BRIEF: Jocko Going Underground
7 Dec 2025 · 2 min
Jocko Willink is launching a paid underground podcast for $8.18 a month on jockounderground.com. He frames it as protection against censorship and a way to deepen connection with engaged listeners, with episodes covering psychology, sociology, philosophy, and leadership in varying lengths and formats.
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So what is this podcast all about? That's the big question. So this is the underground podcast, a little bit different than the regular Jocko podcast. And in order to listen to it, you got to be part of the movement. And it costs money. It costs $8.18 a month, which is probably a strange number, you're thinking, but there's layers to it.
Serious layers to that number. If you think you know what it means, let us know. We want Jocko Podcast to stay Jocko Podcast, and it will. But there is censorship happening in the world right now. We started this as a contingency in case things fall apart. Another reason is to strengthen the connections with people that are out there, that are really in the game.
And in the beginning, it was pretty easy, but now we get overwhelmed with questions and topics, and we can't sort through it all.
So this is a way to sort of weed out some of people that are just throwing spaghetti at the wall. We're gonna screen some of that spaghetti so that we can actually get the good stuff. But I also want to do other things, and I want to talk about other topics and tangential subjects, because a lot of tangential subjects that I see in the world, they help me understand things. And when you know the way broadly, you see it in all things. Sometimes I want to talk about some of those other things, things like psychology and sociology and philosophy and things that help me understand life and leadership and human nature even better. And even though I'm not a sociologist, obviously, I'm not a psychologist, obviously, I think we're okay to talk about these subjects.
And also, these podcasts might be longer or shorter. They might be more scripted or less scripted. They might be more casual or more formal.
If you want to listen to these underground podcasts, you go to the Jocko underground.com and you subscribe.
I just want to keep learning myself. I want to keep passing on these lessons. I want to keep exploring. Your support is appreciated. We'll see you in the underground.
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