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Joe Rogan Experience #2316 - Cameron Hanes
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joe rogan
What's going on?
cameron hanes
Not much.
Hello, Joe Rogan.
joe rogan
Hello, Cameron Ains.
cameron hanes
Welcome to the podcast.
joe rogan
Thank you.
This is my first time trying one of these new energy drinks that Black Rifle came out.
Have you tried them?
I have.
They're legit?
cameron hanes
Really good.
joe rogan
Everything they do is legit.
cameron hanes
Yeah, really good.
joe rogan
Mango.
cameron hanes
What do you think?
joe rogan
So this is the part of the podcast where I try to talk you out of running a 250-mile race with a broken foot, you fucking maniac.
cameron hanes
We're talking about my book.
The whole point of this was undeniable is out.
joe rogan
Well, you'll definitely be undeniable if you run 250 miles with a broken foot.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Why are you doing that?
That seems like not a good idea.
But what am I, a doctor?
cameron hanes
Okay, so real talk, let's just, we'll break it down.
So if I was a professional athlete in my prime, it would obviously make sense to say, and I need to get surgery, my foot's broke, I can't perform, whatever.
But since I'm, we know how old I am, almost 60, it's just like, there's no guarantees.
I'm like, if I can fight this off and still whatever, still perform, then I'm going to do that.
joe rogan
Wow.
cameron hanes
I can't afford to play the long game.
Can I?
joe rogan
Fix your foot.
It's like, I don't understand.
Like, this is what I've always said with people with jujitsu injuries, because I've had a bunch of surgeries.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just fix it.
Just do it, because a day will be a week, will be a month, it'll happen so quick.
Before you know it'll be six months, you're back in the gym.
Just do it.
That's what I always tell everybody.
Just fix it.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
I just bite the bullet, get the, like, there's certain things, like, certain things I don't think you should get surgery for.
Because there's things that you can rehabilitate.
And there's sort of an...
There's some doctors...
I want to be real careful about this because a lot of doctors are very cautious about whether or not they do surgery.
But there's some doctors that are just a little too excited to cut people open and stitch them back together again.
cameron hanes
Well, it's how they make their money.
joe rogan
It's how they make their money.
And famously, I've talked about it too many times, but for people who haven't heard the story, my doctor told me, for sure, you're going to need shoulder surgery.
You're going to have to get shoulder surgery.
It's just a matter of when, and if you put it off, it'll probably get worse.
I have zero problem with that shoulder now.
I got stem cells in it from Roddy McGee in Vegas.
You went with me to that place.
Went back in six months.
He's like, the tear is completely gone.
So I could have gone under the knife, and maybe he would have done a great job and fixed it.
Apparently he did the Lakers and a bunch of pro athletes and everything like that.
But they don't entertain...
The possibility that there's other ways to fix things.
But when it comes to broken bones and torn ligaments, like if your ligaments, like I have a bunch of friends who have ACL tears, complete ACL tears, no ACL, and they still do jujitsu.
I'm like, dude, you're just grinding up your meniscus, the shit that you're going to need for the rest of your life.
And take it from me, a 57-year-old man who loves jujitsu.
You can't do that.
You need that stuff.
Like that stuff's going to go away and then it'll be bone on bone.
And then you're going to be like...
In agony all the time.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
Theoretically.
unidentified
Theoretically.
joe rogan
Just get it fixed.
I always say, just get it fixed.
Get it fixed.
Before you know it, it'll be fixed.
cameron hanes
Yeah, but I keep thinking about it.
So if I would have done it, so I broke it last June, but all the things I did from last June to now, I've got accomplished, still got it done.
Made it happen.
Yeah, it hasn't been that fun.
joe rogan
Okay, don't fix it ever.
Just live with a broken foot forever.
That's retarded.
It doesn't make any sense.
It makes zero sense.
cameron hanes
This is reverse psychology, isn't it?
Good, yeah.
No, don't do it.
unidentified
Good job.
joe rogan
Break the other one, too, so it balances out.
That's the problem, is that you only have one broken foot.
If you just take a hammer to your right foot or your left foot, then you'll have no problems.
cameron hanes
Well, we'll know.
joe rogan
Well, I'm sure you're going to get through it.
I'm positive you're going to get through it, but it's just like, why are you doing that to yourself?
cameron hanes
Next Monday at 5 a.m., 250 miles.
joe rogan
Which one is that?
What's the race called?
cameron hanes
On your mark, set, go.
Cocodona 250.
joe rogan
Where is it?
Is it elevation?
cameron hanes
It's Arizona, so it goes from, I think, Black Canyon City to Flagstaff.
joe rogan
Is it flat?
The whole way?
Or is it...
cameron hanes
40,000.
joe rogan
Oh, 40,000 feet.
Nothing.
cameron hanes
Or maybe 30,000.
I don't know.
A lot of climbing.
joe rogan
Just a tiny amount.
Oh, look.
Fucking mountains.
cameron hanes
No, there's lots of mountains.
Is that the...
Yeah, it's right there.
Cocoa Donut 250.
joe rogan
Bro, that's so ridiculous.
cameron hanes
Yeah, it looks beautiful, though.
joe rogan
That's so ridiculous.
You're going to do that with a broken foot.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So, after you do that, here's the next logic.
unidentified
Well, if I can do 250 miles, I can make it through elk season.
joe rogan
And then, yeah, you're not going to get it fixed.
cameron hanes
I just did it with a broken foot in elk season.
joe rogan
I know, that's what I'm saying.
You're not going to fix it.
You're not going to fix it.
cameron hanes
Well, if I get back to a corner and I can't walk...
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
But then the problem is, what if you've done permanent damage?
Like, didn't you say your hamstring's bothering you now?
Yeah.
cameron hanes
This whole leg, but yeah.
joe rogan
And you're going to run 250 miles with a fucked up hamstring.
Great idea.
That's not going to fuck it up worse.
cameron hanes
Maybe it'll fix it.
This is supposed to be a feel-good discussion.
I thought friends BSing, right?
Everybody has a good time here.
The most influential man in the world, Time Magazine, should have been.
joe rogan
No, Meghan Markle beat me.
cameron hanes
God.
If it's most influential, there's no debate.
Nobody's even in the same category as you.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't think about it.
I try not to.
It's a little complicated.
cameron hanes
I'm thinking about it.
joe rogan
I really shouldn't be influential.
I don't think hard enough about the consequences.
cameron hanes
Oh, you say that all the time, but man, you have so many good conversations and it's like, it's definitely changed.
Here's what's crazy is...
You know, mainstream media, with all the money that the advertisers had to pay or whatever, it's like that was their thing.
Now, it feels like that money is coming to the podcast realm because of you.
I mean, you've shown the power of podcasts, and I think all the podcast hosts are benefiting from that.
What do you think?
joe rogan
Well, I think we are all benefiting from all of our work.
I mean, I don't think it's me.
I just have been doing it longer than most.
But there's guys like Corolla and a few other guys that have been doing it.
Longer than me.
Podcasting is just better because there's less people involved.
It's really that simple.
The problem with stuff like Fox News and CNN is there's too many people involved and too many interests, right?
You have the interests of the network.
You have the interests of the censors.
You have a bunch of people that don't want you talking about certain things or want you talking about certain other things.
They want you to push certain narratives.
There's too many people.
And so it feels curated.
And so when you're listening, it doesn't resonate.
But when you listen to two people just shoot the shit, you're like, oh, I know what that's like.
Like, if someone came over to your house and started talking like a CNN anchor, you'd be like, what the fuck is this guy doing in my house?
Get him out of here.
I can't relax.
We're trying to have a class of one.
cameron hanes
How would he talk?
joe rogan
What we've learned today is that climate change is the most important...
You'd be like, oh God, get this guy out of the fucking house.
Like, what are you saying?
cameron hanes
So Douglas Murray is going to come over to my house, it sounds like...
joe rogan
Have you ever been?
Yeah, I mean, it's just, there's people that are professional talking heads.
You know, like, there's people that are professional sportscasters.
You know, they talk like a sportscaster voice.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
Like, Howard Cosell.
cameron hanes
Radio DJ voice.
joe rogan
Yeah, radio DJ voice.
Yeah, exactly.
Top 40 DJ voice.
It's like, they're all the same.
Coming up next!
All right!
You know, like, that kind of weird thing that they do.
You're used to it.
It sounds professional, but it doesn't resonate with you, so it doesn't seem normal.
When you hear people, whether it's you or me or Theo Vaughn or Andrew Schultz or whoever it is that's doing a podcast, they're just people talking, normal people talking to people, and that's what people want.
And if a normal person can talk to scientists and say, how does that work?
What causes this?
What can I do to make this happen?
What's the best way to start your day?
That kind of shit.
Then it makes sense to the people.
If you hear some fucking weirdo that's talking in a way that doesn't make any sense and won't bring up certain subjects and has guardrails and won't use certain language, it doesn't make sense to you.
So it doesn't work as well.
And also, they don't trust those people.
Like if I tell you, oh, this Black Rifle coffee drink is good.
I'm not lying.
I wouldn't lie if I was like, Evan, what the fuck is this?
If I drank it, I was like, bro.
We would call Evan up right now.
unidentified
We'd call him up on speakerphone until it just mango tastes like ass.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
Probably not.
But I'd tell him privately.
But it wouldn't.
You know what I'm saying?
I know all their shit is great.
Their coffee's great.
Everything's great.
It's like everything, all the ads we have.
I had a call yesterday, one of these conference calls that I have.
Where I gotta go, no, no, not that one.
No, we can't do that.
It was like different ads.
Like, what is it?
No.
No.
Like, I just, something that sounds like wrong to me.
I'm not interested.
I'm not, that might be a scam.
This might be horse shit.
What's the studies on this?
Is it real?
Like, what do we, nah, no, no, no.
Like, oh, or yes.
Oh, yeah, I use that all the time.
Let's do that.
That's good.
That's a solid company.
That's this.
This is great.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I wonder if, I don't even know how to word it, but.
People are so used to, like, the fake stuff.
Like, even if somebody says...
If you talk about being transgender and say, oh, well, you know, this boy felt like a girl, whatever.
It's like you're almost programmed to be like, oh, hmm, okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're programmed to not have an opinion about it.
cameron hanes
Right.
Because normally, as guys work...
We talk about radio DJ voice or the fake or whatever.
That's not how people talk.
But guys can be around a certain group of people and there'll be one guy who'd be like, that guy seemed off.
unidentified
Yes.
cameron hanes
What the fuck's wrong with that guy?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So the guy will infiltrate your group.
cameron hanes
That's like a subtle little thing.
That's not like the things we're talking about, like the big things.
That's like these guys have this radar and you're just like, who the fuck is this guy?
joe rogan
Right, right, right, right.
cameron hanes
And then you go to the complete other realm where it's so preposterous and we're supposed to be like, oh, OK.
joe rogan
I actually heard a psychologist discussing this, and he said that there's an issue with talking about things publicly, especially with social media, because there's so much backlash on social media whenever you hit any hot-button topic.
Immigration, politics, anything that's like a real, highly hotly contended topic.
People will say things just so they don't get attacked.
And they distort their opinions based on how much they think they're going to get attacked.
So all that social media stuff is super effective.
People attacking people is super effective for people to like, this is how transgender people in sports got through.
The only way it got through is because people were calling people bigots.
Every parent, every fucking parent who's not a complete psychopath doesn't want their daughter wrestling with some boy who thinks he's a girl.
That's crazy.
Playing rugby with some boy who thinks he's a girl.
That's crazy.
Have a six-foot-six, 50-year-old man who identifies as being 17-year-old girl.
That's fucking crazy.
But you can't say that's crazy or your feed will be bombarded with a bunch of sociopaths attacking you for being transphobic.
cameron hanes
Or it'll be suppressed.
Or Instagram will be like, okay, guess what?
We don't like that opinion.
Nobody's going to see it.
joe rogan
I think Instagram is doing less of that now, allegedly, supposedly.
I know X is not interested in that at all.
They're not suppressing that shit at all.
You can talk all the shit you want about trans people in sports now because the reality is the general population...
Look, I don't care what you want to do.
If you want to wear a dress, you want to be called Rhonda, go for it.
Have fun.
I'm a...
Freedom person, and I believe America is the land of the free, and that includes doing dumb shit.
That includes things that I don't agree with, but don't hurt me or anybody else.
Go have fun.
But as soon as you start doing things like entering into women's bathrooms, entering into women's locker rooms, and all you have to do is just say you're a guy.
Now we're in crazy town.
And if I can't say we're in crazy town, that's how all that stuff got through is because Twitter was complete nonsense.
It was just a psyop.
The whole thing was just a psyop.
We all owe Elon Musk a huge debt.
When he bought Twitter, he changed the conversations in the country because all of a sudden, people were free.
cameron hanes
You could say what you want.
joe rogan
You were free to say whatever you wanted.
Before, you couldn't say anything bad about Biden or the liberals or COVID vaccines or anything.
You would be banned.
You'd be banned.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's, you know, that Elon coming, doing what he's done, has definitely changed the world, right?
Without a doubt.
How much credit does he deserve?
Because he did not have to do that.
I mean, he had more money than anybody.
Why would he put himself out there like that other than to make a positive change for...
Humanity, essentially.
joe rogan
Well, in talking with him, both publicly and privately, he was genuinely concerned that we were losing free speech.
He was genuinely concerned that it was being hijacked.
It was being hijacked under the guise of safety.
Safety.
Like, we have to protect people.
We have to protect marginalized people, like marginalized male perverts who want to wear dresses and pretend that they're a girl and go in the bed.
Literally.
Literally.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
That's dangerous with that, but it's also dangerous with everything else.
It's also dangerous, like, if you're a person who's a progressive person who believes in gay rights or, you know, anything, welfare, universal basic, whatever it is, imagine living in a world where there's no free speech, but the Republicans are in control.
Or, like, super religious conservative people are in control.
Muslims are in control.
Let's imagine...
Like, the Muslim population in this country is expanding all the time.
They've got Muslim-run cities now.
They have call to prayer in certain cities in this country.
Imagine that goes everywhere.
They're in control of social media, and they institute Sharia law on social media, and they want to throw gay people off the roof.
This is where it goes.
Like, you've got to leave people the fuck alone.
You've got to let them say whatever they want to say, and if you don't agree with them, don't follow them, or make an argument against it.
It's really that simple.
That's what America's supposed to be.
And it wasn't that way for four fucking years.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
During the Biden administration, the FBI was involved in Twitter.
The government intelligence agencies were involved in Twitter.
They were telling people to take down true information.
And they were getting them to do it.
And they were doing it.
cameron hanes
How crazy is that?
Crazy.
joe rogan
People should be...
Up in arms that that took place.
Like the Hunter Biden laptop thing, you should be freaking out.
How'd they get 51 former intelligence agents to sign off on something they knew was a lie?
That's crazy!
They just did it right in front of our face.
cameron hanes
And no repercussions.
joe rogan
Nothing.
Nothing.
cameron hanes
How does that how does it happen?
But then also, how is there no repercussions?
joe rogan
Well, what's really hilarious now is now they're all getting grilled by even like liberal media is grilling these politicians like, did you know Biden was out of his mind?
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
Like, how did you know?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
unidentified
Like Elizabeth Warren was like, he was sharp as a tack.
joe rogan
Oh, he was getting up for meetings.
cameron hanes
Never seen him better.
I heard that too.
joe rogan
Tell Scarborough.
unidentified
He was like, this is the best version of Biden I've ever seen.
You should be literally in jail.
joe rogan
You're such a liar.
You almost like shifted the whole...
Imagine if Biden stayed in, they lied about that, and then he's literally like a zombie for four more years.
And whoever the hell was running the country for the last four years just continues to run it.
And then they just tighten up even further.
cameron hanes
Could you imagine?
joe rogan
Cut down.
Mark Andreessen was telling me about D-Bank.
I didn't even know existed, where people that had certain political donations and political persuasions, they would take their banking away.
They did no crime.
They just say, you can't bank here anymore.
You gotta go find another bank.
And there's only like a few banks.
They're all owned by giant mega corporations.
Like, what the fuck are you doing?
cameron hanes
Well, that kind of reminds me of what happened in Canada with the truckers.
joe rogan
Yes.
cameron hanes
I mean, they froze their bank accounts.
Or people who donated to them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
People who donated to them got their bank accounts frozen.
cameron hanes
How insane.
joe rogan
Insane.
Insane.
And then that same party just won again.
Good job, Canada.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
cameron hanes
If they didn't have good bear hunting.
I would never go there.
joe rogan
I do have to say, I offered to have that Pierre guy come on the podcast.
cameron hanes
Really?
joe rogan
He didn't do it.
Wouldn't do it.
Thought it was too problematic.
Or whatever.
Jordan told me, I forget what he said, but they were telling him not to do it.
Like, his advisors were telling him not to do it.
cameron hanes
Like, hey.
joe rogan
Hey, dumbass.
cameron hanes
If they can't talk to you and have a conversation, hold up.
You're not grilling people.
You're not attacking people.
joe rogan
Of course not.
cameron hanes
This is like a safe...
You know, the friend zone type thing.
It's like, no.
And I heard you talk about Kamala saying, just want to get to know her.
Just want to talk to her.
joe rogan
100%.
I said, if there's certain things they didn't want to talk about, I don't need to talk about them.
I don't care.
I'm like, I could talk to you about fucking AI.
cameron hanes
You've never been the gotcha guy.
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I'm not interested in that.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
If I disagree with someone, I just say I disagree with them.
I don't attack people.
As I've gotten older and wiser in life, I want less conflict.
I mean, sometimes you have to be able to disagree in a way that's forceful.
But I don't want...
I'm never insulting or attack people.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
And especially this Pierre Polivet guy, because...
I don't know how I say his name.
How do you say it?
It's a weird way of saying it.
I would just ask him questions like, what's wrong?
What's wrong with Canada?
How did this happen?
Why did it go this way?
What can be done to reverse some of these things that have been put into place?
How did you feel about this?
What would you have done differently?
Real simple stuff.
I don't know anything about Canada's politics.
cameron hanes
It'd be interesting.
I'd love to hear it.
joe rogan
It would have been fun.
People are just – and this is also why the attacking of people on social media is effective.
Like the same thing that keeps people from saying things because they're worried that they're going to be attacked also keeps people from talking to certain people because they're worried about – they're being attacked.
They'll try to – like this is one of the things that I felt like Douglas Murray was doing when he was on the podcast was like trying to gatekeep who I have on.
Like why would you have this person on?
He never even listened to that guy, Daryl Cooper's podcast.
I would tell everybody, forget about the politics stuff.
Listen to his stuff on Guyana.
Listen to his stuff on Jim Jones.
The Jim Jones series.
cameron hanes
And this is an hour.
joe rogan
Fucking incredible.
cameron hanes
Doesn't he do like hours long discussions?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fear and Loathing in New Jerusalem is something like 30 hours long.
Insane stuff.
But he's a really thoughtful person and he delves into all the areas.
Let's, you know, look at this from the perspective of the people who were in the cult.
Look at it from Jim Jones' perspective.
Look at it from the nation of Guyana where he moves there with his fucking cult and kills everybody with Kool-Aid.
I think it was Kool-Aid.
I think it was like a bargain name.
It was like some fake Kool-Aid.
cameron hanes
Yeah, we don't want Kool-Aid to sue us.
joe rogan
People always say drink the Kool-Aid.
Google that, because I'm pretty sure it wasn't really Kool-Aid.
It was something else.
Great crush.
Too expensive to kill everybody with top-shelf Kool-Aid.
cameron hanes
Yeah, it's a lot of sugar you got to put in Kool-Aid.
Remember when you used to make Kool-Aid?
And it was like, what was it, like a cup of sugar?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then you throw the stuff in there.
Burt Kreischer drinks that all day long.
It was like a 64-ounce jug of Kool-Aid.
cameron hanes
He was shredded.
joe rogan
No, he wasn't.
cameron hanes
He was more shredded than he is now.
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah.
But he's real big right now.
I was just talking to him the other day.
I was like, dude, you gotta do something.
jamie vernon
Maybe Flavor Aid.
joe rogan
Flavor Aid!
cameron hanes
Might have been from...
joe rogan
Cheaper!
cameron hanes
Yeah.
So that was from Costco.
joe rogan
Yeah, they got it in bulk.
Flavor Aid.
There it is.
cameron hanes
Or Kirkland.
Yeah.
joe rogan
What does it say?
Ho-your-aid?
What does it say?
jamie vernon
Where?
joe rogan
What is it?
jamie vernon
Flay F-L-A-4-A-D.
Flavor Aid.
joe rogan
Oh, that's an F?
Make it larger?
Oh, it's blurry.
Oh, there it goes.
unidentified
Oh, there it goes.
joe rogan
Yeah, Flavor Aid.
Okay.
cameron hanes
Flavor Aid.
joe rogan
They killed everybody with Flavor Aid.
cameron hanes
They're mixing it up.
unidentified
Poison has got to be the fucking worst way to go.
joe rogan
Feeling your body just getting destroyed from the inside out.
cameron hanes
Terrible.
joe rogan
For some jackass who's on meth.
It's a crazy podcast.
But this is my point.
What they're trying to do is keep people, keep these heterodox opinions, keep people that are, like, outside of the circle of expertise from talking about things.
Even if they've read, like, Daryl Cooper's read, like, hundreds of books.
