00:00:00.000Today's guest is the most unusual example of a renaissance man I think I've ever encountered.
00:00:06.340He is a ranger, a sniper, a special forces operator, a green beret, black belt UFC fighter, an entrepreneur, educator, stunt coordinator, veteran, author, TV host, speaker, an actor, and a social commentator.
00:00:23.000His book that he wrote, Scars and Stripes, an unapologetically American story of fighting the Taliban, UFC warriors, and myself, documents just a few of those roles.
00:00:38.780The last time he was on this podcast, he was fresh from Operation Pineapple Express, the daring mission to save the lives in the chaos of Biden's embarrassing Afghanistan evacuation.
00:00:50.800Unlike one of Joe Biden's other great embarrassments, he happens to be a good hunter, a hunter of drug lords, a hunter of terrorists, and in Hollywood, with that twist, in his experience, a hunter of zombies.
00:01:10.220Basically a big game hunter beyond comprehension.
00:01:13.880Not only does he hunt wild hogs, he does it from a helicopter.
00:01:17.300His work in intelligence, special ops, terrorism, hostage rescue, he has also earned the title, Hitler Hunter.
00:01:25.400Literally, he has been featured on the History Channel show, Hunting Hitler, where he and a team of decorated experts scour the world to find the ultimate fate of Adolf Hitler.
00:01:40.520Please welcome today's guest, Tim Kennedy.
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00:04:22.360You know, nobody trusts anyone as that's, you know, apples and oranges here comparing each other and throwing stones at each other at every opportunity.
00:04:29.620Do I think that the CIA would operate in a silo, not communicating up, down, and out like they should?
00:04:50.980But if you had information and you didn't act on it, and then you tried to cover up that you had that information, then it's a conspiracy and it's a cover-up.
00:04:56.980And of course, that's, you know, mud on your face and it's embarrassment.
00:05:39.480I think right now, in this age of information that we're living in, and it's really difficult, you know, when everything is labeled misinformation and disinformation, and we so quickly just say this is conspiracy theory.
00:05:52.480And then, you know, not but 12, 14 months later, this conspiracy theorist that would have got you kicked off every single social media platform, we then know to be 100% true.
00:07:06.240I understand from special operations that there are specific things, trade crafts and secrets that I want to keep for protection of the force.
00:07:14.880Outside of that, we work for the people.
00:07:17.400It's the government's job to make sure that the people know everything that's going on.
00:07:21.260And when you start lying to us and intentionally trying to keep information from us, that we then find out that you lied to us or that you kept information from us.
00:07:31.020How do you think your credibility and even worse, like the people that vote you in and out of power and support you and financially support you with our taxpaying dollars, how that's going to play out in the long run?
00:07:40.500Like we, I don't think at any point now, anybody's going to look at the CDC and be like, do it.
00:07:44.580They really have our best interest at heart.
00:07:56.500When you get it wrong, I think, I really, truly believe that if they would have said we were over in Wuhan, we were doing some things, it was perfectly legal because of this loophole and this loophole.
00:08:08.460I think we would have given people somewhat of a pass.
00:08:14.000But we would have given them grace if you were on it right away.
00:08:16.300But by lying and over and over and then just asserting your dominance over people and calling, destroying lives to cover your lie, I got, I had no time for you.
00:09:17.680You know, when you look at the Navy SEALs, you look at MARSOC, you look at Army combat divers.
00:09:24.160This is a very, very rigorous, difficult job.
00:09:27.460And our screening to select the people to do this job, the screening, first of all, is very, very complicated and it's very, very difficult.
00:09:35.200And then once they pass, the training that they undergo to be able to do these things and then the equipment that you need, it is, I mean, there's a half a dozen groups on the planet that can do this and it's not them.
00:10:20.800So, I mean, I think we might be in a different era where, what are you going to do?
00:10:26.900I want the people to wake up, you know, not that I want Pearl Harbor to happen, you know, but the Japanese so brilliantly and famously said, don't wake the sleeping giant.
00:10:46.040The American people have been realized, are realizing that they've been lied to over and over again.
00:10:51.140And, um, like there's no scarier group on the planet than a unified America.
00:10:56.720And we are, uh, it feels so divisive right now, but if you take a step back and you just tune out the 5% extremists on either end, you know, and you look at the remaining 90% of us standing in the middle and we all want the same thing.
