Defender DOWN! SHOT During An Armed Robbery! -Mike

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with South African defender and business owner Mike and discuss the day he was notified of an armed robbery happening in his own business and what happened when he decided to draw his firearm and intervene.

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.

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0:00.0	All right again, check out.
0:07.5	This week's episode is brought to you by the active self-protection unlimited app.
0:11.7	It is unlimited indeed.
0:13.9	Listen, probably the coolest thing going on over there right now, in my humble opinion,
0:17.3	is we are really redoubling our efforts on the live streams every Wednesday.
0:21.4	I think now it's at 8.8 Eastern. We do a live stream every week. I'm on most of them, Neil's on most of them, John's on most of them, steps on some of them. We do good cop, bad cop, where we look at some good and bad police interactions. We do John Reed's mean tweets or the React ripple and it's a lot of fun. We're putting that out once a month, I think, to members on
0:40.7	YouTube to get their attention. But that's kind of where it's at. A quick note about this week's episode. So if you have the app, which you should, this week's video breakdown that relates to this episode, will be out on the app at the exact same time it comes
0:55.2	out in audio podcast form so you can go check that out wherever uh wherever you happen to be
1:01.4	whether you're listening to this on apple or spotify the video will be on the app and then a week
1:05.7	later it'll be out on the youtube channel so if you listen to this right now you don't see the the youtube app that's because it's only excuse me on the YouTube channel. So if you listen to this right now, you don't see the YouTube app.
1:12.1	That's because it's only, excuse me, on the YouTube video.
1:14.9	That's because it's exclusive to the app for another week.
1:17.0	In one more week, you can go to YouTube and see the video then.
1:19.5	So if you want to wait to listen to this until then, that's up to you.
1:22.1	But I hope you enjoy the episode.
1:23.7	Well, already, gang, welcome back yet again to the active self-protection podcast.
1:32.6	I am, as always your host, Mike Williver, and I remain your favorite former Fed with me today.
1:37.0	A new friend of mine from South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, in particular, his name is Mike.
1:40.8	Mike is a business owner, and he is married 29 years.
1:45.0	I'm almost there, by the way, me and the lovely and fetching Mrs. Will over are right behind you.
1:50.4	And he has one son who is in school for a business administration degree and is his partner in business, of whom he is very proud. Mike, how are you, my friend?
1:54.0	Very well in you, Mike. Thanks for having me on your show. Thank you very much.
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