This is Jocco podcast number 111 with echo Charles and me Jocco Willink

Good evening echo

So

Almost two years ago I

Had a guy on the podcast by the name of Jodi Middick and

We ended up talking

For so long that we actually turned one podcast into two podcasts the first one was a review of

His book which had just come out it was called unflinching the making of a Canadian sniper and

Then we did a second podcast right after that that was just us talking and discussing some more of the details of

Where had his life had gone since that book had come out and

those podcasts are

Number 24 and number 25 and if you haven't listened to those yet just stop here go back and listen to them first and

In those podcasts

We discussed Jodi's early life and how he ended up in the military and his sniper training and his two deployments to Afghanistan and

The events of January 11th 2007 when during an operation

He hit a land mine and

Lost both of his legs below the knee and

From there

He struggled to stay alive

But he did and he made it back to Canada

Where he then struggled to recover from his injuries and then he struggled to adapt to his new life and

Along the way he struggled to overcome addiction to pain medications that had been

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