#2055 - Tim Kennedy

Would you like anything special? Did, like Evan, make this for you?

He had two different blends because he knows I like a dark roast. So he had a dark roast and then he had this really bizarre, exotic coffee that tasted different than anything I'd ever had before. It was like, had like a kind of like, almost like a sweet, like almost like a tea. taste to it. Like he.

just, he's a master.

It's awesome. Like finally something's being used with taxpaying dollars that benefits the soldier, which is rare.

The lab that he has set up at Black Rifle?

I like it. I like it. You can do that.

He loves it. So I'm like, good. I've got that farmed off.

I forget what it was, but it was like fruity.

And I was like, all right, this is really cool. You know, I'll be skydiving with this, uh, helmet. that is way above my ability. Cause I'm just total sky trash.

Okay. Well, great conversation. That was fun.

Uh, we went to Coda recently and Coda gets, gets up to like, I mean, we were in a Lamborghini, went to like one 47.. That feels fucking insane at a racetrack.

And then you see those guys.

You know, it's like golf or something like that. Like, I've never played golf and I won't play golf because it's a time management thing. Yeah. Like, I don't have that. Like Ron White and Tony Hinchcliffe, they go out and they play for fucking eight hours.

I'm like, bro, I don't have eight hours ever. Eight hours of sleep.

Yeah.

No, no. And, so that realization with the Jean-Carlo Bedoni's and the Gordon Ryan's, the Victor Hugo's, the Marighelli's and the Craig Jones's, you know, like wild.

Like. there's a methodical approach that must be done in order to race. If you want to train, you kind of have to do that. Yeah. Yeah.

It's life. Everything's good, man. Everything's really good.

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

A lot of guys wear a Teflon glove to make sure that never happens, but it's like, it's never happened to me. I've been shooting a bow for 10 years.

And I hate that I have to say yards.

The rest of the world is like on the metric system. Like, I love how England still sticks with pounds. Well, they do stone. They're still with the stone thing.

All right. Okay. You communist. Using that bullshit metric system.

Dangerous.

Freedom censoring group does it under this idea of they're doing it for the greater good. Yes. You know, it's like whether it's diversity, equity and inclusion, or it's making sure that, um, pro, not disinformation or misinformation is, is being populated within the masses. It's, it's always through this veil of no, no, it's for your benefit, but you pull the veil back a little bit and you, it's, it's just censorship.

Cheers. Um, 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..

That's it.

They don't have a first amendment over there. So they have hate speech laws, which could be interpreted so vaguely. 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. And he was like, what, what, what gender identity you're talking about?

There's 78 current gender identities that someone can choose to identify with, including just complete nonsense, made up words. And it's going to keep going. I don't know how many of them there are now, but he was like, the only way you enforce this is with, you're going to have to use force. And it's like the rule of law. Now.

it's like, you're going to send armed thugs to arrest people for not using made up words. Like. this is where this goes, especially Peterson, who knows so much about communism and so much about where the, the darkness that it leads down to.

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

Yeah.

And when you look at the public school system and department of education, it's just a broken system. Teachers are great. Most of them on majority, I think have a real pure heart to do good, but they're in a system that is forcing them or they're allowing to manipulate kids, to radicalize them into, into really anti-American ideas. And something has to change because the concurrent trajectory, we're screwed. You know, the,

the lack of individual responsibility. And, as Jocko would say, extreme ownership of what the issues are and how to solve them are, are absolutely absent. You know, we have entitlement, we have, you know, accepting these identities. We have obviously this mental health crisis, 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, it's like, there's no way that you could come out of that process, not being jacked up.

And it's just like, you've effectively radicalized a kid into a freedom fighter with one assignment. Like they have no choice, but to participate if they want to receive a good grade. That was on the news yesterday. That exact situation was happening and it's detestable.

It's not good for them either.

So your word stuck could not be more accurate. 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, Hamas won out. And now they are the size of a cartel being funded. Seven, $70 million a year from Iran is being pumped into Hamas.

And all they're doing is taking every little bit of humanitarian aid and converting it into military resources. And those poor people, those poor Palestinians, are trapped in between all of this. It's, it's wild. It's such a complex problem that is, is solvable. But like, 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. And how do you, if you're Israel, how do you fix it? If you're Palestinian, how do you fix it? When it's so evident that Hamas wants one thing, which is the elimination and genocide of all Jews.

