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Joe Rogan Experience #2238 - John McPhee
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
joe rogan
Train by day.
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Joe Rogan Podcast by night.
All day.
joe rogan
Good to see you, brother.
john mcphee
Yeah, how are you, man?
joe rogan
Great, great.
It was nice to meet you at F1, and I really loved your episode of Sean Ryan.
I fucking love that dude.
john mcphee
Thanks, man.
Yeah, Sean is...
joe rogan
He's the man.
john mcphee
He's awesome.
I love Sean.
joe rogan
I'm so glad there's guys like him doing this, that there's more people like him that are finding new ways to...
Media is so wide open now, and you don't have to get hired by a television station anymore.
You can just start your own shit, and Sean's show is fucking great.
john mcphee
Yeah, he's great.
Sean, I love him as a person.
joe rogan
Yeah, I love him too.
He's great.
He's an awesome dude.
And I loved you on that show, but goddamn, 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.
john mcphee
Yeah, me and my brother.
joe rogan
Fuck, dude.
Your whole story was so nuts, man.
I was listening to it in the sauna this morning, and I was like, oh my god.
So I'm there cooking at 195 degrees listening to you struggling.
I was in there for half an hour, which I usually do 20 minutes, but 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.
john mcphee
I feel 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.
joe rogan
100%.
Yeah.
unidentified
100%.
joe rogan
Yeah, and I think in some, well, fighters as well.
You know, a lot of fighters that I know, like Sean Strickland, a lot of guys that I know had fighters.
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.
john mcphee
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 5 o'clock.
unidentified
Yes.
john mcphee
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've got to take that beating and then put your church clothes on.
We're going to church.
You know what I mean?
And the truth is, I think my...
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 years ago, I was like, you know, like, you ever met an actual bad, like, four or six or eight year old?
joe rogan
No, it's how they were raised.
It's all now they're raised.
john mcphee
And then it was kind of like, I think it was an eye opener for him.
But like, it was always our fault.
joe rogan
Well, that's the thing.
You can convince kids of almost anything.
You can convince them that it'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 and they don't know why.
john mcphee
Yeah, I agree.
joe rogan
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.
Like, you have to kind of, like, relearn who you are as a person.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
And some people never do.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then they, you know, find meth or heroin or something that takes the edge away.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they can just exist.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you, that was the Army for me.
Like, the first time I ever felt like Like I fit in or I was with people like me was when I was, you know, in Ranger Battalion.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think fighting is the same way.
A lot of those guys, the only time they ever feel normal is when they're in a gym with a bunch of other savages.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like guys who want to do that for a living, you know, generally something fucking terribly wrong happened when you were young that put this anger, this monster inside of you.
john mcphee
Well, I tell you, I tell people all the time, jujitsu is my sanity.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jiu-jitsu is meditation, man.
Because if you are doing jiu-jitsu, you can't be thinking about anything else.
john mcphee
Right.
joe rogan
So it cleans your mind up.
You know, we were talking about bow hunting.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think that's the same thing.
I think in a different way.
It's just when you're doing that, it's so difficult.
You can't think about anything else.
john mcphee
Right.
I love when I'm...
I don't even care if I get or see an elk today.
The places I go to get these elk, I could just sit there all day anyway.
joe rogan
I know.
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
The fact that one of these majestic beasts is going to walk 20 yards from me, fucking bonus!
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
And I feel the same about jujitsu.
I always, in jujitsu, when someone does what you call high-level jujitsu to me as it's happening, I don't care if you're smashing my fucking face.
That was amazing.
Are you kidding me?
Let's take a moment here.
joe rogan
It's amazing that someone can do that.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, I remember when I was first starting jujitsu, I was like 30 years old and I thought I was a badass.
I had kickboxed, I had won a bunch of taekwondo tournaments, I thought I knew how to fight.
And I remember one day when I was a white belt, this purple belt just raped me.
I mean, he was my size!
This was what drove me crazy.
He wasn't bigger than me.
And he just destroyed me.
Just destroyed, just did whatever he wanted.
Triangled me, arm-barred me, choked me.
And I remember walking out of there going, First of all, what a shift of who you are in the world.
Knowing that someone can just do that to you.
Not a bigger guy.
Someone your size can just...
You're helpless.
And then I remember thinking, I gotta get good at this.
Having that as a skill, that's one of the greatest things you could ever have.
Because that's what martial arts was supposed to be when we were kids.
That the smaller person could beat the larger person just with technique.
john mcphee
Correct.
joe rogan
Until Horace Gracie came along, you never really saw that.
The bigger guys always won.
And then Horace Gracie, all of a sudden, he's killing people from his back.
And we're like, what is going on?
john mcphee
This is crazy.
He's losing.
He's not losing.
joe rogan
All of a sudden, he's like...
unidentified
He's strangling some guy with his legs.
joe rogan
We're like, what the fuck is this?
john mcphee
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
I tell you, I met Hoist.
In the early days, we'd bring Hoist.
And Horian was actually the first Gracie I met before Hoist, right?
But we'd bring Hoist in and watching these guys, we'd get like 60 guys up on the mat.
And this is hard to do.
And this is a lot of guys because it's Hoist.
And he would...
Run through every dude.
Every dude.
And it was like, not like it was a close match.
It was like, whatever dude from the Defoe stepped in front of him was the 12-year-old child against the fucking an adult.
You know what I mean?
Like, he just fucking handled everybody.
And I remember one of those times, he just fucking, I did something, and he cinched down on me like a spider, and I couldn't fucking move.
And he goes, yes, I did not think of this.
This is a good move.
And I was like, I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing.
You know what I mean?
I wasn't even a white belt yet.
He was just fucking me up, you know?
But I knew, like, right then and there, I was fucking helpless.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a weird feeling.
john mcphee
And like, yo, unacceptable.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, right?
Unacceptable.
joe rogan
That's the right word, yeah.
Like, you gotta learn this.
john mcphee
You gotta know some of it, you know what I mean?
And even back then, like, we would all tell Hoist, you know, because we were more Muay Thai, we would train a lot of Muay Thai, boxing, right?
Wrestling, a lot of wrestling, you know, before the Jits.
And like, we would tell Hoist back then, as soon as you learn to punch, you are super dangerous.
Which is, I think, where it is now.
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There's, like, so many elite wrestlers now that have learned submissions, and that extra skill of being able to throw bodies around is another level.
john mcphee
I agree.
joe rogan
Because wrestlers can learn jiu-jitsu pretty easy.
An elite wrestler, you take a guy like a Bo Nickel or a Daniel Kornier, teach them jiu-jitsu.
Hamzat Chemaev's the best example of that.
You teach a guy like that submissions, he already knows how to ragdoll people.
So he has this ability to take everybody down, and then on top of that, he's gonna break your neck.
I think wrestling is like the foundation.
That's the one thing, because then you can dictate whether the fight goes to the ground or stays up.
Yes.
And then, once you learn submissions, which is pretty easy for a wrestler to learn, it's pretty similar.
john mcphee
It's the same sport.
I used to wrestle, and it's like the cradle for the pin versus an armbar, right?
Sure.
In my opinion.
joe rogan
Darce jokes.
All these different things come from similar positions.
But then, stand-up.
You have to have stand-up today.
I've been talking about this a lot.
I don't think...
I think when you have a fight, and it's five rounds, let's say of a fight, if a guy's mounted on top of a guy at the end of the first round, I think the second round should start with that guy mounted on top of you.
I don't think they should start standing up, because it doesn't make any sense.
Like, you didn't earn that stand-up.
That guy took you down, he got on top of you, he's mounted on you, you're about to get fucked up, and then all of a sudden you have a reprieve from the governor, because the round is over, and now you're standing up again.
And if you're a striker, that's your world.
But you didn't earn that position.
It's one fight.
It's not five fights.
It's one fight.
So why should you have a beginning of every round where you're standing up?
john mcphee
Yeah, I agree.
I agree with that.
joe rogan
If I could change the rules, that's the first rule that I would change.
I would say, whatever position you were in at the end of the round, that's where you start.
john mcphee
I completely agree with that.
And I always feel like that it just fucks shit up.
You know what I mean?
And then, you know this, doing jujitsu is like, seconds matter.
And this fight could turn around in seconds, but those seconds can't happen if we stop this early.
joe rogan
100%.
Yeah.
john mcphee
I agree with that.
joe rogan
Well, the early days were wild, right?
Because there was no time limit.
john mcphee
That's what I watched.
The early days is my heyday.
Like, I could not get enough.
I was, you know, a fight dummy for hoist for...
Sakuraba.
Who else?
Oh, Hoyce.
So, okay, I'll tell you a quick story about Hoyce.
He comes out.
We're doing jits with him.
And I'm a new guy.
So I'm like, hey, you could share my wall locker, right?
And you got a wall locker and you got like your towel because the shower's down the hallway.
You know what I mean?
Like I have my clothes, right?
And then So Hoist put his family pictures, and I didn't notice this, but they slowly did this.
Him and my team re-tagged everything with, like, my last name and team numbers with Hoist, right?
So they re-tagged all my gear as Hoist, right?
Hoist put his kids' pictures up over mine, right?
And one day I'm in my locker like...
Is this my locker?
Like, what the fuck?
What the fuck is going on?
And I'm like, whose kids are these?
And then Hoise is like, you know, yes, you like my kids?
And I'm like, oh, those are your kids?
Like, no, this is cool, right?
Years later, I'm in Iraq, and I'm like, I gotta go for, like, one of these surges into Fallujah with another squadron, and, like, their ops arm major calls me by name, and it's like, I've been in Iraq, like, 30 seconds, these guys are calling me by name, like, what the fuck, you know?
And then he was like, we're getting your stuff.
It's on the helicopter.
You need to get on this little bird.
We're leaving like 20 minutes.
And literally I got on the little bird.
They bring my kid over.
I get my shit on, right?
And they're like, yo, whose shit is it?
Hey, Royce?
Is there a Royce?
Royce?
You know what I mean?
And then like my bag is fucking still tagged with Royce's name.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
That's hilarious.
So you started training martial arts when you were in the military?
john mcphee
In the unit, yeah.
joe rogan
In the unit.
So did they have, like, was it, like, technical training?
Did they teach you?
Did they have, like, real instructors?
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
How does it work?
john mcphee
Yeah, so in training, when you kind of make it to the unit, there's a hand-to-hand program.
A lot of the hand-to-hand program is, like, traditionally, like, you gotta cuff people.
You know what I mean?
Like, which is all Japanese wrist locks, which is the foundation for a lot of shit, right?
But you learn that stuff, like how if you have a weapon, how to approach somebody, if they grab your weapon, what to do.
So it was all like weapon-focused, more like self-defense.
But I think back then in my day, right, in the 90s, it was still, bro, come at me like this.
You know what I mean?
And you're like, why the fuck would I stand like this ever?
Like, what the fuck was I doing that got me here?
You know what I mean?
Like, so it was always some, back then there was a lot of hocus pocus.
So we kind of had our own training program.
And then as my years, the training program got better because we started getting hoist.
We started ground fighting, you know?
I think the premise for everything they taught in my day when I was a student Was like, you know, weapons retention, Japanese wrist lock to get someone cuffed, you know, two-man cuffing procedures, searching, and then like how to defend yourself if someone grabbed your weapon or if you went to the ground, right?
joe rogan
Right, which is all stuff you have to know.
john mcphee
Right.
joe rogan
But there wasn't a lot of, like, just one-on-one.
john mcphee
No, no.
It's like, you know, you're in the gym, they roll out the wrestling mat, and it's like, okay, come at the guy, like, with your rifle.
You know, a bunch of fucking white belts, basically, like, out there fucking around, basically.
joe rogan
Was there a system, like a training system?
Yeah.
john mcphee
There was a system back then, and the system was really, I think, kind of for things without really knowing what they did back then.
I went through the training, but I don't really know what the...
Hand-to-hand was back then until later when I was in the hand-to-hand program or fighting with guys.
You know what I mean?
I would say this.
Back then, I'd say it was wrestling.
It was Muay Thai.
It was a little bit of Japanese wrist locks and some Filipino martial arts.
joe rogan
Oh, like Kali.
john mcphee
Kali, yeah.
We had guys that would do the sticks.
I know a little bit of the sticks.
You know, like, first time I got smacked 37 fucking times around the head.
It was another guy.
This guy with his sticks.
It was like, what the fuck was that?
Like, how do these sticks move so fucking fast?
joe rogan
Dudes who are good with that are very impressive.
john mcphee
Yeah, super impressed.
So I think that was really the foundation.
And maybe some, I don't know, dirty boxing, I would kind of imagine.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Clinching.
john mcphee
Yeah, clinching, punching, stuff like that.
joe rogan
How did the Filipinos develop that stick fighting?
Where did that come from?
john mcphee
I don't know, man.
joe rogan
Weird that one culture is known for their stick fighting.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Kind of odd, right?
john mcphee
But I love all that.
The stick fighting.
What do they call it?
Pontouken or whatever.
The dirty boxing they do.
All very make your opponent off balance at the same time you can strike.
Or if they are trying to strike you, knock them off balance.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I've always been so fascinated how different cultures have a completely different approach to fighting.
Like the ties figured out the best way to fight stand-up.
Kick the shit out of the legs.
john mcphee
Fucking kick his leg.
joe rogan
Elbow the fuck out of people in the clinch.
Plung, knees, knees to the body, knees to the face.
They figured out striking in a way that nobody else had.
It's weird that they did it.
And I think it's just because of the competition all the time and the betting.
Because they were fighting so often and they had so much money on the line for fighting that they developed a very pragmatic way of fighting.
Because they were fighting all the time as opposed to karate or any of those other things.
I don't think they were really fighting as much.
john mcphee
Well, I mean, think about America.
Like, prior to Mike Tyson, boxing was kind of like...
Americans, if they would have seen, like, Hicks and Gracie, you know, if Hicks and Gracie would have been popular in, like, the 70s or 60s, people would have been, like...
Well, that's not civilized fighting.
You know what I mean?
Like, get your dukes up.
This has got to be fair.
You know what I mean?
Americans have a very fair sense of what fighting should be.
Like, Americans hate, like, dirty fighting.
But, you know, all Muay Thai and Kali and all that, that was all seen, you know, those guys would come from Asia, fight around the States here, fucking kick everyone's ass, and people still weren't attracted to it.
joe rogan
Did you ever see, there's one fight that's like one of the most important fights in kickboxing, where Rick Rufus, who is like the king of American style kickboxing, like above the waist kickboxing, fought this Thai guy.
I forget how, I can't pronounce the guy's name correctly, so I don't want to butcher it.
And Rick Rufus was fucking him up in the beginning.
He dropped him.
He had him in real trouble.
Rick Rufus was really good.
But this dude just kept chopping at the legs, chopping at the legs.
And by the end of the fight, Rick's in a heap on the ground.
And his own brother, Duke Rufus, who became a world Muay Thai champion himself later and became one of the best trainers in MMA. So this is the fight.
What happened?
Oh, that's his name?
Good luck saying that one.
But, oh this is not, this is a different, this is like a compilation of a bunch of different people fighting, that's not.
This is it, the fight that changed kickboxing.
So this fight, well this isn't it, this is a bunch of other shit.
Go into the fight itself.
john mcphee
Chuck Norris!
I've seen Chuck in there!
joe rogan
Chuck was legit!
So this is the fight.
So in the beginning, Rick Rufus, who's like this above-the-weight kick, he drops him with the left hand.
Rick was really fucking good, man.
He was really good.
But they just didn't know anything about the leg kicks.
And after the fight, his brother Duke was like, well, I don't think there's any skill involved in kicking the legs.
And he was saying that, look, he drops him again.
So he dropped him two times.
Looked like Rick is fucking him up.
But this Thai guy, he's probably had 200 fights, and he just keeps kicking at the legs.
And after a while, Rick's legs are just dead.
I mean, the Thai guy's getting lit up.
But Rick became an unbelievable leg kicker himself after this.
But no one knew.
They just didn't know.
So as the fight goes on, and this is like a huge challenge match.
He drops him with this leg kick.
After a while, Rick just can't move anymore.
And this dude...
john mcphee
He ain't even running away well.
joe rogan
No, his legs are dead right now.
And he's just getting...
Every time this tie is kicking him, he can barely walk.
And at the end of the fight, he winds up in a heap.
Because he just doesn't know.
He doesn't know yet.
And he's getting dumped, too.
Look at these fucking low kicks.
Devastating low kicks.
And at the end of the fight, he's just in a heap on the ground.
john mcphee
Yeah, his kick had no power there.
joe rogan
But the thing is, Rick was really fucking good back in the day.
That didn't show the end of the fight.
But at the end of the fight, he brutalized him with just low kicks.
The ties had figured something out that nobody had figured out.
And it's kind of shocking.
That this one area of the world, like this one small island, that they figured it out.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Kind of crazy.
john mcphee
Love it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I love it too.
And then Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, right?
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Until Maeda comes to Brazil in like the 1930s or some shit.
Whenever that was.
And then the Brazilians are like, huh, I think we can fix this.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they start like, you know, because Elio was a small guy and Helio is like going, well, what about if we just did it this way?
We fought with leverage and just instead of using strength, we used technique and changed everything.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Changed martial arts forever.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I love it.
unidentified
It's wild.
john mcphee
I love all of it.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
I'll tell you, that leg kick is my go-to in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You know what I mean?
Like...
I get about this far from you.
This is good distance for me.
You can't grab my weapons, but what I would do is I'd throw the Thai leg kick, but I wouldn't aim for the middle of the thigh.
I don't care about your pain.
I'd hit your knee and either it's gonna break your knee or it's gonna knock you out of your little fucking slippers.
And then I'd just stand on your neck.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's one of the most effective things you could do.
You take away someone's base.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
And, you know, the crazy thing about MMA is now we're learning that kicking in the calf is actually even more effective than kicking in the thigh.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because there's no meat there.
john mcphee
Yeah, it fucking hurts.
joe rogan
And you slam a shin into that and all of a sudden your foot goes floppy.
It doesn't work anymore.
Your leg's useless.
It's crazy.
And we've figured that out over the last five or six years, which is really nuts.
Like Michael Bisping, who was a world champion, told me he went his whole career without ever getting kicked in the calf.
john mcphee
Wow.
joe rogan
And that was like, you know, four or five years ago, he was a world champion and went his entire career without getting kicked in the calf.
Nuts.
It's nuts.
It's like it's constantly changing and evolving.
People find something that works and they're like, oh, what about this?
john mcphee
I love that it's always evolving, too.
joe rogan
Well, martial arts have evolved more in the last 30 years than they have in the last 30,000 years.
john mcphee
I agree.
joe rogan
That's a fact.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a fact.
And that's kind of shocking.
You think about how long people have been fighting.
john mcphee
I don't know.
You know, I shoot every day.
I teach people to shoot all over the country all the time, right?
And it's kind of interesting to me that I don't think it works like that.
You know what I mean?
Like, you would think people would have been doing this right the whole time, but there's, like, a lot of myth involved, and it gets watered down over time, I think, a lot of times.
Even in shooting, yeah.
joe rogan
Like, what are the myths in shooting?
john mcphee
Oh, so fucking many, man.
Really?
Like, do we got the time?
We got time!
I'll fucking shred this shit.
The NRA, I speak at the NRA shows, like...
The NRA hires me.
I speak at the NRA show this year.
I actually got roofied in fucking Dallas at the NRA show.
Yeah, no shit.
Do you know who did it?
This is crazy, right?
Okay, I have an assistant, right?
I don't know.
She's like 30, blonde girl, pretty girl.
Her and her husband are with me, and I'm with the surefire representative.
Like, yo, sorry we got you roofied, by the way.
And then like some other guys, right?
And we get done with the show and we just go have a drink or two and we're going into like the hotel restaurant to eat a nice steak dinner.
You know what I mean?
So we get around to drinks and it was like well old fashions is what it was.
Well old fashions.
And my assistant's like, I sit next to her.
She's like, I just can't drink anymore.
You know what I mean?
Like, these are horrible old fashions.
I just can't drink these anymore.
And it was like, hey, we'll be at dinner in a minute.
They got good booze at the good restaurant.
We'll get anything you want, right?
So she's like, okay.
So I was like, here, I'll take it.
So I held my cup up and then I kind of held my cup up, the surefire guy, her husband, and she kind of fills us all up equally.
joe rogan
So somebody was trying to roofie her.
john mcphee
Her, right?
So, yeah, this is in Dallas, right?
So, okay.
So, we go to dinner.
unidentified
I don't know.
john mcphee
I get this Wagyu burger.
It's fucking delicious.
