Joe Rogan Experience #1931 - Mike Glover

Mike Glover joins Joe Rogan to discuss his decades in Special Operations and the CIA, and how he built Fieldcraft Survival to teach 'modern survival' and resilience to civilians. A central thread is his claim that an FBI analyst's open-source assessment got him and his American Contingency group labeled domestic terrorists, triggering bans and account deletions across Facebook, Shopify, and PayPal with no recourse. They explore survival psychology (the 10-80-10 rule, hypoarousal/freezing, the illusion of centrality) drawn from his combat experience and from books like Survival Psychology and The Unthinkable. The conversation widens into the veteran transition crisis, loss of tribe and purpose, the comfort crisis, and how social media, algorithms, and political narratives are dividing the country.

• Facebook flagged Fieldcraft Survival's canning-and-jarring classes as 'extreme,' the first sign Glover was being suppressed.
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• An FBI analyst (Kyle Seraphin) flagged his American Contingency group as a militant violent extremist entity, cascading into bans.
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• Shopify gave him 48 hours to pull his data before deleting his multimillion-dollar business with no appeal.
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• He remains labeled a 'domestic terrorist' on Facebook/Instagram, confirmed by a screenshot from Meta's India moderation team.
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• PayPal froze his account with $60,000 in it and removed him from the platform, citing unspecified policy.
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• His mother's small-business salon Facebook account was deleted simply for reposting that she was proud of her son.
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• In an Iraq firefight his elite Iraqi counterterrorism partner froze in the fetal position; Glover dragged him 20 yards under PKM fire.
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• His company demonstrated a self-sustained bug-out from Phoenix to the Canadian border on essentially one tank using a 75-gallon reserve.
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• He is rated 100% 'total and permanent' disabled by the VA; his individual ratings summed to over 200%.
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• John Leach's 10-80-10 rule: in disasters ~10% make rapid decisions and survive, 80% freeze, and 10% do fatal things.
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• In the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, 12 of the 14 people involved were federal informants.
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• On average 93% of Americans' lives are spent indoors, leaving only 7% outside.
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• The Virginia Tech shooter killed 32 people, shooting roughly 93% of victims in the head; one student survived by freezing/playing dead.
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• About 10% of sexual assault victims report tonic paralysis (freezing) - more than the percentage who physically fought.
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• US overdose/related deaths broke records: roughly 110,000 in 2022 and 107,000 in 2021.
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• Native American warriors traditionally shared combat trauma fireside with the whole tribe, a burden-sharing ritual modern veterans lack.
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