SDP Episode 24: Mike Kennedy
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tim and Doc talk with Tim’s Father, Mike Kennedy.
Mike Kennedy is a retired law enforcement officer with a distinguished career that spans three decades. He is a husband, a father, and a proud patriot. Tim Kennedy credits his father’s upbringing with making him the man he is today.
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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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to the sheep dog project. Hello Tim. Hey Mike how are you? |
| 0:19.0 | Man I'm so swell. Truly so swell so swole or so swellel? Both. Can I be both? You can be both. Okay, I am definitely both then. Swole and swell. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, well we all know why you're swole. So talk about why you're swel. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, you and I, this is kind of a bummer, but we just finished a three day, 14 hour a day video shoot on making a preparation documentary and structural video I don't know what to call it I don't know what they call these things about how to survive an active shooter and |
| 0:58.3 | The day after we wrapped the day we got done. Yeah, it's the day that some idiot walked into an amazing church in |
| 1:07.1 | central Texas and started shooting people. The same we got done, we had scheduled our Las Vegas class |
| 1:17.4 | weeks, two weeks before the Las Vegas shouldn't happen. |
| 1:20.0 | So while I'm really confident |
| 1:22.3 | that we're doing the right thing, that we're put out the right curriculum that we're giving people the tools that they need to survive. |
| 1:27.0 | It is infuriating because it also demonstrates how badly we need it and I don't want to it sucks that we know that the need is there but the need is there |
| 1:40.8 | So we're doing the right thing and we will be vigilant. We will |
| 1:44.6 | continue to be perseverance, but man it sucks. It does. It sucks knowing that |
| 1:50.6 | you have the tools that can help in those situations and that |
| 1:54.4 | we're getting them out as quick as we can but that sometimes that's not quick enough |
| 2:00.3 | no never is yeah But with us, we have the one, the only, Michael Evers Kennedy, my father, talking about having tools and getting out early. |
| 2:15.0 | He has made with 30 some odd years in a law enforcement career, the most genius nuggets of wisdom handed off to me |
| 2:26.0 | before I went on my first combat mission, the most influential person in my life |
| 2:31.4 | without a doubt. most influential person in my life. I mean, my mom also plays a part in that, |
| 2:38.0 | but a barrel-chested freedom fighter, a narcotics officer, |
| 2:41.0 | president of the California Narcotics Officers Association, but once or twice, |
| 2:46.0 | twice has been doing what everything that we hold and I value about a person he has been |
| 2:57.0 | demonstrating his entire life and I have tried to model but usually fail. |
| 3:01.6 | I think you disagree with you on the... |
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