I'm kind of buzzed.
I'm drinking good whiskey.
You know what I mean?
We're having a good time, right?
I love good food, right?
So I'm having a great time.
Her husband's at the end of the table and all of a sudden, and this is like within 45 minutes of that drink, which I also didn't know, right?
So his head hits the table, boom!
And I look at him and I'm like, is he okay?
And then like, hey, you know how like, you know them blow up pools where you pull down the side and the water just kind of Yeah.
Glides over the top.
Yo, his mouth opens and it was just like, whoa, across the table.
You know what I mean?
And I was like, I pushed away from the table so it didn't leak on me.
And I was like, we gotta go.
You know what I mean?
It's time to leave.
You know what I mean?
I'll get to check by the front door or something.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Definitely, it's time for us to...
joe rogan
And you weren't feeling it yet?
john mcphee
No.
I didn't feel anything yet, right?
So, okay.
So, it was like, I've never seen this happen to this guy ever, right?
So, this isn't him.
So, it's kind of weird, right?
So, my assistant's like, hey, I'll take him up to the room.
I was like, okay, well, we're going to go have a few more drinks at the bar, right?
So me and the other guy go to the bar.
She goes up to her room, right?
I don't know if any of this is happening, but as soon as they get to the room, the head of security's knocking on the door.
So my assistant answers, and I guess the guy was like, is there a guy that threw up in the restaurant here?
And she's like, he's in the bathtub naked right now.
And then the head of security, like, hey, we watched the tapes.
Ton of info comes out.
Right?
So...
joe rogan
I don't know who did it.
john mcphee
I think so, but like...
joe rogan
Did it tell you?
john mcphee
No.
unidentified
No, no.
john mcphee
They talked to my assistant and her husband, right?
So, I go down to the bar, right?
I put my credit card on the bar, and like, I fucking party till all hours of the night.
Yo, what did I learn?
If you roofie me, like, you're gonna wait six hours to get that booty, because once you give me drugs, I want to party, baby.
You know what I mean?
Like...
So, I'm out.
Like, I don't know what the fuck.
The Surefire guy fucking peters out on me.
You know, I'm probably just in the lobby alone.
Like, it's fucked up.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Do you know what was in it?
john mcphee
Fuck no.
joe rogan
It was just something.
It wasn't necessarily roof and all.
It was probably something.
john mcphee
I don't know what it was.
So the next day we check out, right?
Show's over.
We check out.
So my assistant's knocking on my door, right?
And I'm a get up early guy.
I do my cardio, you know.
So I'm normally up early and she's knocking on my door, right?
So I answer my door and I'm like thinking, the fuck is she doing here so early, right?
Both of them, her and her husband.
And she's like, you know, I'm glad you're okay.
And I'm like, uh, what?
You know what I mean?
And she's like, what?
What?
She's looking at me, she's like...
Not you too.
And I'm like, me too, what?
You know what I mean?
I'm kind of foggy, right?
It was like fucking, it was checkout, it was after checkout time.
I slept till like fucking one in the afternoon the next day.
I had the worst fucking hangover ever.
Like, if that was roofies do, the hangover, I understand why people don't do them recreationally.
You know what I mean?
Like, I had the worst fucking hangover.
So, she's like...
joe rogan
Did anybody get tested to find out what it is?
john mcphee
Mm-mm.
No, they had to fly home that afternoon.
They got me in my sprinter van.
I had to go do a class somewhere else.
I was on the fucking road.
So they drove me to breakfast, got me something to eat, kind of sobered me up a little bit.
And then they went to the airport, dropped me off, and I drove somewhere else in Texas.
I was working here.
And then the head of security talked to her and her husband, called them a couple days later, check on them, make sure they were okay.
But...
Long story short is we had a round of drinks that none of us ordered come to our table.
And they came to our table from the same waitress that we had.
You know what I mean?
So somehow we got a round of drinks and we even paid for them.
And when I got the bill, like, I don't know, we had two drinks and we were getting ready to go.
And then a third one came and I just figured someone ordered it.
You know what I mean?
It'll be fine.
And then I just paid for it all.
Didn't not even think of it.
joe rogan
And so did the security know who roofied you?
john mcphee
I think so.
joe rogan
And they didn't tell you?
john mcphee
I think they told my assistant.
I think they...
joe rogan
And you didn't ask her?
john mcphee
No.
I didn't care.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, I'd want to know.
john mcphee
I think it was like a targeted thing where they just fucking rob you.
unidentified
Oh.
john mcphee
You know what I'm saying?
I don't think...
I mean...
Alright, first and foremost, I think everyone's trying to burgle booty holes this day and age, and you gotta keep your safe.
So, there's that, right?
But I also think, like...
I think it was like...
They know all these people are in for these conventions, so they try to drug somebody and just...
Rob them.
You could have just took my...
I'd have handed you my wallet.
You know what I mean?
unidentified
Fuck it.
john mcphee
There's not a crime.
joe rogan
They happened to a buddy of mine recently.
john mcphee
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He met this girl, and they go back to his place, and then he wakes up the next day, and he's robbed.
Stole his Rolex, stole $25,000 in cash from him, but he got tested.
And he had...
I think it was Xanax.
She piled a bunch of Xanax into his drink, and he was just out.
Didn't know what the fuck happened.
Came to the club afterwards.
He was like all fucked up.
Came to the comedy club.
He's a comedian, Hans Kim.
Shout out to Hans.
Hilarious guy.
So he's like, something happened.
I don't know what happened.
We're like, hey, man, go to fucking, go get tested right now while it's still in your system.
So he goes and gets his hair tested, and they found that there was roofies in them.
john mcphee
Damn.
I didn't even know you could be tested.
joe rogan
Yeah, you could be tested.
john mcphee
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
But there's like a time period.
If you test hair, it'll last a little longer.
And I think he waited a day, so they had to test hair.
But within a certain time period, they could test you and find out what it is.
And they said, did you take any Xanax?
He's like, no.
I'm like, you have a lot of Xanax in your system.
And apparently that's one of the things that they give people to rob them.
john mcphee
Damn.
Dang.
Does it cause a hangover?
joe rogan
I'm sure.
It's got to.
john mcphee
If you're going to drug me- Anything that's going to whack you out- If you're going to rob me- I just want to say this to the world.
If you're going to fucking rob me, give me the non-hangover shit.
You're getting my shit anyway.
joe rogan
But what is the non-hangover shit?
unidentified
Fuck.
john mcphee
I don't know.
Whatever that shit is.
You know more about drugs than me.
I was in the army my whole life.
joe rogan
I don't think it exists.
john mcphee
Damn it, Joe.
joe rogan
I think it's prescription stuff or GHB. I know a lot of people give people GHB. I've heard of that.
That just gets you like, you don't know what the fuck's going on.
john mcphee
I've heard of that.
joe rogan
I've heard of people getting roofied that way.
If I was a woman, I'd be fucking terrified to accept a drink from anybody.
john mcphee
Fuck!
joe rogan
I've talked to so many ladies that have had their alcohol drugged by someone.
Women go to bars, they keep their fucking hand over their drink all the time, even when they're turning around and looking away, because they just never know.
Some guy just dropped something in there real quick.
Next thing you know, you're going home with them.
You don't even know where you are.
john mcphee
I had a buddy.
He doesn't even drink.
Someone convinced him to have a glass of wine, small town, North Carolina.
And the cops pulled him over not far down the road.
And he was like, I don't know what's going on, but I can't feel my hands.
You know what I mean?
And he's like, he's just a regular guy, you know?
And they brought him back to the station and someone had put, I think it was a little bit of fentanyl or some shit in the wine.
And like he left and he said he felt fine and he was driving.
He said, like, I don't feel right.
Even though like he doesn't really, he had one glass of wine.
He doesn't even drink.
You know, I don't even know why he had a glass of wine.
Someone probably talked him into it.
You know what I mean?
He probably didn't even finish it, but...
He's like, you know, he said he was lucky.
He felt lucky.
joe rogan
There's some fucking non-human people out there.
john mcphee
I'm telling you, that's one of the things I wanted to talk about today is like, there's fucking real evil in the world.
And in Iraq, in Afghanistan, you go into these fucked up places where they've been like, I don't know, fucking raping, beheading people, fucking tribal shit forever.
Like there was buildings I didn't even want to fucking go in.
Like you'd go and you'd be like...
Every fucking hair on my body just be standing up.
And I'm at the doorway and be like, I don't even want to clear this fucking building.
You know what I mean?
And I don't know fucking why, but I know there's fucking old evil in this world.
joe rogan
Evil's real.
john mcphee
It's fucking real.
joe rogan
And if you've never experienced it, you can walk around delusional and think, oh, come on.
john mcphee
It's real.
You can feel it like...
When I'm around real evil shit, only two places I felt real evil shit in my life is Gettysburg and fucking in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yeah, I felt that.
Because I felt evil before and it makes me want to throw up, it hurts my stomach.
joe rogan
You mean in the area of Gettysburg?
john mcphee
Yeah.
On the battlefields.
joe rogan
My stepfather felt the same thing.
And he's not woo-woo at all.
He's like a real straight-edge guy.
john mcphee
Fuck, man.
joe rogan
And he said it felt so creepy.
john mcphee
I was almost going to...
Me and my son were out there ghost hunting, right?
And we were both going to throw up and...
I didn't tell him, but I had felt that feeling before.
joe rogan
It's crazy that you said that about Gettysburg, because my stepdad's never said anything like that before.
And he said just the feeling, it was so sad and creepy, and you just wanted to get out of there immediately.
john mcphee
Makes me want to throw up that feeling.
joe rogan
I think places have memory.
I really believe that.
john mcphee
Well, I think it's energy, and I don't think it can be created or fucking...
You've talked to science guys, right?
Energy don't go away, right?
joe rogan
Well, I think you just don't see it and you can't measure it, so you assume it's not there.
But I think that's one of the reasons why when someone gets murdered in a house, they have to tell you about it.
john mcphee
Right?
joe rogan
They have to.
Because, like, people, they know.
Like, there was JonBenet Ramsey's house.
When I lived in Boulder, I lived in Boulder for a while, and we were looking at houses to buy.
And there was this one house that was, like, really cheap for the house.
I was like, this is a nice fucking house.
They had changed the name of the street so they could try to sell this house.
Because everybody knew that it was the house that JonBenet Ramsey had been killed in.
They couldn't fucking sell the house.
unidentified
Oh, fuck that house.
joe rogan
Yeah, fuck that house.
We were looking at the house on Zillow, and we're like, oh, that's a beautiful house.
Maybe we should go check out this house.
And then we found out.
We're like, oh, that's why they can't sell it.
Like, oh, man.
Like, they changed the name of the street to try to sell this house.
john mcphee
It's fucked up.
They should have just bulldozed it.
joe rogan
They should have bulldozed it and then...
What do you do about the ground?
It's still there.
Would you want to live in a place where they bulldoze the house where a little girl is getting killed?
Fuck that.
john mcphee
Not even joking about it.
I don't want to live there.
joe rogan
No, no one wants to live there.
I don't even know what it is now.
I mean, I don't know if anybody ever bought it.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I grew up in old houses in the Chicago area, you know what I mean?
And, like, some of them houses were creepy for no reason, and some weren't.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
There's something to that.
john mcphee
But, hey, I was in Iraq, and I was in one of them, like, you know, Uday and Kusei, like, fucking raped people.
Them guys were evil.
joe rogan
You went to their palace?
All of them.
john mcphee
I carried their bodies off an airplane and had to guard them until they got cleaned up by the morgue and DNA tested.
But, uh...
Them fucking guys, them palaces, like, they would pick up, like, fucking 12-year-olds off the street.
They didn't give up.
joe rogan
They feed them to dogs.
john mcphee
Fuck.
The lions.
We found them fucking—so, ooh, they had lions, and the lions were—it's not funny, but, I mean, it's kind of humorous, but I think it's funny.
The lions were like on the army side, the big army side, and they were inside this fence, right?
And then the lions were like just lazy as fuck, didn't care about no army guys.
And then one day I seen a lady and kids walk by, and they're just behind Chainlink.
And them fucking lions went nuts, and I knew like...
joe rogan
They had been feeding them ladies and kids.
john mcphee
Fuck yeah.
Fuck yeah.
They were fucking evil.
joe rogan
I have read so many horrible stories about those guys.
They would find a woman who was getting married and they would rape her and then feed her to their dogs.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Or the fucking carp outside the palaces, you know them big lakes?
Full of these giant carps that just fucking eat bodies like you read about them.
Yeah, so I was down in one of those one night just because I could be, and I had my flashlight.
Always been fascinated by ghost hunting, by the way.
So I'm down there by myself just exploring, you know what I mean?
And this fucking door slammed on me, you know what I mean?
I was freaked the fuck out.
I'm the only one down there, you know what I mean?
Freaked me the fuck out, man.
And the energy down in those fucking rape rooms or whatever.
I don't know what the fuck you call it.
They did fucking bad shit there.
It's just like, I don't know.
You ever ride a roller coaster and it turns your stomach?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
That's how it feels to me in them rooms.
I don't know what that is, but it makes me almost want to throw up.
And the stronger it is, the more I feel like I'm going to throw up.
unidentified
Those guys were such fucking monsters.
joe rogan
It's just so crazy that that story repeats itself over and over again like the sons of kings that grow up that way are always just super fucking evil because they have unchecked power from the time they're a child.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Yeah, I gotta be honest.
If I could clone myself and I'd had like a mini-me right now, I would abuse him just to make sure he grows up right.
I would raise him right.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And when I say abuse him, I mean like...
joe rogan
Force him to work hard.
john mcphee
Yeah, fucking earn his shit his whole fucking life.
I mean like, yeah, I had a guy, like I had a...
I don't know what he was.
I was in the Middle East somewhere and one of the guys asked me like, Are American babies stupid?
And I'm like, what?
And he's like, are American babies stupid?
And I'm like, why?
And he's like, well, in America, there would be a fence at the edge of the cliff so the baby can't go over.
In my country, the baby knows don't go by the cliff.
unidentified
And I'm like, uh, I don't know.
john mcphee
Like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Well, I bet they don't.
I bet the babies that don't know go off the cliff and those genes never propagate.
john mcphee
Again.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the most harsh form of natural selection.
john mcphee
Darwinism right there.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The most harsh form of it.
Yeah.
No fucking...
I mean, kids that grow up outside.
Lock key kids.
Like when I was a kid.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You just got left out of the house.
unidentified
Bye.
joe rogan
Have fun.
And you figure out who's the child molester.
Yeah.
You figure out who's a creep.
What's dangerous.
Don't go near the train tracks.
You can't hear the train until it's too late.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Stay away from your drunks.
joe rogan
Because you hear about the kid that gets hit.
Yeah.
john mcphee
At the liquor store.
joe rogan
Exactly.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
I did the same thing.
joe rogan
You learn about danger.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I tell you, I got my first key.
I was six.
I fucking lost it like the same day.
My mom's yelling at me and she's like, you know, what do you got to say for yourself?
I was like, I still remember.
It's like one of my oldest memories.
I was like, I'm six?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
And she was just kind of like...
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
I'm six.
I had it one fucking day.
I never carried a key in my life.
Of course I'm going to fuck this up.
She was like, we can't afford all these keys, you know what I mean?
But at the same time, I'm fucking six.
So we ended up having to hide it somewhere.
Because my brother wasn't good at fucking keys either.
joe rogan
You know, it's fucked up that I don't want that to happen to my kids.
I mean, my life was nothing like your life, but I was definitely let loose in the world and not really given any guidance.
john mcphee
A ton of let loose with no guidance.
joe rogan
But that's how you make a person like you.
A person like you doesn't come from a home That has, like, you know, you're coddled, you're taken care of, you're always protected.
Like, the only way you make, like, a legit beast of a man is that that man has to go through a lot of shit through their life, and then they come out on the other end hard.
It's the only way.
You don't, you know, I've never met, like, a world champion fighter that came from, like, the happiest of childhoods.
It just doesn't exist.
john mcphee
I don't see a lot of unit or special forces or ranger guys, like, I used to call it the fatherless.
You know what I mean?
And it works kind of two ways.
Either you had a dad, but he worked and he came home and he passed out and he woke up and he was gone before you got up.
And when you got home, he was asleep on the couch or already out for the night because he fucking works.
A lot of hours.
Or you kind of just didn't have a dad.
You know what I mean?
unidentified
Right.
john mcphee
Those people make special forces soldiers.
Just like, you know, dad issues for a chick or put her on a pole.
Those same issues and a dude puts them in special forces, I think.
And I'll take the fatherless all day long.
joe rogan
Yeah.
For sure.
Well, those are the world champions.
I mean, that's Mike Tyson, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was 13 years old, no family, gets adopted by a guy who's a psychologist who's a hypnotist and is a great boxing coach and teaches him to become this elite fighter.
And I kind of think that you don't become that guy unless you're dealing with all sorts of unspeakable tragedy and horrors when you're a child.
john mcphee
Well, you wouldn't have that kind of focus without that.
joe rogan
You wouldn't have that monster inside of you.
That monster has to grow because it needs to be there.
john mcphee
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
I would say, and I don't know what the ratio is, but I would say one out of every fucking hundred or three hundred is the fucking high school quarterback who married the fucking prom king.
joe rogan
Very rare.
Very rare.
john mcphee
I think I only knew one of those guys.
joe rogan
Yeah, and those guys, I bet if you dig into their childhood, their dad was probably a little abusive.
john mcphee
Yeah, or their mom.
joe rogan
Or a brother.
john mcphee
Yeah, something.
joe rogan
There's another thing, older brothers.
It's like, you want to find the young brother.
The young brother's the beast.
john mcphee
I'm the little brother.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it.
The young brother gets beat up by the older brother and just constantly in battle his whole life.
So many fighters, the best fighters, like Chris Weidman's got a great story like that.
john mcphee
Well, I mean, think about this.
If you had to fight your bigger brother off your whole life, you would be good at jiu-jitsu.
unidentified
Why?
john mcphee
Because you understand leverage.
You understand patience.
Wait for the move.
Take some punishment.
Move later.
You know the deal, right?
joe rogan
You're also accustomed to being in battle all the time with your brother.
john mcphee
Right.
Hickson was a little brother to Holes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
Yeah, same thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, and Horian.
Yeah, Hickson is such a unique guy because he was like the first guy that figured out like that physical strength, yoga, all the gymnastic natural stuff that he did, flexibility.
john mcphee
Breathing.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was like a physical specimen on top of being super technical.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he had like both things.
john mcphee
Yeah, he had it all, I think, way before people knew.
Way before.
He knew the winning mindset and how to keep that mental edge with all the other things.
And the fighting was just something that he grew up to do, I think, in my opinion.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah, he had that samurai mindset.
john mcphee
Yeah, I'm telling you.
I talk to a lot of people.
I know some legendary guys from the army, right?
When he talks, it's like this weird time vortex.
You ever talk to him?
joe rogan
Yeah, I've had a couple of podcasts with him.
john mcphee
It's incredible.
joe rogan
I went over his house once in 2000 and him and his son and we were watching Coliseum.
So Coliseum was like the last time he fought when he fought Funaki.
And we were watching all the different fights.
He had a tape of it, and we were watching it.
And he was breaking down all the things that all these guys were doing wrong.
It was such a fascinating education.
He was like, there's too much space.
You start here, there's too much space.
And he goes, he had this philosophy.
john mcphee
Good accent, by the way.
joe rogan
He goes, we start at a neutral point.
We start at a neutral point.
If I get to one, I'm not going back to zero.
unidentified
I'm going one to two to three to checkmate.
joe rogan
He goes, I'm not going backwards.
unidentified
He goes, these guys, they lose position, they go for here, go for there, all this extra space.
joe rogan
And he was like breaking it down while we were watching the fights.
It was such an education.
john mcphee
Love that.
joe rogan
Oh, it was fucking amazing, man.
It was amazing.
john mcphee
Yeah, he's a legend.
joe rogan
Oh man, like one of the great legends of martial arts.
If you go into the history of martial arts, Hickson Gracie will go down.
If there's a Mount Rushmore of martial arts legends, him and Hoyce are right up there.
john mcphee
Yeah, I agree with that.
joe rogan
And Hoyce will tell you, like Hickson, he goes, my brother was a hundred times better than me!
john mcphee
Yeah.
Well, when Hoyce used to come to us, he would tell us straight up, I'm not the family fighter.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
You know, and I think what he told us back then was like, I don't know, Hickson was pride contracts.
UFC was different.
Couldn't figure it out.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
That's why Hoyce even fought, right?
Yeah.
