The Joe Rogan Experience - Joe Rogan Experience #2055 - Tim Kennedy

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00:00:12.000 Do you want me to drink anything special?

00:00:13.000 Did Evan make this for you?

00:00:15.000 Yeah, it's black rifle.

00:00:16.000 I don't know what blend it is.

00:00:18.000 I'm going to be fully transparent.

00:00:20.000 I only like the bougie black rifle blends.

00:00:22.000 The bougie blends?

00:00:23.000 Yeah, like...

00:00:24.000 Oh, like the Ethiopian stuff? 0.71

00:00:26.000 Yeah, like Evan...

00:00:26.000 Like the lemony sort of...

00:00:28.000 Evan will be like, oh, so I, you know, soul source selected this bean from this place and I roasted it this way.

00:00:34.000 I'm like, oh, it's going to be good.

00:00:35.000 And it's good.

00:00:36.000 Well, every year I do elk hunting camp with Evan.

00:00:39.000 We share an elk hunting camp in California.

00:00:43.000 So we just got back.

00:00:44.000 And so Evan makes coffee for us every day. 0.99

00:00:46.000 So he gets up and he fucking hand measures everything and he brings his own fucking special blends. 0.99

00:00:53.000 He had two different blends because he knows I like a dark roast. 0.99

00:00:56.000 So he had a dark roast and then he had this...

00:00:58.000 Really bizarre, exotic coffee that tasted different than anything I'd ever had before.

00:01:04.000 It was like, had like a kind of like, almost like a sweet, like almost like a tea taste to it.

00:01:11.000 Like he just, he's a master.

00:01:13.000 You know he was using tax paying dollars to start his coffee obsession?

00:01:18.000 Was he really?

00:01:19.000 Yeah, so when he was both in group and at the agency, he would take, you know, we have discretionable funds that you can spend on whatever, and area improvement is an appropriate way for you to spend money.

00:01:32.000 So he would buy like a $20,000 espresso machine.

00:01:36.000 And, you know, a $3,000 grinder in some middle-of-nowhere Ford operating base where he's making coffee and, like, just being a total nerd.

00:01:47.000 It's all taxpayer money.

00:01:49.000 It's awesome.

00:01:51.000 Like, finally, something's being used with tax-paying dollars that benefits the soldier, which is rare.

00:01:55.000 We ran out of coffee filters, and someone was like, we'll just use paper towels. 0.97

00:02:01.000 And he just went, fuck no, we're not going to use paper towels. 0.97

00:02:04.000 I was like, dude, we're not using paper towels. 0.99

00:02:06.000 Just look at him.

00:02:07.000 He's little, but he's mighty.

00:02:08.000 He's very serious.

00:02:09.000 Do not use paper towels.

00:02:12.000 He's very serious about his coffee.

00:02:14.000 Or skydiving next month.

00:02:15.000 You've been to his place in Utah?

00:02:17.000 Yeah.

00:02:17.000 The lab that he has set up at Black Rifle?

00:02:19.000 Yeah, he made me do one of the little tastes where they do this thing with the spoon, and then you have to smell it first, and you have to do something with your tongue.

00:02:28.000 And I was like, what are we doing here?

00:02:30.000 I can't.

00:02:31.000 I can't do that.

00:02:32.000 I can't go that far.

00:02:32.000 It's like with wine.

00:02:33.000 Like when people are like, oh, hints of oak.

00:02:36.000 Like, I don't.

00:02:36.000 It's good.

00:02:37.000 I like it.

00:02:38.000 You can do that.

00:02:39.000 This goes well with what I'm eating right now.

00:02:41.000 I have a friend, my friend Matt.

00:02:43.000 I'll call.

00:02:43.000 He's a real wine freak.

00:02:44.000 And I'll just like show him a photo of like the wine page at a restaurant.

00:02:49.000 Like, what should I get?

00:02:50.000 He'll tell me.

00:02:51.000 He'll just text me.

00:02:51.000 He loves it.

00:02:52.000 So I'm like, good.

00:02:54.000 I've got that farmed off.

00:02:56.000 If I can outsource things that I don't have to keep on my brain.

00:02:59.000 Yeah, I do not want to have to pay attention to that.

00:03:01.000 We are so good.

00:03:02.000 And that's how I do it with coffee, too.

00:03:04.000 Evan's like, I'll send you a bag of that stuff.

00:03:06.000 I'm like, great.

00:03:07.000 What was it again?

00:03:08.000 I forget what it was, but it was like fruity and Another one, like, as Jack Carr is so incredible, Evan.

00:03:14.000 So I'm skydiving all...

00:03:15.000 I was supposed to be skydiving all last week, but I was in Israel.

00:03:18.000 And then, so I had to move it to the right, because we're doing this Moab jump with a bunch of your friends, Mike Sorelli and Mike Glover and Evan and...

00:03:29.000 So I like, I need to brush off, knock off the dust a little bit.

00:03:33.000 So I, Evan, and he sends me this like super fancy designed helmet from Black Rifle, a skydive helmet, a G3 for, just like, just sent it to me.

00:03:44.000 You know, and I was like, all right, this is really cool.

00:03:47.000 You know, I'll be skydiving with this helmet that is way above my ability because I'm just total sky trash.

00:03:54.000 I have never, and I'm not doing it.

00:03:56.000 I have zero desire.

00:03:57.000 I don't get it. 1.00

00:03:58.000 I don't get Andy Stump with his fucking flying squirrel suit. 1.00

00:04:01.000 Fuck you. 1.00

00:04:02.000 He'll be there too. 1.00

00:04:03.000 I'm not doing that.

00:04:03.000 Of course, that's easy for him.

00:04:05.000 He's used to the flying squirrel suit. 0.99

00:04:08.000 Regular skydiving ain't shit. 0.79

00:04:11.000 I asked Andy if he'd be interested in helping me do bass jump stuff and wingsuit stuff and just all I got was no.

00:04:19.000 It's like, can you expand on that?

00:04:22.000 He's like, all of my friends that I used to do this with are dead.

00:04:24.000 So no, Tim.

00:04:26.000 Okay, well, great conversation.

00:04:28.000 That was fun.

00:04:29.000 That is, like, the death rate in that stuff. 0.93

00:04:33.000 Like, he was telling me, like, how many, like, if you send out fucking 20 people to do that, how many come back? 0.97

00:04:40.000 It's not good. 0.97

00:04:42.000 No.

00:04:42.000 Yeah.

00:04:43.000 Find a different hobby.

00:04:44.000 Did you ever see the video where the guy is trying to fly in between the arches of a bridge?

00:04:51.000 The sound, the clang of metal when his meat and bones hit that bridge?

00:04:58.000 It was terrible.

00:04:59.000 It was like a watermelon traveling at 200 miles an hour impacting metal.

00:05:05.000 Yeah.

00:05:05.000 And you can't imagine what that sound...

00:05:08.000 Like, you imagine what that sound would be until you hear it, and that was a watermelon with bone slamming against metal, which was a human, which is now nothing.

00:05:16.000 Nothing.

00:05:17.000 A splatter.

00:05:18.000 It's instantaneous.

00:05:19.000 I mean, he's probably going 100 miles an hour.

00:05:22.000 You know?

00:05:23.000 Yeah.

00:05:23.000 Faster.

00:05:24.000 Probably.

00:05:25.000 Yeah.

00:05:25.000 How fast do you go with those things?

00:05:28.000 140. So if you're in a dive position, you're going 160 to 200 miles an hour.

00:05:35.000 And if you're stable flying, maybe 140. 160. Yeah, so when you're navigating like he was, I bet he was going 140, 150 miles an hour.

00:05:48.000 Jesus, which really makes you appreciate nature and evolution, that the Perrigan Falcon does like, what does it do, like 220 or something insane?

00:05:57.000 And can change on a dime, just like flip.

00:06:00.000 It says you can go up to 220 horizontally.

00:06:02.000 Oh! 0.60

00:06:03.000 Oh! 0.60

00:06:04.000 Fast! 0.98

00:06:04.000 220 in a car! 0.98

00:06:06.000 Fucking feels insane. 0.99

00:06:08.000 I've never done it. 0.99

00:06:08.000 I don't know. 0.99

00:06:09.000 But I mean, I've done like...

00:06:10.000 We went to the local racetrack.

00:06:12.000 That place up there.

00:06:13.000 Koda?

00:06:14.000 Oh, our light's not on.

00:06:15.000 We went to Koda recently.

00:06:16.000 And Koda gets up to like...

00:06:20.000 I mean, we were in a Lamborghini and went to like 147. That feels fucking insane at a racetrack. 0.61

00:06:25.000 How's this thing going on, James? 0.99

00:06:27.000 You got it, you got it.

00:06:27.000 Oh, there we go.

00:06:29.000 Yeah, that long straightaway into that almost 180 turn on a motorcycle is one of the scariest things I have ever felt.

00:06:38.000 Have you done that track?

00:06:40.000 Yeah.

00:06:40.000 Oh, that track is awesome.

00:06:41.000 Yeah. 0.82

00:06:42.000 I mean, except for that, like, my testicles were up into my stomach.

00:06:44.000 Yeah. 0.82

00:06:44.000 And I thought I'm a brave, courageous human, and then I was just 100% coward on a racetrack. 0.82

00:06:49.000 Right.

00:06:50.000 Well, at least if you wipe out, you just kind of, like, slide.

00:06:53.000 Yeah.

00:06:54.000 We were watching Formula One there. 0.99

00:06:56.000 That is fucking wild. 0.99

00:06:57.000 Those guys are flying! 0.99

00:06:59.000 They're going so much faster than regular cars.

00:07:02.000 You really get a perspective when you've actually driven around the car in like a GT car, the track rather, and then you see those guys...

00:07:11.000 It's wild.

00:07:12.000 And there's levels, too. 0.97

00:07:13.000 Every time I think that I'm good at something, then you go with somebody that's actually good at that thing, and then you're just like, I'm so trash. 0.90

00:07:21.000 Yeah, I thought I knew how to drive a car until I got lessons, and I'm like, oh, I suck at driving, too. 0.91

00:07:26.000 Great. 0.96

00:07:27.000 You have the long litany of things that I suck at. 0.99

00:07:29.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:07:30.000 Which are just made so clear.

00:07:32.000 And then, unfortunately, I don't want to suck at it, so now I have this new addiction.

00:07:36.000 Oh, okay. 0.99

00:07:36.000 And I want to go to the fucking track all the time, which is not the best thing for, like, time management. 0.99

00:07:42.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:07:42.000 Because it's a fucking full-day thing, you know? 0.99

00:07:44.000 It's like golf or something like that. 0.99

00:07:46.000 Like, I've never played golf, and I won't play golf, because it's a time management thing.

00:07:49.000 Yeah.

00:07:49.000 Like, I don't have that...

00:07:50.000 Like, Ron White and Tony Hinchcliffe, they go out, and they play for fucking eight hours. 0.81

00:07:54.000 I'm like, bro, I don't have eight hours. 0.96

00:07:55.000 Yeah, what do you...

00:07:56.000 Ever.

00:07:56.000 Eight hours of sleep.

00:07:57.000 You get stuff done on the golf course.

00:07:59.000 No, you don't.

00:08:00.000 No, you don't.

00:08:00.000 Maybe if you're a hedge fund manager and you want to figure out how to rip people off.

00:08:05.000 I enjoy the...

00:08:06.000 Shooting and golf have a lot in common, like precision rifle.

00:08:10.000 So I enjoy that portion of it, so I definitely don't need to do this other thing with a club and a ball.

00:08:16.000 I have a pool addiction, which is very similar.

00:08:19.000 Billiards.

00:08:20.000 I play pool at a pretty high level.

00:08:22.000 I have a real problem with that.

00:08:25.000 I could play eight, nine hours a day.

00:08:27.000 Easy. 0.99

00:08:28.000 Those are dorks. 0.99

00:08:29.000 Yeah. 0.96

00:08:30.000 Like, real pool nerds.

00:08:31.000 Oh, yeah.

00:08:33.000 They're genius.

00:08:34.000 Yeah.

00:08:35.000 And they're weird.

00:08:36.000 And they're so freaking good. 0.95

00:08:38.000 They're so fucking smart. 0.98

00:08:39.000 That's what's crazy. 1.00

00:08:40.000 Like, really good pool players are fucking smart. 0.99

00:08:43.000 Because you have to be. 0.99

00:08:44.000 Because you have to...

00:08:45.000 It's problem solving.

00:08:47.000 You have to figure out how to manage geometry and also feel.

00:08:51.000 And then you have to execute the shot, too, under pressure.

00:08:54.000 Very similar to jiu-jitsu in...

00:08:56.000 In archery.

00:08:57.000 Yeah, this physical application of this mental complex problem.

00:09:01.000 Yeah.

00:09:02.000 That is, you know, in real time changing...

00:09:06.000 Every second.

00:09:06.000 Yeah.

00:09:07.000 I think jiu-jitsu is the most complex of those things.

00:09:10.000 But it's also the one that breaks your body the most.

00:09:13.000 That's the problem with jiu-jitsu.

00:09:15.000 I've done really good in this long journey.

00:09:17.000 I've totally changed now that all of these monsters have moved to Austin.

00:09:21.000 Another example of where I thought I was just this freak grappler until I met real freak grapplers.

00:09:29.000 And I'm like, man, I'm not even top 20. I'm maybe top 100 now.

00:09:35.000 And so that realization with the Jean-Carlo Bedonis and the Gordon Ryans and Victor Hugos and the Marigellis and the Craig Joneses. 0.98

00:09:41.000 Isn't that wild how many fucking people are here? 0.98

00:09:43.000 And they're all in my gym. 1.00

00:09:45.000 I was in his academy this morning.

00:09:47.000 It's amazing.

00:09:48.000 I mean, no, it's not amazing, Joe.

00:09:50.000 It's not.

00:09:51.000 You know what I'm saying? 0.93

00:09:52.000 This is the spectrum of, great, another thing that I'm trash at.

00:09:55.000 But I've totally changed.

00:09:57.000 I want to do jujitsu until I'm 100 years old.

00:10:00.000 And so...

00:10:03.000 I'm so intentional about what my roles are, who my live goes are with.

00:10:09.000 That's important.

00:10:10.000 It's so important.

00:10:11.000 And also, you're very good at keeping up your physical body, which a lot of people are not.

00:10:16.000 They just roll.

00:10:17.000 They just train, which you really can't.

00:10:18.000 Nope.

00:10:19.000 I split my effort in a week almost evenly between grappling, striking, physical development, strength, speed, and then that long recovery, longevity aspect of it.

00:10:32.000 That's how my week is broken into for my training.

00:10:35.000 You almost have to treat your body like a pit crew. 1.00

00:10:38.000 You really have to change your fucking tires. 1.00

00:10:41.000 You got to do the whole thing. 0.99

00:10:42.000 You can't just like, ah, they look good.

00:10:44.000 No.

00:10:45.000 You got to really treat it like there's a methodical approach that must be done in order to race.

00:10:52.000 If you want to train, you kind of have to do that.

00:10:56.000 It's not good for the ego.

00:10:57.000 It's not!

00:10:58.000 I got away with it when I was 25 and fighting.

00:11:01.000 But you got away with it while you were also active duty, which is pretty crazy.

00:11:06.000 Yeah, I should have been a little bit more intentional and disciplined about how I spent my time.

00:11:12.000 I took youth for granted.

00:11:15.000 Everybody does.

00:11:16.000 Youth is wasted on the young. 0.90

00:11:18.000 Isn't it wild? 1.00

00:11:19.000 Especially when you're dumb. 1.00

00:11:22.000 It's hard. 1.00

00:11:23.000 Well, most young people are dumb. 1.00

00:11:25.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:11:25.000 It's most young people that do the kind of stuff that we enjoy. 1.00

00:11:28.000 Yeah.

00:11:29.000 Yeah. 0.75

00:11:29.000 And we did dumb stuff. 0.75

00:11:33.000 How's life? 0.87

00:11:33.000 Everything's good, man. 0.87

00:11:34.000 Everything's really good.

00:11:35.000 I was shooting a bow yesterday.

00:11:37.000 Yeah?

00:11:37.000 My buddy Tyson got Rob from Roka, gave him a bow.

00:11:42.000 Another great person that does great things for people that I resent.

00:11:45.000 Oh, Rob's great.

00:11:46.000 Yeah.

00:11:46.000 I'm like, you never gave me a bow.

00:11:47.000 Like, I was never given a bow.

00:11:48.000 Like, how does this just happen?

00:11:50.000 So he came over and...

00:11:51.000 Do you want one?

00:11:52.000 No, no, no.

00:11:52.000 I got a great bow.

00:11:54.000 Where do you get a bow from?

00:11:56.000 From Archery Country.

00:11:57.000 Oh, okay.

00:11:57.000 Yeah.

00:11:58.000 That's my spot.

00:11:58.000 Yeah, I was there this morning, got...

00:12:00.000 I got an Archery Country t-shirt on right here.

00:12:02.000 Yeah!

00:12:02.000 Let's go.

00:12:03.000 I got six new arrows today.

00:12:06.000 I shot through one of my archery targets and it hit the wood in the back and I was inspecting my arrow and I saw this little tiny fine line along the side of it and I was like, you're done.

00:12:17.000 Oh, carbon?

00:12:17.000 You're shooting carbon?

00:12:18.000 Yeah.

00:12:19.000 You gotta be really careful about that.

00:12:20.000 A lot of those explode and they go through people's hands.

00:12:22.000 I love those videos.

00:12:23.000 I can't watch them but I love them.

00:12:24.000 Do you watch them?

00:12:25.000 You do watch them.

00:12:26.000 I've seen them, yeah.

00:12:27.000 I don't enjoy them. 0.97

00:12:28.000 I check all my shit out religiously though because of that. 0.97

00:12:31.000 I had a Teflon glove that I tried to wear for a while. 0.92

00:12:34.000 A lot of guys wear a Teflon glove to make sure that never happens, but it's never happened to me.

00:12:38.000 I've been shooting a bow for 10 years.

00:12:41.000 I love it.

00:12:42.000 Yeah, it's great.

00:12:43.000 I've built about a 180-degree 3D archery range in the backyard on the back three acres.

00:12:49.000 I've got full-size elk and pigs and coyotes and a bunch of little deer.

00:12:55.000 So anywhere from 100 yards.

00:12:57.000 And I hate that I have to say yards.

00:12:59.000 Instead of meters?

00:13:00.000 Yeah.

00:13:00.000 We should have changed over.

00:13:01.000 We almost did when I was in, like, I guess I was in high school and they were trying to change everybody over.

00:13:06.000 It's just so much easier.

00:13:07.000 It makes more sense. 1.00

00:13:09.000 America's so fucked up with that. 1.00

00:13:10.000 We're like, nah, fuck the rest of the world. 1.00

00:13:13.000 Inches, bitch. 1.00

00:13:14.000 We made it to the moon off inches and feet. 1.00

00:13:17.000 Great.

00:13:17.000 Thanks.

00:13:18.000 Inches, feet, and fuck soccer. 1.00

00:13:20.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:13:22.000 The rest of the world is like, on the metric system, like, meh.

00:13:26.000 I love how England still sticks with pounds.

00:13:29.000 They do stone.

00:13:30.000 They're still with the stone thing. 0.99

00:13:32.000 The dumbest unit of measurement.

00:13:33.000 When we used to do fights over there and I had to do the weigh-ins, I used to have to say stone as well as pounds. 0.99

00:13:39.000 It's like, okay.

00:13:40.000 Why are we doing that?

00:13:41.000 Is this confusing when I just say pounds?

00:13:44.000 It's confusing enough when we have to throw on how much somebody weighs in kilos and then how much they weigh in pounds.

00:13:49.000 And we throw in stones.

00:13:50.000 Yeah.

00:13:50.000 And we're just like, okay.

00:13:52.000 Kilos, Celsius.

00:13:53.000 I was watching this video this guy was talking about.

00:13:55.000 Well, it's 30 degrees out, so it's a nice day to go out and shoot.

00:13:59.000 I was like, 30 degrees?

00:14:00.000 I was like, oh, he's in Canada.

00:14:02.000 All right.

00:14:03.000 Okay, you communist. 1.00

00:14:04.000 Using that bullshit metric system. 1.00

00:14:06.000 They really are right now, too. 1.00

00:14:07.000 They are!

00:14:08.000 They're full on.

00:14:09.000 I never thought it would happen that fast.

00:14:11.000 Bro, it's so bad.

00:14:11.000 I'm worried that my podcast is going to be censored in Canada.

00:14:15.000 It's going to. 0.99

00:14:16.000 Because they just passed some new fucking legislation where they're allowed to... 0.97

00:14:20.000 The whole idea is it's under the guise of Canadian content, because they have a Canadian content law where you have to have a certain amount of Canadian-based content on the radio and television and stuff like that. 0.98

00:14:34.000 You can't just have all stuff from all over the world, whatever people like.

00:14:37.000 You have to have like a certain percentage of it has to be Canadian. 0.88

00:14:40.000 And so under the guise of that, but really it's Trudeau trying to enforce censorship on podcasts because...

00:14:47.000 They always do it in the cover and every dangerous...

00:14:57.000 Yeah.

00:15:14.000 But you pull the veil back a little bit and it's just censorship.

00:15:17.000 It's just control.

00:15:18.000 Yeah, they're just trying to manipulate what information's available for people to try to base their opinions off of.

00:15:25.000 Have you ever seen that video of Trudeau from like 10 years ago?

00:15:28.000 I mean, it might have been from more.

00:15:29.000 It might have been like 2010. And he's talking about how he's opposed to...