The guy's like a fucking consummate reader.
And you might disagree with him about something.
That's fine.
That should be okay.
It should be okay to disagree with people about stuff.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
And also, what is learning?
I mean, what is learning?
So you said he read, he did all this research.
Douglas Murray has a problem with I don't know who, but how is that different than going to school, essentially?
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
I mean...
joe rogan
It's no different.
It's no different.
I mean, there are experts that stop learning the moment they get their degree.
And that's real.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's a real problem.
It's a real problem in medicine.
I had an argument with Brian Callen years ago because his doctor was telling him, you don't need supplements.
You just need a balanced diet.
That's what his doctor was saying.
I go, your doctor looks like shit.
Like, what are you talking about?
Your doctor's fat.
He's got a big pot belly.
He's got a big doughy face.
He probably can't run around the block.
unidentified
Shut the fuck up.
joe rogan
Don't listen to that guy.
There's plenty of peer-reviewed papers that talk about the efficacy of vitamins.
They're super beneficial for you.
This is crazy talk.
Yeah.
Peel to experts just because you have a degree.
You're not always right.
You're wrong all the time.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that was pretty disappointing because I thought Douglas Murray, I liked listening to him.
I thought he was super smart, obviously very articulate.
But he sounds so good with that accent.
But then on that one, I think I told you, or I texted you something about, man, he seemed pompous.
For me, it was a loss for him big time.
joe rogan
Well, he used tactics.
Rather than facts.
So the tactic was an appeal to experts like that.
And there was also saying that the coverage was imbalanced because I didn't have enough people that were pro-Israel.
But then I thought about it afterwards.
I'm like, I had quite a few.
There was Jordan, Ben Shapiro.
There was Coleman Hughes.
There's been quite a few people that are pro-Israel.
And not even that people are anti-Israel.
They just don't want to watch people get blown apart all the time.
That seems pretty reasonable.
But instead of debating how this is done and what is being done militarily, it all became about, like, who are the experts and what are the things that should be discussed and should it be balanced and do you have an obligation?
Like, that's not what we're here for.
What we're here for is to get down to business.
So what he's doing is, like, putting you on the defensive right away.
cameron hanes
Right out of the gate.
joe rogan
Out of the gate.
No, you're perfect.
cameron hanes
You're perfect.
The perfect purpose is to handle that.
Because most people, when they start getting attacked, you get defensive, you attack back.
It just changes the whole dynamic of the conversation.
But you stayed pretty neutral on that.
joe rogan
It's a trap.
It's a trap.
It's like, you know, when someone gets in your face and they start yelling.
Your face like, okay, what are we doing?
Are we fighting?
I could start yelling too.
cameron hanes
That's usually what happens.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then maybe I won't be paying attention to your hands or your shoulder movement or whether or not you're going to hit me.
cameron hanes
See, that's a tactic.
That's a fighting tactic.
He had the same tactic, but not for fighting, but for conversation.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a tactic.
And then the thing of asking Dave, you've never been.
To dismiss, instead of having a debate on the issues.
And this idea that expert, like Douglas Murray, I love him dearly.
I think he's a brilliant man.
He's got a degree in history.
Or, excuse me, he's got a degree in English.
Bachelor's degree.
He's not an expert either.
Unless we're talking about Shakespeare, shut the fuck up.
Because you're not an expert either.
You know what I mean?
I don't have a degree in anything.
I have zero degrees in anything.
But there's certain things that I'm an expert in.
You want to talk about martial arts?
I'm a martial arts expert.
Like, if you disagree with me, you have to be like...
In order for me to have a conversation with someone where they disagree with me about Marshall, they have to be so much better.
They have to be like Gordon Ryan.
But I don't disagree with Gordon on anything.
For him, that's a real expert.
Again, no degrees.
That's a real expert.
I would just ask questions like, what do you do in this situation?
What's the benefit of this versus that?
And so you talk about it.
With these political issues, they're so – such a third rail.
It's such a fucking dangerous subject that people have like a group that they belong with and then that group will support them if they go out and say these ideas and then the other people have another group and then this person is a representative of one group and they want to duke it out with the – Any reasonable person would look at Gaza and go, this seems kind of excessive.
This seems kind of fucking crazy.
It seems kind of crazy that 70,000 people or whatever it is are dead, including women and children.
This is the only way to do it?
Really?
Any reasonable person, that doesn't make you anti-Semitic.
It doesn't make you anti-Zionist.
It doesn't make you anything.
It doesn't make you pro-Hamas.
cameron hanes
It could be pro-human.
joe rogan
Human beings.
cameron hanes
I don't think humans should be murdered.
joe rogan
That sounds so reasonable.
But the thing is, like, we never got into that.
Because the conversation, tactically, he entered into the conversation as, you know, because he doesn't have really a defensible position.
It's very hard to say this is the only way to do it.
So what do you say?
You say, you need better experts.
You shouldn't be talking to this person.
You should be doing this.
You should be doing that.
Like, why don't you have this?
You've never been there.
You should go there.
Like, bitch, I am not going there.
What the fuck are you talking about?
cameron hanes
You're not even going to Brazil for another UFC fight.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
I don't go to Canada.
cameron hanes
Not traveling out of the country.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's not what I'm interested in doing.
I don't have to.
cameron hanes
Well, what's crazy is, so he had that take, but unless you're an expert or educated, you shouldn't be able to share this opinion.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
But he'd had the opposite take before.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Which is hilarious because somebody put a video up of him arguing with him.
cameron hanes
Completely opposite.
So that, and I asked you about this, not with him, but I asked you, do you think there's like government plans?
Because it's like, if somebody, I'm not saying him, I'm just saying just in general.
If somebody changes their position so, I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't know.
It's hard to know.
cameron hanes
Who got to him and why did this happen?
Because then I look around, we talk about the Power of Podcasts, and I see these podcasts, and it's just like, how did this podcast get every guest you could ever want and rise to the top in a heartbeat?
When we know how it normally works, it works like you.
Decades, right?
To get to the top.
Then some people, so I'm thinking like, how did this happen?
joe rogan
Well, some people are really good, you know, and they can be really good right out of the bat.
Right off the bat, they could be, you know, better at it, and then they get a good following, and then once it gets into the top 20 or whatever, then they can get good guests.
You know, because when it comes to...
cameron hanes
But that usually takes time.
joe rogan
Sometimes.
I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I wonder what would happen if I started the podcast today.
If there was all the podcasts that were out right now, and I had never done a podcast, and I started it today, and I did it exactly how I'm doing it.
How long would it take before it catches on?
I don't know.
cameron hanes
I don't either.
joe rogan
I would suck though.
That would be a problem.
I would suck and everybody would be watching because I sucked when nobody was watching and I got better at it.
I figured out how to do it.
But as far as like Douglas, I don't know if anybody got to him or whether or not the group that he associates with thinks this way.
I don't necessarily...
Put everything inside of a grand conspiracy.
It might be that he has financial ties towards certain things.
He speaks at certain places.
He sells certain books.
He knows how he's selling them.
Or it might be just that's how he thinks about things, too.
Sometimes people always think, oh, somebody got to him.
Maybe that's just how he thinks.
Somebody has to think that way.
Otherwise, that wouldn't be an opinion that's out there in the zeitgeist.
cameron hanes
Normally, people don't.
Switch 180 degrees on things, though.
joe rogan
Especially like that.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
That's true.
cameron hanes
Because if he's educated on things, if he's been around, if he's, you know, this smart, wise person, you form this opinion based on that.
You don't go 180 degrees the other way and change the complete opposite take.
joe rogan
Right.
Unless you've been influenced.
cameron hanes
It wasn't like you were just a kid and you didn't know, and now all of a sudden you're an adult.
It's like, I can't believe I used to say that.
He was an adult the whole time.
joe rogan
Right, right, right, right.
cameron hanes
So how?
joe rogan
I don't know.
You definitely could get suspicious, for sure.
cameron hanes
I'm very suspicious.
joe rogan
But I hear people say that about me, too, which is hilarious.
cameron hanes
But I said decades.
joe rogan
That I have CIA handlers.
I've heard all that.
cameron hanes
Decades, dude.
You've been doing this.
You're the OG.
joe rogan
That's how it works.
I'm one of the OGs.
I think for sure people do get influenced, but I think people also allow themselves to get influenced because they have a financial interest in keeping a certain opinion because they know that the group that they belong to has that certain opinion.
There's that.
But the real problem with doing what he did was that it diminishes you publicly.
Like if you really want to do that kind of a debate.
If you really want to use those kind of tactics rather than a discussion of the issue, like you've never been, like that kind of stuff diminishes you publicly because everybody knows what you're doing.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Instead of just having a conversation...
unidentified
Does everybody know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
Anybody with a...
Anybody with an opinion I value knows what you're doing.
Because if you understand conversations, you're not really engaging with the ideas.
You're deciding whether or not a person should have these ideas.
You've never been there?
Like, how can you have an opinion?
You know, at least you should do the courtesy.
Like, now I'm virtuous.
I have been.
I'm elevated.
I'm better than you.
You are diminished.
You haven't even been there.
Your opinion is basically meaningless.
You know, and then it gets to this weird place where it's like, who's allowed to talk about what?
You know?
cameron hanes
That's what...
It just...
The change was so abrupt.
It's so opposite.
I was just like...
Because you could think, if somebody was...
Okay, here's an example.
I had somebody offer me today, not today, yesterday, if I would wear their hat, $5,000.
joe rogan
With the hat and a bunch of dicks on it?
unidentified
No.
cameron hanes
It was just a brand.
So, point is, there's value into doing this.
So, if somebody says, well, your voice is this powerful, or you can reach as many people, or this many people listen to you, So if it's a political party or a movement and they have this guy, we'll pay you this much to push this point.
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joe rogan
It's possible.
It's also possible that he views a guy like Dave Smith as...
Dave Smith has incredible recall, and he's very well read.
I mean, he's a consummate consumer of information, and he's always reading books on different wars and foreign policy.
Like, he's really into it.
The way he explains it to me is like...
Because I'm always like, your recall's insane.
He's like, yeah, but I could talk to you about a fight that happened 10 years ago and you'll tell me exactly how it went down.
Like, that's all it is.
It's just this is what I'm into.
I'm not studying it for any other reason other than I'm fascinated by human conflicts, like global conflicts.
And so when a guy like that is rising, you want to try to diminish.
His impact if he disagrees with your perspective, like if you see someone.
cameron hanes
But not everybody would want to diminish that impact.
Not everybody.
That's a certain type of person.
joe rogan
But he's also a certain type of person that kind of existed in both traditional media and alternative media.
I mean, he always did my podcast and, you know, he's written some great books like The Strange Death of Europe is very good.
Proving to be very accurate.
If you look at what's happening with mass migration into Europe, he was calling this a long time ago.
And he was being called terrible names, racist, Islamophobic, all these different things.
And it turns out he was right.
I mean, what Conor McGregor is talking about in Ireland now and a lot of other Irish people are talking about, what people are talking about in the UK, he was right.
Like, you're changing your culture, and you're doing it—you're not having people move there that are assimilating and becoming British.
You're having people that are coming there and trying to change what being British means.
This is all he was saying.
And so I agree with him on a lot of things, but I think that's how life is.
You agree with people on some things.
You disagree with them on other things.
And this is supposed to be how most people view— Basically, everything in life.
There's going to be things that you agree with.
I have a lot of friends that disagree with me on certain things.
But that should be fine.
That should be normal.
But for some people, it's not.
For some people, it's not allowed.
Because they live in this sort of debate culture.
And some people, they do debates.
One of the first things they do is they insult the people they're debating with.
Ad hominem attacks.
And again, trying to get you on the defensive.
cameron hanes
It's like a tactic of when we talk about mainstream media, like those interview type shows where you only have a certain amount of time.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
So they have to get right to it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Whereas that's not the case with the podcast.
joe rogan
Also, I value perspective.
I value someone who could look at things and go, yeah, like clearly the devastation is horrible.
Clearly.
Clearly it's horrible.
Clearly there's innocent people.
I've seen people say, I don't want to say who.
I've seen people say there are no innocent palestines Palestinians in Gaza.
I've seen people say that.
That's a crazy thing to say.
That's a crazy thing to say.
Especially in a place that's controlled by essentially a terrorist group.
That's a crazy thing to say.
What do you think Chicago would look like?
How do you think people would behave if Chicago was controlled by a terrorist group?
Do you think people would be free to speak out against them?
Is that the problem?
They're not speaking out against them so they should get bombed?
That's crazy.
If you have a wife and a child and you're barely getting by, you barely have enough money for food, are you really going to be out in the streets protesting against this fucking terrorist group with machine guns and billions of dollars they've gotten from USAID?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, you wouldn't.
cameron hanes
Absolutely not.
joe rogan
You wouldn't.
You're not expressing yourself freely, so how do we even know what their opinions are?
cameron hanes
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah, it's just, I mean, all of it, just the changing landscape of media has just, you know, it just gets you thinking about, like, these voices.
And, you know, and Douglas brought it up, and that discussion was interesting, but all that I remember from it is, like, how much he changed his perspective.
joe rogan
Well, I think he's still a brilliant guy.
Yeah.
I would still talk to him and listen to him about a lot of things.
But I think having conversations like that, communicating with people like that, diminishes your appeal.
Or diminishes whether or not...
It diminishes the overall impact of your mind on other people.
Because I know you think goofy this way.
I know you communicate goofy this way.
And as soon as I know that, I'm like...
Yeah, now I have to put this through this filter now when you say things.
I have to go, yeah, but he believes a bunch of goofy shit about that.
Which is fine.
Which is fine.
I'm sure people do that with me too.
It's normal.
But I think for someone who is a public intellectual, that becomes a problem when everyone who's really paying attention knows you're using tactics rather than actually just debating the issues at hand.
cameron hanes
Just talking it through.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it's like the thing is like, who's talking?
Like, come on.
Everybody's talking, bitch.
The whole world's talking.
Let people talk.
cameron hanes
Yeah, it's a crazy time for sure.
You know what I was thinking also?
What were you thinking?
Did you know I don't have a bowhunting degree?
joe rogan
Oh, that's crazy.
You should get a degree.
Who's giving out degrees?
cameron hanes
I shouldn't be able to bowhunt, really.
Should I?
joe rogan
Yeah, you're allowed to bowhunt without a degree.
Yeah, because it's a caveman fucking practice.
cameron hanes
How awesome is bowhunting, though?
joe rogan
It's the best.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Best way to get food.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's no better way to get food.
cameron hanes
Have you been shooting much?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Shot this morning.
Did you?
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Are we going to shoot?
joe rogan
I don't know if I have time today, unfortunately, because we spent so much time at Ways to Well.
I've got to head home after this.
cameron hanes
Getting healthy?
joe rogan
Yeah.
We were getting stem cells today.
And what's the mask?
The infusion?
The lung stuff?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
That was...
Well, it's stem cell nebulizer, basically.
joe rogan
Yeah, so you breathe it in.
So you breathe it in like vape.
You're vaping stem cells.
cameron hanes
Hey, all I know, and I said this when I was there, but I did that last time, and then I ran a five-mile race.
It was 8K, but my fastest five miles I've ever run.
joe rogan
Really?
With a broken foot?
cameron hanes
Yeah, at 57. So it's like, I don't know what it, if it didn't hurt, it didn't hurt me, obviously.
joe rogan
Well, they've done...
So many amazing things with me that I'm, you know, when they say something is really great, you should try it.
I'm like, okay.
So I put the mask on.
I'm sitting there with you.
unidentified
We're talking about Rocky Marciano.
joe rogan
I got into these.
Old videos on YouTube of fighters training and I got into this one video that I sent you about Rocky Marciano and how insane his training was and It was seven days a week.
He would spar sometimes 30 40 rounds in a day He would run 10 miles in the morning and then five more miles at night And then he would swim two miles in the lake.
He would swim across the lake and then back And then he would get up in the morning and do it all over again, and he never took days off.
cameron hanes
No, and another thing, he was focused on recovery and sleep.
He would be in bed at 9, I think I said, every night, and get his sleep in, but work so hard.
And why do we love stories like that?
joe rogan
Because you know how hard it is to do.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
But it's...
joe rogan
It's impossible.
I mean, it's possible, but it's impossible for most.
It's like it requires a mind that is just fortified through will and discipline to this strange hardness that's just different than everybody else's.
cameron hanes
Well, but why would...
Okay, so he retired at 49 and 0. Yeah.
Heavyweight.
Everybody knows him in fighting.
Maybe not everybody in the world, obviously.
Died a while ago.
joe rogan
By the way, small heavyweight.
We're talking about that, too.
I think in his prime, he was 190 pounds or 189 pounds.
Something crazy.
What did Rocky Marciano weigh while he was fighting?
I think he was 5 '10", and he weighed like 189 pounds, which is insane.
Yeah.
unidentified
188.
joe rogan
That's so crazy, dude.
So he weighed 12 pounds less than me.
Think about that.
cameron hanes
5 '10 and a quarter.
joe rogan
He weighs 12. He's two inches taller than me and a little more.
And then he weighs 12 pounds less.
cameron hanes
Did he fight Joe Lewis and Sonny Lester?
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
He fought Joe Lewis when Joe Lewis was way past his prime and flatlined him.
It was pretty brutal.
It was a scary fight.
That's so crazy that he was only...
188 pounds, and he was the heavyweight champion.
Granted, this is a different world.
cameron hanes
Yeah, different era, for sure.
joe rogan
Different era.
cameron hanes
There was no Tyson Fury.
joe rogan
There was no Mike Tyson either.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
Everybody talks about Rocky Marciano.
Rocky Marciano's great.
Mike Tyson would have went through him like a fucking train through a flock of sheep.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a different world.
Rocky Marciano, at his heaviest, he weighed 192.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
He fought seven boxers who weighed more than 200 pounds.
But people weren't that big back then.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Sonny Liston was.
Sonny Liston was big.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so he would...
He's been 20 pounds bigger than Rocky Marciano.
Yes.
joe rogan
But Mike Tyson wasn't that big when he was in his prime.
When he was in his prime, he was like 215, 220, you know, and 5 '10 or 5 '11 as well.
He wasn't very big.
cameron hanes
He was born in 69. Did I see that right?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
I think that's when he died.
cameron hanes
Oh, he died.
Okay.
Let's just say he can't be younger than us.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
He was a heavyweight champion in the 1950s.
cameron hanes
All right, never mind.
I do feel old, but it's not that old.
joe rogan
Find Rocky Marciano KO's Joe Louis.
It was brutal.
Because, you know, back then, when you were 38 or whatever Joe Louis was when they fought, you were really 38. No nutrition.
Also, lifetime of fighting.
Probably needed the money, which is why he took the fight.
It's not like the Joe Louis that knocked out Max Schmeling in the height of the war and was like, America's hero.
This is Joe Louis when he's on his balding.
He's got a big bald spot in the back.
He's like, it's sad.
And Rocky Marciano just mulled.
cameron hanes
That's what's crazy about.
How did George Foreman reinvent himself when he was old?
joe rogan
The thing is, like, one thing that you did see in this fight was the technical brilliance of Joe Louis, especially early in the fight.
Like, if they had fought in their prime, I think Louis would have fucked him up.
That's my belief.
cameron hanes
He's a lot bigger.
joe rogan
He was taller, but he also had incredible power.
How old was...
Well, we'll ask after we watch this video.
But he was doing really well for a while.
But the thing about Marciano was, he was not the most talented, but he did not get fucking tired, and he hit like a truck.
He hit like a truck, and he was just a fucking animal.
He just plowed forward.
He never ran out of gas.
This is not a technically skilled boxing match.
He would just maul guys.
Just bob and weave, and this is the end of it.
At the end, Joe Louis goes through the ropes.
It's sad, man.
It's sad.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's sad.
How old was Joe Louis when he fought Rocky Marciano?
cameron hanes
That's a sad scene.
joe rogan
He looked pretty good, though, up until Rocky started catching him.
But this is how a lot of Rocky's fights would go.
Even his last fight, which was against...
Was it against Archie Moore, I think?
He got dropped in that fight and just got up and just eventually pounded him and beat him down and KO'd him.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he was just so fucking tough.
Like, what he would do to himself was nothing compared to whatever was going to happen inside that ring.
cameron hanes
Right.
So that was going to be my point.
So he had all the success, retired, undefeated.
joe rogan
Pretty young, too.
cameron hanes
People knew.
joe rogan
He was 30. 37. 37!
Okay, that's how old Poetan is right now.
Okay, that's how old Alex Pereira is right now.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
So 37 back then was like, it was over.
cameron hanes
Oh yeah, so much older.
But yeah, so when you look at Rocky's success, why even seeing that, and there's fighters out there, why wouldn't they emulate his style, his training, if that's what you do, and you want the same type of success, Why are you letting somebody outwork you?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not that simple.
It's like, first of all, you're not as exposed to people like that unless you train with them.
cameron hanes
They didn't know he was doing that.
joe rogan
There's no YouTube videos.
You might hear things.
But if you hear things like, I heard Rocky's training seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
unidentified
He don't sleep.
joe rogan
He only eats raw meat.
You hear stories like that.
unidentified
That was Mickey.
cameron hanes
That was Rocky's training.
joe rogan
You would hear exaggerations.
