TIM KENNEDY | To Protect and Preserve Human Life
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1 hour and 13 minutes
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195.74603
Summary
Tim Kennedy is a former United States Army Ranger, former UFC fighter, entrepreneur, and father. In this episode, we talk about the dangers of mandatory military service, why he doesn t believe in it, and why he believes that masculinity needs to be restored in society.
Transcript
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My guest today likely needs no introduction. His name is Tim Kennedy, and he is probably one of
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the most interesting men on the planet. Now I had the opportunity to talk with him remotely years
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ago, but to be able to sit down with him at his home was one of my favorite opportunities since
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I started podcasting over six years ago. We get into a lot during our discussion together,
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including his plans to replace traditional education with something that will definitely
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serve our sons and daughters much better. Uh, why he believes that there are forms of quote
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unquote, toxic masculinity in society, uh, his thoughts on some sort of mandatory military
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service, uh, why his wife completely believes in him. And we also get into his personal mission,
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which is to protect and preserve human life. You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest,
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embrace your fears and boldly charge your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up
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one more time. Every time you are not easily deterred, defeated, rugged, resilient, strong.
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This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become at the end of the day.
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And after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.
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Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler and I am the host and the founder of
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the order of man podcast and movement, which is here and designed to reclaim and restore masculinity
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to its former glory where men were valued in society, where men were believed in, where men
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were honorable and capable and hardworking. And it's my job via this podcast to give you the tools
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and conversations you need to step up as a father, a husband, a business owner, a community leader,
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and to become the man that you are meant to be the man that you are capable of becoming.
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Uh, we do that through this podcast. I've got a, an amazing conversation coming up with Tim
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Kennedy. Uh, last week we had Evan Hafer. We've had Steven Rinella, Andy Frisilla, uh, David Goggins,
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Jocko Willink. And as I say, every week, the men that have come on this podcast and banded with us
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in some form or another is a testament to the work that we're doing here. Uh, before I get into my
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for life. You can do that after we get into the conversation today, because I've got Tim Kennedy
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on and he is, as you are probably well aware, one of the baddest men on the planet. Uh, he's an army
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Ranger green beret. He's a former UFC fighter. And among so many other things, he is in the process
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of opening a school, uh, that will teach young men and women in ways that are much more conducive
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to their overall success than traditional education. And on top of that, Tim is extremely
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thoughtful and he's insightful and has always provided me with a new and or a deeper way of
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looking at my role as a man. So you guys are really going to enjoy this conversation. I know I did.
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Tim, thanks for inviting us into your home, man. Yeah. Appreciate it. Yeah. We did a podcast. Like
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I said, I was, I think it was three years ago or so, but it was remote and it was just as I was
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getting started, getting my feet wet. So hopefully this goes a little better on my end anyways.
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Yeah. I, um, I have a hard time. I don't, I'm not a big podcast listener, but, um, I don't,
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if I'm listening to somebody that like a Jocko or a Joe and, um, they're like the person that
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they're having on their podcast is remote. I'm like, man, it's different, man. It's different.
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Like we, we've tried to do a lot more live conversations and it's different. It's better.
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The dynamics different. The conversation goes better. You can read each other. Uh, you know,
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we get like that anyways, with being online, you can't see the nuances and the tone or the inflection
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of people's voices. So it's hard to know where people are coming from. I was on a zoom call
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and that a bunch of people were wearing masks on the call and whatever on the call, on the call.
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Okay. I think they were in their office building. It was like a government. Yeah. I got it. So like,
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I'm not going to throw stones. Like, I don't know what the situation was. It might be the policy for
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the city that they work for, whatever it was. But I mean, the deviation from like an in-person
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conversation where, um, if you're a jerk or you're being passive aggressive, I, first of all,
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I can identify, I can read it and then I can like punish you, you know, for being a prick.
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Sure. Uh, where like there's a Delta between, uh, in-person conversation and a remote virtual
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conversation. And then there's an even another one where like three quarters of your face is
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covered. Definitely. I'm like, my, my, we want as well just text message, you know,
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cause there's no sarcasm. There's no conveyance of any clever wit. I have no idea what you're
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saying right now, but I think I want to kill you. Right. Is that your, is that your default?
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Oh yeah. Absolutely. It's like, everybody's trying to kill me unless you prove otherwise.
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Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a pretty good move, especially this day and age.
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Yeah. Here we are. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to this day, the Mujahideen still can't get me. So,
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you know, I'm doing something right. Yeah. I, so, I mean, you're, you basically tempted
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them, right? And no, they started it. Well, I know, but you, you were like, okay, yeah,
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bring it on. Right. Well, I didn't like walk into a bear cave. Yeah. I was like, well,
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I guess I did cause I went there first and then I killed a bunch of terrorists and then I came back
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here, but it's not like I came back here and then I was like, ha ha ha, you guys can't get me.
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Right. You know, um, they were actively recruiting local ISIS to find somebody to kill me or to attack
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my family here, here. Right. Yeah. So I, I didn't go out and I was like, Hey, here I am. Come and try
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and find me. Like they started it. So then when they did that, I was like, I picked up and called Fox news
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and told them that they could send anybody they want, but I'm going to kill them all.
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Right. And they just can't ever get them back, you know? Yeah. Well, I think that's a pretty
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credible threat coming from you. Yeah. Did somebody try to break into your house not too long ago?
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It was, it was a couple of years ago. Was it, uh, was it like just random or was it targeted?
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It was, it was kind of both. Okay. So one landscaper talked to another landscaper and that landscaper
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told this other landscaper that in this house, there was a bunch of guns and money, um, but
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they didn't know who you were. They didn't know who I was. Okay. No. So as it like got
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to the felon friend of the landscaper, they, uh, you know, like the game of telephone, it's
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like, Hey, his name is so-and-so. And by the time it finally gets around a whole bunch
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of miss, it was Jim. Yeah. There's information that has been like important information that's
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been omitted from this conversation. So by the time it got to said, uh, professional
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burglar, you know, and when you're a professional burglar, it's not like there's, you're the
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smartest guy in the world. Yeah. I can imagine there's life choices that have been made that
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have put you on a trajectory to, to the position that you're in, which is like the bottom feeder
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of society. Yeah. Cause some, sometimes when you hear professional burglar, I'm thinking
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like, uh, oceans 11 or Italian job, but it's probably not like that. No, no. Like
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this is like a kind of drug addict that drives this really crappy beat up car that parked
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directly in front of my house, which was like the first thing that sent off the first motion
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sensor before the cameras even kicked on was like, there's a car stopped in front of your
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house. Cause you can set up cameras where like if a car pattern wise drives in front of
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your house. Oh, really? Numerous times. It'll actually alert you. So there's some really
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cool software out there these days. So one of the things that we have was like, if your
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car stops in front of my house for a period of time, it's like, cause there's not a stop
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sign. There's no reason. There's no reason you would stop here. Yeah. Right. Um, it's
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like a car parked at your house at three 49 AM is like curious, you know? And then it's
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like movement by rear back door. And it's nice. Open up the camera and there's like a dude
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lifting up the mat and looking underneath the flower pot. And it's like, and you were here.
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Yeah. Well, a different house. Oh, okay. Yeah. Like the balls on this guy. Yeah. Or, or,
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or not like just the stupidity stupidity. Yeah. So it ended up that he had just heard
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there's a bunch of money and guns in this house and didn't know who I was, never Googled
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anything. So, um, I mean, he was doing all the right stuff to try and get in here, but
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he was missing all of the indicators. A good, when we say professional burglar, you're
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like, if I think a professional, we're going to walk up to a house and he's like, huh, these
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windows have a shatterproof entry proof film on them installed by three M. Cause I can see
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that in the corner. Curious. Yeah. That wouldn't be on a typical average house. Yeah. Like this
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home is protected by so-and-so security company, you know, and then you like look up and there's
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a different security system on the exterior of the house. Is that redundant security? Also,
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maybe not the house to hit. I walk up to like this massive Oak door with ornate metal that
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makes it, I mean, batter ramp proof nearly. And you look at this door and you're like,
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I mean, at some point, something should click. Yeah. But like the, the cost versus gain analysis
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in these, these criminals brains, they still see dollar signs, right? Yeah. They're clouded
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by that. Yeah. The salesman that like sees the potential, uh, you know, you're working
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on a, a car dealership lot and somebody walks in wearing a Rolex, nice boots. Like how much
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time you're going to spend on there before you realize that this guy's waiting for his
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girlfriend to get off work across the street and he's just walking, taking calls, you know,
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but you're still like focused. It's the same blindness. So after he hit every exterior door,
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he, he starts going to windows and, um, he went window, window. And the next window was going to
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be my son's window who was three and a half at the time. So it was like window, window gun to the
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back of the head. If you move an inch, um, I'm going to canoe your brain and then I'll have to
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clean my lawn. Um, I think that's actually what I said to him. And that's a, that would scare me.
