He took one or two steps forward and reached for my door handle, which was locked.

And about the time he grabbed it, I yelled, stop.

He took his right hand off my door handle, looked right at me, and yelled, I got something for you.

And then he reached behind his right hit.

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at range tech timer.com. Rangech timer.com and tell them your friends that the Active Self-Protection podcast sent you. Well, hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Active Self-Protection Podcast. I am once again your host, Mike Williver, and I remain your favorite former Fed with us today. He's got to say this, he's a big fan of the podcast, folks. He's the first guy to have on. He's like, it's a really good podcast. And I couldn't agree with him strongly or quickly enough about that. It is a great podcast. His name is Mike. He is from Missouri, married with five adult kids. And we'll talk about that as much or as little as he wants and he has a story

that is of interest to I think to everyone and with some good lessons. That story happened a

while back in scenic Memphis, Tennessee. If you've been to Memphis, you know, well,

it's Memphis, isn't it? Mike, how are you, sir? I'm good. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. Again, you know, I say it every

week. If people didn't reach out with their stories, there wouldn't be a podcast because no one

wants us to listen to me talk for an hour. But Mike was good enough and frankly, courageous

enough to reach out and talk to me. And it turns out the story is, in fact, it's a good one,

and has some really good

lessons. So we'll get to that in just a moment. First of all, Mike, you seem like someone who

has been invested in your own self-defense and shooting and that sort of thing long before

you ever saw an ASP video. So kind of tell us about when did you kind of become aware of the

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