Joe Rogan Experience #2154 - Remi Warren

Remi Warren joins Joe Rogan to discuss a botched wrist surgery that forced him to learn to shoot a bow with his mouth, and the recovery he's pursuing through stem cell injections. The conversation dives deep into archery technique debates, comparing hunting versus target styles and the myth that there's only one correct way to shoot. They cover Remi's extreme hunts in the Arctic, Greenland, Mongolia, and Kyrgyzstan, including a terrifying Marco Polo sheep trip involving a gang fight and gun-safety nightmares. The pair also riff on phone tech and the Apple/Samsung divide, climate cycles, super volcanoes, locust swarms, feral pigs, and the controversial reintroduction of wolves and grizzly bears.

• Remi's first wrist surgery was botched when a drill bit broke off inside his wrist and surgeons hammered it out, causing more damage than the original injury.
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• After the failed surgery he taught himself to shoot a bow by biting down on a mouth tab and had one of his best hunting seasons.
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• Joe says stem cell injections (Wais to Well) plus knee-strengthening exercises eliminated years of chronic knee pain.
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• On a Marco Polo sheep hunt in Kyrgyzstan, Remi rode a horse along a 1,500-foot cliff in total darkness.
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• A gang fight broke out at his hunting camp over guiding territory, and his guide later wrestled over an AK while riding off.
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• Remi's guide drove with a loaded duct-taped double-barrel shotgun pointed at his head, with the guide's shoulder as the only 'safety.'
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• The Arctic region is larger than the United States, and the village Remi visited gets fuel delivered only once a year.
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• Inuit communities eat muktuk (cured whale fat) and boil all their meat to avoid parasites in a place with no doctors.
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• January 6th arrests were made largely using cell phone geolocation data the FBI obtained from carriers.
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• An enormous fossilized whale skeleton was found in the Egyptian desert, evidence of whales' land-mammal ancestors.
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• The Toba super volcano eruption ~70,000 years ago may have reduced the human population to as few as 3,000 individuals.
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• Mormon crickets pile up so thick on Idaho roads that crews must plow them like snow, and heavy metal music keeps them away.
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• The word 'earmark' originated from clipping the ears of free-ranging colonial pigs to identify ownership.
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• A Montana study found mountain lions kill more elk than wolves, and wolves use mountain lions by running them off their kills.
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• An Iditarod musher who killed a charging moose in self-defense received a two-hour time penalty for not gutting it well enough.
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