#2059 - Adam Greentree

Adam Greentree (0:13)

Hello, Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

What the fuck's happening?

Adam Greentree (0:15)

Everything.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

How are you enjoying my country?

Adam Greentree (0:17)

I'm loving your country, yeah. It was good, it's good to be back.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Yeah, you were here, you did another one of those wild back country elk hunts, which you haven't been able to do because of COVID for three years.

Adam Greentree (0:29)

Four years.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Four years.

Adam Greentree (0:30)

Yep.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

Wow.

Adam Greentree (0:31)

And five years since the last podcast.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Did you document the whole thing like you did the last time in your internet stories?

Adam Greentree (0:37)

I did, yeah. Yeah, I tried to capture as much as I could.

Sometimes it's hard because you're stuck in the moment. So the last thing you want is like a phone in your face, right?

Joe Rogan (0:46)

It does fuck with it, right?

Adam Greentree (0:47)

Yeah. So I couldn't capture it all, but I tried to at least mention everything that I was going through. But there was like one stage I just felt like I was in the war and I actually slipped between two fallen down trees and I nearly broke my legs like straight across the front of my shins.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

Oh shit.

Adam Greentree (1:04)

And it's like I didn't capture it and I'm sort of hurting. So you don't get to see the whole story. But I reckon I at least give the people 80% of the story, you know.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

What happened when you almost broke your legs?

Adam Greentree (1:16)

Well, I was fucking rooted for starters, like stuff like this is day 26 or something like that.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

What does rooted mean to your people? You didn't know what it means, right?

Adam Greentree (1:27)

Rooted means really exhausted, like just you're fucked, you know. And I was coming back in the dark, you know, you're trying to conserve everything as you're going. So you're trying to use your headlight as less as possible as well, like you're out there for a month. So a lot of the times your headlight, your torch is turned right down if it's on at all. So it's turned right down and I'm coming back down the mountain to camp.

Pretty much stepped on one bit of dead fall, like a big fallen pine tree and then slipped off it and then there was another pine tree only like a foot apart. So I went between the two of them and all my body weight come over the top of it.

And then yeah, like I just remember, I like least bruised the bones because it was hard to walk, you know.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

Oh boy.

Adam Greentree (2:11)

But it's like at that point, you feel like the whole world's against you, right? Really tough trip. Like, and I think a lot of the over the counter guys went through that this year. It was a really difficult year for Earl.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

Was that because of the heavy snowfall?

Adam Greentree (2:26)

So I think because of winter kill for one. And then a lot of the other states are not doing any over the counter anymore. So that pushed more people in the Colorado. And then Colorado shut down some units and limited units because of the winter kill.

So there was a lot of hunters jammed in the areas. I think the bulls didn't come down. So I think a combination of a lot of things.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

Colorado has just reintroduced wolves, which is just...

It's such a shell game because when there's like stipulations to reintroduce wolves, like Renella has talked about this before, like they reintroduce wolves. And then the idea is when the wolves get to be a certain population, then they will allow hunting. But then the wildlife protection groups come in and they sue to make sure that you don't open up wolf hunting. So then they only can issue depredation permits to ranchers and people don't like the idea of hunting wolves.

And I get that. But you shouldn't also like the idea of rampant wolf populations that are invading into people's communities and eating their dogs and threatening children. The reason why Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood and all that shit, there was a story because they used to eat kids.

Adam Greentree (3:42)

It was happening.

Joe Rogan (3:43)

Yeah, they ate people for a long fucking time until people got wise and said, you know, we should probably kill these fucking things. And that's what they did for the longest time. And then the greenies got in like, we need to bring the wolves back.