00:15:35.000 Do you got coffee in there?

00:15:35.000 Yeah.

00:15:36.000 Salute, my friend.

00:15:37.000 Cheers.

00:15:38.000 Cheers.

00:15:38.000 He's opposed to regulations with guns because he's like regulations are the first step that they take and the ultimate goal is to remove your gun so we will not have Regulations like he's talking about this like in 2010 or 2011 I mean,

00:15:55.000 he was following a playbook, so he absolutely didn't believe that, though, because he knew that within a decade he would be trying to confiscate every single gun that he could get his hands on and make transfer of pistols illegal.

00:16:08.000 Illegal.

00:16:09.000 It's illegal.

00:16:09.000 If I have a pistol and I want to sell you a pistol, I cannot.

00:16:14.000 That's it.

00:16:14.000 It's so wild.

00:16:15.000 It's so wild how quick it changed over there.

00:16:17.000 They used COVID to just enforce these sweeping legislations across all sectors.

00:16:25.000 They don't have a free speech.

00:16:27.000 They don't have a First Amendment over there. 0.96

00:16:29.000 So they have...

00:16:30.000 Hate speech laws, which could be interpreted so vaguely.

00:16:34.000 And this is what Jordan Peterson was rallying against, like back when they had this bill that was set up to make people use someone's gender identity.

00:16:44.000 And he was like, what gender identity are you talking about?

00:16:48.000 There's 78 current gender identities that someone can choose to identify with.

00:16:54.000 Including just complete nonsense, made-up words, and it's gonna keep going.

00:16:59.000 I don't know how many of them there are now.

00:17:00.000 But he's like, the only way you enforce this is with...

00:17:03.000 You're gonna have to use force.

00:17:05.000 And it's like the rule of law.

00:17:07.000 Now it's like you're gonna send armed thugs to arrest people for not using made-up words.

00:17:13.000 Like, this is where this goes.

00:17:14.000 Especially Peterson, who knows so much about communism, and so much about where...

00:17:19.000 The darkness that it leads down to.

00:17:21.000 Yeah.

00:17:22.000 I love that he approaches it both from like a philosophical perspective and a historical perspective.

00:17:27.000 You know, he is so well versed and knowledgeable in the argument that they're making from this position.

00:17:35.000 This is where it leads to.

00:17:37.000 And not only do we understand this in human nature, and here's a bunch of examples of it, but then also historically, here's a bunch of examples of it.

00:17:44.000 So it makes it really hard to dispute what is really logical and rational and, okay, if you're here and they want to go from point A to point B, this is the process for them to get there.

00:17:54.000 And you're like, yeah, another brilliant man that does a lot of good.

00:17:58.000 Well, you need a guy like him who has such a deep understanding of history and also is a clinical psychologist who understands the human mind on a very, very deep level.

00:18:07.000 So he can explain things in a way that is...

00:18:12.000 Almost impossible to refute. 0.99

00:18:14.000 He's got all his bases covered when he had discussed the subject and he can fucking pull it off of his head. 0.76

00:18:20.000 The guy uses no notes and he just will quote things and explain things in the most complex manner and make it absorbable to everybody. 0.92

00:18:30.000 Yeah.

00:18:30.000 He and I are, we're in a parallel fight right now on the education side.

00:18:35.000 You know, I have Apogee, which is, I have a physical school here, and we have online mentorship, and we're launching an additional 50 schools this year.

00:18:42.000 Started a big, huge foundation, the Apogee Foundation, all just to try to turn this public school problem on its ear as we've indoctrinated this entire generation to hate America.

00:18:54.000 And, you know, we're in a really scary position.

00:18:57.000 Military is having recruiting issues.

00:19:00.000 You know, we're having identity problems in every imaginable way with this, you know, Gen Z and millennials just not knowing what their purpose is. 0.99

00:19:07.000 And when you look at the public school system and Department of Education, it's just a broken system.

00:19:14.000 Teachers are great.

00:19:15.000 Most of them on majority, I think, have a real We're good to go.

00:19:38.000 The lack of individual responsibility and, as Jocko would say, extreme ownership of what the issues are and how to solve them are absolutely absent.

00:19:49.000 You know, we have entitlement.

00:19:51.000 We have, you know, accepting these identities.

00:19:53.000 We have, obviously, this mental health crisis.

00:19:56.000 And all of it really goes back when you look at The pandering that is happening in public schools for eight hours in a day, there's no way that you could come out of that process not being jacked up.

00:20:07.000 Right.

00:20:08.000 You're gonna get some of it's gonna leak into your brain, no matter how much your parents talk to you or no matter how much you have your own ideas about life.

00:20:18.000 There's a certain amount that people just absorb from their atmosphere and accept.

00:20:22.000 There's a certain amount of it that people just accept.

00:20:25.000 It's so manipulative when, you know, a third grade teacher is assigning you a project of, okay, you are a Palestinian freedom fighter here in the United States.

00:20:33.000 What are some ways that you can help the Palestinians in Gaza be free?

00:20:39.000 Like, that is your assignment.

00:20:41.000 Give me five examples.

00:20:42.000 Or, even better, you'll get five points for extracurricular activities where you went and did something to help at a Palestinian protest or pro-Palestinian protest.

00:20:52.000 And it's just like, you've effectively radicalized a kid into a freedom fighter with one assignment.

00:20:58.000 Like, they have no choice but to participate if they want to receive a good grade.

00:21:02.000 That was on the news yesterday.

00:21:04.000 That exact situation was happening.

00:21:06.000 And it's detestable.

00:21:08.000 It's so bizarre.

00:21:10.000 It's so bizarre that people don't see where this goes.

00:21:14.000 They don't see the end of it. 0.98

00:21:16.000 And it's not to say that the plight of the innocent Palestinians is not a fucking terrible situation to be in. 1.00

00:21:23.000 If you're stuck in Gaza under the rule of Hamas and then you have Israel just like detained, keeps everybody detained in this one area, it's not good for them either. 0.93

00:21:32.000 2.4 million people in an area the site of Washington, D.C. And I like to use the word stuck, because they are.

00:21:39.000 You know, we have 240 hostages that are in Gaza, like legitimate Israeli, American, Brazilian, from almost every single nation, there's hostages in Gaza currently from October 7th.

00:21:52.000 But the 2.4 million people, the Palestinians that live in Gaza, they're being held hostage by 30 to 40,000 radical Hamas and about seven other radical organizations that are terrorist organizations.

00:22:05.000 So your word stuck could not be more accurate.

00:22:08.000 There are great, peaceful, wonderful Muslims in Gaza that voted in a terrorist organization when the PLO and Hamas were trying to figure out who is actually going to be the ruling party of the Palestinian people.

00:22:21.000 Hamas won out. 1.00

00:22:22.000 And now they are the size of a cartel being funded.

00:22:27.000 $70 million a year from Iran is being pumped into Hamas.

00:22:31.000 And all they're doing is taking every little bit of humanitarian aid and converting it into military resources.

00:22:37.000 And those poor people, those poor Palestinians, are trapped in between all of this.

00:22:43.000 It's wild.

00:22:44.000 It's such a complex problem that is solvable, but it's heartbreaking when you look at the individual level of the kids that are there and the women that are there and the civilians that are there are literally trapped, as you said, stuck.

00:22:57.000 And if you're Israel, how do you fix it? 1.00

00:23:00.000 If you're Palestinian, how do you fix it? 1.00

00:23:02.000 When it's so evident that Hamas wants one thing, which is the elimination and genocide of all Jews.

00:23:09.000 And are there any Muslim countries that are accepting Palestinian refugees? 0.69

00:23:14.000 No, they never have.

00:23:15.000 That seems insane, because there's all this support for the Palestinians. 1.00

00:23:21.000 If you're Islamic, if you're a Muslim, and you want to support these Muslims, Wouldn't you support the idea that your country, this Muslim country, would accept those people? 0.95

00:23:34.000 And they could be in a place where they could be free.

00:23:37.000 Now, 22 Arab nations, over 40 Muslim nations internationally, right?

00:23:41.000 There's one Jew nation.

00:23:43.000 And that one Jew nation, Israel, has done more for the Palestinian people than any other nation ever. 0.84

00:23:49.000 So it's ludicrous and it's insulting to the Palestinian people to start throwing stones at Israel when in fact they're the only group that has been trying to protect and in any administrative way provide food, water and resources to the people that are there.

00:24:03.000 Over 40 Muslim countries, not one of them is accepting any Palestinian refugees.

00:24:08.000 What is the answer to that?

00:24:10.000 Like why?

00:24:12.000 They're a problem that is with the radicals that are embedded inside of them.

00:24:19.000 How do you differentiate between who is a peaceful Muslim Palestinian to who is a radical that is working for Hamas?

00:24:27.000 Like, how do you do that?

00:24:30.000 So, as I'm getting evacuation requests two weeks ago, and we're trying to be good, proper, judicious servants, how do I know that this name of this person is not trying to fill out an evacuation form to be assisted to move from an area that they're currently denied in,

00:24:53.000 where their area of movement is restricted, For any other reasons besides that they need help like it's a really hard multiple levels of truth to try to Peel back to figure out who some of these people are and what their intentions are And it's been that way for a really long time if you go all the way back to like 1987 when Hamas really started moving and fighting with the PLO for control the air if you know when Yassar Yassar Arafat was meeting with Clinton and the Prime Minister of Israel and they're making negotiations

00:25:23.000 and Oslo and All the way up to, you know, the first intifada, to the second intifada, to then all suicide attacks, pizzerias blowing up.

00:25:32.000 Like, how do you determine who is good and who's bad?

00:25:35.000 Do they have a suicide vest?

00:25:36.000 Do they not?

00:25:37.000 Or like, what are their intentions?

00:25:39.000 It's wildly hard.

00:25:41.000 You have been involved just in the last few years in two of the most heartbreaking scenes that we've seen depicted in the media.

00:25:51.000 The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:25:54.000 You leave that and now you just got back from Israel.

00:26:00.000 I'm over what's happened the past three years.

00:26:02.000 There's actually four consecutive.

00:26:04.000 So the day I got back from Afghanistan, because I went from Afghanistan to Albania and Brazil and Italy and Greece to try to have them take refugees.

00:26:12.000 So my post-Afghanistan work lasted a few more weeks.

00:26:19.000 Because there are a lot of Afghan refugees and non-American citizens that weren't even Afghanis that we had to figure out where we're going to put. 0.98

00:26:27.000 So that carried off, you know, the attack happened September 26, where, or August 26, where the bomb at Abbey Gate went off and the American service members were killed.

00:26:37.000 And, you know, we left a few days later.

00:26:40.000 Two weeks later, we're now into mid-September.

00:26:42.000 I come back, and I immediately, the day I land, I get assigned to go down to the Mexican border.

00:26:47.000 And I spent six months on the Mexican border on Operation Lone Star, part of a special operations task force, combating cartels, traffickers, human traffickers, drug smugglers.

00:26:59.000 So there was humanitarian crisis number two in my life in three years, which was the Mexican border.

00:27:04.000 Some of the worst stuff I've ever seen in my life.

00:27:06.000 On par with Afghanistan, on par with what was the next one, which was Ukraine. 0.96

00:27:11.000 The day I got off orders where I was legally allowed to travel or I was not.

00:27:15.000 So when you're on orders, you have to do what the army says, right?

00:27:18.000 And the army said, this is what you're going to do.

00:27:20.000 So for six months, I was on this assignment at the border.

00:27:23.000 The day I got off those orders, I'm back to a civilian, Tim Kennedy.

00:27:27.000 So then I traveled to Ukraine.

00:27:29.000 I worked Ukraine for a few months during that conflict and post-invasion.

00:27:37.000 Which was, again, horrible.

00:27:39.000 Like, some of the worst stuff I've ever seen.

00:27:41.000 Come back and I get this, like, momentary lull where I was like, I think like Israel. 0.86

00:27:47.000 Is this going to be okay?

00:27:48.000 And then this happens.

00:27:49.000 You know, then October 7th happens.

00:27:51.000 And it was just...

00:27:54.000 In three years, for this level of horror to happen, it's indescribable.

00:28:01.000 It seems like it's ramping up.

00:28:03.000 It is.

00:28:05.000 So you're saying that the experience that you had at the border was as bad as anything?

00:28:10.000 Oh, yeah.

00:28:11.000 Yeah, so, I mean, this is...

00:28:13.000 I'm not gonna...

00:28:14.000 You're not gonna give me...

00:28:15.000 I'm just gonna take a sip here.

00:28:19.000 So we're in Afghanistan, right?

00:28:21.000 Babies are stuck in Constantinowire.

00:28:24.000 Taliban is executing civilians in the street to try to prompt Americans to do a response.

00:28:30.000 It's trying to elicit some escalation, right?

00:28:34.000 They're really just flexing to show that they were in charge.

00:28:37.000 So that's Afghanistan on the ground.

00:28:38.000 Burnt babies, you know, as I'm going out to try and find Americans or our allies that are out in the city of Kabul to bring them into Echkaya. 1.00

00:28:46.000 And you're stepping over like small burnt babies like it's the worst thing ever.

00:28:51.000 Fast forward three weeks.

00:28:54.000 We're the Del Rio River.

00:28:55.000 And there are 400 immigrants trying to cross the river.

00:29:00.000 They have babies up on their shoulders. 0.68

00:29:01.000 And the coyotes, the traffickers, every single person that's in the river has paid the cartels to be escorted across the border.

00:29:10.000 Well, concurrently, the cartel is about to smuggle 500 meters up the river, two dudes with bundles of fentanyl on their back.

00:29:18.000 So I'm dealing with this gigantic humanitarian problem of a few hundred people at night trying to cross a dark, cold, flowing water with babies on their shoulders.

00:29:28.000 And what do the coyotes do?

00:29:30.000 The moment that they start getting close to the shore, they just grab the kids.

00:29:33.000 Down in the drink.

00:29:34.000 Down in the water.

00:29:36.000 Babies are floating.

00:29:37.000 Little children are screaming.

00:29:39.000 Why would they do this?

00:29:40.000 Because I have to spend resources of my personnel to flood to try to save these immigrants from drowning in the river. 1.00

00:29:48.000 And I have to throw a ton of resources and people at them to try and save them so they don't die in the river.

00:29:54.000 At the exact same time, the resources that I have to use personnel-wise here...

00:29:59.000 They're getting guys successfully onto the shore with bags full of fentanyl as they run into the inland, into the interior.

00:30:07.000 And they know exactly what they're doing.

00:30:09.000 They're making money by moving people while they're concurrently making money smuggling drugs and throwing humanitarian crises at us so that they can move drugs simultaneously.

00:30:18.000 And that's hard for people that are trying to do good.

00:30:23.000 How do you choose which problem to attack?

00:30:27.000 We had a service member that dived into the water to try to save a baby and he drowned.

00:30:32.000 It took us a week to find his body.

00:30:35.000 A Texas National Guardsman dove in there to try to find a baby that had got pushed off and he drowned trying to save her.

00:30:45.000 Is it a matter of resources?

00:30:47.000 Is there not enough resources being put into...

00:30:50.000 Well, obviously, this whole thing reeks of...

00:30:54.000 It's so terrible to say, but it seems like this is a concentrated effort and not just from the cartel.

00:31:03.000 It seems like this is something that's being allowed to happen.

00:31:08.000 The benefit of...

00:31:11.000 There's lots...

00:31:12.000 I mean, that's a hard question.

00:31:13.000 Right.

00:31:15.000 Texas has a way different position than the federal government as to the immigration problem.

00:31:20.000 And their approach are almost in conflict.

00:31:23.000 So, when you get to, like, the real bad actors with, you know...

00:31:29.000 Sexual trafficking cartel members, drug smugglers, weapon smugglers, you know, of course you're going to see federal assets being leveraged to attack those problem sets.

00:31:40.000 But the large humanitarian problem...

00:31:44.000 The federal government is going to have a way different approach compared to the Texas government.

00:31:49.000 The Texas government is like, no, this is illegal immigration.

00:31:52.000 We have lawful ports of entry.

00:31:55.000 You have to legally come into the United States through a legal port of entry, and then once you are here, we will process you in accordance with what the Department of State says the immigration process is.

00:32:06.000 Because there's a rule, and we're a country of laws, so you have to follow the law.

00:32:10.000 Anything else is illegal.

00:32:14.000 The other side of that coin is the federal approach, which is anybody that makes across the border, you are now here and we're going to process you.

00:32:22.000 Which is insanity.

00:32:24.000 Why do they do that?

00:32:28.000 I... Do you think they're trying to bring in voters?

00:32:31.000 Yeah.

00:32:33.000 Yeah, and it grows the government. 0.98

00:32:36.000 It's more entitled people that you have to pay, more entitlement programs that you have to pay to support.

00:32:41.000 You know, those people are immediately shipped into the interior.

00:32:45.000 I find it comical and I know people think it's not appropriate for the Texas government.

00:32:51.000 They've been shipping immigrants to some of these sanctuary cities.

00:32:56.000 That they have said that they're sanctuary cities until they've actually received a lot of immigrants.

00:33:01.000 And they're like, oh my god, we can't handle this number of immigrants. 1.00

00:33:03.000 And it's like 1% of what comes over the border every single day here in Texas that we have to deal with all the time.

00:33:10.000 The Yankees, those north, they have no idea what it's like to be a border state.

00:33:15.000 And the amount, just the tens and hundreds of thousands of people that are coming across every single day, it's...

00:33:21.000 It is...

00:33:25.000 It's criminal that they're allowing it.

00:33:27.000 And when did it start?

00:33:29.000 When did it ramp up like this?

00:33:31.000 This was never three years ago three years ago.

00:33:34.000 Oh, Jesus Christ.

00:33:35.000 Yeah Yeah, I mean Trump put some pretty powerful laws in place and empowered the federal immigration laws for us at the border to have lots of tools to one turn somebody away and If you're coming across and you're claiming asylum,

00:33:52.000 well you have to go back to your country of origin or you have to go to the country that you're trying to cross from and that is where you're going to have your asylum process be determined.

00:34:04.000 You're not going to come in and we're not going to like allow you to go to San Diego and get to hang out in San Diego until your court date.

00:34:12.000 Which is currently happening right now, right?

00:34:13.000 You make it across.

00:34:14.000 Where are you going?

00:34:15.000 I'm going to San Diego.

00:34:16.000 All right, show up for your immigration court date in, you know, a year and a half from now.

00:34:20.000 And everybody knows this so that people are just coming across from mass.

00:34:24.000 That's right, just flooding.

00:34:25.000 It's so wild to watch those videos of just enormous, miles-long lines of people.

00:34:32.000 Military-age men, you know, it's so heartbreaking.

00:34:40.000 The men and women, you know, Border Patrol, Department of Public Safety, the Texas National Guardsmen that are working the border, they are so incredible.

00:34:50.000 Selfless, hardworking, like, love America, and also love people.

00:34:55.000 You know, they're putting their lives on the line every single day to try to protect these immigrants, but also try to Protect the law and the rule of law and that's a really hard thing to to reconcile is What is the humane thing to do and is that in alignment with what is the just thing to do?

00:35:14.000 That's that's hard They're amazing and then once people are here and they cross over There's not a real screening process in terms of, like, who's a criminal, what your history is in your country of origin.

00:35:28.000 Yeah, you want to get a weird Google thing.

00:35:31.000 Google how many known people on the terror watch list have made it across.

00:35:35.000 And it'll scare the crap out of you.

00:35:38.000 So the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, you know, we have these gigantic lists of people that are on terror watch lists, criminal watch lists, and the number of those that we have captured at the border obviously is just going to be a drop in a bucket of those that have made it across.

00:35:55.000 And, you know, It is...

00:35:59.000 In light of what just happened in Israel, where, you know, they flew paragliders over borders, over walls, and they crashed through walls, and then they were able to kill 1,400 people in one day.

00:36:12.000 And then you look at the number...

00:36:13.000 And that was 1,000 insurgents total.

00:36:17.000 And then you look at the number of people that have been coming over the border for the past three years that we know are radicalized, that we know are on watch lists.

00:36:25.000 It is...

00:36:27.000 It should scare you to death, the position that we're at.

00:36:34.000 We're going to have a real bad year. 0.99

00:36:36.000 God damn it. 0.99

00:36:38.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:36:39.000 Department of Homeland Security and the FBI yesterday, they talked about a bunch of known terrorist cells that are currently not operating, they are operating, but they are looking for opportunities, targets of opportunity to conduct terrorist activities here in the United States.

00:36:57.000 The Department of State just released an entire worldwide warning to all Americans traveling abroad, saying that it is dangerous for any American to be traveling anywhere in the world right now with the amount of terrorist cells that have now been activated. 0.99

00:37:18.000 Fuck! 0.97

00:37:19.000 So if you're in the STEPS program, Department of State, S-T-E-P, Smart Traveler something program, that you get notifications. 1.00

00:37:31.000 If you travel abroad, you should enroll in the STEPS program.

00:37:34.000 But what happens is...

00:37:37.000 Today, you would have gotten an email saying if you're going to be traveling to every single country that you had enrolled in STEPS that you're going to be overseas in, you would have gotten an email from them warning you not to go there because it's dangerous.

00:37:49.000 So if you're enrolled in like five different countries for STEPS, you would have got five emails today being like, hey, bro, don't go there.

00:37:57.000 Yeah, there we go.

00:37:58.000 Yeah, worldwide caution.

00:37:59.000 Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations, and violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution.

00:38:12.000 U.S. citizens should stay alert in locations frequented by tourists, enroll in smart travel enrollment program to receive information alerts to make it easier to locate you in an emergency overseas.

