Cameron Hanes & Adam Greentree — Cameron Hanes is a renowned American bowhunter, ultra-endurance athlete and author known for extreme fitness and elk hunting. Adam Greentree is an Australian traveling bowhunter and Hanes's longtime hunting partner.
The gist
Joe Rogan hosts bowhunters Cameron Hanes and Adam Greentree for a wide-ranging conversation that opens on predator-prey dynamics and the politics of mountain lion, bear, and shark management, arguing that urban voters who ban hunting create dangerous overpopulation. The middle of the episode turns philosophical, contrasting the 'fake' modern life with the fulfillment of hunting, struggle, and voluntary discomfort, using Israel Adesanya's post-fight speech and Jelly Roll's dramatic weight-loss transformation as touchstones. They geek out at length over the evolution of archery gear, optics, rangefinders, and the ethics of new technology like thermal optics. The back third covers health optimization, altitude training, stem cells, peptides, and skepticism of the FDA and pharmaceutical industry, closing with each man's biggest lesson from the hunting season.
Big reveals
- Japan saw a record surge of brown bear attacks in 2025 with at least 13 fatalities, prompting military deployment.
- Adam recounts traveling to hunt in Hokkaido, Japan without realizing the area had some of the world's biggest brown bears.
- Cam's brother Taylor describes being stalked and chased by a mountain lion while running near Lake Forest, California.
- Cam and Joe break down Israel Adesanya's post-fight speech after knocking out Alex Pereira as the greatest of all time.
- They claim a peaceful, adrenaline-free kill produces better-tasting meat than a stressed animal.
- Cam argues thermal optics are unethical for hunting because they remove the skill of glassing and threaten trophy animals.
- Joe and the guests defend stem cells, BPC-157, and peptides against skeptical doctors and the FDA.
- They call out a magazine for first pushing COVID vaccines as life-or-death, then later reporting heart-damage risk.
Things worth remembering
- Adam says mountain lion meat tastes incredible, described as a cross between venison and chicken, or a 'superior pork.'
- Feral and house cats kill animals in the billions every year in North America.
- A San Francisco Bay Area diet analysis found roughly 50% of culled mountain lions' diet was dogs and cats.
- Cam's brother Taylor ran a 300-mile race (Arizona Monster) in about 88 hours, finishing second.
- Cam and seven other men packed 300 pounds of boned-out elk meat miles out of the wilderness.
- Jelly Roll dropped from over 500 pounds and ran a 10K the day before visiting the studio.
- Image-stabilizing binoculars let hunters spot tiny movements like an ear flick that they'd otherwise miss.
- The long-range shooting world record is a 4,224-yard match shot; a non-competition hit reached 4.4 miles.
- Easton X10 arrows have been used in the Olympics since 1996 and cost about $50 each.
- Adam built a home hypoxic training room simulating 14,500 feet to acclimate before a Utah hunt at sea-level Australia.