Spikes' K9 Fund's Mission to Save Working K9s (with Jimmy Hatch) - Change Agents

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.9 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Partners: HVMN – You can find Ketone-IQ at https://hvmn.com/changeagents to save 30% on your first subscription. On today's episode of Change Agents, an IRONCLAD Original, Andy Stumpfs sits down with Jimmy Hatch. Jimmy Hatch is a retired member of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, and is the founder of Spike's K9 Fund. Jimmy was critically wounded during his final combat deployment while searching for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. He credits a K9 named Remco with saving his life and the lives of several others during the firefight with Taliban fighters, though Remco was killed in the battle. His organization Spike’s K9 Fund provides custom-fit ballistic vests, protective equipment, and medical cost assistance to working K9s. More info: https://spikesk9fund.org/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Shop IRONCLAD Apparel: https://shop.thisisironclad.com/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Visit https://www.thisisironclad.com to learn more. Be sure to subscribe to @thisisironclad on YouTube and major social platforms. Follow us on Social - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisironclad Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ThisIsIRONCLAD#changeagents #Andystumpf #ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's a thought with the AK and the AK wins.
0:02.5	And it doesn't hit me in the body armor, Andy, those motherfuckers. I wore that body armor for all those years. They could have had the decency that at least put one in me there. But no, it hit my femur, my right leg. I was just putting my weight down on it and it blew my right up my knee. It just blew my femur like out the back of my leg. God damn, man. I was worse than useless.
0:22.7	I was actually a hazard just because I couldn't stop screaming.
0:25.5	I don't know.
0:25.8	Did you scream at you got shot?
0:27.2	No.
0:27.8	No, I'm a little bit more than you.
0:32.3	I'm such a.
0:34.4	We've known that for years, Jimmy.
0:36.0	Come on.
0:38.0	I couldn't stop.
0:39.8	I'd reload my lungs with air.
0:41.9	You know, I'm like, can't stop.
0:43.9	That was funny.
0:46.3	But honestly, at that point, I became a witness to the American spirit.
0:49.5	Actually, to my buddies.
0:50.8	Like, they didn't, they just fucking did what we trained to do.
0:53.9	Like, there was nothing.
0:54.5	I mean, it was, it was amazing. How can I help? How can I be useful in ending needless suffering?
1:02.4	Do not be afraid of work that has no end.
1:08.3	We have to organize a social movement.
1:11.6	We have an opportunity to lead by example,
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