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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you make all the right choices—and still lose everything? In this powerful episode of Gun Talk Nation, host Ryan Gresham sits down with Neil and Stephanie Weidner from Active Self Protection (ASP) to unpack real-life stories of self-defense, legal battles, and the brutal consequences that sometimes follow doing the “right” thing.
You’ll hear firsthand accounts of self-defense encounters gone sideways, including jaw-dropping analysis of viral videos like the infamous "snow shovel murder."

Key themes explored:

Why good people hesitate—and how it can cost them
The “My Bad 20” method to de-escalate road rage
What millions of ASP video views reveal about human behavior in crisis
How to mentally prepare BEFORE a violent encounter occurs
The life-saving value of decision-making under stress (force-on-force training)
Why building your personal “if-then” card catalog could save your life

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0:00.0	I did everything right and I'm sitting in jail and I've lost everything because, you know,
0:04.2	somebody didn't dot an eye here across it to their steam rolled by the justice system or whatever.
0:12.7	I'm Ryan Gresham.
0:15.6	And this is Gun Talk Nation.
0:25.6	This Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Vortex, Range Ready, and Ruger.
0:31.6	Hey, welcome into Gun Talk Nation. Today on Gun Talk Nation, we're talking with Neil and Stephanie
0:37.8	Widener, active self-protection, or as your fans call it, ASP, yes? I know it's funny. We
0:45.6	abbreviate everything these days, don't we? Right. So active self-protection, probably most people
0:51.2	would say that's a YouTube channel, but I know it's more than that these days.
0:55.6	But we're going to go ahead.
0:57.0	We're not going to start off with what is active self-protection.
0:59.3	Let's start off with right off the top of your head, most memorable, craziest video that you guys have talked about on the channel.
1:10.4	Because that's what you do you talk about
1:11.8	real self-defense scenario videos and evaluate them right yeah is there one or probably more than
1:19.2	one that stands out for you yeah there's a lot do you have one you go first well the one that
1:23.7	stands out is the very first time that john had a co-host on with was me,
1:29.3	was the snow shovel or snow removal issue,
1:33.3	the video out of somewhere in, I think, Wisconsin,
1:36.1	where the neighbors across the alleyway,
1:40.0	somebody was throwing snow and the other one's driveway,
1:43.0	and it was an older couple that had a, what, a 18-year-old special needs son at home, were really riding the neighbor who had, you know, I think they threw the snow in his yard anyway.
1:57.3	But then they were just in his face and called him everything in the book.
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