Ep. 403: Rattling Bucks with Joe Rogan

Published: 2023-01-09 10:00:00

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Steve Rinella talks with Joe Rogan, Jesse Griffiths, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: The pink pig; Corinne's first wild hog; rattling in a crazy number of whitetail; how basically no one hunts nilgai with a bow, but Joe; the nilgai bark; a bow hunt fraught with peril; Steve’s take on how flies conceive of time; discussing draw weight and Joe's 90-pound bow; a more athletic giraffe; tracking and gridding; no blood; Joe’s take on how hunting with a rifle is the most ethical method; how critter injury and running affects the taste of their flesh; listening to squealing hogs; why can we go buy wild hog and nilgai?; cooking over real wood; the door you open up in your brain; Joe loving elk bone marrow; that time when Steve sent his kid to school with a muskox sandwich; how chewing tough meat helps your jaw; jawzercise and ball gags; black going out of sight; when unknowledgeable voters interfere with science-based wildlife management practices; how Steve thinks he can cook tongue better than Jesse can; and more.

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Referenced Books

The Tent Legion

by Tom Kelly

Steve discusses this book about turkeys and turkey hunting behavior, specifically mentioning how the author observed that a Tom wouldn't respond to calling even from real hens, illustrating that sometimes animals simply aren't interested rather than being spooked.

Referenced at 00:00:08

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

Joe mentions he read this book and told Steve about it, describing it as part of a series of books about Native Americans that Steve recommended to him. The discussion occurs in the context of learning about the hard lives of Native Americans.

Referenced at 00:00:08

Son of the Morning Star

by Evan S. Connell

Steve recommended this book to Joe after Joe read Empire of the Summer Moon. Joe describes it as 'so heavy' and discusses how these books about Native Americans illustrate the difficult, hard scrabble life they faced.

Referenced at 00:00:08

Black Elk Speaks

by John Gneisenau Neihardt

Joe mentions this as 'another great one' in a list of books about Native Americans that help illustrate the hardships and horrors those people faced and how different life was not that long ago.

Referenced at 00:00:08

Journal of a Trapper

by Osborne Russell

Steve references this historical journal when discussing what it was like to live off the land historically, noting that 'a lot of times there was a lot to eat and a lot of times ain't shitty' - referring to the feast or famine nature of historical hunting and gathering.

Referenced at 00:00:08

Land of Feast and Famine

by Helge Ingstad

Steve mentions this book about living off the land in Canada, using it to illustrate the point that 'sometimes you can't there's so much you can't even process at all in a lot of times screwed' - the unpredictable nature of subsistence living.

Referenced at 00:00:08