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Dan Crenshaw

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  1. “Issues. So the more that your muscles fail and your tendons fail, the more stress goes on your bones. And it eventually just snapped. Not like a compound fracture, but like a fracture. And I could feel it kept running through the adrenaline, sat down for chao, and then couldn't get it back up. And the question the instructors ask is, are you hurt or are you injured? Because if you're hurt, well, and you stop, well, you're never coming back. But if you're injured, that's different. And we'll do an MRI. We'll do an x-ray, and we'll see if you're injured. Then you can come back. But that's an important distinction.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “The project, so you can go drink with your friends knowing full well you could have done better. It's the same with going through BUDS. If you have it in your head that like I may quit. I mean, I'm going to do my best, but like I might not make it. You're going to quit. That's that mindset is you're done. You're only, the only mindset that will get you through that is I will die before I quit. There is zero chance of me quitting. I might break my leg, at which point I have to kind of heal and restart because they ask you a question when I, especially when I broke my leg. It was during one of what we call the chow runs because you have to run the boats on everywhere you go through a whole week. It's you got the boats on your head. So it's pretty bad on your spine and bones in general on that shower. My leg had been bad throughout the first phase, the first three weeks, the first phase, fourth week is hell week. And it was just getting worse and worse. And, you know, bad 10itis.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Yeah, it's actually still mind-boggling to me when I watch Hellweek class. So, I mean, that certainly lives up to its mythology, the Hell Week and generally the training. It's probably worse than you think, because you can only describe it and show it to people so much when you're in it. It's unbelievably intense and difficult. That's why I say there's no way you'll make it through unless you just truly gave yourself no other choice. And I wrote a book called Fortitude. You can buy it on Amazon still. It's a great book. Bestseller. And it's one of the chapters in there is No Plan B. And what I mean by that is you should always plan, but no plan B is a mindset. You know, it's a mindset like I'm not going to give in to my weaker self, whatever you're doing. Maybe it's like it's a project you're working on. Maybe it's buds. But plan B is taking shortcuts.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “And that goes away a little bit when you actually are in it. But just like any organization, nothing is as cool as you think it is, especially not Congress.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “It was only the seals, and I was never interested in the military at large. It was just the seals. And that was pretty early. It must have been middle school. Read a book by Dick Marsenko, kind of one of the more famous Navy seals, founded SEAL Team 6. He's famous in Vietnam. He got a lot of guys my age into the SEAL teams because those were the first, you know, this was the first time books were written about seals. We were just hooked. That's the case with most seals. So you're not going to meet many seals who like just decided one, you know, kind of off on a whim. Like, I'm going to try buds. I'm going to try that out. No, you'll quit. You're not going to make it. If you haven't been thinking about this, like kind of toughening your mind for years, you're not going to make it through that training. You're going to make an excuse.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Pulling a thing made for me before she died. It says it's a picture of me skiing. I'm like, I'm doing a jump on skiing because we always skied growing up. I'm still pretty avid skier. She goes, and it's just a message from her at the bottom. It says, Dan, I know you will always soar to great heights and all that you do in life. My love is always with you, mom. I don't have much else. We live in an age now where I maybe have like a few babies. And I have about a bazillion baby photos of my daughter. And if I ever went away, like there's so many things I've written and said that she could read. And it's kind of a lesson. Like if I knew I was going away, I would really try to make sure that we recorded a lot of that.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “And that's maybe even harder, to be honest. I at least got to say goodbye. I was just talking to Thomas Massey on the floor and his wife suddenly died recently. And it's just awful when you're not expecting it. And I deal with that in the military, of course. Know it hits the Gold Star wife all of a sudden like a ton of bricks and a lot of these women are really close friends still and it's just it's it hits very different stuff”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “There's a lot of grace and humor and always paying attention to us and playing funny games with us and our G.I. Joes. I remember playing Clue a lot while she was in her last days because luckily we just had her in our dining room. We had a nurse there those last days that wasn't in the hospital. But Yeah, there's no good way to deal with a parent dying at a young age. There's no secrets to any of that. You just have to go and deal with it.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “All of it. I mean, she's, you know, I know we tend to sort of what would be the right word kind of hero-wise. Is that a heroized people and romanticize them and their deaths? But I don't think we're doing that here. Really was one of the best human beings could imagine there was really never any self-pity. I can't remember any moments of her flipping out on us or just, you know, just as one would expect, right? You're just diagnosed with this horrible disease. You've got two annoying kids. And how do you not flip out war? And I just don't have any memories of that at all”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I don't know I don't know. I mean, you don't. You just do. Like many things, you just do it. It's happening to you. You can't change it. So you grieve, but maybe harder on my brother was only five. I'm not sure how he processes it. It's not clear what memories even gets to.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “So, I think this is a five year process. There's really only the last couple of weeks where I'm told by my parents that I'll never forget that this is it. She's dying. That's a moment you'll never forget. And I think it happened within a week from there. Because prior to that, there's ups and ups and downs.