Modern Self Protection Podcast

Self Defense Podcast to help keep you safe in today’s modern world. Every Week we get together to talk about tips, tricks, gear and an overall mindset to keep you safe.

MSP 346 Heroism Podcast 10/19/2023

When to Change out Carry Ammo 06/26/2023

Battlefield Leadership; Prepare Now 06/11/2023

De-Escalation Requires Practice 06/04/2023

MSP 342 Tactics over Skills 05/27/2023

Welcome to the Party 05/13/2023

Welcome to the Party I spent 10 years in the Marine Corps including a combat tour and being part of an anti-terrorism force. I left the Marine Corps to return to Iraq as a private contractor for the U.S. Government fighting terrorism. I gave a large portion of my adult life to fighting terrorism and the horrors that most people don't want to deal with. To me, a terrorist is about the lowest scum on earth. Then in 2008, I was called a terrorist for the first time by then-President Obama. The term domestic terrorist had just started and I was on the list. Being a white male, military-aged, former military, contractor, Christian, and gun owner I was on the top of the list. Everyone thought I was crazy for saying the United States Government could do such a thing. The truth is they have been doing it for a long time. Welcome to the party! Through the years it has only gotten worse. I know I'm on every watch list the government has which makes me both sad and proud. Yes, I will associate with the deplorable's, that is almost half the country. Yes, I cling to my religion and my guns. Yes, I'm proud to be an American. Yes, I think our government f's things up a lot. At least I'm not on the no-fly list... yet. All of these lists that you don't know you are on, how you got there, or how to get off are a threat to every free person in the world. And I don't know how to fix it. It is not time to fight the great boogaloo (which is now a terrorist word as indicated by a ). I'm trying to get more involved at my local political level because I know local politicians grow up to be state and federal politicians. This blog is about self-defense. So you might ask how all that plays into your self-defense. Well, the "Justice System" hasn't been not been impartial for a long time, it has gotten worse. If the "they" of the world think you are on the wrong side it appears unlikely you will get a fair trial. Do you remember the and gave a weird interview with his rifle right before the shooting? Then an Army Sergeant driving for Uber, carrying a concealed handgun with a license smoked him after ending up in the crowd by mistake. The Army Sergeant got convicted of Murder early this year over three years after the shooting. I've known since I was a teenager that the deck was stacked against me if I have to use deadly force. It was what I was taught in Law Enforcement and it didn't take much research at the time to see that if the U.S. Government wanted you, they were going to convict you. So, you are out there, just trying to protect yourself. Take extra care in what you do. Be more mindful to stay out of places that might put you and your family in danger. Be more careful about where you insert yourself into other people's problems. And be more careful about who you argue with. All of this could end you up in prison for the rest of your life... and is more likely to happen now than it was five years ago. In conclusion, welcome to this shitty party that somehow we all ended up in. Stay Safe, Ben First published on /episode/index/show/modernselfprotection/id/26830353

Wimps in Our World Podcast 340 09/05/2022

Should You Give Medical Attention to a Bad Guy 05/03/2022

Habits, Good, Bad, and Training Scars Podcast 337 04/24/2022

Be Prepared for anything Podcast 336 03/09/2022

Should You Get Involved? 02/15/2022

Podcast 334 Trust Your instincts; The Gift of Fear 02/06/2022

Caught in the Aftermath of a Mass Shooter 01/31/2022

Changing Schedules and Your Safety 12/19/2021

Self Defense Mechanisms to Use 12/04/2021

Shooting for Fun Podcast 330 11/08/2021

9-11 20 Years Later 09/12/2021

Podcast 328 Mixed Bag or Crap: NRA Cancelled, Broken Gun, and Heat Injuries 08/30/2021

Unconventional Carry Methods: Podcast 327 08/15/2021

The Square Range: Podcast 326 08/07/2021

Back to Basics: Have a Plan - Podcast 325 07/25/2021

Measuring Risk: Why We Suck at It. Podcast 324 07/12/2021

The Best Skill to Practice for Self Defense: Situational Awareness Podcast 323 06/16/2021

The Best Skill to Practice for Self Defense: Situational Awareness Podcast 323 Situational Awareness is the one thing that was drilled into me in Law Enforcement and the Military. It is the one thing that directly overlaps from law enforcement, military, and self defense. Why? It is the one thing that will allow you to buy time in an emergency. And time is everything when someone is trying to take your life. Two things to work on, improve, and practice situational awareness are to notice normal so you can see the abnormal, and ask why people are there at that point in time. What are they doing? If you work on these two easy things you can move towards mastering your situational awareness and your self-defense. Noticing normal lets you see when something else is missing or coming. Everywhere you go, there is a normal or baseline. Anything outside that rhythm should stand out to you if you are paying attention. The one law enforcement always talks about is when it is 100 degrees out and someone walks in wearing a trench coat buttoned up. In the military, it was always looking at what the people are doing around you. If people are leaving quickly or don’t show up like normal they probably know something that you don’t in a foreign land. A couple of Marines wrote an entire book about it called . If you want to know more about noticing normal and then noticing when something is out of place, it is a great book. The second is to ask “why is this person here?” At first, you will suck at it, but as you do it a bunch you will be able to figure out the stories behind people at the local stop and rob you are at to get gas and a drink. If you do it for a while, you will find that one person that is there to victimize someone. Hopefully, you will figure it out before they victimize you. Bad guys come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and genders. You have to figure out why that person is looking at you, why they are there, and what they are going to do. If you know this before that person acts, the encounter slows way down and you can buy the most valuable thing in a violent encounter, time. When you answer that why question you get in front of the reaction curve and you can make that person react to you instead of you having to react to them. Listen to the podcast to get more examples and motivation on how to be better at your situational awareness (SA). Thanks for listening, don’t forget to check out the , and if you need ammo . Stay Safe, Ben /episode/index/show/modernselfprotection/id/19496933

