Name: Jocko Willink 2 | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #236
Uploaded: 2019-10-10T13:00:09.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jocko Willink 2 | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #236' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-10-10. Transcript available.

Jocko Willink 2 | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #236

Today's guest, it's his second time coming in here, and man, this guy, I don't
know, he reminds me of, like, the incredible, incredible, he reminds me,
actually, of a little bit like the dad from The Incredibles, I think.
I was gonna say Incredible Hulk, but he's more evolved than that.
He is retired Navy SEAL, author, and host of the Jocko Podcast, my friend Jocko
Willink.
Shine that light on me
I'll sit and tell you my stories
Shine that light on me
I'll sit and tell you my story
Yeah, that's the thing about a lobster, man, is really the travel cost. People
don't think about that when they see them.
People don't think about the travel costs that have gone into getting that
bastard, running it back and forth.
Dude, they have a new thing now where they'll have a skill crane, which is,
like, you know, a thing where the kids put the money in, and they can, you know,
do the control, and you can get a lobster out.
And you try to win the lobster, like it's at...
For real?
Yeah, and it's usually at, like, a shitty bar or something.
It's not even, like...
For real?
Yeah.
So, I spent, like, $9. I went over to the airport. I spent about $9 trying to
get a lobster.
And then, here's the thing. I finally got one.
Oh, you got one?
Yeah, I had to catch my flight.
So, I was like...
What'd you do with it? Throw it back in?
I had to throw it back in.
Yeah, I was like, well, shit, I can't. You know, I can't check this lob, bro.
So, oh, we got to go. A couple different flavors now. This one's Tropic Thunder,
huh?
Yeah, yeah.
This one, you'll end up in black face if you have too many cans out of it.
You know, you want to know why, because it's really a pina colada.
Oh, really?
That's the flavor, but I can't, you know, Jocko can't be calling something pina
colada, right?
Yeah.
It'd be a little bit...
A little shock that you have, man.
A little bit. Not what we're looking for.
A little shock that you've already came out of the colada thing.
It's okay, because you just call it Tropic Thunder, and you're good.
Yeah, there you go.
Do people, when they meet you, expect you to be kind of violent, do you feel
like?
The funny thing is, people meet me, and they're like, you're a lot... I'm 5'11".
People meet me, and they're like, I thought you were a lot taller.
Really?
That's such a...
And then, yeah, so they think I'm taller, because I'm only 5'11", and they
think I'm going
to be in black and white, because I always take pictures in black and white.
That's kind of a joke.
No, I mean, so that's what... I think people... I think when they finally come
up to me, you
know, I'm pretty laid back.
Yeah.
I'm not going crazy all the time.
Right.
Some of the time.
Yeah.
But not all the time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you feel like that you, whenever you started podcasting, really, because so
many people love
your show, do you feel like that in the beginning you were different than you
are now?
Like, it's... that you were more of an entertainer?
Like, I'm just wondering what that journey's been like for you at all.
Honestly, no.
I don't feel like I'm any different.
I'm just doing the same kind of stuff I've always been doing.
I've always been doing what I'm doing right now, but just that now there's a
window to
it for people to see what's going on and see kind of life through my eyes.
Right.
You know?
And I don't...
It's hard.
You can't...
You know the deal.
You can't be someone else on a podcast for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of hours
of talking.
Yeah.
You can't play a role.
You know?
You just...
Eventually, the real you is there.
Right.
So, for me, I've just always kind of been, that's just me.
Yeah.
That's just me.
Do you find that you're getting a little bit...
You know, I know that Jaco doesn't age, but if you looked at a calendar, you've
been alive
longer than you were.
Last time I saw you, it was maybe a year and a half ago, a year ago?
Mm-hmm.
Something like that.
Yeah.
You were one of our first guests, I think, actually, Nick.
Wasn't he?
He was very early on.
It was over a year ago, but...
We were nervous, bro.
I remember calling my insurance provider.
I just left...
No, I even sent him a picture or a screen grab.
Yeah.
Good call.
I said, this guy...
This guy's coming.
If I make him angry, we don't know what's going to happen.
Could be the end.
This guy's been drinking his own plasma, I think.
Fuck, I forgot what I was even going to ask you, man.
Oh, there you go.
That's what you were talking about, your memory.
I was listening to your podcast today.
You were talking about your memory failing quite a bit.
Yeah, I think this...
Oh, no, you were talking about your emotional memory.
That's why you keep making the same...
Mistakes all the time.
Emotional mistakes.
Yeah.
See, I think I have a good emotional memory.
Really?
Like, locked.
Wow.
I remember what that feels like.
I'm not doing that again.
See, fuck.
For some reason, I forget.
It's like...
Yeah, it's like that kid with the stove, kind of.
It's like...
Yeah, it's just like...
Yeah, I found myself just running in the same circles.
Yeah, recently, I've been trying to get a little bit more into...
Finding just motivation.
Because then, at least, I'm active in each...
I've been trying to get more active into my day each day.
So, then, at least, I'm not just playing from behind all day.
I don't feel like...
By active, do you mean, like, some kind of physical activity?
Or do you just mean more proactive in the way you approach your day?
Both, actually.
So, more physical activity.
Instead of just thinking, like, the second I think, okay, I should go for a gym,
or I
should go to the run, or I should, you know, get an appointment for a trainer.
You know, I know you don't have a trainer, but...
No.
You know, it's like, yeah.
You couldn't even imagine some soft man yelling at you with a whistle, dude.
