#1434 - Trevor Thompson

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Jimmy, three, two, one.

Boom, and we're live. What's up, Trevor? How are you, brother?

Trevor Thompson (0:05)

Damn good. How are you, man?

Joe Rogan (0:06)

I'm good, man. You're a coffee snob?

Trevor Thompson (0:08)

Uh, coffee addict.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Ah, what's the difference? When you become a snob, like when you go, oh, I went to get Starbucks.

Trevor Thompson (0:16)

Maybe when you can tell the difference between all the kinds of coffee.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Can you? Oh, yeah, right. If you get, oh, this is an Ethiopian.

Trevor Thompson (0:23)

This is this, this is that.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

I guess they're all Ethiopian, right? Originally, I learned that from Peter Giuliani, that's his name, Giuliano or Giuliani.

I had a real coffee expert on here once who dropped the science on me. Cheers, sir.

Trevor Thompson (0:39)

Cheers.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Yeah, he dropped some coffee science on us.

Shout out to Black Rifle Coffee. Yeah, good stuff. So what's up, man? You went to the, you did the full comedy store.

Trevor Thompson (0:51)

I did.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Gauntlet last night.

Trevor Thompson (0:53)

I figured like, you know, there's a chance he's going to be there. Let me look it up.

Take my buddies.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

Yeah.

Yeah, we're there all the time. That's like what we're saying. It's like the gym, you know, that's where it's where we train.

Trevor Thompson (1:06)

You know, and you can see it, and it's rad to see. It's fun to see that kind of training going on with that kind of creative art that you need other people to respond to.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Yeah, it's a weird art like that. Yeah. You really can't do it in a vacuum.

Trevor Thompson (1:22)

No, I mean, then you're just talking to yourself.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

Have you been to comedy shows before?

Trevor Thompson (1:27)

A few. Actually, I went to your show.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Oh, that was in San Diego, right? Right, right, right.

Temecula, right?

Trevor Thompson (1:34)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

I think it's Pachanga, is that what it is?

Trevor Thompson (1:36)

Pachanga.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

That's a good fucking casino.

Trevor Thompson (1:38)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

It gets a bad rap. It's like people.

Trevor Thompson (1:41)

I think it's just because it comes off as silly.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Pachanga, because of the name?

Trevor Thompson (1:45)

Probably.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

It's a good spot. So last night was fun, man. And we almost had like a mini podcast in the back bar of the comedy show. I'm like, damn, we got to remember all this cool shit we talked about. I was trying to think like all the different things that we talked about that we have to remember. But one of them is a shout out to our buddy Andy, Andy Stump, who basically, we were talking last night about one of the things that happened.

There was an event while you were serving where a helicopter was shot down.

And then you were the replacement group.

Trevor Thompson (2:22)

Yeah, so I was augmenting the group that ended up replacing the guys who passed away during extortion 17

Joe Rogan (2:28)

And that was a huge event, right?

Trevor Thompson (2:30)

Enormous. Huge loss to the special operations community as a whole.

Joe Rogan (2:34)

You know, I was listening to Andy's podcast with Cam Haynes. It's out right now, Cleared Hot. And he was saying that they were flying towards fires.

Or, you know, actually, this is a different story. This is a different story. But he was saying that it got hit by an RPG at night, which is rare. Like, apparently, those things are not easy to aim.

Trevor Thompson (2:57)

No, they're, I mean, it's just a rocket propelled grenade. It's, you know, shoulder fired and you just point and aim.

So the thing isn't that accurate.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

Hmm. So do they have a scope on them?

Trevor Thompson (3:10)

A rudimentary one, and depending on which one you're using, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

So you're just kind of sort of just getting a sight picture through that?

Trevor Thompson (3:15)

Kentucky Windigy.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

Oh, okay. And so that was a thing that Andy could have been in that group.

Trevor Thompson (3:25)

Absolutely could have, which is very tough for guys that aren't there, that could have been there, to know that that's a possibility with so many dudes that spent so much time together, like him, with those guys.

Joe Rogan (3:41)

Yeah, one of the things that we talked about last night was the difference in perception between what war is actually like versus what civilians think war is like, and how much of that stuff is sort of polluted by media, by movies and television shows where they paint this picture of it.