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Yeah. I've never murdered anyone on my lawn before. And first for everything, I suppose.
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No, this is still part of the conversation. Oh, you've said that. You said that I told this to
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him. Okay. Got it. Like I've never murdered anybody on my lawn before, but, um, I'm fully down to do
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that. So I want you to lay down. Do you have any guns, any weapons? He's like, yeah. I'm like,
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ah, man. Yeah. So it was a, it was a, the authorities came, took care of business.
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No, man. So that was a bummer. Really? Yeah. There was a shooting downtown Austin at the time
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and, um, Travis County had, that had moved the call from Austin dispatch to Travis County dispatch
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and then Travis County dispatch to the region call center. So then I was talking to a Williamson
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County dispatcher who was putting it back to the call center that was then sending it back
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to Travis County. Then I was sending back to APD because everybody was overwhelmed kind of at the
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time. Right. They had this officer involved shooting. Sure. So like all resources, which I get.
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Yeah. So it went from, there's an armed person trying to break into my home to a, um, trespassing
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at three o'clock in the morning. And, uh, so I'm, I'm on the lawn with this guy for like 30 minutes
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and finally, Hey dude, I'm gonna, I'm gonna cut you loose. Really? Yeah. Like you're gonna take a
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walk. If I see you here again, I'm going to keep your taser, which you had on you kind of weird,
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bro. Um, the duct tape, which you also had seriously weird. And, um, this 1980s flashlight,
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you know, the mag ones that are like a big silver, like, yeah, sure. And, uh, so yeah, I cut them loose.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's his lucky day. Yeah. I mean, on multiple, on multiple different fronts. Yeah.
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Oh my goodness. Yeah. You know, I was thinking about like what, what I want to talk. I mean,
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there's so much we can talk about, but I've always been really curious. You know, you have so many
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things going on and when we get done with this conversation, I know you're going somewhere else
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and I'm always curious, like, what is it that propels you? What is it that drives you? Because
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you're an intense guy. Obviously, you know what you're talking about. You're, you've been immersed in
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this world for, for as long as I'm sure you've been alive. We were talking about that martial arts
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at, you know, six years old. What is it that drives you? Oh man. Um, can we go dark early?
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As soon as you want. Yeah. So I'm not going to tell you, no, after the story you just told me,
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so whatever you want to talk about. So I've done a bunch of terrible things and, um, war is terrible.
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And by no means am I saying the greater good makes those things that we have done in war. I'm even
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like the most righteous shooting on the planet where that is a terrorist. He just tried to blow up,
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um, this whole entire line of people delivering food. And then he jumps out from the bushes with
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his AK and shoots up that lead vehicle that are doctors without borders, you know, and then I shoot
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that guy, even as justified as that sounds from his side, that's just another man that's trying
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to protect the values, his ideology. Yeah. Sure. And, um, and there's nothing worse than taking
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another human's life like that. I think anybody could do. Um, and I've done that my whole entire
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adult life, you know, like from nine 11, when I was 21 years old until today, that's all I've ever
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done. It's all I've ever known. You're like that picture behind you. That's my task force. When we
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killed Zarkawi in 2006, you know, like that's from me being in Afghanistan, which I got blown up
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two times. It was in gunfights for three days at a time. It's like, this is all I've ever done and
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known. And it has to be worth it. Like I have to have done these things like for my sanity's sake,
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I can't sleep at night without thinking that and believing, not thinking, believing that I've been
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doing the right things for the right purpose, for the right reason. And I go back to the kind of
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the founding documents of this country. And I read, you know, sentences like all men are created
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equal. And I'm like, yeah, I believe that. I believe that to the core. And I know that we have
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not ever attained that where all people start on the same level and that all people are given the
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same opportunities equally at the same portion. Of course. But I think this country has tried harder
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than anyone ever to make that dream be realized. So I focus on that dream. And I say, I need that
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dream to be realized or everything that I've ever done is for naught, right? I look at my kids, you
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know, I look at my, my daughters and I say, you know, like if she wants to be an astronaut or a Navy
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seal and she's capable and they don't have to lower the standards, then she should be able to do
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that. Whatever they want to do. Um, that again, is that dream all created equal, all genders,
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all races, all religions, like name it equal. So that's the thing that propels me is, is this
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purpose of all of these things would be for naught. Right. Is there anything that you've seen,
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you know, with, with what you do in your line of work and government and the direction of politics
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and life and culture and society where you've actually questioned is what I'm doing still the
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right thing? Is it for naught? Have you ever questioned that? Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean,
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how do you deal with that? How do you wrestle with that? I mean, some, some really weird things
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where I would be in a country in North Africa and this was like eight years ago. Okay. And I went back
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last year and the younger brother, uh, like the nine years, younger brother, that was just like a
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five-year-old kid at the time is now doing the same thing that his dickhead brother was doing.
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Right. When I was there last time. And now I'm like, did I cause this a vacuum or a,
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yeah. Like, or like, because I sent his brother to, to jail essentially, did I then radicalize
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the younger brother? Like, is this an immediate causation? Not because of correlations causation
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or, but an escalation of some sorts into this. Am I to blame for this? Yeah. You know, if,
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if I go to a bomb maker's house and I hit that bomb maker's house and we find all the bomb making
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material and maybe we shoot the bomb maker. Um, but that whole entire village, maybe that guy was
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providing the funds that fed that whole entire village. Maybe, right. Maybe like every wedding
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has been paid for by the Taliban and the pal, the Taliban was paying that guy to support that village.
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And that's how they operate. Right. So when I come in there and I remove without a doubt,
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an evil person that is killing people that believe in freedom, uh, the, the secondary and tertiary
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effects of that are this ripple like butterfly effect, like how many things in the second,
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third order effects are, are negatively impacted by the things that I do. And there's, there's no way
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if you go down the rabbit hole, think about those things. Yeah. Oh, I can't imagine, bro. But then when
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you see it firsthand and you go back and you're like, hello, little brother, man, you look like your big
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brother. Why are you doing this? I think it's easy for somebody like myself or most of the people
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listening to just say, yeah, that's, that's the right. You did the right thing because we only see
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right and wrong. We see it from this outside, uh, circumstances. We don't have any real consequences
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of your actions, but you take somebody like yourself, who's deeply immersed in it. And it starts
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to round out that conversation. You start looking at a little different. It's one of the things I love
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about podcasts is the subtlety and nuance and conversation, right? So I think when people look
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at soldiers and they, they see black and white, right? Like I got orders and I did the right thing
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or I did the wrong thing, or like they followed the orders they didn't, right? Like, but then you look
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at the Nazis and you're like, oh wait, those guys were just following orders. Yeah. I mean, is that,
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does that mean it's okay to be black and white? No. If we say that they're just following orders,
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we're automatically condemning them. But then is it okay if our soldiers do that? What if those are just
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orders? But what I'm with the perspective of the fascists at the time that were stuck in this
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vacuum, they had no other choice. And by no means am I rationalizing what the Nazis did. They all
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should burn in hell. Right. Well, you had that show, you know, the show and you dedicated a lot
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Flushing this stuff out. Clearly I don't like them. Right. But we miss the nuance, the subtlety in,
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in especially war. Like war is not black and white. I mean, it is not even shades of gray. I mean,
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it is like this murky darkness that is indescribable and, um, and soldiers see those things. And these
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aren't just, you know, guys with great haircuts and broad shoulders that go in and just do the
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thing and, you know, march on for justice. They, um, they know firsthand, unfortunately, the consequence
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of the decisions. And it's, it's a tough thing to, to have to face. Yeah. And I imagine, like you said,
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you're wrestling it with it every day. You're thinking, am I doing the right thing? Am I still
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doing the right thing? And then you say these guys, like the Nazis, for example, they didn't
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have a choice. And then it's easy for me to say, well, sure they did. You just do right. But then
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you think, okay, I could very easily be that, that guy that was in 1930s, 1940s, you know, German young
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man trying to raise a family. I, that could very easily be me, but it seems like we, we have a hard
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time learning the lessons and then applying them for any sustained period of time. Like we might
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learn the lessons of war or how dangerous it is or destructive or violent that it is. And we can
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remember that for a couple of years. And it's like, oh yeah, that, that's, that's the past. That
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doesn't apply today. Yeah. I don't know. We were so short-sighted. Um, there's, there's instances
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where I'll bring up both the Holocaust and I'll get this quizzical look on a generation Z or a
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police, like the, the Holocaust, you know, where they killed like 12 million people in
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genocide, specifically about ethnicity. The hall, the, you know what we're talking about
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here, right? Yeah. Um, is that like really what happened in, in like Holland? Are you
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serious? Yeah. All the time. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Do you think this is part of your, I mean,
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I know you've got the school going on or you're, you're starting the school. We talked a little
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bit about that. I'm really curious about your decision to, cause it seems like there's multiple
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components of it. There might be a school and then there's, there's a, a boy's component
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of it. If I understand correctly, tell me about that. Is that part of the reasoning why you wanted
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to get involved this way with education? Yeah. So, so a green beret is a force multiplier,
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like unconventional warfare, guerrilla warfare. You take four of us, 12 of us, and you drop us
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behind the enemy lines with two, 300 insurgents. We teach them leadership. We teach them government.