Over 40 Muslim countries. Not one of them is accepting any Palestinian refugees.

Right. So, as I'm getting evacuation requests two weeks ago and we're trying to be good, proper, judicious servants, uh, 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, uh, where their area is, 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 that era, you know, when Yasser Arafat was meeting with Clinton and the prime minister of Israel, and they're making negotiations in Oslo and all the way up to, you know, the first Intifada to the second Intifada, to then all suicide attacks, pizzerias blowing up.

Like how do you determine who is good and who's bad? It's, do they have a suicide vest? Do they not? Or like, what are their intentions? It's, it's wildly hard.

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. And, you know, we, we left a few days later, two weeks later, we're now into mid September. I come back and I immediately, the day I land, I get assigned to go down to the Mexican border. And I spent six months on the Mexican border on operation lone star, part of a special operation task force, combating cartels, traffickers, human traffickers, drug smugglers. So there was a humanitarian crisis number two in my life in three years, which was the Mexican border.

Though some of the worst stuff I've ever seen in my life on par with Afghanistan, on par with what was the next one, which was Ukraine. The day I got off orders, where I was legally allowed to travel, or I was not. So when you're on orders, you have to do what the army says, right? And the army said, this is what you're going to do. So for six months, I was on this assignment at the border.

The day I got off those orders, I'm back to a civilian, Tim Kennedy. So then I traveled to Ukraine. I worked Ukraine for a few months during that conflict and post invasion,

which was again, horrible. Like some of the worst stuff I've ever seen come back, and I get this like momentary lull where I was like, I think, like Israel, this is going to be okay. And then this happens, you know, then October seven happens. And it was just in three years for this level of, horror to happen. is it's indescribable.

So we're in Afghanistan, right? Babies are stuck in Constantino wire.

Taliban is executing civilians in the street to try to prompt Americans to, to do a response. It's trying to elicit some escalation, right? They're really just flexing to show that they were in charge. So that's Afghanistan on the ground, 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 H Kaya. And you're stepping over like small burnt babies.

Like it's the worst thing ever. fast forward, three weeks where the Del Rio river, and there are 400 immigrants trying to cross the river. They have babies up on their shoulders and the coyotes, the traffickers, every single person that's in the river has paid the cartels to be escorted across the border. Well, concurrently, the cartels about to smuggle 500 meters up the river, two dudes with bundles of fentanyl on their back. 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.

And what do the coyotes do? The moment that they start getting close to the shore, they just grab the kids down to the drink, down to the water. Babies are floating. Little children are screaming. Why would they do this?

Because I have to spend resources of my personnel to flood, to try to save these, these immigrants, from drowning in the river. 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 at the exact same time. The resources that I have to use, personnel wise here, they're getting guys successfully onto the shore with bags full of fentanyl as they run into the inland, into the interior. And they know exactly what they're doing.

They're making money by moving people, while they're concurrently making money, smuggling drugs and throwing. humanitarian crisis is at us so that they can move drugs simultaneously. And, uh, that's hard for people that are trying to do good. How do you choose which problem to attack? We had a service member that dived into the water to try to, to save a baby and he drowned.

We took us a week to find his body. 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.

sexual trafficking, cartel members, um, drug smugglers, weapon smugglers, you know, of course you're going to see federal assets being leveraged to attack those problem sets. But the large humanitarian problem, um, the federal government is going to have a way different approach compared to the Texas government. The Texas government is like, no, this is a legal immigration. We have lawful ports of entry. You have to legally come into the United States through a legal port of entry.

And then, once you were here, we will process you in accordance with what the department of state says, the immigration process is, because there's a rule and we're a country of laws. So you have to follow the law. Anything else is illegal. Um, the, 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. Um, which is insanity.

They've been shipping immigrants to some of these sanctuary cities, that, they have said that their sanctuary cities until they've actually received a lot of immigrants. And they're like, Oh my God, we can't handle this number of immigrants. 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, that the Yankees, those North, they have no idea what it's like to be a border state and the, the amount, just the tens and hundreds of thousands of people that are coming across every single day. It's, it's, it is, uh, it's criminal that they're allowing it.

Um, 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 and tour your court date, uh, which is currently happening right now. Right. You make it across, where are you going? I'm going to San Diego. All right.

Show up for your immigration court date and, and you know, a year and a half from now.

And that's a really hard thing to, to reconcile. is what is the humane thing to do? And is that an alignment with what is the just thing to do? That's that's hard.

