Episode 1635 - How Tech Is Changing Self-Defense
Drinkin‘ Bros Podcast
Tetherball Academy Media
4.8 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Edwards, the founder of HighCom Armor, joins the show to talk about the crazy new weapons the U.S. is using in Iran, how his company is improving body armor technology, and how they integrate their tech into protecting places like schools.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Drinking Bros. |
| 0:07.0 | Sit back, relax, and have a fucking drink. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, welcome to drinking bros kids. |
| 0:27.9 | God, voice is rough today. |
| 0:30.0 | Voice a little rough today. |
| 0:31.4 | You and I were just talking about this before we went on air here. |
| 0:34.6 | The allergies. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, brutal. |
| 0:36.6 | Last week of coaching in Austin, Texas. In the spring. I'm in the championship. What? I'm back in the championship. For what? You can't stop me. You can't stop me. No, my children. My children. I might be the greatest youth coach to ever step foot on a field. So like Amos Alonzo Stag of youth coaching? |
| 0:56.7 | If I, if, if, if, because this, this is Friday's episode that's coming out, you know, Sunday night on Spotify, but Friday on YouTube here, if I win tomorrow, that'll be 10 out of my last 12 championships. |
| 1:27.8 | What? And all different sports. Yeah. And this will be three back to back in three different completely sports. So football, basketball. You're like the Belliuchick of youth sports. Thank you. Thank you. Dan never compliments me like this, dude. I don't even need to talk to him today. I just want to talk to you. But unfortunately, your buddy's with Dan, |
| 1:32.8 | so Dan's got to introduce you. To everybody who he is, Dan? No. Okay, good. Good. |
| 1:41.3 | His name's Ryan Edwards. It's a former infantry guy, former Green Beret, and now he's the president, |
| 1:44.4 | I think. The president is that the right title? Highcom armor. |
| 1:46.5 | It's a body armor I've been talking about recently. There it is. Phone's ringing. Oh my God, dude. That's the loudest thing I've ever heard. Who is that? Oh, was the listener in here? Yeah. All right, because I was going to say in production, dude, you got to put a five in the jar, brother. this is a level three plate, and it weighs, it feels like it's under two pounds, right? |
| 2:06.1 | Yeah, I think it's like 1.8 pounds. |
| 2:07.9 | 1.8 pounds. |
| 2:09.1 | So for the level four sappies that I wore in combat, this is closer to that. |
| 2:13.9 | This is actually this exact same size. |
| 2:16.1 | This would have weighed 12 pounds for me. |
| 2:18.2 | This one. How much is this way? Like 3.5, 3.6. |
| 2:22.5 | Okay. Yeah, you can give it to me. |
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