00:21:27.320
We teach them how to conduct guerrilla operations through unconventional warfare. And, um, ultimately
00:21:34.020
that group that we're working with by, with, and through by, by their side with them in their
00:21:39.780
actions and all successes through their own wishes to see freedom realized. And, um, so we have like
00:21:47.980
the three A's advise, assist, and accompany. So we'll advise them on how to do things. We'll assist
00:21:52.880
them in what they should be doing them. And then we accompany them. Like I'm, I'm fighting right
00:21:56.260
beside them as we run in to fight, you know, fascism, socialism, um, authoritarianism, all of the isms
00:22:04.460
that happen all over the globe. Yeah. And, um, so as a force multiplier, when I was overseas and I seen
00:22:11.960
the things that were happening here at home, I'm like, man, could I be more impactful taking the
00:22:18.260
same formula, the thing that I've been trained to do by the government and do that here, right? Can I
00:22:24.820
go and give the same tools and the same, um, leadership to Americans as I have been abroad?
00:22:35.340
Mm-hmm. And, um, and that realization, like, I think we've been losing the, the narrative, the battle
00:22:41.140
for what is right, what is just, what is ethical, what is, what does integrity look like? When I look
00:22:46.780
at politicians right now, I know we have been losing on both sides. Sure. Like I'm like left side,
00:22:53.180
bunch of idiots, right side, bunch of idiots in the middle, there's nobody there. Um, so how,
00:23:00.300
how do we, how do we start? Like if the Titanic was heading towards that iceberg, how early did
00:23:06.720
they just have to change the heading one degree, one degree, and they would have missed the whole
00:23:12.580
entire thing, but they would have had to start it early enough. Right. Sure. And I think education,
00:23:17.760
I believe education has been failing us. Uh, there, we are not preparing the next generation for what's
00:23:24.900
coming. And, um, so you got to get them early. You got to start young. So as a force multiplier,
00:23:33.220
the school and the young men's mentoring program both fall under Apogee. So Apogee Cedar Park is
00:23:40.640
going to be the school, the physical school that I'm opening here. And that'll be, yeah,
00:23:43.700
that'll be here. Okay. Yeah. Right. Three miles from where we're sitting right now. Awesome.
00:23:47.300
And I mean, big massive building, you know, it'll be entry proof windows and secure. It's going to be
00:23:52.060
so cool. I've got green berets sitting around desks as, uh, like these learners, these heroes
00:23:57.480
are taking their education into their own hands. There's no teachers in this building.
00:24:02.440
Right. There's explain. I was talking with Matt and he was telling me a little bit about that,
00:24:06.480
but explain the way that the learning is done. Um, you got any lawyers in your family? Um, yes,
00:24:12.400
I do. Okay. Yeah. So, um, most law schools do Socratic education. Okay. So there's a question
00:24:18.540
that's poised that's posed and that question, when you go to answer that question, you answer that
00:24:24.240
question with another question, right? If in law, if I ask a question that is directing towards an
00:24:31.960
answer that's leading a witness, right? So you have to be able to ask questions, but you have to have
00:24:37.060
incredible understanding of the topic. There has to be a destination that you're trying to navigate
00:24:42.240
towards that you have to guide, right? Which is kind of like the podcast, right? It's like, okay,
00:24:45.840
here's what I want to talk about, but I'm asking questions to get there. So the actual, the role
00:24:49.640
of the, in most people's minds, the teachers or the educators, their guides. So what we're doing
00:24:56.300
is I'm taking masters of a craft. I mean, people, true professionals that, I mean, whether it's be,
00:25:02.340
I don't want an academic that went to school for engineering and then has taught engineering.
00:25:07.760
I want somebody that built a bridge and knows how to weld, right? Come in here and show us if this six,
00:25:13.280
this group, this pod, the studio of six to eight year olds want to put a new monkey bar on our
00:25:21.600
playscape out there. And they are going to do it themselves. You can't teach them. You can't tell
00:25:28.960
them what to do. You can only guide them to figure it out and how to, so like from how strong, what
00:25:35.420
kind of metal are we going to be using? How long are the monkey bars structurally? What are the
00:25:39.820
connectors like insurance wise, liability wise, all of these things? Six year olds are going to
00:25:44.980
figure out. That's cool. But not once is that engineer going to go in there and be like, this
00:25:49.120
is what you do. Let me give you the, he's going to have to guide them. He's going to have to show
00:25:54.100
them formulas about, um, how to work the mechanical engineering of structural strength, right? Um,
00:26:03.080
shock load compared to hanging weight, you know, like all of those things that a normal engineer
00:26:08.060
would know. Sure. But very few of them have ever got the opportunity to apply it. So now we're
00:26:15.200
going to have six and eight year olds applying it. That's it. And then is the idea that it's going to
00:26:20.060
replace your formal education? Is that, is that the idea or is it supplement supplementary to,
00:26:26.720
okay, no, I, and there, there's no doubt this is not, I'm not arguing that this is a better form
00:26:31.800
of education. Um, this disruptive approach through Socratic, uh, the Socratic approach gives
00:26:38.000
the opportunity for hunger, um, for exploration. Uh, I mean like everything that a kid harnesses
00:26:48.240
and wanting to learn as a child, just playing, playing a hundred percent. We're going to play all
00:26:52.480
day long. And they, when you sit somebody down in a, behind a desk and you lecture them for six
00:27:00.960
hours, you are stifling and you are, you're silencing that thing. I don't know what that
00:27:07.900
thing is, but it's a yearning. I remember it. And I remember being duct taped to chairs. I was duct
00:27:12.680
taped to benches, belted to benches to do homework and to sit into class. I got spanked in my
00:27:19.740
kindergarten year like a half a dozen times for, for being, for being a five year old boy,
00:27:25.640
right. You know, where instead you could have harnessed that energy and been like, Oh, let's go
00:27:31.460
explore. Let's go play. Let's go create. Let's go build. Let's destroy. And, um, so even on
00:27:41.640
standardized testing and we have been doing this, why I say we, um, a bunch of different schools from
00:27:47.780
Montessori to Acton, all of them have taken different variations of the similar approach.
00:27:53.880
All of them perform. I'm not talking like a little bit better on standardized testing.
00:27:58.620
I'm talking like really insanely better. You can't even compare them. When you look at like
00:28:03.100
a middle school kid that graduated from a public school or, or even a private traditional school.
00:28:07.960
And then you look at the Montessori's and Acton's. It's not even fair. Really? Yeah.
00:28:14.760
Kids launching businesses at 15 full blown entrepreneurs going to the city being like,
00:28:18.920
I need a business license. Like you're 15. Like, and that changes what? Right. That's your
00:28:23.680
problem. That's not my problem. You know, like, well, you're not old enough to sign up. Like again,
00:28:27.560
that's a you problem. That's not a me problem. I have legitimate business. And here's actually my,
00:28:32.020
my P and L that I've done for the past two years since I'm 13. Yeah. But now I'm 15 and I'd like to go
00:28:37.300
official. That's interesting. You said, um, before we hit record, you were saying, you know,
00:28:42.080
you're dealing with some of the red tape and all the bureaucracy and everything you're dealing with.
