All right again, what kind of week would it be on the active self-protection podcast?

If I didn't bring you an ad for Palm Pepper Spread, this week would be no different.

I'm particularly excited about their newest, I believe it's their newest offering.

The home defense unit, this thing is a chunker. It's not something you want to carry around with you, probably. Let me keep in your house. It looks a little bit like a fire extinguisher. This thing is pretty dope. It gives you 20 bursts or up to 10 seconds of continuous spray, although I wouldn't recommend spraying someone for 10 seconds continuously. Kind of defeats the perfect. But here's the exciting part.

Reaches up to 20 feet.

It's a stream.

It's up 20 feet.

It's got a pistol grip, a safety pin in it, kind of like a fire extinguisher. It allows you to securely hold the 7.2 fluid ounce unit of spray. And there is an expiration date at the bottom of the canister. make sure you check the expiration date on your pepper spray ladies and gentlemen if this expire.

Do me a favor. Check out Palm Pepperper spray at get dash asp.com slash palm. Get dash asp.com slash palm. Well, already, gang, welcome back yet again to the active self-protection podcast. I say that every week, but I really mean it's this time because me and Gene, our guests for this week. have tried this, I don't know, 37 times it feels like. So we're going to try it one more time to get this episode recorded. Gene is in the Coral Springs, Florida area. He is a former Subot commander and a current security advisor. And we'll talk about him and his company here coming up. Gene, how are you for the 83rd time? I'm still doing great. Good outstanding. All right. So we'll try to get this done.

So, Gene, you are a former SWAT commander. I think a lot of people have seen TV shows about SWAT.

I know you and I have talked already. So we talked about both having watched the old SWAT program

back in the late

70s, early 80s and how, what an impression that made on us. When someone goes from being a regular

sort of police officer, patrol officer, or in my case, a federal agent, you know, working cases

to doing SWAT, what sort of thing draws you to that? Because I never really had any great

desire to do SWAT. I know people that draws you to that? Because I never really had any great desire to do SWAT.

I know people that did and enjoyed it tremendously. So what about that lifestyle? It is a lifestyle,

I think. What about that lifestyle drew you to want to do that and take on that extra work and that

extra responsibility? Well, I always, you know, I always had a lot of admiration for people who went above and beyond and wanted to be the best at something.

And in law enforcement, that's one of the pinnacles.

That's one of the higher levels you can get as far as training and capabilities.

And for me, it was really important.

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