You'll always hear exaggerations that come out of fight gyms.
cameron hanes
But I would want to believe those if I was a fighter.
Didn't Tyson used to say that?
That's why he got up at 5 in the morning or 4 in the morning?
joe rogan
Yes.
Well, Tyson did train like that.
You know who else trained like that forever?
Marvin Hagler.
cameron hanes
Oh, I thought you were going to say Floyd.
joe rogan
Marvin Hagler trained like a fucking warrior.
He used to train on the sand dunes in the Cape of Cape Cod.
In the middle of the winter.
And he would just be running, screaming war.
cameron hanes
Love that.
unidentified
War!
joe rogan
Just throwing punches.
He would run in combat boots.
He was an animal.
He was an animal.
Just Spartan.
He would go to this Provincetown Inn.
No fucking phones.
He would tell his wife and family, "I'm gone." I don't exist.
I'm gone.
For two months, it would just vanish.
And every day would be the same thing.
And he would spar a lot.
Hagler was sparring a hundred rounds a week.
So he was sparring 20 rounds a day for five days in a row.
And he would bring in fresh sparring partners, too.
It's not like one guy he's beaten up for 20 rounds.
No, he'd bring in, he would rotate.
Five different sparring partners.
So they would all come in and do four rounds each.
cameron hanes
Didn't Khabib do that too, kind of?
joe rogan
Perhaps.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't know exactly.
Khabib had unbelievably grueling training sessions.
And, you know, that was one of the things that was so apparent, like, with his endurance and their discipline was like...
Second to none.
They were like, no girlfriends, no phones, no bullshit, no video games.
Fuck you, we train.
And, you know, recover, train.
Eat, recover, train.
And you want to really be a champion?
This is how you have to work.
And this is how Islam Makhachev is so good.
That's why Khabib is so good.
Those guys are disciplined.
cameron hanes
So, if I think about it...
You know, we love stories like that.
We love all the sparring, but it's not going to lead to a long life.
joe rogan
No.
cameron hanes
I mean, but is that the price to be a Rocky Marciano or a Khabib who has to retire at whatever he was, 32 or whatever?
It's like, is that what it takes?
It probably does.
To be legends?
joe rogan
Yeah, you give up something to get something.
You give up life.
Yeah, I don't think you can be completely balanced to be and be the best ever.
But, you know, it depends on how you're doing it, you know?
Like, the thing that's so brilliant about Floyd Mayweather is that if you look at his career, he might have been really hit hard four or five times in his whole career, which is insanity.
I mean, he really is only right.
That's Heigler.
In the snow, screaming war.
It was the best.
cameron hanes
Yeah, but so why do we love stories like this?
joe rogan
Well, for me, when I was a kid, Hagler was the man.
You know, when I was in high school.
cameron hanes
But we still love them now.
unidentified
Yeah.
cameron hanes
I love, like, that clip you sent me yesterday.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
cameron hanes
Or this.
joe rogan
I loved it.
This clip is the same YouTube website.
It's Boxing Life, is that the YouTube channel?
It's a really good channel.
But Hagler's discipline was just, it was so admirable.
Like, he didn't have to go to fucking Cape Cod in the middle of the winter.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
He did it because he wanted to be separated.
He wanted to live a Spartan life.
Look, he would run backwards.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Throwing punches.
I think that's either Goody or Pat.
The Petronelli brothers were the guys who trained him.
But this is his workout.
Six mile run, steep hills, running backwards, breakfast, rest, watch TV, film, late lunch, boxing, training, strength and conditioning, dinner, watch film and sleep, repeat, rinse, do it again, day after day after day.
cameron hanes
That's it.
I don't see too much chill out in there.
joe rogan
My favorite fight with him was against John the Beast Mugabe.
Because everybody points to the Hearns fight where he beat the shit out of Hearns and KO'd him.
Incredible.
Incredible.
Incredible knockout, for sure.
One of the best boxing matches.
One of the best, most entertaining...
Entertaining world championship fights of all time.
But for me, it was Mugabe.
Because Mugabe was uniquely talented.
Mugabe had insane power.
I remember I was at a boxing gym in Massachusetts at the time Mugabe was about to fight Hagler.
When Mugabe was coming up.
And they were telling me stories about Mugabe fighting guys and they never fought again.
They had brain damage.
You know, I don't know how...
Again, boxing gym talk, it's hard to know.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I remember being a kid listening to this going, "What the fuck?" Like, he hit that hard.
Mugabe just was flattening people.
See if you can find John Mugabe.
Who did he KO?
Did he KO Terry Norris?
No, that was later.
Who did John Mugabe fight that he knocked out?
cameron hanes
Best KOs.
joe rogan
Let's see.
Pull up John Mugabe's record.
So John Mugabe was like almost kind of...
Okay, here.
Top John Mugabe greatest knockouts.
He was almost like a Francis Ngannou guy where it's like his power was just so crazy.
You would watch him hit people and you'd go, what the fuck, man?
Oh, this is Julian Jackson, right?
Is that who it is?
I'm pretty sure he KO'd Julian Jackson.
Maybe that was Terry Norris.
No, Julian Jackson KO'd Terry Norris.
But, you know, he just had...
Just extraordinary power.
Are they showing the KOs here?
This is just a lot of boxing.
Here it is.
Here he goes.
Yeah, bro.
He just had this one-punch knockout power.
And when he fought Hagler, man, he caught Hagler with some big shots.
And one of the more impressive things about Marvin was not just that he was such a big puncher and a great boxer, but also...
How durable he was because he was in such incredible shape.
You know, he never went down his entire career.
He has one knockdown and it was 100% bullshit.
He fought this guy named Juan Roldan.
And when Hagler was bending over, Juan Roldan kind of cuffed him in the back of the neck and he fell forward.
And they called it a knockdown.
It was not a knockdown.
And most boxing experts, I would actually argue that all boxing experts agree that that was not a real knockdown.
So you're talking about a guy who fought Tommy Hearn.
Did you see that last one?
Yeah, it was a little illegal.
cameron hanes
A little on the knee.
joe rogan
One knee down, he KOs him.
But the point is, Mugabe was terrifying.
And he was fucking everybody up.
And Hagler broke him.
But in the beginning, it was rough.
In the beginning, it was rough.
Mugabe was landing some big shots.
See if you can find Mugabe.
Well, I know it's available.
Mugabe versus Hagler.
It was mean, too, man.
Like, hitting guys where they were down.
Dangerous, dangerous guy.
And I don't know if he fought again after Hagler KO'd him, but he was never in the conversation again.
Hagler broke him.
Hagler told him he was going to retire him.
He's like, I'm going to retire him.
He's never going to box again.
And he just beat him down.
And I think it was the 11th round when he finally stopped him.
cameron hanes
5 '8 and 5 '9.
joe rogan
Yeah, 160.
You know, that's about right.
You know, generally speaking for, you know, heavily muscled guys, especially back then, those guys were not cutting a lot of weight like they are today.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
Like some of these guys today are cutting big weight.
cameron hanes
Oh, God, Hagler looks good, doesn't he?
joe rogan
Yeah, by the time the eighth round started happening, Hagler...
One of the things about Hagler that was so good was...
Hagler could switch so he could fight you Southpaw and then in the middle of nowhere he would switch up and start fighting you Orthodox and was just as good.
Just as good.
The only guy who's like that is Terence Crawford who's champion now.
He's the only guy that I've ever seen that fights just as good from Southpaw as from Orthodox.
Hagler was a rarity back then.
A guy that could switch it up like that.
Nobody had ever seen that before.
But that's also why it was very difficult for him to get fights early on because nobody really wanted to fight a southpaw.
Like, southpaws were too awkward.
Everything's backwards.
And if you're not used to fighting southpaws, they have an advantage because they're always fighting Orthodox people.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
That makes sense.
Yeah, and so they're accustomed to that one look.
Now, this fight had gone back and forth and back and forth.
This is the end.
This is when Hagler finally gets them.
Boom.
And that was it.
And I think that was the 11th or the 12th round.
I think it was the 11th round of a 12-round fight.
So Hagler fought in the era where they used to have 15-round fights and they turned them into 12-rounders after Dukku Kim died when Ray Mancini KO'd Dukku Kim.
cameron hanes
Yeah, it's a lot of damage.
15 rounds of headshots.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
I think that's why Rocky Marciona retired when he was 32. 49-0 and 32 years old.
He could have kept fighting.
He could have kept making money.
32 is your athletic prime.
cameron hanes
That's what I'm thinking.
Khabib did the same thing.
I just love seeing those training camp videos carrying the rocks and running the mountains.
Back to my point, why do we love that?
Just because it's so primal?
It's just...
Just men just giving everything they have.
It's one reason why Goggins is such a draw.
He's sort of like that.
joe rogan
Oh, he's very much like that.
But the craziest thing about Goggins is he's not even training for anything.
I asked him about it.
He goes, I'm downloading, downloading information.
I'm like, you're downloading?
unidentified
What are you downloading?
joe rogan
This is so crazy.
We were talking about the video that Stylebender just put out.
Shout out to Stylebender for putting this out, too.
We were also giving him credit because David broke him.
unidentified
The higher we go.
Because if they're hurting me, you're hurting me.
You are willing to go to another level.
You're not high?
Yeah.
That's even quicker.
Come off the AC.
Up.
It's off.
joe rogan
Where your world ends, mine begins.
And this is one of Goggins' multiple workouts of the day that he took Stylebender through.
cameron hanes
Stylebender's off the...
joe rogan
Yeah, and he's...
They're helping him back up.
By the way, this is after they already ran.
This is the third thing they did.
They ran, then they did the Airdyne bike, and then they're doing this.
So they already did sprints on the Airdyne bike, they ran.
I don't know how many miles they ran, but he was exhausted after the run, then exhausted after the airdyne, and then he does this, and then they do it all over again.
They start again with the fucking airdyne machine.
They go back and forth, and then it goes to sit-ups, and then it goes to...
It never ends.
And then people go, he's not doing that every day.
Well, fucking clearly he is.
cameron hanes
Every day.
joe rogan
Clearly he is, because look at him.
He's not even breathing heavy.
Stylebender is dying, and David Goggins is talking to him with normal...
At the same time, a world champion, one of the greatest middleweights of all time, can't even keep his food down.
cameron hanes
And remember, this is Stylebender, who against Kevin Gaslam, was saying, I'm prepared to die.
Going into the fifth round, looks across the ring, cage, says, I'm prepared to die.
Same guy.
joe rogan
Same guy, yeah.
There's levels.
When it comes to endurance.
You know, and I was telling you about when we were getting our infusions, when we were vaping stem cells today, I was telling you about BJ Penn when he was in his prime.
When BJ Penn was in his prime, he was training with Marv Marinovich.
And Marv Marinovich had very unorthodox training methods where it was all plyometrics, explosive drills, sprints, box jumps, all this crazy stuff.
And he believed, and I hope I'm not quoting him incorrectly, But he believed that fight training was of secondary importance when you're in camp.
And really what was important is to just have a fucking insane gas tank.
Like, BJ Penn knows how to fight.
He's a world champion.
He's not going to forget how to fight.
But you could get him training this way where you have this gas tank that's just insane.
And when BJ Penn was training with him, he was unstoppable, man.
He was like...
I always say this, like, people talk about Khabib being the greatest lightweight of all time, and maybe he is.
It's very possible he is.
But I would put the BJ Penn that fought Joe Daddy Stevenson, the BJ Penn that fought Sean Shirk, the BJ Penn that was, like, in that peak when he was training with them.
I would put him against anybody.
Against anybody.
Against when he fought Diego Sanchez.
He couldn't be stopped.
And if you got him to the ground, his fucking submission game was insane.
It was insane off of his back.
He would take your back.
You're dead.
He would knock you out standing up.
His kickboxing was elite.
cameron hanes
How do you think Khabib would fight him?
joe rogan
Take him down, for sure.
He'd probably fight him the same way George St. Pierre did.
But the difference in size between B.J. Penn and George St. Pierre is pretty significant.
B.J. Penn was really a 155-pound guy who actually later in his career fought 145.
Later.
Which was...
You know, when he was kind of at the end of his career.
But, you know, George is way bigger.
Like, George was a big 170.
Big, muscular 170 with great wrestling.
cameron hanes
Wide shoulders.
joe rogan
Nasty ground and pound and a black belt in jiu-jitsu himself.
And also a really good striker.
And just, you know, in his prime when he was so well-rounded.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And there was also accusations of greasing.
You know, because, you know, George was very slippery in that fight.
Which is, if you're a grappler, another person, you can't get a hold of him.
Especially if you're a guy like BJ, who fights so well off of his back.
BJ's legs were like arms, where he could be sitting there without using his hands.
He could put his feet in the lotus position.
So, like, completely cross and lock his legs in the lotus position without using his hands at all.
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Crazy flexibility and dexterity.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So if you were trapped in his guard, you were fucked.
cameron hanes
Yeah, you see those guys who they're on their back and they get their leg up around...
The guy with the top position's head somehow.
joe rogan
When you're in Eddie Bravo's guard, it's terrifying.
Eddie Bravo has the craziest guard I've ever been in.
It's so nuts.
And there's a bunch of Eddie students like Jeremiah Vance who also have these insane guards like that.
There's certain guys where if they're on their back, it's no picnic.
Like Fabricio Verdum, he tapped Fedor Emelianenko from his back.
He got him in an armbar triangle from his back.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
Well, you could tell if we talk about a recent fight.
Chandler vs.
Paddy Pimblitt Chandler didn't really want to be on the ground with Paddy and Chandler's a wrestler like he loves being on top ground but still he had top position and was still nervous About doing stuff, it seemed like.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yes.
cameron hanes
Well, Paddy's big.
joe rogan
Paddy's a big lightweight.
He really is.
I mean, I know he gets real fat in between fights.
cameron hanes
He gets a kick out of it.
joe rogan
But he's big.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's big.
You know, he's a lot bigger than people think.
I always say that he tricks people by dancing and having silly hair.
And you go, oh, that's a killer.
He's like tricking you.
He's like, you know, he's like one of them bugs that pretends it's a stick when you get close and he jacks you.
cameron hanes
Yeah, he looked...
He looks so good.
joe rogan
He's really good.
cameron hanes
I love Chandler.
Love Chandler.
That was a tough one to watch.
joe rogan
I love Chandler as well, but I love Patty as well.
Patty is very impressive.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
There's a good argument that the last three guys he fought, Bobby Green, Chandler, and Tony Ferguson, he's fighting guys with losing records, which is true.
That is true.
But it's still very impressive.
What he did...
To Chandler in comparison to like what Olivera did.
Like Olivera was in real trouble in the third round of their last fight.
Real trouble.
And real trouble in the first round of their first fight.
And Patty was never in trouble.
cameron hanes
Chandler was this close to having that belt.
joe rogan
Yes.
This close in the first round.
This close.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And maybe just got...
Yeah, sure.
Thank you.
Maybe just got a little overzealous in that fight.
cameron hanes
Yeah, he was excited.
I mean...
joe rogan
In the second round.
cameron hanes
Who wouldn't be?
joe rogan
Yeah.
But also, Oliveira is a master.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
He's so good.
cameron hanes
Well, his fight against, I think, Armand, right?
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
cameron hanes
Was so...
joe rogan
So good.
cameron hanes
I was watching those guys fight, and I'm just like, I've never seen two guys this crisp, good, technical.
Just never out of position, hardly.
joe rogan
And Charles almost caught him twice in two very close submission attempts.
cameron hanes
It looked like he was out at one time.
He wasn't moving.
joe rogan
Well, he was pretty locked in, but he wasn't out, but it was very close.
I think he should have won that fight.
In my opinion, those positions where Charles had, where you were that close to finishing a fight, count for a lot.
And I think that's part of the problem with the scoring system.
It's one thing if you go for a guillotine, the guy gets out of it immediately, you're on your back.
Getting beat up.
That submission attempt, that's not that much.
When a guy has a fully locked in Darce choke and you're almost out and you get saved by the bell, that should count for a lot.
cameron hanes
What's the best position for a Darce?
Because they were both kind of flat on the ground.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a bunch of different ways you can catch a darse, but the way a darse works is, like, say if you have an underhook, which means your left arm is wrapped around my waist.
What I want to do is shove my arm under your armpit so it pops out the side of your neck.
Then I want to wrap my bicep around like this, so I lock my arm around one side of your neck and this, and then I'm squeezing.
So that's Tony Ferguson.
He had a nasty, nasty darse.
Tony's darts was elite because Tony has long.
You see him catching it standing up there.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Tony has long arms and he's strong as fuck.
And he's got like a great grappling base because he started off as a wrestler.
cameron hanes
Charles is up on top.
joe rogan
Right there.
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Because that's what I was saying.
They're kind of laying both flat.
I just didn't know what was best.
joe rogan
Well, that's not ideal.
Ideal is when you get the guy on his back and then you could lock like the Dustin Poirier one where Islam has him.
See how Dustin in the lower right-hand corner?
Yeah, that's it right there.
So that's him against...
Go a little higher there.
That's Renato Moicano.
But one of the things you see about Islam, he's a very unique way of doing the dars, is Islam grabs his own wrist like this to finish it, whereas other guys go all the way down to the bicep.
And the thing about grabbing the wrist like that that's really good is you can make it a little bit tighter in a situation where you can't...
Like some guys, they have too much bulk and maybe your arms are too short.
You can't get the...
Like having long arms is really important for a darse.
Like John Jones must have a wicked darse.
Because you can get the arms all the way through if they're long, then you can cinch it up.
But Islam cinches it up actually by grabbing a hold of his wrist.
And so it gives you extra space and the grip that he uses is incredibly tight.
He's also insanely strong.
Who is?
unidentified
Islam.
joe rogan
Islam is insanely strong.
He's got that sort of elite grappling strength that comes from decades of throwing human bodies around.
There's a thing about that.
Like here, Demetrius Johnson says, I felt it, I know.
Fucking Max Holloway just texted me.
How strong is that Darce?
That's a sick Darce.
Islam is elite.
He's elite when it comes to like strangling people.
So is Ilya Teporia.
He's got a nasty Darce too.
cameron hanes
Aren't they fighting?
joe rogan
I don't know.
cameron hanes
Oh, that never got signed?
joe rogan
The word is, and this is only from the internet, this is not from Dana.
And if he told me, he'd probably tell me not to tell anybody, so I won't tell you.
But the word on the internet is that Ilya plans to fight in the June card, the big International Fight Week card at the end of June.
Whether or not it's for the title, he said he's only fighting for the title.
That's what he said.
Unless he said Conor McGregor.
He said, I'd fight Conor McGregor.
Or the title.
I think he'd just fight Conor McGregor because he knows the numbers would be fucking insane.
Millions of dollars.
cameron hanes
How...
joe rogan
But it doesn't mean he's fighting Islam because Islam might decide I'm gonna go up to 170.
Here's what could happen because Islam's been talking about fighting 170.
If Bilal Muhammad, who's the current welterweight champion, who's gonna fight Jack Della Maddalena, which is only in like a couple of weeks, right?
When is that?
When is that one?
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's coming up.
joe rogan
They might hold that announcement.
Until that fight.
So Islam and Bilal were training partners.
And apparently Khabib does not want Islam to fight Bilal.
But if Bilal loses to Jack Della Maddalena, then it's a no-brainer.
cameron hanes
Why doesn't he not want him to fight him?
joe rogan
Next Saturday?
jamie vernon
Not this, but next.
joe rogan
May 10th, yeah.
So it's real soon.
So all that we'd have to do is hold off their announcement until May.
cameron hanes
I see.
joe rogan
So if Balal wins, then there's an issue.
Because Khabib does not want Islam, allegedly, apparently.
Doesn't want him fighting because they're brothers, you know, they train together.
cameron hanes
Oh, okay.
unidentified
Oh, I see.
joe rogan
But Islam's big.
I mean, he easily could be fighting at 170.
It's probably torture for him to get down to 155.
Whenever I interview him, I'm like, how are you, 155?
This is so crazy.
cameron hanes
That would show rough weight cuts for him, it seems like.
joe rogan
It's rough.
He's big.
He's probably 190 plus.
Look at that.
Boom.
Oh yeah, Islam says I'm going to submit you with that because that's your thing.
Islam says, or excuse me, Ilya says that he's going to submit Islam with whatever his favorite move is.
He's like, tell me your favorite choke.
Tell me your favorite submission.
That's what I'm going to submit you with.
It's easy to say.
That's an elite level and a lot bigger.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I was going to ask, how hard is it or who is the next star?
We kind of saw this with Ronda when she was coming out of the women's division.
It's like, who is the next star going to be?
Connor.
Still, people are trying to call Connor out because they know of that money that's involved with it.
How do we get that next superstar?
joe rogan
Well, they have to win.
Sugar Sean O'Malley could have had it if he beat Marab.
But that was a nightmare matchup, and he had a fucked up hip going into that fight, which is...
It's one of those things, the UFC was putting on this big show at the Sphere, which was insane.
By the way, if they ever do one again, you gotta go.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I'd love to.
joe rogan
The fucking Sphere's crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I remember watching it.
joe rogan
It's so crazy.
It's like a total experience in and into itself.
I need to go to a concert there.
It's the most amazing venue I've ever seen in my life, and there's not even a close second.
Like, nothing's close.
There's a really cool one in L.A. that just opened up, that we did an L.A. card there a few months back.
That was really good, too.