I thought that was kind of the deal back then, but that was a long time ago.
joe rogan
Horian, there was a bunch of different thoughts on it.
Hoist jokes around.
He goes, look how beautiful I am.
That's why they wanted me.
But it was also because Hickson was very physically dominant.
And the idea was like, let's have this guy that doesn't look physically impressive to show jiu-jitsu, to show the power of jiu-jitsu.
But if that doesn't work, then we bring in Hickson.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
But obviously, Hoist beat everybody.
And then Hickson went over to do Japan Valley Tudo in like 94, I think it was.
john mcphee
I used to love all those.
The Valley Tudos, Pride.
I thought that was the best.
joe rogan
The golden era of martial arts, because it's when everybody was learning.
Like, holy shit, there's so much out there.
john mcphee
Yeah, I agree.
I loved every minute of that.
joe rogan
And then Fedor Emelianenko comes on the scene, and he's just like...
john mcphee
Fedor is my favorite.
joe rogan
One of the all-time greats.
He's another one.
If there's the greatest heavyweight of all time, he's got to be in the conversation.
john mcphee
I feel like back in the day, we'd be talking about fighting, and it'd be like, man, I wonder if anyone's ever done this from the mount.
Fedor won six fights like that.
I wonder if anyone's ever done something like this, and well, Fedor won his last fight just like that.
And you're just like, fucking this guy.
joe rogan
In his prime, he was a monster.
john mcphee
Yeah, I agree.
And so stoic.
joe rogan
Like, his expression never changed.
He gets head kicked, he gets suplexed, nothing.
john mcphee
It's like no one's home in there, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Just didn't register.
He was just a machine.
john mcphee
Yeah, yeah.
I loved him.
And I liked when he...
I seen an interview one time.
Remember his brother Alexander?
joe rogan
Sure.
john mcphee
He was like, Alexander is better than me if he just wouldn't party so much.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was an animal.
john mcphee
And I was just thinking...
Fucking Fedor saying his brother's better than him.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Well, his brother was bigger and taller and was a nasty striker, man.
His brother was a vicious striker.
john mcphee
Had good kicks, too.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
He was fucking good, man.
But that was the days where everyone was just kind of figuring out what worked and what didn't work.
john mcphee
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, you had Vanderlei, the axe murderer.
joe rogan
It was also a time where everybody was juicy.
The whole organization.
I had a friend who was going to fight over there, and he was 170 pounds, and they said, no, we want you to fight at 185. Go do steroids.
Go do steroids.
john mcphee
He's like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
He's like, they tell us to do steroids!
When Ensign was on the podcast, he told me, in the contract, it said in capital letters, we do not test for steroids.
They're like, go have fun.
john mcphee
Come back yoked up.
joe rogan
Come back juicy.
Everybody was juicy back then.
Because it was the wild days.
It was like the Wild West.
They just wanted the best, most exciting fights possible.
john mcphee
I think that's what people want now.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
There's a real argument for that.
john mcphee
I don't think the fans give a fuck about drug testing.
No.
You know, I don't think...
Look, and I think this is for all...
Like, the Olympics?
I get it.
But the NFL? Like, seriously?
Why even fucking...
Why?
joe rogan
What do you want the sport to suck?
Like baseball.
That was the thing when they were doing like Mark McGuire and all that shit and Sammy Sosa.
Why are you testing these guys?
It's the most exciting thing is to hit a home run.
These guys are doing something that makes them better at hitting home runs.
Everybody should do that thing.
Whatever the fuck that is.
john mcphee
Think about how much more money that bring those organizations.
joe rogan
Yeah, but there was this thing back then that it was cheating.
But what it really is is science.
Like, they'd figure out there's a way where you recover more, you get stronger, you get faster.
Like, hey, do that, guys.
And by the way, everybody else is doing it, too.
They're just, like, hiding it in some sort of a weird way.
You know, they're just masking it and taking weird stuff.
And there was, you know, that Balco scandal where they're all taking this stuff called The Clear.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I've never even heard of that.
joe rogan
You've never heard of that?
john mcphee
No, I've never heard of that.
joe rogan
I had that guy, Victor Conte, on the podcast who created the clear.
He's a scientist.
And what he did is he, Balco Labs, they figured out that when they're testing, they're testing for very specific metabolites.
So they took steroids and then they changed it slightly so that it didn't show up in the test.
And they're giving them the stuff and they would all pass clear.
And they were all fucking just monsters like Barry Bonds.
He was a monster.
I met Barry Bonds in 1994. I was on this television show called Hardball.
And Barry Bonds was, you know, he was still a major league player, a big time player.
john mcphee
Famous.
unidentified
He's famous.
joe rogan
But he was a regular guy.
Like, he looked like a regular athlete.
And then he started getting juicy.
And then years later, he gained like 60 pounds.
unidentified
It's just fucking gigantic and smashing home runs.
joe rogan
That would be good.
You should keep doing that, whatever you're doing.
john mcphee
I think that's all sports.
Yo, jump as high as you can.
Take your fucking gear.
Jump high.
Run far.
Smash each other.
Let's go.
joe rogan
Well, that's the Enhanced Games.
You know, the Enhanced Games doing that.
They're developing this whole protocol right now, and the Enhanced Games is going to let people do whatever the fuck they want that works.
And their idea is, we are going to develop the best athletes in every discipline, and then we're going to give them a lot of money.
And we're gonna, like, fuck the Olympics.
The Olympics is a giant scam.
Because the Olympics, the athletes don't make any money.
And NBC and all these broadcast networks and the IOC, they're making billions of dollars off the backs of these athletes' hard work.
And no one is going to see them.
They're going to see the athletes.
The athletes aren't even compensated.
It's a crazy scam.
It really is.
Because it's not like if no one made any money, including the networks, including the IOC, great!
Great!
But that's not the case.
Someone's making a fucking shit ton of money, but it's not the people that are putting in the hard work.
It's the people that are pointing cameras at them.
It's the dumbest fucking thing of all time.
So the enhanced games is like, let's throw out the drug testing, let's encourage people to do whatever the fuck that works, and let's give them a lot of money.
So whoever wins, whatever, give them a million dollars.
And then you'll get the elite athletes will be like, well, why am I wasting my time competing for free?
Maybe I blow out an ACL or herniated disc and my career's over and I don't have shit to show for it.
I can do steroids and then win and have money for the rest of my life.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I want to watch the steroid sports.
joe rogan
Of course!
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
The Enhanced League or whatever it's called, that sounds to me like the NFL's going away.
I want to see the mountain hit another mountain, you know what I mean?
Like, let's go!
joe rogan
Could you imagine if they told the NFL, let's just say, everybody get juicy?
john mcphee
Fuck.
joe rogan
Those guys are already freaks.
john mcphee
They're already doing it.
joe rogan
Probably.
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
I mean, I only imagine.
I don't know.
But my two cents is like, you're doing it anyway.
Just fucking go with it.
joe rogan
The way I understand it is they let them know when testing is happening.
john mcphee
Why even waste the fucking money?
You know what I mean?
Like, phone it in.
Let's just phone that in.
You know what I mean?
Like, yo, I took that drug test.
Okay, click.
Save some money for everybody.
joe rogan
The drug test should be multiple choice.
We'll fill it out.
john mcphee
No, nothing.
The drug test should be, we're just kind of curious if you've had any success, and we want to know what works so we can recommend better stuff to people.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
That's what I would do.
joe rogan
But there's this weird thing about protecting the athlete's health.
Like, hey, fuckface, they're playing football.
If you really cared about their health, you would tell them don't play football.
unidentified
So true.
joe rogan
There's no way you care about their health.
There's no fucking way.
It just doesn't make any sense.
john mcphee
I mean, inherent nature is a danger there.
Concussions, knees, shoulders, right?
joe rogan
Yes, everything gets blown out.
How about vaccines?
How about you making them get vaccinated and they're having fucking heart attacks on the field?
Does that make any sense?
unidentified
None.
joe rogan
You don't care about their health.
You're full of shit.
Those guys didn't have to worry for a second about COVID. They're elite athletes of the highest order.
Do you really think that something that is It literally only kills like.03% of the people who get it and those people or most of them have comorbidities.
You really think elite athletes of the highest order had to worry about that?
Of course they didn't.
It's all bullshit.
You don't care about them.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Let them get juicy.
john mcphee
Yeah, fucking juice it up, boys.
unidentified
Let's go.
john mcphee
Get that gear.
You know what I mean?
Hey, let's take those piss cups and turn them into fucking drink cups and serve them some whiskey in the locker room.
Let's get this shit going.
And I want more fighting in my sports.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
That's why I like hockey.
john mcphee
Yeah, I love hockey.
joe rogan
Hockey's the last sport that allows fistfights normally in the middle of a sport.
It's the only sport that allows the occasional fistfight, which is kind of crazy.
john mcphee
I live in North Carolina and there's a little local hockey team at Bragg.
I go to a lot of hockey games because it's like seven bucks for a long time.
You know what I mean?
And they'll fucking blood on the ice on the Thanksgiving day.
They'll have a non-league team come in and it's fucking blood on the ice, man.
The Southern Provisional Hockey League.
I love this hockey.
joe rogan
It's just wild that that's the only sport where fist fighting is allowed.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's kind of crazy because it's grandfathered in.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it's basically bare knuckle boxing in the middle of a sport.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is real weird.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
Well, then you got soccer where, like, you know, you rubbed elbows with the guy and he falls over.
And you're like, what the fuck?
You're faking it.
Like, I have children.
I know the faker.
unidentified
Like, what the fuck?
john mcphee
Like, I'm a parent.
You can't fool me.
joe rogan
Well, anybody can see.
It's the dumbest thing.
Like, a hand hits their face.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
john mcphee
Yeah, they fall on the ground.
joe rogan
They fall down, and they're fucking holding their side.
They're holding their chest.
It's so dumb.
But it's also one of the reasons why it's not really accepted in America.
john mcphee
Yeah, I agree.
joe rogan
Because you watch that flopping.
We're like, come on.
Get up.
This is so crazy.
john mcphee
Yeah, I totally agree.
joe rogan
Especially when people watch football.
You're watching guys get fucking waylaid.
A 300-pound super athlete, they get up and shake it off, and then they're right back on the field.
john mcphee
Yeah, the guy's like, adjust his helmet a little bit, you know what I mean?
Takes his mouthpiece out, you go, all right, go fucking move on.
joe rogan
I just started watching football, literally, this last year.
And, you know, when I see guys collide, I've had so many injuries, knee surgeries and shit, and jiu-jitsu injuries, I see guys get hit, I just like, I fucking hold my knees, I hold my back.
It's the most brutal shit of all time.
A guy who's 290 pounds is running full blast and colliding with you with 100% of his strength.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's fucking crazy, man.
I used to, when I was 38, I was a SAR major in the army and like, I don't know, hand-to-hand jiu-jitsu kind of got boring for me.
So like I was looking for other hobbies.
I was at the PX and I seen like the Fort Bragg rugby team practices like Tuesday at 6 or something.
So I just went out there for something to do, man.
And I'm going to tell you, you think fucking jujitsu fucks people up?
Fucking go play fucking rugby.
Matter of fact, stay the fuck away from rugby.
It's fucking brutal.
joe rogan
No helmets.
john mcphee
No, nothing, man.
And like, when I was a kid, I don't know if I can say this, but we played Smear the Queer all the time.
Like, I don't know what you call that, but that's what it was just called when we were kids.
I'd come home, my shirt would be ripped, I'd get another beating, because like, you ripped another shirt.
These are expensive.
You know what I mean?
But like, it's my brother's anyway, right?
Like, not like he bought me a shirt.
But, man, it was like crazy.
My first practice, like, the ball's sitting there, and one of the coaches is like, grab the ball and run!
I just fucking grabbed a ball and just ran every one of these little motherfuckers over.
And then guys were like, man, what college do you play in?
I was like, uh, none.
And I never played rugby a day in my league.
My first game was like fucking in my third practice.
You know what I mean?
That's crazy.
But in doing jujitsu and fighting people in Iraq every night, like I thought rugby was kind of easy.
The guy's running at me and I just got to take him down, fucking double legs.
And then I started getting more tackles than anyone in my coach.
You know, they keep stats and be like, you had like 80 tackles a game.
How do you do that?
And it's like double, double, double leg takedown, single leg, maybe a trip.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
And then one of the times, one of the coaches was like, hey, will you teach us how do you normally tackle?
You get the most tackles and double, single legs.
joe rogan
So you basically teach them wrestling?
john mcphee
I just taught wrestling.
joe rogan
Why don't they teach them that?
That would seem to be a good skill.
john mcphee
I bet the pro-level fuckers are doing that shit.
joe rogan
They have to.
john mcphee
They have to.
I know a lot of linemen do cali for hand speed and stuff like that.
You know what I mean?
Because they've got to win the hand fight.
I know there's a lot of sports that use a lot of discipline.
I would imagine they would have to be...
Fucking having, you know, wrestling practice or takedown tackle practice, right?
I would imagine they're doing same shit as everyone else.
joe rogan
Well, just understanding leverage and how to manipulate a body.
john mcphee
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Right.
john mcphee
Well, there's no pads.
So, you know, you can't come 30 miles an hour into this tackle.
You might have to come in at 10 miles an hour.
You know what I mean?
Because you got no pads.
Right.
joe rogan
Well, that's the argument against pads in football, is that these guys, the only reason why they can play the way they are and collide with each other full blast is because they have helmets and pads on, which is totally true.
john mcphee
I want thicker helmets and more collisions.
Let's go!
Come on.
joe rogan
It would be a wild game if you had American football and no pads.
I mean, that's what they used to do.
Way back, they had those little leather hat.
john mcphee
Yeah, they had the leather helmet.
Like, you couldn't pay me to wear one of those.
Get the fuck out of here with that.
joe rogan
I wonder how many guys died playing that.
john mcphee
Imagine how many concussions.
unidentified
How many head-to-head collisions, running full blast.
joe rogan
And then, you know, if you're Samoan, you're like some big giant dude, you're gonna go head-to-head with guys because you know you're gonna win it.
john mcphee
Yeah, fuck every time.
joe rogan
So you're just fucking head-butting everybody.
john mcphee
The Army team has a lot of Tongans.
There's a Fort Bragg.
Tongans are paratroopers as people.
I don't know how that works, but they are, man.
They all play rugby.
A buddy of mine was like, I was like, you know, when did you start playing rugby?
He was like, I was like three, you know, huge guy.
I knew I was doing pretty good at rugby when the Tongans were like, they'd pick teams and all the Tongans would be like, we want Big John.
You can have the rest.
And I'd be like, yeah, me and the Tongans will get some, right?
We'll fucking crush the people.
But, like, they start playing with, like, a coconut.
joe rogan
Jesus.
john mcphee
Imagine holding a coconut and just going down ribs on a coconut.
And I'm like, why would you play with a coconut?
And he was like, well, there was only one rugby ball on the island and the bigger boys had it.
Jesus.
Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
Yeah, I played rugby for a while, and I stopped doing MMA to play rugby, but what I realized is rugby is way more injury-prone and dangerous, so I kind of went back to jiu-jitsu.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
One-on-one is definitely you can control a lot more of what's going on than a bunch of dudes.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Colliding into each other.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I agree, man.
joe rogan
It's a hard fucking sport.
john mcphee
I know.
Rugby's awesome.
joe rogan
It is awesome.
It's weird how it never took off in America.
It's kind of strange, you know, because we love violence.
You would imagine that rugby would be something that we would have adopted.
john mcphee
I think the only reason it's not popular is because of the time.
It's like soccer.
Once it starts, it doesn't stop.
Americans want to go take a piss and get another beer and come back.
And you have to have commercials.
joe rogan
That's the big thing about soccer.
john mcphee
And the game never stops.
joe rogan
It's tough to sell commercials because you can't stop the game.
Whereas football, you have half time, bro.
You've got a whole half hour.
john mcphee
Well, you ever see the apps that just show you the plays of football?
A whole game's like 12 minutes of actual work.
You know what I mean?
10 minutes.
joe rogan
Whereas soccer, those motherfuckers are running the entire time.
john mcphee
80 minutes, let's go, and it doesn't stop.
joe rogan
You have to be in insane shape to play soccer.
The cardio is just nuts.
You're basically sprinting for the entire game.
john mcphee
I never played soccer, but I don't think I would enjoy it.
joe rogan
Well, we went to watch.
They have a professional league here in Austin, and these dudes have these fucking quarter-horse legs.
They have thin upper bodies and these fucking gigantic legs because they're just constantly doing plyometrics.
They're just constantly sprinting and going side to side and left and right and fucking crazy cardio.
But it's never going to sell in America if you can't have commercials.
john mcphee
Yeah, I think that's why rugby's not popular also.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, that makes sense.
Maybe they just change the rules a little bit.
john mcphee
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
Give us a little break every seven minutes.
john mcphee
Well, it's kind of crazy.
Here's what we're saying is rugby starts and stops without a time.
That's the same thing we want, you just said, for MMA. Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, that's the problem with MMA, too, right?
You can't have a no-time-limit fight because...
john mcphee
How are you going to get the next fight at midnight or 10 o'clock?
joe rogan
Also, dudes would kind of fight to the death.
Like if you get the best of the best today where they're so evenly matched and they're brawling for an hour.
john mcphee
It could go four hours, five hours.
joe rogan
And then it would probably end your career.
Like at the end of it, you might not ever be the same again.
You'd be spent.
john mcphee
You'd be spent.
Like you got one of those in you.
joe rogan
Right, because there's a lot of guys.
There's a fight, and you could point to that fight and say he was never the same.
Tony Ferguson, Justin Gaethje, a lot of people point to that fight.
Justin Gaethje battered Tony Ferguson so bad.
He was undefeated up until that, or maybe he lost a couple of times, but he was the boogeyman.
Tony Ferguson was the scariest dude in the sport.
And then one bad beating, and he was kind of never the same again.
Because one bad beating just changes everything.
You just never really recover.
john mcphee
Yeah, well once you lose the mental edge, right?
joe rogan
There's a little bit of that, but there's also like a bad beating to the brain like he got just he got hit so many times in his head a bad beating to the brain after a certain I mean No matter who you are, if you're sparring and if you're fighting, you're getting hit in the head, period.
And so over the course of your career, you're already accumulating a certain amount of abuse, and there's one fight that could break the camel's back.
Like in boxing, I always point to Meldrick Taylor, Julio Cesar Chavez.
Like, Meldrick Taylor was the fucking man, won the gold medal in the Olympics, and Chavez just methodically broke him down and then stopped him in the last round of their fight.
Like, literally, at two seconds to go, Richard Steele stops the fight.
And from then on, he was never the same.
He took so much of a beating in that fight that he was never the same again.
john mcphee
Yeah, I think that happens with soldiers, too.
I've seen a lot of guys who are like, we got mortared or rocketed, and then...
Next deployment guy doesn't want to, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
So it's a mental thing.
john mcphee
Yeah, I think there's a time where everybody says enough's enough, right?
Like, whether you want to or not, and then once you reach that point, like, coming back from that point to become that mental champion again, it's a fucking long road.
joe rogan
Is there anything like you as a leader when you see a guy who's maybe crossed over in that way?
Is there anything that you would do to try to bring him back or is there nothing that can be done?
john mcphee
That's a great question.
Define bring him back.
Define what's wrong with him.
joe rogan
Right.
I guess a confidence thing or just being terrified.
Like new fear being introduced.
You know, a lot of guys think they're indestructible until they're not.
And then all of a sudden now this is a new factor.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I used to teach tandem jumping and bundle jumping in the military.
And I don't know if you've ever seen my social media, but I'm in the sky flying and there's that huge barrel under me.
I used to teach that.
And what would happen is if you had a bad jump, a bundle jump, you would have to cut away.
And we called it the nightmare, right?
And you got to end the nightmare.
And this thing starts spinning you out of control.
It'll be so many G's that you'll pass out.
The parachute will open.
We used to tell guys, like, fucking end that nightmare.
Make sense?
Now, you're the captain of the ship, so a guy would have to end this nightmare, however he ended the nightmare, right?
And then what would happen is, afterwards, we'd review the video, and I'd have to show a guy, right?
And then we'd leave him in the classroom for a minute, and we'd tell him, hey, gather your emotions.
Whatever you need to do.
And then get on the next plane.
joe rogan
Get right back on the horse.
john mcphee
Get fucking back on that next plane.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
And guys would do that.
You know what I mean?
A lot more SEALs needed that time than like unit guys because unit guys like...
Yo, I'll fly this motherfucker up your ass.
We ain't gonna have no problems today, son.
You know what I mean?
