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The Joe Rogan Experience

#975 - Sebastian Junger

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Sebastian Junger is the author of The Perfect Storm, War, and Tribe. He also is the co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Restrepo." His latest documentary "Hell On Earth" can been seen on NatGeo on June 11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, we're live.

0:07.0

What's up, man? How are you?

0:11.0

Hey, is that pretty good?

0:12.0

I'm excited I walked in on a pool game. It was a I barely squeaked it out

0:17.0

That was a very nice shot to to end it though. That's the way to end it. So well, I've been reading your man, Tribe, I really enjoy it. It's really good and it's it's so it

0:27.7

resonates. It's very interesting. I went into the first chapter I wanted to move in

0:31.6

with the Native Americans.

0:34.5

It was such a, I mean, it was one of the more interesting aspects of it was something that

0:40.5

I didn't know about, which was the European settlers that had been

0:44.4

kidnapped and were living with the Native Americans and then when they were

0:48.9

rescued many of them wanted to go back. Yeah or they would go into hiding so they wouldn't have to be repatriated to

0:55.6

colonial society.

0:56.5

They wanted to stay with their adopted tribes.

0:58.4

And there was also a lot of, a lot of young white people, particularly white men, but young women too who basically absconded

1:07.6

across the frontier into tribal society.

1:11.2

They fled white society, they didn't like it and and as Benjamin Franklin pointed out

1:15.8

we have lots of call on the young colonnials fleeing to the Indians and we have not

1:20.6

one example of an Indian as they were called fleeing to white society.

1:25.0

Yeah that was one of the more fascinating aspects of it. I didn't anticipate that.

1:29.0

I thought that there would be a lot of Native Americans so it'd be like wow this is a way better

1:33.6

look at all the food look at the houses and I mean they had plenty of food you know

1:37.7

there are whatever there was success success very successful society in fact they were they had better

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