Unfortunate Burglar Picks WRONG HOUSE! John Correia and James Correia

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with ASP founder John Correia and his son James Correia and discuss the night a crook (with terrible target selection) decided to scale a ladder and break into their home through a second story balcony door where he was swiftly met with far more (and less clothed) resistance than his drug-addled mind could have anticipated.

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	All right, gang, your old pal Mike back yet again with another advertisement for the active self-protection unlimited application.
0:12.7	You can get it on iOS or, let's see, Windows phone, Amazon, I'm kidding.
0:18.7	iOS and Android.
0:20.6	Do me a favor. We'd like you to get the app over at watch. Dot activeselfprotection.com. Watch. That activesopprotection.com. The reason for that is, if you go through that and through us, get the app that way, we get the money that you're sending to support our valuable work rather than 30% of it going to either Apple or Google, whether you're on iOS or Android. So just helps us out a little bit to get us a little bit more money to fund what I think is important to work. Watch at active self-protection.com. What do you get with the app? You get a lot of stuff. One of the things you get is this podcast and you get that in a video version. So you can see my smiling face one more time a week than other than on the YouTube channel.
0:55.9	All sorts of exclusive stuff a ton of training we do
1:00.6	live streams several I think three times a week now I'm on those sometimes on Wednesday night
1:04.9	there's a Friday morning live stream like coffee with John Neil and Steph and there's another
1:09.2	training one of Neil and Steve.
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1:14.7	Well, all right, gang, welcome back. Once again, it's weird. My boss is here. Welcome back,
1:19.0	yet again to the Active Self Protection Podcast. I am, as always, your host, Mike Willow down, Mike, Deep Breath.
1:24.8	And I remain your favorite former Fed. With me today is my best friend and his son, John and James Korea. John is, in fact, the president and founder and owner of active self-protection. And his son is James, who I've known since he was a wee lad, knee-high to a grasshopper back in the... Yep. Back in the... A wee lad. Our Lord 2000.
1:45.0	James, how are you, sir? I'm doing pretty well. How about you? Not too bad. And John, how are you, my friend? Hey, man, every day's a holiday. I think James was still... I don't even know if he was really walking when we met. That's how long ago this was. Yeah, I think I have memories that are like real early
2:04.0	over at your house and I think that we knew you before those. So. Right. Yeah. I remember James is a very,
2:11.8	very young, young man. For those who don't know, John and I met when he was in the Navy and I was a baby
2:16.3	federal agent in San Diego, California. And, uh fate. People ask me, how do you become a big
2:23.1	time social media, YouTube star? And I say, well, first, make friends with a guy who's going to
2:28.1	become a giant YouTube sensation two decades before he becomes a giant YouTube sensation,
2:32.8	and become his best friend and
2:35.4	stay his best friend through all that and then you'll be that you too shall be
2:38.2	become a YouTube sensation overnight all right so we're going to be discussing an
2:42.7	incident that happened of all places at the Korea household in Phoenix not that long
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