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “And she was diagnosed, can't breast cancer when I was five. She's one of the first, if not, I think the first patient, actually, because they did a whole news segment on her at the time, local news, patient number one for drug call attacks a tear, which is very commonly used now in cancer treatments, but that was the first of it. 1993. And they're figuring out the doses. It's medical innovation. She just fought it, fought it hard.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “And it got me a whole new perspective on our role in the world, America's leadership role in the world, what those men went through on those beaches. It's just unbelievable.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Well, she grew up in Michigan, New Jersey, Michigan. My grandpa, her dad worked for Ford Motor Company his whole life. It's one of those kind of just old school, greatest generation, served in World War II. In the Pacific region, didn't see combat actually have his old uniform right here in my office in the closet. It's really cool. I had to get that back from somebody who bought it from an estate sale with my grandma moved. Like, grandma, you sold the uniform. She's like, I don't need it. She's like, I need my Tupperware, but I don't need the uniform. So my aunt helped me track that thing down. And the guy was very generous and just gave it to me after he understood how significant that was. I just spent the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy recently got the jump in and wow, just an amazing experience that was.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Yeah, most. I would agree with that. But also, the intent is kind of irrelevant to me because in the end, you're cutting the line. You're not doing it the right way. We have a system in place. Yeah, I agree.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “But these are good people who would also just go right back to Columbia. They have no intention of gaming the system, coming back. And yet they see somebody who can just go up to the border, fill out a CBP1 app, and supposedly come in legally according to this administration. She's still cutting the line and you're empowering traffickers and cartels in order to do so. In the end, it's our own fault because it's obvious to everyone that if you do it, you're going to get away with it. I mean, I study human nature a little bit, but generally speaking, if you can get away with something that's to your benefit, human nature is not all that complicated. It doesn't really change.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Yeah, but you got to take it into context. He's not seeing everybody who comes across like that. I would take issue with that being what he means. It's coarse language, which offends people. And again, Mexicans haven't forgotten it. But that being said, if you're going to be hard-pressed to find legal immigrants, came here legally, went through the process. You're going to be hard pressed to find any of them that aren't extremely angry about what goes on at the border. Because what they fundamentally see is an immoral cutting of the line. That's fundamentally what I see. So I have classmates, because again, I went to high school in Colombia for the most part, all my friends are Colombian, and for the most part, they all still live there. And I still go to high school reunions. And, you know, you've got educated people, loan businesses who have a hell of a time getting a visa because there's just a long line. I mean, we can argue about how many visas there should be. Those are proper discussions to have.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “But yeah, so how does living abroad affect it? Well, I mean, yeah, because I didn't really fully answer your question to begin with. So, I mean, growing up abroad, I do notice about myself versus others is I have a much easier time simply talking to understanding getting along with anybody from any foreign country, not just the ones I've lived in. It just helps you do that. That perspective and experience was just really helpful for just for future relationships and understanding different social norms and cultural norms and just being able to speak slightly intelligently ask the right questions to people that just helps you in life. Now as it comes to immigration, I'm not sure it affects it so much. I will say a lot of Mexicans still remember that line that you just stated that was a 2016 line and still since”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Kids are jerks in middle school. It's one of the worst times for a new daughter 10 months old and the advice I get a lot of advice, right? Love to give you advice. But one of the ones that sticks with me is, you know, she needs you now. She needs you forever, but she really needs her dad in middle school. That's when your daughter needs you. And that really sticks with me and rings true because, man, they're mean, especially in the US. Growing up abroad, too, it's almost like there's stunted growth. It's not like the right word because it makes it sound dispositive. But it's like a more innocent community, the expat community generally when you're growing up abroad, when you're in these schools. Now, Columbia was very different because I was like the only American there. This is 1998 to 2002. This is a dangerous time in Columbia, so not a ton of expats there at the time. But still, it's like when I...”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “To say because I don't know what my worldview was otherwise. That's often a tough question to answer, so I kind of have to guess because I don't know the other Dan Crenshaw. He just grew up like every other American. I don't know what he's like. But I would love to have my kids have that experience growing up abroad, maybe not too long, maybe not moving three times middle school, but.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “Back right back to Houston in maybe a year, year and a half in Quito. And then maybe a full semester in eighth grade back in Houston and then moved again to Bogota, Colombia, where I actually spent all my high school.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Yeah, yeah. And I've got no real connection to Scotland, but I was born there. My dad was a petroleum engineer, graduated from Texas I&M where we met my mom. She was doing her master's in nutrition science at the time. And yeah, they started off their career in Houston, moved tose to Aberdeen, had me moved to Cairo after that, and then to Houston. So my first memories are really of Houston. You know, I was a toddler living in Cairo and just a baby living in Aberdeen. So my first memories growing up or in Houston, that's where I started preschool and kindergarten. And we moved again in seventh grade to Quito, Ecuador, again, following the oil sector.”

    2024-07-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 588 — Rep. Dan Crenshaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source