Brooks Crenshaw: Gossip from Antiquity
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Brooks Crenshaw on Election Day 2024
1:03 – Why can't America count votes on election night?
2:22 – Paper ballots and a confusing Kentucky amendment
4:18 – Thomas Massie and a primary challenge
8:15 – Targeting intelligence with the SEAL Teams
10:49 – Joining the Navy after 9/11
14:11 – Stolen Valor, BUD/S, and washing out
18:01 – Turning failure into a Little John role
22:24 – Avoiding typecasting and consulting for DOD and DHS
25:23 – Iraq, those who serve, and a friend lost at FOB Chapman
28:21 – Bitterness, Jordan Peterson, and a debt to the fallen
29:57 – Why old stories teach us how to be
32:34 – Jordan Peterson's burdens and stumbles
35:15 – The Daedalus Thread: Icarus and the middle path
37:11 – Minos, the Minotaur, and the labyrinth of bureaucracy
42:17 – What do we mean by communism today?
44:47 – Marcuse and the long march through the institutions
46:47 – Queer theory and the LGB split from the TQ
52:08 – Competence at violence and the meaning of meek
54:06 – A Kelce brother, a phone, and who you trash talk
55:43 – Abundance and a father's severed finger
59:15 – Lou's Patriot Front sketch and the Whitmer kidnapping plot
1:01:35 – Police incentives, controlled stings, and wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Brooks Crenshaw, the man behind The Daedulus Thread, washed out of BUD/S and went on to work in human intelligence and targeting for the SEALs. He joins Lou to talk about Greek mythology, why mortals should never try to fool the gods, and what he considers his greatest failure.
We also get into Minos's wife and the white bull (Pasiphaë was on that carnivore diet), W.H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts," the power of story, Lou's butcher father cutting off his finger, the size of Jordan Peterson's cross, trans Maoists, and their favorite congressman, Thomas Massie.