Kidnapped in Venezuela! (Almost) Chuck Holton

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with former U.S. Army Ranger, author, podcast host and "chaos correspondent" Chuck Holton as he tells us about his near abduction at the Venezuelan border, being an Army Ranger and why he wrote about the importance of raising Godly sons. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss an anti-CCW Illinois state senator and her husband who successfully used a concealed firearm to defend themselves from armed attackers. Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever and the rest of the ASP staff as they talk to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.

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0:00.0	I crossed across a little bridge. I walked into Venezuela, just 50 yards, and set up and started filming myself with the GoPro, pointing at the bridge behind me, and then I was going to pivot around and show all the people crossing.
0:13.1	And I got about 10 seconds into that stand-up, and three guys came up behind me and grabbed me.
0:19.9	One guy grabbed me under the arm and the other guy grabbed
0:22.2	me by the belt because I heard the guy say in Spanish, take him, take him, you know, like,
0:26.6	grab him. And then I realized, oh my gosh, they're trying to take me, not rob me.
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1:11.2	All right, folks. Welcome back to the Active Self Protection podcast. I am your host,
1:14.9	Mike Williver, your favorite former Fed with us today, a man of distinction, Chuck Holton.
1:21.0	Very exciting life he has led. He is an author, adventurer, a freelance correspondent.
1:26.3	We'll talk about what that means exactly here in a little bit. He is the host of the Hot Zone with Chuck Holden, a podcast you can listen to on all major podcast networks. He is a husband and father of five. Chuck, thanks so much for being here. Very happy to do it. For those who don't know who you are or what it is you do, let's start from the beginning. What part of the country are you from originally? Grew up in Carson City, Nevada, the son of a fireman and a nurse, so solidly middle
1:51.6	class, joined the Army out of high school, spent four years in the 75th Ranger Regiment right
1:57.9	around the invasion of Panama time frame and desert storm, and then got out
2:05.7	right before they went to Somalia for the Black Hawk Down incident, and went to college, became
2:12.4	a stockbroker for about 10 years, and had my five kids in there there and then realized that being a stockbroker
2:20.9	would really not give me the life that I wanted, which was to be home with my children.
2:25.8	So I left the brokerage business and became a full-time writer so I could write from home,
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