Joe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music plays) Mr. Hunt, welcome aboard.

   3. WHWesley Hunt0:14

      Happy to be here.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      Thanks for having- uh, thanks for being here. I really appreciate it. Friend of Dan Crenshaw's.

   5. WHWesley Hunt0:19

      That's right.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      He's a friend of mine.

   7. WHWesley Hunt0:20

      That's right.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      All of them. So, um, Congress.

   9. WHWesley Hunt0:23

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       Running for Congress.

   11. WHWesley Hunt0:25

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       This is what I want my congressmen to look like, jacked veterans.

   13. WHWesley Hunt0:29

       (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       I mean, that's... Wouldn't it be- the world be a better place?

   15. WHWesley Hunt0:32

       I agree. I think so.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       I mean, it really would be.

   17. WHWesley Hunt0:35

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       Um, so tell me what this has been like running for Congress. Was... Is this the first office you've run for?

   19. WHWesley Hunt0:41

       This is the first time, thank God.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       What- what started this? I know you're friends with Dan, who's also a congressman. What started this, this journey?

   21. WHWesley Hunt0:48

       Yes. Great question, and thank you so much for having me on.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       My pleasure.

   23. WHWesley Hunt0:51

       This is- this is awesome. Really appreciate you. And what started this was really just my family and how can we continue service in just in a different capacity. Uh, I come from a military family, so, uh, my dad did 23 years in the Army, retired as a lieutenant colonel. Uh, my sister went to West Point in my family first, so she's 10 years older than me, did 23 years active duty. She was a military intelligence officer, uh, deployed to Iraq twice and s- did a few tours, abroad as well. Uh, I went to West Point in my family second. Uh, we're- we're 10 years apart, my sister and I, and then graduated West Point class of 2004. Uh, flew Apaches, uh, in Iraq for eight- for- for- was actually active duty eight years, deployed to Iraq, did 55 combat air missions in Baghdad, and then did two tours of duty in Saudi Arabia as a diplomatic liaison officer. My brother, who is 10 months and eight days my junior, so we're Irish twins, uh, he also went to West Point, and he did five years in the Navy and went to Harvard Business School for his graduate degree and now lives in Houston with his family. There's about 60 years worth of military service just in my immediate family.

   24. JRJoe Rogan2:00

       Wow. Respect.

   25. WHWesley Hunt2:02

       Thank you, sir.

   26. JRJoe Rogan2:03

       That's a lot.

   27. WHWesley Hunt2:03

       Thank you.

   28. JRJoe Rogan2:04

       That's serious... (laughs) That's a serious-

   29. WHWesley Hunt2:06

       Thank you.

   30. JRJoe Rogan2:06

       ... serious military family.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Right. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      perspective and you apply it to the real world.

   2. WHWesley Hunt15:03

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:03

      You have this defund the police ex- and everybody's like, "Yeah, yes, do it."

   4. WHWesley Hunt15:07

      Yes.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      And then you go and do it.

   6. WHWesley Hunt15:09

      Yes.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:09

      And then what happens? Violence.

   8. WHWesley Hunt15:11

      That's right.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:12

      You, you have to have the fucking police.

   10. WHWesley Hunt15:13

       That's right. You have to have them.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:14

       When Trump, Trump tweets, "LAW AND ORDER," in all caps, it's one of the rare times I go, "Yeah!"

   12. WHWesley Hunt15:19

       (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:20

       "Yeah!"

   14. WHWesley Hunt15:21

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:21

       He went on a, a great tweet raid the other night after they juiced him up with steroids and let him out of the hospital.

   16. WHWesley Hunt15:26

       (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:26

       It was fuck-

   18. WHWesley Hunt15:27

       I get all of them. It's funny.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:28

       ... made me laugh.

   20. WHWesley Hunt15:29

       It was funny.

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       I love the v- the video he's like, "Maybe I'm immune. I don't know."

   22. WHWesley Hunt15:32

       I don't know. He's just- (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:33

       "Maybe I'm immune." (laughs)

   24. WHWesley Hunt15:35

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:35

       "Maybe!" Shit.

   26. WHWesley Hunt15:36

       But I laughed. I laughed when he was like, "I've, this is the best I've felt in 20 years." I was like, "This guy." (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       He's a savage.

