#834 - Dan Doty

Joe Rogan (0:00)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

There are two Austins. One of them is a drug-addled shithole. The other one's in Texas. We're about 10 miles outside of Austin, Nevada. I'm with my good friend Dan Doty. And we just got back from, are we allowed to say unsuccessful until it hits the air?

Dan Doty (0:35)

Yeah, I think so.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Unsuccessful in memories and fun. We had a wonderful time chasing unsuspecting undulates with sharp pointy sticks. It did not work out. That means we were bow hunting for deer. It did not work out. Dan Doty is, you are a fucking renaissance man, my friend. You're an undercover hippie on a hunting show.

You're a man of a great, vast, wide range of experiences.

And Dan has worked for MeatEater for 65 episodes?

Dan Doty (1:14)

Yeah, this is my 65th episode shooting the show.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

And Dan's been on the podcast before with Remy Warren back when he and Remy were releasing that Apex Predator show, which is an excellent show. I guess they're not doing it anymore. If you hear noise, because we're driving, we're on the road right now, and we're passing through some fucking strange shit. We're about 150 miles or so outside of Reno, I think 170, outside of Reno, Nevada.

And we just saw so much strangeness today.

Dan Doty (1:50)

This is lonely country, man. Lonely country with a lot of, what do you call them? Desert rats.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Desert rats. All these people. No offense if you're one of them listening to this podcast right now. I'm sure you're wonderful people.

Dan Doty (2:03)

Lots of four-wheelers, lots of side-by-sides, lots of long, weird haircuts.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

Weird haircuts, like they just, it gets to a certain point, oh man, I gotta cut the ends.

It just, Reno is, Reno is fucking metropolis compared to this. And I've always thought of Reno as being one of those weird places I really don't want to go to. But no offense if you're from Reno and you're listening to this.

Dan Doty (2:28)

Nevada is, it's a bigger state than I thought, and it's as empty as anything.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

You know what gain means. What does gain mean? Does that mean the...

Dan Doty (2:36)

So yeah, it's like how much it's amplifying the sound that's coming in.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

Oh, so if I crank it up way high, it's probably too high. Yeah, it's making it red. It's like, bitch, what are you doing?

Dan Doty (2:44)

There's a clipping? Is it going red? That means it's too much.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

All right, I'll leave it right there.

So Jamie can handle this.

This is a new thing I picked up. It's called an Apogee microphone. Some people were complaining about the sound quality of my iPod or iPhone recorded podcast. Someone from my message board recommended this. It's pretty dope. I like how it hooks up. It just hooks up right to the base of your iPhone. And this might be the future.

Dan Doty (3:11)

This is really your first time?

Joe Rogan (3:13)

Yeah, this is our first time. Dan Doty, you're the one who's breaking it in.

So we were about five hours outside of Reno in this incredibly beautiful, desolate landscape, chasing these deer that have these ears that... They're as big as Kim Kardashian's ass. And they fucking hear everything. These animals hear everything. And Dan and I...

Dan was behind me with the camera, and I was being the clumsy, sneaky fuck trying to sneak up on these things. And it just didn't work out, but goddamn it was fun trying.

Dan Doty (3:55)

We got close. We got some good stuff.

Joe Rogan (3:57)

Yeah, I got so close that it could have happened once. One time it legitimately could have happened, the other time we got kind of close a few times. But one time I got inside of 30 yards, and as I was crawling towards them in the bushes, I made too much noise, and they got up and bolted.

But there's two deer that we're in.

This is too many details. You can catch it on the show.

It's called MeatEater. It's on Sportsman's Channel. It's an excellent show. But this fucking trip has been really interesting. First of all, it's nice to be off the grid for seven days. I haven't done that in a while. Goddamn, that feels good.

Dan Doty (4:40)

When was the last time you did that?

Joe Rogan (4:42)

Probably the last time I hunted with you guys. Probably Prince of Wales.

Dan Doty (4:47)

That was not quite a year ago.