Tim Kennedy

22 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 5, 2024 by Tim Kennedy · said 22 times in 5 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jun 5, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Kennedy broadcast his home address on live Fox News to challenge ISIS
“Unbeknownst to them, my plan was to go into live television and give my home address, which is what I did. The camera goes on, and I see A red light, and I was like, we're live? Like, yeah, we're live. Like, this is so cool. Like, you can send anyone that you …”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 56:02 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Kennedy: Military tradecraft can be inverted to rescue Americans from conflict zones
“These are the things that we were taught by our government to do. And I take the inverse of that and do that for good in a country to rescue Americans out of a conflict area.”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 54:37 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024 negative
Opinion
Kennedy: Traditional schools strip children of critical thinking and creativity
“We're putting, first and foremost, inside of them this intrinsic desire to accomplish, to create, to collaborate, to critically think. And those characteristics are not being taught in school. I argue that they're actually being taken from them.”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 1:05:54 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024 negative
Insight
Tim Kennedy: Nothing is more dangerous than a young man without purpose
“There's nothing more dangerous than a young man without purpose, direction, motivation.”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 7:09 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Insight
Kennedy: Real-World Motivation Comes From Respectful Spot-Checks, Not Speeches
“You want to talk about the most motivating thing to like a young E-Five on Target that doesn't deserve to be there as like, the boss of all bosses is sitting next to you, spot checking your job, and you're doing the right thing. Like, that was the most motivat…”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 43:51 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kennedy: Bedros Keuilian forces six-week cycles in unfamiliar disciplines
“Bedros actually systematically in a process of his life, he forces himself for six weeks at a time to do something that he's not good at. Rock climbing, jujitsu, learning how to do an Ironman. It is part of his program of life to go for six weeks and do someth…”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 15:32 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024
Disclosure
Kennedy had someone follow his future wife while deployed overseas
“And then when I was overseas, I had somebody follow her to make sure she was a good woman.”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 22:05 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024
Insight
Kennedy: Inability to cause harm is uselessness, not true virtue
“Like, if you're not capable of hurting somebody and you don't hurt somebody, that doesn't mean you're good. It just means you're useless. But if I'm able to take your face off, but I choose to be kind and gracious and giving and selfless to you, now I'm good.”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 34:54 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024
Disclosure
Kennedy took his future wife out daily until his Iraq deployment
“From that day until the day I left for Iraq on my first real combat deployment, I took her out on a date every single day from that day until I went overseas.”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 21:53 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024
Assertion Supported
Kennedy: Save Our Allies operates with U.S. DOD and DOS support
“If you think that I can walk into Afghanistan during the middle of the evacuation without DOD and DOS support, like, you're an, you're a crazy person. If you think that we're going to be in Djibouti or Sudan during a coup, like, you're a crazy person without t…”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 28:49 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024
Disclosure
Kennedy: In an active shooting, I evacuate my family then engage
“You know, if I'm at the mall, or I'm at church with my family, And I start hearing gunshots. First thing I'm doing is getting my family off the X, right? Like they're going to get in the car. They're going to be gone. There's not a chance in hell that I'm not …”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 30:28 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024
Opinion
Kennedy: Women Face Far More Significant Adversity Than Men
“There's definitely a difference about how you parent every single child, and especially boys and girls. But I mean, I'll argue that the amount of adversity that women have to overcome is, is far more significant than the type of adversity that I have to overco…”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 1:07:38 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jun 5, 2024
Insight
Kennedy: Greater capability in violence reduces the need to use it
“If you are intimately familiar with violence, and you are capable of violence, the less you have to prove, and the less amount of violence you have to do to ever be successful at anything.”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 33:37 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024
Insight
Kennedy: A founder's calendar reveals if their business is worth $1 billion.
“You can look at somebody's calendar, and I know if that is a five million dollar entrepreneur, if that is a billion dollar business owner just by your calendar.”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 37:52 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024
Disclosure
Kennedy always shares meals with management candidates to judge their character.
“Especially for like middle management, Or above, I always go and eat with them. I always want to share a meal with them. I want to see how they treat the staff. I want to see how long it takes them to bite, to pick what they're gonna eat.”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 17:50 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024 negative
Opinion
Tim Kennedy: Entrepreneurs and Veterans Provided Disaster Aid the Government Couldn't
“From Afghanistan to Western North Carolina, the response of the American people the generosity of the entrepreneur and veteran community to do what the government couldn't even do.”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 4:13 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Kennedy: Every employee firing brings immediate relief within 48 hours.
“I have never let someone go in a layoff or fired somebody that I was not immediately relieved within 48 hours that that was the right thing, and I wish that I had done it months prior.”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 23:19 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024 negative
Insight
Kennedy: Marital infidelity entirely disqualifies a potential partner from handling capital.
“If you're not going to be faithful to your wife, you're not going to be faithful with my money. If you're not going to be disciplined with what you're going to be doing with your time, you're not going to be disciplined with my time.”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 27:16 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024
Disclosure
Kennedy spends two-thirds of business preparation time wargaming meeting outcomes.
“The majority of our work is in planning. If I'm going to be going into a meeting, I know who I'm meeting with, I know what the ask is going to be, I know financially what I am going to benefit, the return on investment, and then in addition to the planning kin…”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 8:57 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Kennedy: True morality requires the capacity for violence paired with restraint.
“The bluff, the bottom line up front is a weak man is not a good man because he's not capable to do one or the other. A strong man that's capable of violence but chooses to be kind, chooses to be gentle, he's clearly morally a good man because he has the capabl…”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 28:21 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Kennedy: Attention Is a More Important Resource Than Time
“Everybody says that time is this like most important resource. I argue that attention is the most important resource. I could be doing something specific with my time, but if my attention is elsewhere or a hundred percent of my attention is focused on Somethin…”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 13:05 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
Dec 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Kennedy: Great Leaders Choose Dysfunctional Teams to Solve Collective Problems
“Really great leaders will go into a bad leadership Problem because they run towards the sound of gunfire. They turn and they face the problem and they want to address it. And they see whether it's a culture problem, a leadership problem a substance abuse probl…”
Tim Kennedy Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 30:04 Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
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