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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

MIKE DRAGICH | Alligators, MMA, and Jesus (Ep. 489)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Mike Dragich to the show. He is a Marine veteran, MMA fighter, licensed alligator trapper for the state of Florida, and follower of Christ. He is also the Founder of Project Savior Outdoors whose mission it is to fight PTSD and Veteran suicide by connecting with the great outdoors and sharing the true freedom that comes through Jesus Christ. In this interview, we discuss how he got into alligator trapping, the ways to safely handle deadly reptiles, how being shot at point blank range and almost dying changed the direction of his entire life, the miraculous healing he experienced after being shot, why he turned to Jesus, how the suicides of his own Marine brothers led to Project Savior Outdoors, why he started fighting in MMA in his 30s, his MMA Mount Rushmore, and much more. Let’s get into it…  Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.

0:26.6

All right, guys. We've got a special guest on the podcast today. His name is Mike Dragich. He is

0:30.3

a marine veteran MMA fighter, a licensed alligator trapper for the state of Florida and loves Jesus.

0:37.6

Now that that's just got to be enough to at least get your attention for what we're going to be

0:40.8

talking about today. But also he is the founder of Project Savior Outdoors. So their mission is to

0:46.4

fight PTSD and veteran suicide by connecting with the great outdoors and sharing the true freedom

0:51.2

that comes through Jesus Christ. And so this was an introduction by Joby Martin. So he is Joby

0:56.4

Martin's pastor. But this guy, he's such an interesting guy. And in this particular conversation,

1:00.7

we start out with the whole alligator thing because he's gone viral here in the last month or so by

1:05.2

wrestling and trapping this 10 foot long alligator that was in an elementary school parking lot

1:10.6

down there in Jacksonville, Florida. So we talk about the alligator stuff. Like how do you even get

1:14.5

into something like that? What are some of the mistakes that people would potentially make with

1:17.7

alligator trapping or wrestling or whatever that kind of stuff. And so we talk about that.

1:21.6

But we also talk about kind of his crazy upbringing. And at one point during his life,

1:26.7

you know, in his late teenage years, he was actually shot at point blank range and probably

1:31.0

should be dead today, not even probably he should be dead today. But through the grace of God and

1:35.6

through some some healing and some some really miraculous things that happened in his life,

1:40.0

he accepted Jesus Christ. And you know, he's been just forever changed from that moment. You

1:45.0

can just see when how he talks about it. And we kind of weave in and out on this particular

1:49.1

conversation throughout a lot of things. So we talk about the Marine Corps and we talk about

1:53.2

his time there, but we talk about soft Christians and soft Christianity and the problem with a lot of

1:57.7

these churches that either don't focus on the men at all or they just do some men's events. And

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