SHOTS FIRED At Defender And HIs Family! -Joe
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with self defender Joe and discuss the day he was out with his family when he observed a young woman being abused and decided to step in and the terrifying events that followed for him and his family.
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 as he talks 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. Music: bensound.com
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| 0:00.0 | Well, already, and welcome back once again to the active self-protection podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | I am, as always, your host, Mike Willow, and I remain with any luck at all your favorite, former Fed with me today, a new friend of mine. |
| 0:30.2 | His face is pixelated for reasons that will become evident here shortly, I'm sure. |
| 0:35.0 | I've not heard his story, but I'm about to hear it for the first time along with you good people. |
| 0:39.4 | My new friend's name is Joe. Joe is from the Pacific Northwest. He is a truck driver and he's married with two sons. Joe, how are you, sir? |
| 0:55.1 | Good. How are you, Mike? Not too bad. I really appreciate you doing this. We had a bunch of pre-taped stuff we had to get through, but we got through it, and here we are recording this finally, so that's good news. |
| 0:57.0 | So you are a truck driver. |
| 1:01.5 | I've mentioned before in this space that my late brother was a truck driver long haul, |
| 1:04.3 | independent for a while, worked for Mayflower for a while. |
| 1:06.4 | It's an honorable profession. |
| 1:09.2 | How long have you done that? |
| 1:10.9 | And what sort of truck driver are you exactly? |
| 1:17.1 | I've been a truck driver since 2003, and I do a lot of construction type of deliveries. |
| 1:21.5 | And I always say that everything that's in your house touched a truck at one point on time. |
| 1:22.6 | That's a fact. |
| 1:23.4 | Absolutely true. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.9 | If you like your groceries, if you like your eggs and your and your bread and your chotchkes at Walmart and everything else, just understand. |
| 1:34.9 | Even the gas at the gas station. |
| 1:39.3 | That's right. It was on or in a truck at some point. So thank a truck driver for that. |
| 1:44.8 | And do me a favor, folks. Here's a public service announcement. If you're on the freeway and you see a big rig who needs to change lanes and no one's letting him change lanes, a guy or gal that stops and lets |
| 1:50.6 | them in, gets over and gives them a double tap on the high beams and lets them get over into the new |
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