Joe Rogan Experience #2057 - Dale Brisby

Joe Rogan hosts rodeo cowboy and internet personality Dale Brisby for a wide-ranging conversation rooted in cowboy culture and rough-stock riding. They dig into the physical toll of the sport, including Dale's many surgeries and famous injuries to riders like JB Mauney, and the addictive 'fight' of climbing onto a bucking animal. Long stretches cover the carnivore diet, the sugar-industry cover-up that blamed saturated fat for heart disease, regenerative ranching, and the ethics of eating meat versus monocrop agriculture. Dale recounts his first elk bow hunt and a noodling trip for catfish, while Joe connects both to humanity's instinct to provide. The talk closes on freedom, communism, self-defense, and living a meaningful life by example.

• The sugar industry paid Harvard scientists about $50,000 (today's dollars) in 1967 to blame saturated fat instead of sugar for heart disease.
  00:10:28
• Dale broke his face on his first bull ride at age 12, smashing into the bull's head with no helmet.
  00:51:27
• Dale's shoulder has dislocated five times, with bone broken off the front of the socket requiring surgical reconstruction.
  00:57:11
• Joe and Dale watch footage of JB Mauney breaking his neck; he was told not to move until a surgeon could fuse his vertebrae.
  00:58:43
• JB Mauney picked the legendary bull Bushwhacker 13 times and successfully rode him only once.
  01:40:31
• Dale broke down crying in the chute, overwhelmed that a bronc ride could be his last.
  01:35:45
• The episode's elk kill was Dale's first-ever bow hunt and first animal ever killed with a bow.
  02:14:51

• Dale's great-great-grandfather was a Texas Ranger who sat in a teepee with Comanche chief Quanah Parker.
  00:04:14
• Beef cattle are typically slaughtered at a little over a year old, around 1,100 to 1,200 pounds.
  00:45:13
• Bull calves are castrated around three months old so their meat grows more tender as steers.
  00:46:16
• A rodeo bull's flank rope is a roughly 6-foot cotton rope, not cinched around the testicles as people assume.
  02:05:31
• Goggins had wedges cut from his deformed, bone-on-bone knees so the surfaces sit flat again.
  01:53:33
• Dale's bow string had simply come off the cam (not nearly exploded), yet he kept shooting it for two more months and killed an elk.
  02:23:42
• A mortician told Theo Von that small dogs will begin eating a deceased owner within about 24 hours.
  02:09:11
• Noodlers say snapping turtles and snakes avoid fully submerged, oxygen-free holes, making the practice safer.
  02:21:05
• Cam Hanes shot an elk from about two yards using his 50-yard pin because the arrow hasn't started rising at that distance.
  02:29:23

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