TIM KENNEDY | Scars and Stripes (Ep. 316)

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

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome the one and only Tim Kennedy to the show. He is a Green Beret, sniper, retired MMA fighter who fought in the UFC and Strikeforce, the only 3-time All Army Combatives Champion, and the star of History Channel’s Hunting Hitler and Discovery’s Hard to Kill. Today, Tim owns a tactical training company called Sheepdog Response. He’s also the author of a brand new book out this week called Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself. In this interview, we discuss why he decided to write such a raw and revealing autobiography, how his childhood affected his decisions as an adult, getting into MMA in the early days of the sport, how 9/11 and some really rough personal decisions eventually landed him in Special Forces, his first combat kills, his errant grenade throw that hurt civilians, how he tried to balance being active duty military and a professional fighter, 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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0:30.6	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:39.0	Hi, guys. You have asked for a very, very long time for me to get this guy on the show,
0:43.1	but we finally made it happen, guys. Tim Kennedy is our guest for today. He is a green beret,
0:47.7	a sniper, and a retired MMA fighter who fought with the UFC and in strike force. And he's also,
0:52.7	I bet you didn't know this, the three-time all-army combat is champion. Not a shock if you know
0:57.1	anything about this guy, but he also started in the history channels hunting Hitler and discovery
1:01.4	channels hard to kill. And today, Tim owns a tactical training company called Sheepdog Response.
1:05.7	A lot of you guys have followed them and some of the stuff that they do. You've gone to some of
1:08.4	their courses. It's really, really an awesome company. But he's also the author of a brand new
1:12.4	book, which is out this week. If you're listening to this on time and it's called Scars and Stripes,
1:16.5	an unapologetically American story of fighting the Taliban, UFC warriors, and myself. And
1:21.9	unfortunately in the interview, I think my voice cracked as I was saying the title, but it's a
1:24.8	great title. I mean, Scars and Stripes, what an amazing, amazing title of a book. But in this
1:29.8	interview, I just got to tell you, you need to think of this interview as a part one, because we're
1:34.5	going to have him back on at some point this summer, and we're going to get into a lot of other
1:37.8	things because basically we didn't touch on any of the stuff he's doing today. We didn't touch
1:41.4	on save our allies. We didn't touch on any of the television stuff on Sheepdog Response on Jiu-Jitsu.
1:45.6	We basically didn't talk about any of it. Today, we just spent a lot of our time talking about,
1:49.5	you know, running through the book, his upbringing, what it was like, and kind of how he got into martial
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