Episode 270: Walk The Talk America – Mental Health and Guns With Michael Sodini
Concealed Carry Podcast - Guns | Training | Defense | CCW
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2018
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Topic: Walk The Talk America – Mental Health and Guns With Michael Sodini
Today Riley interviews Michael Sodini founder of Walk the Talk America, a non-profit organization dedicated to making positive change in relation to mental health, and firearm awareness. We will talk about what we as a firearms industry and community can do to tackle these issues and be part of the solution and not the problem. Michael is also the President of Eagle Imports responsible for distributing brands like Bersa, Grand Power, Metro Arms, and Avidity Arms.
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Links
- Walk The Talk America – www.wtta.org
- Mental Health America – www.mentalhealthamerica.net
- Eagle Imports Inc. – www.eagleimports.com
- www.michaelsodini.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Concealed Carry podcast, episode number 270. |
| 0:05.0 | And welcome to the Concealed Carry podcast, part of the Concealed Carry.com network. |
| 0:20.8 | I am your host, Riley Bowman. |
| 0:23.0 | And today I'm flying solo as far as hosts are concerned. |
| 0:26.3 | Neither Jacob or Matthews is able to join me, but we do have a special interview and a special |
| 0:31.1 | episode lined up for you where we're going to be talking with special guest, Michael |
| 0:35.9 | Sodini, of Walk the Talk Talk America and also of the importer |
| 0:40.6 | slash manufacturer eagle imports and Michael will bring you on here officially in a moment but how are you |
| 0:47.7 | sir? I'm doing great and thank you for having me on man I know we've been trying to put this together |
| 0:52.3 | for a while so this is exciting for me yeah well for a, for a while, it's all my fault. It's all my bad. |
| 0:58.5 | But, dude, I'm so excited to have you on. So looking forward to getting into it with you. |
| 1:03.4 | But folks, today we're going to be talking about some really, really important stuff. Besides, we'll talk about some fun stuff. We'll talk about what's going on with things in the gun world from Michael's perspective. |
| 1:13.2 | But really, I want the meat of today's episode to be about mental health and the firearms |
| 1:17.9 | industry and what we can do as an industry and as a community to be part of the solution |
| 1:24.1 | and not the problem. |
| 1:26.5 | Right. |
| 1:27.2 | So we know we have problems. |
| 1:28.7 | We know we have people with mental health issues that are doing some, unfortunately, |
| 1:33.8 | occasionally some bad things. |
| 1:35.6 | It doesn't happen as often as probably what we think, right? |
| 1:37.6 | But when it does happen, it usually is really bad. |
| 1:40.3 | So let's try to address that and be part of the solution. |
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