But it's like one-tenth of the Sphere.
The Sphere's nuts.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's so nuts.
cameron hanes
It looked insane on TV.
joe rogan
And the sound.
The sound.
You feel it through your fucking bones.
It's wild.
cameron hanes
That was like last May 5th, wasn't it?
joe rogan
I believe so.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
Cinco de Mayo.
joe rogan
So for him to take that fight with a bad hip is crazy.
And I know he did it because he thought he could win anyway because he's a champion and that's how champions think.
cameron hanes
Yeah, you have to.
joe rogan
But with a bad hip when you're fighting a wrestler and you weren't wrestling at all and training because your hip's bad, that's crazy.
That's like you got to get it fixed.
Just get it fixed.
Tell him it blew out and you can't walk.
Get it fixed.
You got to think...
About the legacy and the future.
And taking a fight against a guy who's an elite grappler while you have a blown hip is kind of insane.
If you can't grapple.
It seems insane.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he could have won.
cameron hanes
I think it's that mindset you just have to have.
It kind of can get you in trouble, too.
joe rogan
And you look at how good his takedown...
Defense was against Aljamain Sterling.
So Aljamain Sterling in the first round tried to take Sean down.
He could not take him down.
And that was a big factor.
Like, Aljamain was in trouble.
Because if you can't take him down, and Sean is a fucking sniper.
He's a sniper.
And he knows how to find that chin, man.
He's got a pull right hand that's, like, from the textbooks.
And the one he would hit Aljamain with, that's going to be in that UFC.
When they play The Who, when they play Bob O 'Reilly, that'll be on that forever.
That is such a clean right hand.
It's such a pullback.
unidentified
Boom.
cameron hanes
And Al Jermaine saw it coming.
You can see his face.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's like, oh no!
What have I done?
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
And I bet he thought he could do that to Merab too, and he might have been able to, but Merab is a different species of human.
Again, same kind of guy.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
Same kind of guy.
cameron hanes
So listen.
We've been kind of dealing with this with my kids and Truett and all this stuff he's been doing, but I think those fighters we're talking about, it just made me think of my kids, but when you start them as kids, like the guys like Khabib, Dagestani guys, Marab, those guys have been training forever, right?
joe rogan
Yep, for sure.
cameron hanes
Forever.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
For sure.
That has to give you...
Yeah, you have to have other abilities and talents and skills and this mindset.
But when you start that early...
joe rogan
By the way, Rocky Marciano didn't start boxing until he was 23. Okay.
cameron hanes
Well, there goes my theory.
joe rogan
And you know, he had one of his amateur fights.
He was exhausted.
So he vowed to never be exhausted again.
He gassed out in a fight.
He's like, never again.
So he just decided he was good.
But it's also like...
He was Italian from immigrant parents who barely could speak English.
And those people who came over on the boat, they were a different species.
They're a different species of hard workers.
Those people were...
And they demanded so much.
cameron hanes
Joey Diaz, immigrant mentality.
joe rogan
Immigrant mentality, cocksucker!
Yeah, I mean, that's real.
Immigrant mentality's a real thing.
When you've come here from another country, and you see how hard your family works, and there's just, like, there's no ifs, ands, or buts.
I always tell this story about this guy that I used to train with that always used to make me feel lazy.
My friend Junkzik.
He was in his residency in medical school while he was on the U.S. national team.
So he was a national Taekwondo champion while he was going to medical school.
So he was going to school 12 hours a day and still training.
And he would put his books in his backpack and run stairs in between studying.
That's how he'd get in shape sometimes.
And then he would come to the gym exhausted and fuck everybody up.
He was amazing.
And I remember thinking, like, I'm so lazy.
And I wasn't lazy!
But compared to that dude, I was lazy.
cameron hanes
I just, that's what fascinates me, because, you know, I've talked to Huberman about Courtney in this regard, too.
It's like, willpower.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Like, how, what gives somebody more willpower than another person?
joe rogan
It's hard to say, because according to Goggins, he forged that, and he has more will than any human being that's ever walked the face of the planet.
And he used to be a lazy fuck.
He'll tell you.
He'll tell you, I was lazy, I was fat, I was 300 pounds, I drank milkshakes all day.
Like, he'll tell you.
And then he decided that that's not him anymore.
And then he decided it better than anybody who ever has.
So it's not like he had some genetic gift of will.
That's not the case.
He forged it.
cameron hanes
And this, you know, Huberman talks about this, whatever that part of your brain.
Yeah, that you can grow.
So is it that, that anybody can develop this willpower?
joe rogan
Well, I think Goggins proves that because he's, again, he's the goat.
He's the goat when it comes to, like, Will.
And people don't know what Goggins was doing with Izzy.
Goggins has two destroyed knees.
I had dinner with him in Vegas a few weeks back and he showed me some recent x-rays of his knees because he got some fucking new thing in his knee to keep his bones from fucking smashing into each other.
Some post that they put at the top of one of his knees because his cartilage is missing and his fucking meniscus is blown out and they sawed the top of his bone and shifted it down and screwed it in place because his knee was all out of a...
Because he had been running bone-on-bone so long that his bones were starting to...
It's like called wolf-something syndrome.
And his doctor said, "I've never seen it in a human being before." This is fucking insane.
Like, how are you walking on these knees?
Forget about running thousands of miles.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he does it.
He just does it, right?
And if that guy will tell you that he didn't have any willpower and that he was fat and lazy and then decided...
That he's not going to be that anymore.
And then put himself through grueling strength conditioning.
Became a Navy SEAL.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then...
Look at him.
He's laughing.
unidentified
Let's see how much of a joke this is.
And guess what?
I do out this alone.
Alone.
I ain't got nobody.
That's where this shit comes from.
I ain't got nobody to push to this level.
That's my darkness.
That's why I laugh at these motherfuckers.
You think they fucking know me?
You think you know me coming to my dungeon?
It's a lonely dungeon because you don't want to do this shit alone.
Every day?
Trading this world by yourself?
Come on, man.
And this is it.
You see me breathing heavy?
Imagine the level I go to.
Somebody call the police.
Good joke, Jamie.
joe rogan
I mean, how do you not admire that?
Look, he is psycho.
unidentified
I love it.
joe rogan
He is psycho.
cameron hanes
I love it.
joe rogan
He is psycho.
cameron hanes
I said, we joke around about, you know, because he says it's so easy to be great nowadays because everybody else is weak.
That's what Dawkins says, right?
joe rogan
Interesting.
cameron hanes
And it's like, when you talk about...
We talk about generations, and you've mentioned it a million times, good times, create soft, all that whole thing.
But I said, well, we got one.
We got Truett.
So we got one kid who's still getting it done.
joe rogan
Well, your son learned from you.
I mean, that's a great example of, you know, he grew up in an environment where his father was regularly running these 100-mile races.
Regularly running 13 miles in the morning before work.
You were doing all that stuff, and you were setting an example.
cameron hanes
I was going to show you something, too.
joe rogan
And then he sees how far it takes you in life.
You've gotten here by just force of will.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and Truist sent me this today.
So this is his first half marathon.
Can you see that?
unidentified
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
He's a little kid.
Wow.
cameron hanes
But he still ran eight-minute miles in that.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
As a little kid.
cameron hanes
But anyway, that's what I was saying about when you start that early with stuff like that.
joe rogan
You get used to it.
But then again, Goggins will tell you different.
Or Rocky Marciano will tell you different.
I don't think there's a hard, fast rule.
Look at that.
Look at you guys.
cameron hanes
That was his first marathon there.
joe rogan
That's so cute.
There's no hard, fast rules.
Like, yes, it's definitely beneficial.
As far as skill development, this is what I've always said about striking in particular.
There's something about learning striking while your body is maturing and you're young is way better.
Than learning striking once you're an adult.
cameron hanes
Because you said that with your kick.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Because your body was changing as you developed that kick and mastered it.
joe rogan
Exactly.
I was kicking in all kicks.
It's not like that's the only one that I'm really elite at.
I learned how to kick when I was a little gangly little kid.
And I learned that my body grew strong.
My tendons grew strong from hitting this 150-pound heavy bag every day.
As a little kid.
Just whap!
unidentified
Whap!
Whap!
joe rogan
And I basically lived in the gym.
So I was kicking that bag hours every day.
I was just constantly setting it up in training.
I was constantly setting up moves until I got them where it's instinctive.
I didn't even know it was happening before it happened.
When I was in a fight, it would just come out.
When you see the opening, you're not even seeing it.
You're just moving.
It's like it all goes into this instinct.
And the only way it happens is just insane hours.
Insane hours.
Constant dedication.
cameron hanes
But as your body was growing and you're putting the stressors on it and those movements on it, your body adapted essentially.
So it's like if you're already mature, your body wouldn't have adapted the same as it did because you're doing it at the perfect age.
joe rogan
You can get really good if you're a really good athlete and you pick up striking later in life.
But you're not going to get Floyd Mayweather good.
I don't think.
I've never seen it.
Rocky Marciano even wasn't Floyd Mayweather.
He was just a mauler.
He would just...
unidentified
And he would never stop.
cameron hanes
Couldn't hurt him.
joe rogan
He couldn't hurt him.
His endurance was insane.
The volume was insane.
He would just make guys rethink their whole lives.
Because he'd be like, what the fuck, man?
Fuck that guy.
That guy's out there?
I don't want that.
He just never stopped.
But he wasn't...
Floyd was a master.
He was a master in there.
He would stand right in front of you, and you couldn't hit him.
He stood right in front of Canelo Alvarez, and Canelo couldn't do shit with him.
And Canelo Alvarez, a world champion, one of the best ever, he couldn't do shit with Floyd.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I mean, do you think that would be less intimidating, fighting somebody like that because he didn't have that power, like the knockout power?
joe rogan
And he also had brittle hands.
Like, Floyd's broken his hands multiple times.
cameron hanes
You knew you weren't just going to get...
unidentified
Mauled.
joe rogan
You wouldn't get Mugabied.
cameron hanes
Right.
You're not going to be able to hit him, and it's going to suck.
It'll be frustrating.
But...
joe rogan
But he doesn't hit like Hagler.
cameron hanes
You're not going to be able to pool blood.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
He's not going to beat you down and stop you.
The thing about Hagler was, Hagler didn't mind getting hit because his chin was iron.
He didn't mind, and he wanted to smile at you when you hit him.
One of the things he said about Mugabe after the fight, they said, it seemed like Mugabe caught you with a big shot.
He goes, oh yeah, I like when that stuff happens.
I like a good fight.
This is what he said after he knocked him out.
And when the ring announcer was saying, the winner and still the undisputed...
The middleweight champion of the world.
Hagler's like saying it out loud to himself.
The undisputed middleweight champion of the world.
I mean, that's a guy that just went through hell for months in the snow at the Cape Cod.
And then he just beats the scariest fucking guy in the division.
And at that point in time, this was before the Leonard fight, he was talking about retiring.
cameron hanes
And you'd have to know if you were a fighter in his division or potentially going to fight him and you saw that after a war and then you see him acting like that, you're probably just like...
joe rogan
Bro, when he knocked out Mugabe, it was an outdoor fight, and steam was coming off of his head.
At the end of the fight, see if you can go to the end of the fight, when Mugabe drops, and they raise his hand, and he's celebrating, as he's celebrating and walking around, steam is coming off of his head.
unidentified
He was a monster.
cameron hanes
I don't know, I'm addicted to these fucking video viral clips, so now I got two of them you just reminded me of.
There's one.
Have you ever heard of Badwater?
It's called Badwater 135, I think.
But it's a race in Death Valley.
unidentified
Yes.
cameron hanes
Okay.
So Goggins did that.
And it gets like 130 degrees where you have to...
Because it's on the highway through Death Valley.
So you have to run like on the white line so your shoes don't melt.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
cameron hanes
And you wear kind of all white because it's so hot.
But it gets 130 degrees.
So Goggins, his first time doing that, he's got his...
Physical issues like always, but he finishes, he gets third place, I believe.
They come up to him and they're like, so what was it like out there?
How was the heat?
And he just was like sitting there just in his chair like this and he looks at the camera and he's like, didn't notice.
Didn't notice.
unidentified
It was 130 degrees.
cameron hanes
That one is just, I love that one.
joe rogan
That's real.
What do you got there?
What was that, Jamie?
Shit.
unidentified
Goggins is described as one of the toughest men on the planet.
He's the only man in history to complete elite training as...
joe rogan
Why is this?
That's terrible.
Why do they have music so much louder when someone's talking?
cameron hanes
I hate that.
I hate that.
joe rogan
I didn't even notice it.
cameron hanes
Yeah, there's that one.
joe rogan
Here's the Hagler one.
Look at the steam.
See the steam coming off his head?
Look at that.
That's so insane.
Fucking steam!
cameron hanes
What is it about just people being shredded and just weapons?
joe rogan
Well, it's just inspirational, man.
It makes you want to go to the gym.
I mean, when I see Goggins making Izzy puke and break, it makes me want to work out.
I mean, when I talk to you, it makes me want to work out.
When I know that you're out there running 13 miles, when you had your full-time job, boy, did I try to talk you out of that for so long.
unidentified
You did.
joe rogan
You did.
cameron hanes
It's crazy.
joe rogan
I tried to talk you out of that job for years.
I was like, dude, you're wasting money being there.
I know you think it's a good job, but you're wasting money.
But the point is, you...
We're working out so much while you had a full-time job.
I mean, most people just don't have that kind of willpower.
And when someone does, it's like super inspirational to everybody else.
We feed off each other.
Humans feed off of each other.
When I see a guy like Goggins or I watch a Hagler video of him training...
It's just fuel, man.
To me, it just pumps my blood up.
I want to go hit the bag, man.
I want to go work out right now.
I see that, but I've always used that as fuel.
cameron hanes
As a positive.
joe rogan
Always.
Read autobiographies about fighters and watched videos and watched them talk.
To me, it's like wood.
Just throw it on the fire.
It's more fuel.
This is the craziest thing about Goggins.
He ain't got nobody doing that for him.
It's all in his own fucked up head.
cameron hanes
Yeah, there's another clip where this guy, they're doing, you know, they do these big events, speaking events.
And so he was sitting there and the guy's like interviewing him.
He's like, so you run for hours and hours, don't you?
And he just looked, again, looks at him just like, he's got masters, this delivery, but he just looks at him.
He's just like out, you know, something like hours, days.
He runs for days and days.
So, not hours.
What are you talking about, fucking hours?
Days.
joe rogan
Yeah, what did he do, like, 99 100-milers?
How many 100-milers has he done in his life?
cameron hanes
Oh, he had the world record.
He did eight 100-mile races or, like, eight consecutive weekends.
So, it was something like that, which normally, you know, you do 100 miles, you're banged up for a while.
joe rogan
I would imagine.
cameron hanes
100 miles is a lot.
So he's doing them, I think it was eight consecutive weekends.
joe rogan
Yeah, most people can't even do eight marathons.
cameron hanes
Oh, God, dude.
Eight marathons?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did you ever see Eddie Ift?
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
Or, excuse me, Eddie Izzard.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Shout out to Eddie Ift.
Eddie Izzard, the comedian from the UK who likes to wear women's clothes, he did this thing in...
Sometime in the 2000s where he ran a marathon every day and he had no training.
He wasn't in shape at all.
He just did it through sheer will.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And I think he did it like 29 days in a row.
Like something insane like that.
unidentified
He did it twice.
joe rogan
He did it twice.
Okay, he's completed 43 marathons in 51 days.
That's in 2009.
Oh, it says she.
See, the thing about calling him she is he doesn't call himself she.
He still refers to himself as Eddie.
And he says, I'm a he, and I like ladies.
I don't know why they're saying she, unless he's changed things since, or she's changed, or whatever.
Either way, respect.
Super cool person, too.
Done two podcasts with him, her, the, them, whatever the fuck it is.
I love him to death.
But one of them, while he was on a treadmill.
cameron hanes
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, he was a he at the time.
So I was allowed to say he at the time.
cameron hanes
I'm glad you're getting this all worked out.
Because when I want to tell these stories, I've got to figure out when he was he and she.
joe rogan
I think I did his podcast.
And he was doing podcasts while he was on a treadmill.
And it was running like hundreds of miles.
You know, but just through force of will.
Completed...
Oh, it's her latest endurance.
Look at that.
Eddie Izzard completes her latest...
Like, what are we doing?
This time, 32 marathons in 31 days.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
It's, uh...
joe rogan
It's so kooky.
unidentified
It is...
cameron hanes
Well...
joe rogan
But, I mean, that's really impressive, too, because this is a person that's not in shape.
Like, when they started doing it.
When he started doing the first marathon when he ran all around the UK and ran like a marathon a day There's a documentary about it and the documentary is pretty incredible because he's not in shape at all and he's just Breaking himself down.
And his feet are falling apart.
I bet.
Like the bottom of his feet are just raw.
It's just blood and tissues and they've got gauze wrapped in between the toes.
It's oozing.
I mean, they're just destroyed.
cameron hanes
I bet.
joe rogan
One day he had to take a day off because it was that bad.
cameron hanes
You think about it because that was one of the questions I did this podcast about this Cocodona race coming up and they said, you know, how many steps do you think it'll take to finish the race?
So, and that just reminds me of So if it's 250 miles, my guess was it's generally about 2,000 steps a mile, so 500,000 steps.
But the point is, 500,000 steps on your feet, that's going to cause some damage.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
cameron hanes
You know what I mean?
So part of this training for big multi-day ultras is time on feet.
Because I was injured, I couldn't train like I normally train, so I'm like, okay, I'm just going to go out and spend time on my feet.
And so I did, last week, 150 miles, which was 22 miles a day.
But I couldn't run because I've been injured.
So it was like I was power hiking and kind of a slow run.
So it took fucking forever.
But I'm just like, time on my feet.
So I was out there to do that.
I was 37 hours of training last week.
joe rogan
So your foot must be getting worse, if that's the case.
cameron hanes
That was my hamstring.
joe rogan
Oh.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
Because I was in...
Like, the best shape I've ever been in was supposed to, I was going to go to Boston to get my best marathon time.
Everything was tracking good.
Me and Truel were training, running hard.
He was just like, on one of his videos, he's like, my goal is to get in the 230s for the marathon for him.
And he's like, but actually, I think that should be your goal because I can't keep up with you.
I was running so good and then tweaked the hamstring.
So now, if I try to open up and run like a six-minute mile, it kind of re-aggravates it.
So I've been trying to be patient, not push it, but I needed time on my feet was my point.
Because just as Eddie illustrated in that, if your feet aren't toughened up, that's your contact point.
joe rogan
And that's why you run with no socks on too, right?
cameron hanes
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
You want them to get kind of like a brace.
cameron hanes
But still, it's like that...
So many steps on your body.
So there's joints like, there's this great documentary that just came out on last year's Cocodona 250, and it's called The Chase, because they went with four guys.
joe rogan
Is there right here at The Chase?
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And it's really good, but the four guys they follow here...
joe rogan
Bro, that looks like hell.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
All those people in hell together.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so that's...
Yeah, photographer there.
Mike McKnight right there.
All these legends of 200s.
jamie vernon
I saw someone climbing a mountain here.
cameron hanes
What is that?
joe rogan
Is that part of it?
Shut the fuck up.
Is that part of it?
cameron hanes
That's in the same country, but that's just one of the key runners.
That's what he does during his runs.
unidentified
What?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
During his runs?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Take a little break.
cameron hanes
He climbs all the way.
In the film, he climbs this whole fucking thing to the top.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
There's people that are different.
cameron hanes
But the point is, that's the guy who's climbing right there.
joe rogan
What an animal.
cameron hanes
Yeah, these guys are just studs.
But here's the thing.
They had these guys, Jeff Browning right there, legend.
He's won like 30 hundred mile races.
That's Joe Stringbean, McConaughey.
joe rogan
What's the guy's name that climbs?
cameron hanes
That's Michael Verstage is his name, I think.
There's McKnight.
So it'll show him coming up.
Right there.
joe rogan
There he is.
cameron hanes
That guy.
joe rogan
Oh, he looks like a psycho.
cameron hanes
No, he's just...
unidentified
He's got dead eyes.
cameron hanes
To me, that's ultra running.
Like the dirt bag ultra runner.
That's what I love about it.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
I love guys like that.
This guy is like...
I don't know if he's Amish or whatever.
He's from Ohio.
Doesn't he live around mountains?
Just a freak.
So you get these people out there to race this 250 miles.
You don't know what the hell is going to happen.
Every person they just showed there...
Did not win.
unidentified
Wow.
cameron hanes
A guy who they didn't show won.
Because so much crazy things can happen to your body.
And you cannot predict.
joe rogan
17-year-old just finished 12th?
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
cameron hanes
I didn't know that.
That's interesting.
That's impressive.
joe rogan
That's impressive.
That kind of will for a 17-year-old?
cameron hanes
For sure.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
That kid's going to be unstoppable.
See, that goes to show you, there are hard people out there still, even in these soft-ass times.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's hard people out there.
cameron hanes
Yeah, there is.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
I think they showed they'd done the through hike on the Arizona Trail as a family, that kid who'd done it, and that was 800 miles as the Arizona Trail.
So a through hike is basically you're just on the trail just as long as it takes.
But that makes you tough.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
cameron hanes
Every day on your feet.
That's the thing.