What's the difference?
I don't know.
I think the difference is that the unit is always more mature than SEALs.
It's an older culture.
It's older guys.
More experienced guys, more methodical guys, more planned out.
So like in a lot of times, like, you know, younger guys, normally the SEALs, they'll have their jump numbers, but they're like, their core, their...
What makes you you?
Confidence, dexterity, strength, fucking health...
It ain't there yet.
And they kind of freak out once in a while.
Younger guys.
It's a maturity thing, I think.
Normally happens at the SEALs.
Most unit guys are pretty mature and have been through so much shit by the time they get to the unit that, like, you're probably unshakable by then.
joe rogan
You see that in fights, too.
Like, young, undefeated guys who fight, like, a world champion who's, like, in their 30s and that guy breaks them down.
And then you see, like, they don't know what to do when things are going sideways, and then mentally they fall apart.
john mcphee
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
That's when the bad decisions will start, you know what I mean?
And the reality is you've got to snap your fucking self out of that.
You've got to fucking put your parachute back on and get the fuck back on that airplane.
I had plenty of those jumps.
I've cut away more.
Fuck, I had a cutaway training for D-Day last year.
Fucking put my cutaway.
You can see how fucking low I am and everything, you know what I mean?
And I have procedures.
I have another parachute.
Like, we're all gonna die.
Am I gonna let it ruin my day kind of thing?
Like, let's fucking move on.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
But how did you develop that mentality, just over time?
john mcphee
I think that comes with what I just said is the core of a person, and I think this is what the Army is really good at, is developing this core, right?
In this core, right, how do I develop your confidence?
Well, I don't fucking know.
I couldn't even define fucking confidence, because I went to the Chicago Public fucking school system, but I could tell you this, if I taught you to rally race car drive, And you got pretty fucking good at it.
If I taught you jujitsu, eventually you're pretty fucking good at it.
I show you skydiving, eventually you're pretty fucking good at it, right?
Why?
It's because every one of these things I showed you, world-class level.
And we brought world champions in to show you, right?
Eventually, you're gonna gain confidence.
It's the taking your daughter to karate or little kids to jujitsu.
They have confidence that other kids don't have, right?
That's what you've got to build.
So it takes a lot of different skills and getting guys good at a lot of different skills to build that fucking unshakable core.
You know what I'm saying?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's a matter of when do you introduce them to extreme adversity?
Do you build them up slowly?
john mcphee
Right.
And it has to be built slowly.
And then we used to say this, like...
Aircraft training, right?
Let's say you got a breaching airplane, right?
And you got to climb a fucking 20-foot ladder because these motherfuckers ain't low to the ground, right?
And you're hanging on a ladder and you weigh fucking 280 pounds and you're shit.
But you're on these fucking ladders with fucking six other guys who all weigh the same as you or more.
You gotta crack the door, get the fuck in this airplane, right?
Now, let's just say this is your first time, and you crack that door the first time, and as an instructor, I know you're cracking the door, and as soon as you crack that door, I fucking shoot you in the face.
unidentified
Pow!
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
And with the training round, right?
How fucking embarrassing, right?
And then the reality is, yo, you just ruined this motherfucker forever.
joe rogan
How do you breach an airplane?
What's the successful protocol for breaching an airplane?
john mcphee
Mechanical or explosive?
joe rogan
What do you mean?
john mcphee
Sometimes we open doors.
Sometimes we blow doors.
It depends.
So which one you want to know about?
joe rogan
Okay.
Let's go with mechanical.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Most doors have a lever on the outside that can be activated.
And most doors, there's a certain way they open, right?
My team, I was always kind of like a primary door guy.
And then there's a certain way doors open.
There's latches.
So all airplane doors open from the outside.
joe rogan
But once you breach it, though, you're in a tube.
john mcphee
You're in a tube.
joe rogan
And everybody knows where the door is.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
It's a very vulnerable position.
john mcphee
Yes.
joe rogan
So what's the protocol for breaching a door when you're in a tube like that?
john mcphee
So what you have to do is breach as many doors as possible and get as many people in as possible, as quick as possible, and everyone goes to positions, right?
You got cover guys, you got runners, you got searchers.
It's a lot of shit that needs to go on on these fucking aircrafts.
Same with a fucking big cruise liner, right?
So, um, everybody's gonna, once the door is open, everyone's gonna flood in and kinda, like, go to their places.
You know what I'm saying?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Right.
So you plan it out, you know where you're going to be, and then you're still dealing with the chaos of you're in a tube and there's only one way in.
And things are coming at you no matter what.
So there's no clean way to do that.
john mcphee
Not even once.
Not even once.
Fuck no, man.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
What a crazy fucking task.
john mcphee
I know.
But back to the point is, if a guy cracks that door, any door, let's say it's your first time I'm showing you like, all right, Joe, I'm going to show you some close quarter battle.
I'm going to show you how I clear a door and then just joking around like you're about to go through a door and I shot you in the fucking forehead.
You would mentally never want to go through that door again, right?
So I have to build you up to where, well, the first time you come through the door, well, I just let you come through the door.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
And then it builds from there.
joe rogan
Got it.
john mcphee
And then there's a point where it's like, well, this motherfucker's shooting through the crack of the airplane.
Wait till I'm in this fucking bitch.
I got two pistols on me.
This motherfucker's going down.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
So as you're...
As your confidence, your core, that core of a human being, like that core of an operator, right?
As that, like, becomes fucking concrete, a guy's just unshakable.
Like, I don't give a fuck what this position.
I don't care.
Like, I don't care if I fucking die.
Let's do this, you know?
joe rogan
And it's consistent training over and over and over again.
john mcphee
Over and over and over.
joe rogan
Do you think that this is what's missing in the police force?
john mcphee
Oh man, are you kidding me?
First off, I work in a lot of police departments.
I love police.
I support police all the time.
It's a fucking thankless job.
I'll say that.
But I would say, like, think about this, Joe.
If you trained police better, right?
I work at a lot of police academies.
I've helped a lot of police academies.
They don't fail people anymore.
I show them what I do.
I train them to do what I do.
They have great success with it.
I would say this in a police academy.
Let's say it's six months long, whatever they do.
I don't fucking know.
Probably about four months of that is fucking paperwork.
And then, you know, you get a little hand-to-hand, you get a little driving, you get a little shooting, and then you learn what.
But I'm going to tell you this, as a cop, you got the rest of your life to do that paperwork.
And when you're in training, as soon as you get your first arrest, your training officer is going to be like, don't write it that way.
Hold on.
Let me see your paperwork.
joe rogan
Like this.
john mcphee
The paperwork could be OJT, and they could spend them time training these guys.
Now, I'd also say this.
If police were trained better, and truly uniformed officers are probably the only guys stopping crime as it happens, If we train those guys better, why would we need SWAT teams?
joe rogan
Right, you would have SWAT teams through the whole thing.
john mcphee
Everyone could be SWAT. And if we got 10 of us come together, we're our own SWAT team.
And then we could operate independently.
We could operate one or two.
I think police don't do the force multiplier thing.
Each guy is his own fucking bastion of the law.
You know what I mean?
I just think they kind of share injuries.
They don't do hand-to-hand.
Right.
Shooting could be dangerous.
Right.
And then most shooting is, you know, the instructor is God and you are fucking stupid.
That's how most training is.
It's like basic training.
And like, no one learns well like that either.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Right.
Yeah.
I'm always shocked when I see fat cops.
Like really fat cops.
And I was like, how?
Your whole life is your body.
Like your whole life is you have to be able to physically defend yourself.
You have weapons.
You have, you know, the law and the uniform and bulletproof vest and all that.
But your physical body is almost useless.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
I was at a football game the other day, and there's this obese cop, enormous belly.
I was like, this is disgusting.
It's ridiculous.
You've let yourself get to this point where I know you can't even run.
You can't last 30 seconds.
All someone has to do is grab ahold of your arm that you would use to take your gun and control that arm, get you to the ground, and you're fucked.
john mcphee
Shit, I just baseball collar the back of their fucking collar of their shirt.
Where the fuck are you going?
You know what I mean?
It's crazy.
Yeah, look.
Okay, first off.
I think also police should have different jobs like the army.
So, okay, if you were 400 pounds, maybe you're the computer guy at the police force or a desk guy or, you know what I mean?
I don't think everyone needs to be the fittest human being ever.
However, if you're on patrol...
Get the young six foot kids in there, man.
You know what I mean?
They can handle themselves.
They're young.
They're bigger than normal, right?
This is why a lot of troopers, state troopers used to have like a six foot, six one, six two height requirement because a six foot two man can generally handle most people.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Especially a fit one who's trained.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
So I think the fit guys need to be on the force.
I think there's room for everybody.
But I think with police is you're a police officer or you're a detective and then that's it.
But really you're always a cop versus like, well, the army, right?
Okay.
There's drone pilots.
There's all these army jobs that kick the infantry kids out the door.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
Why don't police kind of organize like that?
And that way, like...
The guys that are going to run people down can run.
joe rogan
That's what drives me crazy about this whole defund the police horse shit.
Like, are you fucking crazy?
You should be funding them more.
john mcphee
Fucking crime is real.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's real.
Evil's real.
john mcphee
Evil's fucking real.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, to pretend it's not.
Well, that just means you haven't experienced it.
john mcphee
Yeah, you're living with blinders on.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
Yeah, I agree.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's just bizarre that we expect these people to encounter danger and evil all day long, their whole lives, like 25, 30 years.
And, you know, you don't train them properly.
You don't fund them properly.
And then they get disrespected by the public.
john mcphee
Oh, that's the worst.
I think the worst is when, like, the mayor or the police fucking chief is, like, not supportive of all of the fucking guys.
And it's like, you think the guys have bad intent?
You know what I mean?
I get it.
There might be bad apples or whatever.
Everyone's got 10 percent.
Say what you want.
joe rogan
But, like, how about Kamala Harris?
When she was running for president, she was all about defund the police.
john mcphee
I don't know how that sells with anybody in the country.
joe rogan
It's like 2019, 2020. It's fucking crazy.
It's a crazy thing to say.
It really is a crazy thing to say.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
john mcphee
I mean, if we defunded the police, we'd be Mexico quicker than we thought.
joe rogan
Yeah, right, right.
john mcphee
Because the cartels would just drive over the border.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's real.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What do you think about this idea of using special forces, guys, to fight the cartels?
john mcphee
First and foremost, like, if you were like, yo, we're gonna wipe out a cartel tonight, I'd have been like, I'll load my frags extra careful, like, let's go, right?
But the reality is, is like...
I know all my buddies are like, yeah, we'll fuck them up in a night.
We'll fucking, yo, yo, fucking let's back up a fucking second here.
The cartels have fucking men.
They own the ground.
They have fucking technicals.
They have machine guns.
They have fucking everything an army has.
Right?
And they've had decades to train waiting for this.
Number two.
And number three, our government's fucking compromised.
So if you think they ain't gonna know you're coming...
You know what I mean?
I think you're fucking high.
Jesus Christ, that's a terrifying thought.
joe rogan
The government's so compromised, the cartel's gonna get the word out before...
john mcphee
Well, how are we gonna...
Look, we're not good at being fucking sneaky.
We're not the Israelis doing that fucking pager shit.
That pager shit was wild.
Yo, that needs to be the model for every fucking thing we do in the future.
joe rogan
No matter what you think about the Israelis, what's going on in Gaza, that pager shit was wild.
john mcphee
Which tells me America should go back to making its own fucking cell phones and its own...
We shouldn't have our fucking comms made overseas at all in any way, shape, or form, in my opinion.
joe rogan
No, I've been saying that forever.
We should have our own cell phones.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
And the fact that we're buying so much shit from China.
john mcphee
Fuck!
joe rogan
Especially after they banned Huawei because they know that Huawei stuff was compromised and they're having third party input and be able to spy on people.
It's fucking crazy.
john mcphee
Well, this is why we got to go back to making America like it used to be.
We made our own shit.
We use our own shit.
We wouldn't have to worry about none of this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a very strange thing, what's happening in this country, where China's allowed to buy land that's near military bases.
They supply cell phone towers.
They sell us all this different shit, and we don't really know.
I mean, I don't know how many experts are investigating these fucking cell phone towers.
john mcphee
Fucking zero, I bet.
Fucking zero.
joe rogan
Mike Baker was on here and he was telling me about how around military bases like China has installed their equipment in all these military bases.
Like at Formula One, where we were, my buddy owns the track and they found these Chinese boxes they had attached to the Wi-Fi.
So they were just scooping up everybody's data.
They called in Homeland Security to have them remove it and investigate it.
john mcphee
Fucking racetrack.
joe rogan
A racetrack!
But they knew everybody was going to be using this public Wi-Fi, probably no VPNs, probably no security, and these people are getting all their shit siphoned up.
john mcphee
Fuck.
joe rogan
They're so sophisticated in how they've infiltrated, it's fucking crazy.
john mcphee
And we just allow it to happen.
joe rogan
It's very strange, because you can't buy shit in China.
If you think you're an American company going to go over to China and operate with autonomy, you're out of your fucking mind.
You can't buy shit.
john mcphee
They'll never let an American- Never!
No, they don't want- Chinese would never buy communication devices from America.
joe rogan
No!
And they certainly would never let America buy farmland right next to their military bases.
They'd be like, fuck you!
We're like, sure, we'll sell it to you.
Are you going to pay more?
Oh boy.
We'll take your money.
It's weird.
It's weird how goofy we are.
john mcphee
I know.
I think it's this, Joe.
I think people don't realize how fucking dangerous the rest of the world is and how people are plotting against us.
It's fucking real out there.
The world is a crazy place.
I say this.
You don't know how fucking safe you got it here and how fucking great we got it here.
You know what I mean?
People don't know that because they don't never leave here, so they're stuck in their own fucking bad attitude of their own grind or whatever the fuck they do.
And like, look, I'm telling you the world is fucking evil.
People will fucking rape you, kill you.
No one gives a fuck.
Like, protect yourself all the time, man.
joe rogan
Well, you've been to parts of the world where you've seen this firsthand.
And I think it's one of those things where if you don't see it, you don't believe it.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I'll tell you one of the, I think the biggest thing I saw in Iraq.
I think in maybe 2009-ish, there was like the most fucking US soldiers.
Ever been in Iraq, right?
Like, whatever the numbers are, I don't fucking know, right?
But when Iraq had the most fucking soldiers it has ever had in Iraq is when Iraq was the safest.
Think about it.
You know what I mean?
All we had to do was put a fucking tank under every fucking overpass in every fucking neighborhood.
There's a machine gun and a fucking.50 cal Humvee, right?
Like, who's fucking around?
They're everywhere.
And that's the safest Iraq ever was.
I'm telling you, we have that here and people don't understand that in general.
So if you wanted to fund the police, fuck, man, we're fucked.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
Like, it's a crazy...
joe rogan
You know, do you know Evan, Evan Hafer?
john mcphee
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, Evan was, we were in elk camp and he was explaining some of the shit that he saw when he went from Iraq to Afghanistan.
He's like, Afghanistan is so fucked that you can't even comprehend it until you're there.
He goes, once you're there and you see it and you understand it, you become so cynical.
You're almost like, this culture is like unfixable.
And he's like, most people just don't know that a place like that exists.
That's so just down to its core.
So fucked.
And we was talking about how these guys have these boys that they have as their harem.
john mcphee
The number nine boy.
joe rogan
What's that?
john mcphee
That's what the Egyptian Special Forces called him, the number nine boy.
He's the boy that gets fucked.
joe rogan
Why number nine?
john mcphee
I don't know.
That's what the Egyptian Special Forces called him.
But every Afghanistan village had a fucking, what do they call it, the chogi boy or fucking something like that.
But basically, the 12-year-old that gets raped.
joe rogan
He was saying these guys have harems and they would parade them down the street to show they have the most boys.
john mcphee
Yeah, this happened to me on my...
So I did a solo mission in Afghanistan, the book Kill Bin Laden.
You ever hear of it?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
I brought a hardback for you.
joe rogan
Oh, nice.
john mcphee
I'll sign it for you if you want.
unidentified
Sure.
john mcphee
But it's hard to get a hardback.
It's like it's got library shit in it.
I had to buy it.
Because people always ask me to sign it.
I didn't write the book.
I'm just in it.
And people always ask me for a signature on it, right?
So I bought, like, I don't know, a family or friends, someone wanted one.
I bought, like, a lot from a library.
They didn't use them no more because they don't sell the hardbacks no more.
But I went out on a mission alone in Afghanistan.
I was gone 10 days.
First, I think, first successful mission of the war.
My opinion.
I don't know if there's other missions that were more successful than mine.
So I went out alone and then I do the recon.
I have the footage I need.
I have every fucking thing I need to launch a raid.
unidentified
We...
john mcphee
I'm alone.
We stop.
I'm in a fucking jingly truck, right?
Like, I fucking just...
I'm in this truck.
I hitchhiked, basically, from Jalalabad into the Tora Bora Mountains.
I'm in a jingly truck with this fucking driver.
joe rogan
What's a jingly truck?
john mcphee
You know, where they, like...
It's like a fucking, like, a six-wheel, like, dump truck.
But, like, they hang the chains and bells, and they paint it, like, 17 different bright colors, and they...
You never seen a jing?
Yeah!
Fucking jingly truck!
What is that?
It fucking jingles, man!
joe rogan
What the fuck is that?
john mcphee
Yeah, so I'm in one of these motherfuckers with this motherfucker, right?
He's like a logger.
He runs the valley.
He's always in the area.
But I don't know any of this.
I can't even talk to the guy.
I don't fucking speak shit.
You know what I mean?
It was fucking dangerous.
I had to go through checkpoints.
I had to act like a retard to get through a fucking checkpoint.
joe rogan
What did you do?
john mcphee
I was at a fucking checkpoint and the dude was like...
The checkpoints in Afghanistan are fucking sketch.
They got one piece of yarn across the road.
You better fucking stop or you will be shot.
They don't give a fuck about you.
And, like, so the car in front of us, I think the fucking, like, this dude, like, stole bread from a little kid.
You know what I mean?
Little kid was eating a piece of bread.
We just snatched it out of the fucking car, yelled at the people.
I thought he was going to shwack them because they didn't have anything to give him that he wanted.
So, I'm in this jingly truck, comes next, fucking AK in the chest.
unidentified
La, la, la, la, la, la, la.
john mcphee
Fuck, I don't know what the fuck he's saying, right?
But I know if I speak English, I'm dead.
So, not an option.
So, he's like yelling at me, right?
And then finally I just figured...
I'm going to do, like, volume level 12 and just fucking yell in his face, right?
So I just get super close to his face, which he didn't like.
And I'm like, no, no, no!
And the guy's like, what the fuck?
And then, like, backed up and then motioned, like, The motion, like, get the fuck through here with the AK. Wow.
Yeah.
joe rogan
So you just, on the spot, devised that.
john mcphee
Another one, I picked up, like, a dirty towel or blanket off the floor, and they took that.
But what I learned, being out alone, one of the things I learned is, you know, you watch the movies, and they pull out a wad of cash, and they're like, ah, wink, get me across the border there, friend.
These motherfuckers will just shoot you in the face and take everything you got.
Don't whip that shit out.
You're gonna get murdered.
They're just gonna take it all.
I mean, they'll steal bread from a fucking kid.
You think they give a fuck about your life?
You know what I mean?
And they just fucking throw you on the side of the road and let you rot.
Like, they don't even care about the smell.
So, like, yeah, I had to act like a retard through this one, man.
They don't give a fuck, man.
They don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
You just figured that out on the spot.
john mcphee
On the spot, yeah.
So, I get in the truck.
We do the recon.
I, like, had a, literally, I had a cigarette bag.
I think it's, like, Kent or some shit.
I don't fucking smoke, but, like, Kent cigarettes.
I had a plastic bag with my fucking sat phone.
Anyway, I had to get a camera out, get it under my arm, and I kind of filmed the house, right?
US eyes on.
And then I had to get the footage back.
So we get to the end of the valley.
It's fucking dark.
There's no way we can get out of the valley before light.
So we stop at this house and the driver's like, you know, motion us in, right?
It's the Muslim right of they can't turn you away, right?
So we go to this house.
We're in the room, bunch of old fucking grumpy men.
They don't fucking like me at all.
And the driver, I guess, goes there and crashes all the time when he's in the valley, right?
So this is normal for him to be here.
So in that room, they had this boy and they fucking drug him into another room and you could hear yelling and shit.
And I was just like, what the fuck do you do?
I have everything I need to pull off the first successful mission in Afghanistan for the American government.
