#1060 - Remi Warren

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Five, four, three, two.

Boom, and we're live. Remi Warren, international man of adventure.

Remi Warren (0:10)

How's it going? Good.

Good to see you.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

I purposely didn't ask you or talk to you about the grizzly bear attack because I wanted to save it.

Remi Warren (0:19)

You want it? You want it?

Joe Rogan (0:20)

What is it like to have survived, literally being, what are you, two feet away from an attack on grizzly bear?

Remi Warren (0:28)

Yeah, pretty close.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Like you could have grabbed it.

Remi Warren (0:30)

Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Easily.

Remi Warren (0:32)

Easily. Oh, it was, that was just nuts.

It was one of those things, okay, I've thought about it a million times.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

I'm sure. How long ago was this?

Remi Warren (0:41)

This was, so that would have been early October or mid October.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

So you've had three months.

Remi Warren (0:47)

Three months to kind of think about it. Somewhere around. And yeah, man, it's just one of those things that I've thought about it so many times in my head, and I've always been, I think Steve was the same way, like, oh, it'd be pretty cool to survive a bear attack, get scratched up a little bit.

After that experience, I thought to myself, if that never happens, it'll be okay.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

Yeah, Steve used to always say, Steve Rennell, we're talking about from the Meat Eater podcast, and he has a two part series on this particular bear attack. But he used to always say he wanted to get clawed across the chest and have like, not a tattoo, but like a big claw.

Remi Warren (1:25)

Yeah, a little bit of marking.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

Like, what are the odds that that happens?

Remi Warren (1:30)

Yeah, I think that in order to get that, you have to go through a really, really horrible experience. And there's guys that have had those attacks, or there's guys that have had those attacks a lot. But I mean, I've been around a lot of wild animals and seen a lot of things and been charged by bears and this was just different.

It was that kind of attack where while it's happening, you're going, this is not going to pan out well, somebody is going to die. You're just looking at this bear and it's coming in hot. Just everything, it's a weird experience.

Your memory is a little foggy of it. Everything happened so fast, but it felt like it was so long.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

So the adrenaline must overwhelm your brain.

Remi Warren (2:15)

Yeah and you don't even think about, I just remember, it was a weird situation. So maybe I'll just kind of recap the story.

So we're on a Fog Knack Island and we're hunting.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

And a Fog Knack Island is in Alaska?

Remi Warren (2:31)

Yeah, so a Fog Knack Island has some of the largest bears in the world. They're brown bears. They are big brown bears. They can be over a thousand pounds.

So we're hunting elk there. My brother and myself have hunted elk on that island before and it's just a miserable place to be.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

What's a fascinating hunt, the way you guys were describing it, because just the fact that you would choose out of all the places you can go, you pretty much can go anywhere you want. You chose to go on this brutal adventure hunt because it's so difficult. Rinella was talking about this once and the way he described it is like there's things that are fun while you're doing them, but they're not fun later, like roller coasters.

And then there's things that are terrible and awful, but you'll think about them forever and look back at them fondly.

Remi Warren (3:23)

Yeah, that's exactly what this is. It's that after the fact, you think back and you go, in the moment you go, I will never do this again. And then about a year later, you go, I should do that again.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

And what is it about the place that's so miserable?

Remi Warren (3:37)

Well, it's just, it's hard to walk through. It looks easy hiking. And there's just this big mountain where you can get to with a plane. And you've kind of got to climb this big mountain.

And the vegetation is so thick, and it's so steep that it takes forever to go somewhere. So to put it in perspective, to go, say, a mile might take five hours.

Joe Rogan (3:58)

Whoa.

Remi Warren (3:59)