SDP Episode 16: Raising young Sheepdogs
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tim and Doc talk about how to raise the next generation of Sheepdogs.
Tim Kennedy’s legend began at his local Army recruiter’s office on September 12th, 2001. His training to earn his Green Beret was featured in the book “Chosen Soldier.” Kennedy is now a Ranger qualified Special Forces Sniper with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and multiple other deployments around the world. He is the only soldier to win the grueling 3 day All Army Combatives Tournament three times. Kennedy has a black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Modern Army Combatives. He is also one of the top ranked mixed martial arts fighters in the world, a position he achieved while simultaneously serving his country at the highest levels of special operations. He is currently ranked among the top Middleweights in the UFC. Tim has been featured on many television shows, most recently “Hunting Hitler” on the History Channel
Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.
Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars with Tim Kennedy on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to the sheepdog project. |
| 0:15.0 | Doc here across from me is Tim. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah yeah yeah yeah. |
| 0:19.0 | Both very happy to be here. |
| 0:21.0 | Before we get down into the weeds, what we're going to talk about today, really quick. |
| 0:26.9 | I want to talk about some things that we have upcoming. |
| 0:31.0 | Everybody, we're getting so much traffic on the sheepdog website. It's amazing you |
| 0:36.3 | guys keep buying out everything off the shelves on the sheepdog store we |
| 0:39.6 | appreciate that but I want everybody to go right now I want you to pause the podcast I want you to go to sheepdog response.com |
| 0:46.0 | and I want you to look at the upcoming courses that we have |
| 0:50.0 | I want you to look for what's coming up in your area. Yes predominantly we |
| 0:54.1 | tend to do everything in the southwest we kind of stick around our own neck of the |
| 0:58.8 | woods which is Texas Oklahoma area. |
| 1:02.7 | We've got some stuff coming up in Utah, Nevada, |
| 1:04.7 | but a particular importance because we got |
| 1:07.1 | such an outpouring of request to do something |
| 1:10.3 | on the East Coast, specifically |
| 1:11.6 | to do something in the northeast. |
| 1:13.4 | September 20th through 21st we will be putting on a law enforcement and military only |
| 1:18.4 | course in New Jersey and that will be immediately followed by a level one course so level one course means it's open to anybody |
| 1:25.3 | You don't ever have to have picked up a gun. You don't ever have to have stepped on the map before we're going to teach you everything you need to know |
| 1:31.3 | Show up for that September 22nd through 24th, again also in New Jersey. |
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