Okay, do I save this kid and compromise my mission or do I just get the fuck out of here?
And pull this motherfucker off.
And the reality is I had to look the other way.
And I didn't like it, but...
So I took my speed.
You know, they give you speed.
I took my speed.
Stayed up.
Everyone went to bed.
They fed me dark opium tea.
They tried to put me down.
That's why I drank the tea anyway, knowing it was spiked.
And then I took my speed to kind of counteract it.
And then everyone went to bed.
I laid there just wide awake.
I just laid there wide awake like...
I fucking shut an eye.
These motherfuckers are going to cut my dick off and stick it in my mouth because that seems like what they like to do.
And then finally, the middle of the night, I fucking got my AK. I stuck it in the driver's face.
I drug him out to the truck like right before sunup and we fucking left the valley.
But like, you know, compromise the mission or save the kid.
What do you want?
What's it gonna be, man?
And then you just see this all over the place.
joe rogan
So you were one of the first guys to do these singleton missions.
john mcphee
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
So when they set you off to do something like that, what's the protocol?
unidentified
How do they even...
john mcphee
Good luck.
You know what I mean?
I don't know.
What do you think?
joe rogan
What do they say to you?
john mcphee
Well, back then it was that guy, Dalton Fury, right?
The guy who wrote Kill Bin Laden, was my commander.
And, okay, it's a long story.
I'm writing a book.
It's finished.
Maybe someone would want to publish it, but it's called The Singleton, and it's about my going out alone.
But...
I was at my base.
I was in Asadabad.
And we were just getting rocketed and mortared every day.
It's kind of like mortar bait, whatever.
And then we had like fucking zero lickies and chewies.
No fucking candy, no beef jerky, no fucking Pop-Tarts, no fucking nothing, right?
And we're just sucking it up and like, I gotta eat fucking these Afghan motherfuckers cook us food and like, I'm eating vegetables.
I don't even know what the fuck that vegetable was.
I don't even recognize it as a vegetable.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I know that's fucking goat because it tastes horrible, but I don't know what the fucking, I don't even know what the fuck they cook me.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
john mcphee
It's like, anyway.
So I go to my boss and I'm like, yo, hey.
I want to fucking go to the main base, right, and steal Pogi from the fucking chow hall.
What's Pogi?
Pogi bait is a term for, like, beef jerky, snacks, candy, cookies, like, any kind of, like, snack food, right?
So, and my boss is like...
Yeah, if you schedule the airplanes, you make all the coordinations, you can go.
I was like, fucking bet, man.
I fucking scheduled the helicopter.
Like, motherfuckers, you don't know how resourceful I can be.
You know what I mean?
So I scheduled everything for the next night.
And then, like, I drove my—I had a red Toyota truck.
I drove my Toyota truck in the back of the Chinook, right?
So tight in there, you can't even get out.
You got to just sit there, hope you ain't got to piss.
They fly me to the main base, fucking land, driving the main base.
By this time, the army's taking over, where you gotta fucking salute on fucking the army base in Afghanistan like two weeks ago, like a fucking SAS guy lost a leg in a landmine, you know?
So I go to the base, and then the commander sees me, and he's with his sergeant major, another guy, and they're like, this is our fucking guy right here.
So like, hey, what are you doing?
And I'm like, about to raid the chow hall.
Like, what the fuck does it look like I'm doing?
You know what I mean?
Like, if it's one thing, I'm honest, right?
So I was like, yeah, I'm getting pokey for the fucking, for our base.
Like, what's up?
And they're like, hey, we got a mission for you.
And I told them, hey, I'll do it, right?
But you just got to tell my, ask my boss if it's all right, because I didn't work for these guys.
And they're like, okay, cool.
They're in my squadron, but like, not my direct boss, right?
So they call my boss.
My boss says, fine.
And they sit me in this room and they're like, hey, we want you to go out alone.
And I'm like, okay.
And they're like, explain everything to me.
We want you to go out alone.
Like, do you have any questions?
And I was like, my only question was, and it wasn't a question.
I looked the commander in the eye and I said, tell me you're going to cover my ass if something goes wrong.
And he was like, uh, oh yeah, we'll cover you.
Like, yo, you could have gave a fucking better man up with that answer, you know what I mean?
Like, you know what I mean?
He gives this like weak answer and I'm just thinking, well fuck man, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
So what were they telling you they wanted you to do?
john mcphee
Go out alone, US eyes on, get footage of this guy at his house so we could launch, right?
Because the generals back then weren't in line with Bush's dead or alive, and I believe the Pentagon was a bigger hindrance in the beginning of the war than they were worth.
How so?
Well, the general at the time that was in charge of us, our task force, right, and we're talking about tier one, like, the guy in charge then had, like, two rules.
Number one, you can leave the wire if you get USIs on a target.
Okay?
joe rogan
Okay.
john mcphee
And number two, no one leaves the wire.
Okay.
Well, how the fuck are we going to do number one if we can't leave?
Figure it out.
So, the commander, I was, because I was...
joe rogan
When you say, leave the wire, what do you mean exactly?
john mcphee
Like, go out hunting for bad guys.
Leave your base.
You know what I'm saying?
Go out in combat.
joe rogan
But you can't leave your base.
john mcphee
But you can leave the base.
But you got to get these eyes on to launch a target.
So you got to get your recon guys out there doing reconnaissance because we need these reconnaissance and US eyes on to hit these targets.
Okay, we want to launch reconnaissance.
Yeah, no one leaves a wire.
That's kind of how it worked, man, right?
So the reason they use me is according to the army, the army at every level is great at accountability.
100% we need to know where everyone is at all times, right?
So when I flew to the other base, I was in transit, right?
So they left me in transit for a week.
So instead of saying I left the wire, I was just in transit because I was in transit anyway to go get Pop-Tarts.
unidentified
Wow.
john mcphee
So they lied to everybody, left me my staff.
And I didn't know this at the time.
Like, this could have mattered less to me.
I learned later, you know.
But they paperwork-nutshelled the general and sent out reconnaissance, and that was me.
unidentified
Wow.
john mcphee
And then they came back with the eyes on, and the general agreed to launch the mission, and it was a success.
And no one asked, how the fuck did someone leave the wire?
Because no one cared, because we were successful.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
So what are you thinking when you're out there doing this?
Like, what is going through your head when you agree to do this?
john mcphee
Fuck.
Figure the fuck out.
I don't fucking know.
I'm not trying to have anything in my head right now.
joe rogan
But that's what's crazy.
It's like, they just let you figure it out.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
So you have to feel very vulnerable.
john mcphee
Um, I don't know.
I wouldn't say vulnerable, Joe, but I do think this is, like, there's guys that, like, fucking make it happen.
You probably got guys like this.
Any task you give a guy is just like, wait, you're done with that already?
Like...
joe rogan
Some people can just make shit happen.
john mcphee
And then I'm one of those guys.
That's, like, one of my better qualities.
Make it happen.
So, like, fucking go make it happen, motherfucker.
joe rogan
Go act like a retard when you get pulled over.
john mcphee
Hey, man, do what you gotta do, baby.
Like, fucking survival of the fittest.
joe rogan
So, the problem is, once you do one of these, now you're the guy that can go do these things.
john mcphee
Yeah, and I did hundreds in Iraq.
I fucking loved it.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
He loved it.
unidentified
He loved being alone, man.
john mcphee
Fuck that.
Okay, think about this, Joe.
And you do jujitsu when you fight, right?
You want to depend on yourself or you want to depend on yourself and people you don't know what the fuck they're made of.
Who the fuck are you going to trust?
joe rogan
You're gonna trust yourself.
john mcphee
Right?
So it wasn't really a big stretch for me to be alone.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Yeah, I do, but it's still a very unusual mindset.
john mcphee
Yeah, maybe.
I don't know.
And then my other mindset is like, no matter where I am, no matter what I do, everyone in a 25-yard radius is gonna fucking die just so I can make it home.
And if I had to kill everyone in the whole village, goddamn right, everyone in that fucking village would be dead for me to come home.
So I just figured, yo, fucking be ready to fight at all times.
I learned 100 to 1 lessons learned, leadership lessons, 100 to 1 being alone versus being a pack of 30 motherfuckers.
Like, yo, let us come ram this down your fucking throat and we'll call it Tuesday.
You know what I mean?
Where when I was alone, like...
You gotta make better decisions.
You're a fucking coyote.
You're a ghost.
You know, you gotta make ghost decisions.
The fucking, you know, the bravado, like, we're gonna kill everybody.
The fuck we are.
We're not gonna fire a shot.
Why?
Because, like, you fire one shot as a singleton, you better be ready to kill everybody.
Because gunshots is a fucking dinner bell for psychos, you know what I mean?
So, are you ready?
You know what I mean?
And the reality is, like, I had to think of other shit, do other shit, had to act like a retard, you know?
And I had to get along with people.
I had to do so much shit that is out of, like, even the commando norm as a singleton, you know?
joe rogan
And there's no one that can really teach you this.
john mcphee
Fuck.
I mean, no.
Like, fuck.
joe rogan
I mean, I don't fucking know.
You can teach a guy how to breach an airplane.
john mcphee
Right.
joe rogan
How the fuck are you going to teach a guy to act like a retard if you get pulled over?
How are you going to teach a guy to be a singleton and do a lot of these missions?
john mcphee
Well, we used to tell guys, and I used to tell my guys all the time, and this is a unit thing, but, like, I could train a monkey to shoot.
I'm training you to think.
I don't care about the shooting because if you're thinking right, the shooting will be easy.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
But yeah, man, I'll tell you, I thought about writing a leadership book, calling it the singleton and just kind of the lessons I learned, you know, like so few guys have done that, you know, like I see all these like, you know, I don't know.
I don't look at the Internet.
I don't watch the news.
I don't do any of that.
I don't do social media.
I have it.
I don't fucking look at it.
I don't have it on my phone.
It's not worth my sanity.
So I'm like a fuckin' time capsule for fuckin' the 2000s, you know what I mean?
And like, I never understood some of these other, like, veteran stories, you know?
I never, I never kinda, look, the lone survivor, I never understood the full story, cause I went out alone all the time!
That shit didn't happen to me, motherfuckin' seven Taliban on my ass!
You wanna see seven fuckin' bodies super quick?
You know what I'm sayin'?
Bring them boys up here, you know?
So, I never really fucking understood some of these other stories because I had such a different experience.
I can't fathom if I was with five, you know, the times I was with five guys, you know how many people, I mean, I was with three guys, you know how many people we killed in the Battle of Tora Bora?
Fucking hundreds.
I just stopped counting on my first day.
So, having said that, I don't understand some of these stories because I had the experience I had.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
It's a very unusual experience.
How many guys were singletons?
john mcphee
Fuck, I don't know any.
joe rogan
You don't know any?
john mcphee
I mean, a couple of my buddies, but not like me.
Wow.
Yeah, and then once I did it, it was kind of my lot in life.
joe rogan
How many pages is this book that you wrote?
john mcphee
I don't know, like fucking 20 chapters.
I wrote a big book.
joe rogan
It seems like it'd have to be like 500 fucking pages.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
I can't wait to read that book.
john mcphee
Shameless plug if you know anybody who buys books.
joe rogan
Someone needs to buy that book, 100%.
Yeah, we'll get that book sold.
We'll get that book sold, 100%.
I need to read that book right now.
john mcphee
I'll give it to you.
I'll text it to you.
joe rogan
Okay.
john mcphee
I'll text it to you today.
For real.
I'll text it to you.
I'm done with it.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
No, I know you.
john mcphee
I think it's as good as I could get it, and I'm just a regular—I'm in a Chicago public school system.
Fuck, I didn't even take a book home because if the school loses the books, they can't teach.
So it was like half my class was in the book, and the other half was homework, and you left the books in class.
So, like, I didn't have homework.
joe rogan
No, it's probably better because you're going to get it, like, from you with no gloss.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
No bullshit.
john mcphee
Which leads me to Iraq, where I did hundreds of solo missions.
I was a taxi driver.
I had like, I don't know, fucking 30, 50 vehicles in Iraq.
joe rogan
So once they realized you can do this, like, oh, call McPhee.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Well, no, it was just kind of my thing.
You don't have to call me.
Just tell me what you need.
joe rogan
Wow.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
I mean, my bosses knew how to use me like that.
joe rogan
So you started enjoying the craziness of it.
john mcphee
I loved being alone.
joe rogan
Why did you love it so much?
john mcphee
I don't know.
I hate to say this, but, like, guys like me are generally fucking assholes.
Like, you've met a few guys like me, and they're like, yeah, I was afraid someone would get away.
Like, shut the fuck up, man.
God damn it.
You know what I mean?
Like, so, not really a fan of a lot of, like, alpha males.
They can be dicks at times.
So, like, yeah, it kind of set me down my path, is I just stayed away from the dicks and did my own thing.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Right.
So you just had, you had your mission, and you enjoyed the fact that it was all up to you.
john mcphee
And I didn't have to fuck with no one else.
It's on my timeline fucking, and I will make this happen.
Like, I will make shit happen that other people can't.
I don't know how, I don't know why, but I just will.
joe rogan
That is such a wild experience.
Like, your experience in war must be so different than everybody else's just because of that.
john mcphee
Yeah.
So, having said that, we're talking about Iraq.
I brought some show-and-tell items.
joe rogan
What'd you bring?
john mcphee
I brought something I have never fucking shown before.
joe rogan
What do you got?
john mcphee
And I believe it's fucking evil.
You wanna see it?
joe rogan
Yeah, I do.
What is it?
john mcphee
I gotta get it out of my box.
joe rogan
Oh, you got a box.
john mcphee
Yeah, I brought a box.
joe rogan
I'm kinda scared.
What's that?
john mcphee
Hey, can you Google Saddam Hussein Mauser?
joe rogan
This is his hat?
unidentified
Yeah.
Jesus.
john mcphee
It's the one where he shoots the Mauser in the air at the fucking parade grounds.
I was given that to by his tailor.
unidentified
Wow.
john mcphee
Yeah, that one.
The liner fell out.
The liner's in here.
Look.
You can see what kind of hat it is.
The glue fell out of the liner, but look.
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
That's fucking crazy.
john mcphee
I rolled up his tailor.
And all his butlers.
Anybody who touched his ass fed him or touched his dick.
I fucking rolled them motherfuckers up.
unidentified
Wow.
john mcphee
Saddam was captured nine days after I left.
I had to leave for Christmas.
joe rogan
This is crazy.
This was on his head, now it's here.
unidentified
Yeah.
Wow.
john mcphee
Yeah.
But it's a Piccadilly fox fur hat.
I also have a sweater.
I took a...
I had all his clothes, like...
Man, fuck, I had everything that guy had.
But, yeah, his tailor.
Okay, so Saddam's inner circle, right?
When I was working Saddam, we were working a Saddam piece, right?
Some fucking legendary hits that no one's ever fucking talked about, like...
We did the cleverest shit fucking during Saddam.
And I will tell you this, is I learned on my fucking singleton mission in Afghanistan, the first one, we need to be a lot fucking smarter if we want to crush these motherfuckers.
And I'm not talking like, we captured two bad guys.
I'm talking we go in, kill everyone needs to be killed, capture everyone that needs to be captured.
And fucking do this right, right?
So, yeah, with the Saddam piece, right, his tailor and his butlers and Saddam's inner circle was all Christians.
Fucking every one of them was a Christian.
And Saddam believed.
That Christians, if they martyr themselves, go to hell.
Muslims martyred themselves, you go to heaven.
So he surrounded himself with fucking Christians.
So his tailor, his butlers, his jawalas, all those guys, they're fucking washing his ass, feeding this motherfucker.
We're all Christians.
And it's why Christians flourished in Iraq, which, you know, like, I'd like to, I'd hope all these guys are still alive, but the reality is, is like, ISIS probably fucking got rid of them after Saddam's gone, you know?
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
ISIS killed so many fucking Christians, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
unidentified
But they were all Christians.
And then I met the tailor and started talking to the tailor.
And so his I it started with the ex ambassador, excuse me, to the U.S.
john mcphee
And then one day he brought this hat and he brought some clothes.
And I was like, what was this?
And he told me this is the one where he shot the Mauser.
And he had some clothes.
I grabbed a sweater.
I wear this sweater on Christmas Eve.
And then...
Hey, when I was fatter, it's like a fucking halter top.
My belly fat's hanging out.
You know, my family's like, I don't know.
I think I'm nuts.
But I normally wear that sweater on Christmas.
I forgot to bring it or I had to brought it.
Wow.
Yeah, now that I lost weight, I think I'm actually Saddam's size.
You know what I'm saying?
It's spooky.
You know what I'm saying?
I ended up being the same size.
I could have wore all those clothes, you know what I mean?
unidentified
Wow.
john mcphee
But yeah, they were Christians, right?
And we rolled up the tailor.
The tailor gave up a butler.
Me and another guy were at the tailor's house, right?
And we were going to snatch this guy, right?
This butler.
And the butler is the guy who used to wash Saddam.
Like, he bathed Saddam every fucking day.
joe rogan
So Saddam had someone bathe him.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
He didn't bathe himself.
john mcphee
No.
Crazy, right?
Yeah, weird.
But he had a lot of, but they were all Christians.
And they were all, honestly, they were all fucking nice people, to be fair.
Like, all the Christians were great people.
Anyway, yeah, so I'm in the house with another guy, and the guy's early.
So we fucking shoot up on the roof.
The guy comes.
I call my guys.
They're not really in place yet.
So he comes, he leaves, he only stays a minute, and he's gone.
You know what I mean?
And I think all these inner circle Saddam folks know they were valuable to us.
And they realized they were gonna get snatched at some time, so he was out, right?
I called my guys, right?
And then literally my guys were like two blocks away.
As he was leaving, he ran into their Humvee.
He ran into my guys.
And they're like, hey, this guy just ran into us in this vehicle.
I'm like, that's the dude.
joe rogan
He got in an accident?
john mcphee
Yeah, he ran into our guys in a Humvee.
He was trying to drive away and crashed into the guys that were going to snatch him.
joe rogan
Wow.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
I'll tell you another Saddam story.
This is one of my favorites.
Saddam had, like, regular pieces of ass.
And, like, his favorite piece of ass was this butterface lady...
for him but she wasn't a looker you know what I mean so like look and feel are different things Saddam knew what felt right to him obviously and she was married and we wanted to get to her I mean maybe Saddam's favorite sex partner wouldn't know where he is right Right.
Um, so we have the tailor, the tailor knows who he is.
So we have the tailor kind of invite him to the tailor stop shop.
This tailor had a store in downtown Baghdad.
So he comes in the store and, uh, I told my guys, if he doesn't come out quick to, uh, I had a couple, um, I don't know what they're called now.
Mohawks, I think is what they call the Iraqi counter terror guys.
Before they were even established, the guys were with us.
So we had a couple of those guys.
And I have them start fighting in front of the store.
So literally, everyone piles on in the street to see these guys fighting.
Everyone piles out of all the shops, stores, and everyone's watching these two guys fight.
Literally, the guy we're looking for walks up to see the fight, and his back is to the van door of the guys that are going to snatch him.
unidentified
Wow.
john mcphee
So I call him, I'm like, yo, you see that tall guy?
That's our guy.
Fucking snatch him.
And no shit, van door.
Van door fucking opens.
Nobody even knew where the fucking guy went.
The tailor later was like, where did he go?
Did you take?
Who took him?
Where did this guy go?
Where is this man at?
You know what I mean?
Like, no one even seen him get snatched, right?
joe rogan
That's such a clever idea.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Have two guys fight in front.
john mcphee
And then later, my boss was like, who are those guys fighting?
I was like, it's our boys.
And he was like, wait, did you do that?
And I was like, I didn't want to be there for like six hours.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, how do we speed this up?
We got shit to do today.
Like, you know what I mean?
That's my efficiency is my thing.
joe rogan
That's genius.
john mcphee
Yeah.
That's one of the...
And we did so much...
Hey, alright, I'll tell you another one.
My first Saddam hit...
I worked a lot of intel side for Saddam, me and a couple other guys.
So we worked somewhere not with our squadron, and we worked with another government agency.
Make sense?
So we get to call, the squadron's doing a hit.
There's a Saddam sighting, right?
So this is like the beginning, like 2003 Iraq.
we were fucking Ken blocking it with fucking maps, like hit the third traffic circle, go out on the nine o'clock.
Like literally I get us to fucking Ken blocking, fucking navigating through a fucking shitty Baghdad fucking street map.
I get us to the fucking target, right?
Humvees are already there.
The rest of the guys are already there.
Rangers got the blocking positions all set up.
So we get there, we raid the house, right?