00:11:10.900You know, we want to live free, we want sovereignty and, uh, we want to be able to raise our families and, and live in peace.
00:11:17.140And, uh, man, I think they're making some serious mistakes, underestimating what the people feel like when they're united.
00:11:22.680But there's also a coordinated effort to keep us apart.
00:11:59.360Went on to work for three-letter agencies.
00:12:02.380I mean, 20-year Sergeant Major within Special Operations.
00:12:05.300And he started the American Contingency.
00:12:08.600And, uh, and it's, it's a group of Americans that just want to support each other in case something bad happens.
00:12:14.600So, let's say a bad hurricane, tornado comes through an area, the, the American contingency would be this group of people that could stand up and be like, hey, I have canned food.
00:12:32.140This is a guy that he is, that has worked for every single agency, like every great agency in the American government to include Army Special Forces and Special Missions units within Special Operations.
00:12:42.020I mean, he's like one of a kind, great guy.
00:12:44.080And then he's being targeted by the FBI because of this.
00:12:46.700And it hurt my heart because Mike is such a great friend.
00:12:50.400And, um, you know, I try to toe the line.
00:12:52.660I try to really not, you know, piss on too, piss on too many people.
00:14:26.800People that live in fear, people that are incapable to be sovereign are people that have no innate intrinsic abilities to protect themselves, their families, or provide for their families.
00:14:35.540So the skills to be able to provide, to protect and to preserve human life, those are skills that are inherent to be somebody that can live freely.
00:14:42.420If you don't have those skills, then one, you're useless.
00:14:46.120You, you, you provide no asset to your neighbors.
00:14:48.400You're more of a liability than anything, but how can you truly say, I want to be a free person.
00:14:52.380If you aren't doing the things yourself to be able to be free, to fight freely.
00:14:57.460Like what are those things that you think should be on the checklist?
00:15:00.800I think that, um, you should know how to grow food, how to purify water.
00:15:06.000I think you need to be able to, I mean, shoot, move, communicate, Medicaid, those things being able to, if you look back to our founding fathers, if you look back to the initial rebels, they were fierce.
00:15:17.920They carve their existence out of the wilderness.
00:15:20.260They could feed their own families and they could fight off anybody that came.
00:15:23.320And at one point they got pushed too far because, you know, they had, they had taxation without representation.
00:15:28.060They said, Hey man, this isn't cool, but if they're, if they're useless, if they're, if they have no skills, they have no ability to fight.
00:15:34.240If they're not healthy and they're not independent there and they're entitled and reliant, they're relying on the people that are then their own dictators and they're selecting them to be their permanent dictators.
00:15:45.840But the only way that you can not do that is to be a strong people.
00:15:49.720So strong people have to have that independent, not just the spirit, not just to say that I'm free, but have to be able to train every single day to be free.
00:15:58.180I was listening to a, uh, an old George straight song the other day.
00:16:40.900I think people are starting to pay attention again, how vulnerable we were post COVID, how susceptible we were and how easy it was to break us.
00:16:51.680You know, where you walk up to, if I, if I, you know, they say we're three meals away from anarchy where if there's not food to put in front of the tape on the table for your family,
00:17:02.140within three meals, within three meals, it's absolute chaos.
00:17:19.080Oh, there's a really long line, whether it's hyperinflation, the bread lines are too long or during COVID, you just couldn't even get into the supermarkets because they're closed one more meal.
00:17:28.800And then people are rioting, you know, people are dumpster diving.
00:17:31.820People are kicking in doors to start trying to find food.
00:18:14.260And we have been very slowly, gradually setting that sword down.
00:18:17.900It's time for us to pick it back up and what it means to be an American.
00:18:20.160Yeah, I think my, maybe my father's generation, maybe some of my generation were the last ones to really not be soft.
00:18:31.640A lot of people in my generation are soft.
00:18:34.500I'm the end of the baby boomers, the very end.
00:18:37.460And we didn't have a really tough anything, but the guys in World War II, the families in World War II, but we haven't seen poverty like that.
00:18:52.860And people just, especially youth, just because they're farther down the chain on the generations, they just think it'll always be this way.
00:19:03.140They just don't understand how fragile it is.
00:19:08.540When those planes came in and we were suddenly at war with a foe we didn't know who was even trying to hit us, I remember that day thinking, my gosh, this is so fragile.
