#1975 - Dan Flores

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. How are you, Dan? Great to see you.

Dan Flores (0:15)

Great to see you too, Joe.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Listen, man, I know I've talked to you since I read Coyote America, but god damn, that's a good book.

It's such a good book, so I'm very excited about this. I'm sure this is going to be awesome, too, Wild New World, The Epic Story of Animals and People in America. I've told so many people about coyotes because of you, and I seem so smart.

Dan Flores (0:39)

Oh, I appreciate that.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

It's such a crazy animal. One of the things that's interesting about coyotes in our area is they don't howl.

I think they've learned.

Dan Flores (0:50)

Oh, yeah, that's happening in LA, too. They've learned not to howl.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Really? Interesting.

Dan Flores (0:57)

It attracts attention to them.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

Well, I used to hear it a lot where I lived. I lived in Ventura County, and we had real problems with them. They killed all my chickens. They were everywhere. But also, fucking cool.

It's such a conflicted thing because I hated them because they killed my chickens, and they also honey-potted my dog into killing my chickens. Did I tell you that story?

Dan Flores (1:18)

No, you didn't tell me that.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

Oh, boy. Listen to this. This is how smart these motherfuckers are. I had this dog, rest in peace, his name is Johnny Cash. He was the best dog. I'll get sad.

But let me catch my breath here because I really love that dog.

Dan Flores (1:37)

Oh, I understand this. I just lost a dog last May.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

This dog was just, he was just such a sweetheart, but he was a big dog. He was a mastiff, a regency mastiff. His father was actually on Fear Factor, and his father was this, we put people in these big bite suits and they had to run. And we did it with Belgian Malinois. And the problem was for like really super athletic guys, like we had some like real high-end athletes on the show occasionally, like amateur football players, guys are just stacked and strong as hell. And a Malinois, no matter what, it's still only 60, 70 pounds.

And so we brought in these Regency Mastiffs because they wanted to figure out a dog that could do bite work but was way stronger. This dog was like a buck 60 and built like a brick shithouse.

His dad, my dog's dad, was actually in the movie The Hulk. If you ever saw the movie The Hulk with Eric Bannon when they turned the dogs into Hulk dogs, that was actually that dog. So my friend Joe, shout out to Joe who raised these dogs, he raised them for intelligence and temperament, and he wouldn't let any dog breed that had any aggression towards other dogs or any aggression towards people. So they were the best dogs. And so this dog was hanging out with all these other dogs that were doing bite work and everything, and he was just so chill, just hanging out, go, how does this dog so chill? And just like, he goes, he's just fucking smart. He's smart, he's well raised and well trained and loved. So anyway, I had his son and he was the fucking best. But he was in the yard during the day and a coyote would come by the fence.

And the fence was six feet high, like a wrought iron fence. He couldn't get over this fence. He didn't even try to get over it. It was a nice big yard. But the coyotes could get over that fence like it didn't even exist. It was wild to watch. I watched one with a chicken in his mouth jump and put his feet at the top of that fence and over like a Cirque du Soleil acrobat.

So, we had this large coop where the chickens were that the coyotes couldn't figure out a way to get into. And then, have you ever raised chickens before?

Dan Flores (3:51)

My dad raised chickens.

Joe Rogan (3:52)

They do a thing called brooding. And what brooding is, chickens lay an egg almost every day. But none of them are going to become chicks because there's no rooster. So these are unfertilized eggs. But they don't understand that. So they decide every now and again that this egg is going to become a chick. And they won't let anyone near it. And they pluck their feathers out. And they just sit on this egg. And they stop making eggs.

And they get real weirded out. And the only way to cure them of this is to put them in a smaller pen with a post. So that they have to hold on to the post to stand. They can't sit and squat like over an egg. So you put a post in there, put a small coop next to the coop. It takes a little, I forget how many days it takes, but they get over it, then you can put them back in with the regular hands.