We get all these guys.
And then finally, there was like no fucking shit, Joe.
There was like, I don't know, 15 motherfuckers.
It was like a Saddam lookalike fucking contest.
They all had the mustache.
There's like short, fat Saddams.
There's like tall, skinny Saddams.
So you're body doubles.
Well, I don't know if it was body doubles.
joe rogan
They just all looked like them.
john mcphee
Yeah, because, like, the Saddam look was popular.
The mustache.
I mean, not that they all look the same, but they kind of all look the same, you know, from my perspective at the time, right?
So, like, it was like, well, no wonder someone called this in.
It's fucking like, they all look like Saddam, you know what I mean?
And then, on the outside, like...
Fuck, man.
The Rangers shot up these vehicles at the blocking position.
I have my squad.
My Sergeant Major was like, hey, go fucking clean up the bodies.
And I'm like, why the fuck am I on brains detail?
I didn't fucking shoot nobody today.
And he's like, you're the only one with a regular pickup truck that could haul the bodies.
And I'm like, fucker, I already thought it through.
This is why this guy's the boss.
You know what I mean?
And then...
Lesson learned that day is, you know, like in Iraq, you just drink water out of bottles and then throw them in your truck.
Man, we were loading bodies in.
There's fucking 100 water bottles in the back of the bed.
Someone just come by the bed of the truck and throw an empty water bottle in, like at the house or whatever, right?
And like, I'm throwing bodies and fucking shit in the back of my truck and there's like bloody water bottles squirting everywhere.
It's a fucking mess, man.
So...
I learned that day, like, my vehicles are always clean.
Always fucking clean, man.
From that day on.
But, like, it's a fucking mess.
And then, man, they shot up this fucking, this old man, this old lady.
Like, they ran the checkpoint.
They were about, they were about to hit the Humvee with the Rangers.
So the kid shot at the driver.
But, like, the kids didn't, the Rangers back then didn't know as much as Rangers know now.
You know what I'm saying?
And the kid shot the warning shots at the driver, but he hit the brakes.
And the fucking vehicle will never stop if you shoot the brakes.
I don't know if you know that.
And it fucking hit the Humvee at like fucking 40 miles an hour, broke the transmission, and I had to clean up the bodies.
I had to set up an HLZ, take them later to the HLZ, you know what I mean?
It was my first Saddam raid in Iraq, and it was my first experience in Iraq with the Rangers, and that day I was fucking fed up with them.
There's some young fucking 18-year-old kid medic in the back of the truck, and I'm like, hey, fucking give these people morphine.
He's like, I'm not supposed to give the enemy morphine, Sergeant.
You know what I mean?
I'm like, yo, does anyone look like a fucking enemy to you here?
Anyone fighting you in the back of the truck?
Then there is no fucking enemies here, bud.
Fucking give these people some drugs so, like, at least we ain't got to fucking hear them moan and shit.
You know what I mean?
And, like, the kid, like, I had to force him to, like, fucking be humane.
You know what I mean?
Because he was just trying to follow orders.
Later, they'd be so much better, right?
But...
Beginning of the war, that was my first Saddam hit, you know what I mean?
And I was just thinking, fucking this is gonna be awesome, man.
That kid was shooting down the street with a 50 cal.
Like, imagine just the fucking city street in Austin, right?
And you're parked in the middle of the road, and you just shoot with a 50 cal off the top of a Humvee, you know, like eight feet off the ground.
Through those tracer rounds would skip down the road.
It was breaking glass fucking going through cars fucking, you know 500 yards down the road like people scattered Like it's amazing, you know, wow 50 cows amazing You know what I mean?
joe rogan
And then I had a fucking pick up guts well, this is the fucked up thing about it is like I You went through all this chaos.
You're uniquely qualified for chaos for some strange reason.
unidentified
Love.
john mcphee
Chaos is my jam, man.
As soon as this gets confusing, yo, I got this.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
But why is that?
john mcphee
I don't fucking know.
It seems to be what I do best.
Yeah, I think so.
joe rogan
Is that something that, like...
You accumulated this mindset over time?
I don't know.
Or did you just always have it?
john mcphee
I think it was beaten to me.
joe rogan
Really?
john mcphee
Yeah, like, think about it.
When I was a kid, the house was chaotic.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
unidentified
Right.
john mcphee
You learn the chaos.
joe rogan
Right.
And then it's just, you're designed for that.
Bring glass in case of war.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I guess so.
I don't know.
I think I'm a normal guy, but people tell me I'm not.
unidentified
It's not normal.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, I understand you.
I understand you.
It's not normal, but I understand you.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I mean, like, look, I just feel like, okay, we're all going to die.
I'm not going to let it ruin my day.
I've been through bad shit.
I'm not the fucking victim.
I've done bad shit.
I'm not the fucking bad guy.
You know what I'm saying?
And then having said that, it's like, I don't know, man.
I think it affects everybody differently.
But I think, you know, before I retired...
I was burned out.
I didn't know I was burned out.
I was an asshole every day.
Fucking guys would come into my office.
What do you want?
Yeah, too slow.
Get the fuck out.
When you know what you want, come back.
unidentified
The guy would be like, okay, Sergeant Major.
joe rogan
Well, you were operating at 10. Always.
unidentified
Always.
john mcphee
Yeah.
And then I learned, man, I was having a lot.
I fucking hated my life.
I was miserable.
I hated being a Sergeant Major.
I hated being Army management, is what I called it.
I'm not a leader.
I'm not a follower.
I'm not a soldier.
I'm fucking army management, and that shit is fucking dry, fucking toast.
You know what I'm saying?
And I just got out of fucking Baghdad in 06, fucking killing people.
Like, 06 was a great year, you know?
And then I gotta sit on the fucking staff and do this shit.
Like, it's just fucking killing me, Joe.
And then, so, like, I wasn't a very good star major, so I realized one day, like, Man, I think I used to be funny.
Like, you know, like when I was a kid, like, I'd catch that beating.
If I could say that one fucking smart-ass comment to you, I might get beat more, but I fucking said my piece.
You know what I mean?
Even as a little kid, I'll take the beating to fucking call you an asshole.
Right.
So, like, I kind of maybe had that mindset going into it or something.
You know what I mean?
But, yeah, man, I just think, like...
I think a lot of it just goes back to my childhood and being able to manage the chaos.
One minute we're fighting, the next minute, you know, someone's at the front door.
Like, go answer.
joe rogan
The crazy thing about it is, like, if you are, you're running any branch of the military and you're asking a lot of people to find someone like you, that you can find someone who doesn't just accept this but thrives on it.
That's, like, try recreating that in a lab.
john mcphee
Fuck.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
How do you make that?
You can't?
unidentified
I don't know.
john mcphee
I've only seen, like, I don't know, in my experience of all the guys I know and all the combat I've seen, I'd say there's, like, just, I mean, you know, we're not the common guys.
You know what I mean?
Maybe a dozen in my life.
joe rogan
You guys on a group chat?
john mcphee
Fuck no.
Fuck, now you don't talk to nobody.
You know what I mean?
You'll never know who they are.
They ain't fucking talking to you, me, fucking nobody.
You know what I mean?
I maybe know a dozen of those guys.
Eight probably still work for the dark side of the government as old men, wherever that is.
And the other guys are like raising families and don't want you fucking with them.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
They don't do shit like this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
Guys like me don't do shit like this.
joe rogan
But the thing about it is, if you didn't talk about it, people wouldn't know.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like, I think it's great that you talk about it.
I think it's important.
I think people need to...
I mean, people need to...
You know, we're trying to, like, fill in an understanding of the world.
And until you've talked to someone who's experienced a part of the world in a way that no one else has...
You don't know that that's a thing.
john mcphee
Right.
joe rogan
Like the fact that you can come and talk about this is a very good thing for everybody.
john mcphee
Thank you.
joe rogan
Because people will be able to see like, okay, like this is super complicated.
Like the whole thing was super complicated.
And to have a guy that could talk about navigating probably the most complicated aspect of this super complicated thing and to actually thrive in it.
It's very strange.
john mcphee
Thank you.
I still think I'm normal, Joe.
I think I'm a regular guy.
joe rogan
You're definitely not normal.
But like I said, I understand you.
john mcphee
Thanks, man.
joe rogan
I get it.
john mcphee
But yeah, man.
And look, I got some more items.
You want to see something else I've never showed off?
So I talk about stories in some of my videos about being a taxi driver.
I also had another vehicle.
That was an Uday Kusei secret police vehicle.
So when I drive this vehicle downtown, like, the fucking sea would part.
The road could be packed.
And I'm driving my vehicle and people just...
joe rogan
What kind of vehicle was it?
john mcphee
It was like a Maxima, a Nissan Maxima, but it's what the Uday secret police drove.
You know what I'm saying?
And then they carried these, and I'll show you.
Check this out.
joe rogan
Whoa.
unidentified
Whoa.
john mcphee
So, the lion is the Babylon lion, and that's the symbol of the Republican Guard.
But I used to carry that as a taxi driver, and when I'd get out of the taxi, people would see that fucking gun and just fucking walk away.
unidentified
Wow.
john mcphee
And that's what the Republican Guard rocked, those silver guns.
I say it's a pearl handle, but it's like plastic.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's plastic.
john mcphee
Yeah, there's nothing fancy about it.
joe rogan
But specific to them.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
Let's say on there.
john mcphee
Yeah, I had a guy make it for me.
unidentified
Oh, elk ribble tool handle.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Bozeman, Montana.
john mcphee
There's only so many guys that'll do AKs.
You know what I mean?
You want a silver AK? What are you, the cartel?
No, get the fuck out of here.
You're not serious about guns.
You know how many fucking no's I had to collect up?
Anyway, that's my Republican guard.
That's my taxi driver gun.
joe rogan
So you had that made specifically because you knew that they carried that?
john mcphee
No, I captured that on the battlefield and carried it in Iraq.
joe rogan
So that is one, but why does it say Bozeman, Montana?
john mcphee
Because, well, because, okay, so if you bring one home, you get fired.
But what I did, what I did is I took the hand guard and the pistol grip, and then I had a guy make a copy of what I had.
unidentified
Oh.
john mcphee
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
john mcphee
So it's, I mean, it's legal and everything.
joe rogan
So the handguard and the pistol grip is from the original gun.
john mcphee
Right.
But that's exactly what the original gun looked like.
Wow.
Look, when you're in the Defoe, like, you want to get fired for bringing back an AK? Right.
You know what I mean?
Dumb.
You know what I mean?
It's not worth the risk, right?
But it's like, hey, can I bring this handguard back?
The fuck you want that garbage for?
That's a yes.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
john mcphee
And then it took me a while to get, but yeah, that guy built it for me.
joe rogan
Wow.
john mcphee
It kind of matches the hat.
Everybody I know likes to take a picture with that and the hat.
So it's kind of popular.
Yeah, the hat's been in Texas here for a very long time.
Been stored in Texas.
Got it documented about as much as possible as I can.
joe rogan
I don't know.
john mcphee
You know anybody that might want it?
joe rogan
What, you were selling it?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I bet somebody would want that.
john mcphee
I don't want it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't want to keep that in my house.
john mcphee
No, fuck no, Joe.
Why do you think I keep it in a black fucking box, man?
Yeah, I don't want it.
But I know there is people out there that would treat it better than me.
I crammed it in a box.
And the guy that stored it for me put it in glass.
You know what I mean?
He kind of knew what he was doing.
Actually, I had it stuffed in a bag.
joe rogan
You know what that would be good for?
Zach Bagan's Haunted Museum in Vegas.
john mcphee
Have you ever been to that?
Do you know Zach?
No.
I hear that place is fucking creepy.
unidentified
It's creepy.
john mcphee
My brother said it was fucking creepy.
joe rogan
It's fucking creepy.
john mcphee
And my brother likes creepy shit and he was freaked out.
joe rogan
Oh, he's got everything in that place.
He's got a Kevorkian's van where he killed old people.
john mcphee
He's got the Camaro from fucking the Waco.
What's Koresh?
Does he?
I don't think so.
I thought he bought the Camaro from Koresh.
You were going to buy it?
No, I was going to buy that Camaro.
unidentified
No, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That Camaro was for sale.
john mcphee
Wasn't the serial number like I Am God or something?
unidentified
Was it?
john mcphee
Wasn't that the serial number?
joe rogan
It's a 68 Camaro and it was for sale.
And I came that close to pulling the trigger on it.
But I was like, I don't want that fucking bad juju in my life.
That's it.
68 Camaro from Deadly Siege.
Zach Beggins.
Oh!
So he bought it.
So Zach bought it.
john mcphee
He's the one selling it, I think.
joe rogan
Oh, he's selling it now.
So he got it.
It was for sale.
jamie vernon
23, this was from a year...
joe rogan
No, it was for sale quite a while ago, and I was gonna buy it.
Holy shit.
Somebody emailed me and told me that they know I love old muscle cars, and they said Koresh's Camaro's for sale.
I was like, ooh, and I went like this, let me buy it.
Then I was like, no, the fuck am I gonna do with this?
john mcphee
Yeah.
Yeah, I'd rather buy one that has no history.
joe rogan
Yeah, I have a 69. I love them.
I love old muscle cars, so I was thinking about it.
But I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't want that in your life.
john mcphee
I had a 67 Camaro when I was a kid.
joe rogan
Look at the title.
David Koresh, Waco, Texas.
john mcphee
Jesus Christ.
Does the serial number say I am God or something?
joe rogan
No, it seems normal.
Look at the VIN numbers, normal.
It's a normal VIN number.
Fucking crazy asshole.
That guy, I, when, you know, you went to the mothership last night?
john mcphee
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I was gonna buy another building before that that was run by a cult, and they moved out here.
It was called, I forget what the...
What was the name?
The Bodhi Tree?
Is that what it's called?
Anyway, there's a documentary on it.
It's called Holy Hell.
So this guy, he was a yoga teacher in West Hollywood.
And he was a gay porn star and a hypnotist.
So this fucking guy...
john mcphee
He got a lot of ass.
joe rogan
So the Bodhi Field, that's it.
Thank you.
So...
Waco goes off, right?
And then the Cult Awareness Network starts investigating him, and he's running this cult in West Hollywood.
So he escapes in the middle of the night and drives out to Texas, moves to Austin, tells everybody, come here.
And they all move out to Austin, and then he has them build this place.
It's called the One World Theater.
And all the cult members ran this place for years until they figured out that this guy was fucking everybody.
One guy sends out a mass email saying, hey, this guy's been hypnotizing me and buttfucking me for the last 10 years.
And everybody's like, me too!
So then they all find out that he's fucking everybody, this guy.
So they all leave.
The cult falls apart.
The building's for sale.
So I swoop in.
When I move here, the building's for sale.
Ron White tells me about the building being for sale.
He's like, this building's fucking awesome.
I performed there.
You should buy it.
So Ron White's my hero.
So I'm like, I'll buy it.
Fuck it.
We're going to open up a comedy club.
Let's open it up in this place.
All sorts of problems with the building, cold, this, that, a lot of environmental, a lot of shit.
So I get out of it.
But I bought the building before I watched the documentary.
So I watched the documentary and I'm like, oh no!
Same thing.
It's like these fucking people, all the lives lost.
They lived 20 years.
These poor people wasted 20 years of their life following this fucking asshole.
And he's got this building.
But the reason why he bought the building was because of Waco.
So when Waco pops off, they were like, oh, geez, these cults are fucking dangerous.
So the Cult Awareness Network starts going after everybody.
So this guy moves here and changes his name.
Because back then, you could kind of change, no internet.
john mcphee
Yeah, you could do that.
joe rogan
You could kind of change your name and know, oh, it's a different guy.
And so he has all his followers build him this theater.
So for a brief period of time, I was under contract for that theater.
john mcphee
Did you go in there building?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
john mcphee
Was it creepy in there?
joe rogan
It was a little weird.
This guy would like, he had this theater, this beautiful theater.
He had it built so he could dance in front of his followers, so he could perform in front of his followers.
He was a weird cat.
He was like a really handsome guy when he was younger, but then as he got older, he started getting plastic surgery and looked real weird.
And he would, like, be thinking about getting something done, so he'd force one of his followers to go get it done.
And so they'd get it done, they'd come back with their fucking cheeks, and they'd be like, hmm, I kinda like that.
And then he would go and get the surgery done.
At the end of it, the end of the documentary, he looks really fucking weird.
Because he's got Botox and fucking cheek and all weird shit to his face.
Yeah, but the feeling in the building was just like of loss.
That's what it felt like, loss.
Loss.
Just, oh no.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like you don't want to buy a house from some people that went bankrupt and they lost everything and their family fell apart and then you're in the house like, ooh.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
This house feels like sadness.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
I felt like we could burn some sage and fucking party in there for a few days.
We'll clean it up.
john mcphee
Get some good energy.
joe rogan
But now I'm glad.
I'm glad that that didn't happen.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
Why even go through that?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it was kind of funny at first.
I thought it was funny.
Until I found, you know, a cult owned it.
Oh, this is funny.
And then my buddy Adam called me up and goes, hey, did you watch a documentary on that cult?
I was like, oh no.
john mcphee
There's a documentary?
joe rogan
That's never good.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
They don't make documentaries about the good cults.
john mcphee
No.
joe rogan
And it was horrible.
At the end of the documentary, you're tearing up.
You're like, oh, these poor fucking people.
Some people are just gullible, and they're not bad people.
They just want someone better than them to tell them how to live life.
john mcphee
That's all it is.
They need something.
joe rogan
They need someone.
They're missing something, whatever it is.
Something went wrong, and they're willing to believe a lot of really ridiculous shit.
And then 20 years later, they realize they've wasted their life.
john mcphee
People do a lot of weird shit, call it religion.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm exactly.
Yeah, yeah, and that was this place.
Yeah, but That was because of Waco that this this guy built this thing.
Yeah Damn the Waco things fucked you ever watched the the raid?
john mcphee
I know, yeah.
I mean, the raid kind of, like, we got the briefings back in the day.
Like, you know, the raid was a couple years old, but...
Yeah.
You know what I know about the raid?
joe rogan
It was pretty fucked.
I mean, they just cooked those people.
john mcphee
Yeah, they burned it down.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
I could see the tanks, like, shooting fire into the buildings.
I don't know what happened.
Caught fire.
john mcphee
Yeah, fire.
joe rogan
It was back in the 90s when you could kind of get away with something like that, and people didn't really know.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, well, we didn't know it would burn.
Well, it is made of wood.
Like, yeah, but I mean...
joe rogan
And we shot fire at it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't know what happened.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
It's crazy.
All right.
You ready?
I got some other stuff.
joe rogan
What else you got?
What else you got?
john mcphee
So check this out.
I got a swag bag for you.
unidentified
Okay.
john mcphee
I got a bunch of stuff I make that I do, right?
So I just kind of want to...
I like to do this, right?
Look, I got you...
The SOB hat.
This is the best hat we sell right here.
I wear this on the range every day.
I got your same t-shirt as me, Team SOB shirt.
Welcome to the team, Joe.
joe rogan
Thank you.
john mcphee
We're glad to have you.
My second favorite shirt of all times is this, and I wear this every day when I elk hunt.
joe rogan
Do you really?
john mcphee
Oh, wait.
Oh, no.
This is the wrong one.
I got a shirt.
I sell these shirts.
They're called Slaughter Things, and it's all I wear in El Camp.
You know what I mean?
But look, we got you a Shut Up Hippie shirt.
I sell a ton of these.
I wear these normally.
joe rogan
What are they?
Knives?
john mcphee
They're bullets.
Bullets.
Got you a Shut Up Hippie shirt.
When I go to California and teach California classes, I wear a Shut Up Hippie shirt all the time.
And then tons of guys buy them.
I had a guy.
He comes to my classes.
He's a younger kid.
He's tall.
Got a young family, right?
They go to, I think, Asheville, North Carolina, and they're eating at, like, some destination.
Like, you got to go eat here, and it's a bus.
So he's a big guy, right?
And he's in this school bus, and that's where you got orders, in this old school bus.
So he said, like, my shoulder's almost touching the ceiling, and he had to put his head down, and he had his shut-up hippie shirt on behind him.
And some hippie behind him was like, you better be careful wearing that shirt, you'll get your ass kicked around here, right?
And he says he looks back, and he pulled up his shirt, and he said, better make it a gunfight, and they shut the fuck up.
joe rogan
Oh, that's hilarious.
john mcphee
You're going to get your ass kicked.
joe rogan
That's so funny.
john mcphee
By hippies.
joe rogan
That's so funny.
That's the most gentle ass kicking of all time.
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
Thank you for that.
