Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2390 - Jack Carr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2390 - Jack Carr' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2390 - Jack Carr

the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night all day
my man what's up good how are you great to see you always great to see you stop
and so looking
forward to this we're going a thousand miles an hour for it seems like me too
man and I've been
really looking forward to talking to you about this book because I know that
you've been obsessed
you've been obsessed by this era in human history and tell us about it yeah
yeah so this 1968 Vietnam
and I just launched the book tour not last night but the night before because
last night was comedy
mothership kill Tony which was amazing it's so crazy the best show to go they
vet any of those
people by the way before they come up yeah didn't look insane people brilliant
people great comics
terrible comics that was fantastic that's the best show ever that was fantastic
but yeah I kicked off
the book tour with David Murrell who created Rambo back in 1972 with first
blood so that was a huge
honor for me he's been an inspiration to me my whole life and I've wrote a
series of books in the 80s
Brotherhood of the Rose Fraternity of the Stone League of Night and Fog which
were just incredible
and I got to kick off the book tour with him out there signed a baby for the
first time I've never
signed a baby so someone brought a baby through and asked me to sign their kid
I was like it does and
then I realized they just wanted me to sign the shirt on the baby which is a
little better than the
actual skin of the baby so yeah so I did that word they would tattoo the baby
that was two new tattoos
came through so I saw two new very large tattoos of cross tomahawk that's crazy
I mean you've been to
had that for a while you've had people doing that for a while for you but I
remember the first time I
got one I think it was after I think it was after I was on or right around the
same time the first time
I was on so like 2020 the first time I saw it I texted you and sent it it's
like someone tattooed the
cross tomahawk on themselves and you know I said who you've had that with with
you for a while and if it was
weird the first time someone you see it like now it's kind of must be kind of
normal because a lot
of people have tattoos of you it's not normal you know it's weird it's very
weird they'll probably
grow to regret them never that doesn't happen with tattoos does it no not mine
no I don't regret mine
I like mine life story it's a life story yeah it's awesome you know it depends
on what you got yeah
you know and timing and maybe if you got someone's name on there that's no
longer a part of your life
yeah maybe the wife wants you to get that removed perhaps turn into a snake I've
heard that exactly
exactly but uh but yeah the book 1968 Vietnam and I thought this was going to
be the book that was
going to take me the least amount of time because I thought I had this
foundation of knowledge when
it comes to warfare Vietnam in particular those lessons I've had the influence
of popular culture
when it comes to the 60s and Vietnam as well growing up so I thought I was I
was well prepared
to dive into this world and I didn't want to just say that they're listening to
Creedence Clearwater
Revival and that it's 1968 and then essentially drop a contemporary thriller
into the 60s in 1968
instead I wanted someone who lived through that era to know that I put in the
effort and any sentence had
to be written through the lens of 1968 without the benefit of 50 plus years of
hindsight so if someone
is you know 70 years old 50 years old 20 years old they only have their life
experience up to that point
to make a decision for perspective on an event and that took a lot more time
than I thought I got a
dictionary from 1969 I couldn't find the one from 1968 I wanted so I got a
dictionary from 1969 to look
how that how terms were defined back then a lot of maps from the era and it was
just a took a lot
longer which is why we're here in October and not in January June when the book
was supposed to come
out oh wow so what so when you get a dictionary from 1968 what is the
difference well that's what I
wanted to find is there a lot of difference I'm sure there is but I was looking
at just some specific
terms that I can't remember what they are right now but I just wanted to look
through that look up
yeah google something today doing this research as if I was in the 60s and so
if I needed to look
something up whether it was spelling or whatever else I wanted to use that
instead of like asking
google machine so I just wanted to transport myself back in time and uh yeah
that was that was quite
the endeavor I didn't expect at the outset so I feel like this that war in
particular is uh
it's like world war ii was what we think america is Vietnam is what america
really is that is a very
perceptive insight so world war ii we were fighting evil we were stopping the
rise of hitler and the third
reich yeah world world war ii was just Vietnam was fucking nonsense and it's
still to this day it infuriates
people that participated in it it infuriates people who lost family members it
doesn't it didn't make
any sense it was birthed on a lie it was a complete false flag event that our
own government
yeah they they lied to us and told us that that the gulf of tonkin there was an
incident where
one of our battleships was attacked and it wasn't it was all a lie and it was
just to get us into this
fucking war and there's a whole bunch of people that made a whole bunch of
money and a bunch of people
died and at the end of it everybody felt broken and during it there was a
gigantic cultural revolution
in the middle of it that's the real america yeah you know it's uh
it's something that i explore in the book and the benefit of hindsight it's
certainly more um it it's
more not relevant but uh you you can you can draw that out for sure the benefit
of hindsight and i'm