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. And, um, you know, it is. In light of what just happened in Israel, where, you know, they flew paragliders over borders, over walls, and they, they crashed through walls, and then they were able to kill 1400 people in one day. And then you look at the number, and that was, that was, a thousand insurgents total. Um, 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.

Um, it is, uh, it is, it should scare the pants, like to scare the, scare you to death. The position that we're at, we're going to have a real bad year.

Department of Homeland, uh, security and the FBI. yesterday, they talked about a bunch of known terrorist cells that are currently not operating. They are operating, but they're, they are looking for opportunities, targets of opportunity, to conduct terrorist activities here in the United States. Department of Homeland or a department of state just released an entire worldwide warning to all America's traveling abroad, saying that it is dangerous for any American to be traveling anywhere in the world right now with the amount of terrorists cells that have now been activated.

Yeah.

Yeah, there we go. Yeah.

You're a 75 year old pastor that wants to go and walk where Jesus walked. You know, Israel is just such a beautiful place where, you know, there's two and a half million or two and a half billion Christians in the world. There's 1.9 billion Muslims in the world. Um, there, there's almost 20 million Jews in this world. And guess where they're one place that they think to be the holies of holies.

are that's right in Israel, right? Like it is, it is the place for the largest religions in the world to all celebrate. So you're a pastor and you want to go to the Jordan river, because that's where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. Um, you are a Muslim and you want to go, to the dome. You want the dome on the rock.

You want to go to, um, 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. It's protected by Israel. Um, whatever your motivation was, you get there, you're an American. And then this attack happens.

American cancels your flight. United cancels your flight. Um, every single airline cancels your flight. And the only airline left is the Israeli airline. You're wherever you are in Israel.

Maybe you're on the Jordan river. Maybe you're up North in the Haifa. 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. It's like the most beautiful water that connects to, uh, the, the red sea.

And you're an American tourist. You don't have the, the, the wherewithal of knowing how to travel in, in a, 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 from where you are as an American citizen, to where you need to be to get out of this country where 1400 people are being raped, murdered, burnt alive, tortured. There's people being kidnapped and hostages being taken. 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. Maybe you've, 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, $4,000 a piece. 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, 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. And that's, that's really where several allies comes in is because we go and fill that gap. 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 his tourist information or his tourist guide is like, Hey, bro, I'm out. I'm going to go down because my kibbutz just got murdered. I'm going to go help my family that, you know, they're missing three of their family members.

Of course, they're going to go and help. But now that guy is stuck, that his family stuck, that pastor stuck. So we had to go and find those people and move them to a place where they could get out of the country safely. And it was frigging hard. The volume of that is like wild.

We had, we took this rad, two pastors. They're from California. And we had a similar situation. They'd booked multiple flights. They had an old pastor with them.

You know, they didn't have the maneuverability of, of being able to pivot with whatever existing flights. Ultimately, we had to drive them from where they were to Haifa 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. Like we had privately sourced 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 had been grounded. Uh, so that two pastors could make it back to their churches in California. You know, they're literally stuck.

And, um, you know, I'm thinking about the ground team that I had with me over there. I can't even say their names, because they're, they're amazing people, but we had JP, RT, Primo,

and the most brilliant from the expeditionary special operations backgrounds, but the most selfless, hardworking, they're, they're, they're giants of humans. Like I look at them just in awe of how capable they are and how selfless they are. at the same time. Like these are the most lethal humans on the planet, and I 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. Um, 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 show.

That is, Gaza, into the tunnels that are controlled by Hamas. And what are we going to do with Hezbollah at the Northern border? How are we going to stop Taliban? That just got permission to cross through Iraq. 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. Like, but instead they're just trying to rescue people. So to ask, ask your question, when I'm down at the border, I just looked at my left on my right and I see a freaking private. that's three o'clock in the morning. He's sitting there with night vision.

And he's like, that kid just fell in the water. Motherfuckers. off. He's off. He's running down into the darkness to jump in the water, to try and save a kid.

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

I've been so blessed to have, you know, a short, but successful fighting career, a successful military career, that, 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 are, people are really hurting in, or they can't do. And I have experienced in a background and connections that I'm able to solve these problems. I did so much evil.