You know what I mean?
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
Okay.
I got you a condom holster.
I make these.
365. It's your EDC. Yeah.
joe rogan
You make these out of leather, right?
john mcphee
Yeah.
They're made out of leather.
joe rogan
I saw this on Sean's show.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Nice.
john mcphee
Hey, it's all I use.
It's all I wear.
It is the most comfortable holster.
Here.
And that's all this stuff for you.
unidentified
Oh, thank you.
john mcphee
I'll give you the bag, too, also.
unidentified
Oh, I got a bag.
john mcphee
Okay, so check this out.
Here's another thing I use all the time.
The cooling schmog.
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
I saw this too.
john mcphee
You know the schmogs, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
Basically, I made a cooling towel the size of a schmog.
joe rogan
Okay.
john mcphee
So when I'm on the range, literally, I just dump a bottle of water in my neck.
The fucking thing absorbs it.
joe rogan
What's it made out of?
john mcphee
It's the cooling material, you know, like the cooling towel material, right?
But the problem with most cooling towels is they're not big enough, so it's like one layer on your neck and it dries in like two minutes.
This, you could kind of get, double it up, pour water on it.
It'll stay cool for a long time.
joe rogan
Because I've seen people, they're making gear and clothes out of like this cooling material.
What is it?
john mcphee
I don't know.
I think it's like the way it's woven to where when the water drains out of it, it cools quicker.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
And it's materials that cool clicker or feel cool to the touch.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
Kind of deal without knowing what it is.
joe rogan
I've heard people talk about clothes that they make out of this.
They're like, it's really legit.
For whatever reason, it keeps you cooler.
john mcphee
I would wear t-shirts on the range made of that shit every fucking day I'm outside.
joe rogan
Yeah?
john mcphee
Yeah, fuck yeah.
Especially in the heat, you know what I mean?
Okay, so check it out.
I got you a couple slings.
I don't know if you have rifles, but 100% made in America.
Everything on the sling is made.
There's a QD on there.
I make traditionally QDs in the gun world.
joe rogan
If somebody wants to buy any of this stuff, where do they get it online?
john mcphee
Sheriff of Baghdad, Joe.
joe rogan
SheriffofBaghdad.com?
john mcphee
That's right.
That's right.
Okay, here's another thing I got you.
Punchers, punch daggers.
So it's G10. I got a few of them here.
joe rogan
Oh, okay, so this doesn't even go through a metal detector.
john mcphee
That's right.
There's no metal in the sheath.
It's all plastic screws.
It cleans up easy.
No DNA. You can clean it in diesel fuel.
It'll wash all the DNA off.
joe rogan
Diesel fuel?
john mcphee
You can wash it in anything.
joe rogan
Is that the move?
john mcphee
Alcohol, yeah.
joe rogan
Diesel fuel's the move?
john mcphee
I think so.
joe rogan
Just go to the gas station.
john mcphee
Yeah.
You can do fucking dish soap, but you can't permeate the plastic.
It'll come clean.
And I sharpen them with...
I sharpen them normally with like 400 grit sandpaper.
Did you really?
I just resharpened it with sandpaper.
But the reason I made it is I always wanted something where like, I was always wearing my body armor, right?
And I wanted to just put the punch dagger right in the center.
That way if something happened, I could get it.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
Boom!
And just start fucking punching.
I mean, the whole problem with knives is you gotta learn how to use a knife.
But with a punch dagger, if you could throw a punch, you could bury that thing in someone's neck.
You know what I mean?
Which is what I would tell anyone.
joe rogan
Jamie's been looking for one of those for a while.
Haven't you, Jamie?
unidentified
When Carl gets out of line.
john mcphee
Yeah, hey!
It'll clean the DNA off, sand it down, a little alcohol.
Okay, another thing I made, and this is super important, I call these combat bands.
It's a high-temperature silicone, but it's a rubber band.
The so what here is, when I carry this rifle, I put a sling on it, but if I'm in and out of vehicles, the sling is always just hanging somewhere, right?
So I put the rubber band on the gun, And then I just weave the sling underneath the rubber band.
joe rogan
So if this touches the barrel, it doesn't melt.
john mcphee
Right, right.
And then back in the day, I had to use actual rubber bands for parachutes.
And if I can last a day, like in the heat in Texas, a rubber band will last one day in a car.
Well, that's only one day.
I got to go out every day in my car, right?
So when I retired, it's one of the things I wanted the most.
So I made them the...
Guys use them to put suppressor covers, hold them on their suppressors.
joe rogan
You have great videos online, like instructional videos, like how to fight out of your car.
john mcphee
Yeah, thank you.
joe rogan
They're really informative.
Things I didn't think I was interested in learning.
Then I started watching this.
I was like, this guy's fucking thought this shit through.
john mcphee
That's all I did, Joe.
Look, I'm a simple guy.
Let me just show you how I did this.
Maybe you come up with a better way.
I don't know, right?
But I think this is like...
This is the difference between the army and the unit.
In the army, they're like, here's a gun, kid, go use it.
In the unit, they're like, let me show you to the nth degree how to use that rifle.
So when something happens, guess what?
You know what I'm saying?
So it's the difference between showing someone something And teaching someone something.
And I think those are different.
And I think that's what the unit was good at.
Here's some of my favorite things.
The boot kits.
Solomon boots were made for the military.
I've been wearing Solomon boots.
You'll see a set of Solomon boots in the Saddam picture.
joe rogan
I hunted with them this year.
john mcphee
Yeah, yeah.
It's all I wear are Solomons, right?
Well, if you got the quests, you know how the laces kind of come?
Yep.
joe rogan
Like the running shoes, too.
john mcphee
Yeah, yeah.
So I turn them into, like, the running shoes.
joe rogan
Nice.
john mcphee
Yeah, we sell a ton of those.
Okay.
joe rogan
And what do you do with the extra lace?
john mcphee
Cut it off.
Oh, you just cut it off.
I loosen the boot where I get my foot out, and I cut the excess off and put the end on it.
So I don't have like three feet of laces.
I only have like eight or ten inches.
You know what I mean?
Six inches, whatever it is.
joe rogan
Okay.
john mcphee
Smart.
These are some of my best things.
This is a, I would call it a scribe tool, right?
In the fact that it's a carpenter pencil.
Makes sense?
You know a carpenter pencil?
But the middle is G10. Same thing as the punch knife.
So it's for stabbing.
A lot of guys carry them, go through metal detectors, a lot of guys carry them airports, like these things.
I get pictures of these things everywhere.
I made it fist-sized so you could punch with it or kind of get a good stab with it if you wanted.
You know what I mean?
Something I always wanted.
joe rogan
Smart.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I have a pencil like that.
Yeah.
Someone gave me.
unidentified
Yep.
john mcphee
Yep.
Okay.
So check this out.
Here's a bunch of stickers we make.
Some of the things that happen on the range.
Blind guys, I always tell them they can't see shit.
You know how when you shoot and guys really push their butt backwards?
I call that the prison wallet.
You know what I mean?
Showing me your prison wallet?
You know what I mean?
So there's a lot of stickers that are funny shit.
I tell guys all the time, like, a guy will be shooting good all day long, and at the end of the day he'll fuck something up, and I'll just come up.
All I gotta do is whisper to a guy and be like, sucks to suck, don't it?
And a guy will be like, shut the fuck up!
You know what I mean?
So all the stickers are just funny shit that happens on the range, right?
And then look, this is the premise of the NRA show we talked about earlier, is I made a little card.
The gun world is sketchy information at best, generally speaking, of where your bullets go and why.
Like it's fucking magic.
joe rogan
It's about eye dominance.
john mcphee
One side's eye dominance, the other one is how to fix yourself, where the bullets go and why.
Make sense?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
So, look at this edge.
joe rogan
Grip.
Yeah.
john mcphee
So, look, this edge is...
joe rogan
Tension on the left hand.
john mcphee
Yep.
And then, like, you use this edge.
So, if your group is generally tall, right, you got stance issues.
And then, as you see your group, whatever angle it's on, the arrows point to it and tell you how to fix it.
joe rogan
Interesting.
john mcphee
Now, backside, eye dominance.
This is where the gun world fucks up.
And I'll tell you this.
The gun world talks about two things for eyes.
Primary hand, primary eye.
Right-handed, right-eye dominant.
They talk about being cross-eye dominant, right-handed, left-eye dominant.
Right?
Okay.
Here's how division, I think, really works.
Okay.
Being primary hand, primary eye is the guy who makes all the rules in shooting.
You should open your eyes.
You should do this, right?
He makes all the rules, but the reality is his vision is his right eye on a scale of 1 to 10. He'll tell you borderline 11 because it's that fucking good.
You know what I mean?
Borderline 11 in the good eye.
Ask him the vision in his other eye and he's going to tell you hard 8. It's not really so good.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
john mcphee
This guy will always be able to keep the other eye open.
Make sense?
joe rogan
Yes.
john mcphee
Okay.
Now, these are the same thing.
Whether you're primary hand, primary eye, or cross-eye dominant, it's the same thing.
You have a strong eye and a weak eye, and the strong eye takes over.
Doesn't fucking matter.
Strong eye takes over.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
Fucking easy for you.
Okay.
This is one out of ten.
The other nine are what I call eye neutral, right?
They don't have a dominant eye, and either eye could take over at any time because either eye on a pistol could see the sights at any time.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
And this is where people get fucked up.
joe rogan
That makes sense with archery, too.
john mcphee
100%.
It's the same.
joe rogan
I don't like to keep both eyes open.
I've tried it.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Well, that's because you're what I would call eye neutral.
unidentified
Hmm.
john mcphee
Say what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I would also say this.
If you have a gray hair on your head, you're closer to being eye neutral than any eye dominant any fucking thing because of life, right?
And the reason I would tell you that is because the part of the brain that works the eyes is like the part of the brain that works the ears.
It's the part of the brain that works the legs and the arms, right?
All these things on your subconscious, I think, work better together and are stronger together.
What do I mean by that?
You know, when it comes to leg days, dudes are like, dude, man, bro, on a squat 500 on leg day.
Okay, does that mean you can do 250 pounds with one leg?
No.
You can't, probably, right?
Because the legs are stronger together than they are independently.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
And this is a function of the deep part of your brain, the fast part of your brain, right?
So having said that, you can't choose an ear, can you?
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
The only way you can choose an eye is the eyelid, which has nothing to do with vision or dominance.
See what I'm saying?
joe rogan
That makes sense.
I've never heard anybody say that before, but now that you're saying it, I'm like, okay.
john mcphee
Yeah.
So if you look at the card, right, if you're like right-handed, right-eye dominant, you should be hitting in the middle of the circle there, right?
But if your left eye takes over, look where the rounds will go.
And it'll always be, look, it'll always be eye distance apart on your target.
So people that have eye issues, they don't shoot one group.
They shoot two groups, one for each eye, and the gun goes left eye, right eye, left eye, right eye.
joe rogan
Evan was telling me that he learned to practice left-handed a lot.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he practices things, even though he's right-hand dominant.
It helped the right side to practice with the left side.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you subscribe to that?
john mcphee
Yes, I do.
And I'll tell you why.
Before I retired from the Army, I tore my bicep out of my left arm.
I'm left-handed.
So I went and turned in all my left-handed holsters and got right-handed holsters, and I was like, I'm going to train myself to be right-handed from here forward, because the VA said I'd never use my left hand again.
So I was like, okay, fuck you guys, I'll be a righty.
You can't slow me down, you know what I mean?
And then I started training as a righty.
Took me about two weeks.
I was fucked up.
It was tough.
You know what I mean?
I had to stick with it.
Fucking a lot of frustrating days.
And after about two weeks, my brain just transferred all that skill to the right hand.
And I just fucking rocked it from then on out.
joe rogan
It makes sense because you have this mental memory of excellence with one side.
You just have to...
john mcphee
Well, think about this.
If you actually knew perfect practice, you could switch that to the other hand.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
But if you never knew perfect practice, the other hand would get the same garbage.
joe rogan
Right.
That makes sense.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
The eye thing completely makes sense, and I've never heard anybody say it before.
Everybody says you should keep both eyes open.
john mcphee
Well, you should, but the guy who made that rule has a strong eye and a weak eye and he can do that.
Your brain, when I say someone is eye-neutral, your brain treats your eyes as equal.
What does that mean?
Your vision could be shit, it could be great, but the brain says, I got two windows.
I look out of this one, eh, let me look out of that one.
joe rogan
And you're going back and forth.
john mcphee
You'll see the gun move, you'll see the head move, and then most of the time it's just like it's no good.
You're just not seeing it good.
Make sense?
joe rogan
It does.
Are you one of those guys that resists red dots?
john mcphee
I don't give a shit.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
But did you ever resist it at all?
Because iron sights never fail you.
They're always there.
No batteries.
john mcphee
I am not a red dot guy.
I'm an iron sight guy.
However, let me explain myself.
The internet knows me as a red dot hater.
But, you know, I'm taking that video and I'm going to draw one line through that red dot back to your face.
And if it don't point exactly to your eye, you're shooting and not seeing shit.
And every time I show this to somebody, they're like, so you're against red dots.
No, you're never going to catch the red dot unless you get better technique.
joe rogan
And you get better technique with iron sights.
john mcphee
Well, no, you can have good technique with a red dot also if you had fucking good technique and someone showed it to you, but no one shows it to you, right?
The next thing with the red dot is the red dot is great for guys who don't see well.
Because what happens is the red dot becomes in between you, your eye, and the target.
Make sense, essentially?
Right?
So you'll be able to see that.
But what no one tells you is it's harder to learn, harder to master.
So you need it, but you need to train with it properly or it's not doing you any good.
joe rogan
Why is it hard to learn?
john mcphee
Few reasons.
You know, if you look at pro shooters, high-level pro shooters, guys that are like fucking insanely fast, winning, you know, national IPSC champs, Rob Latham, Dave Savigny, you look at these guys, what you'll see is like...
They're so much more efficient than anyone else, right?
And they'll use a way bigger site.
I think the winningest site of all time in gun games is the Seymour STS. But it's more of the size of a beer can than it is the little tactical site.
So now when you shrink that thing down to a postage stamp...
So it doesn't fucking reflect or whatever, but you can't see through it well.
And they curve the glass, which anyone who shoots rifle scopes will tell you fisheye is a fucking real thing.
But this red dot has all these things going on and it's supposed to be better for a guy who don't see shit.
joe rogan
That's interesting.
john mcphee
And it just becomes harder to do.
And then once you show them how to get it right, like, they'll never have problems again.
joe rogan
But it's all about showing them how to get it right.
john mcphee
Right, right.
And then no one talks about that because they're stuck on you can't use the right eye or they never get past that point.
joe rogan
How important is it to teach people the right way the first time so they don't have to unlearn shit?
john mcphee
Everyone has a preconceived notion of what they think they should do, whether you've shot before or not, and I'm going to have to unfuck that.
joe rogan
No matter what.
john mcphee
No matter what.
So it's like, you know, it's like kind of like in the dojo where it's like, okay, I want you to do like 20 good, 20 shitty arm bars, and then we'll get the hips better on the next 20. We'll tweak the hand on the next 20. We'll do...
You know what I mean?
Like, get some of them bulk movements down first, and then we keep fine-tuning.
joe rogan
Right, fine-tuning.
john mcphee
Yeah, so it doesn't matter.
I mean, look, even if you learned how to punch from Jon Jones on your first day, you wouldn't go out and win a match that night.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
You know what I mean?
So I think it's like...
I always, I tell people this all the time, 1% better a day.
Just 1%.
That's what I'm looking for today.
If I can be 1% better today than I was yesterday, well that's 365% by the end of the year and I didn't do much every day.
You know what I mean?
So I always tell people like, shooting or a skill like this is a marathon, not a sprint.
unidentified
Right.
john mcphee
Right.
joe rogan
That's with everything, right?
john mcphee
Yeah, I think so.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think so too.
john mcphee
And I tell you, if you think you're going to have to pull a gun and save your family one day, you should be practicing a few times a week.
It doesn't have to be much, but you should be practicing a little bit.
Getting this gun out shouldn't be a shock to you when the time comes because it's not going to come to you then.
Right.
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's great advice.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you enjoy teaching?
john mcphee
I fucking love teaching.
I love helping people.
Now that I'm doing jits again, a lot of people want me to show them like fucking cars and guns and jits and guns and...
I don't know if I'm ready to take my sanity pastime and turn it into work.
You know what I'm saying?
I play with guns now, and a lot of guys have told me I need to be like, you know, like the car bailouts, like all this shit.
I'm afraid to ruin jujitsu as work.
So I've been reluctant.
And I always tell people, I'll never teach jiu-jitsu.
But like, I'll fucking teach anyone everything.
I mean, if we can get better today, let's talk about it.
Let's fucking try it.
joe rogan
One thing about teaching jiu-jitsu, though, is I think it makes you better at jiu-jitsu.
I think it's selfish.
unidentified
Oh, 100%.
joe rogan
It's like a good thing for you.
john mcphee
Well...
Okay, you know this.
You're a black belt, right?
Every day you went to a dojo, you were trying to hand that black belt his ass.
And then you get your black belt, and now everyone every day the rest of your life is trying to hand you your ass.
You know what I mean?
It's a fucking thankless job.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
No, I love that.
joe rogan
There's no day where no one's trying to hand you your ass.
john mcphee
Yeah, fuck yeah, let's go.
joe rogan
That's the beautiful thing about jiu-jitsu, too.
john mcphee
I know.
joe rogan
You don't really catch any breaks.
You might get one day where there's like, oh, there's only blue belts here.
john mcphee
I love it when someone forces me into, like, real survival mode.
Now, I'm not talking about, like, you know, you got a triangle and I'm just gonna ride this.
I'm talking, like, someone, like, I'm like, fucking, I gotta do something now.
I fucking love that, man.
joe rogan
How are you avoiding injuries?
john mcphee
Okay, so, first and foremost, I started out, I don't even take Motrin, I try to take no drugs, after I got off the pills from the VA and started getting active, and, you know, I try not to take any medicines at all.
I went to Master Worlds, and motherfuckers are yoked up, fucking, and the gear is out, you know what I mean?
Like, these motherfuckers are working out since last year, just a fucking stroke a motherfucker today, right?
So, like...
I was a little unprepared this year for Worlds in that aspect, but I'm all for the peptides.
I'm all for the TR. I'm not against any of it, per se.
And I think that's a...
I did the peptides.
I just...
I don't like shots.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
And I won't give myself a shot.
joe rogan
You were talking about that on Sean Ryan's show.
You don't like the idea of something piercing your skin.
john mcphee
Yeah, like, I don't like that.
I don't know why, right?
It's so weird.
It's so weird.
joe rogan
A guy who's been through everything that you've been through is like, needles, sketch me out.
john mcphee
I mean, just give it.
It doesn't hurt.
Like, I'm not a sissy about it, but it's like...
joe rogan
Peptides are so easy, though.
john mcphee
I know.
Well, I took the pills.
I took the pill ones.
joe rogan
PPC-157?
john mcphee
Yeah.
And I'll tell you, like...
joe rogan
Super legit.
john mcphee
What is it?
Gary Brecca?
joe rogan
That guy?
Yeah.
john mcphee
He talks about redheaded people.
I'm a redheaded people.
I got pale skin.
joe rogan
Redheaded people have better pain tolerance.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Well, I take drugs different.
joe rogan
I think there's a thing about that, though.
Google that.
Redheaded people have better pain tolerance.
john mcphee
My whole life, I've taken drugs differently.
I don't get Percocet.
I get Dilaudid.
Like when you got roofied.
joe rogan
Like everybody else conked out.
john mcphee
Yeah, I'm just in over party mode.
joe rogan
But you were also talking about on Sean's show that you have the thing that Jamie has where you can take a lot of edibles and you don't feel it.
john mcphee
Oh, yeah.
The weed gummies are fucking worse.
joe rogan
Some studies have found that redheads have a lower pain threshold, but other studies have found the opposite.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
So it's all fucked up.
john mcphee
Inconclusive.
joe rogan
Who knows?
Inconclusive.
john mcphee
Yeah, but...
joe rogan
I guess it depends on the individual.
john mcphee
But I will tell you this.
It healed my stomach, and my healing went from, like, a week or two to, like...
Four days.
joe rogan
BPC-157 is very legit.
john mcphee
Yeah.
So anyway, I want to do more in the future.
I'd like to, I kind of want to do it all.
Like, I mean, I'm fucking, I'm 54, man.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's why I was asking you, what are you doing to avoid injuries?
john mcphee
Okay.
So besides that, I do cardio.