00:38:24.000 Follow the Department of State on Facebook and Twitter And visit travel.state.gov.

00:38:30.000 Yeah, this crisis intake form and the flights out of Ben Gurion, that is...

00:38:35.000 So Save Our Allies, the NGO that I was in Afghanistan for, the NGO that I was in Ukraine for, and the NGO that I was just recently in Israel for.

00:38:44.000 Department of State, you know, they're an easy target to throw darts at sometimes, but they really do do great for the American people.

00:38:53.000 But there's always these gaps.

00:38:56.000 So flat of, you're an American in Israel, right? 0.91

00:38:59.000 You're a 75-year-old pastor that wants to go and walk where Jesus walked.

00:39:05.000 Israel's just such a beautiful place where there's...

00:39:10.000 There's 2.5 billion Christians in the world.

00:39:14.000 There's 1.9 billion Muslims in the world.

00:39:18.000 There's almost 20 million Jews in this world.

00:39:21.000 And guess where they're one place that they think to be the holies of holies are?

00:39:25.000 That's right, in Israel.

00:39:26.000 It is the place for the largest religions in the world to all celebrate.

00:39:35.000 You're a pastor and you want to go to the Jordan River because that's where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.

00:39:40.000 You are a Muslim and you want to go to the Dome on the Rock. 1.00

00:39:46.000 You want to go to the mosque that they're calling the reason for attacking Israel was because they thought it was going to be destroyed, which it never will be.

00:39:56.000 It's protected by Israel. 0.74

00:39:58.000 Whatever your motivation was, you get there, you're an American, and then this attack happens.

00:40:05.000 American cancels your flight.

00:40:06.000 United cancels your flight.

00:40:08.000 Every single airline cancels your flight.

00:40:10.000 And the only airline left is the Israeli airline.

00:40:13.000 You're wherever you are in Israel.

00:40:16.000 Maybe you're on the Jordan River.

00:40:17.000 Maybe you're up north in the Haifa.

00:40:18.000 Maybe you're like way down south in a lot because you wanted to see the border of Egypt and this, you know, you're the Gulf of Aqaba.

00:40:24.000 It's like the most beautiful water that connects to the Red Sea.

00:40:30.000 And you're an American tourist.

00:40:34.000 You don't have the wherewithal of knowing how to travel in the middle of a war and now you're getting a thing from Department of State that says you have to go to Tel Aviv and connect with us and fill out this crisis intake form for us to be able to help you get out.

00:40:49.000 From where you are as an American citizen to where you need to be to get out of this country where 1,400 people are being raped, murdered, burnt alive, tortured.

00:40:57.000 There's people being kidnapped and hostages being taken.

00:41:00.000 And like you're just an American that's now stuck here and every single airline has canceled your flight no matter how many times you've booked it.

00:41:06.000 Maybe if we had this guy had booked five new flights and every single one of those flights had been charged on his credit card and So then his credit card is frozen because he's just booked five next day flights at, you know, three, four thousand dollars a piece.

00:41:22.000 And, you know, he's on heart medication, maybe he's on insulin, whatever the individual we helped for almost 400 people get out of Israel.

00:41:30.000 But the Department of State, as amazing as there are, there's these little gaps that somebody has to go and help them with, that's comfortable moving in the middle of a war.

00:41:39.000 And that's really where Save Our Allies comes in, is because we go and fill that gap.

00:41:44.000 Like, how do I find this guy in this hotel that is too scared to leave, doesn't know how to get a bus, doesn't know how to get a taxi, doesn't know how to...

00:41:52.000 His tourist information or his tourist guide is like, hey, bro, I'm out.

00:41:56.000 I'm going to go down because my kibbutz just got murdered. 0.90

00:41:58.000 I'm going to go help my family that, you know, they're missing three of their family members.

00:42:02.000 Of course, they're going to go and help.

00:42:04.000 But now that guy is stuck, that his family stuck, that pastor stuck.

00:42:07.000 So we had to go and find those people and move them to a place where they could get out of the country safely.

00:42:14.000 And it was freaking hard.

00:42:17.000 The volume of that is like wild.

00:42:23.000 We took this rad two pastors.

00:42:26.000 They're from California.

00:42:28.000 And we had a similar situation.

00:42:31.000 They booked multiple flights.

00:42:33.000 They had an old pastor with them.

00:42:37.000 They didn't have the maneuverability of being able to pivot with whatever existing flights.

00:42:42.000 Ultimately, we had to drive them from where they were to Haifa.

00:42:47.000 To put them on a private chartered airplane to fly them from Haifa to Cyprus where they could then fly from there to Athens and get home.

00:42:55.000 Like we had to privately source an airplane to fly them out of a place to get them to a place that they could fly out of because all other aircraft have been grounded so that two pastors could make it back to their churches in California.

00:43:09.000 You know, they're literally stuck.

00:43:12.000 So, yeah.

00:43:15.000 Crazy. 0.99

00:43:15.000 How do you fucking manage your mind dealing with so many horrific and traumatic experiences over and over and over again, just over a few years? 0.99

00:43:27.000 That's what my dad just asked me. 0.99

00:43:29.000 But he asked me like way more pointed.

00:43:31.000 He's like, are you okay?

00:43:32.000 Are you okay, son?

00:43:33.000 Yeah.

00:43:34.000 I would be asking that too if I was your dad.

00:43:38.000 Do you remember Mr. Rogers?

00:43:39.000 We're old.

00:43:40.000 Yeah, sure.

00:43:41.000 Yeah.

00:43:43.000 He was asked a real similar question.

00:43:45.000 And it was during the civil rights protests where blacks are being beaten in the street, you know, and hippies are being condemned as like the next plague and pestilence that society could ever see. 0.58

00:43:59.000 And like, what would you do with all of this evil happening around us?

00:44:03.000 And Mr. Rogers says, just look to the helpers.

00:44:07.000 There's always people trying to help.

00:44:10.000 And, you know, I'm thinking about the ground team that I had with me over there.

00:44:15.000 I can't even say their names because they're amazing people, but we had JP, RT, Primo, and The most brilliant, from the Expeditionary Special Operations backgrounds, but the most selfless,

00:44:33.000 hardworking, they're giants of humans.

00:44:36.000 Like, I look at them just in awe of how capable they are and how selfless they are at the same time.

00:44:42.000 Like, these are the most lethal humans on the planet.

00:44:44.000 And they could kill you a thousand different ways, but they're putting their lives on the line to try and Rescue a pastor that can't book a flight. 0.99

00:44:53.000 You know, like, Israel would do anything to have one of these guys go with them and advise them about how to get into this shitshow that is Gaza, into the tunnels that are controlled by Hamas. 0.90

00:45:04.000 And what are we going to do with Hezbollah at the northern border?

00:45:06.000 How are we going to stop the Taliban that just got permission to cross through Iraq? 0.93

00:45:09.000 What are we going to do with Al-Qaeda that just bribed a whole bunch more people to fly them into every single neighboring country? 0.65

00:45:15.000 Like, but instead, they're just trying to rescue people.

00:45:18.000 So to ask your question, when I'm down at the border, I just look to my left and my right and I see a freaking private that's three o'clock in the morning.

00:45:27.000 He's sitting there with night vision and he's like, that kid just fell in the water. 1.00

00:45:32.000 Motherfucker's off! 1.00

00:45:33.000 He's off! 1.00

00:45:34.000 He's running down into the darkness to jump in the water to try and save a kid.

00:45:38.000 Like, if you cannot find inspiration from that, and if you cannot find something that's going to nurture and feed your soul and inspire you to do something good for the people around you, and look at the guys that I had with me in Israel, like, I can't even, the group of people that I had with me in Ukraine, like, I'm just astounded by these.

00:45:54.000 And you know a whole bunch of them, too, that are just amazing people.

00:46:00.000 I've been so blessed to have you know a Short but successful fighting career a successful military career that then went into a period of like successful business and now I'm in a position where like Man, I really want to do good and there's all these things that I know or people are really hurting in or they can't do and I have experience in a background and Connections that I'm able to solve these problems and I did so much evil.

00:46:25.000 I dealt so much death.

00:46:27.000 If I didn't try to do good now, like, I think I would really have a problem.

00:46:34.000 But I'm good because I'm doing good.

00:46:37.000 There's something about that.

00:46:39.000 Doing good for other people.

00:46:40.000 Like, when you're hurting, I don't think there's anything more important that you could do than do something for somebody else.

00:46:46.000 And that, man, that just empowers you and it gives you purpose.

00:46:51.000 And if I'm ever going to think about Should I get up and work out today?

00:46:57.000 Well, I can think about August 24th, 2021, when I had two kids in my arms and a woman behind me, and we're having to run through Kabul to try to make it to Aich Kaya while we're being chased by the Taliban.

00:47:09.000 Cool.

00:47:09.000 I want to be in good shape, bro.

00:47:11.000 You know?

00:47:11.000 Yeah.

00:47:18.000 Find people doing good.

00:47:20.000 You know, as Mr. Rogers said, look to the people that are helping.

00:47:24.000 And, man, I'm good.

00:47:28.000 Just keep your eyes on the good.

00:47:29.000 Yeah.

00:47:31.000 That's amazing that you're able to manage your mind through all this because I know a lot of lesser men would be destroyed by one of these experiences.

00:47:38.000 For you to have four of them concurrent over three years.

00:47:43.000 That is a lot.

00:47:44.000 It's a lot to handle.

00:47:45.000 I would really like maybe in the next election cycle us to look at the past three years and maybe I'm not ready for another four years of this, you know?

00:47:57.000 I don't think our organization could take it.

00:47:59.000 I think the Rolodex of people that want to do good.

00:48:03.000 I can only ask somebody to go into a war-torn country to try to save Americans so many times.

00:48:10.000 Well, unfortunately, we've also demonized first responders and people that are in the military and demonized people that are police officers and border officers. 0.98

00:48:20.000 And this short-sighted, ridiculous approach for political purposes is just so fucking infuriating. 0.94

00:48:29.000 And it's so weird that more people don't understand that and more people don't see it that way. 0.98

00:48:34.000 Yeah.

00:48:35.000 The propaganda machine is a powerful thing right now.

00:48:39.000 And I don't know how to fight it.

00:48:40.000 You know, they have successfully demonized law enforcement.

00:48:44.000 You know, Border Patrol.

00:48:46.000 They take a photo of a guy riding on a horse.

00:48:48.000 And a horse is the best thing you can possibly have on the border.

00:48:51.000 If you've been to the Mexican border, it is like, it's magic.

00:48:55.000 Yeah.

00:48:55.000 I mean, do you hunt off poor speck ever?

00:48:57.000 No.

00:48:58.000 Oh, dude, it's the best. 0.87

00:48:59.000 Even like Southwest Texas, if you're going elk hunting or like you're going to go bear hunting, you're going to go cat hunting, and you think you're going to get up, you know, through in and around Big Bend on anything but a horse, you're crazy.

00:49:08.000 Like, you better be on a horse.

00:49:11.000 And, you know, there's one photo of a guy with his reins in his hand.

00:49:15.000 Yeah, I've seen that.

00:49:16.000 They're like, this Border Patrol guy is whipping.

00:49:19.000 That's not what's happening.

00:49:21.000 He was using his horse to block people, to prevent them from putting their lives in danger by getting into this flowing river.

00:49:28.000 That's what he was doing.

00:49:29.000 And if they make it into the interior, the number of people that die from exposure, once they make it across into the United States, but then they try to cross, let's say they came through Big Bend.

00:49:44.000 Do you know how big that place is? 0.86

00:49:46.000 It's fucking crazy huge. 0.91

00:49:48.000 We're hunting in and around there, and I'll come across a couple of immigrants, and they are... 0.99

00:49:55.000 One, we find dead bodies all the time on ranches of immigrants that just die from exposure.

00:50:00.000 A friend of mine found one.

00:50:01.000 He has a ranch in South Texas.

00:50:02.000 All the time.

00:50:03.000 He found one really recently.

00:50:04.000 Yeah.

00:50:05.000 And these men and women on the border are trying to protect them.

00:50:09.000 Similarly, in the propaganda vein, this pro-Hamas...

00:50:15.000 I just, it's, you know, we were texting before we came on here, like how fast things pivot the rational understanding of a problem and how perverted it is from truth.

00:50:30.000 Don't know how to fight this.

00:50:32.000 This is a unique problem.

00:50:34.000 It's very unique and it's very strange.

00:50:36.000 It's very strange to see massive protests on the streets that are yelling out in support of the people that did that on October 7th.

00:50:46.000 And there was a professor recently that said he was elated when that happened.

00:50:52.000 And he was just suspended, which is crazy that it's only that. 0.82

00:50:59.000 The fact that there's people that are so fucking detached from reality and they have this very strange leftist Marxist philosophy that is so untenable with the reality of the world and yet they're teaching kids this.

00:51:18.000 And then they're talking about this openly, openly in public forums, openly in social media, openly in protests. 0.99

00:51:29.000 It's fucking strange. 0.95

00:51:31.000 It's so strange that people don't understand. 0.99

00:51:33.000 It's so dangerous.

00:51:34.000 And for young people that admire those people or that are being taught by those people and don't know any better when that person's in a position of power and influence because they're discussing these things in classrooms or discussing these things on social media, I just don't understand it.

00:51:50.000 I'm so confused.

00:51:52.000 I never thought things would deteriorate this rapidly.

00:51:55.000 I'm disappointed, but I'm not confused when you know the powers and the money that is being spent to try to destabilize America.

00:52:07.000 When you look at our enemies, when you're looking at China, when you're looking at Russia, when you're looking at Iran, and the hundreds of millions of dollars they're spending in misinformation and disinformation, where they are perpetuating things that we 100% know to be not true, not factual, but they are Very effectively.

00:52:26.000 I mean, it's unnerving.

00:52:30.000 Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister for Hitler, you know, he had a playbook about how to spin truth and how to manipulate masses.

00:52:38.000 You know, how could you take what is a great, cool culture like the Germans were post-World War I as they're trying to find their identity and they're trying to Bounce back from a horrific war.

00:52:50.000 And then, you know, by the mid-30s and late 30s, you know, they're positioning to throw Jews into ghettos and then ultimately gas six million of them. 0.91

00:53:00.000 How can that happen so fast?

00:53:02.000 And you very quickly realize that it was an effective propaganda misinformation campaign.

00:53:08.000 We're good to go.

00:53:24.000 And the same way that police were demonized during the defund law enforcement and BLM movement.

00:53:30.000 Now we know to be a complete hoax, a bunch of liars that manipulated truth and data and what really happened.

00:53:38.000 And are there injustices?

00:53:40.000 Absolutely.

00:53:41.000 Are we a perfect nation?

00:53:42.000 Totally not.

00:53:43.000 Is law enforcement perfect?

00:53:44.000 No, for sure.

00:53:46.000 But by and large, the vast majority do want to do good.

00:53:48.000 Like it says, protect and serve.

00:53:50.000 And that's what they raised their hand to do.

00:53:52.000 But they're being destroyed by this misinformation campaign.

00:53:57.000 And Russia and China want it.

00:54:00.000 They want us to be fighting each other.

00:54:03.000 They want pro-Palestinian protests.

00:54:06.000 They want pro-Hamas protests.

00:54:08.000 They want from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 0.97

00:54:12.000 That is a call for genocide.

00:54:14.000 They're calling for, so the river, the Jordan River, which is on the east side of all of Israel, the sea, the Mediterranean, in between those two things is where Israel lies, 7.4 million Jews.

00:54:25.000 They want that to not exist.

00:54:28.000 They want no Jews to be there. 1.00

00:54:30.000 So every time that you hear from the river to the sea, it is a call for genocide or an expulsion of all Jews out of Israel. 0.94

00:54:37.000 And that is the call of Hamas. 0.93

00:54:41.000 And guess who's paying for that thing to be seen on Cornell and in Harvard and in every...

00:54:47.000 That's right.

00:54:48.000 Russia and China.

00:54:49.000 They're being manipulated by a bunch of our enemies as they're trying to destabilize us in a region and here in the United States.

00:54:55.000 And it's a vulnerability that we have because of our freedom.

00:54:59.000 Yeah.

00:55:02.000 Yeah, but...

00:55:03.000 Man, I love freedom.

00:55:05.000 I love it.

00:55:06.000 I do.

00:55:06.000 That's why I'm here.

00:55:07.000 Yep.

00:55:07.000 That's why I moved here.

00:55:08.000 I love...

00:55:11.000 The way that freedom would work was that there was an educated, empowered citizen that was individually responsible for themselves and their family.

00:55:20.000 And they were in a position of authority over the government.

00:55:25.000 That's how that document worked, our beautiful Bill of Rights in the Constitution, was because of the power of the people.

00:55:31.000 And over the past 50-60 years, our people have become fat, gelatinous, complacent, uneducated, subscribed to propaganda, radicals, aligned with agendas that are not pro-America.

00:55:46.000 And in the course of this time, it makes that document We have no teeth.

00:55:53.000 There's nothing behind it.

00:55:54.000 Because the government used to be scared of the people.

00:55:56.000 Because the people, when we decided to throw some tea in a harbor and the shot heard around the world, we went after the people that were attacking us and that were...

00:56:11.000 Controlling us, and we killed them, and we pushed them off this land. 0.92

00:56:14.000 And then we wrote these founding documents that said the individual is going to maintain the power.

00:56:20.000 The people are going to have the power.

00:56:21.000 But the only way that works is if the people have power.

00:56:25.000 And we've let that go.

00:56:27.000 Bit by bit, diet by diet, day by day, lack of exercising of our God-given rights.

00:56:37.000 We are now just soft.

00:56:39.000 You know, it's one of the reasons when I was kicking around with you, like, am I going to do we really want to talk about this?

00:56:44.000 This is tough.

00:56:45.000 I have 25 pages of notes here about the Middle East conflict.

00:56:50.000 But ultimately, I'm scared that that can happen here because we are so vulnerable right now as people.

00:56:57.000 It's the reason that Sheepdog Response exists.

00:56:59.000 My company is to train the American individual to take their own security to preserve and protect human life and be able to provide for the family.

00:57:06.000 That's the mission statement.

00:57:08.000 But right now I don't know what percentage Americans are capable of doing that.

00:57:12.000 It's a very small number.

00:57:14.000 Very small!

00:57:15.000 Yeah, frighteningly small.

00:57:16.000 And that is being, it's being discussed as if somehow or another that small number is a strength.

00:57:25.000 That we are in somehow or another a more kind and a more equitable nation because people are so soft, because people are so...

00:57:36.000 I don't know how you have those two...

00:57:42.000 How do you have such freedom that allows people to have these protests, that allows people to have these differing perspectives and to speak about it openly and publicly.

00:57:52.000 But yet still maintain the strength of the union when you have all these external factors, all these different countries and different organizations that are working to try to use propaganda and use money to destroy us.

00:58:10.000 Because that's really what's happening. 0.96

00:58:12.000 And that's like, that used to be like, if you said there's people out there that are trying to destroy America, oh, you're some crazy... 1.00

00:58:18.000 Right-wing, fucking alt-right. 0.99

00:58:20.000 But goddammit, how much information do you have to see? 1.00

00:58:22.000 How much truth do you have to see that you cannot deny? 0.99

00:58:26.000 Russian interference into the election.

00:58:29.000 Yeah.

00:58:29.000 Bold-faced lie.

00:58:31.000 You know, they weren't interfering.

00:58:32.000 They're perpetuating that they were interfering, but they weren't interfering.

00:58:36.000 You know, that Trump was being influenced by...

00:58:39.000 But that he was a Russian agent.

00:58:40.000 Yeah.

00:58:41.000 Well, guess who was pushing that story?

00:58:43.000 The Russians and China, because it destabilized our election process. 1.00

00:58:47.000 Right.

00:58:47.000 So, your question is, how do you reconcile having such freedoms where somebody can go and say something so detestable, like praising a group of people that went and raped and murdered 1400 people that currently have 240 hostages?

00:59:04.000 Like that's what Hamas has. 0.95

00:59:05.000 You know, there's 30 to 40,000 Hamas operatives within Gaza.

00:59:08.000 They have a ton of like, how can somebody have so much freedom to say that?

00:59:14.000 Well, it's if the people are prepared to be able to protect and preserve and provide.

00:59:21.000 Then, if you're in a position of authority, sovereignty, it's this next step past freedom.

00:59:26.000 Sovereignty is what I want for me.

00:59:28.000 It's what I want for every American.

00:59:29.000 It's that they are in control of themselves.

00:59:32.000 An external force comes and says, Tim, I want you to take this experimental thing and give it to your child and inject it into them, please.

00:59:39.000 I say no.

00:59:41.000 No, I don't need whatever it is you're about to withhold from me because I don't do this thing.

00:59:46.000 I don't need because I can do it myself.

00:59:48.000 That's sovereignty, right?

00:59:49.000 I don't need you to come and try and protect my family because I can protect my family.

00:59:55.000 Come and try and mess with them because my family is unattainable to anybody else.

00:59:59.000 They're completely protected.

01:00:02.000 Education.

01:00:02.000 The reason I started these schools is because I do not want anyone else to have influence over the way that my children are going to learn how to be critical thinkers.

01:00:09.000 I want them to be educated.

01:00:10.000 I want to be powerful.

01:00:11.000 I want them to be cognitive in every single debatable subject, to have the Socratic mind where they can sit and debate somebody like you with immense knowledge on all these variety of topics.

01:00:21.000 But then, man, they're fierce.

01:00:23.000 That's sovereignty.

01:00:25.000 We have for so long just given away every little bit of it, whether it was post 9-11, or during COVID, or after the next active shooter, you know, like, in light of what just happened in Maine, you know they're going to be coming after They're going to be looking for more laws to try and control more of the Second Amendment and limit the freedoms that we have.

