John Willis from SOE & “Professional Citizens” | SOTG 1287
Student of the Gun Radio
Jarrad Markel
4.8 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Today we have none other than John Willis from Original SOE Gear as your guest. Never a person to hold back, John will talk about preparation, resilience, business, rabbit poop, chickens and more.
During our Tech Talk from EOTech Inc. Professor Paul will discuss zeroing red dots and magnified optics as well as answering one of your questions on air. And, we solve the mystery of the missing battery.
For our SOTG Homeroom this week we have a New York Times article to consider. The Times has discovered that some “Professional Citizens” are training with guns, radios, and night vision. We are not sure how they feel about that.
TOPICS COVERED THIS EPISODE
- Huge thanks to our Partners: EOTech | Spike’s Tactical
- [0:05:52] EOTech Talk - EOTechInc.com
- TOPIC: Ran some more drills with the VUDU 3x9 & EFLX Red Dot on top
- [0:21:34] SOTG Homeroom - SOTG University
- TOPIC: NYT Discovers ‘Professional Citizens’ Training for ‘Uncertain and Polarized Times’ www.shootingnewsweekly.com
- [0:33:43] John Willis from Original SOE: Resilience, Preparedness, and not giving a {Poop}
FEATURING: Shooting News Weekly, Madison Rising, Jarrad Markel, Paul Markel, SOTG University
PARTNERS: EOTech, Spikes Tactical
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| 0:00.0 | All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a brand new episode of Student of the Gun Radio. |
| 0:03.4 | Yes, indeed. If you're curious, this is episode 1287, if you happen to be keeping track. |
| 0:11.0 | If you're not keeping track, that's fine. That's fine. |
| 0:13.2 | What are we got for you today? Well, we've got John Willis from SOE that is special operations equipment or original SOE, not the fake one, not the latest one, |
| 0:25.4 | but the original one. |
| 0:26.9 | We talked with John about how we ended up in Tennessee, about our mutual friend James |
| 0:32.9 | Yeager, about chickens and ducks and rabbit manure and everything in between. |
| 0:40.2 | So you're going to want to stick tight for that. |
| 0:43.5 | That's going to be at the end of the episode. |
| 0:45.2 | We've got an Eotech tech talk for you guys today. |
| 0:48.4 | And we've got a student of the gun home room. |
| 0:50.9 | The New York Times. |
| 0:52.8 | Yes, the vaunted New York Times, yes, the vaunted New York Times, they discovered that the peasants |
| 1:01.7 | are training with guns. They wrote an article about it. You're like, what? The New York Times |
| 1:09.4 | discovered, yeah, so it was was pub the story was published in shooting |
| 1:14.1 | news weekly uh so we'll go ahead and talk about that we're to do all of that stuff with jared |
| 1:19.1 | zach and paul uh right after you listen to this intro welcome to student of the gun radio planting |
| 1:25.7 | freedom seeds since 2013 here we don't just talk about guns in gear. |
| 1:29.3 | We also discuss current events in politics because guns are politics. |
| 1:33.3 | Now, sit back, relax, and allow today's episode to trip ever so gently into your ear. |
| 1:38.3 | Please welcome your co-hosts, founder, mastermind, media, and consultant group, Jared Marklele and the shipping ogre, Zach. |
| 1:48.9 | Now give it up for your beloved host, the Pintan of America, Professor Paul Markle. |
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