00:28:45.180
So talk to me about that component. Cause I, and I, and I said, I'm like, look, I don't think the
00:28:49.980
school system wants you to be doing this. No. So talk to me about that. Well, government doesn't
00:28:56.380
want small business. They don't first and foremost, when they look at the Amazons and the Walmarts and
00:29:01.620
the home depots and they're like, do what we're going to do. We're going to shut down every small
00:29:05.640
shop on the planet, but you guys, but you guys, and we're also going to incentivize success for
00:29:10.420
you and then penalize them. Um, cause for a variety of reasons that we don't have to go into,
00:29:17.640
but then when you go into education, if the public school was going to open up a school in my exact
00:29:24.880
location, they don't have to do a single thing that the city in an itemized 11 page report said
00:29:31.640
that I have to do really 11 pages itemized of all the things I have to do for me to be able to open
00:29:38.600
the school, you know, like, um, a disability sidewalk that goes from the, from the front
00:29:43.600
of the street connected to their sidewalk, to all of the doors on my property. And it has to,
00:29:49.240
you know, go a certain way. The fire lane has to be built a certain way. The kids drop off has to be
00:29:54.460
a certain way. The firewalls between uses, you know, like if we're going to have a snack room,
00:29:58.780
that's next to, um, a playroom, there has to be a firewall between those two rooms.
00:30:03.940
Okay. And I get a lot of this life and safety things.
00:30:05.860
Sure. Of course. Yeah. Like life and safety paramount. Got it. Um, and then you get into
00:30:10.240
like, there has to be a tree within five feet of every parking space. Well, every single one of
00:30:15.040
those things, a public school doesn't have to do. Hmm. They're like, don't we're going to do.
00:30:20.620
We're going to strip mine this whole entire property. And then I'm going to lay impervious cover
00:30:24.820
concrete over every inch of everything. And, um, then I'm going to build a big prison right there
00:30:31.300
in the middle of it. And that's where the kids are going to sit. And the city's like, that's great.
00:30:35.480
Perfect. Right. Check. Yeah. You got it. But, um, Tim Kennedy, you want to open up a private school
00:30:41.100
that's disruptive education. That's a Socratic approach to teaching. Hmm. So,
00:30:46.820
but why, why is that a problem though? Why, why do you think that's the issue? They don't want you to
00:30:51.440
control. Hmm. I mean, like everything about bureaucracy is about control. And, um, the,
00:30:57.960
the more government that there is, the more bureaucracy that there is, the more difficult
00:31:02.520
it is for anything to ever get done. You ever watched Parks and Rec? Yeah, sure. Love that
00:31:06.640
show. Yeah. It's a great show. Yeah. Um, you know, it's kind of like my spirit, you know,
00:31:10.640
spirit. And Ron's amazing. Yeah. I want to be that guy. But Ron personifies what's wrong with
00:31:14.440
government. How so? So he would sit there and be like, I'm not going to do anything. Yeah. Right. I'm
00:31:20.140
going to be the least functioning portion of this space because I don't think government should be
00:31:25.180
doing any of this. But in actuality, in practice, he is slowing down the process. That is what
00:31:30.900
government is. That is what government is. That's funny. So the irony is while he, I totally like,
00:31:35.800
I love, Oh, do I need a permit? Here's a letter. It's good. Yeah. He can do whatever he wants.
00:31:40.900
Oh, you can do whatever you want. That's all this says. Yeah. You know, he's like, of course,
00:31:45.080
and I'm going to eat bacon. And we're, we all totally side with him. Of course. We're like,
00:31:48.000
this, this guy's amazing. I want to be here when I grow up. But then you take a step back and look
00:31:51.920
at him in the irony, the hypocrisy of his position in the government for produced nothing. It did
00:32:00.700
nothing. It helped no one. It literally was just a succubus. It was just a leech on the taxpayer
00:32:06.680
dollars. Yeah. I mean, that's true. I, I wonder why so many people believe that the government can do
00:32:15.920
things right is somehow more moral than individuals on their own. Yeah. That's always a fascinating
00:32:24.280
thing to me. It's like, what's not though, because it's nice when somebody else does something for
00:32:30.980
you. Sure. Of course. You know, and there's a fear of failure and doing something yourself.
00:32:36.340
Um, and when I have somebody that can stand in front of me that I can vote for, and that person says
00:32:43.100
that they're going to give me free education, free healthcare, and they're going to give me
00:32:46.100
a 1600, $1,600 stipend a month. Um, when I look at my life, I'm like, man, I'd like to go to school
00:32:52.940
for free. Like my education was really expensive, you know, as was my wife's, you know, her student
00:32:57.280
loan that it took us years to pay off when we first got married. And are they going to pay me back for
00:33:04.900
that by the way? I don't know. I don't think so. Yeah. I don't think that's going to happen. All right.
00:33:08.460
Yeah. Um, Oh, since everybody else is going to get it now, we'll go ahead and apply that
00:33:12.480
retroactively. Yeah. I don't think that's going to happen. The, the, the fear, the same thing about
00:33:18.680
like launching a business when you're sitting at a nine to five and it's, it's, it's stealing your
00:33:23.580
soul away. You're like, I could do this so much better than this big corporation that I work for,
00:33:28.300
but why don't you step off and do it? What, if you know, you could do it better for the customer,
00:33:32.900
you could provide a better service. You could provide maybe even a better, um,
00:33:38.680
income for your family. Like, why don't you men? Let me just hit the pause button on the
00:33:45.540
conversation with Tim real quick. Look, it doesn't matter what your goals are. If you can't craft a
00:33:50.600
strategy for attacking your day, that moves you systematically towards the completion of what
00:33:56.220
those goals are. And inside of our exclusive brotherhood, the iron council, uh, we are talking
00:34:01.240
about exactly this crafting the perfect day for the entire month of February. You know, the truth is
00:34:06.660
that I've spent years of my life floundering around wondering how I was going to make something of
00:34:12.260
myself. And to a degree, I believe that when it was meant to happen, it just would, but it wasn't
00:34:18.080
until I was introduced to several mentors, uh, who explained to me the importance of a powerful
00:34:24.800
morning routine, uh, certain strategies and tactics and tools to use throughout the day,
00:34:29.720
uh, and how to perfectly recap your day in order to carry the momentum over that. I actually began
00:34:35.660
to realize what I set out to accomplish. So if you're interested in learning those exact
00:34:41.160
strategies and formulas that I learned years ago, uh, please join me in the iron council.
00:34:46.180
This is our exclusive brotherhood. You're going to get access to that information and the
00:34:49.620
accountability and brotherhood and camaraderie that comes with banding with nearly 800 other men.
00:34:54.160
You can do that at order a man.com slash iron council. Again, order a man.com slash iron
00:34:59.640
council. Uh, do that after the conversation for now, we'll finish it up with Tim.
00:35:05.540
Yeah. It's the fear. I mean, what if it goes wrong? I don't have a steady paycheck.
00:35:09.460
I've got a bunch of risks that my employees now covering that I don't have to deal with.
00:35:12.920
Yeah. And until you've been on the receiving end of the government failing you, you don't know
00:35:17.560
firsthand. All you see is promises. You see hope and hope's not a plan, you know, and promises
00:35:23.780
that never come to fruition are, I mean, well, they're not promises. This is lies really. Yeah.
00:35:31.800
This is what that would be. Yep. Yeah. And the military I think is uniquely positioned and I wish
00:35:38.340
people would, especially vets that have to deal with the VA. I wish when you talk about free
00:35:43.400
healthcare, I wish every person that wanted to go and vote for free healthcare would go and talk to
00:35:48.400
somebody that gets free healthcare from the government. Yeah. Well, I can tell you even
00:35:52.860
personally, I have my VA benefits, but I go to a private practice physician because I, and I pay to
00:36:00.540
do that because it's better than what I would have to go through. It's horrible. It's horrible. It is
00:36:06.420
agreed. Yeah. I'm in like a two year process of just like figuring out what happened when I got
00:36:12.960
blown up 12 years ago, you know, like, yeah. And then trying to get benefits for that and make sure
00:36:19.520
you're taken care of physically and mentally. And it's a nightmare. Yeah. Yeah. It is a night. Like
00:36:23.960
we don't say nightmare, like, Oh, it's a lot of scheduling problems and kind of an inconvenience.
00:36:29.080
Like it's a nightmare. Go do a sleep study at the VA. Yeah. I've never done that.
00:36:36.360
I don't, I don't want, that doesn't sound even remotely pleasurable at all, or, or even just
00:36:40.960
survivable. So, uh, you know, one of the things I've heard you say in the past, talking about the
00:36:46.960
military is how much we're struggling to find young men who are qualified, which is really
00:36:51.400
interesting because when I joined the military, when I was 18, so that would have been 99.
00:36:55.900
Um, I mean, what'd you have to do like 10 or 15 pushups or something and run a, run a mile and
00:37:02.580
maybe like 15 minutes. The bar was so low and I don't know, frankly, I don't know what it is
00:37:07.280
right now, but it can't be any higher. It's not. It seems so strange to me that we're having hard
00:37:11.760
time finding qualified soldiers and warriors for different branches. Are we more obese or less
00:37:17.140
obese than we were in 1999? More. Sure. Are there more instances of diabetes, especially childhood
00:37:21.820
diabetes in 99 or currently in 2021? I imagine there are now. There are absolutely more. Do you think
00:37:26.160
that academically we are having kids that are performing better or worse than we were in 1999?