It's like in that movie, these guys are just battling back and forth, passing each other, keeping track because you have the GPS tracker.
You remember when me and Courtney did Moab?
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
cameron hanes
So people get addicted to this tracking.
Right, right.
I know my brother just did.
So like a month ago.
Or maybe three weeks ago.
It was called the Arizona Monster 300.
A 300 mile race, my brother just got second.
unidentified
Wow.
cameron hanes
I was just tracking non-stop.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
cameron hanes
It's so fun to watch.
joe rogan
300 mile race and he got second.
How much did the guy who won beat him by?
cameron hanes
Two hours.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
cameron hanes
So the guy who won got 86 hours.
unidentified
Taylor got 88. That's so nuts.
joe rogan
88 hours is so crazy.
cameron hanes
Slept for four.
joe rogan
That is so cool.
How long did it take him to recover?
cameron hanes
Three and a half days.
I mean, I'm sure he's not recovered.
joe rogan
Ever.
cameron hanes
It's been a few weeks.
I mean, what I've said before is like, those races, I mean, exercising is good.
That's good for you.
Those, not good.
Those aren't making you live longer.
joe rogan
No.
cameron hanes
Pushing your body that hard.
joe rogan
No, it can't.
I mean, it's like you're on death's door.
I mean, you can only run for so long before eventually everything just breaks.
cameron hanes
The cool part is Courtney's doing this one.
joe rogan
Oh, nice.
cameron hanes
She's back to the 200s.
joe rogan
She's a fucking animal, dude.
You'd never guess.
Eats candy.
All silly.
Easy to talk to.
Real fun.
But somewhere in that brain, there's some darkness that she can call upon.
cameron hanes
I've been trying to find it.
She came out.
I just released it on my YouTube, but we did three hours.
No, three days we did 100 miles.
joe rogan
Look at her, she's eating McDonald's french fries.
cameron hanes
I know, I had Trey's bring us McDonald's.
We stayed at Pisgah for 12 hours and did 15 summits, 50 miles, just up and down.
joe rogan
Look at her, just chilling, eating fries.
She looks like an Instagram influencer.
She doesn't look like some psychopath that can run that far.
cameron hanes
No, so we did this three days, 100 miles, and we did...
joe rogan
This is a McDonald's commercial.
Because you have your fries stuffed in your pockets.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
The perfect fuel.
Seed oils for runners.
cameron hanes
You need calories and salt.
There's my brother right there, Taylor.
That's who got third.
joe rogan
Incredible.
cameron hanes
So this is his race.
But yeah, the point is, we went, so three days, and I'm 41 miles down this day.
You get to the last day, and I'm fucking beat up, dude.
She never...
Never got tired.
And I'm like, she can do her little run at this like a nine minute mile pace forever.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
cameron hanes
And I just don't, that's where I'm like, this willpower, how does it work?
joe rogan
Well, she famously went blind.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And kept running and fell and cracked her fucking head and got up and kept running.
cameron hanes
And won.
joe rogan
And won.
Yeah, she's a maniac.
But it's like.
It's not like this angry Goggins, like, who's going to carry the boats?
Like a different kind of mental strength.
She's got her own thing, her own formula.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I don't know if I told you this, but so I was talking to her about when you get in these ultra races, I mean, it's pain is what mostly stops you, right?
It just hurts so bad to run.
So I said, she talks about the pain cave.
So she goes into the pain cave, and that's...
You know, she welcomes it.
She's not shying away from the pain.
And I said, I go, okay.
So what do you mean?
You're just like embracing the pain?
She's like, no, I'm working in there.
And so she's explaining, she's got this chisel and she's hitting the chisel with a hammer.
And I said, so you're not thinking about running?
She's like, no.
She's, I'm thinking about hitting the chisel.
And she goes, rocks falling down and piling up.
I said, so you're thinking about that not running.
She's not running at all.
She's thinking about working.
So she makes her brain think about making this cave bigger.
And I'm like, whoa.
So I said, is there like furniture and shit in the cave?
She's like, no.
joe rogan
Plato's cave?
cameron hanes
I said, but is it the same cave every time, every race?
She says, yeah.
And I go, but...
I said, do you have like an extra, like a wing for one specific race as you work on this wing of the cave?
She's like, yeah, sometimes.
So she's in this cave thinking about chiseling rock.
joe rogan
Making the cave larger.
cameron hanes
Making the cave larger and just expanding the pain cave.
And I was just like, I was blown away.
And she goes, I feel like I need to stop talking about this because the more I talk, the crazier I'm seeing.
joe rogan
I kind of think you have to be crazy to be great.
I don't think it comes to a normal person.
I think there's got to be something going on.
I mean, for her, it's the pain cave.
For Goggins, it's who's going to carry the boats.
You don't know me, son.
Whatever it is, you've got to be crazy.
And you have to decide.
Like, if you want to beat Courtney in a 200-mile race, you've got to decide for years, for years, you have to chase that goal.
You're not going to do it tomorrow.
It's not going to happen.
Like, you're going to have to build up for years to be able to do that.
And she's going to be building up along the way, too, and so you'll probably never catch her.
cameron hanes
I don't know.
She looks, you know, she's 40 now, looks like...
Better than she's ever looked as far as performance.
I think she's done one race this year, won it, broke the course record, and now she's got this one coming up.
So, I don't know.
joe rogan
When she won the Moab, she won the Moab 240, right?
cameron hanes
240, yeah.
joe rogan
How far away was she from the second place person?
cameron hanes
It's like 8 or 10 hours.
And I asked her about that too.
Because even that, so if you said, oh, you're up by hours.
unidentified
Right.
cameron hanes
Slow down.
She pushed the whole time.
So that's what I am fascinated and I just want to know why.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
How?
joe rogan
What did she say?
cameron hanes
She just wants to do the best she can.
She just wants to see what...
She said she's never racing anybody else.
It's always just how hard can she push herself?
joe rogan
That's interesting because that kind of eliminates the ego.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because instead of battling with your ego, You're just trying to do your best all the time.
Your best.
You're not racing against anybody else.
You're just trying to do your best.
cameron hanes
A lot of people say that.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
A lot of people say that.
I think she truly believes it.
joe rogan
Right.
I believe it.
She believes it, too.
And if you can just compete against yourself, like, again, back to Goggins, he's not doing it for anything.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
There's not a thing that he's got going on.
cameron hanes
No race coming up.
joe rogan
Uh-uh.
cameron hanes
No, a lot of people have to have a goal to work towards.
joe rogan
He told me he's downloading information.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I don't know what that means.
joe rogan
That's his own pain cave.
He's downloading knowledge.
cameron hanes
So he's still trying to get better, is what it sounds like to me.
joe rogan
He's trying to figure out, like, he's developing his mind to be this unstoppable force, which it clearly is.
It's as close to an unstoppable force as I've ever seen, especially when you consider the damage.
If you go back to that Izzy video, let's look at his stride.
Because here's the thing about Goggins.
One of the things you see in his stride is if you look at his knees, he's got giant scars up both of his knees.
His knees are way more fucked up than mine, and I don't run.
Because my knees are fucked up.
cameron hanes
You did a 5k.
joe rogan
I did once.
No trading at all.
But the scars are extraordinary.
And when you see them in real life, it's even scarier.
And his form is weird.
But if you go to the YouTube video, Freestyle Bender, YouTube...
Okay, Izzy's got it.
Izzy put the whole thing up.
And when you see him running, I mean, his pace is great, but it's weird, like, the way he's running because his knees are destroyed.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and I think that that's just kind of...
He's evolved or devolved, however you want to say it, over time.
He's just doing what he has to do.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah.
If you scooch ahead a little bit, this is in the beginning.
So here it is, him running.
cameron hanes
There's a profile that shows it pretty good.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a sideways profile.
But even then, it looks kind of odd.
Like, Izzy looks sort of loose and relaxed.
His legs straighten out.
David's legs never straighten out.
They always have a bend to them at every step.
You know, like, when you see him sideways, you really get a chance to see it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's one part where you see him run.
There it is.
There it is right there.
So look.
See how he's kind of...
That's odd, right?
Like you're a runner.
You tell me.
That's kind of odd, right?
cameron hanes
Well, I just don't know.
He might be just trying to stay with Izzy because Izzy's going at a slower pace, which maybe if he was like...
Maybe if David was opened up, it'd be more extended.
I'm not sure.
joe rogan
It's hard to say.
cameron hanes
Because Izzy's obviously struggling there.
joe rogan
And also, they are going uphill when this is happening.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so I think David, it could be tweaking his form a little bit.
joe rogan
But, I mean, he must be in agony.
There's no way he's not in agony if you know the extent of the damage that he has on his knees.
And if you've seen the x-rays, we've showed them on the podcast before with all the fucking screws and shit.
They saw the top of his...
Femur off or his tibia off and shifted it to make it flat again.
Like, what?
cameron hanes
Yeah, he showed me some crazy photos, too, of his body reacting just insanely to some of what he's been putting it through.
joe rogan
Yeah, of course.
Well, he has to stretch, he told me.
He stretches for two and a half hours every night.
Just stretches.
And that's changed a lot for him, too.
cameron hanes
When you look at him and Izzy running, I mean, David's 50. They don't look that much different as far as like...
joe rogan
Physically looks insane.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And again, he's not breathing heavy at all.
And that was one of multiple workouts he does in a day.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
That would break most human beings.
cameron hanes
I think Izzy posted that that was...
David does three of those workouts a day.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he keeps going.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
By himself.
cameron hanes
That's why I love him.
joe rogan
All alone.
Yeah.
I mean, there's real boogeymen out there, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And with David...
This is all for his own personal growth or what he likes to call downloading knowledge.
Whatever he's doing, that's for him.
It's his own battle that he does.
But just to know that there's a guy like that out there, it pushes everybody else too.
David existing in this soft-ass world that we live in today raises the bar for literally everyone on earth.
Everyone who hears about him knows that there's a standard above in which they have ever pushed themselves.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Above and beyond.
And that's Marvin Hagler and that's Rocky Marciano.
There's people.
That's Khabib.
There's champions.
cameron hanes
And what people do is they cultivate their own little world without those people.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
cameron hanes
They're like, I don't know if I've heard you.
I think you, like...
You don't like knowing about...
Certain men don't like knowing that there's people like that out there.
unidentified
Yeah, they don't like it.
cameron hanes
Because then it's just like, fuck!
joe rogan
They don't like being held to a standard that they can't match.
They don't like being confronted by, oh, he's cheating, oh, he's doing this, he's probably on peptides.
There's some fucking excuse.
There's not a peptide in the world that makes you work out six hours a day.
unidentified
Fuck no.
joe rogan
It doesn't exist.
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
It doesn't exist.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I think that...
joe rogan
You have to be a crazy person.
And you have to be willing to get yourself into that place.
That crazy place.
cameron hanes
What was super cool was when Tru was going after the pull-ups, Goggins was checking in.
And he was just like, all in.
Like, you gotta, okay, tell him to do this.
Tell him to do this.
He's like, okay, write this down.
Call me back.
I mean, he was so into it.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a man.
cameron hanes
He's the man.
unidentified
Love him.
joe rogan
I love him to death.
And I think he does a great service to the world, even though he's doing it all in silence.
He's doing it all alone.
cameron hanes
You get glimpses of it.
joe rogan
You get enough to know, and especially that video where you see him with Izzy, like, oh, this is real.
This isn't a mythical person.
You know, this isn't the gray man.
This is a real human being.
Like, holy shit, man.
Like, there's people out there that are just working harder than everybody else, and they're gonna keep doing it.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's their grind.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
You know, and those people are super valuable.
Those people are so valuable.
The Marvin Haglers of the world, the Rocky Marcianos of the world, those are very, very valuable people.
Because they change everybody's perspective of what's possible, what to strive for, and what it takes.
Do you really want to be a champion?
Why?
Because you just want to be cool?
You want to be the coolest guy on the block?
You're not going to win.
You're going to find some fucking psychopath who just lives it.
It's their whole life.
And if it's not your whole life, get out.
cameron hanes
Get out.
There's another quote that I love, something like, there's somebody out there training every day, and when you meet, they will win.
I mean, that's just a fact.
Most people don't want to think about those type of people.
They think that they're like, oh, yeah, I'm working my ass off.
I'm doing more than anybody.
They're ignoring a few people.
joe rogan
You don't work more than anybody.
That's not real.
There's no way you do.
There's one guy.
He lives in Vegas.
He's my friend.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
I'll introduce you to him and you just get nervous just being around him.
He's on a different level.
cameron hanes
He's the man.
joe rogan
And that level that he's on, like this thing that he's doing, it's good for all of us.
People don't like it because they feel weak.
I compare myself to him like, Jesus Christ, I don't have that kind of will.
But if I was the type of person that...
All I was was my hard work and my will.
I would look at him and I would feel inferior.
And people do not like that.
And there's a lot of bitch-ass men out there that don't like it when guys are working harder than them.
And they try to bring those people down.
And David takes all those fucking people and then he writes all the shit that they said down.
And then he records it and listens while he's running.
unidentified
Yeah.
cameron hanes
He's one of one.
joe rogan
You better shut the fuck up.
You're just going to make him meaner.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're just going to make him crazier.
cameron hanes
I love that.
The challenge nowadays is who's real and who isn't.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
Because there's people that say things just like David says.
joe rogan
But they're not really doing it that well.
They're not doing it that well.
cameron hanes
They're not him.
joe rogan
No, they're not him.
cameron hanes
It's an act.
It gives them this social currency in today's world.
So that's the hard part, is like, who's real, who isn't?
joe rogan
And they might be working harder than most people.
cameron hanes
Not everybody.
joe rogan
Even not everybody.
No, there's people out there that are just...
And you can't.
You know, you can't.
Because there's not only so many hours in a day, and there's only so much time you can do.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, I've never done anything like that before.
But what I did do when we had that Sober October challenge with Tom and Bert and Ari is I went kind of crazy and lost my mind.
I was doing seven hours of cardio a day because I wanted Bert Kreischer to die.
Because Bert really thought he was going to win.
So I watched John Wick like 50 times in a row.
cameron hanes
Did you do seven a day?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, I was doing seven hours a day.
I was trying to kill him.
I was literally trying to kill him.
I was running hills.
cameron hanes
What if he would have died?
joe rogan
Then he dies.
I was like, he's talking shit.
He was talking shit.
cameron hanes
That's what you get.
joe rogan
That's Bert.
Bert will tell you he can do the splits.
I'm like, okay, do the splits.
He can't do the splits.
He'll tell you he can beat you in push-ups.
Okay, he can't beat you in push-ups, but he'll always say it, which is fine.
But there was something about that competition where we were all kind of going crazy.
We all decided to never do that again because at the end of the month, we were like, it was bad for your family, bad for your kids never saw me.
Daddy's fucking screaming in the gym all day.
I set off the fire alarm because I sweat so much in the gym that the fire alarm went off.
cameron hanes
That's pushing it.
joe rogan
Puddles around me.
Puddles.
Just puddles.
I was just drinking water and soda.
I was drinking like cream sodas because I needed sugar.
Yeah, I just felt that's what I wanted.
I wanted soda.
So I was drinking like sugary sodas and just running like a fucking maniac.
At the end of it, I was like, I can't.
That's a part of my brain I don't like.
That part was like the part that made me very good at fighting.
And it like ignited again.
And I was like, woo, it's still in there.
Like, Jesus.
cameron hanes
It's been a while and it's still there.
joe rogan
It's been a while.
It kind of got stronger.
It was like more...
You wanted to stay back.
It's like you want to start doing other things.
You want to start running and doing races and start like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
You're busy.
Let's not get crazy.
cameron hanes
Do you think it's...
Do you think it's the measurables?
That have changed things?
Because our watches tell us everything.
So you get those numbers.
You want those numbers to go up.
joe rogan
Yeah, they say that that's a thing with those Fitbits and all these different wearables.
People say that people are getting addicted to those the same way they're getting addicted to social media.
So we were doing everything through the MyZones chest strap.
It's a heart rate monitor.
And it was basically giving you a certain amount of points for...
Having your heart rate above like 140 and then even more points if it gets above like 180, like when you're in the red.
And so you would just try to clock as many points as you could for a day.
cameron hanes
So you had to push hard to get those points, you're saying?
joe rogan
Yeah, you have to be, you know, you're in the yellow.
Like the 140s for hours and hours.
cameron hanes
Yeah, my heart rate is so low.
If me and Tru are going on a run, we did a 20-mile run here a few months ago.
His was, in the 20-mile run, we ran like six 18s.
His was 157, and mine was 139 or 140.
unidentified
Wow.
cameron hanes
So I have a hard time getting my heart.
High.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
That's insane fitness.
I'd like to see what David's is.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he ain't wearing no fucking heart rate monitor.
cameron hanes
No, that's not his style.
But yeah, so when you talked about that your heart rate had to be high to get these points, I'd be like, I'd be fucked.
joe rogan
Well, Brigham says that he competes with Tim Kennedy, and he's like, Tim Kennedy doesn't even know I'm competing with him.
Because Tim Kennedy's wearable numbers are posted on the MyZones thing.
That's the thing about MyZones that was interesting is you could compete with...
And even when we were doing Sober October and we were torturing ourselves, we still weren't in the top ten in the country.
There were still people out there for no fucking reason other than being a psycho, people you've never heard of in Nebraska somewhere or wherever that are working harder than us.
And they're not even competing for anything.
This is just what they do.
They're putting in crazier numbers than we were.
And they probably do it every month.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's...
joe rogan
Nuts.
cameron hanes
That is nuts.
joe rogan
Yeah, so Tim Kennedy's one of those.
He's always posting these crazy numbers.
And Brigham tries to compete with him.
And when he finds Tim's numbers, that's why he spends two hours a day doing Muay Thai.
He's competing with these numbers.
cameron hanes
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
See, Strava's sort of like that.
Runners use Strava.
I'm not on it, but...
That gets posted publicly so everybody can see the pace, the climb, the hours.
joe rogan
Well, if you're competitive, it's great for everybody.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it just raises that bar.
Imagine if you could see Rocky Marciano's Strava numbers in 1951.
People would be like, what the fuck?
cameron hanes
I know.
I would love that.
joe rogan
Everybody else would be like, well, that was the thing with the Hagler and Mugabe fight.
Like, Marvin broke him.
He couldn't keep up with Marvin.
Marvin kept hitting him, ripping to the body, slowly but surely breaking him down.
But his endurance was just so strong.
At the end, Mugabe was just like a—he was wobbling.
When you see it in a fight, in MMA you see it a lot.
Their technique doesn't look crisp anymore.
Their head's moving too much.
Their core's not stable.
They're constantly recorrecting.
They're not like rock.
In the beginning of the fight, everybody is rock solid.
In the end, there's like a laxity to the movement.
You see the fatigue set in.
There's like these telltale things.
And Marvin didn't have that.
There was no laxity.
It's like the storm.
Storm's coming.
cameron hanes
Being across from somebody like that must just be the worst.
joe rogan
They never get tired.
There's a famous moment when Khabib fought Edson Barboza where Edson has this thousand yard stare because Khabib took him down again and he's beating him up and you realize Edson's like...
This is never gonna end.
cameron hanes
I cannot get out of this.
joe rogan
I'm never gonna get this guy off me.
I can't stop him from taking me down, and he's just mauling me.
Every time he takes me down, he's just punching my fucking face in.
And that's how Conor felt when he was fighting Khabib, too.
At the end, he's just, like, tapped.
Like, fuck it.
It's over.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I mean, it's got...
That fatigue makes cowards of us all.
It's got to be the most accurate quote of all time.
joe rogan
And the only way to develop that kind of endurance is through insane work.
Insane work.
Just insane volume.
And then constant consistency, constant volume, discipline, intensity, never-ending, go, go, go, go, go.
Where your body just has to keep up.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Or it doesn't and it breaks.
And then eventually you get like Cain Velasquez towards the end of his career.
His shoulders were getting fucked up.
His knee was fucked up.
His back was fucked up.
After a while, he was too mentally tough for his own physical form.
His body just couldn't tolerate it anymore.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I wonder what the limit is nowadays.
Because we talk about back then.
And we talk about how it's changed.
Because you said something, talking about, I think, Sonny Liston, talking about when he was 38. That was a different 38 than now.
joe rogan
Joe Lewis, yeah.
cameron hanes
He was 37. Okay, so nowadays, what are people capable of?
Because when you talk about the nutrition, the science, who knows?
Because you said something like your body will break if you push a certain amount.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think there's a difference between endurance activities and combat sports.
And there's something about combat sports that it's fractions of a second you miss.
So there's only been a very few fighters that fight at an elite level deep into their 40s.
The best example is Bernard Hopkins.
Bernard Hopkins fought at a world championship level when he was 48, 49 years old.
Very intelligent.
Never got out of shape.
Never cheated on his diet.
Never partied.
Never drank.
Never smoked.
Never got fat.
Always trained.
Always in shape.
And also very intelligent with his boxing.
Super defensively responsible.
He didn't fight like Hagler where he just weighed himself into the fire and tried to break guys.
Bernard was using clever boxing and really good defense.
Defense was number one.
You didn't have to like his fights.
Some of them in the beginning, people thought it was boring because he would hold on to guys and he wouldn't let the guys hit him.
But he won fights and he didn't take a lot of damage.
And so he was able to do it deep in their 40s.
