Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt
Uploaded: 2020-10-15T17:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-10-15. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt

mr. hunt welcome aboard happy to be here thanks have uh thanks for being here i
really appreciate
it friend of dan crenshaw's is a friend of mine all of them so um congress yeah
running for
congress yeah this is what i want my congressman to look like jacked veterans i
mean that's wouldn't
the world be a better place i agree i think so i mean it really would be yeah
um so tell me what
this has been like running for congress is this the first office you've run for
this is the first
time thank god what what started this i know you're friends with dan who's also
a congressman but what
started this this journey yes great question and thank you so much for having
me my pleasure this
is awesome really appreciate you and what started this was really just my
family and how can we
continue service it just in a different capacity i come from a military family
so my dad did 23 years
in the army retired as a lieutenant colonel my sister went to west point in my
family first
so she's 10 years older than me did 23 years active duty she was a military
intelligence officer
uh deployed to iraq twice did a few tours abroad as well i went to west point
in my family second
uh we're we're 10 years apart my sister and i and then graduated west point
class of 2004
uh flew apaches uh in iraq for eight for was actually active duty eight years
deployed to iraq
did 55 combat air missions in baghdad and then did two tours of duty in saudi
arabia as a diplomatic
liaison officer my brother who's 10 months and eight days my junior so we're irish
twins uh he
also went to west point and he did five years in the navy i went to harvard
business school for his
graduate degree and now lives in houston with his family there's about 60 years
worth of military
service just in my immediate family wow respect thank you sir that's a lot
thank you that's serious
it's a serious serious military family it is my mom's the best of us so she
stood at home
for two months in 2006 while i was flying combat air missions in baghdad my
sister was doing intel in
the green zone and my brother was in the arabian gulf on a destroyer for two
months at the same time
so even though she didn't serve in the military per se she served those who
served by lending her family
so when people ask me why am i running for congress i always lead with that
because that's the kind of
service and sacrifice it takes for us to live in this free country so this is
just a mindset that you
you were raised with absolutely um and what made you what made you make the
leap
so there's a lot of things going on in the country that we're seeing right now
really
i thought everything was fine a few things we got going on in the country right
now and my dad always
taught us leadership is not about when it's convenient for you it's about when
your country
needs you and our country needs us i think in this in this which seems to be a
dark time we've had some
dark times in the past i'm sure we'll get into that but it's always my opinion
that patriots always step
up when our country needs us the most and that's kind of what we're taught to
do to give back to
the country that gave us all that we have now to all the things that are going
on in the country right
now um what what stands out to you as something that you feel like you can
contribute and possibly
help correct or at least uh get on the right track yeah so there's a lot of
talk of a lot of you know
racial injustices of the past this is something that i think i'm uniquely
positioned to talk about
my great-great-grandfather was a slave his name was silas crawford born on rose
down plantation
just north of baton rouge louisiana three of his great-great-grandchildren all
attended west point
i earned three master's degrees from cornell university brother went to harvard
sister has
her advanced degree in applied mathematics we've had the honor of serving our
country we've had the
honor to live in a free country we are standing on the backs and on the
shoulders of absolute giants
and while we have a ways to go by god that's some serious progress and i like
the idea of focusing
on the future and not the past and i think as a black man in this country i get
some of the hardships
trust me on that but how can we begin to heal by focusing on the good that we
have done and
building on that instead of standing by idling and watching the country burn it
seems like both
things have to be addressed it seems like you have to concentrate on the good
things and have to
concentrate on the people like yourself that have made incredible progress in
your life but i think
we also have to concentrate on injustice absolutely and racial bias and racial
injustice and all the
problems that we're seeing you know i was i was having a conversation with a
friend of mine we were
talking about police and how how important the police are but also how
important it is to if you see
something like uh like a the george floyd situation you see that video and then
that one guy's horrible
actions changes everyone's perception of the police yeah but meanwhile there's
millions of interactions that
police have with citizens that never go that way that are positive there's
millions of great cops i don't
know how many i don't know there's millions of cops i don't even know how many
cops there are how many
cops are there in the country oh that's a good question that is a good question
how many police officers
are there in the country let's find out but either way most of them i feel
first of all it's an insanely
difficult job yes it is and when you you don't the the good altercations they
don't go viral of course you
know so we have this distorted perception of what happens when cops meet people
here it goes in 2019
there's 697 195 000 full-time law enforcement officers 697 000 wow okay so it's
not millions but i would say
that they're that you're right there are actually millions of interactions with
