The Gutowski Files Episode 2
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this second installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss what his recent excursion to Pennsylvania to protect his family taught him about gear and batteries and then we talk about the recent circuit court decision about non-violent felons and their ability to possess firearms.
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, all ready, game, welcome back to the second ever installment of the Gutowski |
| 0:09.5 | Files starring our very own, Stephen Gutowski. |
| 0:12.2 | He is the founder of the reload.com and the host of the weekly reload podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is our second ever edition of a sort of standalone Gautowski files without there being a separate interview. |
| 0:23.8 | Gotten a lot of feedback. And Stephen is hearing this for the first time as my audience does. |
| 0:28.0 | There was a poll for Spotify listeners. |
| 0:30.5 | Not the biggest sample size ever. |
| 0:33.7 | But the question was, do you like this new format on the Katowski files? |
| 0:38.2 | Yes, it's 74%. |
| 0:40.0 | We'll see at 23%, and no at 3%. |
| 0:44.6 | And no, no is one person. |
| 0:47.3 | So one person, whoever you are out there who said no. |
| 0:49.9 | You're going to find that person. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, I'm sorry, disappoint you, but this is going to continue at least for a little bit longer. So, sorry, one guy. Stephen, how are you, sir? Well, maybe we'll win them over with our second episode. God willing. So last week we talked, at least in part, about your recent adventure in the great common, is it Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? Is it a Commonwealth? It is. |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I moved from one Commonwealth to another. |
| 1:14.8 | The only other Commonwealth, I think, is Virginia. Up in the land of Pop and Hogies. So you were up there |
| 1:20.6 | because there was an escape, literally an escaped murderer on the loose right by where your |
| 1:25.5 | family members lived, your parents and grandparents. and you had to scoot up there real quick, and you had to grab some equipment. So this dovetails nicely, and it's something I talked about on the other show recently, which is as a law enforcement officer and as a self-defender, you got to, you know, you've got to check your equipment every so often, especially as a law enforcement officer, if you know you're going into some kind of enforcement action the next day, you got a warrant, you have a fourth waiver, you have a surveillance. And I don't care if you did it 24 hours before. Check your stuff. Check your batteries. Check your optic. Check your cuffs to make sure they're not double locked so you don't break someone's wrist putting them on |
| 2:01.1 | the wrong way. So this also pertains to private citizens. Stephen, you had to run up there real quick |
| 2:07.1 | to make sure that your family members were safe and you were the person to do it because you were |
| 2:12.0 | the person who was a relatively an expert on firearms and prepared and trained. So kind of give us an idea. |
| 2:18.2 | What were the big things that you came to realize once you started getting your equipment |
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