00:19:20.860It just, it can overnight just spin out of control.
00:19:25.000Yeah, they brought us to our knees and then we went to war for 20 years and then continued to sacrifice our freedoms.
00:19:33.120So, you know, the Patriot Act was the largest opportunity for, you know, the, any, any government and dictatorship will never let a chaos, a moment of anarchy, not go without taking advantage of it.
00:19:46.980And I think as they are with everything and will with the next financial crisis.
00:19:52.820Does it bother you to be living in the United States in the 21st century and hear that we have shortages on some of our most basic things like bullets, medicine?
00:20:03.160It should, it should, you have the right to take care of yourself.
00:20:07.300And as Tim and I are talking about here, you have a responsibility as an American, you have a duty to take care of yourself.
00:20:19.200So making sure that you have certain basic medicines on hand in case of an emergency is not a bad idea, especially considering that pharmacies and hospitals might not always have what you need.
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00:20:50.300So, so empower yourself, care for your loved ones and yourself should a crisis emerge.
00:21:21.700I mean, I, for the first time feel, I just read in the paper this week, um, um, Biden has just given a billion dollars through the UN to China to help with their climate change bull crap.
00:21:39.200And I thought we gave China a billion dollars.
00:21:48.520And we don't have a billion dollars and they are marking us as their number one enemy.
00:21:55.200I just feel like no one's being consulted on anything when it comes to Ukraine.
00:22:02.240I don't remember all the debates that were happening.
00:22:05.360I don't, I, I haven't seen an anti-war, uh, side come out yet.
00:22:10.900It seems like we're just headed towards war.
00:22:13.820Uh, are we, it feels like it, the people sitting at the table right now.
00:22:19.360I remember when Iraq and Afghanistan were starting to peak, you know, and you started looking at the people around the room from the Dynacores to the Raytheons to the Halbertons to the KBRs, um, you know, powerful government contractors worth, you know, hard billions, not little billions, like billions.
00:22:36.820Now trillions, some of them, um, and it feels the same.
00:22:42.300Um, I, I, I have a, obviously I've been to Ukraine a few times this year, um, with save our allies, providing humanitarian aid into the last mile, all the way to the front lines.
00:22:52.460Um, and can I hate Russia and communism and socialism, um, and also want to, and not want them to win in Ukraine, but also want accountability of our dollars and make sure that me as a taxpayer, that we're doing the right thing by way of our government and our, you know, diplomatic relations.
00:23:21.040And we just, we're just like taking a shotgun and blowing holes into the lifeboats.
00:23:25.160You know, they, on the money thing in world war two, when we sent money over to, um, the, uh, Africa for the war in Africa, and then we sent it again in Hawaii.
00:23:38.440Hawaii, those bills were, had a different color seal at a, a brown seal or a gold seal.
00:23:49.040I think was for, uh, for in the desert.
00:23:52.440If we would have lost in Africa and all of our pallet of money was sitting there, the treasury would have said, take nothing with a brown seal.
00:24:47.800Um, I can also, as like a constitutional constitutionalist and libertarian be like, I want accountability of every single cent and where it goes.
00:24:54.660And I know that our government, if PayPal can track, um, correct the dollar, everything that, you know, if you went to Washington DC in January, um, they can tell exactly who was there.
00:25:06.220Uh, you know, Vimo knows exact Vimo knows exactly how much money you spent.
00:25:10.720Uber was handing stuff over to the FBI and the CIA, but we can't track billions of dollars of pallets of money that we're giving.
00:27:48.220Um, you know, like this utopian idea that you have, you know, they're going and picking the poorest and their, their most marginalized ethnicities.
00:27:55.100And they're putting them in uniforms and shoving them to the front lines to die.
00:27:59.080But it benefits them because all of, you know, their comrades are better off because they have fewer people to support, fewer mouths to feed, fewer poor people to deal with, fewer sick people.
00:28:08.400But if you go to the East, if you are Ukraine and you go over there and you see these people that are dead in the trenches that died in trench warfare.
00:28:40.600We, we did way better than when I say we, the Ukrainian people, there is major intelligence mistake on the Russians when they thought that they were going to be welcomed, like, like liberators by crossing that sovereign border.
00:28:54.060Um, you can't, Ukraine remembered what, what it was like to be under Russian rule and can you be ethnically Russian, but still a proud Ukrainian.
