Name: Theo Von & Jocko Willink on PTSD
Uploaded: 2020-04-16T16:00:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von & Jocko Willink on PTSD' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-04-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von & Jocko Willink on PTSD' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-04-16. Transcript available.

there's a lot of this stuff with ptsd there's a lot of people that claim that a
lot of other men
are like claim people women or people are claiming pts like there's a lot of
like a scam like with
insurance you know like people getting money do you do you feel like that is
putting like a bad
gloss on men that are actually suffering do you hear anything about that
well there's there's i would say that there's probably a portion of people that
claim to have ptsd and don't really have any good reason for ptsd and i'd say
there's a lot of guys
that say that they don't have ptsd and actually do have some ptsd wow so there's
a lot of great men
there's a lot of guys that don't want to admit to it that but i think we're
getting better about that
as we get better about saying hey it's okay if you've got ptsd a lot of people
go oh is it okay
well then i guess i had ptsd too or i have ptsd too so i i would say there's
some of that out there
and i think i'm not quite sure what to do about that or how to handle that but
i think that guys
for me you know when i meet a guy that's been through a lot you know i just
want to help them
out you know whatever whatever way we can and make sure that they are getting
the help that they need
and if we help some people that don't really need it okay i mean that's that's
that might be the
the sacrifice that we make that's a good way to look at it would you ever um
would you ever have
to be deployed again or no no because i retired you did yeah but if shit hit
the fan can we count on
you i'd be back to right ready to rock and roll that's cool did i went to but
no the the serious
answer to that isn't i i fully retired so unless we get like level nine world
war three going on
i probably won't be participating and to more important than that there's
plenty of guys
in in the military right now that are way better than me and they got it
handled yeah yeah man i went
to um you know over the years i did some different uh just going and doing some
service we went to iraq
one time or we can't we went to arif john one time when went to that it's like
a base or something
where people land and a lot of planes land i think it's in saudi arabia maybe
but they had a moment
where there's this alarm that goes off if something comes into the base and
then everybody's just kind
of standing there and you're waiting to see like if something yeah it's gonna
blow the fucking
building off yeah yeah yeah and it was like bro it was the craziest thing i
didn't know and i'd never
been around that were you in a bunker did you get did they get you into a
bunker of some kind no we
were i was actually in the gym and uh and it just went off i guess something
had come over one of the
fences and there's this alarm and it was just one of the most scariest things
that i'd ever heard
um yeah and been a part of because basically then i was waiting for 30 seconds
to see if i was going
to be alive it was like a really shitty game show kind of yeah so so that sucks
and then like i've been
in a couple situations where i was getting mortared and you we where i've
actually heard mortar launches
so now you know they're coming and you don't know and it's just a it's just a
roll of the dice at that
point but then again that's like you're shaking out like oh my god that that's
nothing compared to
like when we were talking about earlier about world war one where these guys
were taking that
sustained bombardment of massive like i'm talking about oh i had nine mortars
shot at me these guys
had tens if not hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds fired at them there
was millions of rounds
like before the i think it was the battle of the psalm before the battle of psalm
they fired 1.6
million rounds at the enemy before they started so we're talking a whole nother
level and that's why you
see guys go watch some world war ii world war one videos on shell shock it's
what's one of the most
horrible things you can see and it also shows you how fragile the human mind is
and that there's guys
that would go blind they there's nothing wrong they never got hit but they
would go blind or they'd go
deaf or they'd go mute because their mind would just completely shut down where
they couldn't control
their body anymore it's it's a horrible thing so i'm glad you got to experience
one one millionth
of a fraction of a percent of that when you were in saudi arabia and the horn
went off and and but
seriously take that take that fraction of a second and use multiply it to
infinitely and that's that's
what these guys uh experienced i can't even imagine what these guys i mean i
can't even fathom
is it is it so loud that you can't think or does that start is that like how it
is the first couple
of times you hear like some explosions and then it starts to adjust you know it's
weird that your
your mind does some things when there's situations going on that i'm sure you've
heard this before
that things so you've been a car accident and things slow down things slow down
yes yeah so there's that
there's also some selective hearing that starts to take place where you can
hear things like a voice
that you might not normally hear because there's loud gunfire whatever so yeah
there's some things
that your mind does in that survival mode that are very effective and make you
a little bit more
ready to to handle the situation at hand do you start to have did did your
faith adjust as you went
through experiences like that like did you have any um was there anything like
that that kind of
happened for you you know for me my it was sort of like my patriotism like it
it it is what it is
it was what it was it's it's does it get strengthened like i'll tell you the
thing that strengthened me
more than anything is uh is from a faith perspective is like you get to see
guys that put their friends
above themselves wow and and and you know i guys that put their their own lives
their friends lives
above their own lives and when you see that is it pretty incredible if there
isn't there's there's
a you know maybe it's not a doctrinal religious element to that but there is a
there is a deeply
spiritual powerful thing when someone says you know what i'm gonna make sure
and and you know this
this happened with one of my guys named mike monsoor um you know there was a
grenade thrown onto a roof and
there was three guys up there with him and he jumped on that grenade and and he
sacrificed his life for his
his friends and if that's not a a level of spirituality and belief and he was a
very faithful guy he he was a
believer in god and you know i think that with seeing that and knowing that
with you know just understanding that that can happen and that that's that's a
religion
onto its own the way that we treat each other and the sacrifice we can make for
each other there's a there's a religion right there kind of
wow that's powerful man um yeah thanks for sharing some of those good evening
good afternoon and other times thanks for watching that video you just saw i
mean it was okay
but the next video you could watch could be way better what if you watch a
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