#1810 - Remi Warren

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

And we're up! Remi Warren, how are you, brother?

Remi Warren (0:17)

Yeah, pretty good, man. How are you?

Joe Rogan (0:18)

So we were talking last night, we were hanging out, about your hand. So tell me, what's going on with that?

Remi Warren (0:24)

Yeah, I just actually had a wrist surgery, and just doing something stupid.

I don't even know if I want to tell the story of how I did it, it's so dumb. But I tore the, like, I guess, tendons in there, stuff that kind of controls all that, so I went in, took some out of the floor.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

You're gonna have to tell everybody now.

Remi Warren (0:41)

Yeah, I know.

I was like, well, okay, this is the truth. Well, I don't even actually 100% know. But it was like, you know when you just, I don't know, you get an injury, and you think, like, you don't even think about it, you just keep doing your shit.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Right.

Remi Warren (0:56)

And it was like, last September, I was, I shot a pretty good bull elk in New Mexico, and I'm, like, skinning it out, and I couldn't use my hand very well, so I, like, taped the knife in my hand and do the whole thing, and the guys that are with me are looking at me like, that's not right, man, you should probably get that checked out. And I was thinking about it, I was like, yeah, I probably should. So I went to the doctor, and I was just thinking, like, they're going to say, ah, it's, you know, nothing. And they're like, this is a major injury. Like, how long has it been like this? I was like, I don't know, three months or so. And they're like, oh, yeah, this is, how did you do it? I was like, I don't know. They said it was consistent with, like, a fall from maybe 10 feet straight onto your wrist.

And I couldn't think of, I was like, I would remember that. They're like, you would remember it.

And I started thinking back, like, the following January, I was duck hunting, and these mallards are coming in and, like, pretty high up.

So I shoot one, and it is probably, like, I don't know, 30 feet up, flying 30 miles an hour. And it's coming right at me. And I think, oh, I'll reach up and try to catch it out of the air, so it doesn't hit me in the face, and bend my hand back. And I think that that's what tore it. And then just never, I just taped the fingers up and never, like, healed right. And then a combination of that, when I was in, and then I was in BC this last year, like, hiking across a mountain, had the trekking pole and my wrist just gave out and slammed into the hill. And that was kind of, I think, the last straw finally probably tore everything.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

Oh, so you probably had it hurt from the mallard.

Remi Warren (2:18)

And then, you know, a combination like fall, like, and then just overuse and then gave it the rest. And so they just went in, opened it up on both sides, took that, drilled holes through everything, and then screwed it to my bone in my arm, I guess.

Joe Rogan (2:34)

So do they use other tendons?

Remi Warren (2:38)

Yeah, there's like these two cuts here. I don't know.

You know, one of the things I didn't want to do is research it too much.

Yeah, I don't really want to know what's going on. I was like, sometimes the oblivious thing is a little bit better, but they took them out of my forearm here and then used those. They drilled, there's like a bunch of little bones in here. So there's like the, it's like an SL reconstruction kind of thing. So there's a bunch of little bones in there, and they just opened it up on both sides, essentially drilled through. So there's holes all the way through. Then they took those tendons, wrapped it around, and then screwed it to my forearm. But I guess when they were screwing it in, they broke a drill bit, and then they had to, and then they tried to get it out with another drill bit, and then broke that. And then they used the chuck key and a hammer to get it all out so they wouldn't leave it in there. So it's like, I think surgery, any kind of surgery I think is pretty crazy to me. It's like pretty barbaric in some ways.