00:37:30.300
I'm sad to say that probably worse. Do you think that there's more participation in sports
00:37:36.740
per capita in 1999 or 2001? More. 2021. More years ago. Correct. Yeah. Those are all accurate
00:37:44.980
assumptions. So, um, schools are swelling. We have more kids in school, but fewer and fewer of them are
00:37:50.120
actually playing sports. We have more kids in school, but few of the, fewer and fewer of them are
00:37:54.420
taking the extracurricular classes or the college AP courses, preparing them for life.
00:37:59.440
Um, the percentage of those are staggeringly declining. So on a recruiter's office,
00:38:05.600
also the perception of the military in, uh, we've been at war for 20 years and, you know,
00:38:11.560
in 1999 pre-war, we're like, ah, Panama, Grenada. Those were like a weekend, right? That's all we
00:38:18.100
had to gauge off. That's all it was. Sure. In 30 years, 30 years, that was all the conflict that we had
00:38:25.100
little things, but nothing big Kosovo. Sure. But, um, now imagine being a 15 year old and you at 15
00:38:34.920
in 1994, you're looking there and be like, man, it's been a pretty cool year. You know, like I can,
00:38:40.800
I can go to school. They're going to pay for my college. You know, they're going to get,
00:38:43.980
I'm gonna get a salary. Um, I'm gonna come out and I'll be able to go and into this great job
00:38:48.560
that they're going to set me up for. Now they're like, they see veterans walking around without
00:38:53.300
limbs. Right. And they see all of the different movies from SEAL Team 6 and whatever network that
00:38:58.660
is, or like, you know, getting Ben Laden or whatever movie is dropping this week where,
00:39:03.140
you know, Chris Pine or Chris Stone, I don't know, Hemsworth or whatever the other Chris's are,
00:39:07.740
aren't yet again, another bad-ass soldier. Yeah, of course. And, um, getting shot up and blown up and
00:39:13.140
that's reality. And that is a tough reality to be like, so from a recruiting perspective,
00:39:18.920
they have less eligible kids because they're fatter. Right. Um, they're not as smart. Yep.
00:39:26.260
And then they have less interest. They have less interest because they're looking at this
00:39:30.380
occupation and being like, yikes. Yeah. Well, I don't want to do that. That looks dangerous.
00:39:35.940
Wait, even if I just drive a truck, I'm just happy with PS5 doing it on PS5,
00:39:41.240
Yeah. Yeah. So it's, we're, we're, we're, we're struggling. Is that part of your,
00:39:48.140
so you've got the, uh, you've got the school that you're going to do and then you've got
00:39:51.520
Apogee Cedar Park. Apogee. So then you've got the separate component, which is the boys
00:39:55.320
Apogee Strong. And so is that, do you see that being a recruitment source? Is that why you're doing
00:40:02.200
it? Like, how does that blend together? It's not recruitment. Um, what I know we'll find,
00:40:06.600
and this is by no means the motivation, the, like our drive is not to like go and recruit.
00:40:14.100
I have zero interest in that. If, if, if not one single boy that is an Apogee Strong and Apogee
00:40:18.880
Strong, I'll define that first. It's a mentor online mentor program that takes a bunch of successful
00:40:24.900
entrepreneurs and businessmen and soldiers from the special operations communities. Guys like
00:40:31.260
Sergeant major Matt Smith. He spent 25 years as a green beret working for the most specially elite
00:40:37.720
units on the planet, even outside of the green berets, like even, even like really cooler specialized
00:40:42.900
ones. And, uh, Jeff Teagues, who is a Delta four squadron commander and myself and Justin Lakin,
00:40:49.420
um, and Matt Bordeaux is, you know, a great friend and educator. So these men mentor this next
00:40:59.080
generation and some of those things are easy, like how to change a tire or, um, how to balance a
00:41:05.300
checkbook. We say easy, but, and it is easy, but it's increasingly less common that these young men
00:41:11.280
even know how to, like you said, change a tire. Yeah. Wait, how does this work now? Yeah. Crazy.
00:41:17.080
It is crazy. It's crazy, but it's real. And we, the initial goal was, Hey, we're going to be doing
00:41:21.800
these boys in high school ages. We're having young men and God bless them that they are by young men.
00:41:28.660
And I'm talking like 20 year olds and 30 year olds that are signing up for the mentor program
00:41:33.400
really because they know, and again, credit to them because they're self-aware enough to recognize
00:41:39.760
that they're missing some, I don't see manly components. Cause that's not what it is.
00:41:44.380
We're just trying to give them the tools to succeed in real life, not an academic life,
00:41:49.140
not in like make believe life, not in like video game life, but in real life.
00:41:53.240
Hmm. And so that's what Apogee strong is. And it's, it's a mentor program for boys,
00:41:58.860
high school years up into 30. Yeah. And, um, and if they go into the military and they become
00:42:07.040
great leaders and they go to West point or the Naval Academy or the Air Force Academy, amazing. Great.
00:42:11.180
Sure. Fantastic. If they go in, they start working for Dell or they start working for MIT or they start
00:42:17.020
designing something for NASA. Would I be more happy or less happy or equally happy? Yeah. I think
00:42:23.500
you'd be equally happy with whatever they decide to do, whatever they want to do, right? Their dreams
00:42:28.480
being realized. Yeah. You know, what's funny is you're not, you're talking about these young men
00:42:32.160
who at least have the awareness to try to find some, some help to get these skills. I actually have a
00:42:38.640
lot of women who listen to the podcast and they're raising boys on their own. Dad's not around.
00:42:43.540
He's hard picture. And I'm amazed at how often I get messages from women who say, I really like what
00:42:49.440
you're doing because I've got three boys at home and dad's not around. And I don't know what to do
00:42:53.200
with these boys. Like these, these young men need this outlet and multiple outlets to be able to get
00:42:59.540
these skills and mindsets that they're just not going to learn anywhere else. It's just not available
00:43:03.600
to them. Yeah. And they have to do it. Yeah. Um, before I went into the military, my dream was to be a,
00:43:08.940
a profiler for the FBI. Oh really? Yeah. I want to be Clarence Starling from silence. Yeah. That
00:43:14.640
was my dream. So I spent tons of time, like my, my undergraduate and then starting graduate school
00:43:19.000
was into forensic psychology. That's what I wanted to do. And so I got to interview a whole bunch. I'm
00:43:23.880
even guys from, from, uh, Charles Manson's team. I got to, to interview some people, one of which was,
00:43:30.800
was, uh, in the penitentiary in San Luis Obispo, California. So that was frightening. Wow.
00:43:35.000
But I got to interview and talk to these guys and, and, and I was, I was profiling, this was before
00:43:39.080
the active shooter thing started and looking at a lot of serial killers, you see, um, lack of father
00:43:45.380
figure in their life. And then you get to the current day active shooter, which is my opinion,
00:43:49.660
the current day serial killer. Sure. And then you look at them at once, right? Yeah. Mass, mass
00:43:55.960
casualties as quick as possible. And you see the same thing. You see a lack of masculinity. When I say
00:44:02.320
masculinity, not in the, I do think there is forms of toxic masculinity, but when I say masculinity,
00:44:07.740
I think it's a beautiful, compassionate, ethical, powerful thing that, um, that a man is supposed to
00:44:16.460
have. And when you're raising a young man, they're supposed to see examples of that. And when that's
00:44:22.280
missing, they don't know what to, they're going to have that in them anyways, but if it's not channeled
00:44:26.820
and directed properly, it becomes very dangerous. Sure. And especially when you try to medicate it,
00:44:33.300
or you're trying to direct it in unhealthy ways. And we don't know, like a lot of these drugs,
00:44:39.040
you know, you talk about going back to school and duct taping you, you know, you're not doing what
00:44:44.160
you're supposed to be doing. So let's duct tape you to the chair and then let's just pump you full
00:44:47.560
of medication to sedate you. But I don't think there's been enough research to really try to identify
00:44:53.760
what that does physiologically to a young man who may just have a lot of energy. There's nothing
00:45:00.420
mentally wrong with that individual. No, there's nothing wrong with me. There was nothing wrong
00:45:04.420
with me. There's nothing wrong with my son, but I'll tell you what. Is he like you? Oh my God. Yeah.