But most people, by the time you're 37...
That's usually when the wheels start to fall off, if you're natural.
If you're natural.
The thing about today is, with boxing, especially in the off-season, no one can stop you from doing peptides and growth hormone and testosterone replacement.
No one can stop you.
As long as you're not getting VADA tested.
And that usually, generally, they do that during camp.
And as long as you're not getting randomly tested, like USADA used to do with the UFC, where they just show up at your door, if you just get weighed in and then the State Athletic Commission drug tests you, like in Nevada...
That's an intelligence test.
That's how certain guys were able to maintain their power going up in weight class, multiple divisions.
For sure there's some Mexican supplements involved in that.
For sure.
And that's different.
So if you're doing...
Like peptides and hormone replacement and all that, then you're extending your athletic career deep, deep, deep into your 30s and maybe even into your 40s.
But combat sports are just a different animal.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's different than just running.
Like you're getting hit.
And like your ability to hit back is based on your ability to absorb punishment.
And you only have so many times that ticket can get punched before your chin goes, before you can't take it anymore.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So it's like, for fighters, it's very rare that a guy can perform at the highest level in the late 30s.
Randy Couture, he did it.
He didn't even start his career until I think he was 34 or 35 as an MMA fighter.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and he went late, beat Tim Sylvia.
joe rogan
Yeah, he won in his 40s.
cameron hanes
Yeah, yeah.
So what's your training like nowadays?
Because you're shredded.
joe rogan
I'm doing a lot of kettlebells still, always.
I'm doing that regularly.
I'm doing a lot of rucking, too.
Getting ready for elk season.
I've been doing a lot of walk hills.
There's a big hill in my yard that I like to walk to with farmer's carries and shit.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
This is that Tom Haviland guy that I've been following a lot from Australia.
And one of the things that he does, he carries stuff.
So I'll carry heavy shit and walk around the gym with it.
cameron hanes
There you go.
joe rogan
I think there's something to that, man.
Really, for overall strength.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I've been staying with a lot of the bodyweight stuff that I do.
I do a lot of that stuff with a weighted vest, too.
A lot of chin-ups and dips and pull-ups and L pull-ups.
You know, when you do it, you hold it tight and lift the legs out.
I'm doing a lot of those leg lifts, too, where you're hanging with a straight body and then lift your legs, hinge at the hips, lift your toes all the way up to the top of the bar and then slowly drop them down and up and that.
Doing a lot of that, too.
And just mixing that up with bag work and all the different things that I always like to do.
But I've been super consistent.
I've been real consistent.
cameron hanes
Going to be ready for elk season?
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
I'm excited.
I'm already excited.
cameron hanes
How many elk hunts?
joe rogan
I have two.
One with you and one with Evan.
You know, that's generally what I do.
But I have a lot of opportunities around Texas for pig hunts.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is nice because people are begging you to hunt pigs.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
They're tearing up the land here.
joe rogan
They just get, you know, like I got a text from a friend of mine the other day who's a...
Movie producer.
And he's like, please, come to my ranch and kill some of these pigs.
They're just everywhere.
cameron hanes
Sounds fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, because they have to kill them.
I mean, there's millions of them in Texas, and I'm not exaggerating.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and they just reproduce so quickly.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So the good thing about that is it really gets you tightened up for elk season.
You really get a lot of targets in.
cameron hanes
Bo's shooting good.
joe rogan
And get some good sausage.
Yeah, bo's shooting great, man.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Always shooting great.
cameron hanes
Archery country.
joe rogan
Archery country.
cameron hanes
What's going on there?
joe rogan
You and me are part of the owners now.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Is that public now?
It is now.
Yeah, that's exciting, isn't it?
unidentified
It is.
joe rogan
We're business partners, buddy.
cameron hanes
I know.
That's fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, and Evan and Tyler's the man.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's cool.
Everybody together.
cameron hanes
Pretty exciting.
joe rogan
Really fun.
Yeah, we got big plans to do something really cool with a place here in Austin.
That's exciting.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
A lot going on.
joe rogan
There's a lot happening.
Archery's so much fun.
cameron hanes
Oh, the best.
Dude, I just got this set up.
I just love shooting bows.
joe rogan
You got another one?
cameron hanes
Yeah, this is correct.
joe rogan
Why'd you get a different one?
cameron hanes
Well, I had to get it in the Sitka.
joe rogan
Oh, that's nice.
Ooh, that does look good.
cameron hanes
So we had the origin on that.
joe rogan
Is this 80?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
It's a good-looking bow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
But yeah, so some changes.
Had to get in Sitka and we're...
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
We're rocking.
Oh, yeah.
So you said Truett ran in Origin Jeans.
joe rogan
No, he didn't.
cameron hanes
Not true.
joe rogan
I thought he did.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's running in...
What's the company that he uses?
cameron hanes
It's called Perfect Gene.
joe rogan
Oh, I saw Jesse Michaels was repping those, too, in one of his YouTube videos.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
Anyway, so Origin liked your call out, though.
joe rogan
Oh, there it is.
cameron hanes
There's a perfect jean.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, there's a lot of people that make these great stretchy jeans.
Revtown makes a great pair.
Barbell makes a great pair.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he's so jacked.
For a guy who runs, like, that kind of time, sub-three-hour marathon, nobody looks like him that's running those.
Look how jacked he is.
cameron hanes
Yeah, he's down to a...
He just did Eugene.
So he set...
He got his fastest time ever in Boston on Monday.
joe rogan
Look at that.
No one's jacked like that doing fucking marathons.
And then also gets the world record in pull-ups.
cameron hanes
Yeah, and then he just beat that time six days later in Eugene.
That's nuts.
So normally under three hours as fast.
He did Eugene in 234.
joe rogan
He came in seventh place in the Austin Marathon and doesn't look anything like anybody else that's running.
Everybody else looks like popsicle sticks.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I mean, part of it is, like, I told him when he was, like, that little guy, I said, hey, running's your thing.
Just so you know, running is going to take you, and he hated it, because I made the kids run.
So you make a kid do something, they're going to hate it, right?
So he...
Kind of half-ass effort all through high school.
Did pretty good.
Was like all conferences of freshmen, but that was as hard as he ever kind of worked.
He just wanted to lift and he hated running.
So I told him, I said, if you work hard, you could run in college.
I mean, for sure.
And he's like, I don't want to run for four more years.
He's like, so done with running.
So finally now, now he has this goal of running.
Under a 230 marathon.
So that's in the 220s, which is fucking fast.
joe rogan
What's like a world record?
cameron hanes
Oh, down two hours.
joe rogan
Two hours.
cameron hanes
Right over.
joe rogan
When did that become the world record?
What did it used to be?
What was the world record in 1990?
He did it again.
Truett Haynes.
Boston Marathon, 238.
cameron hanes
Right.
He just beat that on Sunday in Eugene.
joe rogan
Nuts.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So his lowest time is what now?
cameron hanes
234.
But he'll get...
And there's Tanner.
So Tanner did the Eugene Marathon in the middle at the bottom.
That's my oldest son.
unidentified
Wow.
cameron hanes
With 35 pounds.
joe rogan
What?
cameron hanes
Yeah, so he, and in combat boots.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
cameron hanes
Him and his buddy Jake.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
cameron hanes
They both wore these big packs and still ran it in the fours.
joe rogan
Wow.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so that's Tanner.
joe rogan
With combat boots.
That's fucking nuts.
cameron hanes
So these guys, Truist's wearing jeans and a wife beater.
Tanner's in a pack and...
Hunting and combat boots.
joe rogan
Hilarious.
I wonder how the normies view that.
I wonder if that bothers them.
All those dorks.
cameron hanes
No, the elite runners hate people like Truett.
They call them run-fluencers.
Because part of it is the elites work so hard, they're so good, and it's hard to get a following when you're just a runner.
So they see this guy, and they're like, They can beat them because they're world class going to the Olympics.
So Truett isn't there yet, but they're like, this fucking jack dork is running and getting all this.
There's articles on them everywhere.
And so that's why it's kind of the gatekeeping thing.
joe rogan
Well, that's funny because then the haters work for them because it's unbelievably impressive.
It's impressive.
I don't give a fuck what you say.
Oh, I don't like these people.
They're the run fluencers.
Come on, man.
The guy has the world chin-up record.
He's obviously a freak.
He's obviously doing something that's very, very extraordinary.
And if you don't want that because it's for us, it's only for us.
unidentified
Yeah.
You're supposed to be skinny.
joe rogan
Fuck off.
cameron hanes
Yeah, they don't.
So Truett and Eugene got...
25th place.
I mean, Eugene is like the running capital of the world, but...
jamie vernon
The times have changed over the last hundred years.
joe rogan
Interesting.
So in 1908, it was 2 hours and 55 minutes.
So in 1908, Truett would have the world record.
In 1956, down to 2 hours and 17 minutes.
So 50 years later.
2003, 2 hours and 4 minutes.
And then 2018, 2 hours and 1 minute.
So between 3 and 18, in 15 years, they only lost 3 minutes.
Isn't that wild?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
I mean, you're just not going to get those big gains after...
joe rogan
Right.
I mean, someone would have to be a fucking freak to drop under two hours, right?
cameron hanes
So they did this with...
I think he got under two hours here.
unidentified
Wow.
cameron hanes
And he had all these pacers and people breaking the wind for him.
joe rogan
Oh, is that different?
cameron hanes
I think it's Kipchoge.
Yeah, he's like in white.
joe rogan
That doesn't count as much?
Someone's breaking the wind for you?
cameron hanes
Right.
You can't have official pacers just...
If you're not racing them...
joe rogan
Oh, they were pacers for him.
cameron hanes
Just for him.
joe rogan
This is the Ineos pace challenge.
So Ineos is that company that makes that Grenadier.
Have you seen that truck?
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
It's kind of a funny story.
Ineos is like a chemical company and the guy loved Range Rover Land Cruiser Defenders and wanted to remake them when they stopped making them.
They said no.
He's like tried to buy their factory.
They're like, no.
So he's like, okay.
I'll make my own.
So he basically made a better defender.
So these are new trucks that are way more durable, way better quality than those.
If you get one of those classic Defenders, they look cool.
But when you shut the door on them, it feels like you're closing a garbage can.
cameron hanes
Oh, I see.
joe rogan
They feel like junk.
They feel like these things are tanks.
cameron hanes
These are built, huh?
joe rogan
Well, they're built specifically for off-roading.
cameron hanes
Oh, I see.
joe rogan
But it's a brand new truck.
cameron hanes
I've never heard of them.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I know.
It looks like a classic Defender, but it's actually way better.
Way better.
I saw one in the flesh.
I was like, oh, this thing is super legit.
Heavier gauge steel, like really tight tolerances, and I've watched a bunch of videos on them.
They're all outfitted.
Like you could take one of those hunting for sure.
They're outfitted with electricity, like in the back.
They're all set up where you could put like coolers back there, like a little refrigerator.
Pretty sick.
Yeah, and they're literally from the factory set up for outdoors.
Like, you don't have to do nothing to them.
You could take them, do Moab with them, take them out into the fucking woods.
cameron hanes
We could still have Hennessy, like, sweet them up a little bit.
joe rogan
Yeah, it doesn't have nearly the kind of horsepower that a Raptor has or anything like that.
I think they only have like 300 horsepower or 280, which is not a lot, but it's the durability of the things, like the purpose-built.
So that's the same company, Ineos.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
That's the pace challenge.
cameron hanes
That race.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what that company is.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
So the goal was to try to break two hours in that race.
joe rogan
So he did.
He got down to 159, but with pacers.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So it's possible for someone to do that without a pacer.
cameron hanes
That's what it kind of showed.
joe rogan
Seems like it.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
That's so crazy.
It's super fast.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
cameron hanes
Super fast.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
It's like what won Eugene was 217.
So still like what was the world record back in, what was that, the 50s?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
That's what won Eugene still.
So that'll still win most marathons.
unidentified
Yeah.
Fuck.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
It's flying.
joe rogan
And the amount of work you have to do to get to that fast.
cameron hanes
That's what I do.
Sympathize with the pro runners because the work you have to put in to be elite.
joe rogan
Whatever.
You get what you deserve.
This is what you get in life.
What you deserve.
cameron hanes
Yeah, hey, throw some jeans on if you don't like it.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't like the fact that he's getting attention because he's a handsome guy who's jacked, who's wearing jeans.
Fuck off.
Do you think Courtney cares about that?
No.
Right?
Do you think she would be focusing on other people?
That's people that want more than they're getting.
What about me?
unidentified
I'm winning.
joe rogan
No one cares.
cameron hanes
Well, we have gatekeepers in hunting, too.
I don't know if you knew that.
joe rogan
Yeah, allegedly.
There's gatekeepers in everything.
Well, there's always people that compare themselves to other people, and then they don't like what they find, so they try to find flaws in that other person.
That's what it is.
But there's that with literature, filmmaking, music, comedy.
Fill in the blanks.
There's always bitches.
There's always bitches out there.
And what do bitches do?
They bit.
They bitch about everything.
Sub 230 marathon in 2025 or die.
cameron hanes
Yeah, so he's going to get it.
I mean, there's no doubt he's going to get it.
joe rogan
He broke the world pull-up record.
He did 10,000 pull-ups in 24 hours.
That's nuts.
cameron hanes
And so people are saying, like, oh, PEDs or EP...
It's like, we were breakfast after the marathon.
I'm like, I don't even know what the fuck EPO stands for.
Do you?
joe rogan
I don't know, but I know what it does.
cameron hanes
Well, it's supposed to make more red blood cells, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what a lot of the Tour de France people were doing.
unidentified
Yeah, that's as much as I know about it.
cameron hanes
So I'm like, we were at breakfast and I'm like, do you think somebody in fucking Springfield, Oregon has EPO?
What are you guys talking about?
joe rogan
You could get it, but...
I don't think he's on it.
But the thing is, fighters have been popped for it.
EPO is real.
I think that's actually what TJ Dillashaw got popped for.
cameron hanes
Oh, is that?
joe rogan
Yes.
When TJ Dillashaw fought Henry Cejudo when he got all the way down to flyweight.
The thing about that, though, is I understand why TJ did that.
Because TJ was literally starving himself to death.
cameron hanes
Oh, he's trying to get to 125.
joe rogan
Yes.
Starving himself to death.
Because he would have to cut a lot of weight to make 135, so he had this idea that he was going to become a two-division champion and drop down at 25. And he was just a dead man.
He had nothing left.
And it probably shortened his career.
It really probably did.
Because he looked like hell.
And then Henry Cejudo took him out in the first round.
cameron hanes
You know, when you put...
So, I'm not trying to compare me at all, but I was losing weight.
Intentionally trying to get lighter for these races coming up.
So my same theory of burning 4,000, eating 3,000.
So 1,000 calorie deficit a day.
Which is fine for regular life.
But I was also running 100 miles a week.
That's what my ham...
My body just wasn't getting what it needed, but I was still trying to push hard.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
That's why I got injured.
joe rogan
What did you want your goal weight to be?
55. So at 155, then you feel like it's easier to run.
What's the most you've ever weighed and run like a 100 miler?
cameron hanes
Oh, probably like 80. 180?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What was that like?
It was hard?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because I think about that a lot of times when I'm wearing my weight vest, because I have one of those Outdoorsman's packs, so it's got the post on the back, and I put a 45-pound plate on it.
And so the pack probably weighs like 5 pounds, and then the plates, so it's 50 pounds.
That's like a normal thing that people have to lose.
It's a normal thing.
And I'm walking up hills with this thing, and I'm like, this sucks.
This sucks, and this isn't even that heavy.
And some people, they have to lose 100 pounds.
Like, what do your joints feel like, man?
Because it hurts my feet.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
I mean, you saw it.
Jelly Roll's lost like 200 now.
joe rogan
I know.
cameron hanes
200 pounds.
joe rogan
He threw his phone away.
unidentified
He threw his phone away.
joe rogan
Did he get it back?
cameron hanes
I think he got it back.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
cameron hanes
I've been seeing some social media posts.
joe rogan
Well, I think he's got a guy who does that.
cameron hanes
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
That might be.
joe rogan
Yeah, because I reached out to him, and it came up green.
I was like, hmm, that's weird.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I did, too.
joe rogan
And so then I reached out to him on Instagram, and his social media guy says, I'll get this message to Jelly Roll, but he got rid of his phone.
cameron hanes
Oh, good.
joe rogan
Because he had the same phone forever, and, you know, years of...
He's the opposite of Bert.
He's the nicest fucking guy ever.
He's not the opposite of Burt.
unidentified
Burt took his weight.
joe rogan
They're going to meet in the middle.
He's still got some ways to go.
cameron hanes
Burt will get, he'll be back on, and I do have to give Burt props.
He is strong.
joe rogan
Oh, he's strong.
cameron hanes
He's strong.
So he benched a lot.
He beat me in benching.
joe rogan
Did he really?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
What did he bench?
cameron hanes
He did like 225, like 13 times, 10 times, something like that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's impressive because back in the sober October days when we were talking about when he had that challenge, he couldn't do it once.
cameron hanes
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, he couldn't do 225 once.
Because we all had like this little contest, like who can do 225?
And he couldn't do it at all.
cameron hanes
He's on PEDs.
joe rogan
Yeah, he is for sure.
He's definitely on testosterone.
cameron hanes
No, he's strong.
joe rogan
But he works hard.
cameron hanes
And he...
joe rogan
He just drinks hard too.
cameron hanes
I think I heard him say on here that he did pull back my 80-pound bow.
joe rogan
Did he?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's impressive.
cameron hanes
I know.
I'm telling you, he's pretty strong.
joe rogan
Because you know who couldn't pull back my bow?
Alexander Gustafson.
cameron hanes
Really?
joe rogan
He fought in the UFC at 205.
cameron hanes
Yeah, he's huge.
joe rogan
Yeah, he couldn't pull the bow back.
cameron hanes
Pulling a bow.
joe rogan
He's like, is there a trick to this?
I go, no, here's the trick.
cameron hanes
Just pull that fucker back.
joe rogan
Pull that fucker back.
I do it 100 times a day.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I mean, if people haven't done it, it's tough.
joe rogan
Started incorporating, and this is probably a good thing for anybody who shoots archery a lot, to do.
I started incorporating what you told me, which was cable rows standing up while holding a 10-pound weight.
and it's making a world of difference because I was developing a pretty severe imbalance and then by being a meathead I was pushing through this tendon pain that I was developing on my right lower side from just stabilizing and holding this 85 pound bow all these reps only Right.
switching it over however many times I pull the bow back with my right arm I'll do that same amount with cable rows while holding this 10 pound weight out and it's made All the difference in the world.
Because now I have tendon problems on my left side too.
So it balances it out.
unidentified
Perfect.
joe rogan
Not really.
It's not.
But I do feel like a lot of soreness on that side when I do these long sessions.
I'm hitting it.
cameron hanes
You're hitting it at least.
joe rogan
And then I'm doing a lot of back extensions.
And here's the big one.
That reverse hyper.
You know, I've talked about that machine before.
That machine is a goddamn life changer.
cameron hanes
But dude, you have everything here.
joe rogan
It's nice.
cameron hanes
I have to go to four different places to get everything you have here.
joe rogan
Yeah, the gym is pretty sweet.
It's set up real nice.
That reverse hyper is so big, though, because it pulls the back.
It's decompressing on the downswing.
And when you stack the weight on there, I like to get about...
So I have two 45s on each side, and lately I've been sticking an additional 25 on each side.
So a lot of weight.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So you're doing this swing up, so it strengthens the hamstrings and the lower back muscles, and then on a swing down, it's like pulling it, like stretching it out.
And then I like to do that DEX machine where you hang from your hips, you swing down, and you're just decompressing the back.
cameron hanes
Yep.
joe rogan
And I've been doing deep stretches in the sauna.
Every day.
Every day.
Instead of just sitting in the sauna for 25 minutes, now I'm doing like heavy stretches.
It's fucking so hard to do when it's 195 in there.
cameron hanes
Do you do the water?
joe rogan
No.
What?
cameron hanes
You gotta do the steam, dude.
joe rogan
It's so hot in there, dude.
cameron hanes
I do it same thing, but you gotta do the water.
joe rogan
Are you stretching?
cameron hanes
No.
joe rogan
You don't even stretch it.
That's how you blew out your hamstring.
Do you do push-ups in there?
cameron hanes
Sometimes.
I want to get an exercise bike in there.
joe rogan
I know people.
cameron hanes
Mine is too narrow.
joe rogan
There's one that's a sauna that's set up that way.
It's called a Fit Sauna or something like that.
Laird Hamilton has an Airdyne bike in his.
He's got oven mitts.
He puts oven mitts on and rides the Airdyne with oven mitts.
cameron hanes
That would be sick, dude.
joe rogan
That would be sick.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
I love doing the sauna then right into the cold plunge.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's nice.
It's nice.
cameron hanes
That's my...
joe rogan
I do...
I'm almost always doing the cold plunge first.
That's the beginning of the workout is cold plunge.
And then this whole body weight thing that I do just to warm back up, 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups.
And now I added 100 kettlebell swings.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
So I do three sets of 20, three sets of 20, three sets...
Or five sets of 20, five sets of 20, five sets of 20. But I do them like one, two, three.
So I do like first push-ups, then body weight's got...
And then I do five.
Five cycles.
So it's 100 events.