01:00:45.000 So we know that, but we have to maintain this essence that is being American, which is the sovereignty, the individual responsibility that I am in charge of me.

01:00:54.000 And what's infuriating to me about these mass shootings, and Matt Walsh did a piece about this recently, where he discussed the prevalence of psychoactive drugs, the prevalence of psychiatric medications amongst school shooters, amongst mass shooters. 0.98

01:01:11.000 That it is fucking off the charts.

01:01:13.000 Yeah, and they try to hide that they try to hide that data by using gang violence as Mass shootings and they use like there's no data to support that all that is like no. 0.98

01:01:25.000 No, that's not true at all There's a giant difference between gang violence mass shootings which occur all the time which are also is something that no one's trying to fix and And then the actual people that strap themselves up and go into places where people are unarmed and just slaughter people.

01:01:43.000 Almost all of them are on something.

01:01:47.000 They're almost all of them.

01:01:49.000 They're on SSRIs.

01:01:50.000 Almost all of them are on some sort of anti-anxiety medication.

01:01:53.000 Almost all of them are on something.

01:01:55.000 And that we don't address that.

01:01:57.000 It's not even talked about. 0.99

01:01:58.000 That it's like fucking Voldemort. 0.99

01:02:01.000 Not talked about. 1.00

01:02:02.000 Voldemort?

01:02:02.000 Voldemort, yeah.

01:02:02.000 Whatever it is.

01:02:03.000 You're not supposed to say the name.

01:02:04.000 I mean, it's like, it's very strange that this is never discussed on television.

01:02:08.000 You said you can't research it.

01:02:10.000 When you say it's buried, that data, if you were like, how many active shooters were on a antidepressant?

01:02:17.000 Yeah.

01:02:18.000 Anything.

01:02:18.000 All of that data is buried with, well, then it pops up, well, in Chicago, in Southern California.

01:02:25.000 Right.

01:02:26.000 It's buried in truth.

01:02:27.000 So trying to find the real data of these active shooters in schools, like this guy in Maine, you know, known mental health problems.

01:02:37.000 Yes.

01:02:37.000 And he actually tried to buy a suppressor and failed trying to buy the suppressor because he self-elected.

01:02:43.000 He told them that he just recently got out of a mental institution.

01:02:48.000 Kudos to them.

01:02:49.000 I'm part of this group called Double Check that's trying to figure out ways to identify outliers like this where people have information.

01:02:57.000 They wrote their manifesto of like, hey, I'm going to go murder a bunch of people. 1.00

01:03:01.000 I'm going to go to this black church and kill everybody. 1.00

01:03:03.000 A lot of times that information is available. 1.00

01:03:08.000 I love the Second Amendment.

01:03:09.000 Every single person should be able to have a tank and a machine gun, in my opinion.

01:03:13.000 But when somebody is dealing with mental health problems, they're on a bunch of drugs, they're actively trying to hurt people, you know, like maybe there's a restraining order, they're a multi-time felon, should that guy be able to go in and buy?

01:03:26.000 Well, clearly, that guy right there was stopped from getting a tool to maybe even hurt more people by just And as a small business owner, it is my choice who I'm going to sell to, and who I'm going to choose to sell a product to.

01:03:41.000 And if that product is a thing, like ultimate, the individual responsibility as an entrepreneur and a small business owner is like, it is my choice who sell this to.

01:03:50.000 And that guy comes in, and he says that he's on drugs, and he just got out of a mental health hospital, like...

01:03:55.000 Man, you could go buy your suppressor somewhere else.

01:03:58.000 Like that guy in Maine just went through it.

01:04:00.000 So double check is trying to infuse themselves in a really helpful way to protect people like me that own a gun store, where if that guy walks into my door, I can have real data to point to him.

01:04:14.000 So like, boop, I do a little search, it pops up as like, hey man, you just wrote that you want to go shoot up a school.

01:04:24.000 Can we talk about that before I sell you a gun?

01:04:27.000 You know?

01:04:28.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:04:29.000 You said that you hate black people and that you think that they all should die. 1.00

01:04:34.000 Or like that guy in Harvard Square yesterday that was walking around saying that every Jew should have their neck slit. 1.00

01:04:39.000 There should be no Jew businesses. 1.00

01:04:41.000 This is like in Harvard Square.

01:04:43.000 If that guy walked into my gun store, I'm going to go to double check and be like...

01:04:47.000 Man, you said some pretty outrageous things yesterday.

01:04:51.000 I think you need help.

01:04:54.000 Let's go for a run, and let's go get you some real help.

01:04:58.000 And what help do they even get? 0.99

01:05:01.000 I mean, and also, like, how much help do they get in getting off of that shit? 1.00

01:05:05.000 And is there a way to get off of that shit? 1.00

01:05:08.000 I mean, if you are legitimately mentally ill, and you're on a host of psychiatric medications, like, what... 1.00

01:05:16.000 What motivation do they have to even take you off of that shit? 1.00

01:05:20.000 I'm not a doctor. 1.00

01:05:20.000 They don't have a motivation. 1.00

01:05:21.000 No.

01:05:21.000 Because they don't make money when you're not taking drugs.

01:05:25.000 It's fucking terrifying. 0.99

01:05:26.000 But you also know the answer to this. 0.98

01:05:28.000 So, in...

01:05:31.000 In all of the things I've experienced in the past three years, like post-traumatic stress, any single one of those single days over the course of months upon months would be enough for me to be like, dude, I'm out of here, right?

01:05:46.000 Instead...

01:05:47.000 Definitely not on any drugs.

01:05:50.000 Exercise every single day.

01:05:51.000 Cold plunge.

01:05:52.000 Hang out with my friends.

01:05:54.000 Do grappling.

01:05:55.000 Contribute in a meaningful way back to society.

01:05:58.000 I have an amazing relationship with my beautiful wife.

01:06:00.000 I have incredible children that I'm so proud of.

01:06:02.000 I'm active. 0.98

01:06:02.000 I'm now like playing hockey with my son as a 45 year old dude that just went to a yard sale to buy all the hockey stuff so I can get out there and try to dunk on my 8 year old who skates around me making me look like an idiot. 0.98

01:06:14.000 I also got all my lacrosse stuff.

01:06:16.000 I got tap shoes so I can start doing tap dancing with my four-year-old.

01:06:19.000 You know, like these are the things that healthy people do. 0.98

01:06:22.000 Sitting on the couch, eating a bunch of shit, not going outside, not having any relationships, not having any community, not finding ways to give back to their community. 0.99

01:06:29.000 Of course you're broken. 0.99

01:06:30.000 So how do you get off the drugs?

01:06:32.000 You start doing little tiny little bits, 1% improvement every single day.

01:06:36.000 And ultimately like the sun is brighter.

01:06:39.000 Your wife is more beautiful, your kids are just a little bit more rad, you know, and you're able to go do more good for more people.

01:06:46.000 But people don't have this guidance, and that's what's crazy, that this truth that you're speaking is not common.

01:06:55.000 This is not something that people discuss, and if you talk to a doctor, this is not something they recommend.

01:07:02.000 What they're trying to do is, let's find the right medication for you, Tim.

01:07:05.000 Yeah.

01:07:06.000 Let's alter your stuff.

01:07:08.000 I just got chastised by my doctor.

01:07:10.000 I'm 45, so I was going to go with the, is my gut and stuff healthy thing that you do at this age?

01:07:17.000 And they're like, we haven't seen you in seven years.

01:07:21.000 I'm like, I haven't been sick in seven years.

01:07:25.000 Last time I was here, I partially tore my toe off and I needed you to put my toe back on.

01:07:33.000 So what do I need you for?

01:07:35.000 And they're like, well, you need us now because you have to have a letter for you to be able to go get this procedure.

01:07:41.000 And I was like, well, I just don't want to get gut and like butthole cancer.

01:07:45.000 So I'd really like to go do these things, you know, but I have to come in and see you for you to like write a thing for me to go see these other people.

01:07:52.000 And okay, I got it.

01:07:53.000 I got it. 1.00

01:07:54.000 Stupid. 1.00

01:07:55.000 Well, you know, they think they're doing the right thing because this is what their mandate is. 1.00

01:08:00.000 And this is what their, you know, their normal regimen is when they discuss things with people.

01:08:05.000 Like, you should be seeing us all the time, Tim.

01:08:09.000 Nah.

01:08:10.000 No.

01:08:11.000 Yeah, I don't get it.

01:08:12.000 If you're healthy, what's...

01:08:14.000 But be healthy.

01:08:15.000 And be healthy.

01:08:16.000 Be actually healthy.

01:08:17.000 Like, work at it.

01:08:18.000 Yeah, that discipline... 0.96

01:08:23.000 It seems so sad and I pity the easy solution person where like I can take a pill and I'll feel better or I can take a pill and I'll be less fat or like I'll be sold on this idea that this media company is telling me that if I do this thing I'm gonna sleep better or like my dick's gonna work better with this thing. 0.93

01:08:45.000 I'll be happier.

01:08:46.000 Yeah, like, the other, the truth is that, I mean, you gotta work.

01:08:51.000 Yes, you gotta work.

01:08:52.000 You gotta get up early.

01:08:53.000 You have to have calloused hands.

01:08:54.000 You know, like, man, I love my wife.

01:08:57.000 And I love being able to Have an amazing relationship with her.

01:09:03.000 And that would not be possible if I didn't work at it.

01:09:06.000 You know, I like being a freak physical thing in my middle 40s.

01:09:11.000 That would not be possible if I didn't work at it.

01:09:14.000 Right.

01:09:14.000 I like being a successful business person.

01:09:17.000 That would not be possible.

01:09:18.000 And I mean like work.

01:09:20.000 Not like, oh man, I... Shot a selfie and like punched in for the day, you know?

01:09:26.000 Actual work.

01:09:27.000 Yeah, get up earlier than me.

01:09:29.000 Most people don't even have a frame of reference.

01:09:31.000 There's so many people out there that don't know anybody who actually works.

01:09:34.000 Like works at it the way you do or the way many people do that we know.

01:09:39.000 The flying back from Israel, every one of those people in the kibbutzes all around Gaza and we're up and down them, like they're No fat on their faces, you know, like striations on their shoulders. 1.00

01:09:54.000 Like these are just cops or now reserve recently activated people.

01:09:59.000 I was going in Tel Aviv.

01:10:01.000 I'm not joking. 0.65

01:10:02.000 The entire time I was there, I saw two fat people the whole entire time.

01:10:06.000 And I was like...

01:10:07.000 I had to.

01:10:08.000 I was compelled.

01:10:09.000 Hey, are you guys...

01:10:12.000 And they turn around and they're both American.

01:10:14.000 Of course. 0.93

01:10:15.000 Both instances of like the only fat people.

01:10:17.000 And then I take a flight from Tel Aviv directly into New York.

01:10:21.000 I land in New York and I'm heading towards immigration and passport control.

01:10:25.000 And I'm just like inundated with the overweight, dangerously obese Americans. 0.94

01:10:33.000 The stark contrast of a place that has been trying to fight for their existence since May of 1948, when every single neighboring country invaded them and tried to kill them, to like the Six Day War, to then Yom Kippur War, and then the First Intifada, to the Second Intifada, and now what just happened on October 7th,

01:10:48.000 where they're just like under the stress of being capable and individually responsible for their safety.

01:10:56.000 Clearly they failed on October 7th, to then coming into New York, and I was like, bro!

01:11:04.000 We are a mess.

01:11:05.000 We are a mess?

01:11:06.000 Yeah, we're a mess and our supermarkets are filled with poison.

01:11:10.000 It's wild.

01:11:12.000 It's like there's something like 40% of the American diet is processed foods.

01:11:16.000 It's insane.

01:11:17.000 It's insane.

01:11:18.000 Everything from every angle is weakening us.

01:11:21.000 Everything.

01:11:22.000 I want everybody to get chickens.

01:11:24.000 I have chickens.

01:11:25.000 Of course you do.

01:11:26.000 Chickens are a gateway to freedom.

01:11:28.000 They're a gateway to free food.

01:11:30.000 That they are.

01:11:31.000 You let them roam around, they make you eggs.

01:11:33.000 Just eat bugs.

01:11:34.000 They scratch on the ground.

01:11:36.000 I always tell people that are vegans too, get chickens.

01:11:38.000 It's literally karma-free food.

01:11:40.000 You don't want to eat eggs because you don't believe in factory farming?

01:11:44.000 Fantastic.

01:11:44.000 Do you have enough room to have chickens?

01:11:46.000 Well, then you'll get real protein, animal protein, that's karma-free.

01:11:51.000 They lay those eggs every day. 1.00

01:11:52.000 They're never going to become a chick.

01:11:54.000 And they're so happy to be living with you.

01:11:57.000 My four-year-old walks around with two chickens half the day, and she's sitting there in her four-wheeler, and there's a chicken sitting next to her.

01:12:05.000 My cat's cruising around.

01:12:06.000 My cats love the chickens, too, because if you have chickens, there's a good chance you're going to have mice.

01:12:11.000 And if you have mice, then you're going to have a really happy cat.

01:12:14.000 And, you know, like my Belgian Malinois and, you know, she comes in and she just like sits there like, like she's the king of the roost, you know, and then one of the chickens comes over and reminds her that she's nothing that the chickens are actually in charge of the yard.

01:12:26.000 But the amount of eggs that they come but, you know, when you get that first time that you crack an egg from one of your chickens, and you're like, that looks different.

01:12:35.000 And then you eat it and you're like, dude, that tastes different.

01:12:38.000 A lot different.

01:12:39.000 Like way different.

01:12:40.000 Way different.

01:12:41.000 It's like that dark, deep...

01:12:43.000 Orange.

01:12:44.000 Like not yellow, not pale, like orange.

01:12:47.000 Right.

01:12:47.000 And it's like you can taste the nutrient, micronutrient riches of it.

01:12:52.000 And then you're like, well, if that is that different, how much different is all the other things that I eat?

01:12:58.000 Right.

01:12:59.000 And you start going down this wild journey, this rabbit trail of freedom...

01:13:04.000 And how much different am I? When you look at the difference between grain-fed fatty beef and an elk steak, you're like, okay, look at the difference in the meat.

01:13:15.000 Look at the difference in the quality of the meat, the dark, rich, nutrient-dense, protein-rich meat.

01:13:22.000 Like, what's the difference? 0.99

01:13:24.000 Well, they're not eating any bullshit. 0.99

01:13:25.000 They're eating literally what they've eaten for hundreds of thousands of years. 0.99

01:13:30.000 And they have to work every day to find more of it.

01:13:33.000 Yeah.

01:13:33.000 The unhealthy bits, and this is a cruel thing about nature, is the unhealthy animal dies.

01:13:39.000 Yes.

01:13:40.000 And the existing animals are the ones that we ultimately get to go and find.

01:13:45.000 And we are very careful about which ones we're killing and what season we're killing them in to make sure that we are encouraging the same healthy herd.

01:13:55.000 We get this most delicious, surviving, fantastic, nutrient-dense meat you can find on the planet.

01:14:02.000 Yeah.

01:14:03.000 Yeah.

01:14:04.000 We have this provider.

01:14:07.000 We launched a learn to hunt school.

01:14:13.000 We teach you how to land navigate.

01:14:15.000 We teach you the fundamentals of marksmanship.

01:14:17.000 We teach you all basic good Laws around hunting, how to put in out of state for a lottery for...

01:14:27.000 This is a part of your school system?

01:14:29.000 We teach it at our school, but at Sheepdog Response.

01:14:33.000 It's called the Provider Course at Sheepdog Response.

01:14:35.000 We also teach it to the kids.

01:14:37.000 So like the mentorship program at Apogee, those guys get to come to provider courses.

01:14:45.000 They learn how to skin an animal.

01:14:46.000 They learn how to follow a blood trail.

01:14:48.000 They learn how to field dress an animal.

01:14:50.000 They learn the final culminating exercise.

01:14:52.000 You'll love this.

01:14:52.000 So after two days of just like inundated information, like here's The healthy and natural way to kill an animal.

01:15:03.000 This is shot placement.

01:15:04.000 This is, you know, you have to know how to shoot first.

01:15:06.000 So we teach fundamentals of marksmanship, nonstandard shooting positions, like how many times you get to lay down in the prone off bipods and shoot something.

01:15:13.000 Not often in hunting.

01:15:14.000 Like, can I shoot off poles?

01:15:16.000 Can I shoot off a tree, kneeling, standing offhand?

01:15:19.000 If I get a designated zone in Arizona or New Mexico, can I navigate from where I can park to where I have to go hunt without illegally trespassing on anybody's property?

01:15:31.000 The barrier between I want to hunt and I can hunt It's hard for some people.

01:15:38.000 And as we're sitting here talking about how amazing it is to hunt, and it is the most amazing thing that I want everybody to do, that barrier of entry seems hard for some people.

01:15:48.000 It's very steep.

01:15:49.000 But it shouldn't be.

01:15:51.000 And that's the idea.

01:15:52.000 I want this for everybody.

01:15:54.000 In the final day, we give you your lot.

01:15:57.000 We give you your animal.

01:15:58.000 You have to navigate to that place.

01:16:00.000 You then have to PID, like positively identify the animal that you're supposed to shoot. 0.83

01:16:05.000 And then you go to take a shot off of it.

01:16:07.000 Once you take your shot off of it, we photograph how you're going to take that shot.

01:16:13.000 Standing, kneeling, sticks.

01:16:15.000 We measure the distance.

01:16:16.000 We lay as you're at 210 meters.

01:16:19.000 And then we go duplicate that on an actual shooting range on the same target.

01:16:25.000 And it's so fun to see the full buck fever of somebody freaking out when they don't even have a round in the chamber.

01:16:33.000 They're just looking at a 3D target out at Reveley Peak Ranch and burn it.

01:16:38.000 It is such a joy to introduce.

01:16:42.000 Every class, we have 40 people, and every class is sold out.

01:16:47.000 And the end result at the end of three days are like these people that are just like they feel like they're gonna explode with this excitement about what it means because they now know they can go and hunt.

01:16:58.000 Do you have a mind management program to deal with the moment of actually shooting?

01:17:04.000 Yeah.

01:17:05.000 Yeah.

01:17:06.000 Are you familiar with Joel Turner's work, the Shot IQ system?

01:17:09.000 Yeah.

01:17:10.000 Fantastic.

01:17:11.000 Yeah, for sure.

01:17:11.000 Changed everything for me and so many other people, including like world-class archers and people that have been hunting for decades that have dealt with target panic and don't understand what's actually going on between open loop and closed loop systems that you can actually manage that with discipline and actually having a shot routine that you must go through every time you execute a shot.

01:17:33.000 Changes everything.

01:17:34.000 I mean, hold on a second, Joe.

01:17:36.000 Are you telling me that discipline, process, and repetition solve a problem?

01:17:42.000 Yeah.

01:17:42.000 Oh my god.

01:17:43.000 Yeah, I think so.

01:17:45.000 Mind blown.

01:17:45.000 I mean, how's for me?

01:17:46.000 It's just for everybody.

01:17:48.000 What is the military's approach to literally every single thing?

01:17:51.000 That.

01:17:52.000 What is your approach to not being fat?

01:17:54.000 It's that.

01:17:55.000 What is your approach to trying to build a real critical thinker that is going to move into society as a contributing member of society?

01:18:00.000 It is that.

01:18:01.000 And also understanding the factors that are in play.

01:18:04.000 Instead of just being like a prisoner of the moment and being captive by your emotions and, you know, these human systems that have existed forever.

01:18:13.000 Like, having an understanding of what's going on.

01:18:16.000 Like, why am I freaking out?

01:18:17.000 Is there anything that I can do?

01:18:19.000 How do I learn how to control my breathing?

01:18:21.000 How do I learn how to mitigate stress?

01:18:23.000 How do I learn how to manage my mind in these critical moments?

01:18:27.000 Yeah.

01:18:30.000 Hunting is one of the very few things that still sparks that feeling of like elation and excitement and nervousness, but I still fall back to cool.

01:18:43.000 I've disciplined.

01:18:44.000 I've done the work.

01:18:45.000 I have a process that I'm now executing and I've put in the work for me to be able to be successful here.

01:18:52.000 And then it's like success.

01:18:54.000 And that same discipline, process, hard work approach to people externally will look at Save Our Allies in the middle of peak combat in a completely non-permissive environment and they're like,

01:19:11.000 what the hell are you peak What are you guys doing?

01:19:13.000 And it's an incredible group of disciplined people that have a process that has been perfected over now 20 years at the Global War on Terror.

01:19:25.000 And they are doing the work that needs to be done.

01:19:30.000 But those three things are still prevalent and evident.

01:19:33.000 In everything.

01:19:34.000 In everything difficult in all of life.

01:19:36.000 Yeah.

01:19:39.000 How do you get someone to subscribe to that?

01:19:47.000 I think they have to hear about it first, and that's one of the reasons why I think conversations like this are so important.

01:19:52.000 It's because in everyday life, if you're working in an office, if you're dealing with regular people, you're not going to encounter this.

01:20:00.000 You're not going to encounter these conversations.

01:20:02.000 And there's gonna be moments that people have where they do panic and freak out and don't understand why. 0.91

01:20:07.000 How come I can't keep my shit together when I'm nervous? 0.98

01:20:09.000 How come I can't keep my shit together in these critical moments that require me to stay calm and make good choices? 1.00

01:20:16.000 What is wrong with me? 0.99

01:20:17.000 What is... 1.00

01:20:18.000 Am I just a bitch? 1.00

01:20:19.000 Like, what is it? 1.00

01:20:20.000 No, you just have an undisciplined mind.