00:29:06.980They thought every single one of those Ukrainian by nationality, but Russian by birth, the moment they crossed the border would be pro Russia.
00:29:15.820That's, that's where they done slipped up.
00:29:17.820So they crossed the border illegally, right?
00:29:20.140And they came in through the North and it came in through the East and every Ukrainian was like, no, no, I'm Ukrainian.
00:29:53.700We're going to fight the Wagner group.
00:29:55.220You know, we're going to fight civilians that are being handed weapons, you know, um, black flag operations, the type of war that we're fighting now.
00:38:06.800It is, um, you know, during World War II, uh, during the war acts, we were able to move the entire industrial might of all of America to the war fighting efforts.
00:38:16.880You know, when you look at these amazing weapons manufacturers and these incredible ammo manufacturers to federal to like, I work for Nosler, like the best bullets on the planet.
00:38:25.620And every single one of those bullets, 90, 90 something percent of them go to the consumer, right?
00:38:31.920They, they, they, they're dedicated to keep a percentage that go to government contracts, but those are ongoing reoccurring contracts.
00:38:38.740You know, it takes one act for all of that production to be shifted towards the military.
00:38:46.200Our capacity, our ability to manufacture firearms and ammo has just grown and grown and grown and grown and grown since World War II.
00:38:54.820Um, and, uh, so when I say it's, it's partially accurate with the current allocation of arms that come from these manufacturers, but the moment that you say, okay, we're at war, all of this allocation then goes to war, man, we, there's nobody on the planet that can hang with us.
00:39:22.360You think if I were, if I were Russia or China and I had this president and this Pentagon, uh, and these financial situations, I would say, take Taiwan before the next election, do what you have to do.
00:39:44.440Let's get this all done before the next election, because if a conservative who is smart, it comes in a lot's going to change at the Pentagon and fast, fast, really fast.
00:40:00.660Does that seem like sound thinking if you were Xi Jinping?
00:41:15.520The other one is, let's just go right now.
00:41:18.540And, uh, Afghanistan demonstrated how not prepared we were Ukraine demonstrated how not prepared we are right now in Sudan, as we just moved all 55 diplomatic personnel and our ambassador, but left all 20,000 Americans that's demonstrating our position.
00:41:46.460Um, so we, there's a lot of gold there also, also, um, you know, South Sudan, Sudan had a split to almost every single Christian in Sudan moved South.
00:42:00.600Um, the Sudan then, um, became mostly Islamic nation and they have been destabilizing for the past couple of years.
00:42:13.980And then it just happened rapidly, um, since December of last year.
00:42:19.800And, um, now we have two warring generals that are competing for, you know, in this coup for control over Sudan.
00:42:30.060Um, as you know, last night, as of yesterday, we pulled all of our diplomatic staff out and the ambassador.
00:42:36.100We then told all the Americans that are there, um, you know, shelter in place, stand by.
00:42:42.600We don't have the ability to get you guys out.
00:42:44.540We got the ability to get our people out, but you guys have to figure out your own way.
00:42:48.520So I'm talking tens of thousands of Americans are trapped there.
00:43:03.300Um, so, you know, you have the steps program, which department of state, it's you.
00:43:08.160If you're traveling to a foreign country, you say, Hey, I'm going to be here.
00:43:10.680You're essentially letting the department of state know that you're going to be there.
00:43:13.140That's the lowest estimate is every single one of those people that said that they're in country.
00:43:17.300Um, but typically we know it's sometimes four to five times that of the people that traveled there without letting the department of state know, you know,
00:43:24.840Hey, I'm gonna go to Ethiopia or I'm gonna go to South Sudan.
00:43:27.880You know, did you, did your church notify department of state that you're taking 13, you know, young men or children to Sudan to, to dig a well?
00:43:37.440Um, no, you didn't, you didn't know to do that and it's fine, but those are the people that are going to be stuck there.
00:43:42.920Those are the people that are stuck there.
00:43:47.600I mean, the two generals that are fighting each other, they are both formally convicted of war crimes and they're, Oh my God, they're terrible, terrible, terrible men.
00:43:56.920Um, and their militia are caught chewing young kids with machetes and mopeds that will kill you in a heartbeat.
00:44:02.700And, you know, like the UN just driving out, they just start shooting at them.
00:44:06.800You know, every single person that has been leaving the embassy, they just start shooting at.