00:45:09.380
Yeah. Have you seen the last of the Mohicans? Yeah, of course. Do you remember the beginning
00:45:11.720
where they're playing lacrosse in the front yard? Yeah. And all of them were playing and yeah,
00:45:15.020
they were playing sticks that they had hand woven and the hair was down to their, but like,
00:45:18.900
like vascular veiny, muscly, just raw little wild. Yeah, man. If you, if you threw him outside right
00:45:28.300
now and, um, that's all he'd look like his in minutes, his hair would be matted with sweat and
00:45:33.740
he'd have bug bites all over his body. Cause he'd be crawling through an anthill and just to see what
00:45:39.100
happens and he'd be covered in mud and that's just a Thursday. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's
00:45:46.960
pretty, it's pretty fun to see. No, it's interesting to see the differences, just innate differences
00:45:51.640
between young men and young women. You know, we talked about the differences in our sons and
00:45:55.800
daughters and those are my sons. That's how they behave. That's my daughter. That's how she behaves.
00:46:02.260
Yeah. I didn't teach them. I didn't teach my daughter to be kind and loving and nurturing and
00:46:07.720
empathetic and to have dolls and build, you know, little bunk beds or, or, or cribs. I didn't teach her
00:46:12.980
how to do that. And I didn't teach my boys how to go out and be that wild man. Yeah. Nor do I
00:46:17.180
encourage either behavior. You know, it's like, okay, here's a fire truck for you, son. Merry
00:46:21.900
Christmas. This is a boy's toy. Yeah. Like they know. Here's your cute little doll that has like
00:46:26.720
a rainbow and a unicorn as her pet. You know, like there you go, little girl, there's your toy.
00:46:31.420
You know, like if you walk them into target and you walk down like the, the boy Avenger aisle with
00:46:36.520
Nerf guns, you know, the one year old's like, this is so stupid. You go two aisles over into like
00:46:44.080
the, the tea set thing. And she's like losing her mind and she's trying to grab everything off of
00:46:50.040
every one. Yeah. Right. Yeah. There was like, and all she has is a little brother to, to gauge that
00:46:57.940
off of. And she has zero interest. I'm not doing that. No, I don't want, this looks stupid. Yeah.
00:47:02.000
This is stupid. Oh boys. Like my, my daughter will say it boys. Oh boy. She's seven. You know,
00:47:06.900
cause she'll see how the boys interact. You said, uh, you were talking about toxic masculinity. I'm
00:47:11.280
really curious when you say you believe there are forms of toxic masculinity. I'd like to talk
00:47:15.700
about that a little bit. I, I, so a man that abuses his wife, like I was, first of all, I was like
00:47:22.660
a yank his balls out and shove them down his throat. I mean that, that, that violence and power and
00:47:29.540
strength. Those are forms of masculinity, right? Um, and directed in the right, in the positive,
00:47:36.260
in a just way, those are powerful tools for good. Yeah. I mean, I look at you, right? You have that,
00:47:41.120
you have that aggression, you have that ability to be dominant physicality of course, and it's
00:47:44.860
directed towards appropriate outcomes and pursuits. But if that is directed at the wrong thing,
00:47:50.520
like hurting somebody vulnerable than you or hurting somebody in a skin color that you don't like,
00:47:56.160
or making sure that that person in that religion that you don't like never gets the job opportunity
00:48:01.840
that they need, or, you know, like abusing your children, um, being a bully at school, like those
00:48:07.680
are all forms of, of toxic masculinity, right? But that same energy, that same power, that same
00:48:13.700
violence that's directed towards seeing something wrong happen, happening and intervening or walking
00:48:20.260
down the road. And a kid is walking across a crosswalk. Thank God for a man that can run up with
00:48:25.520
power, strength, yank that kid off the crosswalk, jump across as the car goes zooming by, you know,
00:48:31.260
like what, what a beautiful moment. And to watch something happen over this overseas to look at a
00:48:37.540
cliff and be like, we're going to climb this cliff. And then we're going to go stop the genocide
00:48:42.320
that's happening in inland, you know, or I'm going to run up this beach as I'm watching all of my
00:48:46.980
friends get murdered by machine. But they did that, right? That's masculinity. That's fighting
00:48:52.180
imperialism and not, and fascism, you know, like that's gorgeous. But if you, if they don't have
00:48:58.440
that, if they don't have that power, if they don't have that capability of violence and there's no
00:49:02.520
restraint that goes along with it, then they're neutered. They're not strong. They're not powerful.
00:49:06.660
They're not kind. They're not gentle. The only time that you can be gentle, kind, or strong
00:49:09.900
is when you have the capability to be otherwise. Sure. Right. Otherwise, like you just pat,
00:49:14.980
you're a passive wimp. Yeah. Right. You're nothing. Right. You can't do good. You can't stop the evil
00:49:20.180
that's happening. You could just stand there and watch it happen. And for evil to conquer,
00:49:24.720
all it takes is for good men to do nothing. And if we're making men that can't do anything,
00:49:30.540
evil will conquer. Sure. Evil will win. So we have to have men. We have to have strong,
00:49:36.840
courageous, powerful people, men and women that are going to look into the face of tyranny. They're
00:49:41.080
going to look into the face of all of the next. We don't know what the next is, but there's always
00:49:45.580
going to be something. There's going to be something. Sure. And I hope to God that their strength
00:49:49.420
present to be able to fight it. Otherwise, evil conquers. I like that you're talking about this
00:49:55.520
because I personally have been openly critical of the term toxic masculinity. And the reason I have,
00:50:00.540
and it's like I said, I appreciate what you're saying and bringing some context to this conversation
00:50:03.900
is because I think in a lot of cases and instances, and it seems to be increasing,
00:50:07.800
that the motives of using a term like that is to throw all masculinity under the bus or assume that
00:50:14.540
all men are the enemy, or we live in some sort of tyrannical patriarchy. And so it gets lumped
00:50:20.800
into this category or the words are being manipulated to paint a narrative that just isn't true.
00:50:26.860
And they do. And it's not true. But the only way that I want people like that to keep talking,
00:50:31.900
because the only way that you can fight bad ideas are with good ideas, right? So I want,
00:50:35.640
that's, that is not truth. Those are lies. Those are lies that are being perpetuated on
00:50:40.320
news networks and tweeting by some, you know, moms against blah, blah, blah, whatever.
00:50:45.260
Right. And they're using every single forum, every single route to get those lies out there. But
00:50:50.200
the only way that you can combat lies are with truth. And in this case, it's a subtle nuance,
00:50:54.700
the difference between masculinity, which is a beautiful, powerful thing that should be embraced
00:50:59.340
and should be encouraged and should be enhanced and enabled, right? Like,
00:51:04.600
have you seen a Golden Gate Bridge? Sure. It's pretty. Yeah, it's amazing.
00:51:07.740
Do you know how many people died building that? I have no idea.
00:51:11.320
Panama Canal. Seen it? Yeah. I haven't seen it. No, I haven't seen it in person.
00:51:15.200
The engineering, what an engineering feat. Amazing. Right? Connecting. Right. Worlds
00:51:19.320
with commerce. Do you know how many people died building that? I don't know. But plenty, I'm sure.
00:51:27.260
Yeah. Chrysler Building. Empire States Building. Like, all the sacrifices made to build these things.
00:51:34.180
Thousands of lives. Sure. Thousands of lives. Yeah. And those were men hanging off the sides of
00:51:38.920
scaffolding. Hundreds and thousands of feet in the air. Yeah. We need that. Yeah. We need a man to
00:51:46.600
climb a cliff. We need a man to run up a beach. You know, just like we need a woman to love and
00:51:51.920
with caring and kindness, nurture that man to do that. Feminity as beautiful. Of course.
00:52:00.920
As important. As necessary. And there are strong, powerful women that are destined to lead countries.