I dealt so much death. And if I didn't try to do good now, like I think I would really have a problem,

but I'm good because I'm doing good. There's something about that doing good for other people. Like when you're hurting, I don't think there's anything more important that you could do than do something for somebody else. And that man, that just empowers you and it gives you purpose. And if I'm ever going to think about,

should I get up and work out today? Well, I can think about August 24th, 2021.. When I had two kids in my arms and a, and a woman behind me, and we're having to run through Kabul to try to make it to each Kyle while we're being chased by the Taliban. Cool. I want to be in good shape, bro.

You know, Yeah.

Find people doing good. You know, as Mr. Roger said, look to the people that are helping and man,

you know, border patrol. You know, they take a photo of a guy riding on a horse, and a horse is the best thing you can possibly have on the border. If you've been to the Mexican border, it is like, it's magic. I mean, you, you, you hunt off horseback ever?

Like you, better be on a horse. Um, and, uh, you know, there's one photo of a guy with his reins in his hand. Yeah. And you know, they, they're like, this border patrol guy is whipping. That's not what's happening.

He was using his horse to block people, to prevent them from putting their lives in danger by getting into this flowing river. That's what he was doing. And, uh, and if they make it into the interior, like it's a complete, the number of people that die from exposure, once they make it across into the United States, but then they try to cross, um, like, let's, let's say, they came through big bend. Um, do you know how big that place is?

this pro Hamas, I just, it's, we, you know, we were texting before we came on here, like how fast things pivot, um, the rational understanding of a problem. And how perverted it is from truth.

Don't know how to fight this. This isn't, this is a unique problem.

Yeah. And he was just suspended, which is crazy. That it's only that, but the fact that there's so 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. And then they're talking about this openly, openly in public forums, openly in social media, openly in, in, in, in protests.

It's fucking strange. It's so strange that people don't understand. It's so dangerous. 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, on social media. It's, I just don't understand it.

I'm so confused. I never thought things would deteriorate this rapidly.

You know, how, how could you take what is a great, cool culture like the Germans were post World War one, as they're trying to find their identity and they're trying to bounce back from a horrific war. And then, you know, by the mid thirties and late thirties, you know, they're, they're positioning to throw Jews into ghettos and then ultimately gas, 6 million of them. How can that happen so fast? And you very quickly realized that it was an effective propaganda misinformation campaign where they were able to dehumanize and segregate certain aspects or ideas, and then attach a name to those things and a face to those things and a people to those things. You know, we saw it here during COVID, the unvaccinated and it happened fast.

It happened in months. And the same way that police were demonized during the defund law enforcement and BLM movement. Now we know to be a complete hoax, a bunch of liars that manipulated truth and data and what really happened. And are there injustices? Absolutely.

Are we a perfect nation? Totally not. Is law enforcement perfect? No, for sure. But by and large, the vast majority do want to do good.

Like it says, protect and serve. And that's what they raised their hand to do. But they're just, they're being destroyed by this misinformation campaign.

And Russia and China want it. You know, they, they want us to be fighting each other. They want pro Palestinian protests. They want pro Hamas protests. They want from the, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

That is a call for genocide. 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. They want that to not exist.

They want no Jews to be there. 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. And that is the call of Hamas. And guess who's paying for that thing to be seen on Cornell and in Harvard. And in every, that's right.

The Russia and China, 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.

Yeah. But man, I love freedom.

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. And in the course of this time, it makes that document have no teeth, right? There's nothing behind it, because the government used to be scared of the people. because the people, when, you know, we decided to throw some tea in a harbor and the shot heard around the world.

We went, the people that we went after, the people that were attacking us and that were controlling us. And we killed them and we pushed them off this land. And then we rent. Then we wrote these founding documents. that said, the individual is going to maintain the power.

The people are going to have the power. But the only way that works is if the people have power, and we've let that go. Bit by bit, diet by diet, day by day, lack of exercising of our, of our God given rights. We are now just soft. That was one of the reasons when I was kicking around with you, like, hey, am I going to, do we really want to talk about this?

This is tough. Like. I've 25 pages of notes here about the Middle East conflict, but ultimately I'm scared that that can happen here, because we are so vulnerable right now as people. And it's the reason that sheepdog response exists. 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.

That's the mission statement. But right now, I don't know what percentage Americans are capable of doing that.

like, if you said there's people out there that are trying to destroy America, oh, you're some crazy right wing, fucking, all right. Well, God damn it. How much information do you have to see? How much, how much truth do you have to see that you cannot deny?