A couple years ago, my first elk hunt, my first elk bow hunt, You know, we ride up to like 9,000 feet and then like walked up three miles from there.
Like, yo, I was 280 at one time.
That was a fucking hell of a walk for a big fat motherfucker up that fucking mountain.
And then I hunt with these old guys and then the two guys I was with, like two of the guys have hearing aids.
From guns, right?
unidentified
Huh?
joe rogan
From guns?
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
I don't know, they're just older or whatever.
Yeah, they're hunters, right?
So both of them got hearing aids, and the front one looks back to the second one, both good friends of mine, and was like, turn your hearing aids down so you ain't gotta hear them breathe so fucking loud.
And I'm like, I heard you, mother fuck you!
So I told myself I was going to start walking 30 minutes a day, and that was fucking hard.
And then now I do like an hour of cardio.
I could run, but I don't.
But I started again.
I need to be running a little bit for cardio.
I treat strength as two different things.
I spent about a year with 15-pound dumbbells, just like rehabbing motion, movement, joints.
And it was a lot of fucking pain.
And then, you know, now I'm getting stronger every day.
I've been, you know, power athlete, big John.
But I kind of look at strength two different ways.
I try to do strength days where it's like the traditional squats, deads, like all the big ones, push-pulls, all of it, cover it all.
And then I see it as conditioning as something separate.
And conditioning would be lighter weight, like CrossFit-like round, without knowing how to say it better.
But the steps, fucking, I'm going to tell you this, I'll tell anybody this, you want to fucking start losing weight, it starts at 10,000 fucking steps a day.
Get your ass out there, start fucking walking.
And then the next thing I did is I went to a competition class by Sean's in Tennessee.
And I got a diet.
I got workouts.
I got an app.
I tracked my diet.
I did right before Worlds.
I was at 170 grams of protein, 1,800 calories a day.
joe rogan
So you're very strict about it.
john mcphee
Yeah, and I shredded weight.
I cut down.
I was probably 240. I cut down to 222. As the smallest human being in the fucking 222 because everyone's yoked up like fucking madmen.
joe rogan
And they probably all cut weight too.
john mcphee
Well, my coaches were like, you know, and I can't believe I even listened to this, but they're like, man, it's the 55 bracket.
Like, it's guys like you.
This is their pastime.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
55 today is not the same.
john mcphee
Yo, these motherfuckers, this is fucking killer season out of this bitch.
You know what I mean?
Like, I was unprepared.
Man, I had this big Mongolian motherfucker.
You know Edwin Jammy?
You know Edwin?
Edwin Gracie Barra, Tarzana, California, right?
Edwin's like a jiu-jitsu legend.
He's at Worlds.
Who's your coach?
I don't fucking have a coach.
It's me, my backpack, and a gi.
Let's fucking get this fight going, bitch.
And he's like, well, I'll coach you.
And I'm like, okay.
You know what I mean?
I don't got a coach.
And then right before we walk out on the mat, he's like, yo, ref, are they the same weight class?
And I'm like, yo, my man Ed, this is my coach right here, my man!
You know what I mean?
But this dude was fucking huge.
And he was one of them Mongolian jacket wrestlers.
You've done this?
joe rogan
Oh, I've seen that.
john mcphee
I couldn't get the takedown.
And then we went down on the ground.
He hit me with a fucking paper cutter, popped my head out, tried to choke me again.
Fucking got out of it.
But as I was getting up, I knew I needed to keep this guy on the ground.
But guess what, man?
When you get in trouble, guess what you do?
You stand the fuck up and this dude stand up.
And I knew I wasn't getting my two points back.
And then I was just fucking exhausted.
Like, I was fucking gassed.
joe rogan
So you decided to ramp up their conditioning.
john mcphee
Yeah, fuck yeah, man.
This year, I'm fucking winning.
I'm fucking world champion, Joe.
I'm the toughest old motherfucker I fucking know.
You know?
God damn it, let's fucking go.
I'm gonna figure this shit out.
But I will tell you, I think what I didn't know is you gotta train to compete to compete well.
And I fucking fight.
And I want to fight.
And I want to get smashed.
And I want to fucking, I want to almost lose this fight 10 fucking times to finally get that fucking submission on you.
And that's a great fight to me.
And like, yo, yeah, yeah, you just lost 13 points on that.
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
And then if you don't get the submission, you just lost 13 points on that.
You know what I mean?
So it's a different animal.
joe rogan
That's the interesting thing about treating it like the sport versus what you get out of it, what you like.
john mcphee
And I'll tell you this.
I probably could have changed the match if I would have pulled guard around three minutes in.
I ain't never pulled guard in my fucking life.
Like, what kind of fucking asshole pulls fucking guard?
Well, I figured it out.
I'll tell you what kind of asshole.
When you can't take a bigger motherfucker down, this is maybe what pulling guard's for.
Or, in the real world, walk the fuck away before you fucking just get fucking smashed out here.
You know what I mean?
Thinking you're something you ain't.
joe rogan
Do you spend a lot of time practicing off your back?
Because a lot of times, big guys, they don't like...
john mcphee
Yo, I'll start there.
Fucking get my neck.
Let's go.
I will give you my back just to fucking get out.
I don't give a fuck, man.
I love it.
unidentified
That's great.
john mcphee
I always like, honestly, when I'm just at the dojo, girls or smaller people, I try not to smash them.
And I'll tell them, hey, if I get on top, just fucking sweep me.
Stay on top of me the whole time.
And I just fucking let them go at me.
joe rogan
Yeah, I would just pretend that I'm weak.
When I would roll with someone who's weak, I would pretend I'm weak.
I think that's the best way to do it.
No strength.
I'm never going to use strength.
Hickson always said that defense was more important than everything.
He said, I am always safe.
No matter where I am, I am always safe.
john mcphee
Defense.
Hey, your Hickson is great, by the way.
joe rogan
Have you seen Choke?
Have you seen the documentary?
john mcphee
I have not seen Choke, but I just finished his new book, the dark one.
Dark?
joe rogan
Dark?
john mcphee
Hickson came out with a new book.
I just audiobooked it the other day.
joe rogan
Because he's got Parkinson's now.
john mcphee
Yeah, but he's got the Breathe book, but he just came out with a new one.
I just listened to it last week.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
You gotta watch Choke.
I got to.
joe rogan
One of the greatest documentaries of all time.
john mcphee
I know, I've heard that.
joe rogan
For a martial artist?
john mcphee
I've heard that.
joe rogan
It's fucking incredible.
It's Hickson in his prime competing in Japan, Valley Tudo.
And you see him training and doing his yoga and all the crazy breathing shit where his stomach sucks up inside.
I don't even know how to do that.
john mcphee
Yeah, when he was testing me for my purple belt, he was like, Yes, um, yes.
Yeah, when I lay on the ground, I am flat.
He's like, when you lay on the ground, you are not flat.
You should roll more.
I'm like, I know you know enough English just to call me fucking fat, you know what I mean?
You should roll more.
Yeah, I should roll, yeah.
And he's showing me like rolls from side control, getting out of stuff because I am more round than I am flat.
And it's kind of like, you know, fat guys should roll more.
It's hard to stop, you know what I mean?
Right.
So he had, there's some real fucking wisdom in there, you know what I mean?
But it's like, I always like how they know enough English to insult you, but they'll say it their way.
joe rogan
It's just being practical.
john mcphee
Yeah.
No, it's just real talk, and that's what he does.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's pretty cool getting your purple belt from that guy.
john mcphee
I am the only person...
So, okay, I had to do the paperwork.
You know, there's other, like, big-time Hickson black belts out there that kind of police up all everybody.
So when you go to Worlds or you fight, you know, like these guys, and they told me they'd get me under their paperwork.
But literally, I did the paperwork with IBJJF, and I sent it to Hickson, and he filled out the paperwork.
But, like...
I didn't know.
I sent him the paperwork and it's like one of them forms where you just sign it with your finger on your phone, like super easy.
I sent it to Hicks and I was like, hey coach, we got a form, we got a sign and he's not a member of any of these organizations anymore.
So like...
I didn't know how this would go, and they sent me a fucking paper copy, and they're like, have Mr. Gracie sign this signature, right?
So I text it to Hicks, and I'm like, hey coach, can you sign my paperwork for Worlds real quick?
And he texted me right back, and he's like, hey champ, I'm looking for a printer now.
As soon as I find one, I'll sign this.
And I was just thinking...
Fuck, I don't even know who's got a printer.
I don't even have a printer in my fucking house.
Like, if Hickson's looking for a printer, I think he just told me no.
You know what I mean?
Like, fuck!
And then, like, a couple days later, he sent it back to me, signed, right?
I think probably his wife was like, oh, Hickson, yeah, look.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
john mcphee
I just didn't think...
I think he kind of didn't know.
But he got back to me and then they sent me...
I had to do this a few times.
And then I was the only guy...
I'm the only belted guy fighting under Hicks in Masters right now.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
That's pretty fucking cool.
john mcphee
And then...
I would say this for jiu-jitsu for me is like...
I'm so glad it is where it is these days.
Because back in the day, I mean, think about this.
Back in the day, I travel all the time.
I'm in a different dojo, fucking weekly.
You know, I might be here for four days.
I try to get three days of jits.
I'm in fucking Waco.
I'm going to fucking places.
I've been in 26 different dojos this year, like doing jits.
Back in the day, that was fucking creante.
You know what I mean?
Fucking monsters in Portugal.
Because you don't have no loyalty.
You don't have no fucking...
And the reality is like, I'm just never home.
I don't want to be unloyal to anybody.
I'm loyal to everybody.
But I just want to get rounds.
And I'm so glad the jiu-jitsu world is so fucking welcoming these days.
Meaning, I don't have to show up and fight to be here.
joe rogan
Much more open-minded.
They're happy to welcome people from other schools.
john mcphee
It's nice.
The only person that was like...
Why Are You Here was Cyborg at Fight Sports.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
john mcphee
Yeah, you know Cyborg?
joe rogan
Yeah, sure.
unidentified
He's great.
john mcphee
And you know Roosevelt?
joe rogan
He's a fucking savage.
john mcphee
You know Roosevelt, the tall guy that hangs out with him?
joe rogan
I don't.
john mcphee
Tallest black belt I've ever seen.
Tallest Brazilian I've ever seen, right?
So he's one of the black belts down there with Cyborg.
And...
I'm out there and then like at the time I was blue belt, you know what I mean?
And I was probably I don't know 250 I was kind of fat and like fight sports is like old-school Brazilian jiu-jitsu where we're gonna shrimp across the mat we do fucking all this I don't give a fuck if you lose in jiu-jitsu today, but you're gonna be tough, right?
joe rogan
So it's that kind of shit and that's how Carlson Gracie's was yeah Before you even got to the class, you were fucking exhausted.
john mcphee
Yeah, the class hasn't started yet, right?
So I'm out on the mat.
I'm breathing hard.
I'm just kind of doing my thing.
And Roosevelt, the big tall black belt, comes over and he was like, man, he's like, you are my inspiration.
I'm like, I am, coach?
I'm your inspiration?
He's like, yes.
He's like, you are out here.
You are doing this, man.
He was like, you are everyone's inspiration.
And I'm looking around and everyone's rolling.
And then everyone stops because he's talking to me.
You know what I mean?
And now everyone's looking at me and I'm like, what in the fuck is going on, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
john mcphee
So he was like, you are here.
You are doing this.
You are old.
You are my inspiration.
And I'm like, thanks, coach.
And then I didn't need a break, but I was like, fuck, after that talk, maybe I do need a break.
So I was like, maybe I do need a break, coach.
And he was like, okay, fix your gi.
So I fix my gi, I tie my belt.
He's like, run laps around the practice until you're ready to practice again.
It was like, man, that's fucking worse.
I didn't even need the fucking break.
And he gave me the old speech, so I agreed.
And then I had to run.
I thought that was more embarrassing, running laps around everybody.
Right?
But like when he said he wanted to give me a break, like the fucking break is like screeched to a halt.
Everybody was like, did he just say, does that guy, why the fuck does that guy get a break?
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Your break was two laps.
john mcphee
Yeah.
And then Cyborg came up to me and they didn't, I didn't have a gi yet.
I hadn't bought a gi, and I hadn't found a gi that fit me.
I just bought a gi, but I only had a white belt, right?
I got the gi at Gracie Raleigh, my home dojo, right?
And then they only had a white belt, so I had a white belt, so I was white belting it, but really I was a blue belt.
And when it came to Roland, Cyborg is like, who are you, man?
I'm like, coach?
And he's like, who are you, man?
Who are you?
joe rogan
I thought you were like a spy?
john mcphee
Yeah, he's like, why are you here?
And I'm like, I just, I just, well, my brother lives here, coach.
And I called ahead of time and I asked if I could come do jujitsu.
I'm just trying to get a couple days while I'm on the road.
He's like, man, you are no white belt.
Who are you?
What are you doing here?
And I was like, well, I'm actually a blue belt coach.
And he was like, why didn't you?
And then they got a wall of like old belts, which is like the coolest thing I ever fucking seen.
Like I'm...
unidentified
Just a hundred, just old, different, all kinds of belts.
john mcphee
It's fucking cool as fuck, my opinion.
But he was like, why didn't you get one off the extra belts?
And I was like, well, you didn't have one, coach.
And he thinks for a second.
He was like, you are right.
There's not one your size on the wall.
And I was like, holy fuck.
There's a ton of belts there for him to even know that.
unidentified
Wow.
john mcphee
Because I went through all of them and couldn't fit one.
And he was like, okay.
joe rogan
So he was just concerned that you were sandbagging or trying to get information.
john mcphee
Yeah, I don't know.
But they were great with me.
Shout out to Cyborg and Roosevelt.
joe rogan
Hard dudes.
john mcphee
Yeah, they're hard down there.
joe rogan
Wagner Rocha, all those guys down there.
john mcphee
But I've been in 26, I think 26 dojos this year, man.
That's wild.
joe rogan
So you're all in.
john mcphee
I'm all in, man.
I'm in all the time.
So one of the things is I can only go to Hickson to get promoted because I'm never in one dojo long enough to earn a stripe or earn a...
So I think it's like a...
I don't know.
I feel like I'm fortunate of where I am.
You know what I mean?
And then, honestly, the reason I went to Hickson is because I could.
And I figured if I need to be tested for a belt...
joe rogan
Yeah.
john mcphee
Like, who else should test me?
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
When you get your black belt, you get a black belt from Hickson.
It's like, there's very few black belts that hold that kind of weight.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's like Henzo Hickson.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jean-Jacques Machado.
There's a few of those like old school legendary belts.
john mcphee
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
Megaton Diaz.
It's like a few of those legendary old school belts, you know?
unidentified
Yeah.
Fucking...
joe rogan
Pedro Sauer.
john mcphee
Hegan.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Hegan.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I love Hegan.
john mcphee
I know.
I love...
joe rogan
I actually was Hegan's corner guy when he was in Abu Dhabi in 2003. You were?
Yelling his time out.
Yeah, because I was there with Eddie Bravo.
john mcphee
Oh yeah, that's right.
joe rogan
We all trained at the Machado, so I know Hegan.
And then Hegan's like, my friend, do the time for me.
He was kind of out of shape, but he's still fucking people up.
But he wanted to know, tell me when there's a minute to go so I can really fucking hit the gas.
I want to coast for a little bit and then decide when to go.
john mcphee
Yeah, I love it.
I call it fat guy jiu-jitsu, and I think people are shocked when I say that term.
But really, it's like the Danaher ageless stuff.
There's stuff that bigger guys, less athletic...
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
Are going to have to do because they can't do a flying whatever.
Right.
You know what I mean?
And I love his smash game.
So I went to the Machado camp.
It was him, Roger, Carlos, and John.
John Machado.
I love that guy too.
You know John?
joe rogan
Sure.
john mcphee
He carries condom holsters.
joe rogan
Nice.
john mcphee
Yeah, he's great, man.
But I went to their summer camp and I was like, hey, can I get a picture?
And he was sitting on the couch and Carlos is like, You know, typical Bigger Brothers shit.
Get the fuck up.
You're lazy.
Kind of dogging him.
So I was like, you don't have to get up, coach.
So I sat on his lap.
And he was like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
john mcphee
Yeah.
I went to a Machado camp this year.
I spent a lot of time with Rafael Lovato.
joe rogan
I love that dude.
john mcphee
That guy's a fucking legend.
joe rogan
Yeah, he is.
He is.
john mcphee
I got invited to Felipe Acosta's kind of affiliate training with Rafael.
Shout out to Rafael.
He's fucking amazing.
Every one of his black belts gave me time.
And then Felipe Acosta, just fucking next level.
And it gives me hope as an old guy.
I know I'm 55, and I know I want to win the fucking 55-year-old bracket.
But But why the fuck do I need to be in the 55-year-old bracket?
You know what I mean?
If my jiu-jitsu is good enough, I should be able to fight anyone, right?
And that's what gives me hope of fucking carrying on that one day, like, because, you know, all I do is fight these young guys.
And yeah, sure, they beat me right now.
But like, you know, how many times did Helio get crushed?
joe rogan
Right.
john mcphee
You know what I'm saying?
So, like, it's the beauty of jujitsu is the age should be fucking the least in this equation.
You know what I mean?
So that's kind of where I stand.
And I'll tell you, man, anytime someone can fucking put it to me where I'm about to go down, I couldn't be fucking happier, man.
I had this black belt the other day.
Out of nowhere, just fucking smash me.
And then I tap, he lets me up, and now I've just got the biggest smile on my face.
And he was like, looking at me, and I was like, that was fucking amazing, Coach.
I was like, you ain't never smashed me like that, right?
And he just kind of looking at me, and just fucking tackled him again, you know what I mean?
Fucking went right back to smashing me, you know what I mean?
I just fucking love it, man.
joe rogan
Well, that's the best attitude for learning.
There's no better.
john mcphee
Well, I, as a human being, I need to learn something every day.
I think you're the same way in a lot of ways.
Like, I don't care what it is.
joe rogan
I think it's good for you.
john mcphee
Yeah, I do too.
I think it keeps your brain healthy.
joe rogan
100%.
john mcphee
I think it keeps Alzheimer, fucking all that bullshit away.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think that's why people get old.
It's one of the reasons, other than your body failing, is your mind gets old.
john mcphee
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're not stimulating it.
john mcphee
Yeah, for real, right?
joe rogan
John, this is a fucking awesome conversation.
john mcphee
Thanks, man.
joe rogan
I really appreciate it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I had a great time.
john mcphee
Yeah, thank you.
joe rogan
And I can't wait to read your book.
john mcphee
So, okay.
I'm going to get some rounds in the future when you're healthy?
joe rogan
Yes.
john mcphee
All right.
I'd love to get some rounds with you.
Yeah, for sure.
I definitely want to come back.
I killed Tony last night.
Fucking amazing.
It's like bucket list for me.
joe rogan
You can come to the club anytime you want.
john mcphee
Man, I couldn't thank you enough.
Like, I know I came here yesterday.
Not a big deal to me, right?
Because, like, yo, I got killed Tony out of this deal.
Like, last night was fucking funny, man.
This guy told a joke last night.
The funniest fucking joke I think I ever heard in my life.
I don't know if I could say it or not.
unidentified
Who is it?
john mcphee
I don't know.
What do you look like?
There was a guy, just kind of a shorter guy, a white guy, beard, and he just read jokes.
He just said, like, random jokes.
joe rogan
Oh, it was one of the bucket pulls?
john mcphee
Yeah, it was a bucket pull guy.
joe rogan
Oh, okay, cool.
john mcphee
And then, like, he said this joke.
You want to hear it?
joe rogan
Sure.
john mcphee
Okay.
This is the fucking funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
Why don't police have turtles as pets?
joe rogan
Why?
john mcphee
Because you can't kneel on their neck.
unidentified
I was like, oh my fucking god.
john mcphee
Next level right there.
joe rogan
Well, listen, brother, anytime you want to come to the club, you're more than welcome.
Thank you very much for being here.
It was a great conversation.
I really enjoyed it.
Thanks for all the swag.
Thanks for letting me hold the evil hat.
john mcphee
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I got to put it back in its box.
joe rogan
If people want to find you online, sheriffabaghdad.com.
john mcphee
Sheriff of Baghdad, SOB Tactical, either one will get you to me.
You type in Sheriff of Baghdad and a ton of shit of me pops up.
joe rogan
And someone, whoever the publisher is, hop on it.
john mcphee
Yeah, hit me up.
joe rogan
I'm sure that book's insane.
All right.
Thank you very much, brother.
Appreciate you.
unidentified
All right.
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