Navy Seal Trevor Thompson on the Realism of Saving Private Ryan | Joe Rogan

So what we're talking about was the difference between the way the media depicts it and the way it is. Is there anybody that's got it right? Is there any movie that you watch? You go, that's pretty goddamn close. I don't know. They're all close-ish, you know, but a lot of them are very Hollywoodized. They have to be. I get it. Right. You know, I understand. They're telling a story. Right. You know, unless they're doing a documentary, it's just a story. But like I can say that Saving Private Ryan was super close. Not obviously I wasn't for that. But my dad's dad said he had to step out of the theater when he went to go see that. Whoa. Because he could smell diesel. He remembered it. It was that strong of a memory for him. Yeah. So. Was he at Normandy? No, he he did comment landings in the South Pacific with the Marine Corps. That fucking opening scene when they were on the beach. It's it's it's tough. Fucking nuts, man. The idea that that was the only way that they could handle that situation, that they had to do it that way. Yeah. Imagine being one of those guys that has to get off those boats. That was their that was their good, better, best scenario. Yeah. This is this is how this has to happen. How many people died that day? Thousands. I'm not positive on that, but it was thousands of people perished that day. There was something that someone did to commemorate the anniversary of the event, and they did something that represented everybody of everyone who died. And they did it like on the beach, like with a number. Here it goes. Four hundred and twenty five thousand allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the Battle of Normandy. Two hundred and nine allied casualties. Jesus Christ. It's fucking insane. That's fucking insane. I mean, I remember my granddad has and I knew he had told me these things before I joined about storming a beach in the South Pacific. And everybody left, right, front and back of him dying, going up the sand. Yeah. So but that those are the kinds of things that it's tough to. Yeah, that's the fucking insane. That's the thing. It's a all over the sand and it represents all the different people that died. And it's just everywhere, everywhere you look so that if you were a person who really had this abstract idea that this war went down there, that gives you a visual representation of what it must have looked like. You can kind of almost get it in your head. It makes it more visceral. Yeah. Just look and see that many fucking bodies and that was the best case scenario for these guys. Yeah, that's the best case scenario. That's why they did it that way. Yep. It's terrifying. God damn. You know, and it's it's stuff like that or like a month before I went to Afghanistan. It's about a month is when extortion 17 happened. I'm like, fuck, I'm going there to replace those guys. It makes it really, really like some some things sound home really well and some things don't. And for me, that did. Yeah.