Magic the Gathering is Now Racist? w/Jocko Willink | Joe Rogan

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Jocko Willink

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Jocko Willink is a decorated retired Navy SEAL officer, author, and host of "The Jocko Podcast." His new novel, "Final Spin," is available now.

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If anybody's got the answers, it's Jaco. Got any answers? I'm not quite so sure about that. I'm not sure how this movie ends. This is the dumbest fucking movie ever. Do you know Magic the Gathering is now racist? I don't even know what Magic the Gathering is. It's some dorky game that nerds play. Sorry, nerds. How is it racist? I don't know. I was just reading. I only saw the title of the article that they're trying to cancel Magic the Gathering. I'm like, oh, Christ. I thought that's what you guys liked. I thought they liked Magic the Gathering. I have no idea. Everything's problematic. Everyone's getting canceled. It's amazing how many people did blackface. Yeah, it's very strange. It's very strange. It's very strange. I mean, it was on primetime TV, right? Yeah, a bunch of times. I mean, like in the modern world, primetime TV. Jimmy Fallon was doing, well, he's doing a Chris Rock impression, which, by the way, you used to be able to do. When I was in high school, my friends were Mr. T for Halloween. Nobody gave a fuck. Nobody was like, Jimmy, what's wrong with you? Everybody's like, oh, you're Mr. T for Halloween. It was never like a problem. It's a very strange thing. You can do whiteface. No problem. Here it is. What is this? Magic the Gathering. Invoke prejudice card. It's an enchantment card which restricts the caster's opponents only using summons that match the skin color of their opposing creatures. Huh? If you brought me on to talk about this, I should leave now about Magic the Gathering. This is why I'm here, man. We're in a bad way. It just shows how fucked up everything is. There's a lot of thin skin out there right now, apparently. It seems like a perfect storm. If you wanted to engineer the downfall of society, you would do it in several steps. You would have a reality show president where everybody's mad at him and then all the liberals get their feathers in a ruffle and everybody gets real super uptight. Then there's this big divide between the left and the right that's manufactured. Then you'd have this disease. Just lock everyone inside. Yeah, unprecedented. Shut down the economy. Force people to not work. If your business falls apart, you could be the most hard-working, diligent, disciplined person who's always at work an hour early, always has your eyes dotted and your T's crossed and you still go broke and you're still fucked. Then you have this George Floyd thing. Then boom, it just ignites the power keg. The other thing that you have to wrap around all this is this social media, which is I'm only going to post things that are just going to completely make everyone that sees whatever I'm posting emotional and filled with rage. Whether you're on the left or you're on the right, my goal is to enrage people. That's the goal. Then that just gets spun up over and over. You're taking all these little incidents and you're multiplying them times thousands and thousands of views. Then on top of that, mainstream media is the same thing. It's not like there's this huge difference between what the mainstream media shows and what social media. They're both emotional media. It's trying to make people emotional, which is the worst possible thing. No one makes good decisions when they're emotional. I spent my adult life trying to train humans to not get emotional in pressure situations. Why? Because it's going to end up bad every single time. Every single time. Yet that's what our society is based on right now. It's based on these emotional reactions. Because of social media, I think, and because of things like YouTube and user created content where anybody can make videos. So many things are vying for folks' attention that mainstream media has resorted to click baity type shit. Whether it's New York Times articles, which used to be Beyond Reproach. They've gone Social Justice Warrior and click baity. All these other websites are 100% click baity. That's the only way they can get people to pay attention. The dumbest fucking article, I couldn't believe how dumb it was. It was an article on Ozark. Has Ozark been canceled? And I'm like, fuck, they canceled that show? That show's amazing. So then I click on the article. The entire article is about a guy who couldn't find season one on Ozark because there was a glitch and then he found it. And so it's not... So the whole article was just bullshit. But they got me. They get everybody. They got you to click. They got their advertising dollars because they can show the engagement with the audience. Exactly. Well, here's a good one. CNN showed a guy got shot yesterday in San Bernardino. Hispanic Man got shot in San Bernardino. So that's the title. The title of the article is Hispanic Man Gets Gunned Down by the Police in San Bernardino. What they leave out is the guy had a gun and was shooting at the cops. So this guy's got a gun. There's photos of this gentleman with a gun. And there's a cop on his knees about to shoot the guy, the guy standing in front of a gas station. There's gas pumps. I mean, maybe he felt like they wouldn't shoot at him because the gas tanks were right behind him, the pumps were right behind him. But why would they leave that out? Guy with gun in Gunfight with Cops Dies is the right title, not Hispanic Man Gunned Down by Cops. They're literally trying to incite anger and violence. They know that you read that and you say Hispanic Man shot by cops like these motherfuckers. They're murderers. They won't stop. And they leave out this picture of this man with a gun pointing it. You're looking at me like I'm going to say some kind of really profound answer. I got nothing for you. Because you're exactly right. That what is it? What do they set up that headline for? It's to outrage people. Anyone that actually opens it up and reads it would actually probably say something like, hmm, sounds like the cops did a good job on that one and killed a bad guy before he blew up a gas station and killed a bunch of innocent people. But that's obviously not that. I mean, think if you try to write a headline the other way of how these heroic cops face man with gun, eliminate him before he can cause terror in this neighborhood. That would be a nice headline to read, but you're not going to see it. You're not going to see that. Not today. Because it's not going to drive enough people crazy. Say if your wife tweets, all lives matter, you can get fired. It doesn't even have to be you anymore. All lives matter. Just imagine a time where saying all lives matter is so controversial that you could get fired. Didn't that happen to a soccer player or something? Yes. A soccer player's wife tweeted something like that. Yeah. The guy who runs the kings or the guy who's the commentator for the kings, they fired him.