And then by that time, I'm warmed up.
It's like 15, 20 minutes later.
cameron hanes
So 500 reps or how many movements?
joe rogan
Three movements, 100 each, 300 reps.
So 300, you know, 100 swings, 100 push-ups, 100 bodyweight squats.
cameron hanes
And then did I hear no drinking anymore?
joe rogan
No drinking for like two plus months now.
Yeah.
I'm never going back.
I mean, I will, maybe I'll have a glass of wine somewhere if I feel like it.
Like I'm not an alcoholic.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I feel stupid for waiting this long.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because, like, I would have these days, like, because, you know, I have a nightclub, I have a bar.
We go to the club, we do some shows, have a couple of cocktails with the boys, have a bunch of laughs, do a podcast, have some whiskey, have some laughs, and then the next day, like, ugh.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And I'd be going through my workouts going, oh, you fucking moron, what have you done?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And, you know, and I...
You know, do the hyperbaric and drink a lot of electrolytes and try to flush it out.
But if you're concentrating on improving your health and your fitness, why are you poisoning yourself?
cameron hanes
Yeah, sabotaging yourself.
joe rogan
But you also start thinking, well, that's the only way to have fun.
You have to have fun, too.
But no, it's not changing my fun.
cameron hanes
Goggins doesn't have fun.
joe rogan
Well, he's different.
He's not having fun.
He's not trying to have fun.
I'm trying to have fun.
Part of my job is fun.
Fun is a prerequisite.
As a comedian, you have to be having fun.
As part of the fun of comedy is enjoying it.
You enjoy it.
They enjoy it.
Everybody enjoys it.
It's fun.
And so I thought maybe it would be less fun if I was sober.
It's not.
It's not any less fun sober.
It's just as fun.
And it's just, I feel better.
And this is one of the things that I've always tried to tell all these comedians.
And, you know, I bring a bunch of them in here and work out with them.
And we have these comedian workout sessions that we're doing.
And, you know, Shane comes in here all the time and works out on his own.
And so does Derek and Hassan and all these guys from the club.
If you have more energy, you will have more energy on stage.
If you have more energy, you could do more shows.
You could do multiple shows a night and you don't get fatigued.
It carries over into comedy.
Your body...
And your brain are inexorably connected.
If your body functions better, your brain will function better.
It's not rocket science.
It's real simple.
It's just nobody wants to do it.
You can be the best comedian ever and never lift up weight and never work out.
But if the best comedian ever did that too, I bet they would be better.
I bet they'd be better at everything in life.
cameron hanes
I would think.
joe rogan
It doesn't mean that like the best person has to do that.
Otherwise you won't be the best person No, there could be someone who's just so funny.
It doesn't matter.
They could be fat as fuck Yeah, I just I mean On a different level,
cameron hanes
it's like when I was trying to lose that weight to get lighter, I came here, the last time I saw you, we saw you at ways too well, but I try to do everything perfect.
But just being on the road, traveling to Texas and going back, I could not get my body weight back down for like four days.
joe rogan
Wow.
cameron hanes
And it's not like I was drinking or eating donuts.
Just road food?
Yeah, just, you know, you go to that.
That steak place at the hotel I'm staying at, really good.
Remember those big steaks we had?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And I'm like eating this meat going, how much fucking sugar is on this thing?
I mean, they put brown sugar on it.
That's why it tastes so good.
joe rogan
Which place is that?
cameron hanes
You ate there.
joe rogan
Which place is that?
cameron hanes
Me, you, Evan, and Tyler.
unidentified
Right.
cameron hanes
Is that Omni?
Barton Creek Omni?
joe rogan
Right.
Oh, Bob's.
cameron hanes
Bob's.
joe rogan
No, they don't put sugar on their steaks.
cameron hanes
Something is on there.
joe rogan
Well, you're eating that carrot.
That carrot seems to be glazed.
cameron hanes
I never ate that fucking carrot.
joe rogan
That carrot's awesome.
That carrot's the size of a football.
Like, what fucking lab in China are they growing them carrots?
cameron hanes
I know.
Okay.
But the meat has to have sugar on it.
unidentified
Really?
cameron hanes
It's too good.
joe rogan
No.
cameron hanes
Yes.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
cameron hanes
Okay.
Well, then why could I not get my body weight back down?
joe rogan
I think you're eating mashed potatoes and stuff, too.
You're eating a bunch of other stuff, as well.
I don't think their steaks have sugar on them.
cameron hanes
I think they do.
RFK thinks they do, too.
He's banning them.
He's banning Bob's.
joe rogan
There's so many good restaurants out here.
cameron hanes
Yeah, there is.
joe rogan
This fucking town has so many good places to eat.
cameron hanes
Yeah, but my point was, if you deviate a little bit from a disciplined, perfect diet, it takes a while.
So your body is...
Point is, to all that, your body's so fucking sensitive.
When you get so dialed in on everything, man, you really...
Realize how little it takes to throw you off.
So imagine drinking.
joe rogan
Fucking poison.
Everybody I know that has an aura ring or wears a whoop strap, if you wear a whoop strap, it'll show you how much you recovered through the night.
And if you drink...
You will notice a big dip if you have one cocktail.
One cocktail will be a big dip in the amount of recovery you have.
And you won't even notice it.
You'll be like, ah, I wasn't even drunk.
cameron hanes
Well, if you're not trying to perform and do something, you won't notice it.
Like a regular person at a regular job, maybe you'll feel like a little sluggish.
But it's when you start to like...
Work out and perform and run and you're like looking at these times or you're on the scale and you're like what the fuck is going on?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Crazy.
joe rogan
Well, most people are just used to feeling like garbage.
Well, think about most people's diet.
And if they just cleaned up their diet and then just cut out all the nonsense, cut out all the processed food, cut out all the sugar, cut out all the sugary drinks, and just drink water and eat healthy, pure, whole foods, you would feel so much better.
But most people aren't doing that.
So they're accustomed.
They think this is what you're supposed to feel like.
This is life.
It's like having water in your ear, and you forget, and then it pops, and you're like, oh, fuck, I can hear now.
They're walking through life.
With water in their ear.
And they think this is what it sounds like.
But it's just, you're poisoning yourself.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you're eating the standard American diet, if you're eating fucking burgers and fries, drinking soda, and eating candy, you are poisoning yourself.
cameron hanes
I went, I was coming back from Iran and I don't, I think I was dying of thirst.
So I usually take like a visa in my shorts so I can buy something.
But anyway, I went into Fred Meyer back there at home and I never go shopping.
I don't even remember the last time I was in a grocery store.
But I was walking down the aisles of a regular grocery store, and I was like...
Holy shit, I want to eat all this stuff.
It's fucking terrible, but it's bright colors.
Every aisle, I don't know what I was looking for.
Supposedly something to drink, but I don't know what.
But I just kept walking down the aisles going, I haven't eaten any of this shit in so long, but it looks so good.
And then I was thinking, that's what most people are buying and eating.
joe rogan
The shit.
cameron hanes
No wonder you feel terrible.
joe rogan
Yeah, most of what you're eating in the supermarket, most of what you can buy in the supermarket is terrible for you.
The whole center area is all bullshit.
Unless it's like tomato sauce or whatever.
And even that, a lot of that has seed oils in it if you buy it from a shitty company.
It's a lot of garbage.
People are eating a lot of garbage.
And that's the average person.
And then you have a doctor, like, you don't need vitamins.
Just have a balanced diet.
Shut up, you fucking slob.
You doughy sack of shit with old information.
cameron hanes
Well, so here's the point.
I just remembered my point.
So I was trying to buy...
Donuts, because I was doing an ultramarathon the next day.
So you saw me and Courtney running.
Normally, it doesn't matter what type of calories when you're working that hard.
You just need calories and salt.
joe rogan
And sugar.
cameron hanes
So I'm like, I'm going to get some old-fashioned donuts because I was going to do this 50K.
I'm like, that would be perfect calories.
So you know where I found the donuts?
And the fucking produce over there with the vegetables.
So they're like hiding little treasures.
You're trying to be healthy.
Like, I'll get a fucking apple.
Then you're like, look at an old-fashioned donut.
You're like, fuck this apple.
I'm going to get these donuts.
So they still sabotage you.
joe rogan
Yeah, I wonder if there's like a marketing strategy involved in that.
I wonder if they had like a meeting.
Like, look, people are trying to eat well, but we can fuck them.
cameron hanes
The algorithm.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like the algorithm.
It really is kind of like the algorithm.
cameron hanes
They're predicting everything.
joe rogan
That's the other thing I've been doing.
I'm basically off of social media.
All I'm doing is...
I still allow myself to look at it if I'm taking a shit.
But I try not to, like, linger.
cameron hanes
So now, every time you send me something, I know you're shitting?
joe rogan
Most likely.
Or someone sends me something.
cameron hanes
That's going to taint it.
joe rogan
Or someone said, well, I didn't send you, I sent you YouTube videos.
That's different.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
I was watching that actually at home on TV.
cameron hanes
Okay.
joe rogan
I was watching that on the big screen.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because, you know, I was interested like last night in watching like some, you know, every night is a different, if I get like some downtime and I can relax a little bit and watch something on TV.
Sometimes I like watching a show, you know, a fiction show like Mobland or something like that.
Sometimes I get on these kicks where I want to watch certain things.
Last night was like old school fighters training.
I went down this rabbit hole.
I watched old school Sugar Ray Robinson too.
That was amazing.
He was another one.
Super dedicated to his craft.
Again, trained harder than anybody, but also trained smarter.
He would move different than people because he was a dancer.
He actually retired from fighting for a brief period of time just to be a dancer and perform.
Like in dance shows.
cameron hanes
Wow.
joe rogan
And then went back to fighting.
So he could move, man.
cameron hanes
And footwork.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But it was intentional.
It was all like there were certain moves that he had programmed into his footwork and movement and his balance, his ability to get out of the way.
And he was fighting at a time where those guys were fighting every couple of weeks.
unidentified
Yeah.
cameron hanes
They fought a lot.
joe rogan
Crazy.
cameron hanes
What's your...
So you said fighting sometimes, but what is your go-to on YouTube?
Do you think you watch most?
joe rogan
If I want to just zone out, it's professional pool.
I like watching professional pool.
That's my number one addiction, is playing pool.
cameron hanes
So that comes up on your recommended list on YouTube?
joe rogan
Yeah, mostly pool, and then ancient civilizations.
Ancient civilizations is number two.
I love watching videos on these mysteries where they're just uncovering...
I was watching this whole thing in Malta, about Malta the other day, where they found these elongated skulls in Malta that are missing the characteristics of a normal human skull.
So a normal human skull has...
I think it's called a sagittal crest.
There's a line that goes down the middle like this.
As you're growing as a baby, you have these...
Plates in your head that move around and they expand as your head grows and there's like lines.
So there's a line that goes straight and there's a line that goes like this across.
These heads don't have that.
They don't have the line that goes straight.
But they're elongated human skulls and they have a line that goes in the back but they don't have the line that goes down the center.
And they're trying to like make sense of this.
Like what is this?
What is this?
And Malta.
Is a giant mystery.
Like Malta is this island that used to be at one point in time before the flood.
It was connected to Sicily.
And they know Neanderthals lived there like thousands of years before, you know, recorded civilization.
But they didn't think Homo sapiens did.
But they found these elongated skulls that are different than any human skull.
Then they found these incredible stone constructions.
These stone buildings and immense stones that have crazy erosion on them that they think is more than 6,000 years of erosion.
So they're trying to figure out, like, what happened?
Like, what is this?
How old is this?
Is this from before the flood?
Is this before the Ice Age?
Like, what the fuck is this stuff?
And why are these elongated skulls there?
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's nuts.
joe rogan
Bizarre stuff.
Bizarre stuff.
Because it's like...
There's so many mysteries in terms of, like, the human race and how long people have been building things.
And every now and then they'll uncover something that pushes everything back.
Like, they used to think the first people in North America were, like, 13,000 years ago.
It was Clovis first.
Then they found these footprints in New Mexico that are 22,000 years old.
So, like, well, okay.
cameron hanes
Scratch that.
joe rogan
Well, that's not number one.
That's not, like, the first person to come here.
There's, like, probably people even before that.
But there's very little information.
And then there's this, like, crazy stone wall that they found in Montana.
And it was on private property.
And no one even knew it was there.
And these people, they just were clearing some land, and they found this fucking wall.
I think it's called the Sage Wall in Montana.
But these immense stones that looks like they were placed there, who knows how long.
And there's people arguing, oh, this is like natural.
This.
This is it.
cameron hanes
Whoa.
joe rogan
What the fuck is that, dude?
So that was all covered with trees.
By the way, it goes deep into the ground, too.
It goes like 10 feet deep into the ground.
cameron hanes
Wow.
joe rogan
So they're like, okay, is this a natural formation?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It doesn't look natural.
It looks like human beings placed those stones.
Yeah, it looks like it was placed there.
It's really weird, man.
And look, there's weird stuff about it.
cameron hanes
That's definitely something.
joe rogan
Someone made that.
That has a circle that's carved into it, and then there's that sort of structure that looks like it's the outline of it.
cameron hanes
Right.
joe rogan
So there's a lot of arguments.
That one photograph right there, that photograph's fucking crazy.
jamie vernon
It looks fake.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Is that fake?
jamie vernon
It looks fake.
joe rogan
That one's fake?
jamie vernon
Are you sure?
joe rogan
Well, let's see which one is fake and which one isn't.
Because some of them, that one on the upper left hand is definitely real.
And these, like I said, these go down deep.
You know, they've done like, they've used like machinery or sensors to find out how deep that goes.
And it goes like 10 feet down deep into the ground.
cameron hanes
Look at that one with the rock on top of it.
That flat rock up there.
joe rogan
Like, what is that?
Yeah.
There's a lot of weird, weird stuff when it comes to...
If this is man-made, how fucking old is that?
Like, how old is that?
There's nothing else there?
Just that wall?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Or maybe is there other...
Because they didn't even know this existed.
I think it was until the 90s.
cameron hanes
Wow.
joe rogan
96. 96?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
So, what other stuff is out there that people haven't uncovered that is covered with ground?
It's another thing they're finding out about the rainforest.
They used to think the Amazon rainforest was like these little patching tribes of people.
Well, there's a guy that...
visited in the 1500s and he said that there was like these crazy temples and these huge structures and cities with millions of people and then new explorers went a hundred years later and they found none of these things because that fucking first guy probably gave everybody diseases and killed the entire continent which is nuts like probably killed everybody that lived in the Amazon Like the Amazon at one...
I was watching another documentary on this the other night.
They found...
They use LIDAR.
So this LIDAR, they fly over it and they use these sensors to detect these structures that are deep in the rainforest that are covered with trees.
And they're finding all of these corridors and squares and things that seem to indicate irrigation and structures.
And like, this is nuts!
So there was like millions of people living in the Amazon and some...
Dirty Europeans came over in the 1500s and gave them their cooties, and they all died out.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just like what happened with most of the Native Americans.
Like, most people think, like, most people don't know, but the Native Americans, like, 90% of the Native Americans were killed by disease.
That 90% of the population died off by disease, which is crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Millions of people living this nomadic life in North America while the Renaissance is going on over in Europe.
And these people are using flint arrowheads and nuts.
They didn't even have horses.
They didn't even have horses until the Europeans came over and brought them.
The whole thing's crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
That's what I'm...
Watching a lot of.
cameron hanes
That's your go-to?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm just absolutely fascinated by ancient civilizations.
And then these mysteries, like the pyramids and these structures they found under the pyramid.
Have you seen that?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
cameron hanes
I've heard talk about it, basically.
joe rogan
I don't know if it's right.
I don't know if it's wrong.
I mean, I know some people think it's nonsense, but the researchers seem to think that they've done multiple scans and gotten the same results over and over again, and they're like, whatever these things are, there's pillars, and there's spirals around the pillars, and it goes deep into the ground, and the whole structure's two kilometers deep.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I think I heard you talk about it, and I heard that I thought...
I thought it was fake.
joe rogan
Some people think that it can't be real because there's a water table underneath the Great Pyramid.
cameron hanes
That's what it was.
joe rogan
But the question is, is it real and there's a water table?
Is this shit in the water?
Yeah.
Were these people so advanced they built these insane structures two kilometers deep through the water?
That'd be nuts.
It's nuts that they could make the pyramid.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I know.
That still doesn't make sense.
joe rogan
The pyramid itself is nuts.
All the structures, the Temple of Luxor, all that stuff is crazy.
So if they could make that, why are we assuming that that's the pinnacle of crazy?
Like, there might be crazier below the surface.
cameron hanes
Yeah, we haven't found yet.
joe rogan
Right, imagine if everybody thought that the most advanced buildings that were ever created were like...
Buildings they built in Chicago in the 1800s.
Wow, look at this.
What craftsmanship?
Boy, people had reached an incredible level of ability.
And then someone stumbles upon the pyramid.
They go, okay, wait.
What the fuck is this?
There's 2,300,000 stones in this.
And they weigh between 2 and 80 tons.
And they're cut from a quarry hundreds of miles away, some of them.
Moved through the mountains.
Like, how?
So that's crazy.
And imagine we think, well, this is the height of crazy.
When you go under the surface of it, below the ground, what is this two-kilometer deep structure?
That's even crazy.
That makes that look simple, right?
Well, then these people are just moving stones.
How the fuck can they get it through the water?
cameron hanes
What I think of when I hear that is, could you imagine the hunting back then?
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
cameron hanes
It would be fucking epic.
joe rogan
Probably.
But you have shitty bows.
You didn't have a nice bow.
You didn't have a bow.
unidentified
Could you imagine?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
If you had a sick bow?
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
If you had a modern bow back then?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
There's two things that I thought of.
But, you know, when bears get old, they get a crease in their skull.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
So it was like when you're talking about that skull, I was wondering if it was age-related.
I don't see how the lions would disappear.
joe rogan
No, the lions wouldn't disappear.
That was the argument of this video that I was watching.
See if you can find any of those elongated skulls of Malta.
jamie vernon
There's a whole bunch of stuff.
I'm seeing urban legend.
It's been talked about 10 years ago.
They were on display.
They weren't on display.
joe rogan
Yeah, but they're definitely not an urban legend.
I was watching an actual archaeologist discussing these things.
And then there was an alternative guy that was discussing and saying, That the issue is with these lines in the skull don't exist in these skulls.
But they all admit that these skulls...
Well, there's different ones.
This is ancient aliens.
jamie vernon
I just googled Malta skulls.
joe rogan
Just go with...
jamie vernon
That's what I'm saying.
There's different stuff that comes up all the way from Malta websites that talk about it because this is something that people would want to go see.
joe rogan
Right.
Let's click on that one.
See if they have any images on display.
Because this is...
Accepted by actual archaeologists that there's...
Because human beings have been doing weird stuff with skulls.
So that's it right there.
So you see how that skull has that line through the top?
Most skulls have a line straight down the middle, too.
That's how human skulls are.
So this is weird.
Now, also, here's the thing.
Could totally be a human that has genetic anomalies.
Like there's these people in Africa that have, they call them ostrich feet people.
There's this weird genetic anomaly that this whole village has where their feet, instead of having five...
Like, a big toe and four little toes.
They have, like, branched off like an ostrich.
Like, it looks really strange.
cameron hanes
And that's real?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's totally real.
And it's real today.
But it's a genetic anomaly.
And it's been passed on through, you know, these people in this one tribe, in this one area.
So it's like someone had it.
So it could be that.
It could be that that skull looks weird because these people were just born weird.
cameron hanes
Right, yeah.
joe rogan
Some people are born with giant noses.
Some people have huge heads.
Some people are like seven feet tall for no reason.
cameron hanes
Big dicks.
joe rogan
Yeah, giant hogs.
cameron hanes
We've been afflicted with that.
joe rogan
Humans vary quite a bit.
So it could be that that's why that skull looks that way.
But it is absolutely fascinating.
And one of the things that they keep finding is new versions of human beings, which is really weird.
Like, they found the Denisovans.
I think they found those in, like, 2010.
And then there was, what is the recent ones, Jamie, that we were talking about that have the big heads?
There's these big-headed, like, not Homo sapien, but, like...
Cousins of homo sapiens that they just found these like really recently within the last few years like okay This is we thought these are Denisovans.
This is a totally different branch and so there's multiple branches of human beings that coexisted Along with homo sapiens and Neanderthals for a long-ass time Yeah.
Scientists may have discovered a new form of ancient humans known as large-head people.
So this is in December of 2024.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
The Julu-ren, Julu?
cameron hanes
Large brains.
joe rogan
Julu-ren, large-headed people.
So they took, like, these skulls and tried to make, like, a recreation of what they look like.
And they look like these jacked-looking, hairy cave people.
They look pretty badass.
That's not her.
She looks hot.
She doesn't look anything like that.
You wouldn't survive back then if you looked like that.
So you can find an image of what they recreated because the image looks pretty cool.
cameron hanes
So where does hunting videos fit in your YouTube algorithm?
joe rogan
Oh, I watch those too.
I watch all yours, of course.
I watch a lot of different...
I was watching Remy's, some of Remy's videos last night.
That one and the one right there, yeah.
There's a video of one standing up.
See if you can find images.
There's one that we looked at before where the dudes are standing up and he looks super...
Yeah, that's it.