trying to write this thing in 1968 from these guys so they're having these
conversations with only that
information so they don't yet know who's making a ton of money they're not
knowing about bell helicopters
and and all the rest of the stuff they're not they don't really know yet about
gulf of tonkin
um they just know that 1968 is the bloodiest year thus far of the war and it's
going to be the
bloodiest year of the war so far which is why i said it in that year how many
people died that year
uh yeah well 58 over 58 000 in total and i forget exactly how many for that
particular year but we lost
more people that year and had more people wounded than any other year of the
war but over 58 000
people died in vietnam on our side to say nothing of the vietnamese um and nva
vietcong civilians you
know all put together but uh certainly a lot more than 58 000 um and over what
yeah looking back
so i'm trying to look at it through the lens of the day and when you look at
that the domino there we
look back and say of course the rest of the world wouldn't have fallen to
communism but at the time
am i trying to put myself into the shoes of the people making these decisions
and uh they're at
least for southeast asia there was they the threat of other countries falling
even if they did would
that have meant anything long term for the rest of us today it's it's hard to
say that it would have
but uh i mean the whole thing is so is so heartbreaking um and you're right
when we got back from from
world war ii uh those guys had parades they got back to work they used the gi
bill they built this
country into what it is today vietnam those guys it was looked at like they
went bankrupt it was like
a company going bankrupt and not only that when they came back they were called
baby killers they
were met at the airport by protesters they had all that to deal with all that
baggage to deal with
and uh and that left a scar an entire generation and really you know a lot of
that started with the
kennedy assassination in 1963 and then we move on into the war and this becomes
the first televised war so
there were photographs of the civil war um there's uh photographs uh world war
one world war ii we're
getting the newsreels when you go to the movies on saturday and see the matinee
and you're getting
those but that's a very different type of way to get your news uh because you're
seeing it once a
week or you're seeing a still photograph in a paper uh then we get to vietnam
and now you're seeing it
every day on the news you're seeing walter cronkite there give you that news
and you're watching
these guys in foxholes and you're seeing this shooting and you're seeing this
chaos and then also the
media i think this is the first time where the media realizes they have not
they're not just a a pillar
as a check on government they realize at this point that they actually have
power to influence events
and policy so how they report from vietnam very different from how reporters
even in korea but let's
say world war ii very different from how reporters uh reported on that war and
now i think in vietnam
you have these guys in saigon and they realize and they're staying at these
amazing hotels and they're
partying it up at night and some of them are going to the outskirts of town so
it looks like they're
out in the rice paddies or whatever then they're going back to their hotel for
for drinks but they
realize during this time that they can influence policy and so that's what we
see with the ted
offensive we see that as a complete is a complete tactical win for the united
states but it becomes
a loss for us a huge strategic loss for us because of the way that it's
reported and the uh the media
is involved in that so they didn't know it before what was the issue the media
distorted what was
going on yeah the media distorted what was what was going on and uh and talked
about this huge victory
for the uh for the nva and uh for for north vietnam and it wasn't really but it
was when they reported it
that way and then we see more of america turning against this war and uh and
policy shifts and more
people shipped into vietnam so it's a i mean the whole thing is so is so sad
and i try to humanize
it and personalize it in this book because you can read about i think it's the
importance of reading
fiction also because you're you can you get a compassion there uh and an
empathy for people
because you're living something through their eyes even though it's fiction uh
that you don't get
really through through non-fiction you can read about all these numbers you can
read about 58 000
but when you read a story like this uh then you're getting to know these
characters and you're going
through this thing with them and that then becomes part of your experience uh
so even say let's say
buds going through going through seal training yeah i'm thinking back to normandy
and i'm thinking back
to to uh to iwo jima i'm thinking back to vietnam and what these guys had to go
through and then i'm
realizing i can do a few more push-ups in the sand here in coronado california
all those guys died and
sacrificed so much so that i could be here but some of that comes through the
works of fiction too the thrillers
i was reading growing up from guys who had backgrounds in vietnam or just from
things they're
dealing with in contemporary thrillers of the day but that became part of my
experience and i didn't
have to uh and it's almost like you're living it even though it's all made up
so that's the important
of important of reading in general and the beacon of reading when we go when we
look at 2003 to 2025
and the drop-off in reading that has occurred that is scary is it do you think
that's because of the
internet oh yeah i mean it's quite uh it corresponds almost directly with the
rise of the
smartphone and uh and of course it continues to drop today so i think i'm
getting into publishing and
hollywood and probably one of the worst times in the last hundred years that
one could decide to do
something like this with ai and all and all the rest of it it's uh and less
people reading and less
people