   28. WHWesley Hunt15:42

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan15:42

       74, fat, and eats f- nothing but McDonald fries.

   30. WHWesley Hunt15:46

       And he beat it.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Right. …

   1. WHWesley Hunt30:00

      for, you know, fundraisers and meet and greets and things like that-

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      Right.

   3. WHWesley Hunt30:02

      ... so you have to get creative. This has now evolved into a lot of more Zoom calls. It's evolved to what we're doing in Houston, some front yard meet and greets that are socially distanced, and we make sure that we keep everybody safe and everyone's wearing a mask, but we are still out in the community actually talking to people, because there's absolutely nothing like meeting someone in person.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:23

      Yeah. Oh, yeah.

   5. WHWesley Hunt30:23

      Right? Even meeting, even meeting you in person at the Improv, it's just way different.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:26

      Yeah.

   7. WHWesley Hunt30:26

      I've been following you for years, but, like, it's just a different touch when you actually see the person, and so that's what the challenge has been. So what we are doing is just lining up as many front yard, back yard meet and greets throughout the district as possible, and I think we've done a pretty good job at getting out in the community.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:45

      So when you say backyard or front yard meet and greets-

   9. WHWesley Hunt30:48

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       ... like, how do those come about? Like, what do you do?

   11. WHWesley Hunt30:50

       Yeah. Well, we have people that reach out to us and they'll say, "Hey, look, you know, we have a, we have a f- we, we have a community here. People want to meet you. We can get 10, 15, 20 people out here." They usually set up some chairs or just stand around. Um, I'll come over, meet everybody to the best of my ability, give them kind of my talk, answer questions that they would have of me on how they want to see government run for the future, how can I continue to be their humble servant, what can we do to save our country, what can we do to kind of quell a lot of the division that we're seeing right now, and then I go off to the next one.... it's very efficient, it's very good, and I think a lot of people have been very receptive to it too.

   12. JRJoe Rogan31:27

       Now, w- what other issues do you think are, uh, concerns that people have that maybe you, you have a unique perspective on that y- you can help? Like, what are, what other big issues do you see in the country that you think that-

   13. WHWesley Hunt31:42

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan31:42

       ... need to be addressed in a way that you are not seeing being addressed currently?

   15. WHWesley Hunt31:46

       So I'm a Houston boy. Uh, born, born and raised. First football game I went to was for the Houston Oilers, back in the, back in the Love You Blue days. And-

   16. JRJoe Rogan31:55

       I don't know what the Love You Blue days were.

   17. WHWesley Hunt31:56

       Oh, get outta here. It's the Houston Oilers-

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:58

       I don't know shit.

   19. WHWesley Hunt31:58

       ... when they had their light blue. Oh my goodness.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:59

       I know, I'm a, I'm a sports commentator professional-

   21. WHWesley Hunt32:01

       (laughs) I'm like, duh. I did not know this.

   22. JRJoe Rogan32:03

       ... that knows nothing, that know nothing about sports.

   23. WHWesley Hunt32:05

       (laughs) That's, that's so funny.

   24. JRJoe Rogan32:05

       Uh, it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing. Jamie makes fun of me-

   25. WHWesley Hunt32:08

       That's the old school too.

   26. JRJoe Rogan32:08

       ... all the time.

   27. WHWesley Hunt32:08

       (laughs) It's like... (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan32:10

       I don't know shit. Jamie knows. Tell me what, what is it?

   29. NANarrator32:12

       I, I saw Warren Moon play on his birthday back when I was a kid, so.

   30. WHWesley Hunt32:15

       Did you? Did you really?
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   But they also require…

   1. WHWesley Hunt45:00

      these kinds of things.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      But they also require something to charge them.

   3. WHWesley Hunt45:03

      That also, yes.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      What about nuclear? Because-

   5. WHWesley Hunt45:06

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:06

      ... one of the things that is really uncomfortable for people-

   7. WHWesley Hunt45:10

      (sighs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:10

      ... is that nuclear power is one of the cleanest sources of power that we know of. It's just, we know about disasters.

