Joe Rogan Experience #1931 - Mike Glover
Joe Rogan (host), Mike Glover (guest), Narrator
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Mike Glover, Joe Rogan Experience #1931 - Mike Glover explores green Beret Mike Glover: Preparedness, PTSD, and Being Labeled Extremist Joe Rogan and former Green Beret/CIA contractor Mike Glover discuss modern preparedness, resilience, and how Glover built Fieldcraft Survival to teach ordinary people practical survival, self-defense, and self-reliance skills.
Green Beret Mike Glover: Preparedness, PTSD, and Being Labeled Extremist
Joe Rogan and former Green Beret/CIA contractor Mike Glover discuss modern preparedness, resilience, and how Glover built Fieldcraft Survival to teach ordinary people practical survival, self-defense, and self-reliance skills.
Glover details being flagged by Facebook, PayPal, Shopify, and even the FBI-linked systems as a potential domestic terrorist and white supremacist, despite his focus on disaster readiness, family preparedness, and community support.
They explore the mental health and identity crises veterans face when transitioning from elite military units to civilian life, including the VA disability system, PTSD/TBI labeling, and fears around red flag laws stripping gun rights.
The conversation broadens into social media manipulation, censorship, the erosion of tribe and purpose in modern life, and why controlled discomfort, physical training, and real-world community are essential for resilience.
Key Takeaways
Preparedness should be normalized as practical self-reliance, not extremism.
Glover argues that teaching canning, medical skills, self-defense, and bug-out planning is about surviving natural or man-made disasters, reducing dependence on fragile institutions—not about overthrowing the government.
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Veterans need structured transition support, not just combat training.
The military and government spend enormous effort preparing people for combat but almost none on re-integration, leaving many feeling purposeless, burdensome, and at high risk for substance abuse or suicide.
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Mental health labeling can unintentionally threaten veterans’ rights.
Because PTSD diagnoses can be used under red-flag style frameworks to restrict gun ownership, many operators under-report mental health struggles, which prevents them from getting help while preserving access to firearms.
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True readiness requires lifestyle integration, not just gear acquisition.
Bug-out vehicles, go-bags, guns, or med kits are useless if untrained; Glover emphasizes living the lifestyle—regular training, family education, fitness, and drills—rather than treating preparedness as a hobby or shopping list.
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Resilience is built by controlled exposure to stress and discomfort.
From Ranger School to jiu-jitsu to stress shooting, repeatedly operating under elevated heart rate, fear, and fatigue trains the nervous system to function instead of freeze during real catastrophes.
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Human stress responses include freezing and “playing dead,” not just fight-or-flight.
Glover describes hypoarousal (paralysis) in combat and mass shootings, noting that many people literally cannot move or act under extreme terror—so training and awareness have to account for this third response.
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Digital ‘connection’ doesn’t replace real-world tribe and shared struggle.
Both speakers tie rising depression, overdoses, and social decay to isolation and pseudo-community online; they argue that in-person training, shared hardship, and breaking bread together are critical to psychological health.
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Notable Quotes
““No one's coming to save you… You are your own first response.””
— Mike Glover
““What I do with my business in a free society is none of your fucking business.””
— Mike Glover
““The idea that being prepared for a bad case scenario makes you a terrorist is fucking nuts.””
— Joe Rogan
““Civilian life sucks… Where do you go for connectivity for tribe?””
— Mike Glover
““Difficult things are important to do… you find out more about yourself by challenging yourself.””
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
Where should an average person realistically start with preparedness without drifting into unproductive paranoia?
Joe Rogan and former Green Beret/CIA contractor Mike Glover discuss modern preparedness, resilience, and how Glover built Fieldcraft Survival to teach ordinary people practical survival, self-defense, and self-reliance skills.
Get the full analysis with uListen AI
How can veteran support systems be redesigned to protect gun rights while still encouraging honest mental health treatment?
Glover details being flagged by Facebook, PayPal, Shopify, and even the FBI-linked systems as a potential domestic terrorist and white supremacist, despite his focus on disaster readiness, family preparedness, and community support.
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What specific safeguards should exist before government agencies or platforms can label individuals or groups as extremists?
They explore the mental health and identity crises veterans face when transitioning from elite military units to civilian life, including the VA disability system, PTSD/TBI labeling, and fears around red flag laws stripping gun rights.
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How can families build real-world “tribe” and resilience in an era dominated by digital interaction and convenience?
The conversation broadens into social media manipulation, censorship, the erosion of tribe and purpose in modern life, and why controlled discomfort, physical training, and real-world community are essential for resilience.
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What are practical ways for someone with no military or combat background to safely train their stress response and avoid freezing in emergencies?
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Salute.
Ugh, there you go. Great to meet you.
Nice meeting you, man. Thanks for having me on.
Probably not a good idea to stuff our fat faces with Terry Black's Barbecue before we come here though. (laughs)
I should take a nap right now. (laughs)
I'm, I'm... I gotta brick in my stomach.
Yeah, it's awesome.
Those beef ribs are insane.
Yeah.
Oh my God, that place is so good. That's the one thing that I... Uh, y- you know, Texas barbecue will fucking ruin you. There's only a few other places you can go where you can get barbecue of that caliber, you know.
It's insane. All the wood they have staged for everything.
Yeah. Yeah.
That, that's pretty amazing.
I got an offset smoker for the first time, this, uh, company Cen-Tex Barbecue, they, they built me this grill. And, uh, I never... I always cooked on a Traeger, which I love, 'cause it's so convenient, y- you know.
Oh, yeah.
You can see it on your phone, you know what the temperature is.
Yeah.
So... But this, I did it like the old school way, like b- burnt the logs in the off- the offset smoker, regulated it with the dampers, got the temperature up to like 250 degrees, put the steaks on, smoked the steaks till I got them to 110 internal temperature and then seared them. They have this, like a charcoal grill on the side. Oh my God, it's insane. It's the best.
See what you've started; your carnivore diet.
There it is right there, that's... So they made me this little, little charcoal grill on the side, and then the other one, if you go backwards, that's the actual grill itself. That guy did a fucking tremendous job. It's like a real work of art, it's-
Oh, hell yeah.
... it's, it's incredible, uh, like, just the craftsmanship.
What's it called? Cen-
Cen-Tex.
Cen-Tex.
Central Texas.
Yeah.
Central Texas Smokers. It's really, really super, super well done.
How do you think elk would do on something like that?
Oh, it does great. I, I cook elk on the Traeger all the time. I, I don't think it'd be any different. I'm probably gonna k- cook some elk on it tomorrow night.
Okay.
So I'm, I'm excited.
I might try that out.
Yeah. So what's up, Mike Glover?
What's up, man? Thanks for having me.
Nice to meet you finally. I've been following your content.
Yeah. Years.
Yeah.
I think I saw you talk about, um, a bug-out that I did-
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