Episode #312
Steve Rinella, Bryan Callen
Books mentioned
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Mentioned by Steve Rinella, Bryan Callen · at 00:02:38
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The Road
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:51:43
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Meat Eater
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 02:47:03
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Steve Rinella and Bryan Callen join Joe for a wide-ranging conversation about culture, history, masculinity, democracy, and ancient accounts of Troy. They also discuss hunting, bears and animal behavior, survival, firearms, technology, mental health, and confronting danger, violence, and mortality, with a recommendation of Rinella’s book Meat Eater.
What they talked about
- Flu shots and immune system
- College living stories and hygiene
- Analysis of True Blood and vampire tropes
- Royalty pageantry and deference
- Motivation and self-definition
- Sasquatch and Gigantopithecus theory
- Grizzly bear behavior and cub predation
- Hunting as a primal experience
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