Hey, this is Buck Sexton and you're listening to the Tudor Dixon podcast, part of the Clay Travers and Buck Sexton podcast network.

Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast where we bring you stories of great Americans and I've met some amazing people across the state of Michigan and I just feel like I need to share those people with you.

Some of them have become a part of me and you know when someone finds a permanent home in your heart you know that that story just needs to be told.

And my guest today is definitely one of those people from the moment I met him you could just feel I think what I can only describe as this intense energy coming from him.

He's an American hero, a leader, a top military strategist, a loving father, loyal husband and strong man of faith.

I want to welcome the author of zero percent chance and purple heart recipient major Jonathan Turnbull to the podcast.

John welcome to the podcast. Thank you, ma'am. I'm really excited to be here.

Well, I am so excited to have you. I want to talk about your book and I'm going to hold it up here. This is such an amazing piece of work because I think what people need to understand is this is truly the raw, unedited story of what it is to serve in so many ways.

It's not just your story of what you've gone through, but it really is the story of how a military family handles these missions.

I love the way you start out the book talking about your childhood and something stuck out to me that I want to go through because your parents actually took you out of school.

You said you weren't doing well in school and if it were today's world, you would be medicated.

You would have been told you had ADD and you would be medicated and you'd be a different person, but the ADD part of you, that part of you that has that get up and go is what drove you to really become this American hero.

Is that right? Yes, ma'am.

So tell me a little bit about that. Your parents, your parents are incredibly adorable and sweet people. Your mom is so awesome.

I think I met her before I met you and she was clearly just completely in love with you and talked about you in such an amazing way.

But she was your champion very young. So tell me how she made that decision and what that was like for you because you said instead of traditional book learning, you kind of learned by doing.

Yes, my mom was a big believer in like a hands-on approach to learning.

And as you mentioned, like I was struggling in school, attended a public school until fourth grade.

And yeah, it was fifth grade.

When my mom and my dad sat down, we had the conversation like, how are we going to continue education, you continue in the public school, which was not working for me.

Or do we find a way that does work and make me more successful that way?

So that we decided, I mean, there's always a path to success. There's always an answer for whatever questions we have.

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