Episode 251 - Travis Gribble

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Travis Gribble retired in February of 2022 after 23 years in law enforcement. For half of his career, he worked in Michigan for a small Sheriff's Department, and then the other half was in Mesa, Arizona. Travis served in a SWAT capacity for a total of 16 years with 9 of those years being full-time SWAT in Mesa.

In 2016, after being on the Mesa full-time team and being an Assistant Team Leader, Travis made the decision to test for Sergeant. The first step after the test finalization is what Mesa calls the "Step" program, a training program officers must complete before being officially promoted. In simple terms, it's really a ride-along with a senior Sergeant who shows you the ropes. The start of Travis's training began in January of 2016, working the day shift. His very first call out of the station, on his very first training day, was the call that changed his life.

The next five years were hell and ultimately led to Travis seeking his retirement, after getting the help he needed.

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0:00.0	Well, hello everybody. I hope you're having a delightful and lovely morning. It's a classic pairing.
0:05.8	The only thing that can make you better, well, if you're sitting down and having an awesome cup of coffee,
0:09.5	I'm looking at it right now, blackwifelcoffee.com, the return of the headless horseman roast.
0:15.4	Pumpkin spice flavor. What? That's right. Stop fucking around. It's almost Halloween. It's definitely fall.
0:26.8	If you're a fan of pumpkins and Halloween and fall, yep, the trio, then why aren't you already
0:35.2	ordering this? I've actually had some, it's delightful. I'm not a huge fan actually of
0:41.1	pumpkin spice when it comes to drip coffee. I like when it comes to cold brew, but guess what?
0:45.6	You can make a cold brew with this roast as well. I'm getting totally off topic. If you like coffee,
0:50.0	though, and you want to support an amazing brand, with people that I deeply appreciate,
0:54.3	and I consider to be very close friends, I cannot recommend enough blackwifelcoffee.com.
1:00.4	If you don't want to, then I would say don't. Everybody gets a vote in this day and age. You can
1:06.0	vote with your time, your energy, and in this case, you can vote with your money. What do you think?
1:12.0	It's about it on the business side of the house. Wouldn't you say? My guest today is Travis
1:18.0	Gribble. I actually would fail miserably if I tried to describe his law enforcement career
1:26.1	and what he, a particular situation that he had to respond to at the tail end of his career.
1:33.6	Broad's brush overview. 23 years in law enforcement, SWAT, the vast majority of that time,
1:41.6	worked his way up through, I'm not an expert when it comes to the rank structure of the police
1:49.9	force, but worked his way up through the rank structure as well. At the tail end,
1:56.8	I experienced something that I think would level just about anybody. We talk about that quite a
2:02.4	bit on the episode. I'm not even going to attempt to describe it. Let him speak for himself.
2:07.8	Episode number 251 with Travis Gribble. Enjoy.
2:32.4	What do you want to begin? Well, introduce yourself. Let's start there.
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