01:20:23.000 You have an untrained mind.

01:20:24.000 Yeah, you haven't got the reps in.

01:20:26.000 You haven't got the reps in.

01:20:27.000 Everyone needs the reps. 1.00

01:20:28.000 Yeah.

01:20:29.000 It's, um...

01:20:31.000 I'm as worried as I am about the future, you know, at Apogee and at Sheepdog Response and at Save Our Allies and, you know, First Responders Action Group.

01:20:43.000 I'm in all of these different groups where I see these young men and women that are on this train.

01:20:49.000 And I know I'm not in a cross-section of the United States right now that is really struggling with all of the problems of mental health and obesity and diet.

01:20:59.000 But in this little group that I'm around often, I'm just so encouraged by...

01:21:05.000 The work and the discipline and the subscription to the process.

01:21:08.000 Like last night in my jiu-jitsu school, I had 60 kids on our mat at one time.

01:21:13.000 I said, hey parents, everybody come into the classroom really fast.

01:21:16.000 We're going to have a Q&A session about competition and what this next season looks like.

01:21:20.000 Every parent stood up, walked in there.

01:21:22.000 They had questions.

01:21:24.000 They didn't even know that we're going to be doing a Q&A. They had pre-prepared questions that they were looking for an opportunity to ask the staff about how is coaching going to be at the next tournament.

01:21:33.000 And I was just like, I love you people.

01:21:35.000 You know, like the parents to the Apogee families.

01:21:37.000 Because we take a totally different approach.

01:21:40.000 We're a whole family approach to education.

01:21:42.000 Like if you subscribe to this idea that you can take your kid and you can drop them off at a place and you're going to get this amazing thing back that you don't have any control about what they're being taught. 1.00

01:21:52.000 You are just an idiot and you're a crazy person. 1.00

01:21:55.000 Like you send your people to Caesar. 1.00

01:21:59.000 You send your people to Rome and you don't think you're going to get a Roman back? 1.00

01:22:02.000 That's what's going to happen.

01:22:04.000 Right.

01:22:04.000 That's a good way to put it.

01:22:06.000 Our approach is there's a whole family inclusion here.

01:22:10.000 It is not just our responsibility to train and to educate your children.

01:22:15.000 It is our responsibility.

01:22:17.000 Right.

01:22:17.000 So you are going to work out.

01:22:20.000 You're going to keep a journal of your diet.

01:22:22.000 Here is your prescribed reading list.

01:22:24.000 Here are the books that your kids are going to be reading that you're also going to be reading with them.

01:22:28.000 Like if your kid is reading it, then you better be reading it too.

01:22:31.000 You'd be very appalled at some of the books that are assigned to children in public school to read. 0.98

01:22:36.000 And I think if a parent actually picked this book up, it's like, and then Johnny took his penis and he brought it and it was a wreck for the first time next to his friend. 0.99

01:22:44.000 You're like, what? 0.99

01:22:44.000 This is for a fourth grader? 0.99

01:22:46.000 Right.

01:22:47.000 So this whole family approach, this truly Socratic, this is not new. 0.98

01:22:53.000 This has been around for a long time.

01:22:55.000 And I'm so encouraged to see the activation, the discipline, the process and the hard work from the youngest kindergartner all the way up to like the 60 year old parent that's like doing the work.

01:23:07.000 It's so bizarre to me that a rejection of teaching like overt sexuality to young kids is somehow or another dismissed as anti-gay or anti-LBGTQ. It's so strange because you could never imagine Heterosexual sex being discussed to five-year-olds and six-year-olds.

01:23:33.000 Like, this is how a man, you know, chooses to have, you know, sexual relationships with women, and this is how a woman chooses to have sexual relationships with men. 0.68

01:23:42.000 No, that's never discussed.

01:23:44.000 That's wildly inappropriate. 0.99

01:23:45.000 Wildly inappropriate, but somehow or another it's okay if you're discussing gay sex. 0.99

01:23:50.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:23:51.000 Like, it's very strange.

01:23:53.000 It's not strange.

01:23:55.000 It's wrong.

01:23:56.000 It's dangerous.

01:23:57.000 It's grooming behavior.

01:23:58.000 If you're trying to broach any sexual topic with a child that is not of age to have sex, that is grooming.

01:24:07.000 That is the definition of grooming. 0.99

01:24:08.000 Right, and grooming itself, that term is dismissed as anti-LBGTQ and whatever the fuck. 0.99

01:24:15.000 Which is wild. 0.99

01:24:15.000 Wild. 0.99

01:24:17.000 Love gay people. 0.55

01:24:18.000 This is the idea about being American, right? 0.97

01:24:21.000 Don't care, bro.

01:24:22.000 Do anything that you want. 0.99

01:24:23.000 You talk to my 8-year-old about anything sexual, hetero, homo, anything, it's wildly inappropriate. 0.63

01:24:30.000 He's 8. Why are you doing that?

01:24:33.000 Yeah, there's one reason, and it is not for the benefit of the eight-year-old.

01:24:37.000 It's indoctrination.

01:24:38.000 That's right.

01:24:39.000 Yeah.

01:24:39.000 And to say that somehow or another is homophobic, which is so insane.

01:24:44.000 Like, how did that become reality, that we're dealing with this?

01:24:48.000 Because this is not the case a decade ago, two decades ago.

01:24:51.000 This is very recent in terms of modern society in this country. 0.99

01:24:59.000 It's fucking crazy. 1.00

01:25:00.000 It's crazy. 0.99

01:25:01.000 And it also, to me, it's so confusing that other people don't recognize that and that people are so scared of being labeled as homophobic or being labeled as transphobic or anti-LBGTQ that they allow these things to take place under the guise of we're being more inclusive.

01:25:25.000 Yeah.

01:25:28.000 It does hurt to be called a bigot.

01:25:32.000 You're racist or you're anti-LGBTQ. I don't like those things said about me and I know that they're completely wrong.

01:25:41.000 But they're going to lob that unfounded accusation at me because I'm going to stand on a principle of protecting my children.

01:25:47.000 And would I rather take, you know, there's a great photo of a dad standing over his children and on his back, he has like all of these darts.

01:25:56.000 And the cartoon was, man, who?

01:25:59.000 The darts were named, you know, it was Disney propaganda, you know, it was LGBTQ indoctrination, it's racial discrimination, it was 69 Project. 0.94

01:26:08.000 It was like every single thing they're attacked with just...

01:26:11.000 Relentlessly every single day, and the dad just sitting there taking it and that is our job is to take it so you can call me any names that you want.

01:26:19.000 But first and foremost, my position is to protect my children, and to raise somebody that will be a contributing member society.

01:26:26.000 My partner, Matt Boudreaux at Apogee, he was in public education.

01:26:32.000 Like, that was his origin.

01:26:34.000 That was his start.

01:26:34.000 The genesis of his journey where we collided was he had went and started the two largest Socratic schools in the United States.

01:26:41.000 Like, hundreds and hundreds of students going to learn just the Socratic approach.

01:26:46.000 And he thought that there was more that needed to be done on the full family approach.

01:26:52.000 Where the dad and the mom and the brothers and the sisters, everybody's on the same journey to become the best versions of themselves.

01:26:59.000 So Matt and I collide with both of us working at the exact same thing, with the same ideas, with the same approaches, with the same love for America.

01:27:08.000 And the end result is dads and moms becoming those things where they will...

01:27:15.000 They will be the stopgap between all of this hate and all of these dangerous ideas.

01:27:21.000 And if you're not doing that, like if parenting is not hard, maybe you're not a good parent.

01:27:29.000 Because parenting is hard.

01:27:31.000 It's complicated.

01:27:32.000 It is.

01:27:32.000 It's very complicated.

01:27:33.000 My wife and I last night sat there for an hour and broke down next school year, books that we're reading, for an hour on a Tuesday night.

01:27:45.000 We're just sitting there hammering through.

01:27:47.000 Were there a lot of other things I'd rather be doing for an hour with my wife?

01:27:51.000 Sure, sure.

01:27:52.000 But...

01:27:53.000 Highs and lows on Sunday.

01:27:55.000 My son had lacrosse practice.

01:27:57.000 It was cold.

01:27:58.000 It was rainy.

01:27:59.000 And his whole entire team, third graders, out there shivering and showing grit.

01:28:07.000 My heart was exploding with pride.

01:28:09.000 And I never said you had to stay out there.

01:28:12.000 I was like, you know, hey, practice is today.

01:28:14.000 We get there.

01:28:15.000 The coach was in shorts and he was just, his fingers were white.

01:28:18.000 His cheeks were like bright red from the cold.

01:28:21.000 But he stood there and he took it and he showed grit.

01:28:24.000 And then all of these third graders followed in suit.

01:28:26.000 And I was just like heart exploding with pride as my son demonstrated like this will follow through with this thing that I've committed to do.

01:28:36.000 And it hurt me to watch my son be cold.

01:28:40.000 And it hurt me.

01:28:41.000 And this is why parenting is hard.

01:28:42.000 And if it doesn't, and if I didn't care, I don't think there's any greater insult than indifference.

01:28:48.000 And to be indifferent to your kid is just like the worst thing you could be as a human.

01:28:55.000 Yeah, it's so selfish.

01:28:57.000 It's a crazy way of thinking.

01:29:00.000 But so many people are just so occupied with their own life and they're so busy that they just don't have the time to have conversations with their kid or even think about it.

01:29:08.000 Like, ah, they're going to school.

01:29:10.000 At school's job.

01:29:11.000 Anyone busier than you or me?

01:29:15.000 Elon.

01:29:16.000 Okay, fair.

01:29:17.000 Yeah.

01:29:18.000 Um...

01:29:20.000 Maybe.

01:29:20.000 Yeah, maybe not.

01:29:23.000 I don't know.

01:29:24.000 We're pretty busy.

01:29:25.000 We're pretty busy.

01:29:26.000 But I think it's a part of life.

01:29:30.000 It's also very rewarding.

01:29:31.000 I mean, to see your kids getting after it, it's very rewarding.

01:29:35.000 My youngest has become a real fitness freak.

01:29:37.000 She's a nut. 1.00

01:29:38.000 She's got a Fitbit now. 1.00

01:29:39.000 She's 13. She's a savage. 0.96

01:29:41.000 She likes to tell me, like, did 28,000 steps today.

01:29:44.000 She gets up at 6 o'clock in the morning and hits the gym before she goes to school.

01:29:48.000 And then, like, she had a volleyball game.

01:29:51.000 Yeah, 13. She had a volleyball game.

01:29:53.000 She got up at 6 o'clock in the morning, ran for two miles, then went to the volleyball game, did the volleyball game. 0.96

01:30:00.000 You know, they're playing this tournament.

01:30:01.000 They play these three games, comes back home, hits the gym again.

01:30:05.000 So she's getting three workouts in a day.

01:30:08.000 Show me her results and all this thing and then you know, we're obviously giving her positive positive feedback because of it But now she's like super fired up. 0.98

01:30:16.000 Yeah, and that you like you see the difference in her body like her abs are showing and her Body feels like it like she's like a fucking little panther. 1.00

01:30:24.000 It's crazy and So rewarding. 0.93

01:30:27.000 Not to be, and I don't mean to disparage other families that haven't made it there yet or haven't subscribed to these ideas of discipline and regiment.

01:30:38.000 But our kids, compared to my son, my daughters, they're just so much better than everybody else.

01:30:46.000 I don't mean to sound terrible, but they do the work.

01:30:51.000 I also think it's a lead by example thing.

01:30:53.000 Children, you can teach them things, but they learn a lot from just watching you.

01:30:57.000 They learn a lot when they learn what the standards are.

01:31:02.000 When you see someone who's happy and fulfilled and also successful, and you're like, what is that person doing?

01:31:08.000 Well, that person's my mom.

01:31:09.000 What is my mom doing? 1.00

01:31:10.000 Oh, my mom's a fucking animal. 1.00

01:31:12.000 Look at her. 1.00

01:31:12.000 Jesus, I want to be like her. 1.00

01:31:14.000 And that's how kids learn.

01:31:15.000 They learn from that.

01:31:16.000 They learn from seeing things, too.

01:31:18.000 They don't just learn from the things you tell them.

01:31:20.000 They learn from watching you.

01:31:21.000 Watching you live your own life. 1.00

01:31:23.000 And if you're a slob and you come home and you're just fucking eating sub sandwiches and just drinking whiskey all night and just falling asleep watching sports, you kids are like, look at this fucking aimless existence. 1.00

01:31:34.000 This is stupid. 1.00

01:31:35.000 Like, God, life is meaningless. 1.00

01:31:36.000 Yeah, give them purpose.

01:31:37.000 Right.

01:31:38.000 We're such a society void of purpose.

01:31:44.000 Mike Glover wrote a great book, Prepared, and that...

01:31:49.000 In that, one of the big takeaways was, it doesn't have to be your purpose, but one of the reasons me as an American, me as a protector, me as a father, me as a husband, it is my job and my responsibility to be prepared to protect my family.

01:32:05.000 And as your children learn via osmosis, like by example, the things that you do, you know, I have to like elbow my son out of his seat so I can sit facing the door.

01:32:16.000 I was like, my man, you knew where to sit, you know, but like move over.

01:32:19.000 You go sit by your mom right now, you know?

01:32:21.000 And, you know, he sees the outliers, you know, and Mike would call it a bump in the pattern.

01:32:29.000 Like I call them outliers where like something is off where I sit down in a place and like, That person doesn't belong here.

01:32:36.000 Right, what's going on here?

01:32:38.000 Yeah, I'm gonna spend a little bit of time and a little cognitive of my ever-struggling brain to pay attention with this what person is doing over here because it's my responsibility.

01:32:50.000 And Americans better figure this out pretty fast because we are gonna have a rough year.

01:32:58.000 We are woefully unprepared and disillusioned about what the next 13 months are going to look like.

01:33:06.000 Do you think that's going to wake people up?

01:33:07.000 Do you think...

01:33:08.000 I mean, I do not want to say that we need something to happen.

01:33:12.000 But one of the things that did happen post 9-11...

01:33:16.000 I remember this overwhelming feeling of patriotism that was prevalent through the entire country.

01:33:23.000 I would drive to work and I'd see American flags in Los Angeles, which is like one of the most ridiculously out of touch places on earth, and everyone had American flags hanging from their car.

01:33:36.000 It was overwhelming.

01:33:38.000 There was this feeling like we are in this together.

01:33:42.000 There are forces of evil out there in the world and now we understand and now we're united.

01:33:47.000 I hope that we don't need that catalyst.

01:33:51.000 I hope so too.

01:33:51.000 I really do.

01:33:53.000 But.

01:33:54.000 But.

01:33:56.000 Israel is one of the most secure nations in the world.

01:34:00.000 Which is impressive, from them fighting for their existence the day that they became a country, to the Six-Day War, where every single one of their neighboring countries invaded them, to the Yom Kippur War, where again, led by Egypt, every single one of their neighboring countries invaded them. 0.53

01:34:18.000 To, you know, what just happened where they have one of the most complex security and military and intelligent networks on the planet.

01:34:27.000 And Hamas killed almost Pearl Harbor level numbers, almost 9-11 level numbers, just in An indescribably barbaric way. 0.54

01:34:42.000 Like this was...

01:34:43.000 This wasn't people dying in buildings or, you know, getting shot from airplanes.

01:34:49.000 This was...

01:34:50.000 Like, I don't know.

01:34:51.000 A music festival.

01:34:53.000 Yeah.

01:34:54.000 That...

01:34:54.000 Babies...

01:34:55.000 Yeah.

01:34:56.000 People are saying it was propaganda what happened.

01:34:58.000 It was not.

01:34:59.000 These things really happened on the ground and anybody that denies it is...

01:35:02.000 Who's saying it's propaganda?

01:35:05.000 If you go to one of these pro-Pamas protests right now, show me a picture of a baby that got their head decapitated.

01:35:13.000 That didn't really happen.

01:35:16.000 Because IDF said that 80% of all of the victims within the kibbutzes were tortured before they were murdered.

01:35:23.000 80% of all of the victims.

01:35:26.000 I know firsthand, saw firsthand, was shown...

01:35:33.000 and have which I will never show the pictures of these things really happening and if it could happen in the most secure nation that has been invaded by every single one of their neighbors multiple times in history but we here in America think that the 350 million of us are somehow safe that the government is somehow going to protect us that our local police department like if you picked up the phone right now and you called For help,

01:35:59.000 911. How long would it take for somebody to come here and try and help and save you?

01:36:04.000 Especially with the defund the police.

01:36:05.000 Oh, yeah?

01:36:06.000 Yeah.

01:36:07.000 Well, people are figuring that out in Minneapolis.

01:36:09.000 Well, they're figuring it out here.

01:36:10.000 Yeah.

01:36:11.000 Yeah, they're figuring it out here, too.

01:36:13.000 You have a ton of friends that are in law enforcement in this area.

01:36:16.000 The murder detectives, counter-gang task forces, are pulled off of their murder investigations to work the street because they don't have enough police officers.

01:36:28.000 I've mentioned the recruiting crisis.

01:36:32.000 If we are struggling to meet the demand of basic soldiers, the available population of combat arms that special operations can pick from, that shrinks, right?

01:36:44.000 And then that pool being smaller.

01:36:46.000 So ultimately, by the time you get to the guys that really do the work on the ground, there's nobody left to pick from.

01:36:52.000 We're...

01:36:54.000 Not just strategically in maybe the most vulnerable position in a really long time, but nationally here in the United States, I think that we are more vulnerable than we have ever been.

01:37:03.000 There's nobody coming to save you.

01:37:05.000 There's nobody that's going to come, that's going to pick up the phone and be like, yeah, I'll be there in three minutes.

01:37:10.000 They're not coming.

01:37:12.000 It took six to eight hours for any of the military or police to make it to any of those villages that are immediately adjacent from Gaza to come and try and fight Hamas back.

01:37:24.000 They had six hours.

01:37:26.000 To do whatever they want to all the women, the children, and the Holocaust survivors that were still there.

01:37:32.000 Like these were people that survived Holocaust camps, concentration camps of World War II. Still alive, 102 years old.

01:37:39.000 And they're like, Hamas is like, we knew that you were here. 0.61

01:37:43.000 We've actually been reconning and IDing every single one of these families that we're going to be going after.

01:37:49.000 And they went after them.

01:37:51.000 And Americans are woefully ill-prepared for what's coming.

01:37:57.000 I think there's another thing that's disturbing to me, but there's a certain amount of cowardice that's involved in there's certain people that when they see an attack like that happen and they're terrified of it happening to them, they will try to sympathize with the attackers.

01:38:17.000 They will try to sympathize and almost position themselves to be on their side.

01:38:22.000 That's rampant right now.

01:38:24.000 You know, anti-Semitism across the United States. 0.83

01:38:28.000 Crazy. 0.99

01:38:28.000 Crazy, man! 0.99

01:38:29.000 It's like people came out of the woodwork.

01:38:31.000 It's like they were hiding in the woods and then all of a sudden you're seeing it openly.

01:38:36.000 I saw one where we should boycott Jewish businesses here in the United States.

01:38:43.000 And I was like, maybe just have them put a star on their chest or something.

01:38:47.000 Or maybe put a gold star on their business.

01:38:49.000 Is that what you're suggesting?

01:38:51.000 Because that is what you're suggesting.

01:38:53.000 Yeah.

01:38:53.000 Have we not learned?

01:38:55.000 Evidently we haven't.

01:38:56.000 You know, it took six million to being persecuted and killed.

01:38:59.000 Those Jews, man, from the Germans to the Egyptians to the Romans, you know, Palestine didn't exist. 1.00

01:39:08.000 You could go back 3,000 years to King David and then his son, King Solomon, saying that, like, this is the capital of the Jewish people here in Judah and Israel, Jerusalem.

01:39:20.000 That is 1900, 1700 BC, right?

01:39:24.000 Yeah.

01:39:24.000 We have to go to 80 A.D., where after Jesus has already come here, now we have the origin of Judaism and them historically, not religious documents, like this is the origin of the Jewish people, is here in this specific land with very clear geographic references as to what it is,

01:39:41.000 to then being the origin of the Christian faith with Jesus being there and then being crucified.

01:39:47.000 And then 200 years later, Muhammad and us learning that the Muslim religion also beginning there.

01:39:57.000 The Romans destroy the temple in 80 AD and then they coined the term Palestine for that area.

01:40:07.000 For the 2000 years before that, it had just been Israel.

01:40:13.000 Egypt, the Romans, they're now conquered from every imaginable group of people for the next, like, 1500 years. 0.86

01:40:23.000 Murdered at every opportunity, leading up to the Holocaust. 0.94

01:40:26.000 Going to post-World War II, 1947, the UN says, hey, it's cool that Israel has its own nation in the place that it has always been, Israel.

01:40:38.000 May of 1948, independence kicks off and every neighbor comes in to try to kill them. 0.99

01:40:43.000 And now here we are in 2023, and we're still talking about, like, boycotting Jews, and hey, it's cool if we, like, slit their throats, don't let them make babies, let's find from the river to the sea, get rid of the Jews. 1.00

01:40:56.000 What the fuck? 1.00

01:40:58.000 It's wild. 1.00

01:40:59.000 It's fucking wild. 0.99

01:41:00.000 I would have never imagined this just five, six years ago. 0.99

01:41:03.000 Never imagined.

01:41:04.000 Five, six months ago?

01:41:05.000 Yeah.

01:41:06.000 Right.

01:41:07.000 Yeah.

