this is things police see first and accounts with your host steve gold welcome to the podcast at

interviews active and retired police officers both their most intense bizarre and sometimes

humorous moments on the jorb hello it is i old ginger face here with you once again

guys i'm excited to be here believe it or not I had a bunch of

um I stacked a bunch of interviews in the queue so I actually haven't I haven't been on the mic in quite

a while I went to Cape Cod for a week with the family had an excellent vacation I still have family

there so when we go down it's like we stay my parents have like a little apartment above their garage. I got access to a boat and like a beach buggy for the other beach if I want.

And man, it was good. So hard. I know you guys can all relate. So hard to go back to work.

When you like absolutely eat and drink like a pig for seven days straight.

So hard to put the gun belt and vest back on.

Woo!

It was painful, but I made it through the week.

I'm happy you're here with me.

I'm happy to see that I kind of posted a throwback episode when I was for the Fourth of July week because typically Fourth of July and big holidays like that, the listenership is kind of down.

It kind of just drops because people are doing things.

They're not really going to the jam or driving in their car or keeping up with their podcast.

So I put one, I think it was like episode number three

with my buddy Miguel Lopez. And man, you guys, you guys listened to the crap out of that thing.

You guys download that a lot. It was a great one. He was state probation and got shot in the

face on the job. And yeah, that was that was a fun one to put back out because I, I literally sat in the cubicle next to him and I was starting the podcast and I was like trying to get the courage up to ask these, you know, these coppers that had seen all this battle and these crazy stories. And I was working with him in backgrounds and to ask him to come on because I didn't know like some people don't like to talk about it. They don't want to bring that up again. Some people were more unhappy to. So once they got a couple of them, then they were both like, okay, yeah, this is kind of cathartic. I kind of like, this is good. So he was like the third one. So I'm glad you guys really enjoyed that. And I apologize to the people that start from the very beginning and listen because you might have you might you might have just heard that one. But that's why I did that, just so you know, today's guest,

very excited to have him. He did, believe it or not, he started full time for seven years as a firefighter.

And then because of some scheduling complex and getting full custody of his son, kind of needed to make a shift.

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