Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Tim Kennedy,

he's a Special Forces Master Sergeant, former professional UFC fighter, and an author.

There is a lot of doomerism in the world assumptions that things are terrible and they're never going to get better

I don't agree and neither does Tim

Expect to learn how we can fix the American military's recruitment problem Tim'shand experience of what's really going on at the

southern border, the wild stories of unknown military heroes that we should know more about,

how Tim plans to fix the current education system, the state of veteran mental health, the best preparation routine every tourist needs to know before traveling, and much more.

Tim is a very particular type of tool. He is a very blunt object and a very sharp object and even though you don't necessarily need to agree with his methods, I do think that it is important to have people like that

who can tell us about what war zones are actually like. I think it's very important for

us to have people like that on our side because there are definitely individuals like that on the

the opposition side. So yes, lots of interesting insights today. Great

stories and I appreciate him. I do appreciate his sacrifices and his efforts and his honesty.

But now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Tim Kennedy. 77% of US 17 to 24 year olds could not join the military.

The American Department of Defense recently did an analysis of 17 to 24 year olds and found that

77% were unqualified to serve in the military due mostly to obesity, drug abuse, physical health or mental health,

almost half were disqualified for more than one of those reasons.

Yeah.

This is, when we talk about strategic level issues like national security problems, anybody looking at that number from the seal teams to the green bays to ranger those all are those select their

Populations from a larger general population from combat arms combat arms

Combat arms gets their people from this larger population of people.

So like as the arrowhead gets a little bit more narrow, the availability of people to fund these small groups to these middle-sized groups to these

potentially larger groups are just shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. This is we're going to lose to everybody if this trend continues.

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