#1215 - Ben O'Brien

Joe Rogan (0:00)

And, Jamie, three, two, one. Was this beverage concocted by you, the first one?

Ben O'Brien (0:13)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

You created irebrain.

Ben O'Brien (0:16)

If you ask me, yes.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

If you ask Dudley, what does he say?

Ben O'Brien (0:19)

He would say maybe he was there.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Maybe he was there.

Ben O'Brien (0:23)

He might have been there.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

He was definitely there. But whose idea was it?

Ben O'Brien (0:26)

It's hard to say with these things, Joe. Cheers. Good to see you. You look good.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

You look good, too. I look even better with this shirt, right?

Ben O'Brien (0:32)

Look at that shirt.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

This is the new Ben O'Brien special.

Ben O'Brien (0:34)

Get that shirt.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Can you get this from your website?

Ben O'Brien (0:36)

You go to themeateater.com. You go to the store, and it's there.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Yeah. So what people, you know, I had Steve on, Steve Rinella, our good friend. And we were talking about what they're doing, with what MeatEater's doing.

But it's this very strange thing, where this giant multimedia corporation has stepped in and they're throwing a ton of money at MeatEater and all these different companies that are involved in the outdoors, all these outdoor activities.

Ben O'Brien (1:06)

That is true.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

And they're putting it all together into one super network.

Ben O'Brien (1:11)

Juggernaut.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

Juggernaut of outdoor activities.

Ben O'Brien (1:13)

It's true. It's true. Yeah.

It is something I've never been a part of before. It's something like I've never seen before in the hunting industry.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

Has it ever existed before?

Ben O'Brien (1:23)

I don't think so.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

No.

Ben O'Brien (1:24)

I don't think so. Campy.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Campy. So we would have known.

Ben O'Brien (1:27)

Well, what better to try than something that's never been done?

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Well, you had been doing your podcast for what? Like a year now?

Ben O'Brien (1:33)

It's been about 10 months.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

About 10 months.

Ben O'Brien (1:34)

About 10 months.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

And we were just saying that I tried to get you to do one five years ago.

Ben O'Brien (1:40)

Five years ago.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Ben and I met on a moose hunt in British Columbia.

Ben O'Brien (1:44)

And I would say that it was like friendship at first.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

Yeah, we had a great fucking time.

Ben O'Brien (1:48)

We had a great fucking time. Shout out to Mike Hawkeridge.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

Yeah. And Sam Soholt was with us as well.

Ben O'Brien (1:55)

And we had like, I would always describe that as like, the most fun that I've ever had on a hunt.

It was a good time. Maybe ever. I don't know, we've done a lot of stuff.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

We were laughing a lot. That's why. It was like a lot of fun and a lot of, you know.

Ben O'Brien (2:06)

It wasn't a lot of hardship. Like, we didn't sleep in tents.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

No, we slept at Mike's house, which is great. And then, you know, it was a lot of hiking and stuff. And, you know, it wasn't successful until like, the very last couple of days.

Ben O'Brien (2:17)

And you shot a moose and the celebration was fantastic.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

We had a good time. We had a great time. We got super hammered.

Ben O'Brien (2:25)

The last night, remember last night? What were we drinking? Like some kind of spiced rum or some kind?

It got real.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

When you're drunk and you're drunk in the middle of nowhere and there's wolves everywhere, it's a different kind of drunk.

Ben O'Brien (2:37)

But remember, we... Remember that we went and we shot your bull, right? But then we took the heart and the liver. And we started drinking heavily. And you were up there just cooking liver and onions, cooking up a giant moose heart. So we had like the fuel of organs of an animal you just killed.

And then some kind of like trash bag Canadian rum that was terrible.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Yeah.

Ben O'Brien (2:58)

And that's what every party did.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

But it worked.

Ben O'Brien (3:00)

It worked a real good.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

I don't know what's a good rum or bad rum at all to me.

Like I kind of get good whiskey now. I understand whiskey, sort of, but...

Ben O'Brien (3:09)

Being Irish, it's just like, it's all just goes in.