our citizens every
year yes millions and most of them don't go viral because they're fairly normal
license registration
here you go you're speeding i'm sorry here's a citation or here's a warning or
whatever the
the situation is that's right those problems like the george floyd thing they
they they have to be addressed
they they we can't have those anymore especially when they can go viral because
it's not just this
one moment the problem is this one moment can change everyone's perceptions of
cops right and then you
have all this crazy talk like we need to defund the police right yeah yeah you
lifted your hands like
please stop that because that's that's that's ridiculous and the people who end
up suffering the
most when you defund the police are actually minority communities with people
that look like me in them
and if they actually talk to a lot of minority communities they don't want to
defund the police they
just want the police to do better right exactly yeah and that's where the
problem lies because you know
i was talking to jocko jocko willing on the podcast about that and jocko was
like this defund the police
talk is the wrong answer the right answer is more funding and more training he
said i think they should
be doing 20 of their time training will he do the training he would yeah jocko
would do it would be
awesome yeah i mean he he's a that's a leader you know i mean he's a guy who he
bona fide leader
hundred percent yeah undeniable so his his perception is that what we're
dealing with is people that are
untrained uh under motivated under appreciated and some of them just bad people
that's right like the the
the guy in the george floyd case whatever the is derrick it's a bad actor yeah
exactly bad human being
that probably had been bad for a long time had several instances on his record
that were similar
a guy who's been probably you know whether he's up because of the job or before
the job or a
combination of both things we got to figure out a way to weed those people out
he's got to go that
should be like this is this is the poster boy for what's wrong with the system
right it's not the
system you don't throw the whole system that's right i mean anybody who's ever
been in a situation
where you need the cops and they show up there's a great sign of relief and you
feel protected that's
right and law enforcement and and if that's ever happened to you and i hope it
never does but if it
has ever happened anybody listening then you'll appreciate the police this is
personal for me too joe because
when i got out of west point 2004 it was during the abu grabe scandal i don't
know if you recall
i recall yeah you know we had a few idiots that treated some prisoners very
poorly and posted the
pictures up in the world saw that and i entered the military at a time where
that was the perception
of military officers and soldiers and that's not true right exactly i would
never most of us would
never behave that way and we condemn those actions we condemn that behavior
yeah after the george
floyd event i actually went down to the houston police union to go talk to some
of the police
officers 100 of them all of them were disgusted yeah with how george floyd was
treated so i don't
think that's it that's not even an issue it's just that how do we then work
with law enforcement to
empower them to get rid of the people that we know are idiots yes yes yeah that
should be the conversation
but the problem is that conversation doesn't work on social media you know it's
too nuanced there's too many
layers to it there's there's too much talking has to be done when you write defund
the police it's
nice and clean yes you know it's three words it's easy and everybody goes yes
headline and if you go
along with it you're on the right side like yeah you're a good person yeah you
know and you're like
no we need cops oh you piece of it it's ridiculous yeah you see what charles
barclay said after a few weeks back yeah i don't know if he followed that yeah
and his logic is
actually quite sound especially even in houston texas where a lot of the affluent
areas see they
have their own police that are paid for by their own taxes that they pay in
their own community so if
you talk about defunding the police again you're not taking away the safety of
those communities you're
taking away the safety of black and brown people yes and he said that and he
got crucified for it yeah
and that's yeah that's the problem we have right now joe like we could have
both conversations
well i think the problem is like he said something and then there's a lot of
people that want to
respond to that yeah right and they don't get a chance to so they just attack
them on social media
and it's like the louder their voices are the most and especially if you're
someone of prominence if you
have a platform you can attack him and you get a lot of credit for it you know
and then people like
you and this is this is one of the problems with social media is that people
say things not just
because it's their opinion they say things because they want to get a reaction
that's right they say
things for likes they say things for for retweets right and they hide behind it
yeah yeah and well it's
easy to do you know it's a it's an easy time to snipe at people it is and you
know i don't know
first of all that brianna taylor situation tragic horrific complicated
complicated here's the here's
the big problem the war on drugs that's the big problem the big problem is you're
having these no
knock raids for i mean what was he supposed to be selling marijuana right i
think he was selling
marijuana that was the idea that he was selling i don't even know if he was but
this was so you're
you're breaking down a door or someone is that what it was about i believe so
which is insane yeah
right insane yeah that's insane period to break down doors for that i agree
insane this is how it
all i mean when you have no knock raids yeah and you know if you're a person
who's a homeowner and
you believe in the second amendment and you have a firearm