00:52:06.320
And I can't, I like, I've worked for some women like that and I've loved working for them. The way
00:52:10.980
they're a truly brilliant woman leader, the way that their mind works so different than mine. And
00:52:16.260
I'm like, Oh, I've never thought of that. Yeah. So cool. Yeah. Yes. I can't. Yes, ma'am. I'll take
00:52:21.680
care of this right away. That's interesting. You know, you did say something and he's, and you said it
00:52:25.240
really briefly in passing, but I really appreciate what you said earlier when we were talking about
00:52:28.540
military service, you said, as long as the standard isn't reduced, that's where I have a little bit of
00:52:34.980
fear of that is because it's not fear that's, that's happened. Well, I'm not, I'm not saying
00:52:39.760
that I don't think it will happen. I'm saying that is when I say fear, what I'm saying is that
00:52:44.380
that's my concern is that the standard is lowered for based on gender. It's like, you know, if I'm in
00:52:50.420
a firefight or in a building, a burning building, for example, I don't care if it's a man or woman who
00:52:56.580
rescues me, I just want them to be able to be capable of doing so. And when the standard is
00:53:01.340
reduced, that's not as likely to happen. No, it's not. But there are different assets that
00:53:06.860
everybody brings to the table, right? Everybody has different assets, liabilities. And if, you know,
00:53:11.160
if I'm looking at a special forces ODA and I have 12 people in there and we're going to bring a girl
00:53:16.480
in there, does she need to be able to lift as much weight as me? No, not, probably not. If
00:53:22.920
depending on the situation, right. Should she, I think all standards should be the same, but she
00:53:28.000
brings assets that I don't bring to the table. She can go places and do things and communicate in
00:53:33.300
ways that I can't. Like you sent her and I into a bar and I need to, you know, honeypot you for some
00:53:39.640
information. I could spend years. Yeah. It's not going to happen. I'm sorry, Tim. This is not going
00:53:43.940
to happen. Yeah, but you look really good today. Are you originally from this area? Yeah. No,
00:53:47.860
are you going to be in town long? No, not, not interested. Okay, fine. No, screw off,
00:53:51.920
right? Yeah, of course. You have like two minutes and she's done. No, I got it. All right. He lives
00:53:56.240
here. This is what he does. Here's his pattern of life. Let's go do this. Yeah, no doubt. You got
00:54:00.340
a black bag? Yes, I do. You got a minivan? Yes, I do. This is going to be fun. But standards have to
00:54:07.260
remain the same because if you lower them, it not only devalues the accomplishment of that girl making
00:54:13.060
it to the team. Sure, of course. But it also weakens the collective ability of that unit. And when
00:54:20.300
you look at military forces that have had combined gender units, both female, male, and male and
00:54:28.460
female, it will use Israel specifically. So in like the metal tasks, the things that they have to do
00:54:35.620
for that unit that they consider must accomplish tasks. Minimum required, you got to do this.
00:54:40.700
Yep. This is a central task list, mission essential task list. So they gauged all three different
00:54:45.740
categories, all women group, all men group, and men and women group. So men, by far, under the metal
00:54:53.060
tasks, were able to accomplish these things at the highest rate of success. Got it. The next group
00:54:59.340
was the women only. And then third and lowest performing was the men and women. Interesting.
00:55:05.960
It is interesting. A lot of cool things happening there. There's a lot of reasons for both. But
00:55:10.340
if all that matters is success and lethality for a unit, why do the other two groups matter or exist?
00:55:19.620
Well, I think it's to make people feel good. That doesn't exist in my world. That's the dumbest
00:55:26.080
thing ever. It is. But I'm just saying, I think that's the reason we implement these things.
00:55:29.700
That is why we do it. We don't want people to feel bad, or we don't want people to be left out,
00:55:33.840
or we don't want this person to feel inferior. And that's why I think we incorporate some of these
00:55:38.160
things. But that isn't the purpose of the mission. It's not. Yeah. To me, all I see,
00:55:43.560
like all I see in the future, like I'm not a fortune teller. I'm not a precog. But I can look
00:55:48.300
forward and I can see us climbing under bridges in Baghdad and cutting down Americans that were
00:55:53.240
hung there after they were burnt alive because of failure of a unit to be able to accomplish their
00:55:59.280
mission. And so I don't care about the virtue signaling. I don't care about whatever cultural thing
00:56:05.940
is the new fad of the next administration. Administrations come and go. And the emotion
00:56:12.560
of society to see a Green Beret that is a female or a Ranger that is a female or a Navy SEAL that is
00:56:18.700
a female. I don't care. I don't care if they're gay. I don't care if they're black. I don't care
00:56:23.620
anything of that. I care about capability and lethality of that unit. Nothing else matters.
00:56:28.880
Why does this narrative get pushed? And also, how do we begin to paint the right narrative,
00:56:35.720
which is let's make sure the mission is accomplished. Let's make sure Americans are
00:56:39.820
safe and prosperous. Let's make sure we can keep the bad guys at bay.
00:56:43.780
Yeah. I mean, I just want to take all 350 million Americans and have them travel with me.
00:56:50.260
They need to see it and feel it, experience it firsthand. You're like, and when you can smell
00:56:54.800
it and you can smell it forever, you're like, you can smell the smell of a burning body for the rest
00:57:00.140
of your life. And you never forget it. And I want them to smell it. And they can shut their face about
00:57:09.520
what they think they want us to do. Do you think, what are you, what's your thought about some sort of
00:57:15.220
mandatory service or something like that? I don't like it. I want, I love that we have an
00:57:24.640
all volunteer military. And I think we have a more capable military than we have ever had in the
00:57:29.880
history of mankind. And, um, I would love that between, I don't know, 17 and 20, you have to do
00:57:40.160
something for your country, but military service can't be it. What do you think are the issues that
00:57:45.920
you might, that we might run across if that were the case, something like that? Well, one combat
00:57:49.960
arms has to be always volunteer. Um, having because of the difficulty or the demand or what is it
00:57:56.880
about having worked with conscripts, uh, abroad where people were forced into the military by their
00:58:03.240
government. And then me taking a machine gun and shooting at their feet, being like the bad guys are
00:58:08.260
that way. We have to go that way. And they're like, we're going, we're going this other way.
00:58:12.060
I'm like, they're going to kill you. They might kill you. I will kill you. You know, like you run
00:58:17.760
that way or I'm going to shoot you. Um, again, another opportunity where I wish I could just bring
00:58:23.800
350 million Americans to be like, here you go. You want to see this looks like it's really dark.
00:58:28.600
Well, and it takes a special kind of person. I mean, I, I've, I was in the military for a little bit
00:58:32.520
and obviously nothing to the degree that you are. And I've been able to talk with you and other guys who
00:58:37.320
are elite levels. And I mean, let's be honest, you guys are different, you know, like you got dark
00:58:44.240
humor, you got twisted humor and stories and, and your personalities are extreme. I mean, I'm
00:58:51.100
speaking in broad generalities, but I think that's a pretty safe thing to say. I have pretty accurate
00:58:55.460
representation. So, uh, yeah, I don't think you're going to get that from the majority of the
00:59:01.120
population. No, no. Cause everybody just wants to put their head on their pillow and just like,
00:59:05.040
none of this happens. And that's why I like having the volunteer service because when somebody
00:59:11.800
volunteers to go into the military and then they volunteer to be combat arms and they volunteer
00:59:16.380
to go to airborne school and they volunteer to go to special forces selection. And then they
00:59:19.900
volunteer to go to the ODA. Like I'm five volunteers in like, do you know what kind of person I have
00:59:25.840
there? Somebody who's really, really, that's a good word. Committed. They can really handle this.
00:59:31.640
And I'll take a committed malleable anybody over a forced perfect Adonis. You know, like if,
00:59:41.300
if I have the, the drive and the will to see something to the end, especially to that degree,
00:59:46.820
but then you're like, you, you could hand me that kind of fat. Um, and this never happens because by
00:59:54.600
that point, that person's already a shaped, you know, Hercules looking person. Of course.
00:59:58.280
But that person that has the thing in here, what was that? Um, Oh, it was captain America.
01:00:03.780
Remember they took the week. Right. And he jumped on top of that grenade and like,
01:00:08.020
that's the guy we want because it was in here. The strength was inside of here. I can teach anybody
01:00:13.500
to do this. You can mold all that other stuff. Yeah. I can teach people seven dash eight, you know,
01:00:17.540
like I can show them how to do combat arms, but like, I can't give you the will
01:00:21.900
to face the fear of war. Do you think we can create through fatherhood through mentorship
01:00:30.760
programs? Like you're doing with Apogee. Do you think you can create and foster that? Yes. More
01:00:35.820
in people? Absolutely. Or is that an innate thing when you're born? It is not born now. Maybe some
01:00:41.580
guys, like I'm not saying like Patton didn't drop out of that. Like it's like the uterus. Here we go
01:00:46.180
from the womb. All right. I'm going to go, I'm going to go conquer. Oh, General Rommel. You suck.
01:00:52.940
Let me show you how we do this. You know, like it's an environmental thing is what you're saying.
01:00:56.740
You look at, um, the Latrell brothers, you know, and you look at, um, guys that I grew up with in
01:01:03.220
San Luis Obispo County in like this really rural, um, kind of country folk area of California on the
01:01:09.340
coast. I can't tell you how many green berets came from this tiny little, from that tiny little,
01:01:14.580
cause it was like, like we were tough. We fought, we rode motorcycles, we hopped, we surfed, we swam
01:01:20.640
in the ocean and it was just like, we hunted. And it was just like normal. All of these things that
01:01:26.180
are extraordinary to other places. And this environment fostered, cultured these young men.
