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Jocko Podcast 21: Tim Kennedy, Police Self Defense & Use of Force, Women in Special Forces, UFC, Chaos

Jocko Podcast

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 112 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:02:52 - Tim Kennedy's background / About Him

0:14:07 - Law Enforcement/Military Self Defense Improvements?

0:25:30 - Bayonet Training thoughts.

0:29:26 - Can you instill the will to Kill and Die in soldiers?

0:35:46 - Green Beret VS Navy SEALS?

0:41:47 - U.S. Rules of Engagement Bureaucracy. Women in Special Forces.

0:56:18 - Staying positive when the worst of humanity has been seen.

1:03:20 - How to start in Self-Defense

1:07:08 - SheepDog Response (SD Response) / About

1:14:13 - Influential Books

1:19:33 - Combatives with Full Kit on / multiple attackers.

1:21:31 - Range 15 (the movie) / Steroids in MMA/UFC

1:31:50 - Tim Kennedy making a UFC run.

1:34:51 - Importance of recovery from training.

1:38:39 - Best qualities/skills needed to be a soldier and Fighter.

1:42:22 - Advice for the Young Generation 1:45:33 - Final Thoughts

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Jocco Podcast number 21 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

0:07.3

And our guest tonight is Mr. Tim Kennedy, who is an active duty army special forces soldier,

0:19.6

Ranger sniper, MMA fighter, little bit of that Jiu-Jitsu black belt.

0:25.7

Mmm, the Zits. Fighter in the UFC, current fighter in the UFC, who everyone's waiting to watch

0:33.0

fight again. An American patriot. God bless America. And just an all-around beast.

0:41.9

Did I miss anything? Pretty skinny right now, I have a kick-ass mustache. And he's got that

0:48.9

going for him. And really excited to have Tim on the show, as you know, there's not been

0:55.3

a lot of guests on the show. The only other guest that's been on this show so far has been

0:59.1

Mr. Lafe Babin, who was one of the two commanders who worked for me in Ramadi our last deployment

1:04.4

and wrote the book that I wrote with him. And we had a pretty fired-up podcast and talked

1:11.0

about a lot about the things that we went through and experienced. And, you know, knowing

1:16.3

you, and I know you're a little bit younger than me. But, you know, you just been through

1:20.7

a lot of the same kind of life events and mistakes and mistakes and same kind of stuff.

1:27.9

So it's pretty cool to hang out with you a little bit today and get to talk to you.

1:31.4

And we, for everyone that's waiting to know the results of the grappling death match between

1:36.0

Tim Kennedy and me. It's coming. We can't even tell the results because it's still to

1:40.2

be decided. It didn't happen today. We ran out of time. Tim's got a little dinged up injury.

1:46.8

So we had to forgo that. And so instead we just went out and slaughtered some meat.

1:50.8

Dude, some amazing barbecue coming from a Texan. I was like, really? You're taking me

1:54.8

to barbeque? Yeah.

1:56.8

Had to do it. Not disappointed.

1:59.4

So also with us, of course, is Echo Charles. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

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