They have a ton of hot, like how, how can somebody have so much freedom to say that? Well, it's, if the people are prepared to be able to protect and preserve and provide, then if you're in a position of authority, sovereignty, it's this, it's, it's this next step past freedom. Sovereignty is what I want for me. It's what I want for every American. It's that they are in control of themselves.

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. I say, no, no, I don't need whatever it is you're about to withhold from me because I don't do this thing. I don't need because I can do it myself. That's sovereignty, right?

I don't need you to come and try and protect my family because I can protect my family, you know, come and try and mess with them because, like my family, is unattainable to anybody else. They're completely protected. education. The reason I started these schools is because I do not want anyone else to have influence over the way that my children are gonna learn how to be critical thinkers. I want them to be educated.

I want to be powerful. I want them to be cognitive and 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. But then, man, they're fierce. That's sovereignty.

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. 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.

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 then the, the actual people that strap themselves up and go into places where people are unarmed and just slaughter people. Almost all of them are on something. They're almost all of them. They're on SSRIs.

Almost all of them are on some sort of anti-anxiety medication. Almost all of them are on something and that we don't address that. It's not even talked about that. It's like fucking Voldemort.

They wrote their manifesto of like, Hey, I'm going to go murder a bunch of people. You know, these, I'm going to go to this black church and kill everybody. A lot of times that information is available that,

and as I love the second amendment, every single person should be able to have a tank and a machine gun, in my opinion. But when somebody is dealing with mental health problems, they are on a bunch of drugs. They are 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? Well, clearly that guy right there. Was stopped from getting a tool to maybe even hurt more people by just, and it's a small business owner. It is my choice who I'm going to sell to and who I'm going to, to. who I'm going to choose to sell a product to.

And if that product is a thing like ultimate, the individual responsibility is as an entrepreneur and a small business owner is like, it is my choice who I, who sell this to. And that guy comes in and he says that he's on drugs and he just got out of a mental health hospital. Like man, you could go buy your suppressor somewhere else. Like that guy in Maine just, just went through it. So double check is trying to infuse themselves in a really helpful, 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.

So, like, I do a little search. It pops up as like, Hey man, you just wrote that you want to go shoot up a school. Can we talk about that before I sell you a gun? You know, you said that you, you hate black people and that you think that they all should die. Or like that guy in Harvard square yesterday, that was walking around saying that every Jew should have their next slit.

There should be no Jew businesses. There's like in Harvard square. Like if that guy walked into my gun store, I'm going to go to double check and be like, man, so you said some pretty outrageous things yesterday.

I think you need help. Let's let, let's go for a run. And let's go, get you some real help.

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, I'm out of here. Right. Instead, definitely not on any drugs. Um, exercise every single day, cold plunge, hang out with my friends, do grappling, contribute in a meaningful way back to society. I have an amazing relationship with my beautiful wife.

I have incredible children that I'm so proud of. I'm active. 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 eight year old who skates around me, making me look like an idiot. Um, I also got all my lacrosse stuff.

Um, I got tap shoes so I can start doing tap dancing with my four year old, you know, like these are the things that healthy people do.

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.

Let's, let's, uh, let's alter your stuff.

Last time I was, I was here. I partially tore my toe off and I needed you to like put my toe back on. Uh, it's like, what do I need you for? And they're like, well, you need us now because you, you have to have a letter for you to be able to go get this procedure. And I was like, well, I just don't want to get gut and like butthole cancer.

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. And okay, I got it. I got it. Stupid.

Like work at it.

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 selling me that if I do this thing, I'm going to sleep better or, like my Dick's, going to work better with this thing.

Right. I like being a successful business person. Um, that would not be possible. And I mean, like work, not like, oh man, I shot a selfie and like punched it in for the day, you know,

The entire time I was there, I saw two fat people the whole entire time. And I was like, I had to, I was, I was compelled. Hey, um, are you guys low? And they turn around and they're both American. Of course, both instances of like the only fat people.

And then I take a flight from Tel Aviv directly into New York. I landed in New York and I'm heading towards immigration and passport control. And I'm just like inundated with the fight, overweight, dangerously obese Americans. And I went, 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 Yonkapur war. And then the first Intifada, to the second Intifada.

And now what just happened on October 7th, where they're just like under the stress of being capable and individually responsible for their safety. Clearly they failed on October 7th to then coming into New York. And I was like,

we are a mess.

It's insane. Like everything from every angle is weakening us. Everything.