But, yeah, it's like, I just go ahead and do it.
And then, just to try and approach this my day a little bit more, like, just
like, okay,
I want to do this.
I call that, like, going on offense.
Instead of being on defense, you just go on offense.
Yeah.
I'm going to make some stuff happen.
Thinking about doing this, and that's a good attitude.
When you think about something, thinking about doing it, just go do it.
Yeah.
Don't even waste time thinking about even what you're going to do at the gym.
Just go to the gym.
You can figure it out when you get there.
Or your trainer can tell you.
Yeah, because my brain, man, it just, yeah, once it gets into my brain, that's
where it's
not good, you know?
It's like, when I'm in action, that's when, yeah, everything will work out
usually okay,
as long as I get my action going, you know?
So, yeah, for recently, it's just been just something that I guess I've been
struggling
with, is just finding that motivation.
But now, I feel like I'm getting a little bit more like, all right, let's just
go, you
know?
Let's go.
Let's get in motion.
And I know it, but sometimes it's like I'll have learned a lesson, and then it'll
just kind
of fade away a little bit, you know?
And then I'll have to, or, you know, the value, like the new practices I have
in my
life, sometimes they go by the wayside, and it's like I have to kind of recalibrate.
Well, I always tell people you can't sit around and wait until you're motivated
to do something.
Because if you sit around and wait until you're motivated to do something, who
knows when
that's going to come?
It may come, but it may not come.
Yeah.
And it may only come twice a week.
And if it's only coming twice a week, that's a lot less than you actually need.
So you don't wait.
You don't wait.
You just put the discipline on.
You know, you put the discipline on.
Yeah.
And when you wake up, you go do what you're supposed to do.
And the crazy thing is, speaking of emotional memory, you know when you get
done, you're
going to feel better.
Like, that's a guarantee.
If you go to the gym and you get your workout in, or you do whatever thing you
know you're
supposed to do, it's a guarantee that when you get done, you're going to feel
better.
So remember that emotion.
Right.
And put that thing into play so that you can actually, you know, get it done
the way
you're supposed to.
Yeah.
I wonder why then sometimes, like, I'll know that I'll know how to help myself.
And sometimes I still don't want to.
That's the whole world, right?
That's the whole world.
Everyone, you know, what are you going to, who wants to eat the broccoli
instead of the
Twinkie, right?
People are like, oh, they're going to eat the Twinkie.
Everybody knows that it's bad for them, but they're just, I mean, what, you
ever been
to a 7-Eleven?
You know what I mean?
What do they sell in there?
They don't sell broccoli there.
Trouble, bro.
No, they just sell candy, straight sugar, mainlining sugar, corn syrup, get it
in the
veins.
And people are, that's all day.
That's what happens.
Yeah.
So it's not like you're different.
You're in the same boat as everybody else.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's, I guess that's a good point.
Like, that's the boat you have to get out of.
It's like, it's not like that's a, if you're behaving that way that you've been
sentenced
to that, that's the baseline.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you know different than everybody else?
Right.
That's the baseline is that, yeah, it's not like, I'm fucked, man.
I'm not making great decisions for myself.
Most people aren't.
Yeah.
Most people aren't.
That's why there's a difference between when we do and when we don't and, and,
and right,
and, and kind of getting out of that.
Really, it's like a slumber.
I feel like it gets into all, once it starts to seep into one aspect of my life,
it kind of
starts to seep around, you know?
Well, the good thing is, is when you put some discipline in your life, that seeps
around
too.
Yeah.
So when you start doing things right, you start doing more things, right?
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, it's classic, right?
You have one of those weekends where you're like, you know what, I'm just, I
think I'm
just going to, I'm just going to order a pizza.
Oh, yeah.
Well then, so you order that pizza, you know, from wherever, Gray Block.
Oh, yeah.
Is that what we're talking about?
You order Gray Block hitter.
You order that Gray Block hitter.
Yeah.
And you get the triple cheese and you get the meat, whatever.
Oh, yeah.
And you're, and so then you just dive into that thing and, and what does that
do?
Well, that kind of, you think, well, since I did that, I'm not even going to go
for a
run tonight.
Right.
So I'm just going to kick back.
And then, you know, you just start going down that path.
I'm going to get ice cream.
I'm going to do weed or something.
Yeah.
And then you know where you're headed.
I'm not going to watch my children.
I'm not going to call my mom, you know?
Yeah.
I'm going to sleep outside, you know?
You're just like.
There you go.
That's how you do it.
It's a little decisions.
But when you say you're, when you're like about to dial the number and then you
say,
you know what?
No, I'm just going to make a, make a salad right now and put a chicken in it
and just
eat that clean.
And then you get done with that.
You say, you know, I feel pretty good.
Yeah.
I'm going to go out and get a little run, get a little run done.
I'm going to get a run in.
Yeah.
I'm going to clean my fucking car.
I'm going to clean those tootsie rolls out of my fucking backseat.
So that's what happens.
So the little decisions, they build up.
So the, the bad decisions build up.
So that's what happens.
Now that's not an excuse to say, okay, now I'm going to make 28 bad decisions
in a row.
What it is, it's an indicator.
You say, oh, I just made one bad.
Okay.
Stop.
Reset.
The pizza was good.
Fine.
Let's get back on the path.
Let's do it now.
That's a mistake that people make.
Yeah.
And by the way, that's a mistake that people can make for like nine years.
I know, people will get into that.
Keep ordering that pie, bro.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
It's funny.
I wonder as, as, especially, do you find as we get in