SDP Episode 31: Your questions
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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 back to the sheepdog project |
| 0:17.7 | podcast this is doc with you as always we are back or should I say I am back. Tim will be back at some point. It's |
| 0:26.2 | great to be back in the studio recording again. Unfortunately, Tim has a lot of army stuff to do so he cannot be with me. It's going to be me flying solo |
| 0:36.0 | probably for a bit. I'm going to have some guests either calling in or here with me in the |
| 0:41.6 | studio to hopefully keep you entertained. |
| 0:45.3 | Really glad to be back at it. I know the outpouring of support has just been incredible. |
| 0:50.3 | I hope everybody understands. We just have so much going on just couldn't get in here |
| 0:55.8 | physically to do it but back now so really happy to be back and on that note |
| 1:01.5 | we're gonna go ahead and kick this off with, we got a lot of questions that you guys have been sending in over time, a lot specifically in the response to the announcement that we were going to be back in the studio this week. |
| 1:12.6 | So I'm going to be addressing a lot of the questions that you guys sent in. |
| 1:16.3 | First, let's take care of some housekeeping. |
| 1:18.3 | I want to talk about some upcoming events that we have. |
| 1:21.6 | Of course, as all of you you know I'm sure you go to sheepdog response.com that's our website |
| 1:27.4 | There's a list there of all of our upcoming events, but I want to go over some of those |
| 1:32.3 | upcoming September 21st and 23rd in Hoffman, North Carolina, |
| 1:37.0 | we've got the Sheepdog Level 1 and the Occupational Level 1 course. |
| 1:41.0 | So that's law enforcement particular, when we say occupational level one, |
| 1:45.6 | there was a point in time when we were calling that the military LEO course. There's a |
| 1:50.0 | little bit of misunderstanding surrounding that. so basically what we're talking about |
| 1:55.1 | occupational level one is people that have had training already and carry a weapon and are in harm's way as a daily part of their occupation. |
| 2:07.7 | The Sheepdog level one class is open to everyone and of course that's basically just for anybody that wants to be a sheepdog. |
| 2:14.8 | Again coming to Hoffman, North Carolina, September 21st through 23rd. |
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