Well, then you'll get real protein, animal protein. That's karma free. They lay those eggs every day. That's never going to become a chick.

And she's like sitting there in her four wheeler and there's a chicken sitting next to her. Like the happiest, like my cat's cruising around. My cats love the chickens too. Because if you have, if you have chickens, there's a good chance you're going to have mice. And if you have mice, then you're going to have a really happy cat.

And, um, you know, like my, I have 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. Um, 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. And then you eat it. And you're like, dude, that tastes different,

And you start going down this wild journey, this, this rabbit trail of, of freedom.

laws around hunting, how to put in out of state for a lottery for,

So, like the mentorship program at Apogee, those guys get to come to provider courses. Um, they learn how to skin an animal. They learn how to follow a blood trail. They learn how to field dress an animal. They learn the final culminating exercise.

You'll love this. So, after two days of, of just like inundated information, like here's, here's the healthy and natural way to, um, kill an animal. This is shot placement. This is, you know, you have to know how to shoot first. So we teach fundamentals of marksmanship, non-standard shooting positions.

Like how many times you get to lay down in the prone off bipods and shoot something that often in hunting, like, can I shoot off poles? Can I shoot off a tree kneeling, standing off hand? Um, if I'm, 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? Like some, the barrier between I want to hunt and I can hunt is, is hard for some people. Yes.

And as we're sitting here talking about like 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.

You have to navigate to that place. You then have to PID, like, positively identify the animal that you're supposed to shoot. And then you go to take a shot off it. Once you take a, once you take your shot off of it, we photograph how you're going to take that shot. Standing, kneeling sticks.

We measure the distance. You know, we, we lay, as you're, at 210 meters and then we go duplicate that on an actual shooting range on the same target. And, uh, and it's, it's so fun to see, like the full buck fever of somebody freaking out when they don't even have around in the chamber, they're just looking at a, you know, at a 3d target out at Reveley peak ranch and burn it. It is, it is such a joy to introduce, you know, every class. we have 40 people and every class is sold out.

And the end result at the end, at the end of three days, are like these people that are just like, they feel like they're going to explode with this excitement about what it means. Cause they now know that they can go and hunt.

Fantastic. Yeah, for sure. It 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 could actually manage that with, with discipline and, and actually having a shot routine that you must go through every time you execute a shot changes everything.

It's that right. How, what is your approach to like trying to build a real critical thinker that is going to move into society as a contributing member of society? It is that.

How do I learn how to manage my mind in these critical moments?

hunting is one of the very few things that, uh, still sparks that feeling of like elation and excitement and nervousness, but I still fall back to cool. I've disciplined, I've done the work. Um, 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. And then it's like success. Um, and that same discipline process, hard work, approach to, uh, people externally will look at save our allies in, in the middle of peak combat and a completely non-permissive environment.

And they're like, what the hell are you? What are you guys doing? 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. And they are doing the work that, uh, that needs to be done. But those three things are still prevalent and evident.

What is wrong with me? What is, am I just a bitch? Like, what is it? No, you're, you just have an undisciplined mind. You have an untrained mind.

Yeah.

And I said, Hey, parents, everybody come into the classroom really fast. We're going to have a Q and a session about competition and what this next season looks like. Every parent, parent, like, stood up, walked in there. They had questions like they didn't even know, but like they, they didn't know that we're going to be doing a Q and a, they had pre-prepared questions that they were looking for an opportunity to ask the staff about, like, okay, how is coaching going to be at the next tournament? And I was just like, I love you people, you know, like the parents to the Apogee families.

Cause we take a totally different approach. We're a whole family approach to education. 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. You are just an idiot and you're a crazy person. Like you send your people to Caesar, you send your people to Rome and you don't think you're gonna get a Roman back.

Like that's, what's going to happen. Right.

Here is your prescribed reading list. Here are the books that your kids are going to be reading, that you're also going to be reading with them. Like, if your kid is reading it, then you better be reading it too. You'd be very appalled at some of the books that are assigned to children in public school to read. And I think if a parent actually picked this book up and it's like, then Johnny took his penis and he brought it and it was erect for the first time next to his friend.

You're like, what this is for a fourth grader. Right. So this whole family approach that, you know, this truly Socratic, this is not new. This has been around for a long time. And I'm so encouraged to see the activation, the discipline, the process and the hard work from the youngest kindergartener all the way up to, like the 60 year old parent.