01:41:10.000 100,000 people in London, you know, marching, tearing down posters.

01:41:17.000 And I've asked this time and time again, you know, there's posters of the kids that have been kidnapped.

01:41:23.000 Yeah.

01:41:23.000 And they put them up in New York, they put them up in Brooklyn, they put them in LA. And there are hundreds of videos of people walking down to tear off these hostage photographs.

01:41:32.000 Young people.

01:41:33.000 Yeah.

01:41:35.000 I want to know why.

01:41:37.000 Like, why don't you want to see a picture of a nine-year-old girl that was kidnapped and is now a hostage by a terrorist group in Gaza?

01:41:48.000 Why don't you want to see that?

01:41:49.000 Why are you tearing that down?

01:41:52.000 And I think that the answer is it goes in direct conflict with the thing that they want to believe and they think that it perpetuates a cycle of violence and that them tearing it down and that is them like protecting the Palestinian poor impoverished people when in fact they're tearing down the victim The Jew or the Christian or the Brazilian that was kidnapped that is now being held hostage in

01:42:22.000 Gaza by a terrorist group of people and thugs.

01:42:26.000 Why are you tearing that down?

01:42:30.000 Well, there's this very bizarre progressive narrative that, you know, look, there's a reality of Gaza, that Gaza is essentially like an open-air prison.

01:42:42.000 That is a reality. 1.00

01:42:43.000 Those people are fucked. 1.00

01:42:44.000 They're stuck there. 1.00

01:42:45.000 And there doesn't seem to be like a really good solution on the table, you know?

01:42:49.000 And I don't know what can be done, especially now, to change that.

01:42:54.000 That's true.

01:42:55.000 That is true.

01:42:56.000 And there is a hostility, a deep hostility between the Israelis and the Palestinians on both sides.

01:43:01.000 It's palpable.

01:43:03.000 I've seen many videos of atrocities being committed by both sides, which is just a horrible consequence of war and conflict.

01:43:11.000 What do you think, I'm Israel, you're the Palestinians in Gaza, if If every one of the people in Gaza laid down the arms and stopped attacking,

01:43:28.000 what would I, Israel, do to you?

01:43:34.000 It's a good question.

01:43:37.000 Nothing.

01:43:40.000 They've tried it five different times.

01:43:43.000 They're literally like, stop attack.

01:43:46.000 Israel has never, not one time in history, initiated any conflict.

01:43:52.000 Every single one of those things that you're pointing to is a retaliatory attack by a terrorist organization.

01:43:58.000 But if that was switched, Where I, Israel, you, Hamas in Gaza, I take all of my arms and all of my protection and I laid them down.

01:44:11.000 What would Hamas do? 0.60

01:44:15.000 They would kill every single one of us. 0.97

01:44:17.000 That's what they do. 0.99

01:44:18.000 That's what they're sworn to do.

01:44:20.000 That's their motto and the origin of their existence.

01:44:23.000 All the way back to the Grand Mufti traveling to Hitler to ask, how do we solve the Jewish problem? 0.99

01:44:30.000 Like, you want to follow from Hamas to the Muslim Brotherhood, all the way back to the Grand Mufti, to Mujahideen, and you see the origins of, like, one thing, which is, how do I solve the Jewish problem, is to eradicate and kill them? 0.99

01:44:43.000 That is what Hamas came from. 0.98

01:44:45.000 Not the Palestinians, not those poor people stuck in Gaza.

01:44:50.000 But in that problem, if all of Hamas just went away, we would have peace. 0.98

01:44:55.000 If they laid down their arms and they stopped murdering innocent civilians and raping women and killing babies, you'd have peace. 0.99

01:45:03.000 If the other side laid down their arms, they would all be murdered. 0.99

01:45:09.000 All seven and a half million of them.

01:45:11.000 Until they just were walking in blood through the Jordan River.

01:45:15.000 How do you solve this problem? 0.93

01:45:18.000 The radicals have to be eliminated.

01:45:20.000 The terrorists have to go away. 0.62

01:45:22.000 That is not... 0.61

01:45:23.000 I'm not conflating the Palestinians and the terrorists. 0.54

01:45:28.000 Those are separate things.

01:45:29.000 But if there's two and a half million people that are living in Gaza that are allowing 30,000 terrorists to run them... 0.82

01:45:39.000 At some point, the olive branch cannot be extended from Israel when 30,000 people are using that region to launch attacks into their sovereign nation. 0.99

01:45:48.000 And we were talking about the propaganda that exists in America.

01:45:52.000 What about the propaganda that exists in Palestine?

01:45:55.000 What is their thought?

01:45:56.000 Oh, it's crazy!

01:45:58.000 Yeah.

01:45:58.000 So, like, did you see the hospital that got destroyed?

01:46:02.000 Well, it didn't really, right?

01:46:03.000 No, it did not really.

01:46:04.000 No, but the New York Times said it did.

01:46:06.000 Yes, it did.

01:46:07.000 And Congresswomen.

01:46:09.000 Which is insane.

01:46:10.000 And they didn't retract it.

01:46:12.000 You take horse dewormer and Israel destroyed a hospital.

01:46:17.000 Yeah.

01:46:19.000 So evil.

01:46:20.000 It's so crazy that they printed that in the New York Times.

01:46:23.000 And that's the paper of record.

01:46:24.000 That's the most important newspaper that we have in America.

01:46:27.000 In terms of if we wanted an objective source of information, most people say, what's the best?

01:46:33.000 Look, I used to deliver the New York Times when I was a kid.

01:46:38.000 And I did it, it wasn't even that profitable.

01:46:40.000 I delivered the Boston Globe as my main newspaper that I delivered.

01:46:44.000 And then I delivered the Boston Herald as well.

01:46:46.000 And then I got a New York Times route and I was proud of that.

01:46:49.000 Because the New York Times was the real newspaper that intelligent people read.

01:46:54.000 And it was a different plastic wrapper.

01:46:57.000 You got a clear wrapper for the Herald and a clear wrapper for the Globe.

01:47:03.000 But for the New York Times I got a blue wrapper.

01:47:06.000 And I was like one of the people that got to deliver the New York Times.

01:47:09.000 And I remember thinking as a 20-year-old kid, like, oh boy, I'm delivering the New York Times. 0.98

01:47:15.000 And when I would drop the paper off at these people's house, I was like, that's a fucking smart house. 0.94

01:47:19.000 These people are reading the New York Times in Boston. 0.96

01:47:22.000 And I remember thinking that.

01:47:23.000 I was proud of that.

01:47:25.000 That I delivered the best newspaper in the world.

01:47:28.000 Really.

01:47:28.000 I literally wasn't that much money and it was a crazy route because I'd have to go like a mile in between houses.

01:47:34.000 Whereas like with the Boston Globe, I'd have like five, six houses on one street that I would drop off papers to. 0.95

01:47:41.000 And the New York Times, I'd have this fucking crazy route.

01:47:44.000 I'd have to go all over the place to get rid of a hundred newspapers. 0.97

01:47:47.000 Yeah, and then now in 2023, they're circulating terrorist propaganda.

01:47:53.000 Yeah, and with no...

01:47:55.000 With no recourse.

01:47:57.000 No repercussions.

01:47:58.000 And what do they make?

01:48:00.000 Did they even print a retraction? 0.98

01:48:01.000 Do they say we fucked up? 0.99

01:48:02.000 You watch a missile get launched from Gaza. 0.99

01:48:06.000 You know one third of all missiles that are launched from Gaza land in Gaza?

01:48:11.000 Think about how sad that is.

01:48:14.000 Is that real?

01:48:14.000 28% of missiles launched from Hamas land on top of the Palestinian people.

01:48:20.000 Jesus Christ. 0.69

01:48:21.000 And obviously they have no ability to direct any military target when these crappy missiles are being launched into Israel.

01:48:29.000 They're just like populated area.

01:48:31.000 I went and did a Fox News stand-up in the city directly north of Gaza.

01:48:39.000 That is the most rocketed city in all of Israel.

01:48:42.000 And the one day that we were there, we had like six rocket attack sirens go off.

01:48:48.000 It's the weirdest thing that the Palestinians are allowing... 1.00

01:48:56.000 Hamas to literally kill them and pillage everything about their existence from them.

01:49:02.000 Hamas is so rich and so 70 million dollars from Iran. 0.64

01:49:07.000 You know every every humanitarian ship that comes into the port or right now that is being brought up through the Rafa Gate via Egypt into the south portion of Gaza.

01:49:17.000 The moment that lands there that is taken control of by Hamas.

01:49:21.000 They then build underground infrastructure in the tunnels, and they build military infrastructure, and then they turn whatever they can into rockets, and the humanitarian aid that is supposed to be distributed to the people, they have control of.

01:49:37.000 They have to go.

01:49:39.000 Not the Palestinians. 1.00

01:49:41.000 They have been so screwed by Hamas. 0.99

01:49:47.000 But the propaganda that they encounter in Palestine has to be insane. 0.98

01:49:54.000 Yeah, they believe that they're on the good side.

01:50:03.000 How do they sift through fact from fiction when what they're being told and being fed is being fed to them by Hamas? 0.79

01:50:15.000 Like, how do you...

01:50:16.000 How do they get access to other information?

01:50:22.000 And how do they ever, like, organize and discuss this openly without fear of losing their lives and being tortured?

01:50:30.000 The only time that you had consistent water and power going into Gaza was when Israel was controlling Gaza.

01:50:38.000 Now that Hamas is running it, it is just, it is nightmarish in there.

01:50:45.000 But they're still in charge.

01:50:46.000 And they're being protected and here in the United States being like called freedom fighters. 0.93

01:50:52.000 Like they are barbaric murderers and absolute terrorists that want nothing besides the genocide of every...

01:51:00.000 When I saw like the LGBTQ flags of LGBTQ stands with Hamas, mind is blown. 0.95

01:51:11.000 Isn't it hilarious?

01:51:12.000 Have you ever seen that meme that it says, uh, queers for Palestine and then Palestine for queers?

01:51:18.000 Like, yeah.

01:51:22.000 They wouldn't live there, like, hours.

01:51:26.000 They'd be pushed off a rooftop or burnt alive. 0.70

01:51:30.000 Immediately.

01:51:31.000 But the narrative in this country is not that, which is so strange.

01:51:36.000 I don't know.

01:51:37.000 There's sort of overwhelming evidence about the approach that they have to gay people.

01:51:42.000 Yeah.

01:51:43.000 But yet, somehow or another, there's this I stand with Palestine thing that makes you a progressive. 1.00

01:51:49.000 Go to Tel Aviv as a gay person. 1.00

01:51:52.000 Walk around with your gay pride shirt with your husband or wife of the same sex. 1.00

01:51:59.000 Nobody will bat an eye at you. 0.99

01:52:00.000 Nobody cares.

01:52:02.000 Everybody's like, what up?

01:52:04.000 You know, like, normal.

01:52:06.000 Man, if she and her wife tried to walk down the road in Gaza... 0.96

01:52:14.000 Bro, man...

01:52:17.000 It is so, this tinderbox that is that region with the West Bank, with the Golm Heights of the North, with Hezbollah, which is being supported by Iran. 0.76

01:52:26.000 They're all positioned on the border, you know, with Iraq allowing people from Afghanistan, the Taliban, to move through. 0.84

01:52:33.000 Taliban being funded by us, $40 million right now is what we're continually giving them, the Taliban. 0.74

01:52:39.000 Why do we do that?

01:52:40.000 I don't know.

01:52:42.000 I don't know.

01:52:44.000 What's the cynical side of you?

01:52:46.000 We want to recognize them as a legitimate government, and we are paying for them to start a democratic process of, like, that is the,

01:53:01.000 I think, would be the tagline of what we want them to do.

01:53:07.000 What it is actually doing is the same thing that happens when we release six billion dollars to Iran.

01:53:12.000 In exchange for hostages, they then take that six billion dollars.

01:53:16.000 No, they're not using that exact money to fund terrorism with Hezbollah or Hamas.

01:53:22.000 But I have one bank account that has an additional six billion dollars in it.

01:53:26.000 And now I'm able to spend six billion dollars over here to finance other things that are going to destabilize the nation that I have sworn to eradicate Israel and America. 0.98

01:53:37.000 So, like, cool.

01:53:38.000 I'll happily give some more money to...

01:53:40.000 They've been planning this for four years.

01:53:43.000 The Quds, like the Iranian special operations guys, training and preparing Hamas, advising on how to execute this, how do they get the intelligence to know what direction they need to fly with their paragliders, which areas, which... 0.62

01:53:58.000 You don't think they had scouts in all the kibbutzes around Gaza to identify which houses they're going to be targeting?

01:54:03.000 How did they find all that stuff out?

01:54:05.000 The people that Israel was allowing out of Gaza to work as agricultural workers, they were going into these areas, into these kibbutzes, into these houses, into these villages, doing recons for Hamas. 0.86

01:54:16.000 So then when Hamas launched their attack on October 7th, they'd been funded.

01:54:21.000 There's this amazing book called The New Rules of War.

01:54:26.000 And the new rules of war lines out all of the ways that America is not prepared to fight a war.

01:54:31.000 By non-state actors, by corporations, by cartels, by violent extremist organizations, using proxy methods.

01:54:39.000 So, like, we are at war with Iran.

01:54:41.000 Period.

01:54:42.000 They are funding every single group that just attacked our American base in Syria, that attacked our American base in Iraq, that attacked and killed a bunch of Americans in Israel. 0.60

01:54:51.000 That was funded by Iran.

01:54:53.000 And trained by Iran. 0.56

01:54:57.000 But we don't have the appetite to try and fight the war that they're fighting because they're doing it in just such a...

01:55:02.000 We want that World War II. We want Patton standing on top of a tank, coming across, being like, there's Rommel!

01:55:09.000 Go and get him! 1.00

01:55:10.000 That war is never going to happen again.

01:55:13.000 And we're just not ready to fight this new type of war under these new rules of war, which is fighting non-state actors, fighting proxy wars, fighting corporations funded by governments, fighting cartels that are getting subsidized by governments,

01:55:28.000 all to destabilize the greatest nation to ever exist in the history of mankind, us.

01:55:36.000 You were saying that you think we're more vulnerable now than we've ever been before and you're legitimately worried that the United States might fall.

01:55:44.000 I am more worried now because of the lack of preparedness of the individual.

01:55:55.000 Americans are Fatter than they've ever been. 1.00

01:56:00.000 They are, even though there's more guns now owned, there are fewer per capita owned by an individual with people that train regularly with them.

01:56:12.000 People that are able to provide and protect for their families.

01:56:14.000 All the metrics of measurements of like, that family's going to be okay.

01:56:19.000 That is the smallest that it's ever been.

01:56:22.000 And our government right now is more vulnerable internationally than we've ever been.

01:56:28.000 Our military is, even though I'm so proud to be a service member, I'm, you know, when the army tells me to do something, I 100% have no say whatsoever.

01:56:38.000 I got to go and do it.

01:56:39.000 And I'm really proud to be part of the most elite fighting force on the planet.

01:56:42.000 I think we are the weakest that we've ever been for a variety of reasons.

01:56:48.000 When you put all of these things together, and you just take a step back, and like, the aggregate, like the accumulation of all of these different factors make me be like, holy crap, we are vulnerable.

01:57:04.000 The only way to combat that is the individual to start taking their own security and preparedness seriously. 0.73

01:57:11.000 Get less fat.

01:57:12.000 Get more healthy.

01:57:13.000 Go and train.

01:57:15.000 Go and buy a gun.

01:57:16.000 Start exercising your freedoms.

01:57:18.000 Learn what it means to volunteer in your school.

01:57:22.000 Cool, you can't start your own school.

01:57:24.000 Cool, you can't homeschool.

01:57:27.000 Well, get involved in your kid's school.

01:57:29.000 Like, you gotta do something, because if we continue down the path that we're in, we're done for.

01:57:33.000 Like, soon.

01:57:34.000 Not in, like, a generation.

01:57:36.000 Like, right now.

01:57:38.000 I'm scared.

01:57:39.000 I'm gonna drink water.

01:57:40.000 Jesus Christ.

01:57:48.000 There's a lot of people freaking out listening to this right now.

01:57:52.000 But that's good.

01:57:53.000 There's a 20-year Special Forces dude that in the past three years has been in four gigantic international crises in three years.

01:58:03.000 I've spent my entire adult life doing this.

01:58:06.000 I run companies that train people to do this.

01:58:09.000 Like the sole mission statement of the large company and every single subsidiary under them ultimately goes down to preparing people to provide for their families, to protect themselves, and to expand freedom.

01:58:20.000 The wave top, my elevator pitch would be like, that's all we do.

01:58:24.000 And I'm scared.

01:58:28.000 But for us not to hit the Titanic, it only took a couple of degrees change, right?

01:58:33.000 And for the Titanic not to hit that iceberg, it would have just been like, early enough, us turning it just slightly.

01:58:41.000 I don't think we're past a point where that can still be changed, where we can still avoid what would be the catalyst of destruction for this nation.

01:58:53.000 But the individual has to step up.

01:58:55.000 Well, the individual, but also we have to have changes in the approach that the government has.

01:59:03.000 Oh, yeah.

01:59:04.000 Lobbyists have to go away.

01:59:06.000 These gigantic PACs have to go away.

01:59:08.000 We have to have age limits and term limits. 0.95

01:59:11.000 Like, if these things don't happen, our republic is in a bad place.

01:59:18.000 How cool would it be if we just had...

01:59:21.000 Age and term limits within Congress.

01:59:24.000 It'd be pretty nice at this point.

01:59:27.000 I mean, when you see Mitch McConnell just fucking Windows 98 out. 0.79

01:59:32.000 I mean, Dianne Feinstein voted the day before she died. 0.89

01:59:35.000 Yeah.

01:59:36.000 Did you see her aid that was like hitting her?

01:59:39.000 Being like, hey, you're supposed to vote yay on this.

01:59:41.000 Right.

01:59:42.000 Hey, vote yay. 0.95

01:59:43.000 Yeah.

01:59:43.000 That should be illegal.

01:59:45.000 How is it not?

01:59:47.000 How is it not?

01:59:48.000 Yeah.

01:59:49.000 That's like she's not voting anymore.

01:59:51.000 You're voting for her.

01:59:52.000 You're dictating how she should vote.

01:59:54.000 She's one of the most empowered people in the world. 0.89

01:59:57.000 That aide was making that decision off of the lobbyists that were telling her what to do. 1.00

02:00:02.000 Right.

02:00:03.000 All the special interests that were saying, okay, on these issues, this is how you're going to vote.

02:00:07.000 And then that aide went and effectively voted for a congresswoman. 1.00

02:00:11.000 See, that is...

02:00:12.000 It's insane.

02:00:14.000 Yeah.

02:00:15.000 I love this meme of George Washington with like the four tube nods.

02:00:22.000 He's like, me and my homies would already be slaying right now.

02:00:26.000 It's true.

02:00:27.000 You know, they would.

02:00:29.000 Yeah.

02:00:30.000 But people don't even recognize what a danger it is.

02:00:33.000 It got so little outrage in the mainstream.

02:00:38.000 So many people were just so ignorant to what was going on.

02:00:41.000 It's almost like there's too much to pay attention to when things like this happen.

02:00:44.000 People are so overwhelmed by...

02:00:47.000 That's also the thing about the news cycle of today.

02:00:50.000 You are being bombarded constantly with things to worry about.

02:00:54.000 And then when there's nothing to worry about, then they hit you with climate change.

02:00:57.000 When there's nothing to worry about, then they hit you with something else.

02:00:59.000 There's like a constant barrage of things to occupy your attention.

02:01:04.000 And meanwhile, decisions are being made that slowly erode everything this country is supposed to be founded for.

02:01:12.000 Yeah.

02:01:16.000 Are the greatest nation to exist in the history of mankind.

02:01:19.000 And in the cycle of dynasties, of empires, we're at the right limit of the average one of those.

02:01:30.000 And, you know, Rome didn't die in a day.

02:01:35.000 It was a slow decay of the things that made them special.

02:01:45.000 We're still the greatest ever.

02:01:47.000 And it's not.

02:01:48.000 It's not.

02:01:49.000 And I will be positive and I will be hopeful that...

02:01:52.000 How do we fix this?

02:01:54.000 What do you think, Joe?

02:01:55.000 What are the things that an individual can do in a day?

02:01:58.000 It seems so insurmountable, right?

02:01:59.000 Like, oh, Tim, I can't fix Congress.

02:02:01.000 I don't get to pick the next president.

02:02:04.000 I'm only in charge of me.

02:02:06.000 Okay.

02:02:07.000 Be in charge of you.

02:02:08.000 What does that look like?

02:02:09.000 Right.

02:02:09.000 We need a polar shift in the understanding of the importance of that.

02:02:14.000 And I don't think you're getting that from many places.

02:02:17.000 And I think really the only way you're getting that from is individuals like you speaking about it, people talking about it online, people that aren't captured by these massive institutions and corporations that do have a very specific narrative that they're discussing always and constantly.

02:02:35.000 You're not getting these kind of conversations.

02:02:39.000 They don't exist in the mainstream news.

02:02:41.000 They don't exist anywhere else other than independent media.

02:02:45.000 And that's what's so strange.

02:02:47.000 And one of the reasons why independent media has become so huge is because people are confused.

02:02:53.000 It's like, why am I not being told What's really going on in some sort of an objective sense?

02:03:00.000 Why am I not being informed of all the variety of things that are playing against the things that make this country great?

02:03:11.000 Why is the concept of freedom being downplayed as some sort of a far-right perspective?

02:03:19.000 Which is so strange.

02:03:21.000 So strange.

