When A Stranger Calls -Brian

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with self defender Brian and discuss the night he was relaxing with his wife and children when a random stranger began beating on his door in what appeared to be an attempt to break into his house and what Brian did in response.

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 Video Intro by Joe Russo

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0:00.0	All right, folks, this week's episode is sponsored by Mantis.
0:10.0	Specifically, the Mantis Titan X.
0:12.2	I just got my hot little hands on one of these things.
0:15.1	And Lord, oh, Lord, is there anything more fun than using your Mantis system to practice dry fire?
0:19.9	They don't talk about how much fun it is, but that's kind of what keeps me coming back, is the immediate response you get, the feedback you get, which is phenomenal. I don't know any other system that does it quite like that. But it's just fun to do. They've gamified it, video gamified it sort of. What is it exactly? It's an inert training pistol, right, with a realistic
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0:43.4	have an app that's free to download for iOS or Android. It interacts with that. It is such a good
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0:57.5	protection podcast sent you well already again welcome back once again to the active self
1:02.4	protection podcast i am as always your host mike will over and i remain your favorite former fed
1:07.8	with me today is a new friend of mine his name is brian b Brian is from Central Maine, which is a beautiful area up there, very woodsy. He is a project manager, and he is married with two children ages 10 and 7. Brian, how are you, sir? Very well. How are you? Very good. So I appreciate. So, by the way, Brian is project manager.
1:27.7	So, of course, he sent me a very detailed breakdown of his incident, which I promptly read.
1:32.8	I don't know how long has it been? A couple weeks, I think.
1:35.5	Two weeks. Yeah, three, four weeks.
1:36.9	Something like that, which I promptly tried to forget. So I could hear this story for the
1:41.0	time along with you. We'll see how well I did it that.
1:44.0	So as, and I jokingly say as a project. to hear this story for the time along with you. We'll see how well I did at that.
1:50.2	So, um, as, and I jokingly say as a project manager because I've, I've worked for project and with project managers before.
1:52.1	And regardless of the discipline, we tend to be very well organized people and they dot their
1:56.7	eyes and they cross their T's.
1:58.0	So that, that was definitely evident from the Word document he said along,
2:01.3	and I appreciate that. So talk to us real quick about your personal self-defense history,
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