Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1363 - Dakota Meyer
Uploaded: 2019-10-09T00:00:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1363 - Dakota Meyer' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-10-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1363 - Dakota Meyer' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-10-09. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1363 - Dakota Meyer

what's up dakota what's going on we finally did this i know finally we've been
talking about it
um i feel super connected to you man because uh all day i've been listening to
you on jocko's
podcast and what first of all anybody who really wants to know you in depth in
your element talking
with a fellow warrior i like strongly recommend that podcast um for for people
don't what what
number is it do you know which number i don't know i don't know what number it
is just listening to it
it's um jocko podcast 115 into the fire and beyond the call of duty yeah jocko
is a beast and you two
together talking about the incidents that happened with you overseas it's
insane i mean it is is like
i had to call a buddy i had to stop the podcast and call my friend brendan just
to talk to him yeah
i was like this is so intense it's like i was driving i was getting nervous
right you know yeah
driving in my car my tesla right my little electric car i drive my hands are
sweating and i'm breathing
heavy i'm like yeah it was well if you hear all those like you know when you're
listening to that
podcast that was by far the most i mean he like jocko just pulled it out of me
like right like you know
most everybody hits like the the high points of it but you know me and jocko
just made that connection
it was the first time we'd ever met and uh face to face yeah we just went like
you know he picked
me he actually picked me up from the airport and we went we went there and we
sat down and did the
the the podcast and and i don't know i i think i think he knew the questions to
ask because i think
it was good for both of us because you know if you got to the point kind of in
the middle of it if
you start hearing those silences it was both of us trying to keep from tears
falling right like it was
like it was like that moment you're trying to it just you know it really we
really connected and and
it was you know it was a tough podcast well you you could tell because for jocko
i mean i listen to
a lot of jocko's podcasts but that was one where he was really in his element
first of all it's very
obviously has a deep respect for you and who you are and what you stand for and
then two it brought him
back to his own experiences and war and so the whole thing is just it's one of
the most intense
podcasts i've ever listened to if not the most intense wow it's heavy man yeah
it was it was heavy
it was a hard like it was a hard one you know he like i like like you said i
think i think we both
i think jocko was getting as much out of it as i was right and i have the
utmost respect for jocko
the guy is just you know he is he's the epitome of of of a warrior all around
you know like from day
day in and day out i mean he wakes up every day and lives the things that he
says i mean you know
he he does what he says and he lives it and he puts people first and he's just
i mean he's one of the
he's one of the greatest guys i've ever met and i agree i couldn't have said it
better and tim kennedy
as well you know we're both friends with tim and that's the same thing that
kind of it's a rare rare
human being it is those guys it is you know and i think that's what like you
know that's what i'm so
fortunate about it's like i'm just i'm surrounded by just people like that
right like you know i'm so
i'm so fortunate to have a circle like that you know i think that that that's
what makes us who we
are you know i mean that's the true the epitome is is is iron sharpens iron and
when you're surrounded
by guys like jocko and tim kennedy and and i mean well you have no option but
even if you're you're
you know even if you're last in that group like you're still you're still above
average you know well
there's a cliche you know that comes up when people talk about military you
know that you know
people will say things and sometimes it's it's hard to understand whether or
not they grasp exactly
what they're saying but that people make sacrifices so that you could be free
and i don't think i don't
think people read it's hard to truly internalize that without having
experienced what you've experienced
what jocko and tim kennedy have experienced when i'm listening to it i'm i know
that it's correct i know
that it's true i support it 100 but it's almost like a an alien thing to me
because i've never
experienced it so when hearing you guys talk about it and climbing inside your
head for a bit and let
and listen to describe it that that cliche the land of the free because of the
brave it it it gets
highlighted where you understand like this is why america's not like it is in
other places because of
this strong military and one of the things you guys talked about in that
podcast was this idea of us
invading afghanistan that you were fighting alongside afghanistan absolutely
and most people who talk
about war will have this peripheral sort of cursory understanding about what
they would like the world
to be like you know that they would like no war and that this is terrible we
shouldn't be over there
that don't truly understand what you understand you know they they don't and
and and i think you know
the perspective that i get to come back and i think all these guys telling
their stories you know from
rob o'neill to marx latrell like i think every every warrior out there has to
tell their story
to make people understand right like it's so important for that because we've
got a perspective
of the world that a lot of people don't get yes and uh you know i mean i stood
next to
i stood next to people and that that we couldn't like you talk about not
believing not being raised
not coming from the same place not having you know we could have found every
reason not to
to be on the same ground but we stood next to each other and we're willing to