So this super jacked, hairy dude, thick-ass bones.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like Neanderthals.
They were way different than us.
They were way more jacked than us.
cameron hanes
He looks like a beast, doesn't he?
joe rogan
He had to be to survive.
cameron hanes
And he made an arrowhead it looked like he had in his hand or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, something.
You know, I mean, Neanderthals, they did art.
You know, they made cave art.
Some of the cave art they know for sure was Neanderthals, and some of it is pretty sophisticated.
jamie vernon
Slightly different rendering.
joe rogan
Whoa!
That's what they looked like.
jamie vernon
Fred Flintstone, kind of.
joe rogan
Bro, those things would have fucked us up.
Imagine that guy in the UFC.
You'd be like, oh, Jesus.
Imagine the guy on the right has to fight the guy on the left.
Are you fucking kidding me?
cameron hanes
Not good.
joe rogan
So this is like this big...
Dense.
It's kind of weird that we survived.
Especially if you look at some of those marathon runners.
Like, imagine those people survive while that thing's around.
Those things probably ate people.
Like, look at, that's what they think they looked like.
cameron hanes
God.
joe rogan
Fuck.
cameron hanes
Yeah, that'd be rough.
joe rogan
Super dense, giant, jacked human beings.
That one in the corner where he's walking to the right, far right.
Yeah, look at that.
Like, that's what they think they look like.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fuck that.
Imagine you walk through the woods, you see that dude there.
cameron hanes
That's where...
joe rogan
Fuck!
cameron hanes
What is fascinating, though, is that's what I do like about the endurance stuff that we're doing, is those people, do you imagine how far they can get in a day?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Probably hundreds of miles.
cameron hanes
And so nowadays, we're so far the other way.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Where if you...
If you walk a mile, you've done something.
joe rogan
Well, you're eating everything in the middle of the supermarket and you're watching video games, playing video games all day.
Some kids aren't even playing video games.
They're watching other people play video games.
cameron hanes
That's what's like.
It's pretty cool to think about.
We're still making our bodies go, say, this 250-mile race.
I mean, that's kind of cool.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is cool.
cameron hanes
But back then, they probably did that shit all the time.
joe rogan
All the time.
cameron hanes
So we're built for that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
They probably had to.
cameron hanes
Of course they had to, but humans as a species are built for endurance.
So that's what I like about those events.
joe rogan
Right.
cameron hanes
It's like, this is what we're supposed to be doing.
joe rogan
Well, persistence hunting.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's pretty crazy.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where you just chase an animal down, because animals don't sweat and people don't.
So you can't outrun them in a...
Brent?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
But if you just keep chasing them, eventually they die.
cameron hanes
Yeah, stay on them.
joe rogan
And then you just stab them when they're out of breath and you eat them.
cameron hanes
You've got to be either in open country where you can keep eyes on them or be able to track them really well.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy that that was a strategy that humans employed?
Just chase them until they run out of...
I think they still do it.
Yeah.
cameron hanes
I think they still do it.
joe rogan
I bet that's where some of the best marathon runners come out of, too.
cameron hanes
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
You know?
cameron hanes
Yeah, they're so good at tracking in Africa.
Because of that.
It's just like they can stay on those tracks with no blood or anything because, you know, that's the name of the game.
Keep your eyes on them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
Wear them out.
joe rogan
That's what's always fascinating to me, how guys can just look at the ground and see footprints where I don't see shit.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And some guys that are just really good at it, man.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
I mean, they can follow tracks like across just solid rock.
What?
And it's just looking at little scuffs.
They can see little scuffs from the hooves.
That's crazy.
I've been over there, you know, hunting quite a bit.
And I would sit, just as you just said, like, what are you seeing?
And so I would ask them.
It's hard because they speak Swahili, so you gotta...
It's hard figuring it out, but I was there for three weeks one time, so I kind of got dialed in.
So I would ask, what are we looking at here?
What are you seeing?
Or it's just how grass...
Grass will go a certain way, and then if it's not that certain way, it's because something made it.
Something pushed it out of the way.
joe rogan
Even if it's just a little bit of grass.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
You just like look for these moments.
cameron hanes
The small little tells.
unidentified
Wow.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
So it's like being so, that's another reason why I love the mountains, love being out.
It's just you have to be so, if you're going to be good at it, in tune with everything.
unidentified
Yeah.
cameron hanes
You have to be sensitive to almost everything.
That's how you can get within bow range of an animal and get it killed.
Or find it after you've put an arrow in it.
It's like you're just deciphering all this information.
Some people are good, some people are, but mostly it's experience related.
Those people have learned in Africa, have learned from the best trackers there are.
We haven't had to be that good here, but I've wanted to develop that skill and just get better.
But it's like, it's noticing the little...
Minute details.
joe rogan
Someone had a really good argument.
Do you remember who it was, Jamie, where they were talking about the invention of the bow and arrow?
And they were saying the odds of this happening simultaneously all over the world are very unlikely.
And that what's much more likely is that someone developed that technology and was traveling.
And that when you go back to the earliest use of the bow, which I don't know when that was.
Do you know when that was?
Let's guess.
What would you guess?
How many thousands of years ago did they figure out the bow and arrow?
cameron hanes
Oh my...
unidentified
3,000?
cameron hanes
I would say.
I mean...
joe rogan
It has to be before pyramids.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
The pyramids are 5,000 or 4,500.
That's the conventional...
I mean, so many people think it's older than that.
cameron hanes
I'd say 10,000.
joe rogan
10,000 years for the bow and arrow?
So that means that someone had to be traveling.
Because, like, the Native Americans had it.
The Polynesians had it.
Like, everybody had it, right?
The Africans had it.
Like, everyone had the bow and arrow.
Europeans had it.
cameron hanes
When was Mongolians?
joe rogan
Oh, that was the 1200s.
The rise of Genghis Khan was like the 1200s.
1200s to the 1300s.
Yeah, they had crazy bows.
cameron hanes
Yeah, they did.
joe rogan
They had 160 pound pull.
cameron hanes
They had legit bows.
joe rogan
Yeah, they were fucking people up with those bows.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those guys, they say that their skeletons were distorted.
You know, like I'm talking about like I'm trying to balance out my body because I'm pulling too much.
cameron hanes
Wasn't their forearm would get...
joe rogan
Yeah, everything was jacked.
Their shoulders, their back, everything was like torqued and twisted.
So let's guess.
What did we say?
I said 10. 10,000 years?
cameron hanes
You said...
jamie vernon
I'm going to say 5. I believe what I just stumbled across is the earliest people known to have used bows and arrows were the ancient Egyptians who adopted archery in approximately 2800 BC.
joe rogan
Okay, so roughly 4,800 plus years ago, roughly guessing.
So how does it get to North America?
How do those people get it?
So if the Native Americans, if we have evidence of human beings living in New Mexico 22,000 years ago, when did they pick up the bow?
Who got it to them?
Because by the time Columbus came in the 1400s, they already had it.
So where'd they get it?
Who taught them that?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where'd they get it?
Did they figure it out independently to put feathers as fletchings and to put a...
Yeah, look at that cool picture from Egypt.
unidentified
Wow.
That is badass.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
Right, so...
Were the Egyptians traveling all the way to North America?
cameron hanes
I don't know.
joe rogan
Who figured it out first?
cameron hanes
They had some sick stuff.
joe rogan
Do you remember who it was, Jamie?
jamie vernon
I was looking.
I changed the question, so I went down the other route.
joe rogan
It was a fascinating conversation, because I never considered it until they brought it up.
They said, I don't think the bow and arrow just...
He goes, I think that's technology that was shared.
Which is a great argument for world travelers.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Way before we thought it was world travelers.
cameron hanes
I was thinking about, was there land bridges that we don't know about?
I don't know.
joe rogan
Well, there definitely was, if you go back, 11,000 years ago.
I mean, that's when people were walking across the Bering Land Bridge.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Michael Waddell.
joe rogan
Oh, Michael Waddell.
Was it him that was saying that?
jamie vernon
I believe so.
joe rogan
Look, I'm wearing the same shirt.
What's the odds?
cameron hanes
Well, you guys, I know you guys were talking about, you know, Pope and Young went over on the boats and took, remember they took tubs of arrows?
joe rogan
Yeah, because they were just slinging them.
cameron hanes
And they're going to be gone for like, what, seven months?
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
And then Waddell had some great stories about talking to his wife about, hey, I'm going to go hunt and be back next year.
You know, because it's like so long of a boat ride.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, just the people getting in boats back then was so nuts.
cameron hanes
I just know that, you know, Fred Bear has that quote, the history of archery is a history of mankind.
I always think of that.
So as long as man's been around, we've had to kill, the archery equipment is...
joe rogan
Well, it must have just completely opened up the door for having more kids, for being able to survive and feed your family.
Because if you're just stabbing things, you've got to get so close.
And then you get an atlatl.
Okay, how far can you throw that?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
But then, if you got a bow, now all of a sudden, all those fuckers over there are in trouble.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they don't even know yet.
They don't even know what to look out for.
And there's things whistling through the air.
jamie vernon
Contradictory information.
joe rogan
Oh, what is this?
The four waves of bow and arrow use in North America, this occurred at 12,000.
Whoa.
12,000.
12,000 years ago.
jamie vernon
Yeah, so I started going down this hole.
joe rogan
So it's pre-Egyptian.
cameron hanes
Is that 12,000 B.C. then?
jamie vernon
I don't know what...
No, 12,000 years ago is 10,000 B.C. I think they found bows in different places.
joe rogan
Whoa.
That's nuts.
jamie vernon
I don't know for sure.
joe rogan
12,000 years ago.
cameron hanes
Yeah, see the Alaska Peninsula.
joe rogan
Right, so again, so 12,000 years ago, now it makes sense that people are walking.
So people from Asia could walk over.
I mean, maybe it was made in Asia.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
jamie vernon
30,000.
joe rogan
30,000!
jamie vernon
I don't know what the evidence is.
joe rogan
Sub-Arctic people first brought archery bow with them to North America from Asia 30,000 years ago.
cameron hanes
Wow.
jamie vernon
Okay, how?
How?
joe rogan
So 30,000 years ago, people were supposedly dumb as shit.
How were they figuring out how to make a stick fly through the air with a string?
cameron hanes
And kill things with it.
joe rogan
And kill things with it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And hunt.
Mongolian people were the first to adopt the bow in the southwestern region of what is now called the United States.
Whoa.
Oh, Mogollon.
Not Mongolian.
Mogollon.
I don't even know who they are.
jamie vernon
2,000 years ago?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Just after Jesus?
joe rogan
30,000 years ago is nuts!
But it's like, how does that get all around the world?
I don't know.
It's really interesting because it's not like there's a bunch of different versions of it.
cameron hanes
Yeah, because the physical characteristics of this bow are striking in several respects.
So it's like...
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
There's no...
It doesn't say what that is.
joe rogan
That's a recurve.
jamie vernon
No, I just mean like when they found her.
joe rogan
Oh, right, right, right, right.
cameron hanes
Yeah, I thought that...
They were saying that no matter where they found these bows, they were all very similar.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
They had the fletchings.
cameron hanes
It goes to your point of how did that information get around the world?
joe rogan
How did they figure that out?
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
First recorded use of archery bird quite early in human history.
Images from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic cave paintings, 10,000 B.C. In Spain and France, depict groups of simple silhouetted figures using the bow as both the weapon of combat and the hunt.
See if you can find some of those images.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's that one documentary, The Cave of Dreams.
It's a Werner Herzog film.
I think that's what it's called.
Is that you down there?
It looked like it.
Whoa.
cameron hanes
Isn't that sweet?
joe rogan
That's crazy.
Look at that one.
Look at that one.
Go to that one.
That one right there.
Whoa.
That's crazy.
7,000-year-old bow and arrow painting.
cameron hanes
God.
joe rogan
Wow.
cameron hanes
That's what, you know, anytime I get those people in there for a lift, run, shoot, and Wayne starts talking to them at the bow rack, he's just like showing them how to shoot a bow, and people are like, they get it.
He's like, feels familiar, right?
He goes, because that's what man's always done.
That's why it feels familiar.
So it's like people who have never done it all of a sudden are like, they're like, oh, this stirs something up in them.
joe rogan
It does resonate, right?
It does resonate with your DNA.
cameron hanes
You can tell.
joe rogan
You know what I tell people?
It's like, you know when you catch a fish?
Like, even when kids catch a fish.
I remember when my daughter caught her first fish.
The excitement is genetic.
Oh, you got one, you got one.
cameron hanes
How do you know you're supposed to be excited?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Why are they exciting?
Why is it exciting to catch a fish?
Because it's programmed into your DNA from the time we were figuring out how to catch fish that if you caught a fish, you get to live.
You get to eat it.
So you get a reward.
Your body gets excited about catching that.
That's that same feeling.
That's why people like when they can shoot something and it hits the spot.
It's not like throwing a basketball through a hoop.
That's kind of fun.
But it doesn't have the same feeling.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
There's a feeling of archery when you hit something.
It's like, oh, yes.
cameron hanes
Yeah, you see an animal, you're like, I wonder if I could hit that with my arrow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
You just want to shoot at stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah.
While I was at the zoo the other day, I was sending you pictures.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
I zoomed on animals with a little red dot.
cameron hanes
I mean, I'm driving and I see horses, cows, whatever, and I'm like, I see cows, legs forward.
I'm like, oh God, I could get an arrow right in the lungs there.
Perfect.
That's just what you kind of program your brain to see.
joe rogan
Right, but it's also like the same drive that leads you to run all these miles, to be at your best, and that also makes you concentrate on being accurate at archery and thinking about archery all the time.
If you don't, you won't be as good as you can be.
If you want to be as good as you possibly can be, you have to kind of think about it that way.
cameron hanes
All-encompassing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
cameron hanes
All-encompassing.
joe rogan
Take over your fucking brain.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
Imagine if you can get those people from back then, like, let me show you some shit.
cameron hanes
I would love it.
joe rogan
This is called a hog father.
cameron hanes
I've wanted to go over, like, there's these people that have, God, what tribe is that, that have an Instagram page.
I think I've, they were the red stuff, I think in Africa.
I think I've sent you that.
I want to go and hunt with them so fucking bad.
Yes, Maasai.
I want to go over there so bad and just hang out.
joe rogan
They would probably freak out when they saw your bow.
Like, what are you doing?
cameron hanes
I know when I went to Tanzania, I would just shoot it like they'd put up a buffalo quarter.
jamie vernon
The Hadza also do it.
joe rogan
The Hadza, too.
Yeah, there you go.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the people that David Cho went over and hung out with, right?
jamie vernon
2.3 million followers.
joe rogan
Whoa!
cameron hanes
Yeah, that's not the one I was thinking.
joe rogan
Interesting.
jamie vernon
Influencing.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's an influencer.
What's that lady doing there?
The upper left lady.
What's she doing with the Hadza?
Well, let's wrap this up, Cam.
Your book, perfect title, Undeniable.
It is a perfect title.
It really is.
I mean, that's one of the things that we always talk about.
Like, you gotta be undeniable.
cameron hanes
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a perfect name.
cameron hanes
I just think it captures what we're trying to do in life.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, what everybody's trying to do in life.
If you're really trying to do something well, you know, you're gonna have some haters.
What's the best way to silence haters?
cameron hanes
Win.
joe rogan
Be undeniable.
cameron hanes
Be undeniable.
joe rogan
So if you're talking shit, you just look like an idiot.
You just look like a fool.
cameron hanes
Here's what I've learned.
This is probably going to hit pretty hard.
I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but it pays to be a winner.
Undeniable to me, it's like the people I've had on, I've learned so much from, you're featured in the book, but it's like what makes people undeniable?
What allows people, regardless of what they do, to rise to the top?
And it's...
There's certain characteristics of each person.
And what it is, it's like they have this overwhelming passion for whatever they're doing.
It's like that's all they care about.
It's all they think about.
Rocky Marciano, Goggins, whoever you know of.
If you think of a person's name doing something, they've...
They're obsessed with whatever they're doing.
joe rogan
Speaking of obsessed, I'm obsessed with getting something right.
I think the sagittal crest is actually the peak of the skull that gorillas have.
I think I fucked that up.
I was looking for a different word for those cracks in the skull.
It's not sagittal crest.
I think the sagittal crest is that thing that separates what a gorilla skull looks like versus a chimpanzee skull.
There it is.
Yeah, that's the sagittal crest.
That's that ridge bone.
So what are those lines called?
Oh, it's a suture.
That's right.
That's right.
That's what they call it.
So there's a coronal suture and then there's the other one.
Fucking heads are weird.
Imagine that's a person.
cameron hanes
I know.
joe rogan
How fucking weird that is.
See that weird?
So that's what a normal person looks like.
They got that weird line.
Oh, that's what.
So it's peridial foramen.
So that's the sagittal suture.
And then there's this other suture.
cameron hanes
Lamdoid.
joe rogan
What's that other suture called?
cameron hanes
See that lamdoid on the left there?
joe rogan
Yeah, lamdoid suture and the sagittal suture.
So the sagittal is the line that they're missing, the one that goes up the middle.
Look at that gorilla head in the lower right-hand corner.
Oh, fucking cool.
Gorillas almost have like a mohawk in their skull because they have these giant muscles for chomping on fucking roots and shit.
cameron hanes
And you'd never, if you hit that fucker in the head, it wouldn't do anything.
joe rogan
I would laugh at you.
Have you ever seen, there's a 3D image, we can end with this, because...
People always say, how many fucking people do you think it would take to beat a gorilla?
Well, guess what?
It literally doesn't matter.
So somebody made like a, you know how they do like recreations?
Like, let's find out.
And so they showed what would happen.
I just sent it to you, Jamie.
They showed what would happen if a hundred dudes tried to fight a gorilla.
Spoiler alert, a hundred dudes get fucked up.
Look at this.
This is what it would look like.
cameron hanes
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Like the gorilla's trying to run and just turns around and just starts fucking people up.
cameron hanes
Holy shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, you got no chance.
cameron hanes
Could you imagine taking a big right from that thing?
joe rogan
I would watch the first couple dudes take a right and I would take a left.
I'd be like, see ya.
I don't think gorillas are going to chase me.
cameron hanes
You just got to get his back.
joe rogan
Nope.
cameron hanes
If he did get on his back, he would just grab you with one arm and throw you fucking 50 yards.
joe rogan
He would grab you and his grip would break your fucking ribcage.
His fingers would probably penetrate your skin and go right through to your organs.
He's just fucking all these people up.
Boom!
unidentified
Boom!
cameron hanes
That guy took a couple in a row.
joe rogan
The Russians probably tried this already.
They probably already had.
Look at this.
All these other guys are like, oh, I'm gonna give it a shot.
I'm gonna give it my best.
jamie vernon
Solid pay-per-view.
joe rogan
Yeah, why are these guys still there?
cameron hanes
I don't know.
joe rogan
Because they're being forced.
Look, he's running, trying to a little bitch-ass hammer fist to hit that gorilla.
cameron hanes
If you get your kind of bell rung a little bit, and you're kind of dazed, and then you're just standing there.
joe rogan
Look how far everybody flies, too, when he hits them.
unidentified
Boom!
cameron hanes
That would be a good one to end on, but here's what we really need to end on.
Because last time, Endure was like the number one seller, and they put it number seven or something on New York Times.
So we need number one.
We deserve number one.
We should be number one this time.
joe rogan
You didn't get number one because of some weird shit.
cameron hanes
Because the New York Times bestseller list is an editorial.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what's weird.
cameron hanes
If it just goes based on sales, Endure would have been up there, but they gave me number seven.
joe rogan
You're crazy.
cameron hanes
Just give me what I deserve this time.
joe rogan
Why are you lying?
cameron hanes
I don't know.
joe rogan
If you're going to have a top ten, why lie?
You're lying.
You can't decide that this one's a top ten because it's made by a transgender person of color.
It's better.
cameron hanes
I don't know if it helps me to call them out or...
joe rogan
No.
They're going to fuck you no matter what.
But America will know.
But on Amazon, that's not curated, right?
cameron hanes
No, no.
joe rogan
So that'll be legit.
That'll be sales.
That'll be legit.
So that's the one that should count.
cameron hanes
But yeah, I mean, the whole point...
Also, I wanted to...
I wouldn't have had the success with those books if not for you.
You wrote the foreword to Endure.
It made the New York Times bestseller list.
You know as well as anybody, the next book, if you can say, from the New York Times bestselling author of Endure, that just makes the next one go crazy.
So without you, this wouldn't have happened.
joe rogan
Well, without you, I would have never been bow hunting.
cameron hanes
And we wouldn't own archery country.
joe rogan
Yeah, we wouldn't own archery country.
All right.
Let's bring it home.
Endure, it's out now?
cameron hanes
It's out May 6th.
No, no.
Endure's out.
joe rogan
Oh, excuse me.
Undeniable.
Undeniable is out May 6th.
Today is April 29th.
So wait a week.
Did you do the audio version of it?
cameron hanes
I did.
unidentified
Yes.
cameron hanes
I did.
joe rogan
Yes.
cameron hanes
It was tough, but people love it.
joe rogan
Yeah, they do.
They want it in your voice.
It has to be.
It has to be in your voice.
cameron hanes
Well, Joe, thank you.
joe rogan
My pleasure, brother.
I love you to death.
You're the best.
unidentified
All right.
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