Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1622 - Marcus Luttrell
Uploaded: 2021-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1622 - Marcus Luttrell' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-24. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1622 - Marcus Luttrell

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Marcus, what's up? How are you?
Great. Thanks for coming, man.
One year to the date.
I think we were supposed to do this last year right when the quarantine hit.
Right.
It was kind of good because it was April 1st that I called.
Yeah.
I remember because Melanie was yelling at me.
She's like, if you call Joe and tell him we're not going to be making out there,
we're not going to be able to make it out there.
I was like, I was putting it off, putting it off.
I was like, bro, I'll get out there.
And then they did the lockdown, so almost to the date.
It was spicy a year ago.
No one knew what was happening.
Crazy, right?
It was a little weird.
It was.
Now it's like nobody's worried anymore.
Except California people.
We learn fast, our people.
They pick stuff up quick.
I mean, when we suffer together, then there'll always be those that are trying
to figure out
ways to get us back to where we're supposed to be.
And that just took some time.
Yeah.
Well, it seems like Texas did a much better job of relaxing once the pandemic
hit where
people just, you know, for some folks, it's very dangerous.
But it seemed like Texas did a much better job of just going, like, wait a
minute.
Why is everybody freaking out over this?
Yeah.
Like, we can open things up.
Big place, too.
Yeah.
I think that has a lot to do with it, because in the outlying towns, and there's
a lot of
things that got shut down, and there's some things aren't.
Like, money never got shut down.
Everything that people still had to go out.
And they talk about that herd immunity.
Because with the families, there's a bunch up with them.
You get sick, locked down, get the antibodies.
But the more spread out, in some of the towns, they didn't even get it.
Right.
And then, in the big cities, it would show up.
But then, just kind of common sense, that whole, we're going to get through
this.
And always look for the better day.
I mean, you can sit there and become a victim of being a victim, and fear.
Like, I'm so scared to go out, because it might be out there.
Well, yeah, of course it is.
Everything's out there.
That's what a lot of people are like in L.A.
In L.A., there's a tangible feel.
You can feel it.
Yeah, it's in the air.
It's a real thing.
It's real fear.
You know, at the fights, when you're standing there, you can feel that.
Yeah.
You can feel the presence of death when it shows up.
Everything knows if something badder than it was just walked in the room, right?
When we're at the fights, you can feel that when they walk in.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool.
No, you can.
That's the one energy that, like, right now we've been doing fights with no
audience.
It's real weird.
I remember I texted you.
I was like, how is that?
It's wild.
If you want to go to one, there's one this weekend in Vegas.
It's the heavyweight championship, Stipe Miocic versus Francis Ngannou.
And it's probably one of the last ones we do.
Without an audience.
It's pretty fucking wild.
What are the fighters saying?
Some of them love it.
It's less distractions.
It's quicker for them to get into the octagon.
Once they arrive there, they just warm up.
And then they go in there.
They don't have to get to the arena, like, early in the day.
Yeah.
And stay there all day.
It's a different vibe.
But it's great.
You know what I compare it to the difference between a concert where you're,
like, at a filled arena with a rock band, electric guitars, versus a small
acoustic show.
Yeah.
That's kind of the difference.
Or, like, out behind the schoolhouse fighting, as opposed to, you know what I
mean?
Because the anticipation of it, once that punch goes, if not a lot of people
are looking, that's the hardest part about being a fighter, I would imagine.
Everyone's watching you do it.
For some folks, they like it, though.
Some folks perform better when people are watching.
That's what makes them special, right?
Yeah.
They want to hear the roar of the crowd.
Yeah.
And some guys would rather just stay calm and just focus on the task at hand
and not have any distractions.
So what is that?
What separates fighters like that?
It's interesting.
It's, like, it's not whether or not they're good.
No.
Because there's great fighters that like both things.
There's great fighters that love the roar of the crowd, and there's great
fighters that they don't, they're like, I don't give a fuck.
I don't need a crowd.
I just, let's go in a room.
Yeah.
I don't give a fuck.
So a brawler as opposed to somebody who's been trained to fight.
I don't even think it's that.
Are those two different things?
Yeah.
They are, right?
Yeah, for sure.
Absolutely.
A brawler versus someone who's been trained to fight.
The difference is, like, some people just love to fight, and they don't even
know how to do it.
Yeah, but they're good.
Yeah.
Whatever reason, man, they can get it on.
And then there's some people who train to fight, and they fight like they've
been trained.
Yeah.
It's amazing to see the difference.
Yeah.
Well, I think it's bold people, wild people, they tend to do well, especially
if they're
fighting against someone who's not technical, who's not smart.
But there's people that are bold, but they temper it.
You know?
And those people learn how to control it.
And those are the most dangerous ones.
Fortune favors the bold, right?
Yeah.
But, like, guys like Jon Jones is a perfect example, because he's very bold and
wild, but he's also super smart and technical.
Like, he tempers it.
He takes his wildness, and then he tempers it, and that's one of the things
that makes
him the greatest of all time, is because he's figured out how to, like, take
all the wildness.
Like, when he fought Shogun, he was 22 years old.
He was fighting for the title.
He opens up the fight with a flying knee on a legend.
