The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan Experience #2358 - Chadd Wright

Chadd Wright is a retired Navy SEAL, endurance athlete, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is a cofounder of the Three of Seven Project, a health and self-improvement program for the body, soul, and spirit. https://www.3of7project.com See Universal Pictures’ NOBODY 2, only in theaters August 15.

Joe RoganhostChadd Wrightguest

Jul 30, 20252h 55mWatch on YouTube ↗

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Ex–Navy SEAL Chadd Wright, Faith, Wilderness, Death, And Modern Decay

Joe Rogan and Chadd Wright move from light talk about tobacco, toxic agriculture, and city life into a deep exploration of wilderness, hunting, and self-reliant off-grid living. Wright describes his intense love of squirrel dogs, longbow and rifle hunts, and why small game and wild meat matter in a fragile food system. The conversation then pivots into mortality: sitting with a dying mentor, witnessing “deathbed visions,” and near‑death experiences as evidence that consciousness may continue beyond death. Finally, Wright lays out his dramatic conversion story from hard‑living SEAL to devout Christian, while Rogan probes the tension between faith, logic, scripture, and human fallibility.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Industrial farming is efficient but depletes soil life and locks society into fragile, chemical‑dependent systems.

Rogan and Wright contrast dead, pale industrial soil with rich regenerative soil, underscoring how hard and time‑intensive it is to restore land while still feeding dense urban populations.

Living close to nature radically changes your baseline for health, noise, and what “normal” feels like.

Wright describes being physically bothered by city air, noise, and homelessness after long stretches on his 700 rural acres—highlighting how acclimated urban dwellers are to stress they don’t notice.

Wild game and small game hunting are practical survival skills, not just recreation.

Wright argues that in any real crisis, deer and elk disappear fast; those who can consistently take squirrel, raccoon, rabbit, and birds with dogs will actually eat.

True skill and gear mastery come from long, incremental evolution, not sudden leaps.

Their deep dive on Land Cruisers, old diesels, and Hoyt bows shows how incremental engineering improvements, testing, and quality control over decades create tools that feel ‘magical’ today.

Facing death up close can radically reorder your values and beliefs.

Wright’s weeks reading scripture at his dying mentor’s bedside, watching him find strength and describe what he seemed to see beyond, forced him to confront mortality, meaning, and what he truly believes happens after death.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

Humans have the propensity to stoop lower than an animal.

— Chadd Wright

Everybody thinks in the apocalypse you're gonna be eating deer and elk. You're gonna be eating squirrel, buddy.

— Chadd Wright

If you ever have the opportunity to go and see someone who is the best in the world at what they do, take that opportunity.

— Chadd Wright

Death is the great foe that sits above mankind and scoffs at our wisdom.

— Chadd Wright

Some of the most miserable, anxiety‑ridden people that I know have no belief system.

— Joe Rogan

Industrial agriculture, glyphosate, and constraints of feeding citiesRural off‑grid life, hunting culture, and small‑game self‑relianceTechnical talk on vehicles, gear, bows, and wild‑game cookingElk, bear, and exotic hunts as spiritual and physical challengesSitting with the dying, deathbed experiences, and fear of mortalityNear‑death experiences, consciousness, and the possibility of an afterlifeChadd Wright’s SEAL career, moral collapse, demonic encounter, and Christian conversionScriptural interpretation, faith vs. logic, and the problem of religious hypocrisyMental toughness, voluntary adversity, and how challenge stabilizes fame and ego

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