, because, or your book.
He had my Endure book.
And he's like, I used to think that I wanted records on the wall.
He goes, but now I want A book signed by you.
That's what I want.
And he had gloves from, I think, a fight.
I can't remember whose gloves.
Like UFC gloves.
But that's what means something to him now.
Not the personal accolades.
But I just...
God, I can't talk enough positive about that guy.
Such...
joe rogan
He's such a warm soul.
The first time I met him, I met him at the mothership.
He came there to see Ron White.
And that was when the club had first opened, and I was kind of there just hanging out, making sure everything was running right, because we had just gotten open.
And then they said, hey, Jelly Roll's here to see Ron White.
And then, you know where the green room is?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
At the club?
He was coming up the stairs and I was walking out and I saw him and he just goes, what's up?
Just a big giant hug.
I'm like, oh my god, this guy's everything I hoped he would be.
He's amazing.
There's beautiful people in the world, man.
cameron hanes
He's one of them.
joe rogan
They change the way you feel about the way you interact with people.
cameron hanes
He makes me, that's what I said when I got home, it makes me want to be a better person.
Because I saw how he treated everyone.
Like, there'd be people on the sidewalk, and there'd be like, you know, these little old women, or not old, probably my age, fuck, what am I talking about?
Like, so, like, caught off guard, like, oh my god, Joey Roll's here, and he's like, what's up, mama?
How you doing?
How you doing tonight?
Give him a big hug.
Just, like, looking him in the eye, and just the sweetest person, just some person walking by.
joe rogan
Yeah, because that's a guy where life gave him a fucking terrible hand, and he got through it, and he came out on the other end, and now he's amazing.
Now it's like this amazing journey that he can really, truly appreciate every aspect of it.
And he's so good at expressing that.
He's so good at spreading that love, spreading that positivity.
And it really does make you want to be a better person.
It makes me want to be a better person.
Both him and Post, they make me want to be nicer to everybody.
And I try real hard to be nice to everybody.
cameron hanes
You do a great job.
joe rogan
I try so hard.
cameron hanes
You do.
You do an amazing job.
But it's like, you don't do as good as him.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
There's levels.
There's levels to everything.
cameron hanes
I think his eyes are just so kind, too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Because it's like, what I see, and we said this the last time, but you see the pain.
You see pain in his eyes still a little bit.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Or I do.
I don't know.
joe rogan
You see it in his music.
You hear it.
cameron hanes
You hear it.
joe rogan
You hear it, for sure.
You can't be that soulful unless you've experienced some dark, dark, dark times.
I mean, there's some magic to the way he sings.
You don't get that from a trust fund, baby.
No.
You get that from a hard life, man.
And coming out on the other side as this beautiful creation of love.
And creativity.
And that's that dude.
That's the real thing, man.
You know, that's not an act.
That's him 24-7.
And it's amazing.
And it's very inspirational and it's very good for everybody.
It's good for everybody.
It's good for everybody he encounters.
cameron hanes
He was like, you know, he was so busy after the show and they had to do promo stuff after the Opry.
So we took off.
And then he told me, he's like, he goes, I didn't, you know, I didn't get to say goodbye to Tanner.
I took Tanner to the show and his girlfriend.
And he's like, I said, I think you said goodbye.
He's like, oh, I didn't give him like a good hug to say goodbye.
And he's like, I mean, thinking about even that.
joe rogan
I know.
cameron hanes
Just about my son.
unidentified
There he is.
jamie vernon
Did you see his speech at the end?
unidentified
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Oh, did you see that?
joe rogan
Let's play this.
We can end with the speech because this speech is fucking incredible.
jamie vernon
I think it's screwed up.
unidentified
You got a second, and I'm going to say a lot, and I'm sorry, but the quickest I can say it is thank you to the label, Stoney Creek Management, John Loba, Joe Jamie, you saved my life.
Country Radio, what's up, baby?
I got a thousand people to thank you, but most importantly, my lord and my wife, I love you so much, you changed my life, baby.
Megan Parker, Haley, I love all y'all.
We're friends.
And Zach Brown, I think you were one of the hottest things on earth, not just country music.
You deserve this as much as anybody else.
I love you.
I'm glad we're sitting there partying the rest of the night, baby.
But most importantly, there is something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning new artist of the year.
I don't know where you're at in your life or what you're going through, but I want to tell you to keep going, baby.
I want to tell you success is on the other side of it.
I want to tell you it's going to be okay.
I want to tell you that the windshield is bigger than the real you feel for a reason.
Because what's in front of you is so much more important than what's behind you.
Let's party that move.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
He's a preacher.
cameron hanes
That's what I told him.
joe rogan
He's a preacher.
cameron hanes
I said, dude, if this music thing doesn't work out, you could be a preacher.
joe rogan
100%.
cameron hanes
Because we prayed at dinner and then before a show, and it was just like the most incredible prayer I've ever heard.
And I'm just like...
Your calling might be to be a preacher.
joe rogan
Well, he's kind of doing it through his music, and it's reaching more people that way.
cameron hanes
So powerful.
I love that guy.
joe rogan
I love that guy, too.
I love you, too.
cameron hanes
Likewise.
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