Episode Transcript: #962 - Jocko Willink
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4 3 2 welcome back jocco what's happening baby it's good to be here it's good to see
man we were just talking about chris cornell we found out last night at the comedy store
that he died and then this morning found out that he hung himself just fuck it's it's hard
to even comprehend how do you comprehend that I'm living in the parallel universe doesn't
make any sense like how could someone like you know it's easy on the outside looking
in a guy like that but you like that guy was one of the best ever like how does the guy
like that even want to kill himself how does the lead singer of sound garden to me it just
really kind of reveals the complexities of human life yeah exactly what you're saying
to have a guy that is at the pinnacle of his skill the pinnacle of fame the pinnacle of
money and for him to say you know what not going to do it anymore yeah I don't I don't
know what was going on in his head obviously who knows if he was on medication if he had
some sort of an issue a health issue who knows I mean I would never speculate but it just
I don't understand I mean again I don't know his life but I couldn't even comprehend I
can't even imagine it well it's that's one of the really hard things when you start talking
about suicide for people that for someone like me and I haven't had suicidal thoughts
right so when you when you go from that to somebody that not only has the thoughts but
then goes ahead and executes it it's very hard to comprehend yeah I've met people that
have done it before I've met I've had a few friends that have done it I just I've never
understood it I don't get it but I don't know them you know I mean everybody's got their
own unique mindset and it's just you you know what's really crazy man I read the statistic