Mind Set: The Ultimate Self Defense Skill - Podcast 322 05/19/2021

A Dot and a Miss: Sig P365XL and Romeo 0 Review Podcast 321 05/01/2021

A Dot and a Miss: Sig P365XL and Romeo 0 Review Podcast 321 Last week I shot competition with a Sig P365XL and Romeo 0 Dot. I shoot this competition about every other week right now and love it. What I've learned about the Sig P365 serious of guns: The Good: They are a great sized gun Love the family of sizes 12 rounds in the XL makes a full grip even for my giant hands Reloads go easy with the correct flare on the bottom the pistol 15 round mags that work with both grip sizes Accuracy is amazing for such a little gun Reliability on a clean gun has been 100% out of all the ones that have been through classes and the ones I've shot The trigger is good Aftermarket support is everywhere The Cons: When training with them they get really hot, right where you put your thumbs on a thumbs forward grip The trigger is a long way from the frame and the shot breaks a long way from the frame (something it took my realizing before I could shoot the pistol well) I would have liked a little longer barrel in the XL, 3.9-4" I think is the best there is, the Sig XL has a 3.7" which is just a hair short on the sight radius It recoils up a little more than I would like it to. But that is mostly because of it's small size and weight The Sig Romeo 0 Dot The Good: It sits as a dot sight should. Far enough down where they put a notch in the back that replaces the rear sight and you can still use the front sight. It puts the gun on the same plain when you draw it and helps with the learning curve and switching guns. They seem to be holding up with everything I've seen. I haven't seen a broken one yet on the range or in a class The Bad: Seeing a reflection of the dot where it isn't sucks! I don't know if every dot does this, but I don't like it at all The auto-brightness setting can screw you when shooting from a dark place to a bright place. A manual up/down would be great. I'd rather have a huge starburst from being too bright in low light than not being able to see it at all in the bright light. It looks like it will break. I haven't seen one break yet, but it looks weak. If you want one of these set ups, you should get one. It's a great gun and Dot. I'm always looking for perfect and still haven't found it. But I think this set up will be my next carry gun. Or I'm also looking at a Sig M17 with a Romeo 1 Pro on it. Hopefully I can shoot one of those too. Stay Safe, Ben Thanks for Listening, don't forget to check out and . Stay Safe, Ben See the rest of the notes at /episode/index/show/modernselfprotection/id/18936560

New Gun Shiny Syndrome; Podcast 320 03/07/2021

Do Glocks Have a Safety? Should They? Podcast 319 02/14/2021

What You Can Start Doing Now: Podcast 318 01/11/2021

Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst Podcast 317 01/05/2021

Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst Podcast 317 How is your hope for the future? What is your plan for the future? Without hope, we won't do anything. You have to have hope for a better future. Admittedly, the future is tenuous at best. But it always has been. For at least 100 years people have been worried about the United States collapsing. As long as we, the American People, don't turn on each other, America will live forever. My worry is that we are turning on each other. And people are talking as if the next civil war is inedible. They are probably right, but I'd like to push that another 150 to 200 years before it happens. We have to hope for the best, have a plan for that, and prepare for the worst and have a plan for that. The best is what we have had in the last couple of years to a decade. Life has been good for Americans and the world. It has been nice. But an old saying made famous by G. Michael Hopf in his book "Those Who Remain" says "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." It's a pretty wicked cycle. Somehow in our modern world, we have made some men strong and others weak. Now it seems like the weak men are leading the country creating hard times. Some men during the last couple of decades have been tested and made hard by battles. Many of us fought the war on terror and like most of the last "wars" America fought we seem to be losing. I sight the "war on poverty," "the war on drugs" and the almost war on immigration. But the problem goes back to the Korean "War" that never was and has never ended. Now some people think using the same "war" tactic in America to make policy the way they want it will work. Sure, why not? Wars are bloody horrible things. We think it's something romantic and heroic. We, the American Colonies thought that when the Revolutionary war began. Then, we the American People thought that during the first couple battles of the Civil War. Now I see that again in people throughout our community. I remember being a hero crying into a bear with other heroes and in those bad nights where sleep alludes me Get the rest at at /episode/index/show/modernselfprotection/id/17424995

Top 4 Self Defense Techniques Podcast 316 12/21/2020

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