#1337 - Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw (0:01)

Try it in there.

Joe Rogan (0:03)

Yeah, this one is from Goggins. David Goggins gave me this one.

Dan Crenshaw (0:07)

That's his coin?

Joe Rogan (0:08)

Yeah, he's got his own coin. You need a Dan Crenshaw coin, bro.

Dan Crenshaw (0:11)

I do. This is kind of a big coin.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

It's a fat one. It's not one you can really carry in your pocket.

Dan Crenshaw (0:16)

No.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

So it stays on the desk.

Dan Crenshaw (0:18)

He's really trying to outdo everybody else's coin. That's David Goggins.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

The uncommon amongst uncommon men, even with your fucking coins.

Dan Crenshaw (0:30)

My coin's not going to be that big. I'm still working on it.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Are you going to get a coin? For real?

Dan Crenshaw (0:33)

We are. Yeah. We're way behind the power curve on this. We need one. It's all about, you know, you got to get the right symbology in there. You got the right amount of Texas, the right amount of seal, the right amount of Congress.

You got to pack that in to the right symbology.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Test different ingredients. Try it over and over again.

Dan Crenshaw (0:49)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Until you get the bacon right.

Dan Crenshaw (0:51)

Basically.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Well, thanks for being here, man. Appreciate it.

Dan Crenshaw (0:54)

I'm glad to be here. This is pretty cool.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

You rose to prominence through a joke. Isn't that strange?

Yeah.

Dan Crenshaw (0:59)

I mean, a form of a joke. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Saturday Night Live.

Dan Crenshaw (1:02)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

That was a weird moment. I was like, ooh.

Dan Crenshaw (1:05)

It was.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

You handled it really well, though.

Dan Crenshaw (1:07)

Well, thank you.

When that happened, it was a Saturday night, obviously, Saturday Night Live, and we heard about it the next morning. I got a lot of texts, and everybody's like, oh, hey, man, you made it. It's a bunch of seals, too. So the seal community is not prone to this righteous indignation kind of reaction. They were more likely in private to just double down and make fun of me more, which I love about them. But here's what they would say, only we're allowed to make fun of you, not this guy.

So that's how we found out about it. We watched it, and we were right in the middle of the campaign. The election was about two days away.

So you're struggling just to do all your last minute things to get the vote out. And so this was, it did not dawn upon me how big of a deal this was going to be. At the time, it felt more like an annoyance. It felt more like, okay, I've got to come up with a statement. I'm seeing people really upset about this, but I'm not going to lie to them and tell them that I'm emotionally upset, like I'm emotionally triggered by this. That would be a reaction on my part.

So we crafted, I think, the right statement, which was, listen, it's offensive, doesn't mean I'm offended. And you don't have to choose to be offended here. And as just a general rule, we should try hard not to offend people and try hard not to be offended. Okay, there, that's it. And I'm going to demand some apology and kind of stand on my high horse and play this aggrieved victim role, which is the expected role to play these days. We don't want to do that.

Joe Rogan (2:49)

Well, good for you. Good for you for not doing it. Refreshing.

Yeah, but The Joe was kind of funny. I mean, I have to admit. He said you looked like a bad guy in a porno film.

Dan Crenshaw (2:58)

That was not the offensive part.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

What was the offensive part?

Dan Crenshaw (3:02)

That part was funny. Now, it drew a lot of questions. He called me a hitman in a porno.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

Right.

Dan Crenshaw (3:07)

And so the obvious question is, what kind of porno is this? I mean, that's the very, that's the next thing that goes through your head.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

What kind of porno has a hitman?

Dan Crenshaw (3:15)

Right, right. And like, what's the role of that? I mean, there's just, your mind goes to all sorts of directions. That part wasn't.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

The offensive part was he lost his eye in the war or whatever.

Dan Crenshaw (3:25)

That's what set people off.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

That was very dismissive. That's what set people off.