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The jogan Experience now you've been you use a lot of local ingredients but you've also been doing this thing where you uh take people hunting and show them how to butcher an animal and show them how to cook an animal right when did you start doing that that was in 2008 so shortly after um we started doing uh classes on Butchery of domestic pork um which was kind of my wheelhouse I'd learn that in restaurants work I've been a prep cook and a butcher in a restaurant and uh being new to hunting at that point um I I had just started hunting a couple years prior and was really excited about it and saw the uh opportunity to really kind of tie the two together you know I I knew how to butcher before I knew how to hunt um and so that I had a little bit of an advantage on the back end of it but still have and still do have to this day a lot to learn about the front end of it and I wanted to be able to share that with people because I I think that hunting is a very key way to show people the importance of food because if you can feel sad about taking the life of a deer or a pig or a squirrel then you can also understand what a case of carrots that is you know rotting at a grocery store because they haven't been sold or they're not they don't look good enough to sell anymore that's also sad to me and and you know a lot of work went into that and and and and so much it's immeasurable and so being able to tie food uh with the with a source like that with hunting or fishing or whatever I think was really important so we started doing classes where we're taking people out and we would it's guided hunts and then you learn how to butcher cook and then you eat game throughout the weekend too and we still do that to this day and when you do this how many times a year do you do this uh you know well um you know in season it's it's Texas so it's hot our season typically runs if we if we have a couple Dove hunts or something in there from mid-september till uh maybe April um so just basically the the cooler and cool and cold months of of the year so about six seven months and when you do it would you do it on weekends like when when do you uh yeah they're they're they're typically weekend classes um we used to do a lot of private events and now I've just gone to we work we work
with one Ranch um we do a Friday through Sunday class and um in all honesty though our our whole season this year has fairly much been booked up by uh people that came to previous classes they they come back we have a pretty high return rate on those we're about to release our schedule of those but there's going to be very very little seats available to those they fill up we we do eight classes a year for four people yeah you kind of would if you're hunting too you're you're going to need small groups right you really can't yeah it's and it's got to be very intimate you know we want everybody to see everything and put their hands on it so it's it's really necessary we have a team of guides so everybody if you've never been hunting before you have a guide we walk you through the whole um the whole series of events like from siding in the gun to um you know it's this constant barrage of of like learning and it's like this is how you put your heel down you know this is the way the wind is blowing this is the way we're going to walk to do this you know this is uh what time of day we expect deer to move when we expect Hogs to move why we're sitting right here all kind you know we're like constantly feeding information and then once that animal is taken we're feeding you know more information about this is how you skin this is how you gut this is how you use the liver this is C fat um this is a shank this is best for grind this is best for slow cooking things like that and then we teach them how to how to butcher it break it down um and then we really want them to be able to do it on their own and the whole time we feed them game to kind of really keep it in context because a lot of times people people have been told oh you know that you can't eat that you know you can't you know deer liver is no good or or venison tastes gy to me or I not going to touch the hog topic yet but um you know people are very uh opinionated about Hogs and uh we try to just kind of dispel those myths and Empower and educate people and to be able to do it on their own and whether or not they go and do it in the future I don't really know but I do think that it gives them some very good connectivity I mean I know people people that came on a trip 12 years ago that still talk about it to
me you know I think it was important and I mean that's very that's really important to me and very meaningful that it's it's a it's a formative experience even if they never do it again you know but it it it teaches them to really value a resource that time they killed a deer because it's really hard like for me uh once you've killed that deer if you open up a a bag of of beef or something I can't but help but think like all those animals in a field you know they all had lives they all had deaths everything you know it's like and I think it it teaches you just to appreciate resources and once you start to appreciate that resource uh maybe you'll start to appreciate all resources you know right you appreciate the vegetables everything else hell you might appreciate where your clothes are made or or or uh do we need a a leaf blower you know things like that catch new episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience for free only on Spotify watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify including Clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on Spotify you can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free Spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes you just need to search for the J on your Spotify app go to Spotify now to get this full episode of The Joe Rogan Experience