That's like doing the work.

No, that's never discussed.

That is the definition of grooming, right?

Do anything that you want. You talked to, you talked to my eight year old about anything, sexual, hetero, homo, anything. It's wildly inappropriate. He's eight. Right.

You know,

It's fucking crazy. It's crazy. And it also, to me, it just, it's so confusing that other people don't recognize that. And that people are so, they're so scared of being labeled as homophobic or being labeled as transphobic or L anti LBGTQ, that they allow these things to take place under the guise of we're being more inclusive. Yeah.

And the cartoon was, um, man, who. And the darts were named, you know, it was, um, Disney propaganda. You know, it was LGBTQ indoctrination. It's racial discrimination. It was 69 project.

There's like every single thing that they're attacked with just relentlessly, every single day. And the dad's just sitting there taking it. And that is our job is to take it. So you, you can call me any names that you want, but first and foremost, my position is to protect my children and to, to raise somebody that will be a contributing member of society. My partner, Matt Boudreau at Apogee, he was in public education like that.

That is, that was his origin. That was his start. The Genesis of his journey, where we collided was. he had went and started the two largest Socratic schools in the United States, like hundreds and hundreds of students going to learn just the Socratic approach. And he thought that there was more that needed to be done on the full family approach, where the dad and the mom and the brothers and the sisters, everybody's on the same journey to become the best versions of their self themselves.

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. And like the end result is dads and moms becoming those things where they will, they will be the stop gap between all of this hate and all of these dangerous ideas. And if you're not doing that, like if parenting is not hard, maybe you're not a good parent because parenting is hard.

It was cold. It was rainy. And his whole entire team, third graders out there, shivering and being, and showing grit. And I was like, my heart was exploding with pride. And I never said you had to stay out there.

I was like, you know, hey, practice, this day. We get there. The coach was in shorts and he was just, his fingers were white. His cheeks were like bright red from the cold, but he stood there and he took it and he showed grit. And then all of these third graders followed in suit.

And I was just like heart exploding with pride as, as my son demonstrated, like this, this will follow through with this thing that I've committed to do. And, and it hurt me to watch my son be cold, and it hurt me. And this is why parenting is hard. And if it doesn't, and if, if I didn't care, I don't think there's any greater insult than indifference. And to be indifferent to your kid is just like.

The worst thing you could be as a human.

She's a nut. She's got a Fitbit. now. She's 13 and she's a savage. She likes to tell me like did 20,000 steps today.

She gets up at six o'clock in the morning and hits the gym before she goes to school. And then, like she had, um, she had a volleyball game. Yeah. 13.. She had a volleyball game.

She got up at six o'clock in the morning, ran for two miles, then went to the volleyball game, did the volleyball game. You know, they're playing this tournament. They play these three games, comes back home, hits the gym again. So she's getting three workouts in a day.

Like her abs are showing and her, her body feels like, like she's like a fucking little Panther. Yeah. Crazy.

but our kids compared to my, you know, my, my son, my daughters, they're just so much better than everybody else. I don't mean to sound terrible, but like, um, they do the work.

Like, when you see someone who's happy and fulfilled and also successful, and you're like, what is that person doing? Like, well, that person's my mom. What is my mom doing? Oh, my mom's a fucking animal. Like, look at her.

Jesus. I want to be like her. Like, and that's how kids learn. They learn from that. They learn from seeing things too.

They don't just learn from the things you tell them. They learn from watching you and watching you live your own life. And if you're a slob and you come home and just fucking, eating sub sandwiches and just drinking whiskey all night and just falling asleep, watching sports, like you kids are like, this is fucking aimless existence. This is stupid. Like God, life is meaningless.

Yeah.

Mike Glover wrote great book, prepared. And that in that one of the big takeaways was like, 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. Um, 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 a seat so I can sit facing the door. I was like, my man, you knew where to sit, you know, but like, move over, you go, sit by your mom.

right now, you know? And, uh, you know, he sees the outliers, uh, you know, in Mike would call it a, uh, a bump in the pattern. 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.

There was this feeling like we are in this together and that there are forces of evil out there in the world. And now we understand. And now we're united.

Israel is one of the most secure nations in the world. They're sick, which is impressive from them fighting in 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. to what just happened, where they have one of the most complex security and military and intelligent networks on the planet.

And Hamas killed for almost Pearl Harbor level numbers, almost nine 11 level numbers just. In.