Joe Rogan Experience #2059 - Adam Greentree

Adam Greentree returns to JRE after about five years to discuss his grueling 30-day over-the-counter backcountry elk hunt in Colorado and his philosophy of deliberately seeking the hardest hunts. He recounts harrowing Australian saltwater crocodile encounters while collecting drinking water, and recalls in vivid detail nearly dying in New Zealand after sliding into glacial water with a loaded pack, fracturing his spine and surviving a freezing night before a rescue helicopter found him on a training exercise. The conversation ranges across wildlife management (wolves, dingoes, aerial culling of deer), John Reeves' Alaska mammoth boneyard with saw-marked bones predating the invention of the saw, and ancient Aboriginal rock art resembling aliens and dinosaurs. It closes on societal themes: homelessness, COVID policy and vaccines, and Greentree's core message that humans need a difficult passion to avoid lives of quiet desperation.

• Adam says day 27 of his 30-day Colorado elk hunt 'broke me,' bringing him to complete satisfaction even without a kill.
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• A big saltwater crocodile erupted from the river to grab a pig he'd just shot, hauling it 30-40 yards underwater.
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• While filtering water, a crocodile's eyes surfaced directly behind him within seconds of him leaving the bank.
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• John Reeves' Alaska boneyard contains saw-marked bones being carbon-dated older than 5,000 years, predating the saw's supposed invention.
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• Adam reveals for the first time on a podcast that he fractured his spine on a New Zealand hunt.
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• A rescue helicopter found him only because his friend rallied locals who came out 'as a training exercise' after his SOS failed to transmit.
  01:50:51
• Joe states exercise is 1.25 times more effective than SSRIs, yet doctors prescribe drugs instead.
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• Australia has 27 huntable species, only one or two of which require a tag, with open season on most.
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• Australia aerial-culls thousands of deer by helicopter and leaves the meat to rot on the ground.
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• Adam met a hunter whose scoped crossbow was accurate out to 140 yards.
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• In a single barren season he walked just short of 500 miles searching for game.
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• He debunks the myth that saltwater and freshwater crocodiles won't share the same water body.
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• A friend filmed a wolf near Bakersfield, California, possibly released there by rogue activists.
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• Australian dingoes can travel in packs of 16 to 20 animals.
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• Mammoth bones dumped by the Museum of Natural History were recovered from the bottom of the East River.
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• Aboriginal Australians have around 700 dialects; neighboring 'mobs' just 10km apart can't understand each other.
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• Aboriginal rock art dated to 60,000+ years depicts figures resembling classic gray aliens and dinosaurs.
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