Right.
I mean, nobody does that.
Right.
That's a wild move to do it for an opening move.
Have you talked to him about that?
John?
I was wondering, I was like, so what happened?
That mid-moment, he was just like, I'm going to give it everything I got.
He just goes with the feeling.
He just feels it and just goes, you know?
I've enjoyed watching him fight in his career, too, especially when everyone
takes a turn
in some direction.
I think he learned more from getting it taken away.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah.
I think he did because he realized, like, these poor choices he's making
outside of the octagon,
outside of his career, they could ruin everything.
I mean, he has this insane opportunity.
I mean, he had a contract with Nike that went away.
I mean, he had all these great things that went away.
They took his title away.
He was gone for a while.
He couldn't compete for a while.
And then he came back and then reestablished himself as who he is.
That's the greatest part about this country, too, man.
Forgive.
Yeah, that's a big thing that's missing today, right?
With all this cancel culture bullshit.
Some girl just got canceled for some fucking tweet she made when she was 17.
Like, now she's 27.
She's an editor at Vogue or something like that.
Is that what it is?
Like, well, come on, man.
You're 17.
You're a fucking kid.
You don't know what you're doing.
I've been offline for a little while.
The cancel culture.
Good.
Okay.
I'm just checking back in.
Is that a group?
Is there a leader who pushes?
I don't know.
Is that a bad question?
No.
It's a perfect question.
I mean, I don't know.
You really don't know.
That's why it's a perfect question.
That's what I'm asking.
I'm like, who runs that?
Stay ignorant.
Okay.
Keep away from it.
All right.
It's no, it's just people are being bullies.
And you know what it is?
It's like political correctness.
Once it gets established that there's things that people want you to say and
don't want you
to say, then there's people that are going to be bullies, that when someone
steps out of the line or when someone says something's questionable, they're
going to try to attack them.
What it really is, is a bunch of like really shitty human beings that just want
an excuse to go after someone.
And they want to pretend they're doing it because they're morally outraged.
But really, they're just shitty human beings without any empathy and without
any forgiveness.
That's what a lot of it is.
And they find an opportunity to attack someone.
And then there's also a lot of people that are bored.
They don't have anything to do during this pandemic.
And they're also, they have mental health problems because they've been locked
up inside their house and they're losing their job and they're losing their
career.
And then they just attack people.
It's a lot of what it is.
It's just, it shows, social media shows some of the worst aspects of human
beings.
Well, it's the collective consciousness of everybody, right?
Yeah.
If you see it on there, someone's thinking it.
Yeah.
And in a way, the cancel culture makes you earn what you said.
If you said it, I mean, it's got to be both ways.
You can be bullies because we know those.
You're going to, I grew up around them, I'm sure.
If you're a fighter, like I know you are, I had to do the same thing.
It was for a reason.
Yeah.
Those of us who train hard enough, we get into the point where you,
you kind of, now it's, I'm designed to train people from myself.
Right, right, right.
And with the cancel culture, it's the people asking me about my reputation.
I was like, well, I earned mine.
I mean, that's just how it is.
So when, I guess it's making everybody atoned for what they've been saying.
There's that, yeah.
But there's also the lack of forgiveness.
Well, that's the internet.
Toning you for what you're saying is fine.
And I think we should all, we should all agree when we've made mistakes to
recognize those mistakes.
And to also recognize that you're evolving.
You know, when you're talking about someone, especially that girl was 17, seven,
Jesus Christ.
Thank God there wasn't social media when I was 17.
Yeah.
That's unbelievable.
They would do that to her.
Cause I mean, that says you can't grow.
Exactly.
And we changed probably what, every nine years, 10 years, maybe.
And we go through a cycle.
And that was kind of baffling to me when they would bring something up that
they did from high school.
It was like, you drank beer in high school?
Yeah.
Didn't everybody else?
I thought that was the point.
Then you're like, well, you know, I grew.
I learned.
And then now it's okay to change.
I think you're supposed to.
I think it's also, there's a, what social media is too, it's a new tool.
And some people are abusing it.
They don't know how to use it correctly.
And there's no real established cultural rules as to how to use it correctly
and how, you know, and how to call people out when they're using it.
They're being really shitty with it.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
It's growing like a family, right?
It kind of starts out and everyone, when you plug into that thing, it's like
plugging into a virtual game.
Yeah.
So how, what kind of, how good are you in that game?
Right.
Because you can get, come at, they'll come at you from every angle.
You can also turn the game off.
Yeah.
And step away from it.
Those people who, they get nasty text messages or threads about, man, that
could be somebody in a completely different, hell, they could be dead for all
you know.
Some people keep up with their social media threads from years ago and they'll
open that back up and read it and get pissed about it.
I'm like, why would you even say that?
Exactly.
I mean, theoretically, it should probably erase every day because you start a
new day every day.
If you're dragging that old stuff in there, you're just going to keep being
upset about it.
That's a good point.
But they want to define you by things that you said 10 years ago.
That's the idea behind it, I guess.
It's going to be tough.
It's fucking stupid.
It's stupid.
It's just the problem is it's still written down.
So it still looks like you just said it.
Yeah, o