02:03:23.000 Fitness is far right.

02:03:24.000 Fitness is far right.

02:03:25.000 Eating healthy is far.

02:03:26.000 Eating is racist.

02:03:28.000 Eating healthy is racist.

02:03:30.000 It's so crazy. 0.99

02:03:31.000 It's so crazy that they've managed to marginalize almost every positive thing and put it into a category of either racist or discriminatory or homophobic or whatever the fuck it is. 0.97

02:03:46.000 There's a fascinating I'm not a study example of China combating information wise so like tick-tock The advertisements that are being fed to let's say a 14 year old boy, right? 0.99

02:04:00.000 He's he's seen like soft porn.

02:04:03.000 He's seen like scantily clad girls. 0.92

02:04:05.000 He's seen like drug vape things And in America that is the constant ad that he's being fed and And, you know, like, go and party, be a TikTok star, be a YouTube influencer.

02:04:19.000 Like, these are the things he's being fed nonstop.

02:04:22.000 That exact same age person in China, on a China app, they're talking about becoming a strong contributing member of the Chinese society, being good in school, being a good athlete.

02:04:34.000 Yeah.

02:04:35.000 Scientific accomplishments.

02:04:36.000 Night and day, A and B. Athletic accomplishments, yeah.

02:04:39.000 A. America.

02:04:40.000 They're fed things that destroy the individual.

02:04:42.000 B. In China, they're being fed things that make the individual stronger and a better person in that society.

02:04:49.000 But the only way that you can get that...

02:04:53.000 You have to give the government control, and the government has to be doing it for the will of the people.

02:04:57.000 They have to be doing it for the overall good of the nation.

02:04:59.000 That's what their perspective is.

02:05:01.000 When they're trying to make stronger Chinese citizens, they're doing it because of a very specific government mandate that's trying to strengthen China.

02:05:10.000 They want their men to be more manly.

02:05:12.000 They want all these things to take place that will strengthen their nation.

02:05:17.000 And what do they want from Americans? 0.60

02:05:19.000 They want us to be weaker.

02:05:20.000 They want us to be fatter. 0.73

02:05:21.000 They want us to be more mentally unwell.

02:05:23.000 Yeah.

02:05:24.000 But I don't think people realize that that's what it is.

02:05:27.000 I think when people are trying to be a TikTok influencer, what are they saying? 0.99

02:05:30.000 Well, they're saying, well, I don't want to work in a fucking insurance company. 0.98

02:05:34.000 Like, what other job can I be? 0.99

02:05:35.000 Oh, can I just, like, make wild, wacky videos of me eating?

02:05:38.000 And I can make more money than I would ever if I got a college degree?

02:05:42.000 Like, yeah, you can.

02:05:44.000 Yeah, you want to be the richest person on the planet right now?

02:05:46.000 In Austin?

02:05:47.000 Be in construction.

02:05:49.000 Be an electrician.

02:05:51.000 Be a plumber.

02:05:53.000 Do you know how much those people are charging right now here?

02:05:54.000 Yeah.

02:05:55.000 Well, this is a boom town.

02:05:57.000 They're worth...

02:05:59.000 $200,000 average income of a good electrician here in Austin right now.

02:06:06.000 You go to two years of trade school to become an electrician, right?

02:06:10.000 You spend a year and a half, two as an apprentice.

02:06:13.000 And then you go and you start working for a couple of years for a guy that owns a shop.

02:06:17.000 You go and start your own.

02:06:18.000 Your electrician business is going to be worth $10 million in three years here in Austin.

02:06:23.000 But it takes a little bit of work.

02:06:41.000 I'll give that to you.

02:06:58.000 We're good to go.

02:07:05.000 The freedom comes from owning your own business.

02:07:08.000 That's real freedom.

02:07:09.000 Sovereignty.

02:07:10.000 Yeah, real personal sovereignty. 1.00

02:07:11.000 Not having to report to some asshole that doesn't give a fuck about you and might fire you as soon as the company takes a downward turn. 1.00

02:07:18.000 Oh, you've worked at that company for 25 years? 1.00

02:07:20.000 Sorry.

02:07:21.000 Here's a month's severance pay. 0.96

02:07:23.000 Kick rocks.

02:07:24.000 And that happens to people over and over again.

02:07:26.000 All the time.

02:07:26.000 And they get so disillusioned and so disenfranchised and depressed.

02:07:30.000 And so then the doctor puts them on medication.

02:07:34.000 And then they start eating crap food, and then they stop sleeping, and then they stop being intimate with their partner.

02:07:39.000 What was me? 0.98

02:07:40.000 And that has been the cycle for the past 30 years.

02:07:45.000 Well, we can break that cycle.

02:07:47.000 You get up early, you go and work out.

02:07:50.000 But man, I got a nine to five and I have to leave at eight to commute.

02:07:54.000 Got it.

02:07:54.000 Wake up at six.

02:07:55.000 Yeah.

02:07:56.000 You get an hour to work out.

02:07:57.000 You get a great breakfast from the chickens.

02:07:59.000 You just walk out and you pick up like these fantastic 10 grams of protein micronutrient rich things and you put them in a pan with some just butter.

02:08:08.000 Don't use anything else.

02:08:10.000 Stay away from those seed oils.

02:08:11.000 Then you come home from work.

02:08:12.000 I got it.

02:08:13.000 You got a 30 minute commute through traffic. 0.90

02:08:14.000 That sucks. 0.99

02:08:15.000 Go to jujitsu. 1.00

02:08:16.000 Come back and have dinner with your family.

02:08:18.000 Put the biggest smile on your wife's face after you guys pass out in bed.

02:08:23.000 Dude, repeat for a couple of years.

02:08:25.000 Start your own business.

02:08:28.000 Yeah.

02:08:29.000 People need to hear that.

02:08:30.000 And they don't.

02:08:31.000 They don't hear it anywhere, which is crazy.

02:08:34.000 They hear it from a few places.

02:08:36.000 But I look at, like, the Evans, you know, Black Rifle Coffee.

02:08:40.000 Yeah.

02:08:40.000 Mike Glover at Fieldcraft Survival.

02:08:42.000 Johnny Primo at Course of Action.

02:08:43.000 You know, Jack Carr from, you know, not just his success as an author, but also as a businessman.

02:08:48.000 Like, we could just go down the list of all of these guys that just grabbed...

02:08:52.000 The reins of their horse and started directing it in the thing that they were passionate about with discipline, a process and hard work, those three things yet again, and look at where they are right now.

02:09:02.000 And I'm so proud to call them friends, but more importantly, I'm so proud that they're Americans because that's the idea.

02:09:08.000 And it's not this unattainable thing.

02:09:12.000 You're calling it unattainable because you don't want to do the work necessary to be successful at it. 0.79

02:09:17.000 Wasn't Mike Glover put on some very fucking bizarre list? 0.85

02:09:21.000 Yeah, he was called a radical extremist by the FBI. Because he was telling people how to can food and pickle things. 0.98

02:09:30.000 That you should be prepared in case something goes south?

02:09:32.000 Yeah.

02:09:32.000 How bizarre is that?

02:09:35.000 This administration would and will not call Hamas the radical extremist, violent extremist organization and terrorist organization that they are, but will call mega people radical insurrectionists.

02:09:52.000 The two-party justice thing that we got going on right now is dangerous for a republic.

02:10:02.000 Mike Glover is an amazing dude.

02:10:04.000 He served his country for 20 years.

02:10:06.000 You know, he was my boss for a little bit on the special operations side.

02:10:08.000 We went to sniper school together. 0.99

02:10:11.000 Saved my butt in sniper school. 0.97

02:10:13.000 Do you know this story? 0.95

02:10:15.000 No.

02:10:15.000 Dude.

02:10:16.000 Okay.

02:10:17.000 Not that I need to talk about how amazing Mike Glover is, but he's an amazing human.

02:10:21.000 All those dudes, Andy and Mike Sorelli, just great people.

02:10:25.000 So I'm writing a book right now called The Purpose of Pain.

02:10:29.000 And my sniper partner, during sniper school, he...

02:10:34.000 Is dealing with a bunch of stuff, trauma from his last appointment. 0.98

02:10:37.000 And I am such a selfish little prick. 0.92

02:10:40.000 I'm more concerned about being like the number one shooter in the school than my brother that is next to me every single day. 0.99

02:10:47.000 Right?

02:10:48.000 Like...

02:10:49.000 We're sitting here on a stalk.

02:10:50.000 I'm with him for 20-30 hours at a time.

02:10:53.000 And we're sitting here looking at the back of a tree.

02:10:56.000 We're discussing every single thing.

02:10:57.000 But I'm not listening into what he's actually telling me.

02:11:01.000 And he's pouring it all out there. 0.96

02:11:02.000 Because I'm too concerned with, like, you know, being Special Forces Sniper School on our graduate or something stupid that I was at the time. 0.84

02:11:10.000 Ultimately, during the field shoot, which is a must-pass event during sniper school, in the middle of it, he stands up and he quits.

02:11:18.000 Literally just stands up and says, he makes a wind call in the opposite of the wind direction, so I see a left to right, so we should take the target, dissect it, and hold into the wind so the bullet travels and hit the target, right?

02:11:30.000 So I see a left to right, and he gives me a right call.

02:11:33.000 And I was like, hey man.

02:11:36.000 Give me a different call.

02:11:37.000 You're missing this.

02:11:38.000 And he's like, I'm freaking out.

02:11:40.000 And I see his eyes start, like, darting around.

02:11:42.000 And he's just, like, getting the pressure.

02:11:44.000 And he stands up.

02:11:45.000 He's like, I quit.

02:11:46.000 In the middle of sniper school.

02:11:49.000 And so the instructor's right.

02:11:50.000 All right, Tim, you're out.

02:11:51.000 I'm like, I'm not out.

02:11:52.000 Like, I still got a shot. 1.00

02:11:53.000 Such a selfish prick. 1.00

02:11:55.000 I just want to go back to that 26-year-old kid and just smash him in the face. 1.00

02:11:59.000 Anyways, so I'm like... 0.99

02:12:04.000 I'm going to graduate. 0.99

02:12:05.000 I just need a bullet and a target. 0.99

02:12:07.000 I can do it right now. 0.99

02:12:08.000 Let me lay down.

02:12:09.000 I'll make my own win call.

02:12:10.000 They're like, this is sniper school.

02:12:11.000 It's you and a partner.

02:12:13.000 So they walk over to the people that have already shot and they say, hey, I need one person to volunteer for Tim with one target with one bullet.

02:12:22.000 It's a go, no go.

02:12:24.000 He gets a first round hit.

02:12:25.000 He graduates.

02:12:25.000 He misses.

02:12:26.000 He's out of school.

02:12:28.000 And this is to like the pool of people.

02:12:30.000 Mike Glover's hand pops up.

02:12:33.000 I know him.

02:12:34.000 We're both in this special mission, like this unit called the CIF, the CIF at the time, the Commanders in Extremist Force.

02:12:40.000 It's a special operations, counterterrorism, hostage rescue unit within special forces.

02:12:45.000 So like, it's a very small pool of people.

02:12:47.000 So I knew who he was.

02:12:49.000 And his hand goes up.

02:12:50.000 The instructor, check this, he goes, okay, what if your graduation depends on this shot?

02:12:56.000 Mike's words wouldn't change my answer.

02:12:59.000 I don't know him.

02:13:00.000 I've never shot with him.

02:13:01.000 He volunteers and effectively puts his graduation go-no-go of Special Forces Sniper School on me to come and lay down with me to make a shot.

02:13:10.000 So they get me an M118LR. It's a 175 grain match grade bullet for my.308.

02:13:17.000 And they walk over and they go, here's your bullet.

02:13:19.000 There's your target.

02:13:20.000 So we measure it.

02:13:23.000 It's slightly over 700 meters.

02:13:25.000 We get our wind call.

02:13:27.000 We take the shot.

02:13:28.000 And as the bullet travels, you see a thing called trace.

02:13:31.000 It's a displacement of vapor in the air.

02:13:32.000 And it looks like this laser beam.

02:13:34.000 And when you're shooting really far, especially with a large kind of slower bullet, 2,600 feet per second for a 175 grain bullet, you see this laser going directly towards the target.

02:13:44.000 So the moment I press that trigger, Mike's like, center center hit.

02:13:49.000 Before it even hits, right?

02:13:50.000 Before we even see that impact of that 40 by 20 target.

02:13:54.000 And you see the splash, but it takes 3-4 seconds for the sound of that impact to reach us.

02:14:00.000 So like, I see the trace, I know it's going to be hit.

02:14:03.000 Mike stands up, and he just starts walking off.

02:14:06.000 Boom! 0.99

02:14:06.000 Center Impact. 0.99

02:14:08.000 And they're like, where are you going?

02:14:09.000 And he's like, with Tim, as graduates.

02:14:12.000 Like, no big deal.

02:14:13.000 Just volunteered to shoot with a dude that he has.

02:14:16.000 That is the Mike Glover that I know.

02:14:18.000 And that was the Mike Glover that was condemned, that has spent 20 years serving his country in the military, and then spent an additional 10 years as a contractor working for the three-letter agencies protecting America.

02:14:32.000 And then they have the audacity to label somebody like that.

02:14:37.000 It's infuriating.

02:14:38.000 Has he been removed from that list?

02:14:43.000 I have...

02:14:44.000 It's odd that you asked me that because I've kicked...

02:14:48.000 When I'm building these manifests to fly these people out of these countries, I want to make sure I'm bringing back good people, right?

02:14:56.000 So we run...

02:15:00.000 We check to see if their names and their passport numbers and their date of births are on any lists where I wouldn't want to bring one of these people into the United States that's on a list.

02:15:10.000 I have a bunch of times, even in the past couple of weeks, I was like, man, I might just run Mike to see if he's still on there.

02:15:17.000 But then I didn't want to because I didn't want to run a name and him to be on there or him not to be on there and them to look at me to see that I ran his name unnecessarily.

02:15:26.000 Oh, God.

02:15:27.000 Yeah.

02:15:29.000 Yeah, that's not good. 0.99

02:15:30.000 What a fucked up dilemma. 0.99

02:15:31.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:15:32.000 So I don't know.

02:15:33.000 I don't know if he's on that list.

02:15:34.000 He shouldn't be.

02:15:35.000 The dude's an amazing American. 0.71

02:15:37.000 Well, just the motivation to put him on that list is so fucking strange.

02:15:42.000 He's teaching people to be prepared.

02:15:45.000 I'm like, Shadowban, if you try to share one of my posts today, you're gonna get a notification from Instagram that I am sharing misinformation.

02:15:53.000 And if you try to follow me on Instagram, if you go to Tim Kennedy MMA, you won't find me.

02:15:58.000 You have to go down and tell you if I have like, you know, couple million followers, and you will not find a verified you'll see 20 fake Tim Kennedy's until you find the verified Tim Kennedy.

02:16:08.000 And then if you click on it, and you say follow, it will give you a thing that says Tim Kennedy spreads misinformation.

02:16:15.000 And you have to say, okay, follow for you to follow me on Instagram.

02:16:20.000 Didn't they tell you that you had to remove certain factual posts?

02:16:25.000 Yeah, I did.

02:16:26.000 I deleted them all.

02:16:27.000 And what were they?

02:16:29.000 One was that Epstein didn't kill himself.

02:16:33.000 The other one... 0.98

02:16:34.000 What the fuck does that have to do? 0.98

02:16:37.000 Imagine that being a controversial position. 0.98

02:16:40.000 Yeah.

02:16:41.000 Well, there's three of them.

02:16:43.000 That was one of them.

02:16:44.000 That was one of them.

02:16:45.000 The second one was...

02:16:47.000 I listed...

02:16:50.000 Economic problems within the American government that a couple trillion dollars was missing before 9-11.

02:17:00.000 The Donald Rumsfeld speech.

02:17:03.000 That's the one.

02:17:04.000 Yeah.

02:17:05.000 He specifically said...

02:17:06.000 But he did not say missing.

02:17:08.000 He said unaccounted for.

02:17:10.000 So the third party fact checker that I got a strike from because I said that we were missing over $2 billion before 9-11 that then went missing after 9-11.

02:17:23.000 They said, no, no, no.

02:17:24.000 He didn't say missing.

02:17:26.000 He said unaccounted for.

02:17:27.000 So you're spreading misinformation.

02:17:28.000 That was strike number two.

02:17:30.000 Did you go back and edit it, or did you just have to delete it?

02:17:33.000 No, I just deleted the whole entire thing.

02:17:34.000 Just to keep your account?

02:17:36.000 Yeah, to keep my account, but I'm still, like I said, can't be searched, won't pop on Discovery, can't share my posts, can't follow me.

02:17:44.000 You know, it's like, they're doing the thing.

02:17:47.000 And then the third one was, my son and I were playing Nerf.

02:17:51.000 And it was a video in like first person of me chasing my at the time seven year old with a Nerf gun.

02:17:57.000 And they said that I was violated the community guidelines of sharing violence and encouraging violence.

02:18:08.000 And it was a nerf battle between me and my seven-year-old, which I also deleted.

02:18:16.000 But that post currently still says, like, your strike is from violating the committee guidelines of encouraging violence.

02:18:24.000 Nerf guns.

02:18:26.000 A nerf battle with my seven-year-old.

02:18:28.000 What about video games?

02:18:29.000 If you play some war simulation video game, is that a violation as well?

02:18:38.000 I don't know.

02:18:39.000 I know they ding people on hunting.

02:18:42.000 You have that Montana Knife Company hat.

02:18:46.000 Josh from Montana Knife Company just posted something that he's been attacked because he showed a hunting photo, because his wife killed a late-season elk with a rifle.

02:18:57.000 And they said a photo of this Nosler rifle, this beautiful rifle, the elk that they shot, the animal that they harvested that they're gonna eat.

02:19:05.000 And he got notification that his account cannot be shown to anyone other than his followers.

02:19:14.000 It's insane.

02:19:15.000 Like what?

02:19:17.000 Why are we doing?

02:19:18.000 A great small business guy that gives back an incredible...

02:19:22.000 Another great human, where one of my friends, Af, he's a command sergeant major in 7th Special Forces Group.

02:19:29.000 And they do this thing in this like change of responsibility where they give gifts.

02:19:33.000 And normally it's like something dumb like a lighter that's engraved, right? 0.55

02:19:39.000 So I hit up Josh as I came in, one of my homies that I like I went to war with this guy. 0.93

02:19:42.000 I love this man to death.

02:19:44.000 Ath is like one of the greatest humans to ever walk that face the planet.

02:19:48.000 Can like I buy some knives and like hook me up, you know, with a good deal.

02:19:54.000 He makes the the seventh special forces group red color for the their The emblem that you wear on your beret, that red, he puts on the handle of the speed goat, then he makes it black,

02:20:09.000 and then he takes the crest and he puts it on the blade, and then he sends it to him to give to his dudes.

02:20:15.000 And like, never saw an invoice, you know, just like, Josh being Josh, dude.

02:20:20.000 No, he's the best.

02:20:21.000 I went pig hunting with him recently.

02:20:23.000 Such a good guy and amazing business and an amazing story of a guy who he came up with a name Montana Knife Company and copyrighted or patented or whatever in I think he was 19 years old.

02:20:38.000 That's right. 0.86

02:20:38.000 Yeah, and the company's only been around for a couple years and is fucking gigantic. 0.86

02:20:43.000 It's huge. 0.99

02:20:43.000 It's killing it. 0.99

02:20:44.000 They make great knives.

02:20:45.000 They make amazing knives.

02:20:47.000 Amazing knives.

02:20:48.000 I'm trying to talk him into making some fights.

02:20:52.000 Obviously, I didn't want to get murdered by a bunch of terrorists when I was overseas, so I had stuff to take care of me.

02:20:58.000 I send Josh a photo of me with one of his bigger knives.

02:21:03.000 I kept it right underneath my body armor as I was cruising around that contested area of southern Israel.

02:21:11.000 That knife is just sitting underneath my body armor.

02:21:15.000 Thankfully, I never had to use it, but it would also have been A picture I would have sent to Josh.

02:21:22.000 He'd be like, dude, I don't want to see this. 0.99

02:21:24.000 You were such a psychopath. 0.99

02:21:26.000 Right. 0.99

02:21:26.000 It would have been a blast, though. 0.99

02:21:28.000 Yeah.

02:21:29.000 Yeah, he probably doesn't want to see that.

02:21:30.000 But it's just insane, that kind of censorship.

02:21:34.000 And I don't understand it.

02:21:36.000 I don't understand who it's...

02:21:38.000 Who is following him in the first place?

02:21:41.000 I mean, he makes a hunting knife company.

02:21:44.000 It's a hunting knife company.

02:21:45.000 Who does it benefit for them to censor?

02:21:48.000 Me and...

02:21:49.000 I don't understand it.

02:21:50.000 It's leftist people that are involved in these organizations that have a very specific ideology that they adhere to.

02:21:58.000 And they think that anybody who is pro-America is in some way, shape, or form negative.

02:22:05.000 Yeah.

02:22:06.000 And I don't get it.

02:22:07.000 And I'm sure I'm on some of those lists.

02:22:09.000 Yeah, for sure.

02:22:10.000 But I'm like weirdly... 0.97

02:22:11.000 I fucking sneak through. 0.99

02:22:14.000 You're kind of too big to mess with. 0.99

02:22:16.000 It's odd.

02:22:17.000 Well, I'm friends with Zuckerberg, which is nice.

02:22:20.000 Yeah, that'd be nice. 0.98

02:22:21.000 I can text him and go, hey man, what the fuck is going on with this? 0.99

02:22:25.000 You know? 0.96

02:22:25.000 And he's a good guy, but his company is run... 0.96

02:22:29.000 I mean, he's a publicly traded company that is...