01:01:31.660
I didn't know any of these guys until we got here. And I'm like, Justin Lincoln. You're like,
01:01:34.580
really? You're from San Luis Obispo? Yeah, exactly. You know, Afshim Ariana? You're from here? You know,
01:01:38.760
like name after name after name of all of these guys. And we're like, we're one year apart in school,
01:01:43.440
or they're like just one school over. And, um, and it was just an environment that, that
01:01:48.720
it was curated. It wasn't curated, it was created to be able to. So yes, I know for a fact that you
01:01:55.840
can create leaders, that you can create, um, the will. With you and how many opportunities are
01:02:03.720
present, whether it's the school and, and these programs and courses that you run and sheepdog and
01:02:08.200
everything that you have going on, how do you take that level of busyness and then filter and decide,
01:02:13.960
this is worth my time and attention. This is worth my energy. This will move me closer to my mission,
01:02:19.540
what I want to accomplish. This won't, how do you measure all of that?
01:02:22.740
So the first thing is I take the mission and the end state. So I know what my mission is. And, um,
01:02:28.680
what is your mission to preserve and protect human life? And, um, so as a force multiplier,
01:02:38.020
if that's my mission, here's my end state, what are the things that I need to do? And how do I
01:02:42.600
spend my time and how do I allocate my time strategically to be able to make that mission
01:02:47.420
reach its end state, see it to fruition? So the lens that I view everything through
01:02:53.860
time is the commodity that I distribute into efforts to see that happen. Whether that's
01:03:01.140
sheepdog response, that's Apogee strong, that's Apogee Cedar park. All of my time is dedicated
01:03:08.280
to seeing that end state be realized. Are there things where you've gone down a path
01:03:15.560
because you've did this analysis and then realized, you know what? I got to back out from that because
01:03:21.480
that's not actually going to be the best use of my time. For sure. And how do you make those
01:03:25.260
decisions and how quickly and, or how much time and effort do you try to revitalize them? And you
01:03:30.840
know what I'm saying? Like, how do you decide on that? Yeah. So even in the military, we, we, we have
01:03:34.700
like, we have failure lines where like, if we have not accomplished this thing at this point, the cost
01:03:41.580
is going to be too much for us to try. And, um, again, the Titanic, when you look at that
01:03:49.060
iceberg in front of you and it's right there and you're like, turn the ship hard to port, you know,
01:03:55.580
like it's too late, right? You're still going to hit it. Right. So that point when, if you just use
01:04:01.740
that metaphor, if we look at the ocean, at what point, even dedicating 100% of time and commitment
01:04:07.260
at this line, I'm still going to hit that iceberg. It's still not going to generate the result that I
01:04:14.000
need. Okay. I'm going to move that line further. So then mentally, this is where my line is. Okay.
01:04:19.100
And if at this threshold, um, this amount of the commodity of time I'm dedicating and I can't
01:04:25.540
dedicate more, it doesn't give me the end result. I have to abandon. Do you feel like when that
01:04:30.480
situation arises that you failed and then how does that, how does that impact you psychologically?
01:04:36.840
Yeah. I failed this morning. I was doing cardio and I failed. I was trying to do this 5,000,
01:04:41.560
um, meters staying in a green heart rate. So 79% of my maximum heart rate. Right. And I was trying
01:04:49.860
to do it in a sub two minute. So if you go into the yellow 81%, um, you're failing, right? Cause
01:04:56.320
done. Cause that's not your objective. My objective was to stay at 79% or lower. So in that 5,000 meters,
01:05:03.060
I had 20 minutes to do it. Um, well, it took me 20 minutes and 38 seconds. And I was right at that
01:05:09.660
78, 79, 90% of the time, but I hit yellow twice. So man, mission fail. Sure. I'm going
01:05:20.320
to do it better next time. There's nothing wrong with failure. Failure provides an opportunity
01:05:24.960
for growth. So even we'll use exercise again. Like if I go, um, I just destroyed this knee.
01:05:32.420
I've seen that. Yeah. Kind of bummer. Um, I was going to say we should get a roll in,
01:05:36.320
but I'm like, no, I think he injured himself. So we're still good to roll. Yeah. I wish I would
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have known that. Um, the, I should have known that actually, like I'll still roll. Yeah.
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So I'm like setting new goals, bench press. I've never done bench press in my life. I have no idea
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what my bench press is. So, okay. I want to have like a three 25 bench press. So I did a five rep max
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last week and I jumped up a weight and then I failed. I was like, ah, that sucked. You know,
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I was at whatever, three 55, three 65 for five RM. And, um, then I did it today.
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A little, little humble brag. Yeah. But if I failed last week, could I have, if I didn't fail last
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week, would I have been able to accomplish it today? No, of course not. No. So what's wrong with
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failure? Hmm. Well, let me throw this out there because in this instance, you know, that impacts
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you, right? I guess indirectly would affect other people. Cause you're worried about being strong
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and your mission. I think where people get hung up with failure is if you let other people down,
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like I don't put food on the table or I don't to going back to our earlier conversation about
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starting a business. You know, if I leave my wife and children are depending on me, you know,
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and there's some instances where actually failure is not an option. Yeah. Um, so I have seven
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profitable, successful businesses right now. Um, do you not think I have failed at business?
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Yeah, of course you have. Yeah, absolutely. I have like catastrophically humiliated myself and my,
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my, my incredibly brilliant wife who's like, really, you're going to do what again with this
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money? You know, I was like, Oh, it's going to work this time, this time. And, uh, so why does she
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believe in you? That will that's in there. Like if, if I wasn't a 220 pound, hairy troll ogre that,
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you know, you're going to blow up and, and even with a busted knee, you and your 19 friends are
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going to have one hell of a fight on your hands. You're going to try to put me in the dirt, you
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know? Um, because like, there's not a quit inside of here. She sees that she knows that, you know,
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she's like, think about me coming home from fights, UFC main event fights. I can't imagine
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that. I swung closed. I can't even move my hands because they're so swollen after hitting
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Bisping for 25 minutes, 300 and something times, you know, and, um, or blowing my knee
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out and having my eyes swung closed. And after fighting you all Romero, um, and she's like,
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you know, do you want me to get you some Tylenol or like a bottle of bourbon, you know?
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You like you, is that the right word? You like it or what?
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Um, I need to know it and I need to remember it.
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Hmm. So it pushes you to do something different next time.
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Hmm. Like, I don't want to forget about failure. I don't want to dilute the pain of failure
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failure and, you know, or even worse, like try to drink it away or take pills and, and, and, um,
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I need the acute sharp suffering that goes along with a humiliating face of failure.
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And if I could like, if I could bottle that, that drink that, because that is going to ensure
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Interesting. What is it like getting into, into that ring? You know,
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that's so foreign to me is like, I'm going to make a living in a career and in getting
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in a, in a metal cage, almost naked with another man who wants to hurt you as bad as you want
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I mean, I want to know where I fail. Am I the best? Am I not the best? Am I the strongest? Am I not the strongest? Am I the fastest? Am I the fastest? Am I not the fastest? These, these are questions that have been asked in my mankind since the beginning of mankind.
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Of course. That's why we compete. Yeah. Yeah. Like why wouldn't we? And because of that competition, some of the greatest accomplishments in mankind, the arms race, as horrible as it was, it's pretty cool. Got us the MRI.
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You know, um, do you think that our ability to record as we're doing right now, where did that come from? Right? Yeah. All of these things would have been diminished. Yeah, of course.
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And, uh, radio communication and sonar, all of that came from competition, man competition to see who and what is going to be the predominant successful ideology.
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So as simple as it is of who is the fastest person or who has the greatest ideas or what country is the greatest Greeks, Romans, um, Genghis Khan, here we are with an ever improving society.
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And we wouldn't have that with competition. That's interesting on the individual and the collective. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Well, Tim, this has been fascinating. Fun. Yeah, for sure. I love asking these questions.
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I mean, when I started this six years ago, just my desire to like sit down with guys like you and have these conversations and figure out what makes you tick. The whole goal is to make me and the people listening better. So you certainly give us a lot to think about.
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I got a lot to think about. We all do. We need to think a little bit more and act a little bit more too. Yeah, for sure. All right, Tim, I know you're busy.
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You're about to travel here, so we'll wrap it up. But again, thanks for the invite into your home. Thanks for sitting down with us. Appreciate you.
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It's been a pleasure, man. All right. Take care.
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Men, there you go. Mr. Tim Kennedy. I hope you enjoyed that one. I know that because I got to sit down with him at his home, he invited me to his home and introduced me to his family.
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