Steve Rinella Details After Effects of Grizzly Bear Encounter

the jurgen experience i like that you think about how long you have left on the planet i think you should yeah yeah i wake up i try to think about that every day you know all like politicians they'll enter office and they'll make a clock set for like four years or whatever and it counts down i need to get one of those like for life for like roughly my life expectancy and it counts down backwards well don't you think that your life expectancy i mean uh you are one of the few people that i know that has uh almost been killed by a grizzly bear well yeah it's well uh you had a real in a situation like in a brush yeah well uh something enough where it was scary enough that i now now that i've studied it a fair bit that i now know i had um i had a mental i i i had a i had a i had like a like a near-death experience mental a near-death experience mental experience even though i was unharmed but but it jarred my brain so hard it jarred my the the the the the minute or the seconds that occurred jarred my brain so hard that as i studied as i've tried to be curious about study about what happened in my brain um its parallels are all found and and it's discussed by people who discuss near-death experiences which might just mean i'm not like i'm mentally not that i'm not as tenacious mentally as i'd like to be but i my brain got joggled but don't you think that is joggle the word it is now don't you think that when you're in contact with an animal that's that large i mean a predatory animal that's how big was it 10 feet how big was it grizzly easily yeah i don't want to enormous like it was like struck all of us and we've looked at a lot of bears as being like you know a mature brown bear okay so mature kodiak brown bear yeah that's what we wanted to talk about talk about where you were at a fognac island which is a place that has enormous bears that whole part of the world is known for some of the largest brown bears on earth yeah it's i mean it's separated from kodiak by a narrow straight it's like so like the kodiak brown bear being like the world's biggest barrels is a neighboring island but that specific specimen you know i don't know a mature animal just huge just huge yeah when you're around something like that where there can be no doubt that you can't get out of the way you can't you can't fight it off you can't you're you're helpless like it must trigger something in your your mind where you you you come to grips with the reality of predator and prey that you almost were on the menu yeah like there's just no way around that you can't there's no there's no rationalizations you can play in your mind when you're confronted with such absolute superiority are you familiar with the term playing possum yes obviously so uh our understanding of opossums now is that they're not playing they conk out right yeah yeah stress he's not playing dead he hit such a like he hit such a stress level that he shuts off um i'm like embarrassed to admit but i think it's instructive to point out that uh i was playing possum in that moment and i don't mean playing yeah it like it possumed me out let's tell everybody who doesn't know the story oh yeah so real quick um fognac island yeah we've been yapping a long time but we had uh we were hunting and hung uh elk up in a tree and left it for a day and a half all the meat hanging in the tree um then we're camped a few miles away from there and went back to retrieve went back with a few guys to retrieve the meat out of the tree and uh baird found it um and we were very very aware that this might occur and went up and investigated the area around the tree and determined that the bear hadn't found it yet in fact the carcass of the animals laying that far away was untouched um in hindsight there was a pile of bear [ __ ] that had been smeared on the on the ground and i remember looking at that pile of bear [ __ ] and wondering if it had been smeared by a bear's foot or smeared by a boot and i determined that it looked like it had been smeared by a boot which would have meant weed smeared the [ __ ] when we were hanging the thing in the tree and then stupidly like sat down to eat lunch and within a couple minutes of sitting down and eat lunch um it came you know the bear came in and it's it's open mouth past uh just 18 inches from my head jesus and i was facing away so i was the last one to see it um giannis who you know he had a pistol he had bear spray but he hit it in the head with a pair of black diamond trekking poles he had sat down he's got spray and set his pistol on his pack but then when the when i talk about like playing possum and all the [ __ ] that happens to you his instinct is to smack it with a track and pull wow everything you spend all your you know you spent all your time thinking about how you're going to handle this that and the other thing um and uh sometimes it's disappointing that you don't handle stress that well you know i just i don't know i don't know where i went one of our guys like got ran over by a bear wrote it down the hill um at that moment i snapped out of whatever i was in but i was it shut me down bad i even noticed um i even noticed there's a thing that happens to people when they get really cold they enter a sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy mentality when you start to get cold um you lose as you start to get really cold like where you get like where you could be in a hypothermic situation um people stop doing the obvious things that you would do to get warm and i s as aware of that as i am as many times as i've experienced that i still see it happen to me i still have to snap myself out of it like you just like you're getting cold you're getting lethargic you're getting cold more lethargic the cold's getting worse and i have to be like you can stop you can step in right now and stop this and i have to remind it's still it's like it still doesn't come naturally you know when you talk to people who train like um you talk to people who train for this kind of stuff that you they have to train in a very realistic environment they have to train to like keep your head you know just like make good decisions if you walk into like an active car crash scene or whatever and there's a severed hand laying on the ground right some people are just gonna see that hand and they're not gonna see anything else some people are just gonna see chaos and they're not going to focus on any particular thing but it's like the person come in see the hands see everything around them like assess all that it's like it's just from exposure to that super traumatic stuff not to getting cold traumatic but i do when i when i look at how i respond to things i do catch that there's like a a mentality to practice and learn yeah it's it's understandable that something like a bear attack would trigger senses and trigger a response that you're just not conditioned for you're not you i don't know how you'd ever get conditioned to a bear attack i don't know i don't know i mean i don't know on that same island these dudes at the same island there was some guys some uh the same island i think it was later that same year of some operative some military guys happen to be hunting there they got attacked by a bear and killed it really got one of them got messed up bad but he killed it i'm like why'd he kill it and i didn't well maybe they had their gun out right you were in a weird situation too because if you guys were relaxed eating lunch with your guards down you're sitting there chewing on a sandwich i always laugh cause you know i was in the middle of saying what like i was in the middle of a sentence i'll never forget because someone was laughing about why we were putting some sandwiches together and someone was laughing about why my sandwich looks so much nicer than someone else's sandwich and i said if you want i was in the middle of saying if you want a sandwich like this get your own [ __ ] tv show but i i was never able to finish the sentence wow but i know i was in the middle of saying that when all of a sudden the people around me erupted off the ground uh as though like a land mine had gone off underneath us whoa because they saw it and i didn't see it i was looking the other way and he came in running oh just yeah that's scary man i've had like you know a fair bit fair bit of exposure um and i'm yeah like i mean relative to most a ton of exposure to those things i got to expose my 10 year old kid to him this year a couple times you know um hunting caribou in alaska and it was it was it was like cool to kind of see his thought process you yeah you've been exposed to more than 99.999 percent of the population yeah and for it to rattle you like that it was disappointing man because we're always talking about i'm gonna do this and i'll do that and we're always like yeah you know i actually prefer the 44 over the three because you know and if i can't get it done with this 13 you know i got 13 reasons he doesn't want to charge me with this semi-auto it's like all this like [ __ ] you know and all sudden it like hits and like you know spot it with a track and pull i've only seen one grizzly ever in the wild uh up close and uh it wasn't a big one it was like a six-foot pair but uh it looked at me in a way that a another bear has never looked at me before yeah i've seen black bears black bears look at you like what are you who are you what's going on can i walk by you like black players look at people in a weird way yeah they're like denizens of the underbrush man the grizzly looked to me like this just locked on me and i was like oh [ __ ] like that is just a different thing like it it looked at me like yeah am i eating you am i gonna eat you yeah there's a mindset probably that comes from uh there's a mindset that probably comes from just not being challenged yeah episodes of the joe rogan experience are now free on spotify that's right they're free from september 1st to december 1st 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Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 05 2020