02:22:33.000 Filled with people that are in the tech industry. 1.00

02:22:36.000 And I think a lot of those people are out of their fucking mind. 1.00

02:22:40.000 They're out of their fucking mind. 1.00

02:22:41.000 And I had a conversation with Elon about it last night where we discussed it. 1.00

02:22:44.000 He says it's a death cult.

02:22:47.000 He says people in a death cult.

02:22:48.000 They think that there should be less human beings.

02:22:50.000 They think that human beings are the problem.

02:22:52.000 And they...

02:22:55.000 Just have this specific ideology that they want to push on everyone and anything that's even remotely opposed to that, like hunting. 0.97

02:23:06.000 How many of these people fucking eat meat and somehow or another they think that hunting somehow or another is in opposition to this leftist position? 0.97

02:23:15.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:23:17.000 X has gotten really fun.

02:23:19.000 X is so much fun.

02:23:20.000 It's so much more fun. 0.99

02:23:22.000 That wild motherfucker spent $44 billion. 1.00

02:23:25.000 And we discussed it last night. 1.00

02:23:26.000 We did a podcast last night.

02:23:27.000 And he said, I don't want to sound melodramatic, but I did it to save humanity.

02:23:33.000 And I think it's true.

02:23:35.000 It's the only place that I can have a rational conversation and actually say what I think, as you should be able to do in the First Amendment way.

02:23:41.000 And not worry about getting banned.

02:23:43.000 Yeah.

02:23:43.000 And I'm not saying crazy, like you could go and read every single thing that I've ever said on Twitter.

02:23:47.000 I'm not saying wild stuff.

02:23:49.000 There's no like inappropriate, like I try to say some funny things sometimes, but not like any of your freaking hilarious comedian friends, like the dude that just walked out.

02:23:57.000 Shane Gillis?

02:23:58.000 That guy is so funny.

02:23:59.000 He's the man.

02:23:59.000 Dude, he is so funny.

02:24:01.000 I've got them working out.

02:24:02.000 Dude.

02:24:03.000 I got those guys working out.

02:24:04.000 Good.

02:24:04.000 I brought my buddy Brian Simpson was here.

02:24:06.000 Duncan Trussell was here.

02:24:07.000 Matt McCusker.

02:24:08.000 I told those guys, I go, if you want to work out, I will take you to a workout.

02:24:12.000 I go, I won't kill you.

02:24:13.000 We're going to build up slowly.

02:24:15.000 So today was the third day.

02:24:16.000 I've got them pushing themselves, but nothing crazy.

02:24:19.000 I don't want to break you down.

02:24:21.000 I don't want you injured.

02:24:22.000 I go, I will develop a very specific program and get you up to speed.

02:24:27.000 And as long as you stay consistent, you will see radical changes.

02:24:31.000 In your life in every measurable way.

02:24:32.000 And they're seeing it.

02:24:33.000 They're seeing it.

02:24:34.000 I got them cold plunging.

02:24:35.000 I got them in the sauna.

02:24:36.000 They wanted to quit.

02:24:37.000 They wanted to quit.

02:24:38.000 Like, we'll just do 10 minutes. 1.00

02:24:39.000 I go, fuck that. 1.00

02:24:40.000 I go, you're doing 20 minutes. 1.00

02:24:41.000 I threw water on the rocks.

02:24:42.000 I go, now let's make it harder.

02:24:44.000 I go, we're going to do 20 minutes, man. 0.58

02:24:45.000 And I go, when it's done, you're going to feel good that you got through those 20 minutes, because those last 10 are going to suck.

02:24:50.000 Because you get in the first couple minutes, like, this is not that bad.

02:24:53.000 I go, right.

02:24:54.000 It's not that bad yet.

02:24:55.000 Wait until 10 minutes comes around.

02:24:57.000 10 minutes is going to, you're going to feel uncomfortable.

02:24:59.000 But you can survive it, and you just have to learn how to just accept the fact that you're suffering.

02:25:06.000 Yeah.

02:25:07.000 Just deal with it.

02:25:08.000 That's so awesome.

02:25:09.000 And then they get in the cold plunge afterwards.

02:25:11.000 And in the beginning, he could only do like a minute. 1.00

02:25:13.000 He's like, fuck this. 1.00

02:25:14.000 And I'm like, listen, man, it's all in your mind. 1.00

02:25:16.000 And you're going to realize that when you do it a second time and a third time.

02:25:19.000 And now he's doing three minutes.

02:25:21.000 So he gets in there.

02:25:22.000 And you get out in that endorphin, serotonin, dopamine pump.

02:25:24.000 He said, dude, it's like I'm on Molly.

02:25:26.000 I go, yeah.

02:25:26.000 Yeah, because what happens is your endorphins, your dopamine ramps up by 200% naturally in a healthy way.

02:25:34.000 It makes you nicer to people that you run into.

02:25:36.000 You feel better, and it lasts for hours and hours throughout the day.

02:25:40.000 Who's the Stanford neuroscientist?

02:25:43.000 Huberman.

02:25:43.000 He's amazing.

02:25:44.000 He did a podcast on the benefits and also the approach and methodology and process of cold plunging and sauna.

02:25:50.000 Yeah.

02:25:50.000 And I just copied and pasted that whole entire...

02:25:56.000 Yet again, here it is.

02:25:58.000 Discipline, process, and hard work.

02:26:00.000 I took his process, the way that he recommended to do this for both sauna and cold plunge.

02:26:04.000 It's just life-changing.

02:26:06.000 Huberman got censored by Wikipedia.

02:26:08.000 You know what happened?

02:26:10.000 Huberman, I had Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on my podcast, and Huberman made a comment, and that comment was, I hope that more presidential candidates submit to long-term conversations like this.

02:26:21.000 That's all he said.

02:26:23.000 They removed all his published papers, all of his peer-reviewed, all of his work, all of his papers that are scientific papers.

02:26:33.000 They removed all that from Wikipedia.

02:26:35.000 You no longer see...

02:26:37.000 How is that possible?

02:26:38.000 How is it possible?

02:26:40.000 How is it?

02:26:40.000 How insane is that?

02:26:41.000 And they locked down his account, where you can't edit it anymore. 0.98

02:26:45.000 They literally changed- and they said something about- I don't know what negative thing- I don't want to even say about it, but it's fucking insane.

02:26:52.000 So what does- what does Elon do?

02:26:54.000 He offers Wikipedia a billion dollars to change their name to Dickipedia.

02:27:02.000 Is he just a crazy person? 1.00

02:27:03.000 He's a wild motherfucker. 1.00

02:27:04.000 Dude, that's wild. 1.00

02:27:05.000 He's a wild motherfucker. 1.00

02:27:06.000 He really wants to fight Zuckerberg. 1.00

02:27:08.000 He said it last night.

02:27:09.000 He wants to fight him in the Coliseum.

02:27:10.000 He said, I'll fight him in a house with a mouse. 1.00

02:27:13.000 It was like, I don't give a fuck. 1.00

02:27:14.000 Let's do it. 0.99

02:27:15.000 I'm like, you really want to fight him?

02:27:16.000 He's like, I would love to.

02:27:18.000 I'd love to.

02:27:18.000 Let's do it.

02:27:19.000 Yeah, he needs to start training.

02:27:20.000 Make sure you get him on the...

02:27:21.000 Yes.

02:27:22.000 He thinks he can just do it with no training, which is the Dunning-Kruger effect.

02:27:26.000 Someone who's very smart at one thing, thinks they're great at everything.

02:27:29.000 Yeah.

02:27:30.000 It's unfortunate.

02:27:30.000 Yeah.

02:27:31.000 You know, because I was trying to discuss with him.

02:27:33.000 He's talking about the size difference.

02:27:35.000 I'm like, yeah!

02:27:36.000 You need to roll with someone who's like 145 pounds, like my friend Gabe Tuttle at Tenth Planet Jiu-Jitsu. 0.99

02:27:41.000 We could just fucking strangle you. 0.98

02:27:42.000 Like Demetrius Johnson. 1.00

02:27:43.000 Oh, yeah!

02:27:44.000 Take this tiny little human and like, good luck with that. 1.00

02:27:47.000 Yeah, good fucking luck. 1.00

02:27:48.000 Good luck dealing with that badger. 1.00

02:27:51.000 That skillful, intelligent badger.

02:27:56.000 Wildly gifted, physically, intellectually.

02:28:01.000 I think he was an underappreciated, one of the best ever.

02:28:05.000 He's the best expression of martial arts I've ever seen.

02:28:08.000 And when he was in his prime, I don't think anybody was better than Demetrius Johnson.

02:28:14.000 Do you watch Francis' fight?

02:28:15.000 Amazing.

02:28:16.000 He won.

02:28:17.000 He won that fight.

02:28:18.000 They know he won that fight.

02:28:19.000 He won on one judge's scorecard who was honest.

02:28:22.000 And I think the judge only gave him one round, or I think he should have given him two.

02:28:25.000 Should have won by more than one point.

02:28:28.000 But at least one judge scored it right, and then that other judge who scored it 96-93 for Tyson Fury should go to jail.

02:28:36.000 Get out. 0.99

02:28:36.000 Get the fuck out. 0.99

02:28:37.000 And then the other one, you know, was the other one. 0.98

02:28:41.000 It was 95-94 in favor of Tyson Fury.

02:28:44.000 It was so great.

02:28:45.000 Or 96-95, whatever it was. 0.97

02:28:48.000 Look, he fucking dropped one of the greatest heavyweights, if not the greatest besides him, of all time. 0.99

02:28:54.000 Clubbing left hook, too. 0.99

02:28:55.000 Amazing.

02:28:56.000 And he looked for that left hook over and over again.

02:28:58.000 It was clearly something they were looking for. 0.99

02:29:01.000 Look, he's fucking incredible. 0.98

02:29:03.000 To have your first boxing match ever against the lineal heavyweight champion A six foot nine fucking juggernaut who's been beating everybody and rock him and then rock him again in the eighth round with a barrage of punches. 0.99

02:29:20.000 I mean, it was fucking amazing performance. 0.97

02:29:23.000 Amazing. 0.99

02:29:23.000 One of the greatest combat sports performances in the history of Of the arts. 0.99

02:29:29.000 Of the history.

02:29:31.000 I was like, blah!

02:29:32.000 I was screaming.

02:29:33.000 My dog freaked out.

02:29:34.000 I was like, it's okay.

02:29:35.000 It's okay, buddy.

02:29:36.000 Daddy's happy.

02:29:37.000 He's scary.

02:29:38.000 Oh my God, he's amazing. 0.98

02:29:40.000 And when you see that guy's origin story, when you want to talk about a man who persevered, that guy for 14 months, he made his way from Cameroon to Morocco and seven times got arrested and sent back to the fucking Sahara Desert. 0.90

02:29:56.000 And made his way right back to Morocco and finally made it across to Europe on a raft, was in prison for months, and then lived as a homeless person in a fucking parking garage in France. 0.91

02:30:08.000 It's amazing. 0.96

02:30:10.000 The movement that he had made from Cameroon into Morocco, I've traversed multiple times.

02:30:16.000 It is hellacious.

02:30:19.000 It's like the most unforgiving terrain with radical groups with property owners like water to water trying to travel the waters controlled by warlords so This his story is just a so inspiring.

02:30:33.000 It's incredible.

02:30:33.000 It's a comic book story It's like an origin story in a movie that you wouldn't believe and to have this guy Go in his first ever boxing match against a guy who nobody gave him any chance.

02:30:47.000 And to have the Las Vegas odds, like the online betting odds in the last round in his favor was fucking incredible.

02:30:55.000 Because it was like 14 to 1 at the start of the fight. 0.56

02:30:59.000 And at the end of the fight, he was favored.

02:31:01.000 And he should have won.

02:31:03.000 Dude.

02:31:04.000 He should have won.

02:31:05.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:31:05.000 They fucked him, but they didn't because the world saw it. 1.00

02:31:09.000 You could write all the bullshit you want in terms of scorecards. 1.00

02:31:12.000 The fucking world, including boxers, all the boxers that were there said that he should have won. 1.00

02:31:18.000 But now he gets another gigantic payday. 0.99

02:31:22.000 His perceived worth is through the roof, skyrocketed.

02:31:25.000 Tyson Fury's not going to fight him again, I'll tell you that.

02:31:28.000 He didn't want no part of that.

02:31:29.000 They tried to bring that up.

02:31:30.000 He goes, no, I'm going to fight Usyk for the world title.

02:31:32.000 Nobody wants to see that, buddy.

02:31:34.000 Nobody wants to see that.

02:31:35.000 But who are they going to put up against Ngannou?

02:31:39.000 I don't know.

02:31:40.000 I mean, if I was Ngannou, as much as I love watching him fight MMA, I would tell him, you're going to make so much money in boxing.

02:31:48.000 And I think he might be able to beat them all.

02:31:50.000 I think he's that good.

02:31:52.000 I think he's that much of a freak.

02:31:54.000 Well, he was always more of a striker than anything else anyway, but he's such a quick study. 0.99

02:31:58.000 If you look at the fight with Cyril Gaon, he beat Cyril Gaon with grappling with a fucking completely blown out knee. 0.77

02:32:04.000 I mean, he took an immense chance. 0.94

02:32:06.000 And never really grappling.

02:32:07.000 He never has been a grappler.

02:32:09.000 No real background in grappling.

02:32:12.000 He goes and out grapples a guy that has been doing this for a long time.

02:32:17.000 Amazing.

02:32:18.000 He's an incredible person.

02:32:20.000 He's incredible.

02:32:21.000 And the fact that he gambled on himself.

02:32:23.000 He vacated the UFC heavyweight title, which is the most prestigious title in all of combat sports. 0.97

02:32:29.000 You can say anything you want about the world heavyweight boxing champion, but everybody fucking knows that the world heavyweight UFC champion will fuck that dude up in a real fight. 0.96

02:32:37.000 That's the reality of the world. 0.98

02:32:39.000 That's the reality of everybody knows that, especially everybody who knows.

02:32:42.000 He's the baddest dude on the planet.

02:32:43.000 He's the baddest dude on the planet.

02:32:44.000 100%.

02:32:45.000 And the only person that has a chance is John Jones. 0.99

02:32:49.000 And John Jones unfortunately just tore his fucking peck off the bone. 0.99

02:32:53.000 That video was heartbreaking. 1.00

02:32:54.000 Horrible to see.

02:32:55.000 Horrible to see because I was really looking for that fight with Stipe. 0.80

02:32:58.000 But in a perfect world, Francis makes a fucking kajillion dollars and then the UFC re-signs him and then he fights John Jones for the most epic encounter in the history of combat sports. 0.87

02:33:08.000 Dude. 0.98

02:33:08.000 That is a perfect world. 0.98

02:33:10.000 That's a perfect world.

02:33:11.000 But at least Francis, he got his flowers from the whole world.

02:33:17.000 The whole world saw it! 1.00

02:33:18.000 You can fucking lie all you want. 1.00

02:33:21.000 You could have your bullshit scorecards. 1.00

02:33:22.000 You could have your paid off judges. 1.00

02:33:23.000 You could have your corruption. 0.99

02:33:25.000 You could have your nonsense. 0.98

02:33:26.000 Everybody knows what happened in that fight.

02:33:29.000 And what happened in that fight was Francis Ngannou beat the best heavyweight boxer maybe ever.

02:33:35.000 Maybe ever!

02:33:37.000 Right, and then what happens if he fights all those other guys? 0.99

02:33:42.000 What happens he meet that motherfucker hit so hard and I was always wondering like what is it? 0.99

02:33:48.000 How is his power with the big gloves on? 0.99

02:33:50.000 Well, we fucking know we fucking know the look on Tyson Fury's eyes when he went down in the third round from that left hook He was like, oh Jesus. 0.97

02:33:58.000 There's a weird it was a clubbing. 0.99

02:34:00.000 Yeah, you know there was not a lot of ass behind it He hadn't stepped into it. 0.97

02:34:04.000 He didn't turn his shoulder over. 0.99

02:34:05.000 He just hit him with a hook.

02:34:06.000 Yeah, and it put him up All the way to Queer Street.

02:34:09.000 Yeah, he was on Queer Street for sure. 0.96

02:34:11.000 And, you know, there was a moment in the second round that I yelled at.

02:34:14.000 I was like, oh, he heard him there.

02:34:16.000 In the second round, there was a moment in the clinch where he hit Tyson Fury with an uppercut, but then the commentators didn't even notice it.

02:34:24.000 He hit him with a right hand over the top, and the right hand was a short clubbing right hand.

02:34:28.000 You see the look in Tyson Fury's eyes where he's like, Jesus. 0.98

02:34:32.000 That power is fucking extraordinary. 0.90

02:34:34.000 But not just the power, but the intelligence to deliver that power in the most high-pressure situation imaginable. 0.99

02:34:42.000 Your first boxing match is against the Gypsy King, a six-foot-nine fucking phenom who's one of the best boxers to ever do it. 1.00

02:34:54.000 Amazing! 0.97

02:34:55.000 Amazing. 0.99

02:34:57.000 And he just fucking cashed his own check. 0.98

02:35:00.000 I mean, he is the man now. 0.99

02:35:02.000 I mean, he's in demand everywhere.

02:35:04.000 Everybody saw that fight.

02:35:05.000 It was a huge fight.

02:35:06.000 And now they're talking about him fighting Deontay Wilder.

02:35:09.000 They're talking about him fighting some other people.

02:35:10.000 Anthony Joshua stepped up.

02:35:14.000 I love pugilistic sports.

02:35:17.000 As crazy as this world has been, wrestling, boxing, and MMA, and jiu-jitsu, it has been so fun from this last ADCC to UFC, the past five, six, not the most recent card, but three or four of them this year have just been Dynamite.

02:35:34.000 Tons of finishes.

02:35:36.000 Watching Sean Strickland, his rise.

02:35:40.000 Crazy.

02:35:41.000 Beating what I thought stylistically to be a very hard matchup.

02:35:46.000 God, I love martial arts.

02:35:48.000 Oh, it's amazing.

02:35:49.000 Another thing that I wish every single American would pour themselves into. 0.67

02:35:53.000 Yes.

02:35:54.000 Because the reward that you get from it is...

02:35:56.000 Well, everybody wants to talk about the bullying crisis, but the counterintuitive solution to the bullying crisis is teach bullies how to fight.

02:36:04.000 Teach everyone how to fight.

02:36:06.000 Not just the victims.

02:36:07.000 Right.

02:36:07.000 You take...

02:36:08.000 Man, I want every bully to come into my jiu-jitsu school.

02:36:11.000 Yes.

02:36:12.000 Because they won't be bullies anymore.

02:36:13.000 They won't.

02:36:13.000 And what it is is a...

02:36:15.000 Deep insecurity and this desire to impose yourself on other people to somehow or another make yourself feel better because you are lacking.

02:36:25.000 And if you are not lacking, you don't want to do that.

02:36:28.000 Do you think Francis Ngannou's a bully?

02:36:30.000 He's not.

02:36:31.000 He's a very nice guy.

02:36:32.000 All the most savage dudes on the planet.

02:36:34.000 The nicest guys.

02:36:35.000 The nicest, sweetest, graceful people.

02:36:37.000 Yeah.

02:36:38.000 And like another Jordan Peterson fan.

02:36:41.000 Philosophical perspective on, you know, a good man isn't a useless man.

02:36:45.000 A good man is a man that is capable of violence but chooses to be kind.

02:36:48.000 Yes.

02:36:48.000 Chooses to be graceful.

02:36:49.000 And I 100% agree and subscribe to that. 0.94

02:36:51.000 Be a monster and learn how to control it. 0.71

02:36:53.000 Just an absolute, my mom hates this word, savage. 0.94

02:36:57.000 Yeah.

02:36:57.000 But a savage under control is somebody like that, would you rather be the gardener in the war or the warrior in the garden?

02:37:03.000 Exactly.

02:37:03.000 Right?

02:37:04.000 I want to be able to create.

02:37:05.000 I want to be able to write.

02:37:06.000 I want to be the contributor and a good lover and a good father and a good entrepreneur.

02:37:11.000 Call a spade a spade.

02:37:14.000 I will wear your skin. 1.00

02:37:16.000 I will destroy everything about your life. 1.00

02:37:18.000 I will salt the fields. 0.99

02:37:19.000 I'm talking like scorched earth, permanent destruction of everything that you love if you come at me or towards mine.

02:37:26.000 But inversely, My kids will never ever understand the level of violence that I'm capable of to be as kind and as gentle as I am to them.

02:37:36.000 Yeah.

02:37:37.000 You know?

02:37:38.000 Yeah.

02:37:38.000 That's what I want.

02:37:39.000 I want that for everybody.

02:37:40.000 On that note, let's wrap this up with that.

02:37:42.000 That's perfect. 1.00

02:37:43.000 Tim Kennedy, you're the fucking man. 1.00

02:37:44.000 No, man, I love you. 1.00

02:37:45.000 Thank you for giving people like me opportunity to talk about the things that we love and believe in.

02:37:51.000 I was really struggling.

02:37:52.000 Like, man, I don't know if we can talk about this.

02:37:56.000 But thank you.

02:37:57.000 It's complicated and it's difficult, but it's important.

02:37:59.000 And thank you for being you because there's not a lot of people that can express it the way you have.

02:38:03.000 Thanks.

02:38:04.000 Appreciate it.

02:38:05.000 Bye, everybody.

The Joe Rogan Experience - November 01, 2023

Joe Rogan Experience #2055 - Tim Kennedy

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