Approached By A Stranger with Bad Intentions -Jonathan
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with self defender Jonathan and discuss the night he and his wife were approached for spare change but something else was apparently going on.
Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever as he talks to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Music: bensound.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, already, gang, welcome back yet again to the active self-protection podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | I am your host, Mike Williver, and I remain your favorite former Fed with me today. |
| 0:28.1 | A new friend of mine, his name is Jonathan. |
| 0:29.8 | Jonathan hails from the Nashville, Tennessee area. |
| 0:32.8 | He is, and I had to write it down, a retired software engineer, a part-time armed guard, and an adjunct physics professor at a college not far away from where he lives. |
| 0:43.0 | So he's a smart guy. |
| 0:44.2 | We've acknowledged that he has two kids and two grandkids. |
| 0:46.9 | And I met Jonathan at the Active Self Protection National Conference. |
| 0:50.8 | Actually, the second guest we've had on who I met at the conference. |
| 0:54.2 | So that's a fun fact. Jonathan, how are you, my friend? Very good, sir. Outstanding. So, |
| 0:59.7 | just to get us up to speed on your personal history, software engineer retired, part-time |
| 1:08.3 | armed guard. How long have you been doing that? |
| 1:12.1 | The armed guard, about five years. |
| 1:15.1 | Okay. |
| 1:16.2 | And is it like a personal protection guard sort of thing? |
| 1:19.5 | Or is it like moving money around? |
| 1:21.9 | Or what sort of work do you do? |
| 1:23.7 | I used to work for an armored car company, |
| 1:30.1 | ATM solutions. |
| 1:35.3 | We moved money around between banks and we put money into ATM machines. |
| 1:40.4 | But more recently, I've been guarding the Jewish Community Center in Nashville. |
| 1:44.4 | For the most part, it's very calm and pleasant. |
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