Joe Rogan Experience #2358 - Chadd Wright

Chadd Wright joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging conversation that drifts from hunting, off-grid living, and regenerative farming into deep territory on death, faith, and meaning. Wright recounts his unlikely path to becoming a SEAL despite open-heart surgery and not knowing how to swim, his years of 'sin' and selfishness in the teams, and a demonic-feeling barracks experience in Germany that triggered his Christian conversion. A long central section explores his theology of election, scripture, the resurrection, and why he believes salvation cannot be self-chosen. They close on voluntary adversity, fame, and mental toughness, with Wright describing a 435-mile unsupported Yukon kayak race undertaken with a paralyzed SEAL teammate.

• Wright describes sitting with his dying mentor Don Tidwell for 8-10 hours twice a week, reading scripture as Tidwell appeared to gain energy from it.
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• Recounts the paralyzed Tidwell sitting bolt upright, reaching both hands to the sky, then lying back and dying.
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• Reveals he paid for his own heart surgery as a civilian to remove a 7cm pericardial cyst after the Navy disqualified him from BUDS.
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• Confesses to a period of drunkenness, womanizing, and a negligent discharge that grazed a teammate.
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• Admits he ignored his mentor Jake Hubman during alcoholism struggles, who then killed himself.
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• Describes a demon-inhabited Germany barracks that, after a pastor's phone prayer and dabbed olive oil, became peaceful overnight.
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• Says his desires for pornography, foul language, and gossip vanished literally overnight after his conversion.
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• Reveals he and his paralyzed teammate covered 435 miles of the Yukon 1000 kayak race before health forced them to stop.
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• Rogan cites a claim that 100% of tested California wines contained glyphosate.
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• Lanai, Hawaii has only ~3,000 people but 30,000+ axis deer and allows hunting 365 days a year.
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• Axis deer evolved alongside tigers and can hear an arrow in flight and dodge it within 10 yards.
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• Rogan's reverse-sear steak method: 225F with super smoke to 120F, then a hot cast-iron skillet with beef tallow ~90 seconds per side.
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• Early American pioneers like Daniel Boone preferred bear meat for its fat and used deer mainly for skins.
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• A version of Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls matches a copy found a thousand years later nearly word-for-word.
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• Rick Strassman learned ancient Hebrew over 16 years to read the Bible in its native tongue.
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• Terence McKenna's line that science demands only one miracle, the Big Bang, then claims to explain everything else.
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• James Webb telescope findings of unexpectedly large early galaxies are pushing some estimates of the universe's age past 22 billion years.
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• Controversial tomography claims of structures and coil-wrapped cylinders up to 2 kilometers beneath the Egyptian pyramids.
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