die for each other
we found we chose to find the common denominator and that was because there's
only two types of
people in this world there's good and evil yes like that it really comes down
to that like like war
is so simple life is so simple when you try to complicate it there's other
reasons and it's
like this this whole this whole thing we were all over there fighting for this
for for the belief to
be free this this disbelief of democracy this belief of of what we all live for
and it's you can't see
it but but we live it every day and we were willing to give our lives for for
for people we didn't even
know people we didn't even meet one of the things you talked about with jocko
we you said you didn't
just lose four brothers that day you lost 10 because you lost six afghani
brothers as well yeah we like
you know the the afghans were as close to me as as the marines were you know my
my team of afghan
soldiers you know i lived on a base it was four us and 80 afghans and every day
i went out on patrol
and i'm patrolling with them and they're no different than than me and you you
know they they just want
a place i'll never forget that really hit home to me because i had an afghan we
were sitting up on the
mountain actually the cover of my book it was that day we were sitting on the
on the on that that
mountain because we had chased some taliban up up that hill and we were sitting
up there and this afghan
looked at me and he just said i hope that someday you can bring your family
here on vacation i hope that
we can get it to that point wow and it really hit home to me it's like you know
we're all just alike you know we're all just alike we all just want to live a
great life and we all
just want to get along i mean if you don't if you don't get along it's because
you choose not to get
along for people who don't understand the conflict in afghanistan explain what
is happening and why we're
over there yeah so you know the basically afghanistan and and it was the same
thing in iraq too i mean
you know that's where these terrorist organizations were right and uh you know
we're over there fighting
alongside afghanistan we're over there fighting alongside iraq we're not
fighting iraq and fighting
afghanistan we're fighting alongside both of those countries and trying to
rebuild it up and trying to
get rid of these terrorist cells that are inside those countries you know like
you said i mean i everybody
thinks that you know we're fighting iraq and we're fighting afghanistan it's
not the case we're
alongside them helping them rebuild their countries you know when you go to
black rifle coffee in uh
salt lake you know those guys are awesome awesome they they brought a bunch of
former afghani troops
over and they work for them over there like a lot of the guys working in the
factory yeah you're like
oh okay i got like these these guys are so close these people they brought them
back and gave them jobs
absolutely america absolutely you know and this is um i just think most people
don't really have a full
picture of what what's at stake and why it's even happening they just don't
want war right they just
don't want war but it's like you know i mean there's no way i mean you can go
in your house and and lock
your doors and and sit there and try to pretend that the evil that we fight
doesn't exist but it exists
it exists it's there it's there and if we don't go fight it over there it's
going to come here that's
another cliche that like seems alien to people you know it's it's it's it's a
true statement it's
always been true throughout human history but when you live in a country like
america we're so fortunate
it's so awesome here even when it sucks it's awesome in comparison to the rest
of the world you know um
it's very rare that you have a place where you really can start at the bottom
and make your way up to be a successful person i mean literally you can start
here and come from nothing
and within your generation be the president of the united states you could
literally start from
that and it's the only country on the face of the planet and i i tell people
all the time like you
know just because you know we we get so caught up like right now is like an
emotional time for for
america right it's getting ready to i call it the draining time you know from
now until you know
november uh you know until the election time it's going to be draining right
and everybody's getting so
emotional and fired up and yeah and it's like you know like it's going to be
whatever um but the cool
part is is that this country like from all of us in the military from all our
first responders our
police officers you know we're the only country on the face of the planet that
doesn't swear allegiance
to a person we swear allegiance to a document to a piece of paper and that's
that's what that's what
allows us to be us that's what allows us to not have one person come in and be
able to change up
this idea that we have of democracy of freedom and and that's that's that's
something that's just it's
incredible that's what keeps our country the way it is right like there's not
you know the people will
always be in charge here and you know what most of america most 99 of america
is incredible is
incredible and you know what they're gonna they're stopping and they're helping
people and it's just the
loud ones that make us look you know make it look like it's all chaotic well
people love to point out the
horrible aspects and they love to ignore the good aspects they love to dwell on
the bad parts and i
think ultimately that's going to prove to be good for everybody because those
people that are highlighting
all these bad things then everybody else has to think about it and will slowly
but surely evolve
and come to an understanding and and and make the world a better place it's a
way better place now
than it was 100 years ago or 200 years ago and i think this is a i mean stephen
pinker talks about
this all the time in his books but and and he's criticized for it because a lot
of people don't
like the idea that things are getting better they want to dwell on the negative
aspects and they want
to they want to magnify those and make it the most important focal p