The Joe Rogan Experience - #2238 - John McPhee

John McPhee, widely known as “The Sheriff of Baghdad” or “SHREK,” is a retired U.S. Army Special Operations Sergeant Major with over 20 years of distinguished service. He is the owner of SOB Tactical, a supplier of specialized training and tactical gear to civilians, military, and law enforcement. www.sobtactical.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 3h 4m
Broadcast on: 04 Dec 2024
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[tense music] Joe Rogan falling down. Check it out. The Joe Rogan, experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan, podcast by night. All day. [tense music] Yeah, good to see you brother. Yeah, how are you, man? Great, great. It was nice to meet you at F1 and I really loved your episode of Sean Ryan. I fucking love that dude. Thanks, man. Yeah, Sean is. He's the man. He's awesome. I love Sean. I'm so glad there's guys like him doing this, that there's more people like him that are, like, finding new ways to, like, you know, media is so wide open now. Yeah. And it's not, you don't have to get hired by a television station anymore. You could just start your own shit and Sean's show is fucking great. Yeah, he's great. Sean's, I love him as a person. Yeah, I love him too. He's great. He's an awesome dude. And I loved you on that show, but God damn, man, that show was crazy. Like, your childhood was so nuts, dude, hearing about you living in a brothel when you were 12 years old. Yeah, me and my brother. Fuck, dude. Your whole story was so nuts, man. I was listening to it in the song of this morning and I was like, oh my God. So I'm there cooking at 195 degrees. Listen, do you struggle? Yeah, I was in there for half an hour, usually do 20 minutes when I kept going. I'm like, this life was so fucked up. I feel like I shouldn't bail right now. I should keep listening. I feel like like, but I'm not the only one. You know what I mean? I feel like where I was in the army is full of guys just like that. A hundred percent. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. And I think in some, well, fighters as well, you know, a lot of fighters I know, like Sean Strickland, a lot of guys I know had fucked up childhoods. I think it gives you an extra gear. I think when you can get through a childhood like that, you got an extra place that you can go to, that other dudes can't go to. And in your line of work, that comes in very handy. Yeah. Well, I think it works like this. I never heard it as an extra gear, but here's the way I always equated it. You know you're going to get a beating, and it's coming at five o'clock. You know, after dinner, they're going to be hammered. And this is another argument in fight. And it's a pattern, right? And you know this as a kid, right? And what happens is, you got to take that beating and then like, put your church clothes on, we're going to church. You know what I mean? Yeah. And the truth is like, I think my brother more than me, but I think my mom actually had him convinced that we were super bad kids. And like, you know, we were, I don't know, a couple of years ago, I was like, you know, like, you ever met an actual bad, like four or six or eight year old? No, it's all raised. And then it was kind of like, yeah, I think it was an eye opener for him. But like, it was always our fault. Well, that's the thing you can convince kids of almost anything. You can convince them that's their fault. You can convince them that they're bad kids, and then they feel bad for the rest of their fucking life. They feel like a piece of shit. There's a lot of people out there that didn't do anything wrong. They're just raised by shitheads. And for their whole life, they feel like garbage. Yeah. And they don't know why. Yeah, I agree. It's so hard to snap out of that, too. And it takes something for you to do that makes you feel valuable and worthwhile. You have to kind of like relearn who you are as a person. Yeah. And some people never do. Yeah. And then they, you know, find meth or heroin or something that takes the edge away. Yeah. And they can just

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