   9. WHWesley Hunt45:17

      That's right.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:17

       We know about Fukushima. We know about Three Mile Island. We know about all the, uh, Chernobyl.

   11. WHWesley Hunt45:22

       Chernobyl, yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:22

       We know about these disasters, which, m- in many cases, are indicative of old technology.

   13. WHWesley Hunt45:28

       Yes.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:28

       Like Fukushima, they just, they really didn't know how to shut it down.

   15. WHWesley Hunt45:31

       Yes.

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:32

       Which is fucking bananas that they decided to build it anyway.

   17. WHWesley Hunt45:35

       Mind-boggling. (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:37

       (laughs) They're like, "We'll figure it out eventually."

   19. WHWesley Hunt45:38

       Like, "We'll- we'll worry about it later." (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:40

       But they, there's, there's ways of doing nuclear right-

   21. WHWesley Hunt45:45

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan45:46

       ... where you have very little environmental damage.

   23. WHWesley Hunt45:49

       That's right.

   24. JRJoe Rogan45:51

       But that's a, you just bring up nuclear power and everybody's like-

   25. WHWesley Hunt45:54

       Everybody freaks out.

   26. JRJoe Rogan45:54

       ... "We're gonna die!"

   27. WHWesley Hunt45:55

       That's right, everyone freaks out.

   28. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       Yeah.

   29. WHWesley Hunt45:56

       I- yeah, i- and they, they, they have Chernobyl.

   30. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       What do you think... What do you think about nuclear?
5. 1:00:00 – 1:09:27

   Hmm. …

   1. WHWesley Hunt1:00:00

      because what they do and their dedication to service, sacrifice, and if you ask a Navy SEAL to give their life for this country (snaps fingers) tomorrow, they don't even think about it. They don't think twice about it. They'll do it. So obvio- I kinda say that tongue in cheek 'cause quite frankly I love them, but that level of intensity is why America is always so different.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:24

      Hmm.

   3. WHWesley Hunt1:00:24

      It's that passion, it's that love, it's that, it's that, it's that just, that comradery that SEALs have. You've been around quite a few of them.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:32

      Mm-hmm.

   5. WHWesley Hunt1:00:32

      I mean, I have too and it is, it is hilarious to watch them compete against (laughs) each other. It's awesome.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:39

      Yeah.

   7. WHWesley Hunt1:00:40

      But I love it too, because I think that's, that's kind of the American warrior ethos that's somewhere in all of us. They are just at the tip of the spear when it comes to exemplifying it. And that's why when Dan Crenshaw calls me up and then says, "Hey man, I got an idea for a video. You in?" And I was like, "Okay. Tell me more." He goes, "Well, first I'm gonna jump out of an airplane." And I was like, "Sign me up." (laughs) .

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:01:02

      (laughs) .

   9. WHWesley Hunt1:01:02

      Sign me up. (laughs) .

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:01:03

       That video's crazy.

   11. WHWesley Hunt1:01:05

       It's awesome.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:05

       It's a great one. We should p- could we play it?

   13. WHWesley Hunt1:01:07

       Sure.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

       You know the j- the video Jamie?

   15. NANarrator1:01:10

       (clears throat) Yeah. Um-

   16. WHWesley Hunt1:01:10

       Sure. Did Texas reload it?

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:01:14

       Jamie will find it. Ja- Jamie will fin- find it.

   18. NANarrator1:01:16

       Because can we play it is the thing, so would-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01:18

       I don't think we'll get in trouble.

   20. NANarrator1:01:19

       It's not about trouble, like, the, they have to be known, notified, I guess, that we're playing it, so-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:24

       Oh, well, we'll let them know. (laughs) .

   22. WHWesley Hunt1:01:28

       (laughs) . It's my show.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:28

       I mean, it's, uh, yeah, it's not gonna hurt.

   24. WHWesley Hunt1:01:31

       (laughs) .

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:31

       It's only gonna help.

   26. WHWesley Hunt1:01:32

       Oh, yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:33

       Um, so y-

   28. WHWesley Hunt1:01:35

       Well, I'm in it, so can I okay it?

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:36

       R- yeah, I think.

   30. NANarrator1:01:37

       Uh, it's whoever owns it, I think.

Episode duration: 2:29:06