The Everyman's Guide to Everyday Carry

Hard Men Podcast

Tate Taylor & Ethan Senn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Send us a text! In light of recent events, the need for Christian men to be prepared is at an all time high. Gone are the days where apathy or complacency are acceptable. We must be ready on a daily basis, and that includes the tools you carry on your person. In this episode of the Hard Men Podcast we discuss how we think through the principles, considerations, and gear of the everyman's everyday carry. What gear should you always have on you? How important is alertness and awareness in...

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Lux Coffee, caffeinating the new Christendom with artisan roast coffee.
0:13.8	On a warm July evening in 2022, the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana was enjoying a pretty standard weekend.
0:21.3	Families grabbing dinner, teens laughing over milkshakes, and couples shopping through the various
0:25.4	stores. Among them was 21-year-old Elijah Dickon, a young man with a quiet demeanor, out for a
0:31.5	casual meal with his girlfriend. He had no idea when he entered the mall that day that he was
0:36.1	about to become a nationally known hero.
0:38.6	Eli was eating dinner in the food court with his girlfriend when at 5.57 p.m., Jonathan Douglas-Supierman,
0:44.8	a 20-year-old man with the intent to inflict as much pain as he could on as many people as he could,
0:49.6	began firing at shoppers on the other side of the food court after emerging from a hallway leading to the bathrooms.
0:55.3	He eventually fired a total of 24 rounds from his rifle, killing Pedro Panetta, his wife Rosa,
1:01.0	30-year-old Victor Gomez, and injuring another woman as well as a 12-year-old girl who was there
1:05.9	that day.
1:07.3	Eli reacted immediately by pushing his girlfriend to the floor, drawing his Glock 19 from under his shirt, and taking up a position of cover behind a pillar.
1:15.6	Eli fired his first two shots just a few seconds after the gunman started shooting from a stabilized position atop a trash can from approximately 40 yards away.
1:24.6	Eli was quickly forced to stop shooting as bystanders ran between him and
1:28.8	supermen, trying to get out of the vicinity of the active shooter. At 40 yards inside a crowded
1:33.9	mall, this was nearly a certainty. Thankfully, Eli's sense of awareness was in a heightened state.
1:39.9	He then had an opportunity to fire two more shots from that position and distance. Out of those first four shots, two bullets struck on target.
1:47.8	By this time, the active shooter superman had taken two direct hits and begun to retreat
1:52.0	back into the hallway that he had come from.
1:54.7	Eli then moved to close the distance and get into a better position to re-engage with the now
1:58.8	moving threat.
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