#1193 - Shane Dorian

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Yeah, he's, I think he's too smart. He's too smart to talk to regular people.

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Shane Dorian (0:11)

I'm great.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

We just got back from playing a little techno hunt.

Shane Dorian (0:14)

We did, man.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Greatest thing of all time, right?

Shane Dorian (0:16)

I was just saying, I don't care what the price is, it's worth it. It's a bargain at twice the price of whatever it is.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Yeah, for people who don't know what it is, it's this game that it simulates bow hunting. So what it is, is a giant screen that's made out of Kevlar, and then it's got a projector, projects HD images of elk and deer. You can set it up for a bunch of different animals, but elk and deer walk across the screen, and you shoot at them, and it's like the perfect, there's a, we showed a little video of Shane doing it earlier.

Shane Dorian (0:49)

It's really cool, man.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

It's a perfect practice for bow hunting, because one of the things about bow hunting is you get nervous, and the more you could do something like this, where you just shot a perfect shot, the more you could do that over and over and over again, the more it becomes ingrained in your nervous system, ingrained in your muscles, ingrained in your memory, and then it becomes natural.

Shane Dorian (1:11)

Yeah, it's awesome.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

Yeah, it's pretty dope.

Shane Dorian (1:13)

We're gonna make this podcast about 15 minutes long, go back and shoot some more.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Yeah, that's what we were actually talking about, cutting off the podcast short just for that. So tell me about this movie, man.

Shane Dorian (1:23)

Yeah, so I'm in LA for the HBO premiere of The Momentum Generation. It's a sports documentary that HBO and Robert Redford did. So it's cool, man. It's really cool. It's a story about my friends and I. We all grew up competitive surfers, and in high school, we all sort of met each other through competitions, competing. So this tells the story of basically how we met, how we grew up, and how we became friends and family, basically traveling around the world together as basically little kids with no chaperones on tour around the world. So it's fucking crazy. It's a wild story.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Pull this up to you. Keep this like a fist away from your face.

How old were you when you first started surfing?

Shane Dorian (2:10)

I started surfing on a standup surfboard when I was five.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

And when did you start traveling to surf?

Shane Dorian (2:16)

When I was 12, I went to England for the World Amateur Championships. Wow.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

So you've been just doing this traveling, surfing thing most of your life?

Shane Dorian (2:28)

Yeah.

Wow. It's crazy.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

That is nuts, man.

Shane Dorian (2:32)

I've been putting my surfboards in a board bag and walking out the door with my passport since I was 12 and going to so many different destinations around the world, literally just for surfing.

Fucking nuts. This is such a crazy way to grow up. And that's the cool thing about the film is all of us had that in common.

And it's crazy the way the story's set up too, because there's so many things in it that I didn't really realize were happening at the time. Like I came from a broken family, alcoholic father, kind of a radical situation at home. And then a lot of us had broken families. A lot of us had that in common.

So we sort of have this weird fucked up family dynamic in common. So we all became sort of like our own family on the road. So we were competing for a world title. We were all competing and going around the world all the time staying together. So we became best friends like this nucleus of surfers. And we all just became ultra close. And then when things got really serious, with the surfing competition, and there was a lot on the line with sponsors and money and big brands coming in, the shit hit the fan and then we started like breaking up.

It got too serious. It was almost like a band who just couldn't stand each other anymore, or things got too radical, or girls got in the way or money got in the way. And so there was like this kind of like breaking up element throughout our group.

Joe Rogan (3:56)

I would imagine when you're living like that, those people must be so valuable for you though. People that can understand your way of life because it's their way of life too. Cause like to a regular person who commutes every day and goes to an office and comes home, like your life is alien.