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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Bridget Truxillo - Florida Deputy!

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Steve chats with former Florida deputy sheriff turned attorney, Bridget Truxillo.  Bridget is what we call a hard charger in this line of work.  From Patrol to narcotics to becoming her agencies first female SWAT member she packed a lot into her time as a copper.  She now runs My Protective Wellness, a program that offers police officers legal counsel along with ways to better mentally and physically care for themselves.  

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to the podcast interviews active and retired police officers, but

0:12.4

their most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job.

0:15.7

I am your host, Steve Gould.

0:18.1

Thank you for being here.

0:20.0

We have a sponsor for this episode, I want to tell you it is Burley Boards, I showed you

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last time, he made me quite the incredible piece right here, Massachusetts, a blue line

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through it.

0:32.4

Thank you, Dan.

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Dan Carlson is the owner, you can get him, get at him, I have a graphic stand by here,

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for your home, he does counter top, so he'll do a custom piece for you, he'll do whatever

0:52.1

you want.

0:53.1

You need it in your life, believe me, I know your TPS listener, I can see exactly what

0:56.8

you're like, you're in a rundown apartment, you're working doubles all the time, you're

1:02.8

in your underpants, on your couch, you're just eating Chinese food late and someone walks

1:09.6

in and they see you and they say how pathetic, then they look at your counters and they go,

1:13.0

oh my goodness, is that a custom wood countertop, all is forgiven, your family's no longer

1:18.3

worrying about you, they see the Burley Boards countertop, and that's all thanks to Dan

1:22.0

Carlson, so you can thank him, go check him out, order something up from him, hell of

1:27.0

a guy, good man, and thank you, Dan, once again, for the beautiful gift.

1:32.6

This is episode number 79, if you can believe it, guys, 79, and I'm doing better, I got

1:39.8

more